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The next generation carriers really needs to be underwater. I'm wondering how large a submarine can be made, one with a runway and hanger for dozens of aircraf
by mozumder 11y ago
The next generation carriers really needs to be underwater.
I'm wondering how large a submarine can be made, one with a runway and hanger for dozens of aircraft (or drones..)
- techdragon 11y agoNow that's an idea. If you want traditional manned aircraft you have a large number of limitations on how you can work with them. But drones are flexible, in fact they can be extremely flexible. Submarine launched drone aircraft. I wonder if it's possible to get enough bandwidth to control them from underwater and if it's possible to fit a non trivial drone into a form factor that could reuse Trident/Polaris missile tubes, then there's the matter of how to do post mission retrieval underwater. It's an interesting idea.