How Do Submarines Launch Missiles From Underwater?
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- Опубліковано 1 сер 2022
- Soon after the second world war, the work on concept of a submarine launched missile began. But some skeptics thought that it could never be possible! Instead of using underwater propulsion, engineers focused on compressed air. So the secret is this shield. it prevents water flooding into the missile tube. Just few moments before the launch, submarine opens the hatch, and the seal is blown apart. Before water has any chance to pour in, a valve opens at the bottom of tube, and shoots a burst of compressed air into it. This air forces the missile out the tube, at some 40 miles per hour. This is enough momentum to cut through almost 40 meters of water, and once in the air, its engines are able to ignite! The successful launch of Polaris test missile from the submarine USS George washington SSBN 5 9 8, on July 20th 1960, began the new era of ballistic missile submarines. The U.S Navy's first fleet ballistic missile, the Polaris A-1, had a range of 1400 nautical miles, with a single 600 kiloton warhead, and today, the Trident II D5 missile has a range of 6,500 nautical miles, and carries 8 to 14 warheads.
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As an engineer, I can only imagine that conversation went as following:
"how do we launch the missiles?"
"Water proof propellent?"
"No, not practical, and the sub will flood"
"Isolate the missile tubes so water can flood them?"
"No, the buoyancy will be out of wack"
*Enter sleep deprived and cracked out engineer who's spent too much time doing math*
"FUCKING AIR!!!"
Which one is you?
*BRILLIANT!!*
My dumbass just thought why not float to surface and risk being seen for like a minute and launch all missiles in an instant?
@@kameronmyles2013 the third engineer listening to the conversation and nodding to each idea with 0 clue of how it would work
MAKE THE SUB FART
What a war the world war 2 was
Horrible the World War 2 was.
What a world the war war 2 was
@Andrew Edmonds what a war the warld war 2 war.
@@creepwalker Wet a Water War War 2 Was
Where did i put my cigar?
Submarines are the ultimate doomsday machines
Underwater cities worked for electric boat on ohio class and los Angeles class subs. Michigan and Augusta i saw from start to finish. Modern Marvel.
@@glennparker5516 english please?
@@glennparker5516 what are you smoking I need some of that
I rode FBMs for 6yrs in the 80's. We won the Cold War....since then, even though I'm sure technology has advanced exponentially....the politicians are losing the "peace"
@@misfit2814 Thank you for your service
Why is slowed down interstellar music playing in the background
Time to leave Earth
Cause I thought it would be good.
@@awlyouneedtoknow9435 Fair enough lol, it was just unexpected to hear a masterpiece in this context
@@arteckjay6537 thanks! I used it some of my previous videos as well, cause I think it has some real impact.
Despite my interest in weapons im here for music link or something
I really like your videos and already learned a lot from them and now again I thought it was the same as with torpedo tubes who fill up with water so thank you for your great videos and I hope that you’ll be making lots and lots more of them👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Awww, thank you soooo very much for such nice and motivation words! 😊😊
And I'm glad that you learned something new! And sure buddy, stay with me, we'll do more! .
How insane it must be to see a ballistic missile just pop out of the Ocean.
“The world war 2”
These things are Absolutely Devastating. Just hope that we never have to use them.
Same :( a messed up world...... as an engineer myself, i feel such bad that even for me, humans are only fully motivated to engineer things that try to solve their fears, that is, weapons in order to DEFEND HIMSELF AND HIS LOVED ONES (at least before been corrupted) also medicine in order to save lifes and live a healthier life and such and such and such.... we (as a world made up of different cultures and people) should try to really stop fighting for stupid things and get together once for all, for a greater cause... (sorry for english, it is not my first lenguaje and it is difficult to write) just wish you good luck :)
Indeed
But at the same time
Non nuclear missiles can be used to stop hate where it begins
Russian caliber missiles are getting launched from submarines almost everyday on cities like Odessa and Mykolaiv
Let's use them on Russia until it's gone.
