What is "torpedos"

Usage examples of "torpedos".

The turmoil caused by two torpedos detonating within seconds of each other had left a sound void in the water, and it was absolutely foolish to wait for it to clear.

While we will not waste real torpedos or decoys, we will fire actual noisemakers.

As the first target fired two torpedos at long range, a second was isolated in sonar, too distant to classify.

SEAL and a man of action, I want you to get hold of my weapons officer and learn everything you can about those torpedos we shoot and how we go about it.

The torpedos, close to two feet in diameter and twenty feet long, were cradled on hydrauli-cally operated racks that could be adjusted to shift the weapons from their original storage place to a position where they could be loaded into the tubes.

He slapped the side of one of the torpedos and pushed his glasses back again.

The balance of the torpedos had been repositioned to racks that would facilitate reloading.

This was where the torpedos were loaded in the tubes, the tubes flooded with water and their pressure equalized with that outside, the muzzle doors opened, and the critical dials and gauges read and reread to insure a successful firing.

The two sets of torpedos fired at him from opposite directions would have him in a pincer.

Two torpedos sank the unsuspecting vessel well off the Japanese coast.