torpedo

French escort ship Chateaurenault and Guichen have strange 550mm triple TT launchers. They are much shorter than other launchers at that time. What are those launchers and torpedoes ? Data, plans or clear pics are all welcome.

https://www.history.navy.mil/browse-by-topic/exploration-and-innovation/navy-torpedoes.html It is interesting that among other things they don't really mention spar torpedoes.

I am currently looking for footage of the Diehl Barracuda supercavitating torpedo technology demonstrator. On the Korean site blog.naver.com i found a clip showing testing footage and animations of the working principles of Barracuda with a voice-over in Korean. This clip seems to be from a...

Came across this patent by Roketsan of Turkey, relates to a amphibious torpedo tube that is deployed by and remote-controlled from a land-based vehicle, and can operate amphibiously, dive and be brought back and used again; document is sparse but there's an illustration...

https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2025/03/swedens-torpedo-development-roadmap-charts-new-heavyweight-course/

I imagine this probably never got beyond the napkin stage, but very curious if anyone has more detail on this. From a 2006 USNI article by Norman Polmar; https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/2006/august/atomic-fish The thought of a Silverplate Avenger is moderately amusing.

Henschel GT 1200 By the beginning of 1937, Dr Lorenz of Technisches Amt (Luftwaffe’s Technical Office) was sponsoring the Walter HWK RI-203 rocket engine that promised enormous power for its weight. This engine used compressed air to force a weak concentration of mono-propellant hydrogen...

In Friedman's British Cruisers book, he mentions that in the postwar fleet modernization plan (around 1947), where upgrades were being considered for existing cruisers, that "cruisers would retain their torpedo tubes wherever possible, so that they could fire the improved anti-ship torpedoes...

LCAW was a NATO program for an small torpedo, cheap/expendable enough to be use against unidentified/unverified sonar contacts. It was supposed to have both rocket-launched and helicopter-dropped version. At first it was a trilateral US, German Norwegian project, but some point ~1990 The US...

Navweaps (which I’m sure we’re all familiar with) lists something called the Mk-47 torpedo. It says the program was terminated in favor the Mk 48, so it probably ended sometime around the Mk 48 began development (1970). Furthermore, my 14th Edition of Ships and Aircraft of the US Fleet (1986)...

How many different airplanes carried bombs in their engine nacelles? Both Martin Mariner and Marlin carried bombs or torpedoes in their enlarged engine nacelles. Grumman S2 Tracker ASW airplanes carry sona-boys in the rear end of their engine nacelles.

https://www.wearethemighty.com/history/ww2-navy-torpedo-problems-mk14?rebelltitem=3#rebelltitem3 https://www.defensemedianetwork.com/stories/torpedo-scandal-rear-adm-charles-lockwood-the-mark-14-and-the-bureau-of-ordnance/...

Helmover giant WWII torpedo I recently read David Edgerton’s excellent “Britain's War Machine: Weapons, Resources and Experts in the Second World War” which made mention of the “Helmover” giant, R-R- Merlin powered aerial torpedo. This weapon was designed by Air Commodore William Helmore, PhD...

Some pictures of the Pentane and Zonal Torpedoes designed by the RN postwar that are described in BSP4. The Zonal winged torpedo definitely looks _interesting_. Pictures from Museum of Naval Firepower in Gosport