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Usage examples of torpedo.

Phillips, the skipper of Torpedo Six, who was assigned a liaison mission over the island.

It needed a conscious physical effort to call up his reserves, and during those seconds, the torpedoes fired by Bloodhound in her death throes were knifing in to revenge her.

Admiral Lockwood, by conducting a series of tests ih torpedoes against the cliffs of Kohoolawe Island, found out what the trouble was with the exploder and fitted stouter firing pins.

Ken gestured agreement, but hung back as the mechanic cut the test controller into the main outside beam circuittwo multiphase signals could be handled as easily as one on the beam, and both torpedoes would be close enough together so that one beam would suffice.

Without heavy guns, without adequate torpedoes, and with no hope of reinforcements from anywhere, these fragile ships must try to harass and heckle and outguess a massive collection of warships and cruisers any one of which had more fire power than what the Americans together could muster.

Will the motor-launch race the torpedo, or the motor-car outspeed the shell?

The torpedo automatically went to continuous pinging, increasing to maximum speed as it homed in on its target like the remorseless robot it was.

The run-to-enable was the torpedo flight from the launching submarine to a point on its trajectory where it would arm the warhead and begin to start pinging active sonar, and to begin its snake-pattern wiggle to search for the target.

The room went quiet again, only the sound of the pinging and torpedo screw could be heard.

The spheres automatically discharge their impulse torpedoes on precalculated courses, and at the same time, our fleet on the spot sows a series of new layers of spheres along the estimated course of the enemy attack.

The pyrotechnicians had resumed but were firing aerial torpedos now, and loud-bursting explosions rocked the night air.

Blue-striped bunk pads placed on the torpedo racks gave the Team operators a reasonable level of comfort.

The fact that the SEALs were bunking with racks of torpedoes, each with a 650-pound high explosive warhead, did not affect the men in the slightest.

On either side of the compartment were additional smaller racks which also held torpedoes.

The multiple layers of torpedo racks kept any of the men from sitting up or on the edges of the racks.