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American 21 Inch Torpedo
There have been a number of 21-inch torpedoes in service with the United States. These have been used on ships and submarines of the U.S. Navy. American 21-inch torpedoes are in diameter. Ship classes that carried 21-inch torpedoes include: * ''Allen M. Sumner''-class destroyers * ''Atlanta''-class cruisers * ''Bagley''-class destroyers * ''Balao''-class submarines * ''Barbel''-class submarines * ''Barracuda''-class submarines * ''Benham''-class destroyers * ''Benjamin Franklin''-class submarines * ''Benson''-class destroyers * ''Cachalot''-class submarines * ''Caldwell''-class destroyers * ''Cassin''-class destroyers * ''Chester''-class cruisers * ''Clemson''-class destroyers * ''Colorado''-class battleships * ''Connecticut''-class battleships * ''Dealey''-class destroyer escorts * ''Ethan Allen''-class submarines * ''Farragut''-class destroyers * ''Forrest Sherman''-class destroyers * ''Fletcher''-class destroyers * ''Gato''-class submarines * ''Gearing''-class destroyers * ''Ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Torpedo
A modern torpedo is an underwater ranged weapon launched above or below the water surface, self-propelled towards a target, and with an explosive warhead designed to detonate either on contact with or in proximity to the target. Historically, such a device was called an automotive, automobile, locomotive, or fish torpedo; colloquially a ''fish''. The term ''torpedo'' originally applied to a variety of devices, most of which would today be called naval mine, mines. From about 1900, ''torpedo'' has been used strictly to designate a self-propelled underwater explosive device. While the 19th-century battleship had evolved primarily with a view to engagements between armored warships with naval artillery, large-caliber guns, the invention and refinement of torpedoes from the 1860s onwards allowed small torpedo boats and other lighter surface combatant , surface vessels, submarines/submersibles, even improvised fishing boats or frogmen, and later light aircraft, to destroy large shi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dealey-class Destroyer Escort
The ''Dealey''-class destroyer escorts were the first post-World War II escort ships built for the United States Navy. Slightly faster and larger than the escort destroyers they succeeded, the ''Dealey'' class were fitted with twin-mounted guns, anti-submarine (ASW) rockets, a depth charge rack and six depth charge launchers. There were later modernizations that removed the ASW rockets and the depth charges in favor of nuclear-capable anti-submarine rocket launchers and torpedo mounts which fired lighter homing torpedoes. A large SQS 23 sonar was refitted in a bow sonar dome and most of the class were also fitted with a hangar and landing pad for DASH drone helicopters to deliver MK 44 and Mk 46 torpedoes. The drone helicopters proved very unreliable and their failure contributed to the relatively short life of the class. They were decommissioned in 1972 and 1973 in favor of the . and were sold at surplus to other countries in 1972, with the remainder of the class being sold ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Madison-class Submarine
The ''James Madison'' class of submarine was an evolutionary development from the of fleet ballistic missile submarine. They were identical to the ''Lafayette''s except for being initially designed to carry the Polaris A-3 missile instead of the earlier A-2. This class, together with the , , , and classes, composed the " 41 for Freedom" that was the Navy's primary contribution to the nuclear deterrent force through the late 1980s. This class and the ''Benjamin Franklin'' class are combined with the ''Lafayette''s in some references. Design In the early 1970s all were modified for the Poseidon C-3 missile. During the late 1970s and early 1980s, six boats were further modified to carry the Trident I C-4 missile, along with six ''Benjamin Franklin''-class boats. These were ''James Madison'', ''Daniel Boone'', ''John C. Calhoun'', ''Von Steuben'', ''Casimir Pulaski'', and ''Stonewall Jackson''. Fate The ''James Madison''s were decommissioned between 1986 and 1995 due to a combin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
