MK48 Torpedos vs US Destroyers (decomm)

GEE-ZUZ!!!

Just a thought:

Remember: this was an exercise attack upon a decommissioned, empty & dead ship.
If in WWII, she'd have had lit boilers under pressure, be full of fuel oil & LIVE AMMO ... not to mention her crew.

I would imagine the primary explosion would have been much smaller due to the more primitive torpedo's with a smaller (less capable) warhead; but the secondary explosions & fires would be significantly larger.

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WW2 torps could do a lot of damage, the Japanese Long Lance with a 1080 lb. warhead and a range of 44K yards was legendary vs the US Mark 15 with a 825 lb. warhead and a 15K yard range, both carried aboard surface vessels.

Pix is the HMS Eskimo after the second battle of Narvik, after a German DD torpedo hit, she lost her bow to the bridge and powered home in reverse!

Few "tin cans" survived a torpedo hit.

The modern ones shown in the video are exploding under the keel, breaking the ships back. Most navies had problems with their magnetic firing pistols early in WW2 and resorted to contact pistols. Exploding under the keel does the most damage.
 
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