But Tater, Would the outcome be much differant if the Germans used Fleet boats? I am sure the Atlantic would still be full of dead submarines. Yes for the record I do beleive that the Fleet boat is the superior submarine to the U-boat. Well Pre- XXI that is.
And the point about the XXI that most people are missing that made it truly dangerous was not the fact that it could go fast underwater. It was the fact that it could go fast under water rather quietly and for a much longer time than any sub of its era. On all submarines batteries ran out rather quickly and escorts could just keep a sub down and wait and at worse the enemy could slip only so far at 2 knots before he had to come up again. XXI's could go much farther, faster and longer. Making it far more dangerous offensivly as well as defensively.
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