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Interesting Torpedo facts
1. Not all torpedoes are designed to pierce hulls then explode, some detonate below the target ship without making contact. This creates a gas bubble that causes the ship to be thrust out of the water then dropped back into the resulting void, often breaking the vessel in half and sinking it.
2. Winston Churchill, along with many of the Royal Navy’s highest-ranking men, came very close to death after the ship they were on was fired at by a U-boat with 3 torpedoes. All three struck the hull of the ship, but all failed to explode.
3. Coffin Torpedoes were invented in the 1800s to prevent grave robberies. They fired if the coffin was opened.
4. A Russian named Vasili Arkhipov avoided causing WWIII after refusing his captain’s orders to launch nuclear torpedoes at US warships during the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis. 2 of the 3 officers on board wanted to fire the missile, however, a unanimous decision was required.
5. 1930’s starlet Hedy Lamarr invented a new technology to stop Nazi’s from jamming Navy torpedoes, but the idea was rejected until 1962 and implemented during the Cold War. Her frequency hopping technology is also the basis for modern Bluetooth.
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