Comments by "Karl von Gazenberg" (@karlvongazenberg8398) on "Drachinifel" channel.

  1. Again, a 16" rifle is a perfect home-defense and plinking weapon :)
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  2. If someone wonders the handgun ammo expended by the SMS Scharfschütze, it must be noted, that the channel leading into the inner harbor of Ravenna (where Porto Corsini is) was at the time 30 meters "wide" - while the Huszár class destroyer was 67 meters long. This explains the "stern first" approach as well as the need for shooting sidearms the way out at charging Italian infantry. No lack of spirit on either side.
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  3. The most reliable torpedoes in this theater were produced about 40 years ago, in Whitehead factory, in the late Austro-Hungarian Empire... Unfortunately in the side of the Blucher.
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  4. The pre-WWI armored cruisers have a kind of steampunkish brutal look.
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  5. Hornet CV-8: "I'lll be back" Hornet CV-12: "Come with me if you want to live" (ops Magic Carpet)
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  6. Ah, yes, the "not quad", but "dual twin" turrets.
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  7. While Drach's voice is great, having cooperators voicing different personell is even greater.
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  8. "If you can use a destroyer as a cruiser, you can use a cruiser as a destroyer" - "Generate smoke, we attack" - cpt Horthy at Otranto Strait, chased by RN and RM forces :)
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  9. Mission 1 - receive 30k damage from Italian ships, COMPLETED Mission 2 - receive 30k damage from German ships, COMPLETED
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  10. Just got the coffee... 2:20 "Persuaded the Japanese to select the larger weapon" Somehow I have the impression that the IJN officials were quite dissapointed that they only have the 14" guns... :)
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  11. 17:55 "Special Comittee of iron" and the next sentence begins with "Ironically". Is that metal or what? ;)
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  12. A cruiser ten times the displacement but less, than equal in rage.
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  13. 13:44 "Around 150 carrier aircraft spotted'" Cpt Aruga: "Itó sama, how was that story with that Leonidas fighting in shadow?"
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  14. 40 tons, 40 knots, 40 percent adrenaline level and hopefully "found" a 40mm gun for them
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  15. 2:50 The tertiary armament of 47mm gun differed not just in barrel lenght, but the two L33 ones were actually 5 barrel Hotchkiss REVOLVER CANNON! The best dakka from the late XIXth century. By 1914, one of the revolver cannons was removed but two 7cm "landing", infantry cannons were added to the inventory.
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  16. Around 16:00 - a (very) few years ago a Russian documentary about the Kuznyecov "aviation cruiser" proudly presented "the rodent control officer" .
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  17. 2nd iteration: Cpt: Do you see that bunker on that island? -Yes. Cpt: I do not want to. - The bunker AND the island, too?
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  18. 2:39 "The advocate was found and then mysteriously drowned in a vat of brie" :)
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  19. As well as providing water for firefighters and being a SPECTACULAR target if hit.
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  20. I got "ping" for the Tegethoffs, for the Courbet and for the Gangut, but not for the Bismarck. I guess the guy on the Gotland were sleeping.
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  21. Nope, Tier 0.0001 is the Floaty Log. Pine as regular, oak as premium.
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  22.  @VersusARCH  The Adriatic WAS the living hell for a reincarnated Kamchatka. The k.u.k. Kriegsmarine had comissioned over 100 torpedoboats of various sizes, plus the Huszár and Tátra class destroyers. Italy, the RM, the RN and late even the USN (no kidding) all threw in their share in the fray
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  23. 3rd iteration: "Do you see that watertower?" - 24th of May, 1915, East of Italian Adriatic coast.
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  24. 127 mm is 5", drydock127 is over 5 hours
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  25. The USSR ran out of stalinium to finish them.
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  26. Drachen unleashed?
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  27. Ah, the wonderfull tradition of using Greek mythological names. Merry Christmas, happy Hogswatch, happy birthday Brian.
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  28. The use of a twin, rapid firing 37mm Flak is justified against pigeons. :)
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  29. OK, press like, get coffee, launch video
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  30. Like, coffee, dust off Admiral Horthy's picture on the wall :)))
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  31. Ah, the Swarm...
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  32. Nowadays its like one big torpedo fires a missile, which near the other big torpedo, drops a depth charge or a torpedo onto her. It. Whatever gender the craft desires.
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  33.  @Bird_Dog00  Back in the days, when DDs had citadels... The last time I loaded AP for my sluggish Japanese 120mm DD guns...
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  34. New Drachleak, standard procedure: press like, get coffe, watch.
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  35. On Halloween, the Kamchatka rises to haunt.
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  36. Just try to find the mechanical fuse dialer mechanism,which adjusted the time fuses on the dual purpose 5” /38 against aerial target.
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  37. Almost six hours of drydock. Went to raid some African countries for coffeee....
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  38. Kilimanjaro
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  39.  @Voron_Aggrav  The captain of SMS Scharfshütze (Marksman), a Huszár-class destroyer was a certain Bogumil Nowotny, who drove his ship into the 30 meters wide channel of Porto Corsini's inner harbor - STERN FIRST. He was looking for Italian torpedo-boats, but only found a shore artillery position which had to be silenced before leaving - but the Italian infantry stationed near stormed the ship. This explains the spent pistol ammunition. However, this gentleman became the first commander of the newly recreated Poland's Navy - and THAT prolly explains a lot, why ORP Piorun engaged a gunnery duel with the WWII German Battleship BIsmarck, while flashing her signal lamp "I AM POLE".
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  40. ""..and the ship was still a destroyer not a dedicated anti-aircraft picket." US Navy: Why not both?" That is not a DEDICATED air picket, AFAIK :)
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  41. 5+ hours of Drydock and Drachs voice is not raspy nor nasal. OK, all coffee machines full espresso...
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  42. To add insult to injury, grave robbers actually blasted the wreck and mined/salvaged the metal, regardless of human remains or artefacts from the age.
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  43. If it does not, than the hole ain't big enough
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  44. Men, I have good news and bad news. The good one, is that everyone gets double metaxa ration tonight. The bad one, is that the captain wants to waterski.
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  45. Drydock at 12 o'clock! All coffee machines,raise steam!
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  46. After pressing like, sipping on my coffee and watching the video I concluded, that the actual usefullness (or lack of) a battlecarrier was not tested by the Ise's....
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  47. Drachvideo at 12 O'clock. Ok, all coffee machines raise steam!
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  48.  @dereseemdereseem  BB killer, Cr killer, DD killer, XP pinata for sky cancer :)
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  49. It would be nice if Drach would be sponsored by Irn Bru...
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  50.  @LordOceanus  the captain of the ship pulled off at least two more spectacular sortie during WWI as well becoming the first admiral of the Polish interwar navy. I have yet to read Bagumil Nowotny's memoires.
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  51. *"Significant emotional event" * - Nope, more like "Chatfield, there seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today."
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  52. 13:20 British were saved by Wargaming sick "dispersion algorithm" :)
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  53. Then "Csásári és Királyi Haditengerészet" and then we only have 9 more official languages (albeit several of them Slavic, with a high degree of similarity).
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  54.  @nitsu2947  That debris is probably the remains of the silk bag of the propellant charges.
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  55. Drach should include a spirit in his merchandise with the sign "Rum Ration - Emergency Only" :)
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  56. And probably that was the last time when a "conventional" (ie. Dreadnought-typish all big gun, armored battleship) battleship was hit by cannonfire - since the 20mm counts as a canon.
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  57.  @tommeakin1732  After promptly KO-ing the champ
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  58. 38:00 Iowa at 37 knots - destroyer escorts: O.O
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  59. Yeah, try a method, then check reality.
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  60. Poor old Franz-Joseph was too optimistic to declare the "Treason of the Century" in 1914...
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  61. 0:32:40 "First modern war of steam and steel and its just ... (ie. a sub) is JUST GONE?!" - flashback to Hunt for the Red October: "Andrei, you have lost ANOTHER submarine?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCHGFkhxInM
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  62. 11:35 Why, a 16" rifle is a nice home-defence weapon :)
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  63.  Gues Who  HMS Glorious would like to have those guns... Not to mention, that until 1942 the USS Leginton had 4 twin 8" (eight inch) turrets. Yes, the armament of an economy size heavy cruiser.
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  64. Many snippets covered by this video were also immortalised by the movie "Operation Pettycoat".
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  65. Just a reminder: when Mr Lowery talks about Austria, its a bit of simplification, like using England instead of Great Britain - the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy included the current Czech Republik, Slovakia, parts of current day Poland and Ukraine, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and some more. Ports and bases were in current day Croatia. Mostly.
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  66. Should have waited with this till 13.37 CET, but video is up, so fire up the 8" coffee machine... Its an aoutoloader :)
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  67. Well, at least Stalin did not liberate them.
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  68. May I suggest the series on strikes known as the "Bombardment of Ancona" on the 23rd of May, 1915 to be included on "THE" list?
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  69. "Good Morning Ancona" !
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  70. 5:20 "Something wrong with our bloody ships today"... But certainly not that pretty balcony on the stern.
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  71. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Marksman_(1915) HMS Marksman?
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  72. 2:35 "Two 37mm gun" - which - as in case with Kaiser Karl VI -were five-barrle revolving, hand cranked Hotchkiss guns. On the channel "Forgotten Weapons" Ian "Gun Jesus" made a very nice video about the gun, even if an infantry support/land arty version. Lets DAKKA!
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  73.  @thanakonpraepanich4284  I don't know. What I know, is that the Japanese army (pre or post WWii?) issued bayonets to the heavy machine guns, to make a point, that it is an assault weapon.
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  74.  @deathsheadknight2137  And VOL1 is mostly made of "Tables of contents"
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  75. Around 0:25:00 - Coal bunkers as armor: and it could happed, that after a few (even non-penetration) hits coal dust can and occasionally acted as a thermobaric explosive.
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  76. The Omnissiah accepted the prayers and sacrifices and gave us the Wednesday spcl... ...and coffee.
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  77. 3:40 "highly inventive" - reminds me the old movie "Operation petticoat" (1959). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Petticoat#Historical_accuracy
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  78. With 6 guns forward, the Bismarck MIGHT have scored a hit or two on HMS Suffolk at their first encounter.
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  79. MAybe Drach can make a video about the SMS Szigetvár, so he could try Hungarian :)
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  80. Twin casemate secondaries? Was that idea ever put to use?
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  81. Oscar, aka Unsinkable Sam was the cat of Otto von Skorzeny and after WWII served on the INS Eliat and on the General Belgrano. ;)
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  82. cca. 25:00 Hitting the stern: also ships spotting a torpedo USUALLY turned away from it - but if they initiated the turn early, the stern becomes the most obvious part to be hit. Usually rudder NOT in the neutral position. Also I think the aerial torpedoes are a tad easier to spot, because there is Stabby the Stringbag above it in the air :) (OK, aircraft from Taffy 3 did make "dry" torpedo attack runs on Japanese ships, which turned away "just in case" - but during a sharp turn, you do not fire your main guns on my flattop).
