Comments by "Katy" (@KatyushaLauncher) on "The Loss of HMS Hood - But why did it blow up??" video.

  1.  @Dave5843-d9m  That was only Beatty's stupidity not the entire the Royal Navy
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  2. Here we go, let's see where this goes Edit:Now that I watched the whole video, damn that was a very lucky hit.
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  3. You have to watch the video to fully understand what he's saying
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  4.  @trauko1388  Nice job putting a wall of text without actually giving me an answer, I argued that the British never stacked the cordite for faster fire rate AFTER Jutland, the text you have provided me literally says "At Jutland". The Royal Navy as a whole was not a glass jaw, that was only the Battlecruisers, The Battleships of the Grand Fleet were certainly able to take hits, you can look at HMS Warspite.
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  5.  @treyhelms5282  Firstly the British Battlecruisers at Jutland didn't engage the German Battleships, Secondly it didn't happen repeatedly, as explained by the video the one shell that doomed the Hood landed in the most specific and luckiest part of the ship.
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  6.  El Guapo mas macho  Not Really, British Battlecruisers that were lost on combat were HMS Indefatigable, HMS Queen Mary, HMS Invincible, HMS Repulse, and HMS Hood, 5 Battlecruisers isn't even half of British Battlecruisers that were built
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  7. What's wrong with further analyzing a mystery of her loss?
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  8. Bismarck did not put a shell to the magazines directly as pointed out the angle is not enough to make that happen
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  9. Bismarck's guns were as large as Hood's, HMS Hood's armor is almost as thick as Bismarck's, the shell that doomed Hood did not hit her main ammunition as the angle is not enough. Maybe read a book or watch the actual video so People don't have to waste their time reading your comment
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  10.  @Trip0905  HMS Rodney and Nelson had 16 inch guns that were larger and more numerous than Bismarck's
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  11. I don't need to thank you because you wasted much more time, it is not possible in those kinds of angles and ranges for Bismarck to hit Hood's Main magazines directly
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  12. Nope, a direct hit to the magazines is almost impossible at those angles and ranges, watch the video
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  13. This wasn't mentioned in the video but Prinz Eugen had already switched her fire to Prince of Wales before Hood had even exploded meaning the shell that doomed Hood can only be from Bismarck
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  14.  @quattuorperquattuor1711  Those torpedoes were detected by the hydrophones at 0604 and to put that in normal time it's 6:04 AM in the Denmark Straits, that's not in the middle of night and there's the fact that visibility and weather improved in the early morning of the 24th of May 1941, those torpedo tracks can certainly be true as the visibility is enough. Even if those torpedoes were not detected, the Germans are still not going to save any survivors, do you really think that they're going to stop in middle of the sea to pick up survivors while 2 Royal Navy Cruisers are closing in behind them? Kapitän Brinkmann's account and the hydrophones detection do correlate with each other, I'm believing the people that were actually there in the battle
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  15.  @adamsan7494  https://youtu.be/NmGSrvQ1qC0, he talks about it at 22:12
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  16. Hood's wreck is missing the amidship so no matter how many times you go there, unless you could find that missing piece there is no evidence to fully ascertain her loss
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  17. HMS Hood was technically a Fast Battleship, she had Battleship grade armor
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  18.  @lord_crush777  The Nelson-class actually did have thicker armor and was better protected than the Bismarck-class
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  19. But do you know specifically what that shell did? If not then maybe you should actually watch the video
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  20. http://www.hmshood.com/history/construct/repair42.htm#:~:text=In%20the%20late%201930s%2C%20Hood,candidate%20for%20a%20major%20reconstruction.&text=Hood%20herself%20was%20certainly%20no,the%20time%20of%20her%20loss. Here's a website that details what modifications Hood could have gotten had she survived
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  21. Nope, only a small amount of British Battlecruisers blew up in combat
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  22.  @skdKitsune  Did you watch the video? It is explained that in an approximate range of 19,000 yards the angle of Bismarck's shell would not have hit the Hood's magazines directly. Can you give an example in which he quote on quote "shits on the German navy"? He shits more on David Beatty than the history of the German Navy, I mean the Germans also have their shenanigans like "oh we scuttled our ship, you didn't sink the Bismarck"
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  23. That's not what he's arguing about
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  24. No reports from the survivors says that had happened
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  25. Hood was never overhyped, also a majority of us don't need a short answer, we need a full and detailed explanation
