S301 Mini Submarine

     Engineers doesn't stop to make an innovations and make things more better than before. A groundbreaking new prototype mini-submarine technology in used by the US Navy's secretive and have been tested in Hawaii. The demonstration did secretly to avoid the publicity.

     The specifications and information of this advanced mini-sub are still top secret. But at least, Navy have been released the name of this mini-sub, which is the S301 mini-sub. It emerged that the S301 - which now in trials with the SEALs in Hawaii - had cost just $10m to develop, which contrasted especially well with the $885m spent on the Advanced SEAL Delivery System (ASDS).

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      What purpose to build this mini-sub? I think it will intended to supersede the SEALs' current Mark 8 Mod 1 mini-subs, which are carried in a Dry Deck Shelter (DDS) airlock docking bay fitted to a full-sized US Navy nuclear submarine. The S301 have space aboard for a few force of SEALs armies and pack a powerful armament of conventional warhead cruise missiles technology for precision shore bombardment.

    The trouble with the present Mark 8 minisubs is that their interiors are open to the sea and SEALs riding in them for long periods can be so chilled by the cold ocean as to be unable to carry out their mission once they are dropped off. So this weakness will be refinement on the S301.

    The S301 is sub with a dry interior and large enough to carry a few of people and (perhaps) a secret weapon to attack enemy battleship. It had its own airlock, and so would be able to carry a team of men to work in comfort, and able to locking them out into the sea once it was close to the target. It also can be used for carry the missile to destroy enemy ships.

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     Because of its small size, it can move faster than ordinary submarine and able to hide in back of sea mountain or go inside the bottom of ocean, so it cant be destroyed easily. The materials are made from the best alloy, so it can sustain the heavy pressure of ocean waters. This mini-sub powered with new generation batteries. The batteries can make this sub-marine move for 7 days and its oxygen supply can be used for 2 days before its need to go above the surface to refill the oxygen supply.