On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 15:11:44 +0200, Rob van Riel wrote:

In WWII, aircraft used torpedoes to attack ships. Since the 1980s, various
anti-ship missiles are in use. However, unless I'm seriously mistaken,
torpedoes went out of fashion soon after WWI. What did aircraft use to
attack enemy ships in the meantime? Bombs, rockets and guns? Or was the
torpedo still in use?

I realise I was being a bit vague in my original post.

I know that in WWII divebombers also took on ships, but there was a
specialised weapon for going after ships in the form of the torpedo
(relatie effectiveness not taken into account). Such specilised weapons
appear to have been absent for use against surface targets for several
decades. Of course, the various ASW platforms still employed torpedos for
use against submarines, but that wasn't what I had on my mind.

Now, before someone jumps me with the Slammer Harpoon, yes, I know that
this is no longer a specialised anti surface ship weapon either, but it
did start out that way, and many other anti shipping missiles exist.

Thanks for the info so far.

Rob