World of Warships - Detected

In which Azimuthmarx is really, REALLY grateful he took the Radio Position Finding skill.
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[@saviourself687]

That last torpedo kill deserves an "Oh you cheeky bastard..." =)

[@TheKazragore]

"Clever girl..."

[@wombat4191]

Also "You fu*king donkey". Like, how do you even take that with hydro on? It should be in no way a surprise to a Lüshun player with hydro on that a Shima is torping him.

[@cgilleybsw]

@@TheKazragore perfect comment, many up votes. The only Jurassic Park I ever watched.

[@marxmanjj]

:). Just a bit. To be fair he should have backed off, and engaged at range. I'll take it though!

[@MrEmiosk]

Love the pun!

[@leandrocosta3709]

HMS Brazen? Oddly enough, at around 1997, I was a Sea Scout and visited the ex-HMS Brazen, then christened BNS Bosísio in the Brazilian Navy. I can't remember if the HFDF box was still there, since we didn't really spend much time in the operational nerve centers of the ship, but I was impressed. That was the first time I visited a more modern warship aside from the old destroyer escort museum ship 'Bauru' and the ageing (but sorely missed) aircraft carrier 'Minas Gerais', a very old Colossus Class aircraft carrier, which sadly wasn't saved from the scrappers. I remember distinctly how those Sea Wolf launchers impressed the hell out of me. Those batch 1 Type 22's had quite a personality. Ships today with all those geometric stealthy looks are so dull in comparison, even if it's for RCS efficiency's sake, just like the aircraft. Thanks for maintaining Brazen so well.

[@Musicreach101]

There is only one ship with those geometric designs and it’s designed that way to potentially save lives. Not so boring 🙃

[@stephenmoir7691]

Jingles needs to be registered as a National Treasure.

[@Caliban_Cam]

And the sheep shagger should have his picture with a cock drawn on his forrid pinned to the bottom of jingles’ youtube cover page.

[@SubliminalEncryption]

And registered to a mental asylum! 😅😂

[@sealsofthedeep3242]

yes

[@Frigidblood]

Hey, can he be an international treasure? We overseas people like him too!

[@Comanchee0689]

Can we take a moment to admire all three of the C. Columbo Captains' names!? The Republique's name was creative too!

[@BlackDeej]

If only the Lushun had some way to detect incoming torpedoes... oh wait 😀

[@altbob]

This deserves a "laugh" icon!

[@3men219]

I have the lushun, it handles like a brick, I wouldn't be Surprised if he got cocky and just sailed broadside behind the island since he wasn't spotted. Even with hydro spotting the tops he wouldn't had time to turn the ship out or in since the island was on the way

[@broccanmacronain457]

Great story Jingles. I have one for you as well. My first submarine was the USS Sea Dragon SSN-584. I went to a sub indoc class while waiting for them to return from West Pac. One of the things they talked about was the ballast system. The instructors try to cover each of the classes you could be in. They finally found a flip book for the Skate class and then said this was impossible as the Dragon still had manual ballast valves instead of electro-pneumatic. Then we talked about the torpedo-aiming computer on board. They could find nothing on it. Turns out the Skate class still had the manual gear torpedo aiming computer on WW2 submarines. I was a nuclear MM so I did not have anything to do with it but I heard that new to the boat Fire Control Techs had to be taught by the senior techs how to use the big box to get firing solutions. Luckily our weapons officer could use the system and combine it with a Trash-80 (yes that TRS-80) to get very accurate firing solutions so we got good grades when we were tested. Funny since from what I heard the people grading us had no idea how to operate our system.

[@marxmanjj]

Thanks for posting my video Jingles! This was a very fun match to play especially after the rough start.

[@BlackDeej]

Well played 😀

[@whiplash-u6m]

congrats, you're famous now

[@bobmalooga7249]

Well played 🙂

[@neilevenden3481]

Smart playing! 4 sunk! You did well.

[@benneville4531]

Well played, particularly that final engagement with the Lushun. How to use RPF 101

[@SmerteLunefull]

Lüshun: appears on minimap at E3 Jingles: Lünshun is still roaming unspoated Never change old man :D

[@firstname9954]

at this point i am 120% sure when jingles makes these videos,he doesn't look at the minimap whatsoever :P

[@benbaselet2026]

@@firstname9954If that was true he would some times get things right accidentally :-)

[@haeppchen1603]

Story time with Jingles is always a very good time.

