Youtube comments of Karl von Gazenberg (@karlvongazenberg8398).

  1. Again, a 16" rifle is a perfect home-defense and plinking weapon :)
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  2. If someone wonders the handgun ammo expended by the SMS Scharfschütze, it must be noted, that the channel leading into the inner harbor of Ravenna (where Porto Corsini is) was at the time 30 meters "wide" - while the Huszár class destroyer was 67 meters long. This explains the "stern first" approach as well as the need for shooting sidearms the way out at charging Italian infantry. No lack of spirit on either side.
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  3. The most reliable torpedoes in this theater were produced about 40 years ago, in Whitehead factory, in the late Austro-Hungarian Empire... Unfortunately in the side of the Blucher.
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  4. The pre-WWI armored cruisers have a kind of steampunkish brutal look.
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  5. Hornet CV-8: "I'lll be back" Hornet CV-12: "Come with me if you want to live" (ops Magic Carpet)
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  6. Ah, yes, the "not quad", but "dual twin" turrets.
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  7. While Drach's voice is great, having cooperators voicing different personell is even greater.
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  8. "If you can use a destroyer as a cruiser, you can use a cruiser as a destroyer" - "Generate smoke, we attack" - cpt Horthy at Otranto Strait, chased by RN and RM forces :)
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  9. Mission 1 - receive 30k damage from Italian ships, COMPLETED Mission 2 - receive 30k damage from German ships, COMPLETED
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  10. It was "carefully" omitted that its not just Hungary, but Poland and Romania protested against Ukraine's treat of their ehnic Poles and Romanians - and I only mention the repression of Russian language.
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  11. 17:55 "Special Comittee of iron" and the next sentence begins with "Ironically". Is that metal or what? ;)
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  12. Just got the coffee... 2:20 "Persuaded the Japanese to select the larger weapon" Somehow I have the impression that the IJN officials were quite dissapointed that they only have the 14" guns... :)
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  13. A cruiser ten times the displacement but less, than equal in rage.
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  14. 13:44 "Around 150 carrier aircraft spotted'" Cpt Aruga: "Itó sama, how was that story with that Leonidas fighting in shadow?"
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  15. Too bad, that in 1956 the SOVIET units came from the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic and the last SOVIET soldier, who left Hungary in 1991 happened to be Ukrainian, he died recently in Subcarpathia, a region annexed by the Soviet Union in 1945, now part of Ukraine.
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  16. 40 tons, 40 knots, 40 percent adrenaline level and hopefully "found" a 40mm gun for them
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  17. 2:50 The tertiary armament of 47mm gun differed not just in barrel lenght, but the two L33 ones were actually 5 barrel Hotchkiss REVOLVER CANNON! The best dakka from the late XIXth century. By 1914, one of the revolver cannons was removed but two 7cm "landing", infantry cannons were added to the inventory.
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  18. In the middle of the UA-RF war in January, 2023, Ukraine accepted a law to further cut minority rights, making not just Hungary, but Romania to react harshly.
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  19. Around 16:00 - a (very) few years ago a Russian documentary about the Kuznyecov "aviation cruiser" proudly presented "the rodent control officer" .
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  20. 2nd iteration: Cpt: Do you see that bunker on that island? -Yes. Cpt: I do not want to. - The bunker AND the island, too?
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  21. 2:39 "The advocate was found and then mysteriously drowned in a vat of brie" :)
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  22. As well as providing water for firefighters and being a SPECTACULAR target if hit.
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  23. I got "ping" for the Tegethoffs, for the Courbet and for the Gangut, but not for the Bismarck. I guess the guy on the Gotland were sleeping.
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  24. More think and dare not to say, he is the only sane head of state in the NATO and in the EU.
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  25. Western Idiocracies: migration cannot be stopped! COVID-19: :cough: Excuse me?
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  26. Nope, Tier 0.0001 is the Floaty Log. Pine as regular, oak as premium.
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  27.  @VersusARCH  The Adriatic WAS the living hell for a reincarnated Kamchatka. The k.u.k. Kriegsmarine had comissioned over 100 torpedoboats of various sizes, plus the Huszár and Tátra class destroyers. Italy, the RM, the RN and late even the USN (no kidding) all threw in their share in the fray
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  28. 3rd iteration: "Do you see that watertower?" - 24th of May, 1915, East of Italian Adriatic coast.
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  29. 127 mm is 5", drydock127 is over 5 hours
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  30. The USSR ran out of stalinium to finish them.
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  31. Ukraine most probably lost more, than half of her population, fleeing either West or East.
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  32. Drachen unleashed?
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  33. Ah, the wonderfull tradition of using Greek mythological names. Merry Christmas, happy Hogswatch, happy birthday Brian.
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  34. The use of a twin, rapid firing 37mm Flak is justified against pigeons. :)
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  35. Not contradicting, but coloring out the details: Trump did show strenght, yet did NOT made the Russians feel they are cornered. PS: " 28 February 2006 -- Russian President Vladimir Putin today acknowledged Moscow's “moral responsibility” for the bloody Soviet suppression of the 1956 Hungarian uprising."
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  36. OK, press like, get coffee, launch video
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  37. Like, coffee, dust off Admiral Horthy's picture on the wall :)))
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  38. Ah, the Swarm...
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  39. Nowadays its like one big torpedo fires a missile, which near the other big torpedo, drops a depth charge or a torpedo onto her. It. Whatever gender the craft desires.
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  40.  @Bird_Dog00  Back in the days, when DDs had citadels... The last time I loaded AP for my sluggish Japanese 120mm DD guns...
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  41. New Drachleak, standard procedure: press like, get coffe, watch.
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  42. Almost six hours of drydock. Went to raid some African countries for coffeee....
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  43. Just try to find the mechanical fuse dialer mechanism,which adjusted the time fuses on the dual purpose 5” /38 against aerial target.
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  44. On Halloween, the Kamchatka rises to haunt.
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  45. "We are the borg - but will not assimilate THESE into the Collective" :)
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  46. Kilimanjaro
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  47.  @Voron_Aggrav  The captain of SMS Scharfshütze (Marksman), a Huszár-class destroyer was a certain Bogumil Nowotny, who drove his ship into the 30 meters wide channel of Porto Corsini's inner harbor - STERN FIRST. He was looking for Italian torpedo-boats, but only found a shore artillery position which had to be silenced before leaving - but the Italian infantry stationed near stormed the ship. This explains the spent pistol ammunition. However, this gentleman became the first commander of the newly recreated Poland's Navy - and THAT prolly explains a lot, why ORP Piorun engaged a gunnery duel with the WWII German Battleship BIsmarck, while flashing her signal lamp "I AM POLE".
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  48. 3:30 Anyone can imagine a justification of ceding territory to AUSTRIA, with Hungarian majority in the area? Only reasoning I can come up is to create tensions between the Monarchy's successor states.
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  49. 5+ hours of Drydock and Drachs voice is not raspy nor nasal. OK, all coffee machines full espresso...
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  50. The one legged man, who wins all a..kicking contests.
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  51. To add insult to injury, grave robbers actually blasted the wreck and mined/salvaged the metal, regardless of human remains or artefacts from the age.
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  52. Men, I have good news and bad news. The good one, is that everyone gets double metaxa ration tonight. The bad one, is that the captain wants to waterski.
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  53. ""..and the ship was still a destroyer not a dedicated anti-aircraft picket." US Navy: Why not both?" That is not a DEDICATED air picket, AFAIK :)
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  54. Drydock at 12 o'clock! All coffee machines,raise steam!
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  55. "but I fail to see how the EU didn't solve most problems that ever came from it. " The EU left in power the Benes-decrees, which state Hungarians COLLECTIVE guilt, and the EU also swept the "Minority Safepack" initiative under the rug. "I don't know why we fight against that..." We - as Hungarians - do not fight againt the EU. We only "fight" against the current LEADERSHIP. Or do you fight againts the Hungarian people if you oppose the Orbán goverments? Don't believe your own lies.
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  56. If it does not, than the hole ain't big enough
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  57. After pressing like, sipping on my coffee and watching the video I concluded, that the actual usefullness (or lack of) a battlecarrier was not tested by the Ise's....
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  58. I would heartily recommend the Baltic states to tune down Russophobia and start settle their issues with their cca. 30% Russian minority. Just sayin'
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  59.  @dereseemdereseem  BB killer, Cr killer, DD killer, XP pinata for sky cancer :)
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  60. It would be nice if Drach would be sponsored by Irn Bru...
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  61. Drachvideo at 12 O'clock. Ok, all coffee machines raise steam!
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  62. The Cs-1 engine (where the dual letters denote a single sound similar to the "tch" in the English catch, fetch, match words) full name mean boat-engine, thus helping it to remain secret from the German "allies".
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  63.  @dgmare  A few of those millions are in Donetsk and Lugansk. Are they all actors?
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  64.  @LordOceanus  the captain of the ship pulled off at least two more spectacular sortie during WWI as well becoming the first admiral of the Polish interwar navy. I have yet to read Bagumil Nowotny's memoires.
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  65. *"Significant emotional event" * - Nope, more like "Chatfield, there seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today."
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  66. 13:20 British were saved by Wargaming sick "dispersion algorithm" :)
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  67. Johnny boy, you do not have to fight to the last Ukrainen man to get a slavic bride by mail.
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  68. Then "Csásári és Királyi Haditengerészet" and then we only have 9 more official languages (albeit several of them Slavic, with a high degree of similarity).
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  69. Drach should include a spirit in his merchandise with the sign "Rum Ration - Emergency Only" :)
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  70. And probably that was the last time when a "conventional" (ie. Dreadnought-typish all big gun, armored battleship) battleship was hit by cannonfire - since the 20mm counts as a canon.
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  71.  @nitsu2947  That debris is probably the remains of the silk bag of the propellant charges.
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  72.  @tommeakin1732  After promptly KO-ing the champ
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  73. 38:00 Iowa at 37 knots - destroyer escorts: O.O
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  74. Yeah, try a method, then check reality.
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  75. Poor old Franz-Joseph was too optimistic to declare the "Treason of the Century" in 1914...
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  76. 0:32:40 "First modern war of steam and steel and its just ... (ie. a sub) is JUST GONE?!" - flashback to Hunt for the Red October: "Andrei, you have lost ANOTHER submarine?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCHGFkhxInM
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  77. 10:18 Russia did NOT decrease gas deliveries to the EU - at least not voluntarily, it were most EU countries who CEASED TO BUY Russian gas. The notable exception is the "rebellious" Hungary, but actually (and thanking Mr Orbán in the buffet, but never publicly) Slovakia, Czeczhia, Austria, Poland and even Germany sucked on the old, Soviet-era "Freindship" and "Brotherhood" pipelines and the newer Turkstream too. From the 4 pipelines of Nordstream 1 and 2, only 3 were blown up "by someone", the fourth one could be opened about any time. But Germany(s quisling government) does not open the tap.
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  78.  @busterbiloxi3833  Trolling by truth is the best kind.
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  79. Many snippets covered by this video were also immortalised by the movie "Operation Pettycoat".
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  80. Just a reminder: when Mr Lowery talks about Austria, its a bit of simplification, like using England instead of Great Britain - the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy included the current Czech Republik, Slovakia, parts of current day Poland and Ukraine, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and some more. Ports and bases were in current day Croatia. Mostly.
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  81. 11:35 Why, a 16" rifle is a nice home-defence weapon :)
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  82.  Gues Who  HMS Glorious would like to have those guns... Not to mention, that until 1942 the USS Leginton had 4 twin 8" (eight inch) turrets. Yes, the armament of an economy size heavy cruiser.
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  83. Should have waited with this till 13.37 CET, but video is up, so fire up the 8" coffee machine... Its an aoutoloader :)
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  84. 5:20 "Something wrong with our bloody ships today"... But certainly not that pretty balcony on the stern.
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  85. "Good Morning Ancona" !
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  86. Well, at least Stalin did not liberate them.
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  87. May I suggest the series on strikes known as the "Bombardment of Ancona" on the 23rd of May, 1915 to be included on "THE" list?
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  88. Alex ; The Ukrainen ambassador is summoned by (looks at the name Szíjjártó Péter).. err, Hungarian officials :)
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  89.  @thanakonpraepanich4284  I don't know. What I know, is that the Japanese army (pre or post WWii?) issued bayonets to the heavy machine guns, to make a point, that it is an assault weapon.
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  90. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Marksman_(1915) HMS Marksman?
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  91. 2:35 "Two 37mm gun" - which - as in case with Kaiser Karl VI -were five-barrle revolving, hand cranked Hotchkiss guns. On the channel "Forgotten Weapons" Ian "Gun Jesus" made a very nice video about the gun, even if an infantry support/land arty version. Lets DAKKA!
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  92.  @deathsheadknight2137  And VOL1 is mostly made of "Tables of contents"
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  93. The Omnissiah accepted the prayers and sacrifices and gave us the Wednesday spcl... ...and coffee.
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  94. Around 0:25:00 - Coal bunkers as armor: and it could happed, that after a few (even non-penetration) hits coal dust can and occasionally acted as a thermobaric explosive.
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  95. One small but important correction: Hungary DOES NOT GET AID from the EU. There are two funds 1, Cohesion funds, which all countries pay with 0,9% of their annual GDP and distributed according to development level - a small reinbursement for opening our markets (no duties, customs, protectionist funding, etc) 2, COVID recovery funds - this is a common, EU LOAN where each country is a guarantor for repayment. You know, in case for example one of the PIGS states defaults...
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  96. With 6 guns forward, the Bismarck MIGHT have scored a hit or two on HMS Suffolk at their first encounter.
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  97. 3:40 "highly inventive" - reminds me the old movie "Operation petticoat" (1959). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Petticoat#Historical_accuracy
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  98. There are several dead Jawas and Rebels who who object to that Stormtroopers cannot hit anything.
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  99.  @gyulanyars6636  No normal person would shell Donetsk for 8 years but it was recorded by OSCE, that is why Zelensky won presidency with the message of peace with Russian in and outside Ukraine. Yet, "someone" begun heavy artillery bombardment of Donetsk and Lugansk on the 17th of February 2022. Before the eyes of OSCE inspectors AND 200K Russian Federation troops. Ez van Gyulám, nem a cárra kell mutogatni.
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  100. MAybe Drach can make a video about the SMS Szigetvár, so he could try Hungarian :)
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  101. Twin casemate secondaries? Was that idea ever put to use?
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  102.  @trunksajovobol3792  More like the Bucuresti and the Warsawa governments are most subservient to US foreign policy.
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  103. Oscar, aka Unsinkable Sam was the cat of Otto von Skorzeny and after WWII served on the INS Eliat and on the General Belgrano. ;)
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  104. cca. 25:00 Hitting the stern: also ships spotting a torpedo USUALLY turned away from it - but if they initiated the turn early, the stern becomes the most obvious part to be hit. Usually rudder NOT in the neutral position. Also I think the aerial torpedoes are a tad easier to spot, because there is Stabby the Stringbag above it in the air :) (OK, aircraft from Taffy 3 did make "dry" torpedo attack runs on Japanese ships, which turned away "just in case" - but during a sharp turn, you do not fire your main guns on my flattop).
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  105. I just checked wiki and look: "On February 14, 2008, U.S. officials announced plans to use a modified SM-3 missile launched from a group of three ships in the North Pacific to destroy the failed American satellite USA-193 at an altitude of 130 nautical miles (240 kilometers) shortly before atmospheric reentry. " Need I say more?
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  106. 3. Amnesty Internation reported, that Ukrainien Armed Forces do use civilian building as well as civilians as human shield.
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  107. At last, the Drydock . Coffeee on!
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  108. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
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  109. We still need a "Stop hitting me with missiles", albeit it is out of Drachinifel's usual comfort zone.
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  110. FYI within a month or so, Mme Le Pen and Mr Zemmour also visited PM Orbán Viktor in Budapest (just halfway in the video, but it was not mention yet), so Pres Macron might be FORCED internally to meet him too. As for the the 2022 general election, - the Budapest major and leadership is just getting into a scandal of epic proportion, - truly major tax-refunds are coming in 2022 (youths, families, pensions, minimal wage rise, etc) - opinion pollers are heavily side-leaning, with the goverment-sided ones having generally more accurate (the opposition-sided ones begun to show closer to the truth only in the last one or two result before previous elections)
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  111. @perseus274 At least in Hungary, ethnic Rusyns, Ukrainiens, Romans, etc can talk to each other in a shop and won't be taped to a pole. With pants down.
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  112. A "mere" 1 hours :)))
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  113. 7:00 I guess when (or if) Russia scrapes up the funds to modernise their Kirov/Pyort Velikiy, they will be different as much as the Kongos were. Not that there aren't differences already between the design of this class.
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  114. A decisive battle is the one in which Japan captures at least 'Frisco and LA. Anything less is just making the war lasting longer.
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  115. Hah, noone joked about "THIS IS DRACH!" ?
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  116. @Peter-MH "Orban is the only competent leader in Europe." Serbia, Russia, even Belarus and a small part of Turkiye is also Europe. But you are right for the EU, sadly.
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  117. I often wish, we had a larger planet, with bigger seas so navies could have built the ships they wanted and were able to. :)
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  118.  @WALTERBROADDUS  Except even the KDY-150 planetary defense ion cannon was on the HMS Canopus, ie on the Imperial Side.
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  119. 2:40 Armament layout - while the Germans had fine dual turrets for their 21cm (8"-ish) guns and up, somehow every navy lacked a reliable dual/twin 6"ish turret by the time....
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  120. Press like, check duration, load one BIG mug of coffee...
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  121. Who tortured Drach with this floaty hotel? :)
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  122.  @thomasprice7893  What were those craters on that Israeli airbase again?
