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- Rise of the Frigate Navies: Why so many nations are going Frigate and why others want them as well!1:28:36Brandenburg and Sachsen expose the missile-magazine problemNotable Point
- Rise of the Frigate Navies: Why so many nations are going Frigate and why others want them as well!1:37:34Why later air-defence upgrades can run into design limitsNotable Point
- South Korea's Chungnam Class Frigates: Aesthetics vs Missile Depth5:48Examining the claim of eight simultaneous missile engagementsNotable Point
- South Korea's Chungnam Class Frigates: Aesthetics vs Missile Depth6:43How an eight-missile headline can obscure the engagement claimNotable Point
- China's Type 54 Frigate: Mass Production and Tactical Balance11:02A forecast of more layers in naval task groupsNotable Point
- Bruships 262: Naval History Questions Answered Live2:21:21Why North Korea develops missiles for its MiG-29sQ&A
- Bruships 262: Naval History Questions Answered Live3:21:27Gun calibres for defending ships against dronesQ&A
- Bruships 261: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:12:53Type 83 size and specialist warfare commandQ&A
- Bruships 261: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:16:27Missile submunitions and the target's freedom to manoeuvreQ&A
- Bruships 260: Naval History Questions Answered Live1:09:03Naval presence and the difficulty of measuring deterrenceNotable Point
- What if Britain joined with Australian & Canada to build a 'Maximum' Invincible Class instead?1:01:12A larger air group for sea controlChapter
- What if Britain joined with Australian & Canada to build a 'Maximum' Invincible Class instead?1:20:59Early warning changes the Argentine fuel problemNotable Point
- Bruships 257: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...8:05BrahMos salvos test a Type 45's defensive depthNotable Point
- Bruships 255: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:20:29Would Argentine fighter purchases lead to Falklands reinforcement?Q&A
- Bruships 255: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:54:37A layered defence plan for the Falkland IslandsQ&A
- Bruships 255: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:31:32Could the shore-based Type 45 test installation defend its area?Q&A
- Bruships 254: Naval History Questions Answered Live1:31:15Why approach geometry matters when intercepting hypersonic weaponsNotable Point
- Bruships 254: Naval History Questions Answered Live1:32:45Layered ways to defend ships from drone swarmsQ&A
- Bruships 254: Naval History Questions Answered Live3:04:58Why modern Polish air power is difficult to translate into 1939Notable Point
- Bruships 254: Naval History Questions Answered Live4:21:19What Canada could gain from a future UK air-defence programmeQ&A
- Bruships 254: Naval History Questions Answered Live4:52:35Defending a ship against drones and missiles togetherQ&A
- Bruships 252: Naval History Questions Answered Live...take 240:24Should the Type 26 and Type 31 swap main guns?Q&A
- Bruships 252: Naval History Questions Answered Live...take 21:03:25The River class as a general-purpose destroyerQ&A
- Bruships 252: Naval History Questions Answered Live...take 21:09:43A European land-and-sea ballistic-missile defenceQ&A
- Bruships 251: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:13:08Why air-defence missiles are a poor fit for submarinesQ&A
- Bruships 251: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:40:32Amphibious command ships and a stronger Stanley garrisonNotable Point
- Bruships 250: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:40:34Adapting the Type 26 hull for air warfareQ&A
- Bruships 250: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:43:45A rapid Type 83 from Type 45 or large Type 26 studiesQ&A
- Bruships 250: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:44:50The engineering limits of a tethered radar droneNotable Point
- Bruships 250: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:51:06Why a Type 31-sized air-defense command ship is difficultQ&A
- Bruships 250: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:56:38A 144-cell extended Type 45 conceptQ&A
- Bruships 250: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:14:40A modern cruiser built from Zumwalt and AegisQ&A
- Bruships 249: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...40:39Type 91 vessels as Type 45 force multipliersQ&A
- Bruships 249: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:46:55The practical minimum for an air-defence corvetteQ&A
- Bruships 249: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:42:23Lion-class battleships in the Falklands WarQ&A
- Bruships 249: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:12:21A possible G3 battlecruiser anti-aircraft outfitQ&A
- Ideal Destroyers: Screening Fleets & National Interests from 1890 to Today1:25Token general-purpose capability on specialist destroyersNotable Point
- Ideal Destroyers: Screening Fleets & National Interests from 1890 to Today29:20Exercise bias understates destroyer air defenceNotable Point