@@alvaroolavarria1832 we have tried to stop fighting over stupid things, many of our cultures are downright fearful of the concept of violence even in defense, like much of America and most of Europe. Mad doctrine and trade have both lowered the amounts of war compared to our history. The problem is that this can only go so far, because a factor in aggression is not merely mental healthiness if leaders, territory wants, resources, etc. but also evil. Some people are evil, not mentally unwell, just evil. These people will hurt others because they want to, not because they can’t help themselves, nor always for stuff. Evil people will start wars with others and if you don’t defend yourself against them that won’t limit the violence, except to limit it to attacks on the innocent rather than any defense.
I knew the person who developed this capability to do this for our government and was quite humble...
all mexicans are humble
no, no you didn't
Pretty good videos.
The birds are pushed out of the tube by steam. About 40 gallons of water is hit with a small solid rocket motor. It fires, flashes water to steam. Kinda cool.
As a former MT2/SS, I can confirm. I think A1's were air launched as described.
I wasn't going to say that, I just said his video wasn't totally correct. I miss my ssbn. Funny I missed it after I left.
You got source for 40 gallons? I estimated no more than 23L, although I had to make many assumptions.
@@Evan_Bell it's not 40 gallons, but I was not going to say how it happened. I don't want the thieves aka ccp get more tech from us.
@@fredintexas8561 I mean they already have SLBMs so I don't know what you're worried about.
Give engineers enough time, paper and alcohol and they can do anything
.....and coffee
They can dream up anything. They aren't the ones who make their bullshit work.
and something to whittle. (B-52).
the way it jumps out of the water and ignites its rocket is just so gangster
And each Ohio Class SSBN carries 24 Trident II D5 SLBMs. There are 14 Ohio Class SSBNs. That's 336 Trident II SLBMs out in the ocean ready to deliver hot nuclear death at all times.
They've been downloaded to 20 missiles per boat. Only 10 Ohios are SSBNs, the other 4 have been converted to SSGNs. They're not all on patrol at the same time.
@@Evan_Bell
No.
24 ordered - 6 cancelled - 4 converted - 0 retired
14 SSBNs
4 SSGNs
Go play in traffic kid.
@@DarkMatterX1 My mistake. You're right. 18 subs, 14 SSBNs.
They still only carry an average of 20 missiles and not all 14 subs are on patrol at once.
Imagine being a civilian on a fishing boat near the site of the first sub missile launch lol they must’ve thought aliens were down there
everyone gangster until nuke popup from water..
Sick. I just read about the supposed “Poseidon nuke” that Russia has. Supposedly, it is a little torpedo drone capable of 100+mph under water and detonates underwater for the effect of creating massive waves of destruction. Kinda scary shit imo
basically Shkval torpedo tipped with nuke instead of conventional explosive
there is a case where soviet submarine almost trigger a nuclear war with this torpedo but stopped by another officer inside the submarine since multiple people has to agree in order to deploy the weapon
pretty sure his name is Vasily Arkhipov
That sounds stupidly bad for the oceans lol
If it exists lmao
@@tyrone2937 exactly, keyword *supposedly*
Seems a lot of claims by Russia regarding their tech is largely exaggerated.
@@MinstrelSentFromAnotherLand i heard US has it too idk bout russia😅 i heard they was gonna use tht instead for the nukes on japan
And so the “41 for Freedom” began with SSBN 598 George Washington. FBM Submarines.
Fleet Detergent Patrols
Amazing engineering
I had a professor that worked on those. He said that when they come out of the water they are completely dry.
In theory that is true.
@@tnguy1000In reality, it's true too. The missile tube is pressurized prior to launch. When the missile leaves the tube it takes the pressurized gas with it.
@@jwrockets technically the tube is pressurized by the launch, not before. The steam bubble does it as soon as the launch trigger is pulled. Though the Trident boats may use a different technique as compared to the technique(steam) that my boat used.
Anyone else just feel how much more powerful the trident 2 is
The average US trident II SLBM today has a total payload yield of 33% that of the Polaris A1 shown in the video.
