Larger-scale devices which serve to launch rockets include the multiple rocket launcher, a type of unguided rocket artillery system ; the transporter erector launcher, a vehicle with an integrated prime mover that can carry, elevate to firing position and launch one or more missiles and various launchers for guided missiles, including ones for surface-to-air missiles, anti-ship missiles, and antisubmarine warfare guided missiles ( see ASROC, Sea Lance, etc.

* Length: 8 ft 6 in ( 2. 59 m ) tube launch configuration ( from ship ), 14 ft 9 in ( 4. 5 m ) with ASROC rocket booster

The Mk 54 can be fired from surface ships via the Mark 32 surface vessel torpedo tubes or the vertical launch anti-submarine rocket ( ASROC ) systems, and also from most ASW aircraft.

ASROC started development as the Rocket Assisted Torpedo ( RAT ) program by the Naval Ordnance Test Station at China Lake in the early 1950 to develop as surface warship ASW weapon counter to the new post-WWII submarines which ran quieter, at much higher speed and could attack from much longer range with high speed homing torpedoes.

An ASROC missile could hypothetically carry a 10 kiloton W44 nuclear warhead, although the W44-armed nuclear weapons were retired by 1989, and all types of nuclear depth bombs were removed from deployment.

ASROC ' Matchbox ' mounting installed just aft of the Otobreda 76 mm | 76 mm gun turret on the Japanese Self Defense Force Asagiri class destroyer DD 158 Umigiri, photographed 28 July 2008 departing from Portsmouth Naval Base, UK.

ASROC ' Matchbox ' reload doors are visible in this photograph of the Japanese Asagiri class destroyer Asagiri, formerly DD 151, renumbered TV 3516 after reclassification as a training vessel, seen here on 28 July 2008 departing from Portsmouth Naval Base, UK.

The main developments were the new Mark 25 trainable launcher developed from the ASROC launcher, and the Mark 115 manually aimed radar illuminator that looked like two large searchlights.

The resulting XFC-130H aircraft were modified by the installation of 30 rockets in multiple sets: eight forward-pointed ASROC rocket motors mounted around the forward fuselage to stop the aircraft, eight downward-pointed Shrike rockets fuselage-mounted above the wheel wells to brake its descent, eight rearward-pointed MK-56 rockets ( from the RIM-66 Standard Missile ) mounted on the lower rear fuselage for takeoff assist, two Shrikes mounted in pairs on wing pylons to correct yaw during takeoff transition, and two ASROCs mounted at the rear of the tail to prevent it from striking the ground from over-rotation.

Destroyer USS Agerholm | USS Agerholm fires an ASROC with a nuclear depth bomb in the " Operation Dominic I and II | Swordfish " test in 1962

Agerholm launched an ASROC anti-submarine rocket armed with a nuclear depth bomb during the Operation Dominic I and II | Swordfish test of 1962

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ASROC ( for Anti-Submarine ROCket ) is an all-weather, all sea-conditions anti-submarine missile system.

The ASROC has been deployed on scores of warships of many other navies, including Canada, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Republic of China, Greece, Pakistan and others.

However, before RAT-C reached initial operational status in 1960 aboard the large US Navy destroyer-leader Norfolk, its name was changed to the present ASROC.

The attacking ship would then fire an ASROC missile carrying an acoustic homing torpedo or a Nuclear Depth Bomb ( NDB ) onto an unguided ballistic trajectory toward the target.

In cases where the ASROC missile carried an NDB, the unguided bomb would sink quickly to a predetermined depth where it would detonate.

The nuclear-armed ASROC was never used beyond one or two tests in 1961-62.

The first ASROC system using the MK-112 " Matchbox " launcher, was developed in the 1950s and installed in the 1960s.

The 31 U. S. Navy Spruance-class destroyers were all built with the Mark 16 Mod 7 ASROC Launching Group and MK 4 ASROC Weapons Handling System ( AWHS ) reload system.

Thus, each Spruance-class destroyer originally carried a maximum total of 24 ASROC.

They are also used in conjunction with other weapons ; for example the Mark 46 torpedo used by the United States becomes the warhead section of the ASROC ( Anti-Submarine ROCket ) and the CAPTOR mine ( CAPsulated TORpedo ) is a submerged sensor platform which releases a torpedo when a hostile contact is detected.

