Comments by "SonsOfLorgar" (@SonsOfLorgar) on "Drachinifel" channel.

  1. Did the tumblehome designers frequent the Moulain Rouge often? Because those lower hull curves have some serious lewdness going on...
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  2. Angry monarch noises
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  3. Mix in wood ash into fat and you get the gelling agent (soap) too.
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  4. Then what about having a controlled smouldering simulacrum of a dying star used to sail steel ships against the wind and currents and launch furnace powered metal kites to attack enemy ships and armies hundreds of miles away... laughs in nuclear fission boilers
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  5. With the experience Drach has, I predict it to slide pretty smoothly anyway, as most screw ups of the time have already been interrupted or breeched and wedged ;)
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  6. No more thanthe paddling served by the Washington ;)
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  7. You really missed the opportunity for another poignant Jingles quote in regards to Kirishima: "Sailing broadside on to a battleship? That's a paddlin'.." XD
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  8. And the standard modern munitions are airburst fused for maximum fragmentation of both the shell and anything between it and the target.
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  9.  @delurkor  spot on
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  10. Now imagine if King had become a labour union leader instead of an officer... The US would have been a completely different country by now.
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  11.  @jayschafer1760  the feel of an 84mm Carl Gustaf recoilless support weapon is pretty intense and addictive too. Swedish army safety regulations restrict the allowed full propellant rounds to twelve per 24h and firing team. And that's with protective ear plugs and Peltor cups for anyone within 25m. It's essentially a shoulder fired 84mm field artillery piece with a venturi nozzle at the breech to eliminate recoil transfer to the weapon itself. The tradeoff is the 75m long and 90° wide backblast cone.
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  12. Bloody gnome cultists are everywhere ;)
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  13. That was an epic paddlin'
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  14. Starboard batteries, in ripples, from the fore, FIRE AS SHE BEARS! Or, in the words of a fictional warship captain 30'000years later: "FIRE THE URSUS CLAWS"
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  15. mournful Bofors 40mm/L70 sniffles over grandpappy m/36
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  16.  @atpyro7920  yeah, that's what a few of the flank forts around Douamont looks like today. (They were shelled to craters below the original ground level prior to the forts construction) I visited it with my dad (ret. Lt. Col. of Swe costal artillery), my mat. uncle. (ret. Fighter pilot Swe airforce) and mat. grandfather (served in the ww2 neutrality watch as a designated driver for some upper brass staff) At the visit, I was less than two months graduated from ten months conscript training in a heavy mortar unit. The experience of touring the Verdun battlefields so short after that service was a very humbling and emotional experience.
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  17.  @nozdormu89  "you call that a gun? That's not a gun,*this* is a gun" moment?
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  18. IRONWOOD 😈
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  19.  @Trek001  she probably knew by experience that without the efforts of the Polish volounteers in the RAF and WAAC, the civilian toll of the battle of Britain might have been too severe to sustain and coukd have forced Britain to sue for separate peace...
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  20. Swedish Navy boots differ from Swedish infantry and tankers boots in that, while they do have steel toe caps like the tanker boots, infantry boots have plastic toe caps, the navy boots also have water proof side zippers that go all the way to the sole of the boot.
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  21. ​ @GorduzBackstabber  Wooosh
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  22.  @SuperTelecom  it was a significantly emotional event
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  23.  @hfshim  you can't say you didn't see this pun-ishing barrage incoming XD
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  24.  @GregStachowski  while backing off slowly with a cold sweat brow...
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  25. And the artists were the most frequent visitors to the Moulin Rouge and neighbouring brothels and night clubs where absinthe was the poison of fashion...
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  26. To be fair, as long as the sea is calm and the airspeed at landing is sufficiently slow, I would presume there's less things to go disastrously wrong with flight lessons in a sea plane compared to a land plane.
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  27. Mike better load 15" APHE or it will be too shallow.
