To: El Gato
That thing looks like WWII surplus.
90 posted on
05/02/2010 11:36:19 AM PDT by
mnehring
To: mnehring
That thing looks like WWII surplus.
Look can be deceiving. Not very fast, but very quiet on batteries. And the entire upper hull is fiberglass. Darn near stealth when on the surface to put divers ashore. It isn't a fleet boat, but it is designed to deliver spies and commando teams into South Korea. They are built to be cheap and disposable. When one went aground in South Korea the crew killed themselves rather than get captured.
95 posted on
05/02/2010 11:54:19 AM PDT by
GonzoGOP
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To: mnehring
That thing looks like WWII surplus. Not really, it's much smaller than any U-boat. Maybe a bit like the sort of Japenese min-sub that was used on 7 Dec 1941, but more sophisticated
(This one is in the Nimitz Museum in Fredericksburg Texas, where I saw it up close and personal.
The Japanese built a potful of them,, of various models
96 posted on
05/02/2010 11:56:15 AM PDT by
El Gato
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