Comments by "HaJo Os." (@hajoos.8360) on "Drachinifel" channel.

  1.  @jacktattis143  this is difficult to judge, the USS President was damaged by running aground and the HMS Endymion shot several broadsides in Presidents stern-section. The slightly stronger President was hindered by battle to escape and Pomone catched up. Both ships, President and Endymion, had more than 20 dead crewman and more than 50 wounded. And Decatur lost his life in a duel about this affair. So he gained his honour, don't you think so?
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  2.  @bkjeong4302  Bismarck was disabled by swordfish and nothing else. The importance of speed is always underestimated. And British battleships at this time could not compete with Bismarck's speed. So the question of an earlier altering course of Hood at Denmark strait is always foolish. Bismarck and PE could always alter course, too, to cross the Brit's T by their higher speed, as you can see in the Battle of Tsushima. And Bismarck main-armour-belt was made of better steel than the belts of their british opponents.
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  3.  @maryrosetran5109  Not really, in 1916 the Entente was going to lose the war.
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  4.  @gregoryemmanuel9168  pls do not talk bullshit in a serious debate, i will welcome your real arguments.
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  5.  @jb76489  of course, WASPs and WIPs in the Americas were the former scum of Europe.
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  6.  @seabass9916  Iowa class battle-ships are pretty, but not the most pretty ones. The reason is very simple the short beam of 33 meters in relation to the length of 270 meters. This is caused by the Panama-Canal-ability. There is no real curvature around midships. As you can see here in the Wiki picture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iowa-class_battleship.
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  7.  @ivlivscaesar5898  lol .... :-)
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  8.  @kevinwebster7868  this is a wrong perception. There were not so many Nazi-Empires. The main fascist Empire on the planet, was the British fascist Empire, so you define british products as ugly. The follower of the British Empire is the US global Empire, the Imperium Americanum. So, do you think really, our US American friends are not able to establish any beauty?
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  9.  @mikemusikable  .. check Drachifinel's HMS Tiger guide, 18 minutes of your life and a private gain.
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  10. Drake was a warm-hearted man. Maybe he spent some money for the suffering english crews.....but I do not know.
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  11.  @KatyushaLauncher  DoY was the third built ship of KGV-class. Of course, most probs were fixed, a shame, if not. The major advantage of DoY was the working radar-steered fire, which proves that lower calibers as 14 or simply 11 inch guns were sufficient to the task. Without a working radar it was useless to operate at the northcape in winter.
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  12. Turkey failed to cross the Suez canal and to throw the British lads out of Egypt. The Palestinian and Arab idiots trusted 2 times the perfide Brits and payed for it obviously. The Turks saw the donation of 2 warships as a commitment. They were aiming at Russia. Unfortunately Bismarck was dead a long time. He would have adviced the Habsburg-Bonehead-Emperor to give Bosnia to the Serbs, the Russians would have gained an Adrian port and the Brits and the French would not have accepted. We would have seen a British-Russian war, much better for Germany.
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  13. No, the German navy lacked the tradition of warfare on the seas in their officer's staff. The most losses were made due to the commanders-in-chief's wrong decisions. Crews, artillery-officers, engineers were fine. But nobody can outdo his superiour officer.
