Comments by "Tom in Iowa" (@tominiowa2513) on "Drachinifel" channel.

  1. It is not true that Admiral Beatty was always a bad commander in surface engagements - he was the best when the enemy fleet was comprised of budget cutters. I will get my coat and hat. ;)
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  2. Her hull needs to be left intact enough to build a space battleship inside in secret.
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  3. Drach is only releasing 9:32:16 of content this weekend. What a slacker. 😉
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  4. Who drinks tea while firing guns except the members of St. Gloriana Girls' College Panzerfahren team?
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  5. There are four Yamato class battleships in High School Fleet. 😉
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  6. May we have a 5-Minute Guide for the Yamato after her 2199 retrofit? On April 1, or course.
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  7. The Drydock - Your Naval Questions Answered - 5 Hours, More or Less 😉
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  8.  @spider0804  - Isn't a defeat of the Japanese army a victory for the IJN? ;)
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  9. Honolulu thinking? No unless you mean the Azur Lane Honolulu, and she would be thinking about her upcoming date with the Commander.
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  10. "Shawn Horst" and "Admiral Donuts" in the Battle of North Cape video.
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  11. Q. When was the first Drydock? A. August 4, 2018, and was only 37:02 in length. 😉
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  12. One of the first proper diving helmets was designed by August Schrader, who went to design the pneumatic valve found on almost all motor vehicle rims.
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  13.  @cogidubnus1953  - He was of course after the Battle of (off?) Jutland battlecruiser disaster and failure to perform assigned scouting functions promoted from Admiral Beatty to Admiral of the Fleet, then First Sea Lord, and finally rewarded by Parliament by being made 1st Earl Beatty.
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  14. ​ @Alex-cw3rz  - The story of peasants in what is now Belarus not knowing the Tsar had been replaced by Bolsheviks is from "Soldat: Reflections of a German Soldier, 1936-1949" by Siegfried Knappe.
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  15. The pictured ship is BB-61 USS Iowa. The only reference I have come across for opposite rudder steering for an emergency stop was for BB-64 USS Wisconsin.
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  16. Mrs. Drach reportedly has quite the switchblade collection.
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  17. But if the Bureau of Ordinance had been in charge of Holy Hand Grenade development and production...
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  18.  @bkjeong4302  - Better than Kansas and Topeka. 😜
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  19.  @imjashingyou3461  The contentions of the Russian nationals seem odd since the Soviet Union was run by non-Russians from its inception up to the execution of Beria.
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  20.  @Davidsladky135  - Brig. Gen. Anthony C. McAuliffe
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  21.  @TVMADoc  - Correction; there were also quite a few premature detonations of the Mark 14 torpedo.
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  22. Need a lot of rum for 297K subscribers.
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  23. Two radio masts have exceeded 2,000 feet (and one collapsed). 5,000 feet would be very challenging, and would require a trimaran ship for the guy anchors. Said trimaran would require dissembled into the three hulls for drydocking. Not to mention high winds would make the ship about as stable as HMS Captain.
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  24. Next time April 1 is on a Wednesday, we want the histories of the navies of Angora and Lichtenstein as the Rum Ration topic.
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  25.  @robertfrost1683  - Like the (never seen) Commander in Azur Lane - Slow Ahead?
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  26. The glaziers of Camden might see an economic benefit from USS New Jersey sending a salvo of dummy rounds out into the Atlantic.
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  27.  @khaelamensha3624  - Richard Bong (credited with 40 kills) also was nearsighted. In Wisconsin there is the Richard Bong State Recreation Area named after him, but the signs on I-94 have abbreviated that to "Bong State Recreation Area".
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  28.  @falklandsgamer9156  - The Falklands are important since the sheep are raised in wet conditions so their wool is shrinkage resistant (per the hypothesis of Mr. Lucas).
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  29. Does Mrs. Drach get the George medal?
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  30. Fun Fact: At flank narration speed, HMS Drachinifel consumes 1.2-L of Irn-Bru per hour. 😉
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  31. Impromptu performance of the Nutcracker?
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  32. Ryan Szimanski at Battleship New Jersey mentioned that since his ship is in fresh water, they have an easier time preserving metal parts than the other Iowas, but a harder time preserving the wooden deck.
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  33. There is an apocryphal story that during WW1 on a merchant ship/passenger liner, just after the ship's chaplain finished saying "For what we are about to receive we give thanks" at supper, a torpedo hit.
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  34. Very happy to see that Michael Lowrey is advocating review of all available original source documents to develop a historical narrative, rather than relying on second hand sources (e.g., books published after the events). Sadly, in many "western" academic history circles this is considered bad form, particularly contradicting an earlier historian and/or accepted views of history, the facts be damned.
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  35. Sadly USS Johnston vs. IJN Yamato would have the same result as High King Fingolfin vs. Morgoth outside the gates of Angband.
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  36. Why does YoųTųbe allow the crypto-currency/investment spam bots to post, but a reference to another video Drach posted in the past is deleted?
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  37. One of Hobart's Funnies would be appropriate.
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  38.  @jansix4287  - The real winners of WW1 and WW2 were the central bankers, and the resultant profiteering continues to this day.
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  39. One of the secondary 5-inch gun turrets on the Iowa class was traditionally manned by Marines.
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  40. For exceeding top heavy limits on ships, there are the cruisers and battleships in Azur Lane. 😉 (Cue Laffey trying out "pillows")
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  41. The correct terminology is "Floaty Logs". 😉
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  42. The "horrors inflicted by the Germans" pale when compared to the horrors inflicted by the Bolsheviks (and Communist in name only Bolsheviks) that murdered over 200 million persons in the 20th Century.
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  43. The Sarushima and Tenjin in HaiFuri ( High School Fleet ) are Independence-class Littoral Combat Ships.
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  44.  @davidtuttle7556  - And later on Russian Rear Admiral, then bass guitar player for a rock band. 😉
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  45. The Rodney Naval Treaty prohibits the used of main battery fire during beach barbeques other than for fishing purposes.
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  46. The Kongo class ships could be semi-automated and used as high school training vessels.
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  47.  @NesconProductions  - The USN needs to name a submarine after the capital of North Dakota.
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  48.  @Captain11890  - Iowa
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  49. Drach of course started the channel to provide content to listen to while using mass transit.
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  50.  @eric24567  - I doubt we will see The Operations Room use Azur Lane "ship images" in future video animations.
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  51.  @sawyerawr5783  - All the real rail car ferries I have been on have had the trains below deck. Quite a few stairs to climb from the train deck to the passenger observation deck of the now scrapped F/S Theodor Heuss.
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  52. The Swedish U3 was cut into three pieces and rewelded to get it to its permanent home, the Technology and Maritime Museum in Malmö, Sweden. Of course, as a museum ship inland on concrete blocks, integrity of the pressure hull during a deep dive is no longer a concern.
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  53. Most civil engineering work in the USA is done in kips (kilo-pound or 1,000 pounds) instead of tons, but there are just enough exceptions to make our lives difficult.
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  54.  @Mishn0  - Does the plan include getting assistance from the Tall Whites to fight the Grays (and of course the Dracos)?
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  55.  @alwayscurious3357  - Or Graf Spee (who oddly in human form is portrayed to be about the same size and age as Z3, instead of an apparent late teen like the other cruisers).
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  56.  @andrewgause6971  - However, HMS Duke of York would find itself in trouble if attacked by an angry Fletcher swarm (to use a Drachism).
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  57. Or the Angel Sahaquiel.
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  58.  @PalleRasmussen  - Yes.
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  59. Sadly real naval war colleges are likely a lot less fun than depicted in Azur Lane Bisoku Zenshin!, and certainly will lack the ecchi and kawaii aspects.
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  60.  @bradleyjames1340  - Non-Euclidian geometry is required to get around the square-cube law, as happens in the City of R'lyeh. 😉
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  61.  @archibaldlarid3587  - History in the proper use of the term is contemporary records of what happened.
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  62. Remember that economic warfare is also violence, and economic warfare was started against both Germany and Japan before WW2 broke out, and in the case of Germany right after the NSDAP won the 1933 elections and before they committed any crimes. But of course most historical accounts omit these facts since history is written by the victors.
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  63.  @Voron_Aggrav  - Not to mention USS Galena, USS Keokuk (OK, only people that live near those places know the correct pronunciation), and of course the vernacular for USS New Orleans (N'awlins), USS New Jersey (New Joisey - OK, that is fake vernacular), and USS Missouri (Mihsurah).
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  64. Rocky reenactment with a hoard of people following a running Drach through Philadelphia when going to visit USS Olympia (C-6).
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  65. The Lend Lease program basically transferred the wealth of the British Empire to the USA.
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  66.  @miamijules2149  - Especially people using touch screen devices instead of a keyboard and mouse.
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  67. Still better than Starbucks.
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  68.  @Hardcase_Kara  - Facetious comment for those who believe that the British Isles themselves were in danger of being sunk by KMS Bismarck.
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  69.  @WraithMagus  - You forgot Mikasa. 😉
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  70.  @hawkeye5955  - USS Texas during Overlord.
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  71. Omitted from the video is that Lübeck is in the State of Schleswig-Holstein. 😉
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  72. And little would be achieved in defeating Japan by capturing Formosa that could not be accomplished by cutting off merchant shipping between there and Japan.
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  73.  @thehandoftheking3314  - It would take dumb luck to hit even something the size of an Iowa class ship with an unguided bomb dropped from a level bomber at altitude, unless the ship was stationary in a harbor.
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  74. That was last week's Rum Ration video.
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  75. Everyone in the US military in WW2 would have called the island "Formosa" - Hone is probably used to seeing it that way in historical documents.
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  76. "Misery" is the pronunciation of BB-63's namesake state. 😉
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  77. @Hamish Banish - Credibility would take a hit if a video comparing the superstructures of "ships" in Azur Lane was posted (not to mention Ms. Drach might bring out her knife collection). 😜
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  78. Regarding declassified information, the really interesting stuff is likely from Operation Paperclip, which the USG has classified for 100 years (so not released to 2045 at the earliest, barring a high level executive branch decision to release it earlier).
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  79. Here in the USA, people like to refer to the Iowa class battlecruisers as battleships, while the real battleships (as in intended to be in the line of battle slugging it out with other battleships) were the never completed Montana class.
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  80.  @Uncle_Neil  - Even for some WW2 incidents and later incidents involving WW2 era ships the results of historical research are trumped by, um "other considerations"; therefore, the subjects are best not touched with the lever Archimedes would use to move the planets, much less a clipper ship main mast or a 10-foot barge pole.
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  81. Prinz Eugen looked good making chocolate confectionaries in Bisoku Zenshin! 😉
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  82.  @kemarisite  - The B-29 eventually had the capability to drop 20-kT bombs that would effectively destroy any ship with a near miss and cook the crew at much longer ranges.
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  83. Will there an IJN tank in a future cour of Girls und Panzer?
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  84.  @jonrolfson1686  - Sorry, but your post made me think of meeting up with the Azur Lane version of Warspite. 😳
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  85. "Sliders" because they slide in one end and out the other end of the GI tract. 🍔▶🚾🚽🧻
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  86.  @Fevebblefester  - When you know what G😬😬gle really is...
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  87. @kevin barker - Wait until Drach finally Comes to America and takes pictures of all the Iowa Class's "naughty bits".
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  88. Saloon = sedan, bonnet = hood, hood = convertible roof, boot = trunk.
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  89.  @jimtaylor294  - For me POS is "plat of survey".
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  90.  @aliemreazgn3634  - If the Montana class had been built, the Iowa class might be referred to as battlecruisers.
