UUM-44 SUBROC - Wikipedia The 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 25 kiloton tactical nuclear warhead configured as a nuclear depth bomb
Subroc Antisubmarine Missile | National Air and Space Museum This is the U S Navy's solid-fuel Subroc (Submarine Rocket), the first guided missile capable of underwater launch, guided airborne trajectory, and underwater detonation It was therefore very complex and underwent an extensive development program from 1955 until it became operational in 1965
Goodyear UUM-44 Subroc - Designation-Systems. Net The UUM-44 Subroc was the first and only submarine-launched long-range nuclear armed anti-submarine missile ever deployed by the U S Navy In the early 1950s, sonar technology had advanced to such a level, that the detection range of submarines became larger than the range of contemporary torpedoes
Antisubmarine complex UUM-44 Subroc - Missilery. info In 1965, the U S Navy's nuclear submarines received a UUM-44 "Subroc" anti-submarine guided missile (SLBM) Until 1990, these submarines were equipped with the vast majority of U S multi-purpose
UUM-44 Submarine Rocket (SUBROC) - GlobalSecurity. org The UUM-44A Submarine Rocket [SUBROC] was a large weapon designed to be fired from a standard 21" submarine torpedo tube The SUBROC is about the length and diameter of a standard
Cape Canaveral Space Force Museum The Subroc missile was a submarine-launched, inertial-guided nuclear depth charge intended to destroy enemy submarines at long ranges Sometimes referred to as a “flying torpedo”, the missile itself was part of a specialized fire control system that launched the Subroc
SUBROC and the FLIP | The Lyncean Group of San Diego The UUM-44 SUBROC (SUBmarine-launched anti-submarine ROCket) was a 22 ft (6 7 m) long, inertially-guided, long-range weapon that consisted of a solid fuel booster rocket with a W55 thermonuclear depth charge warhead