How effective and useful were searchlights in WW1, WW2? How often were they used?

I had some questions about dreadnoughts, mostly of the terminology and classification kind. (and some of the sillier kind) What makes a warship qualify as a dreadnought? Like, what is the set of traits that makes one look at a ship and say, yep, it’s a dreadnought? Is it the all-big-guns main armament? Is it the all-or-nothing armour scheme? Is it machinery capability and top speed? Is it superfiring turrets? All of the above, or anything else? Can armoured cruisers be considered pre-dreadnought battleships, and can all armoured cruisers be considered pre-dreadnought battleships? And most importantly, was HMS Hood a dreadnought? Thanks in advance and much gratitude for all your work! (my handle is Vaximillian without numbers, no idea why KZfaq apended them and how to remove them)

Drach, could you do some videos on the lesser-known actions/battles in the Black Sea/Baltic Sea involving the Russians in WW1?

How did the Soviet Navy provide Battleship Novorossiysk (formally Italian Battleship Giulio Cesare) with 320 mm (12.6 in) ammunition? Seeing as the then current Soviet Battleships, the Ganguts, had 12 in (305 mm) guns. Could the 12.6 inch guns take the 12 inch ammo? Did the Soviets retool a shell manufactory, precure ammunition from Italy after WW2, or some other way? Thank You!

Why do many battleships carry two anchors on the starboard side and one on the port side?

Hmmmm, me thinks I have heard a story just like that before, except it was concerning the delivering of a car.

@@guyintenn Old GDR joke, that made it to west germany and was broadcast in a radio segment instituted by US/ FRG for that purpose: car was to be delivered in 12 years (which was the average), handyman would come that same day, afternoon. I think Reagan might have retold it once as well. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/o7RjrZaWuLyrZ3U.html yep, first joke..

Reagan jokes are like the Soviet union: They never get old!

Steve Mclaughlin: "I'd like see your documents on Sovetsky Soyuz class battleships." Russian Archivist: "OK, come back in 4 days." Steve Mclaughlin: "HI documents just say ship built after 20 pages of redacted information?" Russian Archivist: "i don't understand, what more information could want?" Steve Mclaughlin: "Well, want to know what it looked like and other basic stuff." Russian Archivist: "click"

The next Neil Breen movie: Twisted Battleship.

NO ONE: How is the propulsion?

Tsiolkovsky: let’s have rocket propulsion.

​@@CAP198462Lysenko: let's use compressed water.

Prigozhin: SHOIGU, WHERE IS THE PROPULSION!?

He's English, their humor is as dry as their Gin.

@@seankane8628 I dunno, Monty Python is far from dry, but both very English and very funny. As in the French knight saying (in a cheesy French accent) "Go away before I taunt you a second time."

The best so far was "you can take the sky from ..". Only folks who love the future as much as the past got it

French have most likely had the ministry of silly looking war ships?

@@genebohannon8820 Shiny.

Yup!

Russian Battleships: We've only got a left screw and rudder.

In soviet russia ship does not move you, You have to move ship

@@comentedonakeyboard He-he. Back in Soviet Russia (as well as Soviet Ukraine and Soviet Estonia and etc.) we did in fact move the ships every year. We still do. Otherwise ice will crush them all. It's a odd sight - driving through a snowy field, and then suddenly there are dozens of big and small ships wintering on the ground.

@Drachinifel91 FAKOFF BOT!

Yes, very relaxing as it is a counterbalance to the bullshit of today.

They were built for military use as Russia relied/had to rely on vacuum tubes much longer than the western countries due to some backlog in solid state tech. But true, very suitable for High-End audio

Also aren't vacuum tube impervious to a Nuclear EMP?

@@genebohannon8820 Sort of, but that wasn't a major factor in the continued use of them in military hardware, I believe there is a good article on the internet specifically about this topic and the relation of vacuum tubes to soviet military hardware

Because Russia is one of the few places where you can still get them mass produced. RCA tubes, for example, are high quality, but they quit making them decades ago and the company doesn't even exist except as a brand name now.

I build radios and amps and use Russian tubes in everything since they're available and reliable.

Luv me ships Luv me Drach Nuthin’ to ´ate Simple as.

Correct statement.

