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	Torpedo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Torpedoes are weapons that may be launched from submarines, surface ships, helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft, and from unmanned naval mines.
		From the deck-mounted torpedo launcher of a vessel on the surface.
		In the case of deck or tube launched torpedoes, the diameter of the torpedo is obviously a key factor in determining the suitability of a particular torpedo to a tube or launcher, similar to the calibre of the gun.
	hallencyclopedia.com /Torpedo (1562 words)

	Torpedo -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		A modern torpedo, historically called a self propelled torpedo, is a self-propelled guided (A weapon that is thrown or projected) projectile that (after being launched above or below the water surface) operates underwater and is designed to detonate on contact or in proximity to a target.
		Blanco Encalada was the first ship sunk in a military action by a self-propelled torpedo from the torpedo gunboat Lynch, during the (A republic in southern South America on the western slopes of the Andes on the south Pacific coast) Chilean civil war on April 23 1891.
		In the case of deck or tube launched torpedoes, the diameter of the torpedo is obviously a key factor in determining the suitability of a particular torpedo to a tube or launcher, similar to the (A degree or grade of excellence or worth) calibre of the gun.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/T/To/Torpedo.htm (1854 words)

	Encyclopedia: Torpedo
		The Bangalore Torpedo, invented in 1912, is a cylindrical explosive device` on the end of a pipe used to clear minefields and barbed wire.
		The type 95 torpedo was a torpedo of the Imperial Japanese Navy.
		The torpedoes used by the Kriegsmarine include The Kriegsmarine (or War Navy) was the name of the German Navy between 1935 and 1945, during the Nazi regime, superseding the Reichsmarine.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Torpedo (6156 words)

	Kaiten
		Five models were designed, the types 1, 2, 3 and 4 based on the type 93 torpedo (24 inch oxygen/kerosene), and the type 10, based on the type 92 torpedo (21 inch electric).
		As well as the obvious advantage of providing guidance for the torpedo, these kaitens could be launched from a submerged submarine, unlike the unmanned type 93 torpedo which was deck launched from the surface.
		The type 2 was intended to have a crew of two, and so is often confused with the Japanese midget submarines used to attack Pearl Harbor and Sydney.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/kaiten (590 words)

	Type 93 torpedo
		The Type 93 was a 610 mm (24 inch) diameter torpedo of the Imperial Japanese Navy.
		The Type 93 was quietly developed in Japan in the 1930s.
		Too large to fit in the standard 21-inch torpedo tubes, it was usually launched from the decks of surface ships, but some submarines also had deck-mounted launchers.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/type_93_torpedo (244 words)

	TORPEDO FACTS AND INFORMATION
		The Bangalore_Torpedo, invented in 1912, is a cylindrical explosive device` on the end of a pipe used to clear minefields and barbed wire.
		The first torpedoes driven at the target were ''spar torpedoes'' – the explosive device was on the end of a spar up to 40 feet long projecting forward under the water from the attacking vessel.
		During this time, the torpedo_boat invented by John_Ericsson gained recognition for its efficiency, and the first torpedo boat destroyers were built to counter it.
	www.witwib.com /?s=torpedo (2120 words)

	Japanese Torpedoes
		Torpedo tactics and night combat were seized upon as one way to whittle down the American battle line as it made its way across the Pacific.
		The resulting weapon, the Type 93 torpedo, was fantastically advanced in comparison with its Western counterparts, possessing an unequaled combination of speed, range, and hitting power.
		An older torpedo that was still being used in some land-based JNAF torpedo-bomber squadrons at the beginning of the war, including some of the units ('Nells') which attacked and sank Repulse and the Prince of Wales.
	www.combinedfleet.com /torps.htm (871 words)

