"US Navy's Unluckiest Ship With An Untouchable Crew" | Kip Reacts to The Fat Electrician

[@awaremms]

“I just want to understand the navy logic of…” Lemme just stop you right there, no, no you do not.

[@shadowwolfe8829]

I love when Kip's eyes go a little derp it's like his very avatar is reacting to the stupidity of what he just heard

[@Mwraf]

Pretty much sums up this video

[@Kolljak]

@@Mwrafit seems his Vroid avatar is either A. Stuck in an emote or B. the facial visemes have broken entirely.

[@hjrulez8516]

I had this on the big screen, my dad starts watching he's loving it, I think I found something my dad might like

[@Mwraf]

Which one? The V-Tuber or the video itself?

[@hjrulez8516]

@@Mwraf the video

[@MrMaradok]

10:41 This has the vibe of a group of kids, after winning a soapbox derby, taking their winning care and driving it down the steepest hill in town, you know, the one with the *sharp curve*

[@bloodwolf110]

Why does Kip look like he is perpetually astonished? Mans been hit by too many Zubat.

[@hellomadetScuffed]

The Navy always has the craziest war experiences, some epic, some tragic, and the rest often hilarious. It's hard to disguise incompetence when it comes to warships because they're rather large pieces of military equipment. For example the voyage of the Russian Baltic Fleet (Second Pacific Squadron) in the Russo-Japanese War is a tragically hilarious story full of absurd events.

[@vavra222]

I saw a video on that a few days back, i honestly almost couldnt believe it. It sounds like a bad comedy full that repeats the same few jokes, ad nauseum.

[@hellomadetScuffed]

@@vavra222 Not even Odysseus had such adventures as Admiral Zinovy Petrovich Rozhestvensky

[@akarbit3r111]

Moral of the story for the Baltic Fleet imo is... don't do drugs kids lol

[@MiguelJuarez-q1t]

The stupidity and misfortune of the Russian Baltic Fleet makes the crew of the Wiilie D look competent.

[@6Qubed]

11:00 they're about to have a "womp womp" moment, and not the shylily kind

[@justsomejerseydevilwithint4606]

These guys are like Private Jammy from Fable 3, who withstood 724 injuries before his death at the hands of hollow men, and proceeded to haunt the artillery cannon he loaded in life so it could Still be used to blast undead scum to white powder and defend Fort Mourningwood even after it was abandoned during the Albion Civil War. This is all 100% completely canon to fable 3, and can be experienced firsthand if you play said game.

[@Richiedoesmc]

That weather balloons floating across the continental US was about the fact that a few months ago. Their were Chinese “Weather Balloons” allowed to float across the US. Including above several US bases before finally being shot down days later.

[@KipReacts]

Oh right, forgot about that.

[@mostlytrue3150]

There are a few other navy stories tfe tells which I think are also worth a watch 1. In the Korean War a navy construction battalion infiltrated north Korea to steal some trains and ended up at a railyard next to a brewery.. and that ends exactly how you'd expect. 2. The uss barb invaded japan and blew up a train. 3. A destroyer pulled up to a german U-boat and were to close to use the guns on board so they just started yeeting potatoes.

[@cammedgoat4025]

USS Wisconsin short temper USS New Jersey sinking an island Operation praying mantis

[@Deadxman616]

all the animal weapons

[@Mwraf]

Correction, set a fucken train to space

[@mmasque2052]

On short: the United States Navy is the only entity with the potential to defeat the United States Navy.

[@Sigmanonymous]

Gawd, I just recently saw the Sam O'Nella video on this ship. It's so weird to see it presented a *bit* more seriously.

[@johngillespie3409]

He did a video on the F-22 raptor vs a weather balloon about 6 months ago. 9:10 is what he was talking about that you missed.

[@DrJekyll51]

From what I'm understanding, the crew of the Willie D is basically the crew of the USS Stingray from Down Periscope

[@carbonwolf3865]

These are the type of shenanigans that aren't shared. Imagine if these stories were taught in school, history would be fun and funny

[@trentthehehim3936]

The Big Willie D were the Lamentors of actual history. 😂😂😂😂

[@gamereditor59ner22]

4:54 : " If it looks stupid, but it work , it ain't stupid." -Meme

[@ernesielta]

Duck

[@carbonwolf3865]

9:10 this is in reference to the PRC spy balloon incident earlier this year. This was one of the few, if not the only, air-to-air kill for the f-22 raptor to date

[@justsomejerseydevilwithint4606]

2:38 Nope. The american generals needed naval pressure in the pacific and they needed it FAST; New Sailors got trial ny fire.

