Fort Camden Walk - Brennan Torpedo 

In the late 1800s this would of been the equivalent of walking into the most classified icbm launch center today.

It feels like walking down the hall of night mares the lowest level of the dulce secret underground base.

You’re not

This part of the fort was top-secret. Few knew about it in order to preserve the secrecy around the Brennan torpedo, as it was effectively a superweapon in its time: a torpedo able to move near-invisibly and be turned to aim at a target not completely in line with its relatively unassuming launch ramp. This thing would have terrified everyone it could be pointed at, and reverse-engineering it would have given England’s enemies a FORMIDABLE weapon to use. Note that the actual mechanics of the damn thing are kept separate, in a safe with two key locks: the same level of security you’d find nowadays on the go-to-war safe of an ICBM silo.

Its supposed to. As somebody said earlier, this was in the 1880's what an ICBM launch complex would be today. Average day Victorian-era citizen with no ties to the British military wasn't meant to or supposed to see things like this.

@@Patriot1776 its Just mindblowing that humans keep making bigger and better weapons along time

I like it

Yes, they were also rowing towards the ship to damage them with a trusty lumber axe

It was kinda futuristic too

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if your torpedos are steam powered it makes perfect sense

Nick: There were 2 Brennan forts on the Thames - 1 at Cliffe (opposite Tilbury) and the other at Garrison Point Fort at the mouth of the Medway. Garrison Point was the main testing and training location. Sadly, little is left of these two installations. Rob

@@vbbsmyt yes they sound familiar, must've been one of those. It was in ruins and seemed strange to me. Possibly ravaged to salvage metal either officially in WW2 or unofficially...i.e.. stolen!

Oldtrkdrvr: There is very little left of the Brennan stations. All the equipment has long been dismantled, and the sites are inaccessible. As for why and who paid for it. The British Government. In the 1880’s to protect naval ports against an invading force, the entrances were protected by controlled minefields, but these were time consuming to lay, and subject to the deterioration of the cabling and mines themselves. The Brennan torpedo stations provided an alternative - always available, and with the ability to steer a large warhead onto selected targets. Louis Brennan received a very large sum from the British Government to develop the torpedo and then to manufacture the torpedoes, maintain them and train the operators.

What could possibly damage the Brennan installation?. It is buried deep in a hill, so there was no weapon that existed in the 1890’s that could be delivered to cause blast damage . Aeroplanes had not been invented. Warships did not have fire control or gyro compasses and rangefinders were of very limited accuracy, so hitting a small opening from a moving ship would be almost impossible even when within the range of the torpedo.

The highly secret Depth mechanism, which controlled the torpedo depth during he run. No-one to this day knows how it worked. You can see how the torpedo worked in my other animation: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-sQJCOnyUvfU.html

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Russia?

It was more fun whit the music