- The
British tested their ASDIC on HMS Antrim in 1920 and
started production in 1922. The 6th
Destroyer Flotilla had
ASDIC-equipped
vessels in 1923. An...
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Asdic was the
British version of
sonar developed at the end of
World War I
based on the work of
French physicist Paul
Langevin and
Russian engineer M...
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reflection of
ASDIC. The
coating reduced echoes by 15% in the 10 to 18 kHz range. This
frequency range matched the
operating range of the
early ASDIC active...
- Walker. The
problem addressed by
Walker in the
tactics then in use was that
ASDIC, the
active sonar means to
search for and find a
submerged submarine, searched...
- with
ASDIC were
usually conducted in
ideal conditions and the
British admiralty failed to
appreciate the
limitations of
ASDIC:
range was limited,
ASDIC worked...
- and anti-aircraft
weaponry reinforced,
while new technologies, such as
ASDIC, Huff-Duff and hydrophones, were developed. At the
start of
World War II...
- war, an arms race
evolved between the
Allies and the Kriegsmarine.
Sonar (
ASDIC in Britain)
allowed Allied warships to
detect submerged U-boats, but was...
-
weapon in the war. The
Fairlie Mortar was
developed by the
Royal Navy's
ASDIC-research
establishment at Fairlie,
North Ayrshire. The
research establishment...
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testing site for
trials of
ASDIC on the
inner breakwater (by the late 1930s over 200
civilians were emplo**** in Osprey's
ASDIC Research and Development...
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required for anti-submarine warfare.
Submarines were slow
while submerged, and
ASDIC sets did not
operate effectively at
speeds of over 20
knots (23 mph; 37 km/h)...
