Thunderball from Under the Sea: Mini-Subs & Frogmen
By Mike Sparks
Royal Navy Commander Ian Fleming RNVR 1939-1951 was a renaissance man with many interests. He was one of the first to scuba dive with Jacques Cousteau and his aqualung. However, many people wrongly categorize him as a "playboy" when he was also a humanitarian with a concern deep concern for society--with years of unselfish public service before and after the war with MI6-SIS and during the war the Admiralty's NID.
His last work before he died, was the script the "Poppy is also a Flower"--a thriller where the heroin drug trade is attacked by dedicated intelligence agents. It's tragic that Fleming's only son would die years later from a drug overdose. In my opinion, Fleming's best James Bond, 007 novel is Goldfinger because in it, he describes how an otherwise upstanding citizen gets caught up manufacturing drugs because his sister is addicted and needs them. Bond blows up his drug plant--but doesn't kill the man; he tells him to stop and get medical help for his sister. Later on, Bond convinces henchwoman-pilot Pussy Galore to switch to the side of right & virtue saving the day and preventing Fort Knox from being attacked. So unlike most other James Bond thrillers, Goldfinger has a theme of REDEMPTION--which is encouraging and I wish would be used in the movies. The ultimate victory is not the destruction of your human enemy, its for him to become your friend.
James Bond wins over Miss Galore to the Side of Right & Virtue
U.S. Military & Intel Agency Mini-Submarines
The DSRV is a very large mini-submarine for rescues; smaller models are in use by NAVSPECWAR and its SEALs.
Drug smugglers are not seeking this positive friendship, but the money of their victims at the cost of their lives. To hide their drugs to infiltrate them into the U.S., they are now using mini-submarines---devices created first in war to sneak in and attack targets by their small size, low noise stealth. Most of the major narco-trafficantes also provide services-for-hire to Islamist extremists. A submarine like this one operated by drug traffickers can carry many things including Chemical, Biological and Nuclear materials into American coastal waters along with the CIA-funded Muslim terrorists to employ them. The al-CIAduh terrorists who directly threaten the American people are not in Afghanistan or Iraq. Patsy Timothy McVeigh warned about U.S. intel agencies using mini-subs to smuggle drugs in to murder liberal hedonists for the AmeroNazis to have operating funds without public or Congressional oversight. David Hoffman in his book on the Oklahoma City False Flag attack, The Oklahoma City Bombing and The Politics of Terror writes:
www.apfn.org/apfn/hoffman2.htm
He later told Lebron that he became privy to a top-secret project at Calspan called "Project Norstar," which, according to McVeigh, involved bringing drugs into the country via miniature submarine. He told his friend that he was afraid that those responsible for Project Norstar were "coming after him," and he had to leave.While this explanation may strike one as bizarre, McVeigh wrote his sister Jennifer while he was still in the Army telling her that he had been picked for a highly specialized Special Forces Covert Tactical Unit (CTU) that was involved in illegal activities. The letter was introduced to the Federal Grand Jury. According to former grand juror Hoppy Heidelberg, these illegal activities included "protecting drug shipments, eliminating the competition, and population control."
While all the details of the letter aren't clear, Heidelberg said that there were five to six duties in all, and that the group was comprised of ten men. Such units are nothing new. During the Vietnam War, CIA Director William Colby and Saigon Station Chief Ted Shackley (who also ran a massive heroin smuggling operation) created what they called Provincial Reconnaissance Units (PRUs), which would capture, torture, and kill suspected Viet Cong leaders.(233)
These mini-subs are operating right now from Central and South America against us, using our open borders and coastal waters to infiltrate into the U.S. Nothing we are doing in Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Yemen or anywhere else in the Islamic World is securing the American people against the growing nexus of terrorism and criminality in the Caribbean Basin.
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38083616/ns/world_news-americas/
DEA: Seized submarine quantum leap for narcos
FRANK BAJAK
From Associated Press
July 04, 2010 7:14 PM EDT
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - A 100-foot (33-meter), twin-screw diesel submarine seized at a jungle shipyard in Ecuador marks a quantum, if anticipated, leap in drug-smuggling evasion technology, the top U.S. counter-drug official for the region said Sunday.
"It is the first fully functional, completely submersible submarine for transoceanic voyages that we have ever found," Jay Bergman, Andean regional director for the Drug Enforcement Administration, told The Associated Press.
