Comments by "Asbestos Muffins" (@AsbestosMuffins) on "Drachinifel" channel.

  1. "Oh shit sir, the torpedo is coming back around!" "Don't worry, those things never work." Clunk "See."
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  2. "You're using them wrong!" "OK give me the manual so my sailors can figure out how to use them then!" "That's classified." "GRRRRRRRR"
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  3. "Sir the submarine is sinking!" "I know, its supposed to do that." "Ya but we're at cruise, not drill."
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  4. "The citidel was ordered to be immune to 16" shell fire from a given range" man you gotta appreciate the people who had to carry out these insane dictates
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  5. "And by 1905 they had a number of russian built ships in their inventory." How nice of the russians to work with them
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  6. The French copy nobody, and nobody copies the French
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  7. "No Island?" "Could get in the way of the wings." "Where's the radar going." "we need to beat the army and airforce!"
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  8. the fact that the Union Navy was able to go from a few ships to being able to blockade THE ENTIRE SOUTH in a few short years is mind boggling because you had to have people, ships, ships to supply those ships, people on those ships, and so on and so forth, and they started with next to nothing
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  9. this ship was an important stepping stone. Miazaki would have just drawn regular battleships if this hadn't been built
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  10. Some say if it ever sank, it'd just rise again after a few days. I'll see myself off
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  11.  @petergaskinuk-1785  I can absolutely imagine there being a spec and drawing for a standard dining tray, I've seen weirder
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  12. "Sir these are battleship 16's you can't use them like rifled guns." "The hell I can't and you're going to as well!"
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  13. Tbf, this monster was exactly what was needed to lay transatlantic telegraph/telephone cable in that era since it actually could carry enough cable to go from one shore to the other
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  14. "This is a picture of the Great White Fleet." "Why's it called that." "Not sure."
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  15. serialized rivits? these are british fighters not german ones
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  16. "They fought it off by using the ship's gatling gun to sweep her own decks" Jesus no thanks, point blank naval gatling guns would be brutal
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  17. And all the USN had as a rival was the BuOrd
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  18. ya and amphibious landings just weren't a thing yet, you just unloaded supplies and troops on a beach or port and hope you don't get shot at
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  19. Austin Power's grandfather(?)
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  20. have you ever thought about publishing these on audible? you're already longer than most audiobooks
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  21. Austria "No battleships, they're too vulnerable" GERMANY "And there's battleship number 31, and here's number 32 and here's number 33"
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  22.  @donjones4719  ya but then we wouldn't have the funny story of an admiral dropping live torpedo detonators off of a tower to see how they couldn't survive the impact with the ground, demonstrating that they had no way of surviving a direct impact with an enemy ship
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  23. the one thing I think you ommitted was the advent of torpedoes and their accompanying ships in ww2 (and to a lesser extent ww1) which made lines incredibly dangerous since if the enemy ships shot out a fusillade of torpedoes and missed their target, there was probably another ship right behind it, which seemed to happen with frightening regularity in the early half of the war. if nothing else, they served to break up formations and cause chaos since nobody wants to get poked by the 20 foot long doom fish
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  24. "The south shall rise again!" "Why?" "Uh.... um... heritage?" "Were your ancestors even here in the 1860s?" ".........no."
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  25. "Strike me down and I shall become more powerful than you ever could imagine." Sometime later "WAHAHAHAHA SEE MY MASSIVE AIR GROUP, FEEL MY WRATH!"
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  26. 3:05 "Did you correct for the relative speed of the island?" "What's the relative speed of the island?" "Nothing, its an island"
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  27. "I hereby decree all royal navy ships dock here, except the ones which dock elsewhere, but not all of the ones which dock elsewhere."
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  28.  @cluster4583  US 16" super heavy shells and much better fire control systems would have just outclassed yamato but in the end, it was much easier to just send aircraft to do the job. We lost basically nobody to sink the biggest battleship ever, whereas 4 years earlier the british paid heavily to sink the bismark
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  29. thing always was the soviets never really needed a big navy, their enemies were all reachable by a short drive through the country side.
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  30. As WTYP Pod would say about the courageous class, Make the ship more rigid!
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  31. "Damnit man I'm a captain, if I wanted land training I,'d have joined the army!"
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  32. 5:04 "I have come up with a miniature steam boiler, I shall now put it on this tiny bicycle"
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  33. as someone who's worked in a salt mill, you get tired of literally everything tasting or being covered in salt pretty quickly
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  34. kind of ironic that fire control computers got so sophisticated so fast they were considered marvels in the 1940s but by the time the iowas were brought back in vietnam the computers were old, by the gulf war, antiques.
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  35. US subs were good but their armaments made them basically useless without 1942's losses to force the BeuOrd to finally fix the dang mark 14, there's just nothing better to say when your subs fire 10-20 torpedoes and only 1 detonates
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  36. steam power without the oxygen
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  37. the entire Korean war hinged on some army clerks finding a trio of m26s rusting away in a depot in tokyo to stop the massive amount of T-34-80s storming down the peninsula, and ya they could punch from front plate to back plate but ya thanks to budget cuts we had just 3 tanks capable of stopping the north korean army
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  38. Germany Builds 10 Battleships RN Builds 30 Battleships "So Senator Tillman, tell us about that battleship plan you had them design."
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  39. "He set up a shooting gallery in his office, making his coworker put up with the constant pinging." They got away with so much back then
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  40. French Planners: "The worst thing that could happen is if we all get scattered!" What Happens: The French get scattered
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  41. by the description they terrified the japanese so much they ran aground and swam away from the terrifying kiwis as there's little they could do other than hit them with the boat and shoot anyone trying to man the guns
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  42. I suppose the scuttle put out the fires before they did real structural damage and the area around midway had very little traffic in the decades following ww2 as it became less and less important
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  43. 25:04 "EGHAD! ITS Napoleon! SHOOT IT!" "sir...we're allied with the french." "right right....for now........"
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  44. German Logic: Germany makes a fleet that to take down would make britain vulnerable to russia and france Germany Also: Gets russia, france and the british to ally with each other
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  45. man they reeeeeaaaally did not want to abandon ship
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  46. a lot of the british empire was the government writing a letter saying something like "It is absolutely essential not to do A Thing!" while their expeditionary commander is writing his own letter saying "your majesty, I have done A Thing, you now own this land."
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  47. I-1 "What is-" Kiwi rams them "Stop that this instant!" Kiwi rams them again "Seriously I'll do something if you don't-" Bonk "Staaaahhhp!"
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  48.  @demonprinces17  tbf, Reagan reactivated too many hulls just to have a paper navy of extremely obsolete hulls requiring a decade or more of upgrading just to get them to modern standards instead of spending that money on the ships the navy needed for the future.
