This specification covers the general requirements for
equipment used on aircraft to suspend and launch missiles, sonobuoys, bombs,
marine location markers, rockets, aircraft parachute flares, torpedoes, underwater
sound signals, aircraft depth bombs, bathythermographs, depth charges, etc.
This specification also covers items of equipment used to operate and control the
operation of the launching equipment, but does not cover items of equipment used
to compute the launching point.