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  14.  @TheNecromancer6666  this counts only for the crews and engineers. The social differences and behaviour between officers and crews were not helpful and the circumstances of comeradeship on board were better in WWII. The Germans were enforced to use their experiences, for example 2 aft turrets of Seydlitz out of action at the battle of the Doggerbank, because they were inferior. Admiral Beatty was too arrogant to use conclusions and consequences, because he commanded superiour forces. I do not share Drach's opinion about the biggest calibre is the best. The Germans had in WWI and II more rounds ammunition on board, because their shells were smaller. About speed you are right in the German planning. But in reality German battlecruisers were one or two knots faster than their british opponents. At the Doggerbank Blücher slowed the Germans down. Without Blücher we would not have seen the battle. It is a major mistake to put slow ships into the line of battle, as we have already seen in the battle of Tsushima, but the Germans repeated the mistake at the Doggerbank and Jutland. With a smaller and faster high seas fleet at Jutland Jellicoe would not have been able to cross the German T. The opposite is the case, it is probable that Scheer would have crossed the British T, before the Homefleet would have formed the line of battle. The would have meant a decisive victory for the Germans. At the battle of the Falklands Admiral Spee failed totally, Lütjens failed always, Kummetz failed at the Oslo Fjord, and Captain Langsdorff failed at the battle of River Plate. The Germans admiralty was miserable in tactics and strategics, and they promoted the wrong men. They decided politically, always a mistake. The German admiralty was not even able to calculate the correct fuel demand for their operations, unbelievable.
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  15.  @dncarac  It seems when the Saxons and Anglos left Germania their bakers remained at home.
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  16. The entire British history is a shame.
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  17.  @morgan3688  Have a look on the Battle "The Glorious First of June" when Admiral Howe defeated Admiral Villaret-Joyeuse tactically. By the fact that Villaret-Joyeuse was only a post-captain before the war, the Frenchies fought relatively in a good shape. But the only reason for the sortie of the French fleet was to protect around 100 merchantmen who transported wheat from the US to France. France suffered under a bad harvest, so the revolutionary government bought the corn in the US. At war i have no problem that the Brits start a hand-strike against the French Man'o'wars in Brest. But British plans to let suffer the French Civilians was a character-sphincter-action.
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  18.  @ScienceChap  Slavery is the minor crime simply form the numbers. The enforced opium trade to China caused a lot of more victims than slavery, which meant not necessarily death. In in Europe we had still serfdom. There is not so a big difference between slavery and serfdom.
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  19. The major mistake was made by the Russian's 1. Pacific Squadron during the battle of the Yellow Sea after Admiral Vitgeft died in action. They returned to Port Arthur instead to escape to Vladivostok. The Tsar was the main loser of the Battle of Tsushima. He underestimated the japanese abilities. Better a smaller fleet, but well trained crews instead many armed cruise liners.
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  20.  @thecatwithatophat4069  both were ugly Robin Hoods against the evil empire.
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  21.  @zhouenlai2569  6 day war in 1967
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  22. One of the propellers of Prinz Eugen is made out at the German naval-memorial of Laboe near the city of Kiel at the beach of the Baltic. Beside Prinz Eugen's propeller, U-995 is placed on the same beach, open for visit. And the monument is very impressive. Please have a look here guys https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laboe_Naval_Memorial
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  23. You hit the main historical point. The attempt to compete with the RN was wasted energy. To establish a second rated seapower would have been enough, less conflicts with the British government. The Kaiser could have spared the ships of the line. A fleet of 10 battlecruisers would have been enough, staying behind the RN.
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  24.  @kuhluhOG  No, German battlecruisers were fast except Derfflinger with her 12 inch guns. She made only 26,5 knots.
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  25.  @Bird_Dog00  At Denmark Strait PE was preparing a torpedo launch, too. But due to PE's evasion manoeuvre the distance became too far.
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  26.  @colinlook5237  Maybe it was Rudel again.......
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  27. The anti-torpedo-protection seems to be necessary, for firing the 15 inch guns. It might had happend to push the ship under water by the blowback.
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  28.  @NashmanNash  the third part of Dreadnought's load was oil, but essential. I can read, my friend. Graf Spee failed in the most eminent moment, in a sea-battle. Already at Coronel he made the mistake not to sink all Brits. Your fart is the major objective. You cannot see beyond the shores of your dirty and foggy island. The Brits could not keep their position as the planet's leading power, they needed support. And they decided to deliver this position to the US. Accept the historical results, stop dreaming.
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  29. The fate of Bismarck is doomed by a leadership with no naval tradition.
