Originally Posted by Sea_Cadet

Well I believe you have to include the type XXI in order to determine who built the best boats, because with a lot of German projects had hitler not touched many of they would have gone into production as planned. At the end the Germans built better subs, the first actual real subs. The type XXI for example was a nice boat in general, you could compare it to something today I guess. Had the boat gone into production years earlier we'd have a serious problem with germany actually being a thousand year reich.