Comments by "" (@RedXlV) on "The Drydock - Episode 153" video.

  1. Regarding that Bath Iron Works question, I went back to Drydock 88 to get your answer from before and I'd like to point out another strong example for the "Bath built is best built" reputation: the unsinkable USS Laffey (DD-724), which survived 4 bombs and 6 kamikazes in a single engagement.
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  2. Also, even if a Tiger really was 6-10 times as effective as a Sherman, the fact is that about 25 Shermans were built for every Tiger.
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  3. With regard to "salvaging" Amagi... Would Japan have been able to get away with, after scrapping Amagi on the slipway, then using that scrapped material to build a new aircraft carrier and insisting that the new ship was still Amagi (and thus allowed to be up to 33,000 tons instead of the regular treaty limit of 27,000 tons)?
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  4. 05:35:54 The question here was whether there were ships designed with all-aft armament. There is one significant example of this that I'm aware of. Behold, Scheme F of the design series that led to USS North Carolina: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:North_Carolina_class_scheme_F.jpg The main armament is a pair of quad 14"/50 gun turrets, while the bow is devoted to fairly extensive seaplane facilities with 3 catapults and an elevator to a small hangar deck. And with the citadel shortened as much as it was by this layout, the belt armor was a fairly absurd 17 inches thick, meaning this abomination would be better-armored than Yamato.
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