F15 Launch from underwater?
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nice graphics...
hmmmmmmmm i can see pedra branca...
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no joke. lockheed did submit a proposal for the US Navy UCAV contest, to launch and recover the UCAV from nuclear submarines. how to launch and recover was classified.
Navy UCAV Concepts Continue To Define Missions and Capabilities
Source: Lockheed Martin
http://www.lmtas.com/news/press/ucav/ucavpr-5.html
October 2, 1998
FORT WORTH, TX - The following descriptions describe two potential scenarios (pictured) for the Lockheed Martin concepts for U.S. Navy Unmanned Combat Air Vehicles.
Lockheed Martin Tactical Aircraft Systems has recently completed a study for the United States Navy with the objective to create conceptual aircraft designs for three different types of naval UCAVs. Two were to operate from surface combatant vessels, such as amphibious assault ships and destroyers, while the third was to be launched from submarines. Lockheed Martin further developed the sub-launched UCAV design concept to include a unique recovery and relaunch system concept. Such a system would enable the submarine to have a sustained firepower capability. The contracted study also addressed the key technologies that would be required, in addition to the launch and recovery feasibilities.
Two stealthy, sub-launched UCAVs return from a strike mission. They are approaching their splashdown rendezvous point with a converted Trident submarine. The sub would have the capability to recover the UCAVs while remaining underwater. The UCAVs could then be re-armed and refueled inside the submarine, and made ready for launch on another mission. The UCAVs are launched from the [modified] ballistic missile launch tubes with rocket boosters, much like a Tomahawk cruise missile. A Trident submarine has 24 launch tubes available. At least four Tridents are to be retired from service in accordance with the START2 nuclear weapons treaty.
A pair of low-observable, sub-launched UCAVs release GPS-aided Small Smart Bombs on target coordinates that have been transmitted from Forward Air Controllers on the ground via "Sure Strike." The Sure Strike system was developed and patented by Lockheed Martin, and is operational with U.S. Air Force units deployed to support operations in Bosnia. Currently this streamlined CAS targeting and digital communication system is interoperable with F-16 units based at Aviano, Italy.
Extending Sure Strike to be interoperable with other manned and future unmanned combat aircraft could be readily accomplished. The combination of this type of system with GPS-aided weaponry would allow many different types of combat aircraft to effectively attack targets from higher altitudes and in all-weather conditions. This capability would be ideal in a Close Air Support or Special Operations mission environment, and could significantly help to reduce potential UCAV costs by not requiring the aircraft to carry sensors for these types of mission.
The sub-launched UCAVs shown are concepts that were developed under a recently completed study contract for the United States Navy, that was funded through NAVAIR. The study was for the development of three different naval UCAV concepts: a deck-launched STOVL concept, a vertical attitude VATOL concept, and a submarine-launched UCAV concept. Lockheed Martin Tactical Aircraft Systems further-developed the third UCAV type to include an innovative recovery and relaunch system concept for the Trident submarine. Such a system would enable the submarine to have a substantial conventional firepower capability for sustained operations.
As the home of The Fighter Enterprise for Lockheed Martin, Lockheed Martin Tactical Aircraft Systems is the lead for the corporation's UCAV programs. Lockheed Martin Tactical Aircraft Systems currently builds the F-16, the world's most sought-after combat aircraft with more than 3,800 delivered to date to air forces in 19 countries. Lockheed Martin Tactical Aircraft Systems also produces one-third of the F-22 and is the lead company in Lockheed Martin's Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) development program. The company also participates in production of Japan's F-2 fighter and is working with Korean industry on the KTX-2 supersonic trainer project.
Contact: Kathryn Hayden
(817) 763-4084
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Other sub-launched UAV ideas
The US Navy is now using submarines as aircraft carriers. In recent exercises, the possibility of using sub-launched Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV's) as surveillance and targeting drones has been explored. Blasting off underwater from the sub's missile tubes, the tiny robot planes would be employed as kamikaze target spotters, relaying pictures and co-ordinates of enemy activity back to sea, ready to call down the wrath of a fully-fledged strike.
The great hope for the sub-deployed UAV concept is that the tiny robo-planes will become the stealthy eyes and ears of the "sharks of steel", whose commanders will be fed real-time information on their targets, whilst still remaining covert. A proposal by Northrop-Grumman seeks the design of a capsule to protect the UAV during the high-shock, underwater launch from the sub's missile tubes. Once the package had been boosted clear of the water, the protective shell would be blown off, leaving the jet-powered UAV to take off on its mission. The vital part of the concept is to keep radio emissions from the submarine to as near zero as possible. That is why the UAV will be mostly autonomous, using GPS rather than human remote control to navigate. To keep it's own radio profile as low as possible, the UAV will be equipped with a target recognition system, meaning it won't have to be continually sending data back to sea, but only transmit short bursts when a likely enemy concentration is found.One industry official speculated that the Navy might more rapidly embrace UCAVs than the Air Force because the Navy "is already comfortable with" the massive use of a non-piloted attack platform-the Tomahawk land attack missile. "The Navy already has a UCAV," the official said of the Tomahawk. "It just doesn't come home."
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ya... but the video is kinda cool...Originally posted by kopiosatu:nice graphics...
hmmmmmmmm i can see pedra branca...
OOPS~
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I don't think the video clip about the launching of F-15 is genuine. I think they just added the F-15 over the launch of a missile, most probably a Tomahawk or Harpoon missile launched from a submarine.
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...reminds mi of gundam SEED ZAFT sub carrier that launches MS -
the way the target moves reminds of me a video where the trident II missile was launched/Originally posted by tankee1981:I don't think the video clip about the launching of F-15 is genuine. I think they just added the F-15 over the launch of a missile, most probably a Tomahawk or Harpoon missile launched from a submarine.
anyway i do agree with yr point.
noticed the afterburner seemed to be bigger than the engine ? ahahahaha -
Wha, last episode come out liao!!Originally posted by duotiga83: ...reminds mi of gundam SEED ZAFT sub carrier that launches MS -
Errr....seaplanes used to launch frm subs...nothing new.....during ww2.
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I think its not a Trident as it is launched out of the water at an angle,most probably from the torpedo tubes and not the straight up approach by ICBMs from vertical launch tubes.