I always love these vids. The gentle music, the soothing voiceover...as they anounce something diabolical like "that compartment is flooded, the submarine is neutralised." Basically saying "everybody inside just died an horrific water pressure and/or drowning related death."

I own two of these, haven't had a problem with subs in my pond since. Thanks Sweden!

@peterwallace9764

4 жыл бұрын

What about your Bass??? 🤣😳😂🇦🇺🇦🇺

@UnyieldingSeraph

4 жыл бұрын

@@peterwallace9764 well if the bass were better at anti submarine warfare he wouldn't have had to purchase the grenade launcher

@jordanhicks5131

4 жыл бұрын

@@UnyieldingSeraph lmao

@miguelbahena6015

4 жыл бұрын

Sweden out here saving the world

@bernardoulolborbon624

3 жыл бұрын

North korea buy this in saab

I always felt my life was incomplete. There was something missing. I watched this video and I found that it was an anti submarine grenade launcher! Thanks SAAB!

@livefree316

4 жыл бұрын

What's missing in people's lives is a heart without Jesus Christ

@venpirethevampire

4 жыл бұрын

@@livefree316 r/woooosh

@edirt

4 жыл бұрын

Looks like awesome tool to keep stray cats and Jehovas vitness from my yard.

10 out of 10. Would buy again. Ordered these for my kayaking trips and those pesky bass boats. Did cause a bit of dip when mounted.

@victor6814

Жыл бұрын

Buy for the same reason, but the command center still a mess to assemble itself

Seems like a modern version of the old WW 2 "Hedgehog Mortar"

@Zretgul_timerunner

4 жыл бұрын

Well theres a joke there to be made but you should know better

@dancolley4208

4 жыл бұрын

Very close.

@snowman333-

4 жыл бұрын

my first impression, as well probably because I had watched a video about hedgehog used in WW2 in the last couple days

@bluemarshall6180

4 жыл бұрын

Its more effective i think. 😆

@jordanhicks5131

4 жыл бұрын

Same thing but way better

Order now, and you'll get a free toaster! That explodes!

@bluemarshall6180

4 жыл бұрын

Like those made in china? 😆

If Saab had this feature on their cars to clear trafficjams they've never had been backrupt. :P

@Microbex

6 жыл бұрын

Mee thinks Volvo needs two direct hits thoe.

@CorvusCorax.

6 жыл бұрын

G Klerk 😂😂😂😂😂

@x-man5056

5 жыл бұрын

Hope it works better than their cars.

@alexisantonakis8897

5 жыл бұрын

Their cars worked VERY well...they just never charged enough money for them. And with the build quality and strength and safety features..they were their own deterrent against thieves and other such things ;)

@itsmehereandthere6314

4 жыл бұрын

Alexis Antonakis Hope one day we will see SAAB cars on the roads. Its were really advanced cars with highest reliability. Their demise is sad fact for many fun’s of SAAB cars.

And it even uses a Commodore Vic 20 to control it. 2:20 Amazing how those old computers still have their uses :)

@swaghauler8334

2 жыл бұрын

I'm a little late to the party but... The video is from 1996. That computer was "state of the art" back in the "dark ages" of computing. It's hard to believe that your smartphone today has TEN TIMES the processing power of the NASA Shuttles that flew in the 70s and 80s. It's amazing how far we've come... :D

This is for littoral and green waters. At the time this was filmed torpedoes, and therefore, traditional ASW operations were not as effective in littoral waters. Modern Navies have since researched and developed torpedoes that can operate more effectively in littoral waters. That makes this weapon somewhat obsolete. This weapon reminds me of the Hedgehog from WWII.

Sweden makes the coolest military weapons and equipments !

I just love the sound when they are fired!!!

This idea is not as obsolete as it is made out to be. Major navies like the Russian and Indian navy still have a similar type of weapon , the RBU-6000 in their front line warships. Normally fleet anti-sub ops will be carried out by ASW helicopters, Aircraft and ships with long rage torpedoes and depth-charges. This may not be the primary anti-sub weapon but is another available capability for quick ,rapid close -up encounters in certain situations against a sub. Just like a close- in- weapon system for missiles and aircraft that have penetrated the outer defense. The Russian RBU has homing warheads too and it can also be used against incoming torpedoes.

