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The Drydock - Episode 345
🕑 Added 2025-04-12 08:26:19 +0000 UTC00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:36 - How well would a BK-1124 have fared against a US Civil War River Monitor?
00:04:58 - Will you one day cover the naval battles in the War of the Triple Alliance?
00:11:38 - Why aren't tank turrets placed on ships more often?
00:16:41 - Why does the Montreux convention treat aircraft carriers differently from other types of capital ship?
00:23:54 - Methods of correcting a ships compass before Kelvin Spheres?
00:29:14 - Why was the Holigost left to rot?
00:33:34 - In Pirates of the Caribbean 3: At Worlds End, Jack Sparrow and the crew of the Black Pearl manage to capsize the ship by rocking the ship from side to side by running across the deck, as well as loosening the guns and cargo. Is this actually possible to do?
00:36:56 - Could you discuss the failure of level bombing to be anywhere near as effective as hoped in the mid-war period?
00:43:12 - What will be the first museum ship that you will introduce Mini-Drach to? Is there one that you'd like to visit first for any particular reason?
00:44:01 - What question from Season 1 of your drydocks do you want to re answer due to knowing much more now?
00:46:24 - Is it true that the CIC was inspired by the Lensman series by E. E. Smith and are there any other instances of fictional works inspiring naval innovation?
00:51:05 - How did Admiral Wemyss progress through the RN so quickly?
00:53:41 - Why was HMS Surprise caught off-guard?
00:57:27 - From 1900ish onwards, where did ships pets generally hang out?
01:00:16 - Reason for the position of Dreadnoughts foremast?
Comments
HARK!
If my memory isn't failing me, then it wasn't the corrosion to the PzH 2000 turret that resulted in that attempt to up-arm the ship in going nowhere. Not that corrosion did not occur, but it was of little relevance to the goals of that test, which was to examine how feasible it was to use the gun system of the PzH 2000 as naval artillery. It was always intended to make a naval variant that would be able to deal with corrosion, but only if the test turned out well. Well, they did not. If I remember correctly, the ship could not deal well with the force of the recoil. A special mounting for the turret would have head to be developed and that was seen as asking too much. EDIT: Never mind. I checked around about that project and while the turret did require the special mounting, it was the difficulty in making the system corrosion resistant that resulted in it being abandoned.
The Rogue Chief
I heard somewhere that the U.S. Navy did a study to explore the viability of using the bridge layout as seen on Star Trek federation starships on their own vessels (and supposedly found that layout to be more efficient from a command perspective)
