- published: 04 Jun 2011
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The modern torpedo is a self-propelled weapon with an explosive warhead, launched above or below the water surface, propelled underwater towards a target, and designed to detonate either on contact with its target or in proximity to it.
Historically, it was called an automotive, automobile, locomotive or fish torpedo; colloquially called a fish. The term torpedo was originally employed for a variety of devices, most of which would today be called mines. From about 1900, torpedo has been used strictly to designate an underwater self-propelled weapon. The original torpedo is a kind of fish: an electric ray.
While the battleship had evolved primarily around engagements between armoured ships with large-caliber guns, the torpedo allowed torpedo boats and other lighter surface ships, submersibles, and later, aircraft to destroy large armoured ships without the use of large guns, though sometimes at the risk of being hit by longer-range shellfire.
Today's torpedoes can be divided into lightweight and heavyweight classes; and into straight-running, autonomous homers, and wire-guided. They can be launched from a variety of platforms.
So come on torpedo
So come on torpedo
I know how to take a right hook
I know how to put a shot back
I know how to fake a hard look
When I just about done lost everything that I had
They've been hunting me for decades
Barracudas on a warpath
But they'll never get me
I will not idly go, I got too much to fight for
So come on torpedo do your worst
Get me right in the heart, blow me up 'til you see my ghost
But I will not lay down in the road
I will not make it easy
I ain't got no saints or saviors
This is guerrilla and I will fight this war
So come on torpedo
Just a little more morphine
A little peace while I writhe
I'll get back into it easy
Saddle up my horse and ride like a wildfire
There's no water so wicked
No rapid so ruthless
This may be the way I die
But I gotta try for the other side
So come on torpedo do your worst
Get me right in the heart, blow me up 'til you see my ghost
But I will not lay down in the road
I will not make it easy
I ain't got no saints or saviors
This is guerrilla and I will fight this war
So come on torpedo
Heart in my throat, dirt on my nose
Dark diamond in my eyes, will my demons ever die?
Heart in my throat, dirt on my nose
Dark diamond in my eyes, will my demons ever die?
So come on torpedo do your worst
Get me right in the heart, blow me up 'til you see my ghost
But I will not lay down in the road
I will not make it easy
I ain't got no saints or saviors
This is guerrilla and I will fight this war
So come on torpedo