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Originally Posted by jason taylor
Rear Admiral J R Hill,RN, author of "antisubmarine warfare" thinks that the depth charge may actually have been underestimated.
His argument is twofold..
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I'm not sure I buy his argument. Modern submarines are terribly hardened against underwater shocks in an effort to reduce their vulnerability to influence mines and nearby nuclear explosions. That has the side benefit to making depth charges less effective.
I think the real thing that killed the depth charge was the nuclear powered submarine. Hold down tactics like he described don't matter, and the sub's speed means that the AOU surrounding any datum that you're depth charging expands so quickly that your probability of kill falls off too quickly. Depth charging tactics depend on laying a 3D pattern of explosions in an expanding volume of water. If the volume of water expands too quickly, it becomes exceptionally unlikely that a depth charge would hurt anything.