"Eunometic" wrote in message
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"Keith Willshaw" wrote in message
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Whoops there goes another Super Carrier (steering gear & screws) !

http://www.diodon349.com/Kursk-Memor...the_squall.htm

Stop being silly

The Skhval is a short range straight runner that does NOT
home in on the steering gear or screws. The Russian
torpedo that IS dangerous in this respect is the large
Type 53-65 passive wake homing torpedo,

Keith

I doubt the Russians would produce a completely impracticable weapon.

Its a Hail Mary Weapon intended to be fired at a vessel that has
a lock on you and is about to kill you. At best it might actually hit
the enemy but there's a good chance it'll evade and in doing so
break the lock.


Almost certainly a modest degree of directional control (perhaps turn
rates of 1 degree per second) is possible if only to keep the missile
on course, homing guidence at full speed might be difficult due to
the gas cavity and rocket motor interfering with both passive and
active sonar but that wouldn't prevent the missile being equiped with
an inertial guidence system able to take the missile to within close
range of the target where it either slows down for a 'look' using
conventional passive or active sonar or it detonates a large (possibly
nuclear) warhead. Even a cheap inertial guidence system would have
drift rates of at most 20 meters per minute; given its speed of well
over 300km/h or 5km/minute so an attack on targets 25 km away would
place the missile within 100 meters of the 'enemy carrier' or 'sub'.


Trouble is we know the weapon has no sucuh guidance system
and that its range is nothing like 25 km. Russia began marketing
the conventionally armed version of the Shkval at the IDEX 99
exhibition in Abu Dhabi in early 1999. The firisng system
sets the speed, distance and vector and feeds the data to the
missile's automatic pilot. The missile is fired, achieves its
optimum depth and switches on its engines. The missile
does not have a homing warhead

Even attacks using WW2 shoot and forget collision course type aiming
with spreads of torpedos would have a high degree of success given the
enormous speed of the missile preventing evasive manouvers.

If it were not for the fact that its range is less than 8000 yards

Keith