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Originally Posted by Molon Labe
You really don't gain much from wireguidance on a torp that only has a range of about 10nm. It makes sense to me that they put their efforts into the UGST instead.
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Actually, Molon, that statement is contradictory.
It would make much more sense to say: "you don't really gain much from giving a torpedo a range of greater than 10nm if the weapon only has a guidance wire that is 10nm long."
In real life, Russian weapons use a wire-guidance system that puts 13.5nm of wire in the weapon and 2.5nm of wire in the submarine itself (according to Amizaur's sources). As you can see, the max range of the TEST-71 is exactly the length of its wire. The Soviet weapons designers only allocated space inside the weapon to enough batteries to send it to its theoretically maximum effective range, which is where the wire runs out.
Cheers,
David