Pinned post for Q&A :)

@anthonyrobinson7715

4 жыл бұрын

Please make a video of the Cleveland-class light cruisers of the US Navy! Not a single one of them were sunk in WWII

@marseldagistani1989

4 жыл бұрын

Do a Borodino-Class Battlecruiser

@nikl865

4 жыл бұрын

best standardised naval gun to be used on a ship in your opinion?

@tommasobalconi

4 жыл бұрын

Hello Drach, what do you think makes a good naval historian, or a good historian in general, and how would you define one? Do you think it just comes down to digging into hundreds of different sources and then puzzled together a possible truth, or there is more than that to it?

@BHuang92

4 жыл бұрын

Are the Gangut class design based on the Italian dreadnought Dante Alighieri?

"After Tsushima the Russian navy needed new ships..." Good Drachism there.

@erichvondonitz5325

2 жыл бұрын

and from that day one, they never name their ship Kamchatka

@toddwebb7521

Жыл бұрын

Do you see torpedo boats

@someopinion

Жыл бұрын

@@toddwebb7521 yes their surrounding us!

Glad to see that the Russians are as consistent with their battleship names as they are with their city names.

@tokul76

4 жыл бұрын

Original names were not after cities, but after historical battles. Two from Crimean war and two from Peter The Great era. Naming was consistent. Locations themselves were from different eras/places/origins. One got Swedish origin. Other is Ukrainian. Third is pseudo-Helenic. Last one is after two saints.

@s.31.l50

3 жыл бұрын

tokul76 I think you might not have gotten the joke

@robertstone9988

2 жыл бұрын

Burn

@petros311

2 жыл бұрын

@@tokul76 what was the pseudohellenic name?

@torlekjpec5708

4 ай бұрын

​@@s.31.l50you mean the joke is how the English-Americans repeat a city name with the word "new" I get it but not if something else.

Ah yes, the highest tier battleship in the Russian line in World of Warships to actually exist.

@the_victorious_1

4 жыл бұрын

They actually started building the Soviezky Soyuz class, (IDK how to spell it) but it got cancelled in the 1950s IIRC.

@captainloggy140

4 жыл бұрын

In fact, the only one to be completed. Period.

@stallfighter

4 жыл бұрын

@@captainloggy140 ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperatritsa_Mariya-class_battleship

@gardist

4 жыл бұрын

@@the_victorious_1 The Izmail at tier 6 was also started (and even launched i beleive) as part of the Borodino-class

@stastu6484

4 жыл бұрын

Okt rev is tier V :)

a single anti-air gun... "I'm relevant !!!"

@admiraltiberius1989

4 жыл бұрын

"I'm helping "

@MrArkwel

4 жыл бұрын

@sidecarnutz "I'mdoing my part ! and you?"

@tomstech4390

4 жыл бұрын

Navy: we need better anti air... Government: fine heres $1000. Navy: [buys the 1 gun it can afford]. Government: The ship was lost due to bombing?! Obviously the funds for anti air were squandered. [Cuts funding further, arms crew with $5 water squirt guns].

@CSSVirginia

4 жыл бұрын

@@tomstech4390 Or a side by side 12 gauge and a crate of bird shot.

@tokul76

4 жыл бұрын

It is built before WW1. Even post war refits were done before air power was a thing. They knew that AA is not adequate and refits did increase AA capability. 1 AA gun is from English specs. Image shows AA guns mounted on each turret. They were not mounting quarter of a gun on each turret. Russian book referenced in wikipedia talks about two 75 or 68 mm and one 47mm Hotchkiss gun and ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BB:Battleship_Marat_12-inch_bow_triple_turret.jpg (and 2:35 photo in video) matches it. Initial plans were for 4x4 QF-3 Hotchkiss according to Russian sources, but they did not have enough of those or they lost lots of them in Tsushima.

One thing I'd like to point out: these ships were called the Sevastopol class in Russian documents. I've got a few books in original language that refers to them as such. Just needed to get this out there, since Gangut was the last of the four battleships to be launched and commissioned. Aside from that, great video as always Drach!

@zoranocokoljic8927

4 жыл бұрын

They are called Gangut class in some older documents, IIRC.

@renown6386

3 жыл бұрын

It might be because Gangut was the one that was supposed to be finished the first. I think its the same case with Borodino-class , Izmail was the one that was launched the first instead of Borodino.

@tommasobalconi

3 жыл бұрын

@@renown6386 Good point, but that is still technically not correct. Just felt that it needed to be pointed out.

"Occasionally running aground and having minor mutinies break out." I love this channel..

Fascinating! My wife's great grandfather was an engineer working on the Sevastopol after 1909 at the Baltic Shipyard on St Petersburg's Vasilevsky Island so this is our family history. Thank you for your post!

I actually like the looks of Imperial Russian Predreadnoughts and Dreadnoughts. They seem like lost ships from a dream sailing on a forgotten sea, and more steam punk than other battle ships but not way over the top like French predreadnoughts.

"Good luck pronouncing THAT." "Oktee-yawbr-skeye-uh Revo-loot-see-yuh" 😁

@Kreatorisbackyt

Жыл бұрын

Lol

For those who were wondering, October Revolution in Russian is Октябрьская Революция, or Oktyabrskaya Revolutsiya. (Ok-tyeah-brr-sky-uh Rev-oloot-see-yuh)

"So the most exciting thing's they ended uo doing was occasionally running a ground" LOL! 😆

@luisnunes2010

4 жыл бұрын

Exciting. ;-)

1:11 Brits after the Russians asking them for help: _You couldn't live with your own failure. Where did that bring you? Back to me._

@MrArkwel

4 жыл бұрын

"You must be truly desperate to come to me for help. What makes you think you can trust me?"

@SlickCookie

3 жыл бұрын

everywhere I go, I see your face

Note the more modern looking "clipper" bows and pagoda style superstructures. Big problem with ships that had their turrets spaced between engine rooms was that despite the best efforts, the difference in temperatures of the ammunition meant greater dispersion of salvos. Second problem was the lack of space to add AA guns without interfering with firing arcs. Third problem was where to put fire controls, radar and radio compartments. The Japanese and American navies had the same problem with their prewar designs.

Marat’s killer was a Stuka pilot called Hans Ulrich Rudel, he would go on to become most decorated ground attack ace of the war and the only recipient of Germany’s highest military honour

@s.31.l50

4 жыл бұрын

True story

@CorePathway

23 күн бұрын

He also helped the US develop the A-10 Thunderbolt II. Dude was a true Nazi, but an absolute legend. His bodycount is unmatched.

@Dilley_G45

21 күн бұрын

In 1940 Göring secured the only Grand Cross of the Iron Cross which was technically above the Knights cross and it's higher versions. Rudel was the only recipient of the golden Oakleaves to the Knights Cross, which came after the Knights Cross with Diamonds (that was awarded 27 times)

Some trivia; The class is named in honour of the first Russian naval victory at Rilax, but since the Russians didn't know local geography very well and knew it was in the general vicinity of the Hangö peninsula, or to the local Swedish, Hangö Udd, but do some linguistic differences that had arisen in the two Indo-European languages, the Russian pronunciation bore out in the transliteration, and Hangö Udd somehow became Gangut or using a more contemporary transliteration, Khangud.

Has less armour than any equivalent battleship (outside of Spain) while in WoWs best armour at tier.

@gunrunner7224

4 жыл бұрын

In the teir they are facing ships from about the same era in wows in reality they were gen 1/2 deadnoughts facing gen 2 superdreads

@Edax_Royeaux

4 жыл бұрын

The deves even admitted they balanced the Imperator Nikolai I against tier 6 ships, which just goes to show you how biased they are.

