Comments by "Jim Taylor" (@jimtaylor294) on "The Drydock - Episode 075" video.

  1. Ah Zipang. As a Brit' whim has seen it, I thought it rather good. The studio behind it certainly did a good job balancing patriotic sympathy with WWII era Japan, with the postwar realization that they'd been on the wrong side of history in said war. The characters of the series also are confronted with a really compelling internal conflict between wanting to help their ancestors, and the conviction not to interfere with established history. (one I think anyone can relate to) The technical accuracy was also quite decent, albeit with some liberties taken (the vtol 'plane of the Mirai for instance doesn't exist).
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  2. Bismarck unintentionally - as it was impossible to achieve on purpose - won the gunnery lottery. Whether it was a direct hit on X Turret's magazine or on an unarmoured 4" that set off the 15" propellant though blast pressure remains uncertain, though the latter is more likely, and all the more tragic as the 4" magazine was an unarmoured addition, outside Hood's Citadel. PoW would mission kill the Bismarck with three 14" hits shortly after though, so the Germans weren't the only ones to be so fortunate.
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  3.  @alecblunden8615  No disagreement on survivability from me. Armour is one thing warships today lag behind their ancestors in, for various reasons.
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  4. Sort of. The 'Mirai' is based on them (in rather impressive detail), but a fictional class.
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  5. The Mirai's a fictional successor to the Kongo class destroyer. Various similarities to the Burkes, but just as many / more differences.
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