Hellmuth Walter
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Hellmuth Walter was a German engineer who pioneered research into rocket engines and gas turbines. His most noteworthy contributions were rocket motors for the Messerschmitt Me 163 and Bachem Ba 349 i
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German submarine V-80
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The V-80 was a experimental submarine. The prototype was completed in 1940 in Friedrich Krupp Germaniawerft in Kiel. The vessel was designed to test the Walter hydrogen peroxide-based turbine propulsi
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…Dönitz, who was able to assist in obtaining a contract to produce a prototype. Construction started in 1939 on a small research submarine designated the V-80. When it was launched in 1940, the submarine demonstrated a top speed of 23 knots submerged, twice that of any submarine in the world at the time…
Prototype German V-80 midget submarine at sea
V-80 schematic