Comments by "ricardo kowalski" (@ricardokowalski1579) on "Drachinifel" channel.

  1. Storing warships for a rainy day? Cloudy, with a chance of 16inch AP shells?
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  2. I am amazed on how many pictures of a dog were taken The whole idea of asking a dog for a ticket is peak railway
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  3. “Amateurs talk strategy. Professionals talk logistics” - General Omar Bradley During wartime the complex and delicate supply chains become evident, to the point of becoming painful. Sugar, henequen fibers, crude oil and refined products, come to the top of the list. Other equally vital things don't make headlines. -Cinchona/quine bark from Peru to make anti-malarial drugs was essential to the pacific island campaign -The caribeean is dotted with salt works that had served their european metropolis for centuries. Lack of salt complicated the canning of food for troops, and the regular civilian industry had a hard time preserving food. -The chocolate bar became an icon because the cocoa trade to europe was squashed, while it was now abundant and looking for markets in the americas. And if you suddenly want to increase the size of the Royal Navy... where are you going to get the rum for it? 😁
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  4. And the post war effect of al that capital investment in machinery drove the quality of life improvements of later years If you were building refrigerators and ice cream machines for destroyers, that tooling did not evaporate at the end of the war, it became fridgidairs, windsill A/C for houses and larger units for shopping malls. Water pumps, generators, foundries...all were left ready to work at marginal cost. Respectfully.
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  5. The three 5in guns and the bureau of ordinance Bureau of ordinance wanted for a 5in gun. The 5/51 was too heavy. The 5/25 was too weak. But the 5/38 was "just right". The end 🎭
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  6. Two most dangerous things that must be kept away from engineers at all times: 1- welding machines to make things bigger 2- hacksaws to make things smaller
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  7. TAFFY 3 taking notes: "...best defense....lightly built ship..." 😁
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  8. (Apologies for geeking🤓on Dune) "The AP shell is the ship killer. I will let the AP shell to go past me and thru me. When the AP shell is gone, only Taffy 3 will remain"
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  9. the funniest part of this is that they were called "disney bombs"
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  10. Maybe create a "tech tree" but of recommended books. It would fit nicely in the website, and people could track where they are/ where they are going better than a list. The YT video comments of each book or node could be linked. Respectfully.
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  11. Medical board: you're blind Admiral Lee: Radar will be my eyes
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  12. min 2:48 destroyer captains: We are expendable. Cruiser captains:we serve the fleet. Corvettes/submarine captain: we outsmart the enemy. Battleship captains: we pick our battles. Carrier captains: we strike first or run away. Merchant captains: fear is a luxury we do not have
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  13. French MN fell off the technology tree, hiting every ugly branch on the way down. It came to rest on the ground, with their faces firmly planted in the Béarn.
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  14. 2:30 The roster of command reads like an all star game. The invasion was inmense, and they still managed to pile on more experience than tonnage
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  15. solid dad joke👍
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  16. A missed opportunity for Fry and Laurie.
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  17. When GG is not enough, you give out the medals yourself. Morgan and De la Penne sit at the grown ups table.
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  18. 51:00 Degassing Short answer Drach is right, by the time the navy gets the bunker fuel it is already de-gassed. It happens before distribution. Long answer Crude oil has hydrocarbon gas in solution, refined fuel and destilate products have little or no gas in solution. Crude oil inside the reservoir is under pressure, and gases are dissolved in the crude oil, held in solution by the pressure. During production, as crude oil travels UP the wellbore the hydrostatic pressure is reduced. A lot of gas comes out of solution as pressure is reduced. (think opening a bottle of soda that forms a lot of bubbles suddenly when it is opened). The first step of De-gassing is what is called a "gas separator", usually at the well site. The gas separator is a primitive device, simply a tall cylinder with baflles inside to allow the gas to vent to the top, and liquid to collect on the bottom. The crude oil that comes out of the separator is called "unweathered". The unweathered crude is then pumped into pipelines under some (lower) pressure. In the refinery the crude is then passed thru a vacuum Degasser to capture valuable gas (these gases are feedstock for chemicals or used as fuel) The degassed crude is now passed thru a distillation column, where the different fractions of hydrocarbons are separated by their condensation temperature (pretty much a large moonshine still). The liquids that are extracted from the distillation column are called distillates and have negligible amounts of gas in solution. The most valuable fractions become gasoline or diesel. The less valuable are called BUNKER FUEL. Bunker fuel is just a notch above asphalt and tar. Ship's boiler run on bunker fuel. Bunker fuel usually has to be heated to thin it out and pump it, use it in burners for boilers. This is why ships have fuel heaters and pre-heaters. Beware that distilates are still volatile, they can evaporate and become gaseous (gasoline in open jars will evaporate)... but this is a change in phase, not release of solution gas. Cheers.
