what weve learned so far
well what weve learned so far is that creeper engines work on type XXI
Rather than swap them in I just excluded the main electric engines as previously on type IXB I had creepers up to 10 knots it didnt surprise me
that they worked, one would assume that failure of the electric engines and utilization of the creep engines werent part of the damage model.
in the real world this would have left the sub with three or four knots
It occurs to me that although the type XXI was known to be very quiet at
5 knots speed I believe that this wasnt actual silent speed I believe silent speed remains 3 or 4 knots, no different than in russian coldwar subs of one or two decades later, As type XXI is where the russians started there modern design work from, it seems unlikely that after a decade or two they wouldnt have matched its performance or surpassed it.
So fellow cake eaters lets all go and see what uboatnet has to say about actual operational speeds for type XXI.
Edit well of course plenty on type XXI but not on operational silent speed, does any body know for certain???
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