Until now, all the smuggling vessels seized on the high seas or at clandestine shipyards built to haul multi-ton loads of cocaine under the Pacific's surface were semi-submersibles. They typically unload off Central America and Mexico drugs destined for the United States . Equipped with air intake and engine exhaust pipes, none of those craft were capable of fully submerging so they could evade radar and heat-seeking technology of drug-interdiction aircraft.
The camouflage-painted vessel seized by Ecuadorean police Friday appears by contrast to be capable of long-range underwater operation - a development U.S. analysts have long expected, Bergman said.
Acting on a DEA tip, the Ecuadoreans found it at a sophisticated shipyard with living quarters for at least 50 people on a jungle estuary several miles from the Colombian border, he said. It had yet to make a voyage. Built of fiberglass and other composites, it has a conning tower, periscope and air conditioning system and measures about 9 feet (2.7 meters) high from the deck plates to the ceiling, the DEA said. Ecuadorean police told the DEA the vessel has the capacity for about 10 metric tons of cargo, a crew of five or six people and the ability to fully submerge, Bergman said.
Compared to semi-submersibles, which cost less than $1 million each to build, "this is in a new maritime drug-trafficking class of its own," Bergman told the AP. He said U.S. nautical engineers would be taking the submarine apart in the next few days to determine its dynamics.
The regional head of Ecuador 's anti-narcotics police, Maj. Enrique Bautista, would not offer details of the sub when contacted by the AP. He referred calls to the national anti-narcotics police chief, who did not respond to messages left on his cell phone. Bautista said the seizure was "in preliminary stages of investigation."
Bergman said one man was arrested in Friday's raid on the jungle shipyard and said it was hoped he would shed some light on how long it took to build the submarine and who engineered it. He said authorities are still investigating who financed the sub's manufacture and which trafficking organization intended to use it.
A number of illegal armed groups operate in the area, including the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC. Authorities say drug trafficking is now the movement's chief source of income.
The commander of Pacific operations for Colombia's navy, Adm. Hernando Will, told the AP on Sunday that Colombia seized 22 semi-submersibles along its coast last year but only one so far this year.
In the cat-and-mouse game that law enforcement has played for three decades with drug traffickers in Colombia - the origin of some 90% of the cocaine sold in the U.S. as well as heroin - the smugglers have continuously adapted to stay one step ahead of their pursuers.
The introduction of transoceanic submarines - given the major investment they represent - amounts to raising the stakes ever higher, Bergman said. "A lot of thought, a lot of resources, went into this."
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Associated Press writers Gabriela Molina in Quito , Ecuador , and Vivian Sequera in Bogota contributed to this report.
(This version CORRECTS that Bautista is regional anti-narcotics police chief rather than Ecuador 's national chief.)
During WW2, Commander Fleming as the admiralty's go-to man helped defeat the highly effective Italian frogmen who rode on modified torpedoes and attached them to Allied ships to sink them. The Italian frogmen were uniquely effective compared to the other parts of the Italian military because they stressed individual initiative and had leaders leading by example--this was no snobby bureaucracy. In many ways the Decima Mas Italian naval commandos were like their egalitarian British counterparts. After the Italian government sided with the allies, they quickly became friends and began doing joint operations. They used both human torpedoes, mini-submarines and speed boats packed with explosives to destroy Allied ships.
An excellent and important book on Mini-Submarines is Midget Submarines of WW2 by Paul Kemp which actually covers them to 1999. The book reveal the Italians actually sank a battleship in WW1 using a mini-submarine!
http://engforum.pravda.ru/showthread.php?249819-Italian-frogmen-human-torpedo-in-WW2-sink-and-disable-131.527
"Everyone has the jitters, seeing objects swimming about at night, and hearing movements on ships' bottoms. It must stop!"
-- Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham, Commander in Chief of Britain's Mediterranean Fleet.
From their first triumph in March of 1941 these units utilized Explosive Motor Boats, Torpedo Boats, Miniature submarines and the infamous "Human Torpedoes" (Maiale) [EDITOR: or "Pig"]. By the end of the war, these units would sink, or severely disable, 86,000 tons of Allied warships and 131,527 tons of merchant shipping.
http://www.wifteam.net/ItalianFrogmen.htm
http://www.rnsubmus.co.uk/tour/x24.htm
http://www.regiamarina.net/xa_mas/al...xandria_us.htm
The 10th Light Flotilla was responsible for 28 ships sunk or damaged in World War Two. These ships include the battleships HMS Queen Elizabeth, HMS Valiant, cruiser HMS York and 111, 527 tons of merchant shipping.
