Navy Destroyer In Rough Weather, and Shooting its Guns and Missiles

[tddietzman]

I served aboard the USS Henry B Wilson DDG7 from '70 thru '72. I was a Gunners Mate E4 and gun captain of Mt 51 (forward gun mount). Your videos are awesome and really capture the capabilities of the Adams Class Destroyers. We spent many days and nights off the coast of South Vietnam, providing Naval Gunfire Support to the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (aka ARVN) troops, and night raids off North Vietnam in the last half of '72. Good times. Thank you for uploading, many fond memories.

[TheCoreNan]

Would those missles be considered ground to ground if they go after ships or sea to sea?

[ussrichardebyrd]

@TheCoreNan There are two missiles shown. The missiles fired from the center of the ship are Asroc torpedoes, which are a torpedo with a 3 foot rocket booster attached to it. The air to air, SM-1 missiles, fired from the rear of the ship probably do not have a built in surface to surface capability, however SM-2 variants of this missile, installed on newer classes of ships do. Search Google for "Operation Praying Mantis" for a good read on how these were used in combat.

[fooman2108]

@ussrichardebyrd ASROC is 18 feet long with either a torpedo or a depth charge (special weapons capable). SM-1 (now SM-2 which the single armed bandit launchers couldn't carry,which is why they have all been retired). Lutjens and Rommel were out sister ships (Built in Bath Iron Works) and all the Adams class were fine sea boats (little narrow but not too bad).

Foo

[ussrichardebyrd]

@TheCoreNan to actually answer your question, I believe Surface to Surface is the correct term for what you describe.

[AehneD185]

Love that ship (DDG 28)

[sheracad]

Nice! DEEP PURPLE!!!!

[brunswickm33]

I was on the USS Barney, DDG-6 from 1962 to 65. Got on 3 days

before Commissioning. Went from E2 to E4. Went to Cuba 4 times

during Cuban Blockade. Was scrapped in '09.

[repeatedjellyfish]

Awesome, thanks.

[blukat2]

excellent deep purple song w/ ian gillan, ian paice, john lord, roger glover, and of course the best gitarist ever, richie blackmore

[skywagun]

I made the atlantic trip clip on the LÜTJENS. it looks rough but wasnt actually that bad. a fine ship can ride it out . and what  fine ships these destroyers were

[D185]

Faszinierend, wie mein Filmmaterial von 2002 und 2003 immer wieder in den unterschiedlichsten Filmen auftaucht...

[PinkOld]

I believe I personally know the fellow who put this up.

An alright guy.

[Berretar]

Nice