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T & P said:
I suspect the exact figure might be classified, but roughly what is the full range of the wires attached to the torpedos? Are we talking hundreds of metres, or a couple of km, or 10 km even? :confused:
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Honestly, I don’t know. I only did some brief training in submarines and wasn’t given such details on the Mk 48 torpedoes therein. The smaller, Mk46s I saw most often were surface and air launched and had no wire guidance
 
T & P said:
I suspect the exact figure might be classified, but roughly what is the full range of the wires attached to the torpedos? Are we talking hundreds of metres, or a couple of km, or 10 km even? :confused:
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The official line from the USN is that the wire is the full range of the torpedo. But the full range of the torpedo is, of course, classified. I do know that the Mk48 has a reel on the fish and a reel on the sub, so if you used only one or the other it may limit range.
 
Chz said:
The official line from the USN is that the wire is the full range of the torpedo. But the full range of the torpedo is, of course, classified. I do know that the Mk48 has a reel on the fish and a reel on the sub, so if you used only one or the other it may limit range.
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this...many kilometres
 
bcuster said:
If it were up to me, I’d have the issue put to a referendum. Would you have us?
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Do we get your telly, fast and mid range food and willingness to lock up business people plus hash browns? But not your guns and politics?
 
A380 said:
It's probably something dull like modern anti fowling paint where it can't bee seen?
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I'm not sure it will be anti-fouling paint (it's against barnacles, not ducks ;) ). The toxic heavy metal ones have been banned, and are particularly bad in ports and harbours. Modern anti-fouling paints are "self-polishing" in that they wear away in a controled manner taking with them any little bit of marine growth that has tried to hitch a lift. If a ship is stationary for any time (typically 2 weeks in tropical waters) you have to clean its bottom. I'm assuming it's painted to be like the patina of a copper bottom....I think this is the before picture.

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“ Maine's first ship, Virginia, is set to make its first voyage this Monday, December 12 around 8 a.m. The ship will be sailing from Bath and arriving at its winter berth in Wiscasset before 1:00 p.m. Virginia was the first ocean-going English ship built in the Americas, starting a 400-year legacy of shipbuilding in the lower Kennebec River near Bath, Maine – a legacy which continues to this day with Bath Iron Works. Learn more about the voyage of Maine's First Ship here: Virginia’s First Voyage - Maine’s First Ship. “
 
Excuse my dunken musings of admiration here, but of all the remarkable explorer first feats in human history, none seem more daunting than those undertaken by the sea voyagers of yesteryear.

Risky as fuck as their missions were, at least the first people to attempt transoceanic airplane crossings or the early astronauts riding a glorified massive dinamite stick knew that if everything went well, there was actually a real tangible destination to get to. Imagine setting off on a sailing expedition to try to discover a navigable route through the North West Passage that very likely might not exist, and will result in your imminent death if so.

Not to mention being a sailor on Columbus’s initial voyage, when basically most people still doubted the Earth was a globe and you’d be eaten by a sea monster or fall off the edge of the world if you ventured too far west.. And even if you actually believed in the wacky and nearly heretical theory of the world being round, you still had no idea of how long you might spend at sea. Imagine crossing the point of no return regarding your remaining vital supplies and thinking ‘we now need to press forward in the hope of finding dry land as we won’t make it back’.
 
T & P said:
Excuse my dunken musings of admiration here, but of all the remarkable explorer first feats in human history, none seem more daunting than those undertaken by the sea voyagers of yesteryear.

Risky as fuck as their missions were, at least the first people to attempt transoceanic airplane crossings or the early astronauts riding a glorified massive dinamite stick knew that if everything went well, there was actually a real tangible destination to get to. Imagine setting off on a sailing expedition to try to discover a navigable route through the North West Passage that very likely might not exist, and will result in your imminent death if so.

Not to mention being a sailor on Columbus’s initial voyage, when basically most people still doubted the Earth was a globe and you’d be eaten by a sea monster or fall off the edge of the world if you ventured too far west.. And even if you actually believed in the wacky and nearly heretical theory of the world being round, you still had no idea of how long you might spend at sea. Imagine crossing the point of no return regarding your remaining vital supplies and thinking ‘we now need to press forward in the hope of finding dry land as we won’t make it back’.
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Definitely most of the above. But in Columbus’s times most people knew the world was round - even if they thought it was ‘an America width’ smaller than it is (Even though the Greeks in North Africa had come up with a pretty good estimate a almost 2000 years before), and, as well as the Vikings, other Europeans were regularly crossing the Atlantic to fish on the Grand Banks.

Still brave as fuck though…
 
The Santisima Trinidad ….

When she was launched in 1769, the Santisima Trinidad was the greatest warship the age of sail had seen. She was built as a one-off design in Havana, Cuba, by Matthew Mullan, an Irish naval architect in the service of Spain. Her displacement of 4,950 tons made her comfortably the largest warship in the world. For comparison, Nelson’s flagship the Victory, which was launched a few years earlier, was only 3,500 tons. Originally built as a three decked, first rate, she was redesigned in 1795. By joining up her forecastle to her quarterdeck, she was given a complete battery of small 8pdr cannon on her upper deck, taking the number of cannons she carried to 130, and making her the only four decked warship in the world.B7560FA3-DE7E-42C9-84B0-1351EE86D18C.jpeg
 
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