[@ragnarhammersbane9918]

I celebrated NYE on HMS Brazen in 1990, I think. She was docked in Manama, Bahrain. I'd have been 6 or 7 years old. I remember the crew put on a games room for the kids, but I escaped and was wondering the ship unsupervised. Hope noone got in trouble for that, I was a terror for that sort of thing. The reason we were invited was my Mum rang the British Embassy and asked if they could send her some sailors for Christmas. The Embassy staff had a good chuckle, but then realised she was serious. We had four sailors who hadn't been home in years over for Christmas day. One hadn't spoken to his mum in years. My mum made him get on the landline and call her, international charges be damned. I'll see if she can dig out any photos of your old crew mates in Xmas paper hats!

[@ewetoo]

What an awesome mum

[@EducatedTiger]

"The enemy Lushun is clearly lurking around the side of that island, hence all these torpedoes" - as the Lushun is visible both on the minimap and briefly on-screen, several islands away from that one. Also, the Lushun has deepwater torpedoes that can't hit destroyers. If I had to guess, I'd say those torps were from the Schlieffen that was dead-center of the screen where those torpedoes were launched from, and which the RPF indicator is pointing straight at. Also, Lushun doesn't get smoke, and we *just* saw the friendly C. Columbo laying that before he went down. One minute later - "And let's not forget the Schlieffen has torpedoes of its own!" Never change, Jingles.

[@argenthellion]

Azimuth should be really REALLY thanking his team for catching that healing buff, as he was gradually recovering health nearly the entire time. Without that he would have long died.

[@greyed]

Exactly. This game mode is all about the buffs most of the time. And yet the players seem to treat it like a game of "The circles are lava!!!!" Look at how he avoided the damage buff right before launching the torps at the BB. Why!? Just, why!?

[@JohnHill-qo3hb]

When I was in the Canadian Air Force in Winnipeg, we trained air navigators, we were transitioning from C-130s to CT142 (Dash 8). The Herc had a RDF called the ARN-6, in service BEFORE WWII. The CT142 had a plasma display that reproduced the control box for the ARN-6 and other items, I thought it silly to use current tech to show something granddad would have used.

[@chrisschack9716]

That Napoli kill ... he DIDN'T sail in a straight line, look at the dead ship on the mini-map at 7:12. Looks like it was the torps launched short of the predictor at 6:43 that did it.

[@jimwolaver9375]

True, but funnier the way Jingles presented it.

[@sgreum70]

I went and looked up the Brazen and found her on Wikipedia - the best part of the entry is footnote 2 "renowned youtuber Mighty Jingles..." The Operations Room video linked is worth watching.

[@BinkyTheElf1]

IIRC, in WW2, the radio direction finder (HFDF) was referred to as the Huff Duff, much in the same way as the HMMV Jeep- or whatever it’s called- became the “Hummer”.

[@jeffreywhitcomb555]

Came for the Video, stayed for the Jingles story! :)

[@WalterReimer]

Excellent torp work on that last kill.

[@minaxims]

Y'know, the fun part about a Jingles video in my timezone means that I can enjoy dinner and entertain myself as soon as the old man posts ;)

[@cgilleybsw]

Jingles hits my screen at 6am EST. Watch him with my first cup of whatever. The thing is, he mixes in other videos involving RPG etc and other than the stupid choo choo game :) but it is okay, I can fill in with Flambass destroying everything in WOWS.

[@WrekuiemForAMeme]

Thanks for keeping me company during my hospital visit today, especially the giggles you provide 🖖

[@GoSlash27]

I would've been that one weird kid that *did* know how to use the Huff-Duff. I've always been that guy who's fascinated by obsolete equipment and figures out how it works on my own time. I was a third class aviation fire control technician in the USN back when Jingles was a radioman in the RN. Now it's 2023 and I'm a "lead avionics technician" in an EMI lab for a major defense contractor. I collect old obsolete stuff like a hoarder, restore it to operation, and figure out how to use it as a hobby. I would've killed to have access to a genuine WWII HF-DF set. /wanna see my slide rule collection? 😆

[@escarfangorn]

Loved the huf-duf story. :) Reminds me of the old days in civili service. :)

[@ChrisRand-gf7lz]

I remember one time I had a light cruiser and a DD crash broadside into eachother, like Azimuth and the Zao did, when I was playing my Missouri. I had AP loaded and thought might as well thinking over penns are better than nothing. To my surprise after firing, I watched as 3 shells hit the DD and over penn for 10% damage but right after, punch into the light cruiser for penning damage. So credit where credit is due, the armour penn modeling WoWs uses takes into account that DDs can act as additional armour for larger ships and help arm BB AP fuses for a better chance at a penning hit.

