Comments by "Steve Valley" (@stevevalley7835) on "The Drydock - Episode 132" video.

@erikgranqvist3680 Germany developed "navalized" versions of the Bf-109 and Ju-87 for the Zeppelin. Given the 109's long nose, and narrow tracked, fragile, undercarrage, I am hard pressed to think of a worse choice. The Ju-87 certainly looked the part, with it's folding wings. I have read there was a lot of resentment from the Luftwaffe about any of it's 109 and 87 production being diverted to the navy.
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Another "Danger UXB" fan here. There was a "Foyle's War" ep that featured a bomb disposal team. First time we see the officer in the Foyle ep defusing a bomb, he identifies the fuse as a "Type 15". OK, I know what he's talking about. So the officer tries to remove the locking ring. It won't budge. So he goes at it with a hammer and chisel until it starts to unscrew. then he puts the Crabtree discharger on it. If Brian Ash had beat on a bomb with a hammer and chisel, before discharging the fuse, the birds would have found his pieces.
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@Billy_Annizarry I figure it would have been a very bad day for Bismark. As it was, the RN deployed one strong ship, a KGV class, and one weak ship, obsolete battlecruiser, in each passage. If they had sent KGV and PoW to Denmark strait, they would have been taking a huge gamble. If they did that, and Bismark went through the Faroe Island passage, it would probably have rolled up both Hood and Repulse.
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wrt cruiser evolution, my take: Early in the 20th century, there were three classes of cruisers: armored, protected and scout. The scout cruisers could function as the leader of a destroyer squadron or, as the name implies, scout on their own. I would call the Omaha class a good example of the scout cruiser morphing into the light cruiser. Protected cruisers were bigger, more heavily armed and armored. I would call the protected cruiser, like the Olympia, the predecessor to the heavy cruiser. The armored cruiser was even more heavily armed and armored. The US and Italian armored cruisers mounted 10" guns in their last pre-WWI iterations, when the battleship standard was 12". Some call armored cruisers "second class battleships". Greece called the Averoff, a Pisa class armored cruiser, a battleship. The first USS Maine has been described as both an armored cruiser and a second class battleship. The armored cruiser concept, guns larger than a heavy cruiser, but smaller than a battleship, returned with the Deutschlands, Scharnhorsts and Alaskas.
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