The US Navy has nothing to answer the unique torpedo of the Russian military. Such an opinion was announced by experts from the United States.
As Military Experts of the Edition of the National Interest (NI), the development of the late USSR - Supercautionary torpedoes remain one of the most destructive inventions of Soviet weapons designers, the analogies of which in the US Armed Forces. Rocket-torpedo VA-111 "Shkva", a device for several orders of magnitude faster than ordinary torpedo weapons.
"By the 1960s, the Soviet fleet began to in dire need of reliable means of countering American nuclear submarines. One of the solutions of this problem was the creation of a new weapon for a submarine. They became the supercabulating torpedo "Shkal",
One of the advantages of rocket-torpedoes of VA-111 is the presence in the design of a solid fuel rocket engine that develops the maximum speed of more than 200 nodes (370 kilometers per hour). Such high rates have become possible through the use of so-called supercaution. Simple words, gas is thrown out of the nasal part of the torpedo, which creates a kind of thin gas bubble, minimizing the contact of the ammunition with water. As a result, water resistance is minimized as much as possible and the speed characteristics of the torpedo are increasing.
However, there are a torpedo "flurry" and shortcomings. One of them is a huge noise, which in the process of movement generates torpedo, which reveals the location of the submarine. On the other hand, the incredible speed of "Shkwala" practically does not leave a chance of the enemy to act.
Some time ago received information that Russia began to work on a new torpedo, which will replace the rocket-torpedo rocket in the Armed Forces. The exact data on how far the Russian military designers advanced in their developments are not yet. In any case, as American military analysts summarize, the US Navy does not have a worthy response of the Russian Torpeda of the VA-111 "Shkva".
Earlier it was reported that the Navy of the Russian Federation will be replenished with two atomic submarines of the Borea class.