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Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] H2O2 combustion chamber



Dewey Mason wrote:
> 
> --- Herve,
>    I must ask which two U.S. subs you mean?

Sargo had a major explosion in the torpedo room, about 1960.

The experimental X-1 blew itself into three or four pieces
at about the same time.

X-1 had a Walther plant, and the Sargo was carrying oxygen-
powered torpedoes.

Oxygen is bad stuff in that concentrations.  




Mike