Comments by "Vikki McDonough" (@vikkimcdonough6153) on "Heavy Anti-Aircraft Battleships? - SCB 19 and the Incomplete Iowa class" video.

  1. Observation 19-8: During an attack by SCB-19 upon the flotilla of Institute patrol boats assigned to monitor the object, the Institute submarine Shipbreaker launched two P-700 Granit (SS-N-19 Shipwreck) anti-shipping missiles at SCB-19 in an attempt to hold off SCB-19 without creating further instances of SCB-19-B. Upon the missiles approaching within 6,500 meters of SCB-19, [DATA EXPUNGED] from the superstructure guns, immediately followed by a blinding flash of light emanating from SCB-19, at which point SCB-19-A [DATA EXPUNGED]. No trace of the involved patrol boats or their crew has been recovered to date. Remote sensing indicates that SCB-19-A has split into two schools keeping station to port and starboard of SCB-19 and that a number of SCB-19-B instances are now scattered around SCB-19 outside these two instances of SCB-19-A, as well as the presence of two objects with characteristics similar to P-700 missiles (designated SCB-19-C) orbiting SCB-19 at a distance of 3,500 meters.
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  2. Why was it that, of all the battleships the U.S. had at the end of World War II, we ended up preserving three near-identical fast battleships (not counting the Iowas in this total, as they continued to serve off and on until nearly half a century later) plus Texas, instead of taking the opportunity to preserve one of the Standards and at least one more of the pre-Standard turret farms (it would've been nice to be able to explore one of the Wyomings and their six turrets without having to go diving in Bikini Lagoon)? (For that matter, I'd've wanted the preserved fast battleship to be Washington, given her combat history, but at least for that one you can still go visit a near-identical sister in substitute.) I'm really sad that, although there are nine battleships preserved worldwide, so little of the diversity in battleship construction is represented in that total, as seven of the nine are all late-interwar/WWII-era 3×3×16" U.S. fast battleships (with the other two being Texas, a U.S. WWI-era 5×2×14" turret farm, and Mikasa, a Japanese predreadnought, so at least there's some diversity there); it seems a travesty that, of the twelve Standards, the best-preserved is the one mainly known for getting blown up, and none of the battle-scarred survivors of Pearl Harbor got to become museum ships (imagine the experience of being able to walk through California or West Virginia and see where men fought for their lives as the Japanese aircraft attacked, or of having a tour route retracing Nevada's run for the ocean and leading up to Nevada herself, permanently moored in an anchorage dug out of the coral ledge where she was grounded; having West Virginia and Nevada preserved as museum ships at Pearl would be an incredible complement to the Arizona Memorial), with the closest thing we have being, again, the one that exploded. I'm honestly surprised, and more than a little disappointed, that there doesn't seem to've been much effort put into preserving at least one of the veterans of Pearl on the parts of either the U.S. public or Congress!
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  3.  @gregorywright4918  Still a travesty that none of those tough old girls ended up preserved, though.
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