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Stocks of torpedoes are to go up by 230 percent and those of surface-to-air missiles by 30 percent.

From Barron's • Apr. 8, 2026

The USS Joseph P. Kennedy — a Gearing-class destroyer once equipped with Mark 32 torpedoes, anti-submarine missiles, and nuclear depth charges — has been decorated for Christmas.

From Salon • Dec. 24, 2025

U-boats, Mr. Moorhouse tells us, were also plagued by malfunctioning torpedoes, mechanical failures and, eventually, the incessant—and often successful—depth-charge attacks of Allied warships.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 7, 2025

And right now, nothing is cooler than the newfangled torpedoes.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2025

As Ignatius was considering the delight which the little baseball game afforded humanity, the two sad and covetous eyes moved toward him through the crowd like torpedoes zeroing in on a great woolly tanker.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole