Japanese aircraft carrying subs

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My first attempt at reading the title parsed it as the aircraft were carrying subs. [:o] Really had me wondering!
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that was my first thought as well, Soooo just how big does an aircraft have to be to carry a full sized sub...
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that was my first thought as well, Soooo just how big does an aircraft have to be to carry a full sized sub...

I almost tried to find an image to post for it...
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A full sized submarine is a very relative size,
are we talking a German Type II? Type VII? a USN Fleet Boat? a Soviet Typhoon??

You will need something like the flying aircraft carrier proposed on one of the latest Marvel superhero movie (don't remember the name).

Or maybe an Ekranoplan like the Caspian Sea Monster carrying Kaiten-like mini submarines?


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Hughes built a ship to try to carry a full size submarine, the Glomar Explorer (meant to raise the K-129). Glomar Explorer weighed 51,310 tons. I'm sure you could scale back some of the features, but even at 1/10th the size, I'd have trouble believing you could make an aircraft weighing over 5,000 tons fly with current technology :-) The worlds current heaviest aircraft, the An-225 tops off at 640 tons gross weight. [X(]
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This is reminding me of an old thread with a link to a series of humorous images caricaturing nationally quintessential WWII aircraft . . . will have to see if I can find it . . .

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My first attempt at reading the title parsed it as the aircraft were carrying subs. Really had me wondering!
That would be one king size Kate.
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I'm positive that a small sub could be carried between two very large swallows.
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African or European swallows!?
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African or European swallows!?

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Are you suggesting that submarines migrate?!
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