Description
The “Biber” was the best-known “pocket” submarine used during the end of World War II by the Kriegsmarine. The development of the Biber was extremely rapid. The design began in February 1944 and the first specimens took the sea only 6 months later. Just 9 meters long it was equipped with a range of 240 km. it could reach a maximum speed of 6.5 knots in emergence and 5.3 knots in immersion. The Biber could be armed with two 530 mm torpedoes, mounted outside the submarine, or with two mines. His crew consisted of only one person. The use of the Biber, within the Kriegsmarine strategy, was very simple: to provide a concrete defense along the coasts to protect a possible, and increasingly likely, Allied invasion. From 1944 until the end of the Second World War, Kriegsmarine received and operationalized more than 300 Bibers.
Type of Ships
The Second World War
the country of Germany
SKILL 3
Dim. Model 18,6 cm
Dim. Box 345 x 242 x 48 mm