What is "exploders"

Usage examples of "exploders".

My skipper got his three kills with contact exploders, Against orders, but they worked.

The service was secretive about both alarming deficiencies, but the submariners themselves all knew about the unreliable magnetic exploders of the Mark Fourteen torpedo, and about the captains who either had to be beached for overcaution or, on the Branch Hoban pattern, fell apart under attack, Aces like Captain Aster who combined cold courage with skill and luck in battle were few.

So I'm going to shoot him with contact exploders on a shallow setting.

Botea had two orbital atomic guns and assorted 15-T and 8-T exploders, all aimed at anybody who tried to steal Botea's precious IIIB diamonds.

Drove the sub fleet crazy, until the desk sailors in Washington finally got around to admitting their vaunted new magnetic exploders weren’t worth a damn, and neither was the Mark-Fourteen itself.