Cool Pictures in ASW Platforms Narrated by, LT Scott

SH-60B: Onboard FFG, DD, CG, DDG 25 Sonobouys Up to 2 Mk 46/50 Torpedos Penguin Anti-Ship Missile Hellfire (ASM) Surface Search Radar – Pancake looking thing underneath. This is what is used to tell the difference between a B and a F

SH-60F: Onboard CVN only! 25 Sonobouys Up to 2 Mk 46/50 Torpedos Dipping Sonar – Active Transmission.

P-3 Orion Land - Based 100+ Sonobouys Up to 8 Mk 46/50 Torpedos Harpoon Anti-Ship Missile Maverick MAD Antenna on the end of the plane. EP-3 Aries II Looks just like the P-3 except that it doesn’t have the MAD antenna, and it’s got a large antenna underneath the cockpit of the aircraft.

S-3 Viking: Onboard CVN 60 Sonobouys Up to 4 Mk 46/50 Torpedos Harpoon Anti-Ship Missile Fastest ASW Asset available

CRUDES ships Long on station time SONAR TACTAS NIXIE Prairie/Masker Acoustic countermeasures Torpedoes BAD if surface ship is shooting at a submarine! What is the #1 means if positive submarine ID? MK1 Mod 1 Eyeball!

CG – Ticonderoga Class: Carries up to 2 SH-60B Mk 46/50 Torpedo – Port/Starboard launchers ASROC – Anti – Submarine Rocket (Mk 46 with a booster, fired out of the VLS launcher) AN/SQS-53 C / B – Hull Mounted Sonar TACTAS NIXIE x2

DD – Spruance Class: Carries 1 or 2 SH-60B depending on configuration Mk 46/50 Torpedo – Port/Starboard launchers ASROC – Anti – Submarine Rocket (Mk 46 with a booster, fired out of the VLS launcher) AN/SQS-53 B – Hull Mounted Sonar TACTAS NIXIE x2

DDG – Arleigh Burke Class: Carries from 0 to 2 SH-60B Flight I and II cannot carry any helicopters. They can land, refuel, and do minor repairs, but SH-60B’s are not organic to the ship. Flight IIA (pictured) – Can carry up to 2 SH-60B. Mk 46/50 Torpedo – Port/Starboard launchers ASROC – Anti – Submarine Rocket (Mk 46 with a booster, fired out of the VLS launcher) AN/SQS-53 D – Hull Mounted Sonar TACTAS – Flight IIA does not have TACTAS NIXIE x2

Another picture of a Flight IIA Arleigh Burke. See the helo hangars?

CVN – Nimitz Class: Carries up to SH-60F, S-3 ASW Nothing, as a ship!!! NIXIE x4

SSN – Los Angeles Class: Mk 48 ADCAP (Advanced Capability) Torpedo – 4 tubes forward AN/BQQ-5 D/E – Hull Mounted Sonar TACTAS

SSN I – Los Angeles (Improved) Class: Mk 48 ADCAP (Advanced Capability) Torpedo – 4 tubes forward AN/BQQ-5 D/E – Hull Mounted Sonar TACTAS SSN 719 (Providence) and onwards has 12 Vertical Launching Tubes forward. TLAM there and out of the torpedo tubes as well.

SSN – Seawolf Class: Mk 48 ADCAP (Advanced Capability) Torpedo – 8 tubes forward AN/BQQ-5 D – Hull Mounted Sonar TACTAS

SSBN – Ohio Class: Mk 48 ADCAP (Advanced Capability) Torpedo – 4 tubes forward 24 SLBM – C4 Missile (West Coast) or D5 (East Coast) AN/BQQ-6 – Hull Mounted Sonar (Passive Only) TACTAS

USS Alabama (SSBN 731)

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