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

  1. 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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  2. 3+ hours if Dry Dock. We need more mugs. Of coffee ;)
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  3. 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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  4. Gott Erhalte... :)
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  5. A Drydock with Irn Bru.... but I cannot guerantee to stay away from coffee...
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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. Rain, coffee, warships..
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  10. - Its a trap! - Its "von Trapp" if I may ask.
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  11. Coffee, watch, oh I forgot to like... Press like.
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  12.  @joshthomas-moore2656  How about this can of sardines for inspiration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_Szigetv%C3%A1r
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  13.  @Boxghost102  At this moment some people would give you several thousand barrel AND pay for it :)
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  14.  @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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  15.  @thesage1096  I am Hungarian, that qualifies as a yes :)
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  16.  @zedoktor979  Same, provided it actually holds drinkable alcohol (rum preferably).
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  17.  @strub6732  Maybe check the SMS Novara and sisters.
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  18. 3:15 "Fitted as a flagship" - what this means in practice?
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  19.  @MarcStjames-rq1dm  I guess had the Kriegsmarine lacked heavy surface combatants, their other 3 components would have done worse too.
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  20. Well, there WAS a small container ship named Kormoran, built in 1978....
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  21.  @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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  22. 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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  23. 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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  24.  @Feiora  You missed a joke.
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  25.  @ian_b  But I did mean seriosly that Dr Clarke did meause the holes on wrecks... Oh wait.
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  26. OK, hold on a sec, getting coffee...
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  27.  @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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  28. Official trailer of Nelson, season 1 :)
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  29. 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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  30. You don't happen to be a Beaufighter pilot, snickering about the wonderful 2nd Amendment?
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  31. 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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  32. 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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  33. 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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  34. 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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  35. So, what hull form is ideal for a distillery ship? :)
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  36. If that so Drachiwood's remakes are better, than "mousewoods" :)
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  37.  @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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  38. 08:29 re: Trevorious - Forces of good: Holodomor, Dresden, Tokio... It was dark grey vs darker grey.
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  39. Press like, get coffee... How Drach would visit the States ?
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  40.  @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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  41. Finally was able to receive. Dechyphering took less time, due to the clear transmission of Drach voice :P
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  42. 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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  43.  @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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  44. 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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  45. 47:27 What about Radetzky's?
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  46.  @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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  47.  @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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  48. 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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  49. 1:03:50 Sponsorship - go ahead, you have my approval.
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  50. Five and a half hour Drydock - on Mother's Day.... :)
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