[@jeromethiel4323]

It's amazing the kit that stays aboard when it isn't even functional anymore. I toured a "cruiser" that still had most of the electronics for an ASROC launcher, even though the actual launcher had been removed (and the ASROC's themselves were no longer in inventory), the electronics were still there. Taking up space and doing nothing. Same with the sonar set, according to the crew, that hadn't been operational since the sonar dome had been ripped off by a submerged log off of Norway years earlier.

[@josephaskins1996]

I recognize that triple Colombo division, definitely NA server Jingles, I'm unsurprised they were running triple Colombo for hours or days on end.

[@stefanleclair5334]

Yep I saw em. Only could take one with me unfortunately.

[@gimma_ubtube1171]

Gotta love story times with uncle jingles😂

[@maxxod1]

That’s something I’ve been missing. A proper story time with uncle Jingles. Nothing beats a good historical story with that signature Jingles flair. Please please Uncle Jingles tell us a story.

[@InternetEntity]

Good to know that the Royal Navy at large was at least as competent as not yet Uncle Jingles. Scrap that, that thought is absolutely terrifying!

[@jimwolaver9375]

Our world is in their hands.

[@a.nichols626]

Cessnas still have the RDF equipment as a back up system for GPS and VOR. You could use it to tune into radio stations while flying though you weren't supposed to use it for entertainment. And of course it was used by the Japanese to get a general direction to Hawaii & Pearl Harbor.

[@JoelSmith-hx8tb]

I love Jingles little stories about his time at sea. Just lets us know at least he wasn’t always the crap commentator we all know and love when he gets stuff wrong. Keep up the great content old chap, don’t ever change!

[@darthteej1]

*normal torpedoes go by* "Well we know the Lushun(deepwaters) is over there " Never change Jingles

[@trex9263]

Sir Mighty Jingles has a nice ring to it.

[@thattankguy8165]

Okay, who is up to the challenge to remind Jingles to check upon the Huffduff and see if its still ignored? :P

[@NoName-sb9tp]

Good morning lads :))

[@romulanphantom3376]

As a night owl I'm of the opinion that there is no such thing but I appreciate the sentiment

[@jamesscalzo3033]

Loved the video @TheMightyJingles! Can't wait for the next video man! Glad to hear a bit about your Service with the Royal Navy, sad that Brazen (F91) was used as a Target in SINKEX 2017 after being Sold to Brazil in 1994and Commissioned into Brazilian Service in 1996. She's best known in the History books as being Completed 3 Months Earlier than Expected due to the Falklands War. Great Ships for their Time the Type 22 Frigates and it's nice to see that People still at least know of the old "Huff Duff" from World War Two. Didn't Belfast use her Radar and her HF/DF Set to Keep Track of the Scharnhorst's Movements at North Cape?

[@zaqpak9391]

Great story jingles 👍

[@johanfedlund75]

The history is so good, wish I know you in person. You have so much in your life. Keep up the good work.

[@scottcrawford3745]

In Canada, as a private or commercial pilot, you get training in the use of "DF Steer" radio in 2 ways: One is in using an RF beacon signal from an airport outer marker signal or a radio station antenna to get a bearing to fly to that location on your map as part of flying a course or approach using a needle that points to the signal source you've dialed in, and it will swing quickly as you pass overtop of the NDB antenna, and the other is in requesting a DF Steer from an airport to practice when you're flying in poor inclement weather, or pretending to be lost. You call up the tower and ask for a DF Steer. They'll ask you to key and hold your mike button for 5 seconds while they grab a bearing on your aircraft, then they'll tell you a course to steer that will b ring you ditectly over the tower so you can start your visual apporach and turn your downwind and base legs to land, ot to continue on your previous course. It was always fun. The tower guys like doing it, too, because it gives them a chance to practice it as well, and they don't get many requests for " old school" methods which can become very handy in unusual emergency situations.

