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• Torpedo — 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… …   Wikipedia

• Torpedo net — Torpedo nets were a passive naval warship defensive device against torpedoes. Their use was common practice from the 1890s through World War II. Torpedo nets were superseded by the anti torpedo bulge and torpedo belts. Contents 1 Origins 2… …   Wikipedia

• Torpedo 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… …   Wikipedia

• Torpedo boat — A torpedo boat is a relatively small and fast naval ship designed to carry torpedoes into battle. The first designs rammed enemy ships with explosive spar torpedoes, and later designs launched self propelled Whitehead torpedoes. They were created …   Wikipedia

• torpedo — torpedolike, adj. /tawr pee doh/, n., pl. torpedoes, v., torpedoed, torpedoing. n. 1. a self propelled, cigar shaped missile containing explosives and often equipped with a homing device, launched from a submarine or other warship, for destroying …   Universalium

• Torpedo 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… …   Wikipedia

• Torpedo bomber — A torpedo bomber is a bomber aircraft designed primarily to attack ships with torpedoes, but they could also carry out conventional bombings. Torpedo bombers existed almost exclusively prior to and during WWII, when they were an important player… …   Wikipedia

• Torpedo 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… …   Wikipedia

• Torpedo Data Computer — US Navy Mk III Torpedo Data Computer, основной американский компьютер для управления торпедным огнём во время Второй мировой войны. В 1943 году на смену ему пришла усовершенствованная модель, TDC Mk IV. Torpedo Data Computer (TDC)  один из… …   Википедия

• torpedo plane — ▪ military weaponry also called  torpedo bomber        aircraft designed to launch torpedoes (torpedo). In about 1910 the navies of several countries began to experiment with torpedo launching from low flying aircraft, usually seaplanes. The… …   Universalium

• torpedo — /tɔˈpidoʊ / (say taw peedoh) noun (plural torpedoes) 1. a self propelled cigar shaped missile containing explosives which is launched from a tube in a submarine, torpedo boat or the like, or from an aircraft, and explodes upon impact with the… …