Comments by "calvingreene90" (@calvingreene90) on "Drachinifel" channel.

  1. Ernest King is one of the very few men whose ego was equalled by his capabilities.
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  2. The American admirals were not offing each other over their differences, unlike a certain opposing Navy.
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  3. The first rule of warfare is, "Never start a war with your source of munitions."
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  4. A Soviet era Russian General is quoted as saying "The reason that the American Army excels at war is because war is total chaos and chaos is something the American Army practices on a daily basis." I think he was trying to state the importance of battlefield initiative from junior officers and even enlisted men without being smited from above.
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  5. The free Polish Navy Battleship chasing the Bismarck would have gotten an extra 2 knots from the crew rowing.
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  6. An American POW in WWII escaped from a German prison camp be disguising himself as a German General, on the way out he chewed out a guard for a sloppy salute.
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  7. Nelson was a bit of a loose cannon but he expected his subordinate captains to behave in a like manner and provided them with the information to do so effectively. I call this good leadership.
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  8. The class that teaches us not to discount grandpa in a fight.
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  9. As I have said before, "There is a reason they call it DEAD reckoning."
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  10. English does not borrow from other languages. English follows other languages down dark alleys whacks other languages over their heads and goes through their pockets for loose words and phrases; usually to miss uses them.
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  11. Just your standard case of government agencies in action.
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  12. I certainly have to believe that copying a shape that is good for the performance you want is more likely to give good results than a random shape that just feels lucky.
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  13. A strong dislike of politics and more importantly most of the data he's looking four is unclassified.
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  14.  @gotanon9659  And then the judges disallowed it because they separated the aircraft carriers from the rest of the battle fleet.
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  15. I don't consider a cruiser taking a pasting while distracting an enemy ship from sinking troop transports bad luck.
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  16. That and the U.S. Pacific Fleet was the biggest danger to the Japanese Navy.
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  17. The battleship Admiral that understood the value of carriers.
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  18.  @MS-gr2nv  Poland was invaded by Germany in the west and Russia in the east out numbered by worse than 40 to 1 and went down fighting they did do that "hero stuff" in 39 but some battles can't be won.
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  19. Last time I was this early the USS Monitor was state of the art.
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  20. Once the Zero was a "copy" of a western plane you could get people to believe how good it was. People are stupid.
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  21. The biggest danger to the USofA Navy is the USofA Congress.
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  22. I'm sorry to tell you about what happened to Silver.
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  23. If you want to hide a ship in port put a roof over the dock and anchor the camouflaged ship a few miles away.
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  24.  @SonsOfLorgar  A union that works for the hard working instead of the lazy would be different.
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  25. Perhaps the Japanese cruiser commanders hadn't gotten the memo that the American torpedoes had been fixed and were now dangerous.
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  26. With the USofA Navy in into and through WWII it is a fair criticism. As an American I have suggested that every Admiral and Captain there should have been shot for Dereliction of Duty which should also "encourage" the replacements.
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  27. Given the beating Seydlitz survived perhaps she should be promoted to Fast Battleship.
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  28. That certainly explains why the USofA Navy specified that the new duel purpose 5 inch would have to fire the same ammunition as the existing 5 inch 51 caliber guns already in inventory.
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  29. Well the Japanese Navy did twice. Both times turned out to be a mistake. Particularly the 25mm.
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  30. I like Supercruiser, an ill defined classification for a ship that is neither cruiser or battlecruiser.
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  31. Didn't Nelson say words to the effect of a British commander cannot go far wrong by going alongside the enemy and opening fire. Edit wring to wrong
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  32. N3 battleships: so powerful that islands row away rather than do battle.
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  33. But it is only an offshoot of the British running aground in your own waters club. Which at least puts them in good company.
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  34. It could have been worse it could have been South Carolina race.
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  35. @crassgop Till he ran into a British officer that refused to act like a subordinate to him.
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  36. In about 2008 a USofA Navy submerged timber storage was found with excellent timber in good condition over a century after the USofA Navy stopped building ships out of wood.
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  37.  @mogaman28  That was more of a Japanese Army thing.
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  38. "They didn't know what they were doing." is vastly different from "They should have known what they were doing."
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  39.  Graf von Losinj  Ammo factories are real easy to blow to hell.
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  40. It is just a demonstration of why militaries must be diligent in removing stupid energetic officers from their ranks.
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  41. ​ @wembozandco.807  That would just end with a pier on the offensive.
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  42. 40 mm guns were still screaming all night with teething pain at that point.
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  43. As an American I do love a well done trolling even when against us.
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  44.  @matthewrobinson4323  No they are not, but the democrats still are the party of racism and oppression.
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  45. Not bad for being designed by the inexperienced to an overly tight budget.
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  46. One belligerent Destroyer is more powerful than one timid battleship.
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  47.  @timberwolf1575  The reactors have to be decommissioned anyway. For a museum all you would have to do for safety is defuel and seal the reactors. Then weld the hatches to the reactor compartments shut. If you really want to be sure fill the compartments with concrete. Of course that does nothing to reduce the real expense of dealing with the lunatic regulations for disposing of nuclear waste and the green fascists responsible for them. Of course the navy had a perfectly good reactor on a submarine that was damaged beyond cost effective repair by an arson set fire that had nothing to do with the reactor and the Navy scrapped it rather than use it to supply power to an isolated facility that is burning diesel for electricity.
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  48. US Congress has always been the US Navy's most dangerous enemy.
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  49. The last time I was this early the Carthaginian Navy was a going concern.
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  50.  @pdunderhill  Just watch the video and you will get several.
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  51. I can't help but think that the Alaska class very heavy cruisers would have made great 1970s era Guided Missile Cruisers if if more had been built and well-preserved. For the algorithm.
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  52. A Fritz X making a high-speed excursion through a magazine would probably cause a magazine explosion.
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  53. The PBJ-1 is the Navy B-25 but was still a land based bomber.
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  54. 1:00:20 We build a lot of complex structures full of structural supports wrapped in weather tight covering and find them quite useful. Granted people rarely want to use a skyscraper as a warehouse but a tank full of structural supports fills and empties just the same. You might call the supports baffles.
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  55. When launching planes the others were on the aft deck. When recovering planes the others were placed on the forward deck to make room for the landing.
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  56. The weight savings I find the best is while the P-40 fuselage and main wings were separate complete structures which were then bolted together. The Honorable Zero's fuselage was not structurally complete until riveted onto the wing. This makes the plane take up more space when being shipped and made it more difficult to cannibalize two chopped up planes into a single flyable plane.
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  57. I remember them claiming that the first supertanker wouldn't work because you couldn't build a keel strong enough to prevent it from breaking in half. Apparently the solution was to build a ship with three keels.
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  58. Perhaps Yukikaze just had plot armor in a losing war.
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  59. An old Sergeant said, "The only thing worse than cowering in a hole when someone is lobbing artillery shells at you is cowering without a hole when someone is lobbing artillery shells at you." Just a guess but being inside a ship taking non penetrating hits is very similar.
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  60. It sounds like Shinano would have been good at providing convoy escort for a support fleet while being part of the support fleet.
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  61.  @transmaster  The. Japanese Army would not have attacked the USofA while fighting the war in China. They were already over extended and knew it.
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  62. It must be hard to boil a ship like a lobster and where are you going to get that much gasoline.
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  63. They undoubtedly checked to make sure it was in fact the US Navy "correct" response.
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  64.  @harvesterofsorrow4930  Not completely true. The thirty-aught-six Chauchat did. They all were venerable to dust and the magazines were too fragile and the witness holes needed covered with plastic but kept clean they were reliable and they were the first fielded light machine gun.
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  65. Or maybe a punk band.
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  66. Mers-el-Kebir full battle winner Germany/Italy.
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  67.  @luisnunes2010  Ok. Once Admiral King splattered some of their blood on BuOrd's walls.
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  68. I also find his soothing voice and content interesting enough to quiet random thought quite restful.
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  69. The USS Iowa has the Captain's port cabin and the Captain's sea cabin or ready room. The relatively luxurious Captain's port cabin would be high on the list of space available for VIP accommodations.
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  70.  @ronwilsontringue6574  A lot of great people are hated and a lot of terrible people are venerated. King undoubtedly saved more allied military personnel and civilian lives than his mistake lost.
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  71. There is a bit of logic to it but it doesn't account for older battleships. KGV vs Dreadnought, smirk but still battleship.
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  72.  @31terikennedy  Yes. Jeremy was often had his funniest when at his rudest. There were moments when I wanted to horsewhip him and buy him a beer at the same time.
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  73. Just a SWAG but 83.5mm could be 4-pdr particularly if their iron was unusually low in graphite. During the USofA Civil war German guns were a little large because German cast iron was unusually high in graphite.
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  74. Bad training. They either only did saluting fire or to save money they didn't load shot when training.
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  75.  @MirelleLaRouge  0nly one serious mistake in decades of service and you consider him incompetent. Everyone makes foolish mistakes but only competent people make disastrous ones because fools are never put into positions to make them. Congratulations you will never make a disastrous mistake.
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  76.  @KetsaKunta  In the Magna Carta it was the Barons privilege and Duty to chastise a King that exceeded the limits of his power. Anyone with a range weapon that he can use from concealment.
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  77. In WWII the Swiss cut off from the source of most of their coal and needing coal for domestic heating to keep the people from freezing to death in winter the Swiss rail service was forbidden from using coal. While the Swiss mainlines were electrified the still used steam powered switch engines. And for the same reasons that Switzerland couldn't by coal they could not buy new engines. Fortunately while talking around the problem without finding a workable answer they decided to make tea. When the electric kettle whistled giving somebody clue and Switzerland having plentiful hydroelectricity generation converted their switch engines to use electrical heating. It worked well enough that after WWII ended they did not convert them back to coal and replaced them with conventional electric locomotives more on a as soon as convenient rather than as soon as possible basis. Some of the switch engines were sold and reconverted to coal. You can heat a boiler with electricity but the second law of thermodynamics is, You cannot win. You cannot break even. And you cannot get out of the game. You won't be able to generate enough steam to make the electric to heat the boiler.
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  78. In reference to Operation Sea Lion, I once read a quote attributed to Napoleon that he could conquer the entire world if he could control the English channel for 48 hours of his choice. Adolf suffered the same problem.
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  79. The great value of 0peration Torch was that it was to be a short battle that would show us what we needed to learn with what was a relatively soft target.
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  80.  @PaulfromChicago  My point is the smirk test only works within a generation or two. BB 34 & 35 are undeniably battleships but still significantly inferior to KGV.
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  81.  @benholroyd5221  Japan was not at war with with anyone else when they invaded Russia. Afghanistan and Finland were invaded by Russia so they didn't start the war. Nor were they fighting other wars at the time.
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  82.  @bkjeong4302  They would have been just as useful as the torpedoes they delivered early in the war.
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  83. I can certainly see reusing ballast and metal fittings being recycled into parts for the new ship. Nor do I think that oil lamps changed that much over the centuries.
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  84. Before VW ceased production of the original bug people would take rusted out/totalled bugs to Mexico and transfer the VIN number to a new bug and bring the "rebuilt" bug home. This was called a Mexican rebuild; I thought it was a new idea.
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  85. Three sled dogs and no sled? Not even a training cart?
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  86. It would have been a proper Scottish Piper and he would have been standing on the bow as befits a piper leading his force into battle.
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  87.  @chrisvickers7928  The biggest service the HMS Victorious/ USS Robin gave to the US Navy was teaching US Navy proper fighter directions, although the rest of her service is not to be slighted.
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  88.  @paulrasmussen8953  Ill temper himself: Admiral King put an end to the BuOrd Japanese Alliance.
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  89.  @benholroyd5221  The first rule of warfare is, "Never start a war with Russia when fighting anybody else. If you haven't noticed it is always the first rule of warfare. Over on Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur it has become something of a running joke.
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  90. ​ @johannderjager4146  It is worse in Russia and China.
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  91. The British are our opponents the sea is our enemy. --- Captain Langsdorff (probably)
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  92. Sounds like Glatton was intended as a test article for some theorized system or for a specific mission not unlike certain large light cruisers of a later generation.
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  93. Actually that was his second experience with the Royal Navy, the first was their arrogance off the USofA's Atlantic Coast.
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  94. Last time I was this early the HMS Captain was still afloat.
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  95.  @scottgiles7546  True but this was about the carrier v battleship debate.
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  96. The Finnish Buffalo fighters being unarmored were also more maneuverable than the armored Buffalo fighters used by the USofA Navy in the opening stages of the USofA involvement in the WWII.
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  97. After the Crooked Joe hyper inflation takes its toll a trillion dollars won't be that much money.
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  98. The mark 14 had multiple small problems that were aside from the magnetic detonator were easy to fix. Unfortunately BuOrd refuse to admit that there were any problems with their beautiful new torpedoes.
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  99.  @CSSVirginia  A well washed T-shirt works as a reusable coffee filter.
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  100. And may the Argentine government stop abusing them.
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  101.  @ulrichkalber9039  He was in the German Army.
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  102. A fast fleet oiler that is also capable of delivering new planes to the carrier sounds useful.
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  103. And down in Cuba Spain just seized an American ship because they don't see use being able to do anything about it. Congress: We can cut our party fund to give the Navy a bit of cash for new ships.
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  104. If a patriotic young German draftsman had hidden a good set of drawings for the L20e alpha under his bed at the end of WWI and brought them out for modernizing in time for the Bismarck class, would Bismarck been a better battleship?
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  105. The Bob Semple tank did exactly what it was designed to do, it got Bob Semple into the newsreels and papers. That said they probably would have performed fairly well against the Japanese in defensive actions.
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  106. It should be remembered that all the physical attributes that make for a great dancer also make for a great fighter, plus you can get along with people.
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  107. "Designed by committee" words to scare with second only to "I'm from the government and am here to help."
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  108.  @bkjeong4302  You are looking at it from the wrong prospective. What would have happened to a navy that spent the 30s building all carriers and the aircraft that were required to sink battleships had never materialized? The most expensive thing you can do is put all your money on the wrong option. Thus in the long run it is more cost effective to cover several options by say building carriers and battleships until you have proof of what the future holds. 0nly a fools bets everything on one roll of dice; even if the fools wins.
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  109. Using two spotlights for night range finding makes a twisted kind of sense.
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  110.  @planegaper  The kamikaze attacks while horrifying were less effective than conventional attacks and removed effective planes from the Japanese inventory so they could not make another attack. This led to fewer allied losses. Removing the enemies best commanders is a good thing.
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  111. Incidentally the fix for the Liberty ships was a long steel "Band-Aid" riveted along both sides of the ship to reduce the stresses where the ships were breaking.
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  112. The battle of Guadalcanal contained a serious amount of Naval and land combat at the same time.
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  113. Some ice breakers have the propeller in front when breaking ice. But when moving through open water the propeller is pushing primarily because ice breaking bows ride real bad when moving through open water.
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  114. They did that, it's called a boarding action.
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  115. Gatling guns are still used on Modern US Navy ships in the form of the close-in weapon system.
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  116. It all makes more sense when you find out that the "Pound £" started out being worth a pound of pennies, and that 240 is equally dividable into 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, and 12.
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  117. I have often said that the Japanese would have been better off bombing the machine shops, cranes, and supply depots rather than the ships themselves.
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  118. It is nice that she was restored to the configuration of when she was a state of the art warship.
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  119. Mostly it was a case of not wanting to put an elderly Doberman in a pit with battling Pitbulls.
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  120. Speaking of battleships that dealt poorly with rough seas could you use something like submarine dive planes to stabilize the Iowa-class battleships well enough to match the King George V class in rough seas?
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  121. Just what the Royal Navy needed in 39.
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  122.  @SonsOfLorgar  No it is not. Neither of those serve the hard working productive workers.
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  123.  @Slarti  Having a boss that expects you to do the job right instead of how you have always done it is really annoying to low performance people.
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  124.  @Junyo  Clearly you are new here. Watch his video "The Second Pacific Squadron, the Voyage of the Damned." It is a dark comedy of madness and torpedo boats.
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  125. Is it a cruiser that identifies as a destroyer or Destroyer that identifies as a cruiser?
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  126. Turning armed civilians into an army is very quick compared to building a navy.
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  127. The only difference between fascist and socialist/communist governments is the lies told to justify the rulers power and wealth.
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  128.  @Dave_Sisson  Just as the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was an attack on the entirety of the USofA the invasion of the Falklands islands was an attack on the entirety of the UK and the vestige remains of the British Empire. So it was an attack of an independent country.
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  129. Modifications to allow at sea refueling would not be difficult and you can always tow the d_mn_d thing. Not being able to reliably hit small cities probably had something to do with the idea being discarded.
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  130. American were looking for stability augmentation.
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  131.  @frankmiller95  Dead is an awfully odd word to come up with when shortening deduced.
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  132. So in Wartime the Royal Navy is very much he's a freak but he's our freak.
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  133. Fortunately Germans tend to be poor at spy craft. If they would have stockpiled supplies for submarine operations on the French islands thing would have been significantly worse for the Allies.
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  134. Dragging her anchor and being smashed on the rocks and being smash on the rocks by a tsunami are not an entirely incompatible set of stories.
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  135.  @AdmRose  Not even close.
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  136. The navigation buoys on steroids has a certain simple elegance to it. Although deploying lighthouses and lightships on notorious rocks would be more practical.
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  137. What would have happened if the USofA Army Air Forces figured out what an effective antiship weapon air dropped torpedoes could be and develop their own torpedo that worked and configured the B-17 to drop them?
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  138. Last time I was this early the 5 inch 38 was state of the art.
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  139. A little late or much too early. But still a brilliant design.
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  140.  @stephenconnolly3018  Just because you never achieved anything on merit does not mean that others don't.
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  141. Not only the middle child one born to daddy's mistress.
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  142. It sounds like the HMS Africa is the ship that the American Super Frigates wanted to be.
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  143. Torpedoes have a rather distinctive sound so probably some of the evasive maneuvers resulted from reports from sonar Torpedoes in the water. Again the assumption is the person who launched them is competent.
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  144. One of the advantages in the turbo Electric Drive is in disaster relief the ship can provide huge amount of electricity to get the lights back on.
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  145. The Ju 87 needed a fighter escort. The extended wing Me 109 had strengthened landing gear and ground looping is much less a concern in carrier operations with always taking off & landing into the wind and the arrested landings.
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  146.  @VersusARCH  Stalin didn't need to see that enough food was produced to feed the entire population. Just let people starve and confiscate the food they have to feed the engineers and bully boys keeping the starving in line.
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  147.  @mpetersen6  The chamber of the AR-15 was not chromed to start with. Half a ranger battalion in Vietnam with self-purchased AR-15s who were not cleaning their rifles but using the proper powder and didn't have a jamming problem. The cheep powder caused caused other problems that greatly reduced the rifled life as well but the cause of jamming was from the new powder residue.
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  148. ​ @fearthehoneybadger  The Nazis had a habit of when they said if things aren't fixed heads will roll that heads would roll if things weren't fixed promptly.
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  149. Sometimes being OCD and making sure everything was done right makes you a hero.
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  150. Just a demonstration that German fighting sailors are not to be disrespected.
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  151. Brewster Buffalo performed competitively well before the USofA Navy armored it without a matching power increase. As for replacing the radial engine with a V-12 that is how the USofA Army had Curtiss turn the P-36 into the P-40.
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  152. In an emergancy the most expensive thing you can do is bet everything on the wrong option. When in a hurry building two classes to the same specifications greatly increases your chances of getting a good class of ships.
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  153. You can run refrigeration, hoists, blowers... From the steam engines without using electricity.
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  154. When you have grown up swinging axes and hatchets using a war axe will be fairly natural.
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  155. It beats the hell out of having to keep the pumps running 24/7 to keep up with the leaking.
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  156. Anyone that has the drive to explore is going to want to use what is found. The people that are most vocal about criticising colonialism are exactly the same kind of I'm more moral thus I must impose my beliefs on others that drove much of the colonization. Farmers are on the whole are* incapable of seeing people that wonder by every now and then as owning land. It is not my fault that my European ancestors were better at taking and holding land than my Native American ancestors. *are edited in.
