Torpedo facts for kids
The torpedo, is an explosive projectile weapon that moves by itself (using a propeller), launched above or below the water surface, that goes underwater toward a target, and made to explode when it hits a target or is near to it. Torpedoes may be launched from submarines, surface ships, helicopters, aircraft, land etc. Robert Whitehead invented the torpedo in 1866.
- Modern Torpedoes And Countermeasures [1]
- US Navy torpedo data cut and pasted from a Navy Fact File
- Early History of the Torpedo Torpedo History
- US Naval Undersea Museum Torpedo Display
- US Naval Undersea Museum Torpedo Collection
Images for kids
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Bliss–Leavitt Mark 8 torpedo
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NMS Rândunica
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Robert Whitehead (right) invented the modern self-propelled torpedo in 1866. Pictured examining a battered test torpedo in Fiume c. 1875.
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The Nordenfelt-class Ottoman submarine Abdülhamid (1886) was the first submarine in history to fire a torpedo while submerged.
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The Brennan torpedo was the first practical guided torpedo.
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In 1915, Rear Admiral Bradley A. Fiske conceived of the aerial torpedo.
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The Short Type 184 was the first torpedo aircraft when built in 1915.
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Launching a torpedo in 1915 during World War I
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A Japanese Type 93 torpedo – nicknamed "Long Lance" after the war
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U.S. World War II PT boat torpedo on display
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Electric batteries of a French Z13 torpedo
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A torpedo dropped from a Sopwith Cuckoo during World War I
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Torpedo tube aboard the French submarine Argonaute
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Mark 30 torpedo on display at DCAE Cosford.
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A Malafon torpedo-carrying missile of the 1960s
See also
In Spanish: Torpedo para niños
