Europe

Europe

Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...

 

• DCNS/WASS BlackShark 533 mm torpedo (Modern)
• EuroTorp A244 324 mm torpedo (Modern)
• EuroTorp MU90 Impact
  MU90 Impact
  The MU90/IMPACT is an advanced lightweight anti-submarine torpedo used by navies of Germany, France, Italy, Denmark, Australia and Poland. It is designed to compete with and outperform the US-built Mark 46 in the anti-submarine role, and is also available in a special MU90 Hard Kill version for...
  
   324 mm torpedo (Modern)
• House/SHIP Oconnor variant 348mm torpedo (Modern-Malta)

France

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 

• DCN F17
  ECAN F17
  The ECAN F17 Mod 2 torpedo is a French wire-guided torpedo with active/passive homing to a range of 20 km. It travels at a speed of 40 knots and carries a 250 kg warhead to an official depth of 600 meters.It is also used by Pakistan and Spain....
  
   533 mm torpedo (Modern)
• Z13
  Z13 torpedo
  The Z-13 was an electric heavy torpedo of the French Navy.It was designed to be fired from submerged submarines to target surface ships. The Z-13 was propelled by two electric engines, each moving a propeller. A Ca-Ni battery fed the engines....
  
   550 mm

Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 

• G7a torpedo
  G7a torpedo
  The G7a or G7a/T1 was the standard issue Kriegsmarine torpedo during the early years of World War II.- Design :The torpedo was 53.3cm in diameter, 7.163 m in length, and with a warhead of 280 kg of Hexanite, and was standard issue for all U-boats of the war.The torpedo was of a straight-running...
  
   (WWII, wet heater)
• G7e torpedo
  G7e torpedo
  The G7e or more appropriately the G7e/T2, G7e/T3, and G7e/T4 Falke torpedoes were, with the exception of the T4 model, the standard torpedoes for Germany during World War II...
  
   (WWII, electric, some versions with passive homing)
• G7es torpedo
  G7es torpedo
  The G7es or Zaunkönig T-5 was a torpedo employed by German U-boats during World War II. It was known as the GNAT to the British.- Description :...
  
   (WWII, electric, dedicated passive homing)
• T11 torpedo
  T11 torpedo
  The T11 was a torpedo developed for German U-boats during World War II. The torpedo was electric and had an effective range of 5,700 meters at a speed of 24 knots . This torpedo employed acoustic, passive homing to find its target after a straight run of 400 meters. This evolution of the G7es...
  
   (WWII, electric, enhanced version of the G7es, not fielded)
• F5B torpedo torpedo (WWII, wet heater, dropped from aircraft)
• BT 400
• DM1 Seeschlange (Cold War, electric, wire guided ASW
  Anti-submarine warfare
  Anti-submarine warfare is a branch of naval warfare that uses surface warships, aircraft, or other submarines to find, track and deter, damage or destroy enemy submarines....
  
   torpedo)
• DM2A1 Seeaal (Cold War, electric, wire guided, passive homing)
• DM2A3 Seehecht (Modern, electric, wire guided, passive/active homing)
• DM2A4
  DM2A4
  DM2A4 Seehecht is the latest heavyweight torpedo developed by Atlas Elektronik for the German Navy, as a further update of DM2 torpedo which was released in 1976...
  
   Seehecht (Modern, significantly enhanced DM2A3)
• SST4 (Cold War, electric, anti ship torpedo derived from the DM1/DM2 for export, wire guided, passive homing, anti ship, impact fuze)
• SUT (Modern, enhanced SST4 for ASW
  Anti-submarine warfare
  Anti-submarine warfare is a branch of naval warfare that uses surface warships, aircraft, or other submarines to find, track and deter, damage or destroy enemy submarines....
  
  /ASuW
  Anti-Surface Warfare
  Anti-surface warfare is a type of naval warfare directed against surface combatants. More generally, it is any weapons, sensors, or operations intended to attack or limit the effectiveness of an adversary's surface ships....
  
   with magnetic proximity
  Proximity fuze
  A proximity fuze is a fuze that is designed to detonate an explosive device automatically when the distance to target becomes smaller than a predetermined value or when the target passes through a given plane...
  
   or impact fuze
  Fuse (explosives)
  In an explosive, pyrotechnic device or military munition, a fuse is the part of the device that initiates function. In common usage, the word fuse is used indiscriminately...
  
   and active/passive homing)
• Barracuda (supercavitating torpedo)
• MU90 Impact
  MU90 Impact
  The MU90/IMPACT is an advanced lightweight anti-submarine torpedo used by navies of Germany, France, Italy, Denmark, Australia and Poland. It is designed to compete with and outperform the US-built Mark 46 in the anti-submarine role, and is also available in a special MU90 Hard Kill version for...
  
