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Subnuts · 05-01-07, 01:11 PM

I think it's useful to remember that the Fleet boats were called that because they were designed to fight with the fleet, not independantly of it. They were designed to run on the surface at high speeds, communicating with the main battle force, and finally submerging and "thinning out" the enemy before the fleet arrived. Therefore, it makes sense that they'd have a heavy torpedo armament, since a submarine sneaking inside of an enemy task force would need all the torpedoes it could fire. A Fleet boat sneaking inside of a task force could sink a battleship with it's forward tubes and a cripple another with it's stern tubes. When they designed the Fleet boats back in the early 30s, they never thought they'd be sending them againist lone merchants. Or at least that's how I'm seeing it.

05-01-07, 01:11 PM	#21
Subnuts The Old Man Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Connecticut Posts: 1,658 Downloads: 14 Uploads: 0	I think it's useful to remember that the Fleet boats were called that because they were designed to fight with the fleet, not independantly of it. They were designed to run on the surface at high speeds, communicating with the main battle force, and finally submerging and "thinning out" the enemy before the fleet arrived. Therefore, it makes sense that they'd have a heavy torpedo armament, since a submarine sneaking inside of an enemy task force would need all the torpedoes it could fire. A Fleet boat sneaking inside of a task force could sink a battleship with it's forward tubes and a cripple another with it's stern tubes. When they designed the Fleet boats back in the early 30s, they never thought they'd be sending them againist lone merchants. Or at least that's how I'm seeing it.