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Naval Vessels And Torpedoes

Surface and subsurface warships and the torpedoes they and their aircraft carry: aircraft carriers, guided-missile destroyers and cruisers, nuclear-powered attack and ballistic-missile submarines, and lightweight and heavyweight torpedoes. Belongs here: any weapon system whose own attested weapon class names a ship, submarine or torpedo. Does not belong here: a ship-launched or submarine-launched missile itself, which belongs to Missiles And Guided Munitions, and the vessel that carries it. Reassigned from the Weapons Systems Contemporary catch-all, ruling 926.

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1866 1
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1. Wikipedia: Torpedo
WikipediaTorpedo, Invention of the modern torpedo section
Quote, Torpedo, Invention of the modern torpedo section
In 1866, Whitehead invented the first effective self-propelled torpedo, the eponymous Whitehead torpedo, the first modern torpedo.
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