Comments by "The Zero Line" (@The_ZeroLine) on "Drachinifel" channel.

  1. I’ve noticed a theme among the worst of the worst classes & vessels. They tend to start with K: the K-Class, the USS Katahdin and the glorious Kamchatka
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  2. I had a duel with Drach at 15 paces. It’s why next time you see him on camera, he’ll be wearing a pirate style eyepatch. I wish more SquareSpace ads actually showed actual functionality demos like this.
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  3. Drach is so VIP now and so obviously a massive naval nerd, he’s given inside access ‘round the globe. Man has earned it.
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  4. IMO, “assume if you’ve designed it, anyone else could,” is a sound principle. Speaking of principles, it’s crazy that during this era the US made functional nuclear howtizers, land trains & probably a nuclear powered toothbrush + romance toy too embarrassing to ever be leaked. Oh
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  5.  @mad_max21 lol, you must know absolutely nothing about French or European history in general to make this statement. Basically your thesis = after the FR, the existence of aristocracy was deleted and forever more, the idea of lineage, houses/families with century of wealth and political connections and/or a rarefied social class ceased to exist. Sure..
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  6. This ship is just so well presented. Gives one of the best impressions of what you’d seen at the time of it was operational. It almost seems inappropriate to call it a museum ship.
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  7. I invented the hedgehog while fishing with cousin Merl and my dog Geech. We used a dead hedgehog with dynamite stuck down its throat (it was easier to throw this way) to catch fish. I assume the RN was spying on us and thus a new weapon was born.
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  8.  @derrickstorm6976 I’m sure Rozhestvensky would’ve loved to give one of his classic hateful nicknames to any of the sunken 🇷🇺 BSF vessels had he met their crews. We could’ve gotten a sequel to classics like the “lecherous old wh*r*.” 😂 The Moskova + Makorov both were running at well below advertised performance after all.
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  9. Sunny D: Now in a can! …reformulated with twice the diabetes!
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  10.  @Cybrludite For those extra hard to penetrate doors?
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  11. Even though I wasn’t there I loved picturing that little moment. I bet, even then, he could have fulfilled at least half his functions on the ship if his body was able. If the elderly were recognized for the amazing value they offer, far fewer would get dementia. When your brain idles, it ossifies. My grandfather was a practicing doctor until he was 87 and it was only the cost of malpractice insurance (due solely to his age) that forced him to close his practice. And he never lost his wits.
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  12. What about a Rozhestvensky reference?
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  13. This cracked me up. 🤣 Also, I must be a huge nerd cause, despite being incredibly eclectic in their topics, 85% of the viewers on the videos I watch seem familiar with 40k lore.
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  14.  @gayprepperz6862  ”April 1941 polls showed that 68% of Americans favored war against the Axis powers if that was the only way to defeat them.” - National WW2 Museum. I am aware that in 1940 88% were opposed, but that began changing extremely quickly after France fell and Britain began getting bombed. So rapidly, that American opinion shifted 60% in just months. By December 1, it was more than 70%.
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  15.  @ndenise3460 YT is the worst.
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  16.  @SciFiAddict189 Well, they realized their modules were neither economical, plug and play or good. So, they copied the much, much smarter Danish style of cargo container based modules, which is perfect for VLS.
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  17. lol a classic tale
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  18. Phillip’s dead-of-night solution seemed pretty obvious. I’m surprised that tactic wasn’t part of standard officer training. Anyway, an all-around standup fellow who experienced more by the age of 20 than most people see in a life. I love how the couple seemed to live to keep one another alive and obviously played a factor in how quickly Elizabeth followed him to rest.
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  19. Watching historical content is the only way to stay sane these days.
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  20. I use Drach’s intro to scare away home intruders. Thanks, Drach! You do so much more than just entertaining and educating us!
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  21.  @WilliamRWarrenJr  I had to look that up to confirm and laughed when I saw it was true. lol. Google result says: The name means “trigger fish with a snout like a pig. “ Chose as its state fish in 1984 by a public survey. School children were instrumental in campaigning for the humuhumunukunukuapuaa. Little smartasses. lol
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  22. I forgot I read and commented on this before. For the doubters, there are SOOO many examples of captains thinking they knew better than the pilot and it ending in disaster.
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  23. Even as an American, it’s hard to root for a captain/frigate who, knowing the war was over, went looking for battle just for the sake of glory.
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  24.  @Ekergaard What the hell is a GPS guided grenade? Do you mean a drone carrying a grenade/grenades?
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  25. One of my favorite Crayons. 🖍️
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  26. I still want the Nuclear Land Train back. That thing was actually awesome, except for being totally inferior at its intended job (crossing the Antarctic while hauling + providing living space) compared to the Soviet’s much more effective and practical T34 chassis based RV/Pickup.
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  27.  @Tipman2OOO  The Human Ship Experience needs to be the name of a band.
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  28.  @gayprepperz6862 This is not true. By the day before Pearl Harbor, nearly 75% of the country was in support of joining the war as well as a heavy majority in congress. He WAS worried about the midterms, but he had no reason to let alone an ethical justification for delaying joining.
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  29.  @geeeeeee3  What is the relevancy of your comment to mine?
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  30. Admiral Richard Hammer XII is my personal favorite.
