Comments by "Steve Valley" (@stevevalley7835) on "The Drydock - Episode 166" video.

wrt the viability of Operation Felix, the prerequisite was that Spain come in to the war on Germany's side. With Spain joining the Axis, a frontal assault on Gibraltar is unnecessary. Subject Gibraltar to constant shelling and air strikes from Spanish territory and Gibraltar's air strip is knocked out and Force H is forced from the harbor. German subs and surface elements based in Spain attack any Allied forces trying to pass through the strait. Continue to give Gibraltar the Corregidor treatment until it surrenders.
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wrt the question about USN carriers that were faster than their BB escorts, and the concept of the "super-cruiser". What if the Alaskas were conceived of as "carrier consort", rather than "cruiser killer"? When the battleship holiday ends in 1937, the USN decides that 28kts is perfectly fine for BBs as the USN is still thinking in terms of a line of battle, so builds the North Carolinas and South Dakotas as they were. Meanwhile, with the mindset of carriers being a "scouting force", addressing the problem of consorts for 33kt carriers, with the Alaskas, rather than arguing over the tonnage escalator clause with the UK for six months, then building the wildly expensive Iowas, because the Alaskas were powerful enough to defeat anything anyone else had that was capable of 33kts.
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@bradleyjames1340 I would say an octuple Vickers is pretty close to a blunderbuss in effect. The Vickers had fallen out of favor due to it's short range, compared to a Bofors, but, I have read, that the old Vickers has a renaissance when the RN started running into Kamikazis as attacking aircraft range approached zero, and the old Vickers threw enough steel to shoot a plane to bits in short order.
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