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  91. Manually swabbing out a muzzle-loading cannon was replaced by a blast of compressed air to clean out breach-loading guns (hot embers from the previous shot remaining would be a disaster when loading in new powder in silk bags). Of course this is not an issue in smaller guns that have single piece ammunition in brass casings.
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  92. There would naturally be fewer conflicts between services in the Soviet Union, since every unit of particular size or larger would have at least one Cheka/GPU/OGPU/NKVD/MVD/MGB/KGB officer that in certain areas had ultimate authority over the military officers.
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  93.  @rob5944  Yes, Ryan has been covering quite a few ships and naval topics other than BB-62 since the channel got enough subscribers to allow for making five videos per week. SARS-CoV-2 variants willing, we should see collaborative video of Drach and Ryan next summer.
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  94. Pre-heated bunker fuel is used on modern Clerk cycle 2-stroke marine diesel engines found in merchant shipping.
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  95. Miyazaki's ship design looks to be significantly more functional than the one by Robida that inspired it.
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  96. Hayao Miyazaki used a fantastical ship drawing from 1893 by Albert Robida as the basis for the ship designs in Howl's Castle .
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  97.  @bkjeong4302  At the time the USA fast battleships were approved, saving resources was the worst things, since the country had an excess of labor, unused raw materials, manufacturing capacity, and financial wealth (that had no place to go but market speculation). Putting all these underused resources into things such as battleships was exactly what was needed to end the Great Depression, and put the country on the course of overall average prosperity unequaled in history (until Reaganomics clawed much of the new working class prosperity back).
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  98.  @derekhieb7458  I would have watched the final episode of Love Boat if Kapitänleutnant Walther Schwieger and U-20 made an appearance.
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  99. Do you have someone to translate old Korean historical documents?
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  100. Only the Legolas from the ridiculous Peter Jackson fan fiction.
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  101. A 200 to 250 yard spread at the Battle OFF Jutland distances is about 0.5 minute of angle (MOA) accuracy, or similar to what can be achieved with a high quality hunting rifle and ammunition off a bench rest (match grade rifles and ammunition with a machine rest can achieve <0.25 MOA).
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  102.  Free Speech  - In Project HARP (not to be confused with Project HAARP), Gerald Bull spliced a couple of barrels together to make a 100-caliber 16-inch gun to shoot payloads into the exosphere. Barrel droop was controlled with an external structure around the lower part of the barrel with tension cables attached near the muzzle. The nearly 100-caliber Paris Gun of WW1 used an external suspension cable arrangement to counteract barrel droop.
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  103.  @Charliecomet82  - Had there been a fair settlement to WW1 (as Kaiser Willy offered in 1916 when the Central Powers were winning the war - basically a reset to pre-WW1 boundaries), Hitler had enough talent that he could have made a living as a commercial artist for an advertising agency or similar, and would have lived and died in relative obscurity. But of course the near future was replacing coal with oil (and not just in shipping - crude oil is a much better feedstock for the chemical industry than coal), so the Ottoman Empire needed to be broken up and the Middle East divvied up between the British, French, and USA with agreements such as Sykes-Picot that are still causing turmoil to this day (hey, lets break up the Kurdish populated area between four new countries with arbitrary borders).
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  104.  @GasPipeJimmy  No real facts to argue over so you resort to insults. Please try to make it more interesting next time. When hundreds of thousands or millions die due to economic sanctions, it is not violence? I see you are morally bankrupt.
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  105.  @lrw3984  Funny (but not ha ha funny) that the UK and France went to war with Germany to allegedly protect Poland, but were fine with the Soviet Union occupying the eastern half of Poland, murdering most of the Polish officer corps and intelligentsia, and otherwise eliminating anyone who could not be brainwashed into supporting Bolshevism.
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  106.  @arcadiadragon3410  Everyone should like slice of naval life/cute girls doing cute naval things.
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  107.  @MapletreePaper  I would use the local spelling, so "Harbor" for a USN port and "Harbour" for a RN port.
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  108.  @kevinlove4356  What about the millions of German soldiers that died in camps after WW2 ended, and the genocide/ethnic cleansing of German civilians in eastern Europe after WW2 ended? Or the millions that died in fire bombing of cities that had no intent other than to kill civilians and destroy culture? Why did more Germans die in the 5 years following WW2 than during the war?
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  109.  @davidbocquelet-dbodesign  - Used to be a board game called "Wooden Ships and Iron Men".
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  110.  @Dave_Sisson  - HMS Thunderchild ramming Martian tripods.
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  111. Most civil works are built without prototyping for obvious reasons. Hence the magic words "change order" and "punch list".
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  112.  @hisdadjames4876  - As others have mentioned, maybe Mrs. Drach's hands would have been better off in some of Drach's mail gloves (chain mail or plate mail?).
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  113. Health and Safety suggests some Kevlar fish cleaning gloves for Mrs. Drach next time.
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  114.  @Deadxman616  - Except those torpedoes were what we now call mines.
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  115. So that is why all the Japanese high schools use foreign tanks for Panzerfahren? 😉 (Girls und Panzer reference)
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  116.  @markmaki4460  Rory Lowe Comedy does hilarious voiceovers of Disney clips using language that would make a sailor blush.
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  117. Will you give up an arm and an eye for the video? 😉
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  118. What you are suggesting is not much different from a WW1 monitor.
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  119.  @kellyshistory306  It is like real estate development - projects are kept secret until all the land purchase agreements are in place.
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  120.  @tomriley5790  There was another piece of the Ottoman Empire certain people wanted (and eventually got part of), but that is not discussed in polite company. And of course the guy who rode a Brough Superior motorcycle.
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  121.  @thehandoftheking3314  - What about a Grand Slam bomb versus a Floaty Log?
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  122.  @Alsadius  - This channel basically ends at the Truman administration.
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  123.  @hydrodrift  - The Russians lost the war from 1918-1923, and did not regain control until Khrushchev and Zhukov had Beria executed (in the meanwhile non-Russian Bolsheviks sent 66 million mostly Orthodox Christian Russians to their deaths in the Gulag - more than twice as many as died from German attacks in WW2). Of course the Bolsheviks were financially backed by the same bankers as the NSDAP - classic case of "let's you and him fight".
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  124.  @hydrodrift  - If Operation Sea Lion was a no go, how would a cross-Atlantic amphibious invasion be pulled off?
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  125.  @scottgiles7546  - That would be for American Civil War era monitors.
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  126. My leather armor (Armor Class 7), er track motorcycle leathers, has strain hardening foam capped with ABS covering all the joints, and I have hit the ground a couple times much harder than a person could swing a weapon without too much damage.
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  127.  @darrellsmith4204  - Kinnick should have been "Karst Stadium" based on what is below it. Its near neighbor, Carver-Hawkeye Arena is also interesting since it it built into a hillside so it does not look like a stadium from the outside.
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  128. At least Drach now knows that the state animal is a badger and not a beaver. But he is likely unaware that the state mineral is cheese and the state fossil is Tommy Bartlett.
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  129. Where is the icebreaker in the Antarctic fleet? Or do they just borrow the Penguin Maru when needed?
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  130. Mr. Lincoln had the same question in 1861. 😉
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  131.  @doctoronishispsychosislab1474  - Yes, it is not like Drach has a full collection of High School Fleet nendoroid figures on display.
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  132. But how to pronounce Cairo (Illinois) properly? ;)
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  133.  @sundiver137  - There has been a short movie around for several decades that is (or at least was) shown as part of the U-505 exhibit in Chicago.
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  134. Where is the coastal bombardment when you need it?
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  135. The crew would then catch colds during their sleep. 😉
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  136. Please add USCGC Eagle (WIX-327) to the massive backlog of 5-Minute Guides.
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  137.  @jamesharding3459  The Iowa class could defeat any enemy surface ships fast enough to try to engage the carrier groups. As for "duking it out" with ships such as the Yamato class, that is what the Montana class was intended for. For an Iowa to defeat a Yamato one on one would require the use of bad weather, smoke, or night to allow the Iowa to target the Yamato with radar fire control while the Yamato's visual ranging systems were blinded.
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  138.  @bkjeong4302  The big gun came back into its own when the Wave-Motion Gun was fitted to Yamato in 2199. 😉
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  139. Blue Mermaids.
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  140.  @Drachinifel  - But not as crazy as Free Polish Navy DD captains.
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  141.  @californiadreamin8423  Some have claimed the music for 5-Minute guides and Rum Ration it is a march by Kosmas Lapatas, while others say the composer is Jeremy Soule. There is a copyright free (sans naval gunfire) version, but posting its name, URL, ID, or even the name of this website get the post deleted - apparently only the Almighty Algorithm is allowed to recommend videos, and will not tolerate lesser recommenders.
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  142.  @alanhughes6753  - The approximate location of SMS Gneisenau should be known from Admiralty records.
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  143.  @thekinginyellow1744  - What is the correct pronunciation of "Missouri"? We annoy our neighbors to the south by calling the place "Misery".
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  144. Sticking with Arlo Guthrie would be safer than trying to copy the natives of said city.
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  145. Their leader was made of inferior steel.
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  146. Why not build the floating sea fortress from High School Fleet?
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  147. How many of the designers were sent to the Gulag for their ridiculous proposals?
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  148. Every time Drach says "Graf Zeppelin" my first thoughts are of the dirigible and not the partially completed aircraft carrier.
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  149. You should watch Neon Genesis Evangelion - the last names of the characters are mostly those of IJN warships. OK, Child No. 2 has the middle name "Langley" while her mother's middle name is "Zeppelin". USS Illinois and USS Kentucky are also completed and make an appearance.
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  150. Pretty sure there is a U-Toob* channel out there that has already done videos on both subjects. 😉 *Seems like the algorithm deletes posts with the actual word.
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  151. There are very few places where one can fire a battleship main armament without annoying the neighbors.
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  152. Does that include intentional counter-flooding to induce a list to extend range?
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  153. Calling the Regia Marina an "ice cream fleet" is silly, since it obviously would have been a "gelato fleet". 😉 I have no data, but I would be shocked if over the course of naval history, the highest per capita ice cream consumption was not by the USN Pacific fleets in WW2.
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  154. A nit to pick - dirigibles (and blimps) often have a buoyancy in air slightly less than their gross weight, with lift generated by their airfoils (and/or overall shape) and forward airspeed making up the difference so as to prevent unintended/uncontrolled altitude gain. Attaching a Zeppelin to a ship would not decrease its gross weight by much if any, regular balloons filled with hydrogen would provide the greatest lift. Fun fact: Luftschiffbau Zeppelin GmbH is still in business with the semi-rigid dirigible NT model in production. Fun fun fact: The current Goodyear "blimps" are actually Zeppelin NT airships, with Goodyear phasing out the last of their self-made blimps about a decade ago.
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  155. Local knowledge of where not to go is not a bad thing to have in that neighborhood.
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  156.  @overboss9599  - What about using Katie shells for AA purposes?
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  157. The bulk modulus of water is around 2.15 GPa, while normal salinity seawater has a bulk modulus around 2.34 GPa. By comparison, low porosity steels have bulk moduli in the range of 155 to 165 GPa.
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  158. We could get into how to pronounce Missouri - the pronunciation taught in school or the way many residents (as well as the Battleship New Jersey guy) say it?
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  159. Thank Mrs. Drach for that.
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  160. Some sources list the Iowa class beam as 108'-2".
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  161. If the USS Helena had stopped to pick up survivors, we might not have had the USS The Sullivans (DD-537 Fletcher class destroyer currently a museum ship in Buffalo New York) and DDG-68 (Arleigh Burke class destroyer currently in service), the sibling rule in the USN, The Sullivan Brothers Iowa Veterans Museum in Waterloo, Iowa, and the Caroline's Spine song.
