Conventional U-boat submarines had been the backbone of the Kriegsmarine during the early stages of World War 2. Still, as ...

The German Type XXI U-boat was the Kriegsmarine’s most advanced sub, and the first capable of making an extended trans-Atlantic voyage without having to resurface. Hence the unsubstantiated rumors.

Only one original Type XXI U-boat survives, the Wilhelm Bauer (formerly U-2540), which is now part of the German Maritime Museum in Bremerhaven.

It marks the first and only combat patrol by a Type XXI Elektroboot, the German U-boat that profoundly influenced modern submarine design.

Key point: The Type XXI provides several lessons in how technology—while important—doesn’t alone win wars. On May 4, 1945 one of the most advanced submarines in the world crept up to a ...

October 21, 2009: China recently announced the decommissioning of "Submarine 303." This was a Type 33 boat (a copy of the Russian Romeo class). Romeo was the successor to the Russian Whiskey class ...

The Type 035 Ming-class submarine was an outdated second-generation design evolved from the lineage of the Soviet Romeo-class, in turn a Soviet development of the German Type XXI “Electric U ...

We examine advances in submarine warfare, from the Japanese I400 submarines to the German Type XXI U-boats, along with groundbreaking systems like the URSEL Rocket U-boats and the UGS Manta, a ...

The Whiskey class boats are basically modified versions of the German Type XXI U-boats. The German subs were 1,600 ton craft, and actually more capable than the 1,100 ton Whiskeys. But that's because ...