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Originally Posted by Black_Dingo
Concur. but one scenario I might envisage a standoff weapon being used is with an integrated data link wherein the detecting platform may not be able to or may not want to deploy its own weapon and passes on the link data to a submarine firing a standoff weapon.
*shrug*....could work.
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That's unlikely. The only time that'd be useful is if the detecting platform had no ASW weaponry himself. If the detecting platform had no ASW weapons, though, why does it have ASW sensors? The only thing I can think of like that is a SURTASS, and then it'd be heavily protected by MPAs and a surface combattants queued by it. There's no need for it on a submarine.
There's all kinds of remote sensors and networks that people are experimenting with right now. Those are future systems, though. Assuming they're deployed at all, they probably won't make an appearence for decades. There's definitely an interest in remote sensors as a way to improve detection ranges, though and maybe someday people will start thinking about standoff weapons again, but for now they're not really necessary.
In the abscence of a good CZ, or nuclear weapons standoff weapons are not really useful on submarines right now.