It's not that you couldnt do it. SAM missiles are smaller than cruise missiles or ICBMs. It's because sams are a tactical weapon and subs are strategic vehicles. The timing you'd have to have to surface the sub and fire a missile at an airborne target is a completely unnecessary hassle... it'd be like developing an indoor-use umbrella
They don't have to surface. They can be launched in a vehicle from either the torpedo tube or the verticle launchers. They acquire the target actively after it breaks the surface
Maybe the "special package" Q referred to was the missile launched from a sub. Up til this point i assumed he meant the intercept was the "special package"
I'm never certain. Even when you are pretty confident, an argument can always be made that one of the statements apply to something else. Ambiguous messages are intriguing, but I guess that is the whole point, leaving clues and the curious follow the trail. Make a statement of fact and most people just shrug their shoulders and say, "oh yeah, where's the proof?"
It's not that you couldnt do it. SAM missiles are smaller than cruise missiles or ICBMs. It's because sams are a tactical weapon and subs are strategic vehicles. The timing you'd have to have to surface the sub and fire a missile at an airborne target is a completely unnecessary hassle... it'd be like developing an indoor-use umbrella
They don't have to surface. They can be launched in a vehicle from either the torpedo tube or the verticle launchers. They acquire the target actively after it breaks the surface
Maybe the "special package" Q referred to was the missile launched from a sub. Up til this point i assumed he meant the intercept was the "special package"
I'm never certain. Even when you are pretty confident, an argument can always be made that one of the statements apply to something else. Ambiguous messages are intriguing, but I guess that is the whole point, leaving clues and the curious follow the trail. Make a statement of fact and most people just shrug their shoulders and say, "oh yeah, where's the proof?"