Allied anti-submarine warfare system

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The Allied anti-submarine warfare system was the coordinated World War II effort by Allied forces to detect, track, and destroy enemy submarines using integrated technologies, tactics, and intelligence.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf World War II military campaign
military system
belligerent Allies NERFINISHED
component HF/DF (High-Frequency Direction Finding) NERFINISHED
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ahead-throwing weapons
air-to-surface radar
airborne anti-submarine patrols
coastal command operations
convoy system
depth charges
direction-finding network
escort carriers
escort groups
hunter-killer groups
intelligence analysis centers
long-range maritime patrol aircraft
mines
radar surveillance
routing and convoy control organizations
signals intelligence
sonar (ASDIC)
conflict World War II
coordinatedBy Allied Naval Command NERFINISHED
Allied air commands NERFINISHED
Allied intelligence organizations
endTime 1945
intelligenceSource Bletchley Park decrypts
Ultra codebreaking NERFINISHED
air and surface reconnaissance reports
radio direction-finding stations
opponent German Kriegsmarine NERFINISHED
Italian Regia Marina NERFINISHED
participant Free French Naval Forces NERFINISHED
Royal Air Force Coastal Command NERFINISHED
Royal Australian Navy NERFINISHED
Royal Canadian Navy NERFINISHED
Royal Navy NERFINISHED
United States Army Air Forces NERFINISHED
United States Navy NERFINISHED
primaryObjective destruction of enemy submarines
protection of Allied shipping
primaryTheater Battle of the Atlantic NERFINISHED
startTime 1939
strategicEffect containment of the German U-boat threat
reduction of Allied shipping losses
securing Atlantic supply lines
tactic air gap closure in mid-Atlantic
blackout and radio silence procedures
convoy escort screen
integrated air-sea coordination
offensive sweeps against U-boat transit routes
technologyUsed ASDIC sonar NERFINISHED
HF/DF radio direction finding
acoustic torpedoes countermeasures
ahead-throwing weapons such as Hedgehog
centimetric radar
improved depth charge fuzes
theater Arctic convoys
Indian Ocean NERFINISHED
Mediterranean Sea NERFINISHED
Pacific Ocean NERFINISHED

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