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Parent topics
- Guided missile [r]: A weapon that flies through air or space, under its own power, which adjusts its course to hit its target. [e]
- Naval warfare [r]: The military history of the organized navies of the world from 300 BCE to the present. [e]
Subtopics
- Anti-shipping missile [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Anti-submarine warfare [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Anti-surface warfare [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Mine (naval warfare) [r]: A naval explosive weapon that waits passively for a target to come into its range, and then detonates or releases a mobile weapon once its sensors detect an appropriate target [e]
- Maritime patrol aircraft [r]: Very long range, usually land-based, aircraft optimized for sea surveillance, originally principally for anti-submarine warfare but often with anti-surface warfare capabilities; newer types also have land and littoral surveillance roles [e]
- Submarine [r]: A ship or boat that can travel underwater [e]
- Long Lance (torpedo) [r]: WWII Japanese torpedo, straight-running and unguided, but longer-range and probably more accurate than any other torpedo of the war; also known as Type 93 [e]
- Mark 8 (torpedo) [r]: UK straight-running heavy torpedo, used during Falklands War for the first sinking of a surface vessel, ARA General Belgrano, by a nuclear-propelled submarine, HMS Conqueror [e]
- Mark 46 (torpedo) [r]: U.S. lightweight antisubmarine torpedo, air-dropped, fired from surface ship tubes, carried by RUM-139 Vertical Launch ASROC; being replaced by Mark 50 (torpedo) [e]
- Mark 48 (torpedo) [r]: Standard US Navy heavy submarine-launched guided torpedo, capable of both command guidance and autonomous operation [e]
- Mark 50 (torpedo) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- RUM-139 Vertical Launch ASROC [r]: A surface-to-underwater missile consisting of a guided booster that delivers a homing antisubmarine torpedo to a distant location [e]
- Shkval (torpedo) [r]: Russian/Soviet torpedo of revolutionary design, traveling, at relatively short range, in bubble of supercavitation at speeds of hundreds of kilometers per hour; probably unguided and may have nuclear warhead [e]
- Spearfish (torpedo) [r]: UK heavy submarine-launched guided torpedo, probably fastest non-cavitating torpedo in the world [e]
- Type 65 (torpedo) [r]: Soviet/Russian guided torpedo, probably the largest in the world at 650mm diameter, designed to follow the wake of a large warship target, especially an aircraft carrier [e]
- Type 93 (torpedo) [r]: WWII Japanese torpedo, straight-running and unguided, but longer-range and probably more accurate than any other torpedo of the war; also known as Long Lance [e]
- SLQ-25 [r]: A towed deceptive decoy for protecting ships against acoustic-homing torpedoes [e]
- Safety and survivability of naval vessels [r]: Beyond the rules of the Safety of Life at Sea convention, protective measures, for naval vessels, against their own systems as well as enemy fire [e]