Hello i am the whitehead torpedo i came to be when Robert whitehead teamed up with Austrian Captain Giovanni Luppis to create a weapon that could be used at a great distance (Thats me!) I can go up to 13,500 Feet! But that's not all i had 300 pounds of TNT! Thats crazy right! And I was pretty fast in my time at 28 knots even though i am an an antique, i was the base for many other torpedos and i had like 300 brothers and sisters. The funny thing is is that I was an american war weapon but i was used on The French, Japan, Great britain and russia. The US first tried to make there own torpedo but they failed miserably (what noobs am i right!?!) so The great and mighty USA couldn't make their own torpedo so they bought me to keep up with the other smart people that embraced me when i came out to the market. My shape is a cylinder with a rounded tip i am propelled by a 2 cylinder compressed air engine. The sad thing about me is that i never sank any ships during world war 1 even though i worked very well another thing is that people believe that i was made during world war 1 but i was actually made before that in 1866 and world war 1 started in 1918 (super weird right?)
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