National Interest: Russia's 200 Knot 'Supercavitating' Torpedoes Leave America Speechless
Key point: At the moment Russia has a monopoly on supercavitating missiles.
Imagine the sudden revelation of a weapon that can suddenly go six times faster than its predecessors. The shock of such a breakthrough system would turn an entire field of warfare on its head, as potential adversaries scrambled to deploy countermeasures to a new weapon they are defenseless against. While a lull in great power competition delayed the impact of this new technology, the so-called “supercavitating torpedo” may be about to take the world by storm.
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WNU Editor: A torpedo moving at 200 knots?!?!?!?
6 comments:
When you have quality over quantity so that there are so few tails, such weapons are game changers.
This is what sank their submarine. Dangerous.
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Dave's comment made think that perhaps the supercavitating missiles are the cao fila of missiles.
You surprised WNU editor? But I have signaled this weapon time ago, and tell you that China and Iran has buy this torpedo from Russia.
YC's pecker is hard. Not one much for hard work, but he loves the military swagger.
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