Comments by "William Cox" (@WildBillCox13) on "Sovetsky Soyuz (NB) (USSR) - Guide 257" video.

  1. Soviet Battleships. Potemkin aside, it would give the Soviet Union somewhere to send its oil. How much naval crude oil d'you think a battleship burns in a year? Unless it's a harbor queen, of course. It takes three Fletcher class destroyers' weight worth (6000+short tons) of oil to get a modernesque battleship from the Baltic Sea to New York harbor and back as far as London. Soviet Oil Autonomy would be a beacon of socialism that shone across the--what was I saying? Oh yeah. Back to reality. Soviet blue water presence suffers the same problems as the Tsar's. Too many mouths to feed in too many disparate locations. The Soviets had no Pearl or Norfolk or San Diego (or Scapa Flow) from which they could launch battleship divisions to subdue unruly neighbors. Infrastructure, infrastructure, infrastructure. Without it, a navy is just a bunch of old dreams gone to rust. This is one big reason why the Status Six autonomous torpedo is so attractive to modern day Rossiyan naval strategists. They (the unbroken research line) have gone that route before, you know. It's a Rossiyan naval trope meant to counter their peculiar iteration of the Kobyashi Maru problem. Togo will arise no more!
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