	Destroyer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		She was armed with four 1-pounder (37mm) quick-firing guns and four torpedo tubes, reached 19 knots, and at 203 tons, was the largest torpedo boat yet designed.
		The next effective design of torpedo boat destroyer, with the range and speed to keep up with battleships, was the Havock class of two ships of the Royal Navy, developed in 1892 under the newly appointed Third Sea Lord Rear Admiral John A. "Jackie" Fisher, and launched in 1893.
		The torpedo boat destroyer later on took over the role of the smaller torpedo boats, performing torpedo attacks on fleets, such as the devastating Japanese attack on the Russian fleet in Port Arthur at the opening of the Russo-Japanese war in 1904, and attacks in the Pacific theatre of World War II.
	www.punweb.com /article/Destroyer (1863 words)

	U-boat Net - Type VIIC
		Type VIIC was a slightly modified version of the successful VIIB.
		The VIIC was the workhorse of the German U-boat force in World War Two from 1941 onwards and boats of this type were being built throughout the war.
		The larger mine-laying type VIID was a direct variant of the VIIC.
	home.earthlink.net /~am115/viic.htm (255 words)

	ipedia.com: Torpedo Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		In naval usage, the term "torpedo" was first used by Robert Fulton who used it in reference to his Nautilus submarine in 1800.
		This use of the word to refer to what are now called mines lasted until World War I, as other torpedoes were developed the term was modified to stationary torpedo and the term mine was also used.
		The torpedo was powered by compressed air and had a explosive charge of gloxyline or gun-cotton.
	www.ipedia.com /torpedo.html (745 words)

	BB55 - Long Lance Torpedo
		The Type 95 submarine-launched torpedo, although modeled after and following the same principles as the Type 93 Long Lance, was necessarily shorter and of reduced diameter in order to be accommodated in the limited confines of a submarine.
		Torpedo directors were a major part of surface ship fire control systems, not a addon as found elsewhere.
		Torpedoes are also expensive compared to main gun rounds, even when you compare the number of the shells that have to be fired to get the same effect.
	www.battleshipnc.com /history/bb55/wwii/battles/longlance.htm (1065 words)

	Torpedo biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		In naval usage, the term "torpedo" was first used by Robert Fulton who used for the towed gunpowder charge used by his submarine Nautilus in 1800–1805 to demonstrate that it could sink warships.
		Blanco Encalada was the first ship sunk in a military action by a self-propelled torpedo, during the Chilean civil war on April 23, 1891.
		The four major torpedoes in the United States Navy inventory are:
	torpedo.biography.ms (1203 words)

	Kaiten (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Kaiten (Japanese:回天) was a torpedo modified as a suicide weapon, and used by the Imperial Japanese Navy in the final stages of the Second World War.
		Only the type 1, a one person model with a 3000 lb (1,360 kg) warhead, was used operationally.
		However the midget submarines used in these attacks were each armed with two light torpedoes in individual tubes, and were intended to return to their mother ships after firing them.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/K/Kaiten.htm (648 words)

	Japanese Navy Ship Types--Kaiten type Human Torpedoes
		Proposals for human torpedoes were made in 1943 and were approved in early 1944, initially with provision for the survival of the operator.
		The Type 2, featuring hydrogen-peroxide as oxidizer, was not built in any quantity but some 50 of the less-ambitious Type 4's were reportedly built in 1945.
		On 20 November 1944, a submarine-launched "Kaiten" penetrated the U.S. anchorage at Ulithi, in the Caroline Islands, and sank the oiler USS Mississinewa (AO-59).
	www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-fornv/japan/japtp-ss/kaiten.htm (788 words)

	Type 22 Broadsword frigate
		The Type 22 frigates are among the most successful warships built for the Royal Navy since 1945, but their continued evolution led to a ship that is probably closer to a cruiser or destroyer (in terms of capability and cost) than a simple frigate, particularly in their weapons fit.
		The propulsion plant of Type 22 is COGAG type combined each two of Spey and Tyne gas turbines.
		HMS Brilliant was the third of the Type 22 frigates commissioned by the Royal Navy.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/europe/type22.htm (583 words)

