torpedo
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A torpedo is a self-propelled weapon designed to be launched from ships or submarines and travel through water to hit enemy vessels. It has been an important naval weapon, particularly for submarines, since its development in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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- Etymology
- History
- Middle Ages
- Early naval mines
- Invention of the modern torpedo
- Production and spread
- Torpedo boats and guidance systems
- Use in conflict
- Aerial torpedo
- World War I
- World War II
- Frequency-hopping
- Post–World War II
- Propulsion
- Compressed air
- Heated torpedoes
- Dry heater
- Wet heater
- Increased oxidant
- Burner cycle engine
- Wire driven
- Flywheel
- Electric batteries
- Rockets
- Modern energy sources
- Propeller
- Supercavitation
- Guidance
- Unguided
- Pattern running
- Radio and wire guidance<span class="anchor" id="Radio and wire guidance"></span>
- Homing
- Warhead and fuzing
- Contact detonation
- Proximity detonation
- Damage
- Direct damage
- Bubble-jet effect
- Shock effect
- Control surfaces and hydrodynamics
- Launch platforms and launchers
- Ships
- Submarines
- Air launch
- Handling equipment
- Classes and diameters
- Use by various navies
- List of active torpedoes by place of origin
- China
- France
- Germany
- India
- Iran
- Italy
- Japan
- Pakistan
- Russia
- Republic of Korea
- Sweden
- Turkey
- United Kingdom
- United States of America
- List of key WWII torpedoes
- See also
- References
- External links
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A torpedo is an underwater ranged weapon launched above or below the water surface, self-propelled towards a target, with an explosive warhead designed to detonate either on contact with or in proximity to the target. Historically, such a device was called an automotive, automobile, locomotive, or fish torpedo; colloquially, a fish.