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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
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.
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Well that cleared it up a bit. But still as far as I saw the VII test depth was pretty big ~230m if I'm correct and crush depth as deep as 270m which still is a lot compared to fleet boats. Well US did have a bigger and better fleet though... as were most of the countries Germany was fighting with. Kaleuns still need to be respected for fighting in such unfavorable odds.