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Torpedo

Sebuah tabung torpedo kapal permukaan Mark-32 Mod 15 menembakkan sebuah torpedo Mark-46.

Torpedo adalah proyektil berpenggerak sendiri yang ditembakkan di atas atau di bawah permukaan laut dan kemudian meluncur di bawah permukaan laut dan dirancang untuk meledak pada kontak atau pada jarak tertentu dengan target. Torpedo dapat diluncurkan dari kapal selam, kapal permukaan, helikopter atau pesawat. Torpedo juga dapat menjadi senjata dari senjata lainnya. Torpedo Mark 46 dari Amerika Serikat dapat menjadi bagian dari ASROC (Anti-Submarine ROCket) dan ranjau CAPTOR yang menggunakan sensor khusus yang akan melepaskan torpedo ketika mendeteksi musuh.

Berbagai jenis torpedo

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Beberapa torpedo yang digunakan militer berbagai negara:

Sebuah helikopter Westland Lynx Prancis membawa sebuah torpedo Mark 46.
VA-111 Shkval. Kecepatan dapat mencapai 200 knots (370 km/h).

Angkatan Laut Amerika Serikat

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Ada empat torpedo utama yang dipakai oleh Angkatan Laut Amerika Serikat, yaitu:

Angkatan Laut Britania Raya

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Torpedo yang digunakan oleh Angkatan Laut Britania Raya termasuk:

Angkatan Laut Kekaisaran Jepang

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Torpedo yang digunakan oleh Angkatan Laut Kekaisaran Jepang pada Perang Dunia II termasuk:

Angkatan Laut Jerman

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Torpedo yang digunakan oleh Kriegsmarine (Angkatan Laut Jerman pada zaman Nazi) termasuk:

  • G7a (T1).
  • G7e (T2).
  • T3.
  • T4 (Falke).
  • G7es (Zaunkönig).
  • T11.

Angkatan Laut Jerman sekarang ini:

Angkatan Laut Rusia

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Torpedo yang digunakan oleh Infanteri Angkatan Laut (Rusia) termasuk:

  • Tipe 53.
  • Tipe 65.
  • VA-111 Shkval.
  • Tipe Wedhosz.

Lihat pula

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Referensi

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  • Blair, Clay. Silent Victory. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1975.
  • The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, online.
  • Crowley, R.O. "Confederate Torpedo Service". The Century, Volume 56, Issue 2, The Century Company, New York, June 1898.
  • Milford, Frederick J. "U.S. Navy Torpedoes: Part One—Torpedoes through the Thirties". The Submarine Review, April 1996. (quarterly publication of the Naval Submarine League, P.O. Box 1146, Annandale, VA 22003)
  • Milford, Frederick J. "U.S. Navy Torpedoes: Part Two—The Great Torpedo Scandal, 1941-43". The Submarine Review, October 1996.
  • Milford, Frederick J. "U.S. Navy Torpedoes: Part Three—WW II development of conventional torpedoes 1940–1946". The Submarine Review, January 1997.
  • O'Kane, Richard H. (1987). "Seventh Patrol", Wahoo: The Patrols of America's Most Famous World War II Submarine. Novato, California: Presidio Press.
  • Perry, Milton F. Infernal Machines: The Story of Confederate Submarine and Mine Warfare. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1985. ISBN 0-8071-1285-2.

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