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  123. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trFyO3og984 "Around 100 inmates from Roszke's prison worked to complete a section of the razor wire fence that runs along the Serbia-Hungary border, Friday. " I just love, when things just work
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  124. Actually Hungary was invaded by the Soviets - ironically - from the Ukrainien Soviet Socialist Republic. Which became independent and now is Ukraine.
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  125. Oh, well, they could add Austro-Hungarian Tier 10 carriers by this amount of speculation.
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  126.  @rpm1796  "A Republic for a rudder!" - Warspite got her rudder jammed too and waltzed round and round before the Hochseeflotte at Jutland. Having the Grand Fleet behind her prolly helped a lot to get out of the situation.
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  127.  @TheTrueOrion  This is a Zumwalt class destroyer. Honest.
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  128. Quantity is a quality at its own.
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  129. Császári és Királyi Haditengerészet? :)
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  130.  @andrewyaden5209  But then an Iraqi unit surrendered to the spotter drone, so "op success".
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  131. Almost 3 and a half hours... getting a BIG mug of coffee..
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  132. Ah, sky cancer again... No, its Drach. All coffee machines, full steam!
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  133. 27:30 "A Different time when they had the time to take care of the fine details" - Reminds me a line on a memetic cleaning liquid flask: "You only read this, because you went to the toilet without a smartphone" :) But also, may the proverbial drunken sailor might want to stick an 8" shell into the breech. You never know.
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  134. The WWII US carriers rumored to have coffee machines which would be enough to raise stream for emergency sailing... Something I might need :)
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  135. Nah, the Falcon is your average whaler with two quad .50 HMG. And a few underwater torpedo tubes, in German commerce raider style.
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  136. I wonder Jules Verne ever saw this vessel and what he thought of it, if so. :)
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  137. Press like, get coffee, extend lunch break :)
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  138.  @zoltan6339  Yepp, being allied to Germany TWICE and believing anglo-saxon promises worked wonderfully in both World Wars.
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  139. AFAIK up to 1950 or so - for later periods however, Drach contributes to the Bilge Pump podcasts. Also, maybe look up Dr Alexander Clarke's channel. https://the-bilgepumps.simplecast.com/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCE2x09tU0GwAGiSbFPEhIwQ
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  140.  @dwgray9000  "HMS Vanguard recently hit a underwater container." Ever wondered why cloaked Klingon ships look beaten up? :P
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  141. The Adriatic is bad for you, "Tokaj"?
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  142. Drydock at 1 hrs for 1hour. All coffee machines, full steam!
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  143. 3:40 re: Kamikaze - There is the (actually two) joke: Instructor: Pilot, you take off with craft loaded with the biggest bombs we can cram in! Pilot: Hai! I: You evade all American fighters and flak! P: Hai! I: And in the name of the Emperor, you fly into the biggest ship you see. Watch carefully, I will show it once! Any question? P: ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND?!
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  144. 31:00 Swordfish and dive-bombing - it WAS certified for dive bombing, maybe more exactly shallow angle dive/glide bombing and there are pictures of Stringbags actually divebombing.
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  145. 4 steam boilers and a backup coffeee machine :)
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  146. "like, cofee, lay back and enjoy"
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  147. 0:55:55 - Here comes the honorable mention of Rear Admiral Miklós Horthy, the last commander of the K.u.K. Kriegsmarine.
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  148. Comment of the day :)
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  149. 2:10 "The EU released 1B to convince Hungary" - THEREFORE its all a BLACKMAIL?
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  150. Hungary since 2017 asked UA to restore the rights of Hungarian minority in Subcarpathia, which was occupied by stalin, thus became the part of Ukran SSR in the USSR. But since the Kiev regime had time in 2022 to further cut the minority rights, I guess they do not really want to be in EU and NATO. :)
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  151.  @angelcabeza6464  Can you tell me, why Russian only begun to target energy infrasturcture in October and not before?
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  152. Why, Császári és Királyi Haditengerészet just rolls off from your tongue... :)
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  153.  @PaulfromChicago  You can only take a breath because you are manning the floatplane's tailgun.
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  154.  @waszkreslem9306  Lwów also spent like a century or so in the Habsburg Empire. hence Lemberg in German. Also Ilyvó in old Hungarian.
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  155.  @BotanixB  And to ice that cake Lviv, Lwów was Lemberg before. Welcome to Central-East Europe.
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  156. MUCH better place to serve than the open AA batteries on some ships on the bow, just before the lower of superfiring main turrets. But - as Drach pointed out in one of the Drydocks - these guns were placed in the hope, that your bucket does not have to fight torpedo boats/destroyers, other capital ships AND some aircraft all at once. So, when the main guns were fired, the guncrew could be sheltered somewhere under deck.
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  157. Drydrock at 13hrs... Raise steam.. 6+ horus? Raise steam in all coffe machines and tea kettles... :)
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  158.  @Drachinifel  Poke with a flamer. A heavy flamer :)
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  159. 14:24 "Rather than just being a pinata for anything that comes along with a gun bigger than 6-inches." - actually it was "XP Pinata"
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  160. Besides when Horthy was captain and later Rear Admiral, e wanted to fight the Italian Navy but usually only found Royal Navy and the French. Almost never the Italian. Which is a tad embarrassing in the Adriatic :)
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  161.  @steveprocter6241  " No peace is possible with an invader whose leader holds fascist imperialist and genocidal ambitions." Stephan bandera likes this :)))
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  162.  @elizabethcsicsery-ronay1633  If UA could not wait till the end of hostiüities, then Hungary won.t wait either. "What?"
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  163. So, 5 million people, about 1 million of them are military age, fleeing Afghanista, where the USA left billions worth of guns and ammo. And they are fleeing like a 75.000 strong Taliban force. Any questions?
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  164. As one can check, Russia delayed the delivery of S-300 SAM batteries and radars to IRAN, even thought they paid for it, in a show of good will, because the US and Israel ASKED THEM. Russia requests not to build AEGIS ASHORE bases in Romania and Poland were ignored. Nuff' said.
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  165. 1:25 "Back to Slovakia" - That would be Serbia, Mr Carlson.
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  166.  @claudiumusca2535  "If Austria-Hungary did not start the first world war" 1914: "By 27 and 28 July, the secret partial mobilization that Russia had begun on 25 July was starting to become apparent to German intelligence assets," "On 28 July 1914, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia. " Besides, Franz Ferdinand assasinated himself and his wife to start a World War?
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  167.  @ScorchedDemon  Such as? :)
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  168. That would be the end of NATO, go ahead. Btw, how do you plan it legally? You know, democracy, rule of law, international multilaterel contracts...? Are you familiar with these concepts?
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  169.  @jimtaylor294  Maybe consult your local Wickers salesman, he might have some 14" available off-the-shelf. After all, British flats are a tad smaller than US ones :)
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  170.  @AdamMGTF  and the Huns are also written with capital H. Its insulting enough that the British propaganda called the Krauts Huns, instead of us, Hungarians ;) And we receive the Drydock after diner, hence my lust for coffee...
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  171. Rum Ration: 1h24mins Mr O'Hara "fanboying" TO Drach - priceless (no pun intended) :)
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  172.  @wolfsoldner9029  Unfortunately, the A-H fleet did suffer coal shortage.
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  173. I would jave compared the Mogadors to the Didos, as the 5,25" gun is more in the league of the French 138mm (cca 40 kg shell weight, instead of the cca 50 kg for the 6" guns) but otherwise agree.
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  174.  @sundiver137  I was just half joking when mentioned Budapest. In WWI a few submarines WERE built there. Namely SM U27,28,40 and the U48 (unfinished)
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  175. Steampunk at its best :)
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  176. 42:00 Also, the Italian Benedetto Brin also exploded in warm Mediterraen weather.
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  177. 0:11:00 I guess the first ship named Enterprise sailed on Ferenginar.
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  178. 0:12:00 - KMS Bismarck vs 10 Leanders - I would throw in at least one year of shakedown costs in fuel, crew pay and ammo, plus the outlook of such theoretical engagement the loss of - say - 2 blown up CLs and a further crew worth in dead on other, damaged ships. And you have to tell it to the govt and the press. Plus also there is the outlook of a fast BB turning tail and running and picking off more, than 2 cruisers before the rest can close in to 6" and later torpedo range.
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  179. BZ, its always nice to praise your enemy, it makes your victory sweeter and defeat more tolerable.
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  180. Warning! Explosive content!
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  181. Feels like X-Mas... Oh, wait :)
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  182. About a four dozens of them, sailing towards Ancona. :)
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  183. " The young Hungarians, who benefited from the western model are pro EU and pro Ukraine, but they either live in the capital or moved to other countries in the west." Funt fact: Hungary has the lowest percantage of population which migrated West in the EU. Even funnier: in the last 4 or 5 years this migration TURNED - more people RETURN to Hungary than leave from. Add to this the rising number of Westerners arriving to Hungary (Schengen free move zone, you know). Ever visited Debrecen, Kecskemét, Győr?
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  184. Praise be! :)
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  185. Maybe under Madame Le Pen or Mosieur Zemmour. Even more, a Visegrad4-France cooperation.
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  186.  @emazio4122  Ethnic Hungarian kids cannot talk Hungarian ín school - not even among themselves. Now in UA, previously in Romania and Czechoslovakia. Also mass deportation as "population exchange" in the late 1940.
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  187.  @thomaslaubli1886  Yepp, he votes for Fidesz since 1998 too :)
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  188.  @raulduke6105  You keep the ammo separate from propellant charges, obviously :)
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  189. 4:36 the unnamed cruiser was the SMS Zenta. https://youtu.be/dV8EyPFulN8 Ps: I would love to hear Drach pronounce the name of Zenta's sister ship, the SMS Szigetvár ;)
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  190. I was sipping on my coffee, but "meanwhile in Russia"...
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  191.  @jonathanhill4892  Maybe not authentic French brie, but some German knock-off kase ;)
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  192. 6:55 "Normal cruiser" - Szigetvár... Well, Budapest was nailed perfectly, so I cannot complain. :)
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  193. And all events which happened with Ottokár Prohaska actually happened, albeit with different, real people.
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  194. And if the Warsaw Pact armies are any indication, a 30+ minute "political education", which was a mixture of 1984-style session of hatred alternating with the paising Soviet results, ever surpassing the planned amount.
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  195. Nuclear depth charges WERE invented and WERE tested for example during Operation Dominic, the Swordfish Test
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  196. @UNSCForwardontodawn Albeit he fonds of absynthe too.
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  197.  @richardbell7678  It is still happens, especially in the former USSR that in a university someone solves a problem faster with slide ruler, that it is fed into a computer.
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  198.  @Drachinifel  Once you confessed that you are enacting as a Károlyi (if memory serves).... :)
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  199. 6+ hours... I am almost as speechless as Drach might have been at the end. :)
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  200.  @dropdead234  Its a pun about the Kraken Unleashed. It is an achievement of killing 5 enemy ships in World of Warships - so for a 5 hours Drydock...
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  201. 1:24 As for the Norvegian invasion, even a seemingly small factor (Drach even discussed that earlier) like properly working German torpedoes, would have changed the outcome massively. The German player at the table rolled several 1's on many dice...
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  202. I mean initiated the turn too late... :) Need more coffee...
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  203. Press like, running silent to the coffee machine... :)
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  204. Yeah, one can preserve a tank by smearing thick grease over it, an put it in a shed. Ships do not fit into most sheds.
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  205. Praise be!
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  206. 3:40 Drach: Food, fuel, ammo and spare parts Altmark: wounded crew, prisoners, prize crew...
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  207. "Royal Navy capital ship will never be fleeing from the enemy." - Except when Ze Germans spammed torpedoes on the Grand Fleet, when Jellicoe turned AWAY.
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  208. After 300+ Drach video, I give a like ASAP. One can recall it, if ever needed.
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  209. Well, a sailship cross-Atlantic is a two week quarantine by itself...
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  210. Back them, when Hungary was on the "sunny" side of the Iron Curtain, we were joking about afroamerican spies failing in the USSR. Now, it becomes a sad reality....
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  211. Antovon has clearly OBSERVED the Late Day Biplane, the Holy Blackburn Blackburn.
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  212. Quite accurate, nice job Duran. A few details, thought: 1, "Slave law" is about raising the maximum number of overwork hours 400/years, with the written consent of the employee. Considering that unemployment is already lower than unfilled jobs, it will be very hard to abuse this law. 2, Trade unions are still infested with former communists. This was highlighted in 2015, when the Orbán goverment was forced to cancel a law about Sunday closure of shops, trade unions did not even raised their hands. 3, "Far right", The so called "far right" party Jobbik, moved towards the globalist, excommie liberal-left, resulting in two major splits in the party. Those two splits roughly halved the popular support of the Jobbik. A former strongman of the party even made a promise, that if the "protesters" keep insulting the police, they will mobilise the paramilitary "hardcore radical patriotic" forces. So, "the" far right is NOT supporting the riots. 4, The police reacts with a zen-like tranquility to provocation, even thought two dozens or so officers were injured, only like 50 people were arrested over one week. Even most of them were released by the morning. 6, Along with the familiar "full time" protesters (who are basically on the streets for years now, being drama-queens about basicly everything), there were many foreigners taken into custody. Yes, with ties to the Soros network. 5, Contrary to the rivers of liberal tears, there were two Soros-universities in Budapest, the CEU (about 170 pupils) moved its postal address to Wienna, but the Közép.Európai Egyetem (KEE, which also translates into CEU, with some 1800 pupils) stood, where they were, but they cried a river.
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  213. 6:48 "Orbán has won elections TWICE". - WRONG. He was elected in 1998, 2010,2014 and 2018, so he was elected FOUR times and reelected twice. Plus his party mopped the floor with the then government, current opposition parties in 2006, 2010, 2014 and 2019 (the last time Fidesz-KDNP won 53% of the votes, even if lost in Budapest and a few cities). Oh, and 52% on the EP election in 2019.
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  214. There is also the issue of minorities in Ukraine, which are rather maltreated. Hungarian, Polish, Romanian, Russian and even some Slovaks., just to name the ones,which has an "outside motherland".
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  215. Sadly Budapest has a leftist mayor, so sadly its getting dirtier by the day, with added junkies.
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  216. Funb fact: the last Soviet soldier occupying Hungary died recently - in ukraine. Since he was Ukrainien.
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  217. Hey, nothing funnier than a British flagged user - after Brexit - lecturing Hungary how to behave as an EU member. When will you outlaw Monty Python? :D
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  218.  @borisreljanovic7292  Oh, Poland in WWII.... They got British and French guarantees, lost their country, fought for the Allies in the worst theatres, since the Blitz... aaaand ended up in the "loving" arms of stalin and were ordered to shut up about Katyn. How "radek" Sikorsky said?
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  219.  @borisreljanovic7292  Yepp, Polaks are being prepared to die for "The Hill".
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  220.  @rogerphelps9939  Ah, for the challenged ones, the presumtions of the interviewer were FALSE in equating Russians with the Soviets.
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  221. Wasn't Ukraine about to talk about peace last year in Istambul? Wasn't Zelensky ordered to abort those talks, when Ukraine had 15-20 million more inhabitants, home and alive.
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  222. But Orbán always WILL BE RIGHT :)
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  223.  @ScorchedDemon Your data is lacking.
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  224. WARNING FOR MINORS! Now, that said, does anyone have a photo about this ship-like thing on a gunnery practice? Even CGI?
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  225.  @jimtaylor294  But is a basic human right to have self defense :)
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  226. Todays Drydock can accomodate the HMS Habbakuk :)
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  227. 25:00 "Your strongest unit goes this way the others on the other side" - and in WoWs you hope that the German ship did not develop "full secondary skill set" yet.
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  228. Two questions: 1, Was there even an over-and-under naval twin turret? (Instead of the side by side two gun turret) 2, Was there a fire control system that use two local rangefinders for range triangulation? (Ie: Turret A looks at the target 3 o'clock - ie. 90 degrees, Turret X faces the same target az "2.30", ie. 80 degrees and I know that there is exactly 95 meters between my turrets)?
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  229. Gott erhalte!
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  230. You should be this early :)
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  231. Drydock time! Drach becoming an institution :)
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  232. FYI recruits of the last year of peace spoke Croatian (31,3% of them), Hungarian (20,4%), German (16,9%) Czech (10,6%) ... As for problems, what contemporary European power hadn't?
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  233. There is at least one 5 hour 40 or so Drydock...
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  234. 5:00 How does "Do you see torpedoboats" translates to Norsk?
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  235.  @pnbrune  The Austro-Hungarian ( KuK ) Navy did have submarines, scoring a few hits on Antant ships, but since the Adriatic was more or less sealed during WWI and shipping there is done by smaller ships and smaller quantities, they did not achive the successess of their Atlantic cousins. If memory serves it was a KuK sub which had the first, submerged and successfull torpedo attack on the French Léon Gambetta armored cruiser. Another memorable fragment was, when - due to the modest range of the early boats - KuK Novara was towing one sub to the patrol area. The former ship was a fast scout cruiser, masquaraded to a mechant steamer with the addition of a fake, canvas funnel (where sailors were sent to pipe during their off time, probably more for morale purposes than camouflaging :) ). To complete a good story, a French destroyer hailed the ship, which probably was a very unpleasant surprise.
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  236. If you still have the postcard, could you send it digitalised to Drachinifels channel admin e-mail? I cannot speak in his name, but would bet that he will like it.
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  237. Thank you for these personal(ish) details, albeit the SMS Sankt Georg "revisited" Rimini in 1915, on the 18th of June, with SMS Szigetvár.
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  238. Research rodents :) We should get them a paddlewheel ship toy which is a running wheel...
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  239. Radio discipline had to be relearned by many pixel starships in EVE-online ;)
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  240. Drach time, coffee time :)... and at 1:06, I remember why I am at odds with my wife's pigmy rabbit. :)
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  241. Kaiserliche und Königliche Kriegsmarine and "yes, THAT Tegethoff" :)
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  242. 16:00 Nitroglicerine is know to explode even from UV radiation, ie sunlight.