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  28.  @evensgrey  only the US and Russia has sufficient rocket and ground support aircraft to theoretically gun field artillery. Only the US has mostly done so. All the rest still rely mostly on 105/122 and 155/152mm howitzers and 61-207mm mortars,
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  29. Why do you bring such inflammatory puns to this place of learning? Do you wish it engulfed and devoured like the library of Alexandria? You monster!
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  30.  @calvingreene90  exactly, and that's the difference between the yellow and red unions (yellow ones are false flag organisations serving the employers interests)
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  31. More likely to prevent rain and salty sea water from getting in and starting to corrode the barrels.
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  32. More likely a mix of metallic sodium or potassium as well as pitch and turpentine or flax seed oil Possibly with sulphur as an accelerant and possibly saltpeter as an oxidizer. Such a mixture could easily be made to the consistency of syrup, but would get runnier if heated and, would have a low enough ignition temperature to spontaneously ignite as the moist sea spray reacts exothermically with the alkaline metal powder and producing hydrogen gas in the process... The saltpeter, sulfur and alkaline metals would also ensure that it would react violently with moist surfaces and any attempts to douse it with water, while the pitch and oil would make it sticky and allow it to float on water while burning.
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  33. 😬
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  34. If you want floaty boaty goodness, Vasa isn't the ship video for you
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  35. Aka: Charlie don't surf.
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  36. Yes
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  37. It certainly would have made the battle of lake town significantly shorter and louder 🤣
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  38. Have seen it twice, and I can only agree.
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  39.  @mikeynth7919  the urge is always present just below the peaceful surface 🪓😁
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  40.  @lostalone9320  I disagree on there not beeing room for politeness, unless you actually meant that there's no room for pussy-footing or meekness. Having served as a guard myself, both as a conscript at the royal palace of my nations capital, and as a national defence militia private at a military air show where the airfield grass lawns were open to the public but the base, runways and taxi ways were not. I'd say that it's absolutely essential for a guard to be professionally polite, even if the politenes just means stabbing a fixed bayonet in an assailants thigh, twisting it out and setting a tourniquet to go with the handcuffs instead of the war time practice of a gut/heart/lung stab to stop their attack without risking instant death of someone that needs interrogating or collateral damage by firing. ;)
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  41. More likely because the US still practice slavery. Just not the chattel form of slavery.
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  42. Comme si comme sa ;)
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  43.  @gamarus0kragh  and yet no. Because the cuirass and helmet only covers the upper torso and upper head while legs, hips, arms and face would be mostly unprotected...
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  44.  @Vonstab  not only there, but some of the twin 15cm turrets of the class also survived as part of the Bungenäs coastal artillery battery on northern Gotland. One of those now resides in the military museum in Tingstäde, which is open to the public each summer season.
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  45.  William Mulvaney  unless allowed to siphon water... on the other hand, I bet that would cause buoyancy and stability issues for ironclads...
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  46.  @PopeMetallicus  that's a bit of a weird way of re-labeling people trying to evict home invaders...
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  47. I bet Frederik the great felt that pun stirr something inside.
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  48.  @x42brown  that sucks
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  49. And most of the gun turrets of these old ships were repurposed as heavy costal artillery fort turrets.
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  50. Have you ever heard of "French precision"? No? What about "German art?" No? Well, there you have it.
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  51.  @hoangho6781  nah, if you load HE, all you get is a clean surface, it needs to go into the ground to actually redistribute the soil
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  52. Religion voided all rights to whining about interference or opression the second the first sociopath came up with the concept as a means to fleece their community.
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  53. Always look at the briiiiight side of life...
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  54.  @cdfe3388  most unions in my own country falls into the pro-member category. They are even the reason my country became a democratic constitutional monarchy without a civil war that would have been as ugly as the Spanish and likely a soviet puppet state as the end result. And during the start of the pandemic, it was the unions that forced privatized, indifferent and incompetent corporate and public health care providers and transportation service companies to provide adequate personal protection equipment, work conditions that enabled distancing and routines that prevented negligient risks to drivers, nurses and non-covid patients.
