Mark 50 torpedo Totally Explained

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The Mark 50 torpedo is a U.S. Navy advanced lightweight torpedo for use against fast, deep-diving submarines. The Mk-50 can be launched from all ASW aircraft, and from torpedo tubes aboard surface combatant ships. The Mk-50 was intended to replace the Mk-46 as the fleet's lightweight torpedo. Instead the Mark 46 will be replaced with the Mark 54 LHT.
The torpedo's Stored Chemical Energy Propulsion System (SCEPS) uses a small tank of sulfur hexafluoride gas which is sprayed over a block of solid lithium, which generates enormous quantities of heat, in turn used to generate steam from seawater. The steam propels the torpedo in a closed Rankine cycle.

General characteristics, Mk-50

Primary function: air and ship-launched lightweight torpedo
Contractor: Alliant Techsystems, Westinghouse
Length: 2.84 m (112 in)
Weight: 340 kg (750 lb)
Diameter: 324 mm (12.75 in)
Speed: > 40 kn (46 mi/h, 74 km/h)
Power Plant: Stored Chemical Energy Propulsion System
Guidance system: Active/passive acoustic homing
Warhead: approximately 45 kg (100 lb) high explosive (shaped charge)

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