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The Mark 48 was initially developed as REsearch TORpedo Concept II (RETORC II), one of several weapons recommended for implementation by Project Nobska, a 1956 summer study on submarine warfare. [9] The Mk-48 torpedo was designed at the end of the 1960s to keep up with the advances in Soviet submarine technology.
The Japanese called PT boat Devil Boats, the Navy called them the Mosquito Fleet, after their logo. At the MTB Training Center Melvill, was the Motor Torpedo Boat Repair Training Unit (MTBRTU). Motor Torpedo Boat Repair Training Unit was staffed by 30 officers and 950 enlisted men.
On November 8, 1940, Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron Two duty was to test new PT boats after the PT Boat design competition. [4] A Plywood Derby was held to see which PT boat design was the best. Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron Two did testing in March 1941 in a boat run from Key West to New York. During the trip there was heavy weather with 8-to-10 ...
The Boats were tested in a Plywood Derby by Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 1 and Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 2. The Plywood Derby testing at New London Harbor in July 1941 included Higgins PT-6; Philadelphia Navy Yard PT-8; Elco PT-20, PT-26, PT-30, PT-31 ; Huckins PT-33, PT-69; and Higgins PT-70, as the shorter 54-foot boats were determined to be ...
Only two types of small purpose-built torpedo retrievers, 40' and 42' boats, were built. There were few enough of these that it was common for unspecialized motorboats to recover exercise torpedoes. [5] Torpedo retriever crew cranes aboard a Mark 24 "Fido" torpedo in 1950. World War II brought about a large increase in U.S. Navy use of torpedoes.
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 ...
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 ...
This early torpedo proved itself in combat during the Russo-Turkish War when, on 16 January 1878, the Ottoman ship Intibah was sunk by Russian torpedo boats carrying Whiteheads, [2] though this story has been disputed in one book. [9] The term "torpedo" comes from the torpedo fish, which is a type of ray that delivers an electric shock to stun ...