Comments by "Rob Fraser" (@krashd) on "1 US Sub Sinks a Japanese Supercarrier - Sinking of Shinano Documentary" video.

  1.  @MrNicoJac  The Knock Nevis aka Seawise Giant, the largest ship ever built was sunk by Iraqi jets as it left Iran, it had a displacement of around 650,000 tonnes when fully loaded so think of it as 6 and a half Nimitz or Ford class aircraft carriers tied together.
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  2. You can clearly hear that he was talking about the then present.
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  3. Hedgehogs were the best.
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  4. She had a flat top, a tower and a hangar deck, that was all she needed in WW2 to be used as a CV considering just about every WW2 navy had at least one CV-conversion from a BB or CC hull already. Even Germany I believe, though it was only 85% finished at war's end.
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  5. No, they just have to stay aboard until it is 100% certain there is nothing they can do to stop the flooding, which would likely lead to huge loss of life so a captain who loves his crew will dismiss them rather than ordering them to fix a ship that is hopeless.
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  6.  @sirboomsalot4902  Any radio can detect a radar so if there was a radio on Shinano they knew they were being tracked.
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  7. Not by the current definition that Shinano is being attributed to but every new class of carrier that became the largest in the world was referred to as a supercarrier, starting with the Ark Royal in 1938.
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  8. A carrier over 65,000 tonnes fulfilling the definition of the word?
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  9. And the 30's, though Shinano fits the current definition of anything above 65,000t. But every new class of carrier was a supercarrier if it was the biggest on the planet though it never really became an official thing until the Forrestal class in the 1960's when the phrase was used regularly to describe them and it stuck in the public lexicon. The first supercarrier was 1938's HMS Ark Royal at 22,000t where the phrase was used for the first time by the New York Times when she sailed into New York.
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  10. You do know how a radio works, yeah?
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  11. At 5,000 tonnes heavier than the two we just built I'd be careful what I laugh at. The Japanese of today probably think it's cute that we built smaller carriers in 2015 than they managed to build in 1944.
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  12. Yep, Shinano actually displaced more water than either of our new QE-class carriers in the UK by 5,000 tonnes. That's a whole attack sub.
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  13. You can hear radar, you just need a radio or anything else that picks up EM.
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  14. Well obviously.
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  15. What did the two that missed the Shinano hit?
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  16.  @kristoffermangila  The larger your target the more likely you are to hit it.
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  17. Actually it started with the 22,000t Ark Royal in 1938 and was then attributed to every new, bigger class since then. Though the current, seemingly final definition is anything over 65,000t and that would put Shinano in there.
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  18.  @hhjhj393  4chan and other 'clicks' like that are full of degenerates, if someone on 4chan laughed at me I think the irony would actually brighten my mood.
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