Showing posts with label submarine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label submarine. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Hyper-submarine Innovation

Marion Hyper-Sub is a submersible powerboat, an innovation new vessel with flexible design. This powerboat has the ability to run in the surface at impressive speeds. The Hyper-Sub is the first small craft built with the horsepower, sea-keeping, and range to allow operation on the high seas, which also functions as a self-charging, autonomous, one-atmosphere submarine. The patented design, which was 31 years in the making, will forever alter the mini-sub industry. The world�s first true general-purpose submarine.

As a sub, the boat will dive to 1,200 feet.
31 Years in the making, finally you can be "down under" North of the equator.







Thursday, January 12, 2012

Torpedo vs Destroyer

A particularly interesting video showing exactly what happens when a submarine hits
their target with a MK48 Torpedo, Made in the USA....


You may have never seen footage where a single torpedo does damage like this.
It's a US made (non-nuclear) torpedo that is in use today by our submarines.
Very precise, very accurate, and very powerful.
This is the Australian Submarine Navy doing a live torpedo practice shot on one of their decommissioned ships. They used a Mk 48 Torpedo developed in the USA .

 It is non-nuclear and not a contact weapon.

It is designed to go off directly underneath the ship at about 50 feet under the keel.
The effect is devastating as you can see from the video.
This lethal weapon can break the back of ships much larger than the one shown in this video.