UUM-125 Sea Lance
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| General Information | |
| Type | Anti -submarine missile and anti-ship missile |
| Manufacturer | Boeing |
| development | 1982 |
| Commissioning | Development stopped |
| Technical specifications | |
| length | 6.25 m |
| diameter | 533 mm |
| Combat weight | 1,400 kg |
| drive | Hercules EX 116 MOD 0 solid rocket engine |
| speed | Mach 1.5 |
| Range | 185 km |
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| Target location | INS |
| Warhead | W89 nuclear warhead with 200 kT or MK.50 torpedo |
| Weapon platforms | Submarines and ships |
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The UUM-125 Sea Lance is a weapon system developed by the US Navy in 1980 to combat under- and surface-water targets to replace the UUM-44 Subroc . However, the weapon never got beyond the project status, the development program was stopped in 1990.
The Sea Lance is a mixture of missile and torpedo . It flies towards its target like a rocket and then dives into the water just before the target to continue swimming as a torpedo.
Benefits of the Sea Lance
- It reaches its target faster than a normal torpedo and can be used over greater distances.
- In contrast to the torpedo, it can also be used by aircraft from great heights.
- Missiles can be repulsed relatively easily by military ships : heat-seeking missiles with false heat sources and radar missiles with aluminum strips. Many military ships have no underwater defense and are helpless at the mercy of a torpedo.
Similar weapons
The Russian SS-N-15 Starfish , SS-N-16 Stallion and SS-N-27 Sizzler are similar in their functional principle .