Talk:Limpet mine

Confused
This sentence "Normally they are directly attached, but the warhead of the human torpedo was linked to the magnets by wires about 1 ft long." confuses me a little since the article is about limpet mines. Human torpedoes, except those used as suicide weapons, are small submarines used to transport one or two people on a covert mission. Human torpedoes do not seem to have commonly had a warhead.

It seems that the sentence was added back when the article was still part of the naval mine page |1 and may have been intended as a reference to a specific weapon system. If so that is unclear and I am reluctant to remove it without evidence. 75.69.0.58 (talk) 16:42, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

This is confusing:

"Limpet mines were first used by Italian divers in the sinking of the dreadnought SMS Viribus Unitis in Pula, 1 November 1918." "In December 1938, a new unit was created in the British military that soon became known as Military Intelligence (Research) — usually abbreviated as MI(R) or occasionally as MIR. MI(R) absorbed a technical section that was at first known as MI(R)c. In April 1939, Joe Holland, the head of MIR, recruited his old friend Major Millis Rowland Jefferis " "One of Jefferis' earliest ideas was for a type of mine that could be towed behind a rowboat, but which would attach itself to the hull of a ship that it passed. Getting a heavy bomb to stick to a ship reliably was a problem; the obvious answer was to use magnets which should be as powerful as possible." The phrasing on the article almost gives the appearance that it was invented in 1938/1939 but also mentions it was used during World War I — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.82.114.63 (talk) 01:16, 26 August 2015 (UTC)

Magnets?
How necessary is the stipulation of magnetic adhesion? While magnets are the most common for such purpose-built military devices, glues and other adhesive schemes have been used for substantially the same purpose (for example, the explosive charge delivered by the Turtle was to have been attached by a screw); likewise, I'm sure there are provisions for using such devices on wooden or fiberglass hulls. If an expert on the terminology reads this, please clarify. Wyvern (talk) 00:53, 24 November 2010 (UTC)
 * No expert, but glue has come a long way since the '30s (even since your own decade, probably). The association just stuck, pardon the pun, kind of like "the tube" still reminds people of flat rectangular TV. Tubes, magnets, gears, rakes and mirrors aren't exactly obsolete in practice, either, just not the most versatile tools in the shed. InedibleHulk (talk) 00:08, 20 June 2019 (UTC)

Edit removed, why?
I'm not sure, if this is the right way and place for this question- I'm a total newbie here. My recent article edit was removed and I would like to know why. Here is the edit I made: "Another case was Raid on Alexandria on December 19, 1941 by Italian Navy divers, who attacked and disabled two Royal Navy battleships in the harbour of Alexandria, Egypt, using manned torpedoes." Paul Jurczak (talk) 02:01, 6 December 2012 (UTC)


 * Your contributions are welcome, but you need to provide citations. The link in your edit goes to a battle in 1812, perhaps not what you meant? Happy editing. Gaius Cornelius (talk) 23:15, 6 December 2012 (UTC)

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Minor problem with lede.
The third paragraph keeps switching between present and past tense for no apparent reason. I'd correct it myself, but I don't know which tense is appropriate. JDZeff (talk) 20:09, 23 April 2018 (UTC)