Smaller than MAS-boats, midget Italian motor torpedo boats were designed by Baglietto from tourism boats, called MTS, MTSM and MTSM-A for the Regia Marina.
The Dornier Leichte Schnellboote or LS as abbreviated was the midget motor torpedo boat of the Kriegsmarine during WW2. These models were designed to be carried by commerce raiders, but only two were used that way
A submarine, with wings, and wheels ? This was one of the most amazing Nazi "miracle weapon" of the Kriegsmarine ever to have been designed: The UGS Manta.
The Type IX were German Kriegsmarine U-Boats built by Deschimag, Bremen and other yards for long range ASW warfare during WW2 (about 200 built 1938-45).
A Massive Improvement of U-Boat designs: If German tanks, aircraft and small arms from the German manufacturing complex had won a considerable and fearsome reputation in WW2, German submarines truly reached the world stage as the epitome of…
You certainly have heard of the Type VIIC and the Type IX which roamed the seas during WW2 and almost strangled seaways to UK in 1942-43. But over 1,100 U-Boats has been built during this war, mostly deployed in the Atlantic and over twenty…