Comments by "Gregory Wright" (@gregorywright4918) on "Drach's Top 5 Best Engineered Ships - Durability, Viability, Excellence" video.

  1. The Eugen had notoriously finicky engineering plant. Plus, like the Bismarck, she did on 16,000 tons what others cruisers were doing on 10,000 tons - and with more armor belt.
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  2. A Hornet's nest...
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  3. But when politics meets wishful engineering and lousy building - you get the LCS.
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  4.  @brendonbewersdorf986  I think the vulnerability to shell fire would be the first problem, and the speed the second. I'm wondering what models you refer to "cement hull sailboats are somewhat common". We're not talking about fiberglass, but actual poured cement (with reinforcements).
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  5.  @eamonnsweeney7399  North Korean capture of USS Pueblo in 1968?
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  6.  @userofthetube2701  The 40mm rounds come in boxes, and need to be assembled into 4-round "clips" before being sent to the guns.
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  7.  @Rauschgenerator  Drach's channel is NOT all about warships - he's done some non-warships and some aircraft as well...
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  8.  @brendonbewersdorf986  Cement hull was a wartime expediency due to steel shortages. Cement does not do well when hit by guns. The problem with the sub chaser is you need speed of at least 20kts. Cannot think of any fast cement-hulled ships.
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  9.  @henriquekonradt541  Leyte Gulf comes the closest, with air power pummeling Musashi, a night action of the old battleships (daytime belongs to the air), and the failure of an engagement at San Bernardino Strait because Halsey was focused on killing the IJN carriers. Meanwhile the fast battleships escorted the fleet carriers.
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  10.  @Isolder74  He needed them, he got in so much trouble...
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  11.  @christopher5723  Depends on which planes she carries, and how long to "work up" with planes and USN, but at least Soryu survives the first attack so it's 2v3, and the attack on Victorious leaves her with some dents in the flight deck and a torpedo hole. Afternoon attacks probably put both Soryu and Hiryu down, since Yamaguchi will charge ahead. If Hornet gets hit in 2nd attack instead of Yorktown, might go down due to inexperience.
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  12. Only one Fletcher went down in the typhoon; the other two were Farragut class.
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  13. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SipIKcxkFlY
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  14. Vasa?
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  15.  @mikewillegal682  Communication is much better face-to-face than in writing or at distance via phone or Zoom. Note that many of those global companies try to get the members of project teams to work in a single location, using short-term relocation if necessary. The problem with PERT was it depends on the honesty of the time-to-complete estimates. If someone has good history to base estimates on, all well and good. If someone else has no clue, or is fudging the numbers to make management happy, things go bad.
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  16. With a better, dryer bow...
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  17. Sadly, the Bible does not give enough of her engineering description to judge... But she did survive pretty monstrous seas...
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  18. Two knocks against her: her engineering plant was VERY finicky, and she carries on 17,000 tons what other cruiser designs carried on 8-10,000 tons. Common issue of the interwar German designs (except their PT boats).
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  19. Simplicity is one principle, but not the only. Having back-ups to main propulsion when the system is relatively new and dependent on a fuel source makes decent sense (hence the masts). Having alternate propulsion options when "the best" had not been proven yet makes sense too, and having them complementary allows each to add to the power of the other.
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  20. GE did have self-defense cannon for a short while. But then, so did the Liberty ships.
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  21. Uh oh. Where do you put the Graf Spee? Scharnhorst? SB Roberts?
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  22. Using smartphone voice recognition? "to sing in combat using minds"... "to sync in combat"...
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  23. A big ship, yes. But containers were a revolution in shipping, especially the ease of loading/unloading and the easy shift to rail or road transport. GE was nothing like that.
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  24. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBw3QcCStS8
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  25. Plus numerous references in various Drydocks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYH07Ij09YA
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  26.  @Niels_Larsen  The bow isn't the problem; it is getting the ship close enough to the enemy to use it. So many weapon systems are long- to medium-range, a ram bow is a very-close-range article. Several U-boats were fatally damaged by ramming, but that was often because they came up damaged from depth-charges and could not limp away. Waste of time.
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  27.  @crd260  We can certainly try...
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  28.  @Cholin3947  Zuikaku?
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  29. And replies too...
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  30.  @tannerhilken9944  Battle of Savo Island? Battle of Java Sea?