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  162. ​ CreedOfHeresy  - Drach should not touch the USS Liberty subject with the pole that Archimedes would use to move the planets. The only correct answer is, "I have not studied the subject, therefore I have no opinion on the matter". No point in risking running afoul of hate speech laws.
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  163. Prince of Wales is a good choice for a Waifu.
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  164. A good reason why we should not be trying people as war criminals more than 50 years after the fact.
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  165. While of course theocracies are all about individual freedom. 🙄🙄
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  166. The rule that arms over .50-inch caliber are considered "Weapons of Destruction" does not apply to black powder arms. Put "How to Hunt Wisconsin Whitetail Deer with a 12 pound Mountain Howitzer Cannon" in your Internet search engine field.
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  167. Look at aerial photographs of Bikini Atoll to see the size of hole a 15 MT equivalent explosion will make.
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  168.  @Drachinifel  - In a vacuum. In air the marshmallow would disintegrate and then burn up before going very far.
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  169.  @abrahamdozer6273  - It was admitted by the USG that the Gulf of Tonkin incident was a complete fabrication. Interestingly, the son of then Captain (later Admiral) Morrison commanding the USN flotilla was a certain Jim Morrison who went from someone who had no interest in music to a "counter-culture" rock star (The Doors) overnight.
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  170. To follow up on Beatty, could he have been "neutralized" earlier in WW1 by being granted a promotion and transfer to a desk job at the Admiralty, such as liaison to Parliament (where he would have provided useful service to the Royal Navy)? His political allies could hardly raise a fuss over such treatment.
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  171. Not as much as French Army WW1 gas masks.
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  172.  @jameshope7933  How can anything be wrong with a ship named after the world's largest cornfield?
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  173.  @mahbriggs  I have met families descended from European immigrants where different branches of the family pronounce their surname differently. And of course "the Bucket woman" pronounces her last name as "bouquet" while her long suffering husband uses "bucket". Which brings up the point we need a new RN Flower Class with HMS Hyacinth, HMS Violet, HMS Daisy, and HMS Rose.
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  174.  @stanleyrogouski  - But the Iowa Class Illinois and Kentucky were needed as sacrificial drone attack ships to destroy the Angel Gaghiel due to the overconfidence and inexperience of Fräulein Asuka Langley Soryu in Eva Unit 03.
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  175.  @cigbhungus3359  - More fun than base jumping without a parachute in company with a Balrog.
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  176. Imagine if Drach had a full keg of Irn Bru at the start of a live Drydock session. 😮
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  177. 53 dislikes are from public backers of HMS Captain (1869).
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  178.  @nickdanger3802  - You have to take a trip on LSD to U-505 these days. 😜
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  179. Mike = Mike Getscher? Really need a Katie to make more than a shallow crater.
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  180. Stepping on HMS Lion prior to the Battle off of Jutland likely would have improved the outcome for the Royal Navy.
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  181. In Haifuri ( High School Fleet ) a hoverboard is used to get a torpedo to a target not in the water.
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  182.  @VintageCarHistory  As you most likely know, Drach runs on Irn Bru, so the livestreams end shortly after he runs out. 😉
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  183. Better than Irn Bru?
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  184. Only believe reports from trustworthy sources that are actually on the ground (such as Robert Fisk actually going to Syria and finding out that the White Helmets were inventing false flag chemical attacks to be blamed on the government). The mass media has become stenography to power, only quoting government press releases and opinions of paid "pundits".
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  185. Are you the Tina Foster from Ai Yori Aoshi ? 😉
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  186. At least they were not in the Sea of Azov, which is shallow enough in most parts that HMS Thunderchild could have a field day ramming wading tripods.
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  187. Does that including firing on illegal salvage operations?
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  188. Regarding ship names, has the Royal Navy considered building a new Flower Class with four ships: HMS Hyacinth, HMS Daisy, HMS Violet, and HMS Rose?
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  189. What about war with Arkansas, Louisiana, and Oklahoma?
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  190.  @dropdead234  - He knows better than to tell us his Azur Lane Waifu (live chat a couple of weeks ago). 😜
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  191. Any truth to the legend that King shaved with a blowtorch? 😉
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  192. Which one of his collection of 14th century weapons would Drach use on Beatty?
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  193. Plus Cleveland had a river with so much floating oil on it that it would occasional catch on fire.
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  194. When HMS Victory is open for filming.
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  195. HMS Rodney should have been kept as a museum ship with "I sunk the Bismarck" painted on the side in huge letters, followed by "(with some help of fabric covered biplanes)".
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  196.  @bkjeong4302  Battleships were very relevant to the Royal Navy in WW2, as they could almost guarantee enough damage to any surface raider to "mission kill" the other ship, so they made excellent merchant convoy escorts. But the leftover WW1 and treaty era ships were perfectly adequate to this task. If the Iowa class ships had been available at Midway, instead of withdrawing after sinking the 4 IJN fleet carriers to avoid a potential night surface action that Yamamoto's forces would decidedly win, Task Force 16 could have loitered around and launched attacks against the IJN surface ships that no longer had air cover until they ran out of bombs and torpedoes, then withdrawn or possibly engaged in a surface action against the now highly depleted IJN First and Second Fleets.
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  197. Loading the carronades with hard tack could clear the upper deck of an enemy ship. 😉
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  198.  @gregorywright4918  - Neutron flux would not have done the ship's crew much good (one of the first tactical nuclear weapons the Davy Crockett launched W54 could take out Warsaw Pact tanks with neutron radiation at three times the distance it could destroy the same tanks by blast effect).
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  199. Prinz Eugen is best waifu - watch her make chocolate confectionaries (with the help of the 4 destroyers) in Slow Ahead! 😂
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  200. As long as he has plenty of grog to wash it down.
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  201.  @Cbabilon675  Ask Katie.
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  202. VHF radio with reception limited to line of sight was around by WW2.
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  203. John "Wet Start" McCain aka "Hanoi John" had to be transferred to a different ship to keep from being lynched.
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  204. I believe someone has suggested the WDLF as the subject of a Wednesday Rum Ration.
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  205.  @177SCmaro  No, you are still missing the point, as your interpretation is far from my intention.
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  206. That would be gross. 😉
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  207.  @BestAnswer12549  - Also threatening is putting ABM launchers right up to the Russian border that would allow a first strike by ICBMs, with the Russian ICBM response shot down in the initial phase. Russia's actions in new nuclear weapons delivery systems have been to restore MAD, which kept the conflict between NATO and the Warsaw Pact to proxy conflicts for more than 4 decades.
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  208.  @BestAnswer12549  - Nice Mr. Putin has drone submarines that will create radioactive tsunamis, but they officially carry 2 MT warheads (3 orders of magnitude more powerful than the Crossroads Baker device) and unofficially up to 200 MT warheads.
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  209.  @hailexiao2770  - The primary difference is that in the current USA one has to prove economic damage from the slander/libel to be awarded damages, which makes "winning an argument by character assassination when the facts are against you" an all too common tactic.
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  210.  @datadavis  - Track who gives "soft money" to political parties and who bundles campaign contributions and you will have the first tier. And to the doubters, there is plenty of circumstantial evidence out there, and many a judge and jury has sent a man to hang solely on circumstantial evidence.
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  211.  @michalsoukup1021  - Please continue to throw out insults, since you are not capable of much else.
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  212. At the time of the American Civil War, the official title of the Ottoman Viceroy of Egypt was Wāli; with Khedive not being the Viceroy's official title until 1867. However, the first and all following Viceroy's of the Muhammad Ali dynasty self-styled themselves as Khedive.
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  213.  @genericpersonx333  I am sure any informed person not blinded by brainwashing is shaking his/her head at you ignorance and lack of critical thinking.
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  214.  @genericpersonx333  With raw materials, the Japanese economy would collapse and millions of civilians would die of malnutrition and lack of medical care.
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  215.  @zhoufang996  Bananas were the reason Allen Dulles engineered the coup that overthrew the democratic government of Jacobo Árbenz in Guatemala and replaced it with a fascist government that let United Fruit exploit the plantation workers.
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  216.  @alganhar1  We are talking 1939, not 1943. The UK should have declared war on either both or neither Germany and the USSR in 1939. But in 1939 the UK decided to ally with the far worse of the two evils.
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  217.  @chooseyouhandle  There are no anthropomorphic warships in *High School Fleet*, but rather real ships with human crews. Very different (and much better) than *Azur Lane*.
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  218.  @WALTERBROADDUS  The commander of the USN flotilla at the Gulf of Tonkin (non)incident was Captain Morrison, later Admiral Morrison. What is hardly ever mentioned is that his son was Jim Morrison, front man for The Doors.
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  219. Future Rum Ration on the Decima Flottiglia MAS?
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  220.  @alganhar1  Did you conveniently forget the 5+ million German POWs that disappeared in the Soviet Gulag? Are you a Bolshevik apologist, covering their crimes and blaming them on others? You are the one with the pre-existing beliefs and immune to facts.
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  221. That is business as usual for governments. Hard to believe government claims when it is known that an internal explosion likely caused by a coal bunker fire next to a magazine sunk the USS Maine and not the Spanish, and the causes belli for the Vietnam War was a completely fabricated report on the Gulf of Tonkin (non)incident. Not Politically Correct, but WW2 was much more a matter of "let's you and him fight" than good vs. evil.
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  222.  @pedenharley6266  - USS Mississippi was on Neutrality Patrol in the Atlantic most of summer and fall 1941 but would not have been in the vicinity of the North Sea until a few weeks after Bismarck had been sunk, nor were Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Tirpitz or any of the Panzerschiff in the same general area as the Mississippi at the same time. Only major Kriegsmarine ship that could have been of concern was Admiral Scheer (which was of course a cruiser, but battleship would sound more impressive in a speech).
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  223.  @and15re1  - Allies would probably have nuked KMS Tirpitz during Operations Crossroads if she could have been easily re-floated and towed. Descendants of Ungrateful Colonials like to shoot and blow stuff up.
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  224. Shub-Niggurath - Blue lights are chemical flares, despite the name often white in color.
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  225. I found the channel through the USS Monitor vs. CSS Virginia video.
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  226. The Soviet Navy had no Capital ships due to ideology. 🤑 I will keep my day job.
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  227. Yes, very few Kmart stores around these days.
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  228. ​@Aqua Fyre This reminds me that Drach needs to do a Rum Ration on Royal Navy press gangs at some point, as they "raided" the coasts of the British Isles.
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  229. Would require building a cofferdam around the ship, dewatering, then installing extensive shoring inside the huyll or freezing the water inside the cofferdam, prior to lifting the ship with several huge barges and cranes. Would require truly silly money to do.
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  230. Just search for the following, "Historic Shipwreck Protected Zone –HMVS Cerberus".
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  231.  @si2foo  - Guarded the Penguin Parade on Phillip Island.
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  232. At the time, Batman was in the Ottoman Empire (currently in Turkey/Turkei).
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  233. A 22-caliber gun with a maximum range of less than 16,000 yards would not be an effective naval weapon (other than on a monitor for shore bombardment). Plus the German siege guns can be defeated by using one tank as a launch ramp for another tank, and the airborne tank fires into the barrel of the siege gun while on the downward arc. 😉
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  234.  @ar4040smith  Columbia was considered for the name of your state, but was rejected due to possible confusion with the federal capital district. We see how well that worked out.
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  235. There is some evidence that the Japanese were not that far from developing atomic weapons, but the full story will likely never be known as they went on a records destroying spree and all the people involved are no longer alive. As compensation for all the earthquakes, the Japanese have lots of hot springs to bath in (the two are geologically related).