	Were the Best Good Enough?
		Torpedo attack was the cornerstone of the night attack, and a critical element of the day attack intended to rectify Japan’s initial 3:5 and worsening deficit in numbers.
		In five of the actions, no torpedoes appear to have been launched, and in one other action between 40 and 56 weapons were launched with between 0 and 5 hits scored (the most likely number was 1).
		Without detailed information on impact angles, Type 93 fuze characteristics, and the number of weapons which passed harmlessly beneath their targets, reliable observations regarding these factors (so famously poor in US submarine and aerial torpedoes) are impossible.
	www.navweaps.com /index_tech/tech-067.htm (4156 words)

	The Battle of the Java Sea: February 27, 1942, by Vincent P. O'Hara
		They had a 44% advantage in the number of torpedo tubes and this advantage was in fact far greater because their ships could reload quickly torpedoes while remaining in action, and most of their torpedoes were the reliable and destructive “Long Lance.” 24 Inch (610 mm) Type 93.
		Allied torpedoes had neither the range nor the punch of this famous weapon; moreover, the American torpedoes, half the Allied total, were criminally defective in the first years of the Pacific War.
		The Allies lost two light cruisers and one destroyer to torpedoes all launched by the heavy cruisers, one destroyer accidentally by mining, and one destroyer to gunfire One heavy cruiser was heavily damaged by gunfire.
	www.microworks.net /pacific/battles/java_sea.htm (4711 words)

	TYPE 1144 "KIROV" CLASS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The missile carries a torpedo, which is faired into the underside of the airframe and the different designations indicate the payload: 60-RU with 100 kT depth charge; 70-RU with ASW torpedo; 80-RU with ASW torpedo; 85-RU dual role.
		The torpedo is retarded by the parachute and then descends vertically to the surface, where the parachute is disconnected and the weapon begins a search pattern to acquire the target.
		The missile is launched from a standard 533 mm (21 in) torpedo tube, but is believed to be otherwise similar in concept and shape to SUBROC, having a long, slim cylinder with small, retractable fins and a booster rocket at the end.
	www.aeronautics.ru /archive/fleet/russian/1144.htm (5518 words)

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		Newly fitted high angle positions were: a Type 91 high-angle fire-control positions together with its associated 4.5m rangefinders on either side of the bridge, and a Type 95 light AA fire control position installed behind the forward funnel on either side.
		The twin torpedo tubes were replaced by Type 92 quadruple tubes with 24 Type 93 torpedos.
		The Type 93 torpedo was a secret weapon designed for ultra-ling range, and therefore a fire-control position was installed on the fore mast top.
	smmlonline.com /archives/VOL1248.txt (2538 words)

	Type 65 torpedo -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Type 65 is a (Armament consisting of a long cylindrical self-propelled underwater projectile that detonates on contact with a target) torpedo manufactured in (A federation in northeastern Europe and northern Asia; formerly Soviet Russia; since 1991 an independent state) Russia.
		(The front part of a guided missile or rocket or torpedo that carries the nuclear or explosive charge or the chemical or biological agents) Warhead: (A powerful chemical explosive that produces gas at a very high rate) high explosive, or (Click link for more info and facts about nuclear) nuclear (Russia only)
		Fitted to: Newer Russian vessels, but often the 650 mm torpedo bay is fitted with a 533 mm converter to enable firing of (Click link for more info and facts about SS-N-15) SS-N-15 missiles or (Click link for more info and facts about Type 53 torpedo) Type 53 torpedoes.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/ty/type_65_torpedo.htm (188 words)

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		Torpedo armament consists of 16 torpedo tubes with 1 reload per tube.
		The computer will display the type of target being engaged, the target size, the range to the target, and whether or not the target is ranged in (and if so, by what method of fire control).
		The player must determine if a slow or fast torpedo setting is used, aim the torpedo mount at a particular point on the map and then fire a salvo consisting of some or all of the mount's torpedoes.
	www.devili.iki.fi /pub/Commodore/docs/Project64/games/warsh10a.txt (4988 words)

