Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

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40 mm Guns

Also searchable as 40 Millimeter Guns, 40 mm Cannon, Forty Millimeter Guns.

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  1. Bruships 266: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    1:09:05The case for a 40 mm close-in weapon systemQ&A
  2. Bruships 266: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    2:07:53Designing a larger Leander successor with ASROCQ&A
  3. Bruships 265: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:10:54Future Royal Navy guns without a 76 mm optionQ&A
  4. Nilgiri Class... A Great Indian Frigate
    5:47AK-630 movement compared with Goalkeeper and DardoNotable Point
  5. Bruships 262: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    2:38:57Naval gun layers against cheap dronesNotable Point
  6. Bruships 262: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    2:47:00Deferred secondary guns and promised lasersNotable Point
  7. Bruships 262: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    3:21:27Gun calibres for defending ships against dronesQ&A
  8. Five Doomsday Weapons of the Sci-fi universes, and the theories of Deterrence... why do they fail?
    1:31:32What the Replicators suggest about near-term drone defenceQ&A
  9. Air Defence At Sea: From Air Ships in 1906, to drones in 2026 and everything in between...
    2:02:17Affordable guns in a layered defence against dronesQ&A
  10. Air Defence At Sea: From Air Ships in 1906, to drones in 2026 and everything in between...
    3:47:19Would small drone swarms threaten a warship?Q&A
  11. Air Defence At Sea: From Air Ships in 1906, to drones in 2026 and everything in between...
    4:11:16Air-defence supplier diversity and fleet demandQ&A
  12. Air Defence At Sea: From Air Ships in 1906, to drones in 2026 and everything in between...
    4:25:3276 mm and 40 mm guns for interlocking defenceQ&A
  13. Bruships 256: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    1:12:01Gun-fit choices for the Royal Navy's CCVQ&A
  14. Bruships 256: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    1:50:34Why Italy adopted numerous autocannon earlyQ&A
  15. Building for Research & Development: The Royal Navy's Pre-WWI Destroyer Programs...
    1:15:57Laforey-class armament, geared turbines and new buildersChapter
  16. Bruships 244: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:33:07Designing a River-class OPV successorQ&A
  17. Bruships 244: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:36:20What 40 mm ammunition costs in bulkQ&A
  18. Jeune Ecole Batch 2... The French Destroyers up to WWI
    23:06The 65 mm gun offers a compromise between two calibresNotable Point
  19. Destroyers: Modern Navy's most powerful surface combatants - 134yrs of development
    48:33Aircraft growth drives larger destroyer anti-aircraft gunsNotable Point
  20. Live: What the Royal Navy's Type 83 Will Not Be: AKA Reality of Future Air Dominance System(FADS)
    24:21Type 83's gun battery remains an open design choiceNotable Point
  21. Live: What the Royal Navy's Type 83 Will Not Be: AKA Reality of Future Air Dominance System(FADS)
    1:14:37Uncrewed escorts can carry weapons or amplify decoy signaturesNotable Point
  22. Bruships 237: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:10:49Future roles for 40 mm and 57 mm guns in the Royal NavyQ&A
  23. Bruships 226: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:07:40Why HMS Vanguard kept sextuple Bofors mountsQ&A
  24. Bruships 225: Naval History & Current Affairs Questions Answered Live...
    56:13Small-craft threats had already shaped naval gun developmentNotable Point
  25. Why do Naval Historians not still use the Age of Sail Rating system?
    1:20Why main-battery calibre matters in a gunnery duelNotable Point
  26. Bruships 206: Naval History Questions Answered Live...(Continued)
    1:12:34Why Type 31 has an unusually light mixed gun batteryQ&A
  27. OTO Melara 76/62: Flexible Capability in ways that matter!
    26:25Medium guns make small combatants costly to ignoreNotable Point
  28. Bruships 201: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:31:07One layered defense against drones and missilesQ&A
  29. Bruships 201: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:56:13Larger-caliber Phalanx-style weapons and the weight problemQ&A
  30. Bruships 199: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:34:27Why the Chicago Piano could not be fixed for wartime air defenseQ&A
  31. Scuttlebutt 11: from SDSR to Pearl Harbor, with a stop at CVA-01 along the way...
    44:19Larger naval guns and layered defense against dronesQ&A
  32. Bruships 182: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    56:17K25 cruisers and layered fleet air defenseQ&A
  33. Evolution of Carrier Air Groups 1918-2024: A Discussion
    53:45Fighters and anti-aircraft guns break up naval air attacksChapter
  34. Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books
    3:08:22Gun options for a future River batchNotable Point
  35. Sloops Adaptability of Presence
    52:13HMS Tamar as a modern presence shipChapter
  36. Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!
