hesham said:Thank you my dear Dynoman,
but in USA,this research was secretly,and it's done by Egyptian Navy,during 1968/69,
the orders came to our Navy to destroy the Eilat military plattform and two of its large
ships,we wanted to make it from long distance,about 15 km,equal 30 km go and come,
so it was too hard for frogmen to swim all this rang,we thought if could use a small boat
to reduce the way,but it was very noisy and any Israel patrol can blow it up in one second,
so a genius man revised engine to be a very quiet,so you can stand off beside it and hear
nothing almost,and we did it and we succeeded.
Brickmuppet said:hesham said:Thank you my dear Dynoman,
but in USA,this research was secretly,and it's done by Egyptian Navy,during 1968/69,
the orders came to our Navy to destroy the Eilat military plattform and two of its large
ships,we wanted to make it from long distance,about 15 km,equal 30 km go and come,
so it was too hard for frogmen to swim all this rang,we thought if could use a small boat
to reduce the way,but it was very noisy and any Israel patrol can blow it up in one second,
so a genius man revised engine to be a very quiet,so you can stand off beside it and hear
nothing almost,and we did it and we succeeded.
Italy used battery powered electric motors for some Torpedo boats and sub chasers during WW1 to allow them to move silently for short periods.
hesham said:Most of them were electric engines,the accomplishment was for Gas engine.
Destroy Eilat military platform and 2 large ships?hesham said:it's done by Egyptian Navy,during 1968/69, the orders came to our Navy to destroy the Eilat military plattform and two of its large ships, ... so a genius man revised engine to be a very quiet,so you can stand off beside it and hear nothing almost,and we did it and we succeeded.
That page does not list any "large ship destroyed". The most listed is damaging 2 civvie merchantmen in 1969 and some damage to LCT Bat Sheva + small utility boat Bat Galim in 1970.TomS said:There were actually several Egyptian frogman attacks on ships in Eilat harbor between 1969 and 70 during the War of Attrition. Details are very hard to come by, but I found several ships damaged and one maybe a constructive loss.
This page seems to have a reasonably comprehensive and objective list:
http://www.soviet-empire.com/ussr/viewtopic.php?f=149&t=55113
dan_inbox said:That page does not list any "large ship destroyed". The most listed is damaging 2 civvie merchantmen in 1969 and some damage to LCT Bat Sheva + small utility boat Bat Galim in 1970.TomS said:There were actually several Egyptian frogman attacks on ships in Eilat harbor between 1969 and 70 during the War of Attrition. Details are very hard to come by, but I found several ships damaged and one maybe a constructive loss.
This page seems to have a reasonably comprehensive and objective list:
http://www.soviet-empire.com/ussr/viewtopic.php?f=149&t=55113
Those are known facts. I did not recognize them right away in "destroy the Eilat military platform and 2 large ships". Silly me.
Well, different cultures relate to historical facts in different ways. (Not new but still sometimes, um, surprising)