His role in The Bedford Incident was that of a young ensign who becomes so rattled by the needling of his Captain ( Richard Widmark ) that he accidentally fires an ASROC at a Soviet submarine, thus ( we are given to understand ) starting World War III.

In order to provide the ships with a credible anti-submarine weapon, the FRAM upgrade centered on the addition of AN / SQS-23 SONAR and two new weapon systems, the ASROC rocket-assisted torpedo launcher with a range of 1 – 5 miles, and the DASH antisubmarine helicopter with a range of up to.

It was a quarter of seven when the crowd washed me up among the other gallants who had established the Astor steps as the beach-head from which to launch their night of merrymaking.

Alp Arslan's conquest of Anatolia from the Byzantines is also seen as one of the pivotal precursors to the launch of the crusades.

* 1972 – Apollo program: The launch of Apollo 16 from Cape Canaveral, Florida.

It was also clear NASA would soon outgrow its practice of controlling missions from its Cape Canaveral Air Force Station launch facilities in Florida, so a new Mission Control Center would be included in the MSC.

Alfred determined their strategy was to launch smaller scaled attacks from a secure and reinforced defensible base which they could retreat to should their raiders meet strong resistance.

He never contracted the illness, but was nevertheless removed from the crew and replaced by back-up Jack Swigert three days prior to the launch.

The launch of Apollo 16 was delayed one month from 17 March to 16 April.

* 1916 – Ernest Shackleton and five men of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition launch a lifeboat from uninhabited Elephant Island in the Southern Ocean to organise a rescue for the ice-trapped ship.

As with other semi-active radar guided missiles, the missile does not generate radar signals, but instead homes in on reflected continuous-wave signals from the launch platform's radar.

Count Horn's Dutch infantry managed to push the French back from the water's edge, but it was apparent that before Marlborough could launch his main effort against Tallard, Oberglauheim would have to be secured.

The launch of Bobby Vee's successful musical career resulted from Holly's death, when he was selected to replace Holly on the tour that continued after the plane crash.

At launch, Tim Orchard was Controller of News 24 from 1997 until 2000.

" When Congress, in the summer of 1973, legislated an end to U. S. military action in, over, or off the shores of Indochina, the only U. S. military activity then going on was air support of a friendly Cambodian government and army desperately defending their country against a North Vietnamese and Khmer Rouge onslaught ... What destabilized Cambodia was North Vietnam's occupation of chunks of Cambodian territory from 1965 onwards for use as military bases from which to launch attacks on U. S. and South Vietnamese forces in South Vietnam.

Because of this the network launch was delayed from September 1, 1988 to July 31, 1989.

On November 7, 1956 U. S. Air Force Matador units in West Germany, whose missiles were capable of striking targets in the Warsaw Pact, deployed from their fixed day-to-day sites to unannounced dispersed launch locations.

The USAF adopted the AGM-86 for its bomber fleet while AGM-109 was adapted to launch from trucks and ships and adopted by the USAF and Navy.

Thus it is possible to launch Windows applications from the Cygwin environment, as well as to use Cygwin tools and applications within the Windows operating context.

Special variants called aircraft catapults are used to launch planes from land bases and sea carriers when the takeoff runway is too short for a powered takeoff or simply impractical to extend.

The machine was found 20 feet from the border fence with bales of marijuana ready to launch.

The growing likelihood of the dissolution of the USSR itself led hardline elements in the CPSU to launch the August Coup in 1991 which temporarily removed Gorbachev from power.

While this rivalry was in many ways a holdover from the days when the Commodore 64 had first challenged the Atari 800 ( among others ) in a series of scathing television commercials, the events leading to the launch of the ST and Amiga only served to further alienate fans of each computer, who fought vitriolic holy wars on the question of which platform was superior.

weapons laboratory, as well as a custom-built battle van, constructed by the Wakanda Design Group with the ability to change its color for disguise purposes ( red, white and blue ), and fitted to store and conceal the custom motorcycle in its rear section with a frame that allows Rogers to launch from the vehicle riding it.

This led to funding from ARPA to launch his work.