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The two circular warships of the Imperial Russian Navy, are today's subject.
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@Maddog3060 5 лет назад

They're like aquatic roombas.

@slojogojo2766 5 лет назад

Maddog3060 NICE !

@markblakey3456 5 лет назад

Imagine the size of the cat needed to ride that one. Huuuuuggggeeee.

@Maddog3060 5 лет назад

@@markblakey3456 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-TayTHX_FgvY.html Something like those I'd imagine.

@fistpunder 4 года назад

Maddog3060 That comment actually made me laugh Out loud!

@kentnebergall3156 4 года назад

@@markblakey3456 Out - Czar Bomba In - Czar Kiska (OK, I realize that means "king female cat", but it doesn't work as a wordplay pun otherwise.)

@richardscott1397 5 лет назад

"20 degrees to starboard." " Which starboard captain?"

@Elenrai 5 лет назад

"Just pick one that suits you I guess..." *Sigh*

@VersusARCH 5 лет назад

I think they used clockwise-counterclockwise on those two.

@lesamos8900 5 лет назад

thats right down a bit, dick head.

@rolfs2165 3 года назад

Unless you're putting the screws all around the ship, there's at least one direction that can be declared aft - and everything else can be derived from that.

@PS-nf3xw 3 года назад

amos navy lark?

@joearnold6881 5 лет назад

Oh I assumed these would be more hypotheticals. They actually built the things?! I love it and want one as a pet.

@b.griffin317 5 лет назад

apparently so did the tzar.

@JLPicard1648 5 лет назад

...they should've sent a poet...

@davidlogansr8007 5 лет назад

You couldn’t afford to feed it!

@b.griffin317 5 лет назад

@@davidlogansr8007 ya, 11.5" shells aren't as cheap as they used to be.

@ethanpoole3443 5 лет назад

What can one say, those crazy Russians! But a good crazy as one clearly needs more humor in war...and if your enemies are keeled over with laughter as you spin about dizzying everyone then they certainly aren’t shooting at you!

@lostpony4885 5 лет назад

Well rounded ships. Literally.

@Lazarus7000 5 лет назад

As soon as I saw where the screws are, I thought "I bet they could do some wacky shit with differential thrust" and indeed they could.

@DeHerg 4 года назад

They could've turned the entire ship into one big turret (if you really want to go crazy with ballast tanks front and aft for elevation).

@patrickdertz9110 4 года назад

DeHerg an aquatic s tank

@pickeljarsforhillary102 5 лет назад

You spin me right round, baby Right round like a record, baby Right round round round

@bigblue6917 5 лет назад

For the Monitor with it's revolving turret firing as the target came into view I thought Pop goes the Weasel would be a good theme to play.

@andybrooks3155 5 лет назад

I can't see or hear of this (song) without thinking of meat spin... Not your fault of course. But thank you, for that horrible reminder! To anyone else, don't even think about looking, trust me you don't want to too!

@johnsobery 5 лет назад

Flat bottom girls make the rocking world go round

@JosipRadnik1 5 лет назад

@@andybrooks3155 What's wrong with 80ies disco synth beats and fancy pirate looks in neon colour tones? If you lived through it, you know the answer: everything!

@claypidgeon4807 5 лет назад

**meatspin flashbacks**

@2manyIce 5 лет назад

"No matter if it is a good idea or not, as long as you can actually build it, someone WILL build it." First Law of Engineering proven right again....

@punkypink83 5 лет назад

the original UFO unique floating object

@jcwoodman5285 5 лет назад

USO🤗

@klobiforpresident2254 5 лет назад

@@jcwoodman5285 They were sunk?

@bkjeong4302 5 лет назад

Klobi for President Scrapped.

@bluefoxy6478 5 лет назад

@@klobiforpresident2254 unique scrapped object.

@klobiforpresident2254 5 лет назад

@@bluefoxy6478 Here I was, thinking it'd be unorthodox scrapyard orders.

@bigblue6917 5 лет назад

Brings a whole new meaning to just taking it out for a spin.

@norbertblackrain2379 5 лет назад

Well at least they were innovative ... thank you for correcting some of the myths about this unusual design.

@matthewlovibond900 5 лет назад

Yes the QI researchers need to watch this.

