Submarine class
Kō-hyōteki-class submarine
The class in numbers
- 3 Planned
- 216 Completed
Design and service
- Type
- Submarine
- Succeeded by
- Kairyū-class submarine
- Subclasses
- Type 'A', Type 'B', Type 'C', Type 'D' Kōryū
Class specifications
Figures for the class as designed. Individual vessels varied, sometimes considerably — each vessel page carries its own configurations.
Type A
- Displacement, submerged
- 46 long tons (47 t)
- Length
- 23.9 m (78.4 ft)
- Speed
- 23 knots (42.6 km/h, 26.5 mph)
- Armament
- 2 × 450 mm (17.7 in) torpedoes, muzzle-loaded into tubes
- 1 × 300 lb scuttling charge
Sources
- Facts harvested from Kō-hyōteki-class submarine on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.