Robert Hunt was a torpedoman on the USS Tambor. He ran 12 consecutive war patrols in the Pacific and never fully shook what those missions felt like. "I was just sure I was going to die," he recalled ...
Reports on March 4, 2026, revealed that a U.S. Navy submarine sank the Iranian warship IRIS Dena using a torpedo in the Indian Ocean near Sri Lanka. A torpedo is a powerful underwater missile used in ...
PNS Ghazi sank near Visakhapatnam during the 1971 Indo-Pak war. INS Rajput's depth charges believed to have destroyed Ghazi. The event marked a turning point in India's naval dominance. Did our AI ...
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A Short History of Naval Torpedoes

The first moving naval “torpedo” was physically attached to the submarine that used it—with perhaps predictable results.
Trial into shocking submarine tragedy that killed 44 sailors in November 2017, the country's worst naval disaster in decades, gets underway.
Iran has been accused of littering the Strait of Hormuz with mines as the key oil route becomes a battleground in its war ...
There is no certainty answers will be found as prosecutors seek to clarify why one of the Navy’s worst tragedies occurred.
Iran has reportedly begun laying sea mines in the Strait of Hormuz, one of the world's most critical energy routes. A few dozen mines have been placed so far in the waterway, according to media ...
Concerns are rising over the security of the Strait of Hormuz after US officials said Iran may be preparing to deploy naval mines in the key waterway .
Iran’s powerful paramilitary Revolutionary Guard answers to the supreme leader, and now the younger Khamenei will have the ...