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

  1. 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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  2.  @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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  3. 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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  4. '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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  5.  @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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. Meanwhile the Union is frantically transmitting the STCs for the Monitor ships to their various forge cities
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  9. 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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  10.  @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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  11. 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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  12. 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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  13. 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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  14. 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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  15. 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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  16. the Airforce Museum at Dayton is absolutely enormous and also still makes the biggest aircraft look small
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  17. 10:49 probably don't wanna be un Halifax during ww1 for one very specific incident
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  18. 3:40 its an aircraft carrier with side pipes
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  19. "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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  20. "Magazine explosions, what're those?"
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  21. "Some Merchant Ships were even sturdier than that." Looking at you SS Great Eastern
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  22. HMS Habbukuk "Am I a joke to you!?" Everybody: "Yes"
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  23. 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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  24. King "I'll have a Number 2 Cruiser" Shipyards "Would you like to supersize that sir?"
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  25. "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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  26. lol the only person ever happy for us to nuke something out of existence
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  27.  @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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  28. french, offensive, noo noo sir!
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  29. 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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  30. 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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  31. 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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  32. "Get closer so we can use all the AA guns!"
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  33.  @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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  34. 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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  35. 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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  36. no that was the alaskas
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  37. Its like anything the germans did in the atlantic the US was doing in the pacific
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  38. paint ship red in blood of enemy, also add moar dakka!
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  39. 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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  40. Kuzenetsov might be a bit peeved how his namesake ship turned out too
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  41. 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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  42. "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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  43. tbf, even today its just wood, water, and a lot of free time on the great lakes
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  44. tbf most ships sink to too much fire or water, the gas one was an anomaly
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  45. "Somewhere between all of it and none of it!"
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  46. its amazing that in such horrendous weather they still decided its a perfectly good time for a naval battle
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  47. 3:20 just stick a t34 turret on the boat
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  48. 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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  49.  @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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  50. 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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