@Mjutami

7 жыл бұрын

The russian RBU has ten times the range though

@dieterhrabak4947

5 жыл бұрын

And also featuring auto reload system too? This SAAB ASW 601 is not.

@lordemarsh6804

4 жыл бұрын

@@Mjutami you have a name after a shit rifle

@swaghauler8334

2 жыл бұрын

I never understood why these weren't adapted to also fire at land targets like an automatic mortar system. Seems like it would be good for suppressing a ship in close proximity to your ship or supporting a landing of troops, especially with all the small (and more importantly shallow-draft) vessels in Russian service that operate in the litorals. I could see a small corvette making a high-speed pass at night on a beach and just unleashing either HE or WP mortars on the defenses prior to a landing.

@Winchester1979

Жыл бұрын

@@swaghauler8334 The key word is "close". These things have a range of about 450 meters which means you need to be practically on top of the enemy to use it. Useful if the enemy is a submarine that's trying to hide by sneaking so close you can't make out where he is, less useful when it's a beach full of angry people shooting back at you. Pretty much every ship these were designed to be installed on would have a 40 mm or 57 mm for supporting landings. @insas223 This was never *obsolete*, this particular version of the weapon is from the mid-1990s and the reason it wasn't adopted in quantity (and why the predecessor, ASW-600, was "retired"), was that the Swedish navy developed a reputation for chasing seals, otters and whales, rather than Russian submarines. With the pivot to hunting pirates off the coast of Africa instead of possibly mythical submarines in the Stockholm archipelago, the ASW gubbins were removed to save weight. And now they're being added back on because there's once again a potential ASW threat in the home waters.

coo, i could do with one of those on my fishing boat - we often have suspicions were being followed by a submarine.

Where can i buy this? Need it for home defense...

@youtert

3 жыл бұрын

As the Founding Fathers intended.

Wow. I really need one of this for my naval defense system.

Are you trying to sell me an antisubmarine grenade launcher?

@KB4QAA

5 жыл бұрын

They worked in WWII and on into the 1970's. The Russians still have them.

@borivojetravica569

5 жыл бұрын

😂 I think that to

@donlove3654

5 жыл бұрын

Hedgehog from WW2. Deep water no so good.

@UnyieldingSeraph

4 жыл бұрын

Depends, do you have lots of money?

@user-ee5he9oz3k

4 жыл бұрын

Dan G best I can do is 50 cents

The movie "Battleship" had a weapon that looked a lot like this!

@bluemarshall6180

4 жыл бұрын

From the aliens of course.... 😆

@kyle18934

4 жыл бұрын

@A_n_d_r_ R_o_o_t anything that would actually work in space combat lol. those mortar shells were so slow

@ryanzhu546

3 жыл бұрын

@A_n_d_r_ R_o_o_t yeah I usually headcannon them as hastily converted mining equipment. ( I mean those changes looks perfect for blowing up asteroids)

@swaghauler8334

2 жыл бұрын

@5GXXXX The irony of this is that Hasbro asked the producers to incorporate as much of the board game BATTLESHIP (which the movie is actually based on) as possible into the movie. The alien weapons are shaped like the pins used in the game. I think a better idea would have been to keep the shape but have them fly straight like a missile using the "stem" of the weapon as some type of "stand-off detonator while the fatter "body/head" of the pin would be some type of fast propulsion system spinning while spewing some type of thrust effect, and then have them strike the ship, stick in and then explode (like they do in the movie now). Hasbro gets their "pin-looking" missile and the alien weapons look bad-assed flying really fast at the target and sticking in it.

Am sold , I'll take 4 systems and 60 rounds. My people will contact your people

@draftyowl

6 жыл бұрын

Nvm jest got to the part of the video where they talk of the ammo , 160 will probably do

@BAZZAROU812

5 жыл бұрын

The ATF/FBI wants to know your location..

