Comments by "Luke Sandy High Ground" (@Luke_Sandy_High_Ground) on "Weapons of The World" channel.

The Type 26 frigate can and most likely will quad pack Sea Ceptor missiles in its Mk41 VLS tubes giving them a max capacity of 144 missiles
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1945: 13 fleet carriers, 41 escort carriers, 11 battleships, 57 cruisers, 180 destroyers, 120 frigates, 140 submarines 1960: 7 carriers, 6 cruisers, 79 destroyers, 75 frigates, 55 submarines, 1982: 3 carriers, 14 destroyers, 52 frigates, 31 submarines 1999: 4 carriers, 12 destroyers, 23 frigates, 16 submarines 2024: 2 carriers, 6 destroyers, 8 frigates, 11 submarines We are small af these days
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@funkybuddha2448 The Ticonderoga cruiser is designed to stay close to carriers and provide air defence for the entire carrier strike group. The Type 26 frigate is designed to sail ahead of the carrier strike group and hunt down enemy submarines. It’s missiles are not for area defence. Also when have you ever seen a Ticonderoga carry 496 missiles?
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No, we need more sailors and more escorts. You cant have 3 super carriers when there is nobody to man them, fix recruitment and retention first.
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Royal Navy calls air defence ships destroyers and anti submarine warfare ships frigates. They haven’t classed ships by tonnage in decades
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@ricardosmythe2548 “easy” Oh boy, if only you knew…..
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@thecurlew7403 Haha, no mate - overweight for its size - knocked out its own radar😂 - uses a pre WW1 armor layout - useless anti air capabilities - fame only comes from British wartime propaganda and a Johnny Horton song. - had smaller main guns than the older Nelson class It was a waste of resources building a major capital ship when the Royal Navy outnumbers you 10 to 1 every engagement. It had no escort after Germany lost 50% of its destroyer fleet at Narvik. Karl Donitz wanted more U Boats; we are so lucky the Austrian painter was regarded.
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@michaelwong4303 too heavy, it’s an anti submarine frigate
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@thecurlew7403 Dont be daft, most of the Royal Navy's frontline ships by 1945 were post WW1 classes. Carriers: 4 Illustrious Class, 2 Implacable Class, 7 Colossus Class, 41 escort carriers of the Ruler and Attacker classes. Battleships: 4 King George V class, 2 Nelson class Cruisers: 6 Town class, 9 Fiji class, 11 Dido class, 3 Leander class, 2 Arethusa class, 2 Emerald class, 2 Swiftsure class, 8 County class. Only the C, Hawkins, and Danae class were actual WW1 ships. Destroyers: 180 of various classes; mostly 1930s/40s designs. The Battle, Weapon, C, W, and Z classes etc were commissioned in the later half of the war.
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@thecurlew7403 "Such nonsense Bismarck was built with excellence the brits built battlecruisers that were death traps under armoured " HMS Queen Mary exploded because Admiral Beatty was an idiot, it was a good ship destroyed by incompetence. HMS Lion survived because the Captain ignored Beatty's instructions to leave magazine blast doors open. HMS Indefatigable and HMS Invincible were just old and shouldn't have been in frontline service but in wartime you use everything. HMS Hood was laid down as a battlecruiser in 1916 but had extensive modifications after Jutland. By 1918, she had the same armor as a Queen Elizabeth class battleship but travelled at 30 knots. "couldn't be sunk with guns " HMS Rodney put Bismarck out of action in about 5 minutes. HMS Rodney's crew described Bismarck as a blaze from bow to stern with all turrets knocked out and the bridge destroyed. Bismarck didn't land a single hit on any British warship after Denmark strait. "Germany had built the z plan would have 10 battleships 5 being the H battleships with 16 inch around 60 000 tons pus 11 inch cruisers plus carriers and destroyers and submarines" That assumes Britain would just sit back and let Germany build up a modern surface fleet. Germany tried to outpace the British in shipbuilding before WW1 and failed spectacularly. You think they will outbuild the largest navy in the world?
