I know you will find this impossible to believe, but a US aircraft manufacture in the 1960s or 1970s offered to the US Navy an aircraft design that could be launched from a submarine under water raise to the surface, take off and then patrol, etc and then land and go back underwater and redock in the submarines. Bill Sweetman back in the 1990s posted on Compuserves Military.Com (ie one of the few military forums then with a large scale membership) the only know photo of the design.

Is this it? http://www.waterufo.net/flyingsubs/NavyFlyingSubHtml1.htm

Mines are probably a greater threat to navies than any other current weapon system and they should be the weapon of choice for any country that needs to defend it’s shores but can’t match the threat on equal terms.

There are a lot of mine counter measure systems in service and under development so I think future mines will need some sort of self defence weapon such as a pop up missile to attack mine warfare ships and helicopters.

Here is a old thread on Mine Hunters http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=46416&highlight=Mine+warfare

http://www.diehl-bgt-defence.de/index.php?id=550&L=1

Barracuda

Barracuda is a technology demonstration program for a supercavitating underwater missile for defence against torpedoes and for engagement of submarines. It is equipped with a rocket motor, inertial reference unit/autopilot and a mobile, conus-shaped tip. The rocket motor provides Barracuda with an underwater speed of 360km/hr, the inertial reference unit/autopilot stabilizes the missile and the flexible nose cone provides steering. During underwater travel, Barracuda moves in an air bubble, the so-called cavitation bubble which greatly reduces the water resistance, thus enabling the high speed. Some test models of the underwater missile have been built, successfully demonstrating stable straight and curved path accuracy in several tests. Barracuda will be deployed from submarines and from surface vessels.

I’m waiting for some country to deploy a 3 stage anti-ship cruise missile that launches a self defence anti-radar missile and drops a supercavitating underwater missile as well as it’s own warhead :dev2:

Any news on the Army sub-forum yet? is it gone for good or will it return as Army Aviation?

Bump 😉

Giant C-5 military jet crashes in Delaware http://edition.cnn.com/2006/US/04/03/c5.crash/

Any news on the Army sub-forum yet? is it gone for good or will it return as Army Aviation?