1/8/2024 0 Comments Bohn typhoon submarine![]() ![]() Look at some of the concepts below - they seem to illustrate the very spirit of the times: deadly menace lurking under the universal cover of secrecy. Huge, dark, bloated shapes were swimming in the minds of Soviet sub boat designers during Stalin's era. and it was the biggest underwater boat ever made (before the advent of nuclear submarines). It had enough fuel to go around the world 1.5 times. These were the giant submarine aircraft carriers, complete with a launching catapult and three planes, plus a good deal of torpedoes. World War II spawned even stranger ideas in military submarine technology. Possible applications would have been as a motor torpedo boat, but the German navy wasn't even interested in the prototype." (thanks, JGCR) It could not dive, but was to test an experimental hydrodynamic hull shape. UPDATE: "This is the rarely known VS-5, an experimental prototype of a mostly-submerged vessel. Yes, one of them looks like a shoe, but who cared about that as long as its specs were great? We will start with rarely-seen and interestingly shaped Nazi U-Boats. It did descend to 200 meters, but the adventurers later were stopped by police for doing it without authorization at the Red Hook Brooklyn cruise ship terminal. Last year New York artist Philip "Duke" Riley created a replica of it - and proceeded to test it around Rhode Island. Rather more antique is the "Turtle" - an invention by Ezra Bushnell from 1752: One of the earliest dive boats by Wilhelm Bauer (1852): Not a robot, but definitely looks like one: (images credit: Sam /TudoAzul and Vincent Roc Roussey)Īnd this one is from the Oceanographic Museum in Monaco: This one is from the Museé Marin, Paris (The Carmagnolle brothers' atmospheric diving suit from 1882 with rolling convolute joints, more info). ![]() Next best thing to steam robots in Victorian technology and a clear inspiration behind Jules Verne's "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea". Here are some of the most interesting sub concepts in history: Made for warfare, exploration and sometimes for sheer national pride (let's see who's got the bigger boomer) submarines can be both a technological wonder and an ultimate nemesis (when stuffed with nuclear weapons capable of destroying Earth 10 times over). Some of them should just be painted yellow Send us your topic ideas, suggestions, etc. ![]()
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