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Chuck Norris is Air Force. Is this your formal admission that Air Force is better than Navy? Asking for the Air Force. Chuck Norris doesn't have a chin - underneath his beard, he has a third fist. Thank you for all the content, A.A.
I remember once when we were testing a TLAM-D and I guess it was electric launch, but it did not leave the tube when launched. That was a very nervous 10 minutes. If that rocket motor ignited I don't know what would have happened. We'd experience what it was to be the Kursk. We had to trim the ship to get it to slide out by gravity. We nicknamed it the Dud.
@@A_barrel I don’t actually know. I was not a torpedo man, and ours never talked about the weapons, even when I was sleeping next to the biggest one (crowd pleaser).
@@A_barrel Sort of. You are trained to be able to take the place of someone else up to a point, but its not across the entire crew. Coners learn each other's watch stations and nukes learn each other's. Still, weapons info is classified.
That scene was based on the loss of HMS Thetis in 1939. The ship was on builder's trials. A trickle valve in the inner tube door was opened, to see if the tube was dry. No water came out so the inner torpedo 'door' was opened. Unknown until that point, paint had blocked the trickle valve and the tube was wet. The forward compartments flooded and nearly every man aboard - over 100 - died, eventually. The death toll was so high because a lot of civilians - shipyard workers, etc were aboard for the first dive.
I grew up in East FL near Cape Canaveral. I had a friend who got a job for RCA that had a contract testing torpedoes at Andros Island .When testing the torpedoes they would bob up and down vertically at the end of their run . It was his job to retrieve the torpedo and get it onboard the retrieval boat . This was in the 1970's .
My grandfather was first on destroyers and then submarines in the Royal Navy during WW2. He was stationed at Loch Long for a while test firing torpedoes. He was quite a character and told lots of stories. All the best.
Destin on the SmarterEveryDay YT channel crawled into a torpedo tube on USS Toledo episode (241) and did a great job at looking at the systems involved
I find the the technical explanations from this so interesting. He keeps it simple enough to keep the pace up and for the viewer to understand but yet explains enough technical aspects that those of us who've never been on a sub would know of to educate us on how all of this actually works. Great channel, great content! Glad I found this last year and sub'd to it!
When I first heard about wire guided torpedos I naturally equated them to the wire guided TOW anti-tank missile on the Bradley (BFV) b/c I worked with BFVs in the army. The gunner must keep the sight reticle on the target to guide the missile until impact. So, I imagined a submariner staring into a sight of some sort guiding the torpedo with a joystick. Then, I realized how insane and impossible that would be b/c of darkness and distance. Kinda felt dumb at that point. I still find it surprising that the torps are wire guided. By now I expect they would be more like air to air missiles. The aircraft uses its radar to provide guidance to the missile until the missile is within a certain range to target. Then, the missile's sensors and guidance system steer it into the bandit's face. I suppose a wire guided torp is quieter than one with its own sonar pinging away at the target as it closes the distance. idk
I was surprised to learn how long it took to load a tube. I always thought the reload time was more like a battleship gun, about 30 seconds, until I saw one of your Cold Waters videos.
Great explainer. My dad had a guy who worked for him that was a WW2 Naval vet and he was shot out of the tubes as his sub was sinking. Guy couldn't hear, but worked his butt off
Bloody hells man. Listening on audio only, when you asked "what can the sub do with the door open" and that bloody sound effect had me yankin my earbuds out to do a WTF. LoLz
Apologies in advance if this is a "classified" question but how do you prevent a water hammer effect when you open up the equalising line? I assume you can pre-fill with water but I'm worried about whether the sudden exposure to the pressure outside would result in a water hammer effect.
Great video, Aaron...👍 *EDIT→* (1) _Chuck Norris does not eat honey, he chews bees._ (2) _Some magicians can walk on water. Chuck Norris can swim through land._ (3) _Chuck Norris can pop a wheelie on a unicycle._
I remember my first week cranking and getting a good deal with my own rack cranking. They let me sleep and fired a water slug, the air venting in from the impulse tanks. I thought I was a goner while all the TMs and A-gang laughed at me.
I never got to see a test shot of torps onboard. We had tubes on the upper deck, but they never seemed to have anything done to them. The helicopter used to regularly go up with torpedoes though so maybe we didn't need to use the tubes. I never thought to ask. Type 23 has a system where they launch torps out of a tube in the side of the superstructure. It's like a porthole! The weapon actually traverses the waist to get into the sea. Imagine going for an upper deck bimble after coming off watch and casually getting hit by a torpedo ha ha.
I definitely dig this kind of vid- they are interesting not only for the description of the operation of various parts of a submarine or other military tech, but for the engineering of thw same. Cheers!
Nice video, thanks. Fellow submariner here, always looking forward to your videos. Seriously, a portable air tank that a sailor needs to hoist into position? Seems ridiculous that system is not hard mounted and plumbed into the system some way? What am I missing here? (Flex tube of any type can't handle the pressure reliably on a pivoting system?) Oh wait, I forgot, it's been so darn long: "It's the Navy way", LOL!
