@Abhinab Das They were stopped by the ocean floor.

@Abhinab Das he means that they were all sunk by the enemy.

Lol. No, the fast fireing Torpedo mechanism withstands less pressure. 220m in practice.

Completely false lmao

At what points on the planet were the oceans too shallow?

i was ther 4 days ago. its crazy feeling inside.

I'd love to see her! I have visited the USS Pampanito, docked along Fishermans Wharf in SF a number of times. I'm always thrilled when I visit her.

I agree!

I visited in 2013, bought 2 U-Boot prints which I had framed for my lounge. Of course I am single.😅

@@perpetualgrin5804 you have 2 nice prints now, so you got that going for you, which is nice

Going down is easy. Even Russian ships do that lately.

The Ukrainians have definitely helped them prove that!!! 🤠👍🇺🇦

Your "trick", Bill, reminds me an old Skydiver joke about parachute failure: the free-falling isn't the problem, it's only the final 6 feet that you have to worry about. (How can they think up this stuff...)

​@@davidstevenson9517: And old german joke. A man jumps out of a plane with a parachute. The parachute fails, the reserve parachute also fails. The man thinks: I get angry, when they have forgotten the promised bycicle on ground!

You are right, been there a couple of years ago, its a fantastic Submarine

The Type XXI submarines were so poorly built that in reality they could not even reach the depth of the Type VII boats. Your values are theoretical values that have never been achieved in reality.

@@ULTRA_2112 Of course it's theroretical, but the same shipyards which built the VII later built the XXI and these are there given values: VII calculated crush depth: 250-295 m XXI calculated crush depth: 330 m They were right with their calculations with the VII, why should they have been wrong with their calculations for the XXI? Of course the 330m were never reached in reality, because there was never a need to do so and it was never tried, as the war was over and it's very risky.

@@andyz.5431 The German Reich lost the war at the time the Type XXI submarines were built. There were significant problems with the material and with the production. The quality of the Type XXI submarines can no longer be compared with the Type VII or IX submarines from 1940, 1941 or 1942. So post-war assessments by the US Navy and British Royal Navy also found that the completed submarines had poor structural integrity due to the manufacturing problems. This rendered the submarines highly vulnerable to depth charges, and gave them a lesser maximum diving depth than earlier U-boat designs. Here the German Text: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/U-Boot-Klasse_XXI#Tauchtiefe

@@ULTRA_2112 Anyway from construction side and under normal material and production conditions the XXI was able to dive deeper than 300m. Your link says that even under worse conditions the test conducted by the Germaniawerft, the crash dive depth were just 10% less than the initially calculated one. The tests of americans and brits were conducted with unmaintained and rusted XXI's months after the war and are therefore misleading.

@@andyz.5431 "Anyway from construction side and under normal material and production conditions the XXI was able to dive deeper than 300m." Yes, but only once! "The tests of americans and brits were conducted with unmaintained and rusted XXI's months after the war and are therefore misleading." This is nonsense, U-2513 was extensively overhauled at the naval yard in Charlston, South Carolina prior to testing. This shipyard had considerably better opportunities in 1946 than any of the Kriegsmarine shipyards in 1944 / 1945. I have the original report from Clay Blair, formerly USS Guardfish, about the test series. How implausible your claim about the poor condition of U-2513 during the test period is, shows that the incumbent US President Harrry S. Truman was on U-2513 on November 21, 1946 and the boat dived to 130m (440 feet) on this voyage to demonstrate the use of the snorkel system to Truman. The conclusion of the US Navy about the test series remains. The boats of the XXI type have been assembled with poor quality materials and by unskilled workers. In reality, the maximum achievable diving depth is lower with these boats than with type VII boats. From mid-1944 Hitler's "Third Reich" was done. Defeats on all fronts, day and night air raids on the Reich. There was nothing left, no material, no fuel, no hope. Only the feeble-minded perseverance slogans of the party and the confused talk of the Führer about the "Endsieg". The Luftwaffe no longer existed, the Kriegsmarine was destroyed, the Type VII boats were sunk by the Allies before they could ever see an enemy convoy. The Wehrmacht had no vehicles, no ammunition and no fuel, If they could move at all, then at night. During the day nothing was possible anymore due to the air superiority of the Allies. Why do you think the Nazis lost the war so mercilessly?

