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From: military@cbnews.ATT.COM (William B. Thacker)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: DASH
Message-ID: <6544@cbnews.ATT.COM>
Date: 13 May 89 02:25:47 GMT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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From: Jan Wolitzky (mhuxd!wolit)

From: nuucp
> The Navy used to have DASH which stood for "Drone
> Anti-Submarine Helicopter". It was a ship launched robot that could carry
> two torpedoes out and drop them away from the ship and hopefully on top
> of an approaching sub.

Readers in the NY area can see one of these (or something that, from the
description, is the same idea) at the Cradle of Aviation Museum at Mitchell
Field, in Uniondale, in the shadow of the Nassau Coliseum.  The museum
specializes in aviation and space artifacts that were manufactured on, or
bear some other relationship to, Long Island, NY.  Lots of Grumman and
Republic warplanes, missiles, spacecraft, early planes, etc.

Was the DASH ever operational?  The one I saw looked pretty flaky.

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Jan Wolitzky, AT&T Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ; 201 582-2998; mhuxd!wolit
(Affiliation given for identification purposes only)