Comments by "COL BEAUSABRE" (@colbeausabre8842) on "Ship vs Ship, 1 vs 1 - Why you don't see them here" video.

  1. I once heard that the ideal tank vs tank duel was a shot from the rear on the last tank in the column with everybody looking the other way.
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  2.  @danielmocsny5066  But aboard the USS Lake Woebegon, the entire crew is above average
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  3. As a retired armor officer, I feel the same way about the various online games claiming to depict tank combat. They are totally wrong as tanks don't operate alone (My big problem with "Fury" is that by April 1945 no one would dispatch a platoon of tanks without an accompanying Armored Infantry Platoon in halftracks to eliminate tank killer teams like the one that killed the platoon leaders vehicle) they operate in a combined arms team with infantry, artillery, combat engineers, air defense, attack aviation, close air support, naval gunfire (if you're near the coast), etc. Each arm's strength balances another's weakness.
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  4. Well, the Dunkerques (13 inch) could take on the Cavours and Dorias (both 12.6 inch) on an even basis and the Richelieu and Jean Bart were at least the equal of the Littorios. It becomes a question of numbers, Do we allow the Gascogne class to be completed? What about Impero?
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  5. The Swordfish torpedo into Bismarck's rudder and props. The USS Arizona's catapult charge magazine (added after the ship was built, not especially well protected and adjacent to the forward main battery magazine) taking a direct hit from an armor piercing bomb. Combat proved that using heavy bombers against ships was vastly overrated pre-WW2, and yet...Gneisnau become a Constructive Total Loss from RAF heavy bombers at altitude - at night, no less. " On the night of 26 February, the British launched an air attack on the ship; one bomb penetrated her armored deck and exploded in the forward ammunition magazine, causing serious damage and many casualties. The repairs necessitated by the damage were so time-consuming that it was determined to rebuild the ship to replace the nine 28 cm guns with six 38 cm guns in double turrets."
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  6. You can add USS Ranger - for all her faults, she carried 2 squadrons each of Wildcats and SBD's (40 of each) and the USS South Dakota, which was declared operational in mid July 1942, just in time for Rosselsprung.
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