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Each vessel is equipped with 32 vertical launch tubes for three types of anti-surface and land-attack cruise missiles, as well as 10 torpedo tubes.—Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Sep. 2025 More Stories The ideal for submarine commanders is a robot that doesn't need special handling and can be loaded aboard like a torpedo, then launched from a standard torpedo tube and recovered through the same tube after its mission has been completed.—David Szondy
june 21, New Atlas, 21 June 2025 In addition, the Arleigh Burke-class destroyers usually have at least two torpedo tubes and a helipad for the Sikorsky SH-60 Seahawk.—Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald, 12 June 2024 Earlier Israeli submarines did not have this larger sail and launched cruise missiles from their torpedo tubes.—Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 5 Sep. 2023 See All Example Sentences for torpedo tube
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