Deutsche Qualität

Still sunk ... Of the 863 German submarines that were used, 784 were sunk. Of the 40,000 men on board these submarines, over 30,000 died while on duty ....

@@ULTRA_2112 And now also tell how many ships they destroyed. Cause without that, these numbers mean nothing.

@@Micha-qv5uf Viele (Many). And I am shure you would't have liked it to be on one of those ships at that time. But this video was about how deep U Boats could dive.

@@Micha-qv5uf These numbers show everything. You can only die quickly in a German submarine, and that since 1943 ..... The type VII and IX submarines were obsolete scrap from mid-1943, death traps for the crews. Hundreds of these boats were sunk by the Allied forces. The OKM (Oberkommando der Marine / High Command of the Navy) and the BdU (Befehlshaber der U-Boote / Commander of the Submarines) were fully aware of this fact, and yet the crews were sent to certain death. By the way, completely pointless. Just for information: The losses of all transatlantic convoys of the Allies from 1942 to 1945 were less than 1% .....

Das boot

yes eduard theres a similar scene in das boot where the u96 dives out of control after being attacked and hits the bottom at 280-300 meters- about a 1000feet! there are quite a few accounts of type viics going beyond their collapse depth and still surviving. german engineering for you. theres also a mention of how tough these boats are in the film U571.

@@johnblaber3461 this is because in WWII we german engineers used the security number 7, which means the resistance factor was not 2-3 in heavy metals but fracking 7!!! This is also why the tanks could withstand attacks on their front armor. They were very precisely built but this killed us in Russia as oil got hard and sticky and engines got problems, they survived the desert but the extreme cold. only if you leave the engines running but when you are cut off from supplies... XD The Russians deserved this victory as Nazi-Germany was a sick empire! So good that we lost. We should have one the first world war, then this shit would have never happened! Mehh but then maybe today we would have to feel bad about the German common wealth :P things are fine as they are.....

@@ragnar999tobi Also U boats used a circular pressure hull, stronger than the more oblong shape US subs used.

@@ragnar999tobi Apparently, losing a ww is not such a bad thing. Germany and Japan are both great economic superpowers now

Thank you :)

@@markushuber214: You're welcome. 👍

I was just about to google which U-Boat was depicted in "Das Boot" Thanks for the info.

The same VII-C replica used in "Das Boot" (1981) was also rented for and used in the Indiana Jones Movie "Raiders of the Lost Ark".

hate to ruin it but the u-boat in the enemy below was a type IXB/or C. not a type VIIC. soz @jaec45.

Just as the Mercury astronauts said: Do you realize that we are sitting on tons of high explosives assembled by the lowest bidder?

damm

We used to have a US sub at Navy Pier in Chicago, but the restoration was very rough, and the tour guides knew nothing other than their memorized script. I happened to be on a tour with a few vets who got fed up with the pathetic guides and commandeered the tour. Best sub tour I ever got.

@@ghost307 Dad occasionally forgot there were children on the tour and he lacked a filter lol But even the tour guides enjoyed his history lesson lol

If it was the last dive it dosent count. Type VII deeper than 300 is new to me, but even the 270-280 mentioned here is extreme. 90m was the guarantee from the manufactor.

And a fully-welded hull; that helped, too.

@@rossanderson4440 What was their designed crush depth?

@@juanpecan7089 300 feet/91 meters, though at least one skipper took his boat down to 400 feet and surfaced to tell the tale.

