They are two ways to fire a missile from a torpedo tube.
One is to fire cannister containing the missile from torpedo tube. Once cannister breaks the water surface.. Rocket motor fires and takes the missile away..like harpoon does.
Second is to fire the missile with wings and inlet folded with an additional booster..Booster makes the missile break the surface.. Which is when rocket moto fire and wings unfold and air inlet drops down...like Tomahawk does.
Now a standard 21 inch torpedo tube is 533 mm in diameter and 20 feet in length.
Now problem with Babur is..it is 520 mm in diameter and 22 feet( it is longer than Tomahawk w) in length with additional booster.
They are two ways to fire a missile from a torpedo tube.
One is to fire cannister containing the missile from torpedo tube. Once cannister breaks the water surface.. Rocket motor fires and takes the missile away..like harpoon does.
Second is to fire the missile with wings and inlet folded with an additional booster..Booster makes the missile break the surface.. Which is when rocket moto fire and wings unfold and air inlet drops down...like Tomahawk does.
Now a standard 21 inch torpedo tube is 533 mm in diameter and 20 feet in length.
Now problem with Babur is..it is 520 mm in diameter and 22 feet( it is longer than Tomahawk w) in length with additional booster.
So if an additional cannister is added to the missile.. It will not fit the 533 mm torpedo tube.
And if an additional booster is added.. Then it wont fit the torpedo tube length wise.
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They are two ways to fire a missile from a torpedo tube.
One is to fire cannister containing the missile from torpedo tube. Once cannister breaks the water surface.. Rocket motor fires and takes the missile away..like harpoon does.
Second is to fire the missile with wings and inlet folded with an additional booster..Booster makes the missile break the surface.. Which is when rocket moto fire and wings unfold and air inlet drops down...like Tomahawk does.
Now a standard 21 inch torpedo tube is 533 mm in diameter and 20 feet in length.
Now problem with Babur is..it is 520 mm in diameter and 22 feet( it is longer than Tomahawk w) in length with additional booster.
So if an additional cannister is added to the missile.. It will not fit the 533 mm torpedo tube.
And if an additional booster is added.. Then it wont fit the torpedo tube length wise.
True, Babur land version is long. But the missile was built as bolt on bolt off modules and modules can be swapped for various reasons including making it compatible with torpedo launch.
In any case land sea and air vesions of any missile are different from each other. Just because land version is long,doesn't mean that's the only one available for torpedo tube launch.