The G7a(TI) was the standard issue Kriegsmarine torpedo introduced to service in 1934. It was a steam-powered design, using a wet heater engine burning...
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Group of Seven (disambiguation) G7a torpedo, steam-powered G7e torpedo, electric-powered G7es torpedo, a series of torpedoes used by the German Kriegsmarine...
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first battery-powered torpedo shortly before World War II, the G7e. It was slower and had a shorter range than the conventional G7a, but was wakeless and...
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fragments of one torpedo were recovered following the sinking of the Royal Oak in October 1939. The advantages of the G7e in contrast to the G7a wet-heater...
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out by twelve torpedo tubes; they were mounted in four triple launchers on the ships' main deck. The ships carried twenty-four G7a torpedoes, twelve loaded...
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U-boat (section Torpedo developments)
Another vast improvement was the introduction of new torpedo types for the U-boats: the classic G7a torpedo propelled by compressed air had a much larger warhead...
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the features of the ingolin-torpedoes. Some sources claim that "s" only was used with "a" to denote the development of G7a with acoustic seeker-capability;...
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(21 in) torpedo tubes in two power-operated mounts. Two reloads were provided for each mount. The standard torpedo for the Type 36B destroyers was the G7a torpedo...
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blast mine AP NM AE T1 mine, a Brazilian anti-personnel mine G7a torpedo, a WWII German torpedo T1 Aquarii, a star T1 Carinae, a star Soyuz T-1, a 1979 space...
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replaced by 533-millimeter (21 in) tubes which probably used the G7a torpedo. This torpedo had a 300-kilogram (660 lb) warhead and three speed/range settings:...
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(21 in) torpedo tubes in two power-operated mounts. Two reloads were provided for each mount. The standard torpedo for the Type 36B destroyers was the G7a torpedo...
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with eight above-water 533 mm (21 in) torpedo tubes in two quadruple mounts amidships. They used the G7a torpedo which had a 300-kilogram (660 lb) warhead...
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ships top-heavy which could be dangerous in bad weather. They used the G7a torpedo which had a 300-kilogram (660 lb) warhead and three speed/range settings:...
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equipped with six above-water 533 mm (21 in) torpedo tubes in two triple mounts amidships. They used the G7a torpedo which had a 300-kilogram (660 lb) warhead...
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(21 in) torpedo tubes in two triple rotating mounts and could also carry 30 mines (or 60 if the weather was good). The boats used the G7a torpedo which...
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(21 in) torpedo tubes in two triple rotating mounts amidships and could also carry 30 mines (or 60 if the weather was good). They used the G7a torpedo which...
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The list of torpedoes by name includes all torpedoes operated in the past or present. List of lists of weapons In use in 1982 - against ARA General Belgrano...
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SS Fanad Head (section Torpedoing)
that again forced the U-boat to dive. At 1820 hours U-30 launched a G7a torpedo from one of her stern tubes at Fanad Head from a range of 500 metres...
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were replaced by 533-millimeter (21 in) tubes which probably used the G7a torpedo. It had a 300-kilogram (660 lb) warhead and three speed/range settings:...
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it had a smaller bridge and could carry the German G7a, G7e torpedoes as well as TM-type torpedo mines. There were separated net cutters in the bow....
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her in the stern with one G7a torpedo. Oropesa did not sink immediately, so U-96 waited and at 04:40 hrs fired another torpedo, but that malfunctioned and...
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Cape Sable, Nova Scotia the German Type IXB submarine U-123 fired a G7a torpedo at Cyclops at close range, hitting her starboard side abreast of her...
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U-4 fired a spread of two torpedoes at its attacker. The first, a G7a torpedo, missed. The second, a magnetic G7e torpedo, found its mark, sinking Thistle...
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deck-mounted torpedo tubes were taken from the light cruisers Leipzig and Nürnberg and installed on the ships, with storage for 18 G7a torpedoes. Both Scharnhorst...
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changed course, but he eventually reached a firing position and fired two G7a torpedoes at the submarine at a range of 800 to 900 metres (870 to 980 yd). Fifty-two...
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as part of the Twelfth Destroyer Flotilla. The flotilla sank the German torpedo boat V48. At the end of the battle, the destroyer returned to Scapa Flow...
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June 2013. In 1940 the British captured 84 German torpedoes. Since no British submarine had torpedo tubes long enough, they were issued to Dutch submarines...
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United Kingdom to Iceland for that purpose; one of the submarine's G7a torpedoes was off-loaded, handed over to the Americans, and later sent to the...
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hexanite was used in underwater naval weapons e.g. warheads for the G7a and G7e series torpedoes and the 300-kilogram (660 lb) main explosive charge in aluminium-cased...
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abandoned ship prematurely. After two G7a torpedoes exploded prematurely, the ship was sunk by a G7e torpedo. Because the ship's lifeboats were not suited...
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