- Source: Type 97 light weight torpedo (G-RX4)
The Type 97 Torpedo (97式短魚雷, 97 Shiki Tan Gyorai) is a short-range torpedo developed and built by the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries for the Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force. This type of torpedo, like many other modern Japanese weapons systems, is not exported.
Development
At the end of the Cold War, Soviet attack submarines were capable of moving at higher speed and diving at lower depth, rendering the torpedoes used by US navy and the JMSDF, like the Mk-46 torpedo, less able to deal with them. So a new type of torpedo needed to be developed.
The US launched a new type of torpedo, the Mk-50 using an infrared detector and a closed-loop pump with an integrated processing unit for analyzing underwater sound waves for target acquisition. This type of torpedo can also be used to intercept other torpedoes. Soviet submarines, however, have developed adaptive capabilities, such as the use of trap baits and interference of the detection system, making it harder for the torpedo to find its target.
In 1989 a new torpedo project by Japan, G-RX4, was launched to develop the necessary upgrades and start making prototypes. By 1997 the new torpedo was approved and put into service and is called the Type 97. The torpedo is now equipping the JMSDF P-1 and P-3 ASW aircraft as well as filling the Mark 32 torpedo tubes on surface ships.
See also
APR-3E torpedo - Russian equivalent
A244-S - Italian equivalent
Mark 54 Lightweight Torpedo - US Navy's equivalent
MU90 Impact - French/Italian equivalent
TAL Shyena - Indian equivalent
Yu-7 torpedo - Chinese equivalent
K745 Blue Shark - South Korean equivalent
Sting Ray (torpedo) - British equivalent
References
External links
97式短魚雷
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Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Type 97 light weight torpedo (G-RX4)
- Type 97
- Mark 54 lightweight torpedo
- Torpedo Advanced Light Shyena
- Sting Ray (torpedo)
- MU90 Impact
- Yu-7 torpedo
- K745 Blue Shark
- APR-3E torpedo
- Torpedo
