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Sub Command covers well later periods with SCU/SCX  but the 50s and 60s are somehow a forgotten area that would be well served with a full SH4 conversion (Fleet subs to SSKs and German subs to Soviet subs)
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There are a couple of things that I want to point out here.
1: Sub Command is a great game, but it does not provide the level of 1st person personality that Silent Hunter offers, part of the reason I really hope that we can collectively get this mod working. Additionally, Sub Command does not allow for full world coverage (to the best of my knowledge) so you are constricted to a mission based structure, something that is not the case with SH.
2: After WWII, there were essentially no significant submarine campaigns involving overt use of force. This is probably why everything between WWII and modern / future day is pretty much ignored... not many game producers imagine a realistic game where a player takes there sub out under the polar ice cap for two months and doesn't really do anything because such a game would not sell, or at least not enough to make it worth the cost.
As it is, I would like to see as much of the war modelled as possible, but that may take some work due to the sheer length and scope involved in the scripting. I will say though, that, up until at least the late 50's every technology can be pretty easily modelled in SH4 with some tweaking. Post 1959, weapons such as cruise missiles, SUBROCs, and ballistic missiles start showing up in sub arsenals, and though I'm still pretty sure some of them can be modelled, I would wonder to what end... SH4 doesn't allow for attacking land targets (that I know of... correct me if I'm wrong), so cruise and ballistic missiles, even if modelled, would never get fired... not to mention the fact that a ballistic missile has never been fired in anger... and items such as SUBROCs would probably seriously unbalance the game. Essentially, we could take this mod pretty close to modern times if we attempt to restrict what we model to what would actually be used for the time period.