ASDIC

abbreviation for Anti-Submarine Detection Investigation Committee, a committee which British sonar was named after. —SHSBC Binder 1 Glossary

abbreviation for Anti-Submarine Detection Investigation Committee, a committee which British sonar was named after.(British) an underwater apparatus used to detect submerged submarines. Its name comes from the group that suggested it the Allied Submarine Detection Investigation Committee, a joint English-French project set up in 1918, immediately after World War I (1914@1918). Now called sonar. A QCB-1 antisubmarine electronic echo device, an ASDIC QCB-1Tthis is the way it is built. - Study Evaluation of Information (11 Aug. 64) the name of a system developed by the British and first used in 1921 that transmits a pulse of sound into the ocean and uses its rebounding echo to detect submarines. "ASDIC" comes from the initials of the group that firstabbreviation for Anti-Submarine Detection Investigation Committee, a committee which British sonar was named after. I tried to explain it to themT"a QCB-1 antisubmarine electronic echo device, an ASDIC QCB-1. This is the way it is built." - Study Evaluation of Information (11 Aug. 64)