How to destroy a Typhoon Submarine?

With tons of firepower :m16shoot:

Either by torpedos or by missiles; if the sub is surfacing a Tomahawk or Harpoon might do the trick though the radar capabilities and early warning system on these subs might track the launch before you can get off the donkeys ass. Their escorts will come on to you as a piece of red meat in front of rats, so a couple of torpedos and full speed out of the scene might do the trick.

Or ram it... Straight on...
 
sunblock said:
Their escorts will come on to you as a piece of red meat in front of rats, so a couple of torpedos and full speed out of the scene might do the trick.

Do SSBN's have escorts?
I was under the impression that they go out alone and lurk somewhere in the depths.
 
well its manmade..it can be sunk.

unfortunately...if you try to conventionally kill this bemoth...in your in trouble. it had better be a dead on convential with a massive explosive force. however these methods may work too



1. Multiple high explosive hedge hogs concentrated in the weaker aspect areas of the sub..requires some severe pinpoint locating and tracking. firing the multiple salvoed explosives in a concentrated area over the subs missle hatches where its weakest because of the through fare hatch design may do the trick.

2. One very extreme depth charge. enough said.

3. Tracking and ramming by convential submarine: extreme measure..should put quite a crimp in the subs future.

4. multiple subroc attacks from both axis of movement at least 20 subrocs firesd in salvos left to right of its base course and high and low to its depth should irritate it severly. maybe get lucky and blow a propellor shaft open.

5. Ruble reward..offer a sufficent amount to the subs captain and crew to deliver said sub to you...and honor the commitment so that you can get more...

6. Pray. pray very very hard that the damn thing sinks due to lousey maintenance or something.

7. Final solution..kill it while its in its dock.


:D
 
Here's the thing.
A lot of torpedos or the likes don't depend on ramming the submarine and drilling a hole through the hull.
What they often do is blow up under the center of the submarine, creating a massive air pocket under the submarine. Being held by water on either end, and with the pressure of the water pressing down the middle from above, the submarine would snap in half.
So unless the hull is so strong that it can support the weight of the sub and all that water over it, it's going to snap and sink.
 
I am pretty sure the subs have escort while leaving port, the distance from Murmansk and Archangelsk to the icecap is fairly long so any wessel of this size and importance should have escort by attack submarines and surface vessels (at least subs).
 
the_13th_redneck said:
Here's the thing.
A lot of torpedos or the likes don't depend on ramming the submarine and drilling a hole through the hull.
What they often do is blow up under the center of the submarine, creating a massive air pocket under the submarine. Being held by water on either end, and with the pressure of the water pressing down the middle from above, the submarine would snap in half.
So unless the hull is so strong that it can support the weight of the sub and all that water over it, it's going to snap and sink.

this showed a lot of thought about the mechanics of destruction..and ill give it high marks. what it doesn't take into account the depth at which a torpedo's massive water cavitation effect can occur.

thats the tricky thing about assault with a torpedo for a contact versus cavitation type kill. its water pressure. sure, if the explosion occurs shallow, say from about the surface to 150 deep...you may have a torpedo with a conventinal explosive head that could cause the gas bubble and break apart effect described above. But the deeper you go...the greater the water pressure..and the reduction of chance for a large cavitation to break the sub.

so at shallow depths its effective. at greater depths..hope for the contact explosion and a hole. just a little hole at 500 -800 feet will kill the sub quickly..very quickly.

the typhoon has an admitted diving depth of 400 meters or 1200 feet roughly. it doesn't have to come shallow until its ready to launch...and you don't want to kill it shallow. you need to kill this puppy deep..to ensure it doesn't launch that missile load.
 
Bootboy82 said:
Is it technically possible to fit a nuclear warhead on a torpedo?

Nuclear torpedoes have been around for a long time (Late 50's, early 60's i would say). They vanished with when the cold war ended IIRC. The US ones earlier than that even.
 
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