- Ideal Destroyers: Screening Fleets & National Interests from 1890 to Today43:55World War II demands stable destroyer gun platformsNotable Point
- Ideal Destroyers: Screening Fleets & National Interests from 1890 to Today48:54Postwar destroyers combine dual-purpose guns and ASW weaponsNotable Point
- Ideal Destroyers: Screening Fleets & National Interests from 1890 to Today54:39Charles F. Adams destroyers balance the Cold War screenChapter
- Ideal Destroyers: Screening Fleets & National Interests from 1890 to Today1:00:27Spruance and Burke divide the screening missionNotable Point
- Ideal Destroyers: Screening Fleets & National Interests from 1890 to Today1:06:49First-flight Burkes screen the carrier groupNotable Point
- Durand de la Penne Class: The Destroyer class which showed the Oto Melara 76mm had came of age1:28A compact destroyer with layered weapons and sensorsChapter
- Durand de la Penne Class: The Destroyer class which showed the Oto Melara 76mm had came of age5:21Three decades as Italy's leading air-defence destroyersNotable Point
- Durand de la Penne Class: The Destroyer class which showed the Oto Melara 76mm had came of age6:40Task-group escort design prioritizes usable firepowerNotable Point
- Durand de la Penne Class: The Destroyer class which showed the Oto Melara 76mm had came of age21:13Layered weapons for air, surface, and undersea threatsChapter
- Durand de la Penne Class: The Destroyer class which showed the Oto Melara 76mm had came of age35:36An older air-defence destroyer represents the Italian stateNotable Point
- Durand de la Penne Class: The Destroyer class which showed the Oto Melara 76mm had came of age38:51Carrier escort work with Garibaldi and allied fleetsChapter
- Durand de la Penne Class: The Destroyer class which showed the Oto Melara 76mm had came of age43:55Mediterranean geography drives layered drone defenceNotable Point
- Durand de la Penne Class: The Destroyer class which showed the Oto Melara 76mm had came of age46:20The Italian Horizon ships inherit the three-gun layoutChapter
- Durand de la Penne Class: The Destroyer class which showed the Oto Melara 76mm had came of age48:09What if Horizon had spread Italy's 76 mm emphasis?Notable Point
- The Defence Investment Plan is Out... Let's Talk it through, Good, Bad & What the Frigate?1:03:31Munitions spending and Type 45 air-defence upgrades are weighedChapter
- The Defence Investment Plan is Out... Let's Talk it through, Good, Bad & What the Frigate?1:07:06A new air-defence centre adds to existing command layersNotable Point
- The Defence Investment Plan is Out... Let's Talk it through, Good, Bad & What the Frigate?1:34:21Land-based missiles could strengthen Britain's homeland air defenceNotable Point
- The Defence Investment Plan is Out... Let's Talk it through, Good, Bad & What the Frigate?2:16:52Sky Sabre expansion and future Wedgetails leave different air-defence limitsNotable Point
- The Defence Investment Plan is Out... Let's Talk it through, Good, Bad & What the Frigate?4:19:31Long-range ground air defence is deferred beyond the current planNotable Point
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...59:07Why separating radar and missile ships can create a dependencyNotable Point
- Yak-38 Forger: The Nasty Surprise of the Kiev Class37:57Why warship missions matter more than Top Trumps rankingsNotable Point
- Yak-38 Forger: The Nasty Surprise of the Kiev Class42:01Invincible's air-defence role and delayed early warningNotable Point
- Resurgent Japan, the "Destroyer Navy" of the 21st Century7:00Kongo combines long-range air defence with fleet command facilitiesNotable Point
- Resurgent Japan, the "Destroyer Navy" of the 21st Century14:58Takanami increases missile capacity with a common Mark 41 launcherChapter
- Resurgent Japan, the "Destroyer Navy" of the 21st Century18:27Atago and the ship numbers needed for continuous screeningNotable Point
- Resurgent Japan, the "Destroyer Navy" of the 21st Century43:04Akizuki combines electronic warfare with a balanced escort fitChapter
- Resurgent Japan, the "Destroyer Navy" of the 21st Century48:13Izumo adds fighters for identification and limited air defenceChapter
- Resurgent Japan, the "Destroyer Navy" of the 21st Century54:07Organic airborne early warning may require a larger successor to IzumoNotable Point
- Resurgent Japan, the "Destroyer Navy" of the 21st Century1:02:27Maya refines Japan's Aegis destroyers but leaves little maintenance marginChapter
- Resurgent Japan, the "Destroyer Navy" of the 21st Century1:07:25Defensive interception cost depends on the damage preventedNotable Point
- Resurgent Japan, the "Destroyer Navy" of the 21st Century1:08:56Why Japan's railgun concept uses a 76 mm projectileNotable Point
- Bruships 247: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...10:03A Baltic bastion would defend convoys differentlyQ&A
- Bruships 247: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...11:26Hypersonic missile drones still need targeting and rangeQ&A
- Bruships 247: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:36:29Carrier defense depends on mobility, stockpiles, and layersQ&A