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  49. they hadn't been fighting with bows and swords for like 60 years before ww2 and even before that they had plenty of guns, just some people didn't get the hint, and they got into building warships about the same time as everybody else got into building dreadnoughts, so nobody really had an all out engineering advantage. Their main problem was that the economy that could sustain a pre-ww1 ship building spree utterly collapsed in the post ww1 years due to natural disasters, massive political instability, and that double edged sword of a military industrial complex that drains all the funds for everything else and leaves your normal economy withered especially when half your industrial base got wiped out by a tsunami
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  50. love how again and again nobody remembered that their fire control guys absolutely needed clear lines of sight to figure out shell hits, so they kept putting the masts behind the funnels
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  51. hopefully something about listening to the radar guys who seemed to be able time and again to see the raids but not get anyone to do anything about them
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  52.  @justaguynamedmax8207  its quite a bit more complicated today than even 50 years ago. every now and then a presidential candidate prattles on about a 300,400,500 ship navy but even regan wasting cash to reactivate every floating hull in the 80s couldn't make an effective force
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  53. 1:02:00 developing shells was a lot more difficult than making guns back then, they had very primitive equipment to analyze the shells performance and tweek parameters outside of "make it harder, make it heavier"
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  54. 'if you wanted to be successful and taken seriously you had carvings on your ship' 40k Imperium of Man ship design in a nutshell
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  55.  @ablethreefourbravo  its absolutely true but the US was not unified enough nor had any real need to be outwardly expansive when we had half a continent still unsettled
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  56. counterpoint with torpedoes being so expensive the IJN was lucky this thing wasn't at Guadalcanal because 1 broadside and 1 reload would be not trivial fraction of their torpedo stocks
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  57. its an understatement to say the french could make curved armored plate in that period. I'm not sure they even could concieve of making a flat piece of armor
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  58. Meanwhile the Union is frantically transmitting the STCs for the Monitor ships to their various forge cities
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  59. they do make brineing and pickeling salt, which generally is a bit more coarse than your box cooking salt for this reason (though its also made that way just to get rid of garbage salt so...)
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  60.  @L0stEngineer  well as drach has explained before, the british navy in the 18800s was astoundingly large and most US shipping was not ocean going so we lacked lots of projection
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  61. I mean, if we're going to put future weapons into play, Yamato vs Iowa, the Iowa is gonna have a hard time dealing with Yamato's Wave Motion Gun which its going to be equipped with sometime at the end of the next century
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  62. really sucks when you hear of a tall ship like that making it to almost 1920, it almost made it to where we'd have preserved it
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  63. US Naval Policy from 1776 to 1895: "Start from scratch each time because navies are expensive." US Naval Policy from 1895 onwards: "Huh this empire thing is kinda fun..."
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  64. really a weird time when you find debates on the design of battleships in the local paper. Imagine the scandal the Zimwalt would have caused with its completely useless guns because the navy can't/won't buy ammo for it
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  65. The Great Eastern is one ship I wish someone had just bought and kept through to the modern day because she was a one of a kind ship that should be around today appreciated as the engineering marvel it truely was
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  66. the Airforce Museum at Dayton is absolutely enormous and also still makes the biggest aircraft look small
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  67. 10:49 probably don't wanna be un Halifax during ww1 for one very specific incident
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  68. 3:40 its an aircraft carrier with side pipes
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  69. "If you build a flat top... its not going to have gun turrets." Say that to the Lexington's 8" guns! (i know, she was special)
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  70. "Magazine explosions, what're those?"
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  71. "Some Merchant Ships were even sturdier than that." Looking at you SS Great Eastern
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  72. HMS Habbukuk "Am I a joke to you!?" Everybody: "Yes"
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  73. man I remember the last time I ordered a flat-pack uboat. couldn't find the allen key, had too many extra nuts left over and then the brits came by and blew it up for no good reason when it was done
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  74. King "I'll have a Number 2 Cruiser" Shipyards "Would you like to supersize that sir?"
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  75. "Then the aviation group piped up about it being too small for modern planes." Oh that's not gonna be a problem soon enough
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  76. lol the only person ever happy for us to nuke something out of existence
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  77.  @kevinsullivan3448  I think I remember from a book on the subject that the paddle wheels also aided it too since they could lay cable off the stern without using the propeller
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  78. french, offensive, noo noo sir!
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  79. part of me is hopeful this time they do the right thing, but the other part knows that texas has said they care about that ship more than a few times without doing anything to ensure its future survival
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  80. to be technical, it predates the current US which was founded on 1788 with the ratification of the constitution replacing the articles of confederation, but in practice we just celebrate the 1776 declaration of independence instead kind of like how we rarely lump in the presidents from before the creation of the constitution even though they had the title of president of the united states
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  81. you know though, I think if King caught him he'd understand but also still beat the shit out of him
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  82. "Get closer so we can use all the AA guns!"
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  83.  @jack1701e  tbf, itd be easier to fix up the turpitz than it would be to fix up yamato given how she went down
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  84. there were like a dozen guidance and firing system issues that had to be resolved. the best interum solution was to just switch to contact detonators and set the depth settings to run as high as possible
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  85. and to their credit, the bomb range had been blowing things up and setting off blasts like that for decades and never had any issues, this was an issue that could have happened from any sort of explosion, so the range was actually expanded a bit to fix this
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  86. no that was the alaskas
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  87. Its like anything the germans did in the atlantic the US was doing in the pacific
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  88. paint ship red in blood of enemy, also add moar dakka!
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  89. Germany had a similar thing in ww2, they had older subs that could use their larger stocks of obsolete torpedoes while their newest subs were being choked for munitions by bombing
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  90. Kuzenetsov might be a bit peeved how his namesake ship turned out too
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  91. goddang Brunel never did things half-assed, the SS Great Britain had a bit of a role in both world wars, refueling the british fleet in this occasion, and used for iron plate to repair the HMS Exeter in ww2
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  92. "What's a pre dreadnought look like?" just go watch any hayo miazaki movie with big war machines, that'll give you a clue
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  93. tbf, even today its just wood, water, and a lot of free time on the great lakes
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  94. tbf most ships sink to too much fire or water, the gas one was an anomaly
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  95. "Somewhere between all of it and none of it!"
