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Show German Engine Is Now Being Used In U. S. Boats Navy releases reveal that the German peroxide powered submarine sub-marine which can streak silently under water at 28 knots an hour is being improved at a secret navy laboratory at Anapolis, Md., as model for the navy's proposed fleet of 100 super-fast underseas raiders to challenge Russia's bid for undersea un-dersea supremacy. The navy discloses that the hydrogen peroxide engine of the German type submarine, which was developed toward the end of the war and never operated, would be used in two new submarines which the navy is building under a 30 million dollar research program. pro-gram. The experimental submarines will be completed in 1951, and three others, which will form the nucleus of the navy's underwater fleet, will be completed in 1952. According to authoritative sources the Russian navy has several of this type of engine and is now building careful reproductions reproduc-tions with the aid of German submarine sub-marine experts and designs. |