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Serathis on scored.co
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I'm not sure if the Kreigsmarine had problems with subs attacking them. And no one foresee air power being such a great factor in the war. Still they made plenty of mistakes. Both on the strategic and tactical level.
Hello good brother. The writing was on the wall prewar that air power would be the deciding factor for naval strategy. There was a famous exercise off the west coast involving the American fleet in the 30's. One admiral who's name eludes me, used a carrier to great effect. The Brits were also coming to this conclusion. The Japanese were certainly not behind the times either. I can not recall specific details so my assessment may be incorrect.
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Japan and the royal navy both realized that air power was gonna be a huge game changer by the 1920s and the gamble paid off immensely for both of them. The amount of tunnel vision to not see what the 2 most dominant navies in the world were doing is kind of wild. Even the Yamato and Musashi, which seem stupid, were built to actually counter a numerically superior fleet by building the most powerful warship... ever. And it was largely due to lack of resources, and the Yamato actually sank some pretty high value ships. The Bismarck and tirpitz were just... a big waste of time really, there wasn't any reason to build them. Germany had plenty of resources. Yeah the Bismarck sank an ancient battleship that was probably a year away from a scrap yard, big deal. It was sank by a relic of a plane.
As to kriegsmarine losses to submarines, the royal navy did not invest much into underwater warfare. Kind of their own failure, but they were still undeniably superior to the kreigsmarine and had no issue destroying the wolf packs whenever the shock and awe aspect dissipated. In large part due to *air power*.
If the kriegsmarine actually did much with the red fleet beyond skirmishes, they would probably have had quite a few losses to submarines, because the soviets also had a submarine fleet. But this didn't really come to fruition. But the soviets actually *did* inflict the worst maritime loss in human history (counting every other accident civilian or otherwise) by sinking the Wilhelm Gustlof with a submarine, this was more of a one off. The baltic sea campaigns didn't amount to much besides a bunch of defensive posturing, the most notable battle was the battle of narvik, which was objectively humiliating for the kriegsmarine.
Japan carried the entire axis on its back in regards to naval warfare. If Japan were neutral and the other half of the royal navy and the entire US navy didn't have their hands tied dealing with the beast that was the IJN, it would have been over for the kriegsmarine before it even began. Germany 100% had it with their army, but as I said, without Japan turning the royal navy into a coral reef and perpetually stalling the US navy, the kriegsmarine would have been pretty effortlessly ensnared. There is actually a very good reason why hitler chose japan as an ally, they were far from being a liability which is pop culture bullshit history. Hitler knew that the kriegsmarine was a dumpster fire.
May your life be blessed dear brother, and may your family enjoy good health until the world stops turning.
As to kriegsmarine losses to submarines, the royal navy did not invest much into underwater warfare. Kind of their own failure, but they were still undeniably superior to the kreigsmarine and had no issue destroying the wolf packs whenever the shock and awe aspect dissipated. In large part due to *air power*.
If the kriegsmarine actually did much with the red fleet beyond skirmishes, they would probably have had quite a few losses to submarines, because the soviets also had a submarine fleet. But this didn't really come to fruition. But the soviets actually *did* inflict the worst maritime loss in human history (counting every other accident civilian or otherwise) by sinking the Wilhelm Gustlof with a submarine, this was more of a one off. The baltic sea campaigns didn't amount to much besides a bunch of defensive posturing, the most notable battle was the battle of narvik, which was objectively humiliating for the kriegsmarine.
Japan carried the entire axis on its back in regards to naval warfare. If Japan were neutral and the other half of the royal navy and the entire US navy didn't have their hands tied dealing with the beast that was the IJN, it would have been over for the kriegsmarine before it even began. Germany 100% had it with their army, but as I said, without Japan turning the royal navy into a coral reef and perpetually stalling the US navy, the kriegsmarine would have been pretty effortlessly ensnared. There is actually a very good reason why hitler chose japan as an ally, they were far from being a liability which is pop culture bullshit history. Hitler knew that the kriegsmarine was a dumpster fire.