• The G7e torpedo was the standard electric torpedo used by the German Kriegsmarine submarines in World War II. It came in 20 different versions, with the...
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    powered torpedo was introduced with the G7e(TII). It was replaced beginning in 1942 by the G7e(TIII). The G7a(TI) remained in service as the main torpedo of...
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  • surname in German also means "Moor" or "Negro". The Neger was based on the G7e torpedo and sported a spartan cockpit covered by a perspex dome, where the warhead...
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    development Mark 15 Torpedo Mark 16 Torpedo Mark 18 Torpedo Weapons of comparable role, configuration, and era Type 93 Torpedo G7e Torpedo Related lists American...
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  • over 700 T5s were fired in combat, sinking 77 ships. G7e torpedo List of World War II torpedoes of Germany Morison 2002, p. 138. Campbell (1985). Naval...
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    1942, several German G7e electric torpedoes ran ashore, leading CNO, Admiral Ernest J. King, to urge BuOrd to build an electric torpedo for the U.S. Navy's...
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    G7a(TI) G7e(TII) G7e(TIII) G7s(TIV) "Falke" G7s(TV) "Zaunkönig The torpedoes used by the World War II Royal Navy included: British 21-inch family torpedos (old...
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    equivalent, but more important was the introduction of the electric G7e torpedo. This torpedo was slower and had less range but it left no telltale bubble wake...
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    when scuttled in May 1945. Neger (~200 built) 1-man 5-ton torpedo with underslung G7E torpedo. Top speed 20 knots and range of 30 miles at 3 knots. Seehund...
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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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    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. The...
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    mid-1940 there remained a chronic problem with the reliability of the G7e torpedo. As the battles of Norway and Western Europe raged, the Luftwaffe sank...
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    (NV Ingenieurskantoor voor Scheepsbouw) and a torpedo research program in Sweden where the G7e torpedo was developed. Even before the Nazi seizure of...
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    seven G7e torpedoes at his target; only one from the first salvo hit the target and exploded on the bow, near the anchor chain. The stern torpedo also...
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  • were picked for parts and blown up.[citation needed] G7e torpedo List of World War II torpedoes of Germany The Story of U-534. Merseytravel. 2009. Discover...
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    Germans developed the G7e/T4 Falke, which was first deployed by the submarines U-603, U-758 and U-221 in March 1943. Few of these torpedoes were actually used...
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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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    and suffered heavy losses. The Molch was based on torpedo technology, and carried two G7e torpedoes attached externally on either side of the craft. It...
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    group of warships north of Sollum and attacked two destroyers with one G7e torpedo each at 23:38 and 23:40 hours, but missed both. Only then did U-205 recognize...
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  • historian Falké Bacharou, Nigerian politician T4 model of the G7e torpedo, a German U-boat torpedo of World War II Falke (spacecraft), a German program to fly...
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    relying instead solely on electrical power in the form of a 12 hp AEG torpedo motor, on the basis that since it would operate submerged there was no...
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  • problems with the defective G7e torpedoes that they were using and knew that the failures were caused by the faulty torpedoes. Zahn eventually recovered...
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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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  • Acoustic homing (category Torpedoes)
    Germans to develop acoustic torpedoes to counter enemy submarines. Early versions used hydrophones to detect and navigate the torpedo to the noise of the submarine...
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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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  • commanded by Kptlt Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock, hit her amidships with one G7e torpedo, causing Almeda Star to stop. The ship did not immediately sink so U-96...
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    standard G7e torpedoes and prevented it from breaking the surface when the torpedoes were fired. It could carry four naval mines in lieu of the torpedoes. On...
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    them by late 1943. The Mark 18 electric torpedo was a hastily copied version of captured German G7e torpedoes and was rushed into service in the fall...
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    war. U-530 departed on patrol with 14 torpedoes, eight G7e T3a electric torpedoes and six G7e T5 homing torpedoes. Interrogation reports of the Captain...
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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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