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On Sat, 10/18/14, Kelly St. Clair <xxxxxx@efn.org> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [TML] Ping...
 To: xxxxxx@simplelists.com
 Date: Saturday, October 18, 2014, 5:02 AM

 On 10/18/2014 4:36 AM,
 Richard Aiken wrote:
 > On Fri, Oct 17,
 2014 at 10:49 AM, Andrew Long <xxxxxx@mac.com
 > <mailto:xxxxxx@mac.com>>
 wrote:
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 > 
    . . . Cut the wires! . . .
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 >
 >
 > I understood the
 rest, but the above bit threw me. Are they disarming a
 > bomb while making a torpedo run?

 Torpedoes (and anti-tank
 missiles, etc) are sometimes controlled,
 post-launch, by a wire that's spooled out
 back to the launcher.  Out to
 the length
 of the wire, it allows for mid-flight/terminal guidance by

 the controller which is secure and
 unjammable.

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Just out of curiosity, how much 'wire' can a Mk48 'drag' before the spool runs out?
How about some others?

TIA,
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