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  96. its amazing that in such horrendous weather they still decided its a perfectly good time for a naval battle
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  97. 3:20 just stick a t34 turret on the boat
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  98. my guess is if a cruiser got into a fight you wanted to have several salvos of torpedoes at the ready because reloading torpedo launchers under fire is quite dangerous compared to gun mounts, i don't think they intended to launch 16 torpedoes all at once, that would have been insanely expensive and they wouldn't have had many reloads on board
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  99.  @MandoWookie  kinda shows how torpedoes were already ruling the waves when a swarm of pretty much obsolete biplanes with torpedoes could cripple a battleship, though even by then unescorted lone battleships were not a terribly smart idea either, though like everything about ww2's naval fight, the pacific just took that to a massive scale
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  100. I think you did a video on war plan red but I still would like to point out the incredibly crazy battle for the atlantic a USN vs RN fight would have been given the US and RN were both unprepared in their own ways plus the hilarity the US invading, occupying, annexing, and then rapidly creating states out of canada would have been
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  101. the magnetic exploder could be forgiven, geomagnatism wouldn't really be well understood till much later, but the fact that nobody bothered to just DROP THE DAMN THINGS off a tower in 20 years of development was an absolute sin, they would have found the flaws with the contact detonator by that testing alone
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  102.  @kentvesser9484  I blame the Paton movie /books for most of that, everybody remembers the speech in front of the flag backdrop
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  103. everybody wanted a gun duel but the problem is you need those ships as defense for other fleet assets, and this is where battleships found themselves in ww2, too expensive to toss away
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  104. possibly just made before he changed
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  105.  @bkjeong4302  Iowas make sense when your potential enemies have 65,000 ton battleships kicking around your back yard., not only that but they were invaluable in the early stages of the war when ships did engage in battle lines without significant air elements
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  106. he's done a guide on them before
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  107. also producing precision equipment under wartime conditions in general is difficult, you had places that were making 2-3 engines a quarter, suddenly told build 5 a week
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  108.  @hhs_leviathan  thats the point, you ask them to make a flat plate and they'd still give you a curved plate
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  109. never underestimate Musilini's ability to screw things up, they would have probably still invaded greece because it was one of his war goals, but ya having a royal navy and a free french navy in the region would have made it much worse (not that it went well for italy anyways)
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  110. yo dog you put more drydock in your drydock so there'd be more drydock in the drydock
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  111. its one thing to build a 21" shell, its another thing to build a gun for it, and an entirely different thing to build a ship that can bring that gun, shells, and charge to where its needed
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  112. you know, the japanese blowing up mark 14 torpedo stocks was probably a boon. BeuOrd would have probably gotten their way if they had hundreds of torpedoes vs commanders arguing for the need to even sink anything with their limited numbers of weapons
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  113. Guns? Nope Balista? Nope Greek Fire? Well we are greek but no. Catapults? Naaah Well what do we have? Bows and rams sir.
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  114. in his book on Sicily '43, James Holland described naval fire from the USS Shubrick bombarding german tanks trying to charge to the allied landings in Gella. it puts it into scale how big ships are when a small ship like a destroyer overmatches Tiger I's
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  115. @Phillip C  the wildcat had faults but the main issue was tactics in the early war
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  116. occasionally for maintenance purposes they'd throw some surplus rations onto the ships for the feral sailors
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  117. probably not much of an issue, when these ships went into battle they ditched the launches (if given enough notice) otherwise, the boats are replaceable. the flying deck was designed for across deck firing
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  118. if the US had better torpedoes earlier on they would have been on the bottom of the ocean in '42 and '43
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  119. nobody ever could get water tube boilers to work on trains, but then by the 1900s engines were already producing too much steam to use anyways
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  120. not so much a rescue as a recovery
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  121. 20:10 Who needs CGI when you have miniature modeling technology
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  122. Maybe the french were on to something with the Surcouf and its 203mm cannons
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  123. probably the only thing the tsar ever did with some foresight
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  124. the coal used by a ship wasn't JUST lumps of coal. the stuff coming out of a mine doesn't go straight into a boiler back then, it got broken up and sieved to remove debris in coal, and washed soil off of it. It is processed, mostly through rudimentary processing, potentially by children with black lung
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  125. love all the armored sidewheelers, its absolutely absurd
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  126.  @johnbrearley9791  war elephants had a very good psychological advantage, if you didn't know how to deal with them you might think they're going to crush you. I've heard opposing views on whether they were actually combat effective though, some say that proper disciplined trained troops and correct formations just made them silly novelties, great for lunch later on, others say that even with that the elephants could be tough to fight
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  127. the EIC discovered it had a large trade imbalance with China "Oh damn, we've done the books and we seem to be at a mild disadvantage"
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  128. 12:21 name drop just hit the video. HMS Excellence captained bySir Chad?
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  129. at least they'd have cut the 'divine wind' crap out earlier. the lack of successful torpedo hits made them cocky
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  130.  @SonOfAB_tch2ndClass  nobody tells germany how to build its ships!
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  131. before there was Spicy Rock, there was exploding water
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  132. yes but also you still had a significantly better chance of surviving in the british submarine corps than being in a german submarine
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  133. 4:00 I thought the monitor was in a museum, at least what was left. the hull is gone but the turret, a gun, and I think the engine were recovered in the 1970s. Cerberus you could recover the top parts of the ship and display them since they're above water still
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  134. if we had sent the USS Texas (the first) instead, it probably still would have exploded itself
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  135. Sextuple bofurs mounts, for when 4 gun daka barrages won't cut it
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  136. The US has a lot more varried terrain especially around our naval bases
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  137.  @WALTERBROADDUS  side wheel powered carriers are kinda funny, plus the US navy built them with a rather ridiculous amount of secrecy since there was absolutely nothing secret, state of the art, or remotely militarily interesting about them
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  138. they're sleek ships but they look critically under gunned especially for the upcoming conflict
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  139. the idea of interchangeable parts was probably independently devised many times over but the first time anyone ever got their way was the british block and tackle factory in portsmith, earlier attempts were all usually hampered by the tools or the workers, but the idea of using standardized jigs, tools, and measurements was like a production dream
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  140. kind of shows that with a big enough ship you can't really stop something like this. its not like they had any guns capable of taking it out unless they got the lucky hit on the explosives
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  141. 35:30 just send both alaska's, the japanese might genuinely be confused by a battlecruiser pair that are just for AA fighting
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  142. so they went out to buy a battleship, ended up buying a last model battlecruiser. Can relate, this is how my parents go car shopping, don't get me started on the time they went to buy an Iowa and returned home with an Alaska
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  143. it probably gets ignored partly for bias, the west legitimately was doing a lot more naval stuff at the time, but also a lot of eastern naval tradition was just a dead end
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  144.  @maxkronader5225  she was also both strategically and morally too valuable to loose because the presence of the yamato was enough to hold an area and provide a moral boost. paradoxically this was why they couldn't afford to actually push her into combat because it was irreplaceable
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  145. I actually worked in the ruins of one of the former torpedo factories built immediately after ww2 in Cleveland. it was a strange building having been occupied from 1950-2004 by a series of shrinking companies constantly getting bought out until ratheyon kicked them out of the torpedo market. Never seen a building with so many locker rooms or so much fire retardant on the walls
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  146. primitive is the word that comes to mind, there's very little electronics on these ships even in the 1940s and yet they fought along side of the iowas which look like old ships inside today
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  147. might have been the engines doing that. Triple expansion steam engines can't be pushed too fast
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  148. What's not to love, britain gets to invade france, do a little colonialism, shoot at italians, and get into a scrap with the germans
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  149. The Battleship equivalent of a case saying "In Case of Yamato Swarm Break Glass"
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  150. Yamato Exists Bismark Exists Iowa Exists Soviets: Hold my vodka we want in on this!
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  151. Tillman "I'm really going to stop you dead!"
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  152. depends on how high we can get the washers and bolts marked up before the accountants catch on.
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  153. seems like the Dreadnought could be a candidate, though where the limited technology/warfare perspective ends and rule of cool begins is tough to say, very few battleships actually fought other battleships or any ships for that matter, and so what worked against other battleships was almost pure speculation itself
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  154. that's one angry pair of minesweepers
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  155. one wonders what the british would have thought had the US been able to build a frigate using a giant sequoia or redwood, just a mast 3x the height and thickness of anything ever found elsewhere, though maybe for the redwoods that they never did such a silly thing was probably good
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  156. Yes the world is less for it when the sailors don't get a CTE everytime the gun fires.
