Comments by "Steve Valley" (@stevevalley7835) on "KMS Graf Zeppelin - Guide 194 (NB)" video.

  1.  @reiver9031  the need for speed has several factors: safer take off and landing due to more wind over the deck. Ability to take off with more gas and payload, due to more wind over the deck. The Brits took over some Vought Vindicators that the French had ordered, but wanted to use them on HMS Archer, a converted freighter, but, due to Archer's low speed, 16kts, the Vindicators could not lift a useful payload, so Archer got Swordfish instead. The third factor in favor of high speed for a carrier was that, for air ops, the carrier needs to head into the wind to maximize wind over the deck. Wind direction usually varies from fleet direction, so, with the extra speed, a carrier can chase the wind to launch a strike, then use it's high speed to catch up with the rest of the fleet.
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  2.  @bkjeong4302  yes, that was the plan, by the late 30s, rendering the Lexington's 8" battery useless, but then Glorious was sunk, then Gambier Bay was sunk. When the Lexingtons were built, nothing larger than a cruiser could keep up with them, outside of the few remaining Brit battlecruisers, so 8" guns would be adequate to defend against any likely surface opponent. If Glorious had 8" guns, and was attacked by Prinz Eugen, it could have held it's own. If Glorious had been attacked by Lutzow, it could have run away. Just bad luck it ran into ships it couldn't outrun, or outgun with an 8" armament, if it had had that armament.
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  3. If the KM had not tried to use planes the Luftwaffe was interested in, it probably would not have had to compete with the Luftwaffe. The KM was already using the Arado 196. Removing the 196's floats, with their attendant weight and drag, would do wonderful things for the plane's speed, range and payload, and the Luftwaffe isn't interested in it, so no conflict. Of course, they could steal a design for a dedicated carrier plane. Brewster Aeronautical was so corrupt and disorganized that German spies could probably have walked off with drawings for the F2A and SBA in broad daylight without anyone noticing and the BMW 132 was, in size, weight and power, nearly a drop in replacement for the Wright Cyclones the Brewsters used.
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  4.  @CharlesStearman  The UK did it's own naval treaty with Germany, which had the effect of superseding the Versailles treaty, without the consent of the other parties to Versailles, particularly France. The treaty, actually an exchange of memos, limited the German fleet to 35% of the UK's fleet, dated June 18, 1935, three days after Scharnhorst was laid down.
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