Comments by "Alex" (@Alex-cw3rz) on "The Drydock - Episode 291 (Part 2)" video.

  1. 3:02:58 I agree on the assessment of WW2 however in modern warfare the phycological impact is huge still and now aircraft are worth so much it's even more of a factor. Especially because you can't see it until it'a too late, the evasive manovours will already be implemented, rather than waiting for that firat shell to burst. For example in the NATO bombings of 1999, NATO pilots would fly above 15,000 ft above the range of a Strela-2 they would fly 5km away from any road and would only fly perpendicular to road to cross it or do an attack run on the road to reduce the chance of AA fire as the AA guns were on vehicles that were not good off road and had damaged a number of aircraft at the start of the conflict. Due to the shoot and schoot tactics of yugoslavia, they rarely shot aircraft down but NATO planes were unable to disrupt the anti air capabilities as they barely hit any of the SAM systems and therefore had to adopt these all these tactics that reduced the effectiveness of their aircraft. Therefore these threats meant most bombs and missiles were not fired from their optimum height and combined with deception and dummies. In the end this meant that they thought they had destroyed 120 tanks 220 APC's and 400 Artillery pieces when in reality they had destroyed 13 tanks, 6 APC's and 6 Artillery pieces. We have seen the same in Ukraine the threat of Ukrainian's upgraded and huge number of S-300 SAM's has practically stopped the Russian air force for conducting any sort of meaningful air campaign in the war.
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  2. 1:28:15 if you look at the Spanish Navy they seemed to find 18 pounders not that much of a downgrade as many of their larger ships would use 18 pounders on the decks other navies at the same period would have 24 pounders on them. Although as mentioned before pounds in different countries are different weight so maybe a Spanish 18 pounders was more like a 24.
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