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HELP IDENTIFY This Rocket w/ THIOKOL Logo . . .
HELP IDENTIFY This Rocket w/ THIOKOL Logo . . .
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This has come up before, but I can't remember it. I'm sure someone will.
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Looks similar to the ASROC/SUBROC.
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That's what I was thinking. The upper section looks like a SUBROC, but the Booster has Fins, like the ASROC. Dave F. |
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Some SUBROC pics, for comparison . . .
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Here is the ASROC . . . Note that the Booster is MUCH Shorter.
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Comrades:
How about a longer burn-time booster because that's a nuclear depth-charge on the end?
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In the late 70’s and early 80’s we “may have or may not have” carried SUBROCs on the USS Flying Fish. We hated carrying them because it required an extra watchman in the torpedo room while in port and also because of the ominous fact that the kill radius of the SUBROC would probably take out the firing sub along with the convoy/battle group it was lobbed at. Having SUBROCs on board also required that we have a tritium monitor on board because the weapon had a tritium vial in it’s warhead to aid the thermonuclear detonation.
The round in the photo indeed looks like the SUBROC—except for the fins on the booster. The booster was 21” diameter. The torpedo tubes could accept nothing larger than 21” diameter so the fins would obviously make it unloadable. Warshot SUBROCs also had no roll pattern.
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Interestingly, with all our technology the firing of the solid fuel motor of the SUBROC was quite simple: obviously the rocket motor couldn’t start in the torpedo tube—it would incinerate the sub. The SUBROC was impulsed from the tube with a “water slug” trailing behind it the firing lanyard. When the lanyard went taught, the rocket motor fired and the weapon breaches the water and heads to the target with onboard guidance. We were lucky to enough to fire an unarmed SUBROC (called a QUAST). It performed exactly like a warshot round—except for the absence of the “earth-shattering kaboom”. Glory days.
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