- Bruships 247: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:38:48A shared launcher does not give Patriot and Standard the same performanceNotable Point
- Bruships 247: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:39:46Why one war's interception record cannot fix the next war's balanceNotable Point
- Bruships 247: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:42:35Missile expenditure needs an account of the threats and damage preventedNotable Point
- Bruships 247: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:08:22What the County-class destroyers lost during designQ&A
- Bruships 247: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:58:44A 1937 3-inch/70 would reshape Royal Navy air defenseQ&A
- Britain's Cold War Destroyers: Logically Building for the War they didn't Fight...19:13Sea Slug shows how missile systems changed destroyer designNotable Point
- Britain's Cold War Destroyers: Logically Building for the War they didn't Fight...27:33County class destroyers kept presence and air defence togetherChapter
- Britain's Cold War Destroyers: Logically Building for the War they didn't Fight...29:30Sea Slug's Falklands use extended beyond air defenceNotable Point
- Britain's Cold War Destroyers: Logically Building for the War they didn't Fight...49:16Type 82 was conceived as a fleet leader and presence shipChapter
- Britain's Cold War Destroyers: Logically Building for the War they didn't Fight...58:55Carrier aircraft could identify contacts before a missile launchChapter
- Britain's Cold War Destroyers: Logically Building for the War they didn't Fight...1:06:21Type 42 added Sea Dart firepower to a larger task groupChapter
- Britain's Cold War Destroyers: Logically Building for the War they didn't Fight...1:17:58Gloucester's Sea Dart and London's Sea Wolf protected a coalition forceNotable Point
- The Defence Investment Plan: A Live Review if it's been published, A Chat of What to Look For if not1:21:43Contested skies change the last-mile supply problemNotable Point
- The Defence Investment Plan: A Live Review if it's been published, A Chat of What to Look For if not1:24:50Full-spectrum attacks punish single-threat procurementNotable Point
- The Defence Investment Plan: A Live Review if it's been published, A Chat of What to Look For if not1:46:52Layered air defence for British basesNotable Point
- The Defence Investment Plan: A Live Review if it's been published, A Chat of What to Look For if not1:59:13Communications drones create their own protection problemNotable Point
- The Defence Investment Plan: A Live Review if it's been published, A Chat of What to Look For if not2:07:22What 48 VLS cells provide under two-missile doctrineNotable Point
- The Defence Investment Plan: A Live Review if it's been published, A Chat of What to Look For if not2:27:54Uncrewed VLS barges still need escorts and resupplyNotable Point
- Bruships 246: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:36:03A flak OPV could escort shipping through restricted watersQ&A
- Bruships 246: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:04:06A proposed modern destroyer would carry four twin 76 mm mountsQ&A
- Bruships 246: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:25:37ESSM magazine depth and SM-6 fleet defence serve different jobsNotable Point
- Bruships 246: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:58:09Six twin 76 mm mounts demand a large hull with clear arcsQ&A
- Bruships 246: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:22:05Three Tiger cruisers make a Sea Dart modernization more worthwhileQ&A
- Bruships 246: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:40:31"Built for but not with" works only if wartime upgrades actually arriveQ&A
- Flotilla or Squadron? What Naval Unit is this?22:45Carriers and Type 45 destroyers show how task-unit roles differNotable Point
- Could the US Navy have kept the Oliver Hazard Perry's in service for longer?1:10:53Mark 41 VLS and a modern Perry fitChapter
- Could the US Navy have kept the Oliver Hazard Perry's in service for longer?1:46:48Could a Perry carry Aegis?Q&A
- Bruships 245: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:42:02Alicorn and the vulnerabilities of a submarine carrierQ&A
- What if HMS Hermes was the first of a class of Cruiser Carriers?44:02Land-based air threats preserve the need for armoured fleet carriersNotable Point
- What if HMS Hermes was the first of a class of Cruiser Carriers?1:27:17More carrier exercises could expose faulty air-defence assumptionsChapter
- Modularity Squared... What happens if the Stanflex & Meko combined into a single program?10:45Container dimensions limit StanFlex air-defence upgradesNotable Point
- Modularity Squared... What happens if the Stanflex & Meko combined into a single program?22:26MEKO offers a general-purpose ship when requirements remain broadNotable Point
- Modularity Squared... What happens if the Stanflex & Meko combined into a single program?22:59Frigate and destroyer labels often follow role rather than tonnageNotable Point
- The Rise & Fall of the Constellation Class: What happened to the FFG-62 Program?14:40VLS and Aegis expectations raise frigate costNotable Point
