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Originally Posted by Neal Stevens
The biggest difference between US fleet boats and U-boats, imo, were the torpedoes. The Germans solved their torpedo problems in a matter of months. The US took over two years  |
Not really, they just stopped using magnetic triggers. As it was nicely put in one book, the Germans suddenly ended up with torpedoes that were actually worse than what they had in WWI (WWI torpedoes didn't have magnetic triggers and weren't electric, but they generally had better performance... and with magnetic triggers being faulty, there went the advantage). I believe it was only in late 1942 that the real fix came.