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Old 25th Oct 2014, 14:38
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The Nimrod could carry a large variety of stores from depth charges to guided torpedos and even nuclear depth charges.
The air-dropped Depth Charge disappeared from the RAF inventory in the late '60s. The Nimrod never carried them.

I claim to be the last RAF pilot to drop a stick of Depth Charges, when in 1973 I was on an exchange tour in Australia flying the Lockheed Neptune.
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