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What did not come up with the people in order to destroy his kind. One of these inventions are marine torpedo. As often happens with weapons in the development of torpedoes people have shown extraordinary creativity and diversity. More than a century in such weapons was a huge need.
1. Variety - this is what gives a taste of life
Not all torpedoes are designed to pierce the hull, and then for the subsequent explosion inside. Some explode under the ship, without coming into contact with it. This creates a gas bubble, due to which the vessel is "ejected" from the water, and then falls back into the void. A ship with such frequent breaks in half and sinks.
2. Fate-devil
Winston Churchill, along with many high-ranking officers of the Royal Navy, was on the verge death after the ship on which they sailed, was attacked by three torpedoes, underwater issued boat. All torpedoes hit the ship's hull, but none exploded.
3. The balance of the war
Soviet officer Vasili Arkhipov managed to prevent a third world war, refusing to perform ordered his captain to launch nuclear torpedoes on US warships in the midst of the Cuban crisis. 2 of 3 senior officers on board wanted to attack targets that trigger them, but this required unanimous decision.
4. Bluetooth
Rising Star 1930 Hedy Lamarr in 1942 invented a new technology that allows to remotely manage torpedoes, and the radio was impossible to intercept or stifle (what at that time actively used Nazis). However, her idea was rejected, and only in 1962, its technology "frequency hopping" implemented during the "Cold War." Also, the technology of frequency hopping is the basis for the modern Bluetooth.
5. Torpedo bombers
During the Second World War, Japan has developed a manned torpedo bombers, which are called "Kaiten". Early Kaiten design allows the pilot to eject before reaching the target, but no one has used this feature. Later this feature has been removed from the torpedo.
6. The unexpected decision
Ships during the First World War were painted with sparkling ornaments. This was done to make it difficult to hit them with torpedoes.
7. Fuel torpedo
Confederate States of America established the explosives disguised as lumps of coal. Saboteurs mixed "coal torpedo" with coal, and when workers load them into steam engines, they explode, damaging or destroying the ship.
8. The cruel irony
The company, which has built a torpedo, used by the Japanese to attack Pearl Harbor, was destroyed when the atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. During the first two years of the Second World War, most of the torpedoes exploded too much, too soon, do not exploded upon contact with the ship or even turned back, leading to the flooding of the submarine, which they released.
9. Someone should answer for it
From 1941 to September 1943, American submarines are constantly exploding due to defective torpedoes (the chance that a torpedo goes "something wrong", it was about 70%). Captains started using only the deck gun, until the problems have been corrected.
Continuing the theme read about another 10 types of obsolete, but very effective weapon of different timesThat is appalling.
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