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.]] The Mark 50 torpedo is a U.S. Navy advanced lightweight Torpedo for use against the faster, deeper-diving and more sophisticated Submarine s. The Mk-50 can be launched from all ASW aircraft, and from torpedo tubes aboard surface combatant ships. The Mk-50 was intended to replace the Mk-46 as the fleet's lightweight torpedo. Instead it will be replaced with the Mark 54 LHT . The torpedo's Stored Chemical Energy Propulsion System (SCEPS) uses a small tank of sulphur hexafluoride gas which is sprayed over a block of solid Lithium , which generates enormous quantities of heat, in turn used to generate steam from seawater. The steam propels the torpedo in a closed Rankine Cycle . GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS, MK-50
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