Other kinds of offensive weapons include Pulse Torpedoes, Needle Beams ( which can target a specific system on an enemy ship and disable it ), Submunition Packs, Missiles, Minelayers and " mega-damage " weapons, such as the Nova Cannon and Wave Gun.

The song has been covered by numerous bands, such as The Move ( as title track to their 1968 live-ep Something Else from The Move ), Led Zeppelin ( appeared on both their 1997 compilation BBC Sessions, and their 2003 DVD ), Slade, the New York Dolls, The Flamin ' Groovies, Prima Donna, UFO, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers ( appeared on his albums Playback and Damn the Torpedoes ), The Beatles, Keith Richards with the X-Pensive Winos, The Georgia Satellites, Speedy Keen, Teenage Head and notably Sid Vicious, who made it his second single as a solo artist.

The late 1990s witnessed a fad for Cantopop stars in high-tech, more American-styled action pictures such as Downtown Torpedoes ( 1997 ), Gen-X Cops and Purple Storm ( both 1999 ).

Pulse Phasers, made famous in Trek canon by the USS Defiant, as well as more powerful Torpedoes are added to replace earlier weaponry such as Photonic missiles, disruptors, and improved mines.

In June 2011, it was reported that India might buy 32 Mk 54 All-Up-Round Lightweight Torpedoes and associated equipment, parts, training and logistical support for an estimated cost of $ 86 million through U. S. government's Foreign Military Sales program.

# Milford, Frederick J. U. S. Navy Torpedoes ; Part One: The great torpedo scandal, 1941 – 43.

# Milford, Frederick J. U. S. Navy Torpedoes ; Part Two: The great torpedo scandal, 1941 – 43.

Beatty scored a first-class examination pass in Torpedoes, but only seconds in Seamanship, Gunnery and Pilotage, and a third in Navigation.

Torpedoes may use a working gas produced by high test peroxide or Otto fuel II, which pressurise without combustion.

" Torpedoes " ( mines ) could also be detonated electrically by an operator on shore ( as demonstrated also by Fulton ), so friendly vessels or low-value enemy vessels could be ignored while waiting for the capital ships to sail over them.

Torpedoes were also used to equip gunboats of around 1, 000 tons, these becoming torpedo gunboats.

Torpedoes may be aimed at the target and fired unguided, similarly to an artillery shell, or they may be guided onto the target.

Torpedoes may be launched from submarines, surface ships, helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft, unmanned naval mines and naval fortresses.

The Hydra-matic automatic transmission was introduced in 1948 and helped Pontiac sales grow even though their cars, Torpedoes and Streamliners, were quickly becoming out of date.

Damn the Torpedoes is the third album by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, released in 1979.

Thanks to the new co-producer Jimmy Iovine, Damn the Torpedoes proved to be a major leap forward in production.

*" The Development of Rocket-propelled Torpedoes ", by Geoff Kirby ( 2000 ) includes HEYDAY.

Torpedoes and torpedo boats became specialties of his, and he commanded the First Group of the Atlantic Fleet's Torpedo Flotilla in 1912 through 1913, and also several torpedo boats and destroyers during the 1910s and 1920s.

Torpedoes began to use magnetic detonators ; compass directed, programmed and even acoustic guidance systems ; and improved propulsion.

* Scharf, J. Thomas, History of the Confederate States Navy from Its Organization to the Surrender of Its Last Vessel ; Its Stupendous Struggle with the Great Navy of the United States, the Engagements Fought in the Rivers and Harbors of the South and upon the High Seas, Blockade-Running, First Use of Iron-Clads and Torpedoes, and Privateer History.

This typically includes Torpedoes, Fighters, Bombers, and Assault Boats.

* Damn the Torpedoes, a 1971 book by J. E. Macdonnell

* Damn the Torpedoes: Naval Incidents of the Civil War, a 1989 book by the son of Adolph A. Hoehling ( homonym.

* USA Torpedoes since World War II-navweaps. com

While on a mission with his own band of Torpedoes ( lower-level members of Tao's organization ) called the Hounds, consisting of the eager-to-please Pit Bull ( introduced in Season One ) and the werewolf Blackwolf, Holden is contacted by an agent of John Lynch.