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  31. Ching was, IMO, the greatest admiral in modern history by a massive margin. His brilliance knew no bounds. He improved everything fleet wide he got even close to. A genius I’d be embarrassed to expose my deficiencies to.
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  32.  @paulharrison197 Actually, he’s an electrical engineer with a focus on animatronics.
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  33.  @SciFiAddict189  Railguns would be pointless for what’s around the corner next, which is going to be thousands or even tens of thousand of economical high performance drones used to overwhelm more expensive platforms as well as very, very small drone swarms that operate like a hive mind an appropriate for countless tasks. We’ll need to step up our EWS in the West and significantly improve upon current DEWs (direct energy weapons). For DEWs it’s mostly a matter of finding extremely dense power sources that don’t take up ridiculous amounts of space when it comes to APS type systems for AVs, manned aircraft, etc. I’m sure the Gerald Ford class will have something pretty great with that NPP, which they’ve made a few factors more powerful because they know the carrier’s power demands will rapidly increase for years.
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  34. lol, Cherub. Might as well have named it HMS Pixie. 🧚
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  35.  @jonathantifone8001 😅I still have ‘ol’ Geech in the living room. We use him as a coffee table now.
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  36.  @CryptidRenfri  The SeaBaby has taken out 4-5 Russian ships so far. Less cursed and more still chronically incompetent and undisciplined.
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  37. Averof willed it. And he’s gotten so much bang for his buck. His name will be forever famous now.
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  38. Could the USS Katahadin defeat a K-Class?😉
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  39. Nah, it’s like ALL-BUNNY. I know cause I’m from America and we’re never wrong. And I’ll invade if you say otherwise.
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  40.  @looinrims That’s called hindsight. You’ll be amazed to learn that people cannot base decisions on actions yet to have occurred. And with France’s admiral clearly trending toward actions that would see the demobilization of the fleet put in Axis hands followed by an Admiral refusing to even speak with a Captain, it’s not hard to see why they did what they did. At worst, you could say they made a cold blooded decision. A war crime? Laughable.
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  41.  @gayprepperz6862  “My polls.” lol
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  42.  @gayprepperz6862  93% Yes 7%: the results of a poll from Gallup a week after Germany invaded W. Europe on 5/10/1940. The poll used this question: ”Do you think the United States should declare war on Germany and send our army and navy abroad to fight?”
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  43.  @gayprepperz6862  The question now is can you admit you were wrong about public support for joining the war? I noted that you were right about many still holding isolationist views before WWII began.
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  44. Maybe for a future video. My grandfather served as a doctor on a carrier which sailed along the coast of South America (heard some great stories about 1940s Peru). Did anything interesting ever happen on the Pacific side of SA? Fun fact: he was Jewish and unfortunately for him somehow getting circumcised became all the rage (I’m assuming VD played a part rather than just fascination w/the Jewish practice of circumcision). PS - I don’t know if it was in fact a carrier and it wouldn’t seem like one would be needed. I think as a kid I just immediately imagined a carrier when told the story.
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  45.  @CryptidRenfri  Slava!
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  46.  @billsmith346  Sounds easy. I could whip that up in my shop in a few weeks.
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  47.  @lonnyyoung4285  We overlap in rail + mil history (duh on the latter I guess). Never played, but so many 40k refs led to me learning so much lore I can spell cicatrix maledictum.
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  48. That’s like a Pebble Beach Concours ship. Flawless. I’m assuming the flags were saying Paul Hogan will be fired upon if sighted.
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  49. The idea for depth charges were pioneered by frustrated fishermen. I was there. Me, cousin Merl and our dog Geech (who later got covered in concrete) hadn’t caught a thing. So, we decided to drop a barrel of Acme TNT 🧨 in the pond. When all the fish floated up, a lightbulb went off and we ran off to tell Secretary Stimson.
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  50. The perspective you provided on battle distances / what would enemy ships look like through high powered binoculars was flabbergasting. It totally changed how I think about naval battles.
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  51. WWI Austro-Hungaria might be the most hapless, ill-led military of all time. Conrad Von Hotzendörf had always wanted to guy to war (ironically, it was Archduke Ferdinand always saying no and with him out of the way, he finally could) where he failed to win a single battle and Germany spent the entire war rescuing them.
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  52. He could have accomplished more commanding trawlers assuming the crews were Norwegian fishermen than he could with the Russian navy.
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  53. “French crews unwilling to continue the fight.” Whhaaaaat?! 😱
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  54. I’m going to ignore ships from the major navies such as Japan, Germany, France… ”The second ship on the list is French.” 😂
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  55. It should also be noted that if Norris had paid attention to recent history, he may have been aware that King John I of Castile had failed capture Lisbon with a siege featuring massive siege force and a naval blockade with Lisbon being defended by an absolutely tiny force.
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  56. He ended up being super jealous of Makarov’s fate. ”Why couldn’t I have been decapitated by flying debris?!” he was heard to have said.
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  57.  @SciFiAddict189  You’re right. I am.
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  58.  @SportyMabamba  Soon that will change to them screaming “SeaBabies spotted!” and then shelling Norwegian trawlers off the coast of Jutland.
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  59. I believe its wood construction also massively aided in its low radar returns.
