Comments by "Steve Valley" (@stevevalley7835) on "The Drydock - Episode 062" video.

  1. A couple of interesting questions today. re the Short/Kimmel question, as mentioned some weeks ago in the "you are Kimmel, waking up on Dec 6th, knowing the attack is coming" question, what I would really like to try is swathing the entire harbor in a smoke screen. It probably isn't in "the book", so Kimmel probably would not have thought of it, but having a destroyer on standby, with steam up, specifically to steam laps around Ford Island laying smoke at the first sign of an attack, would have been interesting. The Japanese could not hit what they could not see. re Fletcher vs LCS. imho, the LCS better use it's speed advantage to run away. Doesn't matter what sort of fancy radar the LCS has, if the Fletcher has chaff launchers. Blind the radar, and the Fletcher uses gun direction by the Mk I eyeball, which the LCS isn't equipped for. If the LCS is foolish enough to close the range to try and hit without radar guidance, then it gets blanketed by the Fletcher's 40mms. How long can the LCS' lone gun maintain that rate of fire before the barrel overheats? The 5/38's slower rate of fire allows more cooling time. Then, as Drach said, a Fletcher can take hits from a 57mm a lot better than an LCS can take a hit from a 5/38. I have read that assessments of the LCS indicate they can be disabled by a single hit from an RPG. Would even near misses from a 5/38 damage the LCS' hull enough to slow it or sink it?
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