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

  1. They will be. Skip bombing was a tactic developed before the war even started. Used against merchantmen as early as 1939 :)
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  2. There's a good video about it on the great war channel. The brief version is.... Allies turn up. Discover the steights actually not very well defended. They shell the poorly manned and setup defences. Allies go away Turks fix all the flaws they have been shown in their defences Allies come back and land troops Allies loose.
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  3. The effort put into this video is clearly incredible. Fantastic video with incredible detail. And yet a third of the comments complain about an apostrophe in the title. Make's me feel violent.
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  4. Thank you for sharing.
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  5. Above the water line "Just as WELL"... Because the elevator was in a well... The well... It's a WELL joke. I hope it is anyway. Or I'm absent mindedly chuckling at an unintended joke. Which is sad. Very sad. More likes from me. Thank everyone's generic deity thay the robot voice is dieing. Though I'll miss some off the odd pronounced words. Thank you for the continued devotional service you bring to both history and good old fashioned British humour.
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  6. When did they finally stop? I'm sure Dreadnaught had a ram bow didn't she? As U(9?) Found out to her misfortune
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  7. Kind of. George Johnson's book and max Hastings work* discuss it. The simplest version is.... When there was an opportunity to use highball against Tirpitz** and it was ready to be used. The air ministry stopped its use untill upkeep could be used on the dams. So highball wasn't unused to keep it secret. But to keep upkeep secret. (What a sentence lol). The theory being that once Jeri knew about bouncing bombs, they would enact protection at key targets right away (which is what happened after chastise) *good book, called chastise and it really delves into the story ** May have been one of the pocket battleships. But I'm sure it was Tirpitz.
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  8. A nice bit of info. But there's only so much time in a video. And I think he's focused on events that had a significant impact on the history and development of aircraft carriers. Helicopters as functional combatants really didn't become a thing until the Korean war (yes some had very limited use in ww2. But they didn't have the payload capacity to be useful in any meaningful way until the 50s). So the helicopter side of things really falls out of the scope of the video
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  9.  @ramal5708  probably the same use the Norwegians had for Whitehead torpedoes in 1940....... Don't assume anything when it comes to military history or you may find egg on your face ;)
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  10. Given how short American involvement was in ww1... How did he get all the medals? Genuine question. :)
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  11. Kevin is going to have fun with his Drachisms on this one!
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  12. It's definitely slang in England. I don't know about the other countries in the British isles 🤔
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  13. At a car show a couple of years ago I heard a conversation about my rover 25 shed (skyline was off the road). Anyway the car looked like a old mans gold rover but had a 280hp engine swap. Point being. The lad said “cool Q car” and his mate said “yeh like James Bond”.... like a true rover owner, I put my thinking pipe in my mouth and explained some history! They must have been mightily bored
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  14. "the American can company" Opens up sooo many jokes
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  15.  @CanalTremocos  couldn't agree more old chap, now. I'd say the guns are all sub 16 inch. Certainly not 18.1 inch (or more). Because that's what the emporer told me to say - err I mean, is obvious, to anyone who's not a heritic. Which you would be. Using inches. I mean. The imperium has used metric since 2034 when all old weights were censored, What were we on about? Ah yes guns. More please. Always more. The heritic can't be dakkaed at enough!
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  16. In addition to what alganhar has said, I think you have missed the point of the drydock November-Bravo. The idea is to answer questions and possible alternative histories/matchups. But not to the ends of the earth. If he went into the detail your asking, it'd take up the whole hour. And apart from analysing every little detail of reasoning behind the answer... You'd not change the answer. It couldn't be done. And any idea that it may be done to Portsmouth is laughable (as anyone who's been there would tell you). The question was asked and very well answered :) Oh... I think the Germans had 11 boats at seat on the eve of war. I could be wrong. But that number sticks in my head.