Torpedoes were fired up Loch Long from tubes at the front of the facility.

Torpedoes can be made to move toward ships using acoustic homing.

Douglas ' provision, which Lincoln opposed, specified settlers had the right to determine locally whether to allow slavery in new U. S. territory, rather than have such a decision restricted by the national Congress.

They generally have other terms specific to U. S. nationals, such as German US-Amerikaner, French étatsunien, Japanese 米国人 beikokujin, Arabic أمريكاني amriikaanii ( as opposed to the more-common أمريكي amriikii ), and Italian statunitense, but these may be less common than the term American.

The Act overturns a 1999 U. S. Supreme Court case that held that an employee was not disabled if the impairment could be corrected by mitigating measures ; it specifically provides that such impairment must be determined without considering such ameliorative measures.

This poster from the U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention " Get Smart " campaign, intended for use in doctors ' offices and other healthcare facilities, warns that antibiotics do not work for viral illnesses such as the common cold.

These measures plus the improvement in Israel's relations with Egypt and Jordan, the renunciation of terrorism by the Palestine Liberation Organization, the on-going peace talks between the PLO and Israel, the collapse of the communist states in East Europe, which reduced the scope for sanctuaries for terrorists, and the more cautious attitude of countries such as Libya and Syria after the U. S. declared them State-sponsors of international terrorism, the collapse of ideological terrorist groups such as the Red Army Faction and the tightening of civil aviation security measures by all countries have arrested and reversed the steep upward movement of hijackings.

Jewish-interest groups such as the University of Chicago's Shircago and Yale University's Magevet are also gaining popularity across the U. S.

An exception, for instance in the U. S., may be made for minor violations, such as traffic offenses.

Most major powers repudiated Cold War assassination tactics, though many allege that this was merely a smokescreen for political benefit and that covert and illegal training of assassins continues today, with Russia, Israel, the U. S., Argentina, Paraguay, Chile, and other nations accused of still regularly engaging in such operations.

Most modern assassinations have been committed either during a public performance or during transport, both because of weaker security and security lapses, such as with U. S. President John F. Kennedy and former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, or as part of coups d ' état where security is either overwhelmed or completely removed, such as with Patrice Lumumba and likely Salvador Allende.

Clinton's 1994 Omnibus Crime Bill made many changes to U. S. law, including the expansion of the death penalty to include crimes not resulting in death, such as running a large-scale drug enterprise.

Russian oil, from ports such as Novorossyisk, is exported by tankers to western Europe and the U. S. via the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles straits.

Considerable research into biological warfare was undertaken throughout the Cold War era ( 1947 – 1991 ) by the U. S., U. K. and U. S. S. R., and probably other major nations as well, although it is generally believed that such weapons were never used.

A closed bankruptcy may be reopened by motion of a creditor or the U. S. trustee if a debtor attempts to later assert ownership of such an " unscheduled asset " after being discharged of all debt in the bankruptcy.

Whether or not a concealment of such an asset should also be considered for prosecution as fraud and / or perjury would then be at the discretion of the judge and / or U. S. Trustee.

The U. S. has a trade surplus with nations such as Australia.

Wealth-producing primary sector jobs in the U. S. such as those in manufacturing and computer software have often been replaced by much lower paying wealth-consuming jobs such as those in retail and government in the service sector when the economy recovered from recessions.

Some of this $ 2. 5 trillion is invested in claim checks — U. S. bonds, both governmental and private — and some in such assets as property and equity securities.

Thus, a number of Allied soldiers received the Bronze Star Medal in World War II, as well as U. N. soldiers in the Korean War, Vietnamese and allied forces in the Vietnam War, and coalition forces in recent military operations such as the Gulf War, Operation Enduring Freedom and the Iraq War.

Meanwhile co-operation on many fronts, such as the ease of the flow of goods, services, and people across borders are to be even more extended, as well as the establishment of joint border inspection agencies, relocation of U. S. food inspectors agents to Canadian plants and vice versa, greater sharing of intelligence, and harmonizing regulations on everything from food to manufactured goods, thus further increasing the American-Canadian assemblage.