Comments by "AtomicBabel" (@AtomicBabel) on "The Drydock - Episode 097" video.

It's totally different! At Bismarck Sea, entire missions were flown with the express purpose of machine gunning men who were already swimming for their lives. Then they flew home and told themselves stories if any of those men would make ashore. Such a brave and gallant day's work.
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@KB4QAA US and Australian aircrews shot ship wrecked sailor at the end of the fighting battle regularly. Same occurred from the enemy. I caulk it up for overkill and emotions at the end of battle. Flying home, rearming to go back for more heads is the part which upsets my ethics. After a long day of bullets from the air, PT boats came out at night to get their jollies. Sadly, this is how bismark sea ended
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Did you know that there is a Drach Wednesday special on the Alabama? Second, the Kearsage's rudder with shell is on display at the USN Museum in the Washington Navy Yard, Washington DC.
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The key word is "Littoral", and the threats in close to shore but not along the shoreline operations. As for the Saudi modifications, I like them a lot and all the improvements can be backfit to USN with ease.
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I did enjoy River Plate. Loved it when the officers read the blinker message from Cumberland "with anticipation!". I LMAO when ever the model GS was used and it had the USN cruiser hull number painted on the bow. For some weird miss guided movie "continuity".
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@bananarchy07 the big clock like things are range clocks and lucky you, this was explained in depth in DD #44
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@crispico4727 what do you mean by frechette? A shot gun with many small darts or APFSDS? The former I's anti personnel at short range like grape shot, the latter is not useful against ships at range, neither is the former.
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@havokvladimirovichstalinov dry dock 44 for the answer
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@98LuckyLuk many reasons why hollow charge rounds are not useful in naval combat. Firstly, they don't like high velocity, it messes up the formation of the penetrating jet of plasma. Low velocity = short range. Second, length, the detonator has to be well in front of the charge to effect formation of the jet of plasma, and the faster the round is traveling... back to velocity. Diameter, the penetration is proportional to the diameter of the explosive cone which is limited by the diameter of the gun barrel. Fourth, terminal effect, the explosion is outside and only a jet of plasma penetrates the target, which is good at messing up a small confined interior space. To do damage to the inside of a warship, it is best to deliver the kaboom inside the ship.
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@kemarisite wasn't the faster and higher torp dropouts enabled by a technology breakthrough? I think it was a lot of experimentation at Caltech that developed the plywood break away nose cone and fin box which enabled the improved attack profile. The TBF was well suited to the new profile. Judy's were good performers, but do not know if torpedoe tech improved for IJN. But sure knows that they were hitting USN ships regularly.
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@stephenwoods4118 hard to forgive that even in the model of GS, they painted the hull number of the stand in USN cruiser.
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