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Tuesday, June 25, 2013
A3SM: A True Game Changer for Submarine Self Defence against Threats from the Sky
As part of the Paris Air Show Navy Recognition was invited by DCNS to visit their factory located near Angoulême in southwestern France.
The 260 year old site used to manufacture guns for the "French Royal Navy".
It now specializes in the production of submarine equipment such as torpedo tubes and torpedo handling systems.
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DCNS wants to also to play the game. IDAS missiles will be operational on German Type 212 submarines by 2014. IDAS missiles don’t require a capsule to emerge. Therefore 4 missiles are stored in a magazine size of a torpedo. The missile is guided by an optical wire nonetheless it could operate autonomously. The submarine can really see what they are going to hit from 50 m below the sea. Therefore this system is nearly immune against decoys and an attack can be aborted in case the helicopter is looks friendly.
ReplyDeleteFirst successful test firing from a submerged submarine (U33) was in 2008. http://www.diehl.com/en/diehl-group/press/successful-idas-missile-firing-from-submerged-submarine/190.html?tx_ttnews[pointer]=54&cHash=7aafd8c3f15ab0bc19805f9a39a15335
(more than just French CGI)
The Mistral solution with a mast mounted starter was discarded by German Navy because the submarine had to emerge to fire the missile.