kriegsmarine

Hello friends! I'd like to know if any development work has been done on the Admiral Hipper's 190mm guns. I've come across information about the Admiral Hipper's 190mm guns before, but I've never found any comprehensive information about them. Why was such a non-standard caliber chosen? Was...

8000 ton U-Transporter (English: " 8,000 ton undersea transport") A very large freight submarine, potentially as means of bypassing allied blockades or resupplying submarines at sea. Weight: 8,000 t Length: 132m Beam: 15m All other information unknown. Drawing is found on the Bundesarchiv...

Hello I'm new to this forum. I'm about to start college next August for mechanical engineering; I'm particularly looking to concentrate on aerospace engineering design especially in both aircraft design and spacecraft design. I don't really care to wait till sophomore or junior year to start...

Hello, I've seen naval version of Fw 190 & Ta-152 from a video game. I wonder if it was a thing or just a pure fiction. I appreciate your answers. Thank you!

Henschel GT 1200 By the beginning of 1937, Dr Lorenz of Technisches Amt (Luftwaffe’s Technical Office) was sponsoring the Walter HWK RI-203 rocket engine that promised enormous power for its weight. This engine used compressed air to force a weak concentration of mono-propellant hydrogen...

Everyone knows about the Dormier P.85 aircraft project, a Do17Z with, among other differences, floats and straight wings. It wasn`t included in the attached table, taken from a BA/MA file on the contest for a seaplane bomber, known as "Kampfflugzeug See" or as See-Stuka, as may see. There were...

Those who tought, like me, that all the German engineering expertise on hardware airships ended with the Hindenburg, are wrong. The BA/MA in Freiburg has a file (included in RM 7/2382), dated 12.2.1938,and stemming from the Kriegsmarine, refering to a proposal, serious enough to the point of...

The Bundesarchiv/Militäraarchiv listened to my prayers and made available the plans for a German fleet submarine project I was looking after since I bought Eberhardt Rössler`s "Geschichte des Deutschen Ubootbaus", in the early1990`s. All we had was a cross section and the general specifications...

Hi! I am new to this forum, looking for both basic and deeply technical information on the famous German battleship, Bismarck. My aim is to gather technical and scientific information about this ship, then recreate it rigorously in an ambitious university project and, subsequently, publish it...

Interesting documents : https://maritime.org/doc/id/oni220-german-japan-subs/index.php#toc

Focke-Achgelis Fa 269 (First configuration)

Hello , do somebody have any more info about project of rebuilding ocean liner SS Europa into aircraft carrier. I found some info on german naval history and wows forum german almost carriers part 2 Europa , and there isn´t much about it.

Video might be of interest. Can't speak to its accuracy, but at least it doesn't seem too insane. View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfio0VHXUmw

Anyone know anything about this forthcoming title? Secret Projects of the Kriegsmarine Unseen Designs of Nazi Germany's Navy By Nico Sgarlato and Allessio Sgarlato Andrew

Howdy folks! I recently came across these two designs/blueprints of the D-class panzerschiffe (more like battlecruisers at this point), which were originally named Ersatz Elsass and Ersatz Hessen that eventually became battlecruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau from my understanding of their...

Hello and welcome, This is no longer the hub for all things Kriegsmarine, but a section of what was once a much larger thread that has since been broken up into various pieces for sake of organization, I suppose. This is now the primary section as far as I am concerned. Links will be included...

Stukas over Panama? In addition during 1943 plans were hatched to fly two Ju-87B stukas from St Martin Cay near Nicaragua to bomb the Panama canal. These were to be taken there by U-boat. I read this--on this very forum I believe--a fair wee while ago while hunting around Google for...

Well first thread here but a buddy of mine asked if the RLM had any specifications for carrier-based planes, as well as other plane candidates than the Bf-109T, Ju-87C, and the Fi 167.

At the end of World War 2, the U-boat U-530 surrendered at Buenos Aires, Argentina. At the time, it was commanded by a very young lieutenant in the Kreigsmarine. The problem was this U-boat took far longer to reach Argentina than it should have, and when it finally arrived in July 1945, the...

Usual caveats apply, full size cutaway at http://www.hisutton.com/Type-XXI-U-Boat-of-World-War-Two.html The Type-XXI was important in a lot of ways, but had the Ursel rockets made it into service I think it could have further reshaped Cold War submarine equipment, at least in the immediate...