[texas booster]

Thanks. Would be interesting to understand the design characteristics that these weapon system designers were weighing before applying CAD to the problem.

Looks like there must be a good reason - beyond running out of quiet ways to turn a 13,000 ton sub.

[Spktyr]

Waterjet/attitude jet directional control has never worked out on submarines traveling at any significant speed and fully articulated vectored thrust is both limited and noisy. Neither of these methods provide passive stability and can contribute to a sub performing barrel rolls. Carefully engineered planes are still to date the best method of submarine attitude control, combined with changing buoyancy with ballast tanks.