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

  1. What these guys said. Bismarck had a lot of hype at the time and has since (I'm English and I admit that making Bismarck a invincible Uber ship really helped from a propaganda point of view). The reality is it was a terrible design that wasted any sort of tonnage advantage she had over other ships like Rich' a QE, KGiv etc
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  2.  @bkjeong4302  that's basically what I meant lol. You've hit the nail on the head. BK jeong. A fellow OG follower of drach :) I was just asking about Sar Jim the other day. Havent seen him post in ages
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  3. So nice to gear from an American historian who reads history from the point of view of other powers of the time. I'm off to find some of his works!
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  4. Sorry to say a very bad analysis as the quality of either maker really depends on the person reading the comment. As a keen student of history and a mechanic by trade. I can't reconsile the 2. Here in the UK. Mercs are currently considered trophy cars for keeping up with the Jones's. Though very nice cars and with a certain flair for design, they are not not worth the huge price tag as your paying for the badge (from the pov of people who know cars). And they are very very poor for their cost when it comes to mechanical engineering and technology. Ford's however are excellent cars and have been for about 15 years. They are well made but they are now very expensive. A fiesta costs nearly a third as much as a basic house would! They aren't cheap anymore but show better value for money. A Sharpe turn around as 20 year old fords are rattling death traps and filled with plastic to make a wheel-e-bin blush. Even the fast ones which are none the less cool as fudge. In previous years mercs were known as cars that were badly made. Ford's as cars easy to steal. Before that. Mercs were hand finished premium cars which were the envy of the world and which few could afford... Ford's were mostly made in England and cars for the masses. But weren't very well made. They were a little better than British layland cars. But a Japanese car was far better and usually cheaper. Before that. Mercs were staff cars for the bad guys and ford made engines for tanks. Hard to know where your historical comparison lies 😂 but this was fun to write. My point being. I can't see any time this applies to ships I'm afraid
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  5. He has a list and does them in order of request. If you want to make sure they are added to the list. He's mentioned before it's best to ask on discord or email the channel email. Be warned. He's been asked to do a LOT. I think he has a 3 year long request list. You can get them bumped up the list as a perk or being a patron
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  6. Not sure about that. How would it attack a u boat? Flying boats had to be dam Sharp to catch a u boat before it went into a crash dive. A airship not only moves way way slower. But it'd be much easier to spot, both visually and on radar. It wouldn't be much use as a scout for this reason also. It'd be seen long before it could vector in an escort. Good rule of thumb the internet seems to forget when looking back at ww2 in perticular. As a rule, if it had been a good idea. They'd have at least tried it. The smartest people in any given country were trying to win the war for said country. Even with hindsight, we can rarely see a better course of action than that which was taken at the time.
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  7. A very very easy mistake to make. As I'm sure we'll all discover when the crown passes to a new monarch
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  8. *Tea 🇬🇧
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  9.  richard smith  it may depend on the classes. It was covered in my A-Level History :)
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  10.  @TheBruceGday  couldn't agree more. I don't follow the news much now. That's sad to say as I was once very interested in politics. But I have seen that in the last week, some young person who's famous for being on Instagram (I'm 32 and I'm not sure what the hell that means!)... Was on a TV show saying children shouldn't be taught about ww2 as it might impact their mental health!!! It's the most disturbing thing I've ever heard. That fact that his "thoughts(I'd be shocked if this person had ever managed thoughtS plural)" were deemed by some as worth listening to, and repeating! Is terrifying. Before we know it, we'll have far right groups elected to power and kids will suggest solving problems with nukes, gas and biological warfare "after all. Nobody has ever used them. Maybe we should be first".... Sighs.
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  11.  richard smith  I would expect that that would depend on the individual teacher.
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  12. Lindy beige did a great video on tuebinia. I dare say the issue for Drach is she's so far north of him. Given the state of the trains it's probably less hassle to fly to the US to cover a ship lol
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  13. Dam, he must have missed your vote in the patron voting system. The one where you can bring a ship or class to the top of the list. Otherwise he goes by the order that ships or classes were requested. Going back 3+ years. And shock horror but the internet is full of people interested in naval history. They have requested ships from all over the world. So why cover one ship above another? I'm not normally a negative person on the internet. But your enjoying expert knowledge on a specialist subject for free and all you can do is complain that what you want hasn't been done yet!?! My 2 year old has more manners and understanding of others. Ugh
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  14. I think by that point he was humouring the questioner as the question itself was impossible to give a real answer to
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  15.  @sarjim4381  I hope so too. On the up side you have space we don't have here in the UK, parts of nw England, lots of Scotland and central Wales are all very much rural. The rest of the country is very urban. So we are really a pandemics dream. On the up side. We have the NHS (I wish I was still a nurse and could help. But fate is what it is). And as much as our prime minister has been sick and even in intensive care. At least he isn't trump. And we don't have the same political divisions thanks to not having a 2 party system. So politics has been oddly quiet here even the major opposition party isn't being negative towards the ruling party (which is basically the oppositions job in "normal" times lol) Keep safe my friend. My best to you and yours.
