Comments by "WALTERBROADDUS" (@WALTERBROADDUS) on "The Drydock - Episode 201" video.

@davidharner5865 Navsea Dahlgren has a example of 19 inch armor. "Armor plates of various strengths, thicknesses, and compositions have been tested here over the years to determine how they perform when struck by various types of ordnance. Plates are also used to develop, test, and prove weapons designed to defeat such protection. The 19-inch armor plate on display by A Gate is a sample of one manufactured for the battleship USS Alabama (BB-60) and was part of a test on May 7, 1945. Armor plate such as this was developed to shield the front of the battleship’s 16-inch, 45-caliber gun turrets."
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@jmearnosell8414 that's sort of the complicated question. Do you mean politically , militarily or economically? What benchmark are you going to judge? We could very well just say , whatever made Stalin happy?
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