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  157.  @geonerd  The wars might have been stupid and they were prosecuted in a stupid manner but they were not about oil. If it was about oil Iraq would have been divided separating the oil bearing Kurdish territory from the muslim wastelands to the south. Which we should have done as well as separating the sunni from the shiite. Given that I am feeling generous to my enemies today having about half the oil profits distributed on a somewhat equitably between the muslims as long as they behave themselves.
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  158. After Admiral King found out about the failures of the mark 14 they were promptly fixed.
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  159.  @JosipRadnik1  Probably about a year out.
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  160. That is one way to provide the crew with fresh fish.
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  161. In Hollywood movies when it says "based on a true story" they leave off "and then rewritten to make sure it is as close to completely wrong as humanly possible."
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  162. The British too the award for best ship name with the ballistic missile submarine HMS Vengeance.
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  163. Nothing encourages an aggressor more than a unprepared victim.
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  164. So the most effective action against Imperial Japan aggression in the defense of the East Indies was by a Japanese ship.
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  165. It sounds like Admiral Jellicoe has earned having a battleship or given today's fleet reality carrier named after him.
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  166. If the Americans had trusted that Gibraltar would hold logical target of the landings would have been Sicily and Tobruk.
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  167. The competent USofA Admiral would probably sortie the fleet of coastal iron clads against the British ship of the line fleet if he got a dead calm to operate in.
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  168.  @stewartellinson8846  How dare you? I just suffered a fit of giggles.
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  169. ​ @ernestcline2868  Battle damage doesn't distract from being a museum ship. There is not enough radiation left to worry about in the slightest.
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  170. An over sized under gunned destroyer that will give a PT boat a good race and then booby trap a Harbor approach. Nice.
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  171. I saw an article about a RAF squadron that flew gyrocopters in WWII using their extreme low speed to stay close enough to stationary for calibrating the range of radar stations. The gyrocopters were replaced with helicopters as soon as they became available.
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  172. Water as hydraulic fluid on war ships does have the advantage of not being highly flammable. Spraying high pressure water into a breached turret is not entirely bad either.
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  173. HMS Rodney when the only thing left holding the boilers together is the scale.
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  174.  @benholroyd5221  When the Russia Japan war was fought Japan was not at war with China. Second Sino Japanese War ended bad for Japan; something about an unconditional surrender. The Continuation war was lost by Finland but by switching to fighting NATZIs they made a deal so that they only lost about 10% of their territory including Viipuri their forth largest city to Russia. But the had to acknowledge the war as being their fault rather than it being the fault of the Russians with their unprovoked invasion of the Winter War. History is not your strong suit.
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  175. Bio dust wood, flour, human skin... Burn so when atomized in air it can go boom. A little gunpowder lofting the dust...
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  176. Almost as pretty as a KC-135 when you're flying on thin fumes.
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  177.  @josephdedrick9337  You seem to have failed to notice that a flame thrower is short ranged and very limited in ammunition. Exactly the kind a weapon that cries for a bayonet. The Japanese Army mounted bayonets on heavy machine guns.
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  178. The 109's landing gear issues tend to be over stated. Landing even hard on a properly smooth runway almost never had a gear failure without stiff cross wind or ground loop. Between the arrested landing and the carrier running into the wind for landings eliminate the leading causes of gear failure and the navelized 109s did have strengthened landing gear.
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  179.  @Drachinifel  Depending on the Navy maybe if they annoy enough of the chief petty officers they will be given a learning experience.
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  180. In all fairness disrupting water supplies causes many problems including making fighting fires more difficult.
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  181.  @andyjackson3414  Not all is lost but it is a real good time to convert your savings into stocks, property, or precious metals. Getting a low interest fixed rate mortgage and investing the cash looks like a winning bet as well.
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  182.  @Delgen1951  Three meters is a bit under ten feet and four meters is a bit over thirteen feet. Are you aiming at a flat section of ocean surface or a ship that is a vertical target of significantly more than 4 meters?
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  183. A set of 12inch70 guns would be interesting.
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  184. The Russians played the part of the ducks in a shooting gallery.
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  185.  @Ron52G  When I deactivated the magnetic detonator the torpedo stop blowing up prematurely. The impact detonator firing pin was too heavy for the spring originally installed. Lighter firing pins were used to fix existing stocks torpedoes in forward depots but new torpedoes got more powerful springs this probably means some got both. The running deep problem was solved by moving the pressure sensor from the aft cone where passing through the water lowered the pressure to the side where velocity doesn't effect pressure. The other deep run phenomena was solved by informing the submarine crews about the maximum rate at which the torpedo would move to the surface probably with a chart of depth of launch to minimum engagement range. The torpedoes circling back on the boat shot them (this was not shared with the Mark XV) was solved by setting a maximum angle off bore that torpedoes could be shot at. The Mark XV had bigger propellant tanks and a limiter on maximum rudder deflection. After WWII the magnetic detonator was fixed primarily telling crews how they worked and how to adjust them to the local strength of earth's magnetic field. All the problems could and should have been found and fixed before the USofA entered WWII. This is why I think several officers at BuOrd should have been put against a wall and shot.
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  186. It appears to me the USofA Navy didn't want to put USS Ranger up against Japanese carriers for the same reason that you wouldn't want to put an elderly racehorse into the Kentucky Derby. YouTube ate my comment using a dog fighting reference.
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  187. That set the battlecruiser idea back a few years.
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  188.  @mancubwwa  The shells coming down at a steep angle have to be significantly more accuratly aimed to get a hits. Thus while they have an easier route in far more will miss. Adding velocity to a conventional Naval gun both improves penetration and increased the error in ranging that will still allow a hit. As for the USofA's superheavy projectiles I have mentioned before my belief that the senior officers at the USofA Navy's BuOrd of the 1930s should have been shot.
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  189. "Ship missing cause unknown." is the probable outcome.
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  190. HMS Captain would probably be closer.
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  191. The last of Imperial Japan's fleet carriers.
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  192. Scrapping four R-Class to get two G3s sounds not unreasonable.
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  193. They traided ships not unlike the Royal Navy and French fleets in the Napoleonic Wars.
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  194.  @EstellammaSS  so was the memo
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  195.  @bkjeong4302  The only issue with the Japanese torpedoes that I have heard about was the pure oxygen system being short tempered when still on deck.
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  196.  @bkjeong4302  That is not a torpedo issue but a tactics issue.
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  197. CNN all the accuracy of the the Brussels Gazette.
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  198. Slower than Standard Battleships? Wow that's slow. 😏
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  199. In the Longview Commodore Perry's Mission might have been a mistake.
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  200. Politics enter into the award of the Medal of Honor particularly for senior officers. This is not always bad as it can correct injustices such as the racists refusing the MoH to Black soldiers during the Vietnam war. Congress waved the time limit and required all the citations of minority soldiers be reviewed and deserved honors were rewarded.
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  201. I detect a theme about Admiral Fisher; excess is required. Good man that Admiral Fisher.
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  202. Now we all know why you hate French pre Dreadnots.
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  203.  @Bilbo-qq6ei  No, she became safe to dive on decades ago and more half lifes have passed.
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  204. So the next installment in the Royal Navy Ironclads is the Magic Pizza shroom special years.
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  205. Sweden, as pro Allies as they could survive being.
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  206. In all fairness to the B-17 bombers the USofA Army Air Force doctrine called for massive formations of high altitude bombers to cover the ships evasive maneuvers when attacking ships which they did not have available anywhere at the time.
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  207. The nonsense that doggies have to spout to feel good about themselves. It is so sad.
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  208. I don't know but not compromising the armor belt by putting the torpedo tubes below it makes sense to me as well.
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  209.  @isolinear9836  The British were the opponents Congress is the enemy.
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  210. All it should take to generate a general order to make sure the flash protection is in place is one ship caught without it and a couple other ships blowing up mysteriously quickly.
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  211. No they designed and built them for a specific function and then discovered that other uses needed the same attributes.
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  212. If the German High Seas Fleet is busy in the channel what keeps the Grand fleet from attacking the German coast?
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  213. I think that the biggest problem with the Bismarck is the stupidity of placing the fire control lines outside the armor.
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  214. Without the Europe first priority the Army and Army Air Forces would have undoubtedly at the very least made a pest of themselves in Burma, China, and other mainland Asia theater. The long range airpower would have at least been a nuisance to Japanese shipping. Also without looking to Europe enough reinforcements might have been slammed into the Philippines to keep them from falling. The long range land based airpower based there would put a major kink in Japanese navel operations.
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  215. The 5-in guns that were being put on Wake Island were 5inch51 removed from USS Texas when her anti-aircraft defenses were being upgraded; presumably with 5inch38 Dual Purpose guns.
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  216.  @txtifosi  Hood was a fast battleship in all but nomenclature.
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  217. I found it quite clear which war he was talking about.
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  218. People see that trees are not in a limitless supply so increasing demand tends to result in increased planting.
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  219. Not having the necessary support facilities with adequate redundancies built does not make a ship bad. And as far as I can tell that was the Alpha Class's primary weakness.
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  220.  @d.shaffer8782  Watch the video. Hitler was a national SOCIALIST he just had to go at it slower because Germany had a middle class ethos which made mass nationalization of industry politically untenable the way it was done in the USSR but it was the end goal and it was being done throughout the war. Poland was invaded by joint action of Hitler and Stalin.
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  221.  @DERP_Squad  The bullet scars in the wall would act as a reminder to the replacements the price of denying reality.
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  222.  @WALTERBROADDUS  Yep a boat.
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  223. That is what happens when you select officers based on politics instead of competency. The British did a far better job of removing the incompetence nobles.
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  224. ​ @christopherconard2831  That was the Army not the Navy.
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  225.  @MultiverseJoe  While much cheaper the ammo was wrong partially because of the heavy fouling that was solved by issuing cleaning kits within months. But also because while giving the same muzzle velocity the powder provided a different pressure curve that provided the wrong pressure at the barrel vent causing excessive wear and malfunctions. Colt modified the M-16 to account for the change in a timely manner once they were informed of what was causing the problem and that the Army intended to continue using the cheaper powder.
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  226.  @johannderjager4146  Not having the complaining submarine captains arrested and executed for complaining about the malfunctioning torpedoes is far better then what happened in the Soviet Union and communist China. Cholera to salmonella poisoning is it better comparison. Salmonella is Thoroughly unpleasant but you have a very good chance of surviving it unlike cholera.
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  227. Rockets accelerate their payload more gently than guns so they could have lofted Dynamite warheads.
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  228.  @PadraigTomas  Nothing in this thread disagrees.
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  229. lol.
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  230.  @planegaper  I don't think he had the political power too get Japan to surrender or else they would not have attacked America in the first place.
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  231. It had occurred to me that large sailing yachts armed with depth charges and light cannons if also equipped with oversized gasoline engines could have made good non escorting u-boat hunters being vertically undetectable by sound while under sail and relatively fast under power with virtually instantaneously going from engine off the full power.
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  232. The Independence Class LCS is designed to reduce its radar cross-section and has good electronic warfare systems so it would probably get the first hits but the Fletcher Class still has weight of fire and good and well practiced optical ranging.
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  233.  @andyjackson3414  I have never seen anyone that claimed to be broke who didn't have some wasteful spending. If you want a magic carpet look to socialism/communism an economic theory that has impoverished every country that embraced it. With a body count in the hundreds of millions at the very least. At this point the question about COVID 19 is was it released from the lab accidentally or on purpose.
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  234.  @KPen3750  I do not see a 3 or 4 meter difference in the hight of the guns being very important when firing at targets like ships and fortresses.
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  235.  @ajalvarez3111  It was included in a history of the American air war over Germany in WWII I read decades ago in the library. There were many amazing escapes including on guy that was grabbed by two Germans (presumably officers) before he touched the ground and was thrown into the back of a staff car he kept going out the other side and successfully escaped Germany. Three men only one who spoke German equiped with a measuring tape and clip board measured their way out of Germany. Another bought a wheelbarrow from a workman and pushed it out the front gate of the POW camp and out of Germany. Funny stories are usually easy to remember.
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  236.  @BHuang92  And how would the analysis have gone if she was capable of nail driving accuracy with her guns? It makes a big difference on what is cost effective.
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  237. Particularly at the BBC.
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  238.  @ramal5708  The USofA Navy not getting the money to build entire battleship squadrons of the same class decided to make a set of standards for battleship design so that different classes of battleships would work well together. 21 kts was not absurdly slow when it was decided and it did allow the very heavy armor and guns on the ships of comparable tonnage to their contemporaries. It also helped keep older reciprocating engine battleships relevant to the front line role. Really they stuck with 21 kts a little long.
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  239. That was a long review of just a portion of Japanese carrier armament.
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  240. English Twin brothers, colonists in India and Burma and invested in mines, smelting, farming, construction... had become rediculously rich notice gathering clouds of war and by 1935 have built 4 1200x200 foot drydocks and you have been selected to design four battleships to be named HMIS Shiva, HMS Demolisher, HMS Obliterator, and HMS Annihilator and have been specifically instructed cost is not an objection and to ignore treaty limits in your design what do the ship look like?
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  241. The "Blue Ghost" in Corpus Christi. CV-16 USS Lexington.
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  242.  @Drachinifel  A quote attributed to Winston Churchill, "Cheating is violating agreed upon rules. Making the rules favor you is diplomacy."
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  243. Those be fighting words.
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  244.  @eknapp49  We just heard several demonstrations the problem with dead reckoning.
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  245.  @CSSVirginia  How do you think a non coffee drinker like me knows that.
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  246.  @VintageCarHistory  Another example of superior tech biting you in the donkey.
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  247.  @JohnSmith-kg2rt  If that was true Berlin and Moscow would have been incinerated by pure rage in 39.
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  248.  @luisnunes2010  Shot.
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  249. I hate to think what the Italian Navy would have done if they had the same access to fuel as the American Navy.
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  250. I wish someone would have replaced a Q- turret by going with four 3 gun turrets.
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  251. Granted it is after your time but a ballistic missile boat you want a captain that hides with pride. A coward might do he is to hide till ordered to fire his missiles.
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  252.  @mannys9130  The point is that a nuke sitting on the seabed for a few weeks are no longer operable; this was demonstrated when a B-52 rammed a tanker it was trying to refuel from over the northern Mediterranean. 3 of the 4 bombs landed on land and scattered fissionables which were cleaned up. (Ultra enriched fuel is expensive and it was cheaper and faster to pick it up than make replacement material) the forth bomb came down under a parachute into the sea. It was found and intact and was recovered. This bomb was scrapped as well because it was easier to build a new bomb than repair the damaged one.
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  253. Really big engines.
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  254. What's the ultra-long 14-inch guns you could reduce some of the barrel wear by firing super heavy shells at more conventional velocities using weight instead of speed to get deeper penetration. While well balance turrets are nice with power traverse it is not necessary.
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  255.  @WALTERBROADDUS  You make a funny.
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  256.  @bluemarlin8138  I remember seeing an Iowa Class in formation with a British battleship in the North Atlantic in WWII. The Royal ship was steaming along in a stately manner while the American ship was taking huge amounts of water over the deck but I can't remember the name of either ship.
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  257. I think a combination of the fact that torpedo Boats were cheap and that the Germans operated in the shallow and relative calm of the Baltic is why the Germans continued to build torpedo boats when other countries went solely with destroyers.
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  258.  @danbrooks5060  NATO against Putin of the KGB. Irrelevant politics you say? Really?
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  259. Truman gutted the USofA military before the Korean War. Stalin's greatest mistake was launching the Korean War; had he waited just a few more Years he could have potentially conquered the USofA.
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  260. Acts of desperation and acts of extreme stupidity can be hard to differentiate.
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  261. To make a successful interwar dual-purpose 6-in gun would require tripling or quadrupling the gun crews.
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  262. Bermuda is not in the Caribbean. Bermuda is about 1500 KM north of the British Virgin Islands.
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  263.  @fuzzyhair321  Some join unions because they are forced to. If you are a hard working productive worker the union holds your wages down while it is raising the wage of the lazy.
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  264.  @fuzzyhair321  Watching unions in action.
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  265.  @ramal5708  The radar could tell the carrier where the enemy aircraft are but there is a lot more to fighter direction than knowing where to send them. The Royal Navy was far better at it until the USofA Navy learned from the crew of the "USS Robin" on the proper way of doing so.
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  266. Despite the American love of guns we draw the line somewhere before guns that risk breaking the ship in half when firing.
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  267. LBJ, and Jimmy Carter are best forgotten, both as both President and Navy career.
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  268. You wouldn't be making these videos if you weren't a born teacher. And just about everybody loves sharing their hard learned knowledge.
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  269. If the Oklahoma had been rebuilt she probably would have gotten turbines to replace reciprocating engines in the rebuild because it would have freed up space and weight for other purposes.
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  270. Did anyone try using rocket artillery to deliver overly sensitive warheads.
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  271. You would have to label it "US NAVY in WWII"
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  272. My theory for U-99 somebody miss flushed the toilet.
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  273.  @lowlandnobleman6746  Stalin distrust of the UK and USofA started much earlier than 42 he was paranoid way before that and he never intended to keep his end of the bargain to not keep any land conquered by the Russians.
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  274. Actually it depends on how long you have to cure it. In the Denver Colorado area a century old concrete irrigation control structure that was unused because the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad connected to the transcontinental railroad bringing in Agricultural products particularly wheat from the great plains at lower cost than could be grown locally turned out to be too tough to tear down. just the right ratio and a century to cure without being stressed makes for really hard concrete. I do wonder if you could use rock like Manhattan schist as armor.
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  275.  @888alphaable  You would also work very hard to do your job to an acceptable level after your bosses were executed for Dereliction of Duty.
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  276. Montana now has a boat named after it.
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  277. Chrome was not deleted. It was not there in the first place. The people that changed the powder but argued for the chrome lied about it.
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  278.  @johnathanh2660  The self purchased rifles that the Rangers had weren't and they didn't have a jamming problem despite not being cleaned. The chrome would not have affected the first generation M-16 durability because the different pressure curve of the dirty powder had the bolts opening to fast as well as the residue causing jamming.
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  279.  @btyrreddagger2065  The USofA Navy had great confidence in long range gunnery and decided that their cruisers would never get within torpedo range of an enemy. Given the problems with the mark 14/15 torpedoes not much was lost.
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  280. When your ship is fighting for its life you can trust a man that understands that the ship surviving maximizes his survival to fight for the ships survival.
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  281. Ironclads are weird.
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  282. Instead of flying boats landing to pick up survivors have the planes drop inflatable boats.
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  283.  A Velsen  While I don't approve of Clark's hitting people because they failed to do their job, he was waiting on a biopsy I was telling him if he was dying of cancer or not.
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  284.  @simonfrederiksen104  That certainly sounds dodgy.
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  285.  @bkjeong4302  Hindsight is 2020 but what if carriers had not panned out?
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  286.  @bkjeong4302  When the battleships were proved to be displaced from being the queen of the seas it did not mean that the battleship was not valuable. The question is whether their reduced value was worth what was needed to finish them for the projected war left to be fought . For the completed Iowas it was. Postwar the Russians who were never stupid, weird but not stupid, were building a big gun navy. Air defense weapons were getting better reducing the ability of planes to get close enough to effectively drop torpedoes and dive bomb. The battleship was suddenly no longer clearly second tier platforms when looking at it with just the information available at the time. What if the Russians has a antiaircraft laser on the drawing board. we knew that nuclear bombs were going to get smaller and that the Russians were going to get them. What happens to a squadron of torpedo bombers that has a nuke go of in the middle of it?
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  287. Battery-powered locomotives are a joke but electric locomotive drawing power from the wires as is demonstrated all over the world, quite practical.
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  288. It is within spitting distance of being a 4-pounder. It could have been the manufacturer's measurement standards were off when developing it. But it could be meant to be 83mm but by the time they reamed and rifled the guns they were oversized.
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  289. The Me 109 that were being built for carrier operation were longer winged to improve takeoff off and landing performance. 3/4 complete when the carrier was cancelled they were completed with high altitude engines and performed well as high altitude fighter and the take-off and landing performance was reported as being better but probably not up to launching from a ship without a catapult but as the USS Gerald R Ford demonstrates that is not an incapacitating problem.
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  290.  @williamprince1114  Never do anything yourself that you can con an expert into doing for you. --- Miles Vorkosigan
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  291. They looked much more like .45-70 to me.
