Fictional submarine aircraft carriers

Fictional submarine aircraft carriers include:

From Anime series

* The 1982's original Macross TV anime series mentioned 2 giant submersible carriers, Daedalus and Prometheus. They were accidentally folded along with Macross to Pluto and were eventually attached as "arms".
* 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.
* Archangel class ship, featured in Mobile Suit Gundam Seed anime series is a trans-atmospheric assault ship capable of launching Mobile Suit, Mobile Armor, and aircraft, refitted with additional underwater operation capabilities in Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Destiny. Despite primary functions similar to aircraft carrier, Archangel is depicted as also able to take role as battleship, submarine, airship, and spacecraft. It also able to launch mobile suit underwater.
* 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.
* In the series Thundersub, Thundersub was a large submarine aircraft carrier which also carried a smaller submarine, Tempest junior, in a hold below itself.

From Video Game series

* 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 Fighters, and Sea 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.
* 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.
* X-Men Legends on the PS2 also contained a submersible aircraft carrier.
*In the sci-fi real-time strategy 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 [http://www.palladiumbooks.com 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.

From printed media

* Novelist G. Harry Stine wrote the Starsea Invaders science-fiction series featuring the SSCVN "U.S.S. Shenandoah".
* In the Star Trek novel Strangers from the Sky, the CSS Delphinus (CSS = Combined Services Ship) was a submersible multi-role ship of the 2040s.

From film

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.

See also

*Submarine aircraft carrier