@donjones4719 3 года назад

@@matthewlovibond900 Ha! I just watched a clip of QI (a British TV show, folks) about this and it made me go and watch this Drachinefel one again. Yup, QI repeated the two myths.

@WillowEpp 5 лет назад

Ah, the majestic Sea Pancake!

@benjaminmiddaugh2729 5 лет назад

Combined with the flying flapjack we've started an interesting design trend.

@weldonwin 5 лет назад

The Battle Blin

@Arthion 5 лет назад

The pancake-ship concept sounds interesting. Perhaps not the most practical but the ability to rotate extremely quickly by adjusting the engines sounds pretty useful

@Colt45hatchback 5 лет назад

Makes you wonder why the guns werent in a fixed direction. Fuck aiming just point the ship hahaha

@L0stEngineer 5 лет назад

Russia: I dare you to try cross my T now!!

@nitehawk86 5 лет назад

Cross their O?

@TheCasualGerman 5 лет назад

Cross their i?

@nitehawk86 5 лет назад

Canadians would say "Cross their eh"

@jamesharding3459 5 лет назад

Dot their I?

@SMIDSY609 4 года назад

@Drachinifel 5 лет назад

Pinned post for Q&A :) Edit: Yes for some reason I mixed up Baltic and Black Seas... :(

@Volunteer-per-order_OSullivan 5 лет назад

Could a second Vanguard have been built using the turrets from the Erebus & Roberts class monitors and if so would this have had an effect on the service of the class (particularly potential longer service and deployments to Suez, Korea and Malaysia). In addition my apologies for the volume of questions I have posted over time, I feel this may have be rather excessive. Edit: Replace Marshal Ney with Erebus as Marshal Neys' turrets were used in the Roberts class.

@stephenmichalski2643 5 лет назад

Please clarify......constructed on Baltic........for use on Black Sea?........or for Baltic?

@santiago5388 5 лет назад

@@stephenmichalski2643 They were built in and for the Black Sea

@stephenmichalski2643 5 лет назад

@@santiago5388 Thank you.......appreciate it......have a great weekend.

@USS_Grey_Ghost 5 лет назад

What is a Ship of State

@lahma69 5 лет назад

I just found your channel after watching your video on the Russian Second Pacific Squadron (which has to be the funniest documentary I've ever watched). After watching this 2nd video, I think I'm hooked. You are great at conveying concise, detailed information in an efficient manner that is both educational and fun to watch. Keep up the great work.

@roteba1 5 лет назад

It's pleasing to know that these designs, though impractical, were not totally impractical. A worthy attempt to try something new from a Navy not renowned for its history of technical innovation at the time.

@magnemoe1 5 лет назад

Now, you could build on the design, I would drop the turret using barbetes for fine adjustment and just aim the ship tank destroyer style. Obviously very sloped armor both on hull and superstructure, have fun sinking it in 1880. Yes pummeling fire would kill it fast but that was 20 century technology. And yes warships of late 19th century is so fascinating as nobody had much experience and you had wildly conflicting requirements. Turrets on sail ships is my favorite.

@kategrant2728 5 лет назад

With such a narrow draft, I wonder how they’d do in a coastal bombardment roll?

@stevecummins324 4 года назад

Didn't have it then, but wonder how such would do with waterjet propulsion? And if enough power for weight could possibly be made as a planning Hull, with much lower drag.

@VersusARCH Год назад

Russian and Soviet navies were often quite innovative. Not that it always worked well...

@URL358 5 лет назад

Surprising quality of pronunciation of russian names. I'm impressed.

@captainloggy140 5 лет назад

I guess another advantage of a round hull would be that shells always would hit at an angle, significantly increasing the effective armour thickness.

@dullen2810 2 года назад

Not really. The center of the ship would also be presenting effectively flat armor no matter what angle you shoot at it from.

@testingapparatus9868 5 лет назад

3:11 “restrictions on baltic fleet”- shows a picture of the black sea

@robdgaming 4 года назад

As others have probably pointed out, these were built for Black Sea service, not Baltic as in the narration. Confusingly, one was built in St. Petersburg, but transferred to the Baltic via rivers and canals in pieces prior to final assembly.

@angicola4910 4 года назад

@@robdgaming That's really weird.

