magnetic detonator

It might have a pressure or magnetic detonator.

The military payload could be detonated either on contact, or by a magnetic detonator.

The magnetic detonators failed to work properly, and Sheffield emerged unscathed.

Nor did their magnetic detonators work well against the wooden hulls of Soviet barges and patrol boats.

The torpedoes that the Swordfish had dropped carried a new type of magnetic detonator which proved too unreliable.

Her first two attacks on the enemy were doomed to failure by the faulty magnetic detonators in her torpedoes.

A World War II torpedo barge, the structure was built of wood so as not to be vulnerable to magnetic detonators.

The torpedoes were fitted with unreliable magnetic detonators, which caused most to explode on contact with the water, while Sheffield evaded the rest.

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

The magnetic detonator was sensitive to mechanical oscillations during the torpedo run and at high latitudes fluctuations in the Earth's magnetic field.

As a result, the Swordfish, which were armed with torpedoes equipped with new magnetic detonators, accidentally attacked Sheffield.

These were initially magnetic detonators but later, acoustic or magnetic/acoustic detonators could be fitted.

Kept secret by the German naval command was the fact that Prien had fired a total of seven torpedoes at his target, of which five failed because of long-standing problems with their depth steering and their magnetic detonator systems.

Bestelmeyer is also known for developing a magnetic detonator for torpedoes in 1917, for which he was awarded the Iron Cross 1st Class (although there was no time for testing this device in WWI anymore).

Although precious time was lost by this incident, it proved beneficial to the British in that the magnetic detonators on the torpedoes used against Sheffield were seen to be defective and for the following attack on Bismarck were replaced by those designed to explode on contact.