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

  1. "Then it got worse" :D At least you don't see torpedo boats. Yet. :D
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  2.  @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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  3. Its dinnertime here, dessert was Drach. Almost Xmas.
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  4.  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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  5.  @gokbay3057  But then shells were cheaper than battleships, so why did they built them? ;)
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  6. Maybe ask Drach under a newer video about it.
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  7. Only because there is not an Austro-Hungarian Navy anymore :)
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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. 13:00 hours, Drydock 130.
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  11. Merry Xmas for those who already feel like a boiler and those who will ;)
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  12. The Adriatic is BAD for French wine. Tokaj?
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  13. Load base fused coffee...
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  14.  @drpsionic  Maybe. Maybe collapse, like France or after Vietnam. The USA never tried a foreign invasion on home soil.
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  15.  @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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  16. 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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  17.  @CTXSLPR  razee frigate modernish equivalent: carrier conversion?
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  18. 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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  19. Here cames the honorable mention of the Grillo class tracked assault boats :)
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  20. It looked like the Indomito on the IFF, remember? :)
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  21. Ah, Drach time, press like, check lenght... OK, have to go to shopping, I will run out of caffeine...
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  22. 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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  23.  @RedXlV  Why do we have flak? ;)
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  24. I wonder, when was the last time a British ship was in a similar position...
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  25. A prerequel of Porco Rosso, which looks funny but actually it is dead serious.
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  26. No, it is móló (Hu) and Molo (Ger).
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  27. 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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  28. 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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  29.  @disceva6443  Well, there were several characters besides six headed sea monsters ;)
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  30. And if you get bored, about the 96F too :)
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  31. 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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  32. French coffee is good. Almost as good as Italian.
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  33.  @zoranocokoljic8927  Maybe check again.
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  34. For a Navy, operation mostly on the Adriatic, swimming is sensible. On the North Atlantic, its not so.
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  35. And Britain's rule was cracked too...
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  36. 2 AM CET. Out of drydock, reporting for bed.
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  37.  @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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  38.  @USS_ESSEX_CV-9  18", eh? So, its not just racoons but possums messing with your trashcan? :)
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  39. 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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  40.  @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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  41.  @kimj2570  Lile creating Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia then breaking both twice and after it joining the EU? :)
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  42. None of these could touched the Holy Blackburn Blackburn. Praise be. :)
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  43. 13:48 I am speechless :)
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  44. Nice one, thought I secretly hoped for greek fire syphons.
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  45. 5 and a half hour drydock... how mamy bottle of Irn Bru? O.O
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  46. New Drach video, time for a coffee break... oh, its over 1 hour... so, I started coffee anyway...
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  47.  @johnshepherd8687  I do not even try to count the nuclear weapon TYPES of the cold war era soviet navy.
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  48. 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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  49. 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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  50.  @janwitts2688  Well, water is compressable - with a black hole certainly. But with non-nuclear explosives?
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