Underwater Aircraft Carriers: Japan’s Secret Weapon

In August of 1945, as the world celebrates Imperial Japan’s surrender and the effective end of the second world war, the American’s make a puzzling discovery out in the Pacific. The US Navy has intercepted a Japanese submarine that’s unlike anything they’ve seen before. It’s by far the largest submarine ever constructed, at nearly twice the length of a typical German U-boat. But it’s what the submarine carries that truly baffles the Americans.
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A WW-II fleet's biggest problem was scouting and target acquisition. As a scouting solution, this was possible and plausible---but once the Japanese were on the defensive, they had other needs. You can tell how dead end this was by the fact that no other navy followed up on it after the war.

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A WW-II fleet's biggest problem was scouting and target acquisition. As a scouting solution, this was possible and plausible---but once the Japanese were on the defensive, they had other needs. You can tell how dead end this was by the fact that no other navy followed up on it after the war.

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