The National Interest

Mk 48 Torpedoes Will Give the Navy’s Newest Submarines All the Firepower They Need

As the top-tier Columbia-class nuclear-armed ballistic missile submarine program surges forward with keel laying and additional production, the high-priority platforms have been tasked with ensuring ...
The National Interest

MK 48 Stealth Torpedoes Are the U.S. Navy’s Deadliest Weapon

The upgraded MK 48 Mod 7 torpedo variant will arm the U.S. Navy’s Columbia-class nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines with a longer-range, more lethal, and more capable conventional weapon.
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Cold War U.S. Navy Nearly Armed Its Frigates With Mk 48 Heavyweight Torpedoes

There was a time when elements of the U.S. Navy appreciated the complexity, effort, duration, and assets anti-submarine warfare, or ASW, demanded of a fleet. Expecting to fight a blue-water war-at-sea ...
Yahoo

Armed with a heavyweight torpedo made to 'break ships in half,' Taiwan's first homemade submarine represents a new threat to China's navy

Taiwan unveiled its first domestically made submarine in late September. The vessel can carry heavyweight Mk-48 torpedoes that can rip through ships and subs. Defense experts told Insider the sub and ...
Business Wire

SAIC Awarded $80 Million U.S. Navy Contract for Heavyweight Torpedo Tests Sets

RESTON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) has been awarded a $80.5 million task order by the U.S. Navy for the completion of the MK710 TSTS design and then to ...