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  60. It’s always hard to tell the navy crewed by mimes apart from the navy with red checker cloth tables across its deck.
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  61. Lieutenant Rasczak should serve as a role model for all liberals or better yet everyone.
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  62. Thank god you were on your toes!
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  63.  @STOPDELETINGMYCOMMENTSFASCISTS  Sorry to hear that. I don’t consider them the “greatest generation” just because of WWII, but because they survived and thrived during such changing times. We should be utilizing seniors who can and want to use their experience to help out. Hell, most would work for free just to help out. Before I got my own trailer, I was paying an 80 year old retired fireman hauling my race car to events. He’s constantly towing race cars and huge trailers around the country and loves it.
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  64.  @hanovergreen4091  Slava Omnissiah & Heroiam Slava!
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  65. Forget all those things. Dude had a massive brain.
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  66.  @larrytischler570  It’s a literal tragedy cause he would have saved lives.
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  67. Woolloongabba is my last name!
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  68. Thank you. I had zero idea how these guns were actually built and assembled prior to this video.
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  69. I thought it’d been more like ten to be honest.
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  70. Can we congratulate OP being the 500th million person to post a “can we…” compliment “question” on YouTube.
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  71. It is very attractive I also find the Georgios Averof extremely stunning. Much better looking than anything produced during WWII, but obviously less intimidating.
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  72. I think I first saw it when I was like 6. Every school takes a field trip to the Museum of Science & Industry. For some reason, as a little kid, I always thought it had been used in the lake (Lake Michigan).
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  73. Ching Lee would have never let those torpedoes slip through. I bet it would literally take him 5 mins to fix them.
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  74. I’d rather defect than command this “fleet”
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  75.  @jlvfr  BONUS and EXCALIBUR are $100,000. Not a million.
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  76.  @hanzzel6086  I am aware drones are playing the most important role on the battlefield in basically almost every area (ISR, armor attacks, infantry suppression, dropping mines behind enemy lines, at critical junctions, etc., ABDA, artillery correction, etc. It’s still different than what I’m talking about. Consider the fact this is the first war we’ve drones used at this scale and in this many roles. So, we’re still in the infancy of drones.
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  77.  @sarp688 We should pay reparations to England IMO. No excuse for ruined tea or all the broken monocles of gentleman who read about it in the newspaper.
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  78.  @John.0z  Oh, I just glanced and responded. Reread and realize you’re talking about David Hahn. That was fairly recently. Early 90s. I remember watching a great documentary about that.
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  79. Either way, I hate when everything started getting safe and no fun. You used to be able to actual cool stuff, do dangerous things at amusement parks, etc. Life is so sanitized now, especially for kids.
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  80. “7 Frigates” is even better.
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  81. There’s a Forces article entitled “From HMS Cockchafer to HMS Pansy: Why would you call a ship that?!” For all of his accomplishments, Winston Churchill was perhaps not best known for his judgement in the naming of ships, having once been adamant that HMS Pitt would be a fitting title for a battleship. HMS Cherub definitely makes the list.
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  82. This battle, while like all battles being horrific, is also very comedic.
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  83. Such a gorgeous ship if you see the full modern documentary or visit it in person. It looks like it’s fresh from the shipyard. While it has rich woods and copper everywhere, it still actually look fairly modern.
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  84. Must people never even consider moving water could be just like one, big and powerful sanding belt that never stopped.
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  85. The Amity looks absolutely tiny. I can’t imagine crossing the abyss in that thing.
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  86. The opening does have oddly romantic vibes. lol
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  87. Activities like that and many others mentioned in comments are far more effective in generating recruits for the armed services than TV ads. A few of the branches are finally relearning this.
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  88. 😂 Browsing the comments as I listen to this episode for like the 20th time.
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  89.  @anthonydolan3740 🎶 Kongo, Key Largo, Kanji, oh Yamamoto’s where I want to go. 🎶
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  90. I’ve replayed this episode so many times. It will forever be my favorite.
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  91. You’re agitating alright.
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  92.  @josephvarno5623  I was kidding. It wasn’t meant to be an insult. Breath in and out and relax.
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  93. Your first pronunciation was no doubt correct, but you’re right that in America the second pronunciation you gave is how 99% of Americans say it. There are many towns here named Decatur.
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  94. That’d have been sweet. Better than the flower class.
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  95. God, that paint job is really sexy.
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  96. Are there any other stories of birds blocking periscopes? That’s absolutely hilarious.
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  97. The Walter Cronkite story is too cool.
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  98. Thank you for your tour guide.
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  99. Is it me or did they make legionary Quintus look extremely simian? It almost seems intentional.
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  100. No. It was a breeze.
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  101. How many sailors joined the navy after misunderstanding what “the engine rooms have full time blowers” meant?
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  102. Did you know these had a range of 15,000 nautical miles? It’s how they were able to prowl the North Sea and the fjords around Norway.
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  103. Unexpected heart attack?! Not unexpected at all. 😂
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  104. Many of the “greatest generals” of the Middle Ages were just dudes who didn’t do incredibly stupid things like Norris.
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  105.  @speed150mph To be fair, most cornered armies and navies fight bravely to the death. Probably has something to do with fighting for the man next to them.
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  106.  @welbhloud It will glow blue anytime the RN is near if it’s real.
