Comments by "Tom in Iowa" (@tominiowa2513) on "Drachinifel" channel.

  1. The Swedish U3 was cut into three pieces and rewelded to get it to its permanent home, the Technology and Maritime Museum in Malmö, Sweden. Of course, as a museum ship inland on concrete blocks, integrity of the pressure hull during a deep dive is no longer a concern.
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  2.  @hawkeye5955  - USS Texas during Overlord.
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  3. Sadly real naval war colleges are likely a lot less fun than depicted in Azur Lane Bisoku Zenshin!, and certainly will lack the ecchi and kawaii aspects.
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  4.  @Voron_Aggrav  - Not to mention USS Galena, USS Keokuk (OK, only people that live near those places know the correct pronunciation), and of course the vernacular for USS New Orleans (N'awlins), USS New Jersey (New Joisey - OK, that is fake vernacular), and USS Missouri (Mihsurah).
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  5. The Lend Lease program basically transferred the wealth of the British Empire to the USA.
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  6.  @andrewgause6971  - However, HMS Duke of York would find itself in trouble if attacked by an angry Fletcher swarm (to use a Drachism).
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  7. The Rodney Naval Treaty prohibits the used of main battery fire during beach barbeques other than for fishing purposes.
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  8. Most civil engineering work in the USA is done in kips (kilo-pound or 1,000 pounds) instead of tons, but there are just enough exceptions to make our lives difficult.
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  9.  @alwayscurious3357  - Or Graf Spee (who oddly in human form is portrayed to be about the same size and age as Z3, instead of an apparent late teen like the other cruisers).
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  10. Drach of course started the channel to provide content to listen to while using mass transit.
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  11. Still better than Starbucks.
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  12.  @PalleRasmussen  - Yes.
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  13. Or the Angel Sahaquiel.
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  14.  @miamijules2149  - Especially people using touch screen devices instead of a keyboard and mouse.
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  15. Rocky reenactment with a hoard of people following a running Drach through Philadelphia when going to visit USS Olympia (C-6).
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  16.  @Mishn0  - Does the plan include getting assistance from the Tall Whites to fight the Grays (and of course the Dracos)?
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  17.  @archibaldlarid3587  - History in the proper use of the term is contemporary records of what happened.
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  18. Omitted from the video is that Lübeck is in the State of Schleswig-Holstein. 😉
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  19.  @Hardcase_Kara  - Facetious comment for those who believe that the British Isles themselves were in danger of being sunk by KMS Bismarck.
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  20. Remember that economic warfare is also violence, and economic warfare was started against both Germany and Japan before WW2 broke out, and in the case of Germany right after the NSDAP won the 1933 elections and before they committed any crimes. But of course most historical accounts omit these facts since history is written by the victors.
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  21.  @Captain11890  - Iowa
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  22.  @davidbocquelet-dbodesign  - Used to be a board game called "Wooden Ships and Iron Men".
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  23.  @jonrolfson1686  - Sorry, but your post made me think of meeting up with the Azur Lane version of Warspite. 😳
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  24. Only the Legolas from the ridiculous Peter Jackson fan fiction.
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  25.  @kevinlove4356  What about the millions of German soldiers that died in camps after WW2 ended, and the genocide/ethnic cleansing of German civilians in eastern Europe after WW2 ended? Or the millions that died in fire bombing of cities that had no intent other than to kill civilians and destroy culture? Why did more Germans die in the 5 years following WW2 than during the war?
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  26.  Free Speech  - In Project HARP (not to be confused with Project HAARP), Gerald Bull spliced a couple of barrels together to make a 100-caliber 16-inch gun to shoot payloads into the exosphere. Barrel droop was controlled with an external structure around the lower part of the barrel with tension cables attached near the muzzle. The nearly 100-caliber Paris Gun of WW1 used an external suspension cable arrangement to counteract barrel droop.
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  27. Health and Safety suggests some Kevlar fish cleaning gloves for Mrs. Drach next time.
