This link will lead to a test of the mark-48 torpedo on a old destroyer by
the Ausys.
This is a must see.

http://www.vetsoutreach.com/GNey/Mark48/

Have fun.

"L. P. LePage" > wrote in message
news:bYaXb.30316$_44.28198@attbi_s52...
> This link will lead to a test of the mark-48 torpedo on a old destroyer by
> the Ausys.
> This is a must see.
>
> http://www.vetsoutreach.com/GNey/Mark48/
>
> Have fun.

Another poster who doesn't recognize this as an AVIATION newsgroup. Pity.

Tex

Tex Houston wrote:
> "L. P. LePage" > wrote in message
> news:bYaXb.30316$_44.28198@attbi_s52...
>
>>This link will lead to a test of the mark-48 torpedo on a old destroyer by
>>the Ausys.
>>This is a must see.
>>
>>http://www.vetsoutreach.com/GNey/Mark48/
>>
>>Have fun.
>
>
> Another poster who doesn't recognize this as an AVIATION newsgroup. Pity.

Just pretend it's an airdropped MK-50. Or pretend that was your carrier
that got hit.

>>
>> Another poster who doesn't recognize this as an AVIATION newsgroup. Pity.
>
>Just pretend it's an airdropped MK-50. Or pretend that was your carrier
>that got hit.

Well, the photos WERE taken by a military aircraft, right...?

v/r
Gordon
<====(A+C====>
USN SAR

Donate your memories - write a note on the back and send your old photos to a
reputable museum, don't take them with you when you're gone.

Dropped a few out of a P3.

--
jim morris

On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 02:28:59 GMT, "Jim Morris" >
wrote:

>Dropped a few out of a P3.

Mk46 perahps, but certainly not Mk48. Mk48 is a 21" heavy torpedo,
submarine launched ONLY.

--
Andrew Toppan --- --- "I speak only for myself"
"Haze Gray & Underway" - Naval History, DANFS, World Navies Today,
Photo Features, Military FAQs, and more - http://www.hazegray.org/

Acoustic training for airborne operators always includes listening to recorded
events such as this SINKEX.

Surprising how much 'detail' you can hear through a hydrophone when a ship gets
hammered. You go out on a torp drop and the things turn out to be possessed!
The sound they make is unmistakeable - they are screaming banshees in your
headphones. You all have to have seen that photo of a US boat with a Mark 46
stuck right through its sail? That was not even one of the _bad_ ones.
Torpedos are eeevil. But, listening to these events was certainly stimulating.

I started my class once by using an eight minute tape of a submarine sinking
into the abyss. Crunching, hollow grating and glass breaking sounds. A
muffling rumble as the sub falls away. Kicked-trash can sounds of fire
extinguishers imploding now and then. By the time the eight minutes was over,
no one in the class was talking.

The tape had no classification, there was no description, file number, or date
for reference. The class took about five minutes to figure out which one it
was. :)

v/r
Gordon

In article >, Jim
Morris > wrote:

> Dropped a few out of a P3.

Same Jim Morris that was in VP-69 at NUW?

Pugs

Mk 46. You are correct.
--
jim morris

No. VP-31, VP-46

--
jim morris

"Jim Morris" wrote
> No. VP-31, VP-46

Hi Jim, I did VP-46 1965-67. At the time, we had brand
new, fresh off the production line, P-3Bs. I commanded
Crew Ten for a 1967 deployment to the brand new base at
Utapao.

Bob Moore