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  236.  @kemarisite  Since you bring up aircraft, it is possible for certain jet fighters to shoot themselves down by firing the guns and then flying in a vertical arc at a speed faster than the shells travel.
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  237. Zero musical output, but managed to sell quite a bit of noise.
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  238. Visualize whirled peas.
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  239.  @Deevo037  - KMS Bismarck was sunk by a fabric covered biplane (Hi Stabby!) and the oil tanker HMS Rodnol.
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  240. Does anyone else think Drach and Ryan Szimanski are long-lost relatives? ;)
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  241. Coastwatchers - another Wednesday subject to add to Drach's backlog.
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  242. They could have followed the examples of Captain Howard Douglas Bode and Commander Ralph Frederick Seymour.
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  243. We of course got one of the best quotes ever from an evacuation operation. "It takes the Navy three years to build a ship. It will take three hundred years to build a new tradition. The evacuation will continue." - Admiral Cunningham
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  244.  @clarkevanmeter2676  - Well, there is a U-boat in Chicago and a Gato class boat farther up the western shore of Lake Michigan in Wisconsin. Heading west from Chicagoland on I-80 will take you through Coralville (99.99% of the people reading this will have no clue where that is), but any coral there is in the Paleozoic era limestone bedrock.
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  245. And every available fleet boat is sent to shoot torpedoes at them, and battleships have deep enough drafts that even deep running torpedoes have a good chance of causing damage.
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  246. Wat Dat Dee.
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  247.  @paulpeterson4216  - Take a taxi to a hotel and leave the RV in Jackson Park overnight and there will be no need to come back for it in the morning.
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  248. Would be appropriate for a "Fun Friday" video.
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  249. Wife or Waifu?
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  250.  @CSSVirginia  - There are two correct pronunciations, one for Danes and one for Germans.
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  251. At times it sounds like someone is hoovering in the background.
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  252.  @chasot9548  - It is an in-channel joke about the difficulty of pronouncing Schleswig-Holstein correctly.
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  253. There is a Drach video on The Great White Fleet, YouTube ID "nbV3qRIh-ro".
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  254. Poor Drach having to say Slesvig/Schleswig repeatedly.
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  255.  @donariadtn  Ryan over at Battleship New Jersey goes through turret naming - secondary gun turrets on USN battleships on the starboard side had odd numbers and those on the port side had even numbers.
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  256. WW1 was needed so the Ottoman Empire could be dismantled and the Middle East divvied up (e.g., Sykes-Picot), since the age of coal was being replaced by the age of oil.
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  257.  @trauko1388  No gradual response possible with the strategic weapons. These days nuclear munitions with as little as 5kg equivalent yield (or about the same as a HE round from the USNs 5"/38-caliber dual-purpose gun) is possible. Except for creating artificial tsunamis, more smaller munitions are more effective, which is why most strategic warheads are now in the 750 kT yield range, down from the 20 MT yield weapons of the 1950s to 1960s (of course there was no way to deliver those but relatively slow bombers that could only operate over enemy territory once air superiority had been established).
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  258. Have to disagree with Drach's comment about the technologies being unforeseen; rather that they were unforeseen outside of a few "skunkworks". Radar, code breaking computers, homing torpedoes, SONAR, jet engines, cruise missiles, guided bombs, ballistic missiles, jet engines, and nuclear weapons were all in research or even development as far back as WW1, but kept tightly under wraps (so tightly that even senior military officers would mostly be unaware of them) until hostilities broke out. More than 5 years is needed to go from basic concept to deployed in service, but at the same time development is limited by the need for secrecy.
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  259.  @Alsadius  - We will see if U-Toob deletes your post since it has a link in it.
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  260. You will be made to sit under the Comfy Kotatsu for that comment.
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  261.  @hydrodrift  - Imperial Russia was defeated by Germany in WW1.
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  262. The original Big Stick is USS Iowa (BB-61, not BB-4).
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  263. They had rather fishy naming practices. 😉
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  264. Did Japan have a private central bank prior to WW2?
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  265. The general that did the most to help the USA in WW2 was General Motors.
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  266.  @somethinglikethat2176  - Drach got 2K more subs since I posted. Karl Dönitz could only dream of getting new subs at that rate. 😉
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  267. We made swords from hardwood trim using a plane and belt sander, along with plywood shields. These days parents would be arrested for letting their children do that.
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  268.  @vonskyme9133  - Or the "First Battle of Dogger Bank" in 1905? 😉
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  269.  @boobah5643  I started playing "Basic" D&D prior to the "Advanced" books being issued, and last played several years before all the Iowa class were sent into their final stints as reserve ships.
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  270. What is the problem - getting the dies to fill without voids?
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  271. Azur Lane: Slow Ahead! Episode 8: "Enjoying the Fair With Everyone!" Both North Carolina and Washington attend the Azur Lane Academy costume fair in bunny girl suits.
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  272.  Edgar Miller  - Not to mention what one of Putin's nuclear powered drone subs with a 2 MT equivalent warhead (what the Russians admit to, some source say as much as 200 MT) would do to a carrier group since they have 100 to 10,000 times the power of 1st generation fission device used for Crossroads Baker.
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  273. 5-Minute Guide on How to Flush a Gato Class Toilet?
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  274. Tank Fest - Will the Nishizumi family be present? 😉
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  275.  @WALTERBROADDUS  - I am fine with cute girls doing cute (non-ecchi) naval things. Hollywood is the worst people trying to bring out the worst in others.
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  276. A Mark 23 "Katie" fired from USS Iowa would be about the only thing that could improve Hollywood. High School Fleet is more realistic than any of these so-called historical films.
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  277.  @gregorywright4918  - Only if he had veto power.
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  278. What about Battle OFF Jutland, etc?
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  279.  @Trek001  - When is Drach making Part 2 of the Floaty Log video?
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  280. ynetnews has published articles in English (try one in particular by Sever Plocker) that would be a corrective to your ideas.
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  281.  @kaustubhillindala2643  - Most officers charged and convicted of treason (almost all of whom were innocent). At least in the era from Lenin/Trotsky to Malenkov/Beria - when ethnic Russians (rather than people who hated Russians) started running the Soviet Union everything improved dramatically.
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  282. Drydock question for The Drydock. Was the preference for drydocks to be built with floor elevations above high tide sea level, between high and low tide sea level, or below low tide sea level? The first alternative would have the advantages of not having to constantly dewater seepage, design the side walls for external hydrostatic pressure, and no need to control under-seepage to prevent a quick condition below the drydock, but the disadvantages of having to pump water in to float ships, and structurally designing the walls to hold back internal hydrostatic pressure. The last alternative would of course have the inverse advantages of the first, but with the further disadvantage of needing a large cofferdam and significant dewatering during construction. The middle alternative, is surprise, a middle ground.
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  283. @Robert Miller There is no teak planking available since Ryan Szimanski has bought it all for BB-62.
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  284.  @WALTERBROADDUS  For a cost similar to building an Essex class carrier we could have had Atari Pong during WW2, as all the required technology existed in primitive form. Would have taken up a good chunk of the hangar deck to house the vacuum tube CPU.
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  285.  @NeverlostatBSgaming  The Foolish Woman by Ambrose Bierce. A MARRIED Woman, whose lover was about to reform by running away, procured a pistol and shot him dead. "Why did you do that, Madam?" inquired a Policeman, sauntering by. "Because," replied the Married Woman, "he was a wicked man, and had purchased a ticket to Chicago." "My sister," said an adjacent Man of God, solemnly, "you cannot stop the wicked from going to Chicago by killing them."
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  286. What restrained the UK and France from siding militarily with the Confederacy was that it would have started a world war with Prussia and Russia on the Union side, and that was a land war that they could not win. Their publics would also have been against them after the Emancipation Proclamation was issued. Victory for them over the USA came without firing a shot in 1913, but that is off-topic for this channel other than the relatively minor naval contribution of the USA in WW1.
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  287. Should have spent the money on marzipan chocolates instead.
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  288. I see you like to revise history to make it Politically Correct. ISIS and Boko Haram are useful idiots being manipulated to be proxy forces to destabilize regions for profit.
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  289. How are the cats?
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  290.  @sillypuppy5940  Dalek's 5-Minute Guides to Warships. 😉
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  291.  @bkjeong4302  Did not the US fleet withdraw to the east at the end of the final day of the Battle of Midway since they were concerned about getting into range of the Japanese battleships/battlecruisers, rather than sticking around to attack them the next day?
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  292.  @CastleBravo023  Your beliefs and definitions are hardly universal.
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  293.  @CastleBravo023  Battlecruiser = battleship minus one turret and some armor, and greater machine space/power and length for more speed. Take a turret off a Montana, thin the armor, decrease the machinery size/power, and you have an Iowa.
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  294.  @Trek001  - At the Matchstick Marvels Museum in Gladbrook, Iowa there is a replica of the namesake BB-61 made from 137,000 matchsticks. Looks to be at about 1:150 scale (or about 6 feet long).
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  295. People using touchscreen phones likely downvote at times when they actually intend to upvote.
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  296. Follow up to the naval gun accuracy question. One minute of angle (approximately 1 inch at 100 yards) is a typical 5 shot grouping from a quality hunting rifle with quality hunting ammunition when fired from a machine rest that eliminates the human factor. What is the equivalent value for WW2 era rifled naval main and secondary battery guns fired (as mentioned) from rail mountings and/or land mountings such as used in development trials and shore defenses?
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  297. The aft steering room has about as low of ceiling as the gun decks on HMS Victory. A rock climbing or spelunking helmet would be a good idea for many museum ship tours.
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  298. Until the supply of Irn Bru runs out.
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  299.  @nitsu2947  - If it was real, it would be weird for Bismarck to be asking Tirpitz to dance with her at the ball, since they are sisters.
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  300. Is Azur Lane a documentary and not fiction? ;)
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  301. What was the typical depth of rifling on new naval guns and at limit of wear (roughly WW1 through WW2 era)?
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  302. Taking a break from being lead film, art, and literature critic (published without byline in Pravda)?
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  303.  @adamdubin1276  - British Humour - "humor" is the spelling used by ungrateful colonists.
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  304.  @sundiver137  - John Cage was to musical composition what Cowper Coles was to seaworthiness in marine architecture.
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  305.  @stevewindisch7400  French military research determined that a loud tone at 7-Hz (inaudible to a human but not a rhinoceros) would stimulate breeches loading.
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  306. Coveralls are required for the USS New Jersey visit, as it will involve crawling through one of the gun barrels. 😉😉
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  307.  @purplefood1  It has happened more than 10 times on several different channels in the last month. For certain is the algorithm removes URLs as happened in the past (pretty sure Drach would not manually delete a post linking to one of his other videos). It also removes posts that contain the video ID (the last segment of the URL) that could otherwise be put into the search field.
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  308.  @kalbasbas  Ryan over at USS New Jersey talks about barrel inspection, then walks the walk by crawling through one of them (good thing for him the USN decided on 16" instead of 15" guns).
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  309. Bigger guns are easier to crawl through to inspect.
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  310. Does the cat exist unless it is observed?
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  311.  @Drachinifel  One criterion that could be added is gun/size weight. For example, the USA 16"/50-caliber gun scores close to the 18.1" IJN gun, but if the ship is limited to say 55K-tons, nine 16" guns would be a much better choice than six 18.1" guns.
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  312.  @OtterTreySSArmy  A better solution would be to have the Department of Defense live up to its name, rather than enforcing a racket (as General Smedley Butler would put it). If the USA/NATO cannot win a war against Afghanistan in 20 years, how will it do against Russia with 6 times the population, or China with 50 times the population?
