A viewer cites approximately 4.2 million Reichsmarks for a Type VII U-boat and 250 million for Bismarck. Rounding the submarine cost to about five million produces a rough comparison of a hundred boats for the money spent on two battleships. Those figures are used as an indicative calculation in the exchange. Whether Germany had the steel and industrial capacity to deliver that programme remains a separate question. Financial arithmetic alone cannot establish the number of submarines that could be completed in time.
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The arithmetic behind replacing battleships with U-boats
A rough price comparison is tested against steel supply and the industrial capacity needed to turn funding into completed submarines.