> If you want to shoot a rocket at something, why try to fly it through water in the first place? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RPK-6_Vodopad/RPK-7_Veter http

> If you want to shoot a rocket at something, why try to fly it through water in the first place? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RPK-6_Vodopad/RPK-7_Veter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RPK-6_Vodopad/RPK-7_Veter Actually, and anti-sub weapon, and very "funny" one. Apparently, it was puzzling NATO intel analysts up until the collapse of the union. Launches underwater, like a torpedo, fires an SRB, maneuvers out of the water, flies to withing few kilometres of the target, and turns into torpedo again. It originated from a no less eccentric weapon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metel_Anti-Ship_Complex https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metel_Anti-Ship_Complex An ASROC lookalike, with a twist. In it, the torpedo, and the carrier rocket both carry a warhead. So, in an anti-shipping mode, the ship gets hit, first, by the missile, and, then, it's torpedo, so as to maximally confuse the enemy.