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  83. At last, the Drydock . Coffeee on!
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  84. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
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  85. We still need a "Stop hitting me with missiles", albeit it is out of Drachinifel's usual comfort zone.
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  86. 7:00 I guess when (or if) Russia scrapes up the funds to modernise their Kirov/Pyort Velikiy, they will be different as much as the Kongos were. Not that there aren't differences already between the design of this class.
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  87. A decisive battle is the one in which Japan captures at least 'Frisco and LA. Anything less is just making the war lasting longer.
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  88. Hah, noone joked about "THIS IS DRACH!" ?
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  89. A "mere" 1 hours :)))
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  90. I often wish, we had a larger planet, with bigger seas so navies could have built the ships they wanted and were able to. :)
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  91. Who tortured Drach with this floaty hotel? :)
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  92. Press like, check duration, load one BIG mug of coffee...
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  93.  @WALTERBROADDUS  Except even the KDY-150 planetary defense ion cannon was on the HMS Canopus, ie on the Imperial Side.
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  94. 2:40 Armament layout - while the Germans had fine dual turrets for their 21cm (8"-ish) guns and up, somehow every navy lacked a reliable dual/twin 6"ish turret by the time....
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  95. Császári és Királyi Haditengerészet? :)
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  96. Ah, sky cancer again... No, its Drach. All coffee machines, full steam!
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  97. Quantity is a quality at its own.
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  98.  @andrewyaden5209  But then an Iraqi unit surrendered to the spotter drone, so "op success".
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  99. Oh, well, they could add Austro-Hungarian Tier 10 carriers by this amount of speculation.
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  100.  @TheTrueOrion  This is a Zumwalt class destroyer. Honest.
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  101. Almost 3 and a half hours... getting a BIG mug of coffee..
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  102. Nah, the Falcon is your average whaler with two quad .50 HMG. And a few underwater torpedo tubes, in German commerce raider style.
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  103. I wonder Jules Verne ever saw this vessel and what he thought of it, if so. :)
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  104.  @rpm1796  "A Republic for a rudder!" - Warspite got her rudder jammed too and waltzed round and round before the Hochseeflotte at Jutland. Having the Grand Fleet behind her prolly helped a lot to get out of the situation.
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  105. The WWII US carriers rumored to have coffee machines which would be enough to raise stream for emergency sailing... Something I might need :)
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  106. Press like, get coffee, extend lunch break :)
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  107. 27:30 "A Different time when they had the time to take care of the fine details" - Reminds me a line on a memetic cleaning liquid flask: "You only read this, because you went to the toilet without a smartphone" :) But also, may the proverbial drunken sailor might want to stick an 8" shell into the breech. You never know.
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  108. 31:00 Swordfish and dive-bombing - it WAS certified for dive bombing, maybe more exactly shallow angle dive/glide bombing and there are pictures of Stringbags actually divebombing.
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  109. 0:55:55 - Here comes the honorable mention of Rear Admiral Miklós Horthy, the last commander of the K.u.K. Kriegsmarine.
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  110. Drydock at 1 hrs for 1hour. All coffee machines, full steam!
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  111. The Adriatic is bad for you, "Tokaj"?
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  112. 3:40 re: Kamikaze - There is the (actually two) joke: Instructor: Pilot, you take off with craft loaded with the biggest bombs we can cram in! Pilot: Hai! I: You evade all American fighters and flak! P: Hai! I: And in the name of the Emperor, you fly into the biggest ship you see. Watch carefully, I will show it once! Any question? P: ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND?!
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  113. AFAIK up to 1950 or so - for later periods however, Drach contributes to the Bilge Pump podcasts. Also, maybe look up Dr Alexander Clarke's channel. https://the-bilgepumps.simplecast.com/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCE2x09tU0GwAGiSbFPEhIwQ
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  114. "like, cofee, lay back and enjoy"
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  115. 4 steam boilers and a backup coffeee machine :)
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  116.  @dwgray9000  "HMS Vanguard recently hit a underwater container." Ever wondered why cloaked Klingon ships look beaten up? :P
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  117.  @PaulfromChicago  You can only take a breath because you are manning the floatplane's tailgun.
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  118. MUCH better place to serve than the open AA batteries on some ships on the bow, just before the lower of superfiring main turrets. But - as Drach pointed out in one of the Drydocks - these guns were placed in the hope, that your bucket does not have to fight torpedo boats/destroyers, other capital ships AND some aircraft all at once. So, when the main guns were fired, the guncrew could be sheltered somewhere under deck.
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  119. Besides when Horthy was captain and later Rear Admiral, e wanted to fight the Italian Navy but usually only found Royal Navy and the French. Almost never the Italian. Which is a tad embarrassing in the Adriatic :)
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  120. Why, Császári és Királyi Haditengerészet just rolls off from your tongue... :)
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  121. Drydrock at 13hrs... Raise steam.. 6+ horus? Raise steam in all coffe machines and tea kettles... :)
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  122. 14:24 "Rather than just being a pinata for anything that comes along with a gun bigger than 6-inches." - actually it was "XP Pinata"
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  123.  @BotanixB  And to ice that cake Lviv, Lwów was Lemberg before. Welcome to Central-East Europe.
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  124.  @waszkreslem9306  Lwów also spent like a century or so in the Habsburg Empire. hence Lemberg in German. Also Ilyvó in old Hungarian.
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  125.  @Drachinifel  Poke with a flamer. A heavy flamer :)
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  126. Warning! Explosive content!
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  127.  @AdamMGTF  and the Huns are also written with capital H. Its insulting enough that the British propaganda called the Krauts Huns, instead of us, Hungarians ;) And we receive the Drydock after diner, hence my lust for coffee...
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  128. 0:12:00 - KMS Bismarck vs 10 Leanders - I would throw in at least one year of shakedown costs in fuel, crew pay and ammo, plus the outlook of such theoretical engagement the loss of - say - 2 blown up CLs and a further crew worth in dead on other, damaged ships. And you have to tell it to the govt and the press. Plus also there is the outlook of a fast BB turning tail and running and picking off more, than 2 cruisers before the rest can close in to 6" and later torpedo range.
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  129.  @jimtaylor294  Maybe consult your local Wickers salesman, he might have some 14" available off-the-shelf. After all, British flats are a tad smaller than US ones :)
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  130. 42:00 Also, the Italian Benedetto Brin also exploded in warm Mediterraen weather.
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  131. Steampunk at its best :)
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  132. About a four dozens of them, sailing towards Ancona. :)
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  133. 0:11:00 I guess the first ship named Enterprise sailed on Ferenginar.
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  134. Feels like X-Mas... Oh, wait :)
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  135.  @wolfsoldner9029  Unfortunately, the A-H fleet did suffer coal shortage.
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  136. I would jave compared the Mogadors to the Didos, as the 5,25" gun is more in the league of the French 138mm (cca 40 kg shell weight, instead of the cca 50 kg for the 6" guns) but otherwise agree.
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  137. 3:40 Drach: Food, fuel, ammo and spare parts Altmark: wounded crew, prisoners, prize crew...
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  138.  @sundiver137  I was just half joking when mentioned Budapest. In WWI a few submarines WERE built there. Namely SM U27,28,40 and the U48 (unfinished)
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  139. BZ, its always nice to praise your enemy, it makes your victory sweeter and defeat more tolerable.
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  140. Rum Ration: 1h24mins Mr O'Hara "fanboying" TO Drach - priceless (no pun intended) :)
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  141. And all events which happened with Ottokár Prohaska actually happened, albeit with different, real people.
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  142. Yeah, one can preserve a tank by smearing thick grease over it, an put it in a shed. Ships do not fit into most sheds.
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  143. I was sipping on my coffee, but "meanwhile in Russia"...
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  144.  @jonathanhill4892  Maybe not authentic French brie, but some German knock-off kase ;)
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  145. 1:24 As for the Norvegian invasion, even a seemingly small factor (Drach even discussed that earlier) like properly working German torpedoes, would have changed the outcome massively. The German player at the table rolled several 1's on many dice...
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  146.  @raulduke6105  You keep the ammo separate from propellant charges, obviously :)
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  147.  @Drachinifel  Once you confessed that you are enacting as a Károlyi (if memory serves).... :)
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  148. Praise be!
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  149. @UNSCForwardontodawn Albeit he fonds of absynthe too.
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  150. Nuclear depth charges WERE invented and WERE tested for example during Operation Dominic, the Swordfish Test
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  151. And if the Warsaw Pact armies are any indication, a 30+ minute "political education", which was a mixture of 1984-style session of hatred alternating with the paising Soviet results, ever surpassing the planned amount.
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  152.  @dropdead234  Its a pun about the Kraken Unleashed. It is an achievement of killing 5 enemy ships in World of Warships - so for a 5 hours Drydock...
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  153. 6:55 "Normal cruiser" - Szigetvár... Well, Budapest was nailed perfectly, so I cannot complain. :)
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  154.  @richardbell7678  It is still happens, especially in the former USSR that in a university someone solves a problem faster with slide ruler, that it is fed into a computer.
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  155. "Royal Navy capital ship will never be fleeing from the enemy." - Except when Ze Germans spammed torpedoes on the Grand Fleet, when Jellicoe turned AWAY.
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  156. 4:36 the unnamed cruiser was the SMS Zenta. https://youtu.be/dV8EyPFulN8 Ps: I would love to hear Drach pronounce the name of Zenta's sister ship, the SMS Szigetvár ;)
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  157. Press like, running silent to the coffee machine... :)
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  158. Well, a sailship cross-Atlantic is a two week quarantine by itself...
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  159. 6+ hours... I am almost as speechless as Drach might have been at the end. :)
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  160. I mean initiated the turn too late... :) Need more coffee...
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  161. After 300+ Drach video, I give a like ASAP. One can recall it, if ever needed.
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  162. 5:00 How does "Do you see torpedoboats" translates to Norsk?
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  163. Here comes the honorable mention of the Austro-Hungarian Radetzky-class pre-dreads, which used seaplanes in combat in the Balkan Wars.
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  164. Two questions: 1, Was there even an over-and-under naval twin turret? (Instead of the side by side two gun turret) 2, Was there a fire control system that use two local rangefinders for range triangulation? (Ie: Turret A looks at the target 3 o'clock - ie. 90 degrees, Turret X faces the same target az "2.30", ie. 80 degrees and I know that there is exactly 95 meters between my turrets)?
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  165.  @jimtaylor294  But is a basic human right to have self defense :)
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  166. Thank you for these personal(ish) details, albeit the SMS Sankt Georg "revisited" Rimini in 1915, on the 18th of June, with SMS Szigetvár.