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  243.  @westcoaststacker569  Prolly if the Bismarck had like 5 other ships and the British vessels were "orderly redeploying" away from them....
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  244. "Also.....I'd love a flying boat" You know about the Caspian Sea Monster, right?
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  245.  @nickboy3024  "What did Carrier pilots do when their carrier was sunk and they were still flying?" Options: - find a suitable enemy target and crash your plane into it (mostly japanese) - find a nearby, friendly runway, either a flattop or a proper airport - find one of the still floating escort vessel of your ex-ship, and try to survive landing on water (or bail out). Sometimes this meant landing near a lifeboat - find ANY ship to ditch your plane nearby - radio in your position until you run out of juice, then ditch the plane and pray that your miniraft will inflate, but will not attracts a shark, but a Catalina (Even "the Luftwaffe" sent out floatplanes, U- and E-boots during the Blitz to pick up pilots from the Channel. Even British crew - as well as every major navy)
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  246.  @kiloalphasierra  A Silkworm missile is over 6 meters and two tons - NOT tiny.
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  247. Dr Alexander Clarke's favourite "honestly not carrier" :)
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  248. Here comes the honorable mention of the Austro-Hungarian Radetzky-class pre-dreads, which used seaplanes in combat in the Balkan Wars.
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  249. While the merchant raiders seem to be the most cost-effective component or the four (surface warships, U-boats, merchant raiders and of course the Luftwaffe), I have an educated guess that investing MORE resources (ships, people, etc) into this field would have resulted in diminishing results.
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  250. Sorry to say that, but based on the fact, that it took the Chinese authorities - which for "reasons" could make more efficient quarantine measures - 4 or 5 months to reach the "more people are healed than infected today" state... :(
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  251. But them who are the real successors of bandera?
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  252. 18:30 Mr Pozsár Zoltán , analyst of Credit Suisse.
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  253.  @Larkinchance  A Visegrad 4 and France cooperation, even on just specific questions (nuclear energy fex) is actually has more political weight than Germany.
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  254. Regarding the wire tapping made by the US with the Danes AND the US troops in Germany, can we talk about German sovereignity at all?
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  255. Its also the other ethnic minorities in Ukraine: Poles, Slovaks, Romanians, Rusyns and of course, Russians.
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  256. And not just 2 more blocks of 1200MW are under construction for Paks nuclear power plant, the existing four (500 MW each) are considered for life extension.
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  257. ACTUALLY The Orbán goverments since 2010 decreased Russian gas dependency from 100%, to around 80% but never let facts ruin your feeling Andy. Do not look up Nabucco pipeline, it will hurt you :)
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  258. Ukraine officials repeatedly threatened Hungary (both Hungary proper and Hungarian minorities in West Ukraine). Ukraine is threatening a NATO country, after shooting missiles into Poland, Romania, Hungary and Croatia. Think it over everyone.
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  259. Can you link one of these laws in the "Magyar Közlöny" or just repeating what you heard?
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  260.  KGBkgbkgbkgbkgbkgbkgbkgbkgbk  " It's Ukraine" In present tense. But in future tense?
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  261. 1:35 Krékó: Orbán isolated 3:10 Orbán emboldened by Fico's and Wilders' winning elections 🤡
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  262.  @vadimyarmak7667  Speaking of having an opinion, where is Gonzalo Líra?
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  263.  @SirJamieLannister  For 1956 both Jeltsin and Putin apologised. Noone on behalf of Ukraine. Plus there are the articles, ín the Contract between Hungary and Ukraine, recognising each other, in 1991 with the rights of ethnic minorities. If Ukraine continues to abuse her Hungarian minority, that Contract can be rewoked. Just to the legal side.
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  264.  @SirJamieLannister  Not that German untis from Austria and Tiso's Slovakia hadn't invaded Poland or the USSR from that matter. Sorry, Ukraine is also a sucessor state to the USSR, not just the Russian Federation. Besides, RUF does not hold territories annexed by Stalin in 1945 from Hungary and Romania. Ukrainie does.
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  265. OSCE saw something else.
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  266.  @goldpilgrim  Nothing concrete, as expected. As always.
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  267. You might be suffering from the past, where the USA could build 120 carriers over 4 years. Not anymore.
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  268. Drach Time, coffee time.
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  269. Mogami meme reporting?
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  270. The "next on the list" is surprisingly short, so I have to recommend the Tátra class DD's of the Austro-Hungarian "Kaiserliche und Königlische Kriegsmarine" since it is in the WoWs - albeit horribly butchered.
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  271. And for decades one had to buy Whitehead - because there were no other manufacturers. And as the German cruiser Blücher found out in Drobak Sound, they worked well even for decades, with proper maintenance.
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  272. 1:40 The Kaiserliche und Königliche Kriegsmarine showed up in force, shooting up stuff, like watertowers. Ironically they were actually LOOKING FOR Italian torpedo boats (as they brought their in great number) and even more surprisingly, they found none.
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  273.  @mattheweagles5123  The "tower"-or "bridge".
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  274. 58:00 "This was it" - also, the German battlecruisers bombarding British cities with relative impunity (and its media coverage) must also have been a morale boost.
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  275. C, for coffe, then like, then watch
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  276. Yes, but it was more like "there is something small/medium/big at this range, plus-minus 5 miles range and plus-minus a mile error in altitude"
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  277.  III Vance  Oh, after watching like a 100+ videos of Drach I have that amount of trust. And he will not fail this, because we now, where he will sail and we can sink his pixel warships.
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  278.  @brainletmong6302  The aforementioned meteor should have been DISCOVERED, because if it hits the budding III Reich, bomber Harris would have no cities to burn...
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  279. One hour Drydock at 1 o'clock. Coffee loaded, raise steam.
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  280. Build them in Budapest, then travel down on the Danube. :)
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  281. But this is actually ASW, with intermittent AAA.
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  282. I have to rewatch the video, due to the amount of people, who I had to shout down for interrupting me during the first try. :)
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  283.  @whyjnot420  On the torpedocraft infested Adriatic, rapid firing 47 or 37 mms were a must for a while. Around 1910 or so, the KuK Kriegsmarine begun to use the 7cm (66mm) and 10cm guns for that, as torpedocraft grew in size and torps in range.
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  284. Damn Luigi Rizzo :)
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  285. Drydock 134 - earplugs, supermarket, people nervous ;)
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  286. Same from (electronic) "Control technologies" - you design it, calculate everything down to three of four digits, then get a screwdriver and make the final adjustments by hand.
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  287. That would quickly became a high-speed boarding cat, if my bucket was fired upon ;)
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  288.  @OhSome1HasThisName  Except when they butcher a ship, like the Tátra (tier II "European" destroyer) .
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  289. 0:43:00 re: naval resupply of East Front via the Black Sea- it was a thing, many Romanian and Hungarian (the latter river-sea merchantmen) were employed and had their encounters with the Soviet Air Force and the remaining fast attack craft of the Soviet Navy.
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  290. The day when steel begun to fly in the earnest... But I must finish the Bilgepumps with "Michael", get another mug of coffee...
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  291.  @dropdead234  And maybe the can openers too.
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  292. Could the Deutschlands - purely technology-wise - refitted with new bows, sterns and maybe even diesels (keeping the diesel propulsion but squeezing out more horsepower), to make it to 30 knots?
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  293. The ancient chinese used (corrugated?) paper as body armor. As long as they could keep it dry (laminating or sg), it functions well - about on the level of brigandine.
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  294. 3:34:50 - Doolittle Raid as "symbolic" - AFAIK not just striking back as a morale boost of US side and dent in the morale of IJ side was usefull, but then Japan had to commit sizeable resources to the defense of thier homeland. Those resources would have come handy during the Pacific operations.
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  295. @Joshua N. Ajang More like a 40 days old boat. They somehow the "live fast, die young" type.
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  296. Drydock at 1 o'clock, 1 hour longs, Drachs voice not raspy nor nasal, all coffee machines full steam, for three mugs.
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  297. 44:19 I guess the question was, why not use LONGER, but smaller calibre shells - say a 600 kg 28 cm, instead of the Scarnhorsts' 330 kg L4,4 APC - if I did not miss something.
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  298. Ah, the after-dinner coffee break. The Aurora - as well as the French war-hotels - would be beautiful, if not a bit undersized additions to the WH40K battlefleet. As seagoing vessel they are like a good can of smoked Russian sprotni with ripe, seasoned camambert cheese. One have to develop a taste for them. :)
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  299.  @kingswagii1607  @Japanese 25mm - In really abbreviated format: baaaad reload and vibration.
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  300. 20B remains frozen until conditions change - ie until Ursule von der SMS is removed.
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  301. 3:20 "ORbán built a fence in a few weeks" (ie in 2015), 3:40 "Last yearthere were less than seven hundred asylimium seekers" Hmmm... Is there a connection?
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  302. The F16 is the same gamechanger, than the JDAM was - by Zeihan, in December 2022.
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  303.  @elizabethcsicsery-ronay1633  Because if, sorry, "when" it wins, UA (UkrajnA) will even harder step on minorities. Albeit Bobby Kennedy said 300K UA soldiers and 14k civvies died to this point and the remainder of the country is indebted for generations...
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  304. From the armchair here I suspect the Russian pilot tried to blast the Viper with the dual jet exhaust for additional measure - but IDK how strong this effect is at that altitude and distance.
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  305. This one is clearly blessed by the Holy Blackburn Blackburn, also known as the Blackburn R1.
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  306. The Hungarian far right party Jobbik is pronounced yob-bikh, not job-bikh. Not that they didn't lost about 70% of their voters from joining the "rainbow" coalition.
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  307. Darth Trump: What is thy bidding, my Master?
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  308. Yes, so a NATO country - Ukraine is not one - can be attacked without other members cooperating. Oh, and not PM but FP. :)
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  309. When you have a population of 1,8Million, about 30% of this is Russian or Belorussian AND you have a large land border with Russia, remove your pedestrian bridges. What can go wrong? 🤡
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  310. When Lukashenko's Belarus looks tidier and safer when the US... You know, something is deeply wrong.
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  311. Soo, because Hungary did not import African slaves, it is a "White NAtionalist". Sure.
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  312.  @attilaviniczai7215  Yes, the usual lies. Employment in Hungary, Nov. 2021 4,519M up 88k from 2020, from that public workers 86k, down 4k, works abrod 81k, down 14k. Anyone can check from KSH. Te is megnézhetnéd, mielőtt gombát játszol.
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  313.  @knole378  Except under Orban, employment numbers grew be one million (from cca. 3,5 million to over 4,5 million) unemployment halved as well as the number of people who are employed abroad.
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  314. @perseus274 Which meant that high school graduates had to speak and write Hungarian. Have you seem the 6 or 8 language bank notes of Austria-Hungary? 6 language on the SAME bank note.
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  315.  @peabase  Did you know Holland EXPORT to Russia in 2021 was 2,4 B Euros? Hungarian export was 1,6.
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  316.  @paxshmitz2665  "and why isn't Hungary growing?" like 7% GDP Growth last year is not growth...
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  317. Oh, do not cry CIA muppet while Orbán tries to save Europe.
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  318. At this rate, there will be no Ukraine to a NATO member. Again.
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  319.  @Piligrim-e5v  That too. So if we Hungarians are obliged to hate Russians because they were Soviets, then we were also obliged to hate Ukrans for being Soviets. Not to mention after 1991....
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  320. "Zelensky had said at the beginning of the war that Ukraine was prepared to not join NATO " This was when?
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  321. Aren't Romanians ín Ukraine? On territories annexed by the USSR?
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  322. Kick? By what article of the relevant contracts? Or you are proving Putin right - you know, he said, that the West cannot be trusted. Educate me.
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  323.  @Feiora  You missed a joke.
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  324.  @WASRGP  Ain't it surprising how big the racoons get nowadays? :)))
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  325. They fit neatly between the Austro-Hungarian "Erzherzog" and "Radetzky" classes.
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  326. Official trailer of Nelson, season 1 :)
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  327.  @ian_b  But I did mean seriosly that Dr Clarke did meause the holes on wrecks... Oh wait.
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  328.  @ian_b  It is the result from shipwreck analysis, besides Dr Alexander Clarke is a university lecturer.
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  329.  @Boxghost102  At this moment some people would give you several thousand barrel AND pay for it :)
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  330.  @zedoktor979  Same, provided it actually holds drinkable alcohol (rum preferably).
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  331. Rain, coffee, warships..
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  332. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkOP8Lwdmgg Make some of these in 280 mm, one per turret. ;)
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  333. It was exactly 333 years ago on this day, when the united Eurpean armies, led by Eugene of Savoy (among others) finally kicked out the Ottomans from Buda. So, naming a dreadnought after Prinz Eugene is the least A-H could done.
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  334.  @SeanPaulinho  Three triple turret is 9 barrels for roughly the same weight as four twin ones, which is 8 barrels.
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  335. Defensive minelaying: you anchor mines around you port and REMEMBER where you put them Offensive minelaying: dropping mines in front of an enemy port by night and let them find them, "the fun way".
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  336.  @tonyromano6220  See Drachinifeld "2nd Pacific Squadron" videos and the ship guide Kamchatka. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCrAQFBUFlU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Mdi_Fh9_Ag https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXpj6nK5ylo
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  337.  @LukeBunyip  "How many years worth of potential ship review suggestions are we currently at?" Like "How many pushups Chuck Norris can do?" :)
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  338. We cannot take risks, they might be tripods in disguise. Feuer!
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  339. The first commander of the Polish Navy was a certain Bogumil Nowotny, who - as the captain of the SMS Scharfschütze , after almost exactly 12 hours after the Italian declaration of war angains the Austro-Hungarian dual Monarchy sailed into the inner harbor of Porto Corsini, exchanged fire with artillery batteri(es) and Italian infantry soldiers there, expending - among many other ammunition 50 pistol rounds. Maybe not personally, as told by @Drachinifel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krWdd0OkptQ https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogumi%C5%82_Nowotny https://web.archive.org/web/20061002014054/http://www.mw.mil.pl/index.php?akcja=nowotny This probably explains the ORP Piorun's engagement of the battleship Bismarck a.k.a "I am Pole".
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  340. Drydock, A-H monitors, the Tegethoff class and coffee... :)))
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  341. re 0:27:00 German high-pressure steam plants - as Germany was notorious short in alloying material, could it be, that if they had ample supply of chromum, manganese, nickel, tungsten etc for building matierals, their ships would have suffered less ?
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  342. Gray warhosre, black coffee... :)
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  343. A Drydock with Irn Bru.... but I cannot guerantee to stay away from coffee...
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  344.  @maxschon7709  Yes, Italy remaining neutral might have saved a few million young men around Isonzo, which in hindsight far outweight the meager gains of being an "active winner".
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  345. - Its a trap! - Its "von Trapp" if I may ask.
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  346. Another take on titanium: 1, Soviets made nuclear submarines from titanium (or titanium alloy). I think this contributed the economic collapse of the USSR. ;) 2, Last time I checked snubbies (short barrel "holdout" revolvers) were made out of titanium, to make concealed carry more comfortable, but not the barrel itself, because titanium is flexible and this obviously ruins the point of rifled barrels. This seems to make titanium less than ideal for face hardened armor - at least for the hardened part. But I am not an expert and this piece of information is over a decade old, so if someone knows better, feel free to correct me.
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  347. So, what hull form is ideal for a distillery ship? :)
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  348. You don't happen to be a Beaufighter pilot, snickering about the wonderful 2nd Amendment?
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  349. 4:20 - So, "the Sinker", an Italian officer named Luigi Rizzo earlier in 1917 managed to sink the coastal pre-dread battleship SMS Wien, commanded the MAS-15, with two confirmed hits (out of 2 launcher). However, the other boat, MAS-21 also reported two launches with one miss and one possible hit around the funnels. And then the diver's expedition in 1997 found 4 holes amidships... https://ng.hu/kultura/2018/06/13/szaz-eve-sullyedt-el-a-szent-istvan-csatahajo/ https://ng.hu/uploads/2018/06/201806-sztistvan11.jpg
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  350. OK, hold on a sec, getting coffee...
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  351. 29:00 Not that all 20mm equal, but if we narrow down to the Hispano-Suiza HS 404... Then they are still not equal. Basically the nose mounted, tightly grouped guns send their shells into tight groups along all (possible) ranges, and when an armor plate gets hit by several dozen rounds in a split second... Tended to shear it in half. On the other hand, the multiple wing mounted ones were better suited to sweep the decks (sometimes causing even the pilot throw up when they strafed stuffed landing ships) and get the AA "unmanned".
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  352. But then there were other ships, which were saved by the big airbag of the torpedo room. But AFAIK from capital ships only HMS Rodney hit the then crippled Bismarck with a torpedo during the dreadnought-era.
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  353. Sankt Georg of the Slain Dragon, namesake of of the Ordet of the Dragon, which gave name a certain Vlad Dracul too. ;)
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  354. Merry Christmas, Áldott Karácsonyt!
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  355. Coffee, watch, oh I forgot to like... Press like.
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  356. 3:15 "Fitted as a flagship" - what this means in practice?
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  357.  @strub6732  Maybe check the SMS Novara and sisters.
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  358. 35:10 The British being the Master of the Sea begun choking off the tribute lines - the biggest pirate state did not like competition :)
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  359. USS Lexington, sry for typo
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  360. Rain, coffee, drydock... With cats. :)
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  361. 3+ hours if Dry Dock. We need more mugs. Of coffee ;)
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  362. Ssssoooo.... It took like 26 hours (including sleep, work, etc) to get thru 5+ hours of Drydock. My only - and minor - objection is that while I can definitely appreciate and digest this amount of information, maybe it would be better to make it several videos, so that comments on it would be more traceable...
