Comments by "Adam Bainbridge" (@AdamMGTF) on "Drachinifel" channel.

  1. Same. It's nice to learn about how well the US navy did at this time. They were a minor power with a small budget and managed to punch above their weight fairly often.
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  2. Also. He covered them in a 5 min guide. So anything said he would be a waste of time really.
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  3.  @morteparla6926  I think you may want to read a history book or two. Your understanding of history is very far off what actually happened. If you are watching this channel then you obviously want to learn. That is commendable. But maybe it would be wise to widen your knowledge, before commenting on the internet.
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  4. Need to pop this in q&a or discord. Tho I'm sure he's answered the same question before.
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  5. @28:30. I've been to point du hoc twice. The guns weren't actually there. But the size of the craters 60 years later was mind boggling
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  6. Just as funny when your low
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  7. Yep. Channel ends at 1950. I'm sure there are others out there that cover newer ships
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  8. I'm glad your back Kevin! I tried doing a couple of fill in "Drachisms of the day"... But it just wasn't the same :(
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  9.  @murderouskitten2577  look how many times hood and kgv were hit at the Denmark straight. Capital ships could shrug of multiple hits no problem. That's what they were designed for Hood was just neglected and unlucky
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  10.  @TheChieftainsHatch  easily the best YouTube comment I've ever read. I do hope you laughed your socks off writing it. What an opportunity to win at the Internet.
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  11. We didn't scrap every battleship. Victory is in good condition. Warrior is a great visit as well. Mary rose is in poor condition. But then again she spent the better part of half a millennium under water. So I think she can be forgiven
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  12. There's a few Germans who may disagree 😂
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  13. From a purely selfish point of view. I really wish the us museum fleet were cut down massively and the money put into looking after the remainder much better. It's so sad to see the world's largest economy not looking after a treasure like Texas. I'm lucky to live in England. Warrior, victory, Belfast etal are so well looked after. I know quantity has a quality all of its own. And America spans a continent (without even considering its wider empire). So she needs to spread her museums about for all to enjoy. But it's still sad to see. I can't wait for my next trip to the USA. I won't be going until Texas reopens though. Side note. Other than georgious aserov and mikasa (I butchered those!) Are there any 'capitol' ships still about from this era?
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  14. Sourcouf and von-der-tan coming soon. I'm as excited as a excitable person who has an extra special reason to be excited.
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  15. It's impossible for an English speaker to get even half the local pronunciations of places correctly. I live in the north east of England. I can't pronounce Scottish place names correctly that are 2 hours drive from me. And Londoners can't pronounce places near me either. Worrying about stuff like this is totally pointless. As long as the word spoken is understood for what it means. What does it matter?
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  16.  @ChibiBritishDwarf  did she have an armoured flight deck? If so I imagine the bombs of the 40s would be very different to those of the 20s?
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  17. Drachisms of the day; 1:12 Without access to the standard template construct pattern for the Essex class... 4:47 After some changes to the parking arrangements... The air group of 48 aircraft was established Edit:. As said in the magnificent video. I'm hoping KK comes back to do these again!
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  18.  @Tuning3434  now I am even more confused. I know you ask lots of interesting questions for drydock (I've watched the channel since it was text to speech, guessing you weren't far behind). So I have to genuinely ask.... What? Lol. Brenda said they are going to start ww3 with one. Well I can't connect that with RN carriers in any way. I mean. Why in the heck would the UK want ww3. That was confusing me Now you mention Russian gas. But the North sea is a British lake that sits on a huge bubble of gas. Lots of my friends work on the rigs. 'we' (ie the UK) export gas. So I can't see why we'd go to war because Russia also export. I mean the price of gas would probably go up if the Russian gas fields were highly radioactive. But given that our entire island would also be highly radioactive. The point seems rather redundant 😂
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  19. Something worth telling the ships design team if you ever invent time travel. 🤔
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  20. I read a fantastic book by Stephen Fry recently that got me thinking. Perhaps time travel is already possible. And the state of history is simply as good as it can be. Trying to change anything for the better would just somehow make things worse. I always think of this when I read comments on the internet about how the axis powers should have done xyz. 🤔 The reality is. It's easy to pick faults with the design of a ship, tank or aircraft in retrospect. I would much rather understand why the decisions taken, were taken. Sadly, there's no where near enough reaserch into such things. Or any sources we'd need have been lost to time.
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  21. Just commented on all the ww2 videos asking for a Drachinifel collaboration. They eventually gave in and replied 🤣 hope you up for it Drach'!!
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  22. That was the point ;)
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  23. He's done it 🤣 at least 6 months ago. Check the channel videos
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  24. This still happens at times. Usually with light patrol craft but generally the capital investment is too much for companies to risk now. Plus 120 years ago there generally was some sort of war on the horizon and the state of technological advances meant that a minor nation was usually shopping 😂
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  25. Can anyone work out how many miles she did backwards? And Does this reduce the milage on the hull? Might have made her worth more on the post war open market 🤔 "For sale..One Cruiser. One careful owner. Suffered usual dings and dents associated with passing Japanese aircraft. Front end recently replaced. Low and errr genuine milage. comes with full service history. If asking price met. Gally will come stacked full of spam.