@charlieabbot3649

5 жыл бұрын

I saw it fiirrrssssttttt

@marconius101

5 жыл бұрын

Does it come in pink.??

@leopold7148

4 жыл бұрын

I'll have some too, but in pink please!

Sweden, you just keep impressing me! 🇸🇪

Fourth of July will never be boring again!

That sound like I can go and buy one for my lake house 😂

Good job Sweden. You have reinvented the Hedgehog.

@TyphoonVstrom

7 жыл бұрын

Did the Hedgehog have the ability to fire a specific pattern? No. The Hedgehog was a glorified depth charge thrower, nothing more. The Hedgehog required the ship be manuvered into position, this system automatically trains onto the target, identifies the best pattern and range, then is fired. Did you actually listen to the video?

@clayronso3932

7 жыл бұрын

They put a computer chip in it. I guess that makes it an entierly new weapon with no basis on any precious weapons system ever developed.

@skoko1945

7 жыл бұрын

If the sub got this close to you, you would be sinking and they would be watching.

@swedegamer

7 жыл бұрын

skoko1945 In extreme littoral warfare, not really. Sinking the subhunter the absolute last resort for a midget submarine surrounded by an ASW task force, since you have then confirmed your presence to every ship around.

@advorak8529

7 жыл бұрын

The hedgehog fired a specific pattern. Ok, only a single one without changes to the launcher. The hedgehog could be reloaded in 3 minutes, this thingy in 2. The hedgehog did not require the ship to be maneuvered into position! I'll explain: Subs can be attacked with depth charges, hedgehogs, gunfire, ramming and homing torpedoes. Of these only gunfire[1] and homing torpedoes[2] do not need the ship very close to the submarine, but work better when they are[3]. So in about all cases a sub hunter would turn straight the sub and approach at maximum speed, to be able to depth charge it to death. Which meant that the hedgehog was already trained towards the target (straight ahead) ... The only case where you'd need to maneuver your ship with a hedgehog was if the sub was detected at very close ranges, you are not able or willing to launch a torpedo against it and you are also not willing to attack it with depth charges (or not right now). [1] Only effective for surfaced or just below the surface subs. Also you do want to be close to the sub, hitting more often, forcing it under water (where it's slow and exhausts air and amperes) and being as close to the submerging sub as possible for better tracking. [2] Mark 24 Mine (aka FIDO) was available from 1943, however it needed to be air delivered at the point where the sub dived, since it was slow and ran only for 10-12 minutes. Using a simple hydrophone array it could not detect if a noise was from a sub or a ship, although it's minimum depth of 12 metres (when it returned back to search mode) prevented it from actually hitting surface vessels. [3] With homing torpedoes ASROC and helicopter launched torpedoes are typical methods to place the torpedo closer to the sub ... for some reason that seems to work better :-)

I saw this thing advertised last week on the Home Shopping Network. I thought it was a put-on, but now I see it's real. I'm ordering a few for my grandkids. Great Christmas presents!

Added to my Amazon wish list.

Do they have a smaller version for clearing Asian carp?

@TURK_182

5 жыл бұрын

Lol

@danyleon4870

5 жыл бұрын

Put an anfo with a stone and a detonator on a gatorade bottle. Our fisherman still did this. Sometimes.

@roberthaney4106

5 жыл бұрын

Yup how many do want

@snowman333-

4 жыл бұрын

@Jacob Zondag look the old nursery rhime "the house that Jack built" it fits your suggestion, not that I entirely disagree

I installed two of these on my fishing boat, now those pesky fast attack submarines are not harassing me anymore, thanks SAAB!.

You know the thing about Swedish weapons tech, was that they like to take something from WW2 and give it a modern twist, cu'z that Anti-submarine grenade launcher,was actually the Hedgehog that was also used as for Anti-sub warfare. So, it was actually not a new weapon.

Been planning on getting some of these as soon as they go on sale.

