• submarines use 21-inch torpedoes. The British 18-inch torpedoes were 17.72 inches (45.0 cm) in diameter, beginning with the "Fiume" Whitehead torpedo of 1890....
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  • surface ships and submarines; aircraft used smaller 18-inch torpedoes. The first British 21-inch torpedo came in two lengths, "Short" at 17 ft 10.5 in (5...
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    Navy American 18-inch torpedo Schwartzkopff torpedo Bliss-Leavitt torpedo Howell torpedo Holland Torpedo Boat Company Holland Torpedo Boat Station Naval...
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    The Mark 30 torpedo was a British 18-inch air dropped anti-submarine passive acoustic homing torpedo. The torpedo was air dropped from the Hawker-Siddeley...
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    The 24.5" Mark I torpedo was a British torpedo carried only on Nelson-class battleships. This was the type of torpedo that HMS Rodney fired at the German...
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    The armament was increased when the 21-inch torpedoes came into service. The Group 3 boats had two QF 4-inch guns fore and aft of the lengthened conning...
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    Force for air-sea rescue but reduced to 60 ft (18 m) in length. They could carry two 18-inch (457 mm) torpedoes and achieve a maximum speed of 33 kn (38 mph;...
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  • List of equipment in the Royal Navy (category Use British English from February 2017)
    5 inch Mark 8 naval gun Admiralty Fire Control Table - retired Vickers range clock - retired British 18 inch torpedo British 21 inch torpedo British 24...
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    the torpedo was based on the 24-inch diameter Type 93 "Long Lance" used by Japanese surface vessels, but redesigned to meet the smaller 18-inch physical...
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    Type 93 Japanese Long Lance ship-launched torpedo.[citation needed] British 18-inch torpedo#Mark XII "Japan Torpedoes of World War II". NavWeaps.com. Archived...
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    List of aircraft of the Fleet Air Arm (category British technology-related lists)
    Tarpon/Avenger (retired). 18" Mark 30 torpedo – Carried by the Fairey Gannet and Westland Whirlwind helicopter (retired). British 18-inch torpedo Mark XVII – Carried...
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    Lightweight Torpedo (formerly known as Lightweight Hybrid Torpedo, or LHT) is a standard 12.75-inch (324 mm) anti-submarine warfare (ASW) torpedo used by...
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    G7s(TV) "Zaunkönig The torpedoes used by the World War II Royal Navy included: British 21-inch family torpedos (old versions) The torpedoes used by the World...
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  • widely used American 5-inch naval gun 18 inch Mark XII torpedo (1935), a British 18 inch torpedo Supermarine Spitfire Mk XII (1942–1944); the first Griffon-engined...
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    A torpedo bomber is a military aircraft designed primarily to attack ships with aerial torpedoes. Torpedo bombers came into existence just before the...
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  • Model Variants Origin Role Service period Notes British 18-inch torpedo Mark VII United Kingdom...
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    18 cwt gun (Quick-Firing) was a 3-inch high-velocity naval gun used to equip larger British warships such as battleships for defence against torpedo boats...
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    Mark 18 torpedo was an electric torpedo used by the United States Navy during World War II. The Mark 18 was the first electric storage battery torpedo manufactured...
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    Operation Aquatint (category World War II British Commando raids)
    was capable of 40 knots and was 60 feet (18 m) in length. Armament consisted of two British 18 inch torpedoes, two Vickers machine guns, and Lewis guns...
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    and lightly armed vessels; each carried a machine gun and one British 18-inch torpedo.: 14–16, 46  Agar's instructions were to establish a ferry service...
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    An aerial torpedo (also known as an airborne torpedo or air-dropped torpedo) is a torpedo launched from a torpedo bomber aircraft into the water, after...
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    heavier gun armament was placed in December. The boats carried four 18-inch torpedo tubes as their major offensive armament along with Oerlikon 20 mm cannon...
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    five 18-inch (450-mm) torpedo tubes, with two reloads. On conversion to minesweepers in 1914 two of the five torpedoes were removed. ARA Patria British "18...
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    called for an armament of six internal 21 inch torpedo tubes, two external tubes, and one 3-inch (or 4-inch, if stability permitted) gun, and a patrol...
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    heaviest gun ever used by the British. Only the Second-World-War Japanese 46 cm/45 Type 94 had a larger calibre, 18.1 inches (46 cm), but it fired a lighter...
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  • List of aircraft of the Royal Naval Air Service (category Use British English from December 2016)
    lorry Talbot armoured car 0.303-inch (7.7-mm) Lewis gun 0.303-inch (7.7-mm) Vickers machine gun British 18-inch torpedo List of aircraft of the Fleet Air...
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    The 1-inch Nordenfelt gun was an early quick-firing light gun intended to defend larger warships against the new small fast-moving torpedo boats in the...
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  • (80 kg). Each torpedo section was 5 feet (1.5 m) long, 2.125 inches (54.0 mm) in diameter, and weighed 13 pounds (5.9 kg). Each end of the torpedo was filled...
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  • rapid-fire cannon, sometimes at the expense of torpedo tubes. Some classes were fitted with a single 3-inch (76 mm) AA gun, but this was unsatisfactory and...
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    HMS Antelope (1893) (category Alarm-class torpedo gunboats)
    fitted with two QF 4.7-inch (12 cm)/45-pounder guns, four 3-pounder guns and one Gardner machine gun. Her three 18-inch torpedo tubes were arranged as...
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