Weapons 06/03/20 “the Midgard Serpent”: whom Hitler wanted to attack underground boats
In the modern press sometimes possible to find references on numerous projects underground boat which most readers of the newspaper believes the ducks. In vain. Projects of such mechanisms not only existed in reality but was patented in Germany before the war. “The Midgard serpent”
Underground attack on the United Kingdom
the project podzemnogo boats appeared in 1933. It was officially patented by the German engineer Horner von Werner. However, the defense Ministry of Germany due to lack of funds unique invention coded and then hid in the archive. Remembered about it only after the Second world war. The Germans needed to seize the Kingdom, but her island seemed an impregnable fortress. Then in 1940, Graf Stauffenberg offered to try to implement the project of Horner von Werner. It was assumed that underground boat like moles will be held under the English channel to spend the undermining of fortifications of the British. According to the project the crew of such underground boat was 5 people, speed 7 km/h, and the warhead reached 3400 kg. the Project was not implemented solely due to the intrigues of Goering who persuaded Hitler that attacking the Kingdom should be exclusively from the air.
the Midgard Serpent back in the saddle
At the same time, it should be noted that the thirties of the twentieth century was surprisingly rich for a variety of projects underground boat. At the same time with the mechanism of the Horner von Werner in Germany there was a project underground boat under the code name “the Midgard Serpent”. Its developer became famous engineer Ritter. Unlike its competitor, “the Midgard Serpent” could equally well move under ground, under water and on land. The engineer came out with a proposal to create twenty of these machines to attack the same unfortunate Kingdom. However, StaImost each machine’s bite, amounting to 30 million Reichsmarks. It is the high cost of the project has not given it to implement. Drawings of underground cruiser was returned to the engineer for revision and they seemingly forgot. However, after the war in the tunnel near königsberg by Soviet troops, was excavated design of some machine with resembled not a caterpillar, not underground structure. The Soviet command assumed that the experimental sample was found in an underground boats of the Germans. In fact, it was part of the same underground train, consisting of several square cars. Each of them had a size of seven by seven meters and about 3.5 meters high. The total length of the underground boat equal to 500 meters. Instead of “steam” in the head stock has a huge rig with four drills a five-foot length. They rotated through diesel generators located in square wagons.
armed underground train stood one hundred 250-pound mines, one thousand 10-pound and 12 machine guns to protect the boat in case of its rise to the surface. In addition underground boat had special shells for the blasting of rock produced by the two torpedo tubes. Manage the moving edifice had a crew of 60 people, for which on Board an underground boat there was a kitchen and a spacious bedroom. Moving mechanical monster with a speed of 3 km/h under the ground in the rocky ground, 10km/h in the black earth soil, 3 km/h under water and up to 30 km/h on the ground. The fact that the Soviet military was discovered real sample underground boat clearly spoke in favor of the fact that this device could be tested in practice. Fortunately the troops to put do not have time because of the offensive of the Soviet troops and the end of the war.
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