- The Rise & Fall of the Constellation Class: What happened to the FFG-62 Program?1:00:44Constellation's mission list and the argument for an ASW priorityChapter
- The Rise & Fall of the Constellation Class: What happened to the FFG-62 Program?1:05:12Combined warfare systems, ship size, and fleet numbersNotable Point
- The Rise & Fall of the Constellation Class: What happened to the FFG-62 Program?1:07:55Point defence, area air warfare, and the meaning of FFGNotable Point
- The Rise & Fall of the Constellation Class: What happened to the FFG-62 Program?1:10:21Why Constellation invited comparisons with the BurkeNotable Point
- The Rise & Fall of the Constellation Class: What happened to the FFG-62 Program?1:11:08Supporting an Aegis air battle and leading oneNotable Point
- How Ship Design is a reflection of Navy's attempts to balance technology, strategy and memory...8:40Radars shape modern warship architectureChapter
- How Ship Design is a reflection of Navy's attempts to balance technology, strategy and memory...27:55Battle of the Atlantic memory can narrow threat thinkingNotable Point
- Korean Destroyers: Core of a Statement Surface Fleet35:43Sejong missile density makes the destroyer a fleet shieldChapter
- Korean Destroyers: Core of a Statement Surface Fleet39:04Korean SAM options support Sejong's fleet air-defence roleNotable Point
- Korean Destroyers: Core of a Statement Surface Fleet39:46Missile diversity protects the fleet from supply interruptionNotable Point
- Korean Destroyers: Core of a Statement Surface Fleet47:34Pairing Sejong and Jeongjo for defence and strikeNotable Point
- Korean Destroyers: Core of a Statement Surface Fleet51:17Jeongjo's strike role raises a close-in defence questionNotable Point
- Bruships 244: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:13:14European VLS and Sylver adoption limitsQ&A
- Bruships 244: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:36:32Yamato dual-purpose secondary battery tradeoffQ&A
- Trials and Tribulations: Why Testing Warships Matters...38:37Type 45 shore integration facilitiesChapter
- What Happens if Australia, Canada & the UK go all in on the Invincibles in the 1970s? (Patreon Live)42:14Sea Harrier logic makes the hull and mission growNotable Point
- What Happens if Australia, Canada & the UK go all in on the Invincibles in the 1970s? (Patreon Live)1:12:28What separates a light carrier from a fleet carrier?Q&A
- What Happens if Australia, Canada & the UK go all in on the Invincibles in the 1970s? (Patreon Live)1:24:51The 30,000-ton light-load InvincibleChapter
- What Happens if Australia, Canada & the UK go all in on the Invincibles in the 1970s? (Patreon Live)1:30:18Sea King AEW wins the procurement argumentNotable Point
- What Happens if Australia, Canada & the UK go all in on the Invincibles in the 1970s? (Patreon Live)1:31:30Why choose Sea Wolf's six-round launcher?Q&A
- What Happens if Australia, Canada & the UK go all in on the Invincibles in the 1970s? (Patreon Live)1:32:34Two Sea Harrier squadrons share patrol and strike readinessNotable Point
- What Happens if Australia, Canada & the UK go all in on the Invincibles in the 1970s? (Patreon Live)1:47:20Falklands air defence changes sharplyChapter
- What Happens if Australia, Canada & the UK go all in on the Invincibles in the 1970s? (Patreon Live)1:49:14AEW changes the proposed Falklands patrol lineNotable Point
- What Happens if Australia, Canada & the UK go all in on the Invincibles in the 1970s? (Patreon Live)2:03:51Carrier groups pull Type 42 and Type 23 numbers upwardChapter
- What Happens if Australia, Canada & the UK go all in on the Invincibles in the 1970s? (Patreon Live)2:04:32How many escorts were envisaged for a British task group?Q&A
- What Happens if Australia, Canada & the UK go all in on the Invincibles in the 1970s? (Patreon Live)2:09:45Would Sea Wolf integration fix Sea Dart's land-clutter weakness?Q&A
- What Happens if Australia, Canada & the UK go all in on the Invincibles in the 1970s? (Patreon Live)2:14:40Would a modified Type 42 replace a new carrier-defence destroyer?Q&A
- What Happens if Australia, Canada & the UK go all in on the Invincibles in the 1970s? (Patreon Live)2:19:33What would escort Canadian Invincibles?Q&A
- What Happens if Australia, Canada & the UK go all in on the Invincibles in the 1970s? (Patreon Live)2:26:52Could Australia's Invincibles become Aegis carriers?Q&A
- What Happens if Australia, Canada & the UK go all in on the Invincibles in the 1970s? (Patreon Live)2:30:59Could the Halifax hull become an air-defence escort?Q&A
- What Happens if Australia, Canada & the UK go all in on the Invincibles in the 1970s? (Patreon Live)2:32:43Could Canada prioritize air defence and accept a temporary gap?Q&A
- Bruships 243: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...18:04Exquisite weapons, fleet numbers, and layered defenceQ&A
- Bruships 243: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...24:00Gun coverage, drone swarms, and laser supportNotable Point
- Bruships 243: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...29:49Vertical dive attacks and interwar destroyer AA lessonsQ&A
