Comments by "Solo Renegade" (@SoloRenegade) on "Drachinifel" channel.

  1. the fact an unarmored carrier is one that actually survived the war.....
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  2. being able to argue both sides of an argument effectively, is a very rare skill these days. Most people cannot correctly make the argument of their opposition, demonstrating a lack of empathy and understanding simultaneously. Any good political solution is a compromise of opposing viewpoints. The fact people think this is a character flaw is telling. Understanding the need for military defense of it's people and assets, and not wanting to give the gov too much power in the process, are not contradictory arguments.
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  3. the 1880s to 1960s alone was incredible, and that was a mere 80yrs. the last Civil War veteran died in, I believe, 1952. Submarines Automobiles Iron Warships with modern weapons Airplanes Helicopters Manned spaceflight Nuclear bombs and reactors Electricity, electric light Radio TV Vacuum tubes, transistors Computers Radar Sonar Jet engines Gasoline engines Diesel engines ICBMs Cruise missiles Remote Control Vehicles microwave modern medicine (penicillin, blood plasma, surgeries, etc.) Farming with tractors and combines Advances in firearms Dinosaurs, Galaxies, General Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, most of modern physics... The evolution of engineering as a specific career Mach 1, 2, 3, etc. Landing on the Moon .......
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  4.  @TheEDFLegacy  Probably did more damage to enemy ships in WW2 than Yamato as well.
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  5. what about Post-WW2 destroyers?
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  6. Most people think there was only a single Hunley type sub, and a single battle of iron warships in the US Civil War.
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  7. I second that
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  8. imagine how much different WW2 in the Pacific would have played out if every Japanese ship fired upon by the Mk14 that didn't detonate were sunk (only counting cases where the torpedo definitely impacted, or where it passed underneath with near certainty)? If I recall correctly, some famous Japanese carriers, Battleships, and numerous other warships and cargo ships survived Mk14 attacks. Ships that wouldn't have been around later in the war to fight in the battles they did. And less men and material would have reached its destination, further impacting land, air, and naval battles.
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  9.  @VersusARCH  yes, most were light, escort, etc. but armor wasn't the point. The point is that an IJN carrier survived the war at ALL given the late war attacks on literally every ship and boat afloat on the japanese islands. And a carrier no less.
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  10.  @biggiouschinnus7489  pretty incredible huh? really puts history into perspective. Some events truly were not as long ago as they feel to us.
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  11.  @andrewgause6971  Keep in mind, Jefferson wrote the Constitution, not long before this, and disliked giving the gov too much power. He was an advocate for the militia model of military power, but the US learned early on that even with a militia military, you still needed a standing Navy. The Founders hadn't considered this aspect, and now Jefferson was struggling to reconcile his views on the issue. Genius doesn't mean flawless. Genius doesn't mean you have all the answers, as some here try to claim. Jefferson was trying to figure out how to satisfy both things he believed in, without giving the gov powers he didn't want them to have. Jefferson wrote the Constitution to limit gov power.
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  12. F2G, Bearcat, F4U-5, Sea Fury, A-1D, etc. There were a number of good carrier based super props to come out of WW2.
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  13. siphon some money from the massive college funds and create a fund to support texas indefinitely going forward.
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  14. wrong. in Vietnam the pilots weren't sufficiently trained. the missiles worked, but you had to employ them properly and within the limits of their flight and targeting envelope. Top Gun taught pilots how to do this properly. The missiles always worked. If you ask a missile to do something it can't, who would have known it would fail to do something it couldn't do? And yet, most air kills were by missiles. some were faulty, due to quality control and such. new tech is always like that. But it was nothing like the torpedo issue of WW2.
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  15. the US plan for the Battle of Midway was developed by the Naval War College in the late 1920s. Just as the three war plans for defeating Japan, of which Orange was used, were developed before WW2 as well. In the 1920s and 1930s the US and Japan already knew they were going to fight each other eventually, and were already planning accordingly, and US leadership had anticipated the Japanese attacking Midway and having a carrier battle. This is why the US rushed its carriers into position when they knew of the Japanese attack coming, and how they knew exactly where to place their carriers in relation to Midway. This was the battle plan that had been devised and tested repeatedly in wargames at the US Naval War College. A Junior Officer at the War College actually came up with the plan, and gets no credit.