A partial listing of ships sunk or crippled by the 10th Light Flotilla is noted below.
Durham 10,900 tons Gibraltar Sep, 1941
Queen Elizabeth 32,000 tons Alexandria Dec, 1941
Valiant 31,000 tons Alexandria Dec, 1941
Jervis 1,700 tons Alexandria Dec, 1941
Baron Douglas 3,900 tons Gibraltar July, 1942
Raven's Point 1,900 tons Gibraltar July, 1942
Meta 1,600 tons Gibraltar July, 1942
Harmattan 4,600 tons Algiers Dec, 1942
Empire Centaur 7,000 tons Algiers Dec, 1942
Camerata 4,900 tons Gibraltar May, 1943
Mahsud 7,500 tons Gibraltar May, 1943
Kaituna 10,000 tons Mersin July, 1943
Fernplant 7,000 tons Iskenderun Aug, 1943
Stanridge 6,000 tons Gibraltar Aug, 1943
1942 Italian frogmen were not only deadly, but also very ingenious in their methods of attack. Known as the "Floating Trojan Horse of Gibraltar", Italian frogmen used an imaginative method of destroying enemy ships.
Gibraltar was very tempting to the Italians for their safe shelter of British warships and allied merchant shipping. The Italian frogmen originally used a Spanish villa that was located 2 miles from Gibraltar. It was owned by an Italian officer married to a Spanish woman named Conchita Ramognino. This villa held the frogmen who would sneak out into the harbor and attack unsuspecting British warships. But this proved very difficult and costly. The harbor was very well protected by netting, patrol boats and search lights. Because of this difficulty, the Italians decided to use a battered Italian merchant ship docked across the bay of Gibraltar. It was the 4,995 ton Olterra. Italian frogmen secretly replaced the crew with divers and technicians and built a workshop to house, build and maintain human torpedoes. A door was then cut 6 feet below the surface to allow these 2-man human torpedos to come and go undetected. Replacement torpedoes were shipped from Italy disguised as boiler tubes. When the Italian frogmen commenced their attacks on British warships from this location, it proved just as costly. Five out of six frogmen never returned. But when the Italians decided to attack the merchant shipping, which was less protected, they were rewarded with easy prey. Italian frogmen sank or damaged a total of 42,000 tons of Allied shipping. The British never did find out where these frogmen came from or where they gone.
Despite early disappointments the Italians persevered, and scored major successes in Gibraltar Harbour in September 1941 and more significantly, in Alexandria Harbour in December. It was this attack that personified the strength of the submarine/swimmer delivery vehicle combination - bold in concept; brilliant in execution; highly effective in result - when six Italian frogmen, led by Cdr Count Luigi de la Penne, on three chariots landed from the Italian submarine Sirce penetrated into Alexandria Harbour and placed explosives on the British battleships Valiant and the Queen Elizabeth, and a nearby tanker. All six charioteers were captured, but they put a significant element of the British Mediterranean Fleet on the bottom. Fortunately for the British the bottom was not far away, and the upperworks of both ships remained well clear of the surface. To fool Italian reconnaissance aircraft into thinking that the raid had failed, apparently normal operations were conducted on a day-to-day basis. Smoke came out of funnels, guns were trained, and all the routine ceremonial rituals performed as if nothing had happened. In fact below the waterline frantic repair efforts were being made which lasted several weeks. Had the Axis realised the truth then Admiral Cunningham, with only a few operational ships at his disposal, could have been driven out of the Mediterranean, with potentially disastrous consequences for the Allies.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GXFKZWtDJw
Olterra
The Italian frogmen hid in the oil tanker the Olterra and left at night in their mini-submarines via a secret hatch. Fleming would later have his S.P.E.C.T.R.E. villain Largo use an underwater hatch for his men to covertly move nuclear bombs captured from a NATO bomber ditched into the water by a traitor.
Italian Maiale Mini-Submarine
These were WET mini-submarines that exposed their men to the cold and were limited in their range. Exposure to the cold thwarted British "Chariot" human torpedoes from attacking the German battleship Tirpitz in Norwegian fiords so DRY submersibles were developed that were successful.
Even close-range operations by exposed combat divers could be thwarted by The Battle Against The Earth (TBATE) as the picture from Ian Westwall's book, Brandenburgers: THe 3rd Reich's Special Forces above recounts the German's failure to destoy the Remagen bridge in 1945.
