A teardrop hull is a submarine hull design which emphasizes submerged performance over surfaced performance. It was somewhat commonly used in the early...

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This design, already visible on very early submarines, is called a "teardrop hull". It is structurally efficient for withstanding external pressure, and...

class was one of the last designs introduced before the adoption of the teardrop hull, which offered much better underwater performance. Also, although the...

named after its lead boat, USS Skipjack. The new class introduced the teardrop hull and the S5W reactor to U.S. nuclear submarines. The Skipjacks were the...

use: an example is USS Albacore (AGSS-569), which used an unprecedented hull design. In this list such single boat "classes" are marked with "(unique)"...

and also the first Chinese made diesel-electric submarine to use the teardrop hull shape. Altogether thirteen vessels were completed to the Song Class...

resembled a modern research submarine, such as the NR-1, having a long teardrop hull. The design included an observation dome, somewhat similar in appearance...

that pioneered the American version of the teardrop hull form (sometimes referred to as an "Albacore hull") of modern submarines. The revolutionary design...

generation submarine, a development of the Uzushio class, incorporating a teardrop hull, with a resulting increase in underwater performance on the Uzushio...

classes. They were the first production warships built with the teardrop-shape hull first tested on the experimental USS Albacore, and the first to combine...

submarines, with the then-conventional hull shape. The later Skipjack class, although of the new Albacore 'teardrop' hull form, also used these earlier steels...

version of the teardrop hull form (sometimes referred to as an "Albacore hull") of modern submarines. On modern military submarines the outer hull is covered...

submarines built for the Swedish Navy in the late 1960s. They had a teardrop hull shape and were capable of diving to 150 metres (490 ft). At the time...

the Soviet twin-propeller submarine K-222, with titanium inner and outer hulls, reached 44.7 knots (83 km/h; 51 mph), fully submerged, during sea trials...

1981. All boats were built by Kockums in Karlskrona. The boats had a teardrop hull and diving depth was 150 metres (490 ft). Between 1987 and 1988, Näcken...

Before The Next Teardrop Falls is an album by Freddy Fender. His first album, it was released in 1974. The album includes the number-one hits "Before the...

ISBN 978-1-4833-0495-3. Sonar Underwater acoustics Stealth ship Type 45 destroyer Anti-submarine warfare Submarine warfare Type 212 submarine Teardrop hull Spectrogram...

Albacore, usually use internal ballast tanks, which are fitted inside the teardrop hull.[citation needed] A source of some confusion to railway aficionados...

first generation of the teardrop type submarine that valued the underwater performance against that of the preceding conventional-hull type Asashio class....

This is a list of submarines of the United States Navy, listed by hull number and by name. Submarines in the United States Navy List of current ships of...

reporting name Shang I. The boat uses a similar teardrop hull as the Type 091, and also has the same pressure hull width of 9 meters. Acoustic dampening likely...

and blamed "technical reasons" on the submarine. The Type 091 has a teardrop hull. It is as acoustically loud as Soviet nuclear submarines of the late-1950s...

Albacore revolutionized submarine design around the world with its teardrop hull and round cross-section. It is now a museum and tourist attraction in...

addition, the submarines are based on the U.S. Navy Barbel class with the teardrop hull design, which results in the submarines producing less noise. The propulsion...

Zwaardvis-class design. This means that they also make use of the US Navy's teardrop hull design, which was used by the Barbel class of conventional submarines...

Navales International) came up with an all-new design called S-80, with a teardrop hull and new weapons and sensors, which the French government ultimately...

tonnes (2,410 long tons; 2,700 short tons) when submerged. She had a teardrop hull, and was powered by two Kawasaki-MAN V8V24/30AMTL diesel engines, which...

coastal defense, and the midget sub was to adopt the newest hull form, the teardrop hull. Unlike the normal development process where approval is given...

company's new chief designer, Lawrence York Spear. It featured a single, teardrop hull, which resembled the design of modern nuclear submarines. The class...