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    STEALTH BOMBER

    Oct 02, 2018 2 minutes
    ILLUSTRATION BY JIM LAURIER
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    Larry Porges

    THERE ARE SUBMARINES, there are mini-submarines, and then there are human torpedoes. Developed by the Italians in the 1930s, human torpedoes—called SLCs (from the Italian for “slow-running torpedo”) and nicknamed Maiale (“pig”)—were manned, navigable submersibles designed for surprise mine

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