    38:27Battle-class destroyers carried a formidable anti-drone gun batteryQ&A
  37. Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century?
    2:43:22Why not heavily up-gun River-class patrol ships?Q&A
  38. Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century?
    2:59:29Why 40 mm leaves room for better ammunitionNotable Point
  39. Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century?
    3:02:15A 57 mm gun changes the patrol-ship cost equationNotable Point
  40. Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century?
    3:06:26The right OPV gun depends on the fleetQ&A
  41. Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century?
    3:12:22Presence ships need austere, off-the-shelf systemsNotable Point
  42. Patreon 90: How were warship autoloader turrets prototyped? A development History
    2:41:14How far could the pom-pom concept scale?Q&A
  43. Unrotated Projectiles to Hypersonics: Some History & thoughts on Missiles as part of navies
    29:19Fritz X and Hs 293 pushed attacks beyond Allied defensesNotable Point
  44. Bruships 128: Invasions & Amphibious Warfare
    34:57HMS Vanguard in the Falklands WarQ&A
  45. Bruships 128: Invasions & Amphibious Warfare
    39:52Displacement for an eight-gun Tribal-style destroyerQ&A
  46. Bruships 128: Invasions & Amphibious Warfare
    1:12:06Modern naval weapons against Age of Sail fleetsQ&A
  47. How & Why during WWII Motor Torpedo Boats(MTBs) became Motor Gun Boats(MGBs): Pacific Theatre
    2:55:53Why motor torpedo boats became motor gun boatsChapter
  48. Testing Sixteen Autoloaded 14in Gun Battleship (Chatfield's Dream) to Destruction
    1:49:01Why better small guns do not end the calibre raceQ&A
  49. Meeting HMAS Vampire!
    3:53Why Vampire traded torpedoes for radarNotable Point
  50. The Shipwreck Museum - The Destroyer Models #NavHistAus 2
    0:09Dual-purpose guns make a flexible destroyerNotable Point
  51. Starting off Franco-Italian Battleship race... come see what a Francisco Caracciolo might have done
    1:58:04Atlanta-style cruisers and saturation fireNotable Point
  52. Bruships 103: Belfast Parts yet to arrive... so let's consider the Run up to War...
    3:38:34Why a 40 mm gun still belongs on a MEKO 360Q&A
  53. Brooklyn Class(US Treaty Cruisers): Comment Response
    12:56How World War II layered air defense was meant to workNotable Point
  54. Some Minor Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 1939
    29:21The Dutch battlecruiser design exerciseNotable Point
  55. Patreon 57: Modern frigates, cruisers by another name?
    58:48Why smart ammunition favors 40 mm over 30 mmQ&A
  56. Patreon 57: Modern frigates, cruisers by another name?
    1:10:33Type 31's forward-based sloop roleNotable Point
  57. Action of the 18th June 1799: How to Lose Frigates and Influence (Live)
    1:54:57Limited-role ships still enter dangerous watersNotable Point
  58. Action of the 18th June 1799: How to Lose Frigates and Influence (Live)
    2:12:47Why choose Canadian and British guns already in service?Q&A
  59. Bruships 79: Eight New Books, plus Discussions of a Naval Nature
    3:22:10Tank-gun standards changed radically between 1939 and 1942Notable Point
  60. County Cruisers P7: The Canaris Class (Long Patrol)
    6:41Speed, armament, and thin armour in Spain's County derivativeChapter
  61. The 3 Type 26s - City, Hunter & CSC, where do they fit in the WWII navies that they will serve?
    8:44Missile magazines do not replace every close-range gunNotable Point
  62. The 3 Type 26s - City, Hunter & CSC, where do they fit in the WWII navies that they will serve?
    20:03The case for a heavier last-ditch defenceNotable Point
  63. The 3 Type 26s - City, Hunter & CSC, where do they fit in the WWII navies that they will serve?
    49:21A Batch 2 case for 40 mm guns and deeper resilienceNotable Point
  64. Bruships 56: "Walking Softly & Carrying a Big Stick" - Admirals, Diplomacy & Detterence
    2:06:46Why a Gatling layout could help a heavy automatic gunQ&A
  65. Patreon 31: Armoured Cruisers in the Mediterranean in WWI
