Maybe a replica? (Unfinished?) Or partly scrapped? Either way it does look incredibly cramped...

:hmmm: :haha:

I'd say a prototype of sorts, perhaps related to the Osprey class? :hmmm:

Can't see it being related to the Osprey, that thing's made for entirely different purposes. I'd say it being some kind of prototype is reasonable though...

Have you find out the Sub`s record?
 

If you look to entire environment,there are large place for spirited thinking....:up:

They look like something for kids to play on in a park.

So much for swings and slides.:haha:

Yes!
 

Or some suitably recreation area for landlubber....:agree:

Could be the next high tec super top secret design awaiting export to NK :hmmm:

DUDE

If my park had that thing I would spend every day messing with it. And pretend to fire off torpedoes at all the monkey bars and slides and forts :haha:

Well I don' see a covered shaft hole, dive planes, or a moveable rudder. Matbe it used an external electric motor on a steerable pod? Or maybe it was just a low tech trainer for ballast control? Towed?

Maybe all that stuff was removed/reused when that thing got put up on display. I guess it's more difficult to conserve moveable parts than just putting the hulk there. :hmm2:

It's the last remaining example of the infamous North Korean manned mine (code named the "African Queen.)" It was to be towed it out to the shipping lanes, where it would be submerged to periscope depth and wait for something to run into it. Immediately upon visual contact, the crew would inflate a huge yellow mylar balloon tethered to the periscope that read "FREE BEER HERE" and then light the fuses on the torpedoes before running away. Like I said, there were two of these, once.

How do you 'run away' from a submerged submarine? :hmmm:

:DL

A design flaw, to be sure.

With good running flippers, of course. :shucks:

I do think I see mounting points for a rudder on it though, there looks to be a hole for the rudder just aft of the vertical fin on the underside that it would be attached to, plus the 4 holes (I assume on each side) on that fin for support mountings.

As for dive planes I can't see any sign of mounting points anywhere on the aft of the sub, though there may have been planes just below the torpedo tubes on the bow. There are hole(s) just below the tubes, and a set of brackets above the tube.

I wonder though if this was a full scale prototype that didn't not go any further in development. I still can't see any trace of a propulsion system though, or support brackets for propulsion, though I do wonder what those square cutouts just in front of the rudder fin are.