Chapter · 36:31 The rebuilt carrier gains catapults, a deck-edge elevator, and layout changes aimed at high-tempo flight operations.
From The Red Fleet Project Teaser: Discussing Graf Zepplinski with Fleet of Oceans · 24 Apr 2024
Notable Point · 39:58 The scenario deliberately refits major ships during the Cuban Missile Crisis, then considers how carrier aviation and AEW might alter crisis signaling at Cuba or Suez.
From The Red Fleet Project Teaser: Discussing Graf Zepplinski with Fleet of Oceans · 24 Apr 2024
Notable Point · 45:25 A proposed carrier-delivery aircraft, navalized MiG, and revised elevator layout connect air-group choices to hangar capacity and resupply.
From The Red Fleet Project Teaser: Discussing Graf Zepplinski with Fleet of Oceans · 24 Apr 2024
Notable Point · 49:31 The Red Fleet pursues economy of scale through multi-role aircraft while experimenting with carrier airborne early warning.
From The Red Fleet Project Teaser: Discussing Graf Zepplinski with Fleet of Oceans · 24 Apr 2024
Notable Point · 57:16 Comparisons with the E-1 Tracer, Gannet, and Hawkeye show why radar-aircraft height and folding arrangements matter aboard a rebuilt carrier.
From The Red Fleet Project Teaser: Discussing Graf Zepplinski with Fleet of Oceans · 24 Apr 2024
Notable Point · 1:03:33 Expanded northern-Baltic waterways provide freshwater reserve anchorages that help preserve Graf Zepplinski into the timeline's final years.
From The Red Fleet Project Teaser: Discussing Graf Zepplinski with Fleet of Oceans · 24 Apr 2024
Notable Point · 1:06:10 The Red Fleet accepts a northern-Baltic link but cannot afford a Black Sea route sized for major carriers.
From The Red Fleet Project Teaser: Discussing Graf Zepplinski with Fleet of Oceans · 24 Apr 2024
Q&A · 1:09:45 German expertise and East German spare-parts production bridge the gap until Soviet machinery replaces the original plant.
From The Red Fleet Project Teaser: Discussing Graf Zepplinski with Fleet of Oceans · 24 Apr 2024
Q&A · 1:12:27 Reusing the island saves design time even though the German internal arrangement is stripped away.
From The Red Fleet Project Teaser: Discussing Graf Zepplinski with Fleet of Oceans · 24 Apr 2024
Q&A · 1:13:17 Island layout raises the wider problem of integrating Soviet naval aviation with carrier command and deck operations.
From The Red Fleet Project Teaser: Discussing Graf Zepplinski with Fleet of Oceans · 24 Apr 2024
Q&A · 1:20:42 A 30-knot carrier doctrine assigns Stalingrads, Sverdlovs, destroyers, and later missile escorts distinct roles.
From The Red Fleet Project Teaser: Discussing Graf Zepplinski with Fleet of Oceans · 24 Apr 2024
Notable Point · 1:25:53 Soviet cruisers show Italian design ancestry while remaining adapted to cold northern operations.
From The Red Fleet Project Teaser: Discussing Graf Zepplinski with Fleet of Oceans · 24 Apr 2024
Q&A · 1:28:20 Wartime practice in which large carriers and battleships passed fuel to their screens offers one model for the scenario.
From The Red Fleet Project Teaser: Discussing Graf Zepplinski with Fleet of Oceans · 24 Apr 2024
Q&A · 1:30:38 British experience at Suez suggests amphibious, ASW, and secondary aviation roles for the aging carrier.
From The Red Fleet Project Teaser: Discussing Graf Zepplinski with Fleet of Oceans · 24 Apr 2024
Chapter · 0:54 The opening frames Hermes, Hosho, and Langley as early carrier answers shaped by national strategy rather than by one universal design path.
From What the post WWI Navys really wanted from Aircraft Carriers: Hermes, Hōshō & Langley! · 23 Apr 2024
Notable Point · 13:35 Furious shows how wartime pressure accelerated the move from spotting aircraft to strike aviation, while peace gave navies time to reassess what carriers should become.