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  363. At around 2:00:00 Drach desribes a modern battleship(ish thing), like throw on all air defence, put on a pair of decent 5" guns, some more air defence, turn the forward section into an Arsenal Ship and have helos all around. KIROV REPORTING!
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  364. You might want to ask Dr Alexander Clarke, author of "Tribals, Darings and Battles" about , on his YT channel, how marginal were those DD actions.
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  365.  @RCAvhstape  In one of the recent Bilge Pumps Podcast Drach announced, that he managed to produce hard tac, which was useable as shuriken... Maybe cooking is not one of his many expertise :)
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  366.  @thesage1096  I am Hungarian, that qualifies as a yes :)
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  367. Gott Erhalte... :)
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  368. 0:06:24 re: "Tin Can" origin - In the early 1890's the Austro Hungarian "misson cruisers" (ie. protected cruisers) Kaiserin ELisabeth and Kaiser Franz Joseph I. got the nickname - after baron von Sterneck, CIC of the K.u.K. Kriegsmarine - "Sterneck's Sardine Cans" after being barely protected, but cramped (especially on long missions).
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  369. Well, there WAS a small container ship named Kormoran, built in 1978....
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  370. Drach time!!!
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  371. 00.38 "Optimal shell velocity" - AFAIK shell types and charges WERE varied on the same ships, maybe during the same engagement depending on the range and various targets.
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  372. 53:20 Best crewmember as literature characters: I would recommend the Star Trek Deep Space 9 series, but especially the parts Valiant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valiant_(Star_Trek:_Deep_Space_Nine) and "Treachery, Faith and the Great River" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treachery,_Faith,_and_the_Great_River as well as the series Babylon 5, especially the part "A View from the Gallery". https://babylon5.fandom.com/wiki/A_View_from_the_Gallery IMHO.
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  373. What was USS Ward's and her sisters tipical "load" of men and equipment as a fast troop transport? How did those troops land - on a pier or by barges, or...?
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  374. Are further Austro-Hungarian ships on "The List"?
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  375. Considering Dönitz had around 40k sub crew during the war, from which 30k lost their lives, so the rooster never reached that number. So even with 250k crew... "Fly my beauties" ;)
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  376. Scramble CAP.
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  377. Loud: -Captain, we have radar surface contact! Muffled: - Do they have ion cannons? - No sir. - Are we in range, if recon failed? - Definitely no sir! Loud: - GOOD. OUT FIRST CATCH OF THE DAY.
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  378.  @MarcStjames-rq1dm  I guess had the Kriegsmarine lacked heavy surface combatants, their other 3 components would have done worse too.
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  379. 51:15 "Fun fact, we call the Austro-Hungarian Fleet" - fun fact, it was NOT the Austro-Hungarian fleet. It was the fleet of the Habsburg Empire, because before the 1868 Kiegyezés (Ausgleicht), there was no Austria-Hungary :)
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  380. 1:10:10 "The Austro-Hungarian fleet was quite sizeable comparable to the " (Shore size?) - Yes, and meanwhile the A-H MERCHANT fleet was the 4th or 5th biggest one on the planet (or 7 seas) around the early XXth century.
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  381.  @joshthomas-moore2656  How about this can of sardines for inspiration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_Szigetv%C3%A1r
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  382.  @ttaibe  A good US carrier can sail on steam generated by its coffee machines,
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  383.  @admiraltiberius1989  But then, who would seriously oppose the first US carrier named after a black sailor (and war hero, if memory serves)?
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  384. 24:00 Had kill anti-torpedo system: The Eurotorp MU90 és supposed to have anti-torpedo capability: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MU90_Impact And somewhere I read the anti-torpedo capabilities of a Russian (post-soviet) RBU launcher's anti-topreedo capabilities, but I cannot find the link.
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  385. Oh, well, the French had to copy the "PAtchwork Fleet" from somewhere :)
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  386. 0:29:01 re: flame throwing cannon: AFAIK Hungarian artillery (in XVI.-XVII. century) in fortress sieges occasionally put a few handfull of solid nuggets of pine resin into canister shots. Obviosuly, canons used on land (an in case of sieges) and ranges were generally smaller than in ships of the line, but the small guns on the deck while doing "decksweeping" might set the adversary afire.
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  387. If that so Drachiwood's remakes are better, than "mousewoods" :)
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  388. It must be noted, that Orban supported Swedish NATO membership, but the fraction (in the Parliament) was not enamored to say so.
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  389.  @beachnmountains  "Where did the doctors go retire? Or to othe countries?" Hint: working doctors in Hungary rose from 34k in 2010 to 42K (this with a significant dip in 2019). That flat income tax maybe works?
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  390.  @7skanderbeg  Bulgarians (despite their NGO-goverment) eye "North" Macedonia - revisionism - and look at modern Orthodox Russia as their ally who liberated them from the Ottomans. Oddly enough - WWI legacy - they don't really like Serbs, who are also in the Orthodox panslavic "business". As you know, the Balkans is.... complicated. Sure you know.
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  391.  @juniorjames7076  "NATO (and the EU for that matter) are nothing without US money." Actually in 2022 Germany alone had a 74B USD trade surplus with the USA. Where does this money comes from?
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  392. This already aged and will age well :)
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  393. 7:30 "politically problematic currency" - like the one which throws out sanctions as if they are going out of fashion?
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  394. At night, that muzzle break fireball will blind the shooter...
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  395. Sssooo, what if we put a small razor disc into it? Or I am the only dinosaur, remembering an old B movie Dark Angel (1990)?
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  396. In the remaining 6 months of this EU parliament cycle, those eussr comissars make their best for Orbán's reelection in 2026 and 2030. Just as they did in 2011, when hndreds of thousands marched in Budapest FOR the government. Not unlike in 1968, in Paris, for De Gaulle. Icing the cake is that both times the people demonstrated AGAINS daniel cohn-bendit a.k.a. danny the red. :)
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  397. " @zedbou5040 Ukraine didn't want war, but they have one." Well, if you do not want war, NEXT TIME if you have 200 thousand Russian soldiers on your border STOP shelling Donetsk, which is ethnially Russian. Or maybe do not listen to boris "Wolfsangel" jonhson and accept the April 2022 Russian peace proposal.
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  398.  @12313846  Yeah, Russia moved Kaliningrad next to NATO.
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  399. Payback time, for the Opium Wars. Having long memory, you know... History.
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  400. God Bless Lukasz, the Polish chef, with the narwhal tusk.
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  401. Ukraine lost in 2022. Funding only feeds the meatgrinder - and the Big Guy.
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  402. 4:55 "Enemies of the West prepare to use a tactical nuke" - strangely, I agree with this guy, the "slight" problem is, that these enemies sit it elected and NON-elected political positions and in NATO hierarchy.
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  403. In recently surfaced papers it looks like a certain Yuriy Andropov, a later Soviet General Secretary had the idea of a manufactured and quickly quenched uprising. Well, as illustrated above, it went out of hand. Also, the letter "gy" is better pronounced simply as "d" - unless one wants to take lesson in Hungarian language. For the first part of the video, you might want to look up a gentleman named col. Ferenc Koszorús, for clarifying Hungary's role in WWII.
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  404. Praise be!
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  405. 1:47 Is that a GUN MUZZLE and are those case ejection ports on that bulge on the fuselage?!
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  406.  @annmcilvenna3973  Prime Minister. President of Hungary is János Áder
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  407.  @clangerbasher  SOmetimes I miss the Iron Maggie - here in Hungary.
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  408. In Hungary, even most of the jews are first Hungarian and second jews. The smaller part of the local globalist jew community is very loud thought.
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  409.  @hnenad983  Nope, you do not understand. Basically the "working class" knows, that they cannot be forced to take overtime, if they do not want, but can take and paid legally if they do.
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  410. The 3 years delay in paying overtime is a blatant lie. That is why even the trade-union backed protest was composed mostly elderly pensionist and liberal youth.
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  411. Its always Orbán, Putin and Trump in alphabetical order. :)
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  412. Actually, Hungary will not "follow" as the country is already "in game". https://budapestbeacon.com/hungary-kicks-off-usd-3-6-billion-belgrade-budapest-rail-line-investment/ "The Hungarian government has announced it is issuing a public tender for the Hungarian stretch of the Budapest-Belgrade rail line, reports index.hu. The announcement was made Monday morning by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán during the Central and Eastern European Countries and China (China-CEEC 16+1) summit hosted in Budapest. (The 16 other countries are Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia and Slovenia.) The 152-kilometer Hungarian section of the rail line, which will run between Soroksár and Kelebia, will be carried about by Kínai-Magyar Vasúti Nonprofit Zrt., a joint Hungarian and Chinese nonprofit closed-stock corporation."
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  413.  @Merillincs  Tudom, de azért köszönöm ;)
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  414.  @glowballdom9979  Nope, I had enough. Nor I want the 5B cookies of Nuland....
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  415. I am Hungarian, there is a saying here: do not eat the porridge hot (Nem eszik olyan forrón a kását). Wait the elections, wait the Fench elections and so on (remember Le Pen and Zemmour visited Hungary BEFORE Macron). Even the "Rule of Law" reports are under legal attack as unfounded and biased. More than a few things forming under the surface. As for the parlamentary elections, the best way for Fidesz to win is just inform the voters exactly what the Brussels buerocracts wants. This reliably results on a several hundred thousand strong pro-Orbán rally since 2012.
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  416. Sorry, Mr Orbán is Prime Minister, not President (more or less equivalent of the German Chancellor + President system)
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  417.  @Kalimdor199Menegroth  Ssssssoooo, member states can govern sexual minorities As they see fit?
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  418. 1:10 Expert: "Day 27 and Russia has NOT achieved any of its objectives" Me looking at the map: Russia has land connection to Crimea, encircled large Ukrainen troop contcentrations, Russian boots on an area larger than the UK and Ukraine does not want to join NATO. I am not an expert.
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  419. Need a fence on your Southern Border? Just call Mr Orbán.
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  420.  @sophieedel6324  Really? Are you a Burishma employee, my dear?
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  421. Except Hungary is not a Slavic country.
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  422.  @lanciadr  OSCE SMM Ukraine lives in the same fantasy. Sorry bud, the piabis was a war criminal before the SMO.
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  423.  @ayararesara6253  You remember and do not remember things, but facts do not care about your feelings.
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  424.  @ayararesara6253  " @ayararesara6253 "There's no repression of russian language," Ah, the Cope is strong in that one: "Why Ukraine’s new language law will have long-term consequences" Opendemocracy , by Roman Huba 28 May 2019 Is but one article about it.
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  425. Please tell me, when you are terrorised.
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  426.  @fuzzzeballs  You have no idea how much money WENT and still going out from Hungary into EU core states. Poland calculated their balance and found it deeply in negative.
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  427.  @SorbusAucubaria  "I am sure Orban finds it insulting that other European union countries are voicing their opposition that European Union money is going to Orban himself and his pals instead of where they are supposed to go. " ...and its a pity, that no evidence was ever found. Even when the EU DIRECTLY assigned audit jobs to the wife of the former PM, now second on opposition list Klára Dobrev. For a total sum of over 1,5 B HUF.
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  428.  @newTellurian  Soviet (ie Russian, Ukrain, Belorussian) tanks, while Radio Free Europe was fuelling the resistance?
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  429. How democratic of you speaking in the name of the whole popuplation of Portugal and half of Russia, plus the several hundred millions of people between them.
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  430.  @user-McGiver  SOunds like slave banderistan :)
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  431. Thrown out? What articles would allow it?
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  432. Hey, last time I checked NATO was a defensive alliance. Not one supporting aggression.
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  433. Tell me about the Nabucco pipeline :)
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  434. And fun fact: troops in 1956 came from the Ukrainien SSK part of the Soviet Union. The last occupying Soviet soldier (a general) who left Hungary in 1991 died recently in SUBcarpathia and was Ukrainien, a region annexed by the Soviet Union in 1945 and the general was Ukrainien. Oddly enough Putin (and before him Jelstin) did apologise officially for 1956. Noone from Kiev. Just saying.
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  435.  @FILOZOFUS87  You know, kedves Tiborom, Zelensky is a native Russian speaker, he still learns the Ukrainien language, haven't got the time to get to words like "please, thank you" :D
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  436.  @tarik6990  In 2010 he wished +1Million jobs in Hungary. It was granted by...? For starters :)
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  437. And then all of is wished were granted by whom? Since 2010 you know :)
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  438.  @МихаилСавельев-ч9с  While Ukraine stripping off minority rights, aren't you?
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  439.  @МихаилСавельев-ч9с  Historically all units in 1956 came from the Ukranien SSK. History is racist?
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  440.  @МихаилСавельев-ч9с  Oh, yes, there are Hungarians in SUBCARPATHIA, whose language rights were just cut again, since the start of the SMO.
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  441. You must hate the people of Ukraine.
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  442. It must be really humiliating for the EU and US not being eble to topple and imbecile. Oh wait, he is smarter than every one of them....
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  443. Hungary didn't shell its Russian minority before the eyes of OSCE and 200K Russian troops on her border. AFU did.
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  444. What are your values? In Eva Kailis' suitcase?
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  445. Like Merkel, Hollande, Poroshenko-Porky and Zelensky all saying they only used Minsk to gain time and strenght. But its Putins fault :)
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  446. "Russian army is close to real panic ," When will they collapse? After Russian missiles ran out in March? March 2022 that is.
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  447.  @ScorchedDemon  Ukraine burned thru 33 brigades, some of them multiple times at Artemovsk. This was missing from your calculation.
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  448. Everyone star praying that nukes won't start to fly.
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  449.  @gerfand  - 6" guns on Graff Zeppelin - IMO same reason, as US put 8" on Lexingtons and the RN armored their carriers: they had to plan their ships on confined waters, within land based airforce strike range but without radar.
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  450. 64 lb'ers - yes, but begun with smoothbore muzzleloaders and finished with rifled muzzleloaders.
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  451.  @strub6732  Given the show Turbinia performed and that at least three Italian destroyers - that I know of - were named Turbine... Seriously, VTE were "just" a refinement of an existing propulsion system, (steam) turbines however and evolutionary step.
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  452. Got coffee, have my two cents/pennies. 00:36:00 Armor manufacturing - can you provide armor plate manufacturing TIMES? Have the process required days or weeks long cooling/seasoning periods or similarly extended heat ones? 00:40:30 Ship names - so were there ships like Jégvirág-I., II. ... IX in the ocean going navies? (These are small river icebreaker, meaning "Frostwork", literary "Frost flower"). 00:47:00 Royal Navy keeping torpedoes on cruisers rather long - this might have something to do with the RN's penchant for night attacks and expecting radar to come into play even while designing their ships 00:51:00 Czeh armor - the Czeh armor and gun manufacturing industry was founded on most of the armor- and gun industry of the late Austro-Hungarian Monarchy - ie. Skoda manufactured the armor and guns fex the Tegethoffs and Radetzkys.
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  453. My coffee break just got the proper lenght-beam ratio :)
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  454. Ah, the Drydock ;) Happy Children's Day!
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  455. 4+ hours? Need more coffee...
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  456. 3:35:40 - Strafing to suppress/disable guns : craft with multiple .50 and up guns , like P-47 Tbolt with 8x0.50, Whirlwind and later Spit models with 4x20mm, not to mention the Beaufighter or the solid nose A-26 (16 or so 0.50 BMG) does not need to be lucky to knock out AA guns (unless turreted ones). Also, Mid-war the aircraft mounted rocket came into play. Then there is the effect of setting "anything on deck" afire, INCLUDING ready ammo.
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  457. 34:00 "Torpedo" - yepp. And there is the night/fog action, where you can sneak on a force and launch a torpedo salvo or an occasional crippled ship or a force chasing your lighter cruisers which just might stumble into those fish... Its a very handy thing to have, as long as the pure oxygen does not blow up your ship.
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  458.  @tbrowniscool  For that one I even have an answer - well, sort of : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_Budapest#World_War_I "The ship transferred to Pola two days later, and she was decommissioned on 11 March 1918. She became the accommodation ship for the submarine staff (Wohnschiff der U-Bootleitung). Just over a week later, Admiral Franz von Keil proposed that a 38-centimeter siege howitzer be installed to bombard the Castellazzo fortifications. Little time was wasted, and removal of the forward gun turret and its barbette began on 26 March. The installation of the 38-centimeter (15 in) gun was completed on 4 April although testing did not begin until 5 June when three shots were fired. The ship was recommissioned two days later with a reduced crew, and a practice shoot was conducted with unsatisfactory results on 6 August. Another training exercise scheduled for 20 August had to be cancelled for lack of ammunition. The howitzer was removed on 11 October and sent to the Army on 17 October. " https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/38_cm_Belagerungshaubitze_M_16 That is a single 81 ton howitzer on an 1890 vintage 5500ish ton coastal battleship (and a WWI Austro-Hungarian, not German one) . Did not went well.
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  459. Moar Drach time... This lunch break will be longer. Oh, coffe ready... :)
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  460. Finally was able to receive. Dechyphering took less time, due to the clear transmission of Drach voice :P
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  461. Hitting like, getting a cup, before the skipper decides to raise steam from the coffee machine, launch video.
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  462. How would the wider ( at 2:50 ) application of face-hardened plates and the effectively "second belt" face-hardener bulkhead behind the main belt affect the ships overall "staying power" and survivability?
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  463. Well, Eugene DID have an impact on Austria-Hungary. They named the SMS Zenta cruiser after one of his victories (from a long list) and he died in Wien. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_Zenta Albeit, this class earned the not so flattering nick "Sterneck's can of sardines"...
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  464. One hour of Drach on French Africa, coffee and then Bilge Pumps on German Cylons... :)
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  465. Actually even the British got leeched in WWI too...