So it's longer ranger and is better equipped to penetrate defences, but it carries less nuclear yield.
@@Evan_Bell It has less nuclear fallout, but doesn't use the same method. As such it is more destructive, more accurate, and can hit more targets from a single missile launch.
@@ryannelson8717 It has less fallout because it has a lower fission yield, because it has a lower total yield. If by "method" You're talking about the principles on which the physics package operates, then it's exactly the same. It is not more destructive. It is more accurate. It can hit more targets.
@@ryannelson8717 In fact, I'm not entirely sure the total D5 payload does produce less fallout. We don't know the fission fraction of the D5 warheads. I'll have to check my sources, but I think the Y-1 was 0.15 or 0.25Mt fission yield. Y-2 fission yield was certainly more than the D-5 payload, but that was introduced later, and not all Polaris warheads were fitted with the Y-2 until Oct 1967.
@@Evan_Bell It's dependent on the configuration of the D5. Not all D5s are the same warhead, as such some are less, and some are more. Unfortunately, I cannot divulge further here as I don't know where the classification line stops, and I've been unable to find anything further than the above online already. If you find more and can provide source then I may be able to provide more.
What's amusing is my Mom worked for Sperry Systems Management who had the contract for the Polaris Sub Navigation system,from 1961 to 1984 I was 15 in 61. Sperry had an open house for the employees families. The launch method was explained back then.
Bubble heads are a special kind of sailor.
Ohio class subs are spectacular in reality they death machines. They will launch 100%.
God help us all
*All you need to know*:)
Those covers are called closures. They are fiberglass and cut into pieces by essentially by det cord.
Asbestos/phenolic resin composite with LDPE foam backing.
You two sound like a couple of missle techs.
It uses steam to launch the missiles to be precise.
Bulava, trident missiles also have underwater launch capability
And Poseidon, and Layner, and Sineva, and JL-2, and M51.
@@Evan_Bell ye
Trident 2 is first under water capability
They got a jogging track inside that circles around the missile tubes.😮
This is not exactly correct.
Me former SSBN Submariner.
I really like ww2 submarines but Cold War submarines are so cool
Both fascinating and horrifying!
That's not how it works. It's a steam system. Propellant warms the water. The missile move up with the "bubble".
Originally, they were air launched as describe. Now, it's EBWs firing rocket motors flashing water to steam.
After launch the missiles to the sky
Ghost: "code black code black we got a missile in the airr!!!
Price: "Good"
"THE world war two"?
What language is this translated from?
I didn't get it. Whats wrong with the phrase?
@@rodgo265 there's nothing wrong here. They're just grammer nazis. WwII, Second World War or World War 2, all are the same, but they're acting like I used some phrase from an alien civilization.
You are mostly correct, but it is a gas generator that launches the SLBM.
It go under the enemy ship and it shoot missile(the missiles that go on the sky) and the missile hit the ship.The ship is sinking from under and the submarine is safe.
Shoot a missile under a ship that's designed to wreck a city? No, we have other systems for that.
6,500 nm is about 1/3 of the circumference of the earth. From a sub that can span any ocean, under water, undetected. 24 trident missiles on a sun X 14 warheads per missile.
Scary.
And there's 14 of those subs patrolling the ocean at all times.
Each sub now carries an average of 20 missiles, with 4 warheads per missile.
@@DarkMatterX1 Only 10 of them are SSBNs. 4 were converted to SSGNs, and they're not all on patrol at once.
“AND WHERE’S THE ROBOT MANSLEY?”
GIANT*
Invented in 1960...🥶
The ww2 lmfao
Didn't get it. What's wrong with the phrase?
@@rodgo265 Doesn't match native English speakers' grammar patterns: no definite article is needed or used there.
@@HolySoliDeoGloria so, WORLD WAR 2 means star war for you? Or a war being fought in the Andromeda galaxy? I first wrote the second world war, then changed it due to some reasons. Now stop acting like I used some phrase from an alien world.
