Security News > 2020 > May > A real loch mess: Navy larks sunk by a truculent torpedo

This week's confession comes from "Colin", and takes us back a good few years to when the Royal Navy was in the throes of validating the torpedo designs of a favoured contractor.

Colin was involved in the guidance system of the torpedo and so, when the Navy decided it was time for a user acceptance test, he and the rest of the design team accompanied the prototype to a remote loch, deep in the heart of Scotland.

As Colin recalled: "On the shore was a small stand, with a collection of chairs and tables, where were seated about half a dozen uniformed Navy types, each equipped with the mandatory pair of binoculars and clipboard."

"All binoculars followed the white furrow on the surface of the water," recalled Colin, "While our chief engineer enthusiastically showed the Navy guys how the remote control worked."

"To everyone's surprise," remembered Colin, "He said his only condition was to be taken home in an official Royal Navy car."

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