MU90 torpedo

MU90 torpedo
MU90 / IMPACT torpedo
General Information
Designation:	MU90
Country of origin:	France, Italy
Manufacturer:	EuroTorp
Technical specifications
Length:	285 cm
Diameter:	323.7 mm
Combat weight:	304 kg
Drive:	electric, aluminum-silver oxide battery
Speed:	29 to> 50 knots (92.6 km / h)
Range:	> 12 km at max. Speed,> 25 km at min. speed
Furnishing
Warhead:	32.7 kg shaped charge with triaminotrinitrobenzene (TATB) (corresponds to 123 kg TNT)
Target location:	acoustic (active / passive)
Weapon platforms:	Surface units, helicopters, airplanes (Maritime Patrol Aircrafts), also submarines
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The MU90 / IMPACT torpedo is a lightweight European U-hunting - Torpedo .

History and Development

MU90, front view

Triple torpedo tube Mk.32 on board the F221 Hessen of the German Navy

The MU90 is a joint development by WASS  - Whitehead Alenia Sistemi Subacquei (Italy), DCN International (France) and THALES (France) and is based on the A244-S torpedo . It is produced by the EuroTorp company and can be used by ships, helicopters and submarines.

In Germany, the MU90 replaced the DM4 and Mk46 Mod. 2 torpedoes . It is used to arm the F123 and F124 class frigates and the Sea Lynx on- board helicopter . Training on the torpedo takes place with the training device for submarine hunting and sonar (AGUS) at the Naval Operations School in Bremerhaven .

As a further development of the MU90, it is planned to use it as an anti-torpedo weapon for surface units against heavy-weight torpedoes in order to destroy them using the hard-kill procedure .

In August 2013, the Australian Navy successfully fired a test shot with the MU90 at a target for the first time.

Users

A MU90 was shot down from the Italian destroyer Caio Duilio (D 554)

The MU90 is used by the navies of France , Italy , Germany , Denmark , Australia and Poland :

•  Germany : F124 , Sea Lynx Mk.88A helicopter

•  Australia : ANZAC class , Adelaide class , Hobart class

•  France : Georges Leygues class , Horizon class , FREMM frigates

•  Italy : De-la-Penne class , Horizon class , FREMM frigates , AgustaWestland AW101 on-board helicopter

•  Denmark : Absalon class , Iver Huitfeldt class , Flyvefisken class (ASW modules), Knud Rasmussen class

•  Poland : Oliver Hazard Perry class , Mil Mi-14 helicopter and SH2-G Sea Sprite

literature

• Dieter Stockfisch: Torpedo MU90 - Strengthening the ability to hunt underground , in: Strategy and Technology, October 2011 edition, p. 47f.
• Jürgen KG Rosenthal: Underwater Weapon of the German Navy - Lightweight Torpedo MU90 , in: Hardthöhenkurier 1/2011, p. 48ff. (online as PDF ).

Web links

• MU90 on the homepage of the manufacturer Eurotorp

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} MU90 / IMPACT ALWT. THALES , accessed on January 20, 2018 . 
2. ↑ MU90 torpedo enters Royal Australian Navy service , accessed November 2, 2013.
3. ↑ cf. Eurotorp press release: MU90 Light Weight Torpedo deliveries continue at cruising speed ( Memento of November 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on July 21, 2012.