Is it Electro-boot month already? I've watched an Electro-baby-boot (type xxiii) video barely a few days ago, and while I was watching this video a notification of a Drachinifel video about Walter- and Electro-boots popped up. Why the sudden Electro-boot-tsunami? (Not that I mind)
Great suggestion! I had thought about overlying the development of radar onto the graph but I didn't want the graph to be too busy. I do plan on setting up a companion website for the channel where I can have that kind of information, as well as data files with detailed information on various nation's submarines and war performance. Just takes a little time ;)
Thank you for subscribing and Yeah I will cover torps. I've got plans already for two more briefings for this year (Nov and Dec) but maybe early next year we can start on torpedeos. Probably a series of briefings.
I think you will find that the end of the 2nd "Happy Time" corresponds with the introduction of 3 cm wavelength "H2S " radar on allied aircraft searching the mid-Atlantic gap. The Type XXI U-boat never got used in any quantity, because British Bomber Command made sure that the Mitteland and Dortmund-Ems canals were bombed whenever they contained enough water for the pre-fabricated components of the U-boats to be shipped to the coast for assembly; also the Baltic Sea was so thoroughly mined that it could not be used to train U-boat crews.
Without reviewing the literature, I'm skeptical that workers would have kept working on U-boat assembly during an air raid beacause an air raid is relatively short and the risk of losing your skilled workers is so high.
The only real outcome from the Fairlie ASW trials of Sept 1944 was the recomendation by the RN for the Allies to immediately bomb the type XXI assembly yards as at that stage there was no other effective means to counter the threat. The type XXI was the first modern attack submarine and Cold War SSK combining sophisticated sensors, weapons and an enhanced underwater performance. HMS Seraph was the very same submarine as per Operation Mincemeat and portrayed in the movie "The Man That Never Was."
Why dont we see "Walter Drives" get prevalent development post-war by the allies? Is it due to the volatile nature of the fuel, akin to Me163 Komets? Ive only done bare surface research, but they just feel like October caterpillar-drive levels of quandary. Where/how does the turbine exhaust exit if its a sub-surface drive..
I believe the form of hydrogen peroxide that was being used for the Walter AIP system was very volatile. I haven't done much reading on the Walter AIP, but Eberhard Roessler in his book "The U-boat" he covers it in detail. When I talk about the Walter boats, that will be the primary reference I use.
Yanks get very defensive about the US fleetboat campaign in the Pacific during WW2. I get it, submarines are like motorcycles - everyone is passionate about certain ones ;)
Is it Electro-boot month already? I've watched an Electro-baby-boot (type xxiii) video barely a few days ago, and while I was watching this video a notification of a Drachinifel video about Walter- and Electro-boots popped up. Why the sudden Electro-boot-tsunami? (Not that I mind)
I've noticed that too... Drac must be running out of material to cover because he's been doing more submarine stuff lately.
Great video
Thank you for the great video, loved the Azur Lane Port view of this boat.
Haha I'm glad you liked it, I try not to be too serious all the time!
It would be interesting to see your timelines overlaid with the timelines of the allies, breaking German and Japanese codes
Great suggestion! I had thought about overlying the development of radar onto the graph but I didn't want the graph to be too busy. I do plan on setting up a companion website for the channel where I can have that kind of information, as well as data files with detailed information on various nation's submarines and war performance. Just takes a little time ;)
Raeder needed radar on his raiders😊
He did!
He donated doughnuts to Doenitz.
Great channel. Subscribed.
Could you make a video about the history of the German WWII torpedos, including the acoustic torps?
Thank you for subscribing and Yeah I will cover torps. I've got plans already for two more briefings for this year (Nov and Dec) but maybe early next year we can start on torpedeos. Probably a series of briefings.
@@SubmarineHistory looking forward to it
I think you will find that the end of the 2nd "Happy Time" corresponds with the introduction of 3 cm wavelength "H2S " radar on allied aircraft searching the mid-Atlantic gap. The Type XXI U-boat never got used in any quantity, because British Bomber Command made sure that the Mitteland and Dortmund-Ems canals were bombed whenever they contained enough water for the pre-fabricated components of the U-boats to be shipped to the coast for assembly; also the Baltic Sea was so thoroughly mined that it could not be used to train U-boat crews.
You can only use the Type XXI class sub in Silent Hunter II & III afaik.
Wow i did not know at all the germans build a type XXI.
I would love to know how the aip with system worked on those boats even if it was never produced
We'll get there soon, thanks for watching!
I approve of this. 😁
Thank you!
Whats with the edelweiss logo no time 4 U
Apparently the workers welding the hull sections together had to keep working even during air raids.
Without reviewing the literature, I'm skeptical that workers would have kept working on U-boat assembly during an air raid beacause an air raid is relatively short and the risk of losing your skilled workers is so high.
@SubmarineHistory I'll have look for the reference.
The only real outcome from the Fairlie ASW trials of Sept 1944 was the recomendation by the RN for the Allies to immediately bomb the type XXI assembly yards as at that stage there was no other effective means to counter the threat. The type XXI was the first modern attack submarine and Cold War SSK combining sophisticated sensors, weapons and an enhanced underwater performance.
HMS Seraph was the very same submarine as per Operation Mincemeat and portrayed in the movie "The Man That Never Was."
Why dont we see "Walter Drives" get prevalent development post-war by the allies? Is it due to the volatile nature of the fuel, akin to Me163 Komets?
Ive only done bare surface research, but they just feel like October caterpillar-drive levels of quandary. Where/how does the turbine exhaust exit if its a sub-surface drive..
I believe the form of hydrogen peroxide that was being used for the Walter AIP system was very volatile. I haven't done much reading on the Walter AIP, but Eberhard Roessler in his book "The U-boat" he covers it in detail. When I talk about the Walter boats, that will be the primary reference I use.
The British built two Walter powered boats, post war. One got the nickname HMS Exploder, enough said 😂
Excellent delivery. If only more North Americans (Yanks) could be so phlegmatic.
Yanks get very defensive about the US fleetboat campaign in the Pacific during WW2. I get it, submarines are like motorcycles - everyone is passionate about certain ones ;)
I’m convinced mis-management of the BF-109 fleet led to this and lost the war.