Anti-submarine grenade launcher demo onboard Swedish Strike craft HMS Styrbjörn 

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

@@UnyieldingSeraph lmao

Sweden out here saving the world

North korea buy this in saab

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.

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?

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.

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

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.

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 :-)

Lol

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

Yup how many do want

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

Similar but not the same, it took several hedgehog hits to kill and opponent. This round repositions itself and only takes one hit to kill (which I’m not sure I believe.) hedgehogs detonated as soon as contact was made. Hedgehogs are very interesting though, they changed ASW forever.

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...

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

No TheRjjrjjr. If you are THAT close to a sub you are willing to attack it will have already killed your surface ship.

SAAB is one of the defence industry's player though

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

@@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.

👍 won't have to worry about anybody stealing your favorite fishing numbers(location)!

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....

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.

"Cost effective" means it's cheaper than buying a new ship.

Lightweight torpedoes?

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

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@@livefree316 r/woooosh

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

Like those made in china? 😆

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

😂 I think that to

Hedgehog from WW2. Deep water no so good.

Depends, do you have lots of money?

Dan G best I can do is 50 cents

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

Very close.

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

Its more effective i think. 😆

Same thing but way better

As the Founding Fathers intended.

Mee thinks Volvo needs two direct hits thoe.

G Klerk 😂😂😂😂😂

Hope it works better than their cars.

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 ;)

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.

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

The ATF/FBI wants to know your location..

I saw it fiirrrssssttttt

Does it come in pink.??

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

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

The russian RBU has ten times the range though

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

@@Mjutami you have a name after a shit rifle

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.

@@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.

From the aliens of course.... 😆

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

@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)

@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.

I was gonna say, getting within 450 meters of a submarine that's angry already seems... dicey. On a helicopter though, this thing would still trouble a sub.

Sonic?

Modernized hedgehog.

that's right, they did!

Lol

Beat me to

Lol😂😂Nice joke

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.

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

The make good jets aswell

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

Lmao

GM also does

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

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.

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

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.

Everyone knows that...

sav 223.. I think same..

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Wow, really? These manufacturers are so dumb lol

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?

^^^@JERSEY JOHNBOY .. Good point I was thinking exactly that a lot of the Grenades are sunk to the bottom of the sea, if they had an inbuilt homing device and a small motor powerful enough to come to the surface to be retrieved or an inflated/ing system for them to float to the surface to be picked up either armed with a smoke alert/indicator or a homing device, I'm sure those grenades ain't exactly cheap, and they can be stripped & cleaned up and reloaded with no problems surely .. .

@@splash5150izy Oh hell yea, i guess they did not think this thru too much lol

These detonate upon impacting the bottom or after ex amount of time as demanded by international naval warfare laws.

They have a hollow charge warhead that needs to be aimed and be in direct contact with the hull to punch a hole, so a proximity fuse would be completely useless.