ASM THREAT TO SHIPS COUNTERED BY FAST DRAW CWIS

摘要

One of the most serious threats to the conduct of naval operations is the anti-ship missile (ASM). Although first used in small number in World War II the level of the challenge that they presented to surface ships really garnered attention in the 1970s when an early ASM, the Russian designed SS-N-2 Styx, sank an Israeli destroyer on 21 October 1967.