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  107. For an animatronics engineer, Drach sure knows his ships. Anyway, I am amazed at how strictly the US Navy followed the treaty rules.
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  108. As a Naval Academy professor at Annapolis, I always enjoyed teaching this one. I make my aspiring officers make little models and reenact the events.
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  109.  @CryptidRenfri  SPGs as well as far more advanced self-propelled missiles (ATGM, MANPADS) do not use GPS. So, I have no idea what he’s talking about. Maybe he’s thinking of EXCALIBUR.
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  110.  @Fulcrum205  I never said it was and I never said there weren’t other guidance systems. There’s a huge array of targeting and guidance options and multiple working in tandem is typically the best. Cutting off GPS signal to dinky little drones won’t work for long. Ukraine has already introduced an AI to finish the mission when signal is lost either due to losing line of sight signal in the last 10-15 feet or jamming.
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  111.  @fabianzimmermann5495  Wasn’t the ship absolutely gorgeous. Did you get to see the captain’s bathroom. Such a cool little detail.
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  112.  @looinrims Logic is not your strong point is it? That makes your initial reply even more ironic.
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  113. 17,800 pilots! Wow. Despite growing up in Chicago and gramps being in the Navy, I never once heard about this training operation or that we had hundreds of WWII aircraft on the lake bed.
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  114.  @RCAvhstape So fun
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  115. Dom Antonio: Portugal’s first openly flamboyant potential heir.
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  116.  @Fulcrum205  Our laser tech isn’t there yet. And what about on a cloudy day? Lasers become so diffused they’re useless. You haven’t thought this through.
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  117. Lmao
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  118. ps - who’s greyfawkes0?
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  119. Ching Lee was better than both and most have never heard of him.
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  120.  @charleskocun6754 We’ve already produced nearly 1,500 F-35s alone. So, yeah, we’ve got a lot of planes. More importantly, you could achieve more for 100x less money than what you’d achieve w/the big guns of the Missouri. Hell, Ukraine has destroyed Russia’s entire Black Sea fleet with nothing but jet ski powered drones. Don’t get me wrong. You could still achieve a lot with a ship like the USS Missouri even without a refit, but the $ per result would be absurd. I’d still love to see one in the Navy just for the sheer glory of being able to see the beautiful beast in real life.
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  121.  @grahamstrouse1165  Shorter than 25-40km?
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  122.  @44R0Ndin  haha love it
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  123.  @John.0z  Yeah. There are still some brave and brutal sports out there and the Red Bull mountain bikers do stuff that’s frightening even for the viewer. One of the few real throwbacks is the Isle of Man TT. But there used to be 1,000x more racing because you couldn’t be kicked off the track because people decided to build homes right next to your track and then complained about noise, there used to be theme parks that could kill, but were 100x more fun, you could test inventions without a thousand permits and best of all toys that could maim you for life with fun stuff like uranium.
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  124. It’s called a sacrifice to the algorithm. Get it right.
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  125.  @michaelholt8590 The flower class was just a bad idea. It’s crazy they had a ship named HMS pansy because I was going to joke they might have well named it HMS Pansy. Didn’t know there had actually been one named Pansy.
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  126. I wrote Knight’s Seamanship! My family has always been blessed with supernaturally long lifespans. Ching Lee was one of my favorite students.
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  127. Those scars are from a Van Damme training montage actually.
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  128.  @AlertConsument-py6te I’ll add that the Dutch and English were much more often allies than enemies.
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  129. Why do they use those beautiful copper torpedo drums? Is it because they’re non-magnetic?
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  130. I can’t believe all ships were ordered to leave and none to look for survivors. Seems pretty unforgivable.
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  131. Not quite. Guy was a bit of a git too.
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  132. God, these long videos are great. You also have been lucky to have a good voice for long form discussion/narration.
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  133.  @RobinTheBot This guy, right?
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  134. I love the fact that USN would rather see the RN win than the US Army. Sounds positively Japanese. BTW, Lee has got to be the most brilliant Admiral in modern history by a long stretch. I’d feel invulnerable being on his ship.
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  135.  @keithskelhorne3993  His character wasn’t right wing. The overall fascistic system of the government was though. Also, I am a liberal.
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  136. Imagine what Walker would say now if he were alive to see the timidity of Western powers in the face of bellicose enemies.
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  137.  @colindunnigan8621 Box Girder bridge videos! Where do I sign up?!
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  138. Hey, Dracula. How did you get into naval history in the first place? Also, does your wife tolerate your all-Naval themed trips?
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  139.  @gibbousmoon35  It’s all I feed my dogs.
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  140.  @sillypuppy5940 ”Killer Ourselves Class?”
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  141. Economic bubbles based pretty much on nothing are still a pretty big fad.
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  142. I once saw hailstones as big as oranges, but they hadn’t got rock hard yet so they were less likely to kill and break things.
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  143. It’s sad how fast big dogs break at the end. RE: The Funeral - I’m a bit of an emotionless robot, but every loss of a pet leaves me broken for weeks.
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  144. The political cartoons of the era are so fantastic.
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  145. These days the lesson would encourage you to surrender and apologize. Actually, that’s unrealistic. Surrendering would require still having/paying for a navy.
