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Originally Posted by OKO
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Originally Posted by Sea Demon
This is remarkable. German engineering and ingenuity is rather impressive.  |
Well ... german invented the modern sub concept.
That's because WWII winners took each one (russians, USA, british and french) some type XXI after the war they could start brand new submarine platforms from this date (and all of them started to built nuke submarines based on german technology)
Fortunatly (for democracy), the WWII ended before type XXI could really enter the war ... |
Ummm no the Germans didn't, the Americans did. John Phillip Holland's 'Holland'-class design was much like the basic design of the XXI. It was designed to operate submerged, dive at an angle and operate with a streamlined hull. The Americans were also responsible for the loss of this design for the most part, Simon Lake's design philosophy of high surface performance at the expense of submerged performance, diving on an even keel, and deck armaments became the US standard till the GUPPY class subs of the 1950’s. The German’s didn’t invent anything new in desperation they just took ideas everyone else and forgotten or ignored and built a better design in terms of submerged performance, in terms of weapons, sensors, and tactics the US was ahead by a quite a bit.