| | AIR-INDEPENDENT PROPULSION — AIP Technology Creates a New Undersea Threat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07) |
 | | Walter's primary design goal was high underwater speed, rather than long endurance, and indeed, his first submarine prototype, the experimental V80, reached 28.1 knots submerged in its 1940 trials - at a time when conventional submarines were limited to 10 knots or less. |
 | | Additionally, Walter himself and several of his key staff were brought to England and there collaborated with Vickers, Ltd. for several years in the design of more advanced hydrogen peroxide systems. |
 | | Although it is a remarkable tribute to Hellmuth Walter's engineering genius that he fielded a fully functional - if troublesome - 5,000-horsepower AIP system in 1945, the maximum power output of current AIP installations is typically on the order of 400 horsepower (300 kilowatts). |
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