The Type XXI U-boat

The Japanese actually had a very similar, although better, design called the Sen Taka. They didn't get any into the water until the war was effectively over and none made a patrol.

The boat, especially with the Type 95 torpedo, could have been a roral pain (assuming the IJN actually figured out how to use subs, which wasn't too likely).

http://www.combinedfleet.com/type_sts.htm

Given the propensity of high test H2O2 to go boom when just looked at funny, I don't think I'd enjoy the survival chances of one under depth charge attack.....:eek:
 
The Royal Navy personnel called one of the prize XXI's that britain got after the war Exploder which tells you how popular they were with crews. Simply put they were very, very dangerous under anything but the most benign circumstances. That said thanks to the RN's ASW being a German submariner with pretty bloody dangerous by 1944. It's really a case of picking your poison, Have the sub blow up because someone dropped a wrench or get it sunk when you have to surface in an ordinary diesel sub.

The Exploder was not a XXI, it was a British built sub HMS Explorer, with a Walther propulsion system derived from the scuttled and salvaged U1407/HMS Meterorite.

The RN also had a HTP Mk12 Torpedo explode sinking a sub at the same time, which soured the RN on HTP. The same type of torpedo exploded and sank the Kursk SSGN a few years ago.
 
The Exploder was not a XXI, it was a British built sub HMS Explorer, with a Walther propulsion system derived from the scuttled and salvaged U1407/HMS Meterorite.

The RN also had a HTP Mk12 Torpedo explode sinking a sub at the same time, which soured the RN on HTP. The same type of torpedo exploded and sank the Kursk SSGN a few years ago.

HMS Sidon was the sub destroyed by a peroxide torpedo. Apparently the peroxide does very nasty things to the human body and the bodies in torpedo room of Sidon had to removed with a bucket and a shovel.
 
I know HMS Explorer wasn't a Type XXI and apologise for the memory fail. However it was very closely based on them, I of course meant HMS Meteorite.
 
HTP will eat your flesh until you are a skeleton.

Does HTP get carted around the highways on trucks in other countries? I always get nervous when I see a truck with a tank on the back which is surrounded by bracing, all too often it is HTP. The bracing may stop the tank from rupturing if the truck rolls, but it won't stop the tank from being pierced in a crash.
 

CalBear

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They seemed to like to engage warships... things with depth charges and aircraft that can destroy you... at least the Germans only did that by accident at not by doctrine

The boat's commanders also were often less than aggressive in pressing attacks (rather like the very early war U.S. skippers).

As stated, the boats had potential to be a problem IF. The IF part wasn't very likely.
 

Blair152

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The Japanese actually had a very similar, although better, design called the Sen Taka. They didn't get any into the water until the war was effectively over and none made a patrol.

The boat, especially with the Type 95 torpedo, could have been a roral pain (assuming the IJN actually figured out how to use subs, which wasn't too likely).

http://www.combinedfleet.com/type_sts.htm
The Japanese also had manned torpedoes. The captain of the I-58, the submarine that sank the USS Indianapolis, was going to use his manned torpedoes but decided not to at the last minute.
 
HTP will eat your flesh until you are a skeleton.

Does HTP get carted around the highways on trucks in other countries? I always get nervous when I see a truck with a tank on the back which is surrounded by bracing, all too often it is HTP. The bracing may stop the tank from rupturing if the truck rolls, but it won't stop the tank from being pierced in a crash.

ER, it isnt corrosive IIRC.....

However it does dissasociate into water and oxygen very readily, and high-test does this fast enough to cause burns (it releases quite a lot of energy).

The biggest danger on them trucking it around would be a fire...all that free oxygen, fire, can you spell FAE?
 
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