67, No. 2, Spring 2014 INNOVATION FOR ITS OWN SAKE: The Type XX... INNOVATION FOR ITS OWN SAKE: The Type XXI U-boat This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. An earlier version of ...

U-2511 was one of Germany’s new Type XXI-class “wonder” submarines, and she was hunting for Allied ships. She also represented one of the Third Reich’s biggest failures.

As George Dvorsky at Gizmodo reports, U-3523 was a type XXI U-boat, the Third Reich’s most advanced long-range submarine. Some researchers have speculated that the wreck could have been used to ...