    2:47:44A larger cruiser with 9.2-inch gunsQ&A
  66. Bruships 41: A History of Armour & Amphibious Warfare (Kyle Hardman)
    4:09:20Why modern escorts combine primary and secondary rolesQ&A
  67. Bruships 41: A History of Armour & Amphibious Warfare (Kyle Hardman)
    4:19:52The case for twin 40 mm mounts on Type 31Q&A
  68. Crown Colony Class Cruisers
    40:36Did Crown Colony cruisers work better with three or four turrets?Q&A
  69. Bruships 37: New Books & Some More Transactions of the Institute of Naval Architects
    2:56:45Why Royal Navy ships moved away from 40 mm gunsQ&A
  70. Bruships 37: New Books & Some More Transactions of the Institute of Naval Architects
    3:01:44A programmable 40 mm Gatling mount for warshipsQ&A
  71. Washington’s cherry trees: the G3 and N3 class - Patreon 15 Comments Response
    41:15G3 design lessons and carrier-conversion potentialNotable Point
  72. For Random Books 18: Freidman's Royal Navy
    5:36The A-class submarine as a wartime compromiseNotable Point
  73. Bruships 29: Best Seller History
    2:46:07A 40 mm Gatling concept for close-in defenceQ&A
  74. Bruships 29: Best Seller History
    2:53:29Overlapping fields of fire for a proposed 40 mm barrage defenceNotable Point
  75. Bruships 29: Best Seller History
    2:54:31Weight and coverage in a 40 mm close-in systemQ&A
  76. Bruships 29: Best Seller History
    3:35:47Ammunition flow limits practical warship armamentQ&A
  77. Town Class Part 7 of 7: Edinburghs & Legacy
    0:59Edinburgh and Belfast's quadruple-turret design pathChapter
  78. HMS Penelope (1935) an introduction to the Arethusa Class part 3/4
    8:49Why anti-aircraft stopping power favoured cannonNotable Point
  79. Bilgepumps does Battlestar Galatica Deadlock for Navy Con 2/2
    0:39Flak as a last defensive layerChapter
  80. Bilgepumps does Battlestar Galatica Deadlock for Navy Con 2/2
    3:14Gun defence above and below the waterlineNotable Point
  81. Bilgepumps does Battlestar Galatica Deadlock for Navy Con 2/2
    8:24Building a flak field takes gun volumeNotable Point
  82. Bru Ships Episode 18: Really Big Books, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    20:46Gerald R. Ford class: one island, better close-in gunsQ&A
  83. The Ships: An Introduction to the Convoy war & the Perfect Storm of PQ17… P2/3
    11:51How small escorts accumulated firepowerNotable Point
  84. Bru Ships Episode 14: Special & Covert Operations Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    20:10Matching 57 mm and 76 mm guns to fleet needsQ&A
  85. Bru Ships Episode 14: Special & Covert Operations Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    2:01:05A gun-based close-defense layout for Queen ElizabethQ&A
  86. Bru Ships Episode 13: Weapons, Both Personal & Ship, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    2:07:07The return of larger naval anti-aircraft gunsQ&A
  87. Bru Ships Episode 13: Weapons, Both Personal & Ship, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    2:20:54Can 40 mm accuracy offset a 20 mm rate of fire?Q&A
  88. P1 Introduction to Pre-Tribal Class Destroyers of the RN (special guest; Fluffy Research Assistant)
    6:10HMS Ambuscade as a 1924 destroyer testbedNotable Point
  89. P1 Introduction to Pre-Tribal Class Destroyers of the RN (special guest; Fluffy Research Assistant)
    9:05HMS Amazon and the prototype leader ideaChapter
  90. An Introduction to “Back Pocket Cruisers” Part 2: Battle Class (+Stanley Goodall)
    30:01Why 40 mm mattered to air defenceNotable Point
  91. An Introduction to “Back Pocket Cruisers” Part 2: Battle Class (+Stanley Goodall)
    31:54Pacific-war changes and construction delaysChapter
  92. An Introduction to Not the Big Ships: NGFS As Provided by Destroyers & Below Part 2 of 2
    12:24The Type 31 gun suite and the shore-support gapNotable Point
  93. An Introduction to What was paid for in Blood, in Sweat, in Tears & so much Money... Part 3 of 3
    20:55San Carlos gunfire mattered even without a killNotable Point
  94. Bru Ships Episode 1: Book Reviews/Q&A
    1:33:52Modern ships may be underarmed for close defenceQ&A