The Mark 50 torpedo is a U.S. Navy advanced lightweight torpedo for use against the faster, deeper-diving and more sophisticated submarines. The Mk-50 can be launched from all ASW aircraft, and from torpedo tubes aboard surface combatant ships. The Mk-50 will eventually replace the Mk-46 as the fleet's lightweight torpedo. 040626-N-5319A-006 Arabian Gulf (June 26, 2004) – An Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) MK-50 Training Torpedo is launched from guided missile destroyer USS Bulkeley (DDG-84) while participating in exercises aimed at fighting the global war on terrorism. ... 040626-N-5319A-006 Arabian Gulf (June 26, 2004) – An Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) MK-50 Training Torpedo is launched from guided missile destroyer USS Bulkeley (DDG-84) while participating in exercises aimed at fighting the global war on terrorism. ... A modern torpedo, historically called a self propelled torpedo, is a self-propelled guided projectile that (after being launched above or below the water surface) operates underwater and is designed to detonate on contact or in proximity to a target. ... The United States Navy (USN) is the branch of the United States armed forces responsible for naval operations. ... USS Los Angeles A submarine is a specialized watercraft that can operate underwater. ... A French Lynx helicopter carrying a mk46 torpedo Designed to attack high-performance submarines, the Mark 46 torpedo is the backbone of the U.S. Navys lightweight ASW torpedo inventory, and is the current NATO standard. ...
The torpedo's Stored Chemical Energy Propulsion System (SCEPS) uses a small tank of sulphur 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. This article is about Lithium, the element. ... The T-S diagram of a Rankine cycle, showing both ideal and non-ideal processes. ...
General Characteristics, Mk-50
Primary Function: Air and ship-launched lightweight torpedo
Contractor: Alliant Techsystems, Westinghouse
Power Plant: Stored Chemical Energy Propulsion System
Length: 2.84 m (112 in)
Weight: 340 kg (750 lb)
Diameter: 32.4 cm (12.75 in)
Speed: > 40 kn (46 mi/h, 74 km/h)
Guidance System: Active/passive acoustic homing
Warhead: Approximately 45 kg (100 lb) high explosive (shaped charge)
The Mk-50 torpedo was developed as the next generation lightweight torpedo to gradually replace the existing Mk-46torpedo as the Navy's primary ASW weapon for aircraft (fixed wing and helicopters) and surface ships.
A sonar transducer is mounted in the torpedo nose.
Warshot and exercise versions of the torpedo are intended to be deployed from land based patrol aircraft (P-3), ASW carrier-based aircraft (S-3), ASW helicopters (SH-2, SH-3, SH-60) and ASW surface vessel torpedo tubes.
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