@@awlyouneedtoknow9435 Very odd response. Not sure how you got that understanding of what I wrote. Your interpretation of what I wrote truly is an alien one. "The Second World War" makes sense in English because the definite article goes with the ordinal number "Second." But "the World War Two" simply doesn't make sense in any context in English. If you are not a native speaker, I understand, but you should have an editor check over your script for nuances like this before it goes public. (As an editor and long-time student of languages, I understand that the patterns of use and non-use of definite and indefinite articles in English are very odd and probably quite unnatural for non-native speakers, just as the patterns in French and Spanish are baffling to me.) Cheers!
@@HolySoliDeoGloria now write this in correct german or polish or....
Ah yes the world war 2
"The WW2?"
The fact that these missiles are the size they are but have 6KNM of range is really a testament to human ingenuity!
I wondered how that happened. Very smart idea!
Imagine being a fishermen just chilling then a nucular missle the size of a car breaks the surface and rockets away
Your videos are awesome❤❤
Thank you so very much? 💛 Take my heart!
very informative and interesting, but i don't like the use of music from interstellar for a video about machines of war
Rad-Con AS-33 67-69. Was on all the old cut in half FBMs. Great era
I have fond memories of a TM3 off of AS 33 when she was at Site 6. It was late '89 early '90.
40 meters are not enough if you are in 800 meters depth and you armed your nuclear missiles via vuhf antenna of kilometers of line to establish secure connection, to download data, through satellites support. It needs to be done like torpedos and separate in the air, like Rum-139 VL-Asrock, but in reverse.
The interstellar soundtrack is a great choice of background music because it tells us time to leave Earth
It's not. Close but no.
😅😅 No bruh, we're not leaving. We're here to stay.
@@awlyouneedtoknow9435 Sadly tho we must leave one day
But the time is not now
This is the almost exact opposite that nuclear subs use to launch forward missiles. They pressurize the tube with water while getting all the air out. They then use pressurized water to start the momentum while the missile propels forward after exiting velocity has diminished. Now that I think of it, exact opposite with air and water, basically same missile.
But then again, making pressure larger than the ocean around you is also a feat of itself.
Also, "itself" the word has always struck me as wrong. Just doesn't roll of the tongue.
As good as it has become, text to speech software still annoys me. Regarding the missile launch, I'd love to know *how* it's done but I imagine it's classified.
i believe it actually uses steam heated up by a jet engine rather than just air
Small solid fuel rocket motor. A jet engine could not flash the water to steam.
Air was used by early boats. Newer uses steam via solid propellant flashing a water tank.
Actually during ww2 the Germans where the first to think of submarine launched missiles first.The v1 successfully mounted and fired but ,never used in combat and ,they had plans for the V2 using compressed air and gas using tubes behind the sub.
Now I just need a submarine for rocket launch 😎👍
First test of launching rockets from underwater were mmad by german Kriegsmarine 1943or 44 in the balticsea near now known as Łeba.
“The World War II” ?
It came after, the world war one. So far, we've only had two.
I thought that the missile had a capsule which acts like a bubble that makes the entire thing float up to the surface like when you try to force an airtight plastic ball underwater but it just doesn't want to, then the missiles rocket ignites when it is high enough on the surface
No. A lot of things in this video are wrong, but the general concept of how it is done get the point across. The point of the cap to keep water out is so that a minimal amount of water finds its way up in the engine. Also contrary to popular belief the air inside that tube isn't what pushes it to the surface either, it simply keeps water out if the tube were to leak a little, it would give an indication by dropping pressure in said tube. The method of launch is classified, however, which is likely why they said air because they don't actually know what it is. Otherwise they could have just said a classified launch method, not air is used. (Active duty US Navy SSBN Sailor)
All wars laws you need to know
There is a Great Movie staring Glenn Ford about How this came to be. It is a must see
The problem is there's not enough of these built yet to deter the enemy. The difference between the amount we have and the amount I imagine we should have is called 'The Missile Gap'.
What kind of insane idiot would want even more of these,especially in the hands of a government like the US has right now??
Wrong. On first flights, we only had torpedo tubes.... VLS wasn't a luxury we had access to.
