The Navy's swimming spy plane
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The Japanese had a few subs with hangars on the upper deck, with the idea of being able to strike US targets, but although the Continental defences would have been light, the overall value of a light floatplane attack would have been of little more than propaganda value.
The Germans were playing with an idea to piggy back V-2 rockets to New York as well. The idea that I heard about was to build a seperate "Hangar" for the firework, which detached from the sub and then filled its base with water to get the assy to float upright. Then, it was a case of Light blue touchpaper and retire. The later German research fed back into navies Worldwide, but the Soviets used many further developed versions to provide their first missile subs, in which the missile was housed from keel to the top of a lengthened conning tower, I believe.
I suppose the CNN report is only a logical progression, but I wonder what range it would have? The idea of an Ohio operating in anything other than deep water seems a bit unlikely to me, as a layperson.
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The Germans were playing with an idea to piggy back V-2 rockets to New York as well. The idea that I heard about was to build a seperate "Hangar" for the firework, which detached from the sub and then filled its base with water to get the assy to float upright. Then, it was a case of Light blue touchpaper and retire. The later German research fed back into navies Worldwide, but the Soviets used many further developed versions to provide their first missile subs, in which the missile was housed from keel to the top of a lengthened conning tower, I believe.
I suppose the CNN report is only a logical progression, but I wonder what range it would have? The idea of an Ohio operating in anything other than deep water seems a bit unlikely to me, as a layperson.
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Originally Posted by BillHicksRules
LO,
The Soviets actually had a similar idea in the 1930s. I cannot for the life of me remember what it was called.
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The Soviets actually had a similar idea in the 1930s. I cannot for the life of me remember what it was called.
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Originally Posted by Conan the Librarian
The Japanese had a few subs with hangars on the upper deck, with the idea of being able to strike US targets, but although the Continental defences would have been light, the overall value of a light floatplane attack would have been of little more than propaganda value.
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Of course, if we had hangars on submarines.......
....... we could put SHARs in them!!
(blah organic air defence of the fleet, blah littoral cover blah) ...
....... we could put SHARs in them!!
(blah organic air defence of the fleet, blah littoral cover blah) ...
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Mr. Magoo, you could well be corrrect on that one. So long ago that I read it, that I can't remember the details, but that sounds a winner 
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Where R We,
The Soviet machine was actually a flying submarine.
Like a X-Craft with wings. Designed to fly into the area (past torpedo netting etc), land like float plane. Fill the floats with water and submerge. Tootle along under the water to the target. Attach mines etc. Tootle away again. Refloat and take off and escape.
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The Soviet machine was actually a flying submarine.
Like a X-Craft with wings. Designed to fly into the area (past torpedo netting etc), land like float plane. Fill the floats with water and submerge. Tootle along under the water to the target. Attach mines etc. Tootle away again. Refloat and take off and escape.
Cheers
BHR
