Squid

Rarity: Common

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Invention

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Science and technology

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What Wikipedia says

Squid was a British World War II ship-mounted 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 system.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Squid (weapon)”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: No machine-readable author provided. Henning M assumed (based on copyright claims)., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.