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?

You got it in one.

Or was the torpedo still in use?

ASW.

As I see it, the death knell aerial torpedoes was sounded by two
developments.

Increased A/A protection on ships, rendering the idea of having
trained pilots fly long, slow approaches to a ship to drop a
torpedo and thereby emulate the Bushido spirit of the Japanese
Kamikaze effort, undesirable.

Jet aircraft. TBD approaches were what, 200 KIAS? Even the
early jets would be flying the approach at 300 KIAS. I suspect
the WWII aerial torpedo wouldn't have fared to well being dropped
at that speed. Meanwhile, pilots and fire control systems had
gotten pretty good with bombs, rockets and guns. And the tactics
for using them against ships.
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