Comments by "Adam Bainbridge" (@AdamMGTF) on "Hunt Class - Guide 130" video.

  1.  @bkjeong4302  but that's with the benafit of hindsight. War isn't like that. If the RN knew the Germanz were going to keep their large ships in Norway and the baltic then they could have sent every ship to fight Japan, because they would also know Italy would surrender and change sides. Saying the cambletown raid was a waste because the dock wasn't used is like saying that dieppe was a waste because it was a failure and that the hold out at tobruk was pointless as it would be liberated and then surrendered anyway. In the first case. Failure taught lessons. In the second. Again, they couldn't see the future. These plans were put in place for very good reasons by the most intelligent minds of a generation. They did so because they did not know the future in the way we know the past. Not understanding that is a huge failure for anyone trying to understand history
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  2. Bk Jeong again, that’s all hindsight. The RN had the same attitude all military’s tend to have in war at the time. Hope for the best. Plan for and expect the worse. The war had hardly gone well for the allies at the start. As for big gun ships being obsolete. No, they were not. I’m not a “battle ships are cool so they rule” person. But there was no indication in the early war that the big gun battle ship and its 700 year reign was over. There had been successes of air power. And of submarines just like at the start of ww1 when the Germans sank 3 armoured cruisers. But in ww1 the threats to big gun ships had been acknowledged, designed around and beaten, more so in the interbellum as the belief was that asdic was more capable than it was. Your not thinking like a person who’s on the spot at the time. It’s 1939-42. You know that for 700 years the surface, gun warship has been king. You have seen the disruption that surface raiders have caused. You’ve seen the attempts to bomb capital ships which are in dock, with high level and other land based bombers fail. You have multiple theatres to worry about and the RN capital fleet is stretched thin, especially in the med. The horror of a tirpiz plus a couple of sharnhorsts being able to base from France and hit a convoy that’s escorted by a couple of town class and some destroyers keeps you up at night. It’d be like pq17 but x1000. But you know you can remove such a forced base of operations and repair with a special forces strike. You know with no dock to support such ships, they are basically a mission kill. Your battleships can go where needed most. Like the med where they are needed, to support landing operations in Sicily, torch etc. It’s a no brained.......... your not thinking “well them there airoplanes have done rather well in torpedoing a few ships in Italy and one hit the Bismarck with an lucky shot. Seems we best scrap the surface fleet chaps. Just build destroyers and subs and aircraft carriers..... such a person would be locked up. Even though it seems rather reasonable from a 2020 perspective....... there is one lesson I have tried to teach my history students time and again. Stop looking at what happened and consider the mind of their person who made the decision. What happened after is a result only of that person(or persons) knowledge and experience. The great minds of the time we’re drawing on centuries of history. Decades of experience and using the latest theory........ but none coupe see the “future” as we can. Because it is our past....... if you can’t get your mind in such a mindset BK. I wish I could explain what I mean better (internet and typing isn’t good for such things)
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  3. Forgive typos. It’s late and I’m using a old phone
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