Comments by "Vikki McDonough" (@vikkimcdonough6153) on "The Last Battleship Designs - The Good, the Bad and the Mad!" video.

  1. 40:15 - In fairness, given that for reasons of geography the Soviet Union/Russia had/has to essentially build and maintain four separate navies, all isolated from each other, then if they needed any of those battleships they probably did need at least ten of them to avoid giving their enemies in each theater an easy defeat-in-detail target (same as with the original plans to build twenty Sovetsky Soyuzes).
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  2.  @ryanaegis3544  It's different in that anyone other than Russia can easily move ships between fleets, or move entire fleets to support other fleets if necessary, whereas for Russia this would require forcing at least one narrow chokepoint either outright controlled or easily plugged by a powerful enemy (for the Barents Sea, the gap between the North Cape and the Arctic icecap [easily plugged by Britain]; for the Baltic Sea, the Danish Straits [easily plugged by Germany] and the North Sea [easily plugged by Britain]; for the Black Sea, the Turkish Straits [controlled by the Ottoman Empire/Turkey] and the Aegean Sea [easily plugged by Britain/France/Italy/Austria-Hungary/whoever]; and for all the Russian Pacific ports other than Petropavlovsk, the straits ringing the Sea of Okhotsk and Sea of Japan and the mouth of the Yellow Sea [all either controlled or easily plugged by Japan, and even for Petropavlovsk transferring ships or fleets to or from anywhere else under Russian control would still require forcing one of the other aforementioned chokepoints]).
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  3. A battleship's main armor belt needs to extend a considerable distance below the waterline, both to protect against diving shells and to ensure that a shell can't sneak in under the bottom of the armor even if the ship's rolled a significant angle away from the attacker. A battleship's torpedo-defense system needs to extend some distance above the waterline to ensure that everything below the waterline is protected even if the ship's rolled a significant angle towards the attacker or sitting somewhat low in the water due to flooding. How did battleships handle the problem of overlapping their belt armor and TDS without compromizing the effectiveness of either?
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