Iran's new fastest torpedo

Causing the carrier to list even a few degrees would render it unable to operate aircraft. thats good enough to be a mission kill for me. The fact the Set-65 is torpedo renders almost all of a CSG's defences ineffective.

Is this thing really going to make that much of a difference??? Do navies have technology to defeat this kind of missile, or is this an actual threat???

DF-31 Driver said:

Is this thing really going to make that much of a difference??? Do navies have technology to defeat this kind of missile, or is this an actual threat???

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its not a missile its a torperdo also its deadly in close range enagement as for conunter measures zero

couldn't standard torpedo countermeasures also fool the seekers of a supercavitating torpedo? I see no reason why not. Now, if it is just a point and shoot weapon with no seeker, then I can understand that countermeasures are not available to counter that.

crazyinsane105 said:

Darth Sidious has a point. We have never even seen the effect of a Shkval torpedo against a ship so the possibilites can be endless.

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True enough. I know that the USN has used on several occasions MK 48 ADCAP torpedos to sink older ships in what the USN calls a "sinkex". The technique of breaking the hull of a ship to sink it is quite effective. In 1992 the USN sunk the old LPH USS Okinawa(LPH-3) with a single MK 48 ADCAP after it had been pounded with all sorts of missles and bombs. The old torpedo did her in!

link....navysite.de/lph/lph3.htm

Sorry about that link . I'm at the libary today and this stupid computer won't let you paste on certian items!!!!

walter said:

couldn't standard torpedo countermeasures also fool the seekers of a supercavitating torpedo? I see no reason why not. Now, if it is just a point and shoot weapon with no seeker, then I can understand that countermeasures are not available to counter that.

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By the time the torpedo is detected, it will be too late.The torpedo travels at 1200 ft per second. Even if the torpedo has guidance, it might turn off around 5km from the ship, and guide by more traditional means(with Gyroscope and other stuff)

walter said:

couldn't standard torpedo countermeasures also fool the seekers of a supercavitating torpedo? I see no reason why not. Now, if it is just a point and shoot weapon with no seeker, then I can understand that countermeasures are not available to counter that.

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if something goes that fast its a good chance its not guided even its it is the countermeasure will have a hard time reacting to all that speed

Well, the ships that are being targeted don't have to be within this things range. A CBG can just sit way out in the Arabian Sea. The Iranians don't have the means to deliver it by aircraft or surface ship, the CBGs defences are far too strong for that. And I doubt a sub would get into range either. A good way to use this torpedo would be against ships trying to clear mines that the Iranians would certainly put into the Straits of Hormuz in the event of a war. But sinking a carrier, I don't think so.:nana:

A range of 7km....... Since Crazy mentioned that the Gulfs of Iran is so narrow, I'd bet that if you sent a couple of mini-FACs, it might be able to attack ships with this torpedo/missile. (That's a small craft, maybe Dvora-sized, with no radar. You shouldn't need it anyway.)

The video didn't show us an underwater launch, so It doesn't prove that they know how to use it underwater. (Especially when their subs are foreign! I wouldn't be surprised if Russia helped though.)

If it's unguided, how will it kill a ship though? CVNs are armored. I doubt you can punch a hole in it. And since it's unguided, how'll it know if it's under the target? (The video showed us a straight shot only. Can't be guided.) I think this is more like their navy's bayonet, effective(still questionable.) at close range, a piece of trash out.

As for nuclear capability, it by sense wouldn't need it, and couldn't have it. Iran has no nukes to test it on, and since its range is only 7km, you are better off just filling your boat with the bomb and blow up 7km out. Nuclear explosions do affect a whole area afterall, more than the coverage of this thing.

This thing is probably nothing.

Iran announced its second major new missile test within days, saying Sunday it has successfully fired a high-speed torpedo capable of destroying huge warships and submarines.

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It's not like other torpedos are designed to kill fishes and bomb whales.
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There's a video on the Shkval?