  
• Mark 46
  Mark 46
  The designation Mark 46 can refer to:* Mark 46 machine gun, lighter weight version of the M249 machine gun* Mk 46 nuclear bomb* Mark 46 torpedo...
  
  

Italy

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

 

• WASS LCAW
  LCAW
  LCAW is a miniature torpedo developed by Whitehead Alenia Sistemi Subacquei S.p.A . LCAW is developed to fill the gap between conventional depth charge and torpedoes, in the area where depth charges lack propulsion and guidance, while the cost of expansive torpedoes are increasingly becoming...
  
  
• WASS A184 533 mm torpedo (Cold War/Modern)

Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

 

• Kaiten
  Kaiten
  The Kaiten were manned torpedos and suicide craft, they were used by the Imperial Japanese Navy in the final stages of World War II.-History:...
  
   manned torpedo (World War II)
• Type 91 torpedo
  Type 91 torpedo
  The Type 91 was an aerial torpedo of the Imperial Japanese Navy which was designed to be launched from an aircraft. It was used in the naval battles of carrier task forces in World War II.The Type 91 aerial torpedo rev.2 won the admiration of the world...
  
   (450 mm) (World War II)
• Type 92 torpedo
  Type 92 torpedo
  The Type 92 torpedo was a submarine-launched torpedo used by the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. It was in length and 21 inches in diameter. This type of torpedo was battery powered. It could deliver a 660 pound warhead at 30 knots to a target 7 kilometers away....
  
   (533 mm) (World War II)
• Type 93 torpedo
  Type 93 torpedo
  The Type 93 was a -diameter torpedo of the Imperial Japanese Navy , launched from surface ships. It is commonly referred to as the Long Lance by most modern English-language naval historians, a nickname given it after the war by Samuel E. Morison, the chief historian of the U.S...
  
   (Long Lance) (610 mm) (World War II)
• Type 95 torpedo
  Type 95 torpedo
  The Type 95 torpedo was a torpedo of the Imperial Japanese Navy.It was based on the formidable Type 93 torpedo but had a smaller warhead, shorter range and a smaller diameter...
  
   (610 mm) (World War II)
• Type 97 torpedo
  Type 97 torpedo
  The Type 97 was a diameter torpedo used by the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. Intended for use with Japan's Ko-hyoteki class midget submarines, the torpedo was based on the Type 93 "Long Lance" used by larger Japanese submarines, but redesigned to meet the smaller physical dimensions...
  
   (450 mm) (World War II)
• Type 89 torpedo
  Type 89 torpedo
  The Type 89 torpedo is a Japanese submarine-launched homing torpedo produced by Mitsubishi heavy industries. It was developed in the early 1980s, and is similar in capabilities to the U.S. Mark 48 ADCAP torpedo. It entered service in the 1990s and is currently carried aboard the Harushio, Oyashio...
  
   (533 mm) (Modern)
• Type 97 Light Weight Torpedo (324mm) (Modern)
• Type 07 Vertical Launched ASROC (324mm) (Modern)

Korea

Korea

Korea ) is an East Asian geographic region that is currently divided into two separate sovereign states — North Korea and South Korea. Located on the Korean Peninsula, Korea is bordered by the People's Republic of China to the northwest, Russia to the northeast, and is separated from Japan to the...

 

• Baek Sang Eo torpedo (480 mm) (Modern)
• Chung Sang Eo torpedo (320 mm) (Modern)
• Hong Sang Eo, or K-ASROC, rocket-based torpedo (380 mm) (Modern)

Russia

Russia

Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

 and the Soviet Union

Soviet Union

The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

 

• Type 53 torpedo
  Type 53 torpedo
  Type 53 is the common name for a family of 53 cm torpedoes manufactured in Russia, starting with the 53-27 torpedo and continuing to the modern UGST....
  