[@allensanders5535]

I think it's about time you got promoted to vice admiral jingles, you've been a rear admiral for over a decade now. i don't know about british navy but in the US. there is a time limit between officer ranks if you don't make the next rank in that time limit you're usually out. i think you've done enough to get promoted.👍👍

[@abzzeus]

Your comments about Huff-Duff, reminded me of a my post grad course where we wee being taught IT systems. Well the Prof had a passion for telecoms and the packet switching nature etc. We need to know rough bandwidth calc / overheads so we could determine if a link was suitable for 10 or 1000 users, that idiot had us taught the full frame of a each packet, how many bits did what etc. _everyone_ failed that module! no one cared about it, but he was in charge....

[@andrewgarberXYZ]

Good morning Jingles, good way to start the day.

[@AllanHazen]

Well, I guess rowing the ship and using the HFDF would account for the lack of training. So what was it like working for Noah, and how long did you have to wait for water before you could set sail?

[@richivey1044]

Jingles, failing a military exercise? oNever in our wildest dreams 🤣

[@tomriley5790]

Thanks for the video Jingles, hope you and Rita are both having a good day!

[@CrinosAD]

Love the video, extra love for the real life story!

[@kristyerman8880]

Can we get a series of just Jingles stories from past naval mishaps?

[@Sure_Ruse_User]

12:54 Put that down near a toddler and you can keep them busy for hours with all those knobs on that box.

[@ret7army]

I remember coming across my sections RDF unit back in 1980...handheld ... read the book but never actually used it

[@AverageFornaxEnjoyer]

I think he saved that Zao at the start of the match by eating those AP shells from the Incomparable.

[@Reddotzebra]

"I am ablative armor, life is boring, then momentarily interesting, then over. I am ablative armor..."

[@velocity790]

​@@ReddotzebraWe all needed that extra armour. The best armour is the armour that's not on you 😎👌

[@russward2612]

Re Huff Duff: Just because something has been supplanted by more modern technologies doesn't mean it won't work anymore. A stone hammer will still do pretty much anything a modern one would, unless you want to pry a nail out. Hope yours was a good day Jingles, hope Rita's day was good too. I hope you gave your furry children plenty of scritches and treats today. 🐈🐈‍⬛👑✌️🖖

[@bobheale2521]

It appears the captain of the HMS Brazen chose not to take the RPF skill

[@TFlashman]

Ah man stories like that about the "huff duff" is why I keep coming back even though I dont play wows anymore :)

[@jarink1]

I did radio intercept/direction finding for the US Army in the early 90s - was not too far away from you in Saudi Arabia/Iraq/Kuwait! Direction finding is simple when you have one station. It's just a single Line of Bearing (LoB) to whatever or whoever is transmitting. The trick is to get 2 or more stations simultaneously generating LoBs to the same transmitter, which can then give you a "fix" where they cross. The theory is simple, but in practice the trick is to make sure all your DF stations are tracking the same transmitter, plus accounting for signal degredation or scatter. Scatter is really ad for HF, since it bounces all over the atmosphere (which is how ham radio operators can talk to people all over the world). We could usually get good VHF fixes on Iraqis within about 20-30km of the front. More than a couple of those got passed off to arty or air assets and hit.

[@JackSparrow-hh2lh]

great story there Jingles, had a really good laugh about it

[@tomok7775]

Kia ora koe! Thanks for another tales of your naval service. Cheers!

[@ZZMonkeysUncleZZ]

That Lushun was so focused on the kill, I guess he forgot his hydro was running.

[@davidspurlock3836]

Great video! You are spot on about the RFL. 😊

[@harryhcroft]

1 team with a CV, the other without... great MM there WG

[@Dennys854]

Jingles! As you served on HMS Brazen, is it true that the callsign for the ASW Helicopter was "Huzzy" as noted by Tom Clancy in Red Storm Rising?

[@johnfoulk3448]

Goes to show the difference between a good officer and a bad one. A good one would have said, "here is your first lesson" and proceeded to show how to use it. A bad one goes stupid and starts berating everyone for not getting the training. As a PO3 on the Oriskany, I was introduced to both.