Facts👍

Snap!

Phone here, I taps.

Tell the ship's oilers they "had ONE job!".

@Drachinifel91cease

Torpedo boats spotted!

4:00 AM so please forgive me: I just thought - what does a russian naval architect have to do with the french SS-division (think it was called Karl-the-Great) :)

@@connycontainer9459 The ocean liner, mate...

@@The_Modeling_Underdog Yeah, I figured..

In fairness, the impossibility of that _was_ obvious at the time to a lot of people who weren't Sir Douglas Haig.

​@@ZGryphonHaig gets a bad rap. Cavalry aside, he learned and adapted throughout the war - unlike many other Generals.

Haig at least accepted tanks in combat after the first Somme debacle.

Well the cavalry did explote breakthroughs in the last year on Western Front. Had a painting of US horse cav taking a German Railgun at Ft Benning when I was there and I read of one late engagement where they were beating though to finally get the horse cav to do a breakout. You be right to counter the German Army was starting to fall apart at that point. The fun in that British Break out is the German Guns had been armed with anti tank rounds and the prior unbeatable tanks were very beatable, some thought tanks obsolete by year after the war. So the Infantry and Artillery had to cover the Tanks to break though to finally totally clear a path for the horse cav. Horse Cavalry was quite effective on the Eastern Front in WWI. And again in WWII during the War the Germans created one horse cav corps regular army and one SS and the Russians created 5 Guard Horse Cavalry Armies. And it was a mistake to disband the US horse before the Invasion Paton could have used one or two divisions of it for the break thru in France as they lacked the transport to get enough fuel over for the tank and motorized formations that replaced the horse cav. Same reason it worked on Eastern Front when it hard to fuel mechanized units the horse units could penetrate deep when things were wide open and they mostly fought dismounted although there were a fair number of successful cav charges in WWII when they caught the enemy unprepared. Which was true of the last US horse cav charge in the Philippines at start of the war which was successful vs the Japanese.

Humans have a tendency to get stuck in a mindset and reject any data which contradict it. It's difficult to break that hold, but always necessary and never completely impossible. We get to see the big picture today, as compiled by others who looked at the finer details, but to a contemporary decision maker, only SOME of the finer details would have been visible.

Interesting question, never really thought about that. I know the French were a little influential in some of the ship designs, with Jeune ecole effecting the Japanese light ships, and having had a hand in designing some of the Russian battleships. Vickers was also rather proudly producing ships for the Japanese navy into the '30s (IJNS Kongo was on an advert of their's for a long while). Worth abitta research.

Russian had terrible french tumblehome disasters, and add to that the general incompetence of russians and the result was gonna be the same 100 times out of hundred.

I've read way too much about the Russo-Japanese War than any sane non-historian should. Japanese shipbuilding was certainly not up to building Pre-Dreadnought Battleships. Virtually all of theirs were built in Britain. They were very capable of building cruisers, destroyers and torpedo boats, most of those were homebuilt, if based on foreign (primarily British) design. Befitting the Russian Navy of 1904-Present (really, anything since the Age of Ironclads, Russian shipbuilding was pretty shambolic. Most of their Pre-Dreadnought Battleships were built based off of French designs, although most were built in house. The cruisers and destroyers, like the battleships, were a hodgepodge of British, French, and even American designs. Then you get into the decrepit ironclads, converted yachts, etc. of the Third Pacific Squadron, and you're really running into a hodge-podge of designs. The big difference, as with so much about that war (and subsequently, World War One), is that the Russian ships were a hodgepodge of designs that in some cases weren't really built to work with each other, whereas the Japanese were a lot more careful in their foreign procurement. That made a big, big difference in terms of the two fleets performance, both in the earlier battles, and especially at Tsushima.

@@stuartdollar9912 The Kongo was British built but her sister ships were built in Japanese shipyards, am I correct?

@@Ah01 General incompetence as a naval power. As a land power they basically beat the EU twice, once in 1812 and once in 1945. In fact, Western Europe has never beaten Russia in a land war. The Crimean War was more of a limited hybrid naval/land war. And I think you can consider Napoleon and Hitler proto-EU leaders, although obviously by coercion and not diplomatic agreement.

Thanks for those. Very well done.

