![]() ![]() Given anticipated budget constraints, that may or may not come toįruition and Navy interest appears to have greatly abated.īefore one scoffs at the outdated technology of a box ![]() Harpoon anti-ship missiles although the Navy is looking at adapting the LRASMĪnti-ship missile to vertical launch. It is worth noting that today’s VLS still does not support Even a reasonable mix would offer, say, 8 ASROC and 16 Harpoon. Reloadable version of the box launcher offered a maximum of 24 Harpoon missiles Launcher require internal volume for storage of the reloads.Īnother benefit of the box launcher was the ability to mix Of course, the reloadable versions of the box That it has no significant deck penetration into the hull as opposed to VLS andĪrm launcher systems which consume large volumes of internal hull space. In addition, one of the major benefits of a box launcher is Some advantages over vertical launchers, as we’ve noted. Launchers”) and the Mk16 ASROC launcher benefits fall into the single Launchers and VLS systems (see, “VLS Versus Arm ![]() We’ve previously discussed the relative merits of single arm Knox, California, and other classes had up to 16 automated reloads.(1) Early systems had no reloads while latter versions mounted on Spruance, The Mk16 was an 8-cell box launcher that could rotate andĮlevate to provide complete hemispherical coverage (minus superstructure cutįor ASROC (RUR-5) and Harpoon missiles. Let’s take a closer look at the launcher. Launcher was the Mk16 ASROC/Harpoon box launcher. Before the advent of VLS, missiles were launched from some ![]()
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