@tycondero1647

4 жыл бұрын

@@Edax_Royeaux Exactly, the Wargaming crew disgusts me with their Russian bias of late. Russians for Russians. They effectively made that totally inadequate 9 inch belt into something that bounces shots all the time!

@swaghauler8334

4 жыл бұрын

Russian ships are equipped with new upgraded "Stalinium armor," comrade. Gives 5 times the protection for only half the actual armor present! :)

@lukum55

4 жыл бұрын

@@swaghauler8334 And the torpedo bulkheads are filled with vodka, no fascist torpedo will ever penetrate stronk soviet ship comrades!

You should do a video about the HMAS Australia 1, The first (and last) Australian capital ship. It was also the most powerful warship in the Southern Hemisphere of its time.

First time i was this quick, im able not to think the weebified version of the ship discussed

@spinningspin6053

4 жыл бұрын

I like to imagine how ashamed the old Japanese admirals are of anime.

@GaldirEonai

4 жыл бұрын

@@spinningspin6053 Rozhestvensky would probably cause a global binocular shortage.

@bkjeong4302

4 жыл бұрын

Spinning Spin There are actually anthropomorphic depictions of ships (Japanese and otherwise) from the time of WWII.

@Zagskrag

4 жыл бұрын

@@spinningspin6053 In the only instance of a veteran seeing his ship's Kancolle depiction I know of, the veteran just commented "She's very cute and looks like a good girl".

@unclestone8406

4 жыл бұрын

@@bkjeong4302 Gangut is a boisterous, vodka-swilling wild-haired beauty in Azur Lane, so I think at least some in the old Rodina would approve :3 On that same note, Rozhestvensky might approve of Azur Lane's depiction of Avrora, given that she was one of the better-crewed ships in his squadron.

The main guns were laid out using the design of Cuniberti, chief designer of the Italian Navy. The first Italian dreadnought Dante Alighieri was the first battleship built according to his principles. Italian-Russian/Soviet cooperation was strong up to WWII. Cinsult Breyer's Battleships and Battlecruisers, 1905-1970 for details.

@Dilley_G45

7 ай бұрын

Confirm that book is awesome

Frunze (Froon-zeh) in honor of contemporary revolutionary military commander Mikhail Frunze. Marat (Mar-aht, emphasis on the second syllable) in honor of the French revolutionary Jean Paul Marat. October Revolution and Parisian Commune are largely obvious inspirations.

LoL, Your Parizhskaya Kommuna pronounciation sounds like Piratskaya kommuna - pirate commune, while it's Paris commune (Parizh skaya ) Nice vid

3 times? Bless. Hangover squad is still standing by good to go. Well, kind of.

Looks like we're getting spoiled today, 3 videos so far :)

The Marat's bow was blown off by a bomb hit from a JU-87 Stuka dive bomber piloted by Hans-Ulrich Rudel (2 July 1916 - 18 December 1982) .

Lightly armored? _Nyet, battleship is fine (hic)_

Clever and definitely original design with minimal superstructure and a lot of firepower mounted on a rather small hull.

"The Nelson class is so ugly!" Imperial Russian Navy: "Hold my borscht."

@Edax_Royeaux

4 жыл бұрын

At least the Ganguts look like Battleships. The Nelson almost look like some kind of super-monitor and not an actual Battleship.

@colourspray

4 жыл бұрын

Ну ты и дурачина...

@T3hderk87

4 жыл бұрын

You mean brake fluid?

@IXIBobOhIXI

4 жыл бұрын

@@Edax_Royeaux pre refit yes. Post refit is some kind of brutalist architectural nightmare lol

@Vespuchian

4 жыл бұрын

@Mr. Moon Oh, if only the Nelsons had an extra few thousand tons displacement for engines (A treaty limit of 40,000 tons might have let the KGVs upgrade the twin turret to a quad, too)! I think stretching the hull out behind the tower would greatly improve the appearance of the class by balancing out the proportions. Overall I agree with you about the Nelsons, quite nice looking ships for their atypical layout.