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  26. Hood didn't even begin to turn or just began to turn when the fatal shell hit her so that doesn't really change the angle of Bismarck's shell by any significant margin
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  27. Have you seen the video? Plunging fire at those ranges would mean that the ship in question would have an elevation of a mortar
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  28. Only 5 British Battlecruisers were lost in combat and all 5 of them had different reasons for sinking
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  29. Watch the video, there are no evidence that the forward magazines had exploded
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  30. Hood was a Battlecruiser
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  31. An inclined 12 inch belt will stop a 15 inch shell at certain ranges
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  32. No evidence supports that, after what happened at Jutland, the Royal Navy made it so that it will never happen again
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  33. Bismarck was inferior to the British battleships such as the Nelson-class and King George V-class battleships
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  34. It's a detailed explanation
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  35. It's not just a wooden deck, Underneath that wooden is the real armor which of course Hood had
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  36. Also even though Hood was old, she still had armor contemporary to those of even the Queen Elizabeth-class of Battleships
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  37. If you really are an eighth year old then that's one of the typical answers but that's not what happened, the shell that doomed Hood hit either the upper belt or the theory that Drach had explained
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  38. Hood was very different from other Battlecruisers since effectively Hood was the First Fast Battleship since she had armor contemporary to the Queen Elizabeth-class of Battleships
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  39. Technically yes
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  40. We want a full explanation and 42 minutes is a generous amount of time, so yes he did have to make it a 42 minute video
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  41.  @quattuorperquattuor1711  No Submarine was ever near the Denmark Straits
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  42.  @quattuorperquattuor1711  Hood is the only one that could have fired those torpedoes, No other ship besides Hood and Prinz Eugen herself had Torpedoes and of course no Destroyer was present at the Battle of the Denmark Straits
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  43. Prinz Eugen detected Torpedoes through her hydrophones and as far as I know her hydrophones were working correctly before and after the Battle of the Denmark Straits
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  44. We don't want a short version, we want a full detailed explanation
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  45. All Battleships have explosives in them, what matters is how and what the process of that explosion happening
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  46. Holland's tactic was fair and could have given Hood the fighting chance she needed if that one lucky shell from Bismarck didn't hit, closing in the distance because Hood is weak to plunging fire is a sound and reasonable choice
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  47. Not every British Battlecruiser exploded
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  48. The Whole "Hood exploded like the Battlecruisers at Jutland did" is already ruled out and not possible because that problem had already been fixed after Jutland had already ended
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  49.  @briandickinson9383  Problem that was fixed was obviously the opening of the Blast doors and the improper stacking of cordite charges, thr practice was used by Beatty which of course doomed a majority of the Battlecruisers at Jutland, but that foolish practice was abolished and abandoned after Jutland, British reports did state that the problem had already been completely fixed by late WW1. And the ones who ruled that possibly out is anyone in the Royal Navy that's in the right mind knowing that Hood may be old and decrepit but still didn't have same Problems as Battlecruisers before
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  50.  @briandickinson9383  Well if you rule out all the impossibles then the only thing that remains no matter how improbable must be the truth, his theory is sound and solid throughout, but there are still people that try to say things like "Hood was turning so the angle of the shells is different" even though as explained that Hood wasn't even turning or only just begun her turn when the shell hit. In the end his logic is the most possible out of every known causes of Hood's demise, so even though the mystery of Hood's explosion is quite shrouded, it's a step in the right direction
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  51. Go watch his video on the Refit on Hood, he will explain everything there as well
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  52.  @hlmc00  No, most modern Battleships of WW2 did not equip Torpedoes except for German Battleships since their torpedoes are exclusively used only for sinking merchant ships. And Yamato nor Musashi did not carry any sort of torpedoes
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  53. Can't you understand simple English?
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  54.  @petebach7221  Thanks for suggestion but most of us want clear explanation not visuals, we are not children that get bored so easily
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  55.  @petebach7221  Oh I'm not the creator of this video but I will forward your suggestion to Drachinifel himself.