[@Good20win11]

Man seeing your reaction to this, makes me think that you would love some of his older ship videos. Most of them are in much shorter format, but I would love to see you do a nice double feature of his videos on the Ship that wouldn’t die (USS Laffey) and the ship that wouldn’t sink (USS Nevada).

[@warbacca1017]

If you aren't already familiar with it, you NEED to look up the Russian Baltic fleet (aka the 2nd pacific squadron). It is an absolute shitshow and you will love it. There are two videos I'd recommend. A decent reaction length one by BlueJay, and a longer, more detailed one by Drachinifel.

[@josephschultz3301]

Both are great vids and go a long way in explaining how derp the Russians were back then.

[@CaptainFirespitter]

I know this literally just started (never been this early, holy s**t!), but I’d also recommend reacting to the Voyage of the Damned. It’s uh… it’s quite something. Featuring the singular WORST ship in recorded history, the infamous Kamchatka. It’s definitely worth it. Carrying on watching your reaction whilst typing this because I love this piece of history!!! 😂 Quick Edit: great Reaction Kip, especially entertaining and great fun! History really is comical sometimes, never get enough of it.

[@danielwilson8604]

supposedly, the very first thing the willie d did when setting out on this journey was fail to draw anchor properly, tearing the railing and lifeboats off another ship while leaving port. this is disputed though

[@pfrstreetgang7511]

I've asked several retired Navy signalmen about those messages and none of them had a clue how someone could screw it up that bad on either end.

[@justsomejerseydevilwithint4606]

The more I hear about FDR the more I wish we had a president like him today. Mans was told he may be hit by a torpedo while on a top secret war council meeting mission right as war was breaking out, and decides to go up to the top deck and stare death in the fucking eyes. This is the same guy that had a secret surgery aboard a vacation yacht to prevent the public from worrying about his mouth cancer, and led the u.s.a. out of the great depression and gave "fireside chats" weekly over international radio to update the american populace about the details of our climb out of the great depression and reassure the nation. This was also after he survived polio BEFORE the vaccine. That president EARNED his extra terms in office with tooth and god damn nail.

[@chaosXP3RT]

The mouth cancer wasn't FDR. That was President Grover Cleveland. FDR never had cancer

[@vagabondwastrel2361]

FDR didn't lead America out of the great depression. He extended it. We are still trying to remove some of the bullshit policy and law that passed under his watch.

[@ImprovmanZero]

God has blessed us with great leaders

[@justsomejerseydevilwithint4606]

@@ImprovmanZero Unfortunately it seems that blessing has run dry in recent decades...

[@anlydaly5726]

Should have called the ship "THE USS BRUH" 😂

[@lordsylph414]

I would argue that the fletchers weren't just the most numerous DD's of WWII, they were the best. five 5-in/38 cal naval guns in dual purpose turrets, an assortment of 20mm cannons, dual and quad mounted 40mm cannons, and 10x533mm torpedoes. they excelled at ASW, AA, and surface combat roles. compare that to Japan's Kagero and Yugumo-class DD's, with slow firing and slow turning turrets, a mediocre AA gun in the form of the 25mm auto cannon, and 8x610mm torpedoes. I know which one I'd rather have

[@collinwood6573]

I’d argue that the Allen M. Sumner and Gearing classes were the best destroyers of the war, but that should be obvious given they were meant as an improvement on the fletchers in every way based on wartime experience. The fletchers were essentially everything the USN had ever wanted on a destroyer but couldn’t fit on the treaty displacement limit and the Sumners/Gearings just incorporated design efficiencies to make them even better.

[@danielsnook7362]

​@@collinwood6573interesting 🤔

[@gliocasneko]

This all sounds like a season of McHale's Navy.

[@leonides1527]

Willy D?... Will of the D- *oh my fucking god*

[@ChancySanah]

Aim for the largest target....Oh noooo!

[@damonbryan7232]

My personal favorites are toys for tots. Second is blue collar dads. Third is Doc(that was my job). I can say by personal experience. He isn't exaggerating.

