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| citations | verification | reliable references | challenged | Depth charge (disambiguation) | Mark IX Depth Charge used by U.S. Navy later in World War II.  Unlike the cylindrical, barrel-shaped depth charge used earlier, the Mark IX is streamlined and equipped with canted fins to impart rotation on the depth charge, allowing it to fall in a straight trajectory with less chance of drifting off target.  This type of depth charge contained 200 pounds (90 kg) of Torpex. | | trajectory | Torpex | anti-submarine | fuze | nuclear warheads | Royal Navy | Admiral of the Fleet Sir George Callaghan | HMS Vernon Torpedo and Mine School | Portsmouth | explosive | TNT | amatol | detonated | Kerry | Q-ship | World War I | Amatol | Torpex | torpedo tubes | U-427 | Loading a drum-type Mark VII depth charge onto the K-gun of the Flower class corvette HMS Dianthus. | | Flower class corvette | the end of the First World War | trawlers | forecastle | A depth charge explodes after it had been dropped from HMS Ceylon. | | HMS Ceylon | Royal Air Force | Avro Anson | 233 squadron | citation needed | homing torpedo | BAE Systems | Fleet Air Arm | To be effective depth charges had to be set to the correct depth. To ensure this, a pattern of charges set to different depths would be laid atop the submarine's suspected position. | | Battle of the Atlantic | Commonwealth | sonar | U.S. Congressman | Andrew J. May | House Military Affairs Committee | fuzed | Honolulu, Hawaii | Charles A. Lockwood | killed in action | Hedgehog | Squid | fuzed | SUBROC | USSR | United States | United Kingdom | nuclear warheads | Nuclear Depth Bombs | USS Agerholm (DD-826) tests an ASROC anti-submarine rocket armed with a nuclear depth bomb in 1962 | | USS Agerholm (DD-826) | ASROC | Naval mine | ISBN 1-85409-520-X | ISBN 1-85409-520-X | ISBN 0-87021-459-4 | ISBN 0-87021-459-4 | Categories | Anti-submarine weapons | Explosive weapons | Naval weapons | Naval weapons of the United States | British inventions | Articles needing additional references from September 2008 | All articles with unsourced statements | Articles with unsourced statements since January 2008 |
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