Hybrids as drilling equipment

[hectmarr]

I suppose it is safer to handle this technology than to have the ship crammed with conventional military explosives. If you have a problem, you eject gas out of the boat quickly

[Potato Demon]

Pretty much :p.

[D_Hall]

I suppose it is safer to handle this technology than to have the ship crammed with conventional military explosives. If you have a problem, you eject gas out of the boat quickly

Its safer when you store the fuel/oxidizer separately. The moment you put them in a cartridge, you lose that safety. In fact, I'd venture to say that it's more dangerous as 1.3 gun propellants abound but I wouldn't be shocked if the light gas mixture they're talking about is 1.1 when confined as it is.

[jackssmirkingrevenge]

Even stored separately there's quite an element of risk as the Japanese found out with their Type 93 "long lance" torpedo that ran on pure oxygen:

During the Battle off Samar (in the eastern Philippines) a five-inch (127 mm) shell (while in most circumstances a five-inch shell would not penetrate a cruiser's armored deck nor cause serious damage) from escort carrier USS White Plains struck the heavy cruiser Chōkai which detonated the cruiser's Type 93 torpedoes, disabling her rudder and engines; she was scuttled the next day. The same Samar engagement saw heavy cruiser Suzuya sunk by the detonation of her own Type 93 torpedoes; a bomb near-missed the starboard amidships which set off the torpedoes in the starboard tube mounts; the resultant fires propagated to other torpedoes nearby and beyond, the subsequent explosions damaging one of the boilers and the starboard engine rooms and eventually reaching the main magazines.