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

  1. Or just was shot by a salvo and some shells went short or long.
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  2. I wonder if anyone made a uniform 9.2 -10" armed armored cruiser, even on the drawing board?
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  3. 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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  4. 7:50 "There was much rejoicing" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yciX2meIkXI
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  5. Just a quickie: Did Mrs Drac enjoyed the Lajta (Leitha) tour and Hungarian food?
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  6. Primary is the heretic!
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  7. Anyone having ANY visuals (even poor CGI or cartoons) of those - khmm - interesting French pre-dreads FIRING?
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  8. 9:50 The cistern of Pelagosa counts, I guess.
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  9. 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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  10. LOL, If someone tryed this in a tabletop RPG, I would have said, that's stupid...
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  11. Und ze Kriegsmarine showed them, how to wage submarine war - the hard way, thought. :)
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  12. 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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  13. 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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  14. In a narrow channel, against charging Italian infantry, pistol rounds were spent rapidly.
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  15.  @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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  16.  @mrcs1037  Nézd csak: https://youtu.be/5Ikgi6qMAzg A Tegethoff osztály már megvan. A Tátrákra, Huszárokra még várni kell.
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  17.  @GoodGnewsGary  A 5"/25 guns barrel is 5*25=125 inches long. A 5"/50 is 250.
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  18.  @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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  19. I am pretty sure, he was of Polish ethnicity :)
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  20. 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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  21. WHICH raid on the Otranto Barrage? :))) There were a few, you know...
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  22.  @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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  23. 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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  24. 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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  25. 2+ hours of Drydock... :))))))))))) Next time you visit the Leitha, will give you some throat-oiling :)
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  26. 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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  27. 6:59 "a god", ie Prince Phillip https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Philip,_Duke_of_Edinburgh
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  28. Another nice, from I would say "Original Drach Documentary" series.
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  29. Getting my coffee, for the rum ration :)
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  30. Missed the 100k Giveaway. Nevermind, prepping for 200 and 500.
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  31. 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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  32. Get well!
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  33. 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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  34. Happy 200th!
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  35.  @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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  36. 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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  37. A ship of miserably life and then striking her enemies from the grave.
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  38. Ah, Drach time, coffee time :)
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  39. 42:50 Fisher and Churchill exploring "Jeune Ecole"? O.O
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  40. Drach time, BEFORE lunch... 1 hour? One BIG mug of coffeee... :)
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  41. No, it was named after Guiseppe Garibaldi. Yes, THAT Guiseppe Garibaldi.
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  42. 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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  43. Maybe there are problems with the stereotype?
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  44. Will you do a video on the Austro-Hungarian destroyers and torpedo boats? Some even survived WWII.
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  45. Its a shame, that no German warship was preserved, except for a few U-boats...
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  46. 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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  47.  @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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  48.  @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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  49.  @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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  50. Be vewy, vewy quiet, I hunting... coffeee.
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