Can submarines fire heat-seeking missiles? https://www.yout

>>34469529
they can fire nukes and ejaculate angry frogmen but for some reason you think they can't fire heat seeking missiles?

>>34469529
Some Soviet subs could launch a Strela from a mast to kill MPA aircraft.

>>34469532

Aren't heatseekers normally for killing aircraft? Why would a submarine need anti-air capability?

>>34469529
Who knows what those russians have

>>34469540
Why not?

>>34469540
aircraft are a subs worst enemy

>>34469529
No reason they can't but none have apart from MANPADS they can stick out of the conning tower.

As far as I am aware.

>>34469552

Because aren't submarines normally, you know, underwater? Why take the risk of surfacing just to fire off one puny missile?

>>34469557
Because MPA and ASW helos are a serious threat.
Coming to PD and shooting down a plane or helo might be the key to evade ASW forces.

>>34469557
Because
>>34469553

>>34469540

so it can shoot down planes

neat

http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/6894/have-submarine-launched-anti-aircraft-missiles-finally-come-of-age

>>34469570

Why not just stay underwater? The aircraft can't see you if you're underwater.

>>34469594
I am about half sure you are trolling.

But just in case your questions are legit:

1) aircraft carry bouys with sonar sets on them. They can send data to the aircraft allowing them to detect subs.

2) helos can have these bouys as well as a sonar on a cable that they can dip into the water when they hover.

3) Both have magnetic sensors that can detect the changes in the Earths magnetic field caused by a huge hunk of metal like a submarine. The range for this is somewhat short, requiring the aircraft to almost fly over the sub at low altitude but is useful.

>>34469529
they can't but the dipiction of heat seeker in the movie is fucking retard

>>34469671
Yes, some can.

>>34469529
The fuck did a single AA missile do that.

>>34469701
it was a typo
sorry

i was type "can"

>>34469529
This is the Fast and Furious now? How did it come to this?

>>34469529
Subs often carry MANPADS in the mast as a last defense against aircraft, but they lack any launcher like the one in the video. There are tube launched anti aircraft missiles though.

>>34469529
British and Soviet subs used to carry MANPADs for attacking MPA and ASW aircraft. But they were removed because a sub would have to come to an almost complete stop, go to periscope depth and then sit there for a few minutes as it searched around for a target. By that point the aircraft hunting it would have probably found the sub and started dropping torpedoes and depth charges on it.

If I remember correctly, the German navy is planning on making tube launched heatseakers based off their IRST missile. The missiles would be fired out of a sub's torpedo tubes in a protective case similar to the ones used on sub launched harpoon missiles. I think that the USN may do the same thing with the AIM-9x, but the only source I've got is rumor and conjuncture.

>>34470850
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