Heavyweights on the wring: in the Western World, the number of heavy torpedoes can be reckoned on one hand, yet amongst these few only a couple can be regarded as using state-of-the-art technology.(What's Up?)

From: Armada International | Date: June 1, 2005| Author: Biass, Eric H. | Copyright information

With France bailing out of the heavyweight torpedo business, we are left with the British Spearfish, the Mk 48 rood 6 and its successor the Adcap from Raytheon, the Torpedo 2000 from Saab Bofors, the Black Shark from Whitehead and the DM2 A4 rood 4 from Atlas Elektronik. Although the Torpedo 2000 features an engine of revolutionary design that makes it extremely quiet, it is like the first two mentioned, fuelled by peroxide. Quite apart from the fact that they emit gases and therefo...

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