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Such weapons were designed to fire at both capital ship targets and smaller targets, such as torpedo craft and destroyers. Small targets were of course vulnerable to 6-inch projectiles, and a high rate of fire was necessary to be able to hit a small and evasive target. In this era, secondary weapons were also expected to engage capital ships.
Another forerunner of the torpedo-boat destroyer (TBD) was the Japanese torpedo boat [10] Kotaka (Falcon), built in 1885. [11] Designed to Japanese specifications and ordered from the Isle of Dogs, London Yarrow shipyard in 1885, she was transported in parts to Japan, where she was assembled and launched in 1887.
French and German inventions followed closely, and the term torpedo came to describe self-propelled projectiles that traveled under or on water. By 1900, the term no longer included mines and booby-traps as the navies of the world added submarines, torpedo boats and torpedo boat destroyers to their fleets. [14] [15]
The Mark 46 is a medium-range ASW weapon possessing passive and active sonar, advanced computerized guidance which allows it to avoid false targets and acoustic countermeasures, and a variety of search settings. The earlier generations of the torpedo had a minimal depth setting of 50 ft (15 m) to prevent targeting friendly surface vessels.
The torpedo was based on a newly developed British 46-knot (85 km/h) 21-inch (53 cm) Whitehead torpedo. This weapon used a new double-action two-cylinder engine rather than the four-cylinder radial engine used by World War I-era British torpedoes. It was significantly faster (8–10 knots (15–19 km/h)), although it had a much shorter range ...
The Type 93 was launched from 61 cm (24 in) torpedo tubes mounted on the decks of IJN destroyers and cruisers; some Japanese destroyers, unlike ships of other navies, mounted their banks of torpedo tubes in turrets offering protection against splinters, and had tube loaders. The IJN armed nearly all of its cruisers with Type 93 torpedoes.
The Arleigh Burke-class destroyer is equipped with the Aegis Combat System, which combines information from the ship's sensors to display a coherent image of the environment and guides weapons to targets using advanced tracking and fire control. [34] Their main radar differs from traditional mechanically rotating radars.
Name Country Dates Platform/ target Dimensions Warhead Propulsion Performance 18 in. Mk.V UK 1899: Destroyer & submarine/ surface: Diameter:17.7 in (450 mm) Length:199.4 in (5,060 mm)