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How did one wooden pole sink an ironclad warship? This 3D animated short reveals the SparTorpedo in three explosive stages: the silent approach, the underwater strike, and the sinking giant. Watch a small boat creep through the night, ram a copper black-powder charge into an enemy hull, and trigger a controlled underwater detonation that tears the ironclad open in seconds. No violence — pure engineering and naval history made cinematic.
If you’re curious about odd inventions that rewrote the rules of warfare, this is for you.
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00:00A single wooden pole once sank an ironclad warship.
00:03How did that even work?
00:05It was called the Spar Torpedo.
00:07A copper canister of black powder lashed to the end of a long pole.
00:11A small boat would creep through the dark and ram that pole straight into an enemy hull below the waterline.
00:18The hit snapped a friction fuse inside the canister and touched off the charge underwater.
00:23The hull tore open in seconds and the sea rushed in.
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