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  55.  @starliner2498  I'm Swedish, and well, it peaked when I was a single digit aged kid, then the corporate lobbyists managed to get a strangle hold on the political debates with the 1990ies economic crisis and they have never stopped choking back our labour rights or undermining the mostly well working wellfare systems ever since.
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  56. It was never completed, a special hex bolt for the keel was missing in package nr 3485 C, and without that, the whole hull would implode at launch. /Greetings from Sweden
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  57. Carefully...
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  58.  @PopeMetallicus  that nationalistic misrepresentation of context, is so ridiculous it's mind boggling. 1) why should native inhabitants have to 'claim' anything to be recognized? 2) That the specific natives first encountered didn't claim the land directly only means that they didn't see it as theirs to give, not that the land in question is up for grabs as free realestate. There's a huge distinction. 3) European colonists, due to biblical indoctrination and delusions of entitlement considdered, with individual exceptions, all natives, especially non christians, as lesser and primitive sub-humans and that religious manipulation and subjugation followed by social indoctrination mislabeled as 'civilization' was a "natural obligation" of their christian "superiority"... when it in fact is an atrocity. Just like my own countrys atrocities as a significant contributor in the 18th century slave trade off the Ivory coast and St. Barts.
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  59. Yes, if the Allies had had sufficient marines and managed to secure Narvik and hold it until the royal marines could have been relived in those engagements, it would have forced Hitler to trigger Fall Gelb and attempt an invasion of Sweden to secure that ore supply that way, probably postponing the attack on France and getting hopelessly bogged down in a war of attrition to no end while the Finnish would likely have fallen to the Soviets as Sweden would not have been able to allow volounteers to join our eastern brothers to fight off the Russians again as those troops would be needed to fight off the Nazis. And neither would any significant quantity of weapons or supplies be possible to spare for supporting the Finns nor could we have offered safety to the Finnish child refugees, one of whom my paternal grandmother fostered as if her own until it was safe for the girl to go back to her natural parents. That girl sent a beautyful flower wreath to my grandmothers funeral a couple of years back. They had stayed in correspondence the whole time. All this presuming the Allies didn't decide to seize Kiruna and the Swedish ore fields to better hold Narvik, and possibly to allow a land route to Russia from Narvik to Archangelsk.
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  60.  @artbrann  and to hit that bar, you'd have to blow your own feet in the process...
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  61. The worst presents however, was clothes stuffed inside old lego kit boxes...😢
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  62.  @ottovonbismarck2443  wet mixing is your friend as long as you keep the mix away fromalkaline metals 🤣
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  63.  @josedubois2295  wrong. The US most definitely still actively use slave labour. In every single for-profit prison and most public state prisons too.
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  64. And one of the teenage women volounteer truck drivers for the Commonwealth armed forces in Brittain would go on to be the third, and least problematic, of their Queen regents so far.😊
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  65.  @VersusARCH  *features to not pursue ;)
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  66.  @nathanrandall7003  I see what you did there... you know where the door is ;)
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  67. As well as frequent visits to the Moulin Rouge...
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  68. I had the same model kit in the early 90ies, until I loaded it with marble ballast in the bathtub, shot it to sinking with my elder brothers Air pistol and then set fire to it on the concrete stairs of the front entrance to my parents house... I think I was between 7-9yo at the time XD
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  69.  @sthenzel  not really, as there is no restriction on training pilots on land.
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  70. It's almost like Ian over at Forgotten Weapons or Matt Euston of Schola Gladiatoria XD
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  71. Absinthe was the poison of fashion of that time...
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  72. All of it?
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  73. The combat boat 90 still has mine laying rails along both sides...😅
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  74. Way to save ammo costs
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  75.  @ph89787  Japanese Admirality: Don't give up Emperor JarJar!
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  76.  @Philistine47  and Drach called him politically indifferent! Bah!
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  77.  @jedgarsquink  it's groovy all the way man!
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  78.  @0ld.Richard  cruisers and battlecruisers facing full on battleships however, are not. Also, it was a sarcastic joke, not an actual comment on actual tactics...