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  16. I can't answer that question. But it did make me think of the "well the front fell off by all means" sketch. Not sure if it translates into American humour too well as it's very much a British style sketch. If you haven't seen it. Please do. It's on here and is hallerious! Side note. Because of this joke. Behind my drift cars front bumper, on the crash beam. Is a sticker that can only be read if I nock the front bumper off. Saying "well .... The front fell off by all means". . End of my ramble for the night. Merry Christmas SarJim
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  17. Based on what metric was it 'better'?
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  18.  @davidchambers8697  oh as for the older shorted gun thing. I imagine it would be more dependent on recoil than size. You could make a 15inch gun that's 200m long and have it fire using tissue paper and black powder and it would need a much smaller, lighter and less costly mounting and turret (and hull!) than a 8inch from late ww2 that's using all the current technology to supercharge the shells.
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  19. Been covered a few times in several dry docks. Short answer The greatest engineers of the time didn't make such ammunition because they knew it was pointless when used against a target the size of a ship. So was never developed. But see drachs prev dry docks for more info :)
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  20. Not sure nuclear could help at all. Though leading British physicists made great strides in theory in the 30s and early 40s the reality is, Britain couldn't afford a Manhattan project. And it certainly couldn't produce a bomb in time to help in ww2. Maybe they could have gotten a bomb sooner. But it's not like it would be in time to stop the fall of France etc. Also. The Manhattan project was a meeting of minds from many countries. Ironically leading Germans as well as Americans obviously, Brits and many other countries. Many of those being people that fled the Nazis ironically. But I digress. Point being. Many of these people had moved to and lived in America. To get the same sort of brain power pumped into a British Manhattan, you'd need America to share it's knowlage and it's scientists. And historically they didn't choose to do that (realpolitik I guess).... So even a head start may not give the allies the bomb before 45 by which point the war was won in all but name anyway. One thing I'm shocked Drach' didn't focus on was the building of more destroyers and escorts. With a much bigger escort force, early convoy losses could have been cut massively. Especially if money was put into asdic. Something slightly larger than the flower class and a tad more seaworthy and faster. With asdic and a hedgehog/depth charger thrower. A couple of hundred of them could have really put Churchills "greatest fear" to rest in 39/40. Oh and design a long range patrol plane (or just more Sunderland's).
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  21. What would the RN look like in 1950, 1960, 1980, and now. If nuclear weapons were never discovered/invented? Have fun with this one! Love the channel. Been watching for about 8 months now. Keep it up Drach!
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  22. The thing about the guns not tracking slow moving swordfish I think is nonsense. I've never read about it and the accounts of the swordfish crew state the aa guns were very accurate. The thing about not being able to hit slow swordfish seems to track back to an old history channel documentary. It seems to be false. If anyone can offer evidence I'd be happy to be proven wrong.😊
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  23.  @CThyran  the fleet was for show and it did look amazing. It's a shame there are no true colour photographs of the ships on their tour. It was a bit embarrassing that the ships were showing off how far the American navy had come... By touring the world in armoured cruisers and pre dreadnaughts, several years after Dreadnaught had launched. Though I do wonder if the point was more to impress counties that didn't know better 🤔 I've always wondered why else they'd have kept the thing going for so long (the trip didn't finish until 1909!? Superdrednaughts were coming online by then!)
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  24. A lot of the comments seem to find them very entertaining (I enjoyed them). As a side note. A lot of people listen to drachs stuff. As in, they don't watch them. If you have a browse through the comments over the last few months I'd have loved to see images of these crazy ships though. I agree that would have been brilliant
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  25. Interesting. I live in teesside and we say Elswick with the W. So did my grandad who was born in trimdon in the 20s
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  26. Drach mentioned this in a previous dry Dock. Your both right. Also. Note a similar signal by the Japanese Admiral just before the battle of tsushima.
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  27. Best to ask on the discord server. There's too many comments for him to scroll through now.
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  28. If you follow some of his videos, he explains how to request :). The channel is a bit of a victim of its own success mind. I think he has about 2 years worth of video requests to do!
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  29. Lol. Lots of lol
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  30. 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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  31. First read the phrase in Tom Clancy 20+ years ago... Wonder who coined it?
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  32. Do you have a source on this? I thought the Chinese navy was basically none existant at this time.
