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Originally Posted by Linton
The problem with a depth charge is that the thrower is close to it when it goes off-not very nice if you use a nuke one!i was recently reading a book about ww2 asw and it compared how much explosive was needed to sink/damage a submarine.Towards the end of the war the allies were using ahead throwing weapons rather than depth charges.I think the statistics showed it needed ten times less explosive to damage a submarine using this type of weapon.(I will dig the book out later and get you all the exact figures)
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I think ahead throwers were a variation of depth charges. Hedgehogs used contact fuses-they had enough stuff to smother the target and thought that would take the nuisance of estimating depth. Squids went back to depth fuses(I forget whether set off by pressure or simple time fuses).