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  466.  @stefanpajung113  Yes, but they left out the Tátra's secondaries and the mighty AA of two machine guns - which are or the model, but not working
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  467. Ah, 6 hours of Drydock..
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  468. Chuck Norris's fishing boat... I need coffee.
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  469. Delta-V :)
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  470.  @Drachinifel  Thanks ;)
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  471. Actually yes. From Georg von Trapp's book: "5. Because there were so many nationalities under the Austrian fl ag, some of the men had to learn German to be able to function in the navy. They made up counting songs with simple folk melodies to help them learn the language. These were the songs Georg taught his children."
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  472.  @Dave_Sisson  Joke aside: a lot of CLEAN water, because having mud and linestone scaling in your locomotive boiler is not someone wants. And its just really satisfying to hit one with naval arty.
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  473.  @kimmoj2570  As I quoted earlier, Georg von Trapp taught his kids to sing the songs which were "standard issue" in teaching German to non-German speaking sailors. Also the need for officers to learn several languages IMO gave them a nice IQ boost (or at least filtered out the morons). In one battle report a gunloader was noted heartening the gunner with the following: "Los, maximummal brúder". :)
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  474. For the SMS Árpád probably a white horse was sacrificed :)
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  475. "We are the Polish Navy, here are our ships: Thunder, Lightning and Joe". This is the point, where people wonder who was Joe and dare they ask :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ORP_Grom_(1936) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ORP_B%C5%82yskawica_(H34) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Danae_(D44) and "Joe": Joseph Conrad (Whose book "Heart of Darkness" inspired the 1979 "Apocalypse Now". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Conrad
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  476.  @vasilisxentes  O,P and Q were to have TWICE the range of Sch's, cruising at 19 knots, so this was a "pro" reason. Yet, as they were mentioned as "Ohne Panzer Quatsch (Without armor nonsense)" shows, that people in the Kriegsmarine also had "cons".
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  477.  @waszkreslem9306  Jestem węgierskim przyjacielem.
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  478. Press like, go to coffee maker and thinking about retrofitting electric boiler to oil firing boilers. Or gas turbine?
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  479.  @arivael  I guess the bomb vessels and the USS Vesuvius (the dynamite-gun, ie. fixed, pneumatic gun equipped) qualify as "spinal mounts".
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  480. 0:40 Ancient naval artillery - Drach will talk about Byzantine spyhons.... :))))
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  481. Any hope for the "armored tuna" or "Missed me?" (Sms Leitha)?
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  482. WarhoRse, of course, so need another coffee...
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  483.  @davieturner339  Looks, this is the modell of the SMS Zrínyi, AFAIK it is accurate, and this late pre-dred (actually they were post-Dreadnaught pre-Preadnoughts ;) ) with open mounts on top of the main 30,5 cm AND on top of the unusually heavy 24cm secondary turrets. https://images.app.goo.gl/thbupeRiVZwiz3oZ7
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  484.  @super44lover  The listed range with the usual max British turret elevation of 14 degrees, thus range was around 14 kilometers (the number 14 is just a coincidence), at that range early 1910's fire control might hit a tipical dreadnought size target. Thus an armored cruiser with 9.2" main guns posed a limited threat within that range to any ship. With a lucky hit, she could have crippled even a dreadnought. Just keep in mind that a German bc or dread can also cripple or outright kill that same ship with a few four-gun salvoes, without luck playing much role in it.
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  485.  @toothedacorn4724  The importance of paperwork.
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  486. "We missed a moored ship, but luckily the pier collapsed, so we sunk a tier".
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  487. That was the Battle of Lissa. This was the A-H or - in shorter - the Dual Monarchy.
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  488. Actually, even before :)
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  489.  @maxschon7709  And A-H documents and soirces often distinguish HE and Incendiary shells in ammo supply and consumption...
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  490. Torpedo net booms, folded?
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  491.  @FRAGIORGIO1  Sorry, it is just an internet name - I am Hungarian and it is a talking name. There is some "low" nobility in the family, but only as a fading memory.
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  492. The Imp German SMS Emden had only 10cm guns too, so it is not that surprising. Besides the Soka 10cm/L50 guns were rather powerfull for a 4"-ish gun and had high angle mounting. Not enough for anti-airship work, but with a range that even Royal Navy cruisers later in the war thought that the guns were actually 12cm (4,7") or 15cm (5,9") ones. On the other hand, the captains of the Rapidkreuzers were constantly lobbiing for the (then) new 12cm Skoda guns, but never got them. http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WNIT_39-47_m1924.php
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  493. - The Italian betrayal was the last drop into the glass. - Make it so!
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  494. FYI the K.u.K. Kriegsmarine SUCCESSFULLY denied control of the Adriatic for the Allies until there was no Austro-Hungarian coastline to defend (ie the dual Monarchy disintegrated from under their proverbial feet), so yes.
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  495. As for plunging fire at 21:22 - I guess it is worth to mention, that the SMS Budapest, an 1890 vintage 5500 ton coastal battleship had its front dual 24 cm turret removed and exchanged for a 38 cm (15") but after a few trial shots they gave up. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_Budapest https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/38_cm_Belagerungshaubitze_M_16
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  496.  @onasknox9284  Close range canon battle: I guess that happened to the Somali pirates - thought I do not know, which navy shot at them.
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  497. Both honey bagders went for MY coffee... :)
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  498. Drach time, coffe time.
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  499. Battleship armouring by modern technology: Computer/VR aided design and automatisation would do more for armoring, than material quality (even if someone spends a trillion dollars on "two feet thick, face hardened titanium armor plate" manufacturing facility).
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  500. Sounds like Jack Slater from "Last Action Hero".
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  501. Somehow, while the 100t guns could reach up to 6000 meters, I do not think that they would have been fired against another ship over 500 meters...
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  502. 0:34 I am envisioning an early, heavy, multiple launcher similar to early torpedo launchers, but above surface, a 19th century equivalent of the Nebelwerfer or the RBU-1000 as a means of small attack craft punching above their weight, in place or in conjunction with a fish/Whitehead (or even spar-) torpedo attack.
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  503.  @Darryl_Frost  Not that I know of (HU)
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  504. 47:27 What about Radetzky's?
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  505. re: Golf ball dimples - while "sharkskin" swimsuits are a recent development, but maybe you can tell a thing or two about similar surface coating of ships? re: combined sub, surface and aviation ops - the Battle of Otranto Strait (the 3rd in WWI, 15th of May, 1917) was such a "truly 3D" operation - albeit the submarine part was in laying mines (AFTER the counter-raid force sailed out and maybe even after a minesweep) and then waiting in ambush for the returning Entente ships. (spoiler: HMS Dartmouth torpedoes, but was saved and the French DD Boutefeu "found" one of the mines, sinking with most of the crew).
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  506. Was this the last time an A-H made torpedo sank a ship?
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  507. The Kamchatka uneasily swifts on the seabed....
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  508.  @thorin1045  Or Sepsiszentgyörgy, for that matter.
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  509. 1:02:08 Pigeon? Well, then the attack is somewhat more justified :)
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  510. 1hr of Drydock, 2 mugs of coffee...
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  511.  @asureaskie  Without having piloting experience myself, would you like to repeat it on - say - HMS Argus?
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  512. 31:10 re: angled flight deck - also, as aircraft really do not like sidewinds during landing, it took a while to develop such heavy aircraft, with such powerfull engines, that the slight difference between landing direction and airstream could be dealt with.
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  513. 0:20:05 - Brass casings pro: a simpler breech mechanism is possible, as well as some removing excess heat from the gun, as well as leaving less hot pieces in the barrel compared to silk bags. On the other hand casings required some extra effort (especially a dud) and (on the WW2 Gneisenau ?) in rough seas water did enter the turrets...
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  514.  @katrinapaton5283  Coffee is good :)
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  515. With an A and X twin 8"-ish turret could it be better? ;) Or do I need more coffee?
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  516. At 1:11:09, on the picture of the Russian battlseship Slava, there is a "bulge" on the bow, just above te waterline. Was it an above water torpedo tube or something else?
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  517. "Thank you, thank you"
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  518.  @steveb6103  Not that the Mustang was frequently deployed to carriers, to my knowledge, but I still take it.
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  519. Is it a Casus Belli to sip on coffee, instead of tea, while listening to the Queen?
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  520. Five and a half hour Drydock - on Mother's Day.... :)
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  521. Coffee is good with rum. And ice cream.
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  522.  @thesage1096  Hungarian language sources sometimes offer these details.
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  523.  @constantdrowsiness4458  No, not this one. Drach always notes contributors.
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  524. Press like, get coffee... How Drach would visit the States ?
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  525. Armouring modern warships: how do you armor radar dishes or AESA plates?
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  526.  @bkjeong4302  Never said otherwise, did I? I only said, that they did dry runs (obviously after they dropped the live ordenance).
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  527.  @ONECOUNT  TheYamato wasn't is reserve for a decade or so, after a major refit, then scrapped. She went down guns blazing. Unneccassarily, but heroically.
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  528. Re: Naming ships - when the Free Polish Navy shows up "This is our destroyers Thunder and Lightning, and this is our cruiser, Konrad" - you both get curious, who was Konrad and what he have done AND a bit afraid to ask it. :)
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  529. I would love to see the table Drach worked from. A few "IMHO" additions: - Would check the quad .50 BMG in the light dakka category (a twin 20mm Oerlikon most likely outperforms it, maybe even the single one installation) - The Italian 100mm/L47 is actually a copy of the Austro-Hungarian Skoda 10cm - of 1910 wintage, obviously the mounting is of Italian design. - The US 3" guns AFTER they got powered mounts and the "VT" proxy fuse, they were considered a superior replacement to the quad Bofors 40mm - and after a few itarations it is the pride of OTO Melara today, in form of the 76mm Super Rapid or Compact, with guided shells and water cooling.
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  530. Rum ration to midday coffee...
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  531.  @GaldirEonai  AFAIK even in WWI, on the Adriatic, A-H torpedo boats did set different running depths for their forward and aft tubes, especially when doing ASW missions.
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  532. Re: Ark Royal making continous attacks on Bismarck - ammo supply for carrier airgroups? How many torpedoes are carried?
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  533. 250k personell and bases all around the globe, even inland...
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  534.  @WALTERBROADDUS  re: Panzerschiff - Neither Hood, Renown nor Repulse exists, nor 8" cruisers
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  535.  @TheEDFLegacy  Praise be, the faithfull ones. Albeit there are times for pious, silent OBSERVATION. ;)
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  536.  @gokbay3057  But then a missile based CIWS gives even a corvette some survival chance and lugging around a 5 ton SeaRAM module is way cheaper, than carry a foot thick armor plate, which does not protect your radars anyway.
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  537. Anti-shell missiles: system were and now increasingly more so designek to be able to intercept both Soviet/Russian sea-skimming and anti-surface mode SAMs (like the Sea Dart), which are both supersonic and some even claim to be able to intercept contemporary naval shells (ie 5 inch-ish ones)... ...so I got the impression that stuff like the ESSM or the SeaRam would score a direct hit on a 12+ inch shell. And in the latter case purely the kinetic energy of such impact is on par with a 6 inch shell. Therefore I am a tad more optimistic about modern point defense intercepting battleship grade shells, but any modern surface warship finding herself within like 20 miles of a proper battleship, even a coastal defense battery of such guns is having a really bad day.
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  538.  @NM-wd7kx  Maybe the armored fuel truck from Mad Max II (with Mel Gibson)
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  539.  @Kevin_Kennelly  An old reflex, when the storyteller.says XP, you listen.
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  540. The Aurora didn't sunk... :(
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  541.  @godalmighty83  Depends on many circumscances, like initial vectors, detection by hydrophones, etc
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  542. I was sipping on my coffee, wondering about those U-boat captains and their torpedoes, when this article came up: https://news.sky.com/story/potty-mouthed-parrots-split-up-by-zoo-bosses-after-egging-each-other-on-to-swear-12085608?fbclid=IwAR3SZj3jYLh7Kpsy70iUxUiyiYg-hHAo55ZmTRsXdV_ftIzVCDQiSGB5Iao
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  543.  [ HAL9000 ] ZIG ZAG Ground ZERO  Most raiders, maybe all of them had underwater torp tubes.
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  544. 08:29 re: Trevorious - Forces of good: Holodomor, Dresden, Tokio... It was dark grey vs darker grey.
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  545. 1:03:50 Sponsorship - go ahead, you have my approval.
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  546.  @NM-wd7kx  To be exact, about 10% its a bomb, another 10% is a massive source of onboard fire, 40% just an empty compartment and 40% armor. Only justifiable because you need that coal for steaming.
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  547. Press like, get coffe, listen to Drach ;)
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  548. re: 0:12:25 - weapons on civilian ships - IMO having a security detail with a 14,5mm heavy rifle or HMG, in the upper case a dirt cheap wire guided ex-soviet ATGM is an effective counter to any irregular pirate force I can think of and only requires a few ex-marines and maybe a 200 kg of equipment.
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  549.  @xerty5502  When a fish begins to ping, it is maximum 5000 meters, going with 50+ knots, usually perpendicular to the targets course, so relative speeds are over 60 knots. Not a long time.
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  550.  @Matthew-jv1ee  "why dont modern ships use ceramic based armor system just as modern tanks do??" - my answer is that a SeaRAM launcher, loaded and with all neccessary stuff is 5 tons and even able to intercept arty shells. How many tons of amor (even modern, composite, relatively lightweight armor) would produce this kind of defense?
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  551. Ah, the weekly dose of drydock :) Coffee on!
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  552. Press like, get coffee, sit before the monitor, monitoring...
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  553. 0:50:40 Rocket/missile technology in a two decade lag: Interesting answer, clearly centered on the idea, that the many sciences needed for a working Anti-ship missile (and even stuff, like the Tiny Tim or the FFAR https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny_Tim_(rocket) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5-Inch_Forward_Firing_Aircraft_Rocket ...so only the propulsion part lags behind - but then arises the question of whether or not jet aircraft come into play and then why not using gas turbine driven cruise missiles.... Also, if guidance would not lag behind in that alternate reality, glide bombs could home on jamming and some really nasty guided torpedoes could be developed, thus tipping the odds AGAINST the gun warships - thought not on the scale we saw history books.
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  554. Braves hostage taking lovers of Norse mythology.
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  555. Kalibr-ate your answer carefully, it must by Zirkon solid.
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  556.  @pauls0416  If Trump will not be reelected next year, then you are probably elegible. ;)
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  557. “We shall let in true refugees – German, Dutch, French and Italians, terrified politicians and journalists who here in Hungary want to find the Europe they have lost in their homelands.” - O.V. :)))
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  558. "im telling you that far right isn't the option." - Yepp, that is why the Jobbik party stands around 6% at this time, albeit they are in coalition with the post-communist liberal left. Molotov-Ribbentrop anyone?
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  559. 8:46 Unbiased? Please....
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  560. 3:39 Good to see. Also good to hear, that you have not even tried to dispel. 5:41: That is the strangest F-16 is saw yet (because its an F-15. And an Israeli one. ) Oh, and Turkiye wanted to buy Patriots, HOWEVER they were denied. So, they bought S-400.
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  561. Its brave to say, that Russian haven't destroyed or suppressed UA air defence....
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  562. @fricatus "One thing Peter does over and over again is forget the role of the EU and NATO." And how these organisations need, yet mistreated Turkiye. Not to mention the 2016 coup against pasha Erdogan.
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  563.  @nkr1159  That is why Germany and Poland kept them in service that long. Please....
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  564.  @nkr1159  MiG29 without air to air capacity, you said?
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  565.  @Art-is-craft  How deep you have to dig to survive FAB1500?
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  566. Oh yes, the game changer JDAM, which Zeihan predicted in december 2022. :))) "JDAMs: Ukrainian Bomb's Get Smarter" - and Ukraine won.... Errr.... Except they didn't.
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  567. Oh, they delete everything, like 40 year old F-16's, BBC / Mediazona found 50 thousand Russian fatalities....
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  568. Individually 40+ year old kites from Norway, Nederlands, Belgium, upgraded 20-25 years ago in MLU programme. The very same aircraft which bombed Serbia in 1999.
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  569. The BBC and Mediazone counts Russian Federation losses. Nowhere near "massive".
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  570. Not a ceasefire. A conditional surrender.
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  571. Greates Ukrainien offensive of GRANDFATHERS AND 15 year olds..... Where did I learn about something similar?
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  572. So, except Excalibur shells are reportedly down to 6% accuracy, nothing ruining Krasnopol accuracy. Besides ukraine DOES NOT capture Russian artillery - they can kill them occasionally, but not able to reach 10+ km depth to capture it. And they are out of 122 and 152mm ammo.
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  573. So, the mineral riches of Russia are feeding China, instead of the EU's industry. Anyone in Europe objecting this is far-right. Anyone mentioning Nordstream is far-right.
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  574. Oh, just a Freedom of Navigation act. Cuba has the right to join whatever military or economical alliance they like.
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  575. "If people in Hungary chose to subordinate to Orban, these people of course will be very angry if their neighbours in Ukraine chose freedom and are better off after all" Had GONZALO LIRA reached Hungary, he would be alive. Why Hungarian hate Ukraine, which tokk away the Hungarian minority's right since 2014, threatened Hungary several times? Daily 12-13 THOUSAN people arrive to Hungary from Ukraine (about half of them throught Romania), not vice versa.
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  576. So, Russia's mineral and energy riches are going to China, feeding China's industry, while the EU withers. GOOD JOB, the sanctions work - but what was the purpose?
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  577. Hungary was sounding the alarm FOR YEARS that Wolfsangel-toting Ukrainiens are taking away the 2014 rights of ethnic Hungarians in the SUBCARPATHIA region AND regularly threatened Hungary - a NATO member - with military action even BEFORE 2022. But it must be the Kingdom of Hungary / Austro-Hungarian Monarchy which is the cause, right?