First, the Octtober Revolution was in November 1917, and the Peace of Brest-Litovsk was signed in March 1918. So, the mutiny in March 1917 could have nothing to do with those two events. You probably meant March of 1918. Second, you forgot to mention that only time a ship of Gangut class engaged in a sea battle was a scirmish with British ships in Baltic in 1919.

@kozolupp

4 жыл бұрын

You are correct, Brest-Litovsk Treaty happened one year later, but the mutiny or in fact chain of mutinies in Baltic Fleet started in March 1917 - after February Revolution.

These are so much better with you doing the talking

Stock footage of this class is used in the climactic scenes of Sergei Eisenstein's film The Battleship Potemkin. The still at 2:39 is similar to one of the shots used in the movie. Of course that's anachronistic, since the mutiny on the Potemkin happened in 1905.

I`ve waited for this for a long time... Thank you, Drach

Wow! Talk about a makeover! I nearly jumped out of my seat seeing the new bows. Very sharp, and VERY Soviet in their aesthetic. Love the pagodas, too!

Finished work and been waiting for this

Great job, Drach!

Loved the quip, but I was really looking forward to Drach trying to pronounce the October Revolution so I could compare his butchering to the TTS lol

What a gorgeous ship class, wish they kept one as a museum ship similar to the Aurora.

@ZacParsonsComedy

3 жыл бұрын

I wonder why they didn’t. The ships were still in decent shape by the 50s.

Drach, I would like to see another "proper pronunciation" video from you :3 (Sadistic laughter) I'll be glad to provide any help I could on Russian names

As a russian-speaker, it would be very interesting for me to watch the video "How to Pronounce - Russian Capital Ships"

Oh dear, Drach, you're all mixed up with regard to the Revolution. The mutinies were during the Russian Revolution of February/March 1917, the October Revolution later that year was the Communist one, and then Brest-Litovsk taking Russia out of the war was signed in March 1918; AFTER both the original and subsequent Communist Revolutions.

Oktyabrskaya Revolyutsiya - Gangut me: Come, Shikikan. We must go!!!!!

@Usmvalor3

4 жыл бұрын

A ship, that farmed me 2 quickest baquette guns in all Wild West!

@royasturias1784

4 жыл бұрын

SN Gangut addresses you for most part as Comrade (Doushi) "I am Gangut, dreadnought from the Red Navy. Do not underestimate me because I am outdated model."

@LiveErrors

4 жыл бұрын

Go to the Liqour Depot with due posthaste!!!

@tianchris_______3186

4 жыл бұрын

@@royasturias1784 well Sovetskaya and Grozny calls us (Doushi Shikikan)... so it's still ok.

@JustConfused3520

4 жыл бұрын

Ah, I see you're a Shikikan of culture as well....

There in one day. Nice! Thanks, Drach. The modernized _Gangut_ class had their own version of pagoda masts, but they all had quite good fire control systems that were continually upgraded into WWII. It would have been interesting to see how they would have fared in a gun duel with a _Scharnost_.

@s.31.l50

4 жыл бұрын

Scharnhorst has a decent speed advantage. Scharnhorst also has a 14 inch belt that should fare decently well against Gangut’s 12 inch guns, while Gangut’s 9 inch belt would really struggle against Scharnhorst’s 11 inch guns.

@hmskinggeorgev7089

4 жыл бұрын

They would die

@alun7006

4 жыл бұрын

A Scharnhorst would shred them in short order. Radar gunlaying, much better armour, much faster. The German 11" I suspect at least matches the old Russian 12", if not betters it. Gangut has an advantage in weight of broadside, but that's about it.

