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Old 02-17-10, 12:34 PM   #1
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Default Real german subs and diesel engine damaged?

Hi captains...

I make my way 1/3 to the first Book "The Hunters" of Clay Blair and...

...beside of the giant torpedo problem I noticed another big problems of the Kriegsmarine:

I read more than 30 times that german submarines must cancel the patrol because dame to the diesel engines.

Was the diesel engines at this times so unreliable? I mean they did not make high rpm and have a own engineer who nurse them all the time....

Anybody know what the problem was? Valves, Pistons or overheating???

Todays 6-cylinder Diesel engines in a bick truck make often more than 500.000 miles....


Enlight me, gentleman


Andreas
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