I don't think the navies position was helped by Stalins purge:

http://www.gendercide.org/case_stalin.html

I don't know if that is an insult of compliment.:shifty:

Compliment. Have you tried the add on?

Yes I have.

Will post mine thoughts later on the right section. :up:

Please do. :D

And the great pyramid of quotes keeps on building.

You've just broken the magic circle :lol:

Send your apologies to 50 people you know on the internet or you will experience bad luck forever :rotfl:

SILENCE YOU PATHETIC HERETIC! THE BUILD OF THIS PYRAMID IS THE WILL OF SUBSIM'S EMPEROR!

PRAISE THE EMPEROR!


i have been playing Dawn of War for too long...

Who had the better boats?
 

Hi Everybody,
I find this discussion quite interesting although most of it is pure speculation and, in some cases, flag waving. I served in various classes of R.N boats in the 50's and 60's. We were seconded to the R.C.N. based in Halifax on an A boat and had several visits to places such as Brooklyn Yard, New London and Norfolk where we usually tied up alongside a Host boat. The U.S.crews were always very interested and, after being shown around, were almost unanimous that for comfort they preferred their boats but for operations they would prefer ours.
The hospitality we were shown was wonderful. Three of us, young(ish!) petty officers were trying to find our way out of Norfolk yard when a car drew up and we were invited to hop in. We were taken to the home of the Exec of our host boat, LtCdr Vincent Shirley Lunn, met his wife and were given a lovely dinner.
I hope he, or someone who knows him, will get in touch.
RR

Germany had better hulls and steel, and other things like dive times, maximum depth but allies had better ASW devices like radar, and better confort..but the electronics technology makes a big difference in the ressults of the war.

I think that a gato could easily survive a biscaia cross with the radar.

Thanks for the information, always great to hear stuff first hand. My grandfather served on an A class boat, HMS Anchorite.

Your views seem to be somewhat similar to his, he felt that the Americans designed subs with crew comfort foremost while the RN would build a weapons system and more or less wrap crew quarters around it.

well, i think that is something that will never know, i liked more the german subs, but thank god, that the allys win the war, i think if germany has more time and resource to the xxi develop, i think that balao or gato class will be appear a toys against the xxi type and the atlantic war could finish in diferent way, and it's true the aws sistems of the us subs make the diference, like the german torpedo (g7e i think the name is) acoustic homing head (great for blow some nasty destroyers in attack run in sh3 :rock:), but if we can make sub vs sub, i think that us subs wins, not becouse are better subs, i think that could won becouse the aws and computer solution system, a german sub dosent had chance.
But like a sub, i prefer the german, becouse had bether hulls, and are pretty :P, anyway , i want a sh5 with soviet subs!, that would be awsome :P

just shoot me now and end the pain

:rotfl:

Who had the best dredging equipment of WW2? :D They must be using it to resurrect this thread.

:haha: