Torpedo

A torpedo is a self-propelled naval missile (guided or unguided) that travels underwater to it's target. The term originally applied to static devices that we would call "sea mines" today: Giovanni Luppis first demonstrated an unmanned, self-propelled explosive boat in 1860, and he worked with Robert Whitehead to develop an actual weapon that Whitehead successfully demonstrated in 1866.

The word torpedo originally descends from a variety of electric ray.

Torpedoes in Science Fiction

In Science Fiction, the term torpedo is often used to describe space-based missiles.

• Photon Torpedo
• Proton torpedo
• Quantum Torpedo
• Transphasic Torpedo
• Gravimetric Torpedo