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  292. Ammonia absorption and caustic soda engines could provide short ranged air independent propulsion and oil fired steam plants can also recharge the energy storage of both types. They were both used along side the shorter ranged pneumatic locomotives as smoke free locomotives for use in tunnels before the electric motor was invented. The danger represented by the energy storage technology in both had them completely retired from commercial and industrial use within 2 years of the first successful electric locomotive. I would put the risk of operating them at about the same as a nuclear powered ship generating and fueling anti-submarine helicopters with hydrazine.
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  293. It is important to remember that brothers often fight as practice for when the outsider shows up.
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  294.  @andyjackson3414  Just because you rather spend your small amount disposable income on little things like alcohol, cigarettes, phones... Doesn't mean you have to. If you take that money and invest it you to can be envied by the foolish as well.
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  295. 'Tis was the age of the leather lunged petty officer transmitting orders. A certain American officer named King didn't have need of him.
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  296. So France does a good job building little ships. Good to know.
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  297. It is a mistake to underestimate the long-range operating capabilities of the Japanese & Korean navies as part of a coalition force. Also you need to keep your eye out for under employed tankers & and over craned container ships no matter who's flag they are flying.
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  298. That wasn't the Union Jack but between black and white photos and similarities in the flags patterns it is an easy mistake. Drack explained the mistake previously. I think it was in a Dry Dock.
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  299. In all fairness the designers of the County Class might have been removing armor to get the weight down leading to the ability to add armor.
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  300. Mad George had his good points. And I am one of a great number of beneficiaries of his forcing a colonial Rebellion. But as the rebels being of all European extraction calling it a revolution isn't entirely wrong.
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  301. So the mistake that most advocates of the Decisive Battle is viewing the big battle as an end not the means to an end. You would think that would be obvious but history speaks otherwise.
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  302.  @bkjeong4302  But how many of the other officers were competent?
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  303. The German Empire was already doomed there was nothing the German Navy could have done to change that.
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  304. The Japanese prohibition against carriers was semi-internal being that it was in their constitution but that particular constitution was heavily influenced by MacArthur. (some say written by MacArthur's staff.) I think that the remilitarizing of Japan would have been a mistake except that the USofA can not maintain consistent military readiness and so we are going to be very glad that Japan is well armed in the coming conflict with the PRC.
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  305. Not bad. Just late and not as valuable as carriers.
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  306. The current condition of the Bismarck is a vast improvement of those French monstrosities.
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  307. Submarines have a lot of high pressure air and a fairly big compressor so an air hose, not a pump.
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  308. Given the weather advantage that the British received, God was on their side.
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  309.  @davidwright7193  The Spanish fleet took one hell of a beating from a storm that greatly weakened it before the Brits arrived.
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  310. Actually colonial rebellion.
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  311.  @bkjeong4302  Your grasp of historic facts is lacking. They could have finished crushing Taffy 3 and then they could have obliterated the ships of the landing Force Landing Force and showed the hell out of them before withdrawing. That would have counted as a win.
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  312. He didn't have a 0/0 ejection seat so ejecting while on the deck was suicidal.
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  313. Was that for boilers or more modern engines?
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  314.  @Wildschwein_Jaeger  I really doubt that a gas turbine is burning heavy fuel oil.
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  315.  @Delgen1951  I drink Dr. Pepper. Nope I prefer caffeine withdrawal to coffee.
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  316.  @JohnSmith-kg2rt  Burned to bedrock by rage no nukes necessary.
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  317. In all fairness maybe the designer of the County Class simply anticipated taking on a lot of water in combat.
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  318.  @Ugly_German_Truths  Getting thought to be predictable can be of great value though.
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  319. Assuming that it was actually a majority not a loud fringe doing the chanting the government did follow the expressed will of the people and that is fairly rare.
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  320. But if they had been commissioned in 1940 and had been given captains that most of all were competent not old boys network, respectful of the capabilities of the Japanese Navy, and aggressive as Bull Halsey they likely would be considered the most useful surface combatants of the war.
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  321. La Couronne of a different design because it's France.
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  322. Tragic but it is the fault of the French.
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  323.  @mannys9130  Nukes are far more complicated than a metal casing full of HE.
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  324.  @glennricafrente58  Having the capability to win a fight does not make one an aggressor. Not having the capability to win a fight does make one a victim. Two thugs decided that they had the right to my money until I convinced them that I was more dangerous in a fight than they were but even a good bluff will only take you so far.
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  325.  Death More death  North Vietnam invading South Vietnam was illegal and the democrats always were the party of racism.
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  326.  @MrBITS101  Bombing the tank farms would have been a waste of bombs. The USofA would have had replaced the fuel before the fires went out and refueling ships directly from a tanker would have been only a minor annoyance. The USofA was the biggest oil exporter in the world at the time.
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  327.  @johnfisher9692  Japan intended to declare war before the attack. USofA intelligence decoded the message from the Japanese government to the Japanese Embassy instructing the Diplomat do declare war in time to give a warning the Embassy's decoding equipment malfunctioned delaying the delivery of the declaration. Apparently the Japanese government not having a plan to win the war on the ground wanted to avoid a sneak attack while negotiating so that they would be able to negotiate an end to the war that let them keep the oil field they intended to take.
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  328.  @WALTERBROADDUS  They had the wrong bombs because they were attacking the wrong targets.
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  329. Extreme long range is very useful in shore bombardment.
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  330. If the Yamato was defending a port and attacked by all the American Standard battleships on December 1st 1941 which would win?
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  331.  @bkjeong4302  Your opinion agrees with mine to a point, I did cripple Yamato's speed advantage with her defending a fixed position. But are the standards really peers to Yamato?
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  332. If trying to make a very large very fast two shaft ship like a 28kt Nelson would it help to use a reduction gear final drive at the screws to allow higher shaft speed to reduce the toque load?
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  333.  @johnshepherd8687  I would not bet against them firing harpoon missiles out of the torpedo tubes.
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  334.  @johnshepherd8687  Why would you think they would not be carrying anti-ship weapons? They have to survive long enough to get into position.
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  335. Being isolationist only works if you're well-armed.
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  336. Jeremy Corbyn and Hillary Clinton running the UK and USofA governments.
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  337. When projectiles pass through armor at an angle the change of the direction of the projectile in in the direction that changes the angle towards 90 degrees unless the armor has a really localized weakness present which British armor has never shown signs of. It is a significantly less likely to be correct theory.
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  338.  @alexandersteel7272  Probably Yamato and Musashi working together. Never underestimate the strength of plot Armor.
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  339.  @timengineman2nd714  Radiation is not as dangerous as you think and respirators are thing. When they decommissioned the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plants they dealt with rusty steel contaminated with plutonium and sand blasted it without contaminating the workers. They used dry ice as the sand so that they didn't create piles of contaminated sand. All the springs in Europe that have been known since antiquity for having healing properties have one thing in common. A higher than average background radiation count.
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  340. It really helps to put a bit of salt in the water when cooking.
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  341.  @kurumi394  Unsupported long range operations in the Pacific.
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  342.  @senecanero3874  The radar alone would have made it a one-sided curb stomp as the German ships would know where British ships were and providing real accurate range estimates putting the initial salvos much closer to on target. Then add anti-ship missiles targeting the flagships; except Beatty's of course; why bother? With the radar and modern sonar giving location the modern diesel U-boats would descrew a few ship at the very least.
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  343.  @gossythepadre  Would that be poppies buds in the salad, and Mary Jane's brownies for dessert? Or maybe the mushroom special from Magic Pizza?
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  344.  @kemarisite  I bow to superior knowledge but I prefer anti surface ship cruise missiles for the range advantage but if DM2A4 also is good against submarines it's all good.
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  345. Too bad the idea wasn't to just redesign the turrets of the Alaska class to four 8inch rapid fire guns.
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  346. Perhaps as a Marine he discovered that he liked a grappling hook as a weapon and couldn't get one as a legionary.
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  347.  @chrissouthgate4554  Imagine Sir Isaac Newton's reaction if somebody had suggested using a series of highly reflective Newton cannonballs in orbits described in very flowery speech as geostationary.
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  348.  @jlsperling1  The time between dropping the bombs and impact was why doctrine called for huge formations. By the time that the Army was getting enough B-17s to meet doctrine they had been withdrawn from the Pacific theater.
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  349. At least they get fair trials.
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  350.  @TraditionalAnglican  Actually the opposite.
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  351.  @sundiver137  A little interservice rivalry is a good thing it shows pride. I have brothers that served as a squid, a jarhead, and a doggie officer. No I am not a zoomy.
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  352.  @conradswadling8495  48 hours uncontested control of the channel and it would not have been a lightly armed force landed.
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  353. Never underestimate the stupidity of someone suffering from a master race complex.
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  354. What happens if an eccentric American multi millionaire had succeeded in secretly building two functionally identical to Essex class except for having an armored flight deck ready for sea trials by December 1941?
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  355.  @barryjones8842  Well to be functionally identical to Essex class not physically identical. Being much more resistant to dive bombing while carrying the same compliment of aircraft requires a different overall design. Midway class had the armored deck and a larger compliment of planes. They also had stability issues probably from the weight of the armor being so high but the navy kept them through the late 80s so clearly they weren't bloody useless. Playing with the idea of a time traveler story I came up with a couple possible ways to hide the construction. One of which is pick somewhere with terrible weather to explain the roof and build some Blue Ribbon liners first so nobody really questions what is being built.
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  356. Did any navies use towed balloons hot air or hydrogen for lookouts?
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  357. An Ammericans oppinion. Admiral Beatty strengths were not as a heroic at sea leadership. It is more difficult to admire a man that is good at paper shuffling and shmoosing polititions. Bill Halsey took a Navy that just had its teeth kicked in and successfully went on the offensive. It is a pitty that he hadn't been promoted out of command before the first typhoon.
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  358. The Battle New Orleans not affecting the outcome of the war was very good for the British. But of course not doing actual spying to find out the opinion of Canadians about being under British rule wasn't good for Washington DC either.
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  359. If you are shooting up the beach defenses that your sons are about to hit I imagine that shore bombardment is real exciting.
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  360. They literally put themselves in harm's way. Damned Onion Ninjas
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  361. In an ideal world you don't need a navy.
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  362. Having a windmill providing auxiliary power on an 19th century ship could work but the windmills of the era were not efficient enough to move a ship into the wind.
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  363. My guess is so that two guns could fire both fore and aft. And and possibly Absinthe.
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  364.  @bkjeong4302  USS Montana (BB-51), was a South Dakota-class battleship laid down in 1920 but cancelled and scrapped in 1923
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  365.  @naamadossantossilva4736  Yep. America spent to build a navy when Spain let theirs got to hell.
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  366. The British government has a long history of chaining logic gates closed.
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  367. How many additional Japanese troops were kept in the Philippines by the guerrillas inspired by MacArthur's "I shall return."
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  368. 4.25inch is 107.95mm so something like a modernish105mm anti-tank gun could have the range and power for fighting cruisers but would require more power in the turrets for air defense use.
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  369. No. When a projectile penetrates an armor plate its course changes towards going in at a 90 degree angle to the plate. With the Hood's sloped armor the deflection would be upwards. It confuses the hel out of me as to why but your theory runs counter to how things work in the real world.
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  370.  @buzzardbeurling  Your statement does not match reality. No matter how thin or soft thel armor it will alter the direction of travel of the penatrator in the manner I described.
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  371.  Schlomo Baconberg  How hard you work makes much more difference in raises and promotions in a non-union shop than they ever will in a union shop and you can tell the people that tell you that you are working too hard and making the others look bad to fuk-off. And your money isn't sent to campaigns for politicians that will destroy your job on his first day in office.
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  372.  @dennisyoung4631  I have never seen people that were good at their nominal job having problems but I have seen plenty of lazy and incompetent people protected by unions. I have also seen good people hurt and killed because the didn't want to join a union.
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  373.  @howardhiggins9641  Tutoring your underperforming classmates is not cheating.
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  374.  @TheKingofbrooklin  A super firing turret can be significantly closer to the next turret than a non super firing turret reducing the length of the armored citadel. But why C turret instead of B? It is very simular you can cram the following ship components in closer behind it.
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  375.  @stevevalley7835  Obsolete bombers like B-17s and B-24s.
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  376.  Hoa Tattis  Monty didn't have Patton's capabilities either. It would be close to idea to have Monty plan the operation and have Patton carry it out. That way you get the best out of both of them.
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  377.  Hoa Tattis  Watch the video.
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  378.  @bigwoody4704  Anyone calling Monty incompetent has an axe to grind which does not involve the truth.
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  379. G-r-o-a-n.
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  380. If the Fleet Air Arm had gotten the navalised Spitfire into production before the Battle of Britain if anything their would have been more Spitfire variants available for the fight.
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  381.  @LiveErrors  Granted she was under armoured but she was a battlecruiser not a large light cruiser.
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  382. Names for the N3 Annihilator Demolisher Obliterator Exterminator
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  383. Sadly the Plot Armor only lasted till the Royal Navy lost the plot.
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  384. If after the covered builders slips for the Yamamoto class had been built but before the keels had been laid the Japanese branch of the battleship mafia had been done in by bad sushi at their monthly meeting what would the Yamamoto class carriers look like?
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  385. The conflict between the Japanese Army and Navy in WWII? A little hotter than the Cold War.
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  386.  @MrJob91  Cobble stones are paving. Bicycles don't need paved roads.
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  387.  @adamalton2436  Gas turbines are smaller and lighter per power output, go from cold start to maximum power faster, when running at optimal power more efficient, and loses far less efficiency when running on changing fuel types (look at the difference in performance of the multi fuel engine in Chieftain and M-1 Abram tanks).
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  388. Nelson's ships benefitted from fighting at point blank range so Nelson's reputation for "Sail me closer I want hit them with my sword." was him just getting in the most effective place to fight in which case knowing his ship's advantages was in long range fight he would be expected to fight at long range.
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  389. Boats submarines are boats.
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  390. For the most part American farms had been mechanized by WWII these farm boys were not ignorant rubes that had never operated anything more complicated than a jackknife. One of the advantages the USofA Army had was that when a vehicle broke down better than 9 times out of 10 someone on it could get it running well enough to get to a motor pool.
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  391. Really steam propulsion was the least of the K class' problems.
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  392. I say dear chap, our ship over there seems to be in a battle in which victory is not a fore gone conclusion. Maybe we should go over and lend a hand.
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  393. The last two words should be "seriously buggered".
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  394.  @benholroyd5221  Read the whole rule. Never start a war with Russia when fighting anybody else. Look at what all your examples had in common. And Finland was on the fringe of it because they allied with the NATZIs. Fighting Russia is not something to do while otherwise distracted. Napoleon should have grovelled for Russia's forgiveness for the insulting note rather than invading.
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  395. Assuming the extra carriers being built, fast oilers are probably a given. Particularly given the cost difference between battleships and carriers.
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  396.  @WALTERBROADDUS  So does building carriers. Did you even consider where I got the advanced instructors and leaders from? Also film the lectures and Q and A to reduce the classroom time for the instructors. Today the USofA Navy is not looking at a crash expansion of the carrier force but if it was except for getting experience from the Brits they could use the same method. Not doing something is not the same as not being able to do something.
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  397.  @WALTERBROADDUS  The British accepted American volunteers into the RAF do you really think that they would turn down more that would return to American service when the USofA entered the war? There was a lot of isolationist and neutrality opinion in the USofA but that did not include FDR. The AVG recruited serving Army & Navy pilots and the perks of accepting the offer was getting regular commissions when returning from China; Greg Boyington succeeded in getting his as well. I read his book the lengths he went to in avoiding admitting that he was an alcoholic even after admitting that only imperial Japan and AA were the only forces that ever succeeded in keeping him sober was epic.
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  398. Stop insulting fossils.
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  399. Gutting the superstructure rangefinders will render a ship somewhat combat innefective so some well timed airbursts from relitively small guns might work on Yamamoto.
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  400. Yamamoto's overly complex plans very well could have been a symptom of knowing he was always going to be fighting outnumbered. If Mike Tyson wants to take some guy out he'll walk up and punch him Pee-wee Herman on the other hand wants to take out the same guy he's going to have to do something complicated.
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  401. Not ignoring the damage to the shields but having the shields properly overlapping they will help keep the waves and spray out.
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  402.  @ashesofempires04  I have seen sources that claim that they were intended to defend bases/ports.
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  403.  @888alphaable  Clearly you would not have chosen a career in the military in the first place.
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  404. Did they pitch tents on the flight deck to make berthing space for the troops?
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  405. With the problems in designing the funnels on carriers did anyone try venting out the side with a seawater spray to cool the smoke and force it to settle to the surface?
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  406. How would the Lord Nelson class stood up if they had been refitted with the 2 gun 9.2inch turrets replaced with single gun turrets with the largest gun practical and the 12 inch guns replaced with matching guns and the reciprocating engines replaced with turbines. Assume that the single gun 9.2 turrets either deleted or replaced with turrets with multiple significantly smaller guns.
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  407. Poor Drack asked which of his children he is most proud off.
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  408. The Great Eastern was designed to be operated in a river too shallow for a ship of her draft using screw propulsion but to also steam from the British home islands to India unrefueled. This called for the greater efficiency of screw propulsion. The sails were intended for emergencies but would undoubtedly been used to save fuel when sailing with favorable winds. What doomed her as a liner was the fuel consumption of single expansion engines. If she had been built just a few years later she probably would have been a commercial success but then the people laying under sea cables would have been out of luck. I always found it strange that the paddle wheels could not be lifted from the water and the screws absorb all the power from the boilers if not engines.
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  409. Maxim 17. The longer everything goes according to plan, the bigger the impending disaster.
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  410. Given her relative capabilities not really.
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  411.  @craighagenbruch3800  There are limits even to even a god emperor's power especially when his position has a long history of merely being a figurehead.
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  412.  @mottthehoople693  That is why from concealment so he can get away with it.
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  413.  @mottthehoople693  And yes, I am an American
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  414.  @TomM-jh8lx  Japan was not at war with Russia. If the ships were flying Russian flags the Japanese could not have attacked them without starting another war that they couldn't win. Assuming they could get their submarine commanders to "waste" torpedoes on mere merchantmen.
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  415.  @mattsgrungy  When sailing with the wind square sails are more efficient and the trade winds were so convenient. It is a shame really. If the fast way of getting to the Americas did not take you past West Africa maybe the Atlantic slave trade would not have developed.
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  416.  @waskoNzoo  The Russians were always our enemies we were just stupid enough to ignore that because Adolf was stupid enough to invade Russia while fighting other wars. The only difference between the government of soviet Russia and fascist Germany was the overt racism of Germany, Germany moving slower on nationalizing every thing, and the press they received.
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  417.  @waskoNzoo  Who went first into Berlin? The Russian Army because Truman ordered the American army to let them have Berlin. Who were the once saving Nazies from justice? Argentina. Who payed the cold war after that? The Russians started it when the blockaded Berlin to get the British, America, and French to leave. Putin is not much better.
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  418. Appears a little less top heavy than the American originals.
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  419.  @Primarch359  There is a difference between saying sound judgement given what he knew, praising, and saying he acted stupidity. Clearly Ryan's opinion was not the latter but not necessary the second.
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  420. How much would it have slowed down the Iowa Class if you used "torpedo blisters" to increase the department of the bow and stern to give good sea keeping in the North Atlantic?
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  421. Because German explosives are very disciplined they do not explode until they are ordered to explode. --- Meister Kanonier Horst Güntzel
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  422. Clearly claustrophobia is not something you want in your sail-powered man-of-war designer.
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  423. Mexico
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  424.  @janitorizamped  They executed people for losing battles. They executed people for defeatism. They had/have units authorized to kill soldiers for complaining.
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  425. Would age of sail ships have benefited from bulbous bows? While the huge slow turning diesel engines have advantages including their ability to be coaxed into burning Bunker C, could you get greater speed while maintaining efficiency using electric or hydraulic powered screws using a large number of smaller high speed diesel engines?
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  426. A bit late but in great force?
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  427. According to Nicholas Moran of The Chieftain's Hatch the USofA Navy did a really good job of indexing what they sent to the National Archive. It is almost like they might want to access the information again. The Army just randomly threw stuff in boxes and sent it to the archive instead of the dump. Which would make the job of a spy trying to find a particular document really difficult. So it might be easy to find the color film of dye Pack water plumes.