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  157. love how you describe the 1000 tonner lake haulers as "a slightly pointy barge"
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  158. armor plate doesn't come to mind when designing submarines
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  159. Armor on ww2 aircraft is as you stated a measure of protection on the machinery, fuel tanks, and a degree of protection for the pilots. By the time a bullet has passed through the airplane, the plate doesn't need to be all that thick to stop it if its coming from the rear
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  160. Enterprise steams to Kyoto herself, dodging literally everything sent to kill her. Launches 1 sortie, and bombs the imperial palace killing everyone, which in a twist, had both the emperor and the entire military council meeting inside.
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  161. Now if they had never gotten the Mark 14's sorted out, these would have been excellent commerce raiders assuming you could pull them away from being floating Dakka platforms for a few months
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  162. Lessons Learned: "DON'T SAIL A FLEET INTO A TYPHOON!" also Lessons for Future Captains: "DON'T SAIL INTO A TYPHOON!"
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  163. Germany makes Graf Zeppelin US and RN: "Just one carrier?"
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  164. these things also helped teach pilots when not being used for escorts
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  165. Rodney and Nelson vs Yamato would be 2 old men beating up on 1 very strong man
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  166.  @tomdolan9761  think they are actually finally revamping the area, but the whole place is full of stuff needing remidiation
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  167. there's something incredibly weird about seeing a belt driven machine shop on a ship. I guess it makes perfect sense, and for its faults you can make some compact setups with everything running off shafts
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  168. I think the tillmans would have been difficult to get reliably working, the US alone had problems with stripping gears on turbines by ww2, something twenty thousand tons more than even the largest built ship would be even more unreliable
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  169. one of the only theaters where airships played a key role in ww2 patrolling for u-boats
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  170. they probably were well aware of how desperate germany's war materials situation was and how the ship was irreplaceable
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  171. 1916: aircraft exist, time to invent AA
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  172. I can kinda see what he was thinking, its like a ship of the line but with turrets.
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  173. after watching the NJ's recent video on the reduction gear, those things are absolutely amazing and basically every article on geared turbines understates how difficult they are to get working
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  174. 13:52 This seems like something modern conservatives could get behind, arming merchant ships with harpoon missiles
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  175. my guess is livestock powered ships were just way too difficult to get reliable but occasionally someone got it to work good enough which is why there's a lot of specific examples but no widespread use
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  176. there's always that one ship, perennially in need of a refit and never to receive it
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  177. midway the 2010s movie is Baaaaaaaddd compared to the old one
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  178. tbf the period in question actually was one of the coldest in recorded history because of a freek global cooling event that they're still working out what caused it
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  179. 33:42 "and her shells work" interestingly the US also had more stable powder so had she been hit Texas probably wouldn't have exploded unexpectedly like the british ships did
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  180. the problem back then seems to have been one of penetration or lack there of since they both just sort of battered each other. the monitor should have been a bigger paradigm shift than it was, its such a radically advanced ship
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  181. I suppose the majority of the crew not being turned to chunky marinara was a success, but tough luck for the guys that became pasta sauce
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  182. kamakazi makes increasingly less sense if you're running out of aircraft to even fill your aircraft carriers with
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  183. "He had a photo of hitler put on his ID card." Ok but if you're an MP and a rear admiral gives you this ID are you really going to challenge it?
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  184. "He wanted the naval uniforms grey." Well, you can't win them all.
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  185. Shoulda saved this name for a battleship
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  186. I know its silly, but have you ever considered doing a quick video on the US Navy's K-Class Anti-Submarine Blimps? they're technically navy ships, they just are a bit confused
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  187. If the british sent a carrier, hopefully they don't withdraw to the south west, because the Yamato was steaming in from the north east at the end of the battle
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  188. whalebacks had a lot of issues with scaling up the hullform to increase internal space, and couldn't work with mechanical unloaders and the seals didn't always work so they could flood pretty badly since they have like 3 feet of freeboard. they worked great as sealed barges on the great lakes since you can pull them along in any weather
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  189. it really was a war of stupidity on all sides though the US probably ended up worse for wear with the fighting happening here but better off geographically since we were then free to expand westward along the great lakes unimpeded by the british
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  190. I can't imagine scrapping an 1850s ship of the line in the late 1920s, that's absolutely crazy
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  191. Was the captain a distant relative to a Jerremy Clarkson?
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  192. these are like the equivalent of the Fletcher for the brits isn't it
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  193.  @welshdragon99  zumwalt would have been fine if we ordered the 30 of them we said we were going to. The chinese certainly would have been worried about a series of stealth cruisers since they've put everything into missiles but since we only built the 2 and can't seem to find someone to make ammo for their guns they're an interesting footnote in naval design (so far...)
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  194. Drach is speaking in tongues for the squarespace ad or speaking welsh, I'm not sure if there's a difference
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  195. Britain: "Modernize all these carriers at the added expense, we'll need them later." Also Britain: "Sell all the modernised ones for pennies on the pound, we can't afford to have anything good anymore." Say what you will about US defense spending, the brits are in a league of their own when it comes to waste
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  196. The Enterprize could take on 2 QEs and win
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  197. Is an Ekronoplan a plane that sinks or a ship that flies?
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  198. German Uboats be like "We're gonna need a bigger torpedo."
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  199.  @bobsmith2637  ya but it is suprising how close to big steam engines you can get at the county shows
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  200. Ok, I'm not gonna blame her but it does seem like it didn't do too good of a job escorting carriers
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  201. a battleship is in the eyes of the navy they're designed in. we had the alaskas while the iowas were as armored as any of the standards but with much more speed and firepower
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  202. Admiral's Report: Bombs hit here, here, here, possibly here... ect ect My Report: Ya its fuckered
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  203. look, an iowa class battleship needs an equivalent sized cruiser if only to confuse the range finders on the japanese by playing with object scale at range
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  204. I swear there must have been an ork at ordinance at that time somehow "Our carriers keep sinking!" "Did you put more dakka on it?" "....." "Put more dakka on it!"
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  205. love how propulsion is just a hundred little engines stuck off the side of the ship
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  206. I like to throw stones too but we in the US took way too long to armor our flight decks too
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  207. 42:34 my guess is if these things were sitting around come ww2, they'd be the blocking ships sunk at normandy to form the breakwater for the mulberry ports, maybe a few get reactivated during the dunkirk retreat even. something like an old ironclad or predread would probably be good for this since they have long beams and heavy hulls
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  208. Jesus of Lubeck is always such a anachronistic name to me whenever you mention her. You should mention her more
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  209. "How do you fix things like the loss of the bow?" Step 1) Find the furthest forward intact frame Step 2) Work Backwards
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  210. Britain could never run out of ship names, just some of the older names like Indestructable were probably too laughable to put on a quick built ship
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  211.  @bdillon3747  ya but then they'd have to figure out how to write the ships name down on their own forms
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  212. if only the safety bike had been around, we could have had an engagement of british bike cavalry charging up the beaches for colonialism
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  213. 10 torpedo forward salvo, yikes
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  214. "Ya Bobby Lee, uh we sold your iron-clads to the prussians and the japanese. Thanks for the cash advance though! Good Luck, okaybye!"
