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Explore every watch point in reverse video-date order, then in timestamp order within each video.
Spain's Príncipe de Asturias illustrates how a navy can field Harriers and helicopters without funding a large fleet carrier.
From Bruships 160: Money for Kallax, Book Space ain’t Free! Naval History Questions & Chat... ·
A British victory at Coronel could accelerate Cradock's career, though not necessarily put him straight in command of battlecruisers.
From Bruships 160: Money for Kallax, Book Space ain’t Free! Naval History Questions & Chat... ·
Jutland and Guadalcanal can be compared for recurring command errors, but their technology and doctrine make them better contrasts than direct equivalents.
From Bruships 160: Money for Kallax, Book Space ain’t Free! Naval History Questions & Chat... ·
Surplus American four-stackers would give smaller navies a valuable injection of modern destroyer capability.
From Bruships 160: Money for Kallax, Book Space ain’t Free! Naval History Questions & Chat... ·
Earlier Spitfire-derived Seafires could give the Fleet Air Arm faster, more flexible interception against incoming strikes.
From Bruships 160: Money for Kallax, Book Space ain’t Free! Naval History Questions & Chat... ·
A proposed South African Victor force is not linked here to the country's nuclear delivery plan.
From Bruships 160: Money for Kallax, Book Space ain’t Free! Naval History Questions & Chat... ·
Projected Spiteful and Seafang orders would replace earlier fighters while providing the depth expected for an invasion of Japan.
From Bruships 160: Money for Kallax, Book Space ain’t Free! Naval History Questions & Chat... ·
A large carrier-aircraft order covers operational squadrons, land-based aircraft and the reserves needed to sustain air groups.
From Bruships 160: Money for Kallax, Book Space ain’t Free! Naval History Questions & Chat... ·
Additional RAF tankers would materially increase the refuelling capacity available to United States and coalition aircraft.
From Bruships 160: Money for Kallax, Book Space ain’t Free! Naval History Questions & Chat... ·
A single-seat Intruder derivative would not match the Prowler's suitability for carrier electronic warfare.
From Bruships 160: Money for Kallax, Book Space ain’t Free! Naval History Questions & Chat... ·
The A-6F is framed as an evolutionary replacement for earlier Intruders rather than a fresh successor to the A-7 Corsair II.
From Bruships 160: Money for Kallax, Book Space ain’t Free! Naval History Questions & Chat... ·
German services produced so many proposals around workable twin heavy anti-aircraft mountings that the exact variant must be identified before it can be assessed.
From Bruships 160: Money for Kallax, Book Space ain’t Free! Naval History Questions & Chat... ·
Japan retained captured Russian ships while they helped expand the fleet, then disposed of them as age, condition and foreign construction reduced their value.
From Bruships 160: Money for Kallax, Book Space ain’t Free! Naval History Questions & Chat... ·
Germany's treaty allowance was calculated as 35 percent of Britain's declared tonnage in each relevant ship category.
From Bruships 160: Money for Kallax, Book Space ain’t Free! Naval History Questions & Chat... ·
A strategy-game Japan can operate the Canadian CF-105 Arrow, but real Japanese procurement would more likely demand domestic licensed production.
From Bruships 160: Money for Kallax, Book Space ain’t Free! Naval History Questions & Chat... ·
The Army-Navy rivalry was so destructive that, without the Pacific War, their factions might have driven Japan toward internal conflict.
From Bruships 160: Money for Kallax, Book Space ain’t Free! Naval History Questions & Chat... ·
Additional ships built to the Dreadnought design would probably have inherited the capital-ship names later used for Bellerophon, Temeraire and Superb.
From Bruships 160: Money for Kallax, Book Space ain’t Free! Naval History Questions & Chat... ·
A Japanese navy trained for night carrier operations would have little reason to wait for daylight at Pearl Harbor, increasing the defenders' difficulties.
From Bruships 160: Money for Kallax, Book Space ain’t Free! Naval History Questions & Chat... ·
Large German Second World War warships are not described here as specially strengthened for ice navigation.
From Bruships 160: Money for Kallax, Book Space ain’t Free! Naval History Questions & Chat... ·
Allowing a controlled trickle of capital-ship construction after 1930 could preserve industrial capacity and produce younger treaty fleets by the next war.
From Bruships 160: Money for Kallax, Book Space ain’t Free! Naval History Questions & Chat... ·
Royal Navy naming practice makes admirals and great battles more likely names for the cancelled G3 and N3 ships than saint names.
From Bruships 160: Money for Kallax, Book Space ain’t Free! Naval History Questions & Chat... ·
Lower immediate air-defence pressure let American programs such as Operation Bumblebee move toward guided missiles without first rushing a barrage rocket into service.
From Laying Minefields in the Sky... Some WWII Rocketry and Supersized T-Shirt Cannons... ·
Operation Bumblebee leads into a lesson on how naval engineers must manage upwards and downwards while persuading peers outside a simple chain of command.
From Laying Minefields in the Sky... Some WWII Rocketry and Supersized T-Shirt Cannons... ·
British, Japanese, and German rocket projects all sought a way to disrupt large, heavily armed bomber formations.
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Photographs of HMS Nelson and HMS Rodney show multibarrel Unrotated Projectile launchers mounted above their 16-inch gun turrets.