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  428. While I would enjoy the drive. You can use 36 hours as a good bases for minimum time for driving east coast to west coast USofA but it does make popping intoCorpus Christi to see Lady Lexington a bit less of an inconvenience. Be sure to get a burger at In and Out for supporting Freedom against the will of the Vaccine Tyrants. Ps. Be sure to include a surprise stop for Mrs. Drax dedicated solely to her interests. See what I said, please don't make me sleep on the couch dear.
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  429.  @its1110  According to Wikipedia 5 were planned and the keel was laid for the forth but canceled and broken up in place when about 30% complete.
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  430.  @bkjeong4302  If the carriers can't successfully attack anything they are useless for anything but scouting and with the Russians that usually know what they are doing at the strategic level acting like they had a plan it would have been stupid to bet everything on them being wrong. You are still using after the fact information to second guess people without the information.
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  431.  @bkjeong4302  A battalion of field artillery can ruin a cruisers entire day. A battleships will obliterate the artillery battalion even if the army guys get hits first.
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  432.  @bkjeong4302  It does not matter if Stalin was behaving stupidity if the people countering his expansionism do not know why he thinks the fleet he was building would win. You are looking with hindsight with everything known and saying that the people that that did not have that advantage were stupid because they did not know what they could not know. Do you condemn toddlers for not understanding nuclear physics as well?
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  433. Admiral Kalbfus seemed to be familiar with the results of previous exercises but think that the problems with keeping the carriers close was the results of mistakes he wouldn't make. But responded well to the pin to his ego.
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  434. The French selling weapon systems to someone does not make them friends. They probably sold guns to Hitler.
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  435. Greatly appreciate your dedication and effort on top of the great content provided.
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  436. The ship breaks in half going through the estuary's standing wave.
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  437. Please get a notated* copy of the photo to school master Drach. *who where what and when.
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  438.  @JTA1961  Groan.
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  439. There is a reason why it is called "dead" reckoning. Thinking that your educated guess is more accurate than radio triangulation is foolish.
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  440. Someone might have built some really long tube 12 inch guns. 12 inch 80s would be interesting.
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  441. How did those idiots get the rank to make those disastrous decisions?
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  442.  @jonny-b4954  The rivets were hammered tight while red hot and shrank while they cooled making the seam tighter. Iron oxide is larger than just iron so when a bit of rust forms between the plates the seam gets tighter. Paint helps keep water from getting between the plates as well. But a very large number of photos of these ships show them dumping significant amounts of water overboard. Welding is clearly more watertight as well as stronger and lighter but it allows cracks to propagate over much larger areas.
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  443. Well you might get away with eleven or twelve cents worth.
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  444.  @khaelamensha3624  Nice display of ignorance.
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  445. If a ship simply disappeared while sailing of the East Coast of Africa before the world accepted the existence of rogue waves...
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  446.  @20chocsaday  You missed the point. The anti Japanese racism kept people from believing how good the Zero was. But once it was declared a copy of a western design the stupid bastards would believe the stories of how good it was.
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  447. And a whole lot of other people.
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  448.  @davidwright7193  Being wrong does not mean unconsidered.
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  449. Celebrating last time someone entered the House of Parliament with honest intentions.
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  450.  @bradwolf9410  That is why the delay. The fuse ignites hitting anything harder than a seagul but does not set off the shell until enough time has passed for the shell to have passed through any armor that it will penetrate but if it hits something unarmored like a CVE it still does more damage than going in one side and out the other. The battle of Samar springs to mind as an example but if the commanding admiral had decided that obliterating the American invation force would only result in Japan suffering more vengeance after the Americans finished winning such fusing would have been counter productive.
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  451. That the enemy soldiers are not all monsters and in fact produced true heroes as well is a hard lesson to learn.
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  452. The UK wanted to play soccer running all over the place doing very little while want to play American football hitting hard strait up the middle.
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  453. That sounds entirely to much like Mondays.
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  454. Given America's oil production in the early 1940s (America exported oil to neutral countries throughout the war and the gas rationing was to save rubber not gasoline (petrol) bombing the fuel dump at Pearl Harbor would have only been a minor inconvenience to America the largest problem being replacing the tanks.
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  455. When you raise your voice you tend to start gesturing.
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  456. While the Wildcat was markedly inferior to the Zero in one on one combat having almost no chance of victory. But two Wildcats could take on nine Zeros with an 50/50 chance of victory.
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  457.  @derrickstorm6976  That is the point.
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  458. Cavitation can be reduced by adding air bubbles to the water this helps avoid the vacuum/water vapor bubbles and puts in a spring effect for cushioning the shockwave when the vacuum bubbles collapse. Not an optimal solution but it is better than having your propellers beat to pieces.
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  459. What ship built by not for a second or third teir Naval power had the greatest effect on war ship design going forward.
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  460. Needing to keep most of your fuel tanks full of something isn't necessarily bad if you can drain the water as fast as you can pump fuel into the ship. Of course Germany couldn't afford to lose fuel in pushing out the last of the water.
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  461. It occurs to me a fix for the magnetic detonator is a bigger warhead.
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  462.  @stevevalley7835  Why? Is that automatic. The 13.5inch 55s have greater velocity and that really levels the penetration equation and half again as many hits levels the damage inflicted equations. Edit Grammar correction.
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  463.  @OtakuLoki  Granted but if they have the ships what makes you think that they are not doing the training. As part of a coalition force they would have an advisor on board until they mastered it and given the egos of Japanese and Korean people they would master it damned quick.
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  464. Not too bad as super cruisers.
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  465. The bloody huge explosion caused the ship to ring like a bell dazing the crew and it takes time to climb out of the bowels of the ship.
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  466. Today despite the evidence to the contrary people are saying that the PRC can't design their own aircraft.
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  467. More likely a Chinook.
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  468. MacArthur will certainly smart enough to come to the conclusion that there was under no circumstances he was going to be given a Fleet Carrier could have leaked his intent to take Rabaul both to remind the people that the Philippines had been under supported and to explain his not being as successful as he believed he should have been.
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  469.  @Adeline-fm    They used a emergency order gun that was superficially identical but weaker than the standard 6-pdr and required special low pressure ammunition that was externally identical to standard 6-pdr ammo. The Royal Navy was real glad to get rid of the guns.
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  470.  @livingadreamlife1428  How much more nonsense are you planning on posting here.
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  471. 😆 lol
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  472. The problem was the unsuitable officers. Napoleon stated that there was no such thing as a bad regiment only bad officers. The same is true about ship's crews.
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  473.  @bkjeong4302  But did they know that at the time?
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  474. Mostly the great looks of the Italian Navy is just an effect of inherent Italian style.
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  475. I suspect that the USofA Navy learning from Prinz Eugen was a significant factor in getting the super high pressure boilers into service not too many years later. However sometimes it is the motivation of, "Those fools got that piece of junk to operate usefully reliably we can certainly make a much better design work."
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  476.  @alwayscurious3357   @BlackHawkBallistic  There was also a navalized Me109 with longer wings. When Graf Zeppelin was cancelled the 3/4 completed long wing 109s were finished given high altitude engines and performed quite well. And the Ju 87 Stuka is one of the best dive bombers ever built despite requiring heavy escort. There is no reason to believe that she would have been hopeless dropping torpedoes either.
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  477.  @chloehennessey6813  Hitler had to launch WWII early because his socialist programs caused him to keep running out of money. So he kept adding people to steal money from. He invaded Russia because he no longer had the money or spare industry to keep buying oil. Because the railroads had been socialized and didn't have money for new locomotives and rolling stock Germany suffered coal shortages because they could not ship it from the mines to where it was needed resulting in lowering the production of coal but Germany still had significant aircraft production at the end of the war.
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  478. The Great White Fleet being dependent on British support ships did help deescalate tensions of having all those American battleships in Japanese waters because if America had taken the opportunity to attack Japan all the Japanese had to do to win was not lose quickly. Of course if Japan started the war no matter how much damage they did to the Great White Fleet four years later the American Navy would arrive with more new battleships than Japan had ships in total. Aggressor is guaranteed to lose is a great way to prevent war.
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  479. In building a trimaran battleship the outer hulls would be the torpedo defense making the center hull much slimmer really altering drag so you might not need the engines in the outer hulls particularly if they are really narrow for their length.
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  480.  @Dave_Sisson  If you design it that way. Speed is not the only criteria in battleship design.
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  481. It is a shame that Prince Charles wasn't sent to the same improper schools.
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  482.  @bkjeong4302  I wasn't speaking of the Naval Battle of Samar in particular. Besides despite the air power deficit the Japanese should have won that battle.
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  483.  @bkjeong4302  The supplies being on shore does not mean it was in impenetrable bunkers nor had the assault force taken enough land to not be shelled to oblivion.
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  484. USS Flip type ship would be plenty stable for a recoilless rifle platform used in Shore bombardment.
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  485. The Bearcat being designed to replace the Wildcat on escort carriers coming on line would removed the Wildcat whether the war ended or not. Thatch might have gone from unarmored Buffalo to armored Wildcat which might be important.
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  486. I was surprised that you didn't include introducing steam propulsion to the Roman Navy. Was this due to the limits to you knowledge or thinking that Rome would or could not use steam power?
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  487. Germany went into WWI suffering from poor strategic planning.
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  488. Parts that will wear out fast can be dealt with by increased maintenance and early replacement.
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  489. When you take for type 95s midship.
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  490. I am sorry your life is so empty and devoid of meaning.
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  491.  @thewingedhussars459  So because hitting steaming ships that take evasive action when high altitude horizontal bombers drop their bombs is exceedingly unlikely unless you have enough planes to cover the entire area that the ship could get to while the bombs are falling like the USAAF doctrine called for but did not have the planes for until after the B-17 had been withdrawn from the Pacific theater mean that B-17 bombers can't hit stationary targets like anchored ships and buildings. Thus demonstrate your lack of knowledge; they may miss the Bombardier's target by several hundred meters but not by several miles.
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  492.  @thewingedhussars459  It was a dark and sad day when stupidity was accepted as humor.
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  493. O4:01:36 You just explained the L85A1. That piece of junk was under development for four decades.
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  494. Japanese day ruiners.
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  495.  @Autechltd  Only on April 1st.
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  496.  @timothyschmidt9566  Something can be very good and be of suboptimal design which means they could have been much better. The flatter trajectory means that for a larger portion of the flight the projectile will hit the target this also means that for guns aimed to exactly the same accuracy difference in the distance to where they hit the ocean surface is larger at the same time as you get an increased chance of getting hits. They are firing at a vertical target not a horizontal target. The distance that the shell covers while between 20 meters above the surface and impacting with the surface much greater so you have a greater chance of getting a hit.
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  497.  @kemarisite  YouTube ate a comment with a link to the information. Try researching. The 24-pounder long gun was a heavy calibre piece of artillery mounted on French warships of the Age of sail, second only to the 36-pounder long gun. Crew: 12 gunners and one powder-boy Calibre: 152,2 mm Weight: 2.500 metric tons And The Canon de 4 Gribeauval or 4-pounder was a French cannon. The 83.5mm fits right in with that group of triple A guns but it also fits as a 4-pdr using heavier than average cast iron round shot.
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  498.  @JohnSmith-kg2rt  Laws of physics do apply.
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  499.  @fidjeenjanrjsnsfh  Pressure isn't the same as supersonic metal-to-metal friction.
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  500.  @davidjarkeld2333  And thus displayed his own ignorance. Going to war would have been the stupidest way to acquire oil. MSM spent a great deal of time telling the lie because in their world view being pro Western Civilization is a worse crime than flying hijacked airliners into buildings.
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  501. Cats are not stupid as_ho_es but not stupid. Catnip on 120 or 220 wires should do something about wire chewing.
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  502.  @redtob2119  The treaty forbid selling capital ships on.
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  503. I stand by my statements that the USofA navy's ordnance department leadership should have been shot going into WWII.
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  504.  @alancranford3398  The Wildcat is underrated. While one wildcat is at a marked disadvantage when up against one Zero two Wildcats properly working together were on equal footing against nine Zeros.
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  505. As usual when you finally figure out how to get the best out of a technology it becomes obsolete superceded by something completely different.
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  506. The 50 cal put bullets through a Zero's engine. The 7.7mm bullet would would not do like damage to the Wildcat.
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  507. Happy Boxing Day, Drach
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  508. The Panama Canal was just too convenient at times leading to design compromises that cost more than having to sail around South America.
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  509.  @Phatman2167  The Washington and London navel treaties on the balance did more good than harm. First they saved everybody vast amounts of money, then eliminated tension that most historians who specialize in that era believe would have led to a war between the USofA and UK. The USofA Navy preoccupation with using the Panama Canal led them to compromising combat capabilities and efficiency in daily operations to save 2 weeks transit time when transferring from one coast to the other.
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  510.  @benwilson6145  Before the war France was Germany's largest trading partner. And done secretly.
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  511.  @thesuit4820  The differing requirements of each branch would end up with effectively different services anyway. Besides interservice rivalry is useful when reasonable levels. Imperial Japan is a notable failure in the last.
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  512.  @tewsgcdcfgechk908  Bio weapons are self-replicating. Just look at Wuhan Flu.
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  513.  @dimasakbar7668  Reverse osmosis doesn't require any electricity. It requires mechanical energy which on a ship is most efficiently supplied directly from an engine.
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  514. Welded joints don't stop the propagation of cracks. When a crack reaches the edge of riveted plate it stops.
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  515. I know that the official numbers are bunk because official numbers are always bunk.
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  516. A veritable missed on the delayed battle of Midway is the reinforcements of the land based aircraft.
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  517. It seems strange to me that the Royal Charles was not used as flagship of a colonial squadron.
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  518. If the Italian Air Force would have worked with the Navy to build the sea war dedicated air groups they would correct about not needing carriers in the Mediterranean. There is great advantage to air bases that can't sink.
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  519.  bruh  Not with a WWII American ship.
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  520. You need AP with fast but not instant fusing so it will penetrate deep before exploding but not go clear through the ship.
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  521. When the Japanese were planning attacking the USofA they should have arranged for large explosive cargos being moved through the Panama canal on third party ships and blown up locks at the same time as the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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  522. We have these great hunks of metal we want to get rid of so we will throw them into the sea instead of selling them to recyclers. --- government in action.
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  523. Today on men that clank when they walk: Charles Davis Lucas.
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  524. We can trade first line ship one for one and when they run out we still have a couple of first line ships to lead when we roll over them with the legacy fleet. Sod that scrap the legacy fleet and we will bloody well roll over them to start with. --- Admiral "Jacky" Fisher (paraphrased)
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  525.  @einarsharpe7637  Freeboard one word. It is the distance from the water line to the lowest point that water can get in with an intact hull.
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  526. Just tell Nelson that the Royal Navy took the French term from the French as a prize.
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  527.  @RedXlV  But they didn't.
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  528.  @VersusARCH  People tend to resist when you try and destroy their homes and livelihoods. Trying to use scorched earth could easily start a civil war guaranteeing a French victory.
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  529.  @VersusARCH  Russians surfs don't have the same means of resistance.
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  530.  @VersusARCH  They didn't have the army right there when the rebelled.
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  531. Drack you are clearly a devotee of the Monument to the Ages school of engineering. I like that.
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  532. I would go with December 7, 1941 and that little demonstration of the ability of carriers to sink battleships.
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  533. It is amazing what you can achieve with brute force and ignorance.
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  534. Groan.
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  535. And why when the ship is ready to steam the engines are ready too answer Bells.
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  536. For that theoretical heavy cruiser I would put the some extra weight into longer 8 inch guns to get extra penetration and shorter flight times for the shells.
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  537. I suspect that McClellan was a Southern sympathizer but he also didn't want to get Union soldiers under his command killed to further the Southern cause.
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  538. The South Americans did do a pretty good job of specking out their ships.
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  539.  @tomhenry897  Having them culturally pissed off at others might have been beneficial. They might have been more reasonable about us telling them that we were not going to continue selling them oil unless they stopped the atrocities in China.
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  540.  @gregorywright4918  Not normally in the USofA Navy. The optimal personality types are too different. The burn out rate of being in the wrong job is way too high and the lockdown conditions of a sub are a high mental stress environment to start with.
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  541. At worst it would be a dirty bomb.
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  542. How would the Ryugo performed as an American escort carrier in WWII?
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  543. ​ @ArcticTemper  Given she stomped the hell out of the unarmored ships before the Monitor arrived she would have been greatly effective at escourting Blockade Runner through the blockade despite her low speed.
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  544. The bat bomb was a bomb with hundreds of Mexican Free Tail bats carrying small incenarary bombs timed to go off during daylight hours so the bats will have found dark places in the structure of the buildings for the fires to break out. There is evidence that it would work well.
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  545. Don't forget the discipline problem of the men stoking coal. How are you going to punish them for minor infractions? Make them shovel coal?
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  546. The biggest problem with cracking on a welded ship is the welds don't stop the propagation of the crack were as when a crack reaches a riveted joint it stops. A book I read twenty or thirty years ago stated that bad welding or bad steel got the blame all the cracking on Liberty Ships happened in the same area which leads to the conclusion that the problem was bad design. The two long steel bandaids riveted to the ship to reinforce the structure where the cracking took place solved the problem and of course being riveted in the crack couldn't propagate into the bandaids.
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  547. If by special miracle my crews perform on par with the British I will be curb stomped therefore if I can get the condition that I am not to be returned to Russia against my will I will surrender. --- Zinovy Rozhestvensky
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  548. If taking soundings in pre sonar environment I could see letting out the bow anchor so it is 5 - 10 feet under the hull with some very reliable and preferably dumb* watching it. *Dumb reduces the tendency to boredom which both eases keeping a close watch on it and makes the task less unpleasant.
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  549. In the surface action role 5 inch38 or 4 inch50?
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  550.  @Bird_Dog00  I agree about the 4inch50 in the anti-aircraft role but in the duel purpose role surface action is important.
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  551. The shock load of the boat hitting the end of the rope is substantial: something will break.
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  552. That reminds me, on the live stream the Nimitz sailing triumphantly into Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 that would be one of the instant improvements in the USofA Navy.
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  553. If the design teams of treaty era USofA, and British navies were given access to unlimited supply of structural aluminum without the cost difference between it and steel being an issue what would the resulting battleships and cruisers look like.
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  554.  @stevewindisch7400  Who thinks that Black people are incapable of getting free State IDs? Who thinks that Black people are incapable of success without White people taking care of them? Who thinks that Black people are incapable of getting into college without having the requirements lowered for them? It is democrats on all counts.
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  555.  @stevewindisch7400  Johnson's civil rights work was simply to trick Black people into voting for racist democrats.
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  556. In Vietnam units that operated behind enemy lines used C-4 rather than Hexi tablets because the C-4 despite the hallucinogenic effective C-4 fumes (don't burn it in confined areas) is odorless where Hexi has a distinct smell.
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  557.  @WALTERBROADDUS  Warehouses and machine shops are easy targets for bombers and shipyard cranes are not small and easy enough to strafe with 20mm fire.
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  558.  @marrvynswillames4975  The ammo is only important if the ships are capable of moving. Which is the point of destroying the maintenance equipment.
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  559.  @WALTERBROADDUS  Taking out a tank farm is easy, rupture the tanks and provide an ignition source. But attacking oil stores of the world's largest oil exporter is not particularly useful; shiploads of replacement fuel would be arriving before the fires were put out.
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  560. A specific threat environment emerges such as a space-based anti-ballistic missile particle beam system malfunctions resulting in all powered aircraft being shot down.
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  561.  @TraditionalAnglican  I didn't suggest it was likely. I just offered a reason that battleships could be viable again. To be fair I came up with three ways to neutralize the offending satellites that would be faster than building or refurbishing battleships and at least 2 of which would be cheaper. Balloon lofted bomb pumped X-ray lasers, massive phase array visible light lasers (everybody in a time zone with a laserpointer illuminating a single target at once.), and intentionally triggering a Kessel syndrome.
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  562. It is hard to over estimate the value of leather lunged petty officers. Of course some officers such as Admiral King had their own leather lungs.
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  563. Only some of them.
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  564. The idea started with using motor lifeboats that a battleship would launch at the threat of battle but a battleship could probably carry a dozen MTB/PT boats; how would this effect battleship operations and what additional uses would the light attack craft be used for?
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  565.  @kingquackie7284  Your Yamato like BC would at least make a worthwhile carrier conversation.