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  167.  @nickboy3024  "What did Carrier pilots do when their carrier was sunk and they were still flying?" Options: - find a suitable enemy target and crash your plane into it (mostly japanese) - find a nearby, friendly runway, either a flattop or a proper airport - find one of the still floating escort vessel of your ex-ship, and try to survive landing on water (or bail out). Sometimes this meant landing near a lifeboat - find ANY ship to ditch your plane nearby - radio in your position until you run out of juice, then ditch the plane and pray that your miniraft will inflate, but will not attracts a shark, but a Catalina (Even "the Luftwaffe" sent out floatplanes, U- and E-boots during the Blitz to pick up pilots from the Channel. Even British crew - as well as every major navy)
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  168. FYI recruits of the last year of peace spoke Croatian (31,3% of them), Hungarian (20,4%), German (16,9%) Czech (10,6%) ... As for problems, what contemporary European power hadn't?
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  169. WARNING FOR MINORS! Now, that said, does anyone have a photo about this ship-like thing on a gunnery practice? Even CGI?
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  170. Drydock time! Drach becoming an institution :)
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  171. Sorry to say that, but based on the fact, that it took the Chinese authorities - which for "reasons" could make more efficient quarantine measures - 4 or 5 months to reach the "more people are healed than infected today" state... :(
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  172.  @westcoaststacker569  Prolly if the Bismarck had like 5 other ships and the British vessels were "orderly redeploying" away from them....
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  173. Research rodents :) We should get them a paddlewheel ship toy which is a running wheel...
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  174. Dr Alexander Clarke's favourite "honestly not carrier" :)
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  175. Todays Drydock can accomodate the HMS Habbakuk :)
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  176. There is at least one 5 hour 40 or so Drydock...
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  177. You should be this early :)
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  178. 16:00 Nitroglicerine is know to explode even from UV radiation, ie sunlight.
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  179. If you still have the postcard, could you send it digitalised to Drachinifels channel admin e-mail? I cannot speak in his name, but would bet that he will like it.
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  180. While the merchant raiders seem to be the most cost-effective component or the four (surface warships, U-boats, merchant raiders and of course the Luftwaffe), I have an educated guess that investing MORE resources (ships, people, etc) into this field would have resulted in diminishing results.
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  181. 25:00 "Your strongest unit goes this way the others on the other side" - and in WoWs you hope that the German ship did not develop "full secondary skill set" yet.
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  182.  @kiloalphasierra  A Silkworm missile is over 6 meters and two tons - NOT tiny.
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  183. Gott erhalte!
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  184. Radio discipline had to be relearned by many pixel starships in EVE-online ;)
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  185. "Also.....I'd love a flying boat" You know about the Caspian Sea Monster, right?
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  186. Drach time, coffee time :)... and at 1:06, I remember why I am at odds with my wife's pigmy rabbit. :)
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  187.  @pnbrune  The Austro-Hungarian ( KuK ) Navy did have submarines, scoring a few hits on Antant ships, but since the Adriatic was more or less sealed during WWI and shipping there is done by smaller ships and smaller quantities, they did not achive the successess of their Atlantic cousins. If memory serves it was a KuK sub which had the first, submerged and successfull torpedo attack on the French Léon Gambetta armored cruiser. Another memorable fragment was, when - due to the modest range of the early boats - KuK Novara was towing one sub to the patrol area. The former ship was a fast scout cruiser, masquaraded to a mechant steamer with the addition of a fake, canvas funnel (where sailors were sent to pipe during their off time, probably more for morale purposes than camouflaging :) ). To complete a good story, a French destroyer hailed the ship, which probably was a very unpleasant surprise.
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  188. Kaiserliche und Königliche Kriegsmarine and "yes, THAT Tegethoff" :)
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  189. Yes, but it was more like "there is something small/medium/big at this range, plus-minus 5 miles range and plus-minus a mile error in altitude"
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  190.  III Vance  Oh, after watching like a 100+ videos of Drach I have that amount of trust. And he will not fail this, because we now, where he will sail and we can sink his pixel warships.
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  191. Damn Luigi Rizzo :)
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  192. That would quickly became a high-speed boarding cat, if my bucket was fired upon ;)
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  193. Could the Deutschlands - purely technology-wise - refitted with new bows, sterns and maybe even diesels (keeping the diesel propulsion but squeezing out more horsepower), to make it to 30 knots?
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  194. C, for coffe, then like, then watch
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  195. 0:43:00 re: naval resupply of East Front via the Black Sea- it was a thing, many Romanian and Hungarian (the latter river-sea merchantmen) were employed and had their encounters with the Soviet Air Force and the remaining fast attack craft of the Soviet Navy.
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  196. 3:34:50 - Doolittle Raid as "symbolic" - AFAIK not just striking back as a morale boost of US side and dent in the morale of IJ side was usefull, but then Japan had to commit sizeable resources to the defense of thier homeland. Those resources would have come handy during the Pacific operations.
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  197. @Joshua N. Ajang More like a 40 days old boat. They somehow the "live fast, die young" type.
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  198. The day when steel begun to fly in the earnest... But I must finish the Bilgepumps with "Michael", get another mug of coffee...
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  199.  @kingswagii1607  @Japanese 25mm - In really abbreviated format: baaaad reload and vibration.
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  200. One hour Drydock at 1 o'clock. Coffee loaded, raise steam.
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  201. The "next on the list" is surprisingly short, so I have to recommend the Tátra class DD's of the Austro-Hungarian "Kaiserliche und Königlische Kriegsmarine" since it is in the WoWs - albeit horribly butchered.
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  202. 44:19 I guess the question was, why not use LONGER, but smaller calibre shells - say a 600 kg 28 cm, instead of the Scarnhorsts' 330 kg L4,4 APC - if I did not miss something.
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  203. I have to rewatch the video, due to the amount of people, who I had to shout down for interrupting me during the first try. :)
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  204. Same from (electronic) "Control technologies" - you design it, calculate everything down to three of four digits, then get a screwdriver and make the final adjustments by hand.
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  205. But this is actually ASW, with intermittent AAA.
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  206. The ancient chinese used (corrugated?) paper as body armor. As long as they could keep it dry (laminating or sg), it functions well - about on the level of brigandine.
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  207. Mogami meme reporting?
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  208. Drydock 134 - earplugs, supermarket, people nervous ;)
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  209.  @brainletmong6302  The aforementioned meteor should have been DISCOVERED, because if it hits the budding III Reich, bomber Harris would have no cities to burn...
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  210. Ah, the after-dinner coffee break. The Aurora - as well as the French war-hotels - would be beautiful, if not a bit undersized additions to the WH40K battlefleet. As seagoing vessel they are like a good can of smoked Russian sprotni with ripe, seasoned camambert cheese. One have to develop a taste for them. :)
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  211. Drydock at 1 o'clock, 1 hour longs, Drachs voice not raspy nor nasal, all coffee machines full steam, for three mugs.
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  212.  @whyjnot420  On the torpedocraft infested Adriatic, rapid firing 47 or 37 mms were a must for a while. Around 1910 or so, the KuK Kriegsmarine begun to use the 7cm (66mm) and 10cm guns for that, as torpedocraft grew in size and torps in range.
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  213.  @OhSome1HasThisName  Except when they butcher a ship, like the Tátra (tier II "European" destroyer) .
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  214.  @mattheweagles5123  The "tower"-or "bridge".
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  215. 58:00 "This was it" - also, the German battlecruisers bombarding British cities with relative impunity (and its media coverage) must also have been a morale boost.
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  216.  @ian_b  It is the result from shipwreck analysis, besides Dr Alexander Clarke is a university lecturer.
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  217. Build them in Budapest, then travel down on the Danube. :)
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  218. Drach Time, coffee time.
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  219.  @dropdead234  And maybe the can openers too.
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  220. 1:40 The Kaiserliche und Königliche Kriegsmarine showed up in force, shooting up stuff, like watertowers. Ironically they were actually LOOKING FOR Italian torpedo boats (as they brought their in great number) and even more surprisingly, they found none.
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  221. And for decades one had to buy Whitehead - because there were no other manufacturers. And as the German cruiser Blücher found out in Drobak Sound, they worked well even for decades, with proper maintenance.
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  222. Merry Christmas, Áldott Karácsonyt!
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  223. Scramble CAP.
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  224. Drach time!!!
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  225. Considering Dönitz had around 40k sub crew during the war, from which 30k lost their lives, so the rooster never reached that number. So even with 250k crew... "Fly my beauties" ;)
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  226. It was exactly 333 years ago on this day, when the united Eurpean armies, led by Eugene of Savoy (among others) finally kicked out the Ottomans from Buda. So, naming a dreadnought after Prinz Eugene is the least A-H could done.
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  227. Another take on titanium: 1, Soviets made nuclear submarines from titanium (or titanium alloy). I think this contributed the economic collapse of the USSR. ;) 2, Last time I checked snubbies (short barrel "holdout" revolvers) were made out of titanium, to make concealed carry more comfortable, but not the barrel itself, because titanium is flexible and this obviously ruins the point of rifled barrels. This seems to make titanium less than ideal for face hardened armor - at least for the hardened part. But I am not an expert and this piece of information is over a decade old, so if someone knows better, feel free to correct me.
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  228. Gray warhosre, black coffee... :)
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  229. Loud: -Captain, we have radar surface contact! Muffled: - Do they have ion cannons? - No sir. - Are we in range, if recon failed? - Definitely no sir! Loud: - GOOD. OUT FIRST CATCH OF THE DAY.
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  230. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkOP8Lwdmgg Make some of these in 280 mm, one per turret. ;)
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  231. Drydock, A-H monitors, the Tegethoff class and coffee... :)))
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  232. Rain, coffee, drydock... With cats. :)
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  233. 0:06:24 re: "Tin Can" origin - In the early 1890's the Austro Hungarian "misson cruisers" (ie. protected cruisers) Kaiserin ELisabeth and Kaiser Franz Joseph I. got the nickname - after baron von Sterneck, CIC of the K.u.K. Kriegsmarine - "Sterneck's Sardine Cans" after being barely protected, but cramped (especially on long missions).
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  234.  @WASRGP  Ain't it surprising how big the racoons get nowadays? :)))
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  235. 0:29:01 re: flame throwing cannon: AFAIK Hungarian artillery (in XVI.-XVII. century) in fortress sieges occasionally put a few handfull of solid nuggets of pine resin into canister shots. Obviosuly, canons used on land (an in case of sieges) and ranges were generally smaller than in ships of the line, but the small guns on the deck while doing "decksweeping" might set the adversary afire.
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  236.  @maxschon7709  Yes, Italy remaining neutral might have saved a few million young men around Isonzo, which in hindsight far outweight the meager gains of being an "active winner".
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  237. Oh, well, the French had to copy the "PAtchwork Fleet" from somewhere :)
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  238. Sankt Georg of the Slain Dragon, namesake of of the Ordet of the Dragon, which gave name a certain Vlad Dracul too. ;)
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  239. But then there were other ships, which were saved by the big airbag of the torpedo room. But AFAIK from capital ships only HMS Rodney hit the then crippled Bismarck with a torpedo during the dreadnought-era.
