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Fictional Submarine Aircraft Carriers include:

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-35 C's, and Harrier s from launch tubes built into the craft, they are also used as launch platforms for Ballistic Missile s. They are equipped with several Surface-to-Air Missile , and Anti-Aircraft batteries for defense.

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.

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 .

Novelist G. Harry Stine wrote the Starsea Invaders science-fiction series featuring the SSCVN ''U.S.S. Shenandoah''.

X-Men Legends on the PS2 also contained a submersible aircraft carrier.

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.

In the sci-fi RTS 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 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.

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 .

In the cartoon series Thundersub , Thundersub was a large submarine aircraftcarrier which also carried a smaller submarine Tempest Junior in a hold below itself.

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.

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