Fingolfin_Noldor wrote:By the way, Stas, do the torpedoes have a stealth mode where they move slowly at the start, before ramping their engines to the max at a certain range?
The USGT and Type 53-65 accelerate slowly and conduct steep turn maneuvers to leave the launching vessel and only then go full-speed.
The USGT is particulary stealthy, since one can quietly launch it from maximum Typhoon operating depth (400 m) and it can hit targets as low as 500 m, or as high as the surface.
The Type 53-65M if used on shorter distances against surface ships will reach the target in
285 seconds. This is important, since wake homing lockon by USGT or Type 53-65M is possible for
315 seconds after the ship leaves designated point. And wake homing is pretty brutal - no decoys have been created against it presently, none at all - so unless you have ATORP systems, you are dead with a 0,9 certainity - unless the torpedo fails on it's own or takes the wrong direction on the wake...
The "Shkval-2" is a last-ditch weapon, a sort of golden bullet which blows your cover - but one the enemy certainly can't reliably dodge. I mean, it covers it's maximum 15 km range in
100 seconds. Think about that.
With pumpjets and newer dampfer coating for reactor, as well as dampfers between hulls, the boat's silency would reach a rate that detection range in open ocean with most favourable weather conditions (MFWC) would be between 2-20 km, and detection in shallow water would be below 3-5 km.
This means the boat can turn around and play hunter on any hunters roaming around, since detection range is far
less than the boat's own weapons.
P.S. The USGT in active+wake configuration can be used to shoot at targets from 40-50 km - good range, deep launch. It would take half an hour to reach the target, but the plus of such approach is that if you are certain the target doesn't have decoys, you can avoid dangerous encounters by sinking ships from 50 km away.
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