[AR] Re: Torpedo battery

  • From: Peter Fairbrother <peter@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2023 02:17:25 +0100

On 08/04/2023 00:21, BrianK ABQ wrote:

Confusing terminology indeed.

I do always like wild chem combos: like a lithium/thionyl chloride battery. Yes some sourcing issues, though I did see a bottle of thionyl Cl sell on eBay a few years back. It's a watched precursor in the Chemical Weapons Convention as it can be used in nerve gas production.


You can buy thionyl chloride batteries, in the UK at least, but they are the wrong type size and construction for rocketry use.

And nitrous is just about to be banned in the UK, in theory as a drug, but mostly because users litter the empty cylinders.

Peter F


Brian




    Perhaps somewhat confusingly, the Mk 46 battery was the main propulsion
    primary battery used in the Mk 37 torpedo (and not in the Mk 46
    torpedo,
    which runs on Otto II fuel). Auxiliary power was supplied by a smaller
    but similar but rechargeable Mk 53 battery.




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