Torpedo

File:USN MK-46 Mod 5 lightweight torpedo.jpg

A Mark 46 Mod 5 lightweight torpedo.

The torpedo, is an explosive projectile weapon that moves by itself (using a propeller), launched above or below the water surface, that goes underwater toward a target, and made to explode when it hits a target or is near to it. Torpedoes may be launched from submarines, surface ships, helicopters, aircraft, land etc. Robert Whitehead invented the torpedo in 1866.

Torpedo Media

• Mark 8 torpedo in Germanton Park.jpg

  Bliss–Leavitt Mark 8 torpedo

• Fulton's torpedo.jpg

  Fulton's torpedo

• Sinking torpedoes by moonlight in Charleston Harbor - Harper's Weekly, June 13, 1863.jpg

  Confederates laying naval mines in Charleston Harbor

• Romanian spar torpedo boat Rândunica.jpg

  Model of the Romanian spar torpedo boat Rândunica after her 1900 refit

• Whitehead torpedo General Profile, The Whitehead Torpedo U.S.N.1898.jpg

  Whitehead torpedo General Profile, The Whitehead Torpedo U.S.N.1898

• Robert Whitehead with battered test torpedo Fiume c1875.jpg

  Robert Whitehead (right) invented the first modern torpedo in 1866. Pictured examining a battered test torpedo in Rijeka c. 1875.

• Ottoman submarine Abdulhamid 1886.jpg

  The Nordenfelt-class Ottoman submarine Abdülhamid (1886) was the first submarine in history to fire a torpedo while submerged.

• The first modern-day torpedo launching station in Rijeka, 2020.jpg

  The first modern-day torpedo launching station in Rijeka, 2020

• HMS Lightning - Torpedo Boat 1877.jpg

  HMS Lightning, built in 1877 as a small attack boat armed with torpedoes.

• The Brennan torpedo was the first practical guided torpedo.

Other websites

• Swedish Bofors 'Torpedo 2000' promo video
• Modern Torpedoes And Countermeasures [1] Archived 2012-02-22 at the Wayback Machine
• US Navy torpedo data cut and pasted from a Navy Fact File Archived 2005-11-04 at the Wayback Machine
• Early History of the Torpedo Torpedo History
• US Naval Undersea Museum Torpedo Display Archived 2005-09-08 at the Wayback Machine
• US Naval Undersea Museum Torpedo Collection Archived 2005-02-26 at the Wayback Machine