This successful design came into service with the Royal Navy in the early 1980s. Used successfully in the Falklands War.
GWS-25 Sea Wolf was developed under the project title PX.430 after a Royal Navy SAM study called "Confessor". Confessor was intended replace Seacat to give small warships a defensive capability against sea-skimming anti-ship missiles as well as aircraft.
The photo at the left shows a Seawolf being loaded into one of the boxes of the six-round trainable launcher. This launcher has been superceded buy the vertical launch GWS-26.
Originally mounted in a six box trainable launcher, later developments included a vertical launch installation based on a Royal Navy study called "Sinner" (every confessor must have a sinner) and resulted in the development of GWS-26 vertical launch Sea Wolf. This has been fitted to recent Royal Navy warships. Sea Wolf is also capable of intercepting shells.
Seawolf uses a
Blackcap sustainer rocket motor. Vertical Launch Sea Wolf has an additional boost motor.The photo shown on the right shows a Seawolf being launched during tests with the Type 910 tracker radar in the foreground.
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