To: Sancho1984
I didn’t know anti-submarine torpedoes were really rockets.
2 posted on
03/17/2011 9:38:42 AM PDT by
wastedyears
(It has nothing to do with safety, and everything to do with control.)
To: wastedyears
To: wastedyears
These days we launch a rocket to get close to where we think the sub is, where it drops a torpedo in the water. It gives the sub a lot less warning that a torpedo is coming than if the torpedo had to make the whole trip from the ship.
To: wastedyears
38 posted on
03/17/2011 10:38:43 AM PDT by
stuartcr
(Everything happens as God wants it to...otherwise, things would be different)
To: wastedyears
I didn’t know anti-submarine torpedoes were really rockets.The ASROC I knew flew out to near the target and dropped a depth bomb.
50 posted on
03/17/2011 10:46:47 AM PDT by
jimfree
(In 2012 Sarah Palin will continue to have more relevant quality executive experience than B. Obama.)
To: wastedyears
RUM-139 Vertical Launch-Asroc. Looks Rockety to me
109 posted on
03/17/2011 1:21:22 PM PDT by
Oztrich Boy
(Radioactive plume to hit USA. President Obama and familiy flee to Brazil)
To: wastedyears
45 years ago they were called AZROC’s, if my memory serves
115 posted on
03/18/2011 12:08:30 PM PDT by
itsahoot
(Almost everything I post is Sarcastic, since I have no sense of humor about lying politicians.)
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