The G7es (T5) "Zaunkönig" ("wren") was a passive acoustic torpedo employed by German U-boats during World War II. It was called the GNAT (German Navy Acoustic Torpedo) by the British.
The G7es (T5) "Zaunkönig" ("wren") was a passive acoustic torpedo employed by German U-boats during World War II. It was called the GNAT (German Navy...
27 torpedo and the German G7estorpedo. Pattern-following and wake homing torpedoes were also developed. Acoustic homing formed the basis for torpedo guidance...
during the war, were the first acoustic homing torpedoG7es(TIV) Falke and its improved successor G7es(TV) Zaunkönig. The G7e(TII) went in service with...
Few of these torpedoes were actually used and quickly phased out of service in favor of the T4's successor, the G7es T5 Zaunkönig torpedo in August 1943...
The G7es (TXI) "Zaunkönig II" was a torpedo developed for German U-boats during World War II. The torpedo was electric and had an effective range of 5...
convoy JW 56A near Bear Island. On 30 January U-278 sank HMS Hardy with a G7estorpedo; and the convoy escort sank U-314. 28 January 1944: Soviet submarine...
"bubbletrack") x = Torpedo mit 3-Achsen Steuerung (3-axes control) r = Raketen- oder Düsenantrieb (rocket- or jet propulsion) s = Schall, Torpedo mit akustischen...
the Gulf of Bothnia by the German submarine U-370 using an acoustic G7estorpedo. Some German positions defending Lyngen extended over to Kilpisjärvi...
to be highly effective in decoying German acoustic torpedoes. Of the approximately 700 G7estorpedoes fired, only about 77 hit their target. By 1943 Allied...
secret documents and a new type of acoustic torpedo were found. Some key components of this T-5 G7estorpedo were subsequently given to British naval specialists...
The list of torpedoes by name includes all torpedoes operated in the past or present. List of lists of weapons In use in 1982 - against ARA General Belgrano...
successfully employed the G7estorpedo for the first time. The weapon, fired by the German submarine U-270, was the first homing torpedo, and struck the British...
was developing electrically-driven acoustic torpedoes by 1933; the resulting G7e and G7es anti-ship torpedoes, running at a preset depth, entered service...
United Kingdom. While en route, she was torpedoed. At 18:50 on 17 March 1945 Guysborough was hit by a G7estorpedo fired by U-868 off Ushant. The minesweeper...
evasive course, and Domana had not deployed her torpedo nets. At 21:18 hrs the U-boat fired a G7estorpedo at one of the trawlers. It missed, and the trawler's...
(Flächenabsuchender Torpedo [area searching torpedo]) at Card but missed and also missed Decatur with a G7estorpedo (T5) acoustic torpedo. U-645 missed Schenk...
control for the acoustically controlled G7estorpedo, Torpedo Wren (German: Torpedo Zaunkönig) and later Torpedo Vulture (German: Geier entwickelt. Vierling...
revealed that the German submarine U-370 had launched two acoustic homing G7estorpedoes at passing enemy ships – one of these likely homed onto the Finnish...
situation at the time. The physical construction of the torpedo was influenced by the German G7es "Zaunkonig", and the seeker head design was influenced...
unguided air-to-air rocket, in use by the summer of 1943. G7es/Zaunkönig T-5 – acoustic homing torpedo used by U-boats. Silbervogel (Silverbird) — a suborbital...
Perhaps most damaging of all, the Allies recovered U-505's G7es acoustic homing torpedoes, which were extensively reverse engineered to improve the Allied...
of the convoy chasing down a radar contact when she was hit by a G7es acoustic torpedo from U-371 (which was in turn sunk the next day by USS Joseph E...
the entire bow off of the British destroyer HMS Cassandra with a G7es ("GNAT") torpedo at 71°57′00″N 032°04′00″E / 71.95000°N 32.06667°E / 71.95000;...
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