What is torpedo tube?

What is torpedo tube?

A torpedo tube is a cylinder-shaped device for launching torpedoes. There are two main types of torpedo tube: underwater tubes fitted to submarines and some surface ships, and deck-mounted units (also referred to as torpedo launchers) installed aboard surface vessels.

What is a torpedo used for?

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torpedo, cigar-shaped, self-propelled underwater missile, launched from a submarine, surface vessel, or airplane and designed for exploding upon contact with the hulls of surface vessels and submarines.

Can you launch a person from a torpedo tube?

I live person would not survive being shot out of a torpedo tube. The pressure of water that initially pushes the fish out of the tube would crush a person to death. But an already dead body could be ejected no problem.

What is torpedo in swimming?

In the torpedo movement, the body is as straight as a plank and travels very fast. All that, using only your arms and hands as paddles! You are horizontal, on your front or your back. In other words in the “front” or “back” torpedo position.

Why is it called a torpedo?

The word torpedo comes from the name of a genus of electric rays in the order Torpediniformes, which in turn comes from the Latin torpere (“to be stiff or numb”).

When was torpedo first used?

The earliest recorded use of a torpedo was in 1801 when Robert Fulton sank a small ship using a submarine mine with an explosive charge of 20 pounds of gunpowder at Brest, France. Stationary torpedoes were first used on a large scale by the Russian government during the Crimean War (1854-1856).

What is said when a torpedo is launched?

Any torpedo that operates properly when fired is said to ‘run hot.

Can divers leave a submarine?

They can leave a sub from a flooded silo, pop up on the shore or fastboat up a river, complete a mission, and then return via the ocean from whence they came.