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Subject: What about a submarine UAV carrier
Jeff_F_F    9/13/2007 1:48:04 PM
I got to thinking about the Japanese seaplane carriers developed during WWII. What about an updated design based on that concept that could launch UAVs?
 
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gf0012-aust       9/13/2007 2:12:36 PM
 
The USN already trialed it via USS Florida in Ex Silent Hammer.  SSGN's are defacto capable.
 
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doggtag    its name eludes me at the moment   9/14/2007 10:30:42 PM
There were some articles going around within the past couple years about the USN's interest in a vertically-launched UAV/UCAV with retractable wings that could be encased into ballistic missile tubes in SSBNs.
The concept supposedly called for an ability to provide covert reconnaissance or carry some precision bombs or missiles into areas where aerial assets weren't available at that moment.
And supposedly also, the system would be recoverable also, in a reverse of its launch procedure.
 
Several web searches under "USN VLS UAV" and things similar resulted in nothing useful.
 
Anyone remember what it was called?
 
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gf0012-aust       9/14/2007 10:45:15 PM

Anyone remember what it was called?



Cormorant
 
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ens. jack    Cruise missile idear   9/18/2007 3:55:39 PM
Why not modify something similar to a tomahawk for it. then it would be smaller and torpedo tube launchable. A cruise missile would make a good base design for a uav, wouldn't it? Just take out a lot of the targeting stuff, and you can mount the remote stuff and some deployable weps.
 
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DragonReborn       9/27/2007 11:06:34 AM
ht!p://www.darpa.mil/tto/programs/cormorant.htm

The picture of the UAV is the spitting image of the fighter plane in Total Annihilation!

 
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kirby1       9/27/2007 2:20:02 PM
If it was the size of a Tomahawk, they could load it onboard those SSGCNs they've converted from old boomer boats.
 
Theoretically quite nifty.
 
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gf0012-aust       9/27/2007 2:42:18 PM

If it was the size of a Tomahawk, they could load it onboard those SSGCNs they've converted from old boomer boats.



thats the whole reason for that design...... to go in the SSGNs
 
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