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"OHAYOU BUCKY" - Konggou

"If you're vacationing in Vladivostok, try a dive on this former Japanese destroyer". I guess I take rather ordinary vacations!

"...began entering service in thirteen thirty one." Oh hell just imagine the medieval navies' reactions to this alien sight lol

It's amazing how the Japanese were ahead of other nations in making sleek, futuristic looking destroyers.

As it was mentioned in this guide: How about an episode on WW2 torpedoes and the Long Lance in particular?

Wow, 24 ships produced. That's like 3 months worth of Fletcher Class production.

Make no mistake: in the late twenties, the Fubuki class DDs were the best of their class in the world. They were still a nasty handful by the time the war broke out. They could have been better in the AAW and ASW roles but, were powerful destroyers.

If you happen to be around Vladivostok, AND a fan of cold water.

The bit about the infamous 25mm guns reminds me of a Simpsons episode. "You're going to receive more anti-aircraft weapons." Fubuki: "That's good!" "They're the type 96." Fubuki: "That's bad." "But they'll be in triple mounts for better concentration of firepower." Fubuki: "That's... adequate." "But we'll have to remove one of your gun turrets to give you the space and weight." FubukiL "That's bad." "Yes, but this way you're a bit less top heavy." Fubuki: "That's good." "But you'll look even more like a lolibote and Ark Royal will perv on you." Fubuki: "...Can I go, now?"

I see Bucky. This will be a good morning.

Fubuki will do her best!

Always loved the aesthetic of the Fubukis, and IJN ships in general. Great video as always!

FUBUKI DOES HER BEST

I need to make an account called the Kamchatka and each and every time he mentions Japanese torpedo boats i gotta post xD

Drachinifel: Uploads Fubuki Comments: *KC and AL Fans UNITE!*

Hey look, is Bucky! ;)

Fubuki chan , always love to see you :)

A real shame none of these ships survived to be museums. They were important to the development of destroyers.

Fubuki, ganbarimasu!

Ah, the Bucky. Great ship wife

Excellent. Shikinami just gets a K2 in Kancolle, and now we get a video about the class.

4:32 Damn if this is what the Japanese had at the time, admiral Yi must have been the best admiral ;)

*[Ganbarimasu intensifies]*

Fubuki tries her best!

The Akatsuki sub class' collective history need a video all their own

Bucky!!!

AKAGI-SENPAI

I see IJN destroyers, I insta-like! Great video on the first batch of the goodest girls in WW2, the little ships that could :D Looking forward to Shiratsuyu and Kagerou class

Ushio Has A particularly interesting Service History of Rescue (both Japanese and Allied sailors) valor in surface, bombardment, anti submarine, and Anti Air combat along with a particularly harrowing fire extinguishing at sea of her sister ship Akebono. There is ample material to have a lovely episode dedicated to her.

Ah the fubuki, a giant torpedo boat pretending to be a destroyer

Great video - channels like this give me actual hope about the internet and youtube. Thank you.

Suddenly Potatoes, the small comrade, the elephant lady, and many more (*cough* *cough* Kancolle master race *cough* *cough*)

Love these little ships. Very attractive design.

Fubuki is one of the most fun ships to play in World of Warships!

Me: feeling doing something productive now. KZfaq: drachinifel vid on your fav dd..

Had to double check the length of the video to make sure it was indeed 9 minutes and not 9 hours (as would have been fitting given recent video lengths)

The Fubuki class, part of the IJN that had a good part of the Pacific singing I'm turning Japanese.

They're such GOOD LOOKING little ships too.

Awesome video Drach, I've always loved Bucky due to her history and two certain boat girl games keep up the awesome work

Destroyers fascinate me. Multipurpose platforms that often get overlooked despite their usefulness and lethality. Lots of experimentation and technology advancement.

Let's come together fellow fans of Poi and Burning Love!!!

Brilliant as always. Thanks @Drachinifel for doing these. Great work.

These ships were of welded construction, quite revolutionary for the time.

Looked like they would have "rolled in a bathtub" , but were formidable warships. Anything up to the biggest super-dreadnought that came into the range of a long lance torpedo was in a lot of trouble.

the IJN had some very interesting and innovative designs. the torpedo cruisers kitakami and oi for example. numerous 24inch torpedo turrets. and they had the first real LSD . also the i400 submarine. their ships were designed to fit the wave lengths of the pacific and had that unique bow and drop away stern, to drain water and save weight. and then there were the seaplane carriers and minelaying cruisers. so much to cover .

Most of the Fubuki class ships were equipped with type 90 air torpedoes, and only a few ships received type 93 upgrade in 1943

IJ Galatin, in his memoir on his WW2 submarine service refers to the Fubikis as major ASW threats

Yes been waiting for this one on. Thank you Drac.

