Why yes, indeed. I count, fast and dirty, at least 37 Japanese destroyers sunk by US submarines in WW2. A good place to look is the Joint Army Navy Assessment Committee though it requires a little perseverance.
Can a torpedo sink a destroyer?
Most definitely. A destroyer is too small to have a good underwater protection system against even 2nd world war torpedoes designed to hit the side of the ship, one torpedo is enough to sink a destroyer.
Can a submarine sink a destroyer?
Can a submarine sink a destroyer? It can. In WW2 destroyers were hard targets for submarines as they had shallow draft and high speed, making targeting and even hitting with torpedoes hard, but attack of submarines on destroyers was common both in Pacific and Atlantic oceans and some of them was successful.
Has a submarine ever sunk a battleship?
1915, May 25/27 – In the morning of May 27 German submarine U-21 sinks the British pre-dreadnought battleship HMS Majestic off the Gallipoli peninsula. Two days after the same U-boat sunk the pre-dreadnought HMS Triumph near Gaba Nepe.
How many torpedoes does it take to sink a destroyer?
One. And even if it didn’t sink it is a combat kill and out of the fight. Everything onboard is going to be messed up from shock damage. Even from a “light weight” torpedo.
Can 1 torpedo sink an aircraft carrier?
It is impossible for a defensive aircraft carrier such as the Taiho to be sunk by the hit of a single torpedo. The main cause of the sinking of the Taiho was the fire disaster.
What is the deadliest torpedo?
Mark 48 torpedo
| Mark 48 torpedo | |
|---|---|
| Maximum depth | 500 fathoms, 800 m (2,600 ft) (estimated), officially “greater than 1,200 ft” |
| Maximum speed | 55 kn (63 mph; 102 km/h) (estimated) officially “greater than 28 kn (52 km/h; 32 mph)” |
| Guidance system | Common Broadband Advanced Sonar System |
| Launch platform | submarine |
How deep can a submarine go before it implodes?
It’s generally accepted that the maximum depth (depth of implosion or collapse) is about 1.5 or 2 times deeper. The latest open literature says that a US Los Angeles-class test depth is 450m (1,500 ft), suggesting a maximum depth of 675–900m (2,250–3,000 ft).
Has a submarine ever reached the bottom of the ocean?
But reaching the lowest part of the ocean? Only three people have ever done that, and one was a U.S. Navy submariner. In the Pacific Ocean, somewhere between Guam and the Philippines, lies the Marianas Trench, also known as the Mariana Trench.
Do sharks hit submarines?
At a depth of 750 metres, a Blue Planet II submarine was shoved by some enormous sixgill sharks. The team were tracking a dead sperm whale that had floated onto the Atlantic Ocean seabed.
Has a submarine ever hit a whale?
The previously undisclosed incidents are taken from the diaries of the ship’s crew, which have been published online by hmsbrilliant.com, a website commemorating the vessel’s role in the 1982 war. One crew member wrote of a “small sonar contact” that prompted the launch of two torpedoes, each of which hit a whale.
What is the farthest depth a submarine has gone?
The dive to the ocean’s deepest point turned up some surprises. The news: During a four-hour exploration of the Mariana Trench, retired naval officer Victor Vescovo piloted his submarine to 10,927 meters (35,849 feet) below the sea’s surface, making it the.
Has a submarine ever sunk an aircraft carrier?
USS Archerfish (SS/AGSS-311) was a Balao-class submarine. She was the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for the archerfish. Archerfish is best known for sinking the Japanese aircraft carrier Shinano in November 1944, the largest warship ever sunk by a submarine.
Can a torpedo sink a battleship?
The introduction of the torpedo provided a weapon that could cripple, or sink, any battleship. The first boat designed to fire the self-propelled Whitehead torpedo was HMS Lightning, completed in 1877. The French Navy followed suit in 1878 with Torpilleur No 1, launched in 1878 though she had been ordered in 1875.
How do destroyers defend against torpedoes?
The other hardkill options are decoys with explosives. When the torpedo approaches the decoy, it explodes and neutralizes the torpedo. The Israeli Rafael’s SHADE system can be an example of this type of hard-kill capability.
Can destroyers launch torpedoes?
Torpedoes are very powerful and effective weapons, and their use is not restricted to submarines. In addition to being fired from submerged subs, they may be dropped from planes or launched from torpedo (PT) boats and destroyers. There are two general classifications of torpedoes-homing and non-homing (or aimed).
Could a modern torpedo sink a battleship?
Unlike the numerous aerial bombs or cannon shells required to sink large warships, just one or two torpedo hits could and sometimes did suffice to sink huge aircraft carriers and battleships.
Why did the Japanese torpedoes work so well in Pearl Harbor?
This enormous torpedo could be carried only by surface ships. It had a 1,080-lb. warhead, and by using oxygen as the oxidizer instead of air, it had incredible speed and range.
How many torpedoes did it take to sink the Yamato?
In all, Yamato took 12 bomb and seven torpedo hits within two hours of battle. An astounding series of explosions onboard Yamato produced the mushroom cloud seen here shortly before she sank. Yamato settled on the seafloor 1,200 feet down and about 50 miles southwest of Kyushu, Japan.
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