6,000 miles and 18 warheads. No chance the world will survive.
Excuse me, 18 warheads? Each submarine is armed with 24 trident ii missiles, and each missile is equipped with 8 to 14 warheads. So, 24 missiles with 8 to 14 warhead = 192 or 336 warheads.
So basically if we thought of one diabolical thing the other guys were able to copy us. Maybe we shouldn't share any of our secrets, not even to show off. Inspiration is rare so why share it because the copy is easy
The submarine can launch a Saturn V rocket
Ah, yes, the world war 2
And i still dont understand why this is required for the cayo perico heist
Ive had a question for the longest, lets say hell breaks lose on land. What would happen to the few left over submarines?? What would happen to the sea life. And is it even possible to somehow manage living submerged
Poor seal 🦭
If they keep getting blown apart they will go extinct.
The Germans did this in WW2 with a V2 rocket
USSR had their first underwater launch on 16 September 1955 tho...
The multiple warheads is called M.I.R.V. MULTIPLE INDEPENDENT RE-ENTRY VEHICLES. 8 to 10 warheads is nice maybe 1.5 kiloton each.
Maybe 1.5 kiloton each? Lol what are you on about?
US Trident IIs can be equipped with 3 warhead options, 5kt, 100kt or 475kt.
Only around 25 of the 5kt versions have been produced.
The most common one is the 100kt one.
Lol in nuclear drop in nagasaki is 500 kilo ton what kind of brain are you? The trident 2 per warhead is 150000 kilo ton per war head
Why does it looked like APOLLO mini version
Classical interstellar music
"Soon after The World War 2" You need to get Google keyboard or something because so many foreign people trying to speak English always put "the" in front of SO many things that shouldn't have it. When I typed the start of this message it was underlined. I was prompted to remove "the". Just trying to help because to English speakers it sounds well... dumb. It should just be "Soon after World War 2". Anyway, I hope this helps some small bit.
Bro I’m still looking for a sub that looks like a kosotka, if you know, you know
Can we all just appreciate how WW2 was what was needed to launch us into the nuclear age? Like i feel no one realizes how much most likely would never have happened had we not decided that nukes where what we needed. Herioshima and Nagasaki would still be standing, we could visit the thriving citys. Just we wouldnt have nuclear reactors and nuclear powered submarines. I always think about what the world would have been like if WW2 didnt happen.
Let’s all hope that FJB doesn’t make us have to use these weapons
Aw come on... Interstellar Theme?
You forgot to mention that the ICBM never gets wet while launching because the air bubble around it protects it till it’s on the surface. I only know this cuz my dad was in the Silent Service on the USS Pollack in the 80s.
SLBM. ICBM is land based.
@@jwrockets with a range of 6500 nautical miles one could argue SLBMs are also intercontinental
@@ZreknarfSLIBM is just awkward though.
1. Whats the psi to launch something that big thru 40 meters of water?
2. How is all that pressure contained without exploding?
3. how does the water not enter the tubes after the missile has been shot?
I can't remember but the force would literally bend the old SSBN boats though not sure if that's the case with the Tridents. I was onboard for the launch of 4 of the C-3 missiles. When the first one flew it was a shock. I believe I uttered loudly, "HOLY SHIT!" and my Executive Officer busted out laughing. We were on the Mess Decks as part of the Damage Control Party.
The tubes are very thick high yield steel like the hull. Thickness is likely classified but it's inches. It basically does explode, when the trigger is pulled, a solid fuel "rocket" flashes water to steam instantly and the pressure pushes the missile up from the bottom. The tube is opened to allow the pressure/missile out. I would say things would be bad if the sequence happened with the tube closed.
Water does enter the tubes after the launch. That is necessary for the boat to be able to submerge following launch.
Great questions.
@@tnguy1000 appreciate the insight dawg 🙏🤝
@@BlickolasCage anytime 👍
"... almost 40 meters of water ..." so the submarine has to come up to 40 meters? Good to know ... evil laugh ...
