Torpedo/Related Articles

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Guided missile [r]: Add brief definition or description
Naval warfare [r]: The military history of the organized navies of the world from 300 BCE to the present. ^[e]

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]
Torpedo bomber [r]: Add brief definition or description
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]
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]

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]
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]

Mark 46 torpedo [r]: Lightweight antisubmarine torpedo, primarily air-dropped but also ship-launched for close-in defense ^[e]
Mark 48 torpedo [r]: U.S. heavyweight submarine-launched torpedo with bidirectional wire link to launcher, and autonomous active sonar; later versions known as Mk 48 ADCAP (advanced capability); uses liquid monopropellant; can engage subsurface and surface targets ^[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]