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  215. 6:30 EVEN DRACH FORGETS ABOUT RANGER, well I think she was in drydock too BUT STILL!
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  216. I always found it funny that the british had to essentially construct an entire navy in the great lakes, only to quickly loose it
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  217. in their defense, it was everybody else that left these wrecks there and never bothered to really clean up any of them
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  218. September 1941: Essex Spam Inbound! December 1941: Japan Attacks 1943: Essex Spam arrives
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  219. and thus the nuclear reactor is dropping spicy rocks in water
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  220.  @GM-fh5jp  almost had eddy murphy as the whale biologist...
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  221. HMS Plym; Now with 200% more cobalt-60!
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  222. Maybe the use of the B-Bomb was classified if it was as deadly in practice as sources indicate, it seems like it just vanished by the start of the war
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  223. I do find it funny that unlike a lot of major powers the USN and USArmy had no problem building competing airforces because they both hated each other too much to work together and neither one had enough clout to overpower the other, so letting them just do their own things and give them the money to do so was seen as the compromise, even after ww2 when both branches were independently developing space programs
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  224. the K-Class blimps were a better use of helium in ww2 vs the large airships of the pre-war era after all they could be tended at sea which i don't think any of the us airships could have been
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  225. all guns forward battlecruiser, pretty bold considering at least the nelsons could backup that stance with armor
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  226.  @Battleship009  the US got in very late on the dreadnought craze, thus we had the standard battleships which kind of stretched from pre to super dreadnoughts which did a lot of good by getting sunk in the opening salvos of ww2
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  227. We quickly added "Find them" which was important after the japanese proved to be sneaky with their navies. and "If not sunk after 2nd try, hit torpedo with wrench until armed"
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  228. send swordfish to absolutely confuse the heck out of the japanese
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  229. while a missile knows where it is at all times, a battleship gun has to guess and check
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  230. wallstreet spent more on trying to cook pizzas and delivery food in a speeding van than it will cost to restore this ship
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  231. didn't peter the great literally learn how to build a ship by moonlighting at a british shipyard
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  232. the thing was the japanese had the tendency at least in the early years to leave the landings uncontested and rely on defense-in-depth instead. This changed as the war progressed but that's why early war naval landings were 'easier' against the japanese
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  233. ah a short one today I see, only 1.5 perun videos long
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  234. 20:10 How to give a bunch of sailors CTE with this one easy trick!
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  235. What a weird time in US Naval history when you could spend your entire training on wooden ships, or gravel, and then find yourself on a dreadnought
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  236. 1:43:00 The French shells blew up when they didn't want them to The German shells didn't blow up when they did want them to and the italians just couldn't build shells at all
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  237. that's also why your midwest grain elevator is built tougher than most military bunkers because a lot of them predate climate controls so worst case they contain any explosion and prevent it from igniting any other individual silos. that's also why they never bother to tear down disused elevator complexes because they're too tough to blast or demo
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  238. Man the Hanseatic League was a weird time to be English
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  239. kind of a silly idea to put a ram on the least maneuverable, slowest moving ship in the civil war
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  240. always love when the Nelrods get some attention. they're goofy, probably shouldn't have been built, and both showed up to sink the bismark when they were needed most
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  241. 8:09 gonna guess that's texas on the left given that she was about the only dreadnought left by that point
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  242. The problem with the USS Texas's preservation is clearly the State of Texas in general. The lack of effective tax collection leads to a critical lack of money for investment
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  243. problem is with refits is you basically rip the ship up down to the deck and rebuild it back up. The lack of ships kind of also made refitting the nelsons (and hood) impossible since they needed them constantly deployed to wave the flag at the increasingly ill tempered neighbors. ironically, had they been able to build all the ships they wanted at the tonnage they wanted they could have pulled the nelsons to refit and also not build these compromised ships
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  244. kinda shows the proteus ships might have been too heavy for their own good since this ship didn't break in half when under inclimate (and explosive) weather
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  245. 23:05 Ordinance Department "Ah see, this is what we built them to do!" Everybody else "Shutup!"
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  246. the army's wargames are a bunch of guys running around a fake village for a weekend pretending to shoot each other the airforce's wargames are a bunch of planes pretending to kill each other or blow something up the navy is a bunch of ships doing a combination of the two, but also with ships
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  247. Hey! if you've seen the great lakes you'd understand they're basically giant inland seas
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  248. theres something absolutely wild about a citidel containing sail powered ship
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  249. "Italy sent 4 cruisers, 3 destroyers and 2 smaller ships, austro-hungery sent 2 cruisers and 50 torpedo boats"
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  250. the amazing thing is the whitehead torpedoes still scored a kill in ww2 against blucher
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  251. hmm high voltage electric system plus catostrophic damage plus submersion (not the good kind), yikes
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  252. SS Great Eastern, the REAL unsinkable ship
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  253. Arch-Admiral, commander of the seas
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  254. twice as many ships in the drachinfel navy!
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  255. diesel electric were used on US frigates of the not-a-frigate Cannon Class ships of ww2
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  256. the brits are still not exactly having to fight the apocolyptic sized naval battle that the pacific theater was. Not to discount them but they just didn't have that large of an air presence there, and thus didn't learn the lessons the US did
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  257. 36:00 what, you don't think 1000 foot great lakes bulk haulers have a naval warfare purpose?
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  258.  @chuxtuff  as someone in recycling, na its not that environmentally friendly but you need that metal so somebody's gotta grind it up and blend it to be re-refined
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  259. I'm sure king would have wanted to be able to disintegrate those in charge of the BoO in 1943
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  260. "They tried to put out the fire but most of their damage control equipment was stored amid ship where the fire was at." Break Glass In Case of Fire Case is on fire "Well we're done here."
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  261. was waiting for you to comment on how close to Dreadnought she looked in her design
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  262. Germany Builds Battleships Britain Builds Dreadnought Germany: "Ah so that's all you've got."