[@tomriley5790]

Yes and no, he can teach those who are there but who's going to teach the others and then there's the purple M&Ms thing of finding something that's not been done right - so what else hasn't....

[@geoffcameron1138]

Wow, amazing to think that Huff-Duff, invented during WW2, was still on warships half a century later. Technically the Communications team on HMS Brazen could have used Huff-Duff provide the CO with the bearing of enemy vessels if the EW suite was knocked out - assuming of course that the RN had bothered to train any of the Communications team how to use it!

[@TheInfidel_SlavaUA]

and assuming that the enemy didnt hold radio silence , which is what you absolutely do when engaged.

[@jamespurs]

Small world! My grandad was a radio operator during the war on Belfast!

[@nickierv13]

DD drivers: CVs don't have counterplay! BB drivers: DDs don't have counterplay!

[@neilbaird2789]

I was an EW in the US Navy in the 90s and it was our crypto guys who used the HFDF type stuff but a few years after I got out, they changed the EW rate to a CT rate so now all of that stuff is done by the CT spooks.

[@jeremiahdant3151]

LOL 😂 awesome sea story. That's hilarious. Have a few of my own sea stories kind of like that. Since I was trained on equipment for naval aircraft that were no longer used and retired by the time I hit the fleet. LOL 🤣

[@indisputablefacts8507]

Seems like Jingles videos are the place to go to see ships sail in a straight line while torps are en-route. In my world, the BB was going to sail in a straight line, right up until halfway through the run the CV makes a run at him and sends him in a different direction. Also, Jingles said "the RPF points *directly* at the nearest ship". Sorry Jingles, but actually... It points towards a 30 degree sector in which the enemy ship is. (Don't quote me on the 30 degree thing, but it's near to that). That island happened to be big enough where there was more than one sector involved.

[@MrSoloun]

Thank you for your service :)

[@neilevenden3481]

Great Video. I don't know how many times I have used RDF to launch my 20k Shimmy Trops (Yes, I know I should never use the 20's but they can be effective) and hit something that was 16-18k away. Often a DD that was hiding in smoke.

[@Gladius-XC]

I'd love to see that Lushun kill from the Lushun's perspective. He had hydro up, so he could see the torpedoes coming. So how did he get hit?

[@stillcantbesilencedevennow]

I think he was committed. Couldnt avoid them with the island on one side and the rest of the torpedo spread to the other side. Rock and a hard place more or less. Seemed to be chasing the kill too, understandably imo. He seemed to be ready to win it at any time.

[@kaalen24]

I think his plan was to kill the shima before the torps would hit him. However, he overestimated using only his front guns.

[@Gladius-XC]

@@kaalen24 I can see that. Got too aggressive trying to secure the kill instead of playing it safe.

[@Uzzgub]

A Interaction for the Interaction God, a Comment for the Comment Throne, for the Almighty Algorithm

[@neometallX]

Somehow the Roosevelt despite doing its efforts to kill the Shimakaze, the Colombo kills the snake instead. And the rest of the enemy team are either clueless if the shimakaze is dead or not, turns out, the Shimakaze turns the tide!

[@NigelDeForrest-Pearce-cv6ek]

Excellent and Outstanding!!!

[@EminemLovesGrapes]

That HP regen was clutch though. Probably wouldn'tve survived without it.

[@G19amc]

Didn't know you was in Radio. I retired 24 years from the USN (First 10 years as a Radioman) last 14years as an Information Systems Technician. Q&Z? INT ZBZ IMI ZBZ

[@Jpdt19]

Jingles changed to a ships writer after 4 years and never regretted it 😂. He says if he had to do it again he would have gone straight to being a writer and not a radio man.... P.s. he may still be able to easily decipher the above. Who knows

[@bob-qb9gw]

gotta love those names on the columbo div

[@markfrank3307]

Good Morning Mighty Jingles

[@johnnynielsen3006]

His torpedo kill also deserves an "Clever Girl" from Muldoon, Jurassic Park I.

[@purpurumamator7728]

loved the HFDF story!

[@ChrisTian-ed8ol]

I understand why that officer loved the HFDF. Older technologies were built to last and take a hit, sure they're less accurate and the new stuff outclasses it by factors, but in an extreme emergency where new tech has failed, old tech has worked beautifully.

[@bigsarge2085]

Damn the torpedoes!

