In Variant 1, the personnel compartment for special operators was placed forward of the cockpit, as these compartments would flood during submerged operation, placing the pressurized cabin as close to ...
Spotter planes can no longer directly see enemy submarines. Today, their mission is overwhelmingly acoustic—listening to signals from submarines and narrowing down their likely position before taking ...
A man cannot one day just decide to build a submarine, much less the first powered submarine, much less if that man is a writer. Yet that is just what Narcis Monturiol did. As a young firebrand of the ...
The age of diesel-powered submarines began in 1912, and these subs dominated the waters for more than 40 years, through both World War I and World War II. In the U.S., this era ended when the last ...