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  263. Can't be sure if its BaLao or Ba-Lay-O, I've heard it both ways
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  264. In a world without torpedoes, battleships are king still
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  265. Damn, that must suck being that helmsman who practically got hit by a 240mm shell
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  266. counterpoint to the US having a shitty navy, we did have some pretty good forts in the later half of the 1800s as well as much more land than they could ever hope to invade over
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  267. I would bet that there are reasons for either a slab or stepped dry dock as well, a stepped one you could float more stuff in, manuver it close together as you bring the water level down, and like you said stepped drydocks require less excavation, but also it might be the only way to build a drydock in a given area's geology
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  268. 34:43 while not armor plate, they did allegidly recover a remarkably intact 16" shell from a rice field in vietnam that would have been fired from thr USS New Jersey
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  269.  @bjorntorlarsson  not constantly having any major naval engagements for the first time in centuries also didn't help, that and decolonization
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  270. 9:52 Sounds like Ultimate Admirals Ship Builder
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  271. it mostly constrained the RN, the US would almost certainly have forgotten it wanted a navy after ww1 as per tradition, and ya the budget for the navy cratered before the treaties even came up
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  272. 0:48:00 The early 1900s in terms of small surface vessels were somewhat eclectic like destroyers going from large torpedo boats to something between a frigate with more torpedoes to a small cruiser. everyone seemed to have their own general idea for a fast attack ship
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  273. powder explosions might be possible but what you don't really appreciate is the pressure of all that water being compressed can also cause explosions as the compartments fill, then the nearly 100k lbs of steel dragging it to the bottom of the ocean causes it to get compressed until it bursts the compartments in a way thats like an explosion
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  274. They do make little butane powered bunsen burners.
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  275. it is the first turret but its also not a good design
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  276. Might as well get out and toss the torpedoes at them for how useless they were
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  277. 2:45 "DAMNIT STEVE, I told you, IN NUMERICAL ORDER, Now I gotta look at this every day from my office, unless by so miracle they need these hulks, FOR THE REST OF MY ENLISTMENT!"
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  278. if CWIS or laser systems get much better than missiles or bombers you could see a return to big gun ships but the only ships big enough to carry enough CWIS would be the Kirovs and they're not multiplying anytime soon. Big guns have the singular advantage in that you can't really intercept them
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  279. the US still does largely have a strategic fuel reserve they just combined them under the DoE, only now its used by presidents to influence elections by trying to drop gas prices before elections, which is maybe worse
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  280. they start with an espresso machine, then built a ship around it
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  281. if you have to look at the 45* inclinometer then things have gone very bad
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  282. The ironic part was the supply run failed, which basically caused the end to the campaign. Talk about distracting the enemy enough
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  283. What's better than sinking 1 Bismark? Sinking 9 more! Seriously if germany actually put 10 bismarks to sea, the japanes almost certainly would have put more yamato's to sea as well, so the natural response from the US would have been to spam Montanas, Iowas, and maybe Alaskas
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  284. seems kind of silly, its not like Hood, there were two battleships sitting right there firing at her and she went down painfully slow. we know most of what happened, didn't know it was a controversy
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  285. nobody blamed he mary rose for keeling over
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  286. burning sulphur itself is pretty potent, it tends to not let itself get extinguished, and with the pine you'd expect it to be gooey and stick
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  287. "After a short course in torpedo design and use..." Was he classmates with the head of the future head of the ordinance department?
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  288. Wish a turboelectric battleship would have survived as a museum ship but alas it was not to be
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  289. oh man this thing is in really bad shape, though I guess it did sink...
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  290. Right idea, wrong execution. Ballistic missile submarines were still slightly out of their reach. I think its laughable that they thought like 3 bombs would have been worth the effort, the doolittle raid wasn't really successful strategically itself and that was several squadrons of bombers dropping their own spicy rocks, this would have been a trio of spicy rocks
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  291. pretty sure shooting flairs/wp/star shells at people is a warcrime, not that that ever really stops things from happening
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  292. ​ @The.Heart.Unceasing that was even true in the 1920s because the brits sure tried a few heavy tanks that did just that
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  293.  @MrJob91  I understand but still kinda funny
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  294. He couldn't take over an Iowa so he has to settle for boarding action on Constitution
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  295. tanks wish they could fire the heavy slugs battleships could fire, imagine a firefly sherman firing a shell that's dense enough to just smash through a tiger from front to rear without needing explosives
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  296. ​​​ @gregorywright4918  a modern 5" gun yes is rather similar in size to a tank round but the question was in regards to battleship or other ww2 naval guns, in ww2 they certainly tried to stick navy ordinance on tanks and every time it was terrible and in practice could only ever carry a couple rounds of ammunition, whereas a warship can have elevators down to the magazines. you can't really make a gun much bigger than the 120mm, the rhinemetal 130 they're showing off starts to again have drawbacks in ammunition space and handling as well as gun depression and all the other problems that they have everytime they build a bigger tank gun
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  297. The Angry Little Ships that could
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  298. ah I see your problem, you're shooting that SMLE left handed, clearly any proper british sailor would have been broken of this hideous disability.
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  299. seems like the extra 2 barrels was not worth the trade off
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  300. on the other hand, we almost had a civil war era ironclad still sitting around by ww1
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  301. pre ww1 ships or ww1 ships getting hit by lightning would be fine probably, not much electronics at all except in the US 48:32
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  302. it would have been a hell of a fight 2 iowas vs yamato
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  303. 2:25 the gunports are basically corks which kind of answes some questions about other features
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  304. depends on what era you're in and who you are. the US ought to have learned after the civil war that coastal fortification of the US coasts was just impractical, but we kept up building guns anyways. Its not till ww2 that coastal fortifications really become a detriment to their operator's health unless in a very defensable position
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  305. wish one of these had gotten saved though
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  306. doesn't work in Ultimate Admirals cas you can't blow a bigger hole in an existing hole apparently
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  307. 1:58 that's a nice portrait of a ship there, shame its kinda overshadowed by that man on the side
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  308. Up the creek without artillery support
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  309. ​ @readhistory2023 meanwhile over at the Battleship New Jersey's channel they're chasing leaking pipes throughout the fuel tank and bilge system
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  310. ​ @mahbriggs nuclear torpedoes did them in, airburst nuclear missiles would have not had enough punch to do in a battleship, nor the accuracy in that era to kinetically hit one
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  311. I don't get why people hype bismarck up so much, it wasn't the biggest, or carried the meanest guns, its gunnery systems went out nearly right away, and its armor scheme was a fair bit dated. the US, brits, french and even italians had better proven ships
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  312. how tf do you accidentally have a civil war era monitor still working during ww2, shows how different freshwater vs sea water is on a hull
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  313. I always liked the US policy of "Get rid of amy excess weight so I can put more AA Batteries on the side of it"
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  314. "Without access to the STC for the Essex class, another option was needed." Darn Ad-US Mechanicus, hording technology
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  315. only thing about the army/navy treaty thing was nobody was preparing for amphibious operations besides maybe Japan because the brits got really burned, France was going to be fighting Germany, the US just assumed we could join the fight later on and Germany wasn't exactly thinking about naval invasions at the time either.
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  316. basically the definition of glass cannons, they could put out an impressive amount of firepower but if anyone could shoot back it'd go right through them
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  317. I think the US went way deep into traction engines vs anywhere else, my county's steam fair as it is brings 20-30 of them every year its quite a sight seeing this field of coal and wood burning engines chuffing away, and there's minimal health and safety, though owning and operating a steam engine in Ohio is itself a very laborious process to get licensed
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  318. Britain builds battleships Germany builds bigger battleships Britain builds biggerer battleships Germany builds Bismark Britain builds a carrier Germany: Wtf is that?
