Comments by "Alex" (@Alex-cw3rz) on "The Drydock - Episode 089" video.

38:59 what you said here, could be easily turned round and said for the Type 7's, there were over 700 of them made, compared to what 77 Gato's 😬 tbh It makes the Gato look pathetic when you put it like that. I know you wanted to be balanced/not annoy you American viewers, but it's obvious in the realm of submarines the Kreigsmarine was just better, obviously better training, better technology, better tactics and more numbers. Even your point about the more experience crew after 1942, the most successful American subs where still getting thrashed in the successful kills by U-boats at this time. The most successful US submarine would only just manages to scrap into the top 40 of the most succesful U-boat and if you look at that list you will see subs operating at the same time as the US one and the U-boats are still easily more successful against an infinitely harder enemy.
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@Drachinifel I wasn't referring to one v one, I was pointing out that, it was obviously quicker to build more Type 7's than Gato's making your point about Elektroboot incredibly mute. I would also add you even admitted yourself they wouldn't perform well in the Atlantic ocean, and if you think that they would, it can only mean you are saying that American submariners are incredibly poorly trained compared to the Kreigsmarine and at no point even with experience, were at all close to the training of the Kreigsmarine.
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@johnshepherd8687 you have pretended that I think the allies were behind technologically were in the world you got this idea from Idk. Nothing I said was about technology, it was pointing out, if you listened to what drach, said about Elektroboot vs Gato that there were more Gato's, I was pointing out how this point was mute by the fact, there were 10x the amount of type 7 built than Gato's, but Drach never called that an advantage, making Drach's point a non sequitur. The only other thing I added in was about training nothing to do with each boats performance/technological advancements.
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@johnshepherd8687 when did I say they were technology superior, why are you lying again? Losing 3/4 doesn't matter as it wasn't due to a fault in the design. That's like saying Yamato is weaker then HMS Dreadnought because it's entire class was sunk. The Germans had to fight in the Mediterranean where tonnage was smaller too, your idea also ignored that in the Atlantic it was much tougher to sink ships, due to breaking of codes and the anti submarine escorts, which in this theatre were by a long way the best in the world. What you wrote, is just showing up your lack of knowledge of ww2. Also the numbers of ships sunk by the US is also less on average... so even if we take the numbers of ship sank, the US's most successful submarine still barely scraps in the top 40 still and is basically the same position as on tonnage...
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38:59 what you said here, could be easily turned round and said for the Type 7's, there were over 700 of them made, compared to what 77 Gato's 😬 tbh It makes the Gato look pathetic when you put it like that. I know you wanted to be balanced/not annoy you American viewers, but it's obvious in the realm of submarines the Kreigsmarine was just better, obviously better training, better technology, better tactics and more numbers. Even your point about the more experience crew after 1942, the most successful American subs where still getting thrashed in the successful kills by U-boats at this time. The most successful US submarine would only just manages to scrap into the top 40 of the most succesful U-boat and if you look at that list you will see subs operating at the same time as the US one and the U-boats are still easily more successful against an infinitely harder enemy.
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@Drachinifel you do know you've just proved me more correct, in the same time the US built 249 fleet submarines the Kreigsmarine but 1024... That's from 4 different classes, of which 2 of those class were more numerous than all US fleet submarines put together one but almost 3x. I was actually also quite amazed to discover 119 Elektroboot were built. Also I really don't think you got my point you said well 200 vs the few Elekroboot I'll go for the American. My point was seen as you never gave the Kreigsmarine this advantage earlier your point is rendered mute, I'd say don't give either the advantage and just don't mention it, but if you do, you have to point out that the amount of major subs in the Kreigsmarine was more than 4× as many. Which is a lot more, than the major advantage you gave to the US subs, which are not even double that of the Elektroboot. I'm not even some Kreigsmarine stan or anything, I'm truthfully more of a stan for the Royal Navy, it's just I like consistency.
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@dessertfoxo4096 your first paragraph is just stupid and utter bollocks, it makes no difference, (it would only matter if it was due to a design flaw which it wasn't), not just is it whataboutism, not just does it not even address what I was saying, to go by that metric, that would mean you could say Yamato is weaker than Hms Dreadnought, you moron if we went for that metric. Number 1 and 2 are hilarious in there stupidity again so, 705 vs 77, that destroys the idea of more shipping as relatively the Gato's have much more, but they did so much worse. Also the germans did a lot of work in the Mediterranean, where the entire italian navy was, which if I'm correct had more subs than britain and the Dutch combined had in the Pacific, even more than America for parts of the war, so when you are this uneducated on the topic maybe, don't comment :) Especially as you are just a salty American who can't take not being the best.
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Yar Nunya well that guy was, idk about you. But if you are going to try and lie to pretend the US navy had a better submarine arm, yeah you are being salty.
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