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  240. We cannot take risks, they might be tripods in disguise. Feuer!
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  241. At around 2:00:00 Drach desribes a modern battleship(ish thing), like throw on all air defence, put on a pair of decent 5" guns, some more air defence, turn the forward section into an Arsenal Ship and have helos all around. KIROV REPORTING!
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  242.  @ttaibe  A good US carrier can sail on steam generated by its coffee machines,
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  243. They fit neatly between the Austro-Hungarian "Erzherzog" and "Radetzky" classes.
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  244. re 0:27:00 German high-pressure steam plants - as Germany was notorious short in alloying material, could it be, that if they had ample supply of chromum, manganese, nickel, tungsten etc for building matierals, their ships would have suffered less ?
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  245.  @admiraltiberius1989  But then, who would seriously oppose the first US carrier named after a black sailor (and war hero, if memory serves)?
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  246. 53:20 Best crewmember as literature characters: I would recommend the Star Trek Deep Space 9 series, but especially the parts Valiant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valiant_(Star_Trek:_Deep_Space_Nine) and "Treachery, Faith and the Great River" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treachery,_Faith,_and_the_Great_River as well as the series Babylon 5, especially the part "A View from the Gallery". https://babylon5.fandom.com/wiki/A_View_from_the_Gallery IMHO.
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  247. USS Lexington, sry for typo
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  248.  @SeanPaulinho  Three triple turret is 9 barrels for roughly the same weight as four twin ones, which is 8 barrels.
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  249. The first commander of the Polish Navy was a certain Bogumil Nowotny, who - as the captain of the SMS Scharfschütze , after almost exactly 12 hours after the Italian declaration of war angains the Austro-Hungarian dual Monarchy sailed into the inner harbor of Porto Corsini, exchanged fire with artillery batteri(es) and Italian infantry soldiers there, expending - among many other ammunition 50 pistol rounds. Maybe not personally, as told by @Drachinifel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krWdd0OkptQ https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogumi%C5%82_Nowotny https://web.archive.org/web/20061002014054/http://www.mw.mil.pl/index.php?akcja=nowotny This probably explains the ORP Piorun's engagement of the battleship Bismarck a.k.a "I am Pole".
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  250. Are further Austro-Hungarian ships on "The List"?
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  251. What was USS Ward's and her sisters tipical "load" of men and equipment as a fast troop transport? How did those troops land - on a pier or by barges, or...?
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  252. 3+ hours if Dry Dock. We need more mugs. Of coffee ;)
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  253. You might want to ask Dr Alexander Clarke, author of "Tribals, Darings and Battles" about , on his YT channel, how marginal were those DD actions.
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  254. Gott Erhalte... :)
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  255. A Drydock with Irn Bru.... but I cannot guerantee to stay away from coffee...
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  256. 1:10:10 "The Austro-Hungarian fleet was quite sizeable comparable to the " (Shore size?) - Yes, and meanwhile the A-H MERCHANT fleet was the 4th or 5th biggest one on the planet (or 7 seas) around the early XXth century.
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  257. 00.38 "Optimal shell velocity" - AFAIK shell types and charges WERE varied on the same ships, maybe during the same engagement depending on the range and various targets.
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  258. Ssssoooo.... It took like 26 hours (including sleep, work, etc) to get thru 5+ hours of Drydock. My only - and minor - objection is that while I can definitely appreciate and digest this amount of information, maybe it would be better to make it several videos, so that comments on it would be more traceable...
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  259. Rain, coffee, warships..
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  260. - Its a trap! - Its "von Trapp" if I may ask.
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  261. Coffee, watch, oh I forgot to like... Press like.
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  262.  @joshthomas-moore2656  How about this can of sardines for inspiration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_Szigetv%C3%A1r
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  263.  @Boxghost102  At this moment some people would give you several thousand barrel AND pay for it :)
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  264.  @RCAvhstape  In one of the recent Bilge Pumps Podcast Drach announced, that he managed to produce hard tac, which was useable as shuriken... Maybe cooking is not one of his many expertise :)
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  265.  @thesage1096  I am Hungarian, that qualifies as a yes :)
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  266.  @zedoktor979  Same, provided it actually holds drinkable alcohol (rum preferably).
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  267.  @strub6732  Maybe check the SMS Novara and sisters.
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  268. 3:15 "Fitted as a flagship" - what this means in practice?
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  269.  @MarcStjames-rq1dm  I guess had the Kriegsmarine lacked heavy surface combatants, their other 3 components would have done worse too.
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  270. Well, there WAS a small container ship named Kormoran, built in 1978....
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  271.  @LukeBunyip  "How many years worth of potential ship review suggestions are we currently at?" Like "How many pushups Chuck Norris can do?" :)
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  272. 0:20:05 - Brass casings pro: a simpler breech mechanism is possible, as well as some removing excess heat from the gun, as well as leaving less hot pieces in the barrel compared to silk bags. On the other hand casings required some extra effort (especially a dud) and (on the WW2 Gneisenau ?) in rough seas water did enter the turrets...
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  273. 24:00 Had kill anti-torpedo system: The Eurotorp MU90 és supposed to have anti-torpedo capability: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MU90_Impact And somewhere I read the anti-torpedo capabilities of a Russian (post-soviet) RBU launcher's anti-topreedo capabilities, but I cannot find the link.
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  274.  @Feiora  You missed a joke.
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  275.  @ian_b  But I did mean seriosly that Dr Clarke did meause the holes on wrecks... Oh wait.
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  276. OK, hold on a sec, getting coffee...
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  277.  @tonyromano6220  See Drachinifeld "2nd Pacific Squadron" videos and the ship guide Kamchatka. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCrAQFBUFlU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Mdi_Fh9_Ag https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXpj6nK5ylo
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  278. Official trailer of Nelson, season 1 :)
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  279. 29:00 Not that all 20mm equal, but if we narrow down to the Hispano-Suiza HS 404... Then they are still not equal. Basically the nose mounted, tightly grouped guns send their shells into tight groups along all (possible) ranges, and when an armor plate gets hit by several dozen rounds in a split second... Tended to shear it in half. On the other hand, the multiple wing mounted ones were better suited to sweep the decks (sometimes causing even the pilot throw up when they strafed stuffed landing ships) and get the AA "unmanned".
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  280. You don't happen to be a Beaufighter pilot, snickering about the wonderful 2nd Amendment?
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  281. 35:10 The British being the Master of the Sea begun choking off the tribute lines - the biggest pirate state did not like competition :)
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  282. 51:15 "Fun fact, we call the Austro-Hungarian Fleet" - fun fact, it was NOT the Austro-Hungarian fleet. It was the fleet of the Habsburg Empire, because before the 1868 Kiegyezés (Ausgleicht), there was no Austria-Hungary :)
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  283. 4:20 - So, "the Sinker", an Italian officer named Luigi Rizzo earlier in 1917 managed to sink the coastal pre-dread battleship SMS Wien, commanded the MAS-15, with two confirmed hits (out of 2 launcher). However, the other boat, MAS-21 also reported two launches with one miss and one possible hit around the funnels. And then the diver's expedition in 1997 found 4 holes amidships... https://ng.hu/kultura/2018/06/13/szaz-eve-sullyedt-el-a-szent-istvan-csatahajo/ https://ng.hu/uploads/2018/06/201806-sztistvan11.jpg
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  284. Defensive minelaying: you anchor mines around you port and REMEMBER where you put them Offensive minelaying: dropping mines in front of an enemy port by night and let them find them, "the fun way".
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  285. So, what hull form is ideal for a distillery ship? :)
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  286. If that so Drachiwood's remakes are better, than "mousewoods" :)
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  287.  @NM-wd7kx  To be exact, about 10% its a bomb, another 10% is a massive source of onboard fire, 40% just an empty compartment and 40% armor. Only justifiable because you need that coal for steaming.
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  288. 08:29 re: Trevorious - Forces of good: Holodomor, Dresden, Tokio... It was dark grey vs darker grey.
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  289. Press like, get coffee... How Drach would visit the States ?
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  290.  @onasknox9284  Close range canon battle: I guess that happened to the Somali pirates - thought I do not know, which navy shot at them.
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  291. Finally was able to receive. Dechyphering took less time, due to the clear transmission of Drach voice :P
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  292. Anti-shell missiles: system were and now increasingly more so designek to be able to intercept both Soviet/Russian sea-skimming and anti-surface mode SAMs (like the Sea Dart), which are both supersonic and some even claim to be able to intercept contemporary naval shells (ie 5 inch-ish ones)... ...so I got the impression that stuff like the ESSM or the SeaRam would score a direct hit on a 12+ inch shell. And in the latter case purely the kinetic energy of such impact is on par with a 6 inch shell. Therefore I am a tad more optimistic about modern point defense intercepting battleship grade shells, but any modern surface warship finding herself within like 20 miles of a proper battleship, even a coastal defense battery of such guns is having a really bad day.
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  293.  @gokbay3057  But then a missile based CIWS gives even a corvette some survival chance and lugging around a 5 ton SeaRAM module is way cheaper, than carry a foot thick armor plate, which does not protect your radars anyway.
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  294. FYI the K.u.K. Kriegsmarine SUCCESSFULLY denied control of the Adriatic for the Allies until there was no Austro-Hungarian coastline to defend (ie the dual Monarchy disintegrated from under their proverbial feet), so yes.
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  295. 47:27 What about Radetzky's?
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  296.  @fjedfbuishishfeiu  O,P and Q were to have TWICE the range of Sch's, cruising at 19 knots, so this was a "pro" reason. Yet, as they were mentioned as "Ohne Panzer Quatsch (Without armor nonsense)" shows, that people in the Kriegsmarine also had "cons".
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  297.  @ONECOUNT  TheYamato wasn't is reserve for a decade or so, after a major refit, then scrapped. She went down guns blazing. Unneccassarily, but heroically.
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  298. Well, Eugene DID have an impact on Austria-Hungary. They named the SMS Zenta cruiser after one of his victories (from a long list) and he died in Wien. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_Zenta Albeit, this class earned the not so flattering nick "Sterneck's can of sardines"...
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  299. 1:03:50 Sponsorship - go ahead, you have my approval.
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  300. Five and a half hour Drydock - on Mother's Day.... :)
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  301. - The Italian betrayal was the last drop into the glass. - Make it so!
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  302. WarhoRse, of course, so need another coffee...
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  303. The Imp German SMS Emden had only 10cm guns too, so it is not that surprising. Besides the Soka 10cm/L50 guns were rather powerfull for a 4"-ish gun and had high angle mounting. Not enough for anti-airship work, but with a range that even Royal Navy cruisers later in the war thought that the guns were actually 12cm (4,7") or 15cm (5,9") ones. On the other hand, the captains of the Rapidkreuzers were constantly lobbiing for the (then) new 12cm Skoda guns, but never got them. http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WNIT_39-47_m1924.php
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  304.  @FRAGIORGIO1  Sorry, it is just an internet name - I am Hungarian and it is a talking name. There is some "low" nobility in the family, but only as a fading memory.