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  30.  @paoloviti6156  Dear Paolo ... Vittorio Veneto was not damaged by a 16-inch shell but by a swordfish-torpedo. The Italian air-force was too busy with it's duties in Greece, and the Luftwaffe-reconnaisance failed. The major aspect were the losses at the British air-raid on Taranto, where the half Italian fleet was set out of service. It was a strategic mistake, because Taranto is geographically too exposed. Something like Brindisi would have been better, but the Italian Naval High-Command, after the airraid on Taranto, shifted the fleet to La Spezia, Naples & Genua, where they were more or less useless. Another aspect was the miserable torpedo protection on Italian BBs (installed/constructed around 1935). Only one small swordfish-torpedo could effect severe damage on the BBs. Compare it with German BBs. When Scharnhorst was sunk at the North-Cape the Brits needed a minimum of 14 torpedo-hits to sink Scharnhorst, means Scharnhorst was better protected than Musashi or Yamato, which were hit by aerial-Torpedos and not as Scharnhorst by ship-torpedos. Scharnhorst's weak point was the armament above the main belt, where DoY could hit the propulsion room to slow down Scharnhorst's speed, in spite of the flat silhouette of Scharnhorst-class ships.
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  31.  @paoloviti6156  Italy is very young as a state or nation. So, the naval tradition is related to former sovereign cities, comparable to Germany as a federal patchwork rug & a part of the German I. Reich. So, except the brave Italian submarine-commanders, no one wanted to die for Italy, which was getting known during the Spanish civil war, when the Italian detachments to Spain were totally useless. Even Hitler made a mistake, when he sent troups (an entire army) with Rommel to Africa to support 20 or 22 Italian divisions against 3 British.... i am not so informed about the education in the Regina Marina, but in Germany, the Naval High-Command was influenced too much by politics. The braves were sent home, and the cowards & the dud shells were promoted. The Italians accepted, when the US Navy positioned the exile-mafiosi in the bow of their landing crafts in Sicily as the new order. The dream of an Italian Empire remained very shortly. But still better than the Brits, who still believe they have an empire as we can read every day on this channel.
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  32.  @bskorupk  your Communist Revolutionaries were paid by the Germans and some US investors.
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  33. Great failure of Highseas-Fleet-highcommand to send pre-dreadnoughts into the Jutland-Clash. Scheer's entire fleet was slowed down by them, so Scheer could not cross the British T to annihilate Jellicoes fleet. 1 German modern BB was sufficiant against 2 Brits, with the German advantage of Beatty being on the British side. Uncapable flag-officers are usually a German virtue.
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  34. You can load it with shrapnel, hit the boats, punch holes into the sails or the rigging. hit a gunport. Richelieu's best admiral, Maillé-Brézé, superiour to any other admiral at this time, was killed with a cannon-ball at the battle of Orbetello.
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  35.  @mandowarrior123  Yes, 12 pounders were used on JackAss-frigates, greater ones used 18pounders or razed ones 24pounders.
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  36. Nelson class battleships were the most ugly battleships ever built, misconstructed, miserable developed 16 inch guns, which lacked always any accuracy, bad firespeed, and this is the point, the ships were so slow as a cow. When the british and colonial tax-payers ever wasted money they did it financing these useless ships. Scrapping was the best fate, they could achieve.
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  37. The background of timing in the western Pacific concerning British military action is reported false by Drach. The Japanese occupied only Chinese territories, which were not already occupied by Allied forces. This Japanese strategy was caused by the defeat at the battles of Khalkhin Gol by the Soviets, too. So the exact time for action was determined by the Allied oil embargo, mainly executed by the US & Britain. So, the Japanese were enforced to attack all oil wells available in the far east, which were all in allied possession. To critisise Japanese aggression is only for the boneheaded. The Japanese started an inner-asian conflict, whether the cowboys nor the islandapes had something lost there. The stamina of both British capital ships was quite poor, facing only small torpedos launched by planes. Scharnhorst received 12 or 13 big ship-to-ship-torps before she sunk.
