Category:ASW aircraft

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Military aircraft ASW - Attack - AWACS - Bomber - Command and control - Cruise missile - Electronic warfare - Fighter - Patrol - Reconnaissance - Rescue - Tankers - Trainers - Transports - Utility

Civil aircraft Agricultural - Airliners - Business - Cargo aircraft - Mailplanes - Sailplanes - Sports planes - Trainers - Ultralights - Utility

Miscellaneous Experimental aircraft - Seaplanes - Special-purpose

In World War I, the U-boat threat led to British use of patrol blimps to detect enemy submarines. Before the war ended, Britain had equipped them with depth charges and hydrophones, and experimented with a dipping hydrophone. (This idea would be revived for use aboard helicopters after World War II.) Britain had also outfitted seaplanes with depth charges and hydrophones, finding their engines too noisy to be successful. The trials were stopped at the end of the war and not revived until World War II began.

[edit] References

• Price, Alfred (1960). Aircraft versus Submarine. London: William Kimber. 
• van der Vat, Dan (1988). The Atlantic Campaign: World War II's Great Struggle at Sea. New York: Harper and Row.