The later German U-boats (XXXIV?) had the same 8 crosssection. Top half was
normal
submarine, bottom half was all batteries. I suspect that's what influenced
the Typhoons.

There's another I-400 class sub on the bottom off the east coast,
Chesepeake, I think.

The National Air and Space Museum has one of the Serin (sp?) bombers that
the
I-400s carried, and has just finished restoring it. It was featured in
their Air & Space
mag a few months back.

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"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message

I don't mean this to sound like it is going to sound, but it somehow
it figures that the Japanese could figure out a way to fit four
airplanes into a small confined space folded up like origami.


What's wrong with that? Seems to me you are calling the
Japanese smart & creative. Origami is cool.

If you look at the stern of that sub it looks a lot like the Typhoon
class Soviet subs.


From the article, "The huge double hull was formed of parallel cylindrical
hulls so that it had a peculiar lazy-eight cross section, and may have
inspired the Soviet Typhoon-class built some 40 years later. "