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  38. The Kirows were really undersized. Caused by the lack of space, they had no torpedo-bulkheads.....
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  39.  @willswenson3169  So, do you think, the Empress of India was elected? The Opium wars a chess-game? The Imperial - and the Nazi-Germans fought the liberation of the colonial victims through and died for the free planet. Or why, do you think, the clever lawyer Gandhi started his protests against the Brits in India in 1941? The Persians found it funny, when the Brits invaded, together with the Sovjets, Iran in 1941? Do not fool yourself.
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  40. Yes, but the German admiral was not motivated to sink them all. This is the typical german laziness of staff-officers.
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  41. We always have the Royal Navy in ....the greatest pirate force ever... with Plymouth as Tortuga...
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  42.  @tomriley5790  Afghanistan is a desaster. And the German mercinaries there are a desaster after re-education in the post-war-era. Most of them are treated in therapies. To protect the opium supply routes in favour of the CIA destroys the last prestige the west had in this region.
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  43. As Drachinifel mentioned the Dutch suffered not under their smaller ships, but in their lack of discipline which Blake introduced in the british navy. Each of the 7 dutch provincies had an own admiralty, a miserable federal structure. And the tactic to board those heavier british ships was only possible, when the Dutch gained a luv-position by easterly winds, a rare case. The Brits got their revenge for the Medway desaster, when de Ruyter fought in the battle of Augusta a second time in 1676, with his combined fleet of dutch and spanish ships against the French admiral Duquesne. The Spaniards did not followed de Ruyter's signal for close attack, so de Ruyter's squadron came under superiour attack by the French, and de Ruyter was mortally wounded. He was the greatest seaman of his time.
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  44. The idea to lower the emphasis of a battleship with 4-gun-turrets was pretty well, even due to the fact that the RN fought most times in superiour numbers and not against multiple targets. But the french 4-gun-turret construction seemed to be more well-engineered than PoWs/KGVs. The reason of the miserable british battleship constructions after WWI was obviously produced by the permanent superiourity of the RN, which slowed any development down. KGV-class ships were designed to get sunk in battle.
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  45.  @cyberherbalist  TY for presenting your experience. This is a question of culture and availability. Usually US-ammunition-depots wrote down immediatly every delivery of ammunition in Nato-maneuvres. German tradition is, caused by usual historical shortage, to count ervery shot and shell/bullet. After trials and exercises, all remained shots must be reported and re-delivered, even in combat. Our passion here, maritime history explain the same. Royal Navy units could always rely on re-enforcement and re-fitting everywhere. Weaker navies not.
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  46.  @jamesharris4695  For holodomor oil embargo
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  47. 74s were longer in relation to the width, so they were faster and drifted less to lee. At Copenhagen 64s were better to use by their lower draught. But Nelson himself was better in propaganda as a self-made-man as a seaman. So his love to Agamemnon was not suited by facts. Agamemnon spent more time in refitting than on sea.
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  48.  spudnic88  the relation was 1:2 soldiers .... the German paras knocked out allied tanks with limped mines. https://youtu.be/VYucnYaZiCQ
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  49. During the War of Indenpendence the RN was very weak, and the Admiralty needed heroes and not losers. To spend a knighthood was a cheap propaganda trick. And after the easymode victory against Spain, the US was on the opinion to need more heroes as a kind of tradition and they brought Jones back. Isn't his gravre a nice monument for patriotic tourists? A little bit similar to Boney's grave-style.
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  50.  @Grimmtoof  In our days we count a population of around 400.000 people in Iceland, means the third part of Birmingham. In Iceland is nobody to harm in reality, a lack of victims. Better the Norwegians would have ask the Chinese, the Tasmans or East-Indians about the rude and brutal behaviour of a fascist colonial power. To avoid an invasion the Norwegians should have persuaded their British friends not to wage war of aggression in Europe again. The entire Europe lost this British war and not only Germany. The cowboys won it.
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