@myparceltape1169 3 года назад

@@angicola4910 Building in pieces and transferring them to the location of final assembly is still done with aircraft. Not only the engines. There are several ships floating on large lakes several feet above sea level, where the parts were made. Ships boilers have been transported along public roads on the way to the ship under construction.

@angicola4910 3 года назад

@@myparceltape1169 Oh, I thought it meant in one piece. That makes sense.

@CountessKek 3 месяца назад

My Pops, who passed at 93 in 2021, was a Navy officer and he would have SO enjoyed this! Before becoming an officer, he was on the USS Ticonderoga. I remember his pride of her when they had a family ship tour day in San Diego, i was 6 yrs old. What a huge ship!! I was astounded it has airplanes on it😂. Ty for the memories!

@exharkhun5605 5 лет назад

That's a hell of a cliffhanger, waving that golden dinner plate in our faces and going Nope.

@lostpony4885 5 лет назад

Hes got a mean streak.

@robmanueb. 5 лет назад

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_yacht_Livadia_(1880)

@tamlandipper29 5 лет назад

The video for that is now up. Love, the Future

@lightypower3412 5 лет назад

We need only two things now: a circular aircraft carrier and a Novogrod shipgirl for AL.

@myparceltape1169 3 года назад

What do marine helicopters land on?

@valhalanguardsman2588 3 года назад

OK but why and how the second part?

@lightypower3412 3 года назад

@@valhalanguardsman2588 I do not remember, sorry.. Definitely something connected to Drach's vids

@BrettonFerguson 4 года назад

When he said it took and hour to turn, I thought, "couldn't you just turn off half the engines and it would spin almost instantly?" A minute later I was confirmed right.

@alicaljungberg3742 5 лет назад

10:00 this is amazing. They basically had the ability to do a naval 360-noscope if they wanted to add humiliation to injury.

@kameronwillison5378 4 года назад

Ah yes. So that means the Monitor's guns weren't malfunctioning at Hampton Roads, she was just 360 noscoping the Virginia

@The_Laughing_Cavalier 5 лет назад

Tsar: Yeah what? Popov: * draws circle * That. That's what Tsar: What, it's a circle. It's a good circle I'll give you that... Popov: No. No, no... Warship Tsar: What? Popov: Yup Tsar: What? Popov: Yup, it is Tsar: No way! Popov: It is. It is... big time

@PaperclipClips 5 лет назад

The Laughing Cavalier [ Emperor draws a circle with a dot in the middle ] Emperor : THAT will be our ultimate weapon! Death Vader : ... a boobie? Emperor: What?! No, not a boobie!!!

@karansjet3823 5 лет назад

I feel it went more like: Tsar; Popov pass me the Vodka Popov: Vwarship? T: No, Popov give me a bottle of Vodka, the round thing. P: Round Vwarship? T: Sigh.. Okay Popov, round warship.. P: Here's your Vodka your highness

@jebes909090 4 года назад

Officer "They're firing on us comrade captain!!" Captain "I'll try spinning, that's a good trick!"

@mariebcfhs9491 4 года назад

Captain Skywàlkér

@jebes909090 4 года назад

@@mariebcfhs9491 skywalkovski

@vernonbear 4 года назад

For mankind to improve and move forward we must take missteps or make mistakes. These ships are amazing examples of exactly that process. What seems like an obvious solution to a problem is an obvious mistake with our benefit of hindsight. We need designers and inventors who push those boundaries and who take the risks. It makes looking back through history both fascinating and amusing 😀

@Dragons_Armory 5 лет назад

Ah, the Russians, made this and the Tsar Tank Never stop, Russia. You always make history much more interesting. 🤪👍

@whee38 5 лет назад

To be fair to the Tsar tank, it was meant for use on the icy Russian tundra. In theory, the small points of contact would be on near solid ice

@opforind 5 лет назад

Don’t forget the erkanoplan!

@BadWebDiver 5 лет назад

@@opforind *Nobody* can forget the erkanoplan! Anyone who's seen it has that image with them for life. Especially watching video footage! O_O _(It .. it doesn't fly???!!!!)_

@TheCrankyCow 5 лет назад

@@whee38 Tsar tank also never got out of testing phase. It's flaws were noticed rather quickly and it was abandoned.