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  146. I have privilege drive truk twice too. Better much than my mule.
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  147. Is there anything to talk about RE: the waters around S. America during WWII? I know we (the USN) had at least some ships on its Atlantic + Pacific coasts.
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  148. I captained a paddle carrier. We had a fierce looking ducky as the figurehead. My hometown, I mean my base, is shown on the map at about 17:10. My grandfather served as a doctor on a carrier and was lucky to be located off the coast of Peru . The lake is intense in the winter.
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  149. What an awesome project by Sweden.
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  150. I was that injured sailor. Saved my life. They were just passed it off as a game to keep the kids calm.
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  151. Are you saying Cheaty Era or are you North Korea?
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  152.  @babomb2146 And the Russians are doing it again!
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  153.  @mostevil1082 lol@“Not much younger mind you. Perhaps a couple years older.”
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  154. Since I speak American, I couldn’t understand anything you said about the Galena past the point you pronounced her Gelayna.
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  155. Hey, don’t underestimate the Algerian navy!
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  156. I much prefer “and was sunk with all hands lost.”
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  157. I much prefer “And she was sunk with all hands lost.”
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  158.  @bkjeong4302 Can’t forget the parrot!🦜 Legend has it, it would continuously say “torpedo boats! surrounded by torpedo boats!”
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  159. I agree.
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  160. Americans think sardines only come in little tins. They’re not aware they can be cooked and served like any other fish. Fresh.
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  161. The Monitor looks so modern to me.
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  162.  @josephvarno5623  Fair enough.
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  163. YouTube has been doing really weird things lately with notifications.
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  164.  @MarcusAgrippa390  Are you kidding? Drach is always ranting about how tumblehomes are one of the most underrated designs ever!
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  165. Norwegian torpedo trawlers to port! Your other port! 🫱 👓 💦
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  166. This is probably has been said by dudes in every military ever since the first sling was used.
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  167. I delivered Gregg when he was born. Very proud to see how far he’s come.
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  168. I am so pumped for you getting in ancient naval warfare.
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  169. 38:14 - Drach’s cat disagreed with his analysis.
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  170. Why did they make poor Quintus look like a macaque?
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  171. You’re quite a bit larger than the average Roman soldier would have been at the time. That’s why the scutum looks so small for you. Did they have any signaculum (legionary / marine dog tags)?
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  172.  @richardcowling7381 I know I knew this at one point (my brain is out of storage), but why the hell did the Mk14 ever get through QA, take so long to be completely removed from service, etc. I think I watched a video from Drach or someone else and the bureau of ordnance or someone was just like “we don’t believe you” and the brass wasn’t listening or pushing hard enough. That combined with the these things take time even if they are trying well obviously.
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  173. Did Black Prince have tongue and groove armor or just Warrior?
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  174. Topp was my great-grandfather. We’re connected by so much history.
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  175. Ching Lee’s was the best of these pocket bios. Man was also a singular genius. It’s too bad he wasn’t the USN’s top dog during WWII.
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  176.  @b.thomas8926 I can think of a certain president who’d call someone who sacrificed their life to save their brothers-in-arms “a sucker.” We’ve got some great leaders of men these days…
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  177. Can we please get a Drach account and analysis of the Russian BSF’s inspiring performance in 2/24/22?!
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  178. Have you read The North Water by Ian McGuire?
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  179.  @CAP198462 Drach bans for 40k references. So, be careful.
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  180.  @smokerjim Even in popsicle stick boat regattas?
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  181.  @saab9251  lmao
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  182. Yeah. I feel like being thanked for civilian service more often. Honestly, “thank you for your service” is the most cringe 💩 ever.
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  183.  @averagejoe112 That sounds like grounds for a fight to me. (The noisy hentai guy). I like how your story marks you as a very recent submariner.
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  184.  @Falkirion Well averagejoe112 literally had some stories about “seamen” to tell. The proper spelling would likely be blocked.
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  185. So, it was the Romans who invented googly eyes?!
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  186. It’s funny no matter how much things change, how much they remain the same: soldiers following friends into the service, soldiers buying their own equipment and upgrades, soldiers joining the service because their families thought they were turning into bums. lol
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  187.  @Based_Lord_Humongous Not just technically…
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  188.  @1949crewchief Actually, it’s a job where people only tend to notice when you get it wrong. Meteorologists are overwhelmingly accurate. Also, you’ll notice they assign % to forecasts because they know less likely factors can rapidly alter the weather.
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  189.  @aureaphilos It’d be pretty scary to get on that open top deck with even slight weather.
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  190. No one releases as steady a stream of top rate content as Drach.
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  191. That’s what’s possible when you know most of this stuff without having to research answers for each question.
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  192. The nuclear tipped cruise missiles were thought to be unworkable. Just a violation of the INF Treaty.
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  193.  @xtbum3339 lmao, more like 10-15% survived.
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  194. We have plenty of ways to provide fire support. It’s usually a matter of politics what kind, if any, and how much fire support you get, which will vary by location and mission type.
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  195. The best kind of crazy. Putin cited this incident to prove his claim Poland started WWII.
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  196. Slow and unreliable communications and the vagaries of weather could render a flawless plan into a disaster at the drop of a hat.
