Is this the design of Russian high-speed torpedoes that has the US Navy spooked?

[Wombat + 1,028]

[Strangelovesurfing + 737]

I’m guessing this is a new take on super-cavitation?

[Eyes Wide Open + 3,554]

On 12/13/2020 at 10:29 AM, Wombat said:

This is a interesting post coming from you, hydrodynamic are a... ok chit show in laymens terms

 As a physicist do you lend any credibility to a mechanical design that can overcome or stabilize the pressures/forces at such velocities?

My son once tried to explain valve design to me..needless to say I did the moon wobble.

Just a temperature inversion would derail trajectories....

 

 

 

[Wombat + 1,028]

9 minutes ago, Eyes Wide Open said:

This is a interesting post coming from you, hydrodynamic are a... ok chit show in laymens terms

 As a physicist do you lend any credibility to a mechanical design that can overcome or stabilize the pressures/forces at such velocities?

My son once tried to explain valve design to me..needless to say I did the moon wobble.

Just a temperature inversion would derail trajectories....

 

 

 

I would hazard a guess that a spring loaded system would do the trick. I posted this because someone here posted some rubbish about "anti-gravity" design based on very powerful microwaves that create a vacuum in front of the nose cone. Unfortunately, it was a Nobel-prize winning physicist that came up with the crazy idea. Like most physicists, he does not understand Einstein's theory of relativity. In the meantime, our physicists don't even understand hydrodynamics. I specialised in it during my degree and my professor marked me down because he couldn't understand the basic concept that the pressure drops as a fluid flows through a pipe. He insisted that the pressure would be same at either end, and that is still what is taught in Western universities today, despite the fact that I proved otherwise. There is absolutely nothing wrong with the simple concept described in the diagram above, and if you know someone who knows someone in DARPA, I highly recommend you pass it along

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Many months ago here, I tried to explain solitons to you all. In water a Soliton can go about as fast as the speed of sound. That would make for a high speed torpedo IMHO. I've never given this a second of thought until this minute but believe I could devise such a system in a few months if I were interested. Or I'll just leave it as an exercise for the student. I've got enough useless military patents already. Cheers