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  313.  @OtterTreySSArmy  Iran can launch 100,000+ ballistic and cruise missiles that have enough range to hit Cyprus in less than 10 minutes. Russia and China will have similar capabilities around their strategic coastal areas, except some of the missiles may be armed with high neutron flux 6th generation munitions that will take out personnel behind bunker walls and armor plating to much farther distances than the blast effect (similar to the Davy Crockett of more than half a century ago that was intended to be used against Soviet tank formations).
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  314.  @OtterTreySSArmy  China (and some other countries such as Russian and Iran) has an obscene amount of anti-shipping missiles along its coast. Taking out the first 100 missiles fired at your battleship does no good when 200 missiles are fired at it.
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  315. Only "bus" that light is a VW Type II (which make the engineering of the Bismarck class look excellent).
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  316. Recall that a historian was beheaded by an armored knight in The Holy Grail. Remember that Drach owns a suit of armor and a sword. The conclusion is obvious. 😉
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  317. As long as they were not from the Piaggio Group - already getting hard to find parts for a motorcycle made less than 15 years in Noale.
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  318. What was the Royal Navy using oak MFVs (motor fishing vessels) in the Pacific campaign for during WW2? The British Pathé news reel is not very enlightening - maybe the subject of a future 5-minute guide? https://youtu.be/xnGzFpCBeFw
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  319.  @scottgiles7546  - Because the Montana class was not built.
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  320. I posted the answer earlier today, but it got deleted.
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  321.  @johnshepherd8687  - Pretty much get back on LSD from the museum parking and stay on it until you reach the loop.
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  322. How much does it cost to train a pilot?
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  323. The Jeune Ecole may well work with the proliferation of cheap 5th generation tactical nuclear warheads that do not even require highly enriched uranium or plutonium to produce. Not to mention nice Mr. Putin's nuclear drone submarines that officially carry a 2 MT warhead (2 orders of magnitude more powerful than the Crossroads Baker underwater detonation) and unofficially up to a 200 MT warhead. To paraphrase Einstein, "I know not what naval weapons WW3 will be fought with, but WW4 will be fought with Floaty Logs".
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  324. Missed opportunity here - another question or two answered and we would have a 6-hour Drydock. ;)
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  325. Please add HMS Pickle to the massive backlog of future 5-minute (more or less) warship guides. After all, who does not love the bearer of good news?
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  326.  @perunasade4586  - Karl Dönitz got a lighter sentence than anticipated at the Nuremburg Trials because Charlie Lockwood (commander of the USN Submarine Force Pacific Fleet during World War II) testified that unrestricted warfare against merchant shipping was also done under his command.
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  327.  @SlavicCelery  - Ah, if you lack an argument, you call someone the most vile thing possible - argumentation by ad hominem.
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  328. No one uses the Type 95 except for Chi-Ha-Tan Academy, Tategoto High School, and Yogurt Academy.
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  329.  @sukhoisweetheart4652  - That Drach has done videos titled "Drachinifel Live Stream - Ultimate Admirals Dreadnought and Q&A" and "Drachinifel Live Stream - Ultimate Admirals Dreadnought and Q&A (Take 2)" would seem to answer your question.
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  330.  @wookeybradbury  1,000,000,000,000 Floaty Logs.
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  331.  @bjorntorlarsson  Are you part of the Spanish Inquisition?
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  332. Drach already did a video on that titled "Survival at Sea - Oh Lord the ship is on fire/sinking/exploding/disagreeable".
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  333. There have been spectator fatalities at baseball games from broken bat fragments.
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  334. You just need to be outside any city limits, well away from any neighboring residences, and have a good backstop before actually firing a black powder cannon to avoid being charged with "public endangerment" or similar.
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  335. What is the airspeed of a swallow?
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  336. Horse transports were discussed in The Drydock - Episode 118. What type of ships did Hannibal use to transport elephants? Are there any descriptions on how the elephants were loaded and unloaded on the ships?
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  337. Remember what Lenin said about the best way to control the opposition was to be the opposition.
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  338. No one alive knows for certain if scuttling measures were taken on KMS Bismarck, and if they were how much effect they had.
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  339.  @gregorywright4918  - Blimps and dirigibles generally run very slightly heavier than air, and use lift from airfoils to make up the difference. This prevents unwanted altitude gain and also allows descending and landing.
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  340.  @gregorywright4918  - But the War on Terra (sic) escalated things by bringing the firepower of NATO on these countries (Libya was much better off under Qaddafi than the current civil war), as well of the looting of Iraq (about 2/3 of the oil exported since 2004 was stolen with no money going to the Iraqi people) by various parties and the looting of Syria by members of the Erdoğan clan (such as factories in Allepo having all their production equipment taken to Turkey, or conveys of oil tanker trucks headed to Turkey until the Russian Aerospace Forces blew them up). But to get back on topic, may we have the 5-second (more or less) guide to the history of the Afghanistan Navy?
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  341.  @hughfisher9820  - Where are all the people offended about the several million casualties of the War on Terror, not to mention the almost complete destruction of the civilian and economic infrastructures of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria? All I hear on that is crickets chirping. I wonder why (no I do not, but not worth the consequences of going further).
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  342.  @gregorywright4918  - Explain the videos showing molten steel running out the sides of WTC 1 and WTC 2? N.b. I have no official opinion on the matter, since my real opinion is informed by things not in the public domain. I just like to play devil's advocate.
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  343.  @gregorywright4918  - WTC 1 and 2 had a reinforced internal shear core that held the elevators, while the perimeter was tube section steel columns of decreasing wall thickness with building height.
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  344.  @michaelimbesi2314  - Yes, carbon steel transitions from a BCC to a FCC crystalline arrangement when heated to an austenitic state. However, you are wrong to think steel would be annealed by a building fire, much more likely normalized by cooling in ambient air (with possible localized quenching due to fire fighting efforts) - would be exceptional for the cooling rate to be slow enough for annealing. WTC 1 and 2 generally used moment connections, so analyses would need to be done with a method applicable to structurally indeterminate problems (since the number of connections is greater than the number of degrees of freedom in the structure). Remember that creating a surface requires energy due to breaking of bonds. Calculate the energy required to convert the intact WTC 1 and 2 towers in before and after states, and compare to the available energy from kinetic impact, kerosene fuel, and miscellaneous flammable materials.
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  345.  @gregorywright4918  - Think about the Tunguska event, massive object moving at hypersonic speeds disintegrates due to heat buildup from atmospheric friction. The only metal impact at speed that typically causes fires hot enough to cause other metals to melt or burn are DU sabot rounds, which in part is why they are such effective anti-tank weapons - penetrates the turret or hull armor, then cooks the crew. Hydrocarbon fuels do not produce hot enough fires to melt steel unless in an enriched oxygen environment. Collect some scrap steel and rent an oxy-acetylene welding setup to demonstrate.
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  346. These things are not discussed on polite company since they are essentially religious in nature and cognitive dissonance means that no one's mind is ever changed.
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  347. If you want steel to explode, first make it into a very fine powder...
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  348. At the time floaty logs became relegated to second line duty.
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  349. How many airships (if any) have been shot down by naval anti-aircraft fire?
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  350.  @benwilson6145  Imagine the Japanese capturing Darwin (the city, not the man). It is between 1,600 and 2,000 miles to any other major city in Oz, with mostly desert in between. No way a Japanese army with their lack of mechanized transport on a large scale was going to cross that distance and still be an effective fighting force.
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  351.  @nickdanger3802  I was thinking pre-Japanese invasion and you meant US reconquest after Japanese conquest by "invasion"; hence the confusion.
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  352. Did you mean, "Pre invasion the people of the PI were hoping for a ▶Japanese◀ invasion"?
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  353. If 50% of those "muscle cars" were still in existence, they would not command much of a price. Scarcity = Value.
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  354.  @philvanderlaan5942  Samuel Cody independently built an airplane capable of controlled sustained flight in the UK in 1904, and did not realize until a few years later that he was not the first. If the Wright Brothers had not succeeded, it would only have set aviation development back by a couple of years.
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  355. Poor Libby having to keep Ryan in line. 😉
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  356. I have watched conflicting documentaries on Yamato. In one she was used to build a spaceship in secret to fight off an alien invasion, while in the other she was still in use this century as a training ship for high school girls who wish to become Blue Mermaids in the future.
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  357.  @scottgiles7546  But no Japanese torpedo boats attacked the USN on the way.
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  358.  A Fels  - Much more could be said on Germany's alleged aggression, but it would fall on deaf ears due to cognitive dissonance so why bother. (Short version - let's you and him fight).
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  359. Was USA the predecessor to USB? 🤔
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  360.  @mpetersen6  Particularly after WW2, where more Germans died 1946-1951 than in 1939 to 1945. But to be fair, about 1 in 7 Soviet citizens and zeks died during WW2.
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  361. @kevin barker - A local grocery store once advertised "naval oranges" - fighting off floating oranges armed with cannons must have been the "orange" fleet problem. 😜
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  362.  @mahbriggs  - Nice Mr. Putin has drone submarines that can travel indefinitely along the ocean floor even at the deepest depths and officially armed with 2 MT equivalent warheads (and unofficially up to 200 MT equivalent warheads). What happens in a Crossroads Baker type situation to ships when the detonation is 100 to 10,000 times more powerful than the primitive 1st generation ADM used in that test? The Russian Navy also has 950-ton corvettes that carry 8 hypersonic cruise missiles with ranges of at least 1,500 km, each potentially armed with a 5kT equivalent warhead. Want to pick on Iran? They can launch over 100,000 ballistic and cruise missiles in less than 7 minutes, each with 500+ pounds of conventional high explosives. No USN carrier group can deal with more than a few hundred of these before running out of anti-missile missiles and rapid fire gun ammunition, much less the thousands that would be launched in self-defense if needed. As of now defense is decisively favored over offense (a good thing unless one is a war profiteer or power hungry madman).
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  363.  @Tom-2142  Since replies are not threaded beyond one level, I have no idea what this question is about.
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  364.  @mikeschlup6886  - I still do not trust the British since my Modern Classics Bonneville leaked oil from the start and died a few times on the road due to electrical problems (and no, I did not strap down any circuit breakers).
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  365.  CipiRipi00  - The first world war almost started in 1863 which would have had the allied Union (USA north), Prussia, and Russia facing off against the Confederate States of America, Great Britain, and France, with the Russian fleets paying visits to New York and San Francisco to deter the British. While the combined fleets of the first group would in no way match up to the Royal Navy at the time, combined Prussian and Russian armies would overrun France and any British troops in France with ease.
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  366. Denmark? Is a visit to the Vikingeskibsmuseet (Viking Ship Museum) in the plan?
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  367.  @nathanokun8801  - The French steel used by Renault in the 1970s and 1980s had the unusual combination of low yield strength, low ductility, low fracture toughness, and low corrosion resistance.
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  368. USS "KAY-ro". Named after the "drain plug" of Illinois.
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  369. Wonder if he ever got to be a passenger on the Θ/Κ Γεώργιος Αβέρωφ (Georgios Averof) between VE Day and her decommissioning in 1952, since prior to his marriage he was "Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark".
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  370. I always think Richard Rodgers when I hear or read "Victory at Sea". YouTube ID: x3dwsRSA6KE
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  371.  @philvanderlaan5942  - In the USA, Amtrak passenger trains have to wait on the sidings for freight trains to pass by.
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  372. It is about as likely to happen as Drach telling us whom his Azur Lane Waifu is (he refused to answer that on a live chat a few weeks ago).
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  373. Crank up the playback speed to 1.25.
