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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