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

  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. You can run refrigeration, hoists, blowers... From the steam engines without using electricity.
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  4. When you have grown up swinging axes and hatchets using a war axe will be fairly natural.
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  5. It beats the hell out of having to keep the pumps running 24/7 to keep up with the leaking.
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  6. 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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  7.  @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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  8. After Admiral King found out about the failures of the mark 14 they were promptly fixed.
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  9.  @JosipRadnik1  Probably about a year out.
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  10. That is one way to provide the crew with fresh fish.
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  11. 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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  12. The British too the award for best ship name with the ballistic missile submarine HMS Vengeance.
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  13. Nothing encourages an aggressor more than a unprepared victim.
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  14. 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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  15. It sounds like Admiral Jellicoe has earned having a battleship or given today's fleet reality carrier named after him.
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  16. If the Americans had trusted that Gibraltar would hold logical target of the landings would have been Sicily and Tobruk.
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  17. 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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  18.  @stewartellinson8846  How dare you? I just suffered a fit of giggles.
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  19. ​ @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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  20. 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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  21. 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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  22. 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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  23. HMS Rodney when the only thing left holding the boilers together is the scale.
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  24.  @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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  25. 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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  26. Almost as pretty as a KC-135 when you're flying on thin fumes.
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  27.  @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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  28. 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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  29.  @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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  30. In all fairness disrupting water supplies causes many problems including making fighting fires more difficult.
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  31.  @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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  32.  @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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  33. A set of 12inch70 guns would be interesting.
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  34. The Russians played the part of the ducks in a shooting gallery.
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  35.  @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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  36. 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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  37. That set the battlecruiser idea back a few years.
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  38.  @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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  39. "Ship missing cause unknown." is the probable outcome.
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  40. HMS Captain would probably be closer.
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  41. The last of Imperial Japan's fleet carriers.
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  42. Scrapping four R-Class to get two G3s sounds not unreasonable.
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  43. They traided ships not unlike the Royal Navy and French fleets in the Napoleonic Wars.
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  44.  @EstellammaSS  so was the memo
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  45.  @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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  46.  @bkjeong4302  That is not a torpedo issue but a tactics issue.
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  47. CNN all the accuracy of the the Brussels Gazette.
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  48. Slower than Standard Battleships? Wow that's slow. 😏
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  49. In the Longview Commodore Perry's Mission might have been a mistake.
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  50. 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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