Targeting what? It’s a tiny pipe. It can’t be tracked passively.
It would be possible to do it with a dropped toro, but it would require active tracking of some sort. Either dipped or dropped.
This would put US Navy active transmissions into the water. It’s as recognizable as a fingerprint.
Potentially would that work? Yes. But it just doesn’t sit right with me. It’s not a game. You don’t just blast active sonar out when doing something like this. It’s not WW2. We aren’t openly blasting Japanese merchants out of the water.
Water is very dense. Sound waves propagate out incredibly long distance. It just doesn’t seem plausible to me that they would risk doing it in such a detectable and identifiable way, when better options exist. Submarine dry deck shelters and divers/seals are on these platforms for a reason.
I could be wrong. Maybe they don’t give a fuck who figures it out. If they really did just fly a P8 over and drop a payload, they are basically saying they want to be caught.
Torpedo dropped from an aircraft or helicopter?
Targeting what? It’s a tiny pipe. It can’t be tracked passively.
It would be possible to do it with a dropped toro, but it would require active tracking of some sort. Either dipped or dropped.
This would put US Navy active transmissions into the water. It’s as recognizable as a fingerprint.
Potentially would that work? Yes. But it just doesn’t sit right with me. It’s not a game. You don’t just blast active sonar out when doing something like this. It’s not WW2. We aren’t openly blasting Japanese merchants out of the water.
Water is very dense. Sound waves propagate out incredibly long distance. It just doesn’t seem plausible to me that they would risk doing it in such a detectable and identifiable way, when better options exist. Submarine dry deck shelters and divers/seals are on these platforms for a reason.
I could be wrong. Maybe they don’t give a fuck who figures it out. If they really did just fly a P8 over and drop a payload, they are basically saying they want to be caught.