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Originally Posted by Catfish
Did not mean the electric boats.
"The U-793 achieved a submerged speed of 22 kn (41 km/h; 25 mph) in March 1944 with Admiral Dönitz aboard. In June 1944 U-792 achieved 25 kn (46 km/h; 29 mph) over a measured mile."
Aip with H-peroxide in 1944
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I read about this was an interesting concept and I know post war the British did build two boats the Excalibur and Explorer the crews nicknamed them the exploder class.
HTP is very unstable when it comes in to contact with some catalysts just take a look at what it did to Kursk.
I think the only boats that come close to the original walther design is the Swedish Gotland class.
ET2SN is right though the pacific is a different ball game to the Atlantic or coastal Europe in terms of distances needing to be traversed.
That said the Soryu is the most interesting of the conventional and very good at what they do realistically the aussies should have gone with these but the Japanese didn't want to build them outside Japan.