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  26. He has done it. Hms habbakuk
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  27. Check a few drydocks ago dude. He's had them over an hour already ;)
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  28.  @emintey  there's always walt Disney cartoons... About as factual! In all seriousness. If you expect to be educated by Wikipedia, expect to be terminally uneducated.
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  29. Agree with this. I'm eager to re-visit the us but I'm waiting until Texas is reopened. But the opportunity to visit a pre dreadnought without having to go half way around the world to Japan would really be something!!! Especially an early American battleship design. I can't seem to get excited about the last Iowa class (as a museum). Compared to so many other ships. They don't have the same backstory or legand. I'd rather have seen the ww2 enterprise preserved. But hey ho
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  30.  @bkjeong4302  as an added thought. If you take actual time spent fighting. Rather than time in existence. They actually had a very limited service history.
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  31.  @bkjeong4302  I can't agree that it's a ww2 battleship problem. Unless you mean ones built during the war. I could agree that for the war in the Pacific once the Americans got into the fight they were a strategic failure. I base this on the Americans getting stuck in in mid 42. With decisive battles in 43. By 44 when the battle fleet was resurfacing (no pun intended). They were as you say strategically obsolete. However that can't be applied as a sweeping statement because the RN, MN, and KM were in the fight from day one (to three) in 1939, and the RM were in the fight not far behind but also had to be factored into deployments even before the Italians began hostilities. The battle fleets in 39-41 were the prime strategic assets. I would say even in 42 and at times later in the med. Which I am convinced was the most important theatre of the European war. The battle of the Atlantic gets all the attention at sea, the battle of Britain in the air and Barbarossa on land. But had the RNs battle fleet been wiped out and the RM given free reign in the med. Then Africa, the middle East oil and all of Europe west of the Urals was there for the axis to take. We've gone a little off topic lol. Point being. I totally agree the Iowa's were a waste of resources. Naturally that's why the last 2 were cancelled. Here is a thought. HMS Ark Royal was scrapped. I don't even think there was any sort of fuss made to preserve her. She carried a proud name. Had just had a refit so wasn't about to fall apart and she had much more effect on the history of the UK than any Iowa's. So were the Iowa's kept just because they could be? Or was it because they could make money as tourist attractions 🤔
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  32. Definitely still in the dictionary. Rarely used words are less common than words used without understanding. I enjoy using "unique" properly. People say it all the time in the wrong way. The rare occasion it's appropriate makes it a fantastic word to use! Fun in the most geek way possible.
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  33. 1. Do you mean Dido? 😂 2. Bloody good question sir! Worth putting in the Q&A post of a newer video so it may get answered!?
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  34. Yes but on the upside for you yanks. You have the first ever world leader who glows in the dark and has hair and teeth that originally belonged to another species. Tbh the world owes you all a thank you for putting him in office. He’s made a running joke of himself and the presidency. Given us a lot of laughs. Especially in these unusual times!
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  35.  Stephen Jenkins  it kind of is funny in a terrible way. Because that power has been very common. Every head of state (kings, emperor's, regents etc) has had the same power and in many cases the same restraints. And this goes back 3000 years at least. Past Romulus and Remus. Americans think their form of government is the leading light of the western world. And at times it has been. But it's now suffering from a lack of perspective. When listening to Americans on the news, both rep and dem. It's mind blowing how few understand that the us as a state has tanked in credibility because literally the entire world community consider trump a joke. Don't get me wrong. The apparatus behind the man has deserved respect. But the man himself.... The rest of the world who bother to care consider him the punchline of a joke. God help the next occupant of the office. Great men held it. FDR was a hero of history. Up there with Churchill, bismark, Washington and others who will live on in history. That a orange man who doesn't seem to understand the world is round, holds the same sacred office...... It'll be decades before the other democracies have respect for America
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  36. @24:45. Think you got your dates mucked up there sir.
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  37. I googled the name. Apparently he played for some football teams. On a more interesting note. Where he was born was the river responsible for the flower class corvettes and is only a few miles from the royal navy museum at Hartlepool where the Napoleonic eta frigate HMS Trincomalee is docked :) He was also born 2 miles from my home town. So yeh. You'd think I'd know who he was/is
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  38. Though I would love such a video, the problem is that it was all so ad hoc that there aren't really any specifics available to us. We know the broad organisational plan. But it was very much a heat of the moment thing. Ironically a classic case of german tactical and organisational flexibility. Which made them so successful early in the ear
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  39. Because it worked 😂
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  40. Young people think of something other than a tasty beverage
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  41. Thanks to you and your son for your service. I bet there's some good stories floating around the family table!
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  42. I believe the idea is that they are the most powerful warships in the navy. Ballistic missiles can wipe out humanity after all. Plus. The deterrent factor makes sense. Dreadnaughts and battleships that followed them were largely built in the hope they wouldn't be used. Hence the treaty system So it's quite apt.
