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Originally Posted by Torplexed

Their chief faults were that they were not very maneuverable (having a turning radius of 150 yards or 137m submerged) and were slow to dive. The original conning towers were also quite high. Once war broke out, they were cut down considerably to reduce the silhouette of the boats. But the chief limitation of American submarines generally was not the submarines themselves, but the atrocious torpedoes they carried, which did not begin to approach acceptable performance until late 1943.

You have a lot of good info here. Would you happen to know how the S-class turn/perform? The reason I ask is that I noticed they turn very poorly in SH 4, but I recall them as having been much better in SHCE.