Experts: Could be from the First World War – Aftonbladet

The submarine was found in the Baltic Sea Wednesday.

According to the experts, it may be over a hundred years old.

– Given the size it can be a As the submarine from World War I, said the submarine hunter Göran Frisk.

Vrakletarna Ocean X team discovered the submarine on Wednesday.

The site reported Protecting the Baltic Sea, about 2750 meters from the Swedish east coast of central Sweden.

Now, submarine experts with their theories.

“Could be from the First World War”

According to several of them may submarine have been at the bottom of the Baltic Sea really long time before it was found. Göran Frisk, who was head of the Swedish military submarine force in the 1980s, believes that the submarine is Russian.

-As I see it, it may be an As-submarine from World War I, given its size, a cosmos submarine or a third, modern type of submarine, he said.

Per Andersson, a retired lieutenant colonel in the Coast Artillery, is adamant. For the newspaper Expressen he says that the spacecraft found the Russian submarine Catfish. The vessel sank in 1916 and called as Russian.

I feel very confident that it is a Catfish. It accords with the details on the submarine, he said.

According to Per Andersson has been employed in the Armed Forces were aware of the coordinates in about a year.

“archaic structure”

In his research submarine expert Ola Tunander focused on the submarines from the 1980s. He believes that the find in the Baltic is older than that.

– It looks rather miserable. The archaic structure makes it seem old but the strange thing in this whole story is that it still looks to be in such good shape, says Tunander.

The submarine’s hatches were closed when it was discovered.

– It may mean that there are crew left. If so, it may mean that they suffered poisoning, for example by gas in the submarine, says Göran Frisk.

The characters reveal

Detail Pictures wreck also provides an indication of the likely These are an old Russian craft.

According to the defense and security political blogger Carl Bergqvist – known as the “Wiseman” – is the submarine signs revealing.

“This fouling visible in the picture with the letters. Suggests older wrecks. What is even more interesting is the visible end of the letter that fact seems to be the Russian alphabet ‘hard evidence’ if I look right. Hard character disappeared with the language reform implemented after the Communist revolution, “he writes on Twitter, and continues:

” It would then suggest a wreck originating in, or even more likely, before the first World War II, “he writes.

Jessica Winblad-Carlzohn is file. PhD in Russian at Lund University

– The presence of hard character can mean – but need not mean – that the submarine was produced before the reform. It took a long time for the reform to go through, she says.