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

  1. Tillman "I'm really going to stop you dead!"
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  2. depends on how high we can get the washers and bolts marked up before the accountants catch on.
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  3. 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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  4. that's one angry pair of minesweepers
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  5. 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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  6. Yes the world is less for it when the sailors don't get a CTE everytime the gun fires.
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  7. love how you describe the 1000 tonner lake haulers as "a slightly pointy barge"
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  8. armor plate doesn't come to mind when designing submarines
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  9. 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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  10. 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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  11. 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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  12. 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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  13. Germany makes Graf Zeppelin US and RN: "Just one carrier?"
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  14. these things also helped teach pilots when not being used for escorts
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  15. Rodney and Nelson vs Yamato would be 2 old men beating up on 1 very strong man
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  16.  @tomdolan9761  think they are actually finally revamping the area, but the whole place is full of stuff needing remidiation
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  17. 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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  18. 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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  19. one of the only theaters where airships played a key role in ww2 patrolling for u-boats
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  20. they probably were well aware of how desperate germany's war materials situation was and how the ship was irreplaceable
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  21. 1916: aircraft exist, time to invent AA
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  22. I can kinda see what he was thinking, its like a ship of the line but with turrets.
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  23. 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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  24. 13:52 This seems like something modern conservatives could get behind, arming merchant ships with harpoon missiles
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  25. 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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  26. there's always that one ship, perennially in need of a refit and never to receive it
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  27. midway the 2010s movie is Baaaaaaaddd compared to the old one
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  28. 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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  29. 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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  30. 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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  31. 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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  32. kamakazi makes increasingly less sense if you're running out of aircraft to even fill your aircraft carriers with
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  33. "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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  34. "He wanted the naval uniforms grey." Well, you can't win them all.
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  35. Shoulda saved this name for a battleship
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  36. 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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  37. 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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  38. 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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  39. 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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  40. I can't imagine scrapping an 1850s ship of the line in the late 1920s, that's absolutely crazy
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  41. Was the captain a distant relative to a Jerremy Clarkson?
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  42. these are like the equivalent of the Fletcher for the brits isn't it
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  43.  @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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  44. 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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  45. 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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  46. The Enterprize could take on 2 QEs and win
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  47. Is an Ekronoplan a plane that sinks or a ship that flies?
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  48. German Uboats be like "We're gonna need a bigger torpedo."
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  49.  @bobsmith2637  ya but it is suprising how close to big steam engines you can get at the county shows
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  50. 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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