[2] In 1971, an official staff requirement was issued to develop a replacement for the earlier G62ef Canguro, acoustic homing G6e, and Second World War-era straight-running G7e, the latter of which remained in production by Whitehead until the early 1970s.
[4] The seeker head of the A184 possesses digital active and passive terminal homing using two semicircular arrays, one in the vertical and one in the horizontal plane.
This new weapon would be deployed in 2004 as the Black Shark, featuring numerous improvements such as a transition to fiberoptic wire guidance and lithium-polymer batteries.
[9] In the late 1980s, the A184 Mod 1 underwent trials with the United States Navy, in a bid for the low-cost Anti-Surface Warfare Torpedo (ASuWT) program.
Whitehead SpA was one of four companies competing for a contract of 2000 torpedoes, with only the A184 successfully reaching the sea trials phase.