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  56. Go watch his refit on Hood video where he explains it much more further but let's see here, Hood was only beginning to turn when the shot hit her, Hood had inertia meaning to say that when Hood turned it will actually take 5-10 seconds before she actually changes direction
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  57. The ammunition expenditure of Prinz Eugen did survive, through out her engagement with Hood, Prinz Eugen only fired HE shells at her
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  58. Did you actually watch the full video and learned there are many factors to the loss of the Hood?
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  59.  @trevoror8668  If you're argument is based around the magazines then No, you really must watch the video. The fall of angle on Bismarck's shells is not enough to penetrate Hood's main magazines directly wether that may be the forward or aft magazines, Bismarck was also firing Armor Piercing shells by the way. The Hood did not vanish in one massive explosion they don't magic in naval gunnery, the magazines were definitely set off but I'm not really about the the forward magazines exploding in Hood's wreck yes her still has a large portion of her forward structure and the forward magazines there are still somewhat intact
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  60.  @demonprinces17  No that was only at Jutland after that it was abolished and never used again
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  61.  @trevoror8668  The Shell that doomed Hood did not penetrate between the bridge, it landed somewhere amidships as many witnesses of Prince of Wales has stated. You've studied this subject endlessly? No, you clearly have not studied this enough, you were in the navy and so was your grandfather? So what? It's not like you were aboard Hood or Prince of Wales at the time
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  62. Why would a Japanese submarine be in the Denmark Straits? Are you ok or something?
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  63.  @stevenmajor9513  The only Alien here is you
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  64.  @stevenmajor9513  Well I'm not the one spouting nonsense, am I?
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  65. Prinz Eugen had known about incoming torpedoes through her hydrophones, since that working correctly it's quite unlikely an error would occur
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  66.  @gsmurfen74  That weak deck armor is heavily overblown, Hood had 3 inches of deck armor which was contemporary to battleships at the time and also you don't need to factor the deck armor as explained that the shell that doomed Hood most likely came from the hit through the 7 inch upper belt armor
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  67. Watch the video, there's much more to know about
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  68.  @001radek  The more you try, the higher the chances of reaching the truth. Leaving something unresolved just means you don't have the courage to pursue the truth
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  69. I believe he already answered why the 25mm was so bad in one of his drydock videos
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  70. What's wrong with solving a mystery that's going on for almost a decade now?
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  71.  @tomhorn6679  Eugen only had the capabilities of hurting Hood, not sinking her. Also if you watched the video, there are no indications that even the forward magazines had exploded
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  72. I mean yeah, the Torpedo hit on Bismarck's rudder is lucky, everyone knows that fact
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  73. Bismarck was built as a Battleship
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  74.  @Dave5843-d9m  Well it certainly was overkill, I mean an armed merchant ship is a better commerce than Bismarck
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  75. Bismarck still won but that shot is now insanely lucky
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  76. No evidences support that theory, the "Repeat Jutland" theory is very much discarded
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  77. Nothing of the sort happened
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  78.  @tomhorn6679  Prinz Eugen only started a fire in the boat deck nothing more
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  79. Prinz Eugen was firing HE shells at Hood so no way that's going to sink Hood
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  80. Only 5 British Battlecruisers were lost in combat, a majority survived their fights
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  81. Hood's deck armor was 3 inches, that's standard for any battleship at the time
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  82. Jutland has only showed that Beatty should never have commanded the Battlecruiser squadron, also Hood was far from being an ordinary Battlecruiser, she had armor on par with even the Queen Elizabeth-class of Battleships
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  83.  @manilajohn0182  I have to say that Kirishima is still not a Fast Battleship, I mean a Refitted HMS Renown had thicker armor than any of the Kongos and Renown was still called a Battlecruiser
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  84.  @sotabaka  In displacement not really, Hood at full load is 47k tons but Bismarck also at full load is 52k tons
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  85. Yeah but with this most possible theory, she got clapped by an Insanely lucky shot, much more lucky than the direct hit to the magazines
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  86. Bismarck fired multiple shells before actually hitting Hood
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  87. After the Battle Of Jutland, the stacking of cordite was of course abolished and never used again
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  88. Hood offered the same protection as the Queen Elizabeth-class of Battleships
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  89. Technically Biscuit had borrowed a scope since she had Eugen meaning Eugen could use her radar pass the information to Bismarck
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  90. At least his reconstruction has more truths than the bullet
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  91. Kind of? You see Hood never fully completed her turn well because she exploded for obvious reasons
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  92. Smoke from that era is not that visible more so if you take an old picture of it, that's why it looks like there isn't any smoke
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  93. The British had more to boast, they sunk the Bismarck and in doing so the Germans no longer used capital ships in the Atlantic to commerce raid
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  94.  @trauko1388  No, if you actually know anything about history, you would know that after Jutland the order of loading cordite for faster firing rate was discontinued and never used again. The Germans were lucky
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  95. King of the Ocean? Quite a preposterous title for a ship that couldn't even achieve it's true goal
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  96. Yes Captain Obvious but the questions were what did that shell do? What are the factors in her sinking? Who was the most likely culprit?
