What was the history and development of the Marines in navy's around the world?

How would you have expanded the Highseasfleet just before WW1, given additional funding.

What are your thoughts on Moniters in the second world war? Roberts class etc. Were they worth it or would using their metal for other things have been better?

Two questions: 1, Was there even an over-and-under naval twin turret? (Instead of the side by side two gun turret) 2, Was there a fire control system that use two local rangefinders for range triangulation? (Ie: Turret A looks at the target 3 o'clock - ie. 90 degrees, Turret X faces the same target az "2.30", ie. 80 degrees and I know that there is exactly 95 meters between my turrets)?

Why was the 2nd Pacific Squadron's gunnery so bad, even for pre-ww1 standards? Were the russians sailors poorly trained or just unlucky in that department?

The Germans wrote a book about using almost ACTUAL privateers in both world wars (Moewe, Zeeadler, Wolf, Atlantis, Wieder, Kormoran, Pinguin, Thor, Orion, Komet, Stier, Michel).

The deep insight I gained was the proper pronunciation of Drack-eh-knife-fell. >.

The work on the PHD was clearly worth it...

If it does not, than the hole ain't big enough

@@karlvongazenberg8398 add bigger hole 😅

Stop Blowing Holes In MY SHIP!!!!

@@Triggerfinger98 Can we make one hole from those two? :)

Definitely how I use my cruisers.

Destroyers are for jousting

Isn't a light cruiser just an oversized destroyer that can be citadelled? *looking innocently ignorant (or at least trying to)

@@Bird_Dog00 Back in the days, when DDs had citadels... The last time I loaded AP for my sluggish Japanese 120mm DD guns...

Isn't there a Work-In-Progress Italian DD that is a Cruiser in everything but Declaration and Class,

Somehow it resembles fate of battleship, doesn't it? ;)

It weirdly seems like multi-billion dollar companies motives aren't to put out quality content on a consistent basis.

@@bl0bl1bl4 It weirdly seems like multi-billion companies' motive is to generate revenue, while Drach is working on his passion project.

bl0bl1bl4 they don’t need to when people like Drachinifel make the content for them. KZfaq would not exist without the creators.

Well, Drach and Dr. Clarke know their audience and their material, they don't have a marketing division telling them all kinds of bullshit about what will sell... (They also don't have to spend millions on production and advertising..)

Ah, you see, there are 20 individual 5 minute guides, all packed into one!

Actually this is a "Wednesday Special" - and those run about an hour usually.

It says “More or Less” right there on the tin!

Ah yes. Five minutes at a time.

Unfortunately there are actually only 12 5 minute guides in this episode

Course if you get Drachinifel, Dr. Clarke, and rum rations then you really are on the up and up

Not rum iron brew. Or in this time period steel brew.

Autumn Eule-Nashoba you mean composite/carbon fiber/goalkeeper brew?

No these two are old school.

And You appear to have very few particular haunts, now we need to track down the other 225676 fragments of the Man-Emperor of Mankind...

I played the SSI Pacific game that came after? that game. Always wanted to play it though.

*Konteradmiral. Reeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Why does that sound like a quote from the movie "Dodgeball"?

seeingeyegod I was thinking the same thing. If you can dodge a ball, you can dodge a wrench :)

@@dfgiuy22 lol yep

Just patreon up a fistful of stand-alone mics 🎤, mail them out to interviewees, and sync up post-production. No reason not to max out on bitrate with audio as beatiful as youtube will let you.

​@@embretr.string5204 Dr Clarke has his own channel with good audio quality so no need to do that, if he simply recorded his end and sent the files that would do the job. The difficulty is in getting rid of Dr Clarke from the Drach end of the audio and vice-versa. Usually that means both sides wearing headphones so it's not playing through speakers, that's the downside. Considering it was genuinely hard to hear at times I'd say that would be the best solution.

seemed that the most important values. can it do the job well enough and can we afford it

Quantity is a quality at its own.

Correct. For the Admiralty, numbers of ships was somewhat more important than individual quality, as the enormous length of the trade routes required many ships to patrol them. For example, to deal with a Panzerschiff or Hipper class cruiser, the idea was that the first ship to intercept it should stay in contact and concentrate more ships. This concentration worked at the Battle of the River Plate (since they were already together!), but Glasgow lost contact with Admiral Scheer in the Indian Ocean Feb 1941 and missed the chance to gather a large enough cruiser force to sink her.

you would be suprised at how often I have to explain this fact... making a hole which only lets air in or not enough water does do the job.

@@DrAlexClarke I think you mean "does NOT do the job" ? Or will any sufficiently large hole will do?

