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]
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 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]: Add brief definition or description
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]: Add brief definition or description
Unguided rocket [r]: Add brief definition or description
Warhead [r]: Add brief definition or description