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  97.  @pavelneuzil6457  it was more luck, go watch the whole video. Hood was not hit in the magazines directly
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  98. Have you watched the video? The angles are certainly not enough for a direct hit to the magazines
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  99.  @xenophonBC  But you said "no torpedo hits to the rudder" that only happened after the Battle of the Denmark Straits
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  100. Have read about History again, there are no evidence that Hood blew up the same as the Battlecruisers at Jutland. After Jutland that High Far Rate by opening the blast doors was abandoned and Never Used Again
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  101.  @Axelfl6161  Well if you're so certain then can you provide this books that says that they made the mistake after Jutland and up to WW2?
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  102.  @xenophonBC  it'll pretty much be the same, Bismarck with continues salvoes would straddle Rodney but Rodney would hit Bismarck's forward superstructure and the battle would go almost accordingly to real life
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  103.  @oldschoolfoil2365  Well naval history is pretty interesting but to be completely honest I just got into it because I played a gacha game related to ships and Naval History
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  104. RNG will always be RNG, it'll either be your Goddess of Victory or your Angel of Death
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  105. Hood was far from being one of the Royal Navy's great ships
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  106. You go to the alternate history video that Drach had made
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  107.  @xenophonBC  In Bismarck's last engagement It only took 30 minutes to render Bismarck inoperable and that was only done by HMS Rodney alone, also as Bismarck went down she pretty much had lost a large majority of her superstructure. And of you watched the entire video, it was more of luck that ended the Hood
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  108. Because they were still battling with Bismarck and Prinz Eugen?
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  109. Why claim something that has no factual evidence of being true?
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  110. Really? If Bismarck was such boss then she shouldn't have abandoned her mission of commerce raiding after she got hit 2 times by Prince of Wales
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  111. Hood had armor on par with the Queen Elizabeth-class of battleships
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  112. But blew up in the most insanely lucky time and have to factor every possibility. Most of us don't need a shortened explanation
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  113. Well statistically both Hood and Bismarck were evenly match but comparing the Old and the New is very skewed
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  114. Watch the video, plunging fire is impossible at those ranges
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  115.  @Newie67  Bismarck had six months of being worked up? That's not in a hurried state. The Bismarck when sank had an anti-aircraft batteries of 2 cm Flak 30, 3.7 cm SK C/30, 10.5 cm Flak 3 all of which are not outdated in any way
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  116. https://youtu.be/NmGSrvQ1qC0 His video At 22:12 might paint a very different picture
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  117. Have you watched the video? At approximately 19,000 yards, you need an elevation similar to a mortar, Bismarck and Eugen didn't have that kinds of elevation
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  118. Yeah, the Bismarck's 15 inch shell did not hit Hood's main magazines directly, watch the video
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  119. 3 inches of Deck armor is contemporary to other Battleships at the time
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  120. They could have also rolled Nat 20s
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  121. Bismarck was no better than Hood in terms of capabilities, both ships carried the Obsolete Incremental Armor Layout and the same Obsolete 4 Twin Turret layout, Hood's armor belt offered more protection than Bismarck's and Hood also had a slightly heavier broadside weight than Bismarck. Bismarck really only benefitted on being a newer built ship than Hood which was in a decrepit state
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  122. Nobody wants am easy answer, we want a full detailed answer. And also the Bismarck was only slightly better than Hood even when Hood was Unmodernised
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  123. A refit would actually save Hood a fair amount, because if Hood had gotten her refit then her armor, radar, and fire control of would be much more up to date meaning Holland would no longer need to close in the distance thus increasing the chances of Hood surviving
