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VA-111 Shkval

The Shkval ("squall") is a high-speed supercavitating rocket-propelled torpedo designed to be a rapid-reaction defense against U.S. submarines undetected by sonar. It can also be used as a countermeasure to an incoming torpedo, forcing the hostile projectile to abruptly change course and possibly break its guidance wires. The torpedo has a nearly flat, conical disk at its nose that creates the gas cavity for supercavitation. The disk tilts to help guide the weapon and keep it stable. The cavity is supported by rockets venting just abaft the cavitator. Four popout cylinders toward the aft end of the nose section keep the body of the torpedo stable and out of contact with the walls of the bubble in which it rides. At the rear of the torpedo are deflected control surfaces. Eight small rockets surround the main sustainer rocket. The Shkval is fired from the standard 533-mm torpedo tube at a depth of up to 328 ft (100 m). The rocket-powered torpedo exits the tube at 50 knots (93 kmh) and then ignites the rocket motor, propelling the weapon to speeds four to five times faster than other conventional torpedoes.

The torpedo is guided by an autopilot rather than by a homing head as on most torpedoes.

The mod simply adds the torpedo weapons, you will have to manually add the weapon to submarines of your choice. To do that, go into StreamingAssets/original/vessels, go into the .ini file relative to the sub you want to add the torpedo to, go to the WeaponMagazines section. You will find something like this:

[TorpedoMagazine_650mm]
NumberOfAmmunitionTypes=1
Ammunition1=wp_65-76
Ammunition1_Count=4
Collider=coll_torpedo_magazine
ModuleType=LargeMagazine

Now, you can either replace the wp_65-76 with wp_va-111, or you can addo a new ammunition to the magazine. The result will look like this

[TorpedoMagazine_650mm]
NumberOfAmmunitionTypes=2
Ammunition1=wp_65-76
Ammunition1_Count=4
Ammunition2=wp_va-111
Ammunition2_Count=4
Collider=coll_torpedo_magazine
ModuleType=LargeMagazine




Hope this is not too much hustle, might come in useful with the new submarine loadouts