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Description Launch of a High Altitude Sounding Projectile (HASP) from a Loki rocket launch tube aboard the U.S. Navy destroyer leader USS John S. McCain (DL-3), circa 1962. The tube was fitted to a 127 mm/54 caliber Mark 42 gun.
The Loki was originally the 76mm HEAA Rocket T220, an unguided anti-aircraft rocket based on the German Taifun rocket. Like the Taifun, Loki never saw service in its original role, but later found widespread use as a sounding rocket, the HASP.
Date circa 1962
date QS:P,+1962-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Source U.S. Navy All Hands magazine October 1962, p. 29.
Author USN
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"All photographs published in ALL HANDS are official Department of Defense photographs unless otherwise designated."

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