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Will you please make a “What if the US made no more Battleships as of 1942”, so only the Washing 2 would be the new ones?

Fantastic Tribute to a heap of leftover Scraps.

32:44 who is unsafe? The people, explosives or both lmao

A clear demonstration of how quickly the early dreadnoughts were overtaken by advances in naval technology. Service life of 10 years, going from the flagship of the fleet to basically a second rater by 1916, under armored and under gunned to the point of being surplus to requirements in 1919.

That was so interesting that i was glued to my seat. Great details

Can you do a guide to KMS Großer Kurfürst.

An absolute smasher of a video, Drach. The Oberons were around and about everything and anything that needed to be done discretely during the Cold War, so... Maybe a few more decades of secrecy until the files are eventually released to the public. Cheers.

We need "Drach Merch" I propose a T-shirt that simply says "Sold for scrap"

Why didnt they use sand timers?

Another Nelson type? Hahaha .... When the whole world circles around the Brits and its ships ....

I usually like your RUclips videos - but after two attempts to watch this - I've found it BORING. I do not care one whit about Excel spreadsheets about construction and if a ship was on the roster when it was sunk/decommissioned. Talk about other things - you are much better than this BS. Cheers.

2:40 Drach finally confirms that Tillman simply copied the long lost RN blueprints from Fisher's "two dozen cheese scones before bed" period.

We shouldnt have let the Americans walk all over us and reduce our navy after ww1. We wouldve done better if we just told them to do one

The Aussie Oberon-class submarines are among the best driven spec-ops subs in the world. If only half of the rumored exploits of the RAN with these boats is true, they'd be legends.

Looking forward to the German K class cruisers from ww2 and your old soundtrack was a better tune than this new one that you are using

As Jackie exclaimed, the RN's biggest enemy is Treasury.

80% of this video is not about the subject in the title. What a crappy video. Lunar eclipses, sub colors, and tons of info about everything except the excruciating, frequently redundant but short explanation of the title material. This video should be retitled, "Monotonous, story about WWII US subs."

May be a bit out of left field but does anyone know where to find Drach’s discord link? I can’t seem to find it.

Handsome ship

Backward monogenitic savages who went from matchlock muskets to shiny machines never had a clue what real warfare was....not stabbing women and children with hog knives but real warfare

Good discussion. Truly. I do, however, feel a few salient points were missed. In general, the US prior to World War Two, was much more convinced than the British that aircraft carriers were going to be just as important, or more than, as battleships. And the carriers the US had were very fast for the time. Many of the United States older battleships could not keep up with the carriers. And so a major design consideration for the iowas was speed to keep up with carriers, NOT speed to overtake cruisers/battlecruisers. This is an important distinction because the iowas were still, largely, treaty limited battleships via the escalator clause. In other words. They had to make sacrifices in order to keep the weight limit within treaty, mostly so as not to alienate the British since the Japanese had already pulled out. And yet they still needed the battleships to be faster than carriers. Hence, the limited armor. As such, the Iowas were treaty BATTLESHIPS , in which the designers made the hard choice to sacrifice armor for speed so as to make the battleship able to function alongside fast carriers. The British, conversely, going into Ww2 still very much considered the battleship to be their primary surface combatant. Please, if you’re a Brit reading this don’t rage reply. The Brit’s Absolutely had aircraft carriers and made good use of them, but I’m taking about doctrinal emphasis, on which they continued to place greater weight on battleships. This is why the Brit’s during Ww2 really struggled to field good NAVAL war planes to operate off carriers which is why over half of their fleet air arm ultimately used American Naval warplanes: wildcats, corsairs etc, because naval planes were something of the red haired step children of British Navy funding prewar. When the Brit’s had money to spend in the navy, they spent the lions share on battleships/battleship upgrades. Evidence of the emphasis in British doctrine on battleships. In summation, you really need to look at how the Iowas were slotted into how the Americans thought they would fight (with Aircraft carriers being a major part) versus the British, who still placed the bulk of their thinking on battleships and battlecruisers. There were good reasons for each nation to think this way: pacific vs. Atlantic/Mediterranean sizes for example. But the fact remains that Drach, who I’m I admire, definitely has a bit of British thinking doctrinal bias, which used a lot of battleship centric ideas in WW2, rather than examining how the US was tailoring it’s fleet, as best it could, to operate with carriers as a major, if not THE major, naval surface combatant.

The bottom line: Henry J. Kaiser proposed to build 50 aircraft carriers in two years. The Navy said it couldn't be done. However, Kaiser completed the job AHEAD of schedule. What defense contractor could accomplish such a feat today?

Maybe you're right, maybe you're wrong, but one think i know for sure - original Bismarck was the most beautiful ship on this planet!

There was a period when Battleships were becoming obsolete about as fast as combat aircraft in the 1930's, when they moved from wood & Fabric biplanes to all metal monoplanes while engine horsepower at least doubled and top speed shot up (to the sky).

Thanks Drach

Neptune was one of the best looking battleship of her age, and far too few pictures were taken of her, especially late career.

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Part of reason for Neptunes good gunnery stats at Jutland . May well have been that she was commanded by Capt VHG Bernard. . a former gunnery officer, who, pre war had commanded the "old" Royal Sovergein.. then the RN gunnrery training ship

Started playing Battletech again. The balance of weapons and armor speaks to me on a level that is almost bone deep.

Wing turrets look so cool.

The 16 inch barrel off the Iowa is an incredible 118 tons! She has 9

It is ironic that it was budget controls that kept the 13.5-inch gun off the ship instead of the usual problem of not wanting to wait for the guns to be finished. Probably was a good move anyway because not using up the supply of 13.5-inch guns on Neptune and the Collosuses meant a full half-squadron of much better Orions could be launched very quickly just a couple of seasons later.

Just get to it already.

In a superposed turret arrangement, would the aft turret fire with it's muzzles over the roof of the forward turret?

Not much of an improvement over Dreadnought, but a great looking ship. One of my favorite British battleships.

Couple of side notes on the Emden. One of her 4.1" guns is now a memorial on the corner of Park and College Streets in Sydney and an Emden-damaged piece of Sydney's ranging gear is at the front of the Royal Australian Naval College in Jervis Bay NSW (my naval alma mater). This damage, with three sailors killed, was a result of one of the very few hits on Sydney by Emden before Sydney withdrew out of range and picked the other ship to pieces. On a more personal note, my late grandmother seems to have been courted by one of the Emden's officers while he was a POW in Australia. Her father was the visiting dentist at the prison where he was being kept. l have a photo of him with a very nice annotation and a beautiful carved box he made and presented to her before he was repatriated to Germany in 1919.

The flying deck is FUGLY!

Now onto Orion

"The Admiralty said they must have six battleships, the Treasury said we could only afford four, so we compromised on eight" - WS Churchill

poor fish!

It's kind of amazing the life span of a capital ship when compared to say the B-52.

What a short time for the deep fall from Flagship to obsolete and scrapped.

Would it be possible to go into Almere detail on the Myoko class cruisers? I was a little disappointed you really didn’t focus on their careers at all, especially Haguro (no offense).

Thank you, great information!