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To: Mike Fieschko; spetznaz; Gunrunner2; Poohbah
Am I the first person you've heard offer up the concept of submarines capable of being sizable troop carriers as well as UAV launch and recovery points?

Am I crazy?

:o)
31 posted on 12/06/2002 5:05:22 PM PST by VaBthang4
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To: VaBthang4
Am I the first person you've heard offer up the concept of submarines capable of being sizable troop carriers as well as UAV launch and recovery points?

The thing would make the Typhoon class look pretty small...

32 posted on 12/06/2002 5:06:44 PM PST by Poohbah
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To: VaBthang4
Am I the first person you've heard offer up the concept of submarines capable of being sizable troop carriers as well as UAV launch and recovery points?

Am I crazy?

No, and No, it's been proposed before. I think I may have first read such a proposal in a science fiction novel, which is not to put the idea down, communications satellites in geosynchronous orbit s(Clarke orbits after the SciFi writer) were first mentioned in science fiction. I also think I read a proposal somewhat later, maybe 20 years ago, in the U.S. Naval Institute's Proceedings.

Of course it's not just been mentioned, it's been done, albeit on a small scale. Regulus was an early (and large) cruise missle lauched from a surfaced sub. Of course having to surface to lauch is a big disadvantage. Early soviet ballistic missle subs had to surface, or at least get the sail out of the water, to lauch their *liquid fueled*, missles.

53 posted on 12/06/2002 9:45:17 PM PST by El Gato
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