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It can be used to engage any target it's capable of locking onto. 'Anti-ship' is simply the purpose of its design.
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Guided missiles were invented in this country?
Germany invented the guided missile.A list of guided missiles invented by German engineers and scientists:Henschel Hs 293 (Anti-ship guided missile)Fritz X (Anti-ship guided missile)Messerschmitt "Enzian" E-4 (Radio controlled guided missile)Rheintochter (Surface to air missile)Wasserfall (Surface to air missile)
What weapons are used in the navy?
Medium calibre guns (naval artillary), missiles (anti-aircraft, anti-missile, anti-ship), close range guns (automatic - defending against missile/air attack, or manned, for policing duties against smaller craft). Small arms (rifles, pistols). Torpedos, depth charges (anti submarine). Nuclear missiles. Cruise missiles.
What weapons to do submarines use to try to sink ships?
Most fast-attack submarines rely on several anti-ship / anti-submarine weapons, but the most common U.S. weapons are: Mk. 48 ADCAP Torpedo (surface ship and submarine) Tomahawk Anti-Ship Missile (TASM) (surface ship) Harpoon Anti-Ship Missile (surface ship) Mk. 60 CAPTOR Mines (submarines) U.S. submarines also carry the land-attack version (conventional, multi-purpose or nuclear) versions of the Tomahawk (TLAM, TLAM-N).
What is an ASBM?
An ASBM is an anti-ship ballistic missile, a military quasiballistic missile system designed to hit a warship at sea.
What is an AShBM?
An AShBM is an anti-ship ballistic missile, a military quasiballistic missile system designed to hit a warship at sea.
Which missile is surface-to-surface ballistic missile?
Lots and lots. ICBMs and IRBMs are both types, as well as a wide range of anti-ship missiles, land attack cruise missiles, and other more eccentric varieties.
Guided missiles were in this country?
Germany invented the guided missile.A list of guided missiles invented by German engineers and scientists:Henschel Hs 293 (Anti-ship guided missile)Fritz X (Anti-ship guided missile)Messerschmitt "Enzian" E-4 (Radio controlled guided missile)Rheintochter (Surface to air missile)Wasserfall (Surface to air missile)
A winged radar guided french anti ship missile launched from the surface or an aircraft that skims the waves at close to the speed of sound?
Exocet missile
What are weapons of nuclear submarine?
Modern submarines carry a wide variety of weapons. An example of a U.S. Navy Fast-Attack Submarine weapons capability includes: Homing Torpedoes (Active and Passive Sonar) Tomahawk Land-Attack Missile (Conventional and Nuclear) Tomahawk Anti-Ship Missile Harpoon Anti-Ship Missile Mines Ballistic Missile submarines can carry those weapons as well, but their primary mission is Nuclear Deterrence, and as such their main weapons are Submarine Launched Ballistic Missiles (SLBM's).
How did the britannic ship sink?
It was hit in the hull by an exocet missile.
What is exocet?
A French Anti-ship missile. Unlike anti-ship missiles from other countries, like the US Navy Harpoon, the French Exocet has actually proved itself in combat (HMS Sheffield in Falklands War 1982, and USS Stark in Iran-Iraq War 1987).
What can sink a ship in the ocean?
A missile from a F-16.
