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Originally Posted by hyperion2206
Does anybody know why they didn't include the ASROC in DW? Are ASROCs still being used? I just read that the German Navy gave up their ASROCs in 2003.
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ASROCs are old Cold War nuclear weapons. Nobody I know still uses the old weapons per se, but there does exist the VLA which stands for "verticle launch ASROC."
VLA is very much the same idea, but it fits into the verticle launch cells of US DDGs and CGs. Also, instead of a nuclear depth charge it carries a conventional homing torpedo. My understanding is, though, that internally it has more in common with the Sealance missile (which was never deployed) than it does with the old ASROC weapons.