Asagiri-class destroyer
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The Asagiri-class destroyer is a class of destroyer, serving with the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force. It was the second class of first-generation general-purpose destroyers of the JMSDF.
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JS Asagiri (DD-151)
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RUR-5 ASROC
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The RUR-5 ASROC is an all-weather, all sea-conditions anti-submarine missile. Developed by the United States Navy in the 1950s, it was deployed in the 1960s, updated in the 1990s, and eventually insta
Asagiri-class destroyer
…AN/SLQ-25 torpedo decoys Armament 1 × OTO Melara 76 mm gun 2 × 20 mm Phalanx CIWS 2 × Harpoon SSM quad canisters 1 × Sea Sparrow SAM octuple launcher 1 × ASROC octuple launcher 2 × triple 324 mm (12.8 in) torpedo tubes Aircraft carried 1 × SH-60J/K anti-submarine helicopter The Asagiri-class destroyer (あさぎり型護衛艦…
ASROC Launcher on board the German destroyer Mölders
The destroyer USS Agerholm fires an ASROC with a nuclear depth bomb in shot Dominic Swordfish (1962)
ASROC 'Matchbox' reload doors are visible in this photograph of the Japanese Asagiri-class destroyer, in 2008.
ASROC launch from USS Charles F. Adams, in 1960