Re: OT: Sen Toku
The really scary part of this, as told by the Discovery Channel, was that this ship design was actually intended to be a part of a secret atomic weapon development program that the Japanese were working on with the Germans. The submarine itself, because of it's unique Figure-8 hull design, could dive deep enough to travel too far down for conventional Allied SONAR and ASW to be effective. It could travel one and a half times around the would before it needed to refuel, and could arrive off the shores of the US virtually undetectable. The onboard aircraft were intended to carry a small atomic bomb to the target.
Scary concept, and waaaaaay ahead of anything else at that time period....
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