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GunnersMate
Joined: 17 Feb 2006 Posts: 225 Location: Boston, MA
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Posted: Sun Apr 09, 2006 11:01 am Post subject: Detonator on Mk-48 ADCAP |
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What type of detonator is used on an ADCAP? Is it magnetic, sonar, or contact? |
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SeaQueen
Joined: 23 Jun 2005 Posts: 358 Location: Washington, DC
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Posted: Sun Apr 09, 2006 11:24 am Post subject: Re: Detonator on Mk-48 ADCAP |
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GunnersMate wrote: | What type of detonator is used on an ADCAP? Is it magnetic, sonar, or contact? |
Maybe. |
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TLAM Strike
Joined: 30 Apr 2002 Posts: 4866 Location: Rochester, New York
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Posted: Sun Apr 09, 2006 11:26 am Post subject: Re: Detonator on Mk-48 ADCAP |
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GunnersMate wrote: | What type of detonator is used on an ADCAP? Is it magnetic, sonar, or contact? |
D) All of the above... and maybe more... |
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Henson
Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Posts: 35
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Posted: Sun Apr 09, 2006 12:19 pm Post subject: |
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I'd rather not say.
BUT, if you look into what the goal of an underwater explosion is it may point you in the right direction. |
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Deathblow
Joined: 11 Sep 2005 Posts: 392
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Posted: Sun Apr 09, 2006 12:30 pm Post subject: |
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Its known that for surface targets the ADCAP uses an advanced fuse that detonates *under*, rather than against the hull, that allows the greatest damage potential.
Probably the combination of high frequency sonar, advanced algorithms, maybe some mad... contact probably not necceassy, who knows. |
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LuftWolf
Joined: 09 May 2005 Posts: 1872 Location: Free New York
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Posted: Sun Apr 09, 2006 1:42 pm Post subject: |
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In anti-surface mode, it is capable of magnetic fusing for under-keel detonations.
When in anti-sub mode, it has a contact fuse that triggers a shaped charge like a HEAT warhead, which directs a jet of plasma into the submarine, so the torpedo can burrough into the hull before detonating, designed specificially to eat through the outer hulls of large russian submarines and detonate between the pressure hulls, greatly improving the chances of a kill against Typhoons and Oscars.
There are probably a few other modes out there as well... |
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