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  79. Nah, Absinthe, opium and prostitutes more likely... and they were designing by comitte...
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  80. They still fefuse to include the word "simple" in their dictionaries ;)
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  81.  @bkjeong4302  or both
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  82. ​ @Yaivenov but the magazine hoists has to be red
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  83.  @hisdadjames4876  problem with that for the Vasa is that the lower gun ports couldn't be allowed to get any closer to the water line than they already were.
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  84. ​​ @adamjaquay4279  yes, plenty, and they were converted to missile/torpedo boats, that also carried mines...😅
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  85. ​ @spitefulwar  Swedish is counted in the germanian language family
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  86.  EFEZZE6280  no, they are just opinionated egocentrists.
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  87. And the NKVD would have provided free life long room and lodging for the people who tried to obstruct the war effort in a nice and cozy factory or mine a few hundred miles on foot north of Novosibirsk...
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  88. Are you sure? Do you really want to risk having to deal with their replacements?
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  89.  @billbolton  fair enough, I haven't watched any of his videos in years as his occational toxic ravings robs anything he make that happen to be accurate of it's value from my perspective and drives me to find that information from non jingoistic/anti-lgbt creators.
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  90. All of it...
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  91. In the movie Zero Hour, the CVN Nimitz battle group is shifted to the attack on Perl Harbour. How would you expect the crew of a Brittish Royal Navy fleet in 1812 to react and try to describe an encounter with, say, the USS New Jersey and her escort group on their way back to the US after Desert Storm. Presuming the US battlegroup is flying their colours but otherwise no agressive or evasive manouvering other than to follow modern maritime conventions on placement when passing sailing ships on the open sea.
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  92. Now you are just beeing cruel🤣
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  93. Mind you, the role she had post ww2 was not as a warship but as a backup platform for a mobile bridge intended to replace a very critical opening bridge span that was likely to be targeted by missiles or infiltrated samotage units early in any foreign attack.
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  94.  @treyhelms5282  with the amount of circumstantial evidence presented, your argument is as ridiculous as a flat-earth creationists.
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  95. Were any F-class ships lost to over-icing on the North sea due to that sea spray?
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  96.  @austinm.9832  iron at the time was even more brittle from the start due to impurities trapped and hidden in the metal due to avaliable manufacturing methods.
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  97.  @starliner2498  indeed.
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  98.  @farsalor2627  it used to be great, not so now, but yes, we are fortunately still miles away from the pityful squalor that is the US "wellfare support system" despite our libertarian, conservative, conservative christian and "honestly we're no longer nazis" parties attempts to destabilize and destroy the system from within.
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  99. ​ @williestyle35  at the same time, those plans are a whole lot more precise, detailed and mathematically verified through centuries of metallurgical, chemical and physical experimentation as well as scientifically analyzed failiures, malfunctions and disasters.
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  100.  @ONECOUNT  just go gently with that brass bristle brush so you have some sight and cognitive capacity left when done ;)
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  101.  @robertbroadbent216  indeed, I got my GRG training in the Home guard, as a conscript, my units main weapons were 12cm mortars
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  102. ​ @josephpadula2283  and the non rifled part would be at the breech end
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  103. I had the same, but I ballasted my model with stone marbles, put it afloat in the bath tub and shot it with my older brothers 3.5mm BB pistol until it sunk... And some time later I set fire to the remains o the concrete front stairs of my parent's house... I was somewhere between 7 to 9 yo at the time.
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  104. It would definitely be collectively cooked. As there's no damn way a captain would allow any kind of naked flame heat source outside the galley unless absolutely nessesary, for things like lighting the lamps or lighting the gun chief's slow matches before wheel/flint/percussion locks started beeing fitted to artillery.
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  105. Probably, Sweden invested heavily in torpedo boats, later converting the larger classes into very fast Anti-ship missile boats.
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  106. More like an infinite damage crit where you roll another d20 for each 20 you get...
