Comments by "Frank DeMaris" (@kemarisite) on "The Drydock - Episode 115" video.

I could see him saying, "Take that armor off, it's too slow for a large light cruiser."
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From the window of his armored hotel.
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@niclasjohansson4333 Washington shot Kirishima up from about 8,500 yards. The British battleships at Matapan crept up to about 3,500 yards from the Italian cruisers.
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@jimtalbott9535 that question needs to be clarified a little. You asked about the electrical-mechanical fire control system vs the unaided eye, which could mean just looking over the top of the barrel and trying to time the roll of the ship. If that's what you meant, then the difference is huge, taking practical gunnery ranges from hundreds to a few thousand yards out to well over 10,000 yards. What I suspect t you meant, though, has to do with optical range finding vs radar range finding, with the mechanical ballistic computer remaining the same. In that case, it really depends on the quality of the rangefinders and the conditions of the engagement. A ship with a number of high quality optical rangefinders (Italian or Japanese, for example) in a good weather daylight engagement would have no real disadvantage against an opponent with fire control radar, even a good one like the later war US Mark 8. At night (Surigao Strait or 2nd Naval Battle of Guadalcanal), or in bad weather (North Cape) fire control radar ranging can provide a huge advantage over optical ranging.
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@georgea.567 remember that happened in November 1942, at a time the Italian and German navies (except submarines and light forces) were largely bottled up from lack of fuel. It would certainly reinforce the defences at Toulon assuming the ships weren't scuttled by the Germans following Operation Dragoon. To really get use out of those ships, the Germans needed them in 1940, maybe early '41.
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@wildancrazy159 copy it and paste, I noticed that it wasn't acting as a link.
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@Alex-cw3rz difficult to imagine a radio-controlled torpedo working, since water will interfere with the radio transmissions. Wikipedia notes that the claim of radio guided torpedoes desperately needs a citation. Even today, torpedoes are sent guidance commands through wires back to the launching submarine. But yes, the P.108A appears to have had a single example built, which was captured by the Germans when Italy surrendered.
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@vshadofe there are a lot of votes, from many different navies, for the layout of two superfiring turrets forward and one aft.
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@LiveErrors navweaps has a note about the US Mark 13 and 14 high capacity 16" shells potentially replacing the normal contact nose fuse with a mechanical time fuse for AA use. The biggest problem with using such large guns and mounts for AA is their inability to train and elevate fast enough to be useful.
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@LiveErrors roughly. But ships under torpedo bomber attack were already firing main battery guns to try to swat torpedo bombers with the fountain of water. And by the last year of the war US torpedo bombers were releasing weapons from up to about 5,000 feet and 400 knots airspeed, dropping from as much as 3,000 yards from the target, so "low and slow" torpedo bombers were also becaming a thing of the past.
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@WALTERBROADDUS waste time on what?
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@niclasjohansson4333 according to this transcript of the after action report, (http://www.usswashington.com/1stbatt.htm), "From 0100 to 0107 fired 75 rounds 16'' and 107 rounds 5" at ranges from 8,400 to 12,650 yards, at battleship northwest of Savo which was firing at SOUTH DAKOTA. This battleship was silenced and was subsequently tracked by radar through a 500-degree turn." According to some Japanese reporting, Washington scored 20 16" hits, with some appearing to fall short but hitting below the waterline and at least two from a single salvo hitting so close together they appeared to be a single hit. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://www.navweaps.com/index_lundgren/Kirishima_Damage_Analysis.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwjb5fe3vK3sAhUOQ80KHS0nD40QFjAAegQIBRAB&usg=AOvVaw3n2Ht8z_60L4gFruHt4yZf&cshid=1602451956385
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I'm thinking of the army of slaves aboard a battle barge in Battle Fleet Gothic.
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@DurinSBane-zh9hj as seen in this picture of a KGV class battleship (https://images.app.goo.gl/yW3mcZA2GTXbppMo7), the portholes exist outside the main armor belt. So no, they're not in a position to weaken the armor scheme.
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