How Modern Torpedoes Actually Work | Mk-48
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This is a modern torpedo, and beneath its skin lies an incredible feat of engineering divided into several specialized sections.
Right at the nose is the guidance section, packed with advanced sonar arrays.
Instead of just blind thrust, it sends acoustic pulses across the ocean, processing the return echoes to track and lock onto enemy submarines.
But Sailors inside the submarine can steer the weapon manually through an ultra-thin wire link, fine-tuning its trajectory toward the exact target before detonating its high-explosive warhead right beneath the hull.
But Russian torpedoes,
however, often rely on a completely different tactic.
Rather than pinging through the water column, they use upward-pointing sensors to detect the turbulence and micro-bubbles left behind by a ship's wake making them almost impossible to decoy.
Even deadlier are air-dropped torpedoes.
Deployed by maritime patrol aircraft and slowed by parachutes on entry, they activate immediately to circle and hunt detected targets below.
Historically, surface warships like destroyers and aircraft carriers were sitting ducks for torpedo strikes.
To flip the script, navies developed standoff rocket- and gas-launched torpedo systems, turning surface ships into deadly submarine hunters.
And to counter American naval supremacy?
Russia went to the extreme, developing massive, nuclear-powered mega-torpedoes weapons nearly thirty times the size of a standard lightweight torpedo.
We built and animated this entire 3D model from scratch in Blender.
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Russian wake-homers are not supercavitating. It is physically impossible to make a guided supercavitating torpedo.
There was only one type of Soviet supercavitating torpedo, it was nicknamed "Shkvall" (squall in English). It was a non-homing torpedo that only received basic bearing instructions at the time of launch.
Supercavitating torpedoes are so ridiculously loud that they can be detected from 70 nautical miles away.
How Modern Torpedoes Actually Work | Mk-48
AiTelly
112,525 views
This is a modern torpedo, and beneath its skin lies an incredible feat of engineering divided into several specialized sections.
Right at the nose is the guidance section, packed with advanced sonar arrays.
Instead of just blind thrust, it sends acoustic pulses across the ocean, processing the return echoes to track and lock onto enemy submarines.
But Sailors inside the submarine can steer the weapon manually through an ultra-thin wire link, fine-tuning its trajectory toward the exact target before detonating its high-explosive warhead right beneath the hull.
But Russian torpedoes,
however, often rely on a completely different tactic.
Rather than pinging through the water column, they use upward-pointing sensors to detect the turbulence and micro-bubbles left behind by a ship's wake making them almost impossible to decoy.
Even deadlier are air-dropped torpedoes.
Deployed by maritime patrol aircraft and slowed by parachutes on entry, they activate immediately to circle and hunt detected targets below.
Historically, surface warships like destroyers and aircraft carriers were sitting ducks for torpedo strikes.
To flip the script, navies developed standoff rocket- and gas-launched torpedo systems, turning surface ships into deadly submarine hunters.
And to counter American naval supremacy?
Russia went to the extreme, developing massive, nuclear-powered mega-torpedoes weapons nearly thirty times the size of a standard lightweight torpedo.
We built and animated this entire 3D model from scratch in Blender.
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We make it on Blender
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This has been a result of big channels duplicating our Videos, ripping our original hard work, which we have created from scratch, from modeling to rigging to animation and rendering.
As a result, we've had to involve lawyers.