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  107. "Shore targets" at ~40km isn't really at the shore anymore ;)
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  108.  @AdamMGTF  same for me in 1990ies Sweden, there was no separate nationalist "history" subject in the curriculum, only History. That said, of course there are dark chapters of our own history that was omitted or glossed over that really deserve a far deeper study to help kids understand why the world has turned up the way it is at the moment and how our ancestors and preceeding generations contributed to both good and bad wether of misguided intentions and misdefined ideas of good, of malicious greed and entitlement or of guillible ignorance and compliance with the powers that were at the time.
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  109. I'd guess: very brief surprised piccachu face...
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  110.  @lancepharker  well, yes... and while the Boden fortress line was a Maginot line/Siegfried line style of impressive artillery fortification with dubious offensive or defensive value in direct combat. It also doubled up as a fully NBC-protected bomb shelter for the armoured, mechanised and motorised brigades of the mobile counter attack forces garrisoned in that northern region during the cold war.
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  111. Great point ;)
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  112. I'd want to see you collaborate with Tod Cutler to toss an enclosed ceramic urn of greek fire with a tied on slow match around it's neck as a pilot light using his trebuchet ☄
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  113. The syllables of the pronounciation would be Drist-ig-het-en, with no silent letters and no pausing for breath between syllables 😂
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  114. Well... technically, so were the Dutch and Belgians... but they had settled in the way between Germany and France, Sweden wasn't on the way to any other strategic objective.
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  115.  @athrowaway3487  I'd suggest this video to your social sciences teacher as an example of how to interpret statistics and how easily statistics can be manipulated for undisclosed or unintentional biases to show something preposterous without actually lying.
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  116.  @funnydog7133  which is why the csa was a nation without legitimacy or right to exist.
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  117.  @billbolton  imo, not anymore, Lindy made himself obsolete by falling to raving nationalist bias narrative at the cost of historical honesty and accuracy several years ago
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  118. ​​ @KevinYau-v7i  iirc, all swedish torpedos since ww2 uses HTP oxidiser, and the sterling AIP of the Gotland class and future Blekinge A26 class uses HTP as non-explosive combustion oxidiser too...😅 Though no accidents so far afaik, as we actually maintain our assets, and train our crews to know why regulation procedures has to be done the way it's regulated...
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  119.  @Ingens_Scherz  nope,not the yanks afaik
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  120. Debunked...
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  121. Yes, when they take her out to sea. As Drach explained, they are just laid up at the key a bit longer than usual right now due to a more involved overhaul service and refit. Iirc, they usually take her out sailing a few weeks every year.
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  122. Of possibly Renault...
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  123. Saved a lot of the turrets and guns as costal artillery though
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  124.  @CHIL2903  true
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  125. Like a SUPER DUPER MISSILE?
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  126. It's more about shell density than mass tbh.
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  127. Is that a "hot loaded" torpedo as fan service for your mrs. @ 2:25?
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  128. You would actually be working inside the bell...
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  129. Nononono, those are merchant ships, honestly! The gun decks are just ceremonial...
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  130. I would rather have equated the torpedoes of a battleship to a side by side sawn off shotgun under a trenchcoat to compliment an anti materiel rifle...
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  131.  @wanderer651952  it's not murder when all involved are combatants on duty.
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  132. Well, if there is no other ship within a 15minute dog paddle when your ship suffers a significant component dispersion... your plans for retirement becomes academical...
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  133.  @barahng  and you are almost as misinformed as the bat shit insane trumpist you replied to as to the definition of socialism. Socialism does not forbid personal or private property, at all. The ONLY property socialism requires to be public is that which encompass means of organised production. Eg: factories, warehouses, farmland, forests, industrial boats, powerplants, infrastructure, reaearch and education facilities etc. And only in the sense that those who work there should be the ones owning the property they use for that work and thus have an equal share in the income from that production with no economic difference between the floor workers and the administrating staff.
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  134. Which is irrelevant as it wasn't plunging fire.
