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tater · 01-26-09, 02:31 PM

Clearly deep-diving didn't work, though (unless you count diving all the way to the bottom, forever, as the large majority of u-boats did

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Dive times... yeah, u-boats were faster on average, but in the fleet type books I've read (written by the skippers or crew) they were aiming for 30-something second crash dive times.

I actually agree the fleet type would not have been as effective against the allies by a considerable margin, though I'm a little at doubt as to how much worse it could have been than the u-boats. What % of u-boats were sunk? 90%? There's really not much room to do worse than that, and even if the fleet type WAS worse (probably true in the ATO, I'll grant you), it only had a few % points worse available to it. So if the u-boat was not at least that much better than the fleet boat in the PTO, the fleet "wins."

Get what I'm saying?

01-26-09, 02:31 PM	#114
tater Navy Seal Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: New Mexico, USA Posts: 9,023 Downloads: 8 Uploads: 2	Clearly deep-diving didn't work, though (unless you count diving all the way to the bottom, forever, as the large majority of u-boats did ) Dive times... yeah, u-boats were faster on average, but in the fleet type books I've read (written by the skippers or crew) they were aiming for 30-something second crash dive times. I actually agree the fleet type would not have been as effective against the allies by a considerable margin, though I'm a little at doubt as to how much worse it could have been than the u-boats. What % of u-boats were sunk? 90%? There's really not much room to do worse than that, and even if the fleet type WAS worse (probably true in the ATO, I'll grant you), it only had a few % points worse available to it. So if the u-boat was not at least that much better than the fleet boat in the PTO, the fleet "wins." Get what I'm saying? Last edited by tater; 01-26-09 at 03:01 PM.