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The Drydock - Episode 116
🕑 Added 2020-10-16 20:00:02 +0000 UTC
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'General' Dipper
I note that Adm. John Webster just died. Sounds like an interesting chap. Any chance of an obituary?
Bjarki Hilmarsson
a bit on the quiet side, yes.
Vintage Car History
I found the channel admin section to be considerably less informative than usual.
Michael Llaneza
There were other attempts at the guidance problem. The pigeon-guided missile failed, but the Japanese had some success with their solution to the guidance problem, unfortunately for everyone involved.
Bjarki Hilmarsson
On the subject of balloon: Isn't there a risk of it giving away your position?
Smokey The Bear
Radar damage while firing own guns: in the Book SOUTH PACIFIC DESTROYER by Crenshaw, it is said that with their early radar, firing their own 5" gun took the radar out due to vibration damaging a vacuum tube well more than once. USS Maury.
Ash the Lego Guy
Drone television cameras didn't exist in WWII that could be fit in something as small as to droppable from a medium bomber, but they did exist at the size that would fit inside a heavy bomber: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Aphrodite
