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On Mon, 10/20/14, Andrew Long <xxxxxx@mac.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [TML] Ping...
 To: xxxxxx@simplelists.com
 Date: Monday, October 20, 2014, 2:26 AM

 On 20 Oct 2014, at 10:19,
 Andrew Long wrote:
 > On 20 Oct 2014, at
 09:29, David Jaques-Watson wrote:
 >>

 >> Dear Folks –
 >>
 >> Andrew
 wrote:
 >>
 >>> Match bearings and shoot! Cut the
 wires! 20 degrees down angle on the planes, hard right
 rudder, ahead flank!
 >>
 >> Hunt for Red October or Red Storm
 Rising? I’ll have to go back and re-read…
 >
 > Without re-reading,
 I'd have to go for Red Storm... I can't actually
 remember anyone firing torpedoes in Red October (as the
 whole point was to avoid a shooting war) (although it might
 be in 'Debt of Honor' 'cos that was also a real
 shooting war)

 No there
 *was* a shot taken by the Alfa right towards the end, but
 the target (forget whether it was Krazny Oktyabr or Dallas -
 probably Oktyabr, as Ramius would have been the one to know
 about arming ranges) got inside the torpedo's arming
 range and the warhead didn't go off.

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I completely forgot about that...

Did the torp actually make physical contact w/ the soviet SSBN?

I believe that the sovs still used double-hulls at the time but shouldn't physical contact have done some damage?