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[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 14 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (3 children)

Let me just leave this here:

South Korea’s ADD showcases new Supercavitating Torpedo at MADEX 2025

ADD said that the development of this supercavitating torpedo is currently about two-thirds complete, and that after further maturing the torpedo’s stabilization control technology, it will finally secure the design and testing technology of the test body.

...The MRXUUV (Mission Reconfigurable eXtra-large Unmanned Underwater Vehicle) currently under development by ADD could serve as testbed.

According to an interview with the ADD chief researcher, the supercavitating torpedo displayed at MADEX 2025 is an actual tested torpedo, designed in size to fit in a UUV, capable of being guided (in the initial phase of the launch, at low speed), and is being developed to sink enemy main surface ships with ultra-high-speed kinetic energy without a warhead.

The publicly released timeline doesn't line up, but the motivations do.

[–] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 8 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I think a limpet mine is a far more likely explanation, why risk such a heavily classified piece of technology falling into enemy hands?

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 3 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

To prevent the literal unpredictable madman neighbour with a mortal vendetta against you from getting a nuclear reactor.

Also, Russia already has super cavitating torpedoes, and there's not necessarily that much to learn from their pieces after impact.

Not saying a limpet mine isn't likely, but this also feels like exactly why SK is developing those torpedoes.

[–] deranger@sh.itjust.works 10 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (2 children)

What would a South Korean torpedo two-thirds of the way through development today have anything to do with a Russian ship sinking off the coast of Spain a year and a half ago?

I’d wager this was Ukraine’s handiwork using conventional or drone weapons.

The reactors were bound for North Korean subs. The Spanish claimed evidence of asupercavating torpedo strike.

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)
  1. the article is a year old, so those statements were made at least a year ago, 2) militaries aren't always super up front about their weapons programs timelines 3) the statement specifically said that even though it was "2/3" of the way through development, it had been tested. How do you know this wasn't the test?

It could have been Ukraine, but Ukraine does not have super cavitating torpedoes, so if that's the case the reporting on those and the shape charges must be wrong.

[–] deranger@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

What makes you think supercavitating torpedoes are involved at all?

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

That's what Spain's investigation thought was most likely

[–] deranger@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

There’s no real attribution of that, though, just a source familiar with the investigation. Nothing official suggests it’s a supercavitating torpedo.

The series of events which led the Ursa Major to sink to the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea remains unclear. It may have involved the use of a rare type of torpedo to breach the ship’s hull, according to the Spanish investigation, as described by the source familiar with its contents.

CNN and La Verdad reported that a 50cm by 50cm hole found in the vessel’s hull – with the damaged metal facing inwards – could have been made by a super-fast weapon known as a supercavitating torpedo.

“May” and “could” are doing a lot of work there.

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 hours ago

Yeah, no one in here is claiming they know 100% who did it.

But it would make sense if SK did. They have the motivation and potentially the means.

[–] Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

MRXUUV is a comically terrible acronym. Why even bother using the "x" from "extra" if you're going to make an acronym that reads like a silicon valley pyramid scheme?

[–] prettybunnys@piefed.social 4 points 16 hours ago

Maybe it makes more sense to a first language Korean speaker/reader and we’re too English language to get it?