Comments by "WALTERBROADDUS" (@WALTERBROADDUS) on "The Drydock - Episode 064" video.

  1.  @jb76489  You answered your own question. Ships with now tubes required you to turn bow to target. They were not useful or used much.
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  2.  @JYF921  Why? Obvious answer is they were Communists. 🤨
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  3.  @nickboy3024  There was little Navy left afloat to fight. And little fuel for what they had. Obvious answer? Not much... 🤨
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  4.  @Volunteer-per-order_OSullivan  escort carriers from World War 2? First, were not built for long service. use. Their role in ASW work was filled by Essex class ships. Due to their size, the small carriers could not operate modern planes. Even in the role of helicopter carrier; the escort carriers would be again too small. The first helicopter carriers were Essex class ships converted for helicopter use. Most small carriers would have no room to carry Marines. Lastly, the Cold War lead to a change in Maritime commercial ships. Liberty ships were replaced by larger & faster container ships. Escort carriers would be too slow to escort those vessels.
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  5.  @bkjeong4302  for a initial invasion they might have built the needed seaLift. Rather than capturing a beach; they would use paratroopers to secure a port. Then shuttle men over the Channel. With a port, they could offload trucks and tanks.
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  6.  @mitchelloates9406  to a certain degree being locked in a fjord is a soft kill. There were no cranes. No dry docks. No fuel tanks. No ammo storage dumps. It was just a sheltered place to anchor. Not a real shipyard.
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  7.  @NM-wd7kx  Calibre is the English or Imperial measure system for firearms and artillery. It is the internal diameter or bore of a gun barrel. Is usually expressed in hundreds or thousands of an inch and typically written as a decimal fraction.
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  8.  @Kris-qy7hh  A guided Missile Cruiser in 1950? Just what system would this be? And is the mission surface warfare, air defense or some cruise missile platform? 🤔
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  9.  @reluctantbias8508  It takes a lot to sink a ship. See here https://youtu.be/4a_UWBDxBZc Now wonder how many hits a BB can take....we had ship survive nuke blasts and not sink. Crew would be fried and radiated. But they were still afloat.
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  10. That's not quite a good comparison.
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  11. For a film on early Acoustic torpedos... https://youtu.be/svIvwPvtlrc
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  12. Today wreck finders have found the IJN Akagi! The 2nd of two Japanese Carriers lost at Midway. Last week the same group Found the Kaga. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2019/10/21/wwii-battle-midway-japanese-aircraft-carrier-found-deep-sea/4052226002/
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  13. The wreck of the IJN Kaga sunk at the Battle of Midway was finally found. https://youtu.be/0yMM72Qg6MY
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  14. https://youtu.be/NwPHalFGKkg
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  15.  @chrisdelano2038  New technology. Tactics take longer to develop, than the tech. Torpedos were more useful than ramming would have been. The issue is, the Battleships rarely got in range to use them.
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  16.  @kemarisite  What Battleship had side and stern tubes submerged?
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  17.  @Volunteer-per-order_OSullivan  Most of those buyers got a better deal on RN Light fleet carriers.
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  18.  @kemarisite  Dreadnought, was kinda of a technology demonstrator. Much like the DDG 1000 of today. They kinda put everything new and cool on it. With experience, all learned what worked and what was silly. I do think a deck launcher, like the float plane is a nifty extra to have.
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  19.  @CharlesStearman  Also there is the cost add duplication of Army tasks.
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  20.  @CharlesStearman  The question is more about sonar use and targeting.
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  21.  @The_New_IKB  Because they are British. And that is the British way....
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