>look through periscope>see thisHow do you react to the biggest damn target possible just being handed to you?
>>64256921>fire tube 1>fire tube 2>fire tube 3>fire tube 4>fire tube 5>fire tube 6>decend 400ft>passing thermal layer>fuck off into the nightNow I'm going to go play Silent Hunter. Thanks OP.
>>64256921>they didn't install watertight doorsCan't believe the incompetence of the Japs.
>>64256921Commander Enright must have had been so fucking pissed that no one believed him.
>>64256958German boats had 4+1 tubes tho.
>>64257110>German boats had 4+1 tubes tho.Skill issue.
Construction work was underway on board the ship as it sailed toward Kure to expedite completion.Electrical cables and compressed air pipes were being passed through the watertight doors.However, this may have been a minor issue compared to the increased power of torpedoes at the end of the war and the multiple simultaneous hits common in submarine attacks.
>>64257102To be fair, Shinano was a damn well-kept secret, plus he's reporting something the size of a Nimitz-class, which doesn't even exist yet.
>>64257123>designing depth keeping and triggers that actually workSkill issue
>>64256958>Mk.14 Realism: On
>>64257159And yet, Burgerland could strangle an archipelago nation across a fucking ocean with one (1) sub class (don't fucking tell me Balao/Tench/Tambor/Gato are different classes), while Germany couldn't strangle an archipelago nation nextdoor using MULTIPLE sub classes.
>>64257159While they weren't as long-lived, there was issues with early German torpedoes
>>64257110The Shinano was sunk by a Balao class which was 6+4. Unless you meant Silent Hunter in which case I meant 4 not 3 or 5. >>64257165To be fair, Japanese ASW was pretty shit.
>>64257165The krauts only really used 2, of which one was an enlarged WW1 design (Type VII), and the other was roughly similar to the prewar US Porpoise class (Type IX). The others were either auxiliary (supply boats), or experimental (or were too fucking late, like the XXI and XXIII).
>>64256921Forgive them. And then join them.Imagine a world ruled by Nazis and japs compared to the thing we have now in US and EU...
>>64257528>instead of neoliberal fascists we just have regular fascistsHow about neither?
>>64256921>How do you react to the biggest damn target possible just being handed to you?Cum so hard that every single woman in Japan, Korea and the eastern portions of China, Mongolia and the USSR gets pregnant.>>64257528>Imagine a world ruled by Nazis and japs compared to the thing we have now in US and EU...>Mfw I’m Australian and my ancestors would of being murder-raped by blood crazed JapsAs bad as this world is I don’t want to be half/quarter Japanese/Korean. Shit I’d probably be that timelines RapeChinkAnon
>>64257528Great, now the Imperial Japanese has... one additional submarine captained by a schizophrenic.
>>64256921radio them, ask how the voyage is going if they need any help
>>64257528Enjoy being on the losing side then.
>>64257528By the time Shinano sunk the war was already won. Enjoy being executed for treason.
>>64257160Mark 14s were fixed by this time.
>>64257312>Japanese ASW was pretty shit.How could the IJA do this?!
>>64256921Log the name under ships logs of having spotted the Shimapan. Leave future generations confused and bewildered.
>>64256921blow it up, wait nearly 8 decades, then fap to the lolidom pic created due to it
>>64257528You talk like you have a hole in your neck
>>64256958This guy gets it.
>>64257088Bulkhead doors can't be water tight if they weren't closed.
https://youtu.be/0loPGOShnsgProbably like this.
>>64257165The entire German navy started WW2 with only 22 Atlantic going U-Boats (TWENTY FUCKING TWO)
>>64257088She was on her way to install things like bulkheads
>>64256958Wouldn't that be overkill?
>>64257312Shinano in KC never :/
>>64260754no such thing when dealing with a capital ship.
>>64260704And whose fault was that?
>>64256921>show everyone on the bridge the periscope, because no one's going to believe this shit
>>64257165massively different contextsthe germans were up against 2 out of 3 of the top 3 navies at the timethey were literally building ships faster than the germans could sink them, once the americans joined in the germans needed to sink 400k tons of ships to win the tonnage war, they only achieved that goal onceand after 1943, allied ASW ramped up in intensity and contained the U-boat threatthe japanese didnt put much thought into convoy protection or ASW, and lack of industry meant that they couldnt implement good solutions even if they wantedgermans had to climb a mountain the allies had to climb a hilleven with a huge headstart, victory was never assured, and the allies ended up making the mountain taller just for good measurethe allies just had to do less work to win while the japanese ended up putting ladders down just for good measure
It was Hitler who chose to build a large fleet rather than a small, ready-to-fight fleet, and who provoked an unexpected war with his actions.
>>64257528Your crew would launch you out together with the torpedoes.
>>64260754That's the best kind of kill.
>>64257110Some Japanese subs had 8 tubes.
>>64260754No, it's just making sure.
