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Technical deficiencies in U-Boote
Posted by: Io Chrysafidou ()
Date: August 06, 2001 06:05PM

<HTML>I am doing research on U-boats and for some time I have been wondering about some glaring technical deficiencies in the several types of U-boats which saw most of the action; namely:
a) destroyers: there had been destroyers around in WWI, so their tactics in protecting convoys were nothing new, yet the faster, improved torpedoes that could effectively be used against them were developed slowly and only became operational in 1943. Why not earlier, before the beginning of the war? The technology was available in 1938.
b) ASDIC: this was around ever since 1917, yet all U-boats had to move around on tiptoe, so to speak, to avoid definite detection, instead of developing effective counter-measures
c) aeroplanes: bombers were available in both wars, and it seems that most U-boats were destroyed by aeroplanes: flak and the second \"wintergarten\" were again half-measures that helped get more people killed.
WHY did the new U-Boot-Waffe in 1935 NOT set down specifications similar to the XXI and XXII types that were produced too few too late? It seems that Herr Buchheim has got a point about all those thousands of young men going to meet their deaths needlessly.</HTML>

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Technical deficiencies in U-Boote Io Chrysafidou 08/06/2001 06:05PM
RE: Technical deficiencies in U-Boote walter M 08/06/2001 07:46PM
Comments SuperKraut 08/14/2001 09:43AM
RE: Technical deficiencies in U-Boote David W 08/06/2001 10:15PM
RE: Technical deficiencies in U-Boote kurt 08/07/2001 01:26AM
RE: Technical deficiencies in U-Boote Comments 08/14/2001 10:14AM
Ooops SuperKraut 08/14/2001 10:41AM


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