[req] Looking for authoritive info on surface endurance

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Originally Posted by tedhealy

If you look at individual subs within a class (assuming navsource is accurate), some subs had very different fuel capacities. Some gatos had 115,000, some balaos had 94,000. We don't know what kind of upgrades a sub may have gotten throughout the war to improve fuel capacity, if the later built boats within a class had some of those upgrades built in straight from the yard, or why sometimes a later boat in a class has a smaller fuel capacity.

Ya i was just looking at that, its all over the place. At this point im just wondering how they scale against each other sans modification. For example would an unmodified Sargo have more range then an unmodified Gato or not?

Im starting to think thats a tootsie pop question.