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Divers have discovered a sunken ultra-small off the coast of Sweden the submarine. According to search engines, the inscriptions on the case submarines say that it was made in the USSR.
It is reported that the length of the swimming vessel is about twenty meters, width – about three and a half. Divers are definitely not know how old the submarine is and how long it lay at the bottom, however, the appearance and Russian inscriptions suggest that she belonged to the Soviet military. The submarine is intact and has no visible damage. Hatches battened down – this gives search engines a reason claim that the crew is dead.
All available information about the find was transferred to Swedish Ministry of Defence. Office spokesman Anders Cullin said that the data obtained will be carefully studied. in the coming days local divers plan to make a new expedition to submarine.
Today it became known that, most likely, this is Russian submarine “Som”, which sank in 1916 as a result of collisions with a Swedish ship during World War I war.
The Russian side has not yet made any statements. regarding the find of the Swedes.
Recall that ultra-small submarines, also called mini submarines have a displacement of less than one hundred and fifty tons. Such a vessel is usually driven by a crew of one or two people and It has a very limited autonomy. Mini submarines can act independently, but most often they are launched with carrier boats and ships. The vast majority of the first submarines in all countries of the world according to modern classifications fall into the category of mini submarines.