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  319. oh the emi is leftover echos from the Philidelphia Experiment, its the screams of the melted crewmen being displaced across time and space
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  320. 1 Napoleonic Era Frigate, NOS, Just needs a tune up!
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  321. 00:41:56 The way you described their mindset sounds eerily similar to the way the current economy works...
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  322. The successful lopsided armor ships have to be the US civil war ironclads, they were nearly impervious to almost all ordinance of the day and if they decided to sail one at your fleet of ships, you had to basically find your own ironclad to send out to stop it
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  323. battleship with only mark14's, it bascially doesn't do anything
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  324. ooh no even if Rodney and Iowa decided to try (and their captains weren't immediately mutinied for doing so) AND the guns were actually the same diameter on paper, the british inch was ever so slightly different from the US inch back then and you're talking about shells that have very tight tolerance
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  325. Its kind of weird everybody seems to just assume the bismarck had the most advanced stuff out there, when in reality its the US and British that had the most advanced systems on their ships, and ships plural, the germans only had a small surface fleet and the 1 Bismarck
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  326. this name hurts my eyes because its either Mare-Sea or Sea-Sea or Mercy misspelled, either way it needs to be sunk
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  327. 6:49 short man with big shell
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  328. picric acid, the spicy flamable one
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  329. front of the flight deck missing, just put the ship in reverse, all is fine.
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  330. 1600 psi boilers, my god they might have filled it with explosive barrels for as fun as that plant would have been
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  331. 32:26 this worked much better for muzzle loaders on the land like in Malta
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  332. Someone ought to have gotten fired over this
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  333. hmm 1910 seems like kind of late to try starting up a navy
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  334. My landing craft is full of eels! I will not buy this battleship, it is scratched
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  335. "Cruisers or battleships?" "Yes."
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  336.  @Edax_Royeaux  theres a ship that i wish had survived until the modern times
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  337. Angry Little Ship
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  338. you buggered the timestamp bot
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  339. Remember the maine! no not that one
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  340.  @rudolfschrenk9411  that's also what a lot of monitor ships adopted later on to mitigate their terrible freeboard characteristics, float higher in the water when not in combat but sink down when engaged
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  341. In your videos especially on the soloman isles, it seemed as though ships had a very difficult time communicating information about incoming torpedoes to other ships in their formations. How exactly did they spot torpedoes in ww2 and communicate that information quickly? I assume the process evolved greatly throughout the war and varied by country to country
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  342. in that era a lot of ww2 ships were just sold for junk, it was quite expensive and difficult to turn one of those ships into a museum even back then. today the whole preservation movement has a lot more backing.
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  343. I think we're probably in the "Stop shooting missiles at my ship!" phase
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  344. CAPTURED we took it fair and square NO TAKE BACKSEYS also it very nearly became a perminent submarine on the way to chicago
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  345. seems like it would make a great place to park a number of british capital ships as a museum, if they had any
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  346. dang its lunch time and I don't have 1 hour to watch this
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  347. anti ship missiles as I understand, are generally built to pop up at the last moment and hit the deck armor instead of the side armor, so theoretically it'd be at a minimum like taking a battleship shell to the deck
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  348. 2:27 I sense Tillman's hand at work here
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  349. all of this really does make you wish the US navy would have gotten the Zimwalt's large guns to work because I can only imagine how precicely they can hold those guns tracking on target in a modern ship
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  350. Ah yes the USS Porter, yet another casualty of Ordinance Department, the US one
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  351. Are the Nelsons then the only true battleships in the atlantic?
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  352.  @silverhost9782  they did plan to make 2 but they also looked at what the japanese were doing, probably what everyone else was doing and thought carriers worked like battleships where you could just make them bigger than your opponent's and just win, and never really seemed to work out that carriers required a lot more doctrinal development, coordination between services, and also probably some smaller scale development before you build a battleship sized carrier
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  353. 3:30 ah they don't make them like they used to
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  354. ya they recently did a lot of videos on their channel, the blisters are probably done by now if the last update was anything to go by
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  355. broadside torpedo tubes on a sub is wild
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  356. omg this thing is the Cluso of Japan
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  357. by 1916 they might as well have given her to the brits
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  358. the most heavily armed ship in the world for 45 minutes
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  359. theoretically the steel used for making warships today is superior to the krupp and STS of ww2, we just don't tend to manufacture it in the ludicrous thicknesses of ww2 armor, but that's more of a technical limit, the machines that make such steel might even be from the 30s and 40s since those giant steel mills such as Bethlehem still exist. The technology you'd have the hardest time reconstructing would be the guns, since all development on massive guns basically stopped once ww2 broke out. The Iowas were relying on their spares to stay in service since that infrastructure was completely gone. I'm not even sure we'd want to make guns the same way as any new century battleship would be computer designed from the start and we have much much better technology for fabricating very large components, the issue would be one of cost and commitment, look at the zimwalts, they have these big guns, the biggest we've fitted since the iowas, and we couldn't make the commitment to build shells for its guns
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  360. "One sunk in 1942 by submarine." What did they do, get out and toss a bomb at it?
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  361. oh one ive heard of b4
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  362. I believe its kearsarge not olympia. Kearsarge had the same peacetime decoration but its got the prominent bridge over top whereas olympia doesn't
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  363. really hope you get a followup to this
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  364. he probably would have hated early guided missiles since they were absolute crap but probably would have pushed for improvements in gun technology
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  365. uss United States is a dumb name anyways
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  366. I do like the solution was just to saw off the barrel, you can imagine they came to the correct length by just driving it around and seeing where it got stuck
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  367. ah the terrible one not the one that we kept for maybe a little too long
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  368. they were pretty sure torpedoes and battleships were gonna have some important relationship. they just didn't quite get that relationship right
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  369. biscuits lots of biscuits
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  370. There's no wrong way to say lieutenant except for the odd movie where its pronounced very strongly Left-tenant which is just wrong
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  371. If i had the magical ability to make a ship appear and everybody aboard has to follow my orders because I have the magic captain hat I'd really love to try tokyo-drifting the Enterprise (ww2), it looked really fun in the film
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  372. 23:51 this thing would have shaken itself to pieces if it ever fired an 18" broadside
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  373. my only guess is pirates could have gotten ahold of some of those CSA ironclads built in europe but ironclads are expensive to operate at that point and piracy was dying off at that point
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  374. 6x 40mm bofors, yikes
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  375. if hood is a battlecruiser than they really messed up sending her to hunt down bismark since they were outgunned and out matched with bismark having a heavy cruiser cough battlecruiser cough right behind it
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  376.  Israel Hands  probably just a folk tale. its extremely unlikely anyone would survive 15 years in those conditions alone. japanese left behinds in a lot of cases were almost naked because their uniforms rotted away after years of hiding in the wilderness of the south pacific, nobody could have possibly survived 15 years without any help
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  377. It would be interesting to try and make a gun using dynamite but its not the 1920s so one can't convieniantly pick it up from the farm store by the crate
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  378. ​ @mpetersen6  I think the 4 Iowas are probably safe from the breakers for now, its getting new ships that's been the problem like Kittyhawk which nobody could get custody of before the navy sold it for scrap
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  379. the le miz question, you've got the drydock there just wait for the tide to fill it if there's no steam power.
