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To: DesertRhino

I don’t know if it is fielded yet, but in fact subs can now launch AA missiles, though generally not to the altitude of TWA800:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDAS_(missile)

The US system is more advanced, though I vaguely recall it is ejected out of somewhere extremely unlikely, like the garbage ejector.


259 posted on 06/24/2016 2:24:56 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: gaijin

Follow up:

Those sub AAM systems were not operational at the time of TWA800.


260 posted on 06/24/2016 2:25:54 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: gaijin

The Russians launch theirs out of the torpedo tube. The rocket is encased in a waterproof shell the same size/shape as a torpedo. It pops up to the surface and the shell is blasted away as the rocket engine ignites.


299 posted on 06/30/2016 12:14:15 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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