From What the post WWI Navys really wanted from Aircraft Carriers: Hermes, Hōshō & Langley! · 23 Apr 2024
Chapter · 15:10 USS Langley appears as the US Navy's first carrier step: an experimental conversion that lets the fleet learn before Lexington and Saratoga arrive.
From What the post WWI Navys really wanted from Aircraft Carriers: Hermes, Hōshō & Langley! · 23 Apr 2024
Notable Point · 20:43 Langley's open-sided hangar helps reveal how strongly early American carrier thinking was oriented toward Pacific operations rather than North Atlantic weather.
From What the post WWI Navys really wanted from Aircraft Carriers: Hermes, Hōshō & Langley! · 23 Apr 2024
Notable Point · 22:01 A Douglas DT aside links a disputed Norwegian wartime attack to the disappearance of records and every surviving example of the aircraft.
From What the post WWI Navys really wanted from Aircraft Carriers: Hermes, Hōshō & Langley! · 23 Apr 2024
Notable Point · 23:33 The American battlecruiser conversions prompt a design question: should a carrier carry heavy guns, or devote that weight and maneuvering freedom to aircraft operations?
From What the post WWI Navys really wanted from Aircraft Carriers: Hermes, Hōshō & Langley! · 23 Apr 2024
Notable Point · 25:28 Early Langley exercises use fighters and torpedo bombers against battleships, pushing the US Navy toward larger carrier air groups.
From What the post WWI Navys really wanted from Aircraft Carriers: Hermes, Hōshō & Langley! · 23 Apr 2024
Chapter · 31:29 Hosho shows Japan shifting from seaplane-carrier plans to a true flight-deck carrier while building the aircraft and industrial skills it needs.
From What the post WWI Navys really wanted from Aircraft Carriers: Hermes, Hōshō & Langley! · 23 Apr 2024
Notable Point · 32:40 Comparisons with Ryujo and Soryu show why larger carriers become more aircraft-efficient, while Hosho's flush-deck experience exposes the danger of judging landing height without an island reference.
From What the post WWI Navys really wanted from Aircraft Carriers: Hermes, Hōshō & Langley! · 23 Apr 2024
Notable Point · 38:12 Hōshō's early air group shows Japan combining dependable torpedo aircraft, imported fighters, and British engineering expertise to build a domestic aviation industry.
From What the post WWI Navys really wanted from Aircraft Carriers: Hermes, Hōshō & Langley! · 23 Apr 2024
Notable Point · 40:08 Hōshō's claw gear and longitudinal deck wires reveal how primitive carrier recovery systems shifted extraordinary risk onto sailors working beside landing aircraft.
From What the post WWI Navys really wanted from Aircraft Carriers: Hermes, Hōshō & Langley! · 23 Apr 2024
Notable Point · 42:04 Comparing the 1MF with the Sparrowhawk shows Japan preserving familiar handling while using more engine power and a higher ceiling to establish domestic fighter production.
From What the post WWI Navys really wanted from Aircraft Carriers: Hermes, Hōshō & Langley! · 23 Apr 2024
Notable Point · 46:13 Aircraft carriers offered Japan a way to punch above its industrial weight among peer naval powers.
From What the post WWI Navys really wanted from Aircraft Carriers: Hermes, Hōshō & Langley! · 23 Apr 2024
Notable Point · 49:49 Mahan and Corbett distinguish carriers justified through battle-fleet striking power from carriers justified through the wider uses of sea power.
From What the post WWI Navys really wanted from Aircraft Carriers: Hermes, Hōshō & Langley! · 23 Apr 2024
Chapter · 51:20 Hermes appears as a Royal Navy answer to global presence, reconnaissance, trade protection, and distant-water aviation support.
From What the post WWI Navys really wanted from Aircraft Carriers: Hermes, Hōshō & Langley! · 23 Apr 2024
Notable Point · 55:42 Comparing carrier air groups reveals how Air Ministry control, flight-sized units, and reconnaissance priorities shaped the twenty aircraft carried by Hermes.
From What the post WWI Navys really wanted from Aircraft Carriers: Hermes, Hōshō & Langley! · 23 Apr 2024
Notable Point · 58:28 The prolific Fairey IIID gives Hermes a durable reconnaissance core built to find, track, and report threats across distant stations.