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  566.  @dyerwulf5459  The Armstrong's breach mechanism became very hard to use after a few shots from the black powder fouling and after several breach failures while firing convinced the Royal Navy that breach loaders were a real bad idea.
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  567.  @Pentagon6519  Probably cheaper and easier to buy and modify a cruise ship. Particularly if Wuhan Flu puts a cruise line out of business.
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  568.  @Pentagon6519  Many cruise ships already have a helicopter landing pad for evacuating medical emergencies; it can work the other way. I would want to add to it to be able to recover multiple helicopters at once. For disaster relief you can expect protected anchorages which greatly reduced the advantage of having the well deck even if dock space is not available. The speed would be nice to have but not worth the difference in cost.
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  569.  @Pentagon6519  Hurricanes and tsunamis don't reshape the terrain enough to destroy naturally protected anchorages. A hospital ship is a floating hospital and most of a large modern hospital it small rooms with private restrooms just like most of the space in a cruise ship. Any place a USofA Navy hospital ship goes it will not be operating on its own but by removing the pool you will get plenty of topside weight to play with to build a hanger for several helicopters. Neither a hospital ship or cruise ship have a lot of carrying capacity for inanimate cargo and for the hospital I want it carrying supplies so it can stay on station with little external support; not because it will be operating on its own but so the logistical support pipeline can carry other goods.
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  570.  @ronaldgray5707  Without a High Seas Fleet Germany would not have been so interested in launching a war against Russia and France and lacked the ability to fight a war against the British Empire.
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  571.  @Pentagon6519  How much electricity do you think is available in the average hospital room? But still adding wiring and oxygen piping is not difficult if you are not worried about hiding the conduits. Hospital ships are not going to have fire control radar. And adding a pallet of electronics is not difficult. Absorbing a hard landing is a question of how much weight the structure can support and you can reduce the needed strength by adding shock absorption. I too would prefer to have the hospital ship tied to a pier but in a sheltered anchorage using boats is not a problem particularly if you pull the boat out of the water before loading or unloading passengers. Bum boats move significant amount of goods on and off ships in open waters. Granted if the engine has to be replaced it is a major operation but if not the spare parts might not be Navy standard but they are off the shelf components world wide. I was saying that your idea is not feasible.
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  572. Hopefully someone will loan them a ground penetrating radar system to look for hidden chambers with.
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  573. If you could get Monte to make the plans and have Patton command it you are almost guaranteed the win.
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  574. Hull fouling slows you as well.
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  575. The first one was darned near Pirate Hunter Smirking Vengeance.
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  576.  @johnshepherd8687  Harpoon missiles are longer ranged and move a lot faster. Also it would not take a lot of modifications to make them engage airborne anti-submarine platforms. I have not seen the Navy admit to doing so but that doesn't mean they haven't. Remember that even if the plane manages to outrun out distance the missile it gives the boat a fare amount of time to escape as well.
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  577.  @WALTERBROADDUS  Yes but where are they going to get their supplies while the allies attack them from the Tobruk. The army didn't stop in Normandy after D Day.
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  578.  @gwtpictgwtpict4214  I said this elsewhere in the comments "The great value of 0peration Torch was that it was to be a short battle that would show us what we needed to learn with what was a relatively soft target." But at the time, Sicily didn't have that big of a force defending it and with the British Empire attacking from Egypt and flanking amphibious landings against Tobruk it looks doable especially since nobody would be expecting to be welcomed as liberators.
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  579. Kingfishers also picked a lot of people out of the water.
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  580. That is my under informed opinion.
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  581. 11:11 the answer begs the question, What percentage of water is lost when going through the engines.
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  582. That would leave the possibility of a negotiated settlement but FDR went Europe first anyway and by 44 the USofA would have a new bigger fleet led by combat veterans blooded in Europe. I do not see a Japanese victory. The worst part is all Japan had to do to unfreeze their assets was stop committing atrocities against China.
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  583. The problem with detonation in internal combustion engines is when it happens before the piston is top dead center. After that point it just improves efficiency. Research compress to ignition in homogeneous fuel air mix engines.
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  584.  @kemarisite  New torpedo are designed mostly for anti-submarine work and the warheads are often extremely small for sinking surface ships. But descrewing them is almost guaranteed.
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  585.  @chrisbritt4266  That sounds rational enough but the men that move the cannons from one ship to the other at sea without sinking them deserves extra shares. I believe it is in Bermuda that a crane that sank several warships by dropping cannons.
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  586.  @Maverick966  The Alaskas were already under construction, combining the high rate of fire 8inch guns with VT fusing would make them devastating air defense ships in addition to, cruiser killers and shore bombardment vessels.
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  587.  @Maverick966  I prefer twelve 8inch over nine 12inch guns.
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  588. ​ @mahbriggs  Still he should have been at least cashiered for blatantly violating his orders.
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  589. It would be easier to lay mines or sink ships in the Suez Canal to block it.
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  590. @ @RedXlV  Reagan did as he was ordered to not what he wanted to. He truly served with honor.
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  591. That's terrible. Held nose while laughing.
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  592. Could a battleship use use its main guns and shells fused impact plus time to attack submarines?
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  593.  @dangray4086  He covered it in early drydock they are the support and deployment devises for anti torpedo nets for when the ships are at anchor outside of protected harbors.
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  594. At 15 - 20 years the horror the memories of war still blunt the nostalgia and minimum wage and child labor laws limiting the cash available to the still minor boomer generation cost such efforts a lot of marching nickels and dimes. A kid that could buy the new Batman comic book or donate to save Enterprise than if he can buy the comic book and donate a few cents to save the Enterprise.
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  595. I heard that Napoleon that claimed if he could control the English Channel for 48 hours he could conquer England. At the time I thought it was somewhat egotistical but then I learned how much of the British Army was made up of mercenaries at the time and came to the conclusion that the odds would be in his favor but supply line issues still make me cringe.
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  596. The South Americans did know how to specify a warship to purchase.
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  597. Compare the speed of the PT boat to the speed of the torpedo.
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  598. Texas is a coastal State. Ballast tank take up internal volume even if you have them sealed and have high pressure air to empty them quickly enough to counter flooding.
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  599. Because the RN served the rum at lunch and buzzed sailors caused accidents with high tech systems and instead of rationally changing to serving the Rum to sailors at their end of their shift meal they chose the wrong option.
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  600. Nuclear powered merchantmen are not practical only in a world that is insanely antinuclear; like ours.
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  601.  CommandoDude  Oil is not as cheap as you think and the cost of nuclear energy is artificially high. but the real reason that nuclear powered commercial ships are not practical is because of all the ports and passages closed to them by the mindlessly antinuclear.
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  602. If you are going to send a message back in time to the USofA Navy tell them how to fix the torpedoes.
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  603. Most of the time people have better sense than to intentionally put their baby factories into combat.
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  604. I could see a fuel provider taking oil rich ballast water free of charge for the oil in it.
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  605. I am going with fundamentally flawed; taking catastrophic damage from what should have been a miss still ruins your whole day.
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  606.  @patrickchase5614  Are you sure you understand the meaning of the word "random".
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  607. Hoods a battlecruiser because the Royal Navy says Hood is a battlecruiser. Iowas are fast battleship because the American Navy say they are fast battleship. I have always though the Iowas and Hood were what battlecruiser should be.
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  608.  @stevevalley7835  By 44 but what about 42? Use the long range bombers to take out the escorts to clear the path for the carrier planes. And then there was the development of acoustically homing torpedoes and their range could be increased the risk of type 95 derivatives are less with land based bombers. Then using a parachute to slow the torpedoes down before they hit the water would increase the drop speed. As for rockets you could train monkeys or apes to fly Baka bombs but I would feel guilty about the inability to give them their last treat of cocaine for hitting their target.
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  609.  @stevevalley7835  An escort maneuvering for its life is not going to be doing any useful shooting buying time for other planes to make their attack This could count as a mission kill. There are a lot of things that can and usually will go wrong but the USofA navy did learn to drop torpedoes effectively. The B-17 could absorb a pronominal amount of damage and keep flying. And it would not have taken much to make Coral sea into a tactical win for the Allies.
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  610.  @barryjones8842  Efficiency of building is irrelevant to the question. How efficient the ships are in matching the performance of the Essex class ships is also irrelevant to the question asked but I imagine that it would take a serious operational inefficiency to keep the navy from ordering more if they had been built in less than three years. 20% larger crew and fuel consumption would not have done it if the carrier had taken bombs on the flight deck without major inconvenience at Coral Sea.
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  611.  Marry Christmas  Boris may have a bad haircut but he is trying to carry the expressed will of the people and what he was elected to do.
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  612.  @scottgiles7546  Bringing back torpedo boats when internal combustion engines made it possible to build torpedo boats significantly faster than destroyers and with usefully long range does not alter the fact that Germany was a notable exception to the move away from steam powered torpedo boats.
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  613. The USofA Army Air Forces doctrine for horizontal bombing ships was sound but in 1942 they didn't really have enough bombers in total to attack a single ship effectively.
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  614.  @TraditionalAnglican  But you lose fewer planes and crewmen when dropping from high altitude. Bombs are cheap.
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  615. Sometimes you have to exceed your authority to do your duty. In an emergancy most soldiers will follow anybody giving coherent orders.
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  616. Over half of the titanium used by the USofA during the cold war obtained from the Evil Empire by the CIA through skullduggery.
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  617.  @z3r0_35  That was not the part I was talking about.
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  618. Swimming for it must suck when you have big brass balls.
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  619.  @mikemcghin5394  I don't think he has read the books. The author smoked wacky weed.
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  620.  @danbrooks5060  The closer you get to current events the less cut and dried the politics are. The only political issue that will still get an argument is pointing out that Mussolini and Hitler were both socialists. I also said it was more important about the availability of all the data.
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  621.  @danbrooks5060  You are right you fail to see.
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  622. Black Swan class needed a periscope for the helmsman.
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  623. An angle Flight Deck Midway if available in time could mean the Doolittle Raid being carried out using B-17s instead of B-25s, which would presumably mean that the planes got used for operations in China afterwards.
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  624.  @psschroe42  With a big flat deck on top.
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  625.  @JJCPaul  Without aircraft. A fast long ranged submersible torpedo boat.
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  626. All else being equal you will probably get higher peak pressure with a combustion design but you will get better repeatability with compressed air and thus be more likely to get hits. Littorio class battleships demonstrated that powerful guns that cannot hit the broad side of a barn are useless. I would go with pneumatic they are safer as well.
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  627. They were left unfinished because the day of the battleship had passed.
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  628.  @bkjeong4302  So why do you think they are not the best battleships?
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  629. Algorithm comment
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  630. Sounds like the Italians work ribbon from America for 20mm deployment.
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  631.  @williammehta9534  I would bet on a senor admiral if he had not married Princes Elisabeth.
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  632. It does make me wonder how fast Seydlitz could go backwards.
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  633. Or built engines would still be going strong and assaulting the engineering crew with their ugliness.
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  634. It sounds like the Captain of HMS Speedy had a deep understanding of the jump down their throat and kick out their liver tactics.
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  635. Did any navy intentionally have more than one ship named after the same person at the same time? Such as if the the Royal Navy had an HMS Iron Duke and an HMS Arthur Wellesley.
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  636.  @5peciesunkn0wn  1:47 disagrees with you.
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  637.  @5peciesunkn0wn  It displays two arcs of fire. One towards the end and from a second port to the side. The gun has significant freedom of movement unlike the guns gun decks of a ship of the line. These guns are individually aimed by the gunners not the helmsman.
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  638.  @pedenharley6266  The later Arleigh Burke-class use a 5 inch 62 gun.
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  639. Don't forget B-29s out of China.
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  640. The Japanese were good at night fighting does not mean that if you have to get into point blank range to do damage that attacking at night is not the best option.
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  641.  @andrews2990  The shame is that they didn't plan for the cruiser killer job being done and being converted into an anti-aircraft escort. Planning on having replacement for the three 12inch turrets that had at least 4 twin 5inch 38 turrets in two rows the second super firing over the first allowing all eight guns to fire in the same direction anywhere in the same arc of fire as the 12inch turret they replace at the same time allowing them to split to fire at targets on both sides of the ship. That would have made them air defense ships worth the cost.
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  642. Lexington class sledgehammers mounted on eggshells.
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  643.  @mattbowden4996  The distance the center gun is back from the other two isn't enough to make much of a difference in elbow room.
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  644. With just a couple of adds per long video I'll watch the adds in there entirety to get you the less than just compensations that I can't give directly.
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  645. U-boats. We'll just built more ships and cargos than the Germans can build torpedos. --- American industry
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  646. In icing conditions having stuff warmed by smoke might be useful.
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  647.  @bengrogan9710  It was suppose to be 4.5 which is 114.3 (brain fart) but long guns 70caliber or so like modern tank guns with the high power turret to match would have been great.
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  648.  @bengrogan9710  Consider how far cannonball fired at mach 5 will go and how much energy it will retain when it gets there. The USofA Navy's 4 inch 50 guns used as submarine deck guns in WWII had much longer range than the similar sized projectiles of the 105mm howitzers that the army generally considered heavy artillery by comparing it to 75mm pack howitzers. Smaller higher velocity projectiles will go farther than heavier slower projectiles fired at the same angle above the horizon.
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  649. If the Japanese had not built the Yamato class and not built the special slips to build the Yamato but spent the money and effort on more smaller building slips you could built more than two practical ships at the same time.
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  650. Sending the plans for the inverted gull-wing Spitfire to an American manufacturer could have helped even if it ended up with a navalized P-51.
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  651.  @wouldntyouliketoknow9891  Explosive shells detonating on impact will do a fair bit of damage even if the impact didn't.
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  652.  Schlomo Baconberg  See you 9am sharp Monday.
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  653.  @mac_mcleod  All unionizing gets you is more people abusing you. Besides I refuse to associate with people that think shooting a man in the head and throwing rocks at the people that come to the victims aid is acceptable behavior.
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  654.  @mac_mcleod  Aside from your police story supporting my argument union members support the thugs and people that endorse senile idiots that turn around and destroy union jobs on his first day in office with their dues.
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  655.  @norrinradd3549  You are making a distinction that no longer exists.
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  656.  @norrinradd3549  Unions are by their very purpose agencies of extortion and fraud. The improvements in wages and working conditions that unions claim credit for were simply the labor market in action. When farm laborers were being thrown out of work faster than industry was creating jobs labor was a glut on the market and wages were low but when industry started producing more jobs than their were workers wages and went up and other improvements took place. All the while union leaders were taking money from the workers by taking credit for things they did not do. They did get lots of people injured and killed. But that didn't hurt the union leders any.
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  657.  @iannordin5250  I'm smart.
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  658. The anti Invasion submarines a small quick and packing a big punch submersible torpedo boats would probably have found useful employment in the Mediterranean.
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  659.  @timengineman2nd714  That is because the Navy brass that never was a fan of PT boats had them burned after the war.
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  660.  @timengineman2nd714  When you come back use the link in the description to go back where you were. It is not unlike using a bookmark.
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  661. Thanks,I needed a good laugh.
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  662.  @markmcguire9770  The French would make it a floating brothel.
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  663.  @mungous1000  Such mindless hatred displayed by such asinine arguments.
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  664.  Hoa Tattis  Blaming Admiral King for procedures not being followed which is a good way to become the subject to Admiral King's Wrath.
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  665.  Hoa Tattis  I don't think so but he very well may have made the difference that kept the Japanese from having a strategic victory at Coral Sea.
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  666.  Hoa Tattis  That does not alter the fact that while Monty was the better planner Patton was better making quick decisions in the heat of battle. Monty's lighting fast plunging the hole in the line when Belgium surrendered without informing its allies in advance was planned months in advance because Monty was above all a planner. But as demonstrated at the Second Battle of El Alamein Monty's plans went of like clockwork but the offensive fell apart when the plan ran out. Patton was aggressive to a fault but excelled at fighting without preexisting battle plans where Monty did not.
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  667.  Hoa Tattis  The Germans retreated and the British followed more than chased them losing several chances to decimate the Africa Core in the pursuit. The Battle of Kasserine Pass was most emphatically not planned by Monty and a symptom of the USofA Army fighting its first battle of WWII against a battle hardened enemy. Until after Korea the US Army usually lost the first battle of the war.
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  668.  Hoa Tattis  Because you are stating opinions contrary to known facts.
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  669.  Hoa Tattis  McVae demanded a Court Martial believing it would clear his name.
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  670.  @bigwoody4704  Monty planned and prepared for battles so that winning them was not impressive. He would not have launched operation market garden because he did not have the forces available that he thought necessary but was overruled.
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  671.  @ToasterUMP40  You are delusional if you think that the German Army in the West would have collapsed sooner if the allied forces would have attacked faster. The allies would have out ran their supply train and the German counter attack might have thrown the allies back into the sea. Patton's blitzkrieg was stopped when he ran out of gas despite stealing gas from other allied forces. Trying to attack faster than you can mover your "limitless supplies to the front leads to disaster.
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  672.  Hoa Tattis  Firefly was an ergonomic disaster with a low rate of fire. It was the better Tiger killer but the regular Sherman was the better tank. A standard Sherman could engage five targets in the time a Firefly could engage three and there were dammed few Tigers around. Firefly was the wrong tank at the right place. The right tank at Normandy would have been Sherman's with the 76mm gun but they were left in the UK because 75mm Sherman's were killing Tigers in Italy but how much work it was to do so was not successfully communicated.
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  673.  @ToasterUMP40  The allies hadn't out ran its supply train and if they had the German counter attack would have come sooner.
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  674.  @ToasterUMP40  The German Army was shattered because whatever force they blocked the allies with was over run by the well supplied allied force that ran into it. If the allies out ran their supply train they would have been easily stopped and thrown back. Never underestimate the Wehrmacht when they think they have the wind in their sails. The butterfly flaps its wings and the winds of war change.
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  675.  Hoa Tattis  And the mindless hatred and stupid nonsense continues.
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  676.  @strongbrew9116  Monty's fast decisive move sealing the breach when Belgium surrendered was not because he was good at fluid battle. Monty had trained the hell out of his troops including in doing unusual things and had preplanned operations for yanking his forces out of the line moving between the units next to his and its artillery support and plugging his force into a breach. Monty was one of the top ten generals of WWII but his strength was in planning and training not the fluid battle. If fluid battle had been one of his strengths the Africa Korps would have been crushed at the Second Battle of El Alamein. When he didn't have pre-existing plans he wasn't that great but when he had planned and prepared for a battle he made it look so easy that fools insist that anyone could have won the battle but if anyone took his plans and prepared force and didn't change them right before the battle they would have won because of Monty's brilliance.
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  677.  Hoa Tattis  McVay's defence was that his violating standard procedures did effect what happened. This is clearly false if he had been zig zaging like he was suppose to he would not met the Japanese sub at that time. The McVay lesson is never demand a court martial when you were not following standing orders.
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  678.  Hoa Tattis  Dug in anti-tank guns are not armor they are can openers. Why would you want a big gun that lowers your effective at fighting everything but Tigers and Panthers when you are not fighting Panthers and Tigers?
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  679.  Hoa Tattis  Says the guy ignoring facts.
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  680.  Hoa Tattis  And the point is?
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  681.  @iain5615  Explain how he was in a position to make refusing to work with the British important. He was not part of the old boys network.
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  682.  @iain5615  Yes, he made a bad mistake. But why was he in the position to make it?
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  683.  @iain5615  You are stuck on one bad mistake in a 40 year long career. Who is stupid and arrogant?
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  684.  @iain5615  Are you actually accusing Admiral King of intentionally aiding and abetting the enemy or was it simply the result of a mistake?
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  685.  @iain5615  It was not his feelings or desires that led to the mistake. Yes he made a mistake with disastrous results that does not mean that he was not an extremely capable man.
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  686.  @iain5615  Not fixing the torpedoes would have cost more lives. I get it one of your ancestors died do to King's mistake and you were raised in an environment of constant hate but that mistake does not mean that Admiral King was not an incredibly capable man.
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  687.  @iain5615  I have never said that his decision on joining the British convoy system was anything but wrong. But looking at his entire career show him to be an extraordinarily capable man. Also had he remained in the Pacific he would not have been in place to get the torpedoes fixed and other very beneficial actions he made after his one serious mistake. Watch the video without stroking your mindless hatred of the man.