- Bruships 243: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:23:46Sea-based AA forts and layered air defenceQ&A
- Bruships 243: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:25:59Missiles ashore and guns offshoreQ&A
- Bruships 243: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:28:29Why imperfect defences still belong in a layered systemNotable Point
- Bruships 243: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:43:42Laser-guided rockets as an anti-drone expedientNotable Point
- Bruships 243: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:07:02Balancing a 320-cell cruiserQ&A
- Bruships 243: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:00:44The panel's comparison of Type 83s and battlecruisersQ&A
- What do Offshore Patrol Vessels do and are the useful in War as well as Peace?52:23Singapore combines a small OPV crew with substantial armamentChapter
- Admiral Katsutoshi Kawano: The defining Chief of Staff of Japan's Joint Staff of 21st Century37:22F-35Bs for outer air defense and gray-zone identificationNotable Point
- Bruships 242: Naval History Questions Answered Live...13:20Zeppelin port strikes and early air defenceQ&A
- Bruships 242: Naval History Questions Answered Live...17:41Kongo naming politics for Japanese Aegis destroyersQ&A
- Bruships 242: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:36:11Horizon air-warfare replacement and missile sovereigntyQ&A
- Total Burke Domination: Why the US Navy could be rebranded the Arleigh Burke Flotilla & Friends?8:15Early Burkes as carrier task-group shipsNotable Point
- Total Burke Domination: Why the US Navy could be rebranded the Arleigh Burke Flotilla & Friends?11:51Mark 41 VLS makes the Burke adaptableNotable Point
- Total Burke Domination: Why the US Navy could be rebranded the Arleigh Burke Flotilla & Friends?15:19Mark 41 loadouts trade striking power against air defenceNotable Point
- Total Burke Domination: Why the US Navy could be rebranded the Arleigh Burke Flotilla & Friends?23:23SPY-1D and the transition from PESA to AESA radarNotable Point
- Total Burke Domination: Why the US Navy could be rebranded the Arleigh Burke Flotilla & Friends?51:30A proposed Zumwalt alternative with familiar weapons and more aviationNotable Point
- Total Burke Domination: Why the US Navy could be rebranded the Arleigh Burke Flotilla & Friends?1:12:07The original Flight III concept aimed at 122 VLS cellsNotable Point
- Total Burke Domination: Why the US Navy could be rebranded the Arleigh Burke Flotilla & Friends?1:26:19Flight III takes on cruiser duties without the old 122-cell expansionChapter
- Total Burke Domination: Why the US Navy could be rebranded the Arleigh Burke Flotilla & Friends?1:33:18How a successor's classification affects its comparison with BurkeNotable Point
- Total Burke Domination: Why the US Navy could be rebranded the Arleigh Burke Flotilla & Friends?1:34:23Why fleet air defence places demands on hull sizeNotable Point
- Destroyers: Modern Navy's most powerful surface combatants - 134yrs of development5:51Quick-firing guns establish layered fleet defenceNotable Point
- Destroyers: Modern Navy's most powerful surface combatants - 134yrs of development10:59The uncertain HMS Nelson anti-aircraft anecdoteNotable Point
- Destroyers: Modern Navy's most powerful surface combatants - 134yrs of development42:50Destroyer pickets extend reconnaissance and air defenceNotable Point
- Destroyers: Modern Navy's most powerful surface combatants - 134yrs of development44:44Exercise incentives distort destroyer air-defence lessonsNotable Point
- Destroyers: Modern Navy's most powerful surface combatants - 134yrs of development48:33Aircraft growth drives larger destroyer anti-aircraft gunsNotable Point
- Destroyers: Modern Navy's most powerful surface combatants - 134yrs of development55:22Battle-class armament reflects a wartime design pauseNotable Point
- Destroyers: Modern Navy's most powerful surface combatants - 134yrs of development1:28:18Allied reliance on Burkes encourages shallow magazinesNotable Point
- Japans Cold War Destroyers: Building up a Navy the Right Way...24:23Amatsukaze makes the missile-destroyer leapNotable Point
- Japans Cold War Destroyers: Building up a Navy the Right Way...52:37Tachikaze and Hatakaze add air-defence command depthNotable Point
- Bruships 241: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:27:50Why frigate and destroyer labels depend on the main missionNotable Point
- Modern Indian Destroyers: Creation of an Indigenous Naval Capability, Dehli to Visakhaptnam Classes10:21Delhi speed, layered air defence, and task-group rangeNotable Point
- Modern Indian Destroyers: Creation of an Indigenous Naval Capability, Dehli to Visakhaptnam Classes14:21Barak missiles as a transition choiceNotable Point
- Modern Indian Destroyers: Creation of an Indigenous Naval Capability, Dehli to Visakhaptnam Classes23:38Kolkata gun layers and drone-defence economicsNotable Point
- Modern Indian Destroyers: Creation of an Indigenous Naval Capability, Dehli to Visakhaptnam Classes26:27India's combat management system against the Aegis benchmarkNotable Point
