The Lindberg kit is an odd one. For its time (early 60s, if I remember right) it was one of the best detailed warship kits available, and in some ways it still holds its own. (Few plastic warship kits have as much detail on their superstructure bulkheads, for example. And, if memory serves, the plates on the gunhouses are outlined with countersunk lines - this in the days when airplane kits rarely had countersunk detail.) On the other hand some of the detail is pretty crude. The sights on the 40mm guns are blobs, and the radar screens are solid plastic slabs. (I suspect that was deliberate to some extent; the thing was intended primarily as an operating model, and the radar screen on top of the mast probably served as a good handle.)
It's gotten some pretty brutal criticism from enthusiasts because the proportions of the hull and superstructure deviate considerably from reality. (Again, that may conceivably have something to do with the motorization idea.) If you compare a silhouette of it with the plans of a real Fletcher the difference will be pretty obvious.
On the other hand, it's a really fun kit. I got one as a birthday present when I was in junior high school (the kit was almost new then; my age is showing), and had a great time trying to hook up all the cams and connecting rods that were supposed to drive the gun houses, director, and rudders. I was never quite able to get them all working simultaneously, but that probably was due to my pre-teenaged ineptitude. On the basis of what you've said about your interests, if I were you I'd buy it and have a good time with it.
The Revell Andrew Jackson is a reissue of an old Renwal kit, also from the early 60s. It has some interest for historical reasons. Admiral Rickover, the "head of the nuclear navy" at the time, made quite a stink in the media with his claim that the issuing of such a hobby kit compromised national security. Elsewhere in this forum there's a long thread of comments about it from people who know far more about nuclear submarines than I do. The consensus seems to be that the basic shape is reasonably accurate but the interior is pure fiction. One wonders whether the admiral was blowing a calculated smoke screen.
As I remember there are two Revell cutaway U-boat kits - a Type VII and a Type XXI. (My memory is a bit shaky about this one.) I haven't built either of them, but I've looked at the VII and read some reviews of the XXI.
The Type VII dates from one of Revell's drearier periods, the late 70s, when the company was trying to cut corners and appeal to the kids' market. It's pretty primitive. When it was initially released, Revell ran an ad for it in several periodicals. The ad featured a dramatic painting of the sub traveling at speed under water, with an incredibly huge torpedo apparently suspended from its side. Close inspection revealed that the model sat on a stand with a nameplate shaped like a torpedo; the artist thought the nameplate was part of the actual sub, and nobody at Revell corrected him. The kit gained a certain amount of notoriety when it got reissued in a box labeled "U-505." U-505, of course, is the Type IX U-boat preserved at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. When the museum's gift shop started selling the kit, and purchasers discovered that it didn't look like the real ship, such a ruckus was raised that Revell pulled the kit off the market.
The Type XXI, I believe, is a considerably more recent kit and, if my memory of the reviews is correct, an excellent one - probably the best of the "cutaway sub" genre. I think it originated with Revell of Germany. If I were going to tackle any of those three kits, that would be the one.