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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U-boat (section Torpedo developments)
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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Kriegsmarine (section Torpedo boats)
(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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Mark 24 mine (redirect from Mark 24 FIDO Torpedo)
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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