My grandfather was First Lieutenant on HM Submarines Clyde and Sealion. He was also awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for a torpedo hit on the German battleship Gneisenau in June 1940. In the aftermath, HMS Clyde went deep to avoid the German counterattack and she plunged out of control to 600ft. He left submarines due to deteriorating eyesight and took command a torpedo boat squadron. This didn't suit him so he spent the remainder of the war as an instructor at sub school. Post war he left the Navy, as did many of his peers. But he later regretted it, saying that if he stay on to get to achieve rank of Lieutenant Commander he would have received a better pension.

@@lordhumungous7908 Lucky to have a go at a battlecruiser, and to survive 600 feet! Yes, my father regretted leaving the navy too. They produced some first class officers in those days. My father had the copper bugle that was the ship's crest, and on show whenever Torbay entered port, plus the wardroom pewter mugs, as he was the last officer there when Torbay was about to be scrapped in 1945. ...... When I heard of a new Torbay being built, I phoned Northwood, and got the officer in charge of the build, to put my father in touch. ...... As he lived in South Devon, he went on board quite often, and even went on a short trip, and he arranged for my brother, sister, and myself to go over Torbay, and, of course, look through the periscope. It was good that the old Torbay items were returned to the Navy.

Thank you! Finally, someone with actual knowledge posting...

Thank you for a Major correction. Some metals react to temperature, less ductile at lower temperatures, so was a conservative rating intended to be safe in artic waters and not applicable in the areas of operation of his boat?

Thank you. I read about Kane's assessment in another book on US Submarines in WWII

The 90m was the dockyard guarantee, 160m the test depth and 240m the (wrong) calculated crushdepth (it was actuall around 300m)

I noticed that too, but my only general reference is wikipedia, and I'm not going to trust them as authoritative. Friedman's "US Submarines Through 1945" lists Balao class as 400, same as Wikipedia, but of course only covers US submarines. There's also something fishy about the narration which sets off alarm bells, as if it's computer generated, plus switching between metric and imperial for power; makes me wonder about their sources.

Yes, many did dive deeper. But they didn't resurface.

That's explains Das boot and the captain Lehmann Willenbrocks tendency to go deeper.

What was name of submarine please?

you mean Nazi? Interesting how when we are talking about atrocities we do not say Germans, but Nazi. But as here they are not Nazi, they are Germans!!:)

@@lazarduke6596 Would you say that during Trump's presidency, all US military personnel were racist, mysoginist and of the extreme right? I hope not, but if so, don't think that all Germans of the second war were evil Nazis.

@@lazarduke6596 wow you really are stupid, the Nazi's controlled the German govt, but the country was still germany

@@Railriderchris we are not talking about Trump or US military personnel, and all Germans are not Nazis, but Nazis in II WW were Germans

@@lazarduke6596 We are talking about overgeneralisation, hence why the comparison with Trump might have visualised the problem to you. Because what's your point in wanting to say that the Nazis built great submarines instead of the word "Germans" Have you any proof that every German shipyard engineer and worker was Nazi? Or the submarines crews? Submariners were known to have had strong anti-Nazi feelings, because they were sailors first and went for a long time away from home encapsulated in their U-Boat. Dönitz refused a suggestion from Hitler to shoot on shipwrecked allied sailors, and during the Laconia incident, U-Boats tried to save both Axis and Allied troops shipwrecked in the sea. Franz Stigler was a German pilot who could have won a medal from shooting down a heavily damaged B-17, but he let the allied plane fly home. So you want to label all those peoples as being Nazis independently of the fact if they were actually supporting the party or not? Nazis in WWII were not only German, there were a lot of personalities from other countries who helped and/or were part of the Nazi regime. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nazis_of_non-Germanic_descent

Rumor is that they have been asked to leave and that they were on boats to Argentina.

@@victorboucher675 Yea absolutly. As a matter of principle you can surely say, that the more absurd the story has been published in the media the nearer at the truth it is.

So that means a nuclear reactor so you can stay submerged and/or a strong hull to crack the ice. WW II subs are cool and some of them can go deep, yeah. But beneath the antarctic ice is cold war nuclear sub territory :-P

And if you make it to Chicago you can walk through the German Uboat 505

@@edfrawley4356 I was there when they brought it across lake shore drive. My grandfather was in the navy in WW1 and he wanted to see the U-boat.