   (533 mm) (Cold War)
• TEST-71 torpedo 533mm torpedo (Cold War/Modern)
• 53-65 torpedo
  53-65 torpedo
  The 53-65 torpedo family are Russian made, wake-homing torpedoes designed to destroy surface ships. The 53-65 became operational in 1965, while the 53-65K and 53-65M both became operational in 1969. The 53-65KE is an exported version...
  
   533mm torpedo (Modern)
• Type 65 torpedo
  Type 65 torpedo
  The Type 65 is a torpedo manufactured in the Soviet Union/Russia. It was developed to counter the US Navy's aircraft carrier battle groups as well as to be used against large merchant targets such as supertankers...
  
   (650 mm) (Cold War)
• APR-3E torpedo
  APR-3E torpedo
  The APR-3E airborne light ASW acoustic homing torpedo is designed by Russian Tactical Missiles Corporation JSC to engage current and future submarines in at depth from the surface down to 800 metres at speed of up to 43+ kts, and it is a replacement for earlier APR-2 light antisubmarine acoustic...
  
   350mm (Cold War/Modern)
• VA-111 Shkval
  VA-111 Shkval
  The VA-111 Shkval torpedo and its descendants are supercavitating torpedoes developed by the Soviet Union. They are capable of speeds in excess of 200 knots .-Design and capabilities:...
  
   supercavitating torpedo (Russia; Modern)

Sweden

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 

• Torped 61 (Cold War)
• Torped 613
  Torped 613
  Torped 613 is an older heavyweight torpedo still in use by the Swedish Navy. It is wire-guided and has a passive sonar sensor, which sends back information through the wire. The torpedo was developed in the 1970s as an cooperation project between Denmark, Norway and Sweden...
  
   (In service)
• Torped 62
  Torped 62
  Torped 62 is the latest and most modern torpedo used in the Swedish Navy.In the late 1980s, FFV , began to develop a replacement for the older Torped 613, the main heavy torpedo used be the Swedish navy...
  
   (Modern, also known as Torpedo 2000)
• Torped 43X2 (Light torpedo (400 mm), also known as Tp 45
• Torped 46

United Kingdom

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 

• BAe Spearfish torpedo
  Spearfish torpedo
  The Spearfish torpedo is the heavy torpedo used by the submarines of the Royal Navy. It can be guided by wire or by autonomous active or passive sonar, and provides both anti-submarine warfare and anti-surface ship warfare capability.It replaces the unreliable Tigerfish torpedo, which was...
  
   533 mm torpedo (Modern)
• BAe Sting Ray torpedo
  Sting Ray torpedo
  The Sting Ray torpedo is a current British acoustic homing light-weight torpedo manufactured by GEC-Marconi, who were later bought out by BAE Systems. It entered service in 1983.-Design and development:...
  
   324 mm torpedo (Modern)
• Mark 24 Tigerfish
  Mark 24 Tigerfish
  The Mk 24 Tigerfish torpedo was a heavyweight acoustic homing torpedo used by the Royal Navy for several years. The early Mod0 and Mod1 variants were unreliable and unsuccessful, and were issued to the RN even though they failed Fleet Weapon Acceptance...
  
   533 mm torpedo (Cold War)
• 24.5 inch Torpedo Mark I (Nelson Class Battleships)
• 21 inch Torpedo Mark IV (World War 1)
• 21 inch Torpedo Mark VII (1930s, World War 2)
• 21 inch Torpedo Mark VIII(World War 2)
• 21 inch Torpedo Mark IX (World War 2 Cruisers and Destroyers)
• 18 inch Torpedo Mark XII (World War 2, aerial
  Aerial torpedo
  The aerial torpedo, airborne torpedo or air-dropped torpedo is a naval weapon, the torpedo, designed to be dropped into water from an aircraft after which it propels itself to the target. First used in World War I, air-dropped torpedoes were used extensively in World War II, and remain in limited...
  
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• 18 inch Torpedo Mark XV (World War 2, aerial)
• Brennan Torpedo
  Brennan Torpedo
  The Brennan torpedo was a torpedo patented by Irish born Australian inventor Louis Brennan in 1877. It was powered by two contra-rotating propellors that were spun by rapidly pulling out wires from drums wound inside the torpedo...
  
