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Originally Posted by Kptlt. Hellmut Neuerburg
I did a little research in the Walther boats and there where a total of 4 versions produced starting with the V80, only one was built and used for research. The first versions of the type XVIII where the XVIIA and XVIIB as more research vessels. A total of 7 of these where made, 4 of the XVIIA and 3 of the XVIIB, but they where only commissioned. The last was the XVIII and where never built. Had they been built they would have greatly changed the U-Boat war in Germanys favor. If more funding and more research had been made the sciencetists would have found a better fuel than H2O2. Check it out here http://www.uboat.net/types/walter.htm . |
We'd all have a merry Christmas!:rotfl:
What does the word "they" mean? Does it mean that if the Starship Enterprise had beamed down 300 of them with crack crews (thereby allowing about 80 on patrol at sea at any one time, optomistically) the Battle of the Atlantic would have been greatly changed? Or do you make allowances for building the production facilities for these boats? Or do you make allowances for the training (virtually from scratch!) of crews from these boats? Or do you make allowances for the instability of the H2O2 propulsion system, KABOOM! They DID produce Me-163s. They were a grand but worthless gesture against fleets of over 1000 bombers. Or do you make allowances for the inability to protect any mythical production facilities long enough to produce enough of these boats to produce any results? How about the inability of the factory building to withstand British and American bombing attacks? How about the necessity to remove productive crews from the theater of war to train for months in these Rube Goldberg contraptions?
None of this was doable and the Germans could not have had a merry Christmas. They had no more choices to make which would have changed the outcome of the Battle of the Atlantic or the war. Their only choices were when would they lose and who would die in the process.