@@Tagurrit Its a bucket list item for me. The entire story of it is fascinating.

Not going to lie but you had me in the first half

And if not confirmed they were destroyed, they are still on patrol

Which only proves the existence of a secret Nazi-base on the ocean floor

@@lowerquadrant4647 They are in the core. The hollow Earth has passages to Antarctica, also. The Nazis that went to Antarctica also went to the core. The ocean bottom passages to the core are in shallower areas where people would not think of looking. The hollow core is a breeding cesspool for Nazis. They interbreed in the core and are slowly evolving into a hideous new anthropomorphic species, but not human. They have super science to breed even faster. Their females lay eggs that hatch in 28 days verses the human 40 weeks. These hideous Nazi cannibals will surface in 39 to 114 years and destroy humanity. They already have near a billion eggs in stasis and hatch nearly 1.2 million eggs a day. Pray you are dead when the Nazi resurface happens.

No IJN subs on the list but they show the I-400 class at the beginning of the vid. It only have a test depth of 100m tho

The Japenese submarines were designed for high surface speed (too keep up with their battle fleet) and range, to cover the pacific. They're often classified as "fleet submarines". The Germans went for deep diving depth and the ability to survive a depth charging. That was from WW1 experience. As they refined their designs the added increased range.

Bremerhaven u-2540 after war u-boot Wilhelm Bauer testsub for Bundesmarine ....one of the XXI was a stealth boat with a Special Rubber coating....sinking by mine

@@125ccmfahrer The anechoic coating was called 'albrecht' after the wagnarian dwarf who had a coat of invisibility. A Mesh of steal and rubber with the a pattern of various pores resonant with the frequecies diesigned to be absrobed. It was tested in 1941/42 but tended to come of due to glue issues but was improved by 1944.

Not just the best subs, but the best fighter aircraft & tanks right to the very end of the war. They had actually built 2 new prototype subs that were revolutionary in every way, but thankfully were too late in the war & never saw action.

@@johnvigolo4972 Germans had Focus on quality to ex.: Tiger tanks build (type I and II) approx 2,000 Sherman tanks approx 50,000 Same for planes, Quantity was far superior to quality, however the fate of the U-boats was caused by ULTRA and Radar.

I had an opportunity to visit USS Cobia in Manitowoc, a Gato-class from WWII, great boat.

Indeed, it was argued that the Pacific war could have been bought to a successful conclusion, with the silent service alone.

Al US boats had air conditioning except for the S-Class which was a WWI design.

Actually it had an ice cream maker, the skipper was smart. Lived down the road from me, but I never met him.

After they mended their torpedoes, yes. At the begining those were disaster.

Test depth makes sense. Max depth of 480 is more or less reasonable (looking at previous U-boats) if we take "max depth" as "crush depth". But even suggesting that a Type XXI could have a 800m crush depth, is just ridiculous. Only one military submarine has ever reached such depths (1,020 mts, the K-278 Komsomolets) and it was made of TITANIUM. Cheers.

​@@NahuCommNS The 800m figure is theory and speculation. But we shall not forget that the XXI is a well armored submarine. It was made out of a very flexible but ultra robust steel to withstand depth charges and bombs without a shred. Which detonates as near as 8-10 meters away from the boat. such as the testing trials showed in the baltic sea. Within the overall design it would sure be plausible to withstand much higher depths. It was btw the real vision behind that project to make a submarine to be able to dive into abyssal depths but time shortage ruined it. But sure i agree that the XXI as we know today would not withstand such high depth as the Mike-class as you referring too with its inner hull made out of titanium and had a (in theory) max-crush depth of 1300m.

They are talking about the usual diving depth were it was considered to be safe. Not max achieved depths, which was probably higher for all of these.

Was this the incident where the depth gauge in the fwd torpedo room read 1000 feet, aft 750?

