2007 AHS Gradaute design competition

[hesham]

Hi,

the Cipher,Dragonfly anf Barracuda.
http://www.vtol.org/pdf/2007GaTechGrad.pdf

 

[Just call me Ray]

Uhhhh...is that supposed to be a submarine carrier? ???

 

[yasotay]

Fits in a missile tube on a boomer... land attack submarine (or whatever the Navy calls them after they take out the Nukes). ;D

 

[Just call me Ray]

??? Whuh, really? The UAV I can believe, but the manned helicopter? ???

 

[TomS]

Fits in a missile tube on a boomer... land attack submarine (or whatever the Navy calls them after they take out the Nukes). ;D

Not exactly. Fits in a box the same size as four missile tubes merged together. Naval architects are cringing at the thought of putting that big a hole in the pressure hull.

 

[yasotay]

Ah! Thank you for the clarification.

 

[RP1]

Naval architects are cringing at the thought of putting that big a hole in the pressure hull.

Best thing to do is not to bother with the hole - make it a module that connects to the pressure hull - of course this would be no good for a retrofit, but has been proposed for future submarines. Still not a trivial task, though.

RP1