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  • Thumbnail for Mark 50 torpedo
    The Mark 50 torpedo is a U.S. Navy advanced lightweight torpedo for use against fast, deep-diving submarines. The Mk 50 can be launched from all anti-submarine...
    6 KB (383 words) - 03:34, 29 June 2024
  • developed in the mid-1950s was for a fast, 55-knot (102 km/h; 63 mph), deep-diving torpedo driven by an internal combustion engine, carrying high pressure oxygen...
    12 KB (1,431 words) - 15:31, 4 July 2024
  • A nuclear torpedo is a torpedo armed with a nuclear warhead. The idea behind the nuclear warheads in a torpedo was to create a much bigger explosive blast...
    25 KB (3,164 words) - 14:38, 5 August 2024
  • the use of anti-ship missiles, and a new generation of "smart", deep-diving torpedoes (such as the Mark 48) which are designed to detonate under a ship's...
    6 KB (806 words) - 14:04, 3 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mark 48 torpedo
    variant are American heavyweight submarine-launched torpedoes. They were designed to sink deep-diving nuclear-powered submarines and high-performance surface...
    16 KB (1,408 words) - 00:26, 8 July 2024
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    Marina, Raffaele Paolucci and Raffaele Rossetti, in diving suits, rode a primitive manned torpedo (nicknamed Mignatta or "leech") into the Austro-Hungarian...
    28 KB (3,553 words) - 09:57, 5 August 2024
  • institutional inertia which had kept the navies of the world focused on the "diving torpedo boat" in the previous decades, and led to an increased focus on submerged...
    21 KB (2,966 words) - 19:47, 18 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Torpedo tube
    A torpedo tube is a cylindrical device for launching torpedoes. There are two main types of torpedo tube: underwater tubes fitted to submarines and some...
    8 KB (897 words) - 04:49, 3 July 2024
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    The Mark 45 anti-submarine torpedo, a.k.a. ASTOR, was a submarine-launched wire-guided nuclear torpedo designed by the United States Navy for use against...
    6 KB (439 words) - 16:42, 1 August 2022
  • designed to catch high-speed, deep-diving Soviet threats such as the Alfa-class submarine. A microprocessor enables the torpedo to make autonomous tactical decisions...
    10 KB (824 words) - 15:22, 31 July 2024
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    Douglas BTD Destroyer (category World War II torpedo bombers of the United States)
    The Douglas BTD Destroyer is an American dive/torpedo bomber developed for the United States Navy during World War II. A small number had been delivered...
    11 KB (1,031 words) - 13:05, 4 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Torpedo bomber
    A torpedo bomber is a military aircraft designed primarily to attack ships with aerial torpedoes. Torpedo bombers came into existence just before the...
    33 KB (4,587 words) - 16:19, 17 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Diver propulsion vehicle
    decompression obligation, which depend on the dive profile. Typical uses include cave diving and technical diving where the vehicles help move bulky equipment...
    32 KB (3,969 words) - 22:25, 2 May 2024
  • Diving support equipment is the equipment used to facilitate a diving operation. It is either not taken into the water during the dive, such as the gas...
    5 KB (1,104 words) - 06:45, 12 February 2023
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    Frogman (redirect from Combatant diving)
    combat swimmers or divers. [citation needed] Tactical diving is a branch of professional diving carried out by armed forces and tactical units. They may...
    35 KB (4,064 words) - 12:31, 25 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sting Ray (torpedo)
    The Sting Ray is a British acoustic homing lightweight torpedo (LWT) manufactured by GEC-Marconi, who were later bought out by BAE Systems. It entered...
    10 KB (952 words) - 13:36, 4 July 2024
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    Star) - 'Grace' 1941 torpedo/dive bomber B8A Mokusei (Wooden Star) - torpedo bomber (project only) D1A/D2A - 'Susie' 1934 dive bomber, based on the Heinkel...
    9 KB (934 words) - 10:40, 15 November 2023
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    diver may dive on breath-hold (freediving) or use breathing apparatus for scuba diving or surface-supplied diving, and the saturation diving technique...
    192 KB (16,753 words) - 16:26, 2 July 2024
  • The Mark 35 torpedo was the first of the United States Navy deep-diving anti-submarine torpedoes designed for surface launch. This electrically propelled...
    4 KB (285 words) - 03:45, 5 February 2022
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    the Atlantic Torpedo Fleet as Flagboat for Submarine Division 3 (SubDiv 3). Along the United States East Coast, D-2 joined in diving, torpedo, and experimental...
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