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is an underwater drone not just a torpedo? What's the technical difference? Torpedoes can be guided after launch

• jncfhnb 10mo ago
  I haven’t seen much of the “Sub Sea Baby” drones as they call them here but the regular sea baby’s are more like boats. They move across the surface. They are remotely controlled. They have weapons besides kamikaze attacks. I would guess this is the same thing. I don’t think they are getting “launched” and reliant on maintaining that initial velocity like one imagined torpedos either.
• verdverm 10mo ago
  typically the differentiators are 1. long endurance / loitering 2. remote control / streams For underwater drone vs torpedo, agility and propulsion method, torpedoes are typically built for speed and don't need the same turning radius The spectrum is becoming increasingly gray as the variety of unmanned / projectiles increases. You can see the same thing in UAVs vs missiles. Apparently Ruzzia is now putting a2a missiles on their Shahad drones, what even is that now... a missile with self-defense missiles?
• tim333 10mo ago
  I'm guessing here but torpedos are normally fired from a boat or sub a few miles away. I imagine here they've modified one of their naval drones to go on it's own to near the port running on an internal combustion engine, then dive a few feet and go underwater on battery power the last bit. Or maybe just battery rather than diesel electric? Batteries are quite good these days.