[John Jorsett]

I'm pretty familiar with submarines, having worked on the communications system used for Tomahawk targeting, and I've not heard of anything like a tube-launched anti-air missile. I have a difficult time conceiving of the circumstances in which you'd be messing with an experimental one near the coast like that. They also need some means of positive targeting. You wouldn't just pop one out to float on the surface and activate it to shoot down whatever comes within range. At least I wouldn't. Never know what those dweebs at Naval Research Lab might do in their drunken stupor (just kidding, NRLers).

[RedBloodedAmerican]

read 28?

[LS]

Actually in the early 1980s, the Navy WAS experimenting with AA missiles on subs, but to my knowledge, nothing came of it because to "acquire and fire" would mean surfacing and thus placing the sub in more danger than when below the waterline.