@MrAranton 5 лет назад

To be fair: For most of its history Russia and her industry have been technologically backward compared the countries in Western Europe and the US. They knew using traditional concepts and wisdom they wouldn't be able to build something on par with western warships or tanks with the industry they had, so they started to think outside the box. Thinking outside can fail spectacularly, but it can suceed spectacularly; it gave Russia the Tzar Tank, but it also gave them the T-34.

@Macintoshiba 5 лет назад

"Minor details like Buoyancy"

@kilikus822 5 лет назад

For you see Ivan, If you make ship into circle you are always ready to broadside enemy!

@jazldazl9193 5 лет назад

and ready for quick escape

@Tsototar 5 лет назад

@@jazldazl9193 I think you mean ready for *slow* escape! :-P. (six knots??)

@admDanRyan 3 года назад

I- well played

@coreymicallef365 4 года назад

I kind of like this idea, I mean they wouldn't be practical fleet ships but they could be churned out of a shipyard or two and used as self mobile coastal defence batteries that can be deployed and redeployed as needed. Fit them AA guns, depth charge launchers, and sonar and they could be fairly useful additions to a coastal city's defences.

@evanulven8249 5 лет назад

Stuff like this is why I love Russian engineering. The rest of the world used slow, plodding advances that often end up as incremental improvements. The Russians kick that aside and go for something utterly screwball, often discovering that it actually works.

@BHuang92 5 лет назад

Most of the time, they fail spectacularly.............

@opforind 5 лет назад

Well like everywhere they have 2 different types of engineers. Those that simplify and those that over complicate. It seems like during peace time the engineers that over complicate are allowed free reign. Then during wartime reality takes hold and simple reliable designs get a chance to shine.

@proudtitanicdenier4300 5 лет назад

@@BHuang92 There always has to be that guy who has to be a dick.

@slojogojo2766 5 лет назад

BHuang92 Have you ever heard of the "Ribbon Bridge"?

@Rammstein0963. 5 лет назад

@Evan Ulvan Don't forget their tendency to make war machines that are both overly large as well as so visually offensive that your eyes bleed just trying to behold them....but they don't care as Russians have generally always favored function to the near or total exclusion of form, they don't care if it rapes your eyes looking at it as long as it does what it's designed for.

@admiraltiberius1989 5 лет назад

And yet another ship I knew nothing about. And yet again another fantastic video Drach.

@Irondrone4 5 лет назад

The Russians in the tabletop game Dystopian Wars had some circular warships like this. Never played with them, but I always wanted to know more about the real ships they were based on. Thanks!

@jasonhuiting5193 5 лет назад

I would wager Leonardo da Vinci would cried out of pride if he saw these.

@sillypuppy5940 5 лет назад

If they had been sent into battle they would have been roundly defeated.

@duradim1 5 лет назад

Because of circular reasoning.

@bhaddock9277 4 года назад

Ha ha

@waskozoids 4 года назад

I don't think so.

@local38on-tv 4 года назад

Get the fuck out, all of you

@waskozoids 4 года назад

@@local38on-tv Я так не думаю

@CountArtha 5 лет назад

8:11 Well whaddya know, it's almost like ships are built longer than they are wide for a reason!

@CZ350tuner 5 лет назад

The wooden lamination of armour was to prevent spalling and also wracking caused by copper head explosive shells (developed & used by the Royal Navy). Copper head shells were an early form of HESH shell and were a conventional bullet shaped iron cup shell with a gunpowder filling capped with a copper dome. On impact the nose would deform igniting the gunpowder by crushing it and the shockwave would be transmitted (the technical term is wracking) through the iron armour causing fragments to spawl off of the far side at great velocity. This was an accidental discovery as the copper head shells were a crude form impact detonated munitions devised by the British Royal Navy and the devastating effects caused by wracking when fired at ironclads was simply an unexpected bonus feature. Laminating the armour with wood (The British used Iron Wood, Teak and Oak) cancels out any wracking caused by a copper head shell impact thus insulating the inner hull from the armour belt.

@Sauske2101 5 лет назад

Ohhh the steampunk era.. how i miss it dearly :(

@joearnold6881 5 лет назад

Topic request: A little outside the usual focus, but I’d love it if you talked about the cannon-armed galleys/galleases that patrolled and fought in the various inland seas like the Baltic and the Med from (I believe) the 1500s right up through the 1700s. They fascinate me.