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  374. Classic Ferry Video 1996 - Passage on ferry THEODOR HEUSS, Puttgarden-Rødby (DFO) YouTube ID (paste in search window since links seem to be auto-deleted): y8K7jWXAKGg
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  375.  @mpetersen6  - Even something small such as a Kalibr has a range in excess of 1,000 miles and can carry a 0.5kT warhead (which makes the Tall Boys that sunk the Tirpitz look like firecrackers in comparison).
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  376. Another example of shore bombardment going wrong is Rodney using her main battery to split a watermelon on the beach and blowing the destroyers' barbeque ingredients to kingdom come. "The beach is no place for heavy naval bombardment" - Z23 (At least when being used for recreational purposes)
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  377. Will we get a video about LSD? Landing Ship Dock (those commissioned from the mid 1930s to early 1950s) of course, not Lake Shore Drive. 😊 Of course, if Drach ever goes to see U-505, he will end up on LSD to get there. 🤣
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  378.  @mancubwwa  - The NKVD could arrest any officer without clearing it with his superiors, and with arrest meaning automatic conviction, that provided ultimate authority.
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  379.  @RCAvhstape  Yes, "We all live on a yellow submarine...", not "We all take occasional cruises on a yellow submarine...
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  380. But who would want to live long term on any WW2 era submarine?
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  381. AI speech to text has a long ways to go.
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  382.  @johnshepherd9676  Argumentation by assertation.
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  383.  @johnshepherd9676  Always good practice to slur people for telling unpleasant truths. If one cannot attack the message, attack the messenger.
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  384.  @bjorntorlarsson  Some scenarios presented in the media or by governments may be evaluated based on what is probable and what is physically possible, but that requires some expertise in engineering and "hard" sciences. Human events are harder to impossible to judge without reliable intel.
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  385. Drach would be in real trouble if it was Mrs. Drach stepping on the light cruiser. 😉
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  386. Yes, in Drach's three part Battle off of Jutland videos.
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  387.  @SlavicCelery  I though it was considered bad form these days in academic circles to use primary sources, particularly if they contradict previously published work? I recall an outside review recommending that the Department of Humanities graduate school at the University of Wisconsin* be disbanded since it had become a place that all that mattered was taking the side of your academic advisor, truth be dammed. Of course, historical research using original source documents on certain subjects will land one in prison in several European countries for the crime of "hate speech". *Badger, not beaver. Gold star to anyone who remembers how this relates to the channel.
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  388. The video where the guest is former commander of USS Iowa, Captain Larry Seaquist, should not be missed. Of course as a naval Captain, Seaquist would have had plenty of training and experience in speaking to groups.
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  389. The repair welds would be examined by dye penetrant, ultrasound, and radiographic (X-ray) methods before the refit submarine was put back in service.
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  390. There is Drach's "American Cousin" Ryan Szimanski on the Battlecruiser Battleship New Jersey channel.
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  391. The Channel is now Drach's day job.
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  392. <Groan>
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  393.  @tomgucwa7319  Jackson Park (where the Museum of Science and Industry is located) is south of the Loop and well south of downtown.
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  394. I might well downvote by accident if I was using a phone instead of a proper computer.
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  395. He shaved with a blowtorch.
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  396.  @PaulfromChicago  - You mean the barbarians that put ketchup on hot dogs?
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  397.  @0Fingolfin0  - No sure if it was heroic in the conventional sense, but the chief engineer of HMS Rodney deserved a medal for the speed he obtained when they were chasing after KMS Bismarck.
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  398. Since press gangs were mentioned as a future Wednesday Rum Ration topic, some questions to address there: How did Royal Navy press gangs choose whom to take? Were the press gangs discontinued due to lack of need or social backlash? What classes of men could and could not be pressed into naval service? Did press gangs have the right to enter homes and businesses to look for men, or did they have to get permission from the landowners (of course almost all non-aristocrats/gentry lived in rented housing at the time)?
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  399. Lifeguard duty in the English Channel during the Battle of Britain - how much was done by the Royal Navy, Coastal Command, and volunteer fishermen, respectively, and what type of ships and boats were typically used?
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  400. As for technology other navies wanted, maybe not the Admiralty, but certainly many elements of the Royal Navy would have like ice cream machines on their ships. 🍦🍦🍦🍦🍦🍦
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  401.  @cdfe3388  - A BUFF is not going anywhere NATO does not have complete air superiority.
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  402. A devastated Europe and removal of existing imperial government structures was needed to open up the continent for Bolshevik revolutions (attempted in most countries, but only successful in Russia), not to mention certain objectives in dismembering the Ottoman Empire (which are still driving events in the region to this day) made a long and destructive land war mandatory.
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  403. Spending 3 or 4 hours to find the one little input error that produces nonsense results in a numerical analysis program is fun. GIGO GIGO GIGO
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  404. The socialist threat to elite power was countered with Bolshevism, which outwardly promised a workers' paradise but from the beginning was intended to not only exploit the workers but to destroy existing cultures, as well as genocide of large portions of said populations of "useless eaters".
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  405.  @philvanderlaan5942  - HMS Hood for KMS Bismarck was a strategic loss for the Kriegsmarine and a strategic victory for the Royal Navy.
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  406. Rheinübung did not turn out too well for the Kriegsmarine.
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  407.  @jimtaylor294  - But it would do wonders in keeping up the appearances of the Royal Navy.
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  408. Il-nee-wah is how it should be pronounced.
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  409. However bad Germany was in WW2, the Soviet Union was much worse. Patton was correct that Germany should have been offered an alternative to unconditional surrender in return for fighting along side the US to keep the Soviet Union out of Europe (or better yet deposing the non-Russian Bolshevik leadership of the Soviet Union that murdered 66 million ethnic Russians, as well as 15 million plus Germans, Austrians, and Romanians in the period between VE Day and the Politburo coup by Khrushchev and Zhukov).
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  410. Butbutbut, the children have 66 new pronouns to learn!
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  411. Ferrari had his posterior handed to him on more than a few occasions by the garageistas.
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  412.  @protonneutron9046  - Go back to your bilge.
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  413.  @protonneutron9046  - The Aral Sea has almost completely disappeared over the last 50 years.
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  414. Do some research on how German POWs were treated under the direction of Eisenhower in the years following VE Day, and you will lose all respect for him.
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  415. Cleveland is "The Mistake by the Lake". The Great Lakes were large enough for significant fleet battles during the War of 1812.
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  416. You do not like FIBs?
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  417. I had a physics professor who told stories about serving under Rickover.
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  418.  @Kevin_Kennelly  - I usually listen at 1.25 times playback speed.
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  419.  @mortuideum  Danish or German pronunciation of "Schleswig-Holstein"?
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  420.  @hernerweisenberg7052  Nuclear munitions do damage in several ways: - Overpressure due to heating of the surrounding air or water (just as a conventional explosive does); - Neutron flux; - EM radiation. Your proposed ship would be very resistant to overpressure, so it would take a near hit with a massive yield to crush or fracture the tube. Neutron flux could kill the crew and make the ship radioactive to replacement crews while leaving the tube structure intact. EM radiation in the infrared range would heat the tube, which would require a large yield in close proximity to cook the crew. High frequency radiation would convert the steel to a plasma (just a nuclear "bunker busters" work by converting soil, rock, concrete, and steel to a plasma cone) - will leave it to someone else to calculate the amount of energy required to vaporize a hole in the ship (with everyone inside being cooked microseconds later).
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  421. Nope, to this day USN sailors are dropping like flies due to scurvy.
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  422.  @bkjeong4302  The USN could have done with the IJN having fewer surface combatant ships available going into the Guadalcanal campaign, no? In a hypothetical extra day of the Battle of Midway, it would have been best for the USN to go after cruisers and destroyers and ignore the battleships.
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  423. @kevin barker - I was making a joke since Bk Jeong's post was literally ambiguous as to whether he was referring to the ships or their namesake political units. 😉
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  424. How hard is it to pronounce "Iowa"?
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  425. Too bad the USN never had a heavy cruiser named after the capital of North Dakota.
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  426.  @jaybee9269  - Rear Admiral Cradock could have used a Des Moines class cruiser at the Battle of Coronel against Graf Spee. But it was the Kaiserliche Marine at the time.
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  427. "Des Moines, obsolete nearly as soon as built but kept in service for decades..." Should we move the capital back to Iowa City?
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  428. USS Laffey suffers from narcolepsy and wanting to make friends with IJN Ayanami instead of fighting her. ;)
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  429. @asdrubale bisanzio - Light travels between 300,000 to 400,000 times faster than typical WW2 AA projectiles, so one can aim at the aircraft with light instead of where the aircraft might be in a few seconds if using an AA cannon.
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  430.  @gokbay3057  - As for being full of, er excrement, the solution is: United States Navy Training Film (Giving An Enema) 1944 - YouTube ID "a1fJqOSha48"
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  431. Merchant marine seamen, many of whom are not citizens of a belligerent country, are generally much less willing to sacrifice themselves than naval sailors.
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  432. No. "...it takes the Navy three years to build a new ship … it will take 300 years to build a new tradition." - Admiral Cunningham, RN
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  433.  @calvingreene90  Algae growing in diesel fuel, or in the water layer at the bottom of a tank below the fuel?
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  434. Bacteria eat petroleum oil if diluted, but are killed by it if too concentrated.
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  435.  @benwilson6145  We will hunker down in a bunker.
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  436.  @benwilson6145  Who mentioned nuclear fuel?
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  437.  @benwilson6145  Maybe calling it bunker oil is incorrect, since the fuel does need to be heated due to its high viscosity at lower temperatures.
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  438.  @benwilson6145  Is not current bunker fuel just a step up from asphalt in energy content and just a step down in average molecular weight?
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  439. How closely did the film follow the book?
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  440. And a really bad headache after using the stereoscope for too long.
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  441.  @johnfisher9692  KMS Bismarck's armor would defeat the Wave Motion Gun fitted to Yamato during her 2199 retrofit, despite the gun being powerful enough to destroy a small moon. 🤣🤣🤣
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  442. Yes, but the wave motion technology was not available until 2199.
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  443. Saving up enough to buy a commission was generally not possible for the working classes.
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  444. "Gentleman" was never an official title in Great Britain, but rather something determined by either birth into the recognized gentry, or obtaining employment in certain professions.
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  445. Goodyear replaced all its blimps with Zeppelin NT airships more than a decade ago.
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  446.  @HMSFord  Where is the afro?
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  447.  @chloehennessey6813  I am libertarian when it comes to individuals, social democrat when it comes to businesses that hire employees. Therefore, no political party represents my interests.
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  448.  @177SCmaro  This is a violation of The Strange Sketch Act.
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  449.  @177SCmaro  Oh gee, you really are clueless, and do not understand concepts such as sarcasm, facetiousness, analogy, etc.
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  450.  @177SCmaro  You insist that I am meaning something that I write I am not. That is merely contradiction, not argumentation.
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  451.  @177SCmaro  Sorry, but "Death of the Author" is a literary concept that needs to go away.
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  452.  @177SCmaro  Yes, but when there is high unemployment and low wages, people cannot spend on these more useful things, while the government can always manufacture fiat currency to support the No Military Contractor Left Behind program.
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  453.  @177SCmaro  You are still missing the point. I chose "fascism" as an easy to sling out insult example, with no other intended implications.
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  454.  @177SCmaro  - You completely missed the point of my post - read the last sentence again.
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  455.  @Right-Is-Right  It is interesting how you fascists spew your lies into every conversation. Wow, that was easy to write. ;)
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  456. The best thing from the whole franchise is Azur Lane Bisoku Zenshin! (Slow Ahead!), but that is slice-of-life school comedy with minimal naval content (but much ecchi).
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  457. Missed opportunity in the HMS Nemesis segment to diverge into a discussion of the Charpy Impact Test. 😉
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  458. Guy Fawkes - The only man to ever go to Parliament with honest intentions.
