The Issues Needed to be Explored and Clarified in Torpedo RMS Academic and Engineering

Aiming at the issues in the technical documents and teaching materials of torpedoes’ reliability, maintenance and supportability (RMS) in the past dozen years, which concern the relationship among RMS parameters, the phase division of life profile, the definition of reliability contract specification, and the problems of academic and engineering application in coordination of the reliability contract specification, the authors analyze and demonstrate the military standards, technical data and a large number of data facts about torpedo reliability from home and abroad, point out the existing problems according to the basic theory of equipment reliability, and put forward corresponding measures to solve these problems through demonstration of examples. The purpose of this study is to clarify RMS academic and engineering application of a torpedo, and to provide a more effective support to the development and usage of torpedo weapon.