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Originally Posted by Lt.Fillipidis
@GR
It didnt rammed me actually, i rammed it. The nose dragging started at about 1/4 of the DDs length and kept up until the DD started turning. Thats more of 2/3 of the total length of it.
PS I think the DD was a Black Swan class and my boat is IXB
Edit: I remember seeing a hollywood movie about a submarine that cut ships apart like a chainsaw. It also had that spiky thing that german uboats have  |
that spikey thing is a "net cutter" if memory serves.
it was also more or less useless if memory serves again
the movie you are referring to is probably Jules Vernes
, the submarine in question was the quite fictional and quite heavily armored with iron and steel "Nautilus" which was in fact slicing through slow moving
wooden sailing ships while the sub itself was traveling at high speed.
any German U-boat foolish enough to ram it's target would have probably been a total loss as they were actually quite sensitive to those types of impacts... a number of u-boats were severely damaged or completely lost due to collision with even small merchants.
U-505 was even stuck in repairs for several days because it brushed a jetty or pier of some sort - the minor damage sustained in the low speed collision rendered it completely unable to dive.