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  578. Gas pipeline throught Ukraine ("Druzhba" ie. Friendship) : Someone might want to do his homework, and look up the following: - Nabucco pipeline - Neptune Deep gas field. - Turkish Stream Hint: the first two FAILED to provide gas to Hungary (and by geogrpahic neccessity Austria and Slovakia too). There was immense political pressure on the government of Bulgaria not to allow the third.
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  579. Merry Christmas Ian, Áldott Karácsonyt. Hiúz is pronounced He-use
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  580. 0:02 "Ian pops the barrel" - me pushing the like button. Merry Crhistmas!
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  581. Nice one, bring back memories (of the MCM specifically). Maybe take a look at movie "Aliens" too.
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  582. 10:28 Also, after 2003 the "then" Hungarian Govt. - now in opposition parties - gave to the rebuilt Iraqi army a lost of the former Wars Pact equipment....
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  583.  @elizabethcsicsery-ronay1633  How many UA soldiers you want to be dead "for winning"?
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  584.  @Ultra-Violet  "He's been a criminal for years," Oh, really? Has he? And you cannot PROVE? Oh, that makes you very dumb.
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  585. Actually, confiscating Russian assets (even just the profits) PROTECTS the EU economy and financial credibility. So MORAL is actually profitable. Go woke, get broke.
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  586. Vetoing confiscated Russian assets (even "just" the profit) actually PROTECTS the EU economy and the Euro as a currency - because if they done it, NOONE would invest in EU (nor the USA) or keep their money in EU banks. ORBÁN DEFENDED EUROPE.
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  587. Keep in mind, that Ukraine several times cut the right of its minorities, including the ethnic Hungarians in the Transcarpathia area, which was annexed by the USSR in World War II, ending up in Ukraine. Over 400 cases of atrocities - including ones by the Kiev authotories - before February 2022 were also recorded. Washington Post released a leaked document, and according to it, pres. Zelensky wanted to blow up the oil pipeline to Hungary (as well as Slovakia, Czeczhia and partly Austria and Germany - Bayern to be exact).
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  588. It would be "fun" if NATO members Turkiye, Bulgaria and Hungary would accuse a "fictonal country" with an attack on critical infrastructure, thus invoking the appropriate articles of NATO.
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  589. Orbán is the best friend/ally of Europe. Anyone, who cut the EU from Russian resources and sent those to China is Europe's traitor and enemy.
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  590.  @butterbean8044  NATO is a defensive alliance - except it does not act like this. The EU is founded on peace and prosperity - it now undermines both.
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  591. Bigcat German tank in Russian mud. Where did I see such thing...?
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  592. 5:45 "I don't mean nationalism" - actually, yes, you are. Its not your fault, that... khmm... people mixed the word with chauvinism.
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  593. Thank God, I am Hungarian.
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  594. Thank God I am Hungarian.
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  595.  @monkadelic13  Nor legs. Only the hosts.
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  596.  @nelotharen8599  He was a chef at a restaurant specialising in seafood, that is why the tusk was on exhibiton. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_hussars
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  597. SOmetimes I miss Tomás de Torquemada's carefull guidance...
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  598. FYI the Bible prohibits eating bats. And vultures.
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  599. Had I seen this video (and known what the stolen rainbow means - not the covenant with God) in 1990, on the "sunny" side of the Iron Curtain, I would not believe. The stench you smell, have a name, and its communism. Greetings from Hungary, if history repeats or at least rhymes, we have very bad next decades to live in. Greetings from Hungary.
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  600. Fun fact: Iron Dome is the shortest ranged missile type/layer in Israel's multilayered air defense, its primary puspose is to intercept things like mortar shells, garage-made rockets, small and medium low flying drones, etc. Mainly fired from "NO GO zones". Interesting paralell, I am sure, its just a coincidence, caused by uneducated politicians.
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  601. Like 1984. Not the novel, the education system on the "sunny side" of the Iron Curtain. Albeit 2+2 was 4 then.
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  602. 4:20 The stuff burning is secret police documentation, which previously resulted in 1 MILLION (ie. 10% or the population) trialled, sentenced or just deported.
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  603. It had to had a big navigator cabin for folding out maps,
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  604.  @neiloflongbeck5705  Ahh, the An-72 has a specops/fire support variant having a twin GSh-23 in the landing gear bulge, but having forward firing gun(s) on an AWACS seemed something WAAAY over the top even for Soviets/Russians...
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  605.  @ZsH85  Oh, if you want, Szíjjártó might be even better, with a few more years under dr Orbán's tutelage.
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  606.  @ZsH85  How many people "will be much better" - for example? :)
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  607.  @jeanrichardvarre6062  In long version at the time of Orbán's moves, very few people admit him being right. In retrospect everyone, but only a few apologise. Ez van, ezt kell szeretni.
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  608. Orbán Viktor is not right. But every time he WILL BE RIGHT :)
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  609. And the UK involvement is only about saving Boris from partygate?
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  610. Take a minute to think over that Biden only tries to restart natural gas through Ukraine, via the Brotherhood pipeline, putting a few billion euros worth of gas transfer into Ukrainen gas companies? Or is it just a crackpipe?
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  611. WHERE IS GONZALO LIRA? Any news?
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  612. "Zakaria another puppet of the Jewish Internationalists in the never ending war against countries that dare to want to stand on their own feet." And as it looks like, Israel also became one such country...
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  613.  @danielgyllenbreider  Maybe check for Radek Sykorsky's "we are losers" material.
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  614.  @edwardbernays8514  Maybe wonder around other historical sources, not just WWI German hearsay.
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  615.  @dyclaim  Wanna talk about NordStream, Tommy?
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  616.  @dyclaim  Poland being pro-EU. Sure. You prolly love your alcoholist mother, but do anything to get her to therapy.
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  617. Nice analisys Druran, but please, Mr Christoforou, do not use the two headed eagle with the Hungarian tricolor. The Habsburgs...
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  618. 10:20 Not Bucharest, but Budapest Memorandum.
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  619. According to rumours, pasha Erdogan can thank Tzar Vladimir for his hide, since it was a russian sigint base in Syria, which intercepted, decyphered and forwarded messages (via the Kremlin, no doubt) about a death suqad, which was sent to collect him (ie. Erdogan).
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  620. Nice one! Maybe You should do a similar examination on the Visegrad 4 group (either together or one by one).
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  621. Hungary's external net debt (including corporations, private individuals, government, etc was 115 billion Euro in early 2010 when he begun his first (actually second, after 8 years in opposition) term az Prime Minister. Now, that sum is under 65 billion. The difference is mainly financed by domestic actors, mainly everyday peope as savings, not unlike Japan. The yearly interest of 50 BILLION euros is over 1 BILLION. EVERY YEAR. Someone really missess that income.
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  622.  @egertroos1691  Sure, you do not have to flee... What can go wrong? 🤡
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  623.  @egertroos1691  Well, you can apply for refuge in Hungary, AFTER "I told you it was a bad idea".
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  624.  @egertroos1691  Sure buddy, what could go wrong? Are you Latvian by chance?
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  625.  @egertroos1691  Too bad, that the nation state Latvia, with the other two Baltic states were released from the USSR with 0% govt debt, but cca 30% ethnic Russians, most are third, fourth... tenth generation "migrants". And the Baltics by large couldn't resolve the CITIZENSHIP of these people. And when NATO weapon stockpiles run low (even dry) they double down on their Russians. What can go wrong? The 4 Hungarian Gripens or 4 Polish F16 will surely defend them.
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  626.  @egertroos1691  Sure, Latvia can safely deport hundreds of thousands ethnic Russians (cca 1/3 of thier population), nothing can go wrong. Its also European Values, right? :clown:
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  627.  @egertroos1691  And they don't come back with tanks, because they never do... Sure.
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  628.  @richsmith7200  No, that was a provocation to pull NATO into Ukraine's war. Wasn't it very wise to shell Donetsk in February 2022 while 200K Russian Federation troops were on their border? :)
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  629. Voice of sanity in NATO :)
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  630. 2:23 "They won't be allowed to leave" - that is a lie. They are allowed to leave the transit-zone, into Serbia (from where they have arrived), but NOT INTO Hungary (and the Schengen Area).
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  631. 8:25 Isn't he?
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  632.  @juliane__  Civitas Fidelissima?
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  633. Budapest has a leftist mayor, so I suggest Debrecen.
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  634. May I guess - you are advising it without Hungarian Citizenship?
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  635. " I have been to Hungary and experienced a bit of how the country is ruled," Tell me about it :)
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  636.  @ezioauditore3128  According to Bloomberg over 4 billion USD (probably the 2021 data).
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  637. "There is famine going on in Africa. " ....and the biggest wheat exporter Russia is sanctioned, so they a cannot deliver. You know, "freedom comes with a price."
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  638. 13:20 If Putin was just "taken out", according to current Russian doctrine those 6000 nukes would FLY.
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  639. Keep the US in, Germans down, Russians out V2.0?
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  640.  @lasher62  Sure ;)
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  641. Scared women, children and elderly. Refugees. NOT 90% military age men.
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  642. @Truth888 Yes, Mr Áder, the President of Hungary is also a great guy, but the administration is headed by the Prime Minister, Mr Orbán. :)
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  643. CPAC Hungary 2022.
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  644. I think when Us citizens are in danger on foreign soil, the President have the right, even its his duty to send in the Marines.
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  645. Geriatric leadership, lack of goods, travel restrictions... Hmmm... Ah, yes, I saw it in the Warsaw Pact era and countries.
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  646. Hannity is frankly lying on peace/ceasefire negotiation.
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  647.  @Chester_Oliver  "Hungary had airlifted a total of 540 people from Afghanistan, including Hungarian, Austrian, Afghan and American nationals, flying them by military plane from Kabul to Uzbekistan, and then by commercial airline jet to Budapest." 26th August, 2021 So, you are to say, that a small, Central European country had to evacuate US troops from Afghanistan of all places?!
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  648. Just one curious detail: this lovely lady implies that Vlad PERSONALLY put or at least ordered that agent to be put into the aforementioned clothing article. Does it sound like ye olde demonising WWI style propaganda?!
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  649.  @ayararesara6253  Lex Apponyi and the Romanian lies about ít.
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  650.  @ayararesara6253  Its always fun to see, when nationalistic UA statesmen get into a fistfight in the Rada or in TV, they revert to Russian expressing their dislike for incestuous activity. This tells a lot about PRESUMED overrepresentation before 2014 and currents affairs.
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  651.  @jutswheezie  YOur suggestion is duly noted, albeit based on what?
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  652.  @jutswheezie  Thankfully the procedure how the rules can be changed is also codified. Therefore Hungary (or Luxemburg for that matter) CAN veto the change of veto. So, if you are an EU citizen, your representatives' signature is on the contract so either adhere to it or leave the EU. Of course you can try to mess with a nation of 15 million lawyers and freedom fighters.
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  653.  @jutswheezie  Yes, that is Hungary's goal too, albeit PROBABLY not the way you might think now.
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  654. Any other EU member can send whatever it wants. Oh, and EVERY country signed the contact, agreed the rules.
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  655.  @nyali2  And with this joint EU loan Hungary guarantees other countries credit, ie. if - say - Italy defaults, all 26 other countries have to cover. That is why Hungary's Orbán was courted by Ursula last year to accept the common EU loan.
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  656. 1:37 Ohhh.... Krékó Petike, you reverse Cassandra :)))) If the EU keeps withoutding the JOINT loan (for which the Brusselite begged to Orbán), in which Hungarian taxpayers will cover the defaulting a - say - one or more of the PIIGS countries, than it is clear, that the EU is not working by its rules - therefore Orbán is right and Fidesz wins the 2024 EP and local elections as well as the 2026 paliamentary elections too. If the EU finally pays - the Hungarian Economy pushes the pedal to the metal, Fidesz wins as above. Oh, and while year-on-year the Hungarian GDP is still below the 2022Q3 data, the quarter-on-quarter data is positive.
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  657. With dragging the EU into the USkraine-Russia conflict, the Russian energy and raw materals. So, the riches of Siberai are flowing to CHINA. Good job.
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  658.  @deelicious8819  NPC#34567 ?
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  659.  @Ollies2CentsWardill  "Ukraine doesn't have 50 years of Soviet production to draw from " Because the sold off THEIR SHARE of Soviet era weaponry under the table? "the question is how they managed to achieve such limited success " Last time I chechked Russia pretty much demilitarised NATO, including the stockpiles stored in Israel.
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  660. 6:55 God Emperor Putin personally commands down to platoon level. Right.
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  661. 2:30 Yeah, Putin uses the Iraqi chemical weapons in the Donbass. Honest.
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  662. 3:05 Long range air defence easily takes down a Tu-95, before it launches its Kh-102 cruise missiles, with 3500 km range. Yeah, right. And the USAAF B-52's are only in Duxford and other museums.
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  663. 9:10 Russian Kh-102 and Kalibr missiles aren't Tomahawk equivalent. Right.
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  664. 0:20 Oh, nuclear attack... I have "least trust" in it, less than a lettuce 1:50 Very 1980's - like the Royal Navy's nuclear deterrent Vanguard class? 2:20 Oh no, Russia ran out of missiles... Since March... March 2022. And running out of troops, that is why press gangs drag in pensioners and disabled people in Kyev, Odessa, Lwów.... Oh, gee, I must ask, according to Mr Hamish De Bretton Gordon, when will Ukraine liberate Vladivostok?!
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  665. 10:30 So, Putin - who personally commands every platoon - after "horrendous" losses in manpower and with infantry shovels will attack NATO. Yes, I totally believe...
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  666.  @fuzzzeballs  As a matter of fact, yes. What improved Hungary's financial balance towards the EU - among other things, like slowing, maybe even reversing workforce drain - is the last 12 years, ie. the 2nd, 3rd and 4th Orban governments. That is an awfull lot of money, staying in Hungarian pockets and leaving a sour hole in someone's. That explains a lot of Hungary's rep.
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  667.  @troystpaul100  "well, Vlad certainly is living in the past." Well, the Sun dawned over the British Empire you know.
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  668.  @erikcumpek2682  "I remember when Ukraine attacked my country, Croatia, " - at that time, noone died, unlike recently in Poland. But barely.
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  669. "Funny, I remember a time when Hungarians were very keen to expel Russians from their lives. " - funny, you support returning Transcarpathia from the ex-Soviet state which holds it?
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  670.    Oh, he does. By the name he is the "inner Budapest" libleft type, who cannot cope with the fact that their MONOPOLY on "intelligentsia" and especially power have been broken in 2010. Sadly, they do not live in the oppression they preach about.
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  671.  @cookiecola5852  That is a statement.
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  672. @UCjD3Ku77mVAqhooQ_hfjdjA Most people thought it did happen, see the orange sea :D
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  673.  @cookiecola5852  "because they are among the poorest in Europe," Are they? :)
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  674.  @cookiecola5852  Who was complaining? :)))
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  675.  @cookiecola5852  Yes, the veto :) Among other things.
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  676.  @cookiecola5852  By the "Rule of Law" Hungary is an equal member state. Sometimes the other 26 states HAVE TO act as the Hungarian govt, entitled by the people, says. As per the rules.
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  677.  @cookiecola5852  "with big EU investment:)" - Yes, INVESTMENT, not the meager EU cohesion funds :)
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  678.  @cookiecola5852  Ah, sorry, Hungarian GDP growth was 7,1% in 2021 Q4, around 5,9% in the whole year. Second only to Poland. Because Orban's corruption, FYI :))))
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  679. 4:00 If Russia downs GPS, Russian forces continue operations as usual - using GLONASS.
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  680. If someone spent a long night with a slide ruler and a samovar instead of vodka, the solution is much simpler - one only have to jam a few targets directly. Only some of the 24+ SATELLITES, emitting the GPS signals. From space. And for plausible deniability in could be the Iranian or North Korean satellites.
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  681. Mind you, the goverment left in Kabul by the Soviets (including the Ukrainiens) held out for years. Not like the one the US left in Kabul or South Vietnam.
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  682.  @adamciemniewski764  No Ukrainien blood is too expensive for you?
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  683. You realise its the real life and not a World of Warcraft server ? There are no Orcs.
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  684. Hey Richie, you are NOT in the EU for starters. Second, NATO isn't to Warsaw Pact where every MUST egree with a senile, geriatric Leader, whom one cannot criticise, is it?
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  685. What "Radek" Sikorsky said in that leaked talk? "We gave a bXXXjob to America and thought everything is fine. We are losers"'.
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  686. FYI in 1956 SOVIET troops came from.... todays Ukraine. The last SOVIET soldier to leave Hungary was.... Oh, a Ukrainien.
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  687. "If". Many ifs from empty storages.
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  688.  @darrenbruessow6754  But you eat, whatever the MSM puts on your plate. Obviously without many questions.
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  689.  @tarik6990  The EU doesn't mind Hungarian market, nor transfers into EU funds, which the typical mediazombie does not recognise.
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  690.  @alfoldmapping5504  "Obeying orders" - it wasn't an accepted defence in Nurenberg, was it?
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  691. He is alway wrong but always WILL BE RIGHT :) Since 2006 :)
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  692. @the earth is good Please tell Amnesty International, to stop reporting that UA forces use civilian buildings. Oh, and helding residents as hostage in the basement.
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  693. 20+ million people left Ukraine either to the East or to the West. More come every day. But sure, glory to bandera.
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  694.  @jacqdanieles  Russia bombed terrorists there. US sponsored ones.
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  695.  @andreash9416  Therefore Washington Post is a Putin mouthpiece, by your logic.
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  696. "Thats why we dont negotiate with terorists. " Like a small one talking about blowing up critical pipelines?