Well I suppose that you can say that it is a slightly improved version of the hedgehog as useful for enclosed areas ie large seaway ,channels and harbours.

Fun, an updated version of the Hedgehog, and works the same way. Some changes needed to make it a viable 21st century system. Add acoustic sonar heads, an acoustic data link, and an active drum pinger. Each round pings once after entering the water. Each round, pings 4 to 6 times on while descending. Once a hard target is located. Each round turns towards the target, and ignites a short burst water jet. Homing Hedgehog on steroids.😎

I am sure happy with the one I purchased !

Hi! Billy Mays here with the saab asw 601!

Wow! Love our technology! Swedish military for life

No marine life were harm in the making of this demo

@just_a_curious_thinker

4 жыл бұрын

Lol😂😂Nice joke

Thanks yourube just when i was stuck on my christmas shopping

Modern version of the Hedgehog then?

21st century version of the Hedgehog the Brits developed during WW2

The Saab car in the early '70's was Bernie Sanders and his generations official car in Vermont. Seemed a perfect fit for our very snowy winters and the impassible Spring thaw on the 50 percent of unpaved back roads. A very good and reliable car, maybe too good. downside was how much more parts were compared to Japanese and domestic cars, at least three times as much from my observations.

Gotta love the dramatic music .

I respectfuly suggest you learn a bit more about these weapons. The Hedgehog had a contact pistol and would only explode with a contact hit.. It was supperceded by the Squid and later the Limbo. A proximity fuse would not need to have a shaped charge as a proximity explosion at very close range would be suficient.

It was called "Hedgehog" and used extensively during WW2.

Looks like a modern version of the WW2 Hedge Hog system very interesting.

Something tells me that average submarine will be able to destroy ship from far greater distance than this system could detect it or attack it.

@jonatanfrigard4784

5 жыл бұрын

Something tells me that this weapon system is made for Swedish coastal waters and not open waters where it is almost impossible to find a submarine.

@StevanxoTutor

5 жыл бұрын

@@jonatanfrigard4784 Ha ha, the submarine would crash if try to get in range of this weapon.

Right a modern day submarine is really going to get that close for the weapon to be effective.

@centurion180ad The system was built as a response to the Soviet/Russian submaribe incursions in Swedish terrotiroal waters in the 80's and 90's. The Baltic sea is by far the most difficult ASW-environment, and no other Navy but the Scandinavian even attempts to detect submarines in an archipelago. As a consequence the detection ranges are very short, sometimes point blank range. Under those conditions, a quicker response system than an ASW-torpedo is necessary as a supplement.

@hiimcb No, the Kaparen class FPB:s are now decomissioned. A successor to the ASW-601 was supposed to be fitted to the Visby class stealth corvettes, but I think those plans were eventually postponed/cancelled. Unfortunately.

lol RBU-6000 is already in service for like 70 years =D

LOL saab the only company that makes soccer mom cars and weapons systems XD

@lockyraglus3358

6 жыл бұрын

The make good jets aswell

@skippy5712

6 жыл бұрын

Jon Drake You are thinking of Volvo. Saab was all about refined performance cars.

@johnbright191

5 жыл бұрын

Lmao

@jamesricker3997

5 жыл бұрын

GM also does

I've used these, not in actual battle, but I have trained with them and they are the solemn reason why I will never serve in a sub.

The only missing defence system left for my room will surely buy for my 14th birthday

Also effective against minks swimming offshore. (swedish joke)

It's just a more modern version of the Hedgehog's they use during World War II

LOL great Hedgehog / Snorkel reinvented good job...

happy new year

Philippines need this

@ironwolfF1

10 жыл бұрын

You guys would be the _perfect_ customers for this weapons system (given all the shallow water areas around the Philippines). The chaff and IR rounds might come in handy too...

@juanchoenriquez9401

6 жыл бұрын

No, only 500 meters can reach below surface. Most modern submarine can submerge up to 30,000 underneath sea water.

Best nerf gun launcher ever.