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  135.  @misterjag  except, as shown by drach, it couldn't have been plunging fire due to the ranges and trajectories of the german guns. The rest of the chain of events are almost the same.
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  136. an almost Oopsie doodle! 🤣
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  137.  @Grymbaldknight  aka, vortex grenade ;)
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  138. And CIWS plus multipurpose main guns and SAM systems that makes WW2 AA seem like some welsh 14th century pubecent child trying to shoot stukas with his fathers hunting bow...
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  139. Victorian child calming methods included an opiate tincture that often worked a bit too well... once per child...
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  140. Oof... XD
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  141.  a bag of rocks  that would have been worse, as the Danes and Russians would have taken over quicker than a heroinist finds the number of his dealer when he catches a flying $100 bill...
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  142. Model
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  143. Why do you think they put the "head" as an outehouse bench and safety rope accessed from the deck beneath the forecastle, going out on the bow sprit and climbing down to the "head" on a height where plenty taller than average wave would give your bum a full bidet treatment💦
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  144.  @dave8599  not half as much as we made selling cement and rebar for the post war reconstruction.
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  145.  @winterwar5583  it's getting unpleasant due to right wing politicians and corporate lobbyists in an unholy alliance with the alt-right "we aren't nazis anymore, we just want a culturally and ethnically homogenous nation and for media, schools and all public organisations to promote our jingoistic ideology as dogma " rolling back all the civil rights progress made by the workers rights movement of the 19th and 20th century as fast as they can... and blaming immigrants for predictable structural problems intentionally caused by their own politics... And a social democratic party that's gotten so used to beeing dominant that they think political responsibility is about maintaining a stable status quo by minor tweaks instead of constantly and critically analyzing society and present fact based practical means to get closer to their ideological utopia independantly from other parties in a way that people can understand how it would affect their daily struggles and make an informed vote on whatever suits them best.
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  146. It didn't carry a helicopter of it's own, the landing pad was installed to recive and service the Super-Puma, "flying banana"and Sea-knight helicopters of the Swedish costal artillery branch.
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  147. I'd say that if meeting your "heroes" turns to disappointment, you are suffering from a bad habit of idolization and projection instead of viewing the people who you aprecciate as strangers with interesting half public stories and glimpses of what their skills and passions they allow others to see or share. I am sad that I caught a mild upper respiratory infection over the midsummer weekend that, while no longer with a fever, I didn't want to subject you or others to the risk of residual contagion and had to refrain from going to the Karlskrona Marinmuseum to meet you last week. Hope you had a great visit and got to see all the things! I especially like their age of sail construction model collection and the missile boat HMS Ystad (My father is a retired Costal artillery branch Lt.Col.) If you plan any more tours of Swedish naval museums, I'd highly recomend the Maritime museum of Malmö (has two very well preserved submarines, one Hajen class and one Sjöormen class) The Neutrality watch museum at Djuramossa (Beredskapsmuseum) and the Tingstäde fortress military museum on Gotland where there are a lot of good exhibits of preserved swedish costal artillery systems of the cold war, including a ww2 era armored cruiser two gun 152mm turret that served as part of the costal artillery battery at the Bungenäs bunker complex until 2003.
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  148. Would you considder doing a visit to the Swedish Navy Museum in Karlskrona or maybe the maritime section of the Malmö city museum where one of the oldest intact pre ww1 comissioned submarine classes is on display.
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  149. As soon as you are fully vaccinated and global travel is back to normal, you are very wellcome! /greetings from Sweden
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  150.  @imouse3246  tbh, while it was not our finest hour, our politicians did not have much of a choise between providing limited aid to both sides or have the country occupied over the same natural resources. While our prime minister at the time proclaimed Swedens readyness to be good, he, and all other people who knew the actual state of affairs, prayed to high heaven that none of the warring great powers would have urges to call that blue faced lie, as those pocket battleships were basically ALL we really had when Germany occupied Denmark and Norway. The rest of the Swedish armed forces was about as prepared as the Polish were two years earlier... Eg, decent number of troops equipped with obsolete weapons, no armoured vehicles worth mentioning, obsolete biplane fighters, industry incapable of producing the engines and other critical components for tanks or planes of sufficient quality or quantity. And practically no motorisation of the ground forces worth mentioning. The most mobile forces Sweden had in '42 was bike infantry who were towed in columns by horses, flat bed trucks or wheeled farm tractors...
