In the future, submarines won't have sails

[Deathblow]

True or False. In the future, submarines won't have sails at all. Discuss.

My opinion? I don't see why they havn't gotten rid of them a long time ago... quote from the 'Submarine of the Future Task Force' out of the 'Office of the Secetary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology'... http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ship/docs/sotf.htm

Originally Posted by Future Submarine Task Force

The submarine will have to shoulder a wider responsibility than that of a torpedo boat, and to enable that, our key recommendation is that the torpedo room be exorcised and the ship's front-end be rearranged to create an open (free-flooding) space patterned after a cargo hold or, more aptly, a bomb bay. That will remove the design constraints of 25 inch hatches and 21 inch ejection tubes and, thus, widen the availability to the submarine community of the innovative abilities of US industry, whose help will be needed in developing ordnance to handle, for instance, land attack.

We believe that this "bomb bay" innovation should be part of a redesign of the entire front end that should include considering:


eliminating the sail (and thus gaining speed and agility at shallow depth at high sea state and reducing radiated- and self-noise)

Subs will sure look funny without those sails.