Not the Fubuki that i watch but it works too.

Watching again, still amazed at the quality.

Got confused for a little bit when I saw the photos with name usugumo and shirakumo. Then I realized they are not in Kancolle. (meanwhile Shinonome is at least in wows)

This is opposed to the Kabuki class, which main weapon was annoying music, forcing the enemy ship to surrender to get it to stop!

Fubuki. Most satisfactory.

KC intensifies.....:

ty dude never miss the fruits of your research :P

If you need more work, please accept these requests: IJN kitakami & Oi KMS Thor KMS Penguin KMS Atlantis(well all the armed German merchants) An in depth look at both the Washington & London treaties

so you are covering the potat ship fubuki ? hmmm yes potat

I expected an account of the service of IJN Fubuki. The exploits of an entire class of destroyers is a different story. A Japanese perspective on the naval battle of Guadalcanal, would have been a good video.

When drachinifel gets 1 mill I can say I've been here since around 50k

when you're denied parity in capital ships with western powers, you make an over-buffed fleet escort that can smack up the competition

Love it when his videos cover world of warship ships

a certain one of the type 2 subclass of these was certainly quite successful until uss washington said "NO!" though this one was supposed to be in a 3 pronged attack on the american ships supporting the naval landings in guadacanal, ayanami had issues with the radio and couldnt communicate with the others but charged in anyways sinking several ships before being sunk by uss washington

Back in the day on the Super Nintendo or Famicom playing the PTO series of games, this ship always gave me problems and I had to divert air power in order to get rid of them off the screen. When I went to the PS2 version, the first thing I did when playing as anyone but Japan was to create there counter which was a gunboat destroyer with 10 guns though only 100mm so not to stress the hull and good anti-air. Unwittingly I created the Akizuki upgrade the Harugumo that you can see in WoW. These things were always being thrown at me and taking a lot of damage throughout via there guns and torpedos. I would suggest to Drach if he wants to look at ships without playing WoW try PTO 4, on the PS2 it's surprisingly accurate and has the histories though basic of the ship.

Fubuki tries always her best

Ahh, A nice cup of Tea, and a Drachinifel IJN Video with plenty of fellow weebs in the comments, a Morning Well Spent! :)

😭😭😭😭😭😭FUBUKI!!!😭😭😭😭😭😭

IJN Kikuzuki would be a great video, as it was captured and refloated by the U.S. It's wreck can still be seen in a Lagoon on Tulagi.

Its a shame even fewer of these IJN ships survived to this day than compared to their counterparts in other navies. Would have loved to walk around a fubuki or akatsuki.

Tomodzuru in the typhoon turned turtle & was towed home thus, stern first. It might have been more honorable if she had in fact sunk. This began the reconstruction of the entire IJN, completing just in time for the Pacific War (& if That isn't a name!).

Oh yea to anyone still watching this; none of the Special Types apart from Ushio and maybe Hibiki received the Long Lance Torpedo because their tubes were not compatible with it and most of them sank before the IJN decided to give them the torpedoes.

The HMS Dreadnought of destroyers.

"Thirteen thirty one" Could you imagine being a mongol ready to invade japan but then some ship called fubuki pulls up and rains shells upon your wooden ship?

The exact date of the treaty aluded to at the start would be useful here for non-students of such things.

I'm a simple man. Whenever I see a Drach video, I click like :-D

The strange thing about the IJN and its use of AA guns was they had one of the best heavy AA guns, the Type 98 100 mm gun from 1940 onwards, but they armed only a few classes ships by 1945, the majority being diverted to land AA use. Prewar, they had purchased British 2 pdr pom pom guns in several batches, with at least 500 examples being on hand by 1935. These were used in single and twin mounts. The Japanese considered them only useful in smaller ships like subchasers and minesweepers after 1935, judging their 25 mm Hotchkiss design to be superior. They had also purchased examples of German 20 mm and 37 mm guns as well as Oerlikon 20 mm types. They captured at least one hundred fifty 40 mm Bofors guns after the Fall of Singapore. Even more of a windfall, they had captured another sixteen examples of the Dutch 40 mm, the most fully developed Bofors guns in the world in 1940. It's not a matter of the Japanese _only_ having 25 mm guns, it was a matter of the IJNs laser focus on torpedoes and torpedo warfare. The Japanese economy had been shattered by the Great Depression and the military spending required by the war in China. Given their limited resources, the IJN rightly decided that having the world's best torpedo, among the best torpedo mounts, and large destroyers and cruisers carrying lots of the Type 93 torpedoes was a war winning strategy. The results of such thinking in 1942 through early 1943 showed that they weren't wrong, especially combined with the IJN's almost obsessive training in night fighting. However, that was only true for surface warfare. Even though the Japanese had been among the first navies to understand the theory and use of aircraft carrier, they developed very little understanding of how to defend against the enemy's aircraft. Their limited resources didn't allow them to develop three or four different types of AA weapons, so the decision was made to mass produce the type they already had and understood how to produce. After 1942, they knew the 25 mm gun was marginal at best and started working on reverse engineering the Bofors and Oerlikon guns. By 1944, their industrial infrastructure was being cut to ribbons by US bombardments, the merchant fleet they needed to bring in steel and other critical materials was increasingly on the bottom of the sea, and they were running out of time. From postwar US reports, they had working prototypes of Bofors and Oerlikon guns ready for production, but not until June, 1945, and they didn't have the material needed for mass production in any case. It was the IJN's narrow vision of how naval warfare would develop in what became WWII that left them without an effective AA gun, not they couldn't have developed one.

