Torpedo
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A torpedo is an underwater ranged weapon launched above or below the water surface, self-propelled towards a target, with an explosive warhead designed to detonate either on contact with or in proximi
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Type 93 torpedo
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The Type 93 was a 610 mm -diameter torpedo of the Imperial Japanese Navy, launched from surface ships. It is commonly referred to as the Long Lance by most modern English-language naval historians, a
Torpedo
…nearly all navies to skimp on testing their torpedoes. Only the British and Japanese had fully tested new technologies for torpedoes (in particular the Type 93, nicknamed Long Lance postwar by the US official historian Samuel E. Morison) at the start of World War II. Unreliable torpedoes caused many problems…
Type 93 torpedo, recovered from Point Cruz, Guadalcanal, on display outside U.S. Navy headquarters in Washington, D.C., during World War II
A Type 93 torpedo modified into a Kaiten, Yasukuni Shrine Yūshūkan War Memorial Museum