@shorttimer874 5 лет назад

One of C S Forester's Hornblower books had a battle with cannon armed galleys in a calm. I'd be interested also.

@ploppyploppy6554 5 лет назад

Look up john Paul Jones the only Scottish Russian American honoured in all three countries .

@peterdansie9195 5 лет назад

Joe Arnold

@clockworkmultiverse92 5 лет назад

Yes! I love those too!

@Roger-my5in 5 лет назад

Lol it cracks me up some of the ‘novel’ designs that actually made it past the peanut gallery and were built...only to then discover obvious flaws that were somehow overlooked then defended so as not to lose face

@phatkatracing 5 лет назад

The engineers likely wouldn't have only lost face, but their lives also, if things didn't go well.

@p.f.886 5 лет назад

@@phatkatracing they would never have been killed for a failed project, unless there was a dictatorship. In the Russian Empire, as well as everywhere, if an engineer built a ship that was a complete fail, he would have had to pay for the fail (money) or even loose his job, but only this. No death penalty or torture. Those things happen only in some dictatorships. Not even in the middle ages you would get tortured or killed for failing at something!

@wahlex841 4 года назад

Highsight 20/20.

@Defenestrationflight 5 лет назад

Omg, russians invented tank controls before tanks were invented. God bless crazy tzarist engineers.

@jalpat2272 4 года назад

one of them invented modern bomber that not an airship and helicopters.

@LupusAries 4 года назад

@@jalpat2272 You mean Igor Sikorsky don't you?😉 We'll he didn't quite invent the Helicopter, Etienne Oemicheimen dir that by building the first one that actually flew. However Sikorsky build the first practical Helicopter, and the First in the tail rotor configuration. You could argued that the Fa-61 was earlier, but it wasn't really useful for anything but showflights and testing. And while the Fa-223 was the first series built helicopter, it came later than the VS-300 but before the R-4. Although in comparison to the R-4 the production numbers we're small.

@SofaKingShit 4 года назад

He just described the problems with steering and l was like "golly why didn't they simply use the propellors?" and then Drach went "so they abandoned the rudder and used the propellors" and l was like wow this comment is going to be particularly pointless.

@mariebcfhs9491 4 года назад

you mean differential steering?

@barrydysert2974 3 года назад

The greatest aquatic merry-go-round ever!!! What fun! !:-) 😂🙃😂 🖖

@ds3930 5 лет назад

iRoomba really has come a long way.

@wildonemeister 5 лет назад

What a cliffhanger at the end! I'm thorougly intrigued.

@INEEDCAFFEIN3 5 лет назад

Black Sea pictured at 3:14 when talking about Baltic Sea? Wonderful topic!

@patrickmcleod111 5 лет назад

No dude, they are the same thing! An analogy would be Germany and Deutschland. We call it Germany but the 'natives' call it Deutschland. We call it "the Baltic sea", but the natives use the traditional Slavic terms "Black" and "sea" to describe it. Its like Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria. They sound like 3 different countries, but they're not.... Its all the same single country.... See?

@watcher13th 5 лет назад

@@patrickmcleod111 LOL, dude, that's an overload of misinformation. Literally everything you said is wrong... Edit: Sorry, You're right about Germany.

@patrickmcleod111 5 лет назад

@@watcher13th Yeah, I wasn't being being serious.

@steweygrrr 4 года назад

So what I learned from this video is that this... ship should be remade with modern materials with vectored thrust hydrojets for propulsion and armed with both a 108 tube VLS in the centre as well as launchers for RAM. Or turn it into an assault carrier with a deployable air cushion to allow it to be the worlds first amphibious warship. 100% viable for which you have my utterly unfounded guarantee.

@ocb8486 3 года назад

Up until 1950 any idea was built and tested,its so cool that pictures and drawings exist of all these weird ships,planes and whatever :)

@captain0080 5 лет назад

That was a less embarrasing desing than i was led to believe.

@Theogenerang 5 лет назад

Got to love innovative thinking. Great videos.

@stevengrotte2987 5 лет назад

I really like the manner of speaking/humor of the narrator.

