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Originally Posted by trfour
Hi NB,
So if I understand you correctly, you were referencing ( Destroyer Tenders ) not having the DASH helicopters until the Mid sixties, and not the USS Hazelwood??
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Destroyer Tenders were
Repair Ships designed to service destroyers and their equipment....from the bridge all the way down to the steam turbines and propulsion equipment in the engine room. This was done both stateside AND overseas.
DASH was intended to be part of the Destroyers "equipment".. so the Navy added Helo decks and DASH hangers to the destroyer tenders during the Very Early sixties so the tenders could service the DASH equipment. DASH wasn't intended to be an offensive weapon for use BY the destroyer tender.
In those days guided missiles were very new technology and were not launched from "Silos" in the deck...Close.. but NOT like missiles are vertically launched today. The missiles were "housed" in racks below deck where they would be "loaded" vertically up from below onto "Launch Rails" waiting on deck mounted
Turrets . Once the missiles were loaded on to the two launch rails, they would be "aimed" in the general direction of intended flight and fired.
Today's shipboard missiles ARE launched directly from vertical launch tubes in the deck. (There are exceptions). NB