Comments by "" (@RedXlV) on "W&Z class - Guide 239" video.

  1. Many of the British destroyer classes were so closely related that it's a matter of interpretation how many classes they actually had. For example, are the J/K/Ns three classes of 8 ships each or just one class of 24 ships, given that they were for all practical purposes identical? At any rate, Britain's desperate need for more destroyers resulted in the 112 ships of the War Emergency Programme, which were smaller and less capable than the Tribals, J/K/Ns, and L/Ms. They could be considered anywhere from one to 14 classes depending on how you define it, since they all used the same basic hull design but were constantly improved during construction. It wasn't until the Battle-class (only one of which was completed in time to actually fight in WW2; an additional 25 were built and 18 were cancelled and scrapped partially built) that Britain went back to full-sized fleet destroyers. The US, on the other hand, had the industrial capacity to meet its needs by just spamming out Fletchers, followed by Sumners and Gearings rather than reverting smaller designs. The British "emergency" scaled-down destroyers, like I said, added up to 112 ships. The Fletcher-class? 175 ships.
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  2. Whimbrel is also the last remaining Black Swan-class sloop, a very important class.
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  3. The Battles came after the War Emergency Programme had been completed, though. And they were mostly a postwar class; only HMS Barfleur made it into action in WW2.
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  4.  @gregorywright4918  "Israel hit first, and did NOT take advantage of it's superiority by wiping THEM off the map." Because they knew pushing any further would've resulted in direct Soviet intervention, possibly with nuclear weapons.
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