Comments by "Doug JB" (@dougjb7848) on "The Drydock - Episode 278" video.

  1. Do you have channel for steam powered locomotive history? If not, I think you should start one. I bet there are tools out there that would help you … perhaps tools used right now by somebody who creates naval history content …
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  2. I know, I know! Nobody expects the Spanish Armada. In fact, those who do expect -
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  3. I’m sure they could have developed a surface-launched FritzX (which was basically what the Allies did after 1945 to develop their first surface-launched weapons). Issue is that, without an airborne guidance system, you have no over-the-horizon capability. That plus the launching UBoat must remain on the surface for the entire duration of the weapon’s flight …
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  4.  @onenote6619  The RAF and USAAF devoted enormous resources to attacking submarine bases directly, via vertical bombing, to little effect. The sub pens were built into natural caves or drilled tunnels through seaside cliffs, meaning they had 10s to 100s of feet of natural rock above them, almost perfect protection from even Tallboy type bombs. Adding, or even multiplying, more conventional type high altitude bombing would have contributed little more. If war had continued into 1946, perhaps the Allies would have developed and used semi-guided “skimming” weapons, flying them directly into the sub pen entrances. The KM may have responded by creating completely underwater entrances to the sun pens, forcing the Allies to develop a weapon that could travel underwater, into the sub pen, and explode underwater and “air pressure blast” the above-water areas. If it had gone that far the US may have tried getting a small nuclear torpedo into the sub pen entrances …
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