DCNS, the French naval engineering firm, has come up with a spooky little midget sub. Dubbed the SMX-26 it is a short (40 meters/131-feet long) and squat (16 meters/52-feet wide) submarine is meant to operate in very shallow water. Less than twenty feet high, it can submerge in just over twice that. Capable of operating on the seabed it has employable wheels to creep around the littoral and harbor floor, or just sit and wait for targets to hit with its 8 short ASW or two full sized torpedoes. Alternatively it can carry mine-toting frogmen or raiders.
Up for sale…..
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Let me introduce myself. I am a bit of a conflict junkie. I am fascinated by war and warfare, assassination, personal protection and weaponry ranging from spud guns and flame throwers to thermonuclear bombs and soviet-trained Ebola monkeys. In short, if it’s violent or a tool to create violence it is kind of my thing.
I have written a few hundred articles on the dry encyclopedia side for such websites as History Times, Firearms Talk.com, GUNS.com, Suite 101 (where I am the contracted Feature Writer for Military History) and Combat Forums; as well as for print publications like England Expects, and Strike First Strike Fast. Several magazines such as Sea Classics, Military Historian and Collector, Mississippi Sportsman and Warship International have carried my pieces. Additionally I am on staff as a naval consultant and writer for Eye Spy Intelligence Magazine.
Currently I am working on several book projects, including a section in the upcoming Mississippi Encyclopedia (to be published by Ole Miss this summer), an alternative history novel about the US-German War of 1916, and a biography of Bennett Doty. My first novel, about the coming zombie apocalypse was released this Spring by Necro Publications and can be found at Amazon.com.
In my day job I am a contractor for the US federal government in what could best be described as the ‘Force Protection’ field. In this I am a certified Firearms, and less-than-lethal combat instructor.
Wonder if the US Navy SEAL teams would be interested in something like that?