	Kaiten Suicide Submarines
		The kaiten was aptly described by Theodore Cook as "not so much a ship as an insertion of a human being into a very large torpedo." The guts of the beast was a standard Type-93 24" torpedo, with the mid-section elongated to create the pilot's space.
		He sat in a canvas chair practically on the deck of the kaiten, a crude periscope directly in front of him, and the necessary controls close to hand in the cockpit.
		Furthermore, it suffered from a number of mechanical problems, including salt water leakage into the control space when the mother sub was submerged, and a tendency to catch fire from oil leaks.
	www.combinedfleet.com /kaiten.htm (1353 words)

	the Wells Brothers' Battleship Index: Are Battleships Obsolete?
		Destroyers (originally called "torpedo boat destroyers") were as fast as torpedo boats, and were larger and better armed.
		Torpedo boats were generally no match for the screening destroyers, and eventually the destroyer assumed most of the torpedo boat's functions.
		Curiously enough, the one type of aircraft that proved to be a real threat to battleships, the torpedo bomber, quickly disappeared after World War II.
	home.att.net /~WellsBrothers/Battleships/obsolete.html (4920 words)

	The U.S. Army Professional Writing Collection
		The Japanese Navy developed the Type 93 Long Lance torpedo that carried a large warhead and could travel 20,000 yards or more at speeds of up to 45 knots.
		U.S. torpedoes were quite slow, carried a smaller warhead, had a range of less than 10,000 yards, and often failed to explode even when striking a target.
		Where the next operations manual might need emphasis lies in the presentation and understanding of second- and third-order effects associated with asymmetric land operations, and that should be predicated on a thorough review of military theory.
	www.army.mil /professionalwriting/volumes/volume1/october_2003/10_03_1.html (4484 words)

	Carrier Battles in the Pacific - 1942 ... and other WWII battles in the Pacific (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Americans were relatively unskilled in night battles, their torpedoes were slow, had a small range and often failed to explode, while the Japanese Navy mastered the night fighting techniques, and had a deadly Type 93 torpedo (so called "Long Lance"), which wreaked havoc among the US naval units.
		Their torpedo tubes were wrecked, and American shells were scoring with a painful accuracy.
		At 2354 a torpedo from either Duncan or Laffey hit Furutaka and flooded the forward engineroom, but failed to stop her.
	www.everblue.net /1942/capeesperance.php (1581 words)

	SimHQ.com - Naval Combat Zone – Straight Running Torpedo Attacks
		Pattern running and homing torpedoes are not simulated in DC and are not covered here.
		A torpedo is, in general, not much faster than its target, and in some cases it is even slower.
		The most number of torpedoes carried by a US destroyer class was 16 aboard the Bagley/Benham/Gridley class, and the destroyers of most nations carried about half that number.
	www.simhq.com /_naval/naval_009a.html (517 words)

	wikien.info: Main_Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		A torpedo dropped from a Sopwith Cuckoo during WW I
		World War I Austrian battleship, showing torpedo nets
		Narrow miss by a German torpedo in World War I
	www.alanaditescili.net /index.php?title=Torpedo (1292 words)

	The Bottom Line #93 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		From my time spent wrestling with a standard size upright, and my time helping visiting bassists wrestle with their basses in those huge flight cases, I think this is a very nice evolution for the upright.
		As with most brass and woodwind instruments, what we call the "trombone" is part of a family of instruments and as such is not the only instance of an instrument of its type.
		The commonly encountered trombone is the "tenor" trombone, and there also is a soprano, alto, bass, and contrabass voiced instrument in the family.
	www.amscons.com /tblarchive/VOL2000/0-99/bl93.html (4518 words)

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