How to Use torpedo tube in a Sentence

torpedo tube

noun
  • Two torpedo tubes have been destroyed, but the lower tube is intact and closed.
    Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2017
  • The damage is limited to the front of the craft and suggests that the ship may have hit an ocean mine with its upper deck, which destroyed two torpedo tubes.
    Smithsonian, 20 Sep. 2017
  • This rear torpedo tube could also be used to launch and recover the UUVs.
    Christina MacKenzie, Popular Science, 30 Nov. 2020
  • Other than the mangled front, the only other damage to the ship that researchers found was two destroyed torpedo tubes.
    Aric Jenkins, Time, 19 Sep. 2017
  • The location of the fire, in the port bow near the torpedo tubes, made avoiding a torpedo/missile explosion a top priority.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 27 Feb. 2018
  • The torpedo tubes will launch heavyweight guided torpedoes for use against other submarines and surface ships.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 24 Feb. 2020
  • Its 11-foot bronze propeller, guns, torpedo tube and boilers were conclusive evidence that the ship was the McCulloch.
    Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 20 June 2017
  • The nature of submarine warfare means nobody ever sees the torpedo tube mechanism and the torpedo ejected from its tube.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 2 Dec. 2020
  • One theory is that the motor allows the weapon capsule to swim out of submarine torpedo tubes because Iranian midget submarines are not equipped with a means to eject an unpowered capsule.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 28 Feb. 2019
  • During one event, a submarine launched an unmanned sub through its torpedo tube, Navy officials told reporters during the exercise.
    Andrew Dyer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 June 2021
  • Each Sang-O has two 533-millimeter torpedo tubes to carry heavyweight anti-ship or anti-submarine torpedoes.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 6 Feb. 2019
  • Indonesian naval experts have raised the possibility that as the Nanggala descended on Wednesday, water somehow flooded the submarine, possibly through a pipe or torpedo tube.
    New York Times, 24 Apr. 2021
  • Indonesian naval experts have raised the possibility that as the Nanggala descended Wednesday, water somehow flooded the submarine, possibly through a pipe or torpedo tube.
    BostonGlobe.com, 24 Apr. 2021
  • The press conference showed various items purportedly found from the submarine, including torpedo tube straightener, pipe cooling wrap, lubricant for the submarine periscope, sponges and submarine solar.
    Karson Yiu, ABC News, 24 Apr. 2021

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