Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!spool.mu.edu!news.cs.indiana.edu!att!cbnews!cbnews!military From: ab3o+@andrew.cmu.edu (Allan Bourdius) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: Missile pods on Soviet warships Message-ID: <1991Jun22.041034.1688@cbnews.cb.att.com> Date: 22 Jun 91 04:10:34 GMT References: <1991Jun20.020943.1923@cbnews.cb.att.com>, Sender: military@cbnews.cb.att.com (william.a.thacker) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 38 Approved: military@att.att.com From: Allan Bourdius >the CGs (all TICOs before, I think, BUNKER HILL), DDs, DDGs, >CGNs, and FFGs have the twin arm launcher that must be loaded via rails. I'm reasonably sure that I read in AvWeek or Proceedings that all of CG 47 class were now equipped (either built with or retrofitted) with the Mk 41 VLS. The DDG 2 class (Charles F. Adams) is being retired. All the new DDG 51's will have VLS. A significant number of DD 963's (Spruance) have also recieved their VLS upgrades. > twin arm launcher that must be loaded via rails. >Before that can happen, the missiles must be loaded onto the rails. To do >that, they have to be brought up from the magazine (and fins attached, and >the rails secured, and etc. -- all while vampires are coming in. The missiles are stored in the magazine rings ready to fire (fins attached, etc.) In my naval weapons class, we saw a film of a twin arm launcher test. In the space of about twenty seconds, 12 missiles had been launched in three or four different directions. The arm launchers are *very* fast, but not as fast as a VLS. A CG 47 with two twin-arm launchers can empty its magazines in something like two minutes. With a VLS, it can do it in about 1 minute, 30 seconds. >(though the LONG BEACH (CGN-9) has two sets of twin arm >launchers -- one is essentially a spare...) Wrongo. The Long Beach has two separate magazines for each launcher, one holds 80 missiles and the other 40. Allan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Allan Bourdius [USMC Officer Candidate/Brother, Phi Kappa Theta Fraternity] ab3o+@andrew.cmu.edu or 1069 Morewood Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 "I used to be disgusted, now I'm just amused" "Give, expecting nothing thereof." The opinions in this post/mail are only those of the author, nobody else.