All this submarine talk lately, so this caught my eye. I know nothing of seafaring vessels, military or otherwise, but when I saw this screencap from the Russian sub wreck captioned a "torpedo", it gave me pause. If it is a "fish", it certainly has a BA dorsal fin. Even I think it's one of the lateral propeller pods from that class of submarine. Who writes this stuff?


A torpedo at the wreck site. (Institute of Marine Research Norway/Ægir 6000 )

Fox News article

Is that a torpedo or the pod for a towed array that has sat on the vertical fin of other submarines?

Never mind, I see that that particular submarine did not have a towed array pod.

Definitely one of the pods on the horizontal stabilizers. As to the author being an idiot...well...media.

Here's a schematic...

Yeah, the 'author' of that article is an idiot. That is NOT a torpedo. As the above diagram shows, it is a stabilizer pod. From what I've heard, they were used for 'creeping maneuvers' whereby the sub could use the small props instead of the large main prop? Something like that (I've never been a submariner). However, it should have been plain as day that this device was NOT a torpedo. Heck, even a 30 second Google search would have revealed what it was.

US Navy Gunners Mate here, from many years back. Way too short for a torpedo. NEVER saw a torpedo from ANY navy that was that short.