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    Most depth charges use high explosives with a fuze set to detonate the charge, typically at a specific depth from the surface. Depth charges can be...
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    glass is dropped into the beer glass, the drink can also be known as a depth charge. Other pairings of a shot and a beer are possible; traditional pairings...
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  • Depth charge may refer to: Depth charge, an anti-submarine weapon fused to go off at a certain depth Depth charge (cocktail), a cocktail made by dropping...
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    A nuclear depth bomb is the nuclear equivalent of a conventional depth charge, and can be used in anti-submarine warfare for attacking submerged submarines...
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  • beginning with Depth All pages with titles containing Depth Altitude, height, and depth (ISO definitions) Altitude Depth charge (disambiguation) Depth perception...
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  • Depth Charge (1941–1965) was a Thoroughbred son of Bold Venture who went on to become an outstanding sire of American Quarter Horse racehorses. He was...
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    Look up chug in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A bomb shot, depth charge, or drop shot (Canada) is a kind of mixed drink. A drink in a small glass (typically...
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    deadly than depth charges, which relied on damage caused by hydrostatic shockwaves. During World War II out of 5,174 British depth charge attacks there...
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    The Mark VII depth charge was the standard British depth charge for the first three years of World War II The Mark VII depth charge most likely has its...
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    chains may have their own names, such as turbo at Dunkin' Donuts. and depth charge – a federally registered trademark of Caribou Coffee. At Starbucks, a...
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    range. RAT-C was developed as a stand-off ASW weapon that used a nuclear depth charge. This required a range of at least 8,000 yards (7,300 m) to escape potential...
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  • Rampage, who had killed everyone in the colony Depth Charge had been assigned to protect. Depth Charge captured Rampage and brought him in. Believing...
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  • Depth Charge is a 1960 British drama film directed by Jeremy Summers and starring Alex McCrindle, David Orr and Elliot Playfair. It was a B Film, shot...
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    depth charge attack. As the Battle of the Atlantic wore on, British and Commonwealth forces in particular proved particularly adept at depth charge tactics...
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    their charges; a similar idea was a 16 lb (7.3 kg) guncotton charge in a lanyarded can; two of these lashed together became known as the Depth Charge Type...
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  • Depth Charge is an action video game for the Apple II programmed by Chris Oberth and published by The Elektrik Keyboard of Chicago, Illinois in 1978. A...
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    a depth charge had to explode within about 20 ft (6.1 m). Since early ASDIC equipment was poor at determining depth, it was usual to vary the depth settings...
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    The Mark 101 Lulu was an airdropped nuclear depth charge developed by the United States Navy and the Atomic Energy Commission during the 1950s. It carried...
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  • charged state. For fully charged batteries, the depth of discharge is connected to the state of charge by the simple formula D o D = 1 − S o C {\displaystyle...
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    Two depth charge launchers Four Thornycroft depth charge throwers From 1955: Four 100 mm guns (4x1) Eight 37 mm AA cannons (4x2) One depth charge launcher...
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    anti-submarine weapon. It consisted of a three-barrelled mortar which launched depth charges. It replaced the Hedgehog system, and was in turn replaced by the Limbo...
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    USS Finnegan on 26 February. After an initial hedgehog and depth charge run a final depth charge run was commenced and shortly after small explosions and...
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  • English DJ, musician who has released recorded material since 1987 as Depth Charge and The Octagon Man, amongst other noms de disc. He is also the owner...
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    of the RBU-6000 system, firing the 90R rocket, which releases a 90SG depth charge that is actively guided in the water. This allows it to home in on targets...
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    shaped charge, with a metal liner on the charge cavity, can penetrate armor steel to a depth of seven or more times the diameter of the charge (charge diameters...
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    off Honolulu for the remainder of 1941 and into 1942, conducting many depth charge attacks on suspected submarines in the wake of the Pearl Harbor attack...
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    deck behind the gun to be lifted up and loaded. The cordite propellant charges were kept in eighteen steam-heated storage tanks mounted on the forecastle...
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    stern, next to the depth charge racks. The ships were fitted with two racks, each holding eight 600-pound (270 kg) depth charges and adjacent to them...
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    the Mississippi River is designed to cope with the annual change in river depth, which can be up to forty feet. Half the year, she floats as the river rises;...
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    detonation to be predetermined, in a similar fashion to a regular naval depth charge. The inventor of the first such bomb was the British engineer Barnes...
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