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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