The US Navy plans to get into service with a new light torpedo

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The US Navy intends to announce a tender for the creation of a new light torpedo. The official start of the tender is scheduled to be announced at the end of September this year.

The US Navy plans to receive a new light torpedo, which will significantly increase the power of the US Navy and will be capable of not only hitting enemy submarines, but also intercepting torpedoes launched by them. It is assumed that the development of a new ammunition will take place as part of the program for creating a compact weapons fast attack CRAW (Compact Rapid Attack Weapon).



Initially, the tender was planned to be announced in January 2021, but then the deadline was postponed due to the lack of the necessary funds. At the moment, it is known about the only large company that decided to take part in the tender. According to Northrop Grumman, the company intends to tender a project of a privately developed mini-torpedo VLWT (Very Lightweight Torpedo).

According to various sources, the mass of the prototype of the new ammunition ranges from 99 to 104 kg. To set the torpedo in motion, a SCEPS closed-cycle steam turbine ESA is used, based on the use of the heat of the exothermic reaction of molten lithium and sulfur hexafluoride. Other development details are not provided.

According to the company, not only P-8A Poseidon patrol aircraft and multi-purpose helicopters, but also carrier-based ones can become carriers of the new torpedo Drones. It was previously stated that the first carriers of the new torpedo could be Virginia-class submarines, which would receive a special launch module for mini-torpedoes.
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  1. -2
    4 August 2021 10: 22
    get into service with a new light torpedo, which will significantly increase the power of the US Navy and will be capable of not only hitting enemy submarines ... So what do they scare with their "gang"? We have our own "gang" (!) ... a submarine KAZ with anti-torpedo ammunition with impulse detonation engines ... angry
  2. +1
    4 August 2021 10: 22
    Ideal for armament of UAVs and unmanned over / submarines. It is not a pity to send them for slaughter, but their sizes are small.
    1. 0
      5 August 2021 00: 00
      Quote: OgnennyiKotik
      It's not a pity to send them to slaughter

      Th belay do not mind drowning hundreds of millions of dollars in the face of just one such trough? Are you seriously? confused nothing?
  3. +3
    4 August 2021 10: 38
    -not only hit enemy submarines, but also intercept torpedoes launched by them.
    The Russian Navy has not yet bothered to equip the Varshavyanka diesel-electric submarine with anti-torpedoes.
    1. 0
      4 August 2021 12: 39
      Well yes. Where is "Lasta" ?!
  4. 0
    4 August 2021 10: 44
    The tender was planned to be announced in January 2021, but then the deadlines were postponed due to the lack of the necessary funds.

    Has the machine really broken down? recourse
    1. +1
      4 August 2021 10: 54
      - due to the lack of funds necessary for this.
      Just not budgeted.
      - the project of a privately developed mini-torpedo.
      An example worthy of imitation.
  5. 0
    4 August 2021 11: 13
    The US Navy plans to receive a new light torpedo, which will significantly increase the power of the US Navy and will be capable of not only hitting enemy submarines, but also intercepting torpedoes launched by them.
    So right .. to do and arm, if necessary, if effective.
  6. 0
    4 August 2021 12: 37
    For drones, that's it.
  7. -1
    4 August 2021 20: 49
    100 kg torpedo? Not a torpedo warhead weighing 100 kg, but all? A torpedo weighing like an 8 "shell, seriously? Especially against boats or what?
    1. -1
      5 August 2021 00: 02
      Quote: bk0010
      Especially against boats or what?

      not, especially for a drank budget wink

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