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  305.  @godalmighty83  Depends on many circumscances, like initial vectors, detection by hydrophones, etc
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  306. Re: Ark Royal making continous attacks on Bismarck - ammo supply for carrier airgroups? How many torpedoes are carried?
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  307.  @GaldirEonai  AFAIK even in WWI, on the Adriatic, A-H torpedo boats did set different running depths for their forward and aft tubes, especially when doing ASW missions.
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  308.  @gerfand  - 6" guns on Graff Zeppelin - IMO same reason, as US put 8" on Lexingtons and the RN armored their carriers: they had to plan their ships on confined waters, within land based airforce strike range but without radar.
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  309. re: Golf ball dimples - while "sharkskin" swimsuits are a recent development, but maybe you can tell a thing or two about similar surface coating of ships? re: combined sub, surface and aviation ops - the Battle of Otranto Strait (the 3rd in WWI, 15th of May, 1917) was such a "truly 3D" operation - albeit the submarine part was in laying mines (AFTER the counter-raid force sailed out and maybe even after a minesweep) and then waiting in ambush for the returning Entente ships. (spoiler: HMS Dartmouth torpedoes, but was saved and the French DD Boutefeu "found" one of the mines, sinking with most of the crew).
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  310. 0:40 Ancient naval artillery - Drach will talk about Byzantine spyhons.... :))))
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  311.  @WALTERBROADDUS  re: Panzerschiff - Neither Hood, Renown nor Repulse exists, nor 8" cruisers
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  312. Coffee is good with rum. And ice cream.
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  313. Torpedo net booms, folded?
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  314.  @tbrowniscool  For that one I even have an answer - well, sort of : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_Budapest#World_War_I "The ship transferred to Pola two days later, and she was decommissioned on 11 March 1918. She became the accommodation ship for the submarine staff (Wohnschiff der U-Bootleitung). Just over a week later, Admiral Franz von Keil proposed that a 38-centimeter siege howitzer be installed to bombard the Castellazzo fortifications. Little time was wasted, and removal of the forward gun turret and its barbette began on 26 March. The installation of the 38-centimeter (15 in) gun was completed on 4 April although testing did not begin until 5 June when three shots were fired. The ship was recommissioned two days later with a reduced crew, and a practice shoot was conducted with unsatisfactory results on 6 August. Another training exercise scheduled for 20 August had to be cancelled for lack of ammunition. The howitzer was removed on 11 October and sent to the Army on 17 October. " https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/38_cm_Belagerungshaubitze_M_16 That is a single 81 ton howitzer on an 1890 vintage 5500ish ton coastal battleship (and a WWI Austro-Hungarian, not German one) . Did not went well.
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  315.  @steveb6103  Not that the Mustang was frequently deployed to carriers, to my knowledge, but I still take it.
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  316. "Thank you, thank you"
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  317. Got coffee, have my two cents/pennies. 00:36:00 Armor manufacturing - can you provide armor plate manufacturing TIMES? Have the process required days or weeks long cooling/seasoning periods or similarly extended heat ones? 00:40:30 Ship names - so were there ships like Jégvirág-I., II. ... IX in the ocean going navies? (These are small river icebreaker, meaning "Frostwork", literary "Frost flower"). 00:47:00 Royal Navy keeping torpedoes on cruisers rather long - this might have something to do with the RN's penchant for night attacks and expecting radar to come into play even while designing their ships 00:51:00 Czeh armor - the Czeh armor and gun manufacturing industry was founded on most of the armor- and gun industry of the late Austro-Hungarian Monarchy - ie. Skoda manufactured the armor and guns fex the Tegethoffs and Radetzkys.
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  318.  @kimmoj2570  As I quoted earlier, Georg von Trapp taught his kids to sing the songs which were "standard issue" in teaching German to non-German speaking sailors. Also the need for officers to learn several languages IMO gave them a nice IQ boost (or at least filtered out the morons). In one battle report a gunloader was noted heartening the gunner with the following: "Los, maximummal brúder". :)
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  319. Battleship armouring by modern technology: Computer/VR aided design and automatisation would do more for armoring, than material quality (even if someone spends a trillion dollars on "two feet thick, face hardened titanium armor plate" manufacturing facility).
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  320.  @thorin1045  Or Sepsiszentgyörgy, for that matter.
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  321.  @Dave_Sisson  Joke aside: a lot of CLEAN water, because having mud and linestone scaling in your locomotive boiler is not someone wants. And its just really satisfying to hit one with naval arty.
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  322.  @TheEDFLegacy  Praise be, the faithfull ones. Albeit there are times for pious, silent OBSERVATION. ;)
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  323. The Aurora didn't sunk... :(
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  324.  @davieturner339  Looks, this is the modell of the SMS Zrínyi, AFAIK it is accurate, and this late pre-dred (actually they were post-Dreadnaught pre-Preadnoughts ;) ) with open mounts on top of the main 30,5 cm AND on top of the unusually heavy 24cm secondary turrets. https://images.app.goo.gl/thbupeRiVZwiz3oZ7
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  325. Press like, get coffe, listen to Drach ;)
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  326. Delta-V :)
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  327.  @arivael  I guess the bomb vessels and the USS Vesuvius (the dynamite-gun, ie. fixed, pneumatic gun equipped) qualify as "spinal mounts".
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  328.  @maxschon7709  And A-H documents and soirces often distinguish HE and Incendiary shells in ammo supply and consumption...
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  329. The Kamchatka uneasily swifts on the seabed....
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  330. 1hr of Drydock, 2 mugs of coffee...
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  331. Ah, the weekly dose of drydock :) Coffee on!
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  332.  @stefanpajung113  Yes, but they left out the Tátra's secondaries and the mighty AA of two machine guns - which are or the model, but not working
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  333. Actually, even before :)
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  334.  @strub6732  Given the show Turbinia performed and that at least three Italian destroyers - that I know of - were named Turbine... Seriously, VTE were "just" a refinement of an existing propulsion system, (steam) turbines however and evolutionary step.
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  335. Rum ration to midday coffee...
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  336. 1:02:08 Pigeon? Well, then the attack is somewhat more justified :)
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  337. At 1:11:09, on the picture of the Russian battlseship Slava, there is a "bulge" on the bow, just above te waterline. Was it an above water torpedo tube or something else?
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  338. Re: Naming ships - when the Free Polish Navy shows up "This is our destroyers Thunder and Lightning, and this is our cruiser, Konrad" - you both get curious, who was Konrad and what he have done AND a bit afraid to ask it. :)
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  339.  @Darryl_Frost  Not that I know of (HU)
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  340.  @Matthew-jv1ee  "why dont modern ships use ceramic based armor system just as modern tanks do??" - my answer is that a SeaRAM launcher, loaded and with all neccessary stuff is 5 tons and even able to intercept arty shells. How many tons of amor (even modern, composite, relatively lightweight armor) would produce this kind of defense?
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  341. One hour of Drach on French Africa, coffee and then Bilge Pumps on German Cylons... :)
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  342. 0:50:40 Rocket/missile technology in a two decade lag: Interesting answer, clearly centered on the idea, that the many sciences needed for a working Anti-ship missile (and even stuff, like the Tiny Tim or the FFAR https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny_Tim_(rocket) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5-Inch_Forward_Firing_Aircraft_Rocket ...so only the propulsion part lags behind - but then arises the question of whether or not jet aircraft come into play and then why not using gas turbine driven cruise missiles.... Also, if guidance would not lag behind in that alternate reality, glide bombs could home on jamming and some really nasty guided torpedoes could be developed, thus tipping the odds AGAINST the gun warships - thought not on the scale we saw history books.
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  343. re: 0:12:25 - weapons on civilian ships - IMO having a security detail with a 14,5mm heavy rifle or HMG, in the upper case a dirt cheap wire guided ex-soviet ATGM is an effective counter to any irregular pirate force I can think of and only requires a few ex-marines and maybe a 200 kg of equipment.
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  344. That was the Battle of Lissa. This was the A-H or - in shorter - the Dual Monarchy.
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  345. Somehow, while the 100t guns could reach up to 6000 meters, I do not think that they would have been fired against another ship over 500 meters...
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  346. For the SMS Árpád probably a white horse was sacrificed :)
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  347. Was this the last time an A-H made torpedo sank a ship?
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  348. My coffee break just got the proper lenght-beam ratio :)
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  349. Can we ask for the Nostromo?
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  350. 250k personell and bases all around the globe, even inland...
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  351. Ah, 6 hours of Drydock..
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  352.  @constantdrowsiness4458  No, not this one. Drach always notes contributors.
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  353. Theseus' ironclad...
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  354. With an A and X twin 8"-ish turret could it be better? ;) Or do I need more coffee?
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  355.  @katrinapaton5283  Coffee is good :)
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  356. Hitting like, getting a cup, before the skipper decides to raise steam from the coffee machine, launch video.
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  357. Actually even the British got leeched in WWI too...
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  358. "We missed a moored ship, but luckily the pier collapsed, so we sunk a tier".
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  359.  @toothedacorn4724  The importance of paperwork.
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  360. Press like, get coffee, sit before the monitor, monitoring...
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  361. Both honey bagders went for MY coffee... :)
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  362. Any hope for the "armored tuna" or "Missed me?" (Sms Leitha)?
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  363. Drach time, coffe time.
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  364.  [ HAL9000 ] ZIG ZAG Ground ZERO  Most raiders, maybe all of them had underwater torp tubes.
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  365.  @thesage1096  Hungarian language sources sometimes offer these details.
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  366. I would love to see the table Drach worked from. A few "IMHO" additions: - Would check the quad .50 BMG in the light dakka category (a twin 20mm Oerlikon most likely outperforms it, maybe even the single one installation) - The Italian 100mm/L47 is actually a copy of the Austro-Hungarian Skoda 10cm - of 1910 wintage, obviously the mounting is of Italian design. - The US 3" guns AFTER they got powered mounts and the "VT" proxy fuse, they were considered a superior replacement to the quad Bofors 40mm - and after a few itarations it is the pride of OTO Melara today, in form of the 76mm Super Rapid or Compact, with guided shells and water cooling.
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  367.  @Kevin_Kennelly  An old reflex, when the storyteller.says XP, you listen.
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  368. 3:35:40 - Strafing to suppress/disable guns : craft with multiple .50 and up guns , like P-47 Tbolt with 8x0.50, Whirlwind and later Spit models with 4x20mm, not to mention the Beaufighter or the solid nose A-26 (16 or so 0.50 BMG) does not need to be lucky to knock out AA guns (unless turreted ones). Also, Mid-war the aircraft mounted rocket came into play. Then there is the effect of setting "anything on deck" afire, INCLUDING ready ammo.
