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Originally Posted by Keelbuster
The tower on the Gato is HUGE. I wonder why they made it so damned big.
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Remember thats an early war tower before alot of it was cut down to minimize silloutte. Overall though, i think it was orginaly designed like that for two reasons. Hydrodynamics being number 1, and crew comfort on the bridge being number 2. You won't get as wet on a fleet boat bridge then a uboat bridge, at least thats my guess.
The periscope shears, or rather, the height of them ive always viewed as an advantage. Your lookouts are higher up, hence can see farther, and once equiped with radar, your able to use radar while having 90% of the boat submerged, lastly, the boat is deeper while at periscope depth.