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Originally Posted by mookiemookie
But from what I've read about the system is that the adhesive was flawed. Once the rubber coating was applied, the boat would submerge and the adhesive would fail in places, causing the rubber tiles to flap in the current, actually increasing the noise signature of the boat. This is why the idea was good in theory but flawed in practice.
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I read somewhere that this was the reason why the first coating tested in early 1940 was withdrawn and and second approch to introduce a rubber coating was made in late 1944.