Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!cbnews!military
From: malloy@nprdc.navy.mil (Sean Malloy)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Torpedoes (was Reloading)
Keywords: Mk48, CCS
Message-ID: <1990Jul10.024830.10136@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 10 Jul 90 02:48:30 GMT
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From: malloy@nprdc.navy.mil (Sean Malloy)

In article <1990Jul9.023926.10161@cbnews.att.com> tek@CS.UCLA.EDU (Ted Kim (Random Dude)) writes:
|The real life Kirov BCGN has four ASW weapon types: the RBUs (rocket
|propelled depth charges), tube launched ASW homing torpedos, Silex
|(missile with ASW homing torpedo) and ASW helos (which drop ASW homing
|torpedos). The first two are pretty short range. The last two have a
|lot longer ranges. The Mk48 should be able to out range the first two
|and can move a lot faster than the Kirov. 

Only the _Kirov_ has the SS-N-14 "Silex" launchers; the _Frunze_ and
_Kalinin_ have SA-N-9 SAM launchers where the SS-N-14 launcher was on
the _Kirov_.


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