Absolutely.I should add that the RAF air- dropped 250 pound DCs in WW2 and it was still in the inventory through to the 60s on Shackleton but superseded by homing torpedoes with Nimrod.
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I came across a reference to the use of WW2 DC stocks in the seventies (I think) by Shackleton's but can't recall where - it may have been an ORB or a log book.
I wonder if all air dropped explosives could be classed as bombs, so all DC's are bombs but not all bombs are DC's (Apologies to Lewis Carroll)
No Amount Of Evidence Will Ever Persuade An Idiot (probably not Mark Twain)
Of course John Cruickshank sunk a surfaced U Boat with a straddle of four depth charges, and he is of course the last living VC from WWII, and indeed from the RAF.
And at Leuchars we used to get a few Wasps in from ships that were in Rosyth. Rather than fly in and out of the dockyard all day they preferred to come to Leuchars for a couple of days.
Had a Wasp fly by a few times in the last week or so, including today. Oddly today it was followed an hour or so later by an autogyro. When I first saw it I thought I must have been mistaken but those wheels are an obvious giveaway. I confirmed it today via a online radar site which gave the type as Wasp.
Living near an obvious landmark like Dartford Bridge has its upside.
No Amount Of Evidence Will Ever Persuade An Idiot (probably not Mark Twain)
Following up on the eralier posts reference the Wasp and nuclear depth bombs, these photos were paart of a display in the Explosion Museum of Naval Firepower in Portsmouth
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