Comments by "Bk Jeong" (@bkjeong4302) on "The Drydock - Episode 086" video.

@WALTERBROADDUS It's true, though.
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Not having the important electrical wiring inside the armour WAS a result of the Germans being the only navy at the time to not understand AoN armour. Nobody else had that problem.
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Robert Flemings Even with radar hitting at 30,000+ yards was more a matter of luck-actual tests show this.
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Graham Baxter I’ve have to say the French attempt at building up their predreadnought fleet to rival the British.
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@Titanic 86 That's an easy win in favour of the Japanese ship.
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The issue was that they HAD to fight to get the fuel in the first place.....defeat was basically the only option.
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John Fisher Changing to an AoN armour layout would raise the armour deck by default.
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@johnfisher9692 First, AoN armour schemes inherently had taller citadels and higher armoured decks even before airpower became a serious threat (which was in the 1930s): look at the Standard battleships, designed and built in the 1910s and 20s. Second, the Germans didn't make use of AoN (when everyone else did) because they simply didn't know it was a thing (due to them missing out two decades' worth of naval design), not because they opted to not go for it. AoN is better even at close quarters, since it a) protects more of the electrical system and b) generally offers thicker armour protection for the citadel.
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@johnfisher9692 It is absolutely NOT absurd to say they didn't know about the AoN armour scheme in those twenty years due to losing that much naval design experience (Drachinifel has even pointed this out). They were NOT designing battleships in that interval, because they literally couldn't; they could NOT outsource battleship design to other countries like they did with submarines. And the four German capital ships were intended to counter the French capital ships (though in terms of capabilities the French would have beaten them). Commerce raiding was never their primary role, but something they were forced into due to being pointless and unnecessary. Nobody built battleships for any purpose other than fighting peer opponents, because that was the only thing they were ever cost-effective at (though by WWII carriers had mostly rendered them pointless even in their intended role) Also, as you just pointed out, the Nevadas had AoN in 1916, with raised armour decks, so you yourself should know that a crucial part of AoN armour scheme is that raised armour deck.
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WALTERBROADDUS Even that naval gunfire support role failed to justify their existence-if they weren’t already there (and them being already there was a problem in itself), they would never have been built.
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@glennricafrente58 Because I'm sick and tired of battleship fanboys (especially fanboys of American and German battleships) on this channel and elsewhere, too many of them focus on battleships as secondary units and ignore that they were never intended for those roles, or bring up unsupported/outdated claims about their supposed effectiveness. At least the Axis ones are often rightly criticized for being obsolete on launch and a waste of resources, but the Allied battleships tend to get showered with undeserved praise, even by those that seemingly understand that battleships in general were obsolete in WWII. Note that my cynical view towards battleships only applies to the battleships built in the late 30s and 40s (because those were the ones that were definitely obsolete on launch).
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