Royal Navy Frogman
DRY mini-submarines were created to deliver high explosive attacks covertly, the most famous was the British X-craft mini-submarine attack that crippled the battleship Tirpitz hiding out in a Norwegian fiord after British commandos had destroyed the dry docks at St. Nazaire in 1942. Large metal anti-torpedo nets were an obstacle solved by frogmen leaving their mini-subs and cutting holes with pneumatic tools for their craft to pass.
The Italians devised mini-subs that had tracks that could rumble over the top of these nets! Tracks rule--even under the sea!
British X-Craft Mini-Submarine
Later on in the war, for D-Day, British mini-submarines brought COPP swimmers close to the Normandy beaches for RECONNAISSANCE purposes.
Mini-submarines can be used to insert/extract agents or VIPs. New Zealand historian Greg Hallet documents in his masterpiece Hitler was a British Agent (HWABA) that a German WK-202 mini-submarine was used to rescue Nazi dictator Adolph Hitler and Eva Braun from Berlin encircled by the Russian army in 1945.
This use of mini-submarines by German special operations is validated because SS Commando leader Otto Skorzeny was placed in charge of mini-submarine development at the end of the war. (Allen, page 58)
Skorzeny did not have control of German submarines and frogmen for long before WW2 ended, but he did send them on one unsuccessful mission to blow up bridges.
OPJB: The Last Great Secret of WW2
Moreover Skorzeny was personally trusted by Hitler like uber-sexy Nazi pilot-chick Hanna Reitsch was, so for both of them joining together to fly Hitler and Braun out of Berlin using the lakes as runways for seaplanes where Commander Ian Fleming and Christopher Creighton's commandos in kayaks delivered the couple and Nazi party leader Bormann from the advancing Soviet Russian Army.
Details of the Ian Fleming/Christopher Creighton 1945 Berlin Mission
After the war, the evil Tavistock [mind control] Institute funded the rock group The Beatles to make young people turn to drug use. One of their songs, "Yellow Submarine" is referring to Hitler fleeing Germany (yellow = cowardice) and staying inside it for several days waiting for Reitsch, Fleming and his commandos to rendezvous ("we all live in the yellow submarine"). Notice the artwoirk from the album cover looks similar to the German WK-202 and even closer to an Italian mini-submarine.
The Beatles Yellow Submarine Lyrics
In the town where I was born
So we sailed on to the sun
We all live in a yellow submarine
And our friends are all aboard [HITLER ONLY HAS EVA BRAUN AS A FRIEND]
We all live in a yellow submarine
{Full speed ahead Mr. Boatswain, full speed ahead [GET US THE HELL OUT OF BERLIN BEFORE THE RUSSKIES GET US]
As we live a life of ease [HITLER-EVA IN SPAIN]
We all live in a yellow submarine
We all live in a yellow submarine
Today, mini-submarines can deliver swimmers with small, backpack-sized nuclear bombs to attack entire cities---an aircraft doesn't have to be hijacked to get a large nuclear bomb.
USN SEALs now have specially-converted nuclear "mother" submarines to deliver them and their mini-subs.
Commander Ian Fleming was privvy to ALL of the secrets uncovered by British military intelligence in WW2. His direct participation in special operations were curtailed mostly until the end of the war when he lead Operations JB and WTP in Berlin in 1945 when there was no Germany left to capture him and get secrets from him. However, he was still under the Official Secrets Act and could not talk openly, but he talked in CODE in his James Bond 007 books. My book is already written and has no more space available so the web page you are reading would otherwise be a chapter in it on mini-submarines.
Russian Mini-Submarines: Just a Cold War Threat?
Nigel West in his brilliant book, The Historical Dictionary of Ian Fleming's World of Intelligence reveals some secrets about Soviet and British post-WW2 mini-sub development and plans to use them to deliver small nuclear bombs:
The first X-craft were replaced by 12 XE-craft, but they were scrapped in 1952 when plans were made for a third-generation submarine, the X-51, HMS Stickleback. This submersible, with a crew of five, was launched in July 1954, just a few months after Fleming had written Moonraker, and was considered a highly classified project at the time, for the purpose of all four Sticklebacks, designated X-51 to X-54, was to deliver a RED BEARD nuclear bomb to the Soviet naval base at Kronstadt. The last X-craft, HMS Minnow, was launched in May 1955 but the project was soon terminated because of technical difficulties.
