Sub-Launched SAMs

On Sep 20, 1:27*pm, Juergen Nieveler
wrote:
Andrew Chaplin wrote:
Most MANPADS will fit into the volume taken up by the warhead and its
associated gubbins. SHORAD missiles like Chapparal, Crotale, Rapier,
Roland and ADATS will fit into a torpedo casing, but the volume
devoted to the engine and fuel may have to be reduced. Only the IR
seeking missiles seem likely for such adaptation, the others do not
have terminal homing.

Hm... would a laser-guided system like Starstreak be able to pick up a
targeting laser projected by the periscope even when launched some
distance away?

Juergen Nieveler
--
Sometimes I think war is God's way of teaching us geography. - Paul
Rodriguez

That could work....

Or, how about a recoverable RPV? It can fly up, maybe come out of a
shell it rises up in, then deploy to guide or fire a MANPADS style
missile or a laser guided one like Starstreak. Then she can descend,
maybe even ballast down and descend for retrieval.