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Or to be more exact, instead of going almost exclusively for U-boat construction the Kriegsmarine continues with existing mobilization construction programme of 1939. This would provide yearly construction of 24 destroyers, 48 torpedo boats (DE-equivalents), 132 minesweepers and 108 U-boats (24 IX, 48 VII, 36 II).

What would the effects be? Assuming, as in OTL, that Type II's were cut out, the U-boat campaign would continue quite much as in OTL until 1942 as that was the date that additional U-boats started to come in. RN would be under a lot more pressure in it's home waters. What more?
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