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Torpedo bomber: Now obsolete, but a naval bomber optimized for making a long, straight, slow and level approach to a target ship, to drop a heavy torpedo within a critical set of flight parameters ^[e]

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• Torpedo [r]: A naval weapon that travels underwater, using its own propulsion, to attack its target, minimally with onboard mechanisms to keep it on a straight course. Modern torpedoes are underwater guided missiles that can track their target and adjust their course to hit it ^[e]

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• TBD Devastator [r]: First production carrier-capable monoplane of the United States Navy; took horrendous losses at the Battle of Midway, but that may have been more characteristic of the absolute need of WWII torpedo bombers to have fighter and diversionary protection unless in a night raid; replaced by TBF Avenger ^[e]
• TBF Avenger [r]: Primary U.S. Navy carrier-capable torpedo bomber after 1942; 3-man crew; many adaptations including horizontal bomber, anti-submarine warfare and early airborne early warning aircraft ^[e]
• B5N2 (bomber) [r]: With the Allied nickname "Kate", an Imperial Japanese Navy torpedo bomber, also used for high-level horizontal bombing from aircraft carriers ^[e]