Sep 19, 2016 | Featured Artifacts
The Grebe rocket-boosted torpedo was part of a family of 1940s Project Kingfisher anti-ship and anti-submarine guided missiles. It was an ASW weapon that targeted deep-diving enemy submarines. The Navy’s modern anti-submarine missile system, the ASROC (anti-submarine...
Sep 19, 2016 | Featured Artifacts
The MK 48 ADCAP torpedo is the U.S. Navy’s current submarine-launched torpedo. This heavyweight, acoustic-homing torpedo has sophisticated sonar and all-digital guidance-and-control systems; its digital guidance system allows performance improvements to be made...
Sep 19, 2016 | Featured Artifacts
The cold-running Whitehead was the world’s first self-propelled torpedo, and the model from which all future design concepts originated. It was employed by navies throughout the world including — eventually — the U.S. Navy. The concept for the Whitehead began with...
Sep 19, 2016 | Featured Artifacts
The Howell torpedo was the first self-propelled torpedo developed by the United States and used in service in the U.S. Navy. It was powered by a 10,000-rpm flywheel that doubled as a stabilizing gyroscope. Englishman Robert Whitehead invented the world’s first...
Sep 19, 2016 | Featured Artifacts
The Sealab undersea habitats were groundbreaking experiments conducted by the Navy between 1964 and 1969. Navy scientist Dr. George F. Bond developed and led the Sealab projects to test and demonstrate the concept of saturation diving. Bond’s experiments with...
