Thank you!
This is one image I was waiting to see for a long time
a side-by-side comparison of a fleet boat and a IX9D/2 U-Boat.
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Awesomeness!!! The Fleet Submarine dominates that dinky type 9
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The Type IX9D/2 is a good boat, and the only U-Boat really comparable to the fleet subs (Long range submarines, unlike the german VIIC one), but even if having some strong points, the fleet boat is still the winner IMHO.
Range: Fleet Boat wins
Torpedo Load: Fleet Boat wins
Electronics: Fleet Boat wins, hugely superior radar and also superior TDC
Dive depth: U-boat wins here
Speed (Underwater or surfaced): Fleet Boat wins
Diving speed: U-Boat wins by a small margin, but the fleet sub has earlier warning of aircraft due to her superior radar, so that's a draw for me.
The only other thing where the U-Boat wins is torpedo efectiveness in early war, because of the MK14 torpedo scandal. But 1943 onwards -when the IX9D/2 was constructed- US and german torpedo efectiveness was on pair.:hmm:
This all does of course NOT mean that americans would have created a better midlle-sized submarine than the german VIIC if they had tried (Because no US submarine is comparable to a VIIC -different boats for different purposes-), but it illustrates well how fleet submarines excelleded in their task