@@hughfisher9820 sufficiently large hole that lets in water...

Fire tends to do the trick, too.

tisFrancesfault, will you please put the link of that vid here?

I hear him in my head when I play Warthunder: "And here we have the HMS Hawkins. It was...well...relatively shit."

Old habits die hard.

There is a lot to that, and the destroyer commanders were definitely much happier when they were freed to operate under their own doctrine in some of the 1943 actions. At the same time, their successes in 1943 and 1944 were coming at a time when the fixes to the Mark 14 were coming online and propagating to the Mark 15 the destroyers carried. However, I also think most of the commanders (admirals especially) responsible for those 1942 actions had failed to keep up with te hnical developments in radar and, therefore, failed to make good use of it. Before Savo Island the entrances around Savo were patrolled by radar-equipped destroyers, but their patrols weren't coordinated so gaps opened up which Mikawa happened to slip through. Callaghan used San Francisco, with its older SC radar as his flagship while placing Scott in Atlanta, with superior SG radar, immediately in front of him, and none of the SG radar destroyers was in the lead. Wright commanded from Minneapolis, which had SG radar, but denied his lead destroyers permission to launch torpedoes from 7,000 yards on a closing course. He then further frustrated the destroyer commanders by announcing his presence with gunfire before the destroyers had finished launching their torpedoes. Only Lee seems to have fully understood his radar and exploited its advantages.

At least the Zumwalt class is not a cruiser at 15.000 or so tons, thought the Kuznetzov is... :)

He had a "gate" on his mic...unfortunately, but, yeah, the quality of the mic isn't very good either.

Battlemage15 read the description it’s says it was recorded in a electrical storm

The desription says they recorded during an electrical storm and attribute the audio clipping to that

@@85gamingwot55 electrical storm didn't excuse the bad quality of the mic, only static interference, but I didn't hear and static interference.

paul roustan your opinion has been noted but will be ignored in further discussion

Sounds fine here.

Nearly threw my phone out of the window in frustration at the number of times important comments that got cut off.

@@gwtpictgwtpict4214 If you enjoy highly compressed audio (or are watching it on a potato with speakers so bad you can't tell the difference), that's great for you, but that's not a normal human response. Keep in mind, this is exclusively about the audio quality of his guests. It's extremely clear that he's got them on a video call, and is just recording from that, which is a highly compressed audio stream. Fine if you're just talking to someone, but not really good enough for a KZfaq video where hundreds or thousands of people are going to listen to it.

This is a politely worded piece of technical advice. I would expect at least 4 idiots to pop up with rude comments.

@@chemputer 'Fine if you're just talking to someone'. Which he is. To repeat and expand, sounded fine here on a PC with on board sound and an ancient pair of cheap speakers. If I want Hi-Fi quality sound I'll go downstairs and listen to an old Arcam Alpha6 amp through a pair of floor standing tannoy speakers. I would also point out, 'both of you can clap at about the same time' won't work for syncing the audio, the clue is in the 'about'. I do wonder why people who are getting high quality free content moan about the sound quality, seems somewhat entitled. Maybe you could buy him some better kit?

He did, and the way he originally reacted can be considered to be right. Afterwards, however... It's easy to talk with after knowledge, but to be frank, not so much.

It's hoods in pieces all the way down.

@@theleva7 1,415 brave men dead. Such a really 'funny' joke. F...king morons.

@@99IronDuke Blown up in the opening salvos, it really was quite a joke.

@@rsgalhero Yes I often imagine all those German sailors on Bismark chocking and drowning as she went down. So very funny... I would be willing to bet you have never worked at sea and so have not the smallest idea of what you say.

@Der Richtige Arzt Sure dude pretend you actually have a human sense of humour. Be well fool.

What was your poison? Listening now drinking Lamb's naval.

@@mattblom3990 Breckenridge, now that I can really relax and listen and watch a Naval history show after a long day of Naval planning and construction. A Bourbon from far away from the ocean and well above sea level.

London had issues, because they tried to do everything to the poor ship, a number of the other Counties were upgraded learning from that experience without trying to install everything and the kitchen sink :)

Wow!

Too soon man, too soon...

It is really a pleasure to listen when ship designs are brought up in bloody context. Missions, organisation, fleet structure, timing, tactics ...

You might want to rethink that analogy. A Tiger is bigger than say a Sherman but it doesn't have any more room inside. The guns, shells, engine, transmission, etc take up more room inside than the smaller tank. In fact, the smaller hatches and fewer vision devices make it feel smaller inside.