BM-1 small depth charge

The BM-1 small depth charge on the Pr. 123bis.

Description

The BM-1 small depth charge is a Soviet naval depth charge.

Vehicles equipped with this weapon

• MPK pr.122A
• Pr.123-bis

General info

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Effective damage

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Comparison with analogues

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Usage in battles

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Pros and cons

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History

In World War I Russian ASW weapons and technology were primitive and ineffective with no enemy submarines being sunk by the Russian Navy with depth charges. There were no sonars or any acoustic detection devices in the navy and no effective ASW doctrine.

In World War II only 7 German submarines were sunk by depth charges although a grand total of 88,000 depth charges were expended (although many were used to destroy magnetic mines and not submarines).

No Soviet ship had sonar until 1941 and most of them did not receive any until the middle of the war. However, only 5% of the ships lost by the Soviet Navy were from submarine attacks and hence ASW efforts were not as important to the Soviet Navy as to other nations.

The BM-1 was the main light depth charge of the Soviet Navy in World War IIand the early Cold War, and could be deployed from a M-1 scoop rack.

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