Better German naval strategy 1930-1945? (1 Viewer)

[Shortround6]

Yes, they just jumped over that school ship from '35-'36 (after AGNA) and with the first GZ project went over half the tonnage. So instead of keeping the given tonnage (which was never the case) they added half more.

Sort of like Queen Victoria's yacht. Everybody who passed even close came up with some improvement/necessity that just had to be incorporated until the poor thing keeled over in the dry dock when they tried to launch it.

Naval architecture should be left to Naval architects and not monkeyed about with people who just think "such and such would be nice".

 

[marathag]

U-boats were their best bet to win the battle of the Atlantic. But they needed next generation u-boats deployed in 1943 to stand a chance against the Allies introducing improved ASW technology and doctrine.

It was too late at this point by June 1943, even if the Walthers HOOH Boats worked (that they wouldn't, given the postwar RN experiments with Peroxide power).

KM has a window of time for Subs to work to knock the UK out of the War, and that ends once the USN shows up in force and the air coverage gap is closed, it's over. KM is just sending crews out to their deaths, with little to show for it.
Marginally better subs just isn't enough to stop the convoys across the Atlantic.

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

It was too late at this point by June 1943, even if the Walthers HOOH Boats worked (that they wouldn't, given the postwar RN experiments with Peroxide power).

KM has a window of time for Subs to work to knock the UK out of the War, and that ends once the USN shows up in force and the air coverage gap is closed, it's over. KM is just sending crews out to their deaths, with little to show for it.
Marginally better subs just isn't enough to stop the convoys across the Atlantic.

And still there's no better strategy for the German navy to apply.

 

[marathag]

At the beginning of 1936 Japan has Hosho & Kaga in commission and needed for support operations in China,

1936?
China is near all IJA affair at this point in NE China/ Manchukuo, being before the Marco Polo 'Incident' in July 1937, where the IJA and IJN agreed to operational jurisdictions, where the IJN got a slice of Central and Southern China to operate.

Their big move in 1936 was walking out from 2nd London Treaty and rearming/armoring/repowering Hiei while waiting for Washington and 1st London to expire, after signing onto the Anti-Comintern Pact with Germany.

This would be time for Germany to get a ship from the IJN, plus its a time where the Big Gun faction was still above the Carrier gang.