"Paul J. Adam" wrote in message
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In message , vaughn
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The obvious first answer for that is that once an ASW aircraft has found
you, your position has already been "given away". Downing that ASW
aircraft
might be very helpful to the sub's subsequent attempts to break off
contact.

The problem is that the MPA may be simply sweeping and missed you
completely, or had a mere sniff that it can't confirm... until you launch
a SAM at him, thus going from POSSUB to CERTSUB and definitely hostile
(and the next MPA or ASW cab is likely to be on-scene before you can clear
datum very far).

Valid point, but I am willing to leave that judgement up to the sub's CO,
rather than use the Internet to make it for him ahead of time.

There's a further problem that the sub-launched SAM is not going to have
the greatest of Pk -

Also a valid point, but I am willing to leave that problem up to the
engineers. If they don't solve it, there obviously will be no system.

Also, it seems to me that the ASW problem becomes greatly complicated if
the
ASW forces are denied safe & unopposed command of the airspace.

Disputing air superiority is a better way to do that, than sub-launched
SAMs.

Here I greatly disagree. Their may be no other options for a lone,
isolated sub to dispute air superiority. Just the threat that a sub MAY
have a SAM and MAY use it would greatly complicate the situation for any ASW
forces.

It's one of those ideas that keeps popping up, and keeps turning out to be
less attractive when worked through in detail.

Perhaps so, but I haven't seen anything so far in this particular thread
to convince me.

Vaughn