Nice. Perfection of the Hedgehog system from WW2.

I want two for Christmas!

@swertinge07 you're right in both brown water difficulty and cost. I would think that the grenade launcher plus torpedoes or ASROCs would make a formidable and versatile ASW platform.

It's reminds me of the hedgehog, I'll point it out i the comments *sees comment's section* Nevermind...

rien de nouveau , les anglais utilisaient déjà un système comparable sur les sous marins allemands lors de la seconde guerre !!

@tomkelley7174

4 жыл бұрын

that's right, they did!

Wow; Reminds me of the movie "Battleship" 😋

LOL, the sound from the launch... i would love to hear that in a dubstep song xD

looks like hedgehog....

@TURK_182

5 жыл бұрын

Sonic?

@bodyno3158

5 жыл бұрын

Modernized hedgehog.

that's nothing new, during WW II British used hedgehog against german subs which was very similar.

@TexasGTO

6 жыл бұрын

Everyone knows that...

@sarkarraj787

6 жыл бұрын

sav 223.. I think same..

@thomasrichas8306

5 жыл бұрын

.

@pauldziejman

4 жыл бұрын

Wow, really? These manufacturers are so dumb lol

@bluegent7

4 жыл бұрын

That's a strange comment. What's _new_ in your eyes? This is a much better system and it's newer. You keep your Hedgehog. Others take this one. Happy?

Lol, it does sound like a TV shop commercial XD

@stalkingalizee A Hedhehog consists of small rocket launched depth charges, while the ASW-601 uses shaped charges which is an entirely different system.

2:30 Darkness, imprisoning me, All that I see, absolute horror... I can not live, I can not die, Trap in my self......

@rawdata678

4 жыл бұрын

Lol

@cris89631139

4 жыл бұрын

Beat me to

Another variation of the Hedgehog, an anti-Submarine technology developed in late WWII.

our operators are standing by for your call

@flexi712 The ASW torpedo have a longer range and a higher payload, but it needs a certain volume of water to operate in. The ASW-600/601 is insensitive to extreme littoral conditions, such as water depth less than 60 meters, rock formations on the sea floor, civilian ships nearby etc. In short, if the sub hunter operates in an area with very short detections ranges, the grenade may be preferable to the torpedo just like a hand grenade may be better in house-to combat than an anti-tank missile.

So how come they couldn't find that Russian sub few Months ago that entered their water.

@XLB1987

8 жыл бұрын

Because we have a president that kisses our enemies ass and helps them. And our military is being weakened on purpose.

@romanroman1975

6 жыл бұрын

They were blaming Russian sub then they realized it was the herring flock that was making that noise. However, after all they found a long sunken WWI sub there. Immigrants raping their women and even men every day but they are still calling Russians the enemy.

@skippy5712

6 жыл бұрын

mursal kulmiye It was either one of the new Russian Diesel Electric (Black Hole) Subs or there was no Sub.

@johntripp5159

4 жыл бұрын

Finding a submarine in shallow water is quite difficult. I was an weapons electronics rating and have seen hundreds of sonar exercises. They sit on the bottom in silent mode and wait for the ship to steam away before moving. New submarines have a thick rubber coating which simply swallows your ping and you are left trying passive listening on the hydrophone.

How effective would this system be against my neighbor's dog pooping on my lawn or girlscouts selling cookies?

@fredosinsemilla3896

10 жыл бұрын

Maybe you should use it only if the dog or girlscouts have occupied your swimming pool

@Waltham1892

10 жыл бұрын

I could push them in first.

@pkzathruz

10 жыл бұрын

too little information! do you and your neighbor live on a submarine?

@Waltham1892

10 жыл бұрын

A colonial style two story. Close enough?

@pkzathruz

10 жыл бұрын

it would probably have to be seaside!

Just got this system set up on my Boston whaler, works great

The return of the Hedgehog of WW2.

Very nice

1:00 Rapid, efficient enough, cost effective and versatile enough. Military / industrial complex has zero interest in that.

