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

  1. - The Italian betrayal was the last drop into the glass. - Make it so!
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  2. WarhoRse, of course, so need another coffee...
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  3. 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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  4.  @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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  5.  @godalmighty83  Depends on many circumscances, like initial vectors, detection by hydrophones, etc
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  6. Re: Ark Royal making continous attacks on Bismarck - ammo supply for carrier airgroups? How many torpedoes are carried?
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  7.  @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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  8.  @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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  9. 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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  10. 0:40 Ancient naval artillery - Drach will talk about Byzantine spyhons.... :))))
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  11.  @WALTERBROADDUS  re: Panzerschiff - Neither Hood, Renown nor Repulse exists, nor 8" cruisers
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  12. Coffee is good with rum. And ice cream.
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  13. Torpedo net booms, folded?
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  14.  @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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  15.  @steveb6103  Not that the Mustang was frequently deployed to carriers, to my knowledge, but I still take it.
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  16. "Thank you, thank you"
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  17. 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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  18.  @kimj2570  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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  19. 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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  20.  @thorin1045  Or Sepsiszentgyörgy, for that matter.
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  21.  @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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  22.  @TheEDFLegacy  Praise be, the faithfull ones. Albeit there are times for pious, silent OBSERVATION. ;)
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  23. The Aurora didn't sunk... :(
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  24.  @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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  25. Press like, get coffe, listen to Drach ;)
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  26. Delta-V :)
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  27.  @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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  28.  @maxschon7709  And A-H documents and soirces often distinguish HE and Incendiary shells in ammo supply and consumption...
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  29. The Kamchatka uneasily swifts on the seabed....
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  30. 1hr of Drydock, 2 mugs of coffee...
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  31. Ah, the weekly dose of drydock :) Coffee on!
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  32.  @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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  33. Actually, even before :)
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  34.  @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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  35. Rum ration to midday coffee...
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  36. 1:02:08 Pigeon? Well, then the attack is somewhat more justified :)
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  37. 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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  38. 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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  39.  @Darryl_Frost  Not that I know of (HU)
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  40.  @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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  41. One hour of Drach on French Africa, coffee and then Bilge Pumps on German Cylons... :)
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  42. 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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  43. 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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  44. That was the Battle of Lissa. This was the A-H or - in shorter - the Dual Monarchy.
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  45. 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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  46. For the SMS Árpád probably a white horse was sacrificed :)
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  47. Was this the last time an A-H made torpedo sank a ship?
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  48. My coffee break just got the proper lenght-beam ratio :)
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  49. Can we ask for the Nostromo?
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  50. 250k personell and bases all around the globe, even inland...
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