What is Torpedo?
[[Image:USN MK-46 Mod 5 lightweight torpedo.jpg|thumb|300px|A Mark 46 Mod 5 lightweight torpedo.]] The '''torpedo''', is an [[explosive]] [[projectile]] [[weapon]] that moves by itself (using a [[propeller]]), [[launch]]ed above or below the water surface, that goes underwater toward a target, and made to explode when it hits a target or is near to it. Torpedoes may be launched from [[submarine]]s, surface [[ship]]s, [[helicopter]]s, [[aircraft]], land etc. Robert Whitehead invented the torpedo in 1866. ==Other websites== * [http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d00_1172059035 Swedish Bofors 'Torpedo 2000' promo video] * Modern Torpedoes And Countermeasures [http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/MONITOR/ISSUE3-4/joseph.html] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120222222226/http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/MONITOR/ISSUE3-4/joseph.html |date=2012-02-22 }} * US Navy torpedo data cut and pasted from a [http://www.chinfo.navy.mil/navpalib/factfile/weapons/wep-torp.html Navy Fact File] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051104005915/http://www.chinfo.navy.mil/navpalib/factfile/weapons/wep-torp.html |date=2005-11-04 }} * Early History of the Torpedo [https://archive.today/20120530070555/http://www.btinternet.com/~philipr/torps.htm Torpedo History] * US Naval Undersea Museum [https://www.keyportmuseum.cnrnw.navy.mil/torpedotech.htm Torpedo Display] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050908111923/http://www.keyportmuseum.cnrnw.navy.mil/torpedotech.htm |date=2005-09-08 }} * US Naval Undersea Museum [https://www.keyportmuseum.cnrnw.navy.mil/torpedoes.htm Torpedo Collection] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050226023752/http://www.keyportmuseum.cnrnw.navy.mil/torpedoes.htm |date=2005-02-26 }} {{Weapons}} {{military-stub}} [[Category:Weapons]]