Comments by "WALTERBROADDUS" (@WALTERBROADDUS) on "The Drydock - Episode 257 (Part 1)" video.

In regards to the question about interwar technology development. As important as radar was. I would like to make a case for the operational use underway replenishment. While there had been experiments in the past. The active use of Navies being able to refuel underway from oilers And resupply under power really grew in this time frame. The ability of ships to operate for extended periods without the need to dock in port; was critical to operating Worldwide.
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@carloschristanio4709 the answer to that question shows up later that year. Wasp and Hornet get sunk. Saratoga gets torpedoed. And Enterprise severely damaged. USS Essex, lead ship of her class would not even be in commission until December of 1942.
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 @themanformerlyknownascomme777 are you asking when the need for multi-role fighter capability for aircraft became a priority? Rather than have designated attack aircraft?
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@stevevalley7835 this is really confusing as a question. As the term fighter bomber predates the multi-role concept. But you are correct in that the need to consolidate aircraft types; the f-111story is a major milestone.
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@haydenfletcher6227 if you mean night vision as in its modern guise? The answer is no. It's sort of predates the electronic era. You had early infrared spotlights that could be seen. But nothing in the modern sense of night vision goggles and thermal imaging.
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@carloschristanio4709 well as I stated in the answer previous, basically the situation did occur later in 1942. Two carriers sunk. One torpedoed and out of action. Enterprise damaged and alone till early 1943.
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Your kind of mixing apples and oranges a bit. The Gatling gun faded from use because of the superior technology of true machine guns. A powered Gatling guns advantage is that the multiple barrels able to fire and resist over heating while keeping up a high rate of fire. The cons of that is a rather bulky mounting requiring significant power and ammunition feeding. CWIS was was developed with the specific task of being a last-ditch defense of anti-ship missiles. These were small high-speed targets that may not have been stopped by anti-missiles or dual purpose gunfire. You are trying to make it into some sort of all around solution to air defense that everyone should have just jumped on? It's a little bit more complex than that. It requires not just the gun itself. But the whole fire control and the radar tracking system.
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