15 самых необычных подводных лодок в истории 2026 08 04 07 20 36

For about a century nobody was sure what a submarine was for, so navies kept asking it to be something else. A cruiser. A monitor with a battleship's gun on its back. An aircraft carrier. A cargo ship. A bomb with a man inside it. This is a countdown of the fifteen strangest results, from the hand-cranked H. L. Hunley of 1863, which killed twenty-one men across three crews and sank one enemy warship, to the Japanese I-400: four hundred feet long, with three bombers stowed in a watertight hangar built into its hull, designed to fly them against the Panama Canal. In between there is a Nordenfelt boat that had to lie motionless on the surface for twelve hours building steam before it could dive, a U-boat that towed an observer four hundred feet into the air on an engineless rotor kite, a British submarine that fired a twelve-inch battleship gun with only the muzzle above the water, a nuclear boat with retractable wheels that drove along the sea floor, and a Soviet giant with a sauna and a swimming pool inside it. Nearly all of them failed, and they failed the same way. M2 drowned sixty men with a door. The K-boats killed a hundred and four of their own in a single night without ever meeting an enemy. 00:00 The 15 Strangest Submarines Ever Built 00:34 15. H. L. Hunley (Confederate States, 1863) 02:56 14. The Nordenfelt Boats and the Ottoman Abdül Hamid (1886) 05:24 13. Focke-Achgelis Fa 330 Bachstelze (Germany, 1942) 07:42 12. USS Argonaut (United States, 1928) 10:06 11. Deutschland (Germany, 1916) 12:33 10. NR-1 (United States, 1969) 14:37 9. The Maiale (Italy, 1935) 17:12 8. Kaiten (Japan, 1944) 19:32 7. The British X-Craft (1943) 22:24 6. HMS M2 (Britain, 1927) 24:36 5. HMS M1 (Britain, 1917) 27:02 4. The British K-Class (1916) 30:33 3. Surcouf (France, 1929) 33:26 2. The Typhoon Class (Soviet Union, 1980) 35:47 1. The I-400 Sen Toku Class (Japan, 1944) 39:45 What the Submarine Was Asked to Be