Comments by "Vikki McDonough" (@vikkimcdonough6153) on "U-505 - When the US Navy stole a whole German submarine" video.

  1. In the 1930s and 1940s, the U.S. placed a great deal of emphasis on battleship-deck-armor penetration via plunging fire at very-long-to-extreme ranges. How did apparently no one realize that this was unworkable in practice due to the ranges involved (beyond 25-30kyd) resulting in shell flighttimes so long that (as you've pointed out multiple times on this channel) the ship being targeted can just dodge (and, as you've also pointed out, even if the target sails obligingly in a straight line, WWII-era battleship guns simply aren't inherently accurate enough to land a battleship-killing number of hits on a battleship-sized target at these extreme ranges before the battleship they're on runs out of shells), and that realistically all they were doing by using things like the 16" Mk. 8 Super Heavy shells was compromizing U.S. battleships' ability to punch through belt armor at realistic battle ranges?
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  2.  @joshthomasmoorenew  "naval [...] mercenary band" "Let's give it up for our next act, Naval Mercenary, with their new hit 'The Second-Oldest Profession'!"
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  3.  @bkjeong4302  'Cause you have to be crazy to go down in a metal tube that has loads of ways for other ships and aircraft to kill it, is one of the very few types of naval combatants that has entire enemy formations specifically dedicated to hunting it down and killing it, can be run down by all but a very few warships, and whose loss scenarios are uncomfortably likely to end with "lost with all hands", ofc 😝
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  4. U.S. Navy: *Yoink*
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  5. In fairness, those maximum-occupancy regulations are to make sure everyone can safely evacuate if there's a fire, whereas on an operational submarine a) a lot of the time when fires are most likely to start is while the sub's underwater, where it's rather difficult to evacuate, b) submarines, unlike most buildings, are built to allow burning/flooded/mutinous/etc. compartments to be easily sealed off, and c) fires are easier to extinguish when you're on a metal tube surrounded by water which most of the time you have to worry more about keeping out.
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