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Naval weapons of the United Kingdom

  • Squid (weapon)The Directorate of Miscellaneous Weapons Development ordered the Squid weapon directly from a drawing board in 1942. Engineers rushed this new anti-submarine…
  • Hedgehog (weapon)In 1941, a secret test aboard the destroyer HMS Starling revealed a fatal flaw in existing anti-submarine tactics. The Fairlie Mortar had failed to deliver…