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...more acute reconnaissance at night and in bad weather. Each vessel will have its own on-board computer network, packing more cyber-power into its 7,700 tons than the 65 attack subs that came before it put together. Eventually, the Navy plans to outfit the subs with "antitorpedo" torpedoes, which the Navy has fantasized about for decades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Sinking Feeling | 2/8/1999 | See Source »

...December 7, the antitorpedo net at Pearl Harbor was opened at 4:58 a.m. for the entrance of two minesweepers. It was kept open until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: HOW PEARL HARBOR HAPPENED | 2/2/1942 | See Source »

...game off the west coast of Scotland. Last week he found and hit with a torpedo a battleship "of the Queen Elizabeth class." In this 30,000-31,100-ton class, besides Queen Elizabeth, are Warspite, Valiant, Barham, Malaya, all commissioned between 1913 and 1915, all improved since with antitorpedo "blisters" of heavy armor amidships. From the British Admiralty's curt statement it was evident that the wounded ship was heading for port when attacked; that her "blister" saved her, since only four men were killed and she made port under her own steam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AT SEA: Ambitious Answer | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

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