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  197.  @mikolajgrotowski I’m going to share a secret with you, 58% of Polish words mean lightning. With a last name ending in -ski, I’m guessing you’re unaware.
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  198. It’s weird how this series begins w/what at first seems to be an ad for Cialis. I almost expected to see his and her tub bath tubs floating at sea with tiny canons on each side.
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  199. I can’t imagine sleeping underwater in the pitch black deep knowing at anytime some disaster could crush us. I also couldn’t imagine making food for 40 men in that phone booth sized kitchen.
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  200. As enjoyable as the Kamchatka?
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  201. I’d love to hear a dry humor Drach’s account of the Russian BSF’s performance since 2/24/22 and any other related or just other thoughts on the subject.
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  202. You calling our flag old, sir?!
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  203. Finally we have an answer for the hatred between the IJN and IJA.
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  204. Cause someone realized you could steal rum via a hypodermic needle type thingy.
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  205.  @philiproach2537 A fan of The North Water?
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  206. Do you ever have dreams you’re on ships or subs since you spend so much time studying, looking at and talking about naval matters?
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  207. Show me your bows!
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  208. lol great comment and profile pic And this is literally the tactic I’d employ in real life if an enemy aircraft was flying overhead.
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  209. With the PRC building invasion barges, we may have some much more current naval history to be reading and watching.
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  210.  @michaelsoland3293 My comments get auto deleted for the most innocuous terms. You’re one lucky man. I get that’s what happens tankies and vatniks mass flag oneself.
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  211.  @dirtdiggity1714  I’d like to place a procurement order for 50 of said giant tablets. Can I manufacture them under license?
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  212. She is not radioactive. The US got her via picking her name out of a hat. Literally. Neither the Brits or the US wanted her, but they didn’t want the Soviets to have her. The US Navy got attached to her after seeing it barely get any despite being within a 1,000 yards of two nuclear blasts while dozens of other ships sunk immediately.
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  213. I loved how one was hanging out on the lookout right when he said one would be on the lookout.
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  214.  @marckyle5895 That’d be an amazing trophy. I’d want to do something incredibly stupid to win it.
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  215. Lmao
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  216.  @timhayes9015 Which side had Gerry/Gary and which side had Tom?
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  217. I wish it still that round lattice masts that I used to think were antennas. lol
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  218. The only person who knows more about naval history than Drach is Tusli Gabbard. Facts!
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  219. I love the paint job too. It’s fantastic.
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  220. I can’t help but route for the protagonist of the video even in this case despite it being the Third Reich and myself being Jewish. lol edit: The story of Vider sort of changed my mind.
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  221. That was amazing! Thank you, USS Constitution crew and Drach! ❤
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  222. Would you say you’re made of sterner stuff, Drachula?
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  223. Spain should have accepted all the ill omens they were being given and called off the entire invasion plan. Edit: I see even Media Sedonia came to this conclusion. 31:46
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  224. Lot of subtle 40K refs slipping through here, Commisar Drach.
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  225.  @mahbriggs If we stopped the idiotic policy of strategic ambiguity and just stationed forces there, we would need to spend trillions more on NGAD, extra carriers, logistics (I.E., tanker fleet, scattered island bases, etc.).
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  226. @ thought I was responding to a different video/it was also about naval matters. Only current. That’s why I deleted it.
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  227. There was massive demand for an episode on the sub Perla. Whatever happened with that?
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  228. Question: what was the average number of prostitutes 18th century British sailors went through per annum?
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  229.  @mikhailiagacesa3406  I feel like there would be the most data about it. Besides the French don’t count.
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  230.  @ROBERTN-ut2il  yeah, my great great great grandmother was a tavern slavern
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  231.  @myparceltape1169  Satisfactory for me or them? 😘
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  232. I’m assuming those masts and sprits can’t possibly be made of a single tree? Banding together different pieces of wood kind of like cannon barrel?
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  233. Remember when dislikes existed?
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  234. Naval ship class designations have always been highly confusing to me. Simply because, for some reason, I can never keep the classes straight.
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  235. My son doesn’t get his supper until he’s watched a Drach video. His dessert? Another Drach video.
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  236. Wow, this episode was fantastic and, as usual, pretty hilarious too. BTW, I hate it when my enemies laugh in British from their bridge.
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  237. Pantaloons. More like pantaballoons.
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  238.  @markrobinson9956 This isn’t relegated to just government agencies at all. Leadership high and low + rank-and-file never like admitting they messed up.
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  239. You wouldn’t starve. You’d have an appetite for anything after all that hard work.
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  240. That’s a really good quote and a succinct way of saying it’s not the people, it’s the system, which is most often the truth.
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  241. It’s so sad he didn’t get a chance to participate in more battles because he far and away the best battleship commander ever and IMO, the best admiral of the modern age and I think he would have been the best in any era. Guy was a genius.
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  242. This guy looks remarkably good for having been in WWII. Having been 17, he must be at least 97 or 98.
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  243. The great ink debate of 2024!
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  244. A range of 8,000 nautical miles for that tiny boat might be the craziest thing I’ve ever heard. It’s also crazy they didn’t have any crew members of Asian descent as their appearance wouldn’t fool anyone.
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  245. Michael Holton FTW!
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  246.  @atomic_wait  I think it’s a badass name. I’d literally pick to serve on that.
