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To: LS

Submarines in both World Wars had little chance to act in concert with a surface fleet once a major battle was joined. They could serve operationally as pickets, and sink damaged enemy vessels. But their slow submerged speeds, lack of sensors beyond the Mark One eyeball operating thru a periscoe, and primitive contact torpedoes all limited their battle potential.

Conventional subs were better suited for commerce raiding.


16 posted on 05/21/2016 7:40:37 AM PDT by Tallguy
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To: Tallguy

I wasn’t talking in terms of radio coordination but the subs at Jutland were to engage first, tie up the surface ships in anti-sub maneuvering, and thereby prevent accurate counter fire. But they came late or otherwise get the Brits to break their lines.


30 posted on 05/21/2016 9:22:22 AM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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