The Adventures of Dr. McNinja

This is assuming the torpedoes hit something nearby instead of circling back, although that latter is a largely fictional trope anyway.

Torpedoes operate in two modes: wire-guided, where the fire control operator on the vessel that launched them steers them remotely; and self-guided, where they find the nearest active or passive sonar target and try to hit it. At long range, the operator will steer the torpedoes or set them on a programmed course until they get close enough to the target, then set them to "go active" and track it down.

In the former mode, the operator would know they had missed and could send them back around to try again. In the latter mode, they would probably retarget on the sea floor and detonate. Such an event could indeed jar the prison loose from its moorings. Of course, it makes little sense for the sub to use self-guided mode in this scenario, because the torpedoes would be unable to distinguish the sea floor from the prison.

More artistic license: that sub appears to be way too close to its target; the detonations from the torpedoes could cause it severe damage.

Even more artistic license: torpedoes have a magnetic proximity fuse as well as an impact fuse. They were more than close enough to the prison for the former to have triggered, unless it's made out of non-magnetic metal for some unfathomable reason.

Edit: I am going to be this comic's resident realism pedant if it kills me.

edited 29th Sep '15 12:32:08 PM by Fighteer

Having a good grasp of submarine combat is nothing to be ashamed of. I learned a lot of that from my obsessive use of GURPS Vehicles, despite never having a need for this information.

Also, the potential oscillation velocity that Doc could impart to his prison is well within the capacity of a modern torpedo's performance profile to handle. If it can keep up with the abrupt turns of a submarine going 40+ knots, it can handle his little trick. But hey, it's all fun.

edited 29th Sep '15 11:53:24 AM by Fighteer

Clearly Best Antarctica can only afford crappy torpedoes, then.

I guess they aren't really the best Antarctica after all.

You should see what Worst Antarctica has.

Someone misread ordering forms and spent their entire defense budget on potatoes.

Happy 10th anniversary, Doc.

Well, that plan worked flawlessly!

What do you expect of Best Anartica? To successfully kill a man trapped in a underwater prison? Surely you overestimate them.

Ooohh, that wasn't a prison, that was the new office that Radical built for him!

Which blew up, because Doc has horrible anniversaries.

edited 30th Sep '15 7:24:25 AM by Rotpar

Called it

Step 1, complete.

Profit sure to follow.

In fairness to Doc, he's not thinking too clearly here.

Cabin Fever?

The bends?

Bleeding from the finger and possibly mouth?

He should definitely have the bends, unless that prison was made of the strongest materials known to mankind to contain the pressure at that depth rather than equalize it. Also, he should be dead or at least severely injured from the forces involved in that thing popping out of the water and splashing back down. And I'm not sure it would be able to attain that kind of ascent velocity anyway.

This has been your daily Dr. McNinja reality check.

Reality Ensues? In my The Adventures Of Dr Mc Ninja?

edited 2nd Oct '15 2:02:32 PM by EchoingSilence

It's more likely than you think.

Free PC Check!

This feels like the ending of Finding Nemo.

edited 2nd Oct '15 8:43:00 PM by tclittle

Yes, that is a pumpkin-head man working on a star gate.

Is this comic going to end with Radical being declared the hero instead of the villain? He certainly seems to have good publicity.

I laughed when the caption to it seemed expressly a "sigh, really?" towards specifically.

Something sinister is up here.