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  369.  @waszkreslem9306  Jestem węgierskim przyjacielem.
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  370.  @NM-wd7kx  Maybe the armored fuel truck from Mad Max II (with Mel Gibson)
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  371. 31:10 re: angled flight deck - also, as aircraft really do not like sidewinds during landing, it took a while to develop such heavy aircraft, with such powerfull engines, that the slight difference between landing direction and airstream could be dealt with.
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  372.  @asureaskie  Without having piloting experience myself, would you like to repeat it on - say - HMS Argus?
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  373.  @xerty5502  When a fish begins to ping, it is maximum 5000 meters, going with 50+ knots, usually perpendicular to the targets course, so relative speeds are over 60 knots. Not a long time.
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  374. "We are the Polish Navy, here are our ships: Thunder, Lightning and Joe". This is the point, where people wonder who was Joe and dare they ask :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ORP_Grom_(1936) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ORP_B%C5%82yskawica_(H34) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Danae_(D44) and "Joe": Joseph Conrad (Whose book "Heart of Darkness" inspired the 1979 "Apocalypse Now". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Conrad
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  375. Moar Drach time... This lunch break will be longer. Oh, coffe ready... :)
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  376. Is it a Casus Belli to sip on coffee, instead of tea, while listening to the Queen?
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  377. Actually yes. From Georg von Trapp's book: "5. Because there were so many nationalities under the Austrian fl ag, some of the men had to learn German to be able to function in the navy. They made up counting songs with simple folk melodies to help them learn the language. These were the songs Georg taught his children."
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  378. Chuck Norris's fishing boat... I need coffee.
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  379.  @bkjeong4302  Never said otherwise, did I? I only said, that they did dry runs (obviously after they dropped the live ordenance).
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  380. 34:00 "Torpedo" - yepp. And there is the night/fog action, where you can sneak on a force and launch a torpedo salvo or an occasional crippled ship or a force chasing your lighter cruisers which just might stumble into those fish... Its a very handy thing to have, as long as the pure oxygen does not blow up your ship.
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  381. As for plunging fire at 21:22 - I guess it is worth to mention, that the SMS Budapest, an 1890 vintage 5500 ton coastal battleship had its front dual 24 cm turret removed and exchanged for a 38 cm (15") but after a few trial shots they gave up. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_Budapest https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/38_cm_Belagerungshaubitze_M_16
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  382.  @super44lover  The listed range with the usual max British turret elevation of 14 degrees, thus range was around 14 kilometers (the number 14 is just a coincidence), at that range early 1910's fire control might hit a tipical dreadnought size target. Thus an armored cruiser with 9.2" main guns posed a limited threat within that range to any ship. With a lucky hit, she could have crippled even a dreadnought. Just keep in mind that a German bc or dread can also cripple or outright kill that same ship with a few four-gun salvoes, without luck playing much role in it.
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  383. 0:34 I am envisioning an early, heavy, multiple launcher similar to early torpedo launchers, but above surface, a 19th century equivalent of the Nebelwerfer or the RBU-1000 as a means of small attack craft punching above their weight, in place or in conjunction with a fish/Whitehead (or even spar-) torpedo attack.
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  384. Ah, the Drydock ;) Happy Children's Day!
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  385. 64 lb'ers - yes, but begun with smoothbore muzzleloaders and finished with rifled muzzleloaders.
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  386. 4+ hours? Need more coffee...
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  387. Press like, go to coffee maker and thinking about retrofitting electric boiler to oil firing boilers. Or gas turbine?
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  388. Armouring modern warships: how do you armor radar dishes or AESA plates?
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  389. How would the wider ( at 2:50 ) application of face-hardened plates and the effectively "second belt" face-hardener bulkhead behind the main belt affect the ships overall "staying power" and survivability?
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  390. Sounds like Jack Slater from "Last Action Hero".
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  391. I was sipping on my coffee, wondering about those U-boat captains and their torpedoes, when this article came up: https://news.sky.com/story/potty-mouthed-parrots-split-up-by-zoo-bosses-after-egging-each-other-on-to-swear-12085608?fbclid=IwAR3SZj3jYLh7Kpsy70iUxUiyiYg-hHAo55ZmTRsXdV_ftIzVCDQiSGB5Iao
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  392.  @Drachinifel  Thanks ;)
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  393. 1, ADS: You deserve those pennies for the next book you buy or even "monitoring" Leitha 2, Kirov: Maybe they will be called Kirov battleships, as per Dreadnought battleships - they are designed to go to slug it out with enemy capital ships and stand their pounding - ie. launching missiles while clearing the skies of an entire supercarrier airwing (with a bit luck).
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  394. The Battle of Lissa - special.
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  395. I wonder if anyone made a uniform 9.2 -10" armed armored cruiser, even on the drawing board? Uniform like 6+ main battery size (fex 2 in turrets 4 in casemates) and up to 4,7" anti-torpedo boat secondaries?
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  396. "Luckily, no one was hurt." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZ4I_XKEsRU
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  397. What a shame if Manligheten was broken up in this century....
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  398. German, Italian, Hungarian, Croatian and some more Slavic (Polish, Czeh) names.
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  399. 1:24:30 .
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  400. The K.u.K Kriegsmarine successfully denied or scared off Entente naval forces off the Adriatic, with severe numerical and fuel disadvantage.
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  401. "Then it got worse" :D At least you don't see torpedo boats. Yet. :D
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  402.  @topguntopcat  In one of the Drydocks Drach compared the 40mm Pom-Pom to the 40mm bofors and in WWII they were very closely matched (with slightly different advantages). It just somehow the Bofors had better marketing, so it was exported and license producer several countries.
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  403. Its dinnertime here, dessert was Drach. Almost Xmas.
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  404.  III Vance  FYI, I can edit any and all my comments AND withdraw any likes or dislikes. So, yeah, maybe get a blog.
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  405.  @gokbay3057  But then shells were cheaper than battleships, so why did they built them? ;)
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  406. Maybe ask Drach under a newer video about it.
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  407. Only because there is not an Austro-Hungarian Navy anymore :)
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  408. Re: BB fired missiles - the closest thing I know of is the GPS and INS guided sub-caliber HE-ER projectile, which was cancelled FY1991. More about that from navweaps dot com, in the 16"/50 gun section.
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  409. At 48:09 : What ships are on the picture? Especially the repair/replenishment/etc vessel, to the starboard of the carrier.
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  410. 13:00 hours, Drydock 130.
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  411. Merry Xmas for those who already feel like a boiler and those who will ;)
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  412. The Adriatic is BAD for French wine. Tokaj?
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  413. Load base fused coffee...
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  414.  @drpsionic  Maybe. Maybe collapse, like France or after Vietnam. The USA never tried a foreign invasion on home soil.
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  415.  @alganhar1  FYI historically hte Bismarck also had a radar (which was knocked off by its own guns muzzle blast probably) but also had a hydrophone array, which picked up Hood and PoW well before visual contact and opening fire. So, encircling it would not be THAT easy.
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  416. Did any other ship had this kind of "triangle" mounting of the main armament? (ie two front mounting side by side and able to fire backwards). How were the mountings named (A, B and X?)
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  417.  @CTXSLPR  razee frigate modernish equivalent: carrier conversion?
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  418. A question to cpt "Larry" Seaquist - what aircraft would he like on "his" Iowa in the 1980s and today (if any)?
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  419. Here cames the honorable mention of the Grillo class tracked assault boats :)
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  420. It looked like the Indomito on the IFF, remember? :)
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  421. Ah, Drach time, press like, check lenght... OK, have to go to shopping, I will run out of caffeine...
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  422. 30:30 Shooting starshells - maybe adding some more incendiary materials to your standard HE shell and/or designating enemy targets in a night engagement "before radar really kicked in" with a direct starshell hit. ie setting it afire has a niche. But then WoWs is not an indication how HE hits (or for that matter, even AP hits) on vessels caused minor or raging fires.
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  423.  @RedXlV  Why do we have flak? ;)
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  424. I wonder, when was the last time a British ship was in a similar position...
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  425. A prerequel of Porco Rosso, which looks funny but actually it is dead serious.
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  426. No, it is móló (Hu) and Molo (Ger).
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  427. 01:35:00 Starshell vs searchlight: my two cents - At least one WWI Austro-Hungarian (AFAIK, Hungarian nationality) gunner as awarded when their ship was "nailed" by a French destroyer's searchlights in a night action and he was quiock to think and strap on a daylight filter to the targeting optics AND sniping off the enemy searchlight - Star shells can be used by smaller, faster and more agile DDs to illuminate (and sometimes even set afire) targets, move away ASAP from their firing position and let their bigger buddies (CL, CA, BB) rip apart the now illuminated target.
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  428. Pneumatic canons: AFAIK the WWI Austro-Hungarian pneumatic mortars were some late relatives: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20_cm_Luftminenwerfer_M_16
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  429.  @disceva6443  Well, there were several characters besides six headed sea monsters ;)
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  430. And if you get bored, about the 96F too :)
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  431. 0:06:30 - Pre-dread continuity: in a sense it happened, to an extent, the Swerige class coastas battleships that - they needed the meanest ships, but three of them, but with a limited budget... Also, if artillery with a magical handwave would have produced like 8" guns with the range and ballistic properties of 12-16" guns (except destructive power/armor penetration of course), that would have created and environment of pre-pread like ships. 0:34:00 - De-oaring galleys - it is not just deoaring breaks oars, but actually cripples/kills oarsmen. So it is more like the question of getting the "port engine room" pulling in their paddles and moving to the starboard side.
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  432. French coffee is good. Almost as good as Italian.
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  433.  @zoranocokoljic8927  Maybe check again.
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  434. For a Navy, operation mostly on the Adriatic, swimming is sensible. On the North Atlantic, its not so.
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  435. And Britain's rule was cracked too...
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  436. 2 AM CET. Out of drydock, reporting for bed.
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  437.  @gregorywright4918  Considering that I read the sailing crew recounting of the attacks, it look like MOST of the Soviet attack were dealt with (read: the guy survived to write about). MOST.
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  438.  @USS_ESSEX_CV-9  18", eh? So, its not just racoons but possums messing with your trashcan? :)
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  439. Purely audio format: Yes, a lot of interesting questions can be perfectly answered without any graphics, pictures, etc. , cutting down "The List" to manageable level.
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  440.  @steveb6103  " Last choice was to bail out chutes didn't always work" Some aircraft gained infamy by flipping over upon touching water or just sinking as a rock, both bringing the crew down under with them - but from the top of my head, I could not cite which ones, that's why one was better off jumping out with parachute without even trying emergency "landing" on sea, especially rough sea. As always: If I remember correctly.