@jonsouth1545

4 жыл бұрын

even modernized she had less armour than a WW1 British Battlecruiser even Kongo is heavily armoured compared to Gangut not to mention how slow she was by WW2 standards in WW2 the Russians borrowed an old obsolete R class Battleship from the British and that ship was easily the most powerful ship in the entire Soviet Navy. In any gun duel between a modernized Gangut and even a Kongo or a 1930 HMS Tiger let alone a Scharnhorst Gangut is just an XP piñata

Churchill had a saying about the luck accompanying cities and ships that changed their names.

Hi Drach. Great channel. I would like to see you make a video on the WW1 Eagle class patrol craft.

Oktybr'skaya revolucia - the closest I can make it without taking out English fonetic guidebook

Thanks Drac for a excellent informative series. Is it possible to do the icebreakers, USCG Polar Star and the Russian IB Fleet.

The Gangut class, Can you pick one name and stick to it?

Hunh ... well ... these ships actually were much longer lived than I would have expected ... .

3 Drachs in one day.

Holy crap so many uploads is it Christmas drach?

These ships have the turrets in the same linear formation as the first Italian dreadnought, the Dante Alighieri.

I love this ship, mainly because of me using it in world of warships and getting 45 ships sunk in a day X,D its awesome!

Talk about superstructures looking like hotels!

A third video today? Seam like I’m having an Business Lunch today! 🤔😉

I appreciate your lowered volume on the intro and outro. I need videos to fall asleep (yes, have to rewatch several times to get the whole thing in), and had to take yours out of the rotation because of the noise. Thanks.

@jt_kirk

4 жыл бұрын

+1

How were deck guns on WW1 & WW2 Submarines secured while the boats were submerged to protect from corrosion? Great videos, Thank you.

Oppen Gangut Sty... *(Is instantly shot by Commissar for Counter Revolutionary joke making)*

I would like to explain the naming a little bit: Gangut was named after Battle of Gangut in 1714 where Peter the Great galleys cornered and defeated Swedish Fleet. Sevastopol was renamed to "Parizhskaya Kommuna" (Paris Commune) - a socialist government which ruled Paris in 1871. Petropavlosk was renamed to "Marat" - after Jean-Paul Marat, one of the politicians during the French Revolution. He was the guy who managed to get stabbed in the bath... Poltava was renamed to Frunze - after Mikhail Frunze, one of bolsheviks military leaders

@dayaautum6983

4 жыл бұрын

The only thing worse than a ship named after a guy who got stabbed in the bath tub would be a bath bomb named after him. I must confess however, I do like both ideas as they are ghastly enough to have a delightfully over the top morbid appeal. Not that anyone in Russia did or would ask for my approval, but I approve.

can you make one of your short videos that explains the differences between pre-dreadnought, dreadnought, dreadnought 2, and super dreadnought?

@tokul76

4 жыл бұрын

pre-dreadnought - various assortment of guns and majority in secondary or tertiary caliber. dreadnought - namesake ship, 11-12 inch main battery, lots of big guns, experiments with turret layout, 20k ton displacement dreadnought 2 - no such thing super-dreadnought - 13-14+ in batteries, far less experiments with turret layouts Or maybe your dreadnought 2 fits 25k ton/13-14 inch guns and supers are 30k+ tons with 15-16+ inch guns. Then you might ask for battlecruiser and fast battleship explanation too. Just see how preceding and superseding classes for HMS Dreadnought look like.

So this is Comrade Big One in real life huh? Where Comrade Tiny One? Comrade Medium One?

I'm afraid the strongest armour available in WOW's is Soviet Bullsh!*. Very interesting reviews Drach anything on Russian Cruisers in the pipeline?

What is the purpose of the two chains in front of the first turret? Kind of an odd placement for them.

M O M M Y GANG-NUT

@royasturias1784

4 жыл бұрын

"FUHAHAHA! At last, this is battlefield that I should be in!" "The revolution blesses you!"

And the class is in russian: "Sewastopol class"

cool

in the 1st picture, the turrets look to be from a much later period.

