On Sep 18, 12:04*pm, Juergen Nieveler
wrote:
Alan Dicey wrote:
Part of the problem is giving away your position. *How about deploying
the SAM in a specially designed torpedo, so that it swims away from
you a significant distance before surfacing and letting fly?
Formidable problems of targetting the SAM, of course, and you've still
told the world that there is a hostile sub in the vicinity.

As I understand it, Polyphem at least IS launched via the torpedo tube,
and aimed by FO line...

Juergen Nieveler
--
"Hello", lied the politician

When all the problems with detection and targeting are all talked our
here then we can move into missile flight dynamics-- and why when the
ASW platform is close (as is being suggested) it is so much harder to
hit.

BB