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  688. The paddle wheels were because Brunel his ship to be able to operate in water barely able to float her putting the screws to close to the bottom to operate without catastrophic damage.
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  689.  @88porpoise  An additional production line.
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  690.  @88porpoise  Are you going to leave a production line idle because the third rate plane it had been producing has been cancelled in favor of Seafires? Just maybe the new firm producing them might simplify production as well. Goodyear built and improved Corsairs and GM built and improved Wildcats.
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  691.  @88porpoise  They did because it was the best they had for the Fleet Air Arm.
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  692.  @gregorywright4918  You really have a problem with reading comprehension.
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  693.  @tomdolan9761  The converted Baltimore's didn't hang around very long so maybe larger ships would have been better particularly if they hadn't been reactivated for Korea and Vietnam. Also as I said their needed to be more of them.
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  694.  @gregorywright4918  There only being two might have something to do with that decision. Particularly when if the worked really well they would want more.
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  695. I certainly fear burning to death more than being shot.
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  696. The M-Class subs would have been great for harassment shore bombardment. This could also teach the Germans to tactically ignore having beach defenses brutalized except in the places they hit repeatedly which might have bought even a little more time fore the beachhead to be established before the before the Wehrmacht started sending reinforcements.
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  697.  @AdamMGTF  To start with the odds of hitting a sub with one shot is indistinguishable from zero. More close in anti-submarine effort would equal less effort elswhere. The OSS would have made a few more air drops. Your geniuses are from the same group of people that decided not to bring 76mm gun armed Shermans to Normandy and thought area bombing was effective. I am not particularly impressed by them.
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  698.  @kyle857  You have a point about torpedo boats and mines but aircraft at the beginning of WWI; nonsense.
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  699.  @gildor8866  You don't see obliterating the port facilities that keep the German Navy functional as useful?
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  700.  @TraditionalAnglican  History shows that the High Seas Fleet did not want to run into the Grand Fleet and if you assume that the Germans took significant damage in the attack on channel shipping the last thing they would want is to run into the Grand Fleet on the way home. Of course if the HSF is obliterated when hit by the GF in the English Channel the GF can then go and take control of the Baltic but that doesn't mean that the Germans would want to leave the Baltic open for the GF to enter when they are not home.
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  701.  @TraditionalAnglican  For the HSF being in the English Channel would be fairly far out of position. I was just pointing out another reason.
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  702. I sympathise with Mrs Mathers I to have gotten machines I love operational without being allowed to operate them. I don't know where she keeps them but they are seriously blue.
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  703. If you were chosen to make the decision between turrets with 4 15 inch guns or 3 18 inch guns for the Yamato class which would you choose.
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  704.  @LiamE69  Powdered aluminum is the fuel of choice for for USofA fuel air bombs. PS. If I was talking about British bombs I would have added an "i".
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  705.  @HMSFord  No the CSS Virginia could not penetrate monitors armor, was slower, and at the end of the day the hard wood under the iron was in splinters.
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  706.  @juliaharrell4072  Only if air defense systems become virtually 100% effective against planes and missiles but not artillery projectiles or really effective electromagnetic guns come on line.
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  707.  @f12mnb  That has been answered the speed at which the ships move means that they would quickly get out of the gas cloud and the fire fighting equipment could be used to rapidly decontaminate the ships. It would only infuriate the receiving Navy.
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  708.  @adamalton2436  Gas turbines not diesels.
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  709. Using WWII tech could you use airship mounted radar for fire control on several different ships?
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  710. A simi submersible armored cruiser with 9.2 inch guns.
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  711.  @kemarisite  It Is the cost/benefit thing; bigger ammunition for the same gun is not worth near as much as standardizing on bigger guns.
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  712. How much weight could be saved by replacing the main guns with newly designed and built guns? And alternatively how much longer could you make the new guns at the same weight.
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  713. You can get use to nitroglycerin exposure so that you become "addicted" to it and suffer from withdrawal. According to the PBS show American Experience workers in USofA powder manufacturing facilities would take home scraps to keep next to their skin on their days off.
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  714. Possible yes but then you will leave your place in the battle formation and other badness things as well. It is not really practical.
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  715. There are wings that are symmetrical top and bottom with the angle of attack determining which side the lift is generated on. It is the type of wing I would use as a sail on a water craft.
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  716. That summed up sams all right.
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  717.  @luiexluie  No. Because submarines started out as submersible torpedo boats and the tradition stuck.
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  718. I would have preferred that the battleship museums be kept operational event if that meant replacing the steam turbines with gas turbines.
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  719. Did any Navy field water cooled artillery?
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  720. If you can get your torpedoe boat's in range the battleships do give them respect.
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  721. Launching a war without having a plan to win is generally stupid. The japanese war on America has been covered. The war of 1812 springs to mind but if the thought that they would be joining with France it would be a plan for victory and if convincing enough or influential enough people that the cost of kidnapping and enslaving American sailors was just too high and negotiating a peace without much change except the end of impressment off American ships can be called a plan for victory.
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  722. Sail based? Not in a rational world. Auxiliary sails? Probably if we don't allow nuclear propulsion in civilian ships.
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  723. AA flack is not going to do rangefinders any good.
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  724. Just a hard to kill mutant freak.
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  725. Yes they took WWI four stack destroyers and removed half their boilers. They were fast and well armed for transports but very small payloads.
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  726.  @kemarisite  Do you think that any other transports in WWII would have done better attacking destroyers?
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  727.  @detritus23  Why would it take several years to aline a geared turbine to the propeller shaft?
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  728.  @detritus23  Given the deep refit required replacing the boilers is a given whether the engines were replaced or not. Turbines don't require higher pressure than triple expansion reciprocating engines. Why would the turbines be more powerful than the existing shafts could take. If they chose to add power why would it take so much time to design the replacements when you would be using off the shelf components? Have you seen prewar and post resurrection photos of the salvaged battleships?
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  729.  @detritus23  Think about all the ships being built during WWII. Fletcher class destroyers had a lot more power then the Oklahoma. Finding a source for two turbines that were already in production would not have been a problem finding small enough ones might have been but... The Clemson class destroyer's engines were just a bit more powerful than the Oklahoma's. Do you think that the Navy might of had spare turbines for the Clemson class destroyer. 0r failing that been willing to sacrifice one to give turbines to the Oklahoma. If you are going for more power than the existing shafts can handle you could take shafts in production for another ship that are close to the correct length and modify to suit. Using the bearings and seals. I once used the rear axle of a F-100 truck to take the power through the hull of a boat with an inboard straight 6. It worked for years till the engine threw a rod and the boat burned to the waterline and then sank when the rescue boat flooded it. It does not take a degreed engineer or architect to solve every problem.
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  730.  @detritus23  Look at the power output of a Fletcher's engines compared to the Oklahoma's. Yes the North Carolina had a big problem with vibrations from its hull form and screws. She also had 121,000 shp horse power spread over four shafts a Fletcher class had 60,000 shp spread over two shafts. Nevada had 26,500 shp and for some reason Oklahoma is listed as 24,800 ihp. A single turbine off a Fletcher could power both of Oklahoma's screws. Your sense of scale is more than a little off. Given that the treatment for North Carolina's vibration problem was changing the number of blades on the screws to two different numbers I am willing to bet that it would not be catastrophic problem if it occurred.
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  731.  @gregorywright4918  It would not be more than one the Oklahoma only had two shafts. And how about losing one Clemson class destroyer for the rebuilt Oklahoma? Although in hindsight the individual effort that went into resurrecting the sunk battleships could have been better spent except for possibly the civilian morale effect of returning them to service.
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  732. That is why the Black gang was the source of most of the ships discipline problems. What are you going to do to them as punishment.
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  733. Potassium nitrate is a preservative as well as a low-grade oxidizer.
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  734. You don't need to know what the numbers mean just what is acceptable to fly with.
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  735. I figured that the HMS Thunderchild was a semi submersible armored cruiser.
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  736. In other words the dice don't have a memory.
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  737.  @JopardBDS  Isn't Splended an S-class Destroyer.
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  738. It seems to me that a fast mobilized Army and a fast mobilized Navy would be more likely to get along with each other without the entrenched rivalry of the professional fighting men.
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  739. In the USofA Civil War this happened. Wilmer McLean (May 3, 1814 – June 5, 1882) was an American wholesale grocer from Virginia. His house, near Manassas, Virginia, was involved in the First Battle of Bull Run in 1861. After the battle, he moved to Appomattox, Virginia to escape the war, thinking that it would be safe. Instead, in 1865, General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant in McLean's house in Appomattox. His houses were, therefore, involved in one of the first and one of the last encounters of the American Civil War. Q. I have a plan. What's that sound? A. God giggling.
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  740. These fleet problems make me less forgiving of the USofA Navy's performance at Guadalcanal.
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  741.  @gregorywright4918  And no radar.
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  742.  @kemarisite  So you're saying I should forgive incompetents because they were incompetent.
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  743. Thanks for the answer I tried to do the research 30 odd years ago in the local library and got nowhere.
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  744. Admiral King was a very capable man despite his only serious screw up being ruining anti-submarine operations at the beginning of the USofA involvement in World War II.
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  745. That armor looks like a good battle dress uniform for the bridge crew on a battleship, or other ships.
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  746.  @alun7006  The Seafire was not nearly as well adapted for carrier operation as Me 109 T. The extended wings made a great difference in stall speed and with the high altitude engine that they were completed with after the carriers were cancelled they had much better high altitude performance than equally engined conventional wing 109s.
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  747. While small errors can stack up they can also cancel out. But the push for extreme long range might be pushed solely for shore bombardment.
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  748. Rumor has it that only Japanese Navy spies didn't read the Chicago Tribune. The Japanese Army learned that the Japanese Navy codes had been broken somehow but couldn't be bothered to tell the Japanese Navy as they were seen as worse enemies than the American Navy.
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  749.  @ph89787  It is amazing the number of people that don't know the difference between being wrong and lying.
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  750.  @ph89787  What evidence do you have that they were intentionally incorrect in their initial claims?
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  751.  @ph89787  None of that is evidence that they did not believe that they had won at the time they made the report.
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  752. And then if not steam propulsion muscle powered screws that as well as being more efficient prevents a ship from being de-oared.
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  753.  @gregorywright4918  There is lots of oil in Siberia, the Japanese had curb stomped Russia not too long before and Russia was also at war with Germany. It makes a bit of difference.
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  754.  @espada9  After the American lead Alliance had completely crushed the Japanese empire. The outcome of invading Russia instead of attacking American interests could have been significantly different. Unlike the Nazis, Japan knew how to use a puppet government in Conquered territories.
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  755. When you have a micromanaging jackass running things not telling your superiors what you are doing makes a lot of sense.
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  756.  @TheBrainSpecialist  Why would you shield the Royals from danger. Are you also going to prevent them from hobbies you think might be too dangerous like playing polo?
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  757.  @rohannbennedicktan7226  The chaos is the result of having only mark one eyeballs to see the enemy ships with. You see a lot less at night.
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  758. @it isreal Everybody knows it is 42.
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  759.  @GaldirEonai  His peace time politicking for the good of the Navy.
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  760. Any picket ship that is not using all of her available surveillance equipment is commanded by an idiot. You are not out there to see what you know is coming but to give warning of the enemy that is trying to surprise you.
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  761.  @TheWizardGamez  That didn't end well for the NATZIs.
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  762. It was the Royal Navy's fault if they had regularly bought commercially built ship's the builders would have been looking for long term relationships instead of short term profiteering. Of course instead of trying to get the money back press ganging the thieves running the civilian yards sounds like an effective punishment.
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  763.  @WALTERBROADDUS  Don't count on that. Civilian IPs can turn sailors into pilots just as fast as Navy IPs can and in peace time pulling all the air squadron's executive officers and and also 1 or 2 senior flying NCOs or warrant officer pilots from each operational squadron for commissioning will allow you to work up the new air groups by the time the new carriers are commissioned. If you managed to keep Admiral King out of the decision you might also send some pilots to gain experience in the British services as well instead of just pardoning Americans that got into the fight against fascism early to bring them home to share their hard won expertise. The AVG probably would not have been allowed to recruit from the pool of Navy pilots under such circumstances though.
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  764.  @WALTERBROADDUS  Have them built by the WPA and get some real value from that bad idea.
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  765.  @WALTERBROADDUS  The pilots of the AVG were all American military pilots recruited from active service personal but if the USofA Navy was in the midst of a crash expansion of its air groups the Navy would have been very hostile to the idea of even temporarily losing experienced pilots to the AVG. In the real timeline having a few pilots go to China and gain combat experience against the Japanese was unquestionably a good idea but in an alternate timeline where the Navy is expanding that rapidly it is difficult to see the wisdom of doing so. The Navy with certain exceptions would also be open to the idea of getting the British Empire to train and provide combat experience to future USofA Navy pilots. This would aside from providing for a group of trained pilots that the USofA Navy did not have to train for themselves but provide the current combat experience that not sending pilots to the AVG would have lost.
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  766. Given the problems of keeping ships at sea for extended periods would the Germans have been better off with a selection of guns and fire control systems that could be easily moved from one ship to another and changed ships when they captured a ship in better condition than the one they were using?
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  767.  @vipondiu  This has already been answered. The pillows were the crews bedding used to provide whatever protection it can to otherwise unarmored island.
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  768. It occurred to me that a battleship's main guns could be used to attack submerged submarines if fused correctly. (impact +time/pressure) Could this be practical assuming good sonar?
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  769.  @WALTERBROADDUS  Why would it be particularly difficult to build a modular fire control system? The largest component is the range finder and the heaviest is the guns but I have seen film of Germans moving torpedoes between two U-boats at sea.
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  770.  @WALTERBROADDUS  How much of the allies material went into bombing the German surface fleet?
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  771. It looks like a gas mask.
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  772. A fast troop transport might want to keep armor to protect the passengers when attacked so if you talk fast enough...
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  773.  @Feiora  Not everybody is as worthless as you proclaim yourself to be.
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  774. Respecting off both Scharnhorsts at the same time is no trivial feet.
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  775. Don't forget the discipline problem of the men stoking coal. How are you going to punish them for minor infractions? Make them shovel coal?
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  776. Now we just have to find out which of Hood's crew member pissed off Tyche.
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  777. Did anybody look at making a Battleship mostly out of aluminium except for the armor and guns to get more ship out of a treaty era Battleship.
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  778.  @johnathanh2660  Writing a book doesn't make him correct or necessarily honest.
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  779.  @johnathanh2660  I have seen plenty of nonsense published in allegedly nonfiction books. Like claims that the Mitsubishi A6M Zero was a copy of a Howard Hughes design, that Admiral King was completely was incompetent because of the one serious mistake in his long Naval Career, and that Admiral Bull Halsey wasn't relieved after typhoon cobra because there was no one available to replace him. It comes as no surprise that despite other sources stating that the Army wanted to add chrome linings to barrels of the M-16 without specific need other than to increase service life after the trials. The new powder gave the same muzzle velocity but had a different pressure curve that included significantly higher pressure when the gas was vented to drive the action which opened the bolt significantly faster than designed for which beat the crap out of the guns but was not noticed as a problem till well after the jamming from increased powder residue was solved by the hasty issuing of cleaning kits. The "Army lore" that the M-16 would jam if you looked at it wrong was useful in getting draftees to clean them regularly in the field so there was no way that the NCOs were going to quash the rummors. "Strange" McNamara refused the chrome lining so it became the perfect scapegoat for all of the M-16's problems.
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  780. After all the the UK did to its allies to maintain peace how was the Kriegsmarine to know the Brits would grow a new set.
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  781. Until VW stopped making new old beetles in Mexico and after new old beetles could no longer be registered for street use in the USofA the Mexican Restoration was to take a rusted out old beetle to Mexico buy a new one and transfer the VIN and Builders plate to the new car. Truly a replace everything restoration. USS Puritan was even more extreme.
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  782. Welding allows cracks to propagate across several plates while riveting doesn't.
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  783. Turrets like the USS Monitor had were brilliant in concept (armored and only aiming the guns not the entire ship) but they are fairly terrible in design. Armored barbettes are based an a much better rotating platform but the armor on them was introduced after the rotating platform had been proven to be enough better than the rotating mechanism of the turret to make the exposed guns more effective than the turret protected guns. Then the blindingly obvious notion that the Barbette could carry armor as well was thought up making "Armored Barbette" just a turret of a much better design.
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  784.  @forsakenghost7054  The conspiracy theorists insist that we knew that the attack was coming but if we had known it was coming no one in the Navy would have consented to the blind sided slaughter of being completely unprepared for the attack and the USofA submarine force would have been in position to sink the attack force. With that many torpedoes in the water we would have hit at least one even with mark 14 torpedoes. With the ambush blown if FDR didn't have had the Navy Bureau of Ordnance's balls mounted on his wall Admiral King would have sooner.
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  785.  @furious5009  Yes a country can blockade itself. The Union never acknowledged the Confederacy's right to exist so the legally consists way would have simply been to declare the southern ports closed to foreign shipping but that would have just made the Union a laughing stock.
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  786.  @murderouskitten2577  It would have snapped the anchor or anchor chain. They are not designed to absorb that kind of kinetic energy.
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  787.  @seasirocco3063  It is not about how many planes are needed it is about how many planes they are able to carry.
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  788.  @skywise001  To get an AP shell to blow up without penetrating all you have to do is fuse it differently but it has a lot less explosives in it making it a waste to do so.
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  789. 16 inch 70s or 18 inch 50s? And for dual purpose guns 4 inch 50s or 5inch 38s?
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  790.  @somedudeonline1936  Nuclear diplomacy or one shot one+ kill. Although the range of relatively light sub caliber projectiles is impressive the accuracy is not but a big bang makes up for a lot.
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  791. Magnesium chloride ice melt work better than rock salt.
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  792. When you have a small number of women in a large group of men the women must share their "favor" in a way that the men find equitable. Which means keep it to herself (this includes her mate husband or by other name) or pass it around like a collection plate.
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  793. I have always thought that the shells from battleships would be rather effective as depth charges.
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  794.  @gregorywright4918  So you are saying a group of HE shell with hundreds of pounds of explosives hitting the water and sinking to a predetermined depth before exploding are useless against submarines. Really? How about if we make them cluster charges sweet shell is a full Hedgehog pattern?
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  795.  @gregorywright4918  Sonar. In support of other platforms. Fired at higher angle with less powder for shorter ranges. The point is how to get the charges in place. Hedgehog is proof that the Royal Navy was not satisfied with driving destroyers over u-boats to drop charges.
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  796.  @gregorywright4918  I never said it was done but some people are so soft headed they think was not done is the same as can not be done.
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  797. The beer was probably unfiltered and thus full of brewer's yeast greatly increases the nutritional value.
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  798.  @obsidianjane4413  They didn't have to know why that beer was food only that it was and that was known.
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  799. No they were boats. ////snark////
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  800. How short was fuel to make not keeping the boilers hot while off a hostile coast during an amphibious invasion make sense to anyone?
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  801. If you want to use Dynamite warheads use rocket artillery.
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  802.  @jimfisher7324  Hitler was ignored more than you think. Look at the development of the StG 44 for example.
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  803.  @janitorizamped  Do you really expect records to say that they were complaining about malfunctioning equipment that was actually malfunctioning?
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  804.  @janitorizamped  I get it you're socialist you don't like the truth about socialist countries.
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  805.  @janitorizamped  Under Stalin in particular but there under all the mass murderers socialist leaders failure was caused by traitors.
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  806. As Admiral Kimmel you should also ask the Army Air Force to use the detection of the scheduled arrival of B-17s for a full scale live fire drill including sending the already present heavy bomber out on armed reconnaissance looking for the carriers.
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  807. She must be hard to satisfy.
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  808. I have wondered from time to time if early in colonizing of the Americas if a group of castaways on the North American Atlantic Coast had built a large narrow raft of mast and other timbers and sailed for home. Possibly retiring to relative leasure after selling the timber. But the Inca trade rafts I hadn't taken really seriously.
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  809. Honor and glory to the French crew indeed.
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  810. The British wouldn't have sent the worst regiments in the Empire to fight the French Indian War and the American colonists winning the war despite the British regiments getting in their way. Adding The increased taxes to pay for sending the worst regiments in the Empire to the American colonies was a whole bale when one more straw would have been too much.
