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The Drydock - Episode 319
🕑 Added 2024-10-12 08:00:06 +0000 UTC00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:38 - G14 carrier vs Malta or Midway?
00:05:00 - Why weren't medium cruisers ever a thing?
00:09:35 - If flat deck carriers had never been a thing, what would seaplane "fleet carriers" look like?
00:14:20 - What would Grand Admiral Drach's doctrine be for fighting a naval war with one of the top naval powers, as a nation with a smaller fleet?
00:23:14 - In Drydock 303 you said you had found new information that made you change your stance on Rodney's torpedo attack from maybe to almost certain, are you planing to do addendum video this information and are there any other ships or battles you think need an addendum video might be good?
00:26:05 - If Rodney had aggressively pursued de Grasse's defeated force at the Saintes, a) how likely is it that he'd've been able to bag the entire deployed portion of the French battleline (as his critics afterwards alleged he'd passed up the opportunity to do), and b) if he had managed to bag de Grasse's entire fleet, what effects would that've had going forwards?
00:31:53 - The Japanese navy had plans to swap the turrets of the Mogami and other ships in the event of war, could the Americans could have had better torpedo blisters ready for ships like Wasp, Ranger or Saratoga?
00:36:02 - 16"/50 Mk2 vs Mk7?
00:39:56 - In the time period the channel covers, how common was smoking aboard warships?
00:42:07 - What special tactics, formations, precautions did fleets take when transiting choke points when potentially facing combat?
00:47:39 - Through the magical power of hand waving the negotiations for the Washington Naval Treaty are delayed by 3 years, how does this change the Treaty, the fleets, and WWII?
00:56:43 - Tubular vs tripod/cage masts?
01:00:03 - ASW projectiles for escorts main battery?
01:02:56 - Who was Japans Churchill/FDR/Stalin etc figure?
Comments
Glenn Ricafrente
For the addendum video: Have you found confirmation that the County class really were fitted for added armor, or is it still in the realm of speculation?
Jellicoe Cats
If you are looking to revisit something at the end of the the year the “hitting France” comment about in regards to M7 Priest self propelled howitzer providing a rolling barrage of suppressing fire on their run into the beach would be a good place to start. This is illustrative of how different navel vs field artillery tactics are. Ships are relatively tiny compared to how much space an equivalent army unit worth of personnel would take up if deployed in the field. The artillery fan of an M7 only extends 7 miles and anywhere a shell from its howitzer that lands past the sea and friendly lines is likely to encourage someone to spent time at the bottom of a hole in the ground rather than doing something that could make your troops life difficult so hitting France is perfectly acceptable outcome. Warships are an entirely different ballgame. You can’t really suppress a warship. You have to hit the thing or at least be very close to have any effect at all. Unlike with field artillery with warships it’s an all or nothing game.
Ted M Jones
47:30 - Kurita - "Yeah, that all sounds good but it didn't help me at Palawan Passage."
BEAUSABRE23
Drach, You didn't mention the effect on carrier development with no ships to convert in Washinton 2.0
BEAUSABRE23
Mark 2 stats Projectile Types and Weights Ships Navy AP Mark 3 - 2,110 lbs. (957.1 kg) Coastal Artillery Army AP Mark 2 Mod 2 1a - 2,100 lbs. (952.5 kg) Army AP Mark 12 2a - 2,240 lbs. (1,015 kg) Muzzle Velocity Ships AP Mark 3 - 2,800 fps (853 mps) Coast Defense Batteries AP Mark 2 Mod 2 - 2,750 fps (838 mps) AP Mark 12 - 2,650 fps (808 mps So a 2700 lbs super heavy round fired from a Mark 2 might well have a grossly inferior muzzle velocity as the propelling charge had to drop from 700 to 648 lbs to fit the heavier shell
BEAUSABRE23
1. See the Republic RC-3 Seabee for the sort of design Drach is proposing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_RC-3_Seabee
BEAUSABRE23
I'd argue the Mogamis and Brooklyns were medium cruisers
Rob Smith
~20:00 - while slipways are big and massive there's a gain to be made by seriously damaging ships on them, hopefully smashing up the ship or the slipway to such an extent that it falls over.