@@juanpecan7089 I'd have to check: but it was the one mentioned to Dick O'Kane by one of the survivors in the Japanese POW camp- they said it was safe to tell him then, that they feared if they told him the pressure reading in the hull on that dive after it happened, he would probably use it as an excuse to dive deeper!

Perhaps that's why most navies were reluctant to have women aboard subs!

My Father served on the USS Marlin (SS206) and the USS Irex (SS482), During May/June of 1945> He was appalled by the living conditions on The German Submarines. He felt that they 'lived like animals'. The meat with mold hanging in the boats, the smell was horrendous, he said they used the bilge as a toilet. Later the Irex was training in the Caribbean and started sinking by the stern, it went way below the test depth, he didn't know exactly how deep but the y managed to blow the tanks, he felt lucky to be alive.

So this is easy. 1 feet is half the distance you need to lift an item to get it on an F-150 pickup-truck's flatbed. A gallon is 1/10 the size of the fuel capacity of the same F-150 pickup truck. A cubefeet is the engine displacement of the same F-150 truck. And the total pull-weight of the F-150 is 1000 pounds. It is very easy and logical when you have this info and know the F-150 truck.

@@Mosern1977 Ah, I see. This is much easier than our metric system.

@@klauskruger6187 And we measure speed in furlongs per fortnight.

@@Mosern1977 woosh if gay, this is just unfunny

It's quite simple. 1 foot is 12 inches (1 inch is center joint to center joint of most men's left hand index finger, so the second link). 5280 feet in a statute mile (There is a Nautical mile also and that's tied to sailing as well as the projection for aircraft maps). Inches are divided into fraction. So 1/2", 1/4" and so on. One gallon of water I figure on 7 Lbs. One gallon of Gasoline is about 6 Lbs. These are the numbers I use for aircraft weights. There is also a yard. That's 3 feet. Our ton is 2000 Lbs. I think your ton is 1000 KG and 1KG is 2.2 Lbs. A pound is a measure of mass, some people think only the KG is a measure of mass. They're wrong. It's not hard. The equivalent of the 10mm socket that gets lost first is the 7/16 and 1/2" sockets. Smaller sockets, the 1/4" socket. Lots of stuff are 1/4".

119 type XXI Electroboats were completed, delivered and commissioned by May 1945. I agree with your first comment.

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ya just not the type 21s tho

as bitter as it is( specially for a german like me...) it is true.there is always a kind of strange feeling when it comes to the technical advance germany had in this time because of the cost. i am not talking about germany beeing bombed but germany beeing the fascist nation it was and the cost of lives of innocent slaved people. in one way i am proud we had the best technologies, best planes, best submarines...on the other hand, gosh, what a nightmare it would be if we had won this war....

@@denniskersten4377 Great in some areas, terrible in others like encryption. Or nuclear wepons.

​@@denniskersten4377 USSR did win WW-2 (in the Europe/Western Asia theatre anyway). Stalin and Hitler were two apples from the same tree, so... If Hitler won, USSR would have SS concentration camps instead of GULAG-s. People would be gassed instead of starved in far-eastern Siberia. And in history books we'd now read about how the heroic Nazi nation beat the horrible Communist party. Remember kids: the good guys always win. So whoever lost a war - will be the horrible villians. P.S. I'm Russian and my grandfather fought in WW-2. My great-grandfather fought alongside with the Bolshevik's, but then regretted it deeply and sorrowly. Great-grandpa realized he's helped the villians win a war. Didn't have much of a choice if he wanted his family to survive though.

They were derived and much improved designes from ww1

from Luftwaffe to the Kriegsmarine all of the German war machines had a great look

this may interest you en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_II_submarine kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nN19f6xhpseykY0.html

@@yahyamuhaimin3268 Aesthetics of functionality. It pleases the eye. Some allied beautys too. 4 example the british spitfires, the later ones.

I would have got that wrong on a test. I figured it was crazy to do that. Impractical. Turns out I was right. They used the small U-boats and it was very difficult to do that. Short lived as well. They probably would have been better off not doing it.

