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Flying Submarines and Submarine Aircraft Carriers

Article Category: Advice

Author Name: Merle Long

If submarines possessed the high eyesight and fast speed of airplanes, they could substantially extend their influence. In case aircraft operated off as well as landed from underwater platforms, their staging and attack should be stealthier and a lot more secure.

Fantastic as the notion is, flying subs and submarine carriers remain fixed in the research stage. Drone innovation and advances in component science might finally make these kinds of sensational weapons feasible.

Incorporating the two epoch-making weapons has turned out difficult.

During the 1950s both Soviet as well as American architects delved into the design of submarine aircraft carriers. Between 1958 and 1964 the United States Navy placed Regulus nuclear-armed cruise missiles aboard specially-equipped subs.

Regulus was primarily a drone together with a three-megaton warhead and a 500-mile range. Like the Sen-Tokus (a World War 2 Japanese submarine aircraft carrier), the Regulus missile sub had to surface in order to launch the big drones, likely exposing it to discovery.

Guided missile submarines such as Halibut and later ballistic-missile boats skillfully combined the underwater and aerospace fields. These were essentially very-long-range seafaring artillery rather than aircraft carriers. The sub-launched missiles happen to be one-shots, instead of recoverable airplanes.

The "Flying Sub"-- presented by way of Irwin Allen in the TV show Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. Nowadays, the manta-shaped submarine appears incredibly futuristic, still, it's conceivable it drew genius as a result of an actual design.

In 1962, Convair pitched the Navy a submersible aircraft model. Like the Ushakov plane, the Convair concept would soar to a search location then land on water and go under to proceed with its quest.

Convair released a number of details from the research in 1965. The same as the Ushakov, the High Density Seaplane possessed pressure-proof chambers, floodable spaces and three powerplants having watertight doors. There is no hint it was ever built.

During the late 20th century, the Naval force refined the Regulus concept by developing the sub-launched Tomahawk cruise missile. A cross between a drone and a flying torpedo, the jet-powered Tomahawk is the Pentagon's long-range assault weaponry of choice.

Stealthy Subsea Seabird:

In 2003, the Pentagon's fringe-science Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency launched a research of recyclable submersible aircraft. During 2006, Lockheed Martin evolved this Multi-purpose Unmanned Aerial Vehicle inside the Cormorant project, titled for the seabird that will dive to astonishing depths.

The Cormorant designers solved the storage issue by fitting their aircraft inside a missile sub's residing launch tube. The 19-foot-long drone would offset the seven Tomahawks it took the place of utilizing its strength and also reusability.

To reduce exposure risk when the Cormorant started, the submarie would launch the drone submerged then sail away. Compressed gas would next propel the plane to the surface where its rocket engine should ignite and loft it toward the heavens.

Once in the air with its wings expanded and its jet engine breathing, the Cormorant should go as far as 500 miles plus as high as 35,000 feet. By the end of its mission, the drone would return to the sub's location, open a parachute and impact into the sea a brief distance out. The sub's team would launch a swimming robotic to haul the aircraft back to the awaiting submarine.

The Cormorant fell victim to budget cuts in 2008.

Not long after the Cormorant venture ended, engineers at the Naval Surface Warfare Center at Carderock developed a submersible airplane for special operations.

Just like Ushakov's pioneering configuration, it's a flying airfoil using pontoons, full of hollow spots and a pressure chamber. Thirty-four to 36 feet long having a wingspan of around 90 and 110 feet, the Carderock flying sub might hold six Special Operations Forces troopers and two pilots some 800 miles airborne and even up to 12 miles submerged. Sending out bigger payloads at extended ranges ask for greater aircraft.

Keywords: Flying Submarine, Submarine Aircraft Carrier, Flying Submarine

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