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Originally Posted by Fritz
When was Gato comissioned for service???
think Gato was thought of AFTER knowing of the German monster IX's
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The first Type IX , U-37 was laid down in March 1937 and commissioned in August 1938.
The first Salmon-class fleet submarine was laid down in May 1937 and commissoned in March 1938. These boats displaced 2,200 tons submerged, had eight torpedo tubes, and a range of 11,000 miles at 10 knots.
So the Salmon, Sargo, and Tambor-class fleet boars all proceeded the Gato. I imagine someone will give a more detailed look at submarine doctrine, but these boats were certainly
not built as panic-button response to the type IX. Submarines of that era weren't designed to fight one another anyway.
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stil want an I-400 over a UberL3373 Gato.....
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Wellll... it'll give you many interesting ways to die. Hope you enjoy commanding a sub with a two-minute crash dive time, a 100-meter crush depth, an ASDIC profile the size of a 40-story building, and the maneuverability of a pig in mollases! :rotfl: