Did the Japanese have Hedghogs?

[Bubblehead1980]

Originally Posted by Peter Cremer

It wasn't a depth charge but I have heard that very late in the war they had a Magnetic Anomoly Detector that was just a large, powerful electro magnet that they would lower into the water when they detected a sub. The idea was to latch onto the sub and drag it up to the surface and sink it with gunfire. And that's all I know about it.

Hmmm MAD was just a detection device from what I understand, worked pretty well on the USS Halibut in November 1944. Plane using MAD pinpointed her location, dropped some bombs and called escorts in.