In late 1967 my ship was the guinea pig for some off the wall armanment systems. The wire guided rockets was one of them. Abbott was the armorer at that time. He was a very tired and frustrated man. He worked his ass off to hook up that weapon system. It didnt work very well as either we ran out of wire, the rockets acted like scuds or the wire got all balled up. Mission was scratched and on to the ancient xm16 weapon system. (2 m60s on each pylon). That was also a failure. Ended up going with 38 2.75" rockets. AKA as The Hog. Priceless. No malfunctions and easy maintenance.