Object Details
- Manufacturer
- Avco Corportation
- Summary
- This is the U.S. Navy's solid-fuel Subroc (Submarine Rocket), the first guided missile capable of underwater launch, guided airborne trajectory, and underwater detonation. It was therefore very complex and underwent an extensive development program from 1955 until it became operational in 1965. Subroc could either be used as an underwater-to-air, underwater-to-underwater, or surface-to-underwater weapon and carried a nuclear warhead.
- It was fired from a standard torpedo tube, then rose to the surface, flew for 25-50 miles before re-entering the water with its rocket motor already ejected, then homed in on an enemy submarine. It went out of service in 1987. This object was donated to the Smithsonian in 1966 by the U.S. Naval Ordnance Lab.
- Alternate Name
- Subroc Antisubmarine Missile
- Credit Line
- Transferred from U.S. Naval Ordnance Laboratory
- ca. 1965
- Inventory Number
- A19660031000
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- CRAFT-Missiles & Rockets
- Materials
- Motor section, steel or cast iron; torpedo or warhead section, steel
- Dimensions
- Overall: 20 ft. 6 in. long x 1 ft. 9 in. diameter, 4085 lb. (624.84 x 53.34cm, 1852.9kg)
- Country of Origin
- United States of America
- See more items in
- National Air and Space Museum Collection
- Location
- Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, VA
- Exhibit Station
- Rockets & Missiles
- National Air and Space Museum
- Record ID
- nasm_A19660031000
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv9eb6ba2b6-d245-41be-9957-a64f697e0ae5
