Comments by "WALTERBROADDUS" (@WALTERBROADDUS) on "USS Sangamon - Guide 279" video.

  1.  @marvinthemartian9584  if you look on YouTube there's entire videos on this subject. Short answer? Poor performance versus other aircraft. Handling issues. The ability of other aircraft to deliver ordinance. In general, Curtiss-Wright made a lot of crap.
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  2. Think of it as a Band-Aid approach. Short-term fix to a long-term problem. Having support Oilers is always a problem.
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  3. Actually the term would be oiler. Tankers transport oil. Oilers are used for refueling.
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  4. Actually, the Navy is planning on replacements for the two hospital ships. There's a question about design. Cruise ships in general are not optimum. You need a design with flight deck access for medivac helicopters as well as logistic delivery.
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  5. We have a little bit of our own submarine problem up on Lake Erie. The museum Destroyer USS The Sullivans is sinking at her mooring in Buffalo.
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  6.  @dewetmaartens359  right now? She's sitting on a list of like 10 degrees at her Mooring. Are attempting to pump her out And send divers. You tube has some news video.
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  7. His channel sticks to pre Cold War.
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  8. I think they needed fuel more than they needed Fighters?
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  9.  @Paludion  not to nitpick, but I believe there's a difference between an oiler and a tanker? Oilers are used for refueling.
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  10.  @thehandoftheking3314  it depends if your priority is air traffic control or ship handling? The rear position of the island is better at air traffic control.
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  11.  @AdmiralWillisLee1942  it would have not made a difference. You don't have the pilots or the aircraft.
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  12.  @stevevalley7835  for the amount of work you're going to have to do to make this even worthwhile; you can just build another Ranger.
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  13.  @bkjeong4302  not to mention the steel embargo.
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  14. I hate to fall back on the tired and overuse speech of Eisenhower. But, the old man had a point.
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  15. The Izumo Class of the Japanese Naval self-defense Force is an example.
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  16. 🙄🏆enjoy
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  17.  @gregorywright4918  bad Moskva joke....
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  18.  @winstonviceroy6125  what they really need, is for Charlton Heston to comeback and do his Moses thing on Lake Erie! 🙄
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  19.  @triggerfingerstudios  there is already been a video on the class in general. It's kind of a stretch to do every one of the class.
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  20.  @stevevalley7835  conversions of battleships never really work well. PLus they only make 21 knots. And have little Space for fuel....
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  21.  @stevevalley7835  but you already have too many compartments and machinery spaces to make it worthwhile. And are you really making enough wind over the deck at 21 knots to take off an airplane that is loaded?
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  22.  @dennisadams_dendad  Highly doubtful. Most conversations are were of non complete ships. That is a lot time and effort better spent on building from scratch.
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  23. This channel doesn't cover modern stuff.
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  24.  @adam_mawz_maas  you might actually have a good point scenes how we're talkin about converted Merchant design bye. Looking at the Atlantic Conveyor, it was a very odd hybrid of container and ro ro...
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  25.  @gregorywright4918  of course, today most of those ships do not fly the US flag Now.
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  26.  @lanse77lithgow  I know that. but the conversation sacrificed fuel cargo.
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  27. I don't think any made it into into service by August of 45.
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