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  151. #Q&A After the implementation of digital fire control and wireless data links on modern/modernised warships, has there been any experiments with networked real time fire control data collection between ships? Eg, two ships linking Radar echo and or other data between fire control computers to create a virtual triangulation sollution with the same base as the distance between the two or more ships with the comparative resolution of all the combined sensors instead of just those on each ship? I'm thinking that capability can be useful for both as a means to compensate for loss of GPS satelites and for faster and more accurate calculation of target speed and heading.
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  152. And contributing to the armament of coastal artillery fortifications in the process... ;)
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  153. The best tails tell the most defined and truthful stories, namely exactly the story the owning cat wants it to tell.
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  154. The imperial "truth" is a lie.
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  155. ​ @danyvarna5094  your terrorism appologetics are pathetic.
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  156. Not going to happen as those are still in use and classified secret. They are even edited out of civilian maps and are supposed to be edited out of the google maps public version satelite and street view photos.
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  157. Temperature issues with armour manufacture got solved half a century prior, and afaik, the brittish admirality were arguably second to none at meticulous quality control of materials and workmanship as both were points of national pride and personal officers prestige since the 17th century.
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  158. USMC: Charlie don't surf.
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  159.  @andrewlechner6343  still far more of castle doctrine style self defence than murder as colonization is a euphemism for invasion and occupation.
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  160. He didn't. He'd need to eat every calorie he was handed each day just to avoid starvation, scurvy and muscle atrophy...
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  161. Nah, it got rammed and there wasn't enough wrecksge to analyze it ;)
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  162. And during the Neutrality watch, the first thing that would have been leveled if the germans had attacked was the danish castle near Helsingborg that the nazis had taken over as an SS HQ by the Swedish 21 and 15.5cm coastal batteries on the ridges across the narrow strait within direct line of sight.
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  163.  @mahbriggs  it's also easier to fool someone than for a third party to make the victim(s) see, acknowledge and react on that they have been fooled...
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  164. ​ @Archie2c  and equipment both over advertised and in insufficient quantities, a bit like the current state of the Russian federation equipment and officers corps... except the Russian kleptocracy also ruined their recruitment pool decades before they even started the war in Ukraine.
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  165. It might have motivated me
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  166. Do you have any interest to visit and make episodes on coastal defences turned into museums of other nations?
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  167. Aka Lutefisk.
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  168. ​ @DrVictorVasconcelos  the only ones whining about Nato memberships are either fifth column nazis, delusional old school communists with advanced dementia or useful idiot elements of the environmentalist movement... Ie, a mix of criminals and mentally impaired...
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  169. ​ @Feiora  not everywhere, French ships are actually male, and German ships depends on if it's a merchant ship (female) or warship (male) iirc.
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  170. I'd imagine the meat was diced and the stockfish hammered into submission inside a waxed cloth along with the bisquits then poured into the biggest pot of the galley and slow cooked through the day along with the butter and maybe some of the beer, and then doled out as sailors came off or just before they went on their respective watches.
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  171. More like a lynx
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  172. Seconded
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  173.  @aleksanderpatan2966  quit lying. The Polish of WW2 is not the same as the fascists currently destroying the country to the point that we now have Polish LGBTQ persons applying for political asylum in other EU countries for fear of their lives.
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  174.  @glenn1035  Ford was, however, very much a eugenics proponent and ideologically a Nazi supporter who never repented afaik. All be it not a practical nazi supporter once it became treasonous to remain one.
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  175. Yes.
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  176.  @jf5016  by sheer ridiculousness of it if nothing else.
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