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  459. Agree in advance to leave Hirohito as a figurehead leader of Japan (as was done anyhow to make managing the occupation of the country easier) and no nuclear weapons are necessary, but that would disappoint certain people.
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  460. As for firing battleship main guns, the quality of movies and television could be improved by firing salvos of HE from USS Iowa at Hollywood (after evacuating people paid by the hour/scale wages). This could also be considered a patriotic act since the purpose of Hollywood is to stupefy and brainwash the populace.
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  461. @Rob The 100 chapter limit means that after deducting 2 for the intro and channel admin, Drach may only answer 98 naval questions per week. 😉
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  462.  Free Speech  - Maintaining an anti-droop system that is constantly exposed to salt spray would be a PITA.
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  463.  @stevenmajor9513  - The Royal Navy would have been fighting both the Union Navy and the Russian Navy, while the UK's ally at the time France would have been overrun in short order by combined Prussian and Russian land forces. The Russians sending fleets to protect New York and San Francisco from the British would be a Rum Ration topic for Drach sometime in the 2030s (backlog to clear).
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  464.  @AjitMD  - Delay the start of hostilities a few years and Germany could have had submarines equipped with snorkels and ballistic missiles carrying atomic warheads.
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  465.  @hoangho6781  - The built-in speech to text captioning function in U-Toob changes his name to "Admiral Donuts" when Drach says it. 😂
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  466. How long did it typically take a Gato class boat to become fully submerged after the officer of the watch gave the order in an emergency situation, such as a IJN destroyer firing ranging shots, and what were maximum controlled rates of descent and ascent while submerged?
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  467.  @BA-gn3qb  - Ever notice how many U.S. Presidents have weird backgrounds with genealogy untraceable beyond a couple of generations (e.g., where did Prescott Bush pop up from?) or not using birth names (e.g., Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. was born Leslie Lynch King Jr. and William Jefferson Clinton was born William Jefferson Blythe III)? Maybe the USN should rename its latest supercarrier to "USS Leslie L. King"?
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  468. Or even accused of things they are not guilty of when names are not mentioned it seems. Too bad we no longer have Victorian era laws on libel and slander. Too bad there is not a block function in these comments so I could put "keefy mckeefface" in the bozo bin.
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  469.  @keefymckeefface8330  - GFY.
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  470.  @thehandoftheking3314  - The information is out there, but people get accused of things they are not actually guilty of if the names are mentioned.
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  471. Hitler was nothing more than an "useful idiot". Real decisions are made at higher pay grades (follow the money applies here).
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  472. There were likely tracer rounds to help with aiming.
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  473.  @thekinginyellow1744  If you do not see my point, your understanding is sorely lacking.
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  474.  @thekinginyellow1744  Name one person who died from having a gun pointed at them before the shot was fired. Yeah, I didn't think so.
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  475.  @mazdrpan4099  General Motors and General Electric contributed more to winning the war than any of the human generals. The US armed forces were the only ones that did not depend on horses to transport men and materials in WW2.
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  476.  @lrw3984  That is what the newspapers reported in 1933.
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  477.  @MrRugbylane  What percentage of the indigenous population in the continental USA died between 1600 and 1900? At least 90%, and likely more than 95%, making it one of the most complete genocides.
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  478. Just like the rest of the USA, only a small fraction of the population of Hawaii is comprised of indigenous persons, the rest died directly or indirectly as the result of occupation by European immigrants and their descendants.
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  479.  @GasPipeJimmy  Oh, I see you swallowed a big dose of propaganda.
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  480.  @lrw3984  Those things are not mentioned in polite company.
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  481.  @robertmatch6550  Like the concern for the Chinese by the west that was shown during the Opium War? Black and white good/evil only occurs in fantasy fiction.
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  482.  @wheels-n-tires1846  So you justify one crime with another crime?
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  483. Everyone should watch "Grave of the Fireflies".
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  484.  @alganhar1  Nice strawman you created to attack - rather poor form in a debate. Note that I never said anything about the quality of the individual soldier, just the Italian army in general - Italy invaded both Egypt and Greece, lost considerable territory previously held in the counter-attacks, and had to be bailed out by the Wehrmacht.
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  485. ​ @michaelpiatkowskijr1045  The only Italians worth fighting were the Regia Marina, and in particular their Decima Flottiglia MAS (Motoscafo Anti Sommergibili) frogmen/commandos.
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  486.  @rosiehawtrey  Why are you so kind to Winnie the Poo (sic), the first man to order the use of poison gas on the Kurds? Like many of his family since John Churchill, he overspent and was therefore at the call of his creditors.
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  487.  @kevinlove4356  True, but others are claiming that in defense of actions during WW2, not me.
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  488.  @matthewdouglas8368  - Not so well when multi-tasking by answering chat questions at the same time.
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  489.  @mrcrackerist  - They were still simple minded. 😉
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  490.  @justdags6611  - Note that writing talent may skip generations (try to plow through Effective Cycling some time).
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  491.  @shaider1982  - Was Captain Picard tone deaf like Hornblower, and did he get motion sick at the start of each voyage?
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  492. Drach calls HMS Victory "The Original Fast Battleship".
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  493. @Andreas Glad - The SS Birger Jarl (now MS Baltic Star ) ship commissioned in 1953?
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  494. When HMS Victory re-opens to the public.
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  495. Imagine if the vaccine was delivered by Mark 14 torpedo (pre Admiral King ripping the BoO a new orifice).
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  496. The Continental Airforce of the Ungrateful Colonists that fought the British from 1776 to 1783, providing air-support during the Battle of Covfefe Hill?
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  497. USS Peleliu (LHA-5) Tarawa-class amphibious assault ship currently in inactive reserve.
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  498. At least technically there was no Russian Navy from 1918 to 1991.
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  499. Naval gun barrel manufacture is almost unbelievably long and boring.
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  500. IJN Azuma (née Kōtetsu) was not delivered on time due to stonewalling. Sorry 😜
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  501.  @Gunninator  - I wasn't expecting a kind of Spanish Inquisition.
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  502. Waterloo's greatest loss was during the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal when all five Sullivan brothers died during or after the sinking of USS Juneau.
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  503. I expect to get mine in 2024 or 2025.
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  504. Even the insane barrister (aka BS) got the vaccine shot.
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  505. If Drach is telling Ferry Tales, I would like a 5-Minute Guide (more or less) about the roll-on/roll-off ship F/S Theodor Heuss, which sailed between Rødbyhavn in Sjælland and Puttgarden in Schleswig-Holstein.
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  506.  @teaurn  - Mostly Catalonians mistakenly called Spaniards winning motorcycle races.
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  507. Please add the second (1922) Kamikaze-class destroyers to the every growing backlog of 5-Minute (More or Less) Guide videos to do.
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  508. The crazy Danes keep digging those out of the mud. P.S. I have already told Drach where to go - Vikingeskibsmuseet in Roskilde.
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  509. The rowers of the short galleys were made fun of by those serving on the longer ships.
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  510.  @karlvongazenberg8398  - Hard tack falls between Harvey steel and Krupp steel in penetration resistance. ;)
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  511.  @christopherrestivo1867  - From the videos posted of "exploring the catacombs of the USS Iowa", a spelunking or climbing helmet would not be a bad idea to wear when crawling through all those small hatches.
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  512.  @christopherrestivo1867  - One of those foam cheesehead hats would work for head bump protection while crawling through the hatches in USS Wisconsin. ;)
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  513.  @Christopher-N  - Admiral Nelson: "England expects that every man will do his duty" Admiral Beatty: "Huh?"
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  514. Al Gore is a robot made from wood, and therefore would burn well.
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  515.  @mpetersen6  The voyageurs would carry three bales of beaver hides (about 70 to 90 pounds each) as well as their canoe along this route.
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  516. The fiery demise of the first ship of the name resulted in overcooked Hamburgers. Too soon?
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  517.  @Dilley_G45  - History may only be re-written once it no longer matters. Therefore, the USN no longer need maintain that the USS Maine was attacked by the Spanish, or even that the North Vietnamese torpedo boats in the Gulf of Tonkin Incident* were as real as the IJN ones that the Russian Second Pacific Squadron fired on in the Dogger Bank area in 1905. But there is still a gag order and a high level of classifications about an attack on a certain USN ship a couple of years later, since the truth of that event** would potentially have influence on current politics and policy. *The USN commander of the ships in this now admitted by the US government false flag from whole cloth event was Captain, later Admiral Morrison, father of alleged counter-culture rock hero Jim Morrison of The Doors (check out what the late Dave McGowan wrote about the two). **The history of that ship is one that Drach should not touch even with the pole Archimedes would use to move the planets.
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  518.  @jonathanhill4892  - How many days does it take to look at all the ship models?
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  519. ​ @Dilley_G45  - True, but history is written by the victors (and not necessarily victory in war but also victory in manufactured opinion). In parts of Europe stating that Hitler was merely one of the worst instead of by far the worst risks a hate speech prosecution, and truth is not allowed to be presented as evidence by the defense. But whitewashing of Bolsheviks is acceptable, since many prominent media pundits started out as Trotskyites.
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  520.  @williamstall4420  Search "Christy Moore - Weekend in Amsterdam".
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  521. Does Drach have a visit to Manilla planned?
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  522.  @TheFreaker86  The 3" AA guns on the Des Moines class can rotate up to 720° before the attached cables run out of slack.
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  523. Ryan and Libby need to change the name of their channel to "Hyper Super Duper Dreadnought New Jersey". 😉
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  524.  @stevevernon1978  And some official reports are false, such as the fabricated from whole cloth Gulf of Tonkin (non)Incident, or the reports that the Spanish blew up the USS Maine, when the most likely cause was heat from a coal bunker fire setting off the powder in the adjacent magazine that was only separated by a single sheet bulkhead. Other examples were Kaiser Willy II declaring the Battle of(f) Jutland a decisive German victory, or the many Japanese wartime reports to their public. And of course, any reports from the Soviet Union should be assumed to be at least partially false unless independently verified (Katyn Forest Massacre, anyone?).
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  525.  @unclefester6501  But Drach has told us to go to Wikipedia, and then check out the referenced sources.
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  526.  @keefymckeefface8330  - And with flight times on the order of 1 minute, hitting a target that zig zigs in an irregular pattern will be a matter of dumb luck, no matter how accurate the gun is.
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  527.  @redchopsticks4539  - USN carrier war doctrine - let us build five times as many aircraft carriers as the enemy has.
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  528.  @notshapedforsportivetricks2912  - Nor USS Galena (which is different from the British pronunciation of lead ore). 😉
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  529. Imagine trying to operate a submarine without electrical systems.
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  530.  @jerichom11x  - Drach has produced some grate content on coal fired boilers. 😉
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  531.  @Kevin_Kennelly  - Some parts of the archives have not been opened, since they would upset certain (a)historical narratives to the detriment of certain currently very powerful groups. Whether Putin is an ally of these groups, or is using the threat of releasing certain information as protection from them is hard to say.
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  532. In an alternate universe anything is possible, such as the Mark 7 16-inch gun using single-piece ammunition.
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  533. Is snort a Swedish term? wwwDOTu3DOTse/ENFolder/RunningModes/ENSnortingDOTaspx (replace "DOT" with ".")
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  534. "...if not eliminate fowling when sea creatures attached themselves to the hull of the vessel..." - hawk 559 Fowling is shooting birds (rather unsporting when done with a 40-mm Bofors).
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  535. April 14/15 was previously mentioned. Libby will be busy keeping the peace between Ryan and Drach (j/k 😉).
