Sentence examples for asdic from inspiring English sources

Advanced underwater listening equipment (asdic, or sonar) was installed, and six forward torpedo tubes made them potent weapons.

Pink Floyd are pictured listening to a playback in the control room, wearing expressions that strongly suggest their motes are failing to dance and their pings are insufficiently asdic.

The exhibition brochure contains a poem by Roger Waters in which the erstwhile leader of Pink Floyd hymns the "asdic ping" of pianos past and "dancing motes that never fade away".

Such multifrequency techniques as those that employ Seabeam and Gloria (Geological Long-Range Inclined Asdic) permit mapping two-dimensional swaths with great accuracy from a single ship.

Moreover, British surface vessels had the ASDIC Anti-Submarine Detection Investigation Committeee) device to detect submerged U-boats.