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10-13-09, 12:15 PM
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Engineer
 Join Date: Oct 2005
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Range Calculation Accurate?
On my last mission , just for laughs I took my diesel powered sub (ie range 8000 miles) across the Atlantic to Newfoundland, Grand Banks Region cruising at 6kn, sinking 4 ships there. Made it back to the base at Wilhelmshaven with at least half a tank of fuel.
Do you think this is realistic. If I could do that, then New York isn't out of reach I don't think and certainly Halifax would be in range. I was out for over 5 weeks, kind of a long mission, but good with 60k in tons sunk. Anybody else gone for a long cruise? |
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10-13-09, 01:17 PM
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Shark above Space Chicken
 Join Date: Jun 2008
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Can't say that I have. I'm just trying to run a career the whole war, but since I play in spurts, it's taking some time.
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10-30-09, 12:54 AM
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Engineer
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Range?
Looks like it IS accurate - as per the cruise of the U-53 which operated off the US coast in 1916.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SM_U-53 Kinda interesting that the Germans had subs that could reach the Eastern seaboard (without refueling) at that point. |
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