I guess I’m old. I remember Torpedoes back in the old days that used to sink tankers, battleships, large ocean liners, aircraft carriers Etc. The two most recent that I remember is a British torpedo sank The General belgrano, an American World War II Cruiser. And the Norks Sanka South Korean Destroyer.
Torpedoes ain’t exactly what they used to be I guess. Now they have little hand grenade Warheads or something.
Nah, they're not all that different. If anything, the ones with shaped charge warheads are worse. It's a case of someone ringing the bell and Pavlov's dogs salivating, that's all.
JMHo
They usually took multiple hits to do that. USS Maryland (a 33,000 ton armored battleship), as an example, got her bow almost blown off by a single torpedo in the battle of Saipan. She returned to Pearl under her own power, was repaired in about a month, and returned to service. IJN Yamato was sunk … by hits from at least ELEVEN torpedoes and 6 bombs. Modern torpedoes, such as the US Mk48, will cut a destroyer in half, same as WWII torpedoes.
Something is fishy about this incident.
I thought oil tankers had to be double hulled, reinforced, non-distructive tested annually etc to keep their insurance... Maybe oil tankers are harder to take down.
Yes.....puny torpedo if tankers still afloat....probably houthis using small charges directed by Iranians....