Fictional submarine aircraft carriers
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 |
Please help improve this article or section by expanding it. Further information might be found on the talk page or at requests for expansion. This article has been tagged since March 2007. |
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.
- In the sci-fi RTS computer game Supreme Commander, the United Earth Federation can construct Atlantis submarine aircraft carriers which can launch aircraft from internal hangars on the port and starboard.
- Rifts: Underseas (World Book 7) by Palladium Books features the U.S.S Ticonderoga CVN-87, a massive submersible supercarrier and the flagship of the New Navy. She carries four air wings composed of S-14 VTOL fighters, IE-15AH Striker Attack Helicopters and MEAS Mk. I Manta Multi Environment Attack Ships. The Manta fighters can be launched while the ship is submerged.
Skydiver 1 on patrol
The following fictional submarines carried one aircraft. All 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.
