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

  1. How many sailors joined the navy after misunderstanding what “the engine rooms have full time blowers” meant?
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  2. 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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  3. Unexpected heart attack?! Not unexpected at all. 😂
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  4. 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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  5.  @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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  6.  @welbhloud It will glow blue anytime the RN is near if it’s real.
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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9.  @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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  10.  @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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  11.  @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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  12.  @looinrims Logic is not your strong point is it? That makes your initial reply even more ironic.
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  13. 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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  14.  @RCAvhstape So fun
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  15. Dom Antonio: Portugal’s first openly flamboyant potential heir.
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  16.  @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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  17. Lmao
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  18. ps - who’s greyfawkes0?
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  19. Ching Lee was better than both and most have never heard of him.
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  20.  @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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  21.  @grahamstrouse1165  Shorter than 25-40km?
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  22.  @44R0Ndin  haha love it
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  23.  @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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  24. It’s called a sacrifice to the algorithm. Get it right.
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  25.  @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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  26. 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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  27. Those scars are from a Van Damme training montage actually.
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  28.  @AlertConsument-py6te I’ll add that the Dutch and English were much more often allies than enemies.
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  29. Why do they use those beautiful copper torpedo drums? Is it because they’re non-magnetic?
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  30. I can’t believe all ships were ordered to leave and none to look for survivors. Seems pretty unforgivable.
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  31. Not quite. Guy was a bit of a git too.
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  32. 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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  33.  @RobinTheBot This guy, right?
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  34. 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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  35.  @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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  36. 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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  37.  @colindunnigan8621 Box Girder bridge videos! Where do I sign up?!
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  38. 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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  39.  @gibbousmoon35  It’s all I feed my dogs.
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  40.  @sillypuppy5940 ”Killer Ourselves Class?”
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  41. Economic bubbles based pretty much on nothing are still a pretty big fad.
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  42. 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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  43. 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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  44. The political cartoons of the era are so fantastic.
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  45. 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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  46. I have privilege drive truk twice too. Better much than my mule.
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  47. 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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  48. 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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  49. What an awesome project by Sweden.
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  50. 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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