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| Author: | Raxar [ October 30th, 2011, 9:44 pm ] |
| Post subject: | question about alternative propulsion system |
I'm working on some smaller craft for my AU, and came up with the idea of using a torpedo to power a boat. Is this feaseable, I know the Japanese had "manned torpedos" in WWII, the purpose of which is quite obvious, but could you power a small vessel with one, or pehaps two? |
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| Author: | APDAF [ October 30th, 2011, 9:57 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: question about alternative propulsion system |
Yes but not for long as most (WWII) torpedoes have a shortish range 5-10 Km. |
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| Author: | Thiel [ October 30th, 2011, 10:45 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: question about alternative propulsion system |
It could probably be done, the question is why you'd want to. Torpedo engines are not particularly powerful, their fuel tends to be rather nasty stuff when they aren't powered by compressed air or batteries, and they have extremely short service intervals. Usually no more than a few hours and that's asuming it's even capable of running for more than 15 minutes at a time. |
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| Author: | erik_t [ October 31st, 2011, 5:39 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: question about alternative propulsion system |
Wait, what? Do you mean a quick push for a ship that's dead in the water, or something a more unhinged? |
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| Author: | Navybrat85 [ November 3rd, 2011, 7:08 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: question about alternative propulsion system |
It'd have to be a small ship, wouldn't it? |
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| Author: | erik_t [ November 4th, 2011, 4:20 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: question about alternative propulsion system |
In principle, any ship of any size could be propelled (slowly) for a (short) distance by a single torpedo. In practice, it would be somewhere between outrageously ineffective and unmeasurable by anything short of laboratory-grade instrumentation. |
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| Author: | klagldsf [ November 6th, 2011, 4:39 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: question about alternative propulsion system |
http://up-ship.com/blog/?p=9286 It's related, or at least less stupid. |
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| Author: | Raxar [ November 6th, 2011, 3:50 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: question about alternative propulsion system |
Thank you everyone for your comments and suggestions, I wasn't too sure about the idea, and didn't want to start a whole argument in my AU. That being said, I have some redisigning to do. |
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