From What the post WWI Navys really wanted from Aircraft Carriers: Hermes, Hōshō & Langley! · 23 Apr 2024
Notable Point · 1:02:09 A cable map shows that the same maritime geography can concentrate merchant traffic and the physical infrastructure of global communications.
From What the post WWI Navys really wanted from Aircraft Carriers: Hermes, Hōshō & Langley! · 23 Apr 2024
Notable Point · 1:02:50 A strategic map comparison shows Britain protecting global trade while Japan and the United States focus carrier thinking on the Pacific.
From What the post WWI Navys really wanted from Aircraft Carriers: Hermes, Hōshō & Langley! · 23 Apr 2024
Notable Point · 1:04:09 The fleets of Brazil, Argentina, and Chile remind viewers that American naval planning also faced a changing regional balance beyond the Pacific rivalry with Japan.
From What the post WWI Navys really wanted from Aircraft Carriers: Hermes, Hōshō & Langley! · 23 Apr 2024
Notable Point · 1:05:26 Japan's memory of Russia and Commodore Perry concentrates planning on the Pacific, helping explain why the 1942 Indian Ocean raid had little operational follow-through.
From What the post WWI Navys really wanted from Aircraft Carriers: Hermes, Hōshō & Langley! · 23 Apr 2024
Notable Point · 1:08:34 Qualitative competition differs from quantitative fleet races, and naval rivalry can encourage fear and alliances without automatically causing war.
From What the post WWI Navys really wanted from Aircraft Carriers: Hermes, Hōshō & Langley! · 23 Apr 2024
Notable Point · 1:12:14 Global maritime security demands dispersed patrol forces as well as a concentrated battle fleet, making treaty equality especially restrictive for Britain and France.
From What the post WWI Navys really wanted from Aircraft Carriers: Hermes, Hōshō & Langley! · 23 Apr 2024
Chapter · 1:14:27 A treaty counterfactual asks how carrier development changes if small carriers do not count against cumulative carrier tonnage.
From What the post WWI Navys really wanted from Aircraft Carriers: Hermes, Hōshō & Langley! · 23 Apr 2024
Notable Point · 1:18:21 The conclusion reduces the comparison to three aims: a Japanese combat edge, American operational knowledge, and British presence and trade security.
From What the post WWI Navys really wanted from Aircraft Carriers: Hermes, Hōshō & Langley! · 23 Apr 2024
Chapter · 1:20:06 The final counterfactual traces how a 15,000-ton, 9.2-inch-gunned Hawkins concept might have raised treaty thresholds and encouraged a separate family of small presence carriers.
From What the post WWI Navys really wanted from Aircraft Carriers: Hermes, Hōshō & Langley! · 23 Apr 2024
Q&A · 8:09 A Tillman-treaty counterfactual asks how twice as many British carriers would change the risks accepted with Courageous, Glorious, Ark Royal, and Taranto.
From Check Campaign 14: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign · 22 Apr 2024
Q&A · 12:10 A counterfactual treaty question weighs 16-inch battleships, carrier numbers, blockade pressure, and what German ships could safely face.
From Check Campaign 14: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign · 22 Apr 2024
Q&A · 15:48 A design question compares Dunkerque's specialist role with Richelieu and links French battleship choices to treaty parity with Italy.
From Check Campaign 14: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign · 22 Apr 2024
Notable Point · 27:43 A comment about women's suffrage prompts an argument from no taxation or legislation without representation to equal voting rights.
From Check Campaign 14: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign · 22 Apr 2024
Notable Point · 32:41 A research-budget check prioritizes electric batteries, torpedo contact exploders, submarine improvements, and minelaying submarines.
From Check Campaign 14: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign · 22 Apr 2024
Notable Point · 36:52 A battle setup groups 30- to 33-knot ships, assigns destroyers as protection, and saturates a slower opponent with roughly forty torpedoes.
From Check Campaign 14: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign · 22 Apr 2024
Notable Point · 51:57 A convoy attack highlights why an escorting cruiser cannot drift so far from the convoy that an attacker can pass between them.
From Check Campaign 14: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign · 22 Apr 2024
Q&A · 1:01:13 An aggressive-submarine question explores how undersea forces can make invasion fleets prohibitively risky even though surface ships remain necessary for other missions.
From Check Campaign 14: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign · 22 Apr 2024