SPEARFISH The Spearfish torpedo (formally Naval Staff Target 7525) is the heavy acoustic homing torpedo used by the submarines of the Royal Navy. It is a dual-purpose wire-guided weapon and provides both anti-submarine warfare (ASW) and anti-surface ship warfare (ASuW) capability‚ replacing the Tigerfish torpedo which was withdrawn in 2004.The significantly higher speed of the Spearfish was intended to catch high-speed‚ deep-diving Soviet threats such as the Alfa class submarine. The weapon is driven
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the ship‚ along with a waterproof fuse connected to a mine. The operator would then speed away as quickly as possible. The features the submarine had included; air pipes that brought fresh air in to the submarine‚ ballast tanks‚ and a very basic torpedo to attack enemies. Ballast tanks would open to let water in so the submarine would sink and let water out so the submarine would go back to the surface. John Philip Holland had been designing submarines‚ his first design that he had turned in to
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RSR The Sinking of the Aragon With the outbreak of world one war the royal mail moved its home port to Newport‚ South Wales. However the Brittish government was in dire need of battle ships to strengthen their naval force. Many ships were converted from simply postal delivery vessels into war ready troop carrying ships. One of these ships was the Aragon The Aragon built in harland and wolf in Belfast
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The invasion in Normandy was one of the most important tactical movements during World War II that without the invasion‚ the war could have lasted longer than it had. The United States‚ with the help of other allied nations‚ launched a massive attack that used many different approaches and equipment. Most of the main attacks were initiated by the sea where many nations landed on different beaches. Ground attacks and ground movements were made easy by heavy tanks and troop carriers. Lastly‚ with
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Essay over In Harm’s Way By Doug Stanton | Would captain Mcvay still be alive today if he hadn’t been convicted of failing to zigzag or sending out a distress signal? Would his life have been different? This essay will concentrate on what took place aboard the ship and the continuing debate on the guilt of Captain Charles Butler Mcvay III in the tragedy of the sinking of the USS Indianapolis. Mcvay was descended from a long line of navy men. He attended the Naval War College and completed
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Wouldn’t it be fun to ride a torpedo‚ or drive a nuclear reactor around underwater? In this research paper I am going to illustrate the ingenious submarine. <br><br>The submarine is one of the most important strategic and tactical weapons systems of the 20th Century‚ and this importance will increase in the 21st Century. The tiny‚ leaking‚ creaking‚ and unsafe submarine boats of the 1890’s‚ displacing under two hundred tons and carrying a handful of men and a few torpedoes have grown into massive
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survivors. Upon completion of the day and night search on 8 August‚ 316 men were rescued out of the crew of 1‚199. We believe we were hit by two torpedoes‚ one around frame 8 or 10‚ because the bow was blown off forward around ten. Another one [torpedo] around frame fifty. We believe that they were large torpedoes‚ that they were running close to the surface‚ because none of us believe the magazines blew up‚ that is the only way we can account for the flashes of flame through the ship. He was
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How Does a Submarine Work? by Stephen Whitt‚ September 1‚ 2008 A Bit of History The first submarine was powered by oars. Public Domain Submarines are ships that can operate both under and on top of the water. One of the first submersible vessels was built around 1620 by a Dutchman named Cornelius van Drebbel. We don’t know that much about Drebbel’s vessel‚ but diaries and books written at the time tell us his sub was really just a rowboat covered with a waterproof leather skin. Apparently 12
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The Process of underwater welding was first used back in the 1930’s by the soviet engineer Konstantinovich Khrenov. It was a very vast process used by the Soviet Navy. Today underwater welding is far more advanced and safer. Now‚ don’t get me wrong this procedure is immensely dangerous far beyond belief. This topic I chose was something I was very intrigued by‚ I want to become an exceptional welder‚ and this would be something to master in the future. I have accumulated a lot of knowledge on the
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There are many themes and topics that authors and directors can choose but the theme for the novel "Lockie Leonard‚ Human Torpedo" by Tim Winton‚ and film "Lex & Rory" is very similar. Both these narratives expressed the same issues‚ some of which were bullying‚ popularity‚ relationships and male and female characteristics. Although these texts have similar issues‚ they do have differences such as how the issues that were used were constructed. This essay will discuss the similarities of the issues
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