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@thecurlew7403 The County class cruisers had 8 inch guns and there were 13 of them
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@thecurlew7403 You still aren't addressing how Germany was going to win a naval arms race against a nation with 400 years of naval history under its belt, nearly 12,429 km of coastline, and 25% of the planet under its control.
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20 years ago the UK had a sizeable fleet so you are wrong. Also you cannot steal something that you owned, those were conquered lands that belonged to Britain.
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@Nathann99 explain 1999 then
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@Then.72 How do you explain Operation Masterdom in 1945-46 when the British nearly destroyed the Viet Minh. Maybe it has more to do with strategy, the British told the Americans not to obliterate every last inch of Vietnam with ordinance because it would anger the locals. They Americans didn't listen.
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A navy without carriers is useless
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@ricardosmythe2548 4 type 45s at sea is never happening
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@thecurlew7403 Battleships were on the way out anyway. Carriers, cruisers, and destroyers are what mattered by the end of the war.
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@thecurlew7403 Suitable for Europe, the Nelson classes were the workhorses of the RN in WW2
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@thecurlew7403 "The RN was in decline in 20th century its obsolete ships after ww1" What are you on about mate? The Queen Elizabeth and Revenge Class battleships were state of the art warships in 1918. The Royal Navy replaced three obsolete battlecruisers after Jutland with three of the largest and fastest warships in the world at the time: HMS Renown, HMS Repulse, and HMS Hood. The Grand Fleet had 28 dreadnoughts, 9 battlecruisers, 45 cruisers, 120 destroyers in 1918. That's more tonnage than the rest of the world combined. Never go full wehraboo.
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The Type 26 frigate can quad pack Sea Ceptor missiles in its Mk41 VLS tubes giving them a max capacity of 144 missiles
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The Type 26 frigate can quad pack Sea Ceptor missiles in its Mk41 VLS tubes giving them a max capacity of 144 missiles
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The Type 26 will be the best frigate in the world when it enters service. The Royal Navy is still the best in Europe
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@thecurlew7403 How though? What resources or facilities to build that fleet? I can easily say I want the Royal Navy to have 4 QE class aircraft carriers, 20 Type 45 destroyers, 40 Type 26 frigates, and 20 Astute class submarines. It doesn't mean its possible.
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@thecurlew7403 HMS Repulse was sunk in 1941 after being swarmed by aircraft so was USS Yorktown or USS Arizona "Bismarck outgunned them" They had 15 inch guns just like Bismarck
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@thecurlew7403 There is more to naval warfare than just "bigger guns and armour" Nobody would have built cruisers or destroyers otherwise
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@thecurlew7403 also the US wasnt broke so could afford to keep those battleships.
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@thecurlew7403 Kriegsmarine still most overrated "navy" of all time
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@thecurlew7403 Drachinfel has debunked all the Shitmark myths
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@thecurlew7403 Bismarck isn't even that good looking though.
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@thecurlew7403 HMS Warspite is the greatest, no question
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@thecurlew7403 HMS Chadspite still has a battle record that Bismarck fanboys will never have
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@ how can I take someone who spams emojis seriously
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@read the comment chain.
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@ omg just stop with the wehrabooism
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@5 KGV class was all that was needed because Germany had a banter navy
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@ that’s a lie. Nimitz didn’t mind the British being in the pacific as long as they bring their own logistics fleet.
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@ Britain prioritised destroyers and corvettes For convoy escort in WW2 not battleships. These are basic facts that any naval historian would know. Large carrier fleets are more suitable for pacific operations because it’s such a large operational theater
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@ also stop shifting the goalposts. Your first comment said that the Americans didn’t want the British in the pacific. That was Admiral King, a known Anglophobe since 1918
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Americas fault for not enforcing the 2% rule enough.
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Fix recruitment and retention first
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