I refer mainly to the USS Tang

@Jim Meyer--You are correct. The Tang's test depth was 412 feet. O'Kane just pushed it deeper so he would be able to evade counter attacks by diving beneath Japanese depth charges. Clear the Bridge by Richard O'Kane is a great read and explains all of this in detail. He would take the boat down until something broke, go back into port and have it fixed and do it again. After a few dives they could safely go to 600 feet but it was never the actual test depth of the Tang which, on the books, was still 412 feet. Anecdote--My father served on a Gato class during WWII (7 patrols). The Gato was rated to 300 feet but they were forced down to 500 at one point. It didn't change the specified test depth simply because they exceeded it.

@@majormattmason8408 I forgot the depth, but on the USS Barb (Gato class), Capt Fluckey did a test dive until the pressure hull in a torpedo room got a dent. I think it was under 500.

My dad served aboard the Lionfish as an ordnanceman in the early 1950s. He visited Battleship Cove several times to see his old boat and reminisce. He had many good memories of his time in the Navy and of the Lionfish.

@@majormattmason8408 Tang was a thick-skin boat, and during their tests they revealed some concerning mistakes made in construction which were likely prevalent on many boats. The fact they could confidently go to 600ft, well below published test depth, saved them several times. O'Kane's book is excellent and his spirit and thoroughness for learning his boat should be a standard for all naval sub captains.

Orzel shown, but not listed... worth noticing.

They were steel coffins.

its 35k

1981 not 1983

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Most realistically made "sub movie" I've ever seen...you can almost smell the diesel, sweat and poor air as well as the terror felt by the crew during depth charging. Wolfgang Peterson pretty much nailed it and gave honors to those that served (and never came back). It's a tale told of bravery, of perseverance, of ingenuity in the time of the most daunting of circumstances (much like our own "silent service members" in the era). I'm a Navy vet and I've always been drawn to subs...just didn't have the eyesight (glasses) though they would've given me a waiver for it. Took a tour in a fast attack (Skipjack-class type) and I figured I'd rather be on the surface going down than being 1,000 feet below and going down uncontrolled. Thresher and Scorpion were still fresh in my memory...

Agreed...(think "Thresher '63)...mechanical test failure, I believe. USS Scorpion ('67) was (I think) a different failure than Thresher's. Nobody really knows as nobody's lived to tell, the photographic evidence doesn't show cause and the sea won't give up her secrets. (Ex-Navy; reactor operator here, BTW)

for the german type VII C the shipyard warranty was 90 meters, 300 ft. altough it was common to dive about 180-200 meters (600-650 ft) to escape water bombs. the deepest ever recorded dive from a german submarine was 310 meters (1050 ft) after getting bombed by a british radar-equipped Mosquito. the boat was badly damaged and had several leaks and lay on ground for almost 3 days but the crew managed to fix the leaks, repair the boat and submerge. the XXI was build for a normal dive depth of 200 meters,(660ft) there are reports that they managed to dive 300 meters (1000 ft)some of the captured XXI were tested by the US and British Navy and both veryfied a tested depth of 250 meters ( 800 ft) plus X because they, of course, didn't know what the point of no return was.

Tell that to a 3rd of Japanese warships.

Pretty much the most obsessed type of ship on the kreigsmaride

Laughs in Tiger I and MG-42

@@deslow7411 Tiger was a joke compared to amount of tonnage the u boats sunk, mg-42 is too but the sub was top tier tech

And not only didn’t they actually do the job effectively, but the fact that they could dive deeper than everyone else, was also not the most effective thing too.!.!.!.!.!. Otherwise they wouldn’t have lost so many boats, and they would’ve stopped the British from being able to carry on trading, and thereby they would’ve helped the nazis to win the battle of the Atlantic, but they didn’t, end of.............

Hmm...V2 rockets? Jet fighter planes?

