torpedo tube firing
1Torpedo tube — A torpedo tube is a device for launching torpedoes in a horizontal direction. There are two main types of torpedo tube: *Those designed to operate below water level, as fitted to submarines and some surface ships *Deck mounted torpedo launchers… …
2Torpedo — The modern torpedo (historically called an automotive, automobile, locomotive, or fish torpedo) is a self propelled explosive projectile weapon, launched above or below the water surface, propelled underwater toward a target, and designed to… …
3Torpedo Data Computer — The Torpedo Data Computer (TDC) was an early electromechanical analog computer used for torpedo fire control on American submarines during World War II (see Figure 1). Britain, Germany, and Japan also developed automated torpedo fire control… …
4Torpedo ram — A torpedo ram is a type of torpedo boat combining a ram with torpedo tubes. Incorporating design elements from the cruiser and the monitor, it was intended to provide small and inexpensive weapon systems for coastal defence and other littoral… …
5Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109 — This article is about the boat. For the song, see PT 109 (song). For the film, see PT 109 (film). LTJG Kennedy (standing at right) on the PT 109 in 1943. For other Ids see[1] Career (United States) …
6Mark 32 Surface Vessel Torpedo Tubes — Personnel from USS Porter loading a recoverable training torpedo into the top tube of a Mark 32 Surface Vessel Torpedo Tubes set The Mark 32 Surface Vessel Torpedo Tubes (Mk 32 SVTT) system[1] is a torpedo launching system designed for the …
7Mark 18 torpedo — The Mark 18 torpedo was an electric torpedo used by the US Navy during World War II. The Mark 18 was built in competition to the Bureau of Ordnance electric torpedoes, which had been in development at the Newport Torpedo Station (NTS), Newport,… …
8Type 97 torpedo — The Type 97 was a convert|17.7|in|cm diameter torpedo used by the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. Intended for use with Japan s Ko hyoteki class midget submarines, the torpedo was based on the Type 93 Long Lance used by larger… …
9bangalore torpedo — noun Etymology: Bangalore, India Date: 1913 a metal tube that contains explosives and a firing mechanism and is used to cut barbed wire and detonate buried mines …
10Bangalore torpedo — a metal tube filled with explosives and equipped with a firing mechanism, esp. for destroying barbed wire entanglements, mine fields, etc. [1910 15] * * * …
