Fictional submarine aircraft carriers

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Fictional submarine aircraft carriers include:

• the Hrimfaxi and Scinfaxi from the video game, Ace Combat 5 for the Playstation 2 entertainment system. These vessels are capable of launching UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles), F-35C's, and Harriers from launch tubes built into the craft, they are also used as launch platforms for ballistic missiles. They are equipped with several Surface-to-Air missile, and Anti-Aircraft batteries for defense.

• Tuatha de Danaan (TDD-1), featured in the anime series Full Metal Panic!, was another fictional billion dollar submarine capable of launching attack aircraft and combat mecha.

• Crimson Skies for the PC also contained a Submersible aircraft carrier; the HMS Barracuda was a British submersible capable of launching many Peacemaker fighters from the reinforced hangar built into the sub. The Barracuda was destroyed by Nathan Zachary whilst defending a British base in Hawaii.

• Novelist G. Harry Stine wrote the Starsea Invaders science-fiction series featuring the SSCVN U.S.S. Shenandoah.

• X-Men Legends on the PS2 also contained a submersible aircraft carrier.

• Anime OVA Macross Zero featured the submarine aircraft carrier Auerstädt as the principle support vessel for the Anti-U.N. force operating around the Mayan Island. It was capable of fielding at least twelve variable fighters and could also support amphibious operations.

The following fictional submarines carried one aircraft. Both launched their crafts when submerged -- they did not need to surface.

• The British television series UFO included SkyDiver, a submarine with a jet on the front. To launch the supersonic twin-engine interceptor/fighter, the submarine tilted upwards, and the jet separated from the sub, blasting out of the water.

• The television series Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea featured the nuclear-powered Seaview which could launch a saucer-shaped, nuclear-powered, supersonic Flying Sub.

• In the cartoon series Thundersub, Thundersub was a large submarine aircraftcarrier which also carried a smaller submarine Tempest junior in a hold below itself.

[edit] See also

• Submarine aircraft carrier