Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24652012-20160217005950/@comment-24652012-20160218192209

Their are countless different sirens make their torpedoes. But the most common torpedo war heads are dry on the inside have a center rod of a mix of the same ingredients found in C4s, tnt, dynamite, flares, and battleship big gun firing charges, made into a super condensed powder and put into a stick for around a copper alloy rod with electric probes holding it in place around the 2 ends. Inside the hollow rest of the warhead is a super compressed mix of 3 gases hydrogen, helium, and methane. At this point the equivalent of 3 large balloons carrying a lit stick of dynamite on very close strings, but the gasses are super compressed. Despite how this sounds its actually very stable, and the warhead only goes off at all on dumb fire mode or smart target mode detonation programed to know if it hit the enemy. It automatically disarm its self on smart mode if it hits something with a friendly tag. Now the warhead also has a thick coating of heavy glass to keep it from being lighter then air wrapped around the inside of its heavy slightly thick mettle shell to keep the lighter then air gasses from making it overly not heavy. Why glass? for shrapnel. On top of this the explosive charge can only be set off by an electric pulse or a open flame. When the warhead does go off the probes connected it the conductive bar send in a electric pulse so high voltage hot and intense that the hydrogen helium methane gases are instantly flash ionized into plasma. This cases the shell of the warhead to take internal damage so great it reputes, causing the super pressurization to release. Imagine if you will something that looks like it should only have the power of a single frag grenade, but when it goes off instead with 12 times the force of a anti tank grenade. Plus multiple torpedo hits at once causes a combined damage that allow the penetration of armor that would normally just laugh at 1 2 or 3 shots.