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  33. SJ. I know you traveling to NE England is most unlikely. But every time I read a post of yours I am sorely saddened that we'll not get a chance to talk history. A special of Drachs with you and him talking ship would be amazing. As a side note. I read a book recently (the title of which I'll try and find tomorrow night as I think you'd enjoy it). About Q ships. It focuses on ww1 but uses that as a lesson base for ww2. I can very much agree that the idea of larger submarine guns should have been obvious for anyone building a commerce raiding submarine force. However... Who was really building such a force... I guess just Germany given the US used fleet subs for the role. And Germany knew anyone sane (cough admiral King cough) would be using a convoy system against them ... Still. The idea of so much smaller guns seems counterintuitive. Forgive my late night rambling. Must sleep. may need to finish watching this DD tomorrow night
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  34. I'd love to meet a fellow Englishman that says "that's not cricket". He's out there somewhere. Probably has a tweed cap and smokes a pipe lol. Come to think of it.... I don't know anyone who plays cricket. Nor do I know of any teams even vaguely local to me 🤔
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  35. I remember watching this thinking "well Russia can never do worse".... Makes you wonder. how many torpedo boats do the Ukrainians have?
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  36. They did mix lime/lemon with the rum. That's part of the point of it. And it wasn't concentrated to save space.... Think about it. They couldn't dilute it with salt water from the sea 😂 Drachs done bits about grog etc. Not sure if he's done a special on it. But there is a long drydock about it. So I see where you logic took you. But not so much 😅. And no need to be surprised because they did do the lime thing lol.
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  37. Are you by any chance American? 😂
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  38. Another nugget of Sar Jim info. Thanks. The one thing I've learnt about ww2 in 20 years studying it. Is that there's always more to learn.
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  39.  @sarjim4381  I had a similar experience growing up when I read about Alan Turing and his work on early computing. I began really learning about ww2 as the files on Bletchly park, the twenty committee and many other secret documents were becoming public access here in England/Britain. It was exciting. It fueled an interest I already had into computers. I was into early windows computing, building computers and such. The very early internet as well. The effort I put into makeing dial up not slow 🙄 But then I discovered race cars 😂. Now I really appreciate the effort that restoration societies put into keeping old tanks driving and even more so, old aircraft flying (older ships being sea worthy seems less applicable. But keeping them in good condition is appreciated). I know what it takes to keep a 25 year old race car working. God knows what it takes to keep a 70+ year old tank/fighter/bomber or other piece of equipment working!
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  40. I remember him trying to keep the list up to date for the first few drydocks. That was about 2017ish and the guides were still supposed to be 5mins long. I'm sure the 21 has been on the list a lot longer than 2 years
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  41. Were they actually zepplines? I thought Germany couldn't produce them after Versailles? Or was there an exception if they were building them to sell to a allied nation?
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  42. Enter Novgorod circa 1906 She is happy and content.... Sailing along.... Sure she was the pride of russ- What's that Enters HMS Dreadnaught .... Oh ....
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  43. In fairness. They are called "5 minute guides"
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  44.  @Johnnycdrums  I was thinking that. I wonder if Drach' knows anything about what happened to the captains of the ships. Or if there was a legitimate reason for their withdrawal
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  45. Same in the UK. Plenty of ships but no money. We had truly crippleing war debt. Rationing was still around in the late 50s. Large cities in ruins. Ships were scrapped for money and raw material to rebuild. I really wish warspite had been gifted to the USA though. You had the space to turn her into a museum ship. And you had all our money 🤣 least you guys could have done was save a hero of 2 world wars for us lol
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  46.  @canadianmmaguy7511  what on earth are you on about? First of all. I've never started a war in my life. Secondly. The British empire of the time did not start world war 2. Thirdly. The UN was formed after the war. If anyone had discussed such an organisation in the 1930s then you would be assumed to be talking about the league of nations. This is really really basic history. If you would like me to recommend some texts that cover the lead up to ww2. I'd be happy to do so. The formation of the UN is outside my specialty. I mastered in 1900-1945. But I'm sure there are plenty of texts to choose from. I don't mean to sound incredulous. After all, we didn't know anything until we were taught. But speaking without understanding the topic is how miss information spreads. The history of ww2 is too important to distort.
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  47. Given that in this era, the aim was still to cross the enemies T and bring a broadside to bare... Kind of spoils your point there. But bravo for the sentiment. Anyone who knows anything about history knows the French have a impressive history. I mean, sure they could have saved some time and just built the RN free ships. And forgone the pointless exercise they called battles. But otherwise. They still have a largely positive history in war. Going back to the Gauls. But French cheese eating surrender monkey jokes. Are just funny.
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  48.  @justarandomtechpriest1578  forgive me, I watched this video as it came out. Could you point me to the reference I made and how it reflects what drach said in the video? Ideally with a time stamp. I'll watch the video again and happily reply. :)
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  49. I think he pretty much planned his itinerary in 2019 🤣
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  50. So can't wait for this year's..... 8 days and counting
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