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A torpedo can be an essential weapon in any type of aquatic warfare in the sea. This basically works as underwater missile and can be nuclear equipped.
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Captain David Bushnell invented the first torpedo in 1776. He tested it in New York Harbor and named it after the torpedo fish. The automatic torpedo was invented by Robert Whitehead
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A torpedo is a miltary weapon which is shot from a submarine, ship or patrol boat or dropped form an aircraft. Once dropped it races towards its target where its warhead explodes
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It's kind of a missile that runs in water. It's got a warhead, an engine, a means of propulsion and a tank of fuel. Since the 20th century that is essentially correct. Earlier a Torpedo
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