Comments by "William Cox" (@WildBillCox13) on "Ships of the Imperial Japanese Army - Much Maru About Something" video.

  1. When Hitler chose to dismount Gneisenau's Bruno turret for use as a shore battery, that Japanese Army "Crane Maru" (hehe) might've come in handy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fjell_Fortress
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  2. Well said. Kudos to you from a veteran poet.
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  3.  @TheTutch  We're all struggling to fill in gaps. Thanks for the correction.
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  4. That happened. Several assassinations were conducted by young officers armed with swords.
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  5. Ab-Tei class gunboats. Damned if we didn't copy the idea, but lose the armor when we employed "Small Boats" in the Mekong thirty years later. Which is better, Drach: armor or speed? I hold with NavyReviewer; who purports that Speed is NOT armor when he denigrates Battlecruisers as a concept. I maintain that 2700fps projectiles are not concerned with how fast a target ship is going . . . for these high velocity rifles the target is practically standing still. When it comes to landing hits (or straddles) the roll of the firing ship is more significant than is the speed of the target ship in terms of accuracy.
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