Discovered WWII High Tech Submarines - Imperial Japanese Navy I-201 (Sentaka) & I-400 (Sentoku)

The I-401 (I-400 class sub), along with the I-201 (I-201 class sub) and I-14 (I-13 class sub) Submarines, were captured at the Pacific war's end
and sailed to Hawaii, where US naval intelligence officers could plumb the ships' secrets.
They are three of five advanced Japanese subs the US sailed to Pearl Harbor after the war.
All were scuttled to avoid having to share the information with the Pacific war's
late-comer and co-claimant to such prizes, the former Soviet Union.
http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/20091113/NEWS08/911130383/

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[shipsthatsink]

wow, no need to sink them

[12ock]

never thought that there is a real live sub carrier XD

[MachOverspeedsPlace]

Dudes, the Japanese built some some the largest, most innovative, and most badass old-school subs ever seen. Their torpedos were never equalled during the war years

But Japanese submarines were mis-used by a dogma that preached maintaining stealth, at all costs, and holding back until warships were in the sights. Lots and lots of cargo drove right past them.

The US Navy on the other hand, sent it's subs mostly after cargo, but they would happily attack other targets of opportunity.

[AUG351]

@NgJackal1990 The Japanese were aready losing and doomed to lose by the time America dropped the atom bombs on them, they were realy doomed from the start because of their lack of meterials compare to America and kept loosing their island basses across the Pacific as we captured one by one.

[HistoryHmoobGuy]

RIP to the Japanese soldiers who died

[ydabom]

Japan lost WWII because they just didn't have the resources to withstand a protracted turn of the war against them. As an island nation they had to import food, steel, textiles, gas: everything needed for an army or a people. The atom bombs aside, if they had the resources America had they might have just won the War of the Pacific. They certainly had the fighting spirit and the naval and army leadership necessary. They put up a Hell of a fight, so my grandfathers say.

[Sitti2300]

This Japanese sub has to be the most valuable and important WWII sub. It was far more advanced than all other subs at that time. I hope Japan or/and US salvage and restore it someday.

I still don't see why we had to sink it. We could have moved it some place safe and made up some excuses to the russians.

[bacon2boy]

@NgJackal1990 they were tests...the usa got bored

[NgJackal1990]

@bubulaw Yeah? Strategic is to drop two bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki? What the hell is that strategic?

[bubulaw]

@NgJackal1990

To win a war is not completely depend on how high tech the weapons you have but, if you own a high tech weapons it is just make you possible to win a war.. Strategic is important