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  247.  @GuardianViolet  that is actually very interesting. Where did you learn that?
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  248.  @atomic_wait  Much less cool. : (
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  249. God, what terribly names for that fleet of corvettes. Some leader should think that men want aggressive, cool sounding names even if it shouldn’t matter.
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  250. It’s like the Navy thought technology would stand still when coming up with this design. You know a design is whacky when you can’t even tell which ends are the bow and stern.
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  251. Poor Nichols must have been terrified of cameras.
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  252. Ching Lee would have ran circles around Spruance and any other admirals/COs of the time. It’s a crying shame he didn’t have Halsey’s or Nimitz’s job.
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  253. This is why I’m listening to this episode right now for the 50th or 60th time.
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  254. My blue water naval fleet consists of a single XL bucket 🪣. My IQ must be 200+. BTW, I’d never trust anyone named Plumridge.
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  255.  @justinokraski3796  lol. Ironically, they were given every last page of our atomic weapons design by two spies. They had to do almost zero R&D. Just infrastructure and assembly.
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  256. Is there anything to talk about RE: the waters around S. America during WWII? I know we (the USN) had at least some ships on its Atlantic + Pacific coasts.
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  257.  @AWMJoeyjoejoe There are more than enough cool or intimidating moves, but this was a different time. It was such a rougher time, but unlike today, they didn’t seem overly concerned with coming up with cool names. lol
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  258. There’s a Forces article entitled “From HMS Cockchafer to HMS Pansy: Why would you call a ship that?!” For all of his accomplishments, Winston Churchill was perhaps not best known for his judgement in the naming of ships, having once been adamant that HMS Pitt would be a fitting title for a battleship. HMS Cherub definitely makes the list.
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  259.  @kyleheins Now reading a book is a sign you’re a lib and need to be “owned.”
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  260. Lee is the type of mind that would have excelled equally as a general, an aerospace leader or in just about any capacity. A singularly brilliant polymath with the even rarer qualities of common sense and knowing how to circumvent red tape.
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  261. Ching Lee wouldn’t have made any of Scott’s mistakes. The gap between the two is like Michael Jordan against a junior high school bench warmer. I doubt Lee’s fleet would have had any of the other poor traits such as basically not communicating anything and poor radar interpretation skills.
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  262. I’d like to see a documentary about someone exploiting its range of 8,000 nautical miles. That seems like an impossible range for a boat that small.
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  263.  @AlertConsument-py6te It was so glorious even Rik Smits tells his children the story every Christmas and on December 16th too.
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  264. In the Navy!
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  265. Have there ever been twins that were both captains?
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  266.  @johnphillips519  The emperor was not in charge of any military planning. In fact, he was bullied into the war in the first place. That question “what of the navy” was probably just an idle question he thought mad sense to ask.
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  267.  @MrEnvirocat  That’s called a geech.
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  268.  @graciekun738  Fish Grudge IV is my favorite super smash box office hit.
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  269. Had to pause the Phillip episode to watch this. While Able Seacat Simon is still the most heroic of RN animals, Nuisance is just fantastic. Animals, but especially dogs, really do help boost quality of life.
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  270. I had the most romantic evening with my wife as I put the first ten seconds of your video on a loop for two hours.
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  271.  @ebenezer1690 Thank you for comment.
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  272. What does the XP stand for? I assumed he meant that that plan would turn the Hippa into a piñata.
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  273.  @chadcuckproducer1037 lol tiny robots
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  274.  @simonoconnor7759 Jurgen, drive me away! I don’t want to hit them with my sword!
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  275. Think about how many torpedo boats must have been in the Arctic.
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  276. Truer words have never been uttered.
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  277. There’s something so hilarious to me about instances where one side tries to lure the enemy fleet out of port to bring them to battle and the enemy wants a fight but simply fails to realize you were there in time to come out for a battle both wanted.
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  278. Professionals argue on YouTube.
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  279. lol, did he respond to any of that?
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  280. Actually, I’ll be moderating.
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  281.  @yourstruly4817 Nikki Lauda?
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  282. I know it’s not something you do, be it’d be fun if you did a guide to still in service CVN models (68+).
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  283. For me, Bruno Bianco was the highlight of the story. BTW, the story two of the Italian submariners who survived trapped in their sub 20+ hours only to die when surfacing because they failed to breath out was so sad.
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  284.  @MagnoliaNox Michael Jordan tried this line on me. But I put in a couple hours practice each day and have been dunking on him ever since. Also, my fade away is unstoppable!
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  285. There’s a drunken three-badged seaman about to hit you.
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  286. One of the few topics that can provoke typically quiet and polite naval historians into fist fights.
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  287.  @mrbloodmuffins  Says you.
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  288. The Marquis of Santa Cruz was such a slick looking bastard. You can tell his armor is state of the art too. 7:03
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  289. Very cool.
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  290. I’m surprised more navies didn’t use tactics like this or what Germany did with SMS Seeadler and its WWI and WWII merchant raiders, which proved so successful at basically zero cost.
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  291. Huzzah did a pretty gallant job. This is one of my favorite against all odds last stands with tugs, minesweepers and the protagonist missing 50% of its deck.
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  292. I wonder if someone tried poking a hand in there once when it got jammed. A very smart someone.
