"Turtle" (Picture 1) |
Kimmo Huosionmaa
The first submarine of the U.S Navy was egg-shaped "USS Turtle", what made the first submarine attack in the history against British ships in New York harbor. This submarine had the capacity to slip in the harbor, and then put the explosives under the ships hull, but those attacks failed because the explosives were wet.
As a technical solution "Turtle" was quite interesting, and it had very much capacity if it were covered by glassed clay or rubber layer, what would give it the capacity for deep submerge, and of course the user of that submarine must have gas mask against the carbon dioxide. The propels could use by a similar plate, what was used in "singer" pedal sewing machine. If that singer-system would be used in that submarine, the man who controlled it would not get so tired, and this person could move this submarine faster.
We must remember that this kind of small submarines, what is used by muscle power could be dangerous even today because the modern explosives like C-4 are capacity to explode even they were wet. Everybody can try to build this kind of vehicle, and the problem is the sealing of the windows and other changes.
For the personal safety, the user of this submarine need only seal the hull very sharply. And then the user of this submarine has modern scuba-equipment, this submarine would be lethal. In this scenario, the submarine's mission is to give cover to the water pressure, and the man, who controls that unit can use recycling pressure air system, what will recycle the air by using active carbon filters, and that kind of thing might slip in any harbor.
The shape of the egg is very good against the pressure, and in some scenarios, the modern nuclear depth charges will be made in the shape of egg or ball. The implosion mechanism would be covered by this shape, and it will give it the capacity to submerge quite deep, and destroy any submarine, what is lurking in there.
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle_(submersible)
Picture 1
http://www.militaer-wissen.de/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Bushnells-Schildkr%C3%B6te.jpg
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