British sub pictures

[greenman407]

[greenman407]

Thanks Kazzer for providing the website info where I obtained these pictures.

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[Rpmtech1]

Whoa dude, trippy pixelation effect.



I want to see Merriman paint that! Ha

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

Yikes!......

[greenman407]

Some of these are Chilian or Austrailian but they are still British Built.

[greenman407]

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[greenman407]

The last two

[jlday1256]

Would love to know the tactics and thinking on subs with the huge turret guns. Obviously what was a "great" idea at the time. The hydro dynamics must have been a nightmare.

[greenman407]

I think navys of the time were still battleship oriented. Early aircraft carriers carried big guns too. It took a while for them to realize that in most cases , guns were a hinderence to the operation of the submarine. If I remember correctly, I think that the Japanese Sentaka class deck gun retracted under the deck. Now thats an idea!!

[jlday1256]

I know it was difficult curing the Navy of their battleship fetish. You still have to wonder about the inherent stability of that protruding gun as you move forward at speed. So, was the Sentaka essentially a coastal artillery weapon? It seems that at sea, a surface ship's maneuverability and speed would negate any usefulness for that big gun...

[greenman407]

No, the Sentaka class was like the German type 21, a streamlined high speed(for the day) submarine. One of the ways they achieved that was to cut flow resistance and that included the gun.

[greenman407]

Ofcourse the guns wernt very big but they caused drag nonetheless. They also realized that the gun was the least effective weapon that they had and to use it put the hole ship in danger.

[greenman407]

http://forum.sub-driver.com/showthre...high-speed-sub Check out the videos.