• The G7es (T5) "Zaunkönig" ("wren") was a passive acoustic torpedo employed by German U-boats during World War II. It was called the GNAT (German Navy...
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  • during the war, were the first acoustic homing torpedo G7es(TIV) Falke and its improved successor G7es(TV) Zaunkönig. The G7e(TII) went in service with...
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    27 torpedo and the German G7es torpedo. Pattern-following and wake homing torpedoes were also developed. Acoustic homing formed the basis for torpedo guidance...
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  • The G7es (TXI) "Zaunkönig II" was a torpedo developed for German U-boats during World War II. The torpedo was electric and had an effective range of 5...
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    Few of these torpedoes were actually used and quickly phased out of service in favor of the T4's successor, the G7es T5 Zaunkönig torpedo in August 1943...
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  • 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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    convoy JW 56A near Bear Island. On 30 January U-278 sank HMS Hardy with a G7es torpedo; and the convoy escort sank U-314. 28 January 1944: Soviet submarine...
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  • (German for wren, literally "king of the fence") might refer to: G7es torpedo, German torpedo in World War II Braunschweig LF-1 Zaunkönig, German trainer aircraft...
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    2 October, damaged HMS Cuckmere with a G7es torpedo on 11 December, and sank HMS Laforey with a G7es torpedo while being hunted to exhaustion on 29 March...
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    the Gulf of Bothnia by the German submarine U-370 using an acoustic G7es torpedo. Some German positions defending Lyngen extended over to Kilpisjärvi...
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    equipped with the G7es torpedo, an acoustic torpedo, which the grand admiral hoped would wrest the technological initiative back. The torpedo was the centrepiece...
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  • "bubbletrack") x = Torpedo mit 3-Achsen Steuerung (3-axes control) r = Raketen- oder Düsenantrieb (rocket- or jet propulsion) s = Schall, Torpedo mit akustischen...
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    to be highly effective in decoying German acoustic torpedoes. Of the approximately 700 G7es torpedoes fired, only about 77 hit their target. By 1943 Allied...
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  • secret documents and a new type of acoustic torpedo were found. Some key components of this T-5 G7es torpedo were subsequently given to British naval specialists...
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    successfully employed the G7es torpedo for the first time. The weapon, fired by the German submarine U-270, was the first homing torpedo, and struck the British...
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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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    destroyer could react, she was struck by a G7es torpedo fired by the German submarine U-275. The torpedo struck her starboard side and detonated in the...
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    was developing electrically-driven acoustic torpedoes by 1933; the resulting G7e and G7es anti-ship torpedoes, running at a preset depth, entered service...
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  • Computers, an early microcomputer company GNAT (torpedo), the Allied term for the German G7es homing torpedo Folland Gnat, a light jet fighter/trainer aircraft...
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    United Kingdom. While en route, she was torpedoed. At 18:50 on 17 March 1945 Guysborough was hit by a G7es torpedo fired by U-868 off Ushant. The minesweeper...
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  • evasive course, and Domana had not deployed her torpedo nets. At 21:18 hrs the U-boat fired a G7es torpedo at one of the trawlers. It missed, and the trawler's...
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    and the new acoustic G7es torpedo, gaining the interest of the Royal Navy that asked (and failed) to obtain one of the torpedoes. On 31 July 1944, U-379...
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  • situation at the time. The physical construction of the torpedo was influenced by the German G7es "Zaunkonig", and the seeker head design was influenced...
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  • control for the acoustically controlled G7es torpedo, Torpedo Wren (German: Torpedo Zaunkönig) and later Torpedo Vulture (German: Geier entwickelt. Vierling...
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    (Flächenabsuchender Torpedo [area searching torpedo]) at Card but missed and also missed Decatur with a G7es torpedo (T5) acoustic torpedo. U-645 missed Schenk...
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    revealed that the German submarine U-370 had launched two acoustic homing G7es torpedoes at passing enemy ships – one of these likely homed onto the Finnish...
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    unguided air-to-air rocket, in use by the summer of 1943. G7es/Zaunkönig T-5 – acoustic homing torpedo used by U-boats. Silbervogel (Silverbird) — a suborbital...
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    of the convoy chasing down a radar contact when she was hit by a G7es acoustic torpedo from U-371 (which was in turn sunk the next day by USS Joseph E...
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  • the entire bow off of the British destroyer HMS Cassandra with a G7es ("GNAT") torpedo at 71°57′00″N 032°04′00″E / 71.95000°N 32.06667°E / 71.95000;...
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  • ("Monsoon Group"). On the way there, she launched a T5/G7es Zaunkönig I acoustic homing torpedo at a tanker. The Zaunkönig came around full circle to home...
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