Japanese Aircraft-Carrying Super Submarine From WWII Located Off Hawaii

Freshly Exhumed sends this story from Reuters: "Scientists plumbing the Pacific Ocean off the Hawaii coast have discovered a Second World War era Japanese submarine, a technological marvel that had been preparing to attack the Panama Canal before being scuttled by U.S. forces. The 122-meter 'Sen-Toku' class vessel — among the largest pre-nuclear submarines ever built — was found in August off the southwest coast of Oahu and had been missing since 1946, scientists at the University of Hawaii at Manoa said. The I-400 and its sister ship, the I-401, which was found off Oahu in 2005, were able to travel one and a half times around the world without refueling and could hold up to three folding-wing bombers that could be launched minutes after resurfacing, the scientists said."

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I for one

[xevioso]

welcome our new Japanese over...oh, wait...

Re:I for one

[quenda]

Well, Hitler actually declared war on the United States first, not the other way round,

The US was well involved in the war against Germany already. They just don't like _declaring_ war. At least not on countries, just abstract nouns.

DAYUM!

[new death barbie]

"able to travel one and a half times around the world without refueling"

Even their SUBMARINES get great mileage!