Awesome 👍😎
What if it fails to launch ones it breach’s them surface ? Is the weapon armed once engines are ignited or by a controller guiding it?
Typically missile warheads are armed by multiple redundant failsafes that measure factors like acceleration/g load, barometric pressure, time of flight, etc. so if it launched and the motor failed to ignite, it wouldn’t meet any of the arming criteria‘s and would fall harmlessly back into the sea.
Seems kinda ironic to have the interstellar music over this lol
I sometimes wonder what the people, who operate submarines with capabilities like this.
What do they expect to come up to when they eventually resurface?
Nukes aren't a total doomsday weapon there'd still be some badly damaged civilization left and the crew has enough rations to ride out the immediate fallout and rural areas are likely to get off Scott free because no one is going to waste nukes on the middle of villageograd siberia or podunkville kansas.
@@kaymish6178 every major city, gone.
All economics, gone.
All shipping and airways, gone.
Nuclear winter.
Plus the boat Russia has which promises to destroy mankind.
These idiots roam our planet right now. Willing to give up everything they have ever known. For what?
We expect to be able to live until we run out of food, not much else.
When I was on an SSBN during the Cold War, I suspected it was a suicide mission to start laughing missiles.
I still don't see how compressed air has enough power to throw that heavy ass missile through 30 METER'S OF WATER, that's like 100 feet of water, PLUS, past the surface so it can ignite!!! I don't see it.
It's a bunch of PSI over a large surface area. The missile travels upwards through a huge cloud of gas bubbles, so it sort of cheats out practically all of the water resistance.
One summer a navy engineer watched as his son played with the plastic, red, see-through rocket toy, the boy filled it half with water, he then put it on the launch pad and began pumping air into the rocket and they both watch as it shot straight up into the air.. the man called the navy office and said I have an idea, meet me at the test site!!
I don't know exactly what method of cold launch ejection was used by Polaris, but the current Trident II uses steam, not compressed air.
Also it has a maximum range of 6,000nmi, not 6500.
And work on SLBMs began during WW2.
Same gas generators producing steam, not compressed air.
Compressed air system on Polaris missiles. A tech would stand in lower level missile to strike the side of the air valve if i didn't roll fully open.
After the seal is broken and missile is gone … I guess the hatch closes and water fills up the empty chamber. Does rhe sub have a bilge pump to get rid of that water?
No, the missile tube is pressurized with air and is forced out of a valve at the bottom of the tube. Most of the water is kept in the missile tube because the water has to be the same weight as the missile that just left the tube, otherwise the sub would have bouyency problems.
Didn't the Germans work on a U-boat capable of launching V1 pulse jet engine rockets?
Not the V1, but there was a project that would allow a Type XX1 sub to tow a container holding a variant of the V2 near an enemy coast and launch it. It never reached the test stage.
In 1942 Project Ursel proposed 6 Nebelwerfer rockets to be launched from a submerged sub against convoy escorts. U511 successfully launched from 15m. It was realized it would be effective only against static targets. It also affected the seaworthiness of the sub, and was cancelled in 1943
But rockets work in space, they can work under water too, just a little different
A launch tube that can survive a hot launch would be much more difficult to design than a cold launch system.
@@Evan_Bell you know you're kind of right but materials have come a very long way this decade, it would just be impractical and another dozen points of failure but totally doable
@@Evan_Bell oh and how about a dual vent that sucks in water in one end and steam exaust out the other
@@thomasslone1964 If you're exhausting steam out of some vent under the missile, then you're depressurising it, and the missile isn't going to be lifted out of the launch tube. Just like a gun, the exhaust has to be the tube through which the projectile exits.
Awesome tech
they don't use air they use steam
Not sure who copied who but there's a video with these exact words
It can nuke 8 separate locations or nuke one location 8 times
It can target 200+ cities!
Ah yes the WW2
To launch missiles underwater you propel them through liquid and then 🚀💥
"The World war 2" 😅
have you heard the plan of Uboots launching V1/V2s
Have you heard of the plan for man to travel to mars? So what's your point?