Welcome to Ignorantville Population: You.
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Originally Posted by solletica
 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. |
Any reasonable person, who had even an inkling of what the fuck they were talking about (read: not you) would know that the photo I posted wasn't a missle. Missles aren't fired parallel to the water. Ever. Also, no one is going to get that close to a missle when it's fired to take a picture. They would be roasted.
As for a speedboat easily outrunning a torpedo, you cant say that. First, it's not true. Second, you don't know what the top speed of a Mk 46 torpedo is. I do.
Oh, and this thing isn't going to be doing anything near 40 knots:
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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.
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Really? Compare the two for me, from an operational standpoint. Please be sure to reference RPM's, and hydrodynamics, specifically will regard to the Mk46.
Oh, and here's another website (more informative that Wikipedia) which states the top-end speed of the Mk 46 at 45 knots, and even that falls short of the actual top speed:
Solletica Knows Nothing
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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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I'm pretty sure that the pirates we're discussing (remember, Sweetie, focus) are using hydroplanes, nor are they racing...
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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
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No, in fact, theoretically, it's very possible...
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which a torpedo can't do since the speedboat can always turn and change its direction.
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So can a torpedo.
But, since you don't know the first fucking thing about the topic, because you're wallowing in ignorance, it's no surprise that you didn't know that...
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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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Again, your opinion is idiotic, because you're ignorant.
But, hey, how about sharing with us all what your expertise in the area is. See, because we haven't seen anything remotely resembling "expertise" from you yet...
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And how many speeboats did you take out w/torpedos?
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Did I say I took out speedboats? No, I don't believe I said that...
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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)
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Anyone whose IQ exceeds their shoe size saw that as the tongue-in-cheek comment that it was.
And then there were people like you...
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or that a torpedo could strike a fast motorboat even though there's no example of that happening
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So because you don't have an example, it's not possible?
You have an ill-placed sense of self-importance...
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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.
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Did your school teach you to spell?
Exactly which of Newton's theories addressed the the travel of submerged, motorized cylindrical objects?
The bottom line is that you're paralyzed with fear at the very thought of admitting that you know nothing of the subjectat hand. Instead, your ego dictates that you keep running your mouth, and you're making yourself look more and more ignorant with every post...