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Survivability also depends on OFFENSE!!! You gotta punch em' in the nose! And that's where the mighty Gato/Balao cleary beats the uboats in, with 6 bow and 4 stern tubes, you got a lotta firepower to send at those destroyers before having to result to going deep.
And besides, no body knows how deep the Balao class are capable of going. They could go way beyond 1,000 feet and survive.
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Well, yes its true...i always admire to WWII US subs in their brutality of firepower, but i still belive that Jeery´s u-boats ar more suitable subs for dealing with british killers. 5 TT is also quite enough for taking some destroyer(expecially if they loaded with acoustic torps) but at the end its showed that destroyers more or less get beter end in this types of duels.
If Balao (test depth 120) can go beyond 300 m the who knows how deep was cracking point of 7 0r 7c41 boats with theirs 230 m test depths.