An anti-submarine weapon (ASW) is any one of a number of devices that are intended to act against a submarine and its crew, to destroy (sink) the vessel...
28 KB (3,957 words) - 14:50, 28 September 2023
An anti-submarine missile is a standoff anti-submarine weapon. Often a variant of anti-ship missile designs, an anti-submarine systems typically use a...
4 KB (374 words) - 14:36, 27 February 2024
The Hedgehog (also known as an Anti-Submarine Projector) was a forward-throwing anti-submarine weapon that was used primarily during the Second World War...
20 KB (2,307 words) - 14:50, 9 May 2024
Squid was a British World War II ship-mounted anti-submarine weapon. It consisted of a three-barrelled mortar which launched depth charges. It replaced...
7 KB (702 words) - 20:06, 1 June 2024
Limbo, or Anti Submarine Mortar Mark 10 (A/S Mk.10), was the final development of the forward-throwing anti-submarine weapon Squid, designed during the...
5 KB (406 words) - 09:29, 26 April 2024
Gyrodyne QH-50 DASH (redirect from Drone Anti-Submarine Helicopter)
(Drone Anti-Submarine Helicopter) is a small drone helicopter built by Gyrodyne Company of America for use as a long-range anti-submarine weapon on ships...
22 KB (1,946 words) - 16:28, 5 June 2024
ship-borne Anti-submarine weapon system. The weapon fires a number of different types of rockets, which in addition to attacking submarines provide a multi-layer...
2 KB (205 words) - 05:09, 10 January 2024
Anti-submarine warfare (ASW, or in the older form A/S) is a branch of underwater warfare that uses surface warships, aircraft, submarines, or other platforms...
57 KB (7,657 words) - 02:14, 1 April 2024
Depth charge (redirect from Ashcan (weapon))
A depth charge is an anti-submarine warfare (ASW) weapon designed to destroy submarines by detonating in the water near the target and subjecting it to...
28 KB (3,755 words) - 18:33, 4 June 2024
UUM-44 SUBROC (category Cold War anti-submarine weapons of the United States)
UUM-44 SUBROC (SUBmarine ROCket) was a type of submarine-launched rocket deployed by the United States Navy as an anti-submarine weapon. It carried a 250...
6 KB (701 words) - 00:40, 20 May 2024
The RUR-4 "Weapon Alpha" (originally Weapon Able) was an American naval ahead-throwing anti-submarine warfare (ASW) rocket launcher. It was designed between...
6 KB (463 words) - 19:15, 17 December 2021
Anti-submarine mortars are artillery pieces deployed on ships for the purpose of sinking submarines by a direct hit with a small explosive charge. They...
6 KB (840 words) - 11:31, 22 January 2024
An anti-submarine net or anti-submarine boom is a boom placed across the mouth of a harbour or a strait for protection against submarines. Net laying ships...
4 KB (500 words) - 15:30, 4 June 2024
RUR-5 ASROC (category Anti-submarine weapons)
program by Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake in the early 1950s to develop a surface warship anti-submarine warfare (ASW) weapon to counter the new post-World...
13 KB (1,381 words) - 00:38, 20 May 2024
Fairlie Mortar (redirect from Parsnip (anti-submarine mortar))
platform, eventually became the predominant British ship-borne anti-submarine weapon in the war. The Fairlie Mortar was developed by the Royal Navy's...
12 KB (1,608 words) - 22:44, 2 February 2023
Ashcan, prisoner-of-war camp for prominent Nazis Ashcan (weapon), an anti-submarine weapon Ashcan School, a realist artistic movement Ashcan comic, a...
422 bytes (89 words) - 15:30, 28 December 2023
corvettes, mainly designed for coastal anti-submarine defense and ocean escort missions. Limbo Squid Hedgehog RBU-6000 Weapon Alpha Terne "Warships forecast"...
4 KB (199 words) - 05:10, 28 April 2024
Air-to-surface missile Anti-submarine missile Surface-to-air missile Man-portable air-defense system Anti-ballistic missile Anti-satellite weapon Surface-to-surface...
11 KB (1,129 words) - 06:32, 31 March 2024
Anti-ship weapons – target ships and vessels on water. Anti-submarine weapons – target submarines and other underwater targets. Anti-tank weapons –...
34 KB (3,760 words) - 20:49, 2 June 2024
included the Hedgehog anti-submarine weapon and Squid anti-submarine mortar, as well as the Holman Projector, the development of an Army anti-aircraft rocket...
8 KB (910 words) - 08:43, 1 December 2022
Navy military equipment of the Cold War Corsham Computer Centre NATO Submarine Rescue System Submarine Command System Active Royal Navy weapon systems...
8 KB (882 words) - 21:21, 13 March 2023
patrol corvettes, Coastal with 1 × 76 mm gun, 4 anti-submarine torpedo tubes, 2 anti-submarine weapon rocket launcher – 495 tons full load – commissioned...
11 KB (876 words) - 20:30, 29 March 2024
UUM-125 Sea Lance (category Cold War anti-submarine weapons of the United States)
early in development as the Common ASW Standoff Weapon, was to be an American standoff anti-submarine missile, initially intended to carry a W89 thermonuclear...
6 KB (556 words) - 00:37, 20 May 2024
against an enemy submarine pen. The W89 200 kiloton (0.2 MT) warhead armed both the tactical Sea Lance area effect anti-submarine weapon for use far out...
12 KB (1,453 words) - 13:19, 6 May 2024
RUM-139 VL-ASROC (category Anti-submarine weapons)
The RUM-139 Vertical Launch Anti-Submarine Rocket (VL-ASROC or VLA) is an anti-submarine missile in the ASROC family, currently built by Lockheed Martin...
6 KB (390 words) - 00:36, 20 May 2024
Terne ASW (category Cold War anti-submarine weapons of the United States)
Terne is a Norwegian anti-submarine weapon system, which uses rocket-thrown depth charges. It was developed by the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment...
2 KB (178 words) - 12:49, 7 August 2023
effective weapon against surface ships as well as serving as an anti-submarine weapon. Today, acoustic torpedoes are mostly used against submarines. Acoustic...
10 KB (1,347 words) - 21:55, 24 March 2024
WE.177 (redirect from Red Flag (nuclear weapon))
development of Cleo as a tactical weapon to replace Red Beard. A later requirement for a much smaller tactical and anti-submarine weapon for Navy use was filled...
34 KB (3,614 words) - 22:27, 25 May 2024
Parameswaran, The. "South Asian Strategic Stability and Pakistan's Babur-3 Submarine-Launched Cruise Missile". The Diplomat. Archived from the original on...
19 KB (1,208 words) - 10:18, 4 June 2024
Cruise/Anti-Ship Weapon"), FMAN/FMC ("Futur missile anti-navire/Futur missile de croisière" in French), FOSW ("Future Offensive Surface Weapon") or SPEAR...
32 KB (3,558 words) - 11:44, 16 May 2024