By: Wanshan - 4th June 2008 at 20:21
“Friedman’s US Naval Weapons says ROF for the Mk 12 was similar to the Mk 7, which is credited with an time of 57 seconds to fire the first salvo from ready storage and with 46 seconds between salvos in continuous firing (flight time would be the actual limiting factor in long-range engagements, since time to maximum range was three or four minutes). The same book has a nice diagram of the MK 12, but I have no scanner.”
http://warships1discussionboards.yuku.com/forum/getrefs/id/81687/type/0
“Norman Friedman: “US Naval Weapons”, Conway Maritime Press, 1983″
http://www.designation-systems.net/dusrm/m-8.html
By: Arabella-Cox - 4th June 2008 at 11:59
Well, since the finning took place below-decks in the magazine, the missile crew would be finning more than one, while the previous two were loaded into the launcher, trained, and fired.
Therefore, the firing was not slowed by the finning operation at all.
About 2 missiles per rail per minute IIRC – depending of course on the availability of fire control channels.
The Mk 13 launcher firing the Tartar missile (no finning required) could launch at 7-8 missiles/minute. So to say that manual finning didn’t slow things down is probably not correct.
By: Bager1968 - 4th June 2008 at 07:24
Well, since the finning took place below-decks in the magazine, the missile crew would be finning more than one, while the previous two were loaded into the launcher, trained, and fired.
Therefore, the firing was not slowed by the finning operation at all.
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