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Oberon · 01-27-12, 09:35 PM

We did that ages ago:

And then the Daleks blew it up...

I know the Soviets flirted with the idea of a Submarine LST, long ago, and there was a brief period of aircraft being attached to submarines, even into the early jet age. But up until now aircraft have always been too big to fit into a submarine without making it bigger than a Typhoon with horrendous waterflow noise problems. Now we have UCAVs, well...I'd say that the chances were good before the century was out of a submarine with UCAV launching ability. It'd probably be like the Hurricanes we launched from merchant ships in WWII at first. Launch the UCAV, conduct the mission and then self-destruct it in the sea somewhere. But with hovering UCAVs will come VSTOL, and then the problem is solved.

01-27-12, 09:35 PM	#5
Oberon Lucky Jack Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 25,976 Downloads: 61 Uploads: 20	We did that ages ago: And then the Daleks blew it up... I know the Soviets flirted with the idea of a Submarine LST, long ago, and there was a brief period of aircraft being attached to submarines, even into the early jet age. But up until now aircraft have always been too big to fit into a submarine without making it bigger than a Typhoon with horrendous waterflow noise problems. Now we have UCAVs, well...I'd say that the chances were good before the century was out of a submarine with UCAV launching ability. It'd probably be like the Hurricanes we launched from merchant ships in WWII at first. Launch the UCAV, conduct the mission and then self-destruct it in the sea somewhere. But with hovering UCAVs will come VSTOL, and then the problem is solved.