US Navy submarine fires drone from underwater

[Rangila]

US Navy submarine fires drone from underwater — RT USA

 

[Dash]

US Navy submarine fires drone from underwater — RT USA

How will they recover it?

 

[airmarshal]

Where will it land?

 

[JayAtl]

Where will it land?

depending on the role. it could be an attack drone that crashes into the target, a recon drone( small in size) that comes back to a predetermined location to be picked up after X hours of recon.

 

[RescueRanger]

US Navy submarine fires drone from underwater — RT USA

This sounds amazing.

 

[Juice]

or disposable.

 

[Hack-Hook]

maybe they catch like how the catch scaneagle

 

[$elf]

USA wants to conquer underwater too, i wont be shocked to find a fully operational base in their.

 

[Counter-Errorist]

Where will it land?

US Navy Launches Drone From A Submarine -- While Underwater

If you thought launching a drone from an aircraft carrier was impressive, you’re going to be blown away by this: After six years of development, the US Naval Research Laboratory has successfully launched a drone from a submerged submarine.

That’s right. A submerged submarine. Submerged under the ocean. The picture above is real: a composite of time-lapse photos taken during the launch. You can see the wings swing out like a pair of scissors as the drone takes to the sky.

The US Naval Research Laboratory really outdid themselves this time. Their Experimental Fuel Cell (XFC) unmanned aerial system was just fired from the torpedo tube of the USS Providence. The so-called Sea Robin launch vehicle system then floated to the surface, where an all-electric, fuel cell-powered drone with foldable wings took to the sky where it performed an hour-long test flight before landing at the Naval Sea Systems Command Atlantic Undersea Test and Evaluation Center (AUTEC) in the Bahamas. Pretty cool, huh?

Well, this is just the beginning. The XFC launch doesn’t come as a huge surprise, because we’ve known for a few months now that DARPA is working on a submarine “mothership” that can launch both unmanned aerial vehicles and unmanned underwater vehicles — all kinds of drones. Dubbed as the Hydra program, this initiative will enable sailors to send remotely piloted, and someday perhaps fully autonomous, craft into battle zones virtually undetected. It will also scare the pants off unsuspecting fisherman. [Naval Research Lab]

US Navy Launches Drone From A Submarine -- While Underwater | Gizmodo Australia

 

[sincity]

Why you need to launch a uav from the submarine for reconaissance since you can launch the uav from the aircraft carrier and serve the same purpose?

unman submarine is better serve it purpose without risk of the submarine sail close to the enemy target and being spot by the anti submarine aircraft.

 

[Counter-Errorist]

Why you need to launch a uav from the submarine for reconaissance since you can launch the uav from the aircraft carrier and serve the same purpose?

I think it's because aircraft carriers are kinda big and show up on the radar. Submarines, of course, are better suited for stealth missions.

 

[Hack-Hook]

well compared to japan that their submarine could launch 3 manned aircraft in WW2 , it's not that much

Japan's WW II super-submarine found scuttled off Hawaii - World - CBC News

 

[JayAtl]

Why you need to launch a uav from the submarine for reconaissance since you can launch the uav from the aircraft carrier and serve the same purpose?

unman submarine is better serve it purpose without risk of the submarine sail close to the enemy target and being spot by the anti submarine aircraft.

perhaps you could ask next- why do you need aircraft carrier when you fly planes from land.

not all locations that submarines go to to- do you get accompanied with a towering aircraft carrier