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  811.  Versusdelyxe  From Wikipedia USS Stewart (DD-224) was a Clemson-class destroyer in the United States Navy during World War II. She was the second ship named for Rear Admiral Charles Stewart. Scuttled in port at Surabaya, Java, she was later raised by the Japanese and commissioned as Patrol Boat No. 102.
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  812. A single person shooting at a man at 1500m is very unlikely to hit his target but a battalion firing at a man target at 1500m has a pretty good chance of killing their target.
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  813. The Royal Navy copied the President solely for the purpose of trolling the United States of America. And it wasn't that obsolete.
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  814.  @CharlesStearman  The bomber dropped boats were not inflatable and were used to rescue downed aircrew.
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  815. Given that velocity is a major factor in Barrel wear could the USofA have chosen super heavy shells for the Iowa class been justified on that the ships were expected to operate far from ports capable of gun changes.
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  816. That was when the Marines were there to keep the Sailors in line.
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  817. A suitcase full of money can solve a bunch of problems in duplicating someone elses technology.
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  818.  @bkjeong4302  Three the fact that the third wasn't finished as battleship doesn't Change that. The USofA had the money and steel to build the Iowas and a function economy.
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  819. 5inch51 antisurface gun and 5inch25 antiaorcraft gun compromised on the 5inch38 that had ammunition commonality with the 5inch51. The 5inch38 was replaced/superseded with a 5inch54 after WWII.
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  820.  @20chocsaday  They need charged more than once a day but do better the electric batteries charging faster and costing far less with a greater cycle life.
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  821. If When The Fire Control personnel first wanted to open fire on Kirishima Admiral Lee had just asked them "Where is the South Dakota?" Washington might have fired first.
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  822. Given that there was no mention of a great treasure they were probably not headed for South America ( Argentina ) which leaves Japan as a likely destination. This would probably mean that the Type IX's cargo was fuel for the Type XXIs. Of course the captains might have decided on piracy for fun and profit.
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  823. If the Titanic's coal bunkers had been along the hull the hatches may have been built stronger being seen as part of the anti sinking features. The Tirpitz was stationary where as most ships are running and turning which makes hitting them harder. It wasn't until 1944 that the United States Army Air Force had the planes to match their doctrine which at that point high altitude bombing of ships with dumb bombs was pretty much moot do to lack of targets and the coming guided bombs.
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  824. You could deep in a canal my building dikes. It would probably take some secondary equipment such as pumps to get water into the new higher canal. It also has the drawback us being massively inconvenienced if the dikes are bombed.
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  825. The new firecontrol system might have given Hood hits on the Bismarck damaging the Bismarck's firecontrol and thus denying Bismarck the fatal hit. Unlikely but so was the fatal hit.
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  826. Japan as part of their plans for launching the war should have arranged for a large amount of HE to be in the hull of a third party freighter going through the canal on December 8 1941 (Tokyo time) to blow both doors on a lock.
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  827. I hope you are having fun and getting good video.
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  828.  Ron Lewenberg  Launching an invasion and expecting the locals to treat you like liberators when they are not already occupied by a hostile army is foolish. The British suffered from well executed raids as well. That Dutch ship acquiring trip springs to mind.
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  829. The government that rules the least rules the best.
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  830. I would put a layer of fiberglass on the outside of a the hull of a ship I was trying to preserve.
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  831.  @scottgiles7546  The radiation has decayed to safe levels. They never actually glowed in the dark if they had they would not be safe to dive on for more generations.
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  832.  @WALTERBROADDUS  That does not mean that desperate people didn't try.
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  833.  @sharkshape9621  They had an embarrassing riches if ships and they wanted to know how their ships responded to being nuked.
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  834. Would it have been faster to convert fast passenger liners into fast oilers and support ship or to build them from scratch?
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  835. If the USofA feels the need to obliterate coastal defenses or anything else where we have air superiority we we send the mighty BUFF WITH full bellies. These days they carry fewer bombs than during the Vietnam War but will individually target each bomb. If the enemy is still contesting the airspace well do the same using B-ones.
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  836. What a sad and pathetic life you must lead.
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  837.  @VinylScratchBass  She did not receive the final gray paint job and went to war wearing the blue undercoat and she showed up in so many different places.
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  838.  @admiralmack7116  The American standard classes of battleships are a series of two ship classes designed to the same standards of performance so that the could easily work together they were slow at 21 knots but they had good guns and armor.
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  839.  @VinylScratchBass  To get her into the fight faster they didn't give her the final grey coat of paint leaving the blue undercoat exposed and then she kept showing up in unexpected plases because she was strategically fast as well as tactically fast.
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  840.  @guilty_mulburry5903  The questions been answered. Given the assets that it contained against the number of kills it made it wasn't particularly successful.
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  841.  @thedevilinthecircuit1414  Probably weight savings.
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  842.  @khaelamensha3624  The F-35 is actually 3 different planes with a high degree of parts interchangeably.
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  843. Armed with American 5inch38s and 1.1inch/75 (28 mm) pompoms instead she would have been pretty good even as a light cruisers given the 15 type 93s to ruin the opposition's morning.
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  844. Remove the turrets and armor plates and she would have had a fair cargo capacity and been fast for a freighter of the time. Or you could also remove the forward machinery and get more cargo space on a slower ship.
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  845. These paper projects are a good way to get rid of well connected idiots that continue to beat dead horses about design decisions.
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  846.  @highjumpstudios2384  Not at all. The engine in the Mig 15 was a copy of the Nene the Traitors of the Labor government provided the engines that were copied to Russia. The Russian did make improvements but that is expected because Russia would have been fielding jet fighters before WWII if Stalin had not been afraid of flying as well as paranoid.
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  847.  @michaelkaylor6770  Arrows --- We mean nothing to you?
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  848.  @Wildschwein_Jaeger  The SOB trying to oppress me.
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  849. Assuming that Columbus had gone to see with "Norse" sailors in the mix he would have had good reason for knowing how far land was to the west. He also corrected the over long Eurasian continent on the map. Leaving Columbus in the position of putting two and two together and getting three.
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  850.  @johngregory4801  Considering the spread of the average salvo not as much as you think. Besides you would average between the two hight. I admit I don't understand why AP shells a soft fuse with a delay instead of having to hit something hard to set them off because I can think of several scenarios where it would simply be more effective and only one were it would be less.
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  851. The French Captain showed great wisdom in noping away.
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  852. That is why When the enlisted men are down to eating nothing but porridge with a dozen raisins it is important that the officers are seen eating nothing but porridge without raisins.
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  853.  @silverhost9782  I didn't say it was unreasonable just different in strategic and tactical outlook.
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  854.  @gwtpictgwtpict4214  The name soccer was coined in the UK, England I think. Yes, I agree. American football is oddly named.
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  855. The Deutschland class we're capable of 25 knots on pure diesel power so why would you want to put Hybrid Power on your fast Fleet Oiler?
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  856. Replace the 16 inch 50s with 12 inch 80s.
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  857. Instead of a third class cruiser build a gun heavy vitamin fed Destroyer. The biggest annoyance about the Mk 14 is aside from the magnetic detonators the problems were easy to fix.
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  858.  @sawyerawr5783  When I saw the video of the icebreaker I described my thoughts were, "It sounds great if you can make it work." And "I would have gone with great honking trash pumps and squirted the water in whatever direction was most useful at the moment."
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  859. They were smart enough to know that allowing a marxist revolution is real bad and desperate. Given the death toll of socialism the Falklands war probably saved lives in the long run.
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  860.  @worldtraveler930  Because that would cause more cavitation destroying screws faster. The golf balls operate within a compressible medium ships screws don't.
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  861. Thank you for the great effort.
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  862.  @WALTERBROADDUS  Ark lights would and there are ways to mass incandescent bulbs.
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  863.  @WALTERBROADDUS  Your firing your guns will give you away as well and disabling your opponent's fire control really helps you win.
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  864.  @mahbriggs  It wasn't my idea, I was just trying to look at it rationally and debunk the kind of objections I have gotten my whole life; it won't work (add nonsense here). It is no harder to destroy a retina in daylight than it is at night. You probablywould not use such a system until they have the means for good optical rangefinding anyway, so what does it matter?
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  865.  @mahbriggs  How long between knowing the problem exists and fielding the counter? How long does it take to deploy the filter? Can you see a darkened ship through the filter at night? When you are caught with your pants around your ankles your first few actions no matter how correct are going to benefit your enemy short term but so does doing nothing.
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  866. Shit happens.
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  867. The extended wing BF109 fighters that were 3/4 completed when the carrier was cancelled were completed with high altitude engines and oxygen systems and performed quite well. The landing gear was significantly strengthened to the point of eliminating the pilots worrying about gear failure would have probably been a major maintenance problem in carrier operations while still being overly narrow.
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  868.  @manilajohn0182  Says the ignorant twat.
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  869. Given the choice in building a 1930s fast battleship would you chose four turrets with eight 16inch 45s or twelve 13.5inch 55s?
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  870.  @Knight6831  Because of desire for the treaty and understanding that the British were not going to give up HMS Hood but think what the Americans kept as well.
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  871. You have mentioned not liking the Super heavy shells the Iowa class fires but higher velocities reduce barrel life. How many more shots would the 16inch 50s get firing super heavy shells over firing standard weight shells with the same powder load.
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  872.  @OtakuLoki  What makes you think that the covert support ships are civilian ship's or expect to make a profit in their cover operations? Have you ever looked at a loaded container ship? And don't forget that building specialized containers would be the cheapest part of the program.
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  873.  @bkjeong4302  When both are threatened by the PRC you will find that old hatreds get ignored. And why would they have to work together to have similar enough capabilities to be grouped together for the purpose of this discussion?
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  874. Happy safe at home day.
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  875. When discussing whole economy verse military expenditures I use loaves of bread. When your plan (Z) cost more loaves of bread than your country can bake it ain't going to happen not even under that psychopath Adolf.
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  876.  @miamijules2149  To obliterate the USofA installations on Midway after the carrier battle was won.
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  877.  @lllordllloyd  The Japanese Navy wanted their pilots to be a super elite force and designed the pilot training program to produce a trickle of superior pilots which included washing out pilots for eating at establishments that served alcohol even if they only drank tea. The instructors that did this thinking it was the right and proper way to train pilots could not get their heads around mass production of competent pilots. It is not unlike the ordinance officers that thought that repeating rifles would encourage troops to waste ammunition.
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  878.  @adamalton2436  None. She could not have been repaired to even partial operational status in time for the battle of Midway.
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  879.  @adamalton2436  Brain fart. I am terrible with names and was thinking Lexington. Probably not that much by the time she was properly repaired the Essex swarm would have been coming on line. Useful to be sure but unlikely to make front page news.
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  880.  @frankpienkosky5688  The Japanese had plenty of planes all the way to the end and if they would have had a better pilot training system they would have had more planes left and the pilots that their carrier force could have been something other than a decoy at the Battle of Leyte Gulf. They still would have lost. Japan should have asked why America was welling to sell so much scrap iron rather that reuse it ourselves.
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  881.  @frankpienkosky5688  Good advice but it does not apply to the kamikazes of WWII.
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  882.  @LawIV  No. He used a Zippo.
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  883. Speaking of scale modeling fire does not scale at all. Big fires simply behave differently than small fires.
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  884.  @gregorywright4918  Standardized armor plate?
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  885.  @gregorywright4918  Spares for repairing battle damage.
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  886. OK. I get that the Lexington class battlecruiser is unfit for the line of battle but wouldn't they have been well suited for commerce raiding, anti commerce raiding, cruiser killing, scouting, gunboat diplomacy, and eventually escorting carriers?
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  887.  @glennricafrente58  Of course she would have been capable of dealing with any escort short of a battleship.
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  888. Impure nitroglycerin crystals. Got it.
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  889. To get the museum ships running replace the steam turbines with gas turbines.
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  890.  @WALTERBROADDUS  Replacing the steam turbines with gas turbines is a major shortcut in the rebuild eliminating the boiler work but I would also chop the boilers up and remove them to at the very least increase fuel and air defense ammunition.
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  891.  @WALTERBROADDUS  Keeping up with a modern task group will require an Iowa is going to have to run like hell so you are going to need to replace the turbines anyway so why not put in engines that don't need boilers and are more efficient? Unless the ship is dangerously top heavy more point defence does not hurt. Battleships also have been known to carry fuel for their escorts, so why not? If you have a better use for the space and weight I'm all for it but new boilers is not it.
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  892.  @razorburn645  Well so, when it's not actually his fault...
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  893.  @razorburn645  MacArthur gave a date in spring 42 when the Philippines would be secure. If instead of giving the priority to the war in Europe it would have been given to the war in the Pacific it is probable the Philippines would never have fallen. But all things considered despite being the wrong strategic decision Europe first was the moral decision.
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  894.  @razorburn645  And somebody told you that you are intelligent; that doesn't make it true. There were other theaters in the Pacific but none of them are between the Japanese home islands and the oil their war machine required. You hate MacArthur; no problem none of my analysis based on his self-aggrandizing.
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  895.  @razorburn645  The obsolete battleships taken off the board. The Atlantic fleet that could have run the Mediterranean taken the Suez Canal or have gone around Africa and reinforced from the west. The carrier force sent to raid backwaters. All the supplies sent to England. You mindlessly hate MacArthur and will not consider any possibility that he was not at fault. MacArthur gave Truman the choice fight to win or fire me. Truman chose to not win.
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  896.  @razorburn645  You forget where the convoys that got mauled were going. There was a big difference between going to Suez and Malta. The USofA Navy was short on fast fleet oilers not oilers in general. Russia lacked the nukes to start WWIII in the early 1950s. Truman was an idiot. I already told you my analysis isn't based on MacArthur's writings.
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  897.  @razorburn645  The straw man argument. First slow oilers were as fast as the average cargo ship of the day. And second the fleet oilers make going around Africa with a battlefleet practical. The USofA 5inch38 duel purpose gun would come as a very nasty surprise to the German and Italian Air Forces. Wanting to move cargo through the Mediterranean we would put a big Air Force in Egypt and the USofA Army would start getting serious battle experience in Libya before launching a major amphibious assault.
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  898.  @razorburn645  What is clear is that you will not accept any possibility of any other plan working and that you mindlessly hate MacArthur. Sending a battlefleet through the Mediterranean doesn't require the fleet oilers. Believe what you want but the Europe first plan was FDR Supporting Churchill over American interest but ultimately the right choice because of the Holocaust.
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  899.  @razorburn645  Not reality.
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  900. A lot of the problem with the Iowa class bow was the treaty weight limit.
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  901.  @consubandon  The bubble heads were trusted to do bubble head things that were useful but by the 30s weren't seen as a threat to funding for either carriers or battleships unlike they were for each other.
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  902.  @consubandon  Which is entirely expected given the subject matter of the changing surface warfare battle doctrine. Until the introduction of nuclear powered boats submarines were not an important issue battle doctrine because they were too slow to keep up making them a nasty course hazard to watch out for and cheep Commerce suppression.
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  903.  @consubandon  But it was the change in policies leading to the USofA's global domination. Aside from capability of boats and torpedoes there is damned little difference in USofA's anti-Japan submarine warfare in WWII and Germany's anti-UK submarine warfare.
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  904. Some compound engine steam cars have low pressure steam turbines to provide auxiliary power. (Electrical generation and condenser fan) If you are trying to get maximum efficiency out of the steam plant electrically heating the steam generator air feed is not unreasonable if you have the electricity. (It is easier than heating the water directly.)
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  905. Fair fights are for suckers.--- Royal Navy.
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  906.  @johnshepherd8687  But the Royal Navy was around long before the USofA Army.
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  907. Too bad the HMS Obsolete wasn't conveniently sitting quaside waiting for scrapping.
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  908. I suspect that ergot poisoning has something to do with the confusion of which ship the class is named after.
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  909. Is claiming that "The invention of the air dropped torpedo rendered battleships obsolete." valid if a little simplistic?
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  910. Medium bombers flying off carriers in WWII would have been useful in small numbers for long range recon and possibly anti submarine warfare.
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  911. The carrier submarine could be useful as a platform for covert operations. Designing the helicopter would be interesting though.
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  912.  @GaldirEonai  The US Mk.14 Torpedo it was fixed. In fact the fixes are easy to do.
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  913. It sounds like a.m. radio while somebody was doing some heavy arc welding.
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  914. The battlecarrier might make some sense as commerce escort.
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  915. As an American I agree with the explanation of the USofA Marines except that the Marines were founded a few days before the Navy so the Navy is part of the Marines.
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  916. The allies were not interested in random death from the sky when it came to shore bombardment.
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  917.  @scottyfox6376  Because muzzle Brakes work by deflecting energy and doing so will do more harm to your ship than the recoil.
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  918.  keith moore  What makes carriers an offensive weapon? The Japanese intended for their declaration of war to be delivered before the attack began on Pearl Harbor but sh!t happens. Are you paid by the Chinese government or did you choose a western alias to spew mindless hatred with on your own.
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  919. You forgot to mention the Royal Navy minesweeper that became Jacques Cousteau's ship of song and story, the Calypso.
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  920. They could have soldiered on as good anti-submarine platforms.
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  921.  @rogersmith7396  A little short of passenger space for the Marines but providing additional helicopter support real well.
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  922.  @rogersmith7396    I don't know but finding space to support 1,200 passengers on a Saipan class would be much more difficult than on a Essex class.
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  923.  @rogersmith7396  And food preparation. Plus space for maintaining the helicopters. And Lexington had a significantly larger air group.
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  924. Prinz Eugen had some rather bad design compromises in the boilers do to the limits of German industry. This would probably limit the "Wheraboo" effect when it came to high pressure steam.
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  925.  @keithstudly6071  How many American ships were used a A-bomb targets? But feel free to express your mindless hatreds.
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  926.  @keefymckeefface8330  So range that is easy to increase and you compare it to the plane that took the Royal Navy's last shot against Nazi Germany.
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  927.  @keefymckeefface8330  More powerfull engine and larger fuel tanks works well. So give it the same engine as the navalized 109 and get greater range and reduced spare parts load.
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  928.  @keefymckeefface8330  So you are saying the engineers modifying the Stuka for naval operations are incompetent. Yes when replacing the engine if the mounts are different you may have to modify the frame and cowling. The Fw190 fought with both radial and inline engines. The P-36 and P-40 used the same airframe but somehow reengining the Stuka is impossibly difficult. F4F Wildcats had wingtanks added after leaving the factory.
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  929.  @keefymckeefface8330  The navalized 109 had improved landing gear and the gear problems of the 109 are overstated from the start.
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  930.  @keefymckeefface8330  Everyone had overly complicated unworkable engines in development at the end of WWII. There is space in the wings where additional fuel tanks could be installed. The best would involve moving the spherical oxygen bottles but there is space elsewhere in the plane for them. There is plenty of reasons to hate the Nazis you don't need to make shit up to hate on.
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  931.  @keefymckeefface8330  So did everyone else look at the engines on the B-29 and why no civilian plane used it.
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  932.  @keefymckeefface8330  There is other places where fuel can be added as well. I have seen landing gear pants with a fuel tank added that improved the aerodynamics. Also in attacking ships a single large bomb is optimal so you could change fuel tanks on the wing hardpoints.
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  933.  @Fulcrum205  Germany apparently only wanted carriers because the cool kids all had them but even so the Germans are not stupid. Reinforced landing gear and extended wings why not extended range. According to the numbers the American carrier air wings should have been useless against the Japanese in 1942 but somehow they held their own. The USofA Navy had carriers with eight inch guns and they didn't have to run a gauntlet of hostile channels to simply get to their operating area. The Germans wouldn't have had the best air wing but they would not have been a harmless embarrassment either. The mindless hatred of the Nazis is really out of hand.
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  934.  @Fulcrum205  That is not the engine that B-29 started with.
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  935.  @Fulcrum205  The Nazis built a very dysfunctional system which is to be expected from socialist. But the fighters waiting for the allied escort fighters to turn back were not low on fuel. If the Graf Zeppelin went out commerce raiding she would lose not because of the quality of her air group but because the allies would have sent overwhelming force. That would include diverting Lancasters and liberators from bombing Germany which would demonstrate that American high altitude antiship doctrine works when properly applied.
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  936. If the USofA Navy had several Battlecruisers instead of Battleships there would have been more drive for fast oilers.
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  937. Blow it in place I don't care what it takes out.
