Submarine
Design
with an updating chapter by Fritz Abels
and Jiirgen Ritterhoff
ISBN 3-7637-6202-7
Table of Contents
Prefaces 9
CHAPTER VIII -Armament
1. Torpedo armament
CHAPTER I -Development of military submarines 10 -Torpedo tubes
1. Development up to the end of World War I 10 -Torpedo impulse launching principle
2. Development between the end of World War I -Torpedo swim-out launching principle
and the end of World War I1 11 -Torpedo tanks (WRT)
3. Development since the end of World War I1 13 -Torpedo loading system and torpedo storage
-Arrangement of torpedo armament
CHAPTER I1 - Development of non- 2. Mine armament
military (commercial)submarines 15 3. Gunnery
4. Missile armament
CHAPTER 111-Characteristics of submarines 16 5. Weapon control systems
1. Military submarines 16
2. Non-military submarines 16
CHAPTER IX - Methods for detection, warning,
CHAPTER IV -General description of a submarine 18 and deception
1. Detection systems
CHAPTER V -Diving and stability 21 -Periscopes
1. Diving 21 -Radar systems
2. Arrangement of the tanks with respect -Active sonar systems
to the requirements for submerged cruising 22 -Passive sonar
-Ballast tanks 22 2. Warning systems
-Compensating tanks 24 -Radar warning system
-Trim tanks 25 -Sonar intercept system
-Negative tanks 25 3. Deception methods
3. Stability 26