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. Sunny D: Now in a can! …reformulated with twice the diabetes!
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  9.  @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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  10. 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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  11.  @Cybrludite For those extra hard to penetrate doors?
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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. lol a classic tale
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  17. 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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  18. Watching historical content is the only way to stay sane these days.
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  19. 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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  20.  @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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  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. 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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  39.  @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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  40.  @gayprepperz6862  “My polls.” lol
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  41.  @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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  42.  @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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  43. 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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  44.  @CryptidRenfri  Slava!
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  45.  @billsmith346  Sounds easy. I could whip that up in my shop in a few weeks.
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  46.  @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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  47. Could the USS Katahadin defeat a K-Class?😉
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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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