The Kind ? U-boat, designed in secret during 1933?1944, were a new generation of German attack submarines. They'd a more effective striking force than the Type ?.They had five torpedo tubes, four inside bow plus one astern and might carry eleven torpedoes onboard or 22 TMA (23 TMB) mines. Additionally they had 88mm fast-firing deck weapon and 20mm AA weapon. At the start of the war, the 88mm deck gun was very helpful in sinking vendor ships, allowing the more expensive torpedoes to be conserved for larger and much more valuable targets. These Type ? U-boats had been the spark plug regarding the �Wolf Pack�. Their production was at big members. At precisely the same time, German Navy suffered the large losses with this force, losing 784 U-boat, of which 519 were Type ? U-boat.?