Slight correction, water does compress, but it is fractional compared to air. Even the deepest diving subs are unlikely to be in more than 5% reduction in water volume by pressure. It plays a role in crushing, and you've probably heard it in the initial stage. It's water's springiness as the cause of the explosive ram effect it has on the air inside the submerged vessel. Anyway, for most practical concerns and pressures, it is incompressible- but you will be a few percentage points out at the extremity. I suppose it's worth knowing that a water pressurizing system like this can 'explode' or tear itself open, as a truly incompressible substance would only leak out.
@@theloniousm4337 Honestly - That has never entered my mind. Since you gave me a reason to look it up. I googled -- deep ocean water oxygen richer . Got Oxygen minimum zone - Wikipedia .. Another search shows oxygenated water is denser and the water temp plays a role. The colder the water the more oxygen it can hold.
Weapons Department Destoryer sailor here (FC1SW); the scariest things about our torpedos are the magazines (that door is a hoss) and the fuel concerns :)
Run Silent, Run Deep. Was that Hollywood when the torpedo fell off the rails and crushed someone, or did it ever happen? Has that been fixed so that it doesn't happen?
Having watched many of your play throughs of Cold Waters I had several questions about guided torpedoes and thought through most. There is one more that I was curious about though, if it cannot be answered I do completely understand. After the wire is cut, what happens to the REDACTED length of wire now paid out? It seems like a dangerous gamble for the screw or pump jet of the Sub or even another ship. Initially I thought maybe the Boat would slurp the wire back up like a spaghetti but that seems ridiculous. Is it weighted so that it sinks to the seafloor somewhat quickly? Thanks for bringing out the whiteboard!
One of my last jobs on a sub tender, was to certify the TEP (water born) on a boat (low 600 hull number). Yeah, those puppies were noisy! I got a commendation for that job.
I remember 1982 when Argentine Gen. Belgrano cruiser "accidentally" came into British waters and "accidentally" started gathering intel on our Atlantic fleet. Also "accidentally" attempted to back door our burst trans Comms network. So SSN HMS Conqueror "accidentally" fired 3 torps at Belgrano and she "accidentally" sank!! Love to know what fish they were on Conqueror. Great to be back with you all here. Ahoy Capt. Jive Turkey 🦃
@@CptJistuce lol yeah, so we accidentally kicked their arses back off the island. Did the USA accidentally help us out with carrier and aircraft support? 😉
Ive always been curious on just how loud it is opening the torpedo tube doors, and firing one......my only frame of ref being the movie red october heh
Answer Passive sonar - lisen to low and medium frequency sounds, good at bearing and Okayish at distance, works much better against surface ships than subs Active sonar- low frequency for range (more expensive) High frequency for less range but more clarity (cheaper) Active sonar sends out pings of noise which then it searches for them as they bounce back from underwater objects such as the sea floor and large objects. It is usually 210 to 235 decibels so there is no hiding The only classified things are the specific frequencies and sonar arrays.
Curious but why do they fill the tube with water from inside the submarine? why not just fill using sea water from outside saving space, extra tubes and valves etc? Could they use magnetic launch rails within the tube to push the torpedo out? This would save space as you don't need the water round tube tanks or the impulse tank or the equipment to create the impulse. Is the fibre optic cable stored on each torpedo and how is it connected to the ship's control systems. Also, why doesn't the torpedo hunt for it's target directly and so not need the cable? Sorry for all the questions but I'm a novice at this.
Hey, what happens if the wire doesn't leave the tube properly ???? Does it get sheared off by the outer door when it closes and the remaining bits are removed once the inner door is opened for loading a new torpedo???
6000 lbs of pressure is going to turn you into pink mist and when they "launch" you you will be painting everything down wind. Would you settle for 200 lbs? At 200 psi you will be mostly whole going into the water. One more thing, surface tubes are 12.75 inches, do you want them to chunk you up first to fit?
Couldn't you just have a dry loaded tube (sabot fitted around it for air tightness) and have a pipe aft of the torpedo. Open up the pipe and the pressure floods the tube aft to forward propelling the torpedo out. Open up the muzzle and outer doors in sync as the torpedo gets forced out via pressure and just have one sound signature (the escaping air) upon launch. No separate tanks needed. You could even drain the air as the torpedo is being forced out the tube. Just a thought I'm not good with physics but theory?
I understand that the torpedo cables used to be copper but are now fiber optics which makes sense. I assume that when the cable is "cut" it is cut from the torpedo and then winched back up on the submarine right? Fiber optic cables are expensive.
For the wired ones, I guess you can cut the cable when you know it does not have enough range to come back at the launch vessel. For the wireless surface ship ones I guess they must go down to below the ships draft. I would be scared that the target would go quiet and I would be the loudest thing in the sea and it would come back at me.
