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"All this way, to hide a submarine in a river." This is USS Blueback, SS-581. The last diesel-electric boat ever to serve in the U.S. Navy, and the sole surviving example of the first ever class of modern albacore-hulled fast attack submarine.

The video is talking about naval vessel singings, but the "total ships sunk by her" count shown at the end is ships in general and is counting shared kills as if each vessel scored them individually, which greatly inflates the kill count of the "twins" Scharnhorst and Gneisenau which pretty much...

Afloat, yes. USS Arizona and USS Utah are both of the same era.

The "41 For Freedom" were an absolutely stunning achievement in terms of production volume, considering all forty-one SSBNs were built in just seven years.

Yep, and USS Washington absolutely wrecked the *shit* out of Kirishima with an absolutely decisive demonstration of the U.S. Navy's best-in-the-world fire control. She straddled Kirishima with her very first salvo, scored a solid hit on the second salvo, and then an unheard-of six hits on the...

USS South Dakota suffered extensive but entirely superficial damage with zero penetration of her armor belt after her electrical systems were knocked out by a technical failure (on a brand new ship that had been rushed into service without proper working up), and the situation turned around...

From a technical point of view, it's interesting to see how comparatively sparse her superstructure is -- on top of not having a unified superstructure like the American BBs tended to, she has so few AA guns in the upper works. It's very clear that this is a warship that was designed prior to...

(This is a large-scale model of HMS Hood that's on display on board USS Iowa.)

Here's a lovely large-scale model of HMS Hood that is part of the museum displays on board USS Iowa.

That is not accurate; the North Koreans have been able to reach the mainland United States with land-based ICBMs since the introduction of the Hwasong-14 and Hwasong-15 in 2017, and also the Hwasong-17 in 2022. The -14's maximum range throw weight is on the marginal side making it more of a...

Not so much -- it's an old, noisy SSK that would be sunk with trivial ease in any conflict situation.

Hitler wasn't very competent as a military micromanager, but he was in fact pretty much irreplaceable as a charismatic public speaker. Without Hitler, it's very likely that the Nazi Party would have never risen to power, and would be little more than a historical footnote about the Beer Hall...

McNamoron sold Congress on the lie that conventional warships were more cost effective than nuclear ones, because he was obsessed with proving his stupid, "transformative" ideas were always better than anything anyone else said and no amount of factual reality would ever convince him otherwise...

This is why it would be, "If I'm Supreme Dictator of the Planet" as opposed to an actual practical objective. That said, nuclear ships are fuck expensive but at least for warships, the cost is justified by the operational advantages. There's a reason the USN was planning to go all-nuclear back...

If I was Supreme Dictator of the Planet, I’d be very tempted to pass a law that all new major shipping is required to be nuclear powered because I say so. This shall be supported by heavy taxation on non-nuclear shipping and lavish subsidies and generous loans on nuclear ship construction.

It's especially sad because they originally announced she'd be preserved as a museum ship, and then about a year and a half later she was quietly listed for sale to scrap. (Most likely because they realized just how expensive museum ships are to maintain.)

The USS Blueback (SS-581) is the U.S. Navy's last diesel electric combat submarine, and at the same time its first modern attack submarine with an "Albacore" teardrop hull and technological innovations such as a unified control room and "push button" ballast control. She is the only example of a...

The Truman’s name was changed in February 1995, well before her christening on 7 September 1996. Changing a ship name is a big deal, not normally done, and you’re really stretching to try to blame Clinton.

Uh no, the name decision was made by the Reagan Administration when the ship was ordered in 1988.