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
Fulton's torpedo:238
Confederates laying naval mines in Charleston Harbor
Model of the Romanian spar torpedo boat Rândunica after her 1900 refit
Whitehead torpedo General Profile, The Whitehead Torpedo U.S.N.1898
Robert Whitehead (right) invented the first modern torpedo in 1866. Pictured examining a battered test torpedo in Rijeka c. 1875.
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
HMS Lightning, built-in 1877 as a small attack boat armed with torpedoes.
The Brennan torpedo was the first practical guided torpedo.
S.M.A.R.T.(Supersonic Missile Assisted Release of Torpedo) Launch
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