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  441.  @kimmoj2570  Lile creating Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia then breaking both twice and after it joining the EU? :)
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  442. None of these could touched the Holy Blackburn Blackburn. Praise be. :)
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  443. 13:48 I am speechless :)
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  444. Nice one, thought I secretly hoped for greek fire syphons.
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  445. 5 and a half hour drydock... how mamy bottle of Irn Bru? O.O
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  446. New Drach video, time for a coffee break... oh, its over 1 hour... so, I started coffee anyway...
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  447.  @johnshepherd8687  I do not even try to count the nuclear weapon TYPES of the cold war era soviet navy.
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  448. The shaft reached deeper than the keel, so in like a 1,8m shallow water the keel would have passed, but the screw would hit the sea/riverbed.
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  449. 27:40 6:1 beam ratio - Yes, the A-H Huszár class fex had almost a 11:1 lenght-beam ratio and only one of the 13 ships was lost to enemy (specifically ran on a mine), even when the 450 ton little destroyers often ran into 800+ ton Allied vessels but managed to get out rather hairy situations. However, two were lost to collisions. Therefore I cannot tell that in their case sacrificing manouverablity for speed was or wasn't a good trade.
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  450.  @janwitts2688  Well, water is compressable - with a black hole certainly. But with non-nuclear explosives?
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  451. Or just was shot by a salvo and some shells went short or long.
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  452. I wonder if anyone made a uniform 9.2 -10" armed armored cruiser, even on the drawing board?
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  453. 0:03:39 - Dynamite cruiser - maybe a nice, anti-submarine mortar could be pneumatic, considering the Austro-Hungarian pneumatic (trench) mortars 0:28:59 - if memory serves Taffy 3 aircraft did drop depth charges on the Japanese vessels and Dr Alaexander Clarke mentioned that British fast craft did drop depth charges in the path of pursuing S-boots (which are boats, not ships, but still).
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  454. 7:50 "There was much rejoicing" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yciX2meIkXI
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  455. Just a quickie: Did Mrs Drac enjoyed the Lajta (Leitha) tour and Hungarian food?
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  456. Primary is the heretic!
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  457. Anyone having ANY visuals (even poor CGI or cartoons) of those - khmm - interesting French pre-dreads FIRING?
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  458. 9:50 The cistern of Pelagosa counts, I guess.
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  459. re: 04:37:19 National quirks - I discovered that on Austro-Hungarian capital ships, drinking water was carbonated "on board" (as well as there was a small fizzy soft drink manufacturing and bottling facility on them). Were there similar facilities on other nation's warships or was it unique?
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  460. LOL, If someone tryed this in a tabletop RPG, I would have said, that's stupid...
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  461. Und ze Kriegsmarine showed them, how to wage submarine war - the hard way, thought. :)
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  462. Let me introduce one of the Monarch class coastal pre-dread battleships, the SMS Budapest: http://www.shipmodell.com/index_files/SHIPMODELL_SMS_BUDAPEST.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_Budapest (Note that the ship was rearmed with a Skoda 38cm (15"-ish) siege howitzer, thought the trials were quickly abandoned). Prompted by the reupload of the Drach-voiced Sverige https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gkh2vse-KVM
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  463. 13:43 WWI, not just the SMS Szent István, but earlier the Monarch class coastal pre-dreadnought battéeship SMS Wien was also sunk by a MAS attack. Commanded by the SAME Luigi Rizzo, maybe even the same MAS, setting a record noone like to overtake.
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  464. In a narrow channel, against charging Italian infantry, pistol rounds were spent rapidly.
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  465.  @stevevalley7835  Just saying, that the otherwise groundbreaking Austro-Hungarian Rapidkreuzers, ie. the Novara-class had the excellent 100mm L50 Skoda rapid firing guns and the captains DID beg for at least the 120mm Skoda guns (of which at least some could have been mounted), but those didn't made it until the end of war to the KuK Kriegsmarine. So, maybe you need bigger guns at times...
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  466.  @mrcs1037  Nézd csak: https://youtu.be/5Ikgi6qMAzg A Tegethoff osztály már megvan. A Tátrákra, Huszárokra még várni kell.
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  467.  @GoodGnewsGary  A 5"/25 guns barrel is 5*25=125 inches long. A 5"/50 is 250.
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  468.  @ZillyWhale  Its is getting harder by every day to ask something Drach have not already answered :) About getting ship(s): https://youtu.be/HgIJEWv7Hdw
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  469. I am pretty sure, he was of Polish ethnicity :)
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  470. 4:45:43 I have a feeling that in the front left, with a polearm (naginate/glaive like padded blade) we see Mrs Drach.
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  471. WHICH raid on the Otranto Barrage? :))) There were a few, you know...
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  472.  @carneymalone4132  I know, yet the others are also quite interesting too, especially the one on the 22nf of december 1916, with the SMS Scarfschütze leading the Dinara, Velebit and Réka
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  473. 11:50 "Five destroyers are a lot more of a threat than two" If one gives credit to this site: http://www.scharnhorst-class.dk/scharnhorst/history/scharnjuno.html It seems that the German side (on repeated orders of Admiral Wilhelm Marschall) deliberately held their fire on the British destroyers, which IMO contributed to the single torpedo hit (ie. both Ardent and Acasta had enough time to launch all their fish, which were not shredded by 150 and 105 mm splinters..).
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  474. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Heligoland_(1864) "the Austrians had sent two steam frigates, SMS Schwarzenberg and Radetzky, to reinforce the small Prussian Navy to help break the blockade. After arriving in the North Sea, Tegetthoff joined a Prussian aviso and a pair of gunboats. "
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  475. 2+ hours of Drydock... :))))))))))) Next time you visit the Leitha, will give you some throat-oiling :)
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  476. 48:30 FJ-1 Fury wingtip fuel tanks: Somewhere I read that it was a standard procedure, to shoot holes into those tanks, in case of faulty, assimetric pumping (making the aircraft untrimmed, which is bad enough, but landing one on a carrier is only advised for kamikaze pilots). Unfortunately, I only found this source about "emergency wingtip fuel jettisoning": http://talesanecdotesandtrivia.blogspot.com/2016/01/shoot-at-your-fuel-tank-before-landing.html BtW, those are lights on the nose of the tanks, since laser/optical guided bombs were not really in widespread use in the period - at least in this reality.
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  477. 6:59 "a god", ie Prince Phillip https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Philip,_Duke_of_Edinburgh
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  478. Another nice, from I would say "Original Drach Documentary" series.
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  479. Getting my coffee, for the rum ration :)
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  480. Missed the 100k Giveaway. Nevermind, prepping for 200 and 500.
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  481. Yes, it was his performance and luck during this and other sorties that made him a suitable candidate to leading the KuK Kriegsmarine at late WWI.
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  482. Get well!
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  483. The Austro-Hungarian dual monarchy was spanning a great deal along the coast of the Adriatic sea, including current areas of Slovenia, Croatia, Bodnis snd parts of Montenegro (like the mentioned port of Cattaro, today's Kotor), making a great deal of shoreline trade. Mines, shore arty and torpedocraft can only defend all this partly. There was the need for trade with Africa, South- and North Amerika even China then some policing in the Mediterraen and a certain amount of the usualy "we are the local bully", excercised to this day in this theatre, by Turkey, Italy and France as local players, With Egypt and Israel joinging.
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  484. Happy 200th!
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  485.  @rupertboleyn3885  In A-H's - while the dual Monarchy lacked overseas colonies it had extensive commercial ties to the world, for example brown cane sugar or molasses was imported, refined into diamond sugar and exported. From and to between Fiume/Rijeka and INDIA of all places... And it was a prospective business even in the late XIXth century, when merchantmen were still sailing ships.
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  486. Re: ship rating - how ofter were ships equipped with lots of light guns? As for the opposite, razees carried heavier guns as their "current" ratings.
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  487. A ship of miserably life and then striking her enemies from the grave.
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  488. Ah, Drach time, coffee time :)
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  489. 42:50 Fisher and Churchill exploring "Jeune Ecole"? O.O
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  490. Drach time, BEFORE lunch... 1 hour? One BIG mug of coffeee... :)
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  491. No, it was named after Guiseppe Garibaldi. Yes, THAT Guiseppe Garibaldi.
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  492. 12:50 As not 'Eavy Machine Guns are equal, the ballistic properties of the 50 BMG stand out, almost as good as the 20mm Oerlikon, with obviously lesser killing power. So with a small craft, which you have to aim well to hit with bombs a twin 50 BMG is almost as good as a 20mm. There is also the thing that ships got strafed, smaller ones to be sunk by aircraft cannon, even HMG fire, largee ones to suppress AAA crew. And in these cases, even your HMG killing range is greater than aircraft gun range. And there is the issue of a pilot having to make an attack run, when an awfull lot of tracers coming at him (only seeming to turn away in the very last moment). Om the other hand, when the solid nose B-25 and A-26, as well as the "ten gun terror" Beaufighters begun to harass shipping... Its was not a good day to lack 40+ mm AAA in great numbers.
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  493. Maybe there are problems with the stereotype?
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  494. Will you do a video on the Austro-Hungarian destroyers and torpedo boats? Some even survived WWII.
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  495. Its a shame, that no German warship was preserved, except for a few U-boats...
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  496. As for salted beef, saltpeter is still used in processed meats, goes under the E252 (EU additive) number. Those, who want to be blessed with ingorance, DO NOT look up "nitrary" on the net, how was saltpeter produced. Also, cutting beef perpendicular to fibers before salting (and a tad thinned, so after the several day process of salting, the center of slices won't stay pinkish-reddish, ie subject to rot) makes in less had to chew on. Finally, frying the oiled hard tac and beef and RAW (but sliced/diced) onion makes the food a tad sweet - from the onion. Sweet and salty food is a natural(ish) flavor enhancer combination.
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  497.  @absalomdraconis  Basically a heavly armed and armored (battle)carrier comes from the perceived fact, that a carrier before long range air search radar would be unable to defend against an airstrike. HMS Glorious and even the Taffy 3 demonstrated unwillingly, that even surface combatants can get within gun range. Same for the Admiral Kuznetsov, which as a guided missile carrier cruiser was designed for the somewhat confined Black Sea. Besides, since "true" carriers cannot sail legally in and out of the Black Sea, so it was classified a cruiser, anyways.
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  498.  @bkjeong4302  An engineer must calculate in human stupidity designing anything. Besides, there are the LCS's, which - along gunfire support destroyers or frigates - can find themselves inconveniently close to a Msta or PzH2000.
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  499.  @bkjeong4302  Yes, It is easy to keep away fex. a Russian Black Sea fast carrier force from surface ships and airstrike. Or a US one in the Carebbean or around Indonesia. Or not?
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  500. Be vewy, vewy quiet, I hunting... coffeee.
