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the white torpedo

The white head torpedo was an american  made war weapon that was used on  The French, Japan, Great britain and russian this weapon had 300 pounds of TNT its speed is 28 knots  and could  travel up to 13,500 feet  it was used made by Robert whitehead and Austrian Captain Giovanni Luppis to damage ships from far away. It was the first self propelled torpedo and the spine of future torpedo designs. It was used to damage ships from far away

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i got this epic

info form these

epic sites

https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabetically/g/general-description-of-the-whitehead-torpedo.html

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the other epic sites

https://www.georgandagathe.org/history--whitehead-torpedo.html