During and after World War II the X-craft received considerable publicity because of the extraordinary gallantry of the crews and their success in damaging the Tirpitz, which would later be finished off by bombers, but when Fleming was suggesting such a submarine could move close inshore to sabotage the British base, X-craft were definitely back on the secret list.
In Thunderball, the book, Fleming has the large nuclear submarine USS Manta follow Largo's hydrofoil and launches frogmen to battle his scuba divers in the climactic battle. I have always been troubled by his use of the name "Manta" which is now clear to me: Fleming was dropping a hint for us to look at the experimental GERMAN MANTA submarine which his 30 Assault Unit commandos had captured the plans for. Fleming is getting inspiration from not just his vivid imagination--but from what he learned from the WW2 Germans for his James Bond 007 novels!
Paul Kemp writes on page 53 that the Manta would:
Rob Arndt provides further information and pictures showing James Bond-movie style devices like escape features!:
http://strangevehicles.greyfalcon.us/Manta.htm
The Manta had a catamaran-type hull comprising three torpedo-like cylinders linked by one wing surface. The central cylinder contained a diesel generator and a cabin for the two man crew; the rest of the craft, as well as the other two cylinders was given over principally to fuel (Ingolin) storage. In addition, there were trim tanks and compensating tanks.
The propulsion system was installed within two keels beneath the outer cylinders and consisted of one Schwertwal-I-like unit in each. As well as the diesel-electric propulsion system, a diesel-hydraulic transmission installation was also considered. At the sides were to have been located two large aircraft wheels, to enable the craft to hydroplane on the surface of the water.
The wing area between the two outer cylinders was to be filled with four launching tubes for torpedoes or mines. Navigation equipment was similar to that of the Schwertwal. As with all the Versuchskommando 456 projects, the Manta designers paid close attention to crew survivability by providing, for example, a marker buoy with an antenna, a self-inflating dinghy and special diving suits. For an acute emergency there was the option of jettisoning the two electric batteries -which acted also as ballast- from beneath the side keels in order to give the craft added buoyancy and assist it to the surface.
The Kleinst-U-Bootwaffe (Miniature Submarine Command) gave its blessing to this project, not least because it fulfilled a determination to achieve the maximum concentration of weapons whilst employing the minimum number of men. However, Manta did not progress beyond the stage of a model, and at the end of the war all the design documents were destroyed.
Data:
Crew: Two
~ The Encyclopedia of U-boats
War is a lethal game of cat & mouse--and the drug war is no different. Right now submarines are in the ascendant; navies around the world are going to actively pinging sonar because the diesel-electric submarines are so advanced in their stealth, passive sonar detection no longer works. A mini-submarine may have launched torpedoes that sank the South Korean ASW corvette the Cheonan or laid the sea mine that shot torpedoes that sank her.
www.combatreform.org/theendofflimsysurfaceships.htm
Long-range Cantieri Zappata CANT Z.511 seaplane
Mini-Submarines to get their small size advantage are not large enough to carry enough fuel to cross long distances and have to be carried by "mother ships". During WW2, the clever Italians were in the process of raiding New York harbor by flying their human torpedo mini-subs under 4-engined, long-range seaplanes or in watertight containers on top of longer-range, large submarines...
...or using mounting provisions on the top of the large submarine Leonardo Da Vinci for a CA or CB minisubmarine.
Fortunately for us, the Da Vinci was sunk before New York harbor could be raided. Maybe unfortunately...because we have since then not taken coastal defense seriously.
www.combatreform.org/seaplanetransports.htm
The recently captured drug sub may be just large enough to reach the U.S. and still be stealthy enough to avoid detection. The U.S. Navy obsessed with bloated aircraft carriers and fighter-bomber egomaniacs has criminally neglected its duty to provide effective Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) means and needs to immediately field ASW patrol sea and land planes and blimps that can actively sonar ping to hunt stealthy D-E submarines.
www.combatreform.org/USNAVYINDANGER
We know for a fact that the North Koreans have helped the Iranian navy's mini-submarine and frogman program along. Below is an Iranian wet submersible displayed on a parade to send a signal to Western military intelligence. We are paying attention.
