A submarine-launched missile (SM) is a guided missile

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 fired from a submarine

Submarine

A submarine is a watercraft capable of independent operation below the surface of the water. It differs from a submersible, which has more limited underwater capability...

. Some SMs are placed in launch capsule

Launch capsule

A launch capsule is used to propel a submarine-launched missile to the ocean surface. Upon reaching the surface, the capsule is jettisoned, and the missile continues its journey propelled by the booster motor....

s to be fired through the submarine's torpedo tube

Torpedo tube

A torpedo tube is a device for launching torpedoes. There are two main types of torpedo tube: underwater tubes fitted to submarines and some surface ships, and deck-mounted units installed aboard surface vessels...

s. These missiles are initially solid-propellant motor-driven, and once clear of the water (and launch capsule) ignite their booster motor. An exception is the future IDAS missile

IDAS (missile)

For other uses, see Idas .IDAS is a short-range missile currently being developed for the new Type 212 submarine class of the German Navy....

 of the German Navy

German Navy

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, which will be tube-launched, but is fired directly from the torpedo tubes without emerging in a capsule.

List of submarine-launched missiles

• BGM-109 Tomahawk
  BGM-109 Tomahawk
  The Tomahawk is a long-range, all-weather, subsonic cruise missile. Introduced by General Dynamics in the 1970s, it was designed as a medium- to long-range, low-altitude missile that could be launched from a surface platform. It has been improved several times and, by way of corporate divestitures...
  
  
• BrahMos
  BrahMos
  BrahMos is a stealth supersonic cruise missile that can be launched from submarines, ships, aircraft or land. It is a joint venture between Republic of India's Defence Research and Development Organisation and Russian Federation's NPO Mashinostroeyenia who have together formed BrahMos Aerospace...
  
  
• Exocet SM39
  Exocet
  The Exocet is a French-built anti-ship missile whose various versions can be launched from surface vessels, submarines, helicopters and fixed wing aircraft. Hundreds were fired in combat during the 1980s.-Etymology:...
  
  
• IDAS (missile)
  IDAS (missile)
  For other uses, see Idas .IDAS is a short-range missile currently being developed for the new Type 212 submarine class of the German Navy....
  
  
• Sagarika
  Sagarika
  K-15 Sagarika is a nuclear-capable submarine launched ballistic missile with a range of .-Development:...
  
  
• UGM-84 Harpoon
  Boeing Harpoon
  The Harpoon is an all-weather, over-the-horizon, anti-ship missile system, developed and manufactured by McDonnell Douglas . In 2004, Boeing delivered the 7,000th Harpoon unit since the weapon's introduction in 1977...
  
  
• UGM-89 Perseus
  UGM-89 Perseus
  The UGM-89 Perseus was a proposed U.S. Navy submarine-launched anti-ship and anti-submarine cruise missile that was developed under the Submarine Tactical Missile project, which was also referred to as the Submarine Anti-ship Weapon System...
  
  
• UGM-109 Tomahawk
• UUM-44 SUBROC
  UUM-44 SUBROC
  The UUM-44 SUBROC was a type of submarine-launched rocket deployed by the United States Navy as an anti-submarine weapon.-Development:...
  
  
• UUM-125 Sea Lance
• YJ-82

See also

• Submarine launched ballistic missile (SLBM)
• SLCM
  SLCM
  Submarine-Launched Cruise Missile or SLCMs are cruise missiles that deliver conventional and/or nuclear payloads and are launched from ships or submarines. Current versions are typically standoff weapons which are used to attack predetermined land targets.Four US Navy ballistic missile submarines ...
  
  
• Cruise missile
  Cruise missile
  A cruise missile is a guided missile that carries an explosive payload and is propelled, usually by a jet engine, towards a land-based or sea-based target. Cruise missiles are designed to deliver a large warhead over long distances with high accuracy...