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Definitions of torpedoes in various dictionaries:
noun - a professional killer who uses a gun
noun - a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments)
noun - an explosive device that is set off in an oil well (or a gas well) to start or to increase the flow of oil (or gas)
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| The U.S.S. Seawolf, a navy submarine, can launch airborne missiles & these underwater projectiles |
| The USA's WWII-era Gato class could launch 24 of these; today's Seawolf class carries twice as many |
| Submarines have fixed tubes in the bow to shoot these underwater weapons |
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A modern torpedo is a self-propelled weapon with an explosive warhead, launched above or below the water surface, propelled underwater towards a target, and designed to detonate either on contact with its target or in proximity to it. * Historically, it was called an automotive, automobile, locomotive or fish torpedo; colloquially called a fish. The term torpedo was originally employed for a variety of devices, most of which would today be called mines. From about 1900, torpedo has been used strictly to designate an underwater self-propelled weapon. * While the battleship had evolved primarily around engagements between armoured ships with large-caliber guns, the torpedo allowed torpedo boats and other lighter surface ships, submersibles, even ordinary fishing boats or frogmen, and later, aircraft, to destroy large armoured ships without the need of large guns, though sometimes at the risk of being hit by longer-range shellfire. * Today's torpedoes can be divided into lightweight and heavywe |