Sub Deployable AA Launcher

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There was also a proposal for something called SIAM (Self-Initiated-Anti-Aircraft Munition), which was a land-based "anti-aircraft mine" that worked a bit like a CAPTOR mine. When it detected an aircraft in the area, it launched a missile vertically, which then conducted it's own 360 deg sweep to find the target and then homed in on it. You could see this idea being applied to a floating mine-type launcher. Problem is, as Hobbes points out, you still need early warning. IIRC, SIAM could only really detect targets overhead pre-launch.

What about the "floating mine-type launcher" having a FLIR sensor,  slaved to the submarine via optic fibre? That way the submarine has real time situation awareness of target(s) overhead......

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