@@kennethdeanmiller7324 Thank you! It was fun, working with Drach. He had to explain all the details I could not make out on the old grainy photos, specially with the Slava.

It is a chapter to the book "And Then It Got Worse: A History of the Slavic People".

Yeppers.

wait until he shows up in tuxedo :D

My daughter thinks he scrubs up quite well!

Is it part of filter, just like curtain?

@@antonisauren8998 Looks like a filter, ye.

Maybe he can get a filter that puts him in knights armour. I added the "U" for my UK cuz'ints

Underrated comment, though.

No, he is just preparing for the Alien Invasion 😂

😂 My thoughts exactly! (Too much grog?)

Court date. Charged with making inappropriate advances to HMS Caroline.

The more advanced ships required more machinery to be put inside the hull leaving less space to accommodate the increasing number of crew to man that machinery, therefore superstructures became larger and more advanced. Tallships had no superstructure at all.

I got called for jury duty once. Wore my Rooster Cogburn "a fair trial and a fine hanging" tshirt. Didn't get selected, not sure why. (Just joking, I may not be happy about jury duty if called but I wouldn't try to get out of it).

@@xlerb2286 I was just poking fun at the unseasonal budget suit ;)

Если честно все очень поверхностно и многое упущено.

I agree, but im not always actively watching, as in 9/10 times im just listening to drach or gregs airplanes or rex's hangar while driving, so i cant always like a video

Problem is, if you like a vid then it goes into your like queue then when you're having a party & play your like play list of stacks of songs, something comes on about the Holocaust, about SLBMs and about missions to Venus. I admit though I'm tidier than that, but its a good guess (as Ive missed some serious stuff from time to time - GIna G to Waffen SS in a heartbeat LOL).

@@emjackson2289that’s why I made a party playlist. The only serious subjects in that list are the ones I put there 😉

Why are you shilling for free? At least get something out of it.

@@ThatZenoGuy Sorry i dont understand can u expand on that please?

"Birds if a feather" and all that

True, but you can say the same for Japan. Japan had no factories or industrialization, no experience in modern warfare or technology at all until the 1870s. Laid down the first dreadnought (although it was not launched until after the HMS Dreadnought, partially due to Britain delaying shipping the guns over), shortly after Tsushima in 1905. Beat Russia, a country that had participated and observed every major war in the past 100 years. Also worth remembering their economy was growing steadily in the pre-WW1 era, Germany was reportedly afraid of what the Russian industrial capability would be like if they didn't smack them down around WW1. If not for the Civil War and the damage it caused imagine the growth they coulda had. Also, you know, insane dictators hobbling and threatening them every now and then (although the threats may have helped?).

Melodie composed by comrade Registan, right?

Yep. And then it got worse!

The Project 1134B Kara-class and Project 1134A Kresta-II-class are Large Anti-submarine Ships (BPKs), they had very little anti-ship capability beyond guns and using their SAMs in an anti-surface role. Only when the improved URPK-5 Rastrub variant of the SS-N-14 entered service from the mid 1970s onwards did they receive any extra anti-ship capability beyond that of comparable Western Warships. It should be pointed out that these ships were all enlarged descendants of Destroyers, their main US equivalents would probably be Frigates (DL/DLG/DLGN), although they were more specialised anti-air warfare Fast Task Force escorts, rather than the anti-submarine specialised BPKs. The early specialised anti-ship cruise missile carriers the project 58 Kynda-class and Project 1134 Kresta-I-classes were not built in large numbers, with only eight ships total (four ships per class) being built compared to the ten Kresta-IIs and seven Karas. Slava very slightly post-dates Kirov, and is basically a smaller, cheaper Gas-Turbine propelled alternative.

There is an Australian who posts on KZfaq as Perun who does hour-long PowerPoint presentations about how corruption allows private Conscriptovich and Colonel Kleptoski to better their meager pay while having disproportionate effects on actual performance in the field.

@@kemarisitedon’t forget general oligarchov who has had the troops train for war by building his family’s dacha

@@kemarisitebecause who doesn’t know that the way to defeat a enemy if to literally outbuild them

@@andrewgraham6006 another man of taste and refinement. Yes, I knew I was drawing a blank on at least one character in the show.