[Paul Ross]

The Russians recently unveiled a conceptual version of their Amur-1650 class AIP submarine for the Indian navy which had an 8 cell VLS for long range cruise missiles in addition to 18 torpedo tube weapons.That's a pretty novel concept if you ask me.

Well, actually that sounds like their adapting the idea from our implementation with the tactical conversions of the four Trident Subs into mere "conventionally armed" ships. They are retrofitted to carry 4 VLS tubes in each regular launch tube space to launch non-nuclear Tomahawks.

[sukhoi-30mki]

Well hasn't the USN been into VLS SSNs as it is from the late 70s???