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RUSSIA / USSR
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"APSS" type midget submarines (1935 - 1936)


Ships


Names Builders Completed Losses Transfers Discarding

2 boats (probably unnamed)

196 Yd (Sudomekh Wks), Leningrad: 2 boats

1935: 1 boat

1936: 1 boat

none

none

1937 - 1938: 2 boats



Technical data


Displacement standard, t

 

Displacement normal, t

8

Length, m

10.0

Breadth, m

1.25

Draught, m 
No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 electric motor

Power, h. p.

11

Max speed, kts

--- / 4.5

Fuel, t

---

Endurance, nm(kts)--- / 28(4.5)
Armament

1 - 450 TT (fwd, 1), 550 kg of TNT

Complement1
Diving depth operational, m

10



Project history

Single-hulled, single-seat air-launched midget submarine. Pressure hull had 5 watertight compartments. Only electric-driven, surfacing not provided, midget can be wireless controlled. Their planned carrier was MK-1 flying boat.

Modernizations

none.

Naval service

Submarines were used for experiments only.