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  697. CIA muppets are crying.
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  698. So kick a country out ot NATO, a DEFENSIVE alliance for not supporting a non-member country, which repeatedly threated it BEFORE the Russian Special Military Operation?
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  699. Cry please, cry.
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  700.  @Drugov78  What Kiyvindependent doesn't show, is the protests in Poland, which demand ending the war and especially Poland's contribution to it. YOu know, Poles didn't forgot Volyn, nor bandera.
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  701. Terror is when the US blows up Nordstream?
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  702. Ukraine should not started shelling the Donbass under the watchfull eye of OSCE a week before the Special Military Operation when there were 200K Russian troops on their border. Blabling over UA getting nukes, biolabs (which did not exist just Vicky Nuland was worried that Russia might capture them) is just icing the cake. And the cherry on the icing were the interviews of Merkel and Hollande, Poroshenko and Zelensky that they only used Minsk to gain time and arm.
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  703. Oh, you a man for hire?
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  704. " Brain washed slaves, or free people." Yepp, brainwashed debt slaves to Blackrock.
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  705. Its easy to dissmiss the Amnesty International report about AFU using civilian infrastructure as cover. Russian Federation forces orderly retreated from Kherson city, didn't use it as a fortress....
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  706. Or you are a 1 bit bot.
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  707. Sure Europe's and Hungary's interest is to feed Russian energy to Chineses industry and make those two the closest allies by force. Good job. 👏👏 👏
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  708. Let Kyev shell Donetsk as the OSCE SMM reported?
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  709. Bambino, Hungary have the right to differ. You country signed it too :)
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  710. Try it :)
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  711.  @fabiodelmonte3693  Só, egy the current EU leadership is a warmingering bunch of morons who are hellbent on destroying the values of Konrad Adenauer, Alcide De Gasperi and Robert Schuman?
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  712. Khmm... Belorus? Turkiye? China?
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  713. See nuland-pratt leaked phone talk weeks before Janukovich had to flee. "and EFF the EU".
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  714. It was Merkel and Hollande, Poroshenko and Zelensky who bragged about violating Minsk I and II, not Putin.
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  715.  @michaelfrock2473  Daily 10 to 15K entered Hungary from Ukraine. About 3 to 4 times that into Slovakia and Poland. Do the math.
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  716. Philippe my dear, Hungary have every right to do it and your boss' signature is on the paper guaranteeing tose rights.
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  717. You spoke like the Ghost of Kyev over Snake Island :)
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  718. Especially when freedom means Blackrock debt slavery.
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  719.  @valdoschaos281  You mean one country can veto sanctions requiring unanimous decision in a democratic block of 20-some countries?
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  720. "Putin is not the guy you can come in some sort of agreement with. They already broke Budapest memorandum," FYI, "liverwurst" melnik started to talk about UA getting nuclear weapons in 2021. So, who broke the Budapest memorandum?
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  721. Those who cannot prove him wrong are resorting to insults.
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  722. Actually there was the "Bombing of Kassa" event, a serias of Soviet airstrikes on Hungarian territory in 1941, why Hungary entered the war on the side of "united Europe" against the USSR... But that said, the Russian Federation is NOT the USSR, nor the EUSSR.
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  723. You take a half sentence out of context. Are you that dumb?
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  724.  @thisisthetruth2458  Please, when using the N word on "puitin" you have to raise your right arms and say "slava Ukraine".
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  725. You wan't to fight to the last Ukrainen?
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  726. Which 10 day? CNN is not Putin.
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  727. Sure, Hungary backstabbed nulandistan. :)
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  728.  @zoltan6451  Hungarians under pressure by PS tv.
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  729. Appeasement didn't stop NATO and nuland.
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  730. Saving the planet from nuclear war, that is what Orbán is doing.
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  731. You mean NATO intervention in a NATO country? Well, since the US blew up NS1 and NS2, it might happen...
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  732. Seen a few vids of target groups (non-WASP :) ) looking at the US ad with disgust. Especially when compared to Russian or Chinese ads.
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  733. 7:16 THB Russian infantrymen not just prefer to have more eyes looking and more gunt to bear on a surprise AT team fex., but also they do not trust their AFV's mine protection (bad experience from Afghanistan).
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  734. 6:50 Grozny skincare...
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  735. Anyone who pushed Russia's resources to China, instead of feeding the EU industry is ENEMY OF EU.
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  736. How would you do it? Mind you, my dear Bruce, judging from the anglo-saxon name, you are NOT ín the EU, so your opinion is noted, but count less than a fruitfly.
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  737. Suck methane from Nabucco and Neptune Deep.
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  738.  @SteffiReitsch  Getting triggered fraulein?
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  739.  @SteffiReitsch  Its UA which theatens Hungarian minorities in Munkács (Zakarpathia oblast) steps on language right, marches masked naughties chantin "Hungarians to the blade". Nope, we do not knee. Just block the money. Learned it from creepy joe brandon :) so it must be a democratic blackmail.
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  740.  @SteffiReitsch  Hahaha, go, attack Russia, because it worked SSSSOOO well twice in the XXth Century :)
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  741. 7:58 "Cannot compare that to B*ch4" - But since Russia so far killed less civilians than Germans a single "good" day in Auswitz, you have the right to remain silent? Or your logic is flawed?
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  742. "Worst flight ever" - says the idiot who walked away after landing.
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  743. No, it was named after Guiseppe Garibaldi. Yes, THAT Guiseppe Garibaldi.
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  744. Here cames the honorable mention of the Grillo class tracked assault boats :)
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  745. Und ze Kriegsmarine showed them, how to wage submarine war - the hard way, thought. :)
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  746.  @USS_ESSEX_CV-9  18", eh? So, its not just racoons but possums messing with your trashcan? :)
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  747. +1 for the +1 livestream. Can your confirm that late WWII, the VT fuse equipped 3" became more effective than the quad 40mm Bofors?
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  748. Re: ship rating - how ofter were ships equipped with lots of light guns? As for the opposite, razees carried heavier guns as their "current" ratings.
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  749. LOL, If someone tryed this in a tabletop RPG, I would have said, that's stupid...
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  750. 4:45:43 I have a feeling that in the front left, with a polearm (naginate/glaive like padded blade) we see Mrs Drach.
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  751. Its a shame, that no German warship was preserved, except for a few U-boats...
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  752. At least the Zumwalt class is not a cruiser at 15.000 or so tons, thought the Kuznetzov is... :)
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  753.  @Tk3997  Nope, its not four lettered WoWs with sky cancer and unlimited strike aircraft, it is the four lettered World of Cape Matapan.
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  754.  @Tk3997  "Much more useful and fitting with the cruiser increasing role as an anti-aircraft escort for capital ships." Except when you have about one third of the planet and have to have like 70 cruisers, which WILL spent a significant time alone and have a limited budget for those ships - moneywise and total tonnagewise, so you have to make it with the smallest cruiser which still does the job, as the video stated.
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  755.  @Tk3997  "In the entire war not a SINGLE Royal Navy cruiser I know of hit a maneuvering, active enemy vessel with a torpedo. Not even once. If that isn't the text book definition of useless I don't know what is." In the Battle of Denmark Strait one of the reason for PoW's beakaway was that she sailed into the torpedo range of Prinz of Wales. Even without launch, mere the presence of torpedoes played a significant part of that engagement. Time maybe for getting another textbook.
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  756.  @Triggerfinger98  Can we make one hole from those two? :)
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  757.  @thepolishnz  But that was for tea, not coffee...
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  758. 2 AM CET. Out of drydock, reporting for bed.
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  759. Do you have any knowledge, why the Kaiserliche Kriegsmarine abandoned 24cm (cca 9,4") guns in favor of the 21cm ones?
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  760. Nice one, thought I secretly hoped for greek fire syphons.
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  761. If a panicking man in the process of drowning grabs onto you, the best mean of escape is taking a deep breath and dive - he will release you almost immediately with each dozen appendages he was grabbing you. However, letting him grab onto you might give him a minute or so of air, so if you can afford enough energy you can keep him aliver for a few minutes this way and maybe clears his head. I had to do it once for like 5 minutes on a beach in a somewhat rought weather (in the summer warm Black Sea) until the real lifeguard (God bless him) arrived. This was the hardest FIVE YEARS in my life. Also, getting a panicking man into a canoe or similar small boat requires FIRST tossing something floatable to him (a 1 liter soda bottle is enough and about the only reason one is allowed to toss plastic into water) or if it is not possible, knock him out by the happier end of your paddle.
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  762.  @Big_E_Soul_Fragment  Purge the unclean, burn the Heretic...
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  763. 47:18 "inferior copy of an inferior plane" - actually would I suggest that the Whirlwind was an inferior plane, because it was discontinued, in presence of Drach, I would first very carefull remove him from the vicinity of "reenacting props" like swords, axes, maces... Comittees - being comittees - DO reject superior stuff, in their "divine wisdom".
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  764. New Drach video, time for a coffee break... oh, its over 1 hour... so, I started coffee anyway...
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  765. Ah... press like, get coffee, cook dinner with Drach
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  766. 27:40 6:1 beam ratio - Yes, the A-H Huszár class fex had almost a 11:1 lenght-beam ratio and only one of the 13 ships was lost to enemy (specifically ran on a mine), even when the 450 ton little destroyers often ran into 800+ ton Allied vessels but managed to get out rather hairy situations. However, two were lost to collisions. Therefore I cannot tell that in their case sacrificing manouverablity for speed was or wasn't a good trade.
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  767.  @thomasthornton2002  Nope, but in some earlier Dry Dock Drach included a link to an excel table detailing all answered questions - up to DD75 at least...
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  768.  @thomasthornton2002  They are balconies, Drach detailed them in one of the Dry Docks. Recreational, protocol and sometimes installing a light anti-torpedoboat gun or two
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  769. 0:03:39 - Dynamite cruiser - maybe a nice, anti-submarine mortar could be pneumatic, considering the Austro-Hungarian pneumatic (trench) mortars 0:28:59 - if memory serves Taffy 3 aircraft did drop depth charges on the Japanese vessels and Dr Alaexander Clarke mentioned that British fast craft did drop depth charges in the path of pursuing S-boots (which are boats, not ships, but still).
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  770. One have to understand sharks - you would be upset too, when you encounter a guy in you living room, wearing only a swimsuit... But whenever you eat tuna, odds are, it was actually a shark.
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  771. 0:37:47 The first part, that of British shipbuildig to compensate for the "ideal" (yeah, depending on perpective) German kills - exactly how the british shipyards depended on imported materials needed for merchant ships? Would a successfull U-boat campaing hinder that ability? Another one on fully functioning German torpedoes: it is not just the Ark Royal. If memory serves, the HMS Barnham (while "eating a fish") lucked out another hit by malfunction, same for HMS Warspite in the Norvegian campaign, Also during Günther Prien's raid on Scapa Flow the HS Royal Oak was blown up by the SECOND salvo (since most of the first malfunctioned), so maybe Prien would pick another target before leaving.
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  772. 2+ hours of Drydock... :))))))))))) Next time you visit the Leitha, will give you some throat-oiling :)
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  773. ...And hoped to damage the hull or at least to periscope.
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  774. Maybe there are problems with the stereotype?
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  775. 9:50 The cistern of Pelagosa counts, I guess.
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  776. The shaft reached deeper than the keel, so in like a 1,8m shallow water the keel would have passed, but the screw would hit the sea/riverbed.
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  777.  @kimmoj2570  Lile creating Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia then breaking both twice and after it joining the EU? :)
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  778. And Britain's rule was cracked too...
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  779. And if you get bored, about the 96F too :)
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  780. Getting my coffee, for the rum ration :)
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  781.  @janwitts2688  Well, water is compressable - with a black hole certainly. But with non-nuclear explosives?
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  782. 01:35:00 Starshell vs searchlight: my two cents - At least one WWI Austro-Hungarian (AFAIK, Hungarian nationality) gunner as awarded when their ship was "nailed" by a French destroyer's searchlights in a night action and he was quiock to think and strap on a daylight filter to the targeting optics AND sniping off the enemy searchlight - Star shells can be used by smaller, faster and more agile DDs to illuminate (and sometimes even set afire) targets, move away ASAP from their firing position and let their bigger buddies (CL, CA, BB) rip apart the now illuminated target.
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  783. A cooperation with Vintage Cars and Military Aviation with Drach - about the Löhner flying boats in WWI? The Löhner company produced carriages, CARS and the flying boats and at a time employed a certain Ferdinand Porsche.
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  784. I saw a Whitehead Torpedo Factory ad before this video :) (No.)
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  785. Speaking of seamines... What happened to those massive minefield in the Channel, North Sea, etc, which were deployed in both WWs?
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  786.  @paultrigger1819  Some KuK subs did capture schooners, that is sure.
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  787.  @johnshepherd8687  I do not even try to count the nuclear weapon TYPES of the cold war era soviet navy.
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  788. Coffee and gunpowder!
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  789.  @topguntopcat  In one of the Drydocks Drach compared the 40mm Pom-Pom to the 40mm bofors and in WWII they were very closely matched (with slightly different advantages). It just somehow the Bofors had better marketing, so it was exported and license producer several countries.
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  790.  @ZillyWhale  Its is getting harder by every day to ask something Drach have not already answered :) About getting ship(s): https://youtu.be/HgIJEWv7Hdw
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  791.  @GoodGnewsGary  A 5"/25 guns barrel is 5*25=125 inches long. A 5"/50 is 250.
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  792.  @mrcs1037  Nézd csak: https://youtu.be/5Ikgi6qMAzg A Tegethoff osztály már megvan. A Tátrákra, Huszárokra még várni kell.
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  793. Let me introduce one of the Monarch class coastal pre-dread battleships, the SMS Budapest: http://www.shipmodell.com/index_files/SHIPMODELL_SMS_BUDAPEST.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_Budapest (Note that the ship was rearmed with a Skoda 38cm (15"-ish) siege howitzer, thought the trials were quickly abandoned). Prompted by the reupload of the Drach-voiced Sverige https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gkh2vse-KVM
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  794.  @drpsionic  Maybe. Maybe collapse, like France or after Vietnam. The USA never tried a foreign invasion on home soil.
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  795. His name was Bagumil (or Bogumil) Nowotny, a Polish nationality officer. He later became the first admiral of the re-formed Poland after WWI. As I said, it explains a lot about the Free Polish Navy in WWII.
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  796.  @super44lover  The 9.2" shells weighted about 50% more than the 8" shells (cca 170 vs cca 110 kgs) . At Jutland a massive number of torpedoboats, destroyers and light cruisers swarmed around both fleets, thus they gave plenty of targets to the older armored cruisers. Besides, they were perfectly capable to hurt battlecruisers or even battleships if they got in range. Maybe not sinking/exploding them outright, but cripple them, kill their secondaries, set them afire, punch holes in parts not armored or in the weaker parts of the distributed armor...
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  797. Kinda: "On 17 April 1915, Trapp took command of SM U-5. He conducted nine combat patrols in U-5, and sank two enemy warships. One was the French armored cruiser Léon Gambetta, sunk at 39°30′N 18°15′E on 27 April 1915, 25 kilometres (13 nautical miles; 16 miles) south of Cape Santa Maria di Leuca. In hunting and sinking Gambetta, " So, one week before the bombardment he sent to the bottom not only the wine, but the cheese too...
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  798. Sounds funny, but it really looks like from available sources, that the K.u.K. Kriegsmarine actually mapped and planned this strike for years, designating targets in advance "just in case" and each ship, which sailed out, had her exact and specific target list.
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  799. They tried, but they too often run into a torpedo, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opKPIrelD9o It might have to do something with the total air dominance of the Austro-Hungarian naval aviation in the first or so year of the war - since Italy had like 6 airships and 3 (three) working navy airplanes, while the KuK Kriegsmarine had 36 actually working aircraft, mostly Lohner flying boats.
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  800. They were fire on charging Italian infantry in the mentioned narrow channel, from the SMS Scharfschütze. Cpt Novontny was Polish and after the collapse of the A-H dual monarchy he was the first "sea lord" of the reborn Poland. I think it explains a lot how about the Free Polish Navy in WWII.
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  801.  @lawsonj39  Wasn't it Operation Pettycoat?
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  802. The Austro-Hungarian dual monarchy was spanning a great deal along the coast of the Adriatic sea, including current areas of Slovenia, Croatia, Bodnis snd parts of Montenegro (like the mentioned port of Cattaro, today's Kotor), making a great deal of shoreline trade. Mines, shore arty and torpedocraft can only defend all this partly. There was the need for trade with Africa, South- and North Amerika even China then some policing in the Mediterraen and a certain amount of the usualy "we are the local bully", excercised to this day in this theatre, by Turkey, Italy and France as local players, With Egypt and Israel joinging.
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  803. Yes, it was his performance and luck during this and other sorties that made him a suitable candidate to leading the KuK Kriegsmarine at late WWI.
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  804. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Heligoland_(1864) "the Austrians had sent two steam frigates, SMS Schwarzenberg and Radetzky, to reinforce the small Prussian Navy to help break the blockade. After arriving in the North Sea, Tegetthoff joined a Prussian aviso and a pair of gunboats. "
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  805.  @carneymalone4132  I know, yet the others are also quite interesting too, especially the one on the 22nf of december 1916, with the SMS Scarfschütze leading the Dinara, Velebit and Réka
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  806. WHICH raid on the Otranto Barrage? :))) There were a few, you know...
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  807. I am pretty sure, he was of Polish ethnicity :)
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  808. In a narrow channel, against charging Italian infantry, pistol rounds were spent rapidly.
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  809. Or just was shot by a salvo and some shells went short or long.
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  810. For a Navy, operation mostly on the Adriatic, swimming is sensible. On the North Atlantic, its not so.
