Jim Carriere wrote:
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Mk 54's are depth charges...



Hmmm, my assumption was wrong. I figured they must be some big

You were both right, there is a Mk 54 lightweight torpedo coming...
someday. More or less the brains of the Mk 50 and the body of the Mk 46.

I did not know (or forgot) there was such a thing as a Mk 54 depth
charge. I've heard of the B57, you really only have to be close with
that one, like horseshoes and hand grenades, but no need for a
followup

Yes, I see that, called a 'hybrid' torpedo. Guess the Mk54 DC is
so old that it's not spoken of now...or at least predates google
so far that it doesn't list it, might very well do too, we used
them on Lancasters in the mid fifties, pretty damned impressive
explosion they produced too. I don't really know much about them
(it was 50 years ago) except that they weighed 450 pounds and
that they helped the Argus CG a lot because we carried them in
the forward bomb bay.
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-Gord.
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