Comments by "Doug JB" (@dougjb7848) on "The Drydock - Episode 118" video.

  1. Or Leonard of Quirm from Pratchett’s Discworld ‘verse.
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  2. 1:14:40 A whole new interpretation of “dead astern.”
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  3. 44:00 Shlezh-vig Hohl-stein.
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  4. 1:37:40 It is possible to build factories that produce all the components needed for tanks, warplanes, trains and such, and the facilities that assemble the final products, close together literally anywhere. The USSR proved this. By comparison, warships can only be produced in very few locations, and these locations tend not to be very close together. This forces you either to build a complete set of warship component factories at every location where ships can be assembled, or build enormously long and complex logistics networks between the factories and each of the shipyards. Hence it is easier to ramp up production of everything but warships.
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  5. The chart shows that, at 90^ to the gun’s longitudinal axis, 5PSI (which will definitely cause serious hearing damage and probably cause eardrum rupture and permanent loss) is felt about 60 feet away. The chart cuts off the 3PSI (probable serious hearing damage), but it looks like it would be about 80 feet away. Directly behind the gun, 5 PSI is felt about 15 feet away. If the M2 you were 6 feet away from in your recollection had instead been a 16”/50, you would not be around to recollect it.
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  6. 41:00 Why does Centurion look like her A turret is a quadruple and B is a twin?
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  7. 🤫
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  8. All the more reason to be thankful for Harold Stark.
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