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  17. I kind of beat the pinned post post.... Would you do a collaborative video with cinema sins/wins on the midway movie? I've not seen it yet. But imagine one or the other would be good fun! He did one on interstellar (I think) with an astronomer. So there is precident. Still enjoying your videos, over 18 months after first watching. Even if I don't comment much. Keep up the good work :)
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  18.  @camenbert5837  your forgetting the home field advantage. I think that would probably trump any religious benefit the invading army would have. However your probably right. The English haven't traditionally been strong on land. It's interesting to think how different my country would be had the armada worked. The religion thing I doubt would make much difference today. But the nock to the English maritime tradition could radically change the course of history.
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  19. @4:30. If amagi hadn't been destroyed. Does that mean no earthquake and therefore thousands, tens of thousands didn't die/be displaced/suffer. Just a thought on how "what if" questions are a bit daft unless really pointed. The disaster that damaged amagi may have killed the Japanese bloke who was teller/Oppenheimer/Einstein/Bobby axelrod all rolled into one and the Japanese cornered the world market and build the a bomb, conquered the world and then solved fusion power. All by 1940...........
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  20.  @hajoos.8360  the navy didn't have a say. It was a political decision. Ribbentrop spent a large portion of the pre war years in negotiations with the USSR for vital resources that Germany needed. The problem was that Germany had no money and no reasources to trade. The only thing they could offer for russian wheat/oil etc was finished goods and expertise. And the Soviets wanted military goods and expertise so that's what they got
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  21. I've waited so long for this video. I think it's the most anticipated since the 2nd Pacific pt2. Thanks drach
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  22. Anyone who's ever invaded Russia may disagree 🤣
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  23. This is a fine game. I drank a lot of Tea.
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  24. Blast shield? Should solve the issue.
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  25. This is a very confusing comment 😂
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  26. She hit the earth so much, she could be an American battleship
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  27. This last week I started commenting on videos by 'WW2'. I've been asking for a collaboration with you Drach'. Indy and the team replied to my comments which I'm sure annoyed them a bit. Worth it if it means a video from my favourite history channels. Would you do a video with them? Please Pretty please... I take no pleasure in copy and pasting this onto the videos of yours that I'm re-watching. I take great pleasure in re-watching your videos! Thank you for the knowledge. And yes. I'm using Warspite as a tool to tug at your heart strings!
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  28. Not far off. Shows how quick technology advanced when it came to carriers
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  29.  @GrahamWKidd  but surely that all adds massively to engineering complexity at a time where not only are these ships state of the art. They are also the most expensive but of engineering not just in a single nation But on the planet. Not to mention that it would have taken more time to design and therefore meant the ships which the RN needed NOW might be better sure..but better.... Later. I just don't understand the argument. Maybe on a computer game..but surely not in the real world?
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  30.  @davidchambers8697  I imagine that's a very very complicated question. I'm an engineer and you'd be shocked by how these things cascade. For example it's not like saying "a triple adds a third more weight so 3 triples is way less than twins as your loosing 100% of 2 of your 5 turrets. You have to consider what's needed to support, armour, equip and staff each turret. Also liability which in this case would be how much more do you need to armour and flash proof the turret because of the bigger impact (no pun intended) of loosing one turret to shell fire. That's why I asked. What metric is "better" measured by. And what such comments often frustrate me on history channels. People seem to think it's obvious because they've played a computer game. But here's a thought. How much harder is a tripe turrets magazine to fill with powder and shot while in port? How much more difficult is it do make castings of a slightly larger size and is it even possible to cast and cool such a casting with the right malleability for a given hardness using current technology not to mention.... Given the current understanding of what we can do..what we would like to do and what might be possible... What can we reasonably accomplish within the stated time (deadline) and within budget. So. Yeh. That's my thinking
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  31. I only live down in Teesside. And here we say the w....
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  32. I remember watching a BBC documentary years ago on the X Craft. Not only could they find men to crew them. They had a LOT of applications and only picked the best of the bunch. Hardly surprising given the generation we are talking about. But still amazing.
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  33. Huh?
