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Originally Posted by Steve
You have a keen eye for the obvious, especially when the obvious has been pointed out to you...
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any reasonable person would have to assume that you were referring to a missile because missiles also travel in the air (like the pic you posted) and because a
torpedo is hopeless against a speadboat, which, with a powerful engine can easily outrun a torpedo.
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Originally Posted by Steve
That's not true.
Don't believe what you read on Wikipedia. The maximum operating speeds and depths of our torpedos are classified information. You won't see them listen on Wikipedia. Yes, our torpedos travel at 25-356 knots. They also travel much faster than that...
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Doesn't matter if it's classified. A torpedo simply cannot top the speed a of a speedboat because it's engine power is limited, whereas a motorboat's engine is bigger and more powerful. Furthermore, hydroplane boats can travel in excess of 70 mph easily, and in races, they have and even in excess of that speed.
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Originally Posted by Steve
Well, depending on the guidance system of the torpedo, it's actually not too difficult.
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Cite an example of a torpedo succesfully taking out a speedboat. It's theoretically impossible for any moving weapon to take out a target traveling faster than it unless it can
predict its trajectory, which a torpedo can't do since the speedboat can always turn and change its direction.
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You do know that torpedos can hit a maneuvering target, right?
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Yes,
slow moving targets, like big ships, which is probably why these pirates are using speedboats to avoid the threat. Duh.
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Solletica, I spent 20 years as a US Navy Sonar Technician. Ya' know what one of the jobs of a US Navy Sonar Technician is? Firing Mk 46 torpedos.
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And how many speeboats did you take out w/torpedos?
(this is where the
s come in)
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You didn't even know the fucking thing was a torpedo until I told you. There's no reason then, whatsover (and this is backed up by your idiotic claims about our ASW/ASUW warfare capabilities), to think that you might actually know what the fuck you're talking about when it comes to their capabilities.
Being an opinionated liberal no-nothing on an internet forum hardly qualifies you to speak with any authority on the subject. 20 years of actually working in the field qualifies me.
But, go ahead; keep going. I love watching you make yourself look more ignorant than we would've imagined possible...
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As is brutally to practically every poster here, you are the only making a fool out of yourself w/your stupid posts about firing torpedos at oil tankers (as though any Navy would be dumb enough to do that) or that a torpedo could strike a fast motorboat even though there's no example of that happening
and that it's theoretically impossible, by simply Newtonian physics, for that to happen. If you'd acctually bothered to go to school at any time in your life, you might have learned about things like velocity, acceleration, etc. to know that.