Scale model Submarine Uboat type XXI

Submarine Uboat type XXI

Resin Italian Submarine, 1:700 Scale
The picture represents Uboat XXI

Ocean-going submarine to double hull with innovative technical solutions. Planned in 1943, this boat is the founder of a family of the actual generation of submarines. Projected to fight in immersion exclusively it was characterized from a form of the hull streamlined (the tower was closed) and, for the first time in the history, the power of the electric motors was superior of that furnished from the motors to thermal cycle. For this motive the 'type XXI' was also called 'Elektro-boote'.

Elevated speed in immersion with the good operational depth, guaranteed to the boats 'type XXI' invisibility to the sonars of the allied ships of the epoch. Besides, to avoid that the submarine can be individualized radar during the attacks to periscope deep, endowed with ultramodern electronic apparatuses that allowed to also launch torpedoes toward the hostile ships from around 120 meters depth.
It would have had to be built in 1.300 unities: to the date of the capitulation of Germany (May 1945) only 118 boats were complete. The vessels completed were not used in missions of war, also because of difficulties to train the crew to the new characteristics of the revolutionary boat