Just noticed, my 56th birthday is on February 15th and you are going to talk about one of mine favourite class of of ships, the Duke of Edinburgh, thank you doc
Well! What a Tuesday evening this is turning out to be: I'd had a bit of a struggle putting out my recycling and rubbish bins ( it being that time of the month, again) and I was cheering myself up with D'Oyly Carte and HMS Pinafore when one of young Alexs' videos appears. And a thoroughly interesting one at that, addressing an aspect of the Kriegsleiche Marine, that hadn't even crossed my mind: mine warfare. In fairness to myself, my period of interest in Naval History, and indeed in Naval Architecture, is roughly from the Restoration to Viscount Melville, and d'ye know, sea mines and their strategies do not really feature. I put the current obsession with floating hip baths and galvie buckets down to video games such as World of Warships. I am not immune to the wiles of lots of big guns (more dakka!!) I firmly believe that the bigger the bang the better, but, much as I miss telephone kiosks, "Sailing By" at the close of Radio4, and the playing of the National Anthem when BBC tv closed down for the night* I miss an age when sheer seamanship skills were essential to take the weather gauge from an enemy' lay oneself alongside, and give 'em a double shotted broadside (or better yet broadside to stern and rake 'em). Ah simpler days, such innocent pleasures. I only meant to put a comment in for the sake of the algorithm; I was going to say something tres drole about The Holy Biplane and The Blessed Crew Chief but I think I'm in a post G&S "glow" (and no I haven't had a wet😵 or or one of my granddaughters jazz fags😵💫) * I also miss the scramble for the exit at the cinema a the end of the film to avoid the National Anthem.🧐
Hot dog, going to be a good afternoon, Doc has uploaded a new video! Hmm. Considering artillery, that’s a big feature of the Canadian Type 26. The Brits and Aussies cheaped out on the main guns, only 30km range compared to 100km range with our guns. And yes, they mount cruise missiles too. The more I look at the damned things, the scarier they get. Just wish we had twenty instead of fifteen.
@@karlvongazenberg8398 It’s a nice gun. I’ve been hoping for the last five years that we’d go Volcano, and holy cow we did. The Italian arms industry is pretty advanced.
45:00 China - and of course there are the "smart" mines, ie. a torpedo or two in capsule, tied to passive, fixed sensors and firing on targets (picked by AI, remote control, preprogrammed profiles). And calling in some oldie but goodie anti-ship missiles when those pesky minehunter vessels show up.
Just finished Friedman’s book on RN destroyer design, the early ships tended to try and imitate submarines in rough seas. Also in regards to slave labour use to make Uboats an article in Legion Magazine mentions that the captain of U-94 had been on an earlier boat which had been sabotaged by slave labour. U-94 was sunk in an epic convoy battle on which HMCS Oakville rammed the sun three times, and used empty coke bottles as anti-submarine weapons for the first and only time. One question - a way back, like probably early seventies I read a book about WW1 which mentioned that the Imperial Russian Navy was supposed to be expert in the use of mines, and that stuck with me because I knew so little about mines and I was wondering why it was important. So now I know why it was important, but I’ve heard nothing at all about the subject since. I have no idea where I got that from, but it may have been Liddell Hart’s The Great War, I read that book about then.
