correct... IDAS is worlds first independent missile that is launched directly from the sub even when submerged.... please watch that video about type-212 again and do a little google on IDAS..
you have some serious problem in comprehension.
The IDAS can't be launched from the fking
seabed can it?
read the line you quoted...and the $hit that you came up with.
and as far as launching missiles being submerged...the IDAS is NOT the first missile to do so...all the nuke-tipped ballistic missiles carried by subs are designed to be fired from a depth...they have double/triple staged motors...I can list at least a dozen other missiles that can be fired when submerged.
soo what if it has to surface???
if it surfaces...there are a hundred known weapons that can kill it with a very high kill probability+it creates convergence zones all around it even though it might have a passive sonar...which can be picked up miles away.
A sub is best when submerged that is why it is a sub!
and that is exactly why you have an AIP on your sub...it imparting a low noise signature is secondary.
then according to your logic no surface warship can escape P8? thats absolutely wrong!
P-8I is equipped with the Harpoon anti-ship missile...about which we skipped talking about.It is a potent ship killer.
and what the h%ll do you mean AIP has promising future??? it is the latest modern propulsion solution for conventional subs!! like i have said again and again... Type-212/214 are nothing like average subs.... they dont earn the term "stealthy" for just heck of it...
and no... it does not have to surface to fire IDAS..
there is no submarine that operates solely on AIP.
when the fuel-cell tech gets more mature...there'd be subs operating just on AIP and would not need conventional batteries that need air to charge-up(because of which the sub surfaces).
a diesel-electric sub of today operating with AIP has to compromise many times on speed and depth and power-generation for the two weeks it remains submerged.There is a problem of power managment...and the allocation of power to different stations has to be rationed....which does not happen in a nuke sub.
they are quite no matter what
no.It's childlike to believe such a thing.it seems you don't know much about the sound leakage factors on a sub...the quietest sub has a rotor...it rotates..bubbles are produced...there is a vacuum in the water as it is stretched around the rotors...this cause cavitation of bubbles...or bursting of bubbles...this is an important noise factor.
the ballast chambers of any sub have pumps and compressed air which work to inject and eject water in the ballast chamber for the sub to rise and fall...while injecting water doesn't produce much noise...ejecting water rapidly(in the case the sub has to rise from a depth to surface) creates a lot of noise...which is one of the biggest evils of any sub...
frankly there is nothing technical in your posts...all you do is praise the german sub without the technical knowledge to back your liking.