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Parent topics

• Anti-submarine warfare [r]: (ASW) In the context of naval warfare, the mission of attacking underwater vessels, from platforms under naval command and control. [e]
• Torpedo [r]: A naval weapon that travels underwater, using its own propulsion, to attack its target, minimally with onboard mechanisms to keep it on a straight course. Modern torpedoes are underwater guided missiles that can track their target and adjust their course to hit it [e]

Subtopics

• RUM-139 Vertical Launch ASROC [r]: A surface-to-underwater missile consisting of a guided booster that delivers a homing antisubmarine torpedo to a distant location [e]
• RPK-2 Viyuga [r]: Add brief definition or description (NATO designation SS-N-15 STARFISH)

Other related topics

• Maritime patrol aircraft [r]: Very long range, usually land-based, aircraft optimized for sea surveillance, originally principally for anti-submarine warfare but often with anti-surface warfare capabilities; newer types also have land and littoral surveillance roles [e]
  • P-3 Orion [r]: Land-based maritime patrol aircraft designed for the U.S. Navy; enhanced for littoral and land surveillance [e]
  • P-8 Poseidon [r]: New maritime patrol aircraft, built on a Boeing 737 airframe for the United States Navy [e]
  • Tu-142 [r]: Add brief definition or description
  • Dassault Atlantic Third Generation [r]: Add brief definition or description

• H-60 helicopter [r]: A family of light transport helicopters used by the U.S. services, including the standard troop carrier, naval rescue and surface/subsurface warfare, electronic warfare, and a special operation variant that is not really a Black Helicopter but instead very, very dark gray [e]

• Unguided rocket [r]: A form of artillery weapon that uses a rocket motor to propel a warhead at a target, using no guidance once launched [e]
• Vertical launch system [r]: A method of launching guided missiles from warships, firing them straight up rather than using a launcher that aims them toward the target; missile guidance puts them on the path to the target [e]