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German World War II experimental submarine
Prototype German V-80 midget submarine at sea
History 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 NoneThe 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).
The only earlier attempt to use a chemical reaction based air-independent propulsion system was in the Spanish submarine the Ictineo II.
This midget submarine led to the design of the German Type XVII submarine.
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