TR Missile & Smart Munition Programs

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Bet the lads at DzKK is salivating at the chance of getting these toys to play with: View attachment 73170
Turkish navy did have these ASROC Anti Submarine Rocket Torpedoes. e g in Knox Class Frigates.
It had a 9km to 10 km range and had subsonic speed.
Later on it was developed in to RUM-139 version that is capable of being launched from a VLS and has a 1 Mach speed and 22km range.


Initial version has since been discontinued. It is a weapon circa Cold War era. Later iterations are still around.

The most effective version was the nuclear one which carried a nuclear warhead that detonated at depth taking out a submarine within a km for sure.
The conventional warhead version behaved like a standard torpedo.

Here is a picture of the part of ASROC launcher in Mersin Sea Museum :
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