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Rockin Robbins · 03-24-08, 04:28 PM

It was the advent of the American hunter-killer jeep carrier groups that spelled doom for the U-Boat. Thirty knots is nowhere near fast enough to outrun a PBY. The Walthers were doomed, launched or not. They just would have provided a more exciting death. And the Germans couldn't build them half as fast as we would sink them.

I'll not go into the years of training necessary before the first one would have seen battle. It would have been 1948 before a single type XVIII could have been deployed as a military asset.

I still look forward to playing with it!

03-24-08, 04:28 PM	#8
Rockin Robbins Navy Seal Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: DeLand, FL Posts: 8,900 Downloads: 135 Uploads: 52	And don't forget It was the advent of the American hunter-killer jeep carrier groups that spelled doom for the U-Boat. Thirty knots is nowhere near fast enough to outrun a PBY. The Walthers were doomed, launched or not. They just would have provided a more exciting death. And the Germans couldn't build them half as fast as we would sink them. I'll not go into the years of training necessary before the first one would have seen battle. It would have been 1948 before a single type XVIII could have been deployed as a military asset. I still look forward to playing with it! __________________ Sub Skipper's Bag of Tricks, Slightly Subnuclear Mk 14 & Cutie, Slightly Subnuclear Deck Gun, EZPlot 2.0, TMOPlot, TMOKeys, SH4CMS