Comments by "Doug JB" (@dougjb7848) on "The Drydock - Episode 296" video.

  1. 57:00 I posit that another contributing factor is that USN ships tended to have more electronic sensors than other navies - multiple radio systems, air / surface / fire control radars for main and secondary guns, radars for AA directors - some ships had a radar for every fire control director on the ship). The RN may have been a close second, but no other WW2 navy had such a wealth of sensors. Each of these sensors needs its own crew, and the aggregate demand on ship power requires a greater generating capacity, which requires its own crew …
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