Comments by "Vikki McDonough" (@vikkimcdonough6153) on "Frederick 'Johnnie' Walker - U-Boats Flee u0026 One Last Voyage (Part 4 - Jan to July 1944)" video.

  1. 1. For a battleship, is having a citadel too small to keep the ship afloat on its own really a disadvantage? Minimizing the size of the citadel does allow for the thickest-possible belt and deck armor (or, alternatively, for armor weight to be minimized while maintaining thickness, thus freeing up displacement for more machinery or more gun, as seen with the London-era designs for Kongō replacements); while a larger citadel might technically allow a ship to remain afloat even if its ends are riddled and flooded, this sort of damage'll still massively slow the ship and leave it a sitting duck to be coup-de-graced at leisure, and making the citadel larger requires either thinner armor (increasing the risk of critical hits to the citadel) or a sacrifice of machinery or armament (making the ship offensively weaker and giving its opponents more opportunity to pound it into submission). Does losing the (theoretical, as mentioned above) ability to survive with the rest of the ship completely riddled and flooded really outweigh the increase in your ability to take down your opponents while no-selling would-be critical hits? 2. Why did the German hexagonal dreadnoughts slow down so badly in turns? Given that the increase in the frontal area that a ship presents to the oncoming waterflow at a given sideslip angle is relatively lower for a fat, low-aspect-ratio ship like a Nassau than it is for a ship with a higher aspect ratio, one would've thought that the early German dreads would've been less affected by turn-induced increases in drag than most other dreadnoughts. Did their low aspect ratio allow them to yaw quickly enough to cause them, when turning, to reach a sideslip angle so much higher than that of a finer-lined ship as to outweigh the lesser increase in frontal area for a given sideslip angle?
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