Bible Thrower - Whiteheaded Missile (Live @ Gracijani 2019)
Channel: duutor
Date: 08/09/2020

“We should be proud
Of a great historical fact
That this powerful weapon
Was invented in the city of our own”

Yeah, I’m so fucking proud
That some parts of my city
Were built on a pile of money
Made directly out of war and blood!?!

My pride drowned
With every single ship
Sunk by the whiteheaded missile
It’s buried at the bottom of the sea

River of blood
A city built on arms

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"A modern torpedo is an underwater ranged weapon launched above or below the water surface, self-propelled towards a target, and with an explosive warhead designed to detonate either on contact with or in proximity to the target. (...) A prototype self-propelled torpedo was created by a commission placed by Giovanni Luppis, an Austro-Hungarian naval officer from Rijeka (modern-day Croatia), at the time a port city of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, and Robert Whitehead, an English engineer who was the manager of a town factory. (...) After the Austrian government decided to invest in the invention, Whitehead started the first torpedo factory in Rijeka."
(Source: Wikipedia)