Sub Corner 28: the Early Days of Anti-Submarine Weaponry

I have a question about the depth charges used by the world’s navies on submarines.

How did people come up with the idea? Surely an admiral did not get up one day and thought, I shall drop many exploding things on an enemy submarine that I cannot see in the hopes that one hit, right?

Actually, you know, it’s a good question. The answer is that we settled on the depth charge because it was what worked.

Let’s go back in time a bit, back to 1917.

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Sort of Mail Call?

Hi everyone! Tautog here again. With 2016 out and done, you’re probably curious to see: what are we doing next?

The answer is more housekeeping. Plugins need to be maintained, supplies need to be kept. More importantly, the team needs time to basically organize and consolidate all the things we’ve done over the last couple of years and put it here where our readers can find it.

This means not only translating the books and our releases in Asia, but also to put up all the expanded “universe” type stuff that Morgane leaves around the forums, the other communities, and so on and so forth. Let me give you an example.

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