In Friedman's British Cruisers book, he mentions that in the postwar fleet modernization plan (around 1947), where upgrades were being considered for existing cruisers, that "cruisers would retain their torpedo tubes wherever possible, so that they could fire the improved anti-ship torpedoes...
Navweaps (which I’m sure we’re all familiar with) lists something called the Mk-47 torpedo. It says the program was terminated in favor the Mk 48, so it probably ended sometime around the Mk 48 began development (1970). Furthermore, my 14th Edition of Ships and Aircraft of the US Fleet (1986)...
anti-surfaceshiptorpedo
buord
bureau of ordnance
drachinifel
mark 14
mark 6 magnetic influence exploder
mark xiv torpedo
naval torpedo station newport
rear admiral charles a. lockwood
torpedo
united states navy
world war ii
Could the IA-58 Pucará be classified as the last Torpedo Bomber, at least developmental wise, of the 20th Century?
For those of you who are not familiar with it, AX-04 was a prototype of the IA 58 Pucará, modified during the Falklands War as part of a joint Air Force/Navy project hoping to...
anti-submarine warfare
anti-surfaceshiptorpedo
argentina
argentine republic
armada de la república argentina
asuw
cold war
comando de la aviación naval argentina
early 1980s
falklands conflict
falklands war
fuerza aérea argentina
mark 13
Some pictures of the Pentane and Zonal Torpedoes designed by the RN postwar that are described in BSP4. The Zonal winged torpedo definitely looks _interesting_.
Pictures from Museum of Naval Firepower in Gosport
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