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The guidance system used four hydrophones on the torpedo's midsection, connected to a vacuum tube-based sound processing array. A Bell proportional navigation and HUSL non-proportional steering system were demonstrated by July 1942. The body was a modification of the Mark 13 torpedo. Length, diameter, and weight were reduced.
A motor torpedo boat is a fast torpedo boat, especially of the mid 20th century. The motor in the designation originally referred to their use of petrol engines, typically marinised aircraft engines or their derivatives, which distinguished them from other naval craft of the era, including other torpedo boats, that used steam turbines or ...
The design came about from a requirement that British motor torpedo boats should be better able to fight other small craft, which was the job of motor gun boats (MGB). To this end Vospers built on their existing 70 foot designs, and the design was trialled with MTB 379. [3] Sixteen (MTB 380-345) were ordered in 1943.
SLQ-25 Nixie aboard USS Iowa TB-14A towed decoy, from the AN/SLQ-25A/C "Nixie" system. The AN/SLQ-25 Nixie and its variants are towed torpedo decoys used on US and allied warships. It consists of a towed decoy device (TB-14A) and a shipboard signal generator. The Nixie is capable of defeating wake-homing, acoustic-homing, and wire-guided ...
PT-105, an 80' Elco boat, under way. A PT boat (short for patrol torpedo boat) was a motor torpedo boat used by the United States Navy in World War II.It was small, fast, and inexpensive to build, valued for its maneuverability and speed but hampered at the beginning of the war by ineffective torpedoes, limited armament, and comparatively fragile construction that limited some of the variants ...
MTB 102 is one of the few surviving motor torpedo boats that served with the Coastal Forces of the Royal Navy in the Second World War. She was built as a prototype but was purchased and taken into service by the Admiralty. She was the smallest vessel to ever serve as a flagship for the Royal Navy. [1]
This torpedo boat for Denmark marked a significant increase in the size of Thornycroft's designs. It measured 33.5 metres (110.0 ft), was capable of 20.7 knots and had two torpedo tubes of the large 38 cm (15-inch) type in the bows. Named Sværdfisken in 1882. [63] 1882-1883 Aldebaran: 143 38 A series of torpedo boats for Italy.
It was Kriegsmarine's first operational torpedo (hence "TI" = Torpedo number one), and the standard issue torpedo for all German U-boats and surface torpedo-bearing vessels from 1934 to the end of WW2. The GA VIII gyroscope, as used in the G7a(TI) torpedo. The torpedo was a straight-running unguided design, controlled by a gyroscope. The TI had ...