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

  1. One hour Drydock at 1 o'clock. Coffee loaded, raise steam.
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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. But this is actually ASW, with intermittent AAA.
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  7. 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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  8. Mogami meme reporting?
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  9. Drydock 134 - earplugs, supermarket, people nervous ;)
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  10.  @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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  11. 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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  12. 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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  13.  @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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  14.  @OhSome1HasThisName  Except when they butcher a ship, like the Tátra (tier II "European" destroyer) .
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  15.  @mattheweagles5123  The "tower"-or "bridge".
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  16. 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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  17.  @ian_b  It is the result from shipwreck analysis, besides Dr Alexander Clarke is a university lecturer.
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  18. Build them in Budapest, then travel down on the Danube. :)
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  19. Drach Time, coffee time.
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  20.  @dropdead234  And maybe the can openers too.
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  21. 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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  22. 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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  23. Merry Christmas, Áldott Karácsonyt!
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  24. Scramble CAP.
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  25. Drach time!!!
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  26. 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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  27. 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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  28. 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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  29. Gray warhosre, black coffee... :)
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  30. 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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  31. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkOP8Lwdmgg Make some of these in 280 mm, one per turret. ;)
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  32. Drydock, A-H monitors, the Tegethoff class and coffee... :)))
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  33. Rain, coffee, drydock... With cats. :)
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  34. 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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  35.  @WASRGP  Ain't it surprising how big the racoons get nowadays? :)))
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  36. 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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  37. Oh, well, the French had to copy the "PAtchwork Fleet" from somewhere :)
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  38. 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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  39. 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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  40. We cannot take risks, they might be tripods in disguise. Feuer!
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  41. 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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  42.  @ttaibe  A good US carrier can sail on steam generated by its coffee machines,
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  43. They fit neatly between the Austro-Hungarian "Erzherzog" and "Radetzky" classes.
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  44. 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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  45.  Admiral Tiberius  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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  46. 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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  47. USS Lexington, sry for typo
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  48.  @SeanPaulinho  Three triple turret is 9 barrels for roughly the same weight as four twin ones, which is 8 barrels.
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  49. 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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  50. Are further Austro-Hungarian ships on "The List"?
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