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Re: U-Boat motors
Posted by: ROBERT M. ()
Date: August 25, 2002 01:41AM

Tony:

Grenerally, U-boat diesels are "air-started".......It would take a large electric starter
motor with suitable reduction gear to roll over the diesels for starting them.

The DC electric propulsion motors can be ordered to reverse at the same rpms as in the forward mode, but the submerged u-boat is not able to keep this rearward motion for long, as its hull and control planes were designed to go forward.

Regards,

ROBERT M.

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U-Boat motors Tony Smith 08/24/2002 10:49PM
Re: U-Boat motors ROBERT M. 08/25/2002 01:41AM
Re: U-Boat motors ROBERT M. 08/26/2002 01:14AM


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