[@davidwhite8535]

I feel like the movie Down Periscope took inspiration from this series of events

[@TwoPlusTwoEqualsFive32]

I picked up a game that is essentially the equivalent of a flight sim but for uboats called wolfpack, and honestly as much as the Uboat crews were hated I gotta respect them. It's not just a matter of finding an enemy ship, firing a torpedo and skedaddle. You need to gather information, triangulate their position, their heading, their speed, you then need to get a head of them and plan the attack calculating your torpedos bearing and distance so it meets the moving target all while not being seen or heard... and if you are seen or heard it turns into a horror game as you are stuck in a tin can 100 meters under the water, hearing the pings of sonar and splashes of depth charges knowing there is jack shit you can do about it.

[@Maeshalanadae]

Well, now we know the Gomer Pyle of the US Navy during the time…

[@Blood_M4ster]

"In our series 'Régis is a dumbass': Régis joins the navy !" (Pokémon trivia: in the french version of Red and Bleu one of the preset rival's name is Régis as a reference to Les Nuls' skits "Régis est un con" iirc) I had already heard of the William D porter story from Sam O'Nella and L'Odieux Connard and yet the comedy of errors still reads like the script of movies such as "Airplane" or "The naked gun". To steal OC's joke about divine intervention "God said: Enough is enough, the joke was funny alright. Let's move on."

[@justsomejerseydevilwithint4606]

1:19 Okay but while not as cool as the yamato or bismark, many, many destroyers filling out a much larger navy is by far the better option for the large-scale oceanic warfare that modern civilizations are capable of organizing, as it is a more efficient assembly of combative pressure and a better-spread distribution of resources more capable of withstanding long-term warfare, as per Sun Tzu's equal distribution of forces to mitigate the chaos of war.

[@Kingofdragons117]

7 Destroyers and a couple Escort carriers (Didn't really have anti ship weapons for the planes) faced off against the largest Japanese fleet ever assembled and won. They inflicted so much damage the enemy thought they were fighting larger cruisers. The Yamato was in that fleet and displaced more than the entire task force. It was Hilarious.

[@petesmithson1906]

There's a reason the Yamato and Bismark are at the bottom of the ocean 🤷‍♂️

[@collinwood6573]

Also the Bismarck was terribly designed anyways. Ah yes, let’s design a battleship for commerce raiding (because that’s totally the best use of a battleship), give it an obsolete armor scheme that allows it to be crippled in a single hit, radar that is disabled by firing the guns, a massive torpedo belt but an equally massive weak point that allows the entire steering to be crippled by any torpedo that hits the aft 1/3rd of the ship, outdated AA guns, and to top it all off, build it inefficiently so that treaty battleships that displace thousands of tons less than it are equal or possibly superior to it.

[@justsomejerseydevilwithint4606]

@@collinwood6573 So not only was it a bad idea, it was a poorly executed one, and the only reason it worked is luck and range advantage?

[@collinwood6573]

@@justsomejerseydevilwithint4606 essentially yes, the German admiralty was originally arguing over if it should be a commerce raider or a direct competitor in a battle line (which is arguably worse because it would need to fight the entire Royal Navy and potentially French navy almost by itself). The fact that they didn’t even know what to do with it points to the idea that it shouldn’t have been built in the first place. If France had still been in the war, if Hood had received her refit, or if more King George V class were in active condition, Bismarck would have been slaughtered at Denmark strait and Tirpitz would have never left German waters.

[@ryancampbell4119]

Iowa still has that bathtub in her still. It still works.

[@KipReacts]

Amazing

[@Naruto_uzumaki120]

I really like when you get to react to these

[@josephschultz3301]

Kip, have I mentioned how amazing the thumbnail for this vid is? xD It's just you looking up and to the left, looking dazed, with the word BOAT superimposed behind you... and I can't stop laughing. Good stuff, my man.

[@benpurcell4935]

The US, Japan and Germany had the greatest success with submarines despite the sizes of the ships and their endurance not being great. The Type IX, Type VII and Type XXI for Germany while the Japanese Kaidai and Junsen submarines were utilized as the primary medium range submarine classes. The US employed the Gato, Balao and Tench classes as the primary submarine classes.