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  501.  @watcherzero5256  That's when I have to recommend the Bombardment of Ancona. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krWdd0OkptQ
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  502. 21:24 HESH vs BS belt : I am afraid Drach missed the point that HESH rounds INSTEAD of standard HE shells - in this case of course, a definite yes, thought when one is forced to fire HE(SH) against armored ships, instead of AP, it is already a bad day. As for te recurring AP(FS)DS vs battleship question, IMO a sub-caliber shell would have been usefull - just not using a solid heavy metal (tungstem or depleted uranium) dart, but like a basically REALLY elongated 8" AP shell, with discarding sabot, used in 15 or 16" guns, with a sizeabel bursting charge. That would be a significantly lighter, therefore faster projectile, with even a way bigger terminal velocity, a bigger "gun shadow" (-TM by Drach). Of course there are the problems with accuracy, projectile just breaking up under its mass on impact and having a dependable fuse....
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  503.  @lawsonj39  Wasn't it Operation Pettycoat?
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  504. 47:18 "inferior copy of an inferior plane" - actually would I suggest that the Whirlwind was an inferior plane, because it was discontinued, in presence of Drach, I would first very carefull remove him from the vicinity of "reenacting props" like swords, axes, maces... Comittees - being comittees - DO reject superior stuff, in their "divine wisdom".
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  505. If a panicking man in the process of drowning grabs onto you, the best mean of escape is taking a deep breath and dive - he will release you almost immediately with each dozen appendages he was grabbing you. However, letting him grab onto you might give him a minute or so of air, so if you can afford enough energy you can keep him aliver for a few minutes this way and maybe clears his head. I had to do it once for like 5 minutes on a beach in a somewhat rought weather (in the summer warm Black Sea) until the real lifeguard (God bless him) arrived. This was the hardest FIVE YEARS in my life. Also, getting a panicking man into a canoe or similar small boat requires FIRST tossing something floatable to him (a 1 liter soda bottle is enough and about the only reason one is allowed to toss plastic into water) or if it is not possible, knock him out by the happier end of your paddle.
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  506. Az for the 1914 "Jutlandish" decisive battle if you ever do such alternate history, please consider the state of progress Room 40 made with German codes and the lack of British experience (see HMS Aboukir, Cressy, Hogue vs U-9).
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  507. Fun fact: There is a merchant ship around, a not-so-big container transport above all (hints: Bilge Pumps, missile-container Q/Arsenal ships )
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  508.  @thepolishnz  But that was for tea, not coffee...
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  509. I saw a Whitehead Torpedo Factory ad before this video :) (No.)
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  510.  @tominiowa2513  And both tac faces hardened.
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  511. Poor Omaha/Marblehead, if they would not be as visible as some battleships, they even could be a good(ish) light Tier V cruiser class.
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  512.  @thehandoftheking3314  But too small for watertowers.
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  513. A cooperation with Vintage Cars and Military Aviation with Drach - about the Löhner flying boats in WWI? The Löhner company produced carriages, CARS and the flying boats and at a time employed a certain Ferdinand Porsche.
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  514.  @thomasthornton2002  They are balconies, Drach detailed them in one of the Dry Docks. Recreational, protocol and sometimes installing a light anti-torpedoboat gun or two
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  515.  @thomasthornton2002  Nope, but in some earlier Dry Dock Drach included a link to an excel table detailing all answered questions - up to DD75 at least...
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  516. They were fire on charging Italian infantry in the mentioned narrow channel, from the SMS Scharfschütze. Cpt Novontny was Polish and after the collapse of the A-H dual monarchy he was the first "sea lord" of the reborn Poland. I think it explains a lot how about the Free Polish Navy in WWII.
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  517. They tried, but they too often run into a torpedo, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opKPIrelD9o It might have to do something with the total air dominance of the Austro-Hungarian naval aviation in the first or so year of the war - since Italy had like 6 airships and 3 (three) working navy airplanes, while the KuK Kriegsmarine had 36 actually working aircraft, mostly Lohner flying boats.
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  518.  @kemarisite  Nope, as I looked up, it looks like a fairly standard semi-enclosed dual gun housing for early DD or (scout) cruiser mounting, peeking out from door sized hole cut into the armor.
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  519. Ah... press like, get coffee, cook dinner with Drach
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  520. Coffee and gunpowder!
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  521. Do you have any knowledge, why the Kaiserliche Kriegsmarine abandoned 24cm (cca 9,4") guns in favor of the 21cm ones?
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  522. Rum, rum, coffee, wrecks, dud torpedoes and flak shells, rum... ;)
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  523. Like for the first hour and out of coffee... :)
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  524. One have to understand sharks - you would be upset too, when you encounter a guy in you living room, wearing only a swimsuit... But whenever you eat tuna, odds are, it was actually a shark.
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  525. 57:27 Ain't this cute? :)
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  526. Drach's shells, Dr Clarke's "Four books" and then Bilgepumps S01ep19. Think I begin with a coffee and the proceed in the order above.
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  527. @Eric Fapton Google "Bilge pumps podcast cimsec", as it is a series of podcasts.
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  528. 22:10 There is something of a "gut feeling attraction" in most people for steam engines and machines guns with clearly moving action...
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  529. @Kathleen Mcmanus This must be THE comment of this guide.
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  530.  @davidburton2229  Or from The Continent
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  531.  Ross Cox  The word you were searching is "addiction", not preference ;)
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  532.  Ross Cox  I WAS talking about myself :)
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  533.  @andreaspersson5639  With sufficient vibration, ANYTHING can and will fall off. Or break. Usually horribly.
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  534.  @Triggerfinger98  Can we make one hole from those two? :)
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  535. ...And hoped to damage the hull or at least to periscope.
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  536. Sounds funny, but it really looks like from available sources, that the K.u.K. Kriegsmarine actually mapped and planned this strike for years, designating targets in advance "just in case" and each ship, which sailed out, had her exact and specific target list.
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  537. Kinda: "On 17 April 1915, Trapp took command of SM U-5. He conducted nine combat patrols in U-5, and sank two enemy warships. One was the French armored cruiser Léon Gambetta, sunk at 39°30′N 18°15′E on 27 April 1915, 25 kilometres (13 nautical miles; 16 miles) south of Cape Santa Maria di Leuca. In hunting and sinking Gambetta, " So, one week before the bombardment he sent to the bottom not only the wine, but the cheese too...
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  538.  @bkjeong4302  Well, if you are occasionally strafed by Wildcats, peppered by DE's guns, you will "dodge" any and all incoming TBM Avengers and won't bother to look whether they dropped a fish or not. :)
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  539.  @Tk3997  "In the entire war not a SINGLE Royal Navy cruiser I know of hit a maneuvering, active enemy vessel with a torpedo. Not even once. If that isn't the text book definition of useless I don't know what is." In the Battle of Denmark Strait one of the reason for PoW's beakaway was that she sailed into the torpedo range of Prinz of Wales. Even without launch, mere the presence of torpedoes played a significant part of that engagement. Time maybe for getting another textbook.
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  540.  @Tk3997  "Much more useful and fitting with the cruiser increasing role as an anti-aircraft escort for capital ships." Except when you have about one third of the planet and have to have like 70 cruisers, which WILL spent a significant time alone and have a limited budget for those ships - moneywise and total tonnagewise, so you have to make it with the smallest cruiser which still does the job, as the video stated.
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  541.  @Tk3997  Nope, its not four lettered WoWs with sky cancer and unlimited strike aircraft, it is the four lettered World of Cape Matapan.
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  542. Oh, 4 hours... Need more coffee...
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  543. 19:40 Italians during WW2 used at least one 45 cm "subcaliber" torpedo in their 21" tubes, with some - navweaps did not detail - extra apparatus in the tubes. AFAIK it was due to ammo shortage as well as having a bigger payload and that Mediterraen merchantmen were smaller, this an 18" torpedo hit sent them to bottom as well as a 21".
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  544.  @super44lover  The 9.2" shells weighted about 50% more than the 8" shells (cca 170 vs cca 110 kgs) . At Jutland a massive number of torpedoboats, destroyers and light cruisers swarmed around both fleets, thus they gave plenty of targets to the older armored cruisers. Besides, they were perfectly capable to hurt battlecruisers or even battleships if they got in range. Maybe not sinking/exploding them outright, but cripple them, kill their secondaries, set them afire, punch holes in parts not armored or in the weaker parts of the distributed armor...
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  545. Blast from the past....
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  546. Quap'lah! Leaving out the numerous recreational facilities (bloodwine storage, bloodsport arenas, slave pens and tarq-kennels) the B10 has was dishonorable :)
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  547. 40:45 NOW, you might whip out that battleaxe :)
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  548.  @ParabellumStoria  My mistake. "Megbuktam".
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  549. His name was Bagumil (or Bogumil) Nowotny, a Polish nationality officer. He later became the first admiral of the re-formed Poland after WWI. As I said, it explains a lot about the Free Polish Navy in WWII.
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  550. FInished finally, at almost midnight local time... Admittedly not with intermittent gunfire and ship explosions
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  551.  @leighrate  Sorry, tried to find this in English - its NG after all - but failed.
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  552. Just finished dinner, time for coffee...
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  553. 1:07:50 - "Hegyibe nagyságos uram, csak a fejüket!"
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  554. Nice one for the coffee break (this Saturday in Hungary happens to be on Friday:) - thus workday)
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  555. +1 for the +1 livestream. Can your confirm that late WWII, the VT fuse equipped 3" became more effective than the quad 40mm Bofors?
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  556.  @paultrigger1819  Some KuK subs did capture schooners, that is sure.
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  557. Speaking of seamines... What happened to those massive minefield in the Channel, North Sea, etc, which were deployed in both WWs?
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  558. Ugh, its early tuesday evening and I just came out of Drydock. Tomorrow Rum Ration, maybe an episode of Bilge Pumps too
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  559.  @Big_E_Soul_Fragment  Purge the unclean, burn the Heretic...
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  560. 0:37:47 The first part, that of British shipbuildig to compensate for the "ideal" (yeah, depending on perpective) German kills - exactly how the british shipyards depended on imported materials needed for merchant ships? Would a successfull U-boat campaing hinder that ability? Another one on fully functioning German torpedoes: it is not just the Ark Royal. If memory serves, the HMS Barnham (while "eating a fish") lucked out another hit by malfunction, same for HMS Warspite in the Norvegian campaign, Also during Günther Prien's raid on Scapa Flow the HS Royal Oak was blown up by the SECOND salvo (since most of the first malfunctioned), so maybe Prien would pick another target before leaving.
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  561. BZ
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  562. It's "dry salt". As in a saltmine, which was the a most severe kind of punishment. NOT as in a salt cave, which is used as a therapy for those of asthma and allergies...
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  563. Oh, Drachdock, get coffee, press like... OHHHH.... get a BUCKET of coffee, start wacthing...
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  564. At least the Zumwalt class is not a cruiser at 15.000 or so tons, thought the Kuznetzov is... :)
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  565. 37:27 I wonder at this point, whether Mrs Drach will narrate or not? :)
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