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  124. Scharnhorst is hundreds of miles away at Brest being repaired and would not be fully operational until months after May 1941 and Tirpitz wasn't even fully operational until January 1942. The Germans aren't going to wait for next year just to launch Operational Rheinübung and the British would be much stronger than before in 1942
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  125. Probably the hit to the main magazines since it was the most plausible at the time but as Drach had pointed out, that possibly is very very low
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  126.  @dillonpierce7599  No, Lütjens prioritized Bismarck's safety more than anything so Bismarck will stay on her course to Saint Nazaire. Bismarck will certainly lose against all 4 Royal Ships well because she was inferior, the King George V-class and Nelson-class had thicker armor and was better protected, they Had a Heavier broadside, they had much more advanced radar and fire control systems, the Only thing Bismarck could utilize is her speed to run away
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  127.  @ericadams3428  Hood also offered the same protection as the Queen Elizabeth-class of Battleships
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  128. Hood's armor was on par with the Queen Elizabeth-class of Super Dreadnought Battleships, and Hood's armor belt offered more protection than Bismarck's
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  129. Surprisingly Drach was an Engineer
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  130. I mean he has to explain every single possibility and eliminate the impossibles
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  131.  @manilajohn0182  No, his explanations are actually based on factual things, did you even watch the video? He even put his sources in the video description
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  132.  @manilajohn0182  Oh I watched the video very carefully and multiple times too, As I already said he already covered most possibilities of Hood's demise and eliminated them accordingly until only the most likely remains, He already explained that greatly and with detail. I'm not fully believing him, I still think the hit to upper 7 inch belt armor is much more likely. Yes a large portion the amidships of Hood is missing but there's still many parts of Hood that is still there, No matter how improbable his conclusion may be, if it's the only thing that is Possible then that must be the truth
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  133.  @RobertS1089  That still falls under the complicated Battlecruiser term, Generally Battlecruisers traded armor for speed but they can also they trade their main armaments for speed like the German Battlecruisers
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  134. Statistically it was 1 Malfunctioning Battleship, 1 Very Old Battlecruiser against 1 Standard Battleship and 1 Heavy Cruisers, the odds are very skewed
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  135.  @BigBossMan2000  All 15 inch guns? HMS Prince of Wales had 10 14 inch guns, Malfunctioning is a very good excuse, you do realize out of 10 main guns of Prince of Wales only 6 was somewhat still operating, civilian workers were still aboard her trying desperately to fix the guns. Statistically yes the British should have won but the odds are in the Germans favor, they had only battled a malfunctioning and not a fully trained Battleship as Prince of Wales literally came straight out of the shipyard, and a very old Battlecruiser
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  136.  @BigBossMan2000  Jutland? Ah the moment where the High Seas Fleet never challenged the Grand Fleet and was sitting at Jade doing nothing while the German population starved to death because the British Blockade that HSF can't break
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  137. Hood much more than a decent chance to win against Bismarck, Hood's was standard for her size, she had 12 inch armored belt (The Same as the North Carolina-class of battleships) and a 3 inch armored deck (Same as the Queen Elizabeth-class of Battleships). Hood exploding was definitely surprising even with her age to consider
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  138.  @sotabaka  I mean technically Hood carried a slightly heavier broadside than Bismarck
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  139. No, Bismarck actually had lower maximum elevation than most battleships since the Germans favored her guns to closer ranges
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  140.  El Guapo mas macho  3 is more than enough
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  141.  @quattuorperquattuor1711  Those were definitely torpedoes as there is a massive difference between fish and torpedoes, on Prinz Eugen, Kapitän Brinkmann himself stepped out of the bridge wing and confirmed torpedo tracks
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