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  19. The difficulties this rapid pace of change imposed on management deserves attention. Within a service life, a commander would have to oversee the addition of engineers and stokers, the carpenter equaled to the blacksmith/riveter, coal added to the supply considerations, head of steam buildup and lag understood. It is not only a matter of where would you find qualified people to run the sophisticated machinery. Who of the previous generation can train the new officers on how to command these innovations and these new ratings? How do you retain them? A steam engineer is not an illiterate midshipman that you can gang presss into service and manage by lashes. And mind you, it will only get worst with the introduction of radio, electricity, hydraulics, electronics, diesels, turbines. The fact that the RN as an organization survived all these changes and pressures is remarkable.
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  20. Did you keep the fragment?
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  21. Would "al dente" be code for case hardening?
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  22. "divine wind" UK edition
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  23. Let's put some tribals together, and add Piorun. Lord have mercy on the enemy, because they won't.
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  24. The learning curve is even more impressive if you consider the huge strides in radar equipment capability, and how fast the radar data is incorporated into doctrine and tactics.
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  25. Can we appreciate the finesse and politeness of Drach in this answer. 👍👍👍 😊
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  26. Jeune École came back with a vengance when the Argentinians fired an Exocet from a trailer, and more recently a truck fired some Neptunes. It is no longer that small cheap boats can pack a punch... is that DIRT CHEAP TRUCKS can pack so much harm you dare not approach the coastline. Respectfully.
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  27. Geographers: You are calling it the "Crimean war". Crimea is in... Historians: Well yes, but actually Petropavlovsk also gets bombarded. Confused, angry, Geographer noises
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  28. The White Fleet color scheme is stately and magnificent. That was part of what made it "great". Solid content
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  29. There are no accidents -Master Oogway 😁🐢
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  30. Oilfield is the same way. We had the running joke that if you leave a (Marine or Rustabout, your pick) and two anvils in a locked room at 0700... by 1300 one anvil is missing, and the other one is broken. Nobody knows how or what happened. 😁
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  31. 5:26 Look at Mount Suribachi for a "what would it take to storm Gibraltar". Remove the rest of the Island, and add 15 inch shells
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  32. Churchill: Sink the Bismark Tovey: It's burning, listing, not firing back, can't steer, the scuttle charges have gone off, and the men are jumping off the deck. Churchill: Did I stutter? Tovey: No Sir, you did not.
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  33. 57:18 USS Johnston laughs itself silly
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  34.  @frankgulla2335  I agree, compromise usually fails to meet both goals. I suggest that the use case in close range combat during the Solomon islands campaign minimized the range lost in anti ship fire role. While at the same time, a longer barrel with powered movement made it a better AA gun in an environment chock full of land base airplane threats. They couldn't have foreseen this, island hoping and "withering on the vine" were not the original plan orange/rainbow. But they DID hit a sweetspot with the 38. Regards
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  35.  @nikaszekeval6850  "a chicken in every pot" kind of thing 👍
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  36. Under capitalism, you salvage museum ships. Under socialism, museum ship salvages YOU. 😁
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  37. The moment a coxswain told and admiral what to do, Nimitz became certain he had the human capital required to win the war. Imagine this same scene played over a thousand ships, for several years and the cummulative gains.
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  38. Elon Musk takes notes for upcoming press releases, mumbling "this is pure gold" :-)
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  39. I am amazed on how little emphasys was placed on trade interdiction, convoy protection and ASW. You would think the lessons of WW1 would be fresh in their minds.
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  40. 32:00 "entered floating drydock¨ THIS. This was another hole in the attrition and great battle strategy. The assumption was that both sides would take damage, but that the IJN would have had an advantage in being closer to repair stations, and the USN would have had to sail back damaged ships to (at least) Pearl Harbor. Well, the IJN never had enough drydock space or industrial output to repair the damage or cover the losses. While the USN output made up for the losses; AND floating drydocks patched up many ships to remain in the area, or make the trip back safer/faster We need to know who came up with the drydocks, how many and when they entered service, and who managed them. Solid content
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  41.  @Philistine47  kind of like defusing bombs... just give the fuse and primer good reasons and avoid escalation. 😁
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  42. Anatoly Dyatlov enters the chat: You didn't see a sumarine on the water because it isn't there!!!
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  43. When the greeks say "point blank range", they mean it.
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  44. I saw this Uboat when I was eight years old. It was a defining moment in my life.
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  45. yep
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  46. I can see 1860's Paris society following the development of the submarines and ironclads with the same attention that we today pour on SpaceX
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  47.  @BlueStarr86  a 16 inch sniper rifle, to be sure. 😁
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  48. Odd that the available knowledge of water soluble corrosion protection has evaded these caisons pools
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  49. Fleet problem report: the dummy torpedos worked great!! BuORD: wait... "dummy" what now?
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  50. In the Falklands a ship received a direct order to not touch the dud bombs it had received, to wait until a proper ordenance disposal team arrived...but the damage control group had already lifted the duds, and thrown them overboard. They had to reply that, sadly, they could not comply with that order. So it was courage plus god level trolling.
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