However, unlike its fellow cephalopods—namely the octopus, cuttlefish, argonaut (aka the “paper nautilus”), and most famously, the chambered nautilus—the squid didn’t have a U.S. Navy submarine named in its honor, but rather a British Royal Navy antisubmarine warfare (ASW) weapon of World War II. Designed in 1942 by the British Admiralty’s Directorate of Miscellaneous Weapons Development—nicknamed the “Wheezers and Dodgers”—which was the same group of engineering geniuses that designed the aforementioned Hedgehog, the Squid was ordered directly from the drawing board and rushed into official operational service in May 1943 while still technically in the prototype phase, with the destroyer HMS Ambuscade (Pennant No. However, when you compare the kill-to-attack ratios of the weapons side-by-side, the proportionate effectiveness of the Squid can be more fully appreciated:
Author: Adam Lammon
Published at: 2025-03-31 22:52:08
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