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  811. A prerequel of Porco Rosso, which looks funny but actually it is dead serious.
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  812. It looked like the Indomito on the IFF, remember? :)
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  813. The Adriatic is BAD for French wine. Tokaj?
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  814. Maybe ask Drach under a newer video about it.
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  815. The K.u.K Kriegsmarine successfully denied or scared off Entente naval forces off the Adriatic, with severe numerical and fuel disadvantage.
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  816. German, Italian, Hungarian, Croatian and some more Slavic (Polish, Czeh) names.
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  817. "Luckily, no one was hurt." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZ4I_XKEsRU
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  818. "Then it got worse" :D At least you don't see torpedo boats. Yet. :D
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  819. @Kathleen Mcmanus This must be THE comment of this guide.
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  820.  @watcherzero5256  That's when I have to recommend the Bombardment of Ancona. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krWdd0OkptQ
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  821. What a shame if Manligheten was broken up in this century....
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  822. Another nice, from I would say "Original Drach Documentary" series.
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  823. At 48:09 : What ships are on the picture? Especially the repair/replenishment/etc vessel, to the starboard of the carrier.
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  824.  III Vance  FYI, I can edit any and all my comments AND withdraw any likes or dislikes. So, yeah, maybe get a blog.
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  825. Primary is the heretic!
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  826. 57:27 Ain't this cute? :)
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  827.  @leighrate  Sorry, tried to find this in English - its NG after all - but failed.
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  828. A ship of miserably life and then striking her enemies from the grave.
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  829. 13:48 I am speechless :)
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  830. 37:27 I wonder at this point, whether Mrs Drach will narrate or not? :)
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  831. re: 04:37:19 National quirks - I discovered that on Austro-Hungarian capital ships, drinking water was carbonated "on board" (as well as there was a small fizzy soft drink manufacturing and bottling facility on them). Were there similar facilities on other nation's warships or was it unique?
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  832. 5 and a half hour drydock... how mamy bottle of Irn Bru? O.O
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  833. Rum, rum, coffee, wrecks, dud torpedoes and flak shells, rum... ;)
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  834. 6:59 "a god", ie Prince Phillip https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Philip,_Duke_of_Edinburgh
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  835.  @RedXlV  Why do we have flak? ;)
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  836.  @CTXSLPR  razee frigate modernish equivalent: carrier conversion?
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  837. Did any other ship had this kind of "triangle" mounting of the main armament? (ie two front mounting side by side and able to fire backwards). How were the mountings named (A, B and X?)
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  838. Nice one for the coffee break (this Saturday in Hungary happens to be on Friday:) - thus workday)
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  839. 0:06:30 - Pre-dread continuity: in a sense it happened, to an extent, the Swerige class coastas battleships that - they needed the meanest ships, but three of them, but with a limited budget... Also, if artillery with a magical handwave would have produced like 8" guns with the range and ballistic properties of 12-16" guns (except destructive power/armor penetration of course), that would have created and environment of pre-pread like ships. 0:34:00 - De-oaring galleys - it is not just deoaring breaks oars, but actually cripples/kills oarsmen. So it is more like the question of getting the "port engine room" pulling in their paddles and moving to the starboard side.
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  840.  @bkjeong4302  Yes, It is easy to keep away fex. a Russian Black Sea fast carrier force from surface ships and airstrike. Or a US one in the Carebbean or around Indonesia. Or not?
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  841.  @bkjeong4302  An engineer must calculate in human stupidity designing anything. Besides, there are the LCS's, which - along gunfire support destroyers or frigates - can find themselves inconveniently close to a Msta or PzH2000.
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  842.  @absalomdraconis  Basically a heavly armed and armored (battle)carrier comes from the perceived fact, that a carrier before long range air search radar would be unable to defend against an airstrike. HMS Glorious and even the Taffy 3 demonstrated unwillingly, that even surface combatants can get within gun range. Same for the Admiral Kuznetsov, which as a guided missile carrier cruiser was designed for the somewhat confined Black Sea. Besides, since "true" carriers cannot sail legally in and out of the Black Sea, so it was classified a cruiser, anyways.
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  843. Pneumatic canons: AFAIK the WWI Austro-Hungarian pneumatic mortars were some late relatives: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20_cm_Luftminenwerfer_M_16
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  844. The Battle of Lissa - special.
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  845. Ugh, its early tuesday evening and I just came out of Drydock. Tomorrow Rum Ration, maybe an episode of Bilge Pumps too
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  846. 48:30 FJ-1 Fury wingtip fuel tanks: Somewhere I read that it was a standard procedure, to shoot holes into those tanks, in case of faulty, assimetric pumping (making the aircraft untrimmed, which is bad enough, but landing one on a carrier is only advised for kamikaze pilots). Unfortunately, I only found this source about "emergency wingtip fuel jettisoning": http://talesanecdotesandtrivia.blogspot.com/2016/01/shoot-at-your-fuel-tank-before-landing.html BtW, those are lights on the nose of the tanks, since laser/optical guided bombs were not really in widespread use in the period - at least in this reality.
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  847. 13:43 WWI, not just the SMS Szent István, but earlier the Monarch class coastal pre-dreadnought battéeship SMS Wien was also sunk by a MAS attack. Commanded by the SAME Luigi Rizzo, maybe even the same MAS, setting a record noone like to overtake.
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  848.  @gregorywright4918  Considering that I read the sailing crew recounting of the attacks, it look like MOST of the Soviet attack were dealt with (read: the guy survived to write about). MOST.
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  849. Quap'lah! Leaving out the numerous recreational facilities (bloodwine storage, bloodsport arenas, slave pens and tarq-kennels) the B10 has was dishonorable :)
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  850. 42:50 Fisher and Churchill exploring "Jeune Ecole"? O.O
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  851. I wonder, when was the last time a British ship was in a similar position...
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  852. Re: BB fired missiles - the closest thing I know of is the GPS and INS guided sub-caliber HE-ER projectile, which was cancelled FY1991. More about that from navweaps dot com, in the 16"/50 gun section.
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  853. 1, ADS: You deserve those pennies for the next book you buy or even "monitoring" Leitha 2, Kirov: Maybe they will be called Kirov battleships, as per Dreadnought battleships - they are designed to go to slug it out with enemy capital ships and stand their pounding - ie. launching missiles while clearing the skies of an entire supercarrier airwing (with a bit luck).
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  854. 30:30 Shooting starshells - maybe adding some more incendiary materials to your standard HE shell and/or designating enemy targets in a night engagement "before radar really kicked in" with a direct starshell hit. ie setting it afire has a niche. But then WoWs is not an indication how HE hits (or for that matter, even AP hits) on vessels caused minor or raging fires.
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  855. French coffee is good. Almost as good as Italian.
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  856.  @andreaspersson5639  With sufficient vibration, ANYTHING can and will fall off. Or break. Usually horribly.
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  857. Merry Xmas for those who already feel like a boiler and those who will ;)
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  858. Drach time, BEFORE lunch... 1 hour? One BIG mug of coffeee... :)
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  859.  @stevevalley7835  Just saying, that the otherwise groundbreaking Austro-Hungarian Rapidkreuzers, ie. the Novara-class had the excellent 100mm L50 Skoda rapid firing guns and the captains DID beg for at least the 120mm Skoda guns (of which at least some could have been mounted), but those didn't made it until the end of war to the KuK Kriegsmarine. So, maybe you need bigger guns at times...
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  860.  @steveb6103  " Last choice was to bail out chutes didn't always work" Some aircraft gained infamy by flipping over upon touching water or just sinking as a rock, both bringing the crew down under with them - but from the top of my head, I could not cite which ones, that's why one was better off jumping out with parachute without even trying emergency "landing" on sea, especially rough sea. As always: If I remember correctly.
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  861. Purely audio format: Yes, a lot of interesting questions can be perfectly answered without any graphics, pictures, etc. , cutting down "The List" to manageable level.
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  862. Theseus' ironclad...
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  863.  Ross Cox  I WAS talking about myself :)
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  864.  Ross Cox  The word you were searching is "addiction", not preference ;)
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  865.  @davidburton2229  Or from The Continent
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  866. Get well!
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  867. Its dinnertime here, dessert was Drach. Almost Xmas.
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  868. Oh, 4 hours... Need more coffee...
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  869. Oh, Drachdock, get coffee, press like... OHHHH.... get a BUCKET of coffee, start wacthing...
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  870. FInished finally, at almost midnight local time... Admittedly not with intermittent gunfire and ship explosions
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  871.  @tominiowa2513  And both tac faces hardened.
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  872.  @thehandoftheking3314  But too small for watertowers.
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  873. 21:24 HESH vs BS belt : I am afraid Drach missed the point that HESH rounds INSTEAD of standard HE shells - in this case of course, a definite yes, thought when one is forced to fire HE(SH) against armored ships, instead of AP, it is already a bad day. As for te recurring AP(FS)DS vs battleship question, IMO a sub-caliber shell would have been usefull - just not using a solid heavy metal (tungstem or depleted uranium) dart, but like a basically REALLY elongated 8" AP shell, with discarding sabot, used in 15 or 16" guns, with a sizeabel bursting charge. That would be a significantly lighter, therefore faster projectile, with even a way bigger terminal velocity, a bigger "gun shadow" (-TM by Drach). Of course there are the problems with accuracy, projectile just breaking up under its mass on impact and having a dependable fuse....
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  874.  @bkjeong4302  Well, if you are occasionally strafed by Wildcats, peppered by DE's guns, you will "dodge" any and all incoming TBM Avengers and won't bother to look whether they dropped a fish or not. :)
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  875. Happy 200th!
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  876. None of these could touched the Holy Blackburn Blackburn. Praise be. :)
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  877. 12:50 As not 'Eavy Machine Guns are equal, the ballistic properties of the 50 BMG stand out, almost as good as the 20mm Oerlikon, with obviously lesser killing power. So with a small craft, which you have to aim well to hit with bombs a twin 50 BMG is almost as good as a 20mm. There is also the thing that ships got strafed, smaller ones to be sunk by aircraft cannon, even HMG fire, largee ones to suppress AAA crew. And in these cases, even your HMG killing range is greater than aircraft gun range. And there is the issue of a pilot having to make an attack run, when an awfull lot of tracers coming at him (only seeming to turn away in the very last moment). Om the other hand, when the solid nose B-25 and A-26, as well as the "ten gun terror" Beaufighters begun to harass shipping... Its was not a good day to lack 40+ mm AAA in great numbers.
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  878. Ah, Drach time, coffee time :)
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  879. Missed the 100k Giveaway. Nevermind, prepping for 200 and 500.
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  880.  @zoranocokoljic8927  Maybe check again.
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  881. A question to cpt "Larry" Seaquist - what aircraft would he like on "his" Iowa in the 1980s and today (if any)?
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  882. 7:50 "There was much rejoicing" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yciX2meIkXI
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  883.  @gokbay3057  But then shells were cheaper than battleships, so why did they built them? ;)
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  884. It's "dry salt". As in a saltmine, which was the a most severe kind of punishment. NOT as in a salt cave, which is used as a therapy for those of asthma and allergies...
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  885. 40:45 NOW, you might whip out that battleaxe :)
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  886. As for salted beef, saltpeter is still used in processed meats, goes under the E252 (EU additive) number. Those, who want to be blessed with ingorance, DO NOT look up "nitrary" on the net, how was saltpeter produced. Also, cutting beef perpendicular to fibers before salting (and a tad thinned, so after the several day process of salting, the center of slices won't stay pinkish-reddish, ie subject to rot) makes in less had to chew on. Finally, frying the oiled hard tac and beef and RAW (but sliced/diced) onion makes the food a tad sweet - from the onion. Sweet and salty food is a natural(ish) flavor enhancer combination.
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  887. Only because there is not an Austro-Hungarian Navy anymore :)
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  888.  @kemarisite  Nope, as I looked up, it looks like a fairly standard semi-enclosed dual gun housing for early DD or (scout) cruiser mounting, peeking out from door sized hole cut into the armor.
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  889. 11:50 "Five destroyers are a lot more of a threat than two" If one gives credit to this site: http://www.scharnhorst-class.dk/scharnhorst/history/scharnjuno.html It seems that the German side (on repeated orders of Admiral Wilhelm Marschall) deliberately held their fire on the British destroyers, which IMO contributed to the single torpedo hit (ie. both Ardent and Acasta had enough time to launch all their fish, which were not shredded by 150 and 105 mm splinters..).
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  890. BZ
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  891.  @alganhar1  FYI historically hte Bismarck also had a radar (which was knocked off by its own guns muzzle blast probably) but also had a hydrophone array, which picked up Hood and PoW well before visual contact and opening fire. So, encircling it would not be THAT easy.
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  892. 1:24:30 .
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  893. Fun fact: There is a merchant ship around, a not-so-big container transport above all (hints: Bilge Pumps, missile-container Q/Arsenal ships )
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  894. Like for the first hour and out of coffee... :)
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  895. Poor Omaha/Marblehead, if they would not be as visible as some battleships, they even could be a good(ish) light Tier V cruiser class.
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  896.  @ParabellumStoria  My mistake. "Megbuktam".
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  897.  @rupertboleyn3885  In A-H's - while the dual Monarchy lacked overseas colonies it had extensive commercial ties to the world, for example brown cane sugar or molasses was imported, refined into diamond sugar and exported. From and to between Fiume/Rijeka and INDIA of all places... And it was a prospective business even in the late XIXth century, when merchantmen were still sailing ships.
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  898. 22:10 There is something of a "gut feeling attraction" in most people for steam engines and machines guns with clearly moving action...
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  899. Blast from the past....
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  900. Be vewy, vewy quiet, I hunting... coffeee.
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  901. Load base fused coffee...
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  902. 1:07:50 - "Hegyibe nagyságos uram, csak a fejüket!"
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  903. 19:40 Italians during WW2 used at least one 45 cm "subcaliber" torpedo in their 21" tubes, with some - navweaps did not detail - extra apparatus in the tubes. AFAIK it was due to ammo shortage as well as having a bigger payload and that Mediterraen merchantmen were smaller, this an 18" torpedo hit sent them to bottom as well as a 21".
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  904. 13:00 hours, Drydock 130.
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  905. I wonder if anyone made a uniform 9.2 -10" armed armored cruiser, even on the drawing board?
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  906. I wonder if anyone made a uniform 9.2 -10" armed armored cruiser, even on the drawing board? Uniform like 6+ main battery size (fex 2 in turrets 4 in casemates) and up to 4,7" anti-torpedo boat secondaries?
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  907. Ah, Drach time, press like, check lenght... OK, have to go to shopping, I will run out of caffeine...
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  908. @Eric Fapton Google "Bilge pumps podcast cimsec", as it is a series of podcasts.
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  909. Drach's shells, Dr Clarke's "Four books" and then Bilgepumps S01ep19. Think I begin with a coffee and the proceed in the order above.
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  910. Just a quickie: Did Mrs Drac enjoyed the Lajta (Leitha) tour and Hungarian food?
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  911. Az for the 1914 "Jutlandish" decisive battle if you ever do such alternate history, please consider the state of progress Room 40 made with German codes and the lack of British experience (see HMS Aboukir, Cressy, Hogue vs U-9).
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  912. Will you do a video on the Austro-Hungarian destroyers and torpedo boats? Some even survived WWII.
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  913. Anyone having ANY visuals (even poor CGI or cartoons) of those - khmm - interesting French pre-dreads FIRING?
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  914. Just finished dinner, time for coffee...
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  915.  @disceva6443  Well, there were several characters besides six headed sea monsters ;)
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  916.  Paladin88  Are they? Maybe ask them... Like a referendum to the locals? Oh, wait, they did it in 2014
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  917. Errr... Russians ARE at home?
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  918.  Paladin88  When Russia has a few thousand km long land border with China, they SURE will run out if high tech.
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  919. "Right wing"?
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  920. 2:14 "(France) contributes more than it gets" - well, according to Thomas Pikety, actually "the West" DOES PUMP OUT MONEY from East/Central Europe via the economical mechanisms of the EU! "Of course" not much of that lands in the pocket of the average man.
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  921. As others pointed out, the pardoner guy (who served most of his sentence already) was not the perpetrator. The "tens of thousands" of people protesting were about 22-25 thousand and the organisers of the protest were "former" opposition figures AND just received some funds publicly (maybe more non-publicly) from non other then ambassador Pressman to Budapest from the USA. We do not know about "color revolution".
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  922. 5:40 Mind you, Polish Hussars in 1939 DID (as a platoon level support weapon) use a heavy, anti-tank rifle which could knock out a PzI or PzII from several hundred meters - obviously used dismounted from a bipod.
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  923. Err...What you got wrong about tzar Putin: - He said, that the Ukraine did not exist - but NOT said, even denied to Tucker, that the courty should not exist now. - He DID mention the Molotov-Ribbentropp pact, but emphasysed that it only was formed AFTER negotiations with Poland lead to nothing - Ye olde Adolf signed agreement with the blonde and blue eyed Benito (or was he Asian?), romania, etc. And as you mentioned, they even had an egreement with Poland, about Czehoslovakia (and was tactfull to not mention Churchill words about Poland and hyena appetite). - Reverse Gonsalo Lira: actually I cannot think that the spokesPERSON of the Ukraine (Sarah-Michael Cirillo) would ask on Twitter "Where is Tucker Carlson" - but Maria Zaharova did ask: "WHERE IS GONZALO LIRA" - Putin mentioned Poland a lot of times, because Poland (sometimes in the form of Polish-Lithuanian Commnonwealth) did wage war against Tzarist Russia for a better half of a millenia and both countries were on both end of the proverbial stick several times during the centuries...
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  924. Q1, Whats the point of ruining German farmers? A1: Opening the gates of cheap GMO food, from the "defenders of Europe". Q2: Why the EU pushing for GMO? A2: Go to A1
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