How would a Romeo stack up with a Type VII or IX?

Pillar · 11-29-09, 10:40 PM

I mean for the AI

Castout · 11-30-09, 01:43 AM

Well there's Kotlin, Kildin, Kanin and Kruppny for the Soviet side in DWX. These were built starting in 1950s.

As for the US, there's the Knox DDG/FFG. This was built in the early 1960s.

Pillar · 11-30-09, 06:55 PM

Ack.. DWX is broke.

Kapitan · 12-01-09, 12:06 PM

Romeo's were obsolete when being built, noisey small and just not very good, the ideal would have been the coast defence not really a long range boat (thats where foxtrots came in), to put it bluntly the soviets took a step backwards with the romeo despite having no deck gun and all that they were as noisey if not noiser than the type VII U boats of the war.

Today romeos still see some sort of active service, china maintaining about 12 of its origional 33 boat class (improved version) and 8 remain in the egyptian navy, and to be honest the egyptian romeos dont look like they have done much in the last decade (i saw 6 of the 8 in 2004 in a right state).

Romeo's came in two forms the standard romeo and romeo improved, the improvements were mainly mechanical batteries and engines, all chinese and egyptian boats are of improved kind the chines labeling them 033 ming class, the chinese boats differ some what they have some chinese parts in them as well.

So all in all one rushed boat design no good just about does what its built for, the foxtrots the long range veriants of the same time were much better boats, and the tango's which ultimately replaced boat foxtrots and romeos and also the whiskeys were even better and the follow on kilo better still.

11-30-09, 01:43 AM	#2
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11-30-09, 06:55 PM	#3
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12-01-09, 12:06 PM	#4
Kapitan Sub Test Pilot Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: UK + Canada Posts: 7,132 Downloads: 77 Uploads: 7	Romeo's were obsolete when being built, noisey small and just not very good, the ideal would have been the coast defence not really a long range boat (thats where foxtrots came in), to put it bluntly the soviets took a step backwards with the romeo despite having no deck gun and all that they were as noisey if not noiser than the type VII U boats of the war. Today romeos still see some sort of active service, china maintaining about 12 of its origional 33 boat class (improved version) and 8 remain in the egyptian navy, and to be honest the egyptian romeos dont look like they have done much in the last decade (i saw 6 of the 8 in 2004 in a right state). Romeo's came in two forms the standard romeo and romeo improved, the improvements were mainly mechanical batteries and engines, all chinese and egyptian boats are of improved kind the chines labeling them 033 ming class, the chinese boats differ some what they have some chinese parts in them as well. So all in all one rushed boat design no good just about does what its built for, the foxtrots the long range veriants of the same time were much better boats, and the tango's which ultimately replaced boat foxtrots and romeos and also the whiskeys were even better and the follow on kilo better still. __________________ DONT FORGET if you like a post to nominate it by using the blue diamond Find out about Museum Ships here: https://www.museumships.us/ Flickr for all my pictures: https://www.flickr.com/photos/131313936@N03/ Navy general board articles: https://www.navygeneralboard.com/author/aegis/

11-29-09, 10:40 PM	#1
Pillar Electrician's Mate Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 138 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	I mean for the AI