Submarine (from newswire)...

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Sunken WWII Japanese sub found off Oahu

Associated Press
21 март 2005
The Philadelphia Daily News
(c) Copyright 2005, The Philadelphia Daily News. All Rights Reserved.

HONOLULU

The wreckage of a large World War II-era Japanese submarine has been found in waters off Hawaii.

A research team from the University of Hawaii discovered the I-401 submarine Thursday during test dives off Oahu.

"We thought it was rocks at first, it was so huge," said Terry Kerby, pilot of the research craft that found the vessel. "But the sides of it kept going up and up and up, three and four stories tall. It's a leviathan down there, a monster."

The submarine is from the I-400 Sensuikan Toku class of subs, the largest built before the nuclear ballistic missile submarines of the 1960s.

They were 400 feet long and nearly 40 feet high and could carry a crew of 144. The submarines were designed to carry three "fold-up" bombers that could be assembled for flight within minutes.

Kerby said the main hull is sitting upright and is in good shape. The I-401 numbers are clearly visible on the sides, and the anti-aircraft guns are in almost perfect condition, he said.

An I-400 and I-401 were captured at sea a week after the Japanese surrendered in 1945. Both submarines were ordered to sail to Pearl Harbor and were deliberately sunk later, partly because Russian scientists were demanding access to them.

The submarine found Thursday is the second Japanese vessel discovered off Oahu by the Hawaii Undersea Research Laboratory. In 2002, researchers found the wreckage of a much smaller Japanese sub that was sunk on Dec. 7, 1941, off Pearl Harbor.

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[Pirex]

А здесь - авианосец!

[Valparaiso]

упс, повторилась: уже в форуме оно есть... "про гигантский авианосец"... вот что бывает, когда понедельник и хочешь спать...

хотя у всех буржуев в новостных лентах идет как субмарина...

ребята, объедините их тогда уж в одно целое...