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  938. The Philippines probably would have been reinforced and not fallen but running supplies and war ships through the Mediterranean could result in Germany or Italy mistakenly attacking American ships and FDR would have demanded a declaration of war and probably got it.
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  939. And some people object to my calling for execution of some of the men responsible for the delay in fixing the problems.
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  940. Not as good as a purpose built but she was properly fast and large enough to be useful as something other than convoy escort.
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  941. Never underestimate the psychological effects of a small force that refuses to die. A heavy weight boxer expect to be hurt by another heavy weight but to also hurt him in turn. But when you are getting hurt by a smaller force that you can't even seem to hit it makes the hurts seem much worse.
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  942. Steam engines don't have to idle at stop lights and give high toque at low revs, give high revs, and runs backward eliminating the need for a gear box. Steam also has the advantage of running on multiple fuels. There is also waste heat recovery.
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  943. 6:02 that is not a gun it is a punch enhancer.
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  944.  @suburbanbanshee  So it's not quite the same School and of course Charles could never be put In Harm's Way the way Prince Philip could the royal family went downhill once that rule was put into effect.
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  945. If you chose to arm a 10,000 ton treaty ere cruiser with all 5inch51 in duel purpose mounts could you get a high enough total rate of fire to fight light cruisers and useful long range air defense fire?
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  946. A carrier and escorts caught between two battleships and escorts putting serious hurt on the battleships impregnated the pooch but put up one hell of a fight as well.
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  947. Many years ago after reading a book on antitank guns that explained that Germany withdrew taper bored guns from service because of a severe shortage of tungsten I heard that the Germany navy used carbon filament lightbulbs in U-boat's in WWII. Given the greater efficiency of tungsten filament bulbs and the fact that the metal is fully recoverable from burned out bulbs I can't stop wondering if it was true and have not been able to find a reliable source to say one way or the other. Did the German U-boat use carbon filament lightbulbs in WWII?
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  948. Good luck brought about by good design and good captains.
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  949.  @themightynanto3158  At the bottom right of a comment there is three small dots in the form of a vertical line. If you tap it it gives you options which on your own comments includes edit which lets you change or extend your comment.
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  950. The bridge isn't very good but it is a vast improvement over standing on deck. And leading in the right direction. It is very hard to go from A to Z in one step.
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  951. The apparent hand of God in defeating the Spanish Armada (the storm tearing the heart out of the Spanish fleet) encourages all the atheists to avoid thinking about it. *edit grammatical correction.
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  952. The decoy force did its job real well.
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  953. Don't forget that the Weimar Republic was set up by communist/socialist (at the time there was no distinction between the two) that didn't know how to set up a functional economy.
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  954.  @timberwolf1575  Once you have defueled, resealed, and entombed the reactors they are decommissioned without chopping up the ship. Thinking about it tar might be a better material to fill the reactors and reactor compartments with than concrete.
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  955. In rebuilding a partially scrapped Wickes class destroyer for WWII in late 41 given the choice between equally fresh out of the box guns 4inch50 or 5inch25 which is better.
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  956. How well would the Ryūjō have done escorting Atlantic convoys?
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  957.  @bkjeong4302  Crash program and incompetence by the Navy Bureau of 0rdinance.
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  958. It is important to remember that oil is part of the natural environment and there is completely natural bacteria that eat it. A slow leak is best though.
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  959.  @tominiowa2513  There is algae that grows in diesel fuel.
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  960.  @tominiowa2513  Apparently in the diesel.
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  961.  @clogman01  The Brit's were fighting to sink or capture the enemy ship's while the French and Spanish were usually fighting to simply get away.
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  962.  wulpurgis  No, but there was a time after my fiancee died in a traffic accident that had me doing things like "First".
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  963.  wulpurgis  I offer sympathy. What do you offer?
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  964.  @thewingedhussars459  Clearly you speak of things you lack knowledge of.
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  965.  @jonathanstrong4812  The time had come for 5.56mm but one that worked, like an license built AR-15 derivative or better Steyr AUG. The FAMAS modified to NATO standard 5.56mm would have been good as well but I prefer the greater resistance to over or under charged rounds of gas actions.
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  966. He did mention them as being surprisingly good.
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  967. Point in favor.
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  968. Despite the lower casement mounts, they did what they were designed to do rather well. Not every ship can say that. I would have thought by then that low casement mounts were known to be over wet, so save the money of four of them and raise the midship mounts. Unfortunately a good grasp of the obvious isn't universal.
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  969. 5 two gun turrets after considering building four gun turrets feels weird.
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  970.  @gregorywright4918  But the gains in armor protection and cost in exchange for a sacrifice of one gun by going to three gun turrets is significant.
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  971.  @CSSVirginia  I would have gone with the Parrot guns, while some of them did explode it was a very low percentage. I would also have provided protection for the gun crews when firing. In which case the CSS Virgina would have been sunk or captured.
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  972. It has occurred to me that towing a submerged submarine behind other ships leaving port would provide safety and stealth for the submarine. A towed submerged submarine could make a good escort against surface raiders. Starting with fully charged batteries and given a situation report from a surface lookout it should be useful.
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  973.  @christopherreed4723  But that would make supplying the powder easier even if not the projectiles.
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  974.  @ahabeger  Doing so would add a great deal of complication to fire control, reduce the penetration, and decrease the odds of getting hits.
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  975.  @spookynikki907  A series of airtight armored hatches arranged so that you always have a closed hatch between the magazines and the gun deck so that a fireball on the gun deck cannot reach the magazine.
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  976.  @kemarisite  That British gun shell weight was 25 pounds but not round shot and really confuses the issue.
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  977.  @kemarisite  Pounder is simply a way of measuring the bore of a cannon based on how heavy of an iron ball fits the bore. Until the development of hollow shot it also told you how much the cannon ball weighs.
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  978.  @jon-paulfilkins7820  After careful thought I decided that it should be "... I want to geld them with a spoon."
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  979.  @NoNameAtAll2  AoN armor is great for battle line combat but for surface raiding it leaves the ship venerable to significantly inconvenient damage (requiring a return to port) from the light escorts or even pop guns the freighters carried.
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  980.  @sarjim4381  German spy craft was generally lousy including Abwehr. The Brits had succeeded in doubling Germany's top five spies in the UK by June 1944.
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  981.  @sarjim4381  But not blueprints. Besides the Russians are better at spying that the Brits. They absorb spy craft with their mothers milk because of their governments paranoia and secret police.
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  982. The super heavy shells giving lower velocity might provide for longer barrel life and deliver more boom per shell.
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  983.  @davidjarkeld2333  A country that is no longer supporting terrorists and the USofA has larger oil reserves in America and over the howling objections of the same people that claim the wars were over oil is now producing enough of our own oil that today the USofA is a net oil exporter.
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  984.  @lucianograff6512  The USofA government is less guilty than most of that. And may all governments stop abusing their people.
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  985. I have made a distance estimate of a mile 2 kilometers.
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  986. If France would have been willing to lose and burn Paris to keep it from the huns, the normal British strategy might have worked but with France pissing away a generation of men to retake lost trenches the western allies would have lost before American attitude about entering the war changed.
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  987. We don't have to like each other but we have to work together. --- Someone Wise.
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  988.  @absalomdraconis  So you agree that they were derelict in their duty in a way that cost American lives. In which case death by firing squad is a possibility and in my opinion appropriate.
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  989. The ship is a faraday cage so what's inside the interference is blocked out. I've heard similar AM radio interruption from arc welding.
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  990.  @Tomyironmane  Much improved triple expansion engines presumably with auto Oilers.
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  991. All these weird but not necessarily wonderful designs beat the hell out of the navel architects and engineers repeating poor designs whining that there is nothing to be done about the problem.
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  992. You have the apologies of rational Americans. Please remember you are one of the least screwed over by the senile fool Crooked Joe Biden.
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  993. Four inch is a bit light for surface warfare but a high rate of fire helps with that.
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  994.  @loyalpiper  Because you're very suggestible.
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  995.  @hermitoldguy6312  Modify the Torpedoes of in smaller pieces, put additional items in the crates, and lots of yelling and complaining accusations of fraud on the part of the shippers, and a little slight of hand.
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  996. Much sympathy from America for having to give up little HMS Hermes.
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  997.  @martinsgakke  Only if you are using fusion power.
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  998.  Hoa Tattis  You could just watch the video but after WWII started but before the USofA declared war.
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  999. At the time you may or may not want to face the American Navy but you darned well didn't want to fight with one of those ships.
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  1000.  @gregorywright4918  Usually the cracks start in bad welds but not always.
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  1001.  @jurrekieboom2208  It was a wooden ship the, most of the raw materials for maintaining it existed in the colonies and setting up the infrastructure to produce the planking and mast timbers, canvas, and cordage would also produce material to be shipped back to the mother country for use and sale. Do you think that natives were too stupid to be sailors as well? The Royal Charles would have presented pirates with an out of context problem as well as keeping the British merchantmen polite. But then my solution to the problem of the Netherlands being a small nation is to assimilate the colonials into being Dutch people.
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  1002.  @jurrekieboom2208  The flagship of a squadron not the sole ship. And the pirates would go elsewhere out of Dutch waters because they don't want to be the luckless bastards that run into her. Hundreds of men in the same city as their wives and children is rarely a bad problem. This was a time when captains didn't trust their crews anyway. Feeding the crew is a problem but the decrease in piracy would pay for it.
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  1003.  @jurrekieboom2208  Disguised as a rich merchantman she will find pirates to kill. And when the next war starts you have the ship to fight it with. That is not the definition of territorial waters anybody competent use.
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  1004.  @jurrekieboom2208  Yes I do. Do you know how hard it is to tell scale at see?
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  1005. once a ships boilers have died it shouldn't be that difficult to replace the steam turbines with gas turbines leaving the boiler spaces open for other purposes such as fuel tanks or missile storage.
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  1006. No. The angle that they are to each other means that two torpedoes would have to occupy the same space at the same time. I am told this is impossible. My guess is water and pressure tight storage for ready ammunition for the gun.
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  1007. ​ @TheAngelobarker  Which is a symptom of them not working together.
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  1008. Did any navies ships use balloons hot air or hydrogen for Lookout posts?
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  1009. A not revolutionary enough design.
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  1010. 35.30 I hate being on the wrong end of a shooting gallery.
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  1011. You could deal with the heating of magazines by proximity to machinery spaces by heating the more separated from machinery magazines.
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  1012.  @gregorywright4918  Why? It is just climate control and it's not like the temperature involved is dangerous.
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  1013.  @keefymckeefface8330  So you are saying that it is significantly more risky to keep all the powder at the same temperature as the central turret. In which case it is intolerable keep powder in the central turret. However you would only keep the powder warm during time of war.
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  1014.  @keefymckeefface8330  And I am saying that the risk of the faster decay in time of war is less than the danger of having a turret firing into a different area code from the other guns.
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  1015.  @keefymckeefface8330  There is a thing as being to risk-averse. Exactly what is the additional risk of raising the the magazines of the other turrets to the temperature accepted as safe in Q-turret's magazine? What is the speed difference in running cooling systems for Q-turret comparred to heating the other turrets? How much does it cost having both systems installed and only heating the other turrets when you are running at maximum speed while in contested waters? How much does having the guns of central turrets increasing the chances of getting hits with each salvo decrease the risk to the ship? Can you quantify any of these veritable? If not it is pretty damned stupid to categorically call any solution having too high of a risk.
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  1016.  @keefymckeefface8330  And if the increase in likelihood of survival goes up a half of one percent from the increase in effectiveness in gunnery but goes down by a quarter of one percent because of the increase in risk of spontaneous magazine detonation? I am perfectly willing to accept that keeping all the powder hot all the time is a bad idea but given the number of ships with midship turrets that didn't spontaneously blow up the additional risk of heating the magazines for combat is not even close to what you think it is.
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  1017.  @keefymckeefface8330  So you agree with the people that insisted that building a big fire in their wooden ship so that they could sail against the wind was a bad idea. You are making the same argument.
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  1018.  @keefymckeefface8330  Basic chemistry? Like fire a big fire on a ship made out of wood and plant fiber coated in tar. If you want an actual bad idea look up gasoline vapor engine.
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  1019.  @keefymckeefface8330  It is an infinitesimal increase in risk for a major increase in the odds of getting a hit and it doesn't take many hits to sink a ship.
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  1020.  @keefymckeefface8330  Define many. And then add one more hit per salvo after the first hit. The idea was probably never thought of. Most of my successes have been a result of my trouble finding the box most people can't think outside of.
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  1021.  @keefymckeefface8330  As you demonstrate with your clear refusal to think anything but slight temporary heating causes boom. Early British smokeless powder had a particularly bad aging process. Then there is the actual cause of spontaneous detonation is not actually known.
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  1022. After much thought, Light Battle Cruiser.
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  1023. In all fairness the American Colonies weren't opposed to paying taxes just paying taxes to a government that would not even pay lip service to their interests. If the British government would have sent the regiments that they sent to quell the rebellion to fight the French Indian war the rebellion would not have happened.
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  1024. I could easily see a turret being designed for new long tube guns and then the guns not working so the existing shorter tube guns being used in their place leaving the elevation system over balance to the rear.
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  1025. If you can't come up with a good 16inch gun design of your own beg borrow or steal one from the Americans. --- Royal Navy (maybe)
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  1026.  @TraditionalAnglican  First putting several thousand tons of HE on a ship you don't own is just a matter of money and hiring someone to move the cargo. Arrange for payment on delivery. Second blowing up a lock and draining Gatun Lake will take far longer than a few months to repair. And third the crew of the ship would not be aware that the ship was going to blow up the person that does the deed does not have to be on the ship when it blows up.
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  1027. This was less fun than when there is a single high probability outcome with only minor variations but I liked having the all the likely options mentioned. Not useful for deciding what you want to do in the future but good job and I look forward to which ever comes.
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  1028.  @RedXlV  Your opinion of MacArthur is at variance with reality.
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  1029.  @andrewtaylor940  The Army Air Force never had enough B-17 bombers in the Pacific theaters to carry out a single anti-ship strike according to doctrine. The formation was supposed to be large enough to cover any possible defensive maneuvers made by the ships. The idea was that taking out the enemy ships with an aluminium overcast would consume lots of gas and bombs but very few planes and airmen would be lost. By the time the Army Air Forces had the planes to carry out their doctrine the enemies didn't have the ships left to use it against without generating the Navy's wrath and the ground targets were more important.
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  1030.  @RedXlV  MacArthur's preperations for the defence of the Philippines were incomplete and not scheduled to be completed until several months into 1942 and reported as such. Pearl Harbor was reported as being fully secured well before the attack on December 7 1941. The Navy was not sharing intelligence about Japanese preperations for the attack on the Philippines including overhead photos of the invasion force in port. Nor has the Army high command forwarded General Chennault's 100% accurate reports of the capabilities of the Japanese Air Forces' Army and Navy including the range and maneuvering capabilities of the Mitsubishi Zero. Calling General MacArthur dugout Doug is a blatant slander but it does match the accuracy of the rest of your opinion of the man.
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  1031.  @RedXlV  The Navy had the intelligence to provide the B-17s targets but refused to prove it to the Army, the Army Air Force was working up Targets for the B-17s with inadequate intelligence while asking questions about the morality and legality of bombing Japanese forces from bases in a country that had not yet been attacked by Japan and possibly bringing a country that might have been able to maintain neutrality into the war against their will. Information about this did not reach MacArthur. Japan had not attack for the same reason that the B-17 did not have targets. Bad weather over the places that the B-17s would have targeted. You are blaming MacArthur beyond his control. Are you going to blame him for eventually withdrawing from the Philippines as ordered.
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  1032.  @andrewtaylor940  Not at the beginning of the war. Besides when they had enough B-24 bombers available do you send all of them after one ship at sea or choose to send them after more valuable targets since the Navy has figured out sinking Japanese ships. The Army Air Force doctrine called for saturating the entire area that the ship that they were attacking could be when the bombs hit no matter how they maneuvered. By the time that the Army Air Force had the planes the Japanese Navy was not enough of a threat to justify sending that amount of force after one ship when other targets were available.
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  1033.  @andrewtaylor940  The high altitude bombing is far less dangerous to the bomber crews and planes. As I said it takes a lot of gas and bombs. But if the Army Air Force had the planes in 42 and 43 it would have been cost effective to use the hundreds of bombers to take out one carrier or battleship. There was nothing wrong with the doctrine except they didn't have the planes to use it at the time it cost effective to do so. Personally I think early in war the Army Air Force should have used the heavy bombers to drop torpedoes but that does not make the doctrine stupid.
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  1034.  @andrewtaylor940  I forgot to mention it directly again the reason for needing so many bombers was to cover the whole area that the ship could move in. Bombs and fuel are cheap compared to planes and aircrews. And the advantage of the high altitude bombing was the very low loss rate of planes and men. The biggest benefit for the allies of the strategic bombing of Germany was how many German artillery shots it absorbed. 7 out of every 10 artillery shell German produced in WWII was shot into the air for very little gain.
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  1035.  @richardcowling7381  Pile it in a back yard for a few years then.
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  1036. There is nothing magical about German industry if they can build it so can others. Buying the technical package would be the easiest way to do it.
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  1037. The B-52 as a cruise missile carrier is a first strike bomber but admittedly from beyond air defense range.
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  1038.  @Conn30Mtenor  That the same authority that accused Trump of colluding with the Russians?
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  1039. An airship fast enough to keep up with the surface force operating a radar at an altitude of about 14,000 feet (4,267.2 meters) reasonably comfortable for fit people use to 5,000 feet or above without supplementary oxygen would have been useful in WWII. Used both as a lookout for the fleet or a decoy to draw attention from where the fleet really is.
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  1040.  @TheEvilmooseofdoom  Are you going to go for the airship or the ships that can sink your air port?
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  1041.  @TheEvilmooseofdoom  The airship can run fairly fast, it is about 200 miles to the horizon for surface scanning, and you can turn off the airborn radar and activate a ship based radar once you know the attack is on the way. The airships wouldn't be easy targets. It took the Japanese time to figure out the Allies had radar. How much more damage would have been done to the Japanese carrier force and pilot corps if the American carriers had a 45 minute warning of every attack. How many lost airships is that worth?
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  1042. While I don't object to the use of dead pigs in the test, I did point out to anyone that would listen that the dead don't bruise and a baseball bat is a deadly weapon.
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  1043. I think that given the treaty limitations if the operational environment allow it (the Pacific) the unarmored deck was better but the British carriers would not survived European operations without the armored deck so both were as close to right as possible at the time.
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  1044. Would you add the USS Pigeon (AM-47) to the list of ships to be reviewed please.
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  1045. I wouldn't bet on that it could be that he is particularly susceptible to Wuhan Flu and had just managed to avoid exposure to it.
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  1046.  @TheWebstaff  I am pretty sure that it is an attenuated virus vaccine.
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  1047. The Constitution is exactly the ship that a third rate Navy needed to keep a first rate Navy polite.
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  1048. I heard the Napoleon claimed that if he could control the English Channel for 12 hours he could conquer the world. It would have been the risk everything on a single throw of the dice operation of all time.
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  1049.  @glenmcgillivray4707  Japan wanted an empire and made whatever excuse they thought sounded good at the time to justify it.
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  1050. I could see building a craine with two beams from either side but above the gunport and a block and tackle from the overhead to lift and control the breach block. Wet cloths to be put on the gun and a wet sponge to clear the bore could help with the cooling on board a ship.
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  1051. These political suicides are so messy when the victim doesn't cooperate.
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  1052. The FJ-1 used the wings and tail of the P-51 with a new fuselage with the realization that straight wings were obsolete the new fuselage was mated to swept wings and tail making the FJ-2 and the F-86. North America Aviation made a great deal of money selling incrementally improved version to both services alternating which had the better plane in service until both services receive aircraft capable of accelerating past the speed of sound in level flight at about the same time.
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  1053. Starting in late December 1941 would it have been faster to turn large fast liners into fast fleet oilers or to build fast fleet oilers from scratch?
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  1054. The difficulty in going from working very hard to taking a few days off say on a sea cruise, probably helped with the effectiveness of Lord Mountbatten's lecture in the impromptu lecture Hall.
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  1055. Now I have the image of a skinny little man sitting cross legged with a work-smile on his face with his index fingers pointed at his temples operating controlled with his toes guiding the guns.
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