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Go Long: US Navy Investing in Extended-Range Sub-Killing Torpedoes

23:03 13.06.2018(updated 23:44 13.06.2018)


The US Navy has awarded a multi-million dollar contract to develop torpedoes with a greater range, thus potentially enabling a new brand of underwater warfare.

The Navy seeks longer-range torpedoes as part of a greater strategy to keep submarines further away from potential targets while a third party, such as a P-8 Poseidon aircraft, provides targeting data, Brian Clark of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments told Defense News Wednesday.

https://sputniknews.com/military/201806131065383738-us-navy-investing-/