{"id":7147,"date":"2023-04-03T02:22:16","date_gmt":"2023-04-02T20:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=7147"},"modified":"2025-03-28T17:34:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T12:04:29","slug":"what-is-mark-54-anti-submarine-torpedo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-mark-54-anti-submarine-torpedo\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Mark 54 Anti-Submarine Torpedo?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Mark 54 Anti-Submarine Torpedo:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The MK 54 <strong>lightweight torpedo<\/strong> is the <strong>primary anti-submarine warfare weapon used by U.S. Navy <\/strong>surface ships, fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters.<\/li>\n<li>It was d<strong>eveloped by Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems in collaboration with the US Navy.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It was previously <strong>known as<\/strong> L<strong>ightweight Hybrid Torpedo (LHT).<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is used in <strong>both deep and shallow waters,<\/strong> as well as in acoustic environments.<\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>capable of tracking, classifying and attacking underwater targets<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Features<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>The torpedo has a<strong> length of 2.71m<\/strong>, a <strong>diameter of 32.3cm<\/strong> and <strong>weight of 275.7kg.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The <strong>warhead<\/strong> carried by the weapon i<strong>s high explosive and weighs 43.9kg.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>powered by a reciprocating external combustion engine<\/strong>, which burns Otto II liquid fuel.<\/li>\n<li>The propulsion system allows the torpedo to <strong>cruise at a speed of 74.1km per hour.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>MK 54 torpedoes are e<strong>quipped with processing algorithms that help them in detecting false targets <\/strong>or countermeasures and then hunt the identified threats.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What is a Torpedo?<\/h3>\n<p>A torpedo is a type of missile or bomb fired underwater.Torpedoes are cigar-shaped projectiles that are used to attack other submarines or boats.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatoday.in\/india\/story\/india-us-to-sign-rs-2400-crore-deal-for-missiles-torpedoes-for-indian-navy-2355361-2023-04-04\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>India US to sign Rs 2400 crore deal for missiles, torpedoes for Indian Navy<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark 54 lightweight torpedo is the primary anti-submarine warfare weapon used by the U.S. Navy surface ships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7148,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7147","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}