Keywords: 330-PSA-90-60 (USN 710733) ASROC missile loaded and ready to fire, onboard USS Norfolk (DL 1) during evaluation tests. Launcher is a pepper-box design, each cell serving as missile storage magazine and launcher. All eight cells turn together, and each pair of over/under cells elevates individually. Launcher can cover almost a full circle about ship while ship remains in formation course. Magazines enable ship to fire successive missiles at a throw of a switch. Photograph released June 24, 1960. (8/25/2015). 330-PSA-90-60 (USN 710733) ASROC missile loaded and ready to fire, onboard USS Norfolk (DL 1) during evaluation tests. Launcher is a pepper-box design, each cell serving as missile storage magazine and launcher. All eight cells turn together, and each pair of over/under cells elevates individually. Launcher can cover almost a full circle about ship while ship remains in formation course. Magazines enable ship to fire successive missiles at a throw of a switch. Photograph released June 24, 1960. (8/25/2015). |