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Mutually assured destruction then.

• sawjet 6y ago
  Many torpedoes are wire-guided. Using a fast, loud torpedo as a counter attack will make the enemy strongly consider cutting those wires and immediately changing course in effort to save themselves.
  • evgen 6y ago
    Wire-guided to get into the kill box, but once you cut the wires and the torpedo goes to active homing it is going to have a nice path to project back to the launch platform. Fixing this problem is just a software upgrade to the guidance package on a torpedo I would think.
• bigbubba 6y ago
  In addition to what sawjet mentioned with wire guided torpedos, I think they might also have hoped for the nuclear warhead the VA-111s originally had to destroy the incoming torpedo. By being particularly fast, the supercavitating torpedo may have intercepted the enemy torpedo soon enough for that to work.. maybe.