Note:
(a) RIM-162 ESSM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIM-162_ESSM
(table: In service 2004- , Manufacturer Raytheon; Unit cost US$1m; is designed to counter supersonic maneuvering anti-ship missiles)
(b)
(i)
(A) RUM-139 VL-ASROC (an anti-submarine missile in the ASROC ['Anti-Submarine ROCket'] family; table: In service 1993- , Manufacturer Lockheed Martin) en.wikipedia.org for "RUM-139 VL-ASROC,"
(B) 1963 United States Tri-Service missile and drone designation system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19 ... _designation_system
(1st letter (launch environment) R: Surface ship; 2nd letter (mission) U: Underwater attack; third letter (vehicle) M: Guided Missile)
(C) Vertical Launch Anti-Submarine Rocket ASROC (VLA) Missile. US Navy, undated (under the heading "Fact File") https://www.navy.mil/navydata/fa ... p;tid=1500&ct=2
("VLA includes a solid-propellant booster thrust vector control (TVC) and a digital autopilot control (DAC) to guide the missile from a vertical orientation through a pitch-over maneuver into a ballistic trajectory intended to deliver the torpedo to an aim point on the ocean surface" -- mentioning Mark 46 and 54 (latest model), both being torpedos )
TVC will be explained in the companion posting, about DF-26.
(D) Andrea Parsch, Lockheed Martin (Loral) RUM-139 VL-Asroc. Dec 6, 2004 (under the heading "Directory of US Military Rockets and Missiles") www.designation-systems.net/dusrm/m-139.html
("In addition to the ASROC's inertial guidance system, the VL-Asroc uses a digital autopilot, which controls the flight path using the thrust-vector control of the MK 114 MOD 0 solid-rocket booster. The autopilot makes the RUM-139 more manoeuverable than the RUR-5, and enables it to fly a shallower trajectory, avoiding errors by high-altitude winds. The range is controlled as in the RUR-5 [predecessor to RUM-139], ie by motor cutoff and airframe separation at a precalculated point in the trajectory. The payload of the RUM-139A is a MK 46 MOD 5A light-weight homing torpedo, which is decelerated and stabilized by a parachute system before it enters the water")
A defense contractor founded in 1948 in New York by William Lorenz and Leon Alpert, Loral Corp, having sold defense business to Lockheed Martin in 1996, became Loral Space & Communications. en.wikipedia.org for Local Corp.
Mark may be written mark or mk; Mod (short for model; akin to version in Silicon Valley, California), MOD or mod.
(ii)
(A) 垂直発射型アスロック 発射の映像【護衛艦きりしま】VL-ASROC. Youtube.com, published by こしりり on Nov 25, 2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nP19kD07Ebk
(B) 護衛艦きりしま JS Kirishima (DDG-174) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JS_Kirishima_(DDG-174)
(is a Kongō-class 金剛型 [named for 金剛山 in 大阪府] guided missile destroyer; named for Mount Kirishima 霧島 山 [kiri us Japanese pronunciation for kanji 霧: mist, fog]; table: Builder: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Nagasaki, Nagasaki, Commissioned 1995, Homeport Yokosuka)