Biber was the most notorious pocket size submarine deployed by the Kriegsmarine, Germans third Reich marine during the end of Second World War. The development of the Biber was extremely rapid. The design began in February 1944 and first examples were set to sea only 6 months later. With only 9 meters length, it was capable of a 240 kilometres range. Able to reach a merged maximum speed of 6,5 knots and 5,3 knots submerged. The Biber could have been equipped with two 530 mm torpedoes mounted externally or with two mines. The crew consisted of only one member. The deployment of the Biber, within the Kriegsmarine strategy, was very simple: supply an efficient defence of the coast shore as protection to a possible, further more probable, Allied invasion. Anyhow, the Biber was never a serious threat for the Allied. Both due to its technical and design defects and for the crew trained, for war needs, excessively fast and without necessary formation. Nevertheless, from 1944 till the end of the Second World War, the Kriegsmarine took delivery and placed in operation more than 300 Bibers.
Length: 186 mm
Group
Model Construction
Condition
unpainted, kit
Scale
Scale 1:35
Material
Plastic
Epoch
World War II
Time
1933 - 1945
Nationality/Location
Germany
State
new
Not a toy! Not suitable for children under the age of 14!
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