REMARKABLE SUBMARINE
A GERMAN INVENTION BUT IT CANNOT BE MADE (Aust. and N.Z. Cable) (Received March 20, noon) Berlin, March 19. Designs for a. new type of submarine that is armoured and requires no ballast, devloping a. surface sjreed of 22 knots, equipped with a torpedo showing not wake, have been produced by Professor Oswald Flam/m, who claims that it would be as much in advance of existing submarines as the German pocket battleship, (he Ersatzpreussen, is ahead of its predecessors.
Tile torpedos invisibility is achieved by an improved drive, which also increases its speed.
Germany i s not permitted t° build submarines, and Prof. Elamm is unable tia/ finance even the model, but hopes some foreign Government will become/ interested.
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Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2506, 20 March 1930, Page 5
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