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  293. When a ship hits an errant / leftover mine, is there any way to determine who the mine originally belonged to? (beside there being other mines in the area to basically give them a strong idea)
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  294. Also, will you charter a destroyer to celebrate your 500,000th subscriber?
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  295. Amazing how long she stayed in service. Nice. I love how many different generations of armament and electronic technology she saw.
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  296. One of my favorite ever Drach ship stories. I’m surprised more navies didn’t attempt tactics like this.
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  297. Ah, back in the day when there were enough active monarchies that having a title might, just might lead to you becoming a king.
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  298. I think they just bored them out using a hand drill.
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  299. If you considered highly educated Americans with very progressive policies the most American American to ever American then yes.
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  300. Fraulein Drach?
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  301. ”But in Russia they had some unique issues…as they usually do.” 😂
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  302.  @ipsoepsum6880 Wah. Wah. I’ll excuse the moral failings of my ancestors by pointing out moral failings of your ancestors. That’s a new one.
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  303. Why do people call me Admiral Ironsides?
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  304. Jesus, I forgot that that made. I mean, is there anymore proof the greatest generation were just grown up kids designing evil toys lol. They really needed Admiral Ching Lee around. He wouldn’t have allowed this nonsense.
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  305. Is it me or is the name Glowworm really cool? For me, it’d create a sense of dread if it were the name of the enemy ship.
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  306. That was me. They call me Captain Greenland, although I used to go by another name.
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  307. Seeing old school wooden ship wheels on a torpedo is insanely comical.
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  308. I taught @SewingandSnakes that fact. Also taught them about 🐍 and how to 🪡
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  309. Shocking you didn’t cover the US’ Liberty Ships. lol😂
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  310.  @rolandmiller5456 Admiral Spirits?
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  311. Who monitored allied and enemy ships being constructed in order to file complaints if they were violating the treaty?
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  312.  @ghandimauler It’s true. My mom was the CEO of a large multinational and when we visited American offices we got no special treatment. However, when we accompanied her to Lisbon for a “Global Managers Meeting,” a limo arrived on the runway and we were disembarked before anyone else (awkward) and driven off to some private lounge where we basically skipped immigration and after our luggage was collected we were accompanied by a motorcycle cop with his siren on allowing us to pass all traffic! It was crazy. Also, my mom’s secretary talked about when he worked for a couple months in Europe (after she retired), when they found out he had been her personal secretary they were amazed and asked tons of questions. Anyone in a US office couldn’t care less.
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  313. Did both Black Prince and Warrior have tongue and groove armor or just Warrior?
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  314. I met Drachinfel and he struck my wife. So, yeah, don’t meet your heroes. Anyhoo, in the engine room, does “Langs Fahrt,” mean long fart?
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  315. Imagine if POTUS had been among the KIA from the accident. The entire history of the navy could have been altered.
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  316. Doubt it.
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  317. Maybe these could have performed impressively had they ever seen action.
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  318. I keep picturing disembodied arms racing each other by hopping along on their palms.
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  319.  @emjackson2289 lol, great Simpsons episode.
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  320.  @Ricky40369 I bet you’re a fun guy.
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  321. It provides dakka.
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  322. He also mentioned “heretical blue.”
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  323. That was my first thought. lol
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  324. Why is every history video on YouTube exclusively compared to History Channel? They haven’t been relevant or big for a decade-plus. YT history fans need a new whipping boy.
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  325. I’d love to have a follow up episode.
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  326.  @jamespocelinko104 great comment. I feel like going back to high school, just so I can submit this paper.
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  327. 💥 💥 💥 💥💥 You’re a content production powerhouse. 💥 💥 💥 💥💥
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  328. I really appreciate how you approach accepting sponsors.
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  329. Did the previous HMS Victory use bronze guns on the lowest decks because they’d be more subject to salt water wear?
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  330.  @RichardFraser-y9t See Gerald Bull.
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  331. Hear! Hear!
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  332. Knowing what the future held for warfare, the War of 1812 seems like a quaint pleasure cruise. Anyway, I like to imagine what these men would do if an Iowa class ship suddenly teleported into their midst.
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  333. Kamchatka! That’s the equivalent of m-effer word in my house.
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  334. Kamchatka!
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  335. That’s because the British are still using it as their lead carrier.
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  336.  @brianreddeman951 At the time, it would have had to have been a painstakingly done painting.
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  337. I want to hear YOUR story, kpdubbs7117.
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  338.  @stanislavkostarnov2157 And has since been sunk. lol
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  339. @ lol, I was substituting another flagship for it. But yeah. Where will the rat run when his ship finally sinks?
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  340. I like that it’s in perfect condition. Gives a much closer idea of what it’d actually look like at the time. It’s wild how that ship just keeps going down and down and down.
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  341.  @stevenlowe3026  They’re grrrrreat! 🐅 Hell, people did these voyages on little more than rafts at some points. Most never made it.
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  342. That’s why I clicked. I was like a comet strike?! I was thinking that’s a one in a hundred billion chance!
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  343.  @holajza  The Titanic, fella. It wasn’t an iceberg. It was a huge frozen space rock!
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  344.  @handal0 Make it a hoodie with the back showing him hit the water.
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