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  16. Did you know that most of the "American Dream" and other US ideals of freedom were actually inspired by the Native Americans? The US has a rough history with the Native Americans, but there are also tons of positive history there too. but everyone these days ignores the good and only focuses on the bad.
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  17.  @mytube001  and you were there and have all the context and know better than they did? A ship needs a pilot house, a smoke stack, hatches and accessways that don't fill with water, boats for going ashore, masts for hanging signaling flags, etc. Show me a modern warship from post-Civil War to today that has a turret and doesn't have superstructure or other structures that block the firing of turrets? Even the bow of many battleships prevents the turrets from firing straight ahead at low elevations of the guns, or seaplane launchers prevent firing aft. there are tons of ships with multiple turrets amidships blocked by a great deal of superstructure fore and aft (early battleships, destroyers, destroyer escorts, etc.).
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  18. Yukikaze didn't survive the battle near Pluto in 2199.
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  19. The US anticipated participation in WW2 and started a naval buildup, aircraft buildup (F4U, F6F, P-38, etc), and increased pilot training accordingly, years prior to entry into WW2. The US even anticipated the battle of Midway prior to the start of WW2.
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  20.  @alexzenz760  I actually agree with you, to some extent. People take armor way too far. but certain things DO benefit significantly from adding armor strategically.
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  21.  @kristianfischer9814  I thought the US pretty much smashed anything remaining many times over prior to dropping the bombs. I'm always amazed when a ship manages to survive that, especially a carrier.
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  22. lot of that going around in WW2. General Somervell, Admiral King, Admiral Nimitz, General Eisenhower, and many more. US was under stellar leadership during WW2.
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  23. U-505 is in the Chicago museum
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  24.  @robert48044  I do the same as well. I argue the opposing views to make sure I understand them correctly, and because sometimes they make a good point and I'm still working out where I stand on an issue, or I'm working through an appropriate compromise solution and trying to figure out which sides of each argument to keep in the final solution.
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  25.  @MrNicoJac  When did Jefferson say he wanted a weak gov? He merely wanted it limited to avoid corruption and excesses, and rightfully so. Jefferson's Real motivations are not contradictory, merely that the way to achieve both desires at the same time hadn't been worked out yet, and he knew this.
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  26.  @bartfoster1311  exactly what I expect from people these days. Using logical fallacies and trying to steer the conversation onto something unrelated and irrelevant to the discussion when you have no real argument. try again.
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  27. But they couldn't have done that without the orders given to them, the direction to fly given to them, and the carriers having been in position to attack beforehand....
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  28.  @redrb26dett  Understood. But I also know, as Jefferson surely did that authorizing funds and gov authority to build a navy still wouldn't have done anything for those already affected and dying in the meantime anyways. It's not as simple as you try to make it.
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  29.  @davidtuttle7556  "Absent during the Constitutional Convention, Jefferson was not able to help write the document, but his ideas and arguments still influenced those who did." the Convention was only during the summer of 1787, the Constitution was changed and rewritten many times before it was in final form and ratified in the summer of 1788, almost a year after the convention ended. The history of the Constitution is far more complex than you try to claim. Lots of issues arose, and it was dragging on. And some people would reject it not knowing it had been rewritten, and they were objecting to the old draft, not the new one that had none of the issues they were rejecting it for. Do a deep dive on the history of what happened. It's far less simple than you think, and took much longer. And don't forget the previous Article of Confederation and all the debates about the framework of gov following the end of the Revolution that heavily influenced the Constitution.
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  30.  @williamchamberlain2263  They were creating something that had never been done before in human history. There was no playbook to follow. Try forming your own stable and effective gov yourself and see how hard it is. I know you couldn't do better than the Founders did, from scratch, without the benefit of their lessons learned.
