Comments by "Vikki McDonough" (@vikkimcdonough6153) on "Naval Gunnery - Rangefinding on an Iowa-class battleship" video.

  1. 1. When confronted with the problem of the Type 93 torpedo being too big for their submarine designs to use, why did the IJN develop smaller Long Lances instead of bigger submarines? They were far from averse to giant submarines as it was... 2. When breaking the line, is it better to come in perpendicular to the enemy fleet (Trafalgar, Lissa...), obliquely (The Saintes...), or something more esoteric (First of June...)? 3. Why did the German hexagonal dreadnoughts slow down so badly in turns? Given that the increase in the frontal area that a ship presents to the oncoming waterflow at a given sideslip angle is relatively lower for a fat, low-aspect-ratio ship like a Nassau than it is for a ship with a higher aspect ratio, one would've thought that the early German dreads would've been less affected by turn-induced increases in drag than most other dreadnoughts. Did their low aspect ratio allow them to yaw quickly enough to cause them, when turning, to reach a sideslip angle so much higher than that of a finer-lined ship as to outweigh the lesser increase in frontal area for a given sideslip angle? 4. Could one have trained an actual monkey to act as a powder monkey?
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