Comments by "Gregory Wright" (@gregorywright4918) on "I-400 - Guide 238" video.

  1. Just for irony, check out the first twenty minutes of "Atragon", a Japanese sci-fi movie from 1963. The A- (not I-) 401 and 402 were accounted for, but the "most advanced sub in the world" A-403 got away just before the surrender, and now the Mu Empire wants the world to hand over her successor, developed by the brilliant Japanese submarine captain Jinguji in secrecy on a forgotten island to restore the Japanese Empire - but the world needs him to save them from the Mu... https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057215/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
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  2. Biological weapons of that time were notoriously unreliable and uncontrollable, so despite much research no one used them outside research labs. They took time to activate and debilitate, and often depended on wind conditions so one person could be infected while nearby was not. There was no capacity for troop transport in the Pearl Harbor attack, as it was extreme range for their ships and expected to be a quick raid with a fast retreat. I cannot imagine the rage of the American people if they thought Hawaii had been attacked with biological weapons before December 7th (remember also that just under half of the population of the islands was Japanese immigrants). We probably would not have accepted a surrender until Tokyo had been nuked into a parking lot.
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  3. Hitler had an aversion to bio/chem weapons, as he had been gassed in WW1, but he also realized the Allies were far more spread out than Germany was, so the inevitable counterattack would hurt him more.
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  4. Are you thinking of the Typhoon (Project 941)? The Akula (Project 971) has two concentric hulls.
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  5.  @Colt45hatchback  What? Different type designations? How dare they not use the NATO standard!
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  6. Begs the usual question - how many carriers could they have built rather than these ships?
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  7. But what carriers did they have left? And check a map for how far it is from Japan to the Panama Canal...
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