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Torpedoes; Torpedoed; Torpedos; Torpedo (naval warfare); Homing torpedo; Homing torpedoes; Torpedoe; Wet heater; Guided torpedo

Torpedo (comics)         
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COMIC SERIES
User:Murgh/Torpedo 1936; Torpedo 1936
Torpedo, or Torpedo 1936, is a Spanish comics series written by Enrique Sánchez Abulí and drawn by Jordi Bernet, which depicts the adventures of the antagonistic character Luca Torelli, a heartless hitman, and his sidekick Rascal, in context of the violent organized crime culture of New York City during the Great Depression era.
Torpedo         
·add. ·noun An automobile with a torpedo body.
II. Torpedo ·vt to destroy by, or subject to the action of, a torpedo.
III. Torpedo ·noun An engine or machine for destroying ships by blowing them up.
IV. Torpedo ·noun A kind of shell or cartridge buried in earth, to be exploded by electricity or by stepping on it.
V. Torpedo ·noun A kind of firework in the form of a small ball, or pellet, which explodes when thrown upon a hard object.
VI. Torpedo ·noun A kind of detonating cartridge or shell placed on a rail, and exploded when crushed under the locomotive wheels, - used as an alarm signal.
VII. Torpedo ·noun An explosive cartridge or shell lowered or dropped into a bored oil well, and there exploded, to clear the well of obstructions or to open communication with a source of supply of oil.
VIII. Torpedo ·noun A kind of small submarine boat carrying an explosive charge, and projected from a ship against another ship at a distance, or made self-propelling, and otherwise automatic in its action against a distant ship.
IX. Torpedo ·noun A quantity of explosives anchored in a channel, beneath the water, or set adrift in a current, and so arranged that they will be exploded when touched by a vessel, or when an electric circuit is closed by an operator on shore.
X. Torpedo ·noun Any one of numerous species of elasmobranch fishes belonging to Torpedo and allied genera. They are related to the rays, but have the power of giving electrical shocks. Called also crampfish, and numbfish. ·see Electrical fish, under Electrical.
torpedo         
n.
1) to fire, launch a torpedo
2) an acoustic; aerial; bangalore; magnetic torpedo
3) a torpedo explodes
4) a torpedo hits; misses its target

Wikipedia

Torpedo

A modern torpedo is an underwater ranged weapon launched above or below the water surface, self-propelled towards a target, and with an explosive warhead designed to detonate either on contact with or in proximity to the target. Historically, such a device was called an automotive, automobile, locomotive, or fish torpedo; colloquially a fish. The term torpedo originally applied to a variety of devices, most of which would today be called mines. From about 1900, torpedo has been used strictly to designate a self-propelled underwater explosive device.

While the 19th-century battleship had evolved primarily with a view to engagements between armored warships with large-caliber guns, the invention and refinement of torpedoes from the 1860s onwards allowed small torpedo boats and other lighter surface vessels, submarines/submersibles, even improvised fishing boats or frogmen, and later light aircraft, to destroy large ships without the need of large guns, though sometimes at the risk of being hit by longer-range artillery fire.

Modern torpedoes are classified variously as lightweight or heavyweight; straight-running, autonomous homers, and wire-guided types. They can be launched from a variety of platforms. In modern warfare, a submarine-launched torpedo is almost certain to hit its target; the best defense is a counterattack using another torpedo.