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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