Talk:Nuclear torpedo

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Effects upon the firing submarine?[edit]

No explanation seems to be provided about what effects the nuclear blast would have upon the submarine firing the torpedo. Under the heading "Soviet Union: T-5" it states "...the T-5 was designed not for direct hits, but for a maximized blast kill zone. In water, a T-5 can send shock waves that are powerful enough to break the hulls of submarines...Three decommissioned submarines were used as targets at a distance of 6.5 miles. Both...sank completely, and (the third) was critically damaged." The T-5 is described (elsewhere) as traveling at 45 knots, and the Whiskey-class sub tasked to launch it, moved (submerged) at 13 knots. According to my calculations, that means that a target at a distance of 6.5 miles would be reached by the torpedo in 7.5 minutes. Assuming that the sub would have to fire and then come-about as quickly as possible to put as much distance as possible between itself and the blast, it could get no further from the launching point than about 1.5 miles, or 8 miles from the blast. So, how could the sub which fired it hope to be immune to the blast from its own torpedo? Bricology (talk) 19:26, 3 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]