1978年在荷兰首都鹿特丹召开的海军装备展览会上,美国雷锡恩公司展出了一种用于新式“轻型海麻雀”导弹系统的垂直发射装置。该发射装置已于1977年9月在慕尼黑由美国和一些欧洲公司签署了协议,现正在联合研制中。这种新式垂直发射装置采用了新的技术并使用了轻重量部件,它准备作为北约七国新发展的AIM-7M“海麻雀”的垂直发射架。新式垂直发射架分两排共八个室,可装八发“海麻雀”导弹。每排四室有一直接向上的鼓风偏 In 1978, at the Naval Equipments and Equipment Exhibition held in the Dutch capital Rotterdam, Raytheon Company of the United States exhibited a vertical launcher for the new Lightweight Sea Sparrow missile system. The launcher was signed in Munich in September 1977 by the United States and a number of European companies and is currently being jointly developed. This new vertical launching device incorporates new technology and uses lightweight components ready for vertical launching of the newly developed AIM-7M Sea Sparrow in the seven NATO nations. New vertical launchers divided into two rows of eight rooms, can hold eight “sea sparrow” missiles. Each row of four rooms have a direct upward bias