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  34. I think you have missed the point by a mile. Your supposed to learn something. This is about content and historical knowlage being shared. Also, why did you write is with a z? (Genuine question, if English isn't your first language then I don't mean to offend).
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  35. In the 3,000+ year history of naval warfare. Calling them one of the very best, without a very specific qualifier... Well it's a bit much.
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  36. The original point of the channel were "5 minute guides" 😂. Sure that was like 8 years ago. But still
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  37. Why choose the plotting room of an Iowa class? Why not a Queen Elizabeth or Kongo? If he took the photo himself then that explains it. Always easier to use a photo you know isn't going to cause copyright issues
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  38.  @enoughothis  what tim said... All war is compromise and it's never safe. It's very easy to look back with 20/20 hindsight and critisise. The leaders at the time were literally that. World leaders in their fields. Thats always worth remembering when looking back on history before second guessing them.
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  39. Stealth, pre-drednaught, remote control battleship. That's a bond villains freaking dream right there!
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  40.  @crazylemonz1957  only as a brief wrap up of those classes. Much as he did for vanguard. I dare say he has enough content to go through anyway 🤣
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  41.  @1Korlash  "Out of a book, actually" Had me in stitches. A true drachism. I'm lucky enough to have collected a fairly extensive library of history books (all bargains from charity shops!). And they have this amazing ability to teach you things.... Something the internet and thoes that parrot what's said there just don't seem to understand... I'll have to look out for any books on the GZ now. Seems a grand story. I always wonder what was going on in the ports where such ships were built during the war... Did the locals look at the super slow progress and wonder what the hell was going on? Did they care? How many man hours were wasted on people sent to train for a role that would never arrive on a ship that would never sail. How much work was wasted. And how lucky were the allies that "waste" was something the Axis were able to do in sooooo many ways. I went off topic there. Thanks for the history lesson :)
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  42. Your design and drachs explanation of it, really set my day up, I chortled merrily. Hats off to you sir. Your welcome to design me a teapot anyday.
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  43. I always thought the American derigables (so can't spell that) were made by Goodyear. That's all.
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  44. Surely there would never be chance for any of the sailing ships to actually get anyone onboard. I mean Bismarck can just steam 20 knots into the wind. Even if they did though..somehow. The Bismarck had a crew of what. 1000? Even if they didn't have automatic weapons. I'm pretty sure numbers would win out. Even if the crew used clubs and harsh words
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  45.  @bobbyrayofthefamilysmith24  I agree wit your sentiment. But the optimist in me hopes they promote the memory of war. I know I'd never have started to learn about world war 2 (and afterwards all 19th and 20th century wars and geo politics, which I've studied for 25+ years now). If movies and early video games had not peaked my interest as a child.
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  46. In fairness to said men at the admiralty. It is a tale as old as intelligence gathering itself. And a constant issue in ww2 with enigma. This intelligence is very important. But if we use it to gain a victory. We risk the source and may loose the source for future use. If we don't use the source. We may as well not have the thing in the first place. Falling the wrong side of the line could cost more than just lives. Worth remembering when looking back with hindsight
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  47. This last week I started commenting on videos by 'WW2'. I've been asking for a collaboration with you Drach'. Indy and the team replied to my comments which I'm sure annoyed them a bit. Worth it if it means a video from my favourite history channels. Would you do a video with them? Please Pretty please... I take no pleasure in copy and pasting this onto the videos of yours that I'm re-watching. I take great pleasure in re-watching your videos! Thank you for the knowledge.
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  48. Because the whole point of this format of video is to be as concise as possible. If you go off on a tangent mentioning other random ships from other countries, you'd end up with an hour long video.
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  49.  @Jaceric2  glad the reference isn't lost on everyone!
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  50.  @rossswenson532  they didn't come close and if you think about it. You answered your own question. If one side has completely cracked wide open the other side's codes*. Then they would know if the enemy had broken their own codes. It'd be blatebtly obvious. Which is why you get a logarithmic scale of sucess with these things. *Yes I know there were times enigma wasn't read real time. But my point stands
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