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  • Thumbnail for Torpedo
    A modern torpedo is an underwater ranged weapon launched above or below the water surface, self-propelled towards a target, and with an explosive warhead...
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    The Mark 14 torpedo was the United States Navy's standard submarine-launched anti-ship torpedo of World War II. This weapon was plagued with many problems...
    56 KB (6,755 words) - 19:41, 28 May 2024
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    Human torpedoes or manned torpedoes are a type of diver propulsion vehicle on which the diver rides, generally in a seated position behind a fairing....
    28 KB (3,553 words) - 17:42, 22 June 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) - 03:27, 2 August 2024
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    hit a target. One naval officer explained that 90% of the time, when the button was pushed on the torpedo tube to launch a torpedo, nothing happened or occasionally...
    67 KB (8,905 words) - 12:35, 21 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Torpedo boat
    A torpedo boat is a relatively small and fast naval ship designed to carry torpedoes into battle. The first designs were steam-powered craft dedicated...
    25 KB (3,501 words) - 15:37, 4 July 2024
  • Savran, Medical Officer Tim Woodward as Vice-Admiral Konstantin Partonov Steve Nicolson as Captain 3rd Rank Yuri Demichev, Torpedo Officer Ravil Isyanov...
    17 KB (1,734 words) - 16:40, 27 July 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 Franz von Hipper
    joined the German Navy in 1881 as an officer cadet. He commanded several torpedo boat units and served as watch officer aboard several warships, as well as...
    39 KB (5,295 words) - 04:00, 18 July 2024
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    armed torpedo boats designed to destroy other torpedo boats". Although the term "destroyer" had been used interchangeably with "TBD" and "torpedo boat...
    58 KB (7,097 words) - 18:35, 28 June 2024
  • Torpedo (Also known as 'U-235') is a 2019 Belgian action & war film directed by Sven Huybrechts and starring Koen De Bouw. The film is loosely based on...
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    British man to jump overboard to help the German survivors was the torpedo officer, Lt II Curver. "Who sank the Bismarck - The British or the Germans...
    36 KB (4,596 words) - 14:22, 28 July 2024
  • contains a variety of weapons, ranging from missiles (the classic photon torpedo) to melee (primarily used by the Klingons, a race of aliens in the Star...
    56 KB (7,382 words) - 20:03, 30 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for George Creasy
    George Creasy (category Royal Navy officers of World War I)
    Bight in 1917, he trained as a torpedo officer. Creasy served in the Second World War, initially as commanding officer of HMS Grenville, which was sunk...
    14 KB (1,435 words) - 15:22, 25 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Aerial torpedo
    An aerial torpedo (also known as an airborne torpedo or air-dropped torpedo) is a torpedo launched from a torpedo bomber aircraft into the water, after...
    25 KB (3,325 words) - 17:09, 4 July 2024
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    Dudley Pound (category Royal Navy officers of World War I)
    joined the torpedo school HMS Vernon in September 1899 and qualified as a torpedo specialist in December 1901. He served as a torpedo officer in the cruiser...
    19 KB (1,893 words) - 20:32, 26 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Whitehead torpedo
    The Whitehead torpedo was the first self-propelled or "locomotive" torpedo ever developed. It was perfected in 1866 by British engineer Robert Whitehead...
    16 KB (1,290 words) - 10:53, 24 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Doveton Sturdee
    KCMG, CVO (9 June 1859 – 7 May 1925) was a Royal Navy officer. After training as a torpedo officer, he commanded two different cruisers and then three different...
    27 KB (3,266 words) - 14:39, 20 July 2024
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    Mochitsura Hashimoto (category Imperial Japanese Navy officers)
    training, he was assigned to the submarine I-123 on 20 March 1940 as torpedo officer, transferring to the I-155 on 15 October in the same role. On 15 July...
    28 KB (3,702 words) - 17:23, 3 July 2024
  • The Mark 24 Tigerfish was a heavyweight acoustic homing torpedo used by the Royal Navy (RN) during the 1980s and 90s. Conceptual development dates to...
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