Illustration by Ray Quigley shows an anti-sub device from 1950 termed “the hedgehog.”
It lobbed multiple depth charges all at once at the presumed submarine location. Charges were slightly angled so that they would land in a spreadout, scattershot pattern, covering a wider range.
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Source: Popular Science March 1950
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