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  28.  @hisdadjames4876  - As others have mentioned, maybe Mrs. Drach's hands would have been better off in some of Drach's mail gloves (chain mail or plate mail?).
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  29. Manually swabbing out a muzzle-loading cannon was replaced by a blast of compressed air to clean out breach-loading guns (hot embers from the previous shot remaining would be a disaster when loading in new powder in silk bags). Of course this is not an issue in smaller guns that have single piece ammunition in brass casings.
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  30.  @aliemreazgn3634  - If the Montana class had been built, the Iowa class might be referred to as battlecruisers.
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  31.  @rob5944  Yes, Ryan has been covering quite a few ships and naval topics other than BB-62 since the channel got enough subscribers to allow for making five videos per week. SARS-CoV-2 variants willing, we should see collaborative video of Drach and Ryan next summer.
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  32.  @Charliecomet82  - Had there been a fair settlement to WW1 (as Kaiser Willy offered in 1916 when the Central Powers were winning the war - basically a reset to pre-WW1 boundaries), Hitler had enough talent that he could have made a living as a commercial artist for an advertising agency or similar, and would have lived and died in relative obscurity. But of course the near future was replacing coal with oil (and not just in shipping - crude oil is a much better feedstock for the chemical industry than coal), so the Ottoman Empire needed to be broken up and the Middle East divvied up between the British, French, and USA with agreements such as Sykes-Picot that are still causing turmoil to this day (hey, lets break up the Kurdish populated area between four new countries with arbitrary borders).
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  33.  @jimtaylor294  - For me POS is "plat of survey".
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  34. So that is why all the Japanese high schools use foreign tanks for Panzerfahren? 😉 (Girls und Panzer reference)
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  35. @Hamish Banish - Credibility would take a hit if a video comparing the superstructures of "ships" in Azur Lane was posted (not to mention Ms. Drach might bring out her knife collection). 😜
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  36. Everyone in the US military in WW2 would have called the island "Formosa" - Hone is probably used to seeing it that way in historical documents.
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  37. A 200 to 250 yard spread at the Battle OFF Jutland distances is about 0.5 minute of angle (MOA) accuracy, or similar to what can be achieved with a high quality hunting rifle and ammunition off a bench rest (match grade rifles and ammunition with a machine rest can achieve <0.25 MOA).
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  38.  @MapletreePaper  I would use the local spelling, so "Harbor" for a USN port and "Harbour" for a RN port.
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  39. That was last week's Rum Ration video.
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  40. Prinz Eugen looked good making chocolate confectionaries in Bisoku Zenshin! 😉
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  41.  @arcadiadragon3410  Everyone should like slice of naval life/cute girls doing cute naval things.
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  42. "Misery" is the pronunciation of BB-63's namesake state. 😉
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  43. Do you have someone to translate old Korean historical documents?
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  44. What you are suggesting is not much different from a WW1 monitor.
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  45.  @derekhieb7458  I would have watched the final episode of Love Boat if Kapitänleutnant Walther Schwieger and U-20 made an appearance.
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  46. Will you give up an arm and an eye for the video? 😉
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  47.  @tomriley5790  There was another piece of the Ottoman Empire certain people wanted (and eventually got part of), but that is not discussed in polite company. And of course the guy who rode a Brough Superior motorcycle.
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  48.  @kellyshistory306  It is like real estate development - projects are kept secret until all the land purchase agreements are in place.
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  49.  @lrw3984  Funny (but not ha ha funny) that the UK and France went to war with Germany to allegedly protect Poland, but were fine with the Soviet Union occupying the eastern half of Poland, murdering most of the Polish officer corps and intelligentsia, and otherwise eliminating anyone who could not be brainwashed into supporting Bolshevism.
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  50.  @Uncle_Neil  - Even for some WW2 incidents and later incidents involving WW2 era ships the results of historical research are trumped by, um "other considerations"; therefore, the subjects are best not touched with the lever Archimedes would use to move the planets, much less a clipper ship main mast or a 10-foot barge pole.
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