[@HMSAtomicDreadnought]

This is the earliest I have seen one of your videos

[@Peter_Aranyos_Jr]

Idk if there are any Naruto fans here but every time I hear about that major meeting with all of those leaders, I can't help but think of it like the 5 Kage summit to team up against Madara (Hitler) lol

[@Isolder74]

Just as a heads up, there was not just one torpedo man. Each torpedo man was assigned a set of tubes they are in charge of. Dawson was in charge of tubes 3 - 5 and neglected to remove the primers from any of his, hence why they could tell who was at fault seeing the other 2 were still armed. This may be part of the everyone arrested myth as Marines did board the ship to ensure that none of the tubes got messed with before the investigation could start. So them doing a single fire drill rather then a volley fire one made this much better for the Willie D as well a volley fire drill would have meant 3 torpedoes heading for the Iowa...

[@outcast_isle-gaming]

11:55 seems like a lose lose situation

[@chriscalvin5083]

please more of the fat electrician

[@vavra222]

Parallel parking... whenever i come tired from a night shift and dont care for anything bud shower and bed, i parallel park like a boss on the first try lol. But when im fully awake and aware, i probably look like an idiot, slowly ruining my clutch and torturing my power steering driving back and forth, just like Austin Powers (i have a pretty compact hatchback btw).

[@ShivShrike]

Sam O'Nella also did a vid on the Willie D that you should give a look at, you'll cry laughing

[@rkade1486]

That's actually hilarious, shooting down a plane and then getting bombed by it anyway because it decided to explode under you.

[@noxiplays]

11:00 painful laughter continues xDD

[@akarbit3r111]

Willy D reminds me of Kaboose from RvB (anyone who's seen that show understands)

[@DiggitySlice]

Adolf Kaiba's deck would be nothing but U-boats.

[@black1917]

That time the navy gave the cast of Police Academy a warship.

[@chillwill2918]

I always laugh when I hear about this.

[@Isolder74]

To be fair, if the secrecy of the mission holds then this should have been an mission labeled easy mode. Of course these guys had other goals in mind it seems.

[@LM-nb7rj]

If theres one thing to take away from all this: FDR is a fucking CHAD.

[@Dragonsofchaos852]

20:00 untill 20:10 God, i love their sense of humor XD

[@cesaralfredomorocho2086]

7:25 my man , you got so shock that your VT model Frozed 11:00 yeah ....... just .... yeah 13:50 that kid was the traslator boy from Ace Ventura 2 18:10 OK NO, THAT IS LITERALLY MR BEAN LEVEL OF AIM .....

[@domination1985]

Think about the new guy hazings that happened because of that tub. You think dont drop the soap in the showers is bad. 😂😂😂😂😂😮😮😮

[@masonballantine867]

This reminds me of down percope.

[@tangohotel2599]

Actually it was Musashi who sunk at Okinawa, not Yamato (sorry), Yamato was sunk at a later date in 1945 during operation Ten-go, where she was to beach herself and become an unsinkable gun battery

[@Maurice_Of_Wisdom]

As once a wise froj said: B O A T

[@MarrockV]

"The Three Stooges Join The Navy"... now in theaters.

[@masterpiece1817]

Ok I don’t understand the torpedo thing. Why did it fire? Why would it still have gone off if the primer was removed?

[@Motleydoll123]

The primer in 1 and 2 was removed… not the 3rd tube. That one was live.

[@ordo_draigo_assault_ham]

The Yamato works better as a coral reef than a warship.

[@gk5891]

"Go Navy!"

[@polskabob359]

Do the wotek video polands most famous ww2 solider

[@redoctober2k593]

Does anyone have the vod ?

[@bjrnegillarsen1380]

According to my grandad, with 30 years in the norwegian navy, the words navy and logic does NOT belong in the same sentence...

[@wild50gunner]

On the upside US torpedoes we're absolutely crap in WW2 so even if they didn't turn the mk 14 torpedo probably wouldn't have done shit to the Iowa

[@joeytrent7608]

Proportional

[@sam007695]

BOAT

[@Mamorufumio]

Frog man is everywhere, even under your bed

[@kriegertechpriest7011]

Chinese weather balloms

[@themalcontent100]

I prefer the sam o'nella's video

[@Roche_sanderson]

I hope the navy retired the name, cause that vessel was cursed

[@AkiUwUx3]

War Thunder

[@mandyogilvie686]

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[@vagabondwastrel2361]

To be fair, America would have been better off if FDR's ship sank.