These ASW forces need to be deployed to protect the southern U.S. sea coast from drug smuggling and terrorist attack submarines with orders to DESTROY them as they are indeed a MILITARY THREAT. In concert with these ASW forces, the SW land border of America needs to be secured by a sensor-security fence backed by shoot-to-kill U.S. Army and National Guard Quick Reaction Forces (QRFs) in M113 Gavin light tracked tanks with armored, cross-country mobility.
www.combatreform.org/falklandslessonsnotlearned.htm
If the U.S. military doesn't start doing it's actual job of defending WE THE PEOPLE in America and stop making corporations rich overseas with oil and drugs, we may actually have a mini-sub deliver a nuclear terrorist attack on America as in a Fleming 007 novel. It's high time we the citizens take action and demand our troops stop occupying foreign lands and be returned here where they are needed to defend America.
Type 26 Mini-Sub
German WK-202 Mini-Submarine
Lived a man who sailed to sea
And he told us of his life
In the land of submarines [SUBMARINE EXPERT, PERHAPS ADMIRAL DONITZ?]
Till we found a sea of green [MONEY FROM THE ILLUMINATI]
And we lived beneath the waves [3RD REICH SECURE THANKS TO U-BOATS ATTACKING ENGLAND, AFTER WAR LOST, WAITING FOR COMMANDER FLEMING TO RESCUE US]
In our yellow submarine [COWARDLY ESCAPE BY HITLER MOCKED BY BRITISH TAVISTOCK HANDLERS]
Yellow submarine, yellow submarine
We all live in a yellow submarine
Yellow submarine, yellow submarine
Many more of them live next door [SHE HAD ROOM ADJACENT TO HITLER]
And the band begins to play [TAPS FOR THE 3RD REICH]
Yellow submarine, yellow submarine
We all live in a yellow submarine
Yellow submarine, yellow submarine
Full speed ahead it is, Sgt.[SGTS DON'T SERVE IN NAVIES]
Cut the cable, drop the cable [BUT THEY DO MAN KAYAKS FOR SPECIAL OPERATIONS--GET HITLER AND EVA INTO HANNAH'S JU-52 SEAPLANE]
Aye, aye, Sir, aye, aye
Captain, captain}
Every one of us has all we need [MONIES FROM ILLUMINATI AND DEAD JEWS]
(One of us, has all we need) [HITLER CONTROLS SWISS BANK ACCOUNTS]
Sky of blue and sea of green [MOUNTAINOUS SPANISH MONASTERY WHERE THEY HIDE OUT]
(Sky of blue, sea of green)
In our yellow submarine
(In our yellow, submarine, aha)
A yellow submarine, yellow submarine
We all live in a yellow submarine
A yellow submarine, yellow submarine
Yellow submarine, yellow submarine
We all live in a yellow submarine
Yellow submarine, yellow submarine
Mk54 Special Atomic Demolition Munition (SADM)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NDvpZErg-Q
X-CRAFT. Mentioned in passing by James Bond in Moonraker as
a Soviet method of attacking the British rocket base on the Kent coast, X-craft were miniature submarines, 51 feet long with a crew of four, that were deployed during World War II into enemy waters to deliver beneath their targets divers and their weapons, consisting of 10 limpet mines and two huge two-ton Amatol charges. Famously,
there was an X-craft attack on the German pocket battleship Admiral Tirpitz in the Altenfjord in September 1943, and although the Royal Navy would scrap all 12 X-craft in 1945, the Soviets were believed
to have retained some for special operations, so Ian Fleming's reference to the weapon was entirely apposite.
Another project stemming from the co-operation between the Walter facility and Versuchskommando 456 was the Untersee-Gleitflächen-Schnellboot Manta (USG submarine). The idea behind its construction was to bring together all the progressive ideas from the various miniature submarine designs in one new project, particularly the necessity to obviate the drag caused by external torpedoes and the need to launch the vehicles into the water easily and successfully.
Diving Depth: 50-60 m
Length: 15 m
Beam: 6 m
Maximum hull diameter: 1.5 m
Displacement: 15 tons empty/ 50 tons loaded
Electric Motors: 2x 440 Kw
Diesel engine: 2x 600 hp
Or Walter engine: 2x 800 hp
Maximum surface speed: 50 kts
Maximum submerged speed: 30 kts
Surface range: 200 nm @ 50 kts/600 nm @ 20 kts
Submerged range: 120 nm @ 30 kts/500 nm @10 kts
Armament: 2 standard or 8 homing torpedoes; 8 TMA or 12 TMB mines; or 4 projectiles*
*possibly rockets
