No actual navy experience here, just fan of Red Storm Rising book. Remembering reading the part of the book where the soviet sub was torpedoed resting near a known wreck near New York harbor. It was like the sub could not do anything other than try remain quiet. A tactic that did not work once the torpedo's active sonar acquired.
Could something be devised that could be shot out from a standard torpedo tube and then exit the casing once surfaced? A missile that could gain altitude and then acquire a target helo that was dipping it's sonar?
I imagine that in order to remain stealthy and not give themselves away the torpedo containing the missile would have to be fired a fair distance away from where it surfaced from the water. Also how to launch a missile from a torpedo that has surfaced? Unlike the Polaris which is well clear of the water before it ignites it's boosters.
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