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  31.  @jonathanwhite5132  She'd have to go to St. Nazaire, since the drydock in Brest is not big enough for her. That is within range of both 2E and 4E bombers from southern England, so the RAF would have a nice static target for bombing practice.
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  32.  @hamishneilson7140  No. The flammable part does not last long enough to really heat up the hull, and there are plenty of hoses in DC lockers to wash it off. If it was not a bomb, you would have to get very close to use a projector. Only a couple night actions by Guadalcanal got that close.
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  33. The category is "best engineered", not most revolutionary design.
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  34.  @jarodstrain8905  The 30mm round is significantly bigger than the 20mm of the Phalanx, so it is better at killing tanks but won't slew as fast as the lighter M61. Essentially, you just don't need the bigger shell.
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  35.  @paulpeterson4216  Bismarck was designed in mid-30s and built in late 30s. Nelson and Rodney were designed in early 20s and built in mid-20s. How would they know what Bismarck would look like 10 years later?
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  36.  @lonjohnson5161  Not sure about the first question, but the IJN Taiho qualifies for the second.
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  37.  @ijendr0995  A hundred. And they'd have to sneak up on her by night in a storm and take her by boarding.
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  38.  @jeffbybee5207  Sail her into New York Harbor?
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  39.  @yt-oliverrichardsongaming419  Post-war the UK was VERY desperate to cut expenses and sell off or scrap anything it could. Museum mentality did not kick in for a while.
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  40. I thought the Atago was a heavy cruiser with 8" guns?
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  41.  @katana1430  A "sail locker" is a place to store canvas. If the ship does not have sails, it is used for covers, tarps or awnings.
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  42.  @GARDENER42  Read up on the battles in the Solomons in late '42 and early '43. A torpedo hit on a destroyer usually meant a sinking; one hit often crippled a cruiser (at least from a Long Lance). The problem was getting the hit - a night-time surprise launch worked best, and often a bunch would be launched for one or two hits. The IJN believed in them much more than the USN, so they started with a better defined and trained doctrine.
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  43.  @ryantaylor2595  Search for "death ride" on this page, under "Turn of the Battle": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Jutland
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  44.  @Tomyironmane  The Forrestal class was the first big angled-deck supercarrier; the Enterprise just scaled it up to fit eight reactors.
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  45.  @herbertpocket8855  Weather? Smoke? More realistic hit rates?
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  46.  @ChristianSlotHolck  Depends on the size of the incoming shell...
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  47.  @hawkeye4707  Probably all sail era ships, as they tended to see a lot more battles than 19th/20th centuries.
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  48.  @tagofox4603  RN had lots of pre-war destroyers, but they had other jobs to do. Frigates and corvettes were rushed into service as they were developed and built, sometimes converted from fishing vessels, when expected superiority of asdic did not pan out (and did not work against nighttime wolfpacks).
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  49. @in desperate need of a scotch Probably similar to a breech explosion, which would wreck the gun and probably the turret, but not the handling rooms or magazines below.
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  50.  @ryantaylor2595  On that page, just above the middle point, look for this sentence beginning the paragraph (and read the paragraph before too): "In what became known as the "death ride", all the battlecruisers except Moltke were hit and further damaged, as 18 of the British battleships fired at them simultaneously."
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  51. They came too late for the Solomons Campaign and spent the whole war escorting fast carriers.
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  52.  @jarodstrain8905  I'm thinking the gun mount itself would be much heavier, thus slew slower.
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  53. The USS Johnston IS a Fletcher-class.
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  54. The Zuikakus took a number of hits early in the war, during Coral Sea and the Solomons campaign, but I'm not sure I'd call them "interwar". They came into service in late 1941, after two years of war. Yes, they were designed in the late 30s, but seem to reflect a bit of early war lessons from the Brits. They were also quite large, but with nearly the same air group as the Hiryus. They had a vulnerability in their avgas storage that plagued the IJN carriers, where shock damage caused them to leak. When the IJN restarted carrier building after Midway, they used the Hiryu design rather than the Zuikakus.
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  55. I'd say Nevada was "sunk" more due to failure to maintain good watertight bulkheads and less due to the hits she took. Most of which were 250kg HEs.
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  56. Only the ones closest to Ground Zero were mashed - the rest survived, but the radiation contamination meant that no one aboard would live very long.
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