Talk:Spearfish torpedo

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[edit] Appearance in Red Storm Rising

This article says the contract was placed in 1994, but Red Storm Rising has a copyright date of 1986. Is the Spearfish in the book really the same as this torpedo, or is the naming of the torpedo a coincidence or perhaps a homage?

sneakums 10:39, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

I worked on Spearfish development in the 1980's, so the 1994 date may refer to an initial production contract

It's perfectly possible Clancy read about a weapon in development and decided to include it on the grounds that his book was set a few years in the future. BobThePirate 11:02, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

Well, here's a quote from the book: "That's one of their new Spearfish. I didn't know they had any in service yet." If my calculation that Storm took place in 1990 was right, it's conceivable that Clancy envisioned Spearfish entering emergency service by that year, since there's a good six months between the novel's start and its use. Sandy of the CSARs 03:35, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

The Defence Suppliers Directory [1] quotes an in service date of 1994 for the Initial Production Order weapons. In an emergency IPO weapons could have been at sea a number of years earlier, lets say from 1990 the start year quoted for the Reliability Assurance Programme (you can't assure the reliability of non-existant weapons). How effective they would have been, who can say? LarhamR 10:18, 23 April 2008 (UTC)