   (Victorian Age)

United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 

• Mark 13
  Mark 13 torpedo
  The Bliss-Leavitt Mark 13 torpedo was the U.S. Navy's most common aerial torpedo of World War II. It was designed with unusually squat dimensions for its type: diameter was and length . In the water, the Mark 13 could reach a speed of for up to . The Mark 13 ran slower than the Mark 14 torpedo...
  
   569 mm airdropped torpedo (World War II)
  • GT-1 (missile)
    GT-1 (missile)
    The GT-1 was an early form of missile developed by the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. Intended to deliver an aerial torpedo at a safe range from the launching aircraft, the weapon proved successful enough in testing to be approved for operational use, and the GT-1 saw limited...
    
     glider delivery system for the Mark 13 torpedo (World War II)
• Mark 14
  Mark 14 torpedo
  The Mark 14 torpedo was the United States Navy's standard submarine-launched anti-ship torpedo of World War II.This weapon was plagued with many problems which crippled its performance early in the war, and was supplemented by the Mark 18 electric torpedo in the last 2 years of the war...
  
   533 mm submarine-launched torpedo (World War II)
• Mark 15
  Mark 15 torpedo
  The standard U.S. destroyer-launched torpedo of World War II, the Mark 15 was very similar in design to the Mark 14 torpedo except that it was longer, lighter, and had longer range and larger warhead. 9,700 were produced during the war....
  
   533 mm destroyer-launched torpedo (World War II)
• Mark 18
  Mark 18 torpedo
  The Mark 18 torpedo was an electric torpedo used by the US Navy during World War II.The Mark 18 was built in competition to the Bureau of Ordnance electric torpedoes, which had been in development at the Newport Torpedo Station , Newport, Rhode Island, since the 1920s, in particular the Mark II,...
  
   533 mm electric torpedo (World War II)
• Mark 37
  Mark 37 torpedo
  The Mark 37 torpedo is a torpedo with electrical propulsion, developed for the US Navy after World War II. It entered service with the US Navy in the early 1950s, with over 3,300 produced. It was phased out of service with the US Navy during the 1970s, and the stockpiles were sold to foreign...
  
   483 mm torpedo (Cold War)
• Mark 44
  Mark 44 torpedo
  The Mark 44 torpedo is an obsolete air-launched and ship-launched lightweight torpedo manufactured in the U.S., and under licence in Canada, France, Italy, Japan and the United Kingdom with 10,500 being produced for U.S. service. It was superseded by the Mark 46 torpedo...
  
   324 mm torpedo (Cold War)
• Mark 46
  Mark 46 torpedo
  Designed to attack high-performance submarines, the Mark 46 torpedo is the backbone of the U.S. Navy's lightweight ASW torpedo inventory, and is the current NATO standard. These aerial torpedoes, such as the Mark 46 Mod 5, are expected to remain in service until the year 2015...
  
   438 mm torpedo (Cold War)
  • CAPTOR mine
    CAPTOR mine
    The CAPTOR is the United States Navy's primary anti-submarine naval mine. This deep-water mine is laid by ship, aircraft or submarine, and is anchored to the ocean floor. When its sonar detects a hostile submarine, the CAPTOR launches a Mark 46 torpedo.The name CAPTOR is short for enCAPsulated...
    
     encapsulated torpedo mine using the Mark 46 torpedo (Cold War)
• Mark 48
  Mark 48 torpedo
  The Mark 48 and its improved ADCAP variant are heavyweight submarine-launched torpedoes. They were designed to sink fast, deep-diving nuclear-powered submarines and high-performance surface ships.-History:...
  
   533 mm torpedo (Cold War/Modern)
• Mark 50 torpedo
  Mark 50 torpedo
  The Mark 50 torpedo is a U.S. Navy advanced lightweight torpedo for use against fast, deep-diving submarines. The Mk-50 can be launched from all anti-submarine aircraft and from torpedo tubes aboard surface combatant ships. The Mk-50 was intended to replace the Mk-46 as the fleet's lightweight...
  
   324 mm torpedo (Modern)
• Mark 54 LHT
  Mark 54 LHT
  The Mark 54 Lightweight Hybrid Torpedo is a standard 12.75 inch antisubmarine warfare torpedo used by the United States Navy.- Development :...
  
  Lightweight Hybrid Torpedo (Modern)