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Iran’s Ghadir mini-subs measure 29 meters, carry a crew of 7, and can launch torpedoes in waters too shallow for a destroyer to follow

Somewhere along Iran’s southern coastline, in waters barely deep enough to swallow a three-story building, a 29-meter ...
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How small torpedo boats brought down the world’s biggest warships

For decades, battleships were seen as unstoppable symbols of naval power, protected by thick armor and massive guns. Yet their greatest vulnerability came from small, fast torpedo boats that could ...
The National Interest

Can Torpedoes Prove Themselves True Carrier Killers?

Here’s What You Need to Know: Reliable hard-kill protection against torpedoes for surface warships has yet to be realized. In 2019, an annual report released by the Department of Testing & Evaluation ...
TASS

JSC Gidropribor ready to produce UMT torpedo’s analogues for export

The two-meter-long torpedo has a caliber of 220 millimeters and mass of about 100 kilograms KRONSHTADT, June 29. /TASS/. The JSC Concern Sea Underwater Weapon - Gidropribor (an affiliate of the ...
The Conversation

The US just torpedoed an Iranian ship. Here’s why this old tech is hard to defend against

A US submarine sank the Iranian frigate IRIS Dena off the southern coast of Sri Lanka on Wednesday, killing 87 people. The submarine struck the ship with a torpedo, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ...
Jane's Information Group

DOT&E finds modified Mk 48 torpedoes operationally suitable and effective

A Pentagon report confirms the effectiveness of modified Mk 48 torpedoes. (US Department of Defense) The US Navy's modified Advanced Processor Build (APB) 5+ Mk 48 torpedo is “operationally effective ...