Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

Topic

Air Bases

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  1. Bruships 257: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:03:08Correcting the premise of German bases in the AzoresQ&A
  2. No Pearl Harbor: Japan Enters WWII without attacking America
    20:49What three extra months change in MalayaNotable Point
  3. The Defence Investment Plan: A Live Review if it's been published, A Chat of What to Look For if not
    1:43:13F-35 maintenance capacity limits carrier readinessNotable Point
  4. Planning for Pearl Harbor: Decisions to Strike at the USN's mid-pacific base...
    5:18Infrastructure spending and the cost of cheap supportNotable Point
  5. 3 Books to understand the USN, RN & IJN preperations for WWII! Key Books 3
    23:26Pacific distances undermine mutually supporting air basesNotable Point
  6. Bruships 212: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:07:55Sweden's underground bases and continuity planningNotable Point
  7. Could Seaplanes Tenders have been used in the Battle for the Atlantic? Naval History Live!
    1:08:38Why Malaya had airfields without aircraftNotable Point
  8. Could Seaplanes Tenders have been used in the Battle for the Atlantic? Naval History Live!
    1:11:55Building a defended air station with two tendersChapter
  9. Could Seaplanes Tenders have been used in the Battle for the Atlantic? Naval History Live!
    2:08:52Choosing between an airfield, carrier, and tenderChapter
  10. Bruships 175: Pre- Christmas Party 2024
    2:14:55Operation Matterhorn's India-China supply chain and nuclear-security problemNotable Point
  11. Scuttlebutt 8: Beatty, Sopwith Cuckoos, Carriers & the Defence Debate...
    53:24Why mobile sea-based air power still mattersNotable Point
  12. The Battlecruiser/Fast Battleship Differential & Soviet Carriers: Scuttlebutt 7
    1:00:32A carrier is vulnerable, but a fixed air base is easier to findNotable Point
  13. Scuttlebutt 6: Responding to some History Hot Takes...
    16:41Fixed airfields and air operations under attackNotable Point
  14. Empire Prepares: What if the British Empire invested more in the 1920s & 30s
    1:08:26Defensive depth and stay-behind observers in MalayaNotable Point
  15. Bruships 155: Last time answering naval history questions from the Brushack?
    1:17:42When carrier air groups began flying aboardQ&A
  16. Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books
    4:19:33A Hawaii-sized British island in the South AtlanticQ&A
  17. Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!
    3:01:43Shetland as a central North Sea baseQ&A
  18. Patreon 88: Sydney Strategy: When looking for a Far East Naval Base - what if Sydney not Singapore?
    2:34:08A theater command could concentrate troops and airfieldsNotable Point
  19. Red Storm Rising: The GIUK Gap in a 1980 conventional war between the Warsaw Pact & NATO(Patreon 77)
    1:18:16Why do maritime patrol aircraft still need long range?Q&A
  20. Alternate History - Royal Navy retains the Fleet 'units' of Royal Naval Air Service: Patreon 76
    35:21Would Dominion air forces inherit better support?Q&A
  21. Alternate History - Royal Navy retains the Fleet 'units' of Royal Naval Air Service: Patreon 76
    50:18Why aircraft basing limits the idea that the air is oneNotable Point
  22. Patreon 72: If Jan 1939 Tsingtao incident leads to war, how does RN carrier force fair against IJN?
    1:56:23Why the RAF has little early reachQ&A
  23. Dragonfly Class and other Gunboats Service in WWII
    3:09:35Why combat aircraft require a support system, not just deliveryQ&A
  24. Why did the French Navy not more fully embrace carrier aviation after WWI? Comment Response
    17:43Commandant Teste as a mobile naval air baseNotable Point
  25. Bruships 95: Science Fiction, Including Paddle 'Corn Oil' (Aka BioDiesel) Battleship Twist...
    1:22:07How a German attack on Ireland could aid Atlantic convoysQ&A
  26. Sverdlov Class: The Last of Stalin's Soviet Gun Cruisers
    27:54Finding a Sverdlov across the oceans was a strategic problem of its ownNotable Point
  27. Projecting Mussonlini's Mare Nostrum: Italian 1920s & 1930s cruiser design/doctrine
    2:57:55French air cover narrows Italy's western raid opportunitiesNotable Point
  28. Bruships 80: Books From Travels
    3:20:16Why Mount Pleasant is difficult to seizeNotable Point
  29. Patreon 48: Anglo-Japanese War in Feb 39 - if Tsingtao Incident goes "hot", what's IJN doctrine?
    3:01:41How would heavy bombers enter the Pacific war?Q&A
  30. Battle of Tassafaronga: 30th of November 1942 - Long Patrol
    0:50Why Guadalcanal's airfield matteredChapter
  31. Pseudo Patreon: The 1966 Defence White Paper & Lessons for the 2021 Defence Command Paper
    2:15:23Why carriers remained relevant in a European warNotable Point
  32. The Battle of the Philippine Sea: Live
    2:14:50Airfield and carrier scramble rates depend on readinessQ&A
  33. Lend Lease Act 80yrs on...
    3:05:51Air power depends on immobile infrastructureNotable Point
  34. Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...
    2:46:34Adapting RAF bombers for Pacific distancesQ&A
  35. Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P2b Introduction to Patreon Video 4
    32:42Moving fighters and bombers to SingaporeNotable Point
  36. 50th Live Special: Thank You
    1:31:46Flying boats: capability as well as necessityNotable Point
  37. HMS Edinburgh - A Ship Profile
    32:13Operation Substance and layered Malta convoy defenseChapter