- Modern Indian Destroyers: Creation of an Indigenous Naval Capability, Dehli to Visakhaptnam Classes35:15Mixed weapons and remote guns on Project 15BNotable Point
- Live: What the Royal Navy's Type 83 Will Not Be: AKA Reality of Future Air Dominance System(FADS)2:42Type 83 points toward a larger air-defence destroyerChapter
- Live: What the Royal Navy's Type 83 Will Not Be: AKA Reality of Future Air Dominance System(FADS)15:28York and Exeter show the limits of buying smaller cruisersChapter
- Live: What the Royal Navy's Type 83 Will Not Be: AKA Reality of Future Air Dominance System(FADS)20:07Britain's land-based air-defence gap expands Type 83's roleNotable Point
- Live: What the Royal Navy's Type 83 Will Not Be: AKA Reality of Future Air Dominance System(FADS)22:27Requirements drive Type 83 toward a large combatantNotable Point
- Live: What the Royal Navy's Type 83 Will Not Be: AKA Reality of Future Air Dominance System(FADS)27:14Air-defence command needs room for staff and supporting missionsNotable Point
- Live: What the Royal Navy's Type 83 Will Not Be: AKA Reality of Future Air Dominance System(FADS)31:14Type 45 shows the cost of deleting planned marginsNotable Point
- Live: What the Royal Navy's Type 83 Will Not Be: AKA Reality of Future Air Dominance System(FADS)33:23Type 26's ASW design sets limits on an air-defence conversionChapter
- Live: What the Royal Navy's Type 83 Will Not Be: AKA Reality of Future Air Dominance System(FADS)45:41Missile trucks and replenishment at seaQ&A
- Live: What the Royal Navy's Type 83 Will Not Be: AKA Reality of Future Air Dominance System(FADS)59:48Air defence alone does not make a useful warshipQ&A
- Live: What the Royal Navy's Type 83 Will Not Be: AKA Reality of Future Air Dominance System(FADS)1:00:47F127 straddles Germany's change in defence prioritiesQ&A
- Live: What the Royal Navy's Type 83 Will Not Be: AKA Reality of Future Air Dominance System(FADS)1:03:32Kraken's drone-defence role has limits as a fleet modelNotable Point
- Live: What the Royal Navy's Type 83 Will Not Be: AKA Reality of Future Air Dominance System(FADS)1:10:20A hybrid navy uses uncrewed escorts around crewed warshipsChapter
- 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
- Live: What the Royal Navy's Type 83 Will Not Be: AKA Reality of Future Air Dominance System(FADS)1:28:06A Type 83 mothership would support and rearm uncrewed escortsChapter
- Live: What the Royal Navy's Type 83 Will Not Be: AKA Reality of Future Air Dominance System(FADS)1:31:40How VLS demands can make 192 cells sound modestChapter
- Live: What the Royal Navy's Type 83 Will Not Be: AKA Reality of Future Air Dominance System(FADS)1:40:47Type 83's missile examples leave room for successor weaponsQ&A
- Live: What the Royal Navy's Type 83 Will Not Be: AKA Reality of Future Air Dominance System(FADS)1:52:47Sixteen VLS cells can be a false economyQ&A
- Live: What the Royal Navy's Type 83 Will Not Be: AKA Reality of Future Air Dominance System(FADS)1:54:12Frigate and destroyer labels still point to design prioritiesQ&A
- Live: What the Royal Navy's Type 83 Will Not Be: AKA Reality of Future Air Dominance System(FADS)1:56:27Sixteen VLS cells are challenged as a new-frigate baselineQ&A
- Live: What the Royal Navy's Type 83 Will Not Be: AKA Reality of Future Air Dominance System(FADS)1:58:26Distributed VLS banks preserve capability after damageQ&A
- Live: What the Royal Navy's Type 83 Will Not Be: AKA Reality of Future Air Dominance System(FADS)2:09:36Type 83 is more likely to use a British AESA radar than AegisQ&A
- Live: What the Royal Navy's Type 83 Will Not Be: AKA Reality of Future Air Dominance System(FADS)2:23:14Missile threats do not remove the need for surface warshipsQ&A
- Special Catch Up Ramblings on Behalf of @TheFleetOfOceans59:44A 1933 Scandinavian defense pactQ&A
- Could the Royal Navy have lauched a Carrier Strike in WWI on Wilhelmshaven?29:29Eagle turns an improvised conversion into useful air coverNotable Point
- Bruships 238: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:10:10Why 48 VLS cells was not enoughQ&A
- Bruships 238: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:17:25Could an international StanFlex standard have changed LCS?Q&A
- What if the Royal Navy used the Lessons of the 1982 Falklands War to go Stanflex?0:48Falklands lessons from costly Leander refits and weak air defenceChapter
- What if the Royal Navy used the Lessons of the 1982 Falklands War to go Stanflex?3:39Escort losses and the problem of arming auxiliaries for warNotable Point
- What if the Royal Navy used the Lessons of the 1982 Falklands War to go Stanflex?11:47StanFlex missiles, guns, sonar, and mission equipmentNotable Point
- What if the Royal Navy used the Lessons of the 1982 Falklands War to go Stanflex?14:15Changing a frigate's missile balance obscures its exact fitNotable Point
- What if the Royal Navy used the Lessons of the 1982 Falklands War to go Stanflex?15:17Upgrading modules ashore and rearming ships for higher-threat missionsNotable Point
- What if the Royal Navy used the Lessons of the 1982 Falklands War to go Stanflex?17:31The original Type 23 fit and its long service lifeChapter
