Squid and Hedgehog ???
The Hedgehog is pretty straight forward: lot's of projectiles with impact fuses. Great against submerged subs but probably less so against surfaced ones. The blast from the 7" 'bomb' deflagrates into...
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I rather like the modern version of Hedgehog and I would have thought it had a role in the modern passion for littoral warfare
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IMHO volume should only be a problem for navies constrained to extending the life of old smaller frigates. New ships should be able to incorperate the required additional volume at minimal additional...
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Did I miss something, or does Weapon 'Alfa' not show up in this discussion?
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This was a nice weapon, but rather over-engineered and turned out to be less effective than the system it replaced (Hedgehog). As a result the USN lost interest in ASW launchers like Alfa/Limbo and...
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A big advantage of an ASW Mortar system is that all the expensive bits (like sonar and FCS) stay on the ship and the only 'consumable' item is the relatively cheap and simple bombs themselves. I don't...
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bager1968 wrote:Much cuter than squids, aren't they?Limbo--- well it depends who the limbo dancer is.
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bager1968 wrote: They look a bit menacing, is one called Spiny Norman?
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You have to admire the different names given by the allies to some weapons systems, to initially throw the enemy off during development. R. V. Jones worked out quickly the codename 'WOTAN' in German...
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ICS wrote:You have to admire the different names given by the allies to some weapons systems, to initially throw the enemy off during development. R. V. Jones worked out quickly the codename 'WOTAN'...
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Actually, both X-Gerat (X-System) and Y-Gerat were known as Wotan: X-Gerat was Wotan I and Y-Gerat Wotan II. While Y-Gerat was a single-beam system, X-Gerat was most definitely a two-beam system. The...
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I remember the opposition in 'Voyage to the Bottom of the sea' ranging from Loch Ness monster, big octopii to the odd UBoat captain. Most crises were resolved by a Polaris missile or 1g volts through...
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IcelofAngeln wrote:Much cuter than squids, aren't they?Much cuter than these squids.USS Newport PG-12, USN gunboat during Spanish-American War 1898-99.
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ICS wrote: the odd UBoat captain. Aren't all submariners odd?
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Watching 'Voyage ..Sea' I started wondering who was in charge of a ship/boat when you had an Admiral and a Captain in the same control room. Though I got the gist afterwards.
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If this hasn't already been pointed out, the advantage of Hedgehog is they don't go off unless they hit something, so they don't mess up the sonar environment for the escort's sonar every time they...
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