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Es el Hedgehog:
Hedgehog (weapon)
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Hedgehog anti-submarine weapon, British WWII
Hedgehog anti-submarine weapon, British WWII
Hedgehog anti-submarine weapon, American c2002
Hedgehog anti-submarine weapon, American c2002
For the area denial weapon, see Czech hedgehog.
An anti-submarine weapon developed by the Royal Navy during World War II, the Hedgehog was deployed on convoy escort warships such as destroyers to supplement the depth charge. The weapon worked by firing a number of small spigot mortar bombs from spiked fittings. Rather than working on a time or depth fuse like depth charges, the bombs exploded on contact and achieved a higher sinking rate against submarines than depth charges did.
Hedgehog received its name because when unloaded, the rows of empty spigots resembled the spines of a hedgehog.
Hedgehog, also known as an Anti-Submarine Projector was developed by the Directorate of Miscellaneous Weapons Development and entered service in 1943.
Hedgehog was replaced by the more effective Squid mortar in 1943 and this in turn was replaced by the three-barreled Limbo. The United States produced a similar weapon called Mousetrap.
The Hedgehog was adapted into a 7 shot launcher form for use on the back of the Matilda tank serving with Australian forces.
From 1949 a copy of Hedgehog was produced in the USSR as MBU-200, developed in 1956 into MBU-600 with enhanced range of 600 m.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedgehog_(weapon)