@myms7375

4 жыл бұрын

SAAB is one of the defence industry's player though

@psychiatry-is-eugenics

4 жыл бұрын

myms7375 - Saab also builds the air independent submarine ? Another example of efficiency , that the USA will not try . USA wants huge submarines and aircraft carriers - huge targets - Saab isn’t responsible for that attitude

@myms7375

4 жыл бұрын

@@psychiatry-is-eugenics its depends of what primary customer`s need and requirement(for SAAB`s case,its Swedish Armed Forces).If they want to go big with nuclear subs and have the needs for global deployment to protect her allies and interest,then the defence industry player have to fulfill the requirement.Diesel-electric subs is more quiet compared to the bigger nuclear subs,but they lacked the almost infinite range .The AIP is for the diesel-electric subs to be submerged just a little bit longer than the SSk that were not fitted with one,nuclear subs can stay underwater longer than SSK with AIP.Huge subs mean more torps and missiles in the magazine and some nuclear subs like SSBN Ohio-class can carry nuclear-armed ballistic missile.Sweden on the other hand cannot have access to nuclear weapon and its doctrine is more toward defensive and does not have the global deployment requirement.

So it's a hedgehog Good luck getting close enough to use it

HMS Styrbjörn, 1980-2008. Rust in peace!

I love that sound when it fire's

, I wonder if SAAB will have a turbo version, ha ha.

Am I watching an ad?

Hedgehogs put out a spread, detonating simultaneously. This system also puts out a spread, however one or more attach magnetically to the sub's hull, puncturing it. Two possible flaws: non-magnetic hull, and the misses sink to the seafloor, possibly becoming a hazard later, unless a depth fuse causes a self-destruct.

@swaghauler8334

2 жыл бұрын

I know I'm a little late. It's a Timed fuse for destruction. They detonate automatically after a few minutes.

@jungletroll3844

Жыл бұрын

hedgehogs dont detonate all at once

Ah! Another 'perfect' test on a nice calm sunny day ? Oh ! How I look forward to 'summer' wars ?

Hey you want to go fishing. Sure should I bring a fishing pole.. Nah.. I got ya fam..

Meanwhile reloading takes fucking hours.

@usedcarsokinawa

3 жыл бұрын

It says 2-3 min reload.

Excellent

No, a hedgehog, or any other omnidirectional underwater warhead like a mine or depth charge, does not have to strike the hull to sink the submarine. Search Wikipedia for "depth charge" and read under "underwater explosions" for further explanation. A proximity fuse on a shaped charge, like the ASW-601, would be useless, see more about "shaped charge" on Wikipedia fort further explanation.

@sindr0ne

4 жыл бұрын

Hedgehog does have to strike to submarine to explode as they have contact fuzes, that was one of it's main advantages. If an explosion was detected you knew that you'd hit the enemy sub and if not, there would be no disruption to the sonar, as was caused by depth charges which explode whether or not you have damaged the enemy sub, allowing you to continue tracking the enemy sub.

LOL it was called a Hedgehog and the British used it during WWII nothing new here.

@jordanulery524

5 жыл бұрын

Hugh Franklin yeah, but! No guidance and no locking system. Hedgehog was hit or miss, this system builds on that simple system.

@shaf3006

5 жыл бұрын

Hedgehog was a dumb system

@hughfranklin4002

5 жыл бұрын

@@shaf3006 did you use it personally?

@Mornomgir

5 жыл бұрын

your opinion was void when you started a sentence with "LOL"

@richardcox8409

4 жыл бұрын

yup...was thinking the same

Meanwhile a submarine will fire a torpedo way outside that operative radius. Ship gone!

@dancolley4208

4 жыл бұрын

Remember, in an ASW encounter, in addition to on- board sonar, there are usually two helicopters dipping their balls in the water and they tended to keep a sub's head down. Sub drivers tend to fear ASW helicopters more than any other opponent, or so I've been told. It's getting harder and harder to believe what we see in these supposed "documentaries". Even the written combat reports are run through a filter an a BS adding system. Who knows but the guys on the subs themselves. My Dad was an ASW specialist on a P2, an S2 and a P3. He wouldn't tell me anything. "Top Secret" he would say. "Can't tell you."

