Standard Unterseeboot X
The standard Unterseeboot X , or U-boot standard X was a special type of German Sous-marin of the Second world war. Although conceived as minelayer it was thereafter used for goods transport on long distance, tries that it divided with standard IX-D1 and Italian submarines of the class Romolo.
These submarines, designed in 1938, were launched like ic submarines Océan. They could contain up to 66 mines SMA and 15 Torpille S. the boats of class XB were special because they had only two torpedo tubes, with the poop. As ships of transport, they contained containers of freight in the tubes minelayers (or welded above the tubes side minelayers), which prevented their use for mines. With 2.710 barrels in diving and with full charges, they were the largest German submarines ever built, which made them less nimble and with a speed of weaker immersion.
Six of the eight built boats were cast during the war (of which five body and goods), but two survived the Second world war. One of the survivors was the U-234, which was famous for its loading of 560kg of oxide of uranium bound for the Japan. It contained also two jets Me-262 like ten reaction engines. Other type XB to survive was the U-219 which reached Jakarta in December 1944 with a loading containing of the Missile S V2 bound for Japan.
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