The Mark 13 guided missile launching system is a single-arm missile launcher designed for use on frigates and other military vessels. Because of its distinctive single-armed design, the Mark 13 is oft
A RIM-66 Standard missile mounted on the Mark 13 missile launcher aboard the French Navy frigate Cassard
A Standard MR missile being fired from the Mark 13 launcher of Spanish frigate Canarias
A Harpoon Missile on the rail of a Mark 13 aboard USS Goldsborough
Training round (GMTR) loaded for testing aboard HMAS Adelaide
The RIM-66 Standard MR is a medium-range surface-to-air missile, with a secondary role as an anti-ship missile, developed for the United States Navy. A member of the Standard Missile family of weapons
Mark 13 missile launcher
…vessels. Because of its distinctive single-armed design, the Mark 13 is often referred to as the "one-armed bandit". The Mark 13 is equipped to fire the RIM-66 Standard, RGM-84 Harpoon, and RIM-24 Tartar missiles for anti-air and anti-ship defense, and is capable of firing the Standard at a rate of one every eight…
A RIM-66 Standard MR on a Mk-26 launcher
The guided-missile destroyer USS Curtis Wilbur launches a Standard Missile-2 while conducting torpedo evasion maneuvers during Multi-Sail 2009
A RIM-66 being assembled.
A RIM-66 being launched in 2006 from the Spanish frigate Canarias