GWS.63 Barracuda

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Barracuda
Design details (GWS.63M)
Function Torpedo
Manufacturer Lyme and Martens Industries
Design No. LMT-1
GSI No. GWS.63
Unit cost $2.25 million
Service dates 2004-present
Dimensions
Length 2.87 m
Diameter 324 mm
Mass 321 kg
Performance
Propulsion AlAgO battery
Speed 52.5 kts.
Range 25+ km
Depth 3-1000+ m
Guidance and payload
Guidance
Initial:
Midcourse:
Terminal:
Warhead APHE (50 kg)
Fuzes Hydrostatic pressure, impact
Launch platforms
Ship
Aircraft
12.75" (324mm) torpedo tube
ASW aircraft
Operators
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The GWS.63 Barracuda is the standard lightweight torpedo (LWT) of the Royal Isselmere-Nieland Navy. The Barracuda has been in service since 2004. The GWS.63 serves as the warhead for the GWS.41 Loon, as well.

Lyme and Martens Industries designed the torpedo as a replacement for the MU90 Impact torpedo.

GWS.63-1

Type: Lightweight general-purpose torpedo
Service designation: Air: AUT.63; Surface: MUT.63
Dimensions
AUT.63A: Length: 3.22 m; diameter: 324 mm
MUT.63A: Length: 2.87 m; diameter: 324 mm
Mass
AUT.63A: 325 kg
MUT.63A: 310 kg
Warhead: 45 kg shaped-charge directional APHE
Propulsion: Aluminium-silver oxide battery closed-cycle variable speed motor driving a pump-jet propulsor
Guidance: Active/passive sonar, possibility of wire guidance and limited AOSAM
Fuzing: Hydrostatic proximity or impact
Range: 12 km (maximum speed) to 25 km+ (minimum speed)
Depth: Minimum navigation depth: 3 m; minimum standard operating depth: 20 m; maximum operating depth: 1,000+ m
Speed: 29 kts. to 52.5 kts. (maximum)
Cost
AUT.63A: $2.255 million
MUT.63A: $2.25 million

GWS.63-2

Type: Lightweight general-purpose torpedo
Service designation
Air: AUT.63
Surface: MUT.63
Dimensions
AUT.63B: length: 3.22 m; diameter: 324 mm
MUT.63B: length: 2.87 m; diameter: 324 mm
Mass
AUT.63B: 336.53 kg
MUT.63B: 321 kg
Warhead: 50 kg shaped-charge directional APHE
Propulsion: Aluminium-silver oxide battery closed-cycle variable speed motor driving a pump-jet propulsor
Guidance: Active/passive sonar, possibility of wire guidance and limited AOSAM
Fuzing: Hydrostatic proximity or impact
Range: 12 km (maximum speed) to 25 km+ (minimum speed)
Depth: Minimum navigation depth: 3 m; minimum standard operating depth: 20 m; maximum operating depth: 1,000+ m
Speed: 29 kts. to 52.5 kts. (maximum)
Cost
AUT.63B: $2.27 million
MUT.63B: $2.265 million

Anti-submarine weapons
Barracuda | Loon | Mako | Orca | Sailfish | Trident


Isselmere-Nieland Defence Industries
DAS | IMW | LMI | RINO | RSIN

Aircraft:
Angrboda | Cormorant | Gargantua | Garuda | Pantagruel | Scimitar | Sea Fury | Sparrow | Spectre | Swordfish | Tiger
Countermeasures and Decoys:
Flamingo
Ground Vehicles:
L15 LAV series | L21 HAV series | L25 Boar SPH | Lion | Mammoth OCV
Launchers:
GWLS.35 | GWLS.58 | GWLS.60
Missiles and Torpedoes:
Ahab | Barracuda | Erne | Hurricane | Loon | Mako | Pelican | Sailfish | Triton | Vidofnir
Small Arms and Crew-Served Weapons:
L117 | L118 | L119 | L120
Uncrewed Vehicles:
Albatross | Auk/Puffin | Canary | Clownfish | Cuttlefish | Dodo | Dolphin | Ferret | Horus | Hyena | Iguana | Jackal
Marmot | Mule | Parrot | Penguin | Pike | Porpoise | Rook | Seahorse | Squid | Tern | Thrush | Wyvern | Urchin
Vessels:
Bullfinch | City (2003) | City (2007) | County (2003) | Crocodile | Europa | Flower (2005) | Furtive | Grand Duchy | King Henry V | King Robert VI
Kingdom (2005) | Lethe | Lord | Marquess | Province (2003) | River (2003) | Royal Edmund | Síanach | Town (2007) | Union | Wallace
Other Equipment:
AOSAM | ISOMS | KERI foam | MITRE | MUSE | NAIADS | ODIN | SELKIE | SPINTOP


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