TORPEDO SINKS SHIP! Attack sub OBLITERATES DESTROYER with direct hit! (Test only, NOT real combat.)

TORPEDO SINKS SHIP! Attack submarine OBLITERATES DESTROYER with direct hit! (Test only, NOT real combat.)

This TRAINING EXERCISE video (courtesy of the Royal Australian Navy – footage shot on June 4th, 1999) features an Australian diesel-electric Collins-class submarine (HMAS Farncomb – SSG 74) and an obsolete/decommissioned River-class destroyer escort (HMAS Torrens – DE53).

Newly commissioned (at the time) Farncomb, participating in a final series of combat systems trials, successfully fired a Mk-48 torpedo at the Torrens. The warhead seems to have detonated directly beneath Torrens, creating a powerful pressure wave that lifted her into the air and decisively broke her keel.

(The Mark 48 is an American made heavyweight torpedo. The impressive weapon is carried by all U.S. Navy submarines.)

Interestingly, from a trivia perspective at least, this torpedo attack strike footage was digitally altered and used as part of a black & white newsreel montage in Michael Bay’s 2001 movie, Pearl Harbor.

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