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  43.  @markasimmons  I'm from billingham, I've ever heard of Hartlepool being called "the Hartlepools". Was this the name of the town during ww1? I'm looking forward to visiting the museum once things return to some form of normality.
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  44. ​ @bkjeong4302 it's interesting you mentioned 'commissioning' new battleships when they were becoming obsolete. I'd say it's important to remember two things. 1, at the time it wasn't obvious they were about to be obsolete. 2, it definitely wasn't even considered when the ships were ordered and laid down. Hindsight is a sin everyone interested in history is guilty of. :)
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  45. ​ @WALTERBROADDUS  you make an interesting point about long wars. It's correct. But the hundred years war and the crusades aren't great examples as both were groups of separate wars that history groups together out of convenience (in the case of the hundred years) and/or because of popular understanding. Much like the Napoleonic wars or the wars of Spanish succession. Interestingly, both Japan against the USA and Germany Vs France/the UK and Russia are good examples where the leaders (political and military) knew they couldn't win a long war. But ended up starting them anyway
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  46.  @bkjeong4302  I'm sorry probably fluffed what I was trying to say... You make a point about strategic nonsense. But Japan made that mistake. It took on the preeminent naval power for the last 3+ centuries and a country with only a few colonies and a lot of industrial slack. That was a stratagem that certainly in hindsight is about as sensible as playing russian roulette, but then telling everyone else you get he first 5 out of 6 goes. Again though that's with hindsight. I can understand that Japan looked at the USA as a nearly failed economy (great depression) which had an obsession with isolationism and whos political leaders were war shy (inspite of Japan seeing the last 25 years of history and going "they made war and made untold riches. They must be dumb not to want that again). As for the empire of great Britain. They worried about war debt so sold their future fleet for a treaty that screwed Japan. They lost their biggest ally and had to attack their fleet (France obviously). And the Germans had them reeling with a forlorn hope that America would save them (the UK was fighting alone...playing for time.... And it was running out). From a strategic sense. I can totally see how the Japanese decision to attack and get the resources they needed made total sense..yes with hindsight we know it didn't work. But arguing on a YouTube history channel that Japan was silly, wrong, should have known better to not do xyz I just don't understand. Hence my comments As for arguing battleships were a silly idea. Again. Nobody knew so until the war in the Pacific ran half it's course. Which took a blink in the eye of the history of a battleline deciding the fate of nations..and was fraction of the time it took to politically decide to, economically plan for and then logistically commit to building the most advanced pieces of technology on the planet. Had the royal navy done so in 1910 then Jutland would be something else. Had the union done so when planning monitor. The us civil war could have lasted another 6 months or a year. Had Stalin put his generals to work in 34-39 instead of to death Germany could have spent the cold war united under a red banner. It's all a silly waste of hindsight and what if. Yamato, Iowa, Nelson, Bismarck, littorio. All made sense when ordered. Saying "they should have'. Is just a waste of time that could be better spent learning more about history. Isn't that why we are here? I say all this after a week of nights I may be tired but I mean my comments in a friendly way. I remember your questions on the very first dry docks. You may not remember my replies 🤣
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  47.  @WALTERBROADDUS  the date there has confused me a bit. I wouldn't say 'the war on terror' is a good example. Terror has existed since recorded history began and it's had a religious justification since....well recorded history began. Religious/tribal warfare in Afghanistan goes back since... I'm a broken record by now right? I'm not sure we can bring Iraq into 'the war on terror' given that it was an illegal war sold to multiple publics through lies. (I'm not saying that Saddam wasn't every bit as bad as Hitler or Stalin, he was. Just pointing out that the casus belli was a willing falsehood). That "war" won't end. It'll keep going forever and I don't think can be classified in a historical context. ... I say that because yes the crusades and the 100 years war are often misunderstood. But though they don't have a fixed beggining and end..they do have a time before and a time after. The exact dates are down to technicalities. The quasi religious excuse for terrorism and it's justification for a war are timeless and (sadly) probably endless.
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  48. Pretty sure he's covered her at some point. Possibly a dry dock.
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  49.  @mpetersen6  I've never met a single fellow Englishman who takes this view of history. Any "fan" of the royal navy would have no quarrel with a video about an American man of war. They'd appreciate the history in general and remember it in the context of the era: An era where Brittania ruled the waves (literally). There is no reason for anyone from Great Britain to down vote this video, based on its content or title. Quite the opposite, it elicits nothing but a feeling of pride. I'm not sure what has coloured your view point. But I can promise you, that's just not how we* think. * People who live here and are into history. As a final note. Please understand that I know there are many times that the British empire was involved in events that are anything but something to be proud of. Though I'm sure that can be said of every state in history at one time or another.
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  50. I’m off to buy a chicken. Should the bones be from a whole chicken or say various legs? There must be a science to this. Wouldn’t want to get it wrong. My drift cars engine depends on this!
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