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The Navy’s Swimming Spy Plane [meet the water-launched unmanned enforcer]
Popular Science ^
| February 2006
| By Bill Sweetman
Posted on 02/23/2006 12:18:37 PM PST by aculeus
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posted on
02/23/2006 12:18:38 PM PST
by
aculeus
To: aculeus
Looks like the Flying nun's hat...
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posted on
02/23/2006 12:19:45 PM PST
by
Lx
(Do you like it, do you like it. Scott? I call it Mr. and Mrs. Tennerman chili.)
To: aculeus
Will they be named after Ted kennedy?.........
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posted on
02/23/2006 12:20:23 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him...)
To: aculeus; SandRat
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posted on
02/23/2006 12:20:24 PM PST
by
Fiddlstix
(Tagline Repair Service. Let us fix those broken Taglines. Inquire within(Presented by TagLines R US))
To: Lx
I wasn't aware the Ohio's weren't still doing laps with nukes.
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posted on
02/23/2006 12:21:17 PM PST
by
oldleft
To: aculeus
I like the fires left behind.
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posted on
02/23/2006 12:22:10 PM PST
by
Lx
(Do you like it, do you like it. Scott? I call it Mr. and Mrs. Tennerman chili.)
To: stevie_d_64
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posted on
02/23/2006 12:22:32 PM PST
by
thackney
(life is fragile, handle with prayer)
To: aculeus
The Cormorant does not shoot out of its tube like a missile. Instead an arm-like docking saddle guides the craft out, sending it floating to the surface while the sub slips away. As the drone pops out of the water, the rocket boosters fire and the Cormorant takes off. After completing its mission, the plane flies to the rendezvous coordinates it receives from the sub and lands in the sea. The sub then launches a robotic underwater vehicle to fetch the floating drone. Seems simple enough.
Even under combat conditions, I don't see anything complicated enough to go wrong with this scenario.
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posted on
02/23/2006 12:24:17 PM PST
by
Hank Rearden
(Never allow anyone who could only get a government "job" attempt to tell you how to run your life.)
To: aculeus
Sounds cool, but parts of this story and its slant are just plain bravo sierra.
These formerly nuke-toting subs have become less useful in a military climate evolved to favor surgical strikes over nuclear stalemates, but the Cormorant could use their now-vacant tubes...
Four trident subs have been (or are being) converted to carrry Tomohawk cruise missiles (154 of them each) and Seals. This aircraft could certainly fit into that new role of the SSGN.
But the tubes on the SSGNs and the SSBNs (the nuclear missile subs) are anything but "vacant". And, the role of the Trident SSBN is still absolutely critical and indespensable to our national security, therefore they are extremely useful. The SSGNs tubes are also not vacant and their ability to perform the role of a land attack arsenal ship is also very useful...with or without the UAV.
Just my opinion.
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posted on
02/23/2006 12:26:50 PM PST
by
Jeff Head
(www.dragonsfuryseries.com)
To: aculeus
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posted on
02/23/2006 12:27:12 PM PST
by
Yo-Yo
To: aculeus
Alright...move over top gun, you're about the be replaced by a nerd who got his training on an X-Box.
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posted on
02/23/2006 12:31:10 PM PST
by
CWOJackson
(Tancredo? Wasn't he the bounty hunter in Star Wars?)
To: All
And I'm thinking that the one thing combat aircraft return with more of than they left with is...holes. Maybe they will also use those cans of nifty hole-filling gel like when you get a flat on your bike.
Or maybe if they have holes in them we can just leave these billion dollar planes behind because we don't need them anymore.
Seems cool, but wasteful.
To: Jeff Head
I liked this line ... "U.S. Navys gigantic Cold Warera Ohio-class submarines..."
The author never saw a Typhoon. They were hugh! 175m, ~50 kilotons. THAT's hugh!
OK, only about 20 feet longer than an Ohio ;-)
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posted on
02/23/2006 12:34:46 PM PST
by
Blueflag
(Res ipsa loquitor)
To: Blueflag
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posted on
02/23/2006 12:37:30 PM PST
by
RightCanuck
(Not right enough.)
To: aculeus
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posted on
02/23/2006 12:37:45 PM PST
by
Publius6961
(Multiculturalism is the white flag of a dying country)
To: Lx
LOL
How much would that suck?
"Dude, you just got your ass kicked in battle. What happened?"
"It was the flying nun's hat..."
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posted on
02/23/2006 12:39:45 PM PST
by
Petronski
(I love Cyborg!)
To: Yo-Yo; Lx; martin_fierro; dighton; Constitution Day
Stone-cold killing machine
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posted on
02/23/2006 12:40:57 PM PST
by
Petronski
(I love Cyborg!)
To: Grampa Dave
Interesting but do you think it's list worthy?
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posted on
02/23/2006 12:41:32 PM PST
by
ASA Vet
(Those who know don't talk, those who talk don't know.)
To: Red Badger
Will they be named after Ted kennedy?......... What an insult to the UAV. Unlike Kennedy, the drone comes back - and it does something useful.
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posted on
02/23/2006 12:41:50 PM PST
by
Tennessee_Bob
("Those who "abjure" violence can only do so because others are committing violence on their behalf.")
To: Yo-Yo
This was already done in the early 60's.
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posted on
02/23/2006 12:43:21 PM PST
by
C210N
(Bush SPYED, Terrorists DIED!)
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