I have one of these on my canoe. I have not had a issue with submarines since getting it.

@stalkingalizee The advantage of systems like this is that they're lightweight, cost-effective, have low power and cooling requirements, etc. The only problem is getting close enough to use them. These seem like an ideal weapon for use at point-blank range in shallow inland waters.

And the bottom of the ocean is now littered with live grenades...

@swedegamer

8 жыл бұрын

No, they self destruct after a few hours.

@jeffanderson8165

8 жыл бұрын

+Mats Österholm While this looks to be highly capable in its specialty, it also appears to be an excessively specialized weapon; only really useful as a last ditch weapon in situations where (perhaps due to local conditions seriously degrading all SONAR performance, which would make me wonder why a hostile sub would let itself get trapped there) the small craft and the hostile sub accidentally stumbled across each other at point blank range.

@swedegamer

8 жыл бұрын

Extreme littoral conditions, such as in the Swedish archipelago, are the hardest conditions in the world to detect submarines with very short detection ranges. It is the ideal place for a small submarine to hide. No other navies other than the Swedish and the Finnish even try to hunt submarines in extreme littoral waters. That's what this weapons is developed for.

@jeffanderson8165

8 жыл бұрын

Mats Österholm ... and thinking about it some more, because sub drivers don't like to operate in waters where they'e impeded as well, I'm starting to think that the existence of this weapon may lead admirals in charge of submarine deployment to not send them in to those waters; their sensor systems, and thus their mission capabilities, are too impeded to be worth the risk of being sunk by these weapons...

@swedegamer

8 жыл бұрын

+Jeff Anderson They were primarily designed as a response to Soviet and Russian midget special ops submarines and their mother ships intruding into Swedish territorial waters in the 80's and 90's.

Seems awfully short range to be of much use.

@ungdomsavdsydinstr2326

10 жыл бұрын

Armory especially for short range use to have....short range.

@tysswe1

9 жыл бұрын

Its perfect for swedens Coasts, because we have very large archipilagos. Look at google maps how the Waters outside of Stockholm look like for example. Any hostile sub entering it is dead meat.

@vibraloop

9 жыл бұрын

tysswe1 really? we will see now ;) look at the sub hunt :)

@tysswe1

9 жыл бұрын

vibraloop I am following it. I am from Stockholm.

@antigonish63

9 жыл бұрын

tysswe1 The ship carrying this system would have been sunk three hours before it got close enough to use the launcher. This is not hunting U-Boats in WW2, modern systems on subs have ranges measured in the tens or even hundreds of miles.

Well, it looks like we just reinvented the Hedgehog system from WW2

I put one of these units on my fishing boat and I gotta say, nobody is fishing my favorite spots anymore...

hedgehog ripoff

@slukky

6 жыл бұрын

I wouldn't go that far, Owens. Certainly, it is the offspring of Hedgie, but w/all the improvements in chemistry & technologies, it is far more effective at what it was designed to do-- sink subs hugging our coasts. The producer seemed quite proud of the fact that the pressure wave would kill the entire crew. Guess the govt. really hates any competition in contraband smuggling ops. But that's another documentary....

@CzornyLisek

6 жыл бұрын

Its deep charge, shit known and used from year 1913. Hedgehog maight be most glorified and best know depth charge for english speaker. But it was not new concept or anything like that.

WOW you have to be right on the target before you can fire on it (100 to 450 yards) which is an excellent weapon for harbors or coastal areas.

@coole6825

2 жыл бұрын

not yards , meters

@YeahhBuddyMmhm No. Unless it has been launched from a launcher and reached a certain water depth, it is completely safe.

Mmm I love it! Whats the updated version of these?

@Zretgul_timerunner

4 жыл бұрын

That whould be the 633/644 i do think which builds on above system but just longer range deeper and better warheads