[@Monty_BeGoodToEachOther]

"Detected" is warning you get when you've been detected by Radar, Hydro or have been seen. "Located" is warning you see on screen when your general location is known by RPF detection. Lushun still had his hydro running, he would have known those torps were in the water early on, maybe he was hoping to gun down the very low health Shimmy before taking one. Not necessarily a bad gamble.

[@sirtogii5216]

Thanks for the insight.

[@gorazdnovsak3705]

Lüshun doesn't come with a smoke... So it is not his smoke and ten again it is spoted... We know he is not in smoke. Never change Jingels...

[@nikitaostrovsky8416]

Dude's teammates have the best names lol

[@Dachs429]

I thought your RNZN Coms officer might just be stuck in the past. Turns out RNZN operated Leander T12I until at least 1997 when they commissioned their first ANZAC Class.

[@almahdi20]

HMS Brazen. Let me guess, the helo attached was called the Hussy?

[@The_MightyJingles]

Correct!

[@almahdi20]

@@The_MightyJingles I read that in a novel back in the day and thought it was a joke. LOL!

[@brianohehir9792]

Good morning Mr Jingles

[@benanddadmechanical6573]

So I guess the challenge for the salt miners is to come up with the last known use of the Huff-Duff in actual combat.

[@ainumahtar]

Sounds more like a job for the war thunder players tbh

[@touchofgrayphotos]

What is this? A jingles Video at 21:37 on a Tuesday! Yay!

[@AnteEdits]

Sir it is definitely 11:38

[@touchofgrayphotos]

@@AnteEdits not down here in The Land Down Under it ain't mate!

[@fyrep0w3r]

I believe it is in fact 10:41

[@Bismarck-ns8ql]

i know right perfect to watch before bed :p cheers from Vic

[@touchofgrayphotos]

The power of Timezones mate

[@OdinAUT]

You get a like for that Story alone :)

[@drakko26]

Shoulda told him: Sir, I first need a 27+ inch monitor, a game that hasn't been invented yet and at least 10 point captain and I'll show you right and proper.

[@Lyle_K]

Oh shit I remember this match it was a rough one for us in the columbos

[@swordmonkey6635]

The Mino was kiting away from the Napoli so couldn't get all the guns on target. The Mino has tissue paper for armor. It only takes a couple good hit to reduce the Mino to nothing.

[@arthurspearman7914]

Old Man, you mentioned the Lushun's torps being dodged at the end...Lushun has deep water torps....can't hurt a DD...and he didn't try and fire them. But he was dumb to come around that corner.

[@jcorbett9620]

I 'think' (though it being Jingles you can never be 100% sure! lol) he meant that the Lushun had dodged the Shimakazes torps - because he had his hydro running. Azimuth had fired a spread of 5 to the left of the island during the gunfight he was losing.

[@Mike609060]

Jingles "dit" reminds me that the BBC are reshowing HMS Brilliant.

[@scottyfox6376]

Is Jingles refering to the WW2 "Huff Duff" radio detection of the Allied Navy ?

[@clefsan]

How did Lushun run into those Shima torps while having hydro active? This match looks like it belongs in the Game of Throws series.

[@kristofnijs2460]

I wonder: Where you still aboard HMS Brazen when it ran aground and was that YOUR fault? ;)

[@jcorbett9620]

Don't be daft. They would NEVER let Jingles anywhere near the steering/throttle controls on the bridge! lol

[@mentorofarisia371]

Jingles - you don't think "show Me DD" means show me Destroyers? You have a dirty mind - and it's great.

[@genericpersonx333]

Mind, HFDF was not so much obsolete as a low-power back-up RDF system in case of seriously electrical power problems. In times before GPS satellites became mainstream, RDF navigation was particularly important. HFDF sets like that on HMS Brazen use up notably less juice than the systems the EW section have, allowing you to maintain basic RDF capability for longer without tapping main power. Thus, so if you are running electrics off emergency batteries for whatever reasons, using the HFDF to track the lighthouse beacon, as ordered by the Rottweiler, is not nearly so obtuse a command as it might seem. It also is not so obtuse to have redundancy in capability. Supposing the EW section was trashed, including the EW personnel, it would be helpful if there was least a couple of people in other sections who could perform basic RDF, especially if all they had to do was be able to find major navigational beacons.