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  380. the name of this ship is so offensive it must be sunk before being uttered
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  381. I wonder if replacing the bursting charge with a nuke counts as decreasing the mass 18:52
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  382. "You wouldn't use fuel powered galleys on say a U-Boat because you'd use up all the oxygen." and yet from what I've read germans knew the co2 levels were critical only when their pipes would start doing funny things when they tried lighting them
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  383. now imagine germany spent that money on more machineguns
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  384. the british and french built ships with electricity, the USA built a powerplant with guns 2:24:17
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  385. Patch Notes: Torpedoes work now, not sure what broke them
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  386. the biggest issue for whalebacks were that they couldn't be mechanically offloaded, which was what killed them ultimately
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  387. 26:15 "EVERYTHING'S FINE NOBODY WORRY AT ALL"
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  388. wonder whether this was a more honorable way for yamato to go down instead of getting pounded by dozens of bombs
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  389. "He realized the island of narus's industry needed some reduction in capacity so he called up 4 other battleships." The definition of overkill
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  390. there's something american about putting a big american shield (and eagle) on the front of our ships in that period
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  391. the nelsons were like seeing a guy with good sense in buying cars turning up in a yugo
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  392. kinda what you have to do when you can't put the stacks centerline
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  393. 11:30 Basically Shoulda built a battleship instead.
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  394. while 18 inch guns would have been impressive I wonder if they would have just stuck with 16inch guns for logistics
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  395. shoulda simulated the red war plans, make the brits think we're gonna nick halifax and greater canada
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  396. had great turning capabilities due to the enormous balls on the back of the ship
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  397. "We need more 20mm cannons!" Ey! Dis 'humie getz it!
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  398. the story of why they were made is pure american politics, Senator gets angry having to constantly buy bigger and bigger ships, pesters the powers that be for years until they finally give up and draw up The Ultimate Battleship for him just to get him to go away, while ironically the process helped influence the design of the ships he was tired of funding
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  399. Yorktown (cv10) a very (sea)worthy successor
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  400. it was Big E vs japan, so still kind of fair
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  401. I wonder if there was a more consequential war ship in history. These carriers were the backbone of the US Navy in ww2 and were put through hell before the later carrier classes came in
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  402. You mention that the british using cracked german codes, transmitted false orders to the germans. Did the British do this at any other major events that we know of, such as redirecting german u-boats in world war 2?
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  403. I think your discussion of the Tillman designs is funny in that you end up with an Iowa, its almost like the Iowa was about the optimum balance of requirements based on the technology, infrastructure and naval tactics of the US at the time
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  404. ww1 destroyers were weird ships, not quite a torpedo boat not quite a gunboat, barely any thought for people needing to actually man it
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  405. Slight problem with the Stonewall, both sides' ironclads were notoriously terrible at manuvering, especially in the riverine combat they tended to be deployed in, maybe being built in france it wasn't CSS Virginia levels of poor handling but I can't imagine them being able to get into ramming position against a monitor either
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  406. Now in fairness, had the mk14 been more successful earlier on, the japanese might have gotten better at ASW, though given that almost all of their aircraft carrier fleet would have been sunk by then it would have probably been still a better outcome
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  407. italy still never had enough industry and navy to do much especially with the british effectively able to bottle them up in the med. they're a great example of what drach has said though about a small country with a couple battleships in that they had a massively outsized punch compared to a full navy
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  408. these things were absolute death traps
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  409. I can summerize the General Sherman's expedition: BEHOLD OUR MIGHTY TRADE SHIP, wait how deep is the river here? What's that fire on the horizon?
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  410. If a BattleCarrier works in theory, than why not just leave Lexington with her 6" guns? because a cruiser carrier sounds more appealing since it can actually get somewhere
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  411. that is one thick report
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  412. japan seems to have gotten more out if yamato because it was able to do what the bismark couldn't; go out to sea and scare the shit out of everyone.
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  413. ya mythbusters could only do so much especially with it being as difficult as you'd imagine it is, to fire off cannons in california. Nobody's really got a working 24 lb 19th century naval gun in the US either
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  414. I swear I was able to go through that sub when I went back in like 2010 but I might be confusing it with the USS Cod in my memory
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  415. I don't think hydrogel would fully work as a water substitute because the balls at the bottom of the bearth would have to compress and bear all the weight of the beads above as well as the ship, and these things can be crushed relatively easily, unlike a true liquid, unless you only intend to cover the top layer of water with these things
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  416. kind of funny nobody was confused by the british guy pretending to be one of the museum staff with his big brain knowledge
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  417. shows how brutal ww1 gunship fights were and again how something different was needed to sink enemy ships without putting yourself in gun range which ended up being airplanes
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  418. shore bombardment is like fighting ships but they don't try to move out of the way, its great. Unless they have bigger guns (they never usually do though)
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  419. "Most navy production is still on the east coast." Except for now we have Milwaukee making ships, the uh....northish ""coast""
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  420. give it more armor on the rudders
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  421. I can't imagine the guys in the rear turret stayed all that dry especially when under way, the rear must have just been a massive spray when under steam
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  422. the DD tanks problem was if it couldn't beach on a hard enough surface they couldn't get out of the water
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  423. lol, stalled the engine and dodged the torpedo
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  424. always love the how the germans build a radio detector, the allies build a radio detector detector, so the germans build a radio detector detector detector only to think the allies built a radio detector detector detector detector and decided to turn theirs off, letting the other systems find them
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  425. the Merimack was almost finished before the Norfork yards were captured and when it was clear they couldn't get it out of the docks in time they burned it
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  426. I can just imagine some british naval analyst scratching their head trying to understand how the austrians suddenly doubled their sub fleet and multiple subs of the same designation have been reported lost/sunk
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  427. The Kiwis that could
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  428. 30:01 i think the K class flew too high. they basically were supposed to spot subs just under the surface and then drop depth charges on them
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  429. you'd have to have guys on top of the turret with rifles to defend it which is possible
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  430. did these things always sail with such a bad aft list?
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  431. Mark 14 really had a glowup during the war. shame it had to take a few years.
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  432. really funny they had just a 9" gun, on a ship thats like a mid sized cruiser gun at the time, but its enormous on the ground
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  433. The battle of the Falklands, no not that one!
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  434. You forgot to rate it on how many Oberths it could destroy per minute
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  435. 32 lb caronade for when you want the deck and everything on it thuroughly swept
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  436. steam turbines are an utter pain in the butt then the gearing for them is worse because you're talking about a very fast heavy spinning mass on one end, and a relatively slow but extremely heavy mass on the other end with water resistance added to it. Turbine blades would have been very difficult to forge back then because they only just had the metalurgy to make it work reliable enough, you wouldn't really get superalloys and heavy forging until the middle of ww2 and thats too late for battleships at that point
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  437. god i love the battle for lake erie because of how silly it is
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  438. USS Iowa switches to gas turbines "Well put 20 more 40mm's on her now!"
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  439. lots of torpedoes on target, nothing sunk
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