U-31 begins her sea trials

[Guest]

April 8th, 2003

HDW’s shipyard in Kiel, Germany saw the world’s first air-independent fuel cell propulsion engined submarine, U31 begin its maiden voyage.

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[Guest]

I can't wait to see

I can't wait to see a kit come out for this one . Sweet sub! my compliments to the Germans!

[anonymous]

http://submarine.id.ru/uss/u56.shtml has another picture. Most

http://submarine.id.ru/uss/u56.shtml has another picture. Most text is in Russian, but http://babelfish.altavista.com offers some help.

[keving]

I read about this in

I read about this in the Naval Institute "Proceedings" Is there anyplace we can get some modeling plans? The boat has a good look to it and would make an interesting modeling subject.

Kevin

[thh]

Hi,

you should look at Cord´s

Hi,

you should look at Cord´s site]http://www.nord-com.net/cord.schroeder/212a.html[/url]

Thh

[keving]

Hey

You are right. Cord's boat

Hey

You are right. Cord's boat looks better than the real thing.

Kevin