Sub-Launched SAMs

In message , William Black
writes
Paul J. Adam wrote:
It's one of those ideas that keeps popping up, and keeps turning out
to be less attractive when worked through in detail.

Didn't someone once talk about putting something like Rapier on the top
of a submarine periscope to knock down impertinent helicopters?

SLAM: a cluster of Blowpipe missiles around a TV camera for aiming. Went
to sea on HMS Aeneas, trialled, and failed to proceed: having to come to
periscope depth and stick a large mast up turned out to be a bad idea
when armed ASW assets were buzzing around.

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He thinks too much, such men are dangerous.

Paul J. Adam