Prototype German V-80 midget submarine at sea | |
History | |
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Nazi Germany | |
Name | V-80 |
Builder | Germaniawerft, Kiel |
Yard number | 597 |
Launched | 14 April 1940 |
Commissioned | Never commissioned |
Fate | Scuttled on 29 March 1945 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Type V midget submarine |
Displacement | 76 t (75 long tons) |
Length | 22.05 m (72 ft 4 in) |
Propulsion | Walter turbine |
Speed | 28 knots (52 km/h; 32 mph) |
Range | 50 nmi (93 km; 58 mi) |
Complement | 4 men |
Armament | None |
The V-80 (German : Versuchs-U-Boot V 80) was a 76-ton experimental submarine and the only representative of the German Type V design produced for Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine .
The prototype was completed in 1940 in Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft in Kiel. The four-man vessel was designed to test the Walter hydrogen peroxide-based turbine propulsion system. Its range was 50 nmi (93 km; 58 mi) at 28 knots (52 km/h; 32 mph).
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