{"id":55564,"date":"2024-05-29T15:30:12","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T05:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-consolidated-tby-sea-wolf-ww2-torpedo-bomber-never-saw-battle\/"},"modified":"2024-05-29T15:30:12","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T05:30:12","slug":"luck-timing-or-just-awful-why-did-the-ww2-consolidated-tby-sea-wolf-torpedo-bomber-never-see-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=55564","title":{"rendered":"Luck, Timing, Or Just Awful: Why Did The WW2 Consolidated TBY Sea Wolf Torpedo Bomber Never See Battle?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            To a marine biologist, the seawolf is a predatory, eel-shaped fish belonging to the <em>Anarhichadidae<\/em>, first classified in 1832. To a present-day <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/how-much-cost-maintain-us-airforce-navy-aircraft-fleet\/\">U.S. Navy <\/a>(USN) submariner, <em>Seawolf<\/em> is a class of nuclear-powered, fast attack submarines (SSN) in service since 1997. To a present-day *Royal* Navy (RN) surface warfare sailor, Sea Wolf is a surface-to-air missile (SAM) system that&#8217;s been in service since 1979. And to hardcore, old-school arcade video game buffs, <em>Sea Wolf <\/em>was a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arcade-museum.com\/Videogame\/sea-wolf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" >submarine-themed game<\/a> released by Midway Games Inc. (no pun intended vis-a-vis the Battle of Midway) in 1976.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WWII torpedo bombers like the Avenger and Swordfish were highly successful. Then there was the TBY Sea Wolf, which never even got into the fight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,1455,408,412,708,409],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-bomber","category-history","category-military","category-us-navy","category-world-war-ii"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55565,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55564\/revisions\/55565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}