Joke submarine

Return to Heaven turns the tide and changes fate!

With the Japanese army losing ground in major battlefields, the collapse of their so-called "empire" is inevitable. However, driven by that fanatical militaristic mentality, the Japanese are still thinking about countermeasures even in the face of heavy pressure from the United States, and intend to fight to the end with the determination of "all dead." It was during this period that the Japanese came up with many "inhuman" methods of fighting in order to save the defeat.

In the last few months of World War II, desperate Japanese turned their attention to another new type of suicide weapon. Although they have been using planes as the carrier of suicide attacks before, the effect is not ideal from the record. After long-term use, Americans have found a solution, and finding new suicide weapons has become the last means to save the defeat.

The battle from the sky to the underwater suicide submarine is a new weapon tried by the Japanese. The Japanese named it "Return to Heaven", and some people called it "Kaiteng", but many people think that the submarine "Return to Heaven" is actually a manned torpedo.

A member of the kamikaze attack team.

Although this weapon scheme was put forward at the beginning of the war, it was only rejected, but by 1944, the development of the war situation was more and more unfavorable to Japan, and the Japanese army on the front battlefield did nothing, being pressed by the US military step by step and about to invade the Japanese island. At this time, people decided to use this weapon.

This underwater suicide weapon scheme was put forward by Japanese special forces. Before that, they have been using various types of suicide planes to launch attacks, and the initial results are good. However, with fewer pilots flying planes and more and more countermeasures taken by the US military, the effect of air strikes is not so obvious, so they turned their attention to underwater. These people believe that Kamikaze aircraft is the most successful air suicide weapon, and the submarine "returning to heaven" will dominate underwater.

Torpedo submarine "returning to the sky" is considered by the Japanese to mean "reversing fate" or "changing the world". It is a mine submarine secretly developed by Japan 1939 on the basis of Navy 93 torpedo. At the beginning of the war, it was not sent to the battlefield to perform tasks. But with the development of the war, any measures that can save the empire are feasible, and suicide submarines are no exception.

"Return to Heaven" submarine

This modified torpedo submarine can carry a pilot, and is specially equipped with course control devices and related measuring instruments. The torpedo's warhead contains 65,438+0,300 kilograms of explosives. The submarine has a total weight of 8.3 tons, a length of 14.7 meters and a diameter of about 1 meter. The warhead is detonated manually, with a maximum range of 23 kilometers and a cruising speed of 22 kilometers per hour. The maximum diving depth is

Type 6 submarines were developed before and after. In the design of the original submarines, the exits were reserved for the pilots to escape. However, in practice, the first batch of submarine pilots were determined to die (the early pilots were almost as skilled as the pilots of naval aircraft carriers and were obsessed with the war launched by Japan), and no one escaped. Therefore, in the design of subsequent models, the setting of escape exits was completely cancelled, and the pilots were welded inside after entering the cockpit.

The mother ship carrying the submarine "Return to Heaven"

The wishful thinking of the desperate Japanese is that kamikaze fighters must go through layers of protection, escort fighters, anti-aircraft fire nets and so on. When attacking in the air, there are very few planes that can really reach the target, but underwater attacks are different. This kind of attack is very hidden and difficult to detect.

Return to heaven in the test

Moreover, the accuracy of manned torpedo is much higher than that of unmanned torpedo. This submarine is also equipped with periscope, directional control device and explosion initiation device. , can attack at the best time, the damage to the enemy will be very great. Of course, these are just the wishful thinking of the Japanese.

Training and attack plans were approved, equipment began to be produced, and personnel training was also carried out at the same time. There is only one final fate for people who take part in this kind of submarine driving training, that is, to perform a mission that has no return. Most of the trainees are men between the ages of 17 and 28 (whether they are voluntary or not is unknown). At the naval base, they received initial training. Test the detonating device on the shoal, practice off course on the mother ship, practice how to avoid underwater obstacles, how to rush to the target more accurately without being found, and learn how to operate the submarine quickly only by periscope and instrument readings.

Suicide submarine on the mother ship

After these trainings were completed, they began to enter the training submarine for actual operation, but these trainings were not very safe. During the whole training period, about dozens of students died because of operational mistakes or accidents. Finally, after a simple test, the learned pilots were sent to carry out suicide attacks.

When performing a mission, Camden is usually carried near the target by the mother ship, and then the attack is released. A submarine carrier can carry about six small Camden submarines.

Before launching an attack, the submarine "Tian Hui" must first surface to observe the target position, and then dive underwater again to start an attack. Pilots have two opportunities to use it, mainly because of the fuel restrictions of submarines. If both attempts fail, a self-destruct device will be used.

In theory, the success rate of "returning to the sky" should be much higher than that of unmanned torpedoes, but the actual use effect is not so good. During the whole war, the submarine Huitian successfully sank only a few ships, including the American Mississippi and Buried Hill, with no more than 200 casualties. This is the data of the United States after the war, but the Japanese did not say so when reporting. They are full of confidence in this weapon and monitor it after the explosion.

American warship sank in a suicide attack.

1The sinking of Buried Hill in July, 945 may be the most successful suicide mission of submarine Tian Hui. This is an American destroyer, providing escort missions for supply ships and army ships. At that time, it encountered a fake mine and changed course to avoid it. Unexpectedly, it met several submarines waiting nearby. Buried hill didn't know the specific functions of these submarines at that time, thinking.

Destroyer buried hill

After the successful sneak attack, the Japanese army sent more submarines in the following days, but it did not achieve any decent results. It was not until a month later that they wounded the destroyer Earl Johnson of the US Navy.

Compared with the records it plays, its own losses are amazing. According to statistics, a total of 106 Camden pilots were killed in the mission, and nearly 1 000 people (including command, logistics, maintenance and support personnel) were killed after the submarine carrier carrying out the mission was sunk. This war damage ratio is really nobody.

No weapon can change the fate of Japan's failure.

Compared with its small achievements, compared with the number of buildings and wartime losses, this weapon is a complete failure. By mid-July 1945, one month before Japan's defeat and surrender, all submarines were ordered to withdraw.

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