Hi, how about a video of the sloops of the Royal Navy during the 2nd World War

Which ship/s suffered from the poorest build quality?

I'm a bit disappointed that you left out the interesting trivia that these ships had ice-breaking bows, being probably the only battleships so fitted.

Since you've done the Gangut class can you do the Imperatritsa Mariya class next time?

all i got was even the locql ship yard wasnt keen on a home built design, i wonder if uk regretted helping other countries with their designs in ww1/ww2?

4:40 Should that have been March 1918, since Brest-Lotovsk was in March 1918 or should it be referring to the February revolution of 1917 that led to the end of the Tsardom?

@bryansmith1920

4 жыл бұрын

Given Trump/Putin/Ing-Wen I fail to see your point about Tsars ;-))

@kozolupp

4 жыл бұрын

Mutinies in Baltic Fleet started in March 1917 after February Revolution

6:30 it's Oktabryskaya Revolutsiya I think

Remember in NavyField when this was first introduced as a Premium BB and could 2-shot a Montana with a level 50 crew?

@idontknowmyname2966

2 жыл бұрын

It is the first soviet bb you can unlock in NF mobile,unfortunately it gets dumpstered by all the S grade ships running around

I wonder how they would do against, say, Scharnhorst or Gneisenau.

Can Drach twist my arm any further? Do I dare hope for a fourth Drach.

"I don't know how to pronounce that in Russian" Oktyabrskaya Revolutsiya?

Bonus fact: Marat was sunk by one Ju 87,flown by Stuka Ace Hans-Ulrich Rudel.

@RobJaskula

4 жыл бұрын

It had to be him 😂

this guy is posting videos in 3 round burst mode

@Drachinifel 'Pah-rEEj-skah-ya koh-mOOn-ah' and 'Froon-zeh' )))

Please be so gracious as to follow up the Gnaguts with the Imperatritsa Mariyas.

She’s scrappy boys

Busy today aren't we

These BB's have quirky appeal in their lines.

Who is floating the Sinop ?

Why does your badge describe you as an histriographer rather it than the more normal historiographer?

Too bad that so few battleships were conserved.

IJN Yubari :P

A SINGLE anti aircraft gun? The beginning of America and Russia’s irreconcilable differences in ideology.

The volume on your intro to your vids is a little low bro.

Give a Drach score for Gangut

Are you saying Vickers wasn't able to sell some guns to someone for once?? Goodness !!!!! I can look at a Gangut class and just know its Russian. Its lines are so distinctive. I'm curious what an American yard could have done for the Russians when it comes to building battleships. "Well....Soviets" could be used to explain alot of things.

@troubleboy

4 жыл бұрын

They are very similar to Italian first dreadnought series both visually and as fast and lightly armoured combination.

@thhseeking

4 жыл бұрын

Cage masts. They'd have had cage masts :)

@thhseeking

4 жыл бұрын

@@troubleboy I think the Italians did have some influence on the designs.

From above before these things had superfiring turrets they look like Fort Drum in Manila Bay. Lol

uh...so many world of warships images flash out ..

Thin armour huh? Did anyone let Wargaming know that orrrr?

And I thought Japanese battleships look different lol

GANGUT GANG GANGUT GANG GANGUT GANG GANGUT GANG GANGUT GANG GANGUT GANG GANGUT GANG GANGUT GANG

WG need to see this XD

@tycondero1647

4 жыл бұрын

They will call out this channel as EU propaganda. XD

@fluffyslippers5589

4 жыл бұрын

@@tycondero1647 Truuu haha

honestly i like the pre retrofit version better after all its not like the soviets had a fleet

@roybaker6902

3 жыл бұрын

The Soviets did have a fleet. It consisted of two turds floating in Stalin's toilet bowl.

oct-yah--bruh-SKY-ah revo-LOOTS-e-ah. Just say it with a Russian accent. :) All caps used to denote the stressed syllables