Thanks for that, Chris.
It is indeed a massive vessel and it's amazing that it could carry 2 or 3
aircraft, but the CBS article is a little breathless, perhaps, when it
speculates that such vessels might have changed the course of the war.
The aircraft would have been quite small, capable of carrying only a small
payload; their use would have been restricted to one flight with limited effect
because of the small payload. And the whole project would have been way too
expensive for a small nation to sustain, which is presumably why the original
programme of 18 vessels was scaled back to 3.
Chris
On 5 Dec 13, at 15:31, Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> I know we have a number of aviation history buffs on this list, and
>>> here is something significant which borders on aviation that I caught on
>>> the CBS online news:
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.cbsnews.com/news/world-war-ii-era-japanese-sub-discovered-off-hawaii-coast/
>>>
>>> These Japanese submarines were immense, the largest ever made until
>>> the Ethan Allen. Look them up on Google and Wikipedia and be prepared for
>>> a stunning surprise.
>>>
>>>
>> I saw that story yesterday or Tuesday. Very cool. Keep hoping that one of
>> the sites would publish some sort of photo of the wreck, though...
>>
>
> If you look on Google (use "japanese submarine I-400") you'll get a hit
> that is lots of photos, and there are some of the wreck in there. It's
> amazing to see how large these were, half the length of the Titanic. One
> photo shows the three subs at a Pearl Harbor pier next to an attack
> submarine. It looks toyish in comparison.
>
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