Sure is. The Aichi A6M1 Seiran attack aircraft, specifically designed to be carried by I-400-class submarines. Unlike the subs themselves, one still exists!
(Well, I suppose technically the submarines still exist, as sunken wrecks, but you know what I mean.)
Sure is. The Aichi A6M1 Seiran attack aircraft, specifically designed to be carried by I-400-class submarines. Unlike the subs themselves, one still exists!
(Well, I suppose technically the submarines still exist, as sunken wrecks, but you know what I mean.)
Actually the submarines did exist and were operational, in fact they were on their way to bomb the Panama Canal when Japan surrendered. The crews then sailed to the nearest American warships and surrendered. The Americans took them in and began studying them with the help of the Japanese crew. The submarines were sunk because the Americans didn't want to hand them any of them to the Soviet Union
Actually the submarines did exist and were operational, in fact they were on their way to bomb the Panama Canal when Japan surrendered. The crews then sailed to the nearest American warships and surrendered. The Americans took them in and began studying them with the help of the Japanese crew. The submarines were sunk because the Americans didn't want to hand them any of them to the Soviet Union
I know. It's all a bit pathetic, really, although not quite as monumentally petty and wasteful as Operation Deadlight (the wholesale scuttling of Germany's surviving U-boats, some of them the most advanced submersibles the world would see before the nuclear age). I simply meant that you can still find a Seiran in a museum, whereas all the I-400-class submarines were destroyed (although, since they weren't scrapped, the wrecks still exist).
I know. It's all a bit pathetic, really, although not quite as monumentally petty and wasteful as Operation Deadlight (the wholesale scuttling of Germany's surviving U-boats, some of them the most advanced submersibles the world would see before the nuclear age). I simply meant that you can still find a Seiran in a museum, whereas all the I-400-class submarines were destroyed (although, since they weren't scrapped, the wrecks still exist).
Well the problem was that neither the British or Americans, heck even the Germans and Japanese themselves didn't want the Soviet Union to get their hands on the German and Japanese submarine technology because they fear they won't be able to counter what the Soviet would be able to come up with if they had their hands on that technology so hence in the context of the time, Americans thought it was better to lose the technology than to let the Soviets have it.
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