Italian guided torpedoes of WW II

[Dilandu]

BTW 1: on the same page there is the drawing of post #19; it is printed upsidedown in the book, so everyone posted it online in this way. This is the right orientation of the drawing:

The control system seems to be very complex for just the trajectory-following weapon. And what's the purpose of tubes then?

 

[red admiral]

All torpedoes from basically the Whitehead etc

But this weapon is a glide bomb and so needs some mechanism for say maintaining constant flight path angle instead of just being on a ballistic trajectory. I think I'd put inertially guided weapons into "guided" weapons category myself; maybe we need to bring back a "homing" weapons category as well?

From looking again at the cut away, I wonder if the circular (spherical) object is a gyrocompass?