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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]

Other related topics

• 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]

• Surface-to-underwater missile [r]: A means of launching an antisubmarine torpedo from a surface ship, often by an unguided rocket booster, moving it at greater speed and range than possible for a torpedo in the water, and releasing the guided torpedo over the approximate location of the target ^[e]
• Underwater-to-underwater missile [r]: A weapon launched by one submarine at another submarine, which has an intermediate part of its path in which it flies through the air rather than the water, or possibly through a steam bubble. ^[e]
• Unguided rocket [r]: A form of artillery weapon that uses a rocket motor to propel a warhead at a target, using no guidance once launched ^[e]
• Warhead [r]: Add brief definition or description