Torpedo Missing ?

[malaga2]

Not exactly inspiring confidence here :

Taiwan offers reward for missing torpedo
Tuesday, 15 June 2010 17:26
Taiwan's navy is offering a cash reward to any fisherman who finds a torpedo its sailors lost during a drill last week, the military has said.

The offer follows four days of intensive but futile searching in the area around the Tsoying base in southern Taiwan, the navy said in a statement.

Any fisherman who finds the German-built SUT torpedo will be handed 30,000 Taiwan (€762).

AdvertisementIt is the second time submariners aboard the Dutch-made Hai Lung, or 'Sea Dragon' have lost a torpedo.

In 2003 a missing weapon was washed ashore.

 

[ArcticLight]

Re: Torpedo Missing ?

SO I heard a story that we lost one of our mainstay Mk46's in the 60's apparantly and some fisherman pulled it up and sold it ot China, they then took that German weapon (Or UK perhaps) and combined technology....then took and did their own engineering.

I hear they have quite a lightweight torpedo..

My brother said his buddy has a place on hood canal and there are several buried torpedos there.


Torpedo's that are run usually don't have a warhead so they recover them and examine the data.

I know just the team to recover it

 

[High Binder]

Re: Torpedo Missing ?

$10 says they find it slamming into in a South Korean ship in the next few weeks.