- What if the Royal Navy used the Lessons of the 1982 Falklands War to go Stanflex?36:17Sea Wolf and Sea Sparrow as competing module optionsChapter
- What if the Royal Navy used the Lessons of the 1982 Falklands War to go Stanflex?43:03Designing six to ten module positions into Type 23Notable Point
- What if the Royal Navy used the Lessons of the 1982 Falklands War to go Stanflex?47:25A forty-eight-Sea-Wolf Gulf fit and easier Type 23 upgradesNotable Point
- What if the Royal Navy used the Lessons of the 1982 Falklands War to go Stanflex?57:27When modular procurement makes heavy bespoke systems harder to defendNotable Point
- What if the Royal Navy used the Lessons of the 1982 Falklands War to go Stanflex?59:17A modular Type 45 with an eighty-eight-missile fitChapter
- What if the Royal Navy used the Lessons of the 1982 Falklands War to go Stanflex?1:03:30Naval Strike Missile, counter-drone weapons, and a DragonFire moduleNotable Point
- What if the Royal Navy used the Lessons of the 1982 Falklands War to go Stanflex?1:05:34A shared module pool still needs enough weaponsNotable Point
- What if the Royal Navy used the Lessons of the 1982 Falklands War to go Stanflex?1:09:05Carrier defence and why early adoption mattersNotable Point
- Admiral Arleigh Burke: The Convenor of the Modern US Navy...40:30Conversions and destroyer leaders build the guided-missile fleetNotable Point
- Why do Modern Warships just keep getting bigger?9:15VLS cells are the ship's combat magazineChapter
- Why do Modern Warships just keep getting bigger?11:20How navies bought the sensors but cut missile cellsNotable Point
- Why do Modern Warships just keep getting bigger?13:54Type 45: Sea Ceptor magazine growth and the Mark 41 alternativeNotable Point
- Why do Modern Warships just keep getting bigger?38:23Recurring threat panics and counters left ashoreChapter
- Why do Modern Warships just keep getting bigger?40:48Missile-defence geometry changes the intercept problemNotable Point
- Why do Modern Warships just keep getting bigger?1:07:16The hidden cost of missing capacityChapter
- Why the Royal Navy's Type 45s Daring Class Destroyers are what they are & what their future is?0:00NFR-90 and the magazine-depth problemChapter
- Why the Royal Navy's Type 45s Daring Class Destroyers are what they are & what their future is?7:29Why NFR-90's common frigate coalition broke apartChapter
- Why the Royal Navy's Type 45s Daring Class Destroyers are what they are & what their future is?13:50What one missing Mark 41 module costs a frigateNotable Point
- Why the Royal Navy's Type 45s Daring Class Destroyers are what they are & what their future is?16:36Horizon, radar quality, and destroyer expectationsChapter
- Why the Royal Navy's Type 45s Daring Class Destroyers are what they are & what their future is?19:36How the 48-cell limit returned after the Cold WarNotable Point
- Why the Royal Navy's Type 45s Daring Class Destroyers are what they are & what their future is?22:56S1850M gives European air-defense ships their distant viewNotable Point
- Why the Royal Navy's Type 45s Daring Class Destroyers are what they are & what their future is?25:52PAMS cooperation split over SAMPSON and EMPAR radar fitsChapter
- Why the Royal Navy's Type 45s Daring Class Destroyers are what they are & what their future is?42:01Mark 41 options and the SAMPSON advantageNotable Point
- Why the Royal Navy's Type 45s Daring Class Destroyers are what they are & what their future is?1:24:20Sea Ceptor takes over the shorter-range role from Aster 15Notable Point
- Why the Royal Navy's Type 45s Daring Class Destroyers are what they are & what their future is?1:26:59Twenty-four Sea Ceptors and the alternative Mark 41 loadNotable Point
- Lions not Indefatigables; What if Australia & New Zealand go Battlecruiser not Battle Cruiser...24:22The Type 45 analogy for mission-limited procurementNotable Point
- Would an AUKUS Destroyer make a sensible 3rd pillar for the Australia, UK & US Defence Cooperation?9:42Peer air defense must face layered threatsNotable Point
- Would an AUKUS Destroyer make a sensible 3rd pillar for the Australia, UK & US Defence Cooperation?14:09VLS depth and design lock-inChapter
- Would an AUKUS Destroyer make a sensible 3rd pillar for the Australia, UK & US Defence Cooperation?34:45Destroyer replacement needs across prospective partnersChapter
- Dutch Destroyers in WWII: The Free Dutch navy at it's Freeest?2:17Gerard Callenburgh design tradeoffsNotable Point
- Dutch Destroyers in WWII: The Free Dutch navy at it's Freeest?7:55Isaac Sweers completed and rearmed in BritainChapter
- Dutch Destroyers in WWII: The Free Dutch navy at it's Freeest?24:31Why Allied anti-aircraft formations needed different spacingNotable Point
- Dutch Destroyers in WWII: The Free Dutch navy at it's Freeest?29:04The missing Hazemeyer advantageNotable Point
- Dutch Destroyers in WWII: The Free Dutch navy at it's Freeest?40:39Hazemeyer destroyer counterfactualNotable Point
- How the USN learnt the lessons to conceive the Arleigh Burke class... From the Gearings to the Kidds10:36Norfolk and Mitscher test status against capabilityChapter