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  31. they made a turret ship, decided it wasn't working right, and adapted. they worked with what they had. if you study the history of engineering you'll find far more failures than successes. Same is true in all things. The true stupidity is in not understanding that. These ships were like the iPhones of their day, they changed everything. There were bugs to work out. But you can see that turrets were teh way forward, they just had to work out the issues of how to design and employ them.
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  32. Hara seems to be a large part solely responsible for teh reputation Japan got for "long range torpedo attacks". It always seemed to be His torpedoes that scored those hits.
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  33. ​ @bkjeong4302  Didn't say they bluffed them. You need to read more carefully and pay attention to what I Actually said. I said bluffing works as a tactic in battle. The Center force misidentified the destroyers and escorts and cruisers, and misidentified the escort carriers as fleet carriers. thus, they themselves believed they were facing the main fleet, and this bias fed into them continuing to believe so when the Sammy and others charged them. They misinterpreted the desperation for confidence of a full battle fleet, thus failed to realize Sammy was not a cruiser even as she closed on them.
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  34.  @jamesharding3459  he didn't write all of it, as changes were made, but it took years to write, alter, rewrite and ratify the Constitution. It didn't happen suddenly.
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  35.  @williamchamberlain2263  You can understand the need for conflict to defend your people, but argue over the correct way to fund it. Taxes? donations? Volunteer? Conscription of existing vessels, etc. Some require funds, some do not. Some require a degree of gov control Jefferson didn't want to give. At this point, the US is still working out the issues in the early gov, figuring out which parts need more gov to function, which don't. Mind you these pirates were harassing US citizens for years before Jefferson became president. No one else dealt with the issue before him, so is it wrong for him to likewise delay a little longer to think it through? Have you ever tried to create a functional gov from scratch that worked successfully?
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  36.  @williamchamberlain2263  The "poors" already had guns and training. That's how they won the Revolution. Taxing people doesn't give people voting say. But you seem to get the overall gist.
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  37.  @greg_4201  Shows how little you know. When you over simplify the Entire argument, yes, it's easy to claim, "nothing special here.". You must look closer. Look at what is different this time compared to all previous attempts. They created quite a number of things that had never existed previously.
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  38. 11:35 Letter of the Law and Spirit of the Law. You are 100% WRONG that you can't be both. if you can't be both, and don't know when each is the appropriate response to a given situation, you're not a good leader.
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  39. we used AARs to great effect in my unit as well in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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  40. LCS-5, USS Milwaukee (Littoral Combat Ship) CL-5, USS Milwaukee (light cruiser) C-21, USS Milwaukee (cruiser) AOR-2, USS Milwaukee (replenishment oiler) USS Milwaukee (monitor)
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  41. The cruisers always seem to be ignored in WW2 histories. But it really felt like a war where the Destroyers and Carriers became preferred over more traditional surface warships like battleships and cruisers.
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  42.  @jamesm3471  except this one, apparently.
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  43. Warspite, Dreadnaught....
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  44. WW1 Arsenal ships!!!!
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  45. Yes, Japan clearly loves the ship, and I understand why. But from my perspective she seems a bit of a cursed ship. Japan has Yukikaze, the US has Enterprise. It's interesting contrasting the two.
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  46. from the days when our military and gov were still run by truly competent individuals. Not all of them, but a lot more than in recent decades.
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  47. yup!
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  48.  @ut000bs  It's amazing how often in nature and in war you see this play out effectively. A smaller opponent bluffs themselves to victory through a fierce display and/or through backs-to-the-wall vicious fighting. Yet, no one ever seems to learn that sometimes it can win battles, no matter how many times it happens.
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  49.  @bkjeong4302  Yes, but the aircraft were all part of their initial misidentification of the escorts as fleet carriers. Yes, they did eventually realize their mistake, but not in time to do anything about it, and fearing US reinforcements arriving, they left.
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  50.  @kevinbarry71  Ok, then what was he doing?
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