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Re: New German Type 212, what do you think?
Posted by: ThomasHorton ()
Date: May 17, 2010 02:19PM

I think it is an interesting design. Three weeks submerged performance with a non-nuclear power plant is impressive.

The storing of the chemicals/gases outside the pressure hull is a novel safety design, but I don't know how rugged it would be in a combat situtation.

This may be a moot point as today's anti-submarine battles will be drastically different from the prolonged anti-submarine battles in WWII.

In today's anti-submarine world, I would imagine that detection = destruction and not detectected = survival. There would not be any cases of detected but not destroyed like we had in the past.

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New German Type 212, what do you think? Pat 05/15/2010 07:49PM
Re: New German Type 212, what do you think? ThomasHorton 05/17/2010 02:19PM
Re: New German Type 212, what do you think? JTMcDaniel 05/24/2010 10:41PM
Re: New German Type 212, what do you think? Seeker 06/12/2010 07:50PM
Re: New German Type 212, what do you think? Juergen U170 09/21/2010 03:49PM
Re: New German Type 212, what do you think? Walter Schmidt 06/16/2010 12:53PM


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