The torpedo, named after an electric shock-giving fish, was originally applied to explosive charges moored at sea (now called mines). The same name was also applied to explosive charges attached to the ends of spars projecting from the bows of small...

The torpedo, historically called a locomotive torpedo, is a self-propelled explosive projectile weapon, launched above or below the water surface, propelled underwater toward a target, and designed to detonate on contact or in proximity to a...

This Bureau of Aeronautics design was an attempt to modernize the Navy's delivery of aerial torpedoes By 1925, the US Navy realized that the carriage of torpedoes by aircraft could be a very potent weapon against enemy warships. However, experimenting with aerial torpedo...

Torpedoing a taboo Sea disaster lets Grass take new tack on German identity By JEAN CHARBONNEAU Special to the Journal Sentinel Sunday, March 30, 2003 Crabwalk. By Gunter Grass. Harcourt. 234 pages. $25. Gunter Grass is considered by many...

Senate Republicans torpedoed legislation Wednesday to force the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Iraq, bowing to President Bush's adamant refusal to consider any change in war strategy before September.The 52-47 vote fell far short of the 60 needed to advance the legislation and marked...

The explosive-laden wreck of a World War II torpedo boat has risen from the Pacific Ocean off the Solomon Islands, pushed above the water by a powerful earthquake, an official said Friday.The boat was exposed when reefs rose 10 feet above sea level during a...