Canadian Navy

[yyc80]

Funny Video

http://www.break.com/movies/missilemisfire.html

[Lommer]

I'm pretty sure that's a torpedo, not a missile, but other than that it was kinda funny.

[ScudRunner]

Dont think its Canadian

[Dust Devil]

I don't know what makes em blow up, but from my days in the perforating buisness I know that if something missfires you don't hang around the thing and giggle like a little girl. You get the hell away from the bloody thing.

[Pygmie]

Dont think its Canadian

You're quite right, none of the Canadian warships have that design of tubes, and none of the tubes are mounted on the upper deck.

[hazatude]

Actually that is rare footage of Cat Driver on his wedding night...

[WJflyer]

Dont think its Canadian

You're quite right, none of the Canadian warships have that design of tubes, and none of the tubes are mounted on the upper deck.

Actually, the Tribals have that type of torpedo tube design...

[Pygmie]

Yep, you're right on that, they do have the Mk-32 tubes on the Iroquois class ships. I'll admit I don't have much knowledge of them, was more thinking along the lines of the Halifax class, which have internally mounted twin launchers. Still, the Tribals have the tubes mounted under the flight deck.

The video is taken onboard an American Arleigh Burke class DDG.

[WJflyer]

Yep, you're right on that, they do have the Mk-32 tubes on the Iroquois class ships. I'll admit I don't have much knowledge of them, was more thinking along the lines of the Halifax class, which have internally mounted twin launchers. Still, the Tribals have the tubes mounted under the flight deck.

The video is taken onboard an American Arleigh Burke class DDG.

The Tribals are gone by 2010. Huron is already retired and laided up in Esquimalt (and while she was in reserve, the Navy went through her and stripped her of anything useful to maintain the rest of the Tribals), but there is no real planned replacements for them. Current expectations are that the Navy with their build a new destroyer type, based off the Halifax class frigates, or purchase foreign NATO ships for commonality. Leading contender for a foreign ship is the German F124 Sachsen class frigates (in reality, they are as big and as capable as many destroyers out there).

[hazatude]

WJ...

WTF is up with the "new" city class ships? What class are they?

[WJflyer]

WJ...

WTF is up with the "new" city class ships? What class are they?

Halifax class frigates. They are also known as City class frigates, due the the names of the ships (HMCS Halifax (FFH 330), HMCS Vancouver (FFH 331), HMCS Ville de Quebec (FFH 332), HMCS Toronto (FFH 333), HMCS Regina (FFH 334), HMCS Calgary (FFH 335), HMCS Montreal (FFH 336) HMCS Fredericton (FFH 337), HMCS Winnipeg (FFH 338), HMCS Charlottetown (FFH 339), HMCS St John's (FFH 340), and HMCS Ottawa (FFH 341)). The last one was launched in 1997, making them the newest and the most capable of the CF's naval force. They will be modernized fairly soon, with additional sensors (updated sonars, radars, thermal imaging systems, etc), the Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile (ESSM), fitting of new propellers, and anechoic tiles to reduce noise emission. It is widely believed that HMCS Montreal was upgraded with the new propellers and tiles already. Also, the hangars are being modified to accept the new CH-148 Cyclones that are comming soon.

Justifiably, these ships are the pride of the Canadian Navy, as they are fast, capable, and modern. The US Navy always requests from us that one gets sent out with their carrier groups due to their multirole capabilities. These ships will not need replacing until 2020, which is a good while away, but the Navy is working on developing replacements already.

[w squared]

Dust Devil -

While you're quite correct about not hanging around things that are supposed to go "boom" and fail to do so in a timely fashion (I have a blasting license too), torpedoes are a different animal...

In order to reduce the chance of a torpedo's detonation damaging the vessel that it's fired from, they are normally fitted with a fusing mechanism that requires them to travel a certain distance through the water before their warhead is actually armed.

If the torpedo were stuck in the launch tube with the motor running, it would indeed be a very dangerous situation, as the motor will be generating a lot of heat, and the warhead will probably be armed after 20 or 30 seconds of run time. If it's not running, the torpedo is no more dangerous than when it was sitting in the tube prior to the failed launch.

[Pygmie]

I'd say the chances are very good this was simply a training torpedo, with nothing to blow but the limited fuel in the tank, especially considering the relaxed attitude of the crew on the video.

Not very often would they be firing the real thing, and when they would be doing so the crew would be busy doing othing things rather than standing around with a video camera in hand (at least I'd hope so).

[WJflyer]

Very rarely is the Mk46 torpedo used in a live fire exercise. Mostly a training torpedo is used instead, which is totally inert, besides the fuel in the torpedo. The Mk46 was designed to be an anti-submarine torpedo only. The only anti-surface torpedo in the western inventory is the Mk48 heavyweight torpedo, which is only fired from submarines against surface ships or other submarines. Anti-ship cruise missiles have replaced the torpedo for the most part on attacks on enemy ships.