- How the USN learnt the lessons to conceive the Arleigh Burke class... From the Gearings to the Kidds28:18Farragut equips the missile-era carrier screenChapter
- How the USN learnt the lessons to conceive the Arleigh Burke class... From the Gearings to the Kidds31:37Charles F. Adams combines missile armament with a proven designChapter
- How the USN learnt the lessons to conceive the Arleigh Burke class... From the Gearings to the Kidds44:48Spruance and Type 42 solve different escort problemsNotable Point
- How the USN learnt the lessons to conceive the Arleigh Burke class... From the Gearings to the Kidds47:32Ticonderoga begins as a Spruance-hulled destroyer leaderNotable Point
- How the USN learnt the lessons to conceive the Arleigh Burke class... From the Gearings to the Kidds51:42Kidd shows the route to BurkeChapter
- How the USN learnt the lessons to conceive the Arleigh Burke class... From the Gearings to the Kidds52:59Kidd's Gulf adaptations and remaining land-attack limitNotable Point
- How the USN learnt the lessons to conceive the Arleigh Burke class... From the Gearings to the Kidds57:48Kidd's later Australian interest and Taiwanese serviceNotable Point
- Bruships 237: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...21:19Iranian missile-range estimates and European defensesQ&A
- Bruships 237: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...26:00Why missile interception depends on geometryQ&A
- Bruships 237: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...37:54Why an air-defense Type 26 would require a major redesignQ&A
- Bruships 237: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...54:31Ports need fixed and mobile air defenseQ&A
- Bruships 237: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...57:54What mobility adds to an air-defense batteryQ&A
- Bruships 237: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:08:30Modern fleets if missile technology stopped in 1945Q&A
- Bruships 237: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:10:33Do guided bombs fit a world with no newer missiles?Q&A
- 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
- Bruships 237: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:35:35Type 83 versus an air-defense Type 26 derivativeQ&A
- Bruships 237: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:20:30Whether China might export Type 052D destroyers to PakistanQ&A
- Bruships 237: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:23:28Why naval Bloodhound lost to Sea DartQ&A
- Bruships 237: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:35:26Three specialist frigates versus one general-purpose classQ&A
- Bruships 237: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:36:52How Type 43 could have shaped Type 45Q&A
- Bruships 237: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:48:38Why Talos cannot simply return in a Mark 41 cellQ&A
- Bruships 237: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:01:58Heavy radar-directed guns against dronesQ&A
- Bruships 236: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:54:54Type 32 and the Royal Navy readiness problemQ&A
- Bruships 236: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:17:33Chungnam's weapons and the difference between cells and missilesNotable Point
- Do Armed Merchant Cruisers still make sense today?22:18From armed merchant cruiser to defensible merchant vesselChapter
- Do Armed Merchant Cruisers still make sense today?43:00Low-threat patrol waters no longer stay low threatChapter
- Do Armed Merchant Cruisers still make sense today?1:10:30A crewed warship can anchor an uncrewed task groupChapter
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....40:39Tribal-class guns meet the aircraft threatNotable Point
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....58:55Gun armament covers the wait for new defensive weaponsNotable Point
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....1:17:13Arleigh Burke and the networked escort tradeoffNotable Point
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....1:35:43Why the Maya class is a modern destroyer benchmarkChapter
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....1:42:25How frigates and destroyers divide fleet protectionNotable Point
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....2:30:51An air-defence Type 31 would be a much more demanding buildNotable Point
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....2:44:19Lasers should complement proven close-in weapons firstQ&A
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....2:53:02CAMM frees Type 45 cells for Aster 30Q&A
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....3:01:19Missile engagement windows depend on target geometryQ&A
- Cost Efficiency vs Capacity Efficiency0:48Why military capabilities cannot be hired at short noticeNotable Point
- What if the Royal Navy's Aircraft Carrier HMS Hermes had sisters in the 1920s? (Patreon Live)1:15:37Small fleets gain local air cover without tying down fleet carriersNotable Point
- What if the Royal Navy's Aircraft Carrier HMS Hermes had sisters in the 1920