Naval combat seems complicated enough, but if torpedoes have to directly impact their target to do damage, it'd be even ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Given the apparent difficulty of ensuring that submarines never enter torpedo-attack range, it made sense for the Navy to pursue a short-range “hard-kill” defense ...

In 2019, an annual report released by the Department of Testing & Evaluation revealed that a potentially revolutionary new torpedo-defense system installed on five American aircraft carriers had ...

Northrop Grumman’s recently-unveiled Very Lightweight Torpedo could be air-launch capable on several US Navy aircraft. The company recently manufactured and tested its first prototype of the Very ...

Northrop Grumman has completed testing of the US Navy's new Very Lightweight Torpedo (VLWT). The first industry-built prototype is based on a previous version developed by the Pennsylvania State ...

BAE Systems' Nimrod MRA4 has successfully released the Sting Ray torpedo for the first time, during the 75th flight of development aircraft PA02. The MRA4's stores release system is a radical redesign ...

While shrouded in secrecy, the ‘Khishchnik’ is thought to have characteristics that are an improvement on those of the well-known Shkval torpedo. In early October, Russian military analysts reported ...

The sinking of the IRIS Dena by an American submarine in the Indian Ocean and off the coast of Sri Lanka marks the first time the US sunk a ship with a torpedo after World War Two. What are torpedoes, ...