Comments by "Vikki McDonough" (@vikkimcdonough6153) on "The Drydock - Episode 261 (Part 1)" video.

  1. Regarding the anti-surface capabilities of 3" DP guns, remember that the Royal Navy went up from 3" to 4" secondaries all the way back in 1906 (as part of the various minor improvements going from Dreadnought to the Bellerophons), specifically because the 3" gun was too small and short-ranged to effectively ward off enemy destroyers and torpedo boats even back then.
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  2. 20:17 - Did anyone ever really fix the magnetic detonators on their torpedoes during the war? It seems like the main "fix" implemented by the navies involved was "disable/remove the blasted thing entirely and use contact detonation instead".
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  3. 1:20:56 - Er, the Maltas didn't have an armored flight deck; they moved the armor to the hangar deck, in the style of the U.S.'s floating-bonfires-in-waiting.
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  4. 47:52 - Hello Floppy! 🤭🐕👋
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  5. 48:28 - "...unless you have a very very very generous government to supply lots of funds..." Hey! Navies of the world! Yeah, I'm talking to you! Please fund museum ships! What's chump change to you is years' worth of museum-ship operating expenses paid, and the public outreach these ships'll be able to provide'll far more than pay back the money shelled out!
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  6. Not quite sure if this technically counts as a ship request, but could we get a video on the various iterations of the Kaiten?
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