Safety run course

The safety runway is a safety component in modern torpedoes . If the torpedo is shot down, the search for a target will only begin after a certain distance (varies, depending on the distance to the target). This is to prevent the so-called friendly fire , i.e. shelling of nearby friend boats by one's own torpedoes.

In the submarine film Hunt for Red October , the eponymous submarine escapes a torpedo hit by turning directly into the torpedo and accelerating strongly. This undermines the safety run and the torpedo strikes the bow of the submarine without detonating.

literature

• Edwyn Gray: The devilish weapon, history and development of the torpedo , Verlag Gerhard Stalling AG, Oldenburg and Hamburg, 1975, ISBN 3-7979-1858-5