I'd like to see Drach do a description of my mom's 1995 Ford Escort station wagon like he does a naval vessel😂😂😂👌👌👌

Fubuki Doing her best

Right, because diving in the waters near Vladivostok sounds like a nice warm vacation....

A book that might be a very good read DescriptionThe American Black Chamber is a 1931 book by Herbert O. Yardley. The book describes the inner workings of the interwar American governmental cryptography organization called the Black Chamber. America was reading the Japanese coded messages during the Washington treaty negotiations, the Japanese found out and lost their minds.

No! Fubuki was sunk?? She worked so hard! I can't abide this! Fegelein!!

I LOVE your voice:)

nine torpedo tubes… 😱😱😱😱😱 a dangerous destroyer.

for april 1st perhaps you can make a video on The mighty jingles cat Akizuki, since she is named after a ship.

How about doing a story of the IJN "Lucky" Shigure?

Bucky!

Ayanami, All alone, where did the rest of the pincer go, i wonder.

How about a video on the Spanish fleet in the Spanish Civil War? Seems like a black hole where no one else has treaded.

:buckysmug:

A well done video, I admire the audacity of the Japanese planners.

Don't want to sound like -boo, but: 1. First ten units were never planned with DP main armament. We're in early 1920s, it's a bit too early. 2. Second series were first DDs with DP armament indeed, at a time, when no one even considered it seriously. (Farraguts came later, and others started to think seriously full 10 years later). Gun turrets had numerous problems at higher elevations though. (basically - apart from obvious restrictions of guns with separate loading and known problems with rigidity of turrets - gun mounts couldn't properly handle high elevation recoil). Those issues were only properly solved on D model(Yugumo and Shimakaze). 3. It should be noted, that Japanese, strangely enough, weren't stupid, and always understood restrictions of chosen gun system in AA role. They had no choice: for surface fighting, they had to install proper gun: they were expecting to be outnumbered by USN. Americans could allow themselves a compromise gun instead of 5"/51 weapon for the very same reason for which Japanese couldn't use roughly comparable 12.7cm/40 one. And even for US this choice wasn't that simple back in late 1920s-early 1930s. 4. It's worth mentioning that 3rd group is the first destroyers ever with true DP fire control. A pity early 30s AA fire control wasn't all that capable against 1940s threats, but then again, Farraguts and Mahans weren't Fletchers either. 5. 55 degrees elevation was a loss(otherwise they wouldn't try fixing it), but it's still more than anyone but the americans. So-called dp-capable L/Ms had only 50, and their turrets were basically an unsolved failure. 6. While i somewhat understand your utter hate of 25mm guns - they appeared as a uniform main AA weapon of IJN before even 28mm Chicago pianos did. Bad choice or not, it(along with its fcs) was firmly ahead of the curve in mid-late 1930s. And Japanese simply had no "switch" button like americans did. Because before 1942, japanese close-in AA just wasn't all that bad. 7. The fact that 15 year old class was relevant as frontline DDs during ww2 is a huge merit by itself. Most units of comparable age of other navies weren't capable of being frontline destroyers anymore.

Yay Bucky

Fubuki does her best

well ain't this a treat

Her said the 2nd class was commissioned In 1331

bet it did a cute sneeze at one point

4:58 Hi Torp queen of the started squad.

I have a porthole and blast plate from the Hatsuyuki sunk at Bougainville . If anyone has any photos of the ship i would appreciate them , i have only the one.

Am I the only one who knows the Fubuki from Battlestations: Midway/Pacific?

I'd love to see a video of KMS U-556 the knight Percival that protected Bismarck