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Could you launch an ICBM horizontally?
by vinkelhake 10y ago
Could you launch an ICBM horizontally?
- baronvonsp 10y agoSure. Why would you want to?
- Animats 10y agoThat horizontal "launch tube" with a big red star is a torpedo tube.
- oldmanpants 10y agoHow about a towed sonar array?
- dvtv75 10y agoNope, too close to the screws.
- DaiPlusPlus 10y agoYes, there were aircraft-launched ICBMs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air-launched_ballistic_missile https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air-launched_ballistic_missile
- throwayguestman 10y agocould the submarine rotate into a vertical position?
- throwanem 10y agoNot without sinking. The ballast and trim tanks won't suffice to give that much up-angle; you'd need to flood some after compartments to make it happen, and that is a very bad idea, especially since you would not also be able to maintain neutral buoyancy. Besides, why would you want to? Your missile tubes are configured for vertical launch anyway, and it's not as though you can just pop a missile out, haul it through the corridors to the forward torpedo room, stuff it in a tube there, and fire it. Every one of those things isn't a thing you can do.