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Surface-to-air missile type???? it's sea(submerged)-to-air missile... — Preceding unsigned comment added by - - - (talkcontribs) 20:21, 21 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]


I added a [citation needed] to the claim that it is the first missile to give submarines a capability to engage air threats. The Akula class has an Igla-M/SA-N-10 Grouse launcher in the sail which allows it to engage aircraft or helicopters. It might better worded to say it is the first missile to allow a submarine to engage air threats whilst submerged.

The IDAS system wasn't the first to engage air threats whilst submerged either. In the 1970s Vickers and the Royal navy tested a system entitled SLAM (submarine launched air missile) which comprised a set of previously land based Blowpipe missiles around a sighting mast mounted on the conning tower of HMS Aeneas (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowpipe_missile) While the system didn't go into service it did work and thus predates both the IDAS and the Akula type system. Regards, Kit Spackman (talk) 08:44, 13 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I've never heard of the Akula class (I assume you mean the Shchuka class) having a SAM launcher but I do know the the Kilo class has one mounted in the sail. As far as wording, I thought that it would better to state that it was the first SAM designed specifically for a submarine application, as opposed to be adapted from an existing system. Or maybe, it could be stated that it was the first operational missile to allow a submarine to engage air threats whilst submerged. -Noha307 (talk) 23:47, 19 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Suggested Merge

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I would suggest that this page be merged with the parent page of IRIS-T due to the following reasons;

  • This article is a stub
  • This article has little or few references
  • This article is more likely to be successful by merging with IRIS-T

The merge should be selective- it would also be better to verify some information through the process. Jake M Ingram (talk) 15:01, 19 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

  • Oppose: submarine launch seems sufficiently distinct that the pages should be kept separate. There are also several more recent web articles discussing this system (like [1]), so there is scope for expansion. Klbrain (talk) 21:05, 14 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

How does the sub know where the helicopter is when firing at one with IDAS?

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See the headline.

Designer

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All the companies mentioned in the Designer section has taken part in designing and developing the system? Or actually one of them is designing, others are for manufacturing and bearing a cost? SReader21 (talk) 01:45, 4 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Cost of IDAS: currency not mentioned

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The cost is given as "1,300,000 estimated", but the currency isn't given. What currency? And what's the source of the estimate?