@Tsototar 5 лет назад

I was watching this with growing incredulity and then what put me over the edge to start laughing was the bit about the guns spinning around after firing

@Grummsh00 5 лет назад

Interesting. A warship that maneuvers like a tank.

@billbolton 5 лет назад

How interesting, I seem to remember reading something on these 'ships' in the long distant past. Taking a single design concept to the extreme.

@seeingeyegod 5 лет назад

Wow i had NO idea these ever existed! cool stuff!

@matthewclark7885 3 года назад

Oh, the disappearing mounts you take about are actually very interesting pieces of engineering, I got to see a couple when I visited several coastal forts that dated back to the revolution (the mounts didn't, obviously) I believe it was for Moultrie that had the disappearing pints mounts, but they had guns and defensive world from every era the fort was active in, another fun fact about Moultrie is that it's the reason South Carolina has a palmetto tree on it's flag, bc that's what it's revolutionary war era defensive works were constructed from

@MJC19 4 года назад

The Russian word for pancake is Blin... ALL HALE THE BATTLE BLIN!!!!

@WardenWolf 4 года назад

I'd call them a good design for littoral waterways. Their good maneuverability (once they figured out engine turning) and very shallow draft are both excellent features. In many ways they were the ideal design for such a ship given the technology of the time. They did what they were designed to do quite well with no huge drawbacks.

@bleedinggumsroberts3579 5 лет назад

Dude this is the best RU-vid channel. Thank you Drachinifel

@cdreid99999 5 лет назад

I was thinking if you mounted a circular upper hull on twin or triole hulls you could get a faster (10+) knot ship that is both conventionally maneuverable as well as having the engine spin ability. Her weakness is speed. It carried the armament of a much larger ship and could have carried a lot more. But ships use speed and maneuverability to stay alive. We cant know for sure but it would be awesome to simulate a battle between this and a British battleship of the time. Im pretty sure the battleship would win though as it would pick when it fought

@josephdedrick9337 4 года назад

The only ship built that you could get dizzy by some clever engine work.

@dayne3352 4 года назад

Wonder if a modified "golf ball effect" would help the speed on such a hull or any for that matter.

@TurkeySteam 5 лет назад

As soon as I saw the new upload I started humming the opening music.

@crishansen8567 5 лет назад

That yacht looks as if it would be very stable if nothing else. Would be very interested in seeing a video on it

@adaw2d3222 5 лет назад

I love it, utterly absurd designs are the best.

@Lurker1979 5 лет назад

I wonder how well this would adapt to modern applications? Like say a leisure ship for example. The around deck would be a great platform for parties and such.

@morriganravenchild6613 5 лет назад

Very interesting and packed full of info - thanks.

@seminolerick6845 4 года назад

Obv were "time travelers"... saw Star Trek NG... the separation of the "Saucer" caught major attention !

@paulbrozyna3006 3 года назад

That “aft” with the array of whirling blades is quite terrifying to behold.

@Makeitliquidfast 5 лет назад

Perfect for reef creation and diving tours.

@benwilson6145 2 года назад

There was an oval almost circular tug design called the Ship Docking Module (SDM) designed in the USA in the mid 1990's.

@R4V3-0N 5 лет назад

That is one interesting video I stumbled upon over a vehicle I thought I knew. A video that was pretty well researched (although I would like to see the sources in the description as well) and of a higher quality that I had assumed by the intro (and outro). Good job.

@mandoramirez1205 5 лет назад

Mr Drachinifel , I enjoy your videos very much, have always been fascinated with naval history, I have always wondered what it means when a ship has to return to port for a refitting or refit and wye does this or cause this to take place, have heard this term many many times but have never quite understood what was going on, I hope this question is not to dumb to answer, thanks again.

@iskandartaib 4 года назад

Ah. The Popovkas. I read about these sometime during high school.

@johnchambers2996 5 лет назад

It looks as if these ships would have been tremendously vulnerable to long-range plunging fire through the thin and wide roof top deck area. This was one of the issues with Union ironclads that were vulnerable to Confederate hill-top fortifications and mortars.