From Laying Minefields in the Sky... Some WWII Rocketry and Supersized T-Shirt Cannons... ·
The Unrotated Projectile emerged from pre-war British rocket research rather than from a single wartime inspiration by Churchill.
From Laying Minefields in the Sky... Some WWII Rocketry and Supersized T-Shirt Cannons... ·
Major wars often accelerate the conversion of existing research into fielded equipment, with much of the invention already done before fighting begins.
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The Unrotated Projectile could put parachute-borne charges into the air, but its defensive pattern was ill suited to a moving ship and an evading aircraft.
From Laying Minefields in the Sky... Some WWII Rocketry and Supersized T-Shirt Cannons... ·
Feuerlilie was meant to give Germany a radio-controlled weapon against high-altitude bombers, but engine, launch, and control problems kept it out of service.
From Laying Minefields in the Sky... Some WWII Rocketry and Supersized T-Shirt Cannons... ·
German remote-control ambitions collided with competing jet programs, shrinking skilled labour, and a production system unable to sustain fine tolerances.
From Laying Minefields in the Sky... Some WWII Rocketry and Supersized T-Shirt Cannons... ·
Wasserfall promised V-2-derived speed, range, and a large warhead against bomber formations but never entered service.
From Laying Minefields in the Sky... Some WWII Rocketry and Supersized T-Shirt Cannons... ·
Land-based Z Batteries could place danger over predictable approaches to fixed targets, avoiding the naval system's moving-platform problem.
From Laying Minefields in the Sky... Some WWII Rocketry and Supersized T-Shirt Cannons... ·
Z Batteries traded enormous rocket consumption for less physically demanding crews and helped inspire a surface-to-surface battlefield weapon.
From Laying Minefields in the Sky... Some WWII Rocketry and Supersized T-Shirt Cannons... ·
Japan's Type 4 incendiary rocket tried to buy capital ships space to manoeuvre by confronting attackers with a wall of flame.
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The Type 3 Sanshiki anti-aircraft shell could make a spectacular burst from a Yamato-class 18-inch gun, but its short-lived fire effect offered little persistent protection.
From Laying Minefields in the Sky... Some WWII Rocketry and Supersized T-Shirt Cannons... ·
Even a full Type 4 salvo created only a short-lived barrier, leaving ships to solve a difficult interception calculation against moving aircraft.
From Laying Minefields in the Sky... Some WWII Rocketry and Supersized T-Shirt Cannons... ·
Rheintochter's multiple stages and many trials could not overcome limits in materials and production capacity.
From Laying Minefields in the Sky... Some WWII Rocketry and Supersized T-Shirt Cannons... ·
The Allies generally had access to strategic materials but had to move them through threatened sea routes, while Axis states increasingly lacked suitable materials in the first place.
From Laying Minefields in the Sky... Some WWII Rocketry and Supersized T-Shirt Cannons... ·
Rheintochter may have appealed to senior patrons through Wagnerian associations, while sources disagree over the origin of Enzian.
From Laying Minefields in the Sky... Some WWII Rocketry and Supersized T-Shirt Cannons... ·
The Enzian missile borrowed from the Me 163 concept but was cancelled in favor of the Hs 117 only when Germany's wider weapons programme was already overextended.
From Laying Minefields in the Sky... Some WWII Rocketry and Supersized T-Shirt Cannons... ·
Typhoon proposed sending dozens or hundreds of simple rockets into bomber streams as a dense aerial barrage.
From Laying Minefields in the Sky... Some WWII Rocketry and Supersized T-Shirt Cannons... ·
Upward-firing night-fighter guns worked for a time, but escort fighters, remote-controlled turrets, and Mosquito-related responses soon challenged them.
From Laying Minefields in the Sky... Some WWII Rocketry and Supersized T-Shirt Cannons... ·
Germany's Typhoon rocket was relatively simple and reliable, but its barrage method required production on a scale Germany could not sustain.
From Laying Minefields in the Sky... Some WWII Rocketry and Supersized T-Shirt Cannons... ·
The Holman Projector was a rapidly produced pneumatic mortar that gave small vessels a deterrent against low-flying attackers.
From Laying Minefields in the Sky... Some WWII Rocketry and Supersized T-Shirt Cannons... ·
Japan's anti-aircraft mine discharger used mortar rounds that released parachute-borne mines, making most sense as an ambush against a predictable low-level approach.
From Laying Minefields in the Sky... Some WWII Rocketry and Supersized T-Shirt Cannons... ·
The Hs 297 offered another trainable rocket barrage, but its limited viability raised the familiar question of whether Germany should have spent resources elsewhere.
From Laying Minefields in the Sky... Some WWII Rocketry and Supersized T-Shirt Cannons... ·
The closing reflection asks whether low-cost mortar or rocket concepts might be adapted for drones where lasers and electronic warfare are impractical.
From Laying Minefields in the Sky... Some WWII Rocketry and Supersized T-Shirt Cannons... ·
Rebuilt Splendid Cats could release first-line ships by serving as fast, heavily armed reinforcements in secondary theatres.
From Bruships 159: New Office - This may be quick, discord may work & I may not have a Pneumonia attack! ·