"Lord Vain" wrote in message
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"George" wrote in message
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"miket6065" wrote in message
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At Strategy page there was an article on this. It seems this
underwater
missile is very short range, 5-7 km, and extremely limited steerage.
Notice that no one else has developed such a missile, only the
Russians
make them. Per the article the missile is a last ditch defense system.

Think again. We have an underwater supercavitating projectile that
breaks
the sound barrier. We also have supercavitating bullets:

http://www.supercavitation.com/html/projectiles.html

Which was probably copied from the Russians Prior to the announcement
of
the Russian underwater rocket (in 1995) no U.S. supercavitation torpedo
was
in development AFAIK.

The U.S. played around with supercavitation back in the 1960s and found the
same limitations with it that the Russians and Iranians are currently
discovering. Our supercavitating projectile is a last ditch weapon to kill
a torpedo or other target at very close range. That's about all they are
currently good for.

george