Talk:Mark 44 torpedo

WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Tag & Assess 2008
Article reassessed and graded as start class. --dashiellx (talk) 17:50, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Shroud?
The article uses the word shroud without explaining it. Wiktionary and Wikipedia don't have definitions that apply. Should an article about this new meaning be created? Or is there a better term? Nicolas1981 (talk) 12:22, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

Porpoises
From a Quora conversation https://www.quora.com/Why-do-naval-torpedoes-like-the-US-Navys-Mk-48-ADCAP-and-the-list-Chinese-PLAN-torpedo-recovered-by-Vietnamese-fishermen-in-2018-have-flat-noses-instead-of-curved-bulbous-noses-like-submarines-and-other-underwater

''Fun fact. When developing the Mk 44, testing at the Key West facility kept indicating extraneous noises. It baffled the engineers as the noise had characteristics never before observed. It came in spikes just like the echoes expected from the target, but often in two closely spaced spikes where one would expect only one. It varied smoothly in volume as sound would from a radio when you turned the volume up and down. The indicated rate of closure on the sound source varied, but was often much faster than the torpedo could run. Sometimes the closure rate indicated speeds of hundreds of knots. It continued unchanged for a time after the torpedo stopped running and its sonar was turned off. However, due to the Cuban missile crisis, when the program was transferred to the Keyport Washington Naval Station, the noises stopped. Eventually it was discovered that porpoises were trying to communicate with the test torpedoes.''

If we can source that I think it would be encyclopedic, and a good addition to the article. Andrewa (talk) 16:03, 27 February 2022 (UTC)