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  536. Ryan Szimanski tells us that with polymer additives to the powder, barrel life of the Mark 7 guns was extended from about 300 rounds to 1500 rounds. The biggest reason to keep the Iowa class as museum ships is that so much of the ships will have issues due to metal fatigue and stress corrosion that it would be less expensive to build a new one with modern systems.
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  537.  @AdamMGTF  The most obvious circumstantial evidence is the cargo of uranium oxide U-234 was carrying to Japan, but ended up in Little Boy since Kapitänleutnant Fehler turned the submarine and its cargo over to the USA when he learned of Germany's surrender. Other than that, it is leaks about still classified material. Off-topic, but Mt. Fuji is at the intersection of three continental plates; having three plates accounts for much of Japan's unusual geology.
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  538.  @cmedeir  I see a "Universal Bulin" and a "Trial Bulin MkII" in the Azur Lane Wiki.
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  539. Is there a HMS Bullen in Azur Lane? An image search did not turn up anything.
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  540.  @johnbuchman4854  Beer rings? Did you mean Irn Bru rings?
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  541. Explosives would typically be in the 60 to 100 pounds per cubic foot (pcf) range, while iron has a density of about 490 pcf.
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  542.  @jakemillar649  Uchū Senkan Yamato obviously had the best balance between speed, protection, and firepower. 😉
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  543.  @muskyelondragon  - Drach did some videos on building ships in this game a couple of years ago.
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  544.  @johnshepherd8687  Did you consider that the Montana main armor belt would have been inclined at 19°?
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  545.  @johnshepherd8687  The main belt armor design thicknesses are 12.1-inch and 16.1-inch for the Iowa and Montana, respectively. I do not have an armor penetration resistance chart at hand, but a one-third increase in thickness is substantial.
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  546. I like to argue that the Iowa class are actually battlecruisers.
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  547. Will you consider doing a future Rum Ration on Robert Smalls (or at least on his semi-official American Civil War naval career)?
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  548. Living in Iowa is a great treasure?
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  549. World of Warships and USS Iowa reminds me, are they ever going to allow Katie shells in game use? 😜
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  550. Drach should measure the fracture toughness (KIc) of the hard tack.
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  551. Speaking of heads, maybe when Drach gets to visit a Gato class submarine he can have the toilet flushing procedure demonstrated?
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  552. Quaker is the nicest of the Five Smells (said smells commemorated by a stainless steel statue of a toilet brush).
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  553. Other than trying to feed Greek sailors blue cheese.
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  554. I preferred watching Prinz Eugen teach Ayanami, Javelin, Laffey, and Z23 how to make chocolate confectionery (but that scene may be risque enough to offend the prudish).
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  555. Wray & Nephew sells 126 proof rum.
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  556. The Iowa class used steam from the boilers.
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  557. Did HMS Drach sail to Iceland for the raw materials? Sorry ;)
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  558. "ROAST BEEF OF OLD ENGLAND - SONGS OF THE ROYAL NAVY" YouTube ID: bUxSZeYJlhI
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  559. The fun ones are Anglicizations of French transliterations of American Indian names, e.g. USS Keokuk.
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  560.  @jasondouglas6755  - Naval: to do with warships. Navel: where the umbilical used to attach to a fetus.
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  561. The sailors ate "naval" oranges. ;)
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  562.  @celticogham1235  - You will find answers here: https://youtu.be/xCkfPeMls7s
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  563. I recall seeing mines on display (presumably with their fuses and bursting charges removed) along the harbour walls in Christianshavn (think front row viewing of the first and second Battles of Copenhagen). All were turquoise green. Was this to make them harder to see in the Baltic, and would the colour of sea mines vary by their planned location of use? Also, why does Mrs. Drach voice sea mines with squeaky voices - is there a cultural reference?
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  564. Back in my day, I had to read words printed with ink on bound papers instead. ;) Douglas Reeman also wrote historical naval novels about the Napoleonic Wars, but used the pen name Alexander Kent for them.
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  565. On the roof rack of a FIAT 500 "Topolino" is how a ship would get to Bologna, of course. ;)
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  566. Samuel Eliot Morison (makes it easier to find with a search engine).
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  567. Check out "Hellstorm: The Death Of Nazi Germany, 1944-1947" by Thomas Goodrich. As JRR Tolkien said, "there are plenty of orcs on both sides".
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  568. Both the L/60 and L/70 versions of the Bofors 40-mm autocannon have been used extensively on land, both as auxiliary guns on tanks and main guns on APCs and similar light armored vehicles (and of course as AA weapons). Drach is still accenting syllables (not done in the hundreds of hours of anime I have watched - always subbed, never dubbed), or as mentioned in his own guest narrated videos on how to pronounce Japanese warship names.
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  569. As usual, the war profiteers were the real winners.
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  570. YouTube does auto subtitles/closed captions (click on the white rectangle with "cc" in it), but sometimes they come out odd, such as "Admiral Donuts" for "Admiral Dönitz".
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  571. When and where did the USN have Hawker Typhoon aircraft in service?
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  572. Our four weapons are intel, radar, surprise....
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  573. With things such as the 3M-54 Kalibr being in existence (not to mention beer can size tactical nuclear warheads with 0.1 to 0.5-kT yields), the Jeune École is making a return since large surface ships will not survive more than a few minutes in littoral zones.
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  574. So the USN does not have garbage scows?
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  575. Should have used HMCS Asbestos (after the WW2 era Flower-class corvette).
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  576. The UK grocery store chain Iceland?
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  577. How about (in the far distant future) a Wednesday Rum Ration on the "Destroyers for Bases Agreement"?
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  578. Crossing the USA on say I-70 leaves about a 1,300-miles stretch from just east of Columbus, OH to just west of Denver, CO in which there is nothing to see. Go north to I-80 and gap of nothingness extends to about 1,700 miles (roughly Cleveland, OH to Salt Lake City, UT).
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  579.  @jeebus6263  - Would need another "l" for that.
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  580.  @clarkevanmeter2676  - Drive from the west side of the Appalachian Mountains foothills to the east side of the Rocky Mountains foothills and report back on what you see along the way.
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  581.  @clarkevanmeter2676  - 600 to 800 miles of corn (maize) and bean monoculture followed by a similar stretch of range land is in practical terms nothing to see.
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  582. Presumably Drach's model does not contain large amounts of asbestos, PCBs, and other hazardous materials.
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  583. I have known people to cross the USA in 3 days on a motorcycle, but they are considered insane.
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  584. Are not international civil navigation regulations typically ignored during wartime by belligerents?
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  585. Amtrak uses freight lines where freight trains have the right-of-way, and often runs a day or two late.
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  586. Episode 13².
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  587. Every truck stop would have space to park an RV, if you do not mind the sound of a few dozen idling large diesel engines.
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  588.  @themightynanto3158  - About as well as HMS Captain.
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  589.  @ousou78  - Agree that Season 1 was a mess, which is why Slow Ahead! (Season 1.5?) slice-of-life at the Azur Lane naval academy is a better show.
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  590. Azur Lane: Bisoku Zenshin! (Slow Ahead!) was a better show.
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  591. Drach only has 168 hours per week in which to produce content.
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  592. The Charpy impact test was developed over the years 1896 to 1901. When was the Charpy (or similar test) first used by naval architects to determine the ductile-brittle transition temperature of structural steel?
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  593. Regarding the "boring era of naval history: Does it extend back to 1055? Was William of Normandy's (aka William I of England) invasion fleet merely transport ships, and are there any records of the numbers and types of ships? If he had not been busy fighting Scandinavians in the north, would Harold Godwinson have even though of or tried to oppose the landing of the Normans, or would he have only thought of challenging them in a land battle after they landed?
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  594. The Iowa class galleys use steam per Ryan Szimanski; however, part of the agreement with the USN to have them turned over as museum ships was to never use any of the on-board steam systems (600 psi steam in an old pipe that likely has stress corrosion fatigue is asking to accidently boil someone alive).
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  595. Regarding arming modern merchant ships (and trucks and railroads), this is an ad from Concern Agat for its Club-K Container Missile System (put "mbUU_9bOcnM" in the YouTube search window). Not going to win a war with a system such as this, but the potential to take down a few enemy ships, air-bases, or armored formations may be enough to deter bullying by countries with large arsenals but little public acceptance for mass casualties of its own forces.
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  596.  @TBone-bz9mp  - One mol of floaty logs could defeat the USS Nimitz. Of course there is the slight problem that if each floaty log was made from 30-kg of wood and had a plan area of 10 square meters, one mol of them would have a mass three times that of the earth, and they would have to be stacked 16.7 billion high to fit on the Earth's oceans.
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  597. We Die Like Flies (British Western Desert Lighter Flotilla) in the Mediterranean Sea in WW2. Possible subject of a future Wednesday Rum Ration?
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  598. No Gato class boats to fire some more torpedoes at the two remaining IJN cruisers and five destroyers after nightfall?
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  599.  @gwtpictgwtpict4214  - Indeed, never have come across anyone calling the engagement "The Battle Off Jutland" even though of course none of the action took place in Jutland.
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  600.  @ledhceb  - Battle damage such as Rodney doing the traditional (in Japan) watermelon splitting with her main battery and sending the destroyers' BBQ ingredients flying into the sky? Or Laffey falling asleep (what a surprise) on the beach and getting sunburn?
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  601. All the cruiser and battleship "ship girls" are too likely to capsize from being, um "top heavy". 😜
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  602.  @HighlanderNorth1  - Several unexplained sinkings have been from the Kool Aid man bursting in through the side of the ship after he was mentioned. 😉
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  603.  @logion567  - How many ends does a circle have?
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  604. Gross 😉
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  605. A cargo of almonds would have been an extremely valuable prize for a privateer.
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  606.  @khaelamensha3624  Better than dubious French transliterations of American Indian names such as "Keokuk".
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  607. Sake Saki is a girl's name.
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  608.  @uristmcary  Absolute gun accuracy at 40,000 yards would be shots landing within a 300 to 500 yard circle, so with a spread of 9 shots getting 1 or 2 to hit a 250 to 300 yard target is not impossible if the range is determined correctly. But with range finding errors, hits might drop to less than 1 per every 20 salvos or more.
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  609.  @danielmartin7838  CCP? Do you mean PLAN (People's Liberation Army Navy)?
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  610.  @uristmcary  The flight time of a shell is so long that if the ship being targeted sees the muzzle flash and changes course, an otherwise perfectly aimed salvo will miss. This is why hits at over 20,000 yards are very rare occurrences.
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  611.  @jorisammerlaan  Typical* fast cruise for a blimp would be 35 knots with a top speed of about 40 knots. Dirigibles are typically a bit faster, with fast cruise and top speeds of about 50 knots and 60 knots, respectively. The use of airships in ASW would be a good topic for a Wednesday Rum Ration. But we will let Drach skip breathing in helium while doing the narration. 😉 * At least these are close to the cited figures for the Goodyear blimps and their replacement Zeppelin** NT semi-rigid dirigibles. ** Yes, the same company founded by Graf Zeppelin (the man, not the dirigible or aircraft carrier) in 1908.
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  612. I want to see both internal (books falling off the shelves) and external (bookcases falling over) stability calculations for Drach's library. 🙃
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  613.  @betsydierlam561  Still would have been converted into a space battleship. 😉
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  614.  @trauko1388  Nice Mr. Putin has stated if Russia is attacked with tactical nuclear weapons in a first strike scenario, Russia may respond with strategic nuclear weapons. No statement from USA/NATO, as they do not publicly acknowledge the existence of 5th and 6th generation low yield nuclear munitions.
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  615. With the victors writing the history books, "Winnie the Poo" (💩 not 🐻) has his many sins glossed over. Fortunately for him, there were some even worse contemporaries.
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