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A comment on Interior Images of Typhoon Sub – world's largest submarine (2009).

Re:Interior Images of Typhoon Sub – world's largest submarin... by vinkelhake on Saturday February 11, 2017 @09:35PM (#13626314)
Could you launch an ICBM horizontally?
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Re:Interior Images of Typhoon Sub – world's largest submarin... by baronvonsp on Saturday February 11, 2017 @10:15PM (#13626453)
Sure. Why would you want to?
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Re:Interior Images of Typhoon Sub – world's largest submarin... by Animats on Sunday February 12, 2017 @01:48AM (#13627153)
That horizontal "launch tube" with a big red star is a torpedo tube.
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Re:Interior Images of Typhoon Sub – world's largest submarin... by oldmanpants on Sunday February 12, 2017 @03:12AM (#13627398)
How about a towed sonar array?
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Re:Interior Images of Typhoon Sub – world's largest submarin... by dvtv75 on Sunday February 12, 2017 @03:51AM (#13627479)
Nope, too close to the screws.
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Re:Interior Images of Typhoon Sub – world's largest submarin... by DaiPlusPlus on Sunday February 12, 2017 @02:40AM (#13627306)
Yes, there were aircraft-launched ICBMs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air-launched_ballistic_missile
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Re:Interior Images of Typhoon Sub – world's largest submarin... by throwayguestman on Sunday February 12, 2017 @07:11AM (#13628000)
could the submarine rotate into a vertical position?
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Re:Interior Images of Typhoon Sub – world's largest submarin... by throwanem on Sunday February 12, 2017 @08:19AM (#13628194)
Not without sinking. The ballast and trim tanks won't suffice to give that much up-angle; you'd need to flood some after compartments to make it happen, and that is a very bad idea, especially since you would not also be able to maintain neutral buoyancy.

Besides, why would you want to? Your missile tubes are configured for vertical launch anyway, and it's not as though you can just pop a missile out, haul it through the corridors to the forward torpedo room, stuff it in a tube there, and fire it. Every one of those things isn't a thing you can do.

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