Diehl Barracuda supercavitating torpedo

[Voltzz]

I am currently looking for footage of the Diehl Barracuda supercavitating torpedo technology demonstrator. On the Korean site blog.naver.com i found a clip showing testing footage and animations of the working principles of Barracuda with a voice-over in Korean. This clip seems to be from a Korean translation of a National Geographic documentary. The logo in the top left look exactly like the one in this NatGeo documentary on the Soviet Typhoon submarine, so i am guessing it is also from a similar time frame ~2010.
Does anyone have any idea what documentary the clip originated from? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Voltzz]

Does anyone have any idea what documentary the clip originated from?

Found it.
Its from the 2006 documentary 'Super Sub' part of the National Geographic Series 'Ultimate Structures'.
It covers the Virginia-class submarines and mentions the Barracuda supercavitating torpedo as a possible future threat. The relevant segment starts ~16 minutes in.
The narration does not add much to the experience, but the footage can be found in significantly higher quality than the clip i linked above. Its not very long but it is afaik the only publicly available footage of Barracuda.

 

[tychosis]

Found it.
Its from the 2006 documentary 'Super Sub' part of the National Geographic Series 'Ultimate Structures'.
It covers the Virginia-class submarines and mentions the Barracuda supercavitating torpedo as a possible future threat. The relevant segment starts ~16 minutes in.
The narration does not add much to the experience, but the footage can be found in significantly higher quality than the clip i linked above. Its not very long but it is afaik the only publicly available footage of Barracuda.

Hey, I remember that one! I'm probably lurking in the shadows for some of those shots.

Funny thing is, the documentary is ostensibly about the Texas but I'm pretty sure all the Texas footage was filmed pierside. All the actual underway footage was on 774.

 

[Odysseus1980]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superkavitierender_Unterwasserlaufkörper
A Wikipedia article on the system.

The Russian Skval seem to have a short range only about 15 km.

 

[publiusr]

At first I thought those destroyed Kursk--instead of high test peroxide?

Destroyers

View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=H9Ofb5NA-iA&pp=ugUHEgVlbi1VUw%3D%3D

 

[Scott Kenny]

At first I thought those destroyed Kursk--instead of high test peroxide?

No, it's pretty clear that HTP leaking into fuel or grease caused the Kursk loss.

The Russian Skval seem to have a short range only about 15 km.

And that's the updated version. The first version only had about an 8km range!

Takes a lot of power to keep the bubble full and to push through the water at 200+knots.

 

[Odysseus1980]

No, it's pretty clear that HTP leaking into fuel or grease caused the Kursk loss.



And that's the updated version. The first version only had about an 8km range!

Takes a lot of power to keep the bubble full and to push through the water at 200+knots.

Indeed.