The critical technologies they needed to turn things around was just comming into service in late 1944 or early 1945. There was the Type XXI with 4 times (even 6 times) the under water range, stealth radar coating called Schornsteinfehger for masts, a series of radar detectors for 3cm, 9cm and 0.5-1.5m radar with names like Athos, a radar the could detect any aircraft with a single pulse for 100km around called FuMO 391 lansing, a infrared detector for detecting patrol aircraft, a microwave search radar called Berlin which could be used submerged and a radar directed gun system called ball spiel, a radio telemetry 'burst mode' system which in its 3F single sidbe band suppresed carrier mode couldn't be direction found or detected, a radar called the balkon geraet that could aim torpdoes without it being possible to be direction found (3 doppler pulse to short to D/F with min/max methods) and a new code called enignal UKWD.

you mean of how deep they can dive? :D

@@gutholz4443 With enough holes in them, they can dive all the way to the bottom.

Human voice of course

Computer generated, explains why it pronounced "bow" like a ribbon bow, not as the intended ship's "bow".

@@G1NZOU I've heard Nigel Planer saw bow wrongly for the sentence he was reading for an audiobook.

It's a computer generated human made using 3-D printing in a clone laboratory.

And yet they still got truly thrashed in the end.

*laughs In manhattan project*

@BalkanBeast Actually no. In WW2 Germany made their First nuclear reactor and just 2 months later they cancelled the entire nuclear program. Meaning they haven't even stared drawing a simple concept of the bomb, it was just a nuclear reactor that got built. Also, Germany Said no to it's Jewish Scientist which automatically Made it almost impossible to develop a nuclear bomb, Most of the Jewish scientist that we're Expelled by the Germans later went to help in the Manhattan project. And by help, I mean do most of the work. Explains why Israel manage ot build so many Amazing weapons, Because Jews are very smart.

@@ottovonwallace830 yes because Germany vs 4 of the most powerful nations at the time makes it weak

@BalkanBeast Actually no. Germany was part of the Axis group, who had been preparing for war. None of the Allied forces were preparing for it, and so had to play catch up. The British Commonwealth were fighting on three fronts, America on two,

xD

Well, they certainly built the deepest diving subs. But the critical capability was not extreme depth, but how fast a sub could dive. The German Type VIIs were also the best in this regard. US subs were a little slower, but, on the other hand, US subs had radar, and could usually detect an enemy at greater ranges than U Boat crews could, so they could afford to be a little slower diving. In the end though, the US submarine fleet succeeded in doing to the Japanese what the Germans tried and failed to do to the British: sinking an island nation's merchant fleet and starving it of supplies it couldn't afford to do without.

you mean Nazi tech? Interesting how when we are talking about atrocities we do not say Germans, but Nazi. But as here they are not Nazi, they are Germans!!:)

Still sunk ... Of the 863 German submarines that were used, 784 were sunk. Of the 40,000 men on board these submarines, over 30,000 died while on duty ...

@@ULTRA_2112 Ill give you 863 Submarines and Ill give your enemy The Royal Navy and the US navy, tell me how will you fair? Do you know what's logic? What do you expect when Germany is fighting 2 of the strongest navies. you expect them to win, or you expect them to not lose a lot?

@@Justineexy Surprise surprise... I'm German, that's why I know it so well. The Nazis were idiots, they could never have won the war against the British Commonwealth, the Soviet Union and the United States. Hitler waged a war of aggression and let our people die for nothing ... Half of Europe destroyed, millions of people killed for nothing!

And I am sure she knew how to use the snorkel as well. Lucky you!

Yes unfortunately they were

They were clever as well !

@devildog5354 For sure. I know that, especially after Bismarck was sunk, Hitler did not want to waste resources on an oversized and likely generally useless surface fleet. The U-Boat fleet was the only substantial naval fleet he really saw merit in having.

A type VII but an earlier one!

type VII/B

Thanks

U96 a type 7b

Judging by its conning tower and hull, looks like it was a Type VII

There are a number of those already, with much history & detail.

German WW1 experienced taught them the value of deep diving depth and the abillity to take a depth charging. Deth allows you to find an inversion layer than can't be penetrated by sonar.

So did everyone elses

Iron Coffins. !!!

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