@RoskinGreenrake 5 лет назад

Yeah that figures. It seems like he was an absolute madman, do check out what happened to his Livadia yacht that was mentioned at the end here. Also if the propellers can get lifted out of the water in large waves, the big changes in resistance could be bad for the engines, and how the heck did they not know a slightly larger than normal rudder wouldn't be enough before they built the whole thing.

@LordRenegrade 5 лет назад

That's normal for ships of that era. Most ship to ship engagements were pretty close, and "plunging" from that era would be like five or ten degrees, not like 40+. As for hilltop emplacements, well, I read somewhere that they have maneuverability and speed issues that would even allow ...unhydrodynamic... ships to escape.

@d.cypher2920 4 года назад

1:15 '...of course a ship, does need to retain some minor details...like buoyancy.' 😮😅😅😅🤣 *it's the minor bits of humor that are so f funny*

@hatchcrazy 3 года назад

Y'know what, I applaud them for trying something different.

@jaytaylor9232 5 лет назад

HMS Captain shown at 1:15. One of my ancestors went down with that one.

@StromBugSlayer 5 лет назад

Ok, that was fascinating.

@markedwards5289 5 лет назад

Interesting concept You never know until you try Cute design

@812guitars 5 лет назад

Wow! This is nuts!

@Rdeboer Год назад

I'm slightly envious of the guy who realised he could perform doughnuts with a warship.

@kyle857 5 лет назад

Reinventing the wheel. Also, the advantages to be for armor weight compared to volume. I can see why they would use it for a royal yacht.

@FlyTyer1948 5 лет назад

Amazing & amusing. How ironic that the designer’s name was pronounced “Pop-off.” Thank you for this. Always good to start the day with some belly laughs.

@davidvonkettering204 5 лет назад

People do what people must do. Love, David

@catjudo1 5 лет назад

That is one of the stranger ships I've ever seen. It looks like the end result of an H.G. Wells experiment to build a UFO. Neat video... subscribed!

@davidgriffiths7696 4 года назад

A very amusing design all round

@apextroll 5 лет назад

It was revolutionary!!

@greenspiraldragon 5 лет назад

Sounds like a floating bathtub. I don't imagine they were very streamlined or very fast. It would be funny watching one's gun turret spin around every time they fire it. Also look up concrete battle ships. They were actually very effective, but not moveable. Actually they were concrete islands with gun on them. On a different note modern armored ships are now very vulnerable to missile attacks.

@MililaniJag 5 лет назад

Brings to mind the expression....Circular firing squad.

@Empoleonman522the2 5 лет назад

Was wondering when these boats would show up....now to actually watch the bloody thing :3

@EinachserLS 5 лет назад

Imagine this thing with Voith-Schneider drives. It would be like an amusement ride.

@mattisvov 3 года назад

A weaponized merry-go-round! I think, being silly. "It could rotate so fast it made the crew dizzy." I IS a weaponized merry-go-round.

@johnmcmickle5685 5 лет назад

That is an interesting video. The concept seems sound but I think a center keel of some type would be necessary for naviational stability. Otherwise the engines would have to be continually adjusted to hold a course.

@jimwind7589 4 года назад

This is so insane, I m surprised the French did not come up w this ideal first.

@jimshoemaker1258 5 лет назад

I didn't know anything about these ships until now very nice video thank you. 6 knots hey that's impressive can you go any faster? Yes yes I can only I'm not allowed to leave the ship and swim ahead

@nukclear2741 Год назад

Well, they actually couldn't go faster, cause of how they changed the engines up just to get the thing to turn efficiently.

@eskhawk 4 года назад

I've heard of the Russian battleship islands before, but never knew any details. Thanks.

@Yarkoonian 5 лет назад

the wildly spinning guns you describes made me laugh

@fredmaxwell9619 5 лет назад

I look forward to your discussion on the Flower Class and the Fletcher Class. Both small (compared to Battleships) but both served vital roles in the war. Also something you might think about what if the Japanese would of had radar and it's gun fire control that was comparable to the USA or Britain. Wonder how the IJN Fuso and IJN Kirishima would have fared then. I am sure they would still have meant the briny deep eventually if not still at the same time. USA was working on Radar but I am sure the radar information England shared with the US and Common Wealth countries helped tremendously.

@bkjeong4302 5 лет назад

Fred Maxwell The later IJN ships did have radar. They never managed to hook it directly to the fire directors.