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Originally Posted by fastfed
Its still makes me wonder to this day.. As high tech as the gato class was 300-400 feet was about all she could go..
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Originally Posted by ediko
Wait... seriously the Gato could only do 90m ?  never knew that.
I mean I just took my uboat to 260m that's almost 3 times as much! Were the uboats really able to go that deep and US submarines so little?  |
The simple answer is that it's not true. Look at the 'Green' part of a German depth guage. The test depth is usually around 90-100 meters. That's all they were rated for. But they went much deeper.
Likewise 300 feet was what a Gato was rated for, 400 for a Balao and 450 for a Tench. It was commonly accepted wisdom that those boats were good for twice the listed depth, and there were occasions where fleet boats went to at least 750 feet, which is 230 meters.
So yes, the bigger fleet boats couldn't go as deep as a Type VII, but neither could a Type IX.
As for depth charges in the game, the stock kill distance is 25 meters, with the max radius for damage being 75 meters. The supermods, as far as I know, set the kill radius to a much more realistic 8 meters, and the damage radius at 25. This means that to get an instant kill they must be much closer, and more importantly that you can get a drubbing that lasts all day and still get away alive, which is what happened most of the time.