Comments by "Vikki McDonough" (@vikkimcdonough6153) on "The Drydock - Episode 275" video.

  1. 08:58 - That's one of the reasons (albeit, to be fair, a fairly-minor one, as rearmoring a ship is a fairly-rare occurrence) using armor as a structural element is generally a dumb idea, alongside "armor steel, even the relatively-supple backing layer, is quite brittle compared to structural steel, and normal flexing of the ship's structure could well snap the armor plate right in half" and "even if you somehow made armor steel no more brittle than structural steel without compromising its protective ability, by integrating the armor into the ship's structure you're coupling all the cyclical stresses encountered by the ship's structure into the armor, which will badly compromise its protective ability via progressive fatigue cracking". 11:03 - You say "absurdly-too-well-protected", I say "future-proofed against enemies introducing bigger and better guns". 33:54 - And, on the flip side of things, we have Aki and the Dantons, which, despite only being semidreadnoughts, use steam turbines and thus can just about keep pace with Dreadnought. 35:34 - By that definition, the Kawachis aren't dreadnoughts either! 38:58 - And, if the air attacks do start to do them serious damage, in extremis they can run themselves aground and fight on from there.
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