>>64260754If you have chance to sink something like that, you don't cheap out on torpedoes
>>64257088>Japs feared that it would be spotted and bombed while in drydock>Decide to move the ship to keep it safe>The sheer size of the ship meant that it could barely keep up with its escorts>Supposedly the engines were underpowered or underperforming than what the Japs were expecting it to output or something like that>Work was actively being done on ship when it was being moved>Crew was overworked and undermanned with zero firefighting and damage control training>Poor metalology and rushed construction meant that the ship's structure was heavily strained>Had little to no watertight seals>Ship's captain was hesitant to call out for an SOS as the ship was actively sinking for fear of being discovered by the Americans>Fear of US subs forced the ships captain to have the escorts tow it to harbor as they were somewhat close to its destination, but this essentially doomed the ship even faster than if it were to have completely stopped and completed damage control measuresIt was very well near the end of the war and this ship was essentially everything wrong with Japan's shipbuilding design philosophy, crew training, and industrial output all rolled into one>>64257102It wasn't until the US found the plans for the ship as well as some other communications that corresponded with the ships existence/sinking that the US Navy went back and awarded the captain and his crew and ship for the kill. Enright simply had to wait for it to be found in official documents and I think he knew that
>>64260880>all that shitskill issue, german subs were shit because they couldn't perform against their enemiessimple as
>>64264030He had more patience than I do, then.
>>64264117And to be fair to the US Navy at the time, they did believe that he had sunk an unknown carrier at the time, but they didn't believe the tonnage that Enright was claiming. They had awarded him credit for sinking a carrier, but it was only until after the war that they finally found the evidence that proved Enright was correct and subsequently went back and gave out the correct awards for everyone involved in the sinking
>>64257528The japs killed all Caucasian soldiers In Their army at the end of the war.
>>64256921>shoot my load>shit myself in excitement>proceed to fuck off from the scene of crime
>>64257088bulkheads aren't watertight, dumbass.
>>64265279Of course they are retard. Otherwise they’d be “leanheads” wouldn’t they?
>>64257165desu German Submarie Warfare in WW2 was subpar, it's another post war myth created by book authors with zero knowledge, their performance was close to rust buckets that Soviet used back in those days.
>>64264030Shinano's quality wasn't really an issue, she was simply unfinished and a quickly made conversion from the third Yamato that was never finished.If she was completed she'd probably be a pretty tough ship for a carrier. By this point the japanese had solved a lot of the issues that got Taiho exploded and such.But doesn't matter how tough a ship is, if it's missing the fucking watertight doors and conduits aren't watertight.
>>64264056>>64267448You guys would have a point were the Type XXI not the basis of practically every 1950s era sub
>>64260754you saving them for a bigger target or somethin'?
16 tubes of shkvals
>>64267448Once the type XXI is in mass production we'll end the Allies in no time!
>>64260754What are you saving those munitions for?
>>64267522But I might need them later to fight the final boss!
>>64256921>no information on her wreck available anywhereHave the wreck been found?
>>64260754I would hope so.
>Forgive them. And then join them.Shh nobody tell him. This homo joins and they'll lose even faster.
>>64256958Don't forget to start a slow turn before firing.For those that don't know, you want to "Fan" out your torps for a shotgun-like effect.>>64260754Against a Carrier? Nah, if anything you should be radio'ing for reinforcements. Assuming you didn't know about >>64257088 then you've got to assume a ship that size has a lot of compartmentalization and can isolate the damage from any given breach.
>>64256921>FIREEVERYTHING.gif>slip away>reach port>get blind drunk>fuck an entire cheerleader squad
>>64269250The TDC had an offset angle adjuster, you didn't need to physically turn the boat, in order to launch a spread.
>>64269625I thought those came in after the war?
>>64269632US had them during the war. Picrel is the TDC Mk 3. Ironic that the military with the most advanced TDC had to deal with the worst fucking torpedoes of the war.
>>64269632Everyone and their mothers had a TDC, TDCs were not uncommon at all, hell even the Soviets had TDCs (but only very late in the war, and very few, like 10 total). Late-war US TDC was superior to others though in that, while other TDCs still relied solely on manual periscope measurements (you had to track the target to allow the TDC to continuously compute the movement of the target), the US TDC provided some predictive capability, which could be then cross-checked with periscope measurements.
>>64260754Fairly normal for that time
>>64256921>How do you react to the biggest damn target possible just being handed to you?Unironically it was a mercy killing, imagine that thing going into battle, probably would have been sunk almost instantly.
>>64257165Getting better results playing the game in easy mode than the guy who is playing with all difficulty sliders maxed out is not the own you think it is.If you tried taking US subs into the Battle of the Atlantic, you'd fucking envy the u-boat crews real damn fast. Well, you would if you weren't fucking dead after trying that.>>64267448Retard take.Their performance was good enough that western navies effectively adopted their late-war subs and systems as the basis for their own early Cold War subs and abandoned their own lineages. Make fun of the Type XXI all you want, but it is the direct ancestor of every military submarine today.
>>64270507The US TDC got even better once they integrated a Balkon-style multi-directional passive sonar after the war, which could track ships while submerged. For the entirety of their wartime service, US subs relied on classic rotating hydrophones, which could only listen in a cone-shaped pattern.
>>64269702>>64270507I mean offset adjusters. Torpedo fire controls are famous but reorienting a torpedo after you launched it?
