Comments by "Jim Taylor" (@jimtaylor294) on "The Drydock - Episode 082" video.

  1. Yup. Just like how the French Revolution wrecked the Marine National, which had been heavily pro-monarchy.
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  2. The Vickers 14" - as used by the Kongos' - gets little love, despite being a pretty decent gun by most accounts. Though less advanced than the 14"/45 of WWII, I'd definitely rather have them than an 11" gun. Renown had 15"/42 guns, which proved compeditive in performance even with the 16"/50 for accuracy postwar.
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  3. True. The RAF managed to fit an autoloaded 6 Pounder A/T gun into the Mosquito, so anything's doable with enough stubborn determination.
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  4. That; and no ship in existance can track, engage and launch - all at once - enough SAM's to stop nine to fifteen incoming projectiles. (as such a broadside or multiple ships firing salvoes would be an uphill fight) Some sort of dedicated shipboard Active Defence System - as is appearing on Tanks ATM - might be useful, but no substitute for a good offence, and having struck the enemy first.
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  5. Drach's covered that in detail. In short: The former is what Used to be called a Turret, whilst the latter is what was called one by the late-Predread' era.
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  6. ^x1 Profanity; always a crutch for a lack of anything else. Also: My point was as a job lot. Even a T45 can't Engage that many incoming targets with SAM's at the same time. The reason is that it's impossible to launch and guide that many SAM's all at once. In the situation Drach' was presented with, that'd be game over. Most warships don't have any realistic prospect of needing to intercept as many as 15 projectiles at once though, as few threat countries possess the ability &/or will to try, and none still possess ships with enough guns to attempt it.
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  7.  chris younts  CIWS is in theory very capable, but as no ships possess more than four emplacements and also lack the vast amount of sensory hardware to independently target more than that, the abilities thereof are limited. That; and no CIWS has yet managed to decap or otherwise stop a shell above 5" caliber. That said it's as of the moment unlikely to need to. Phalanx's past history suggests though that CIWS leaves a lot to be desired when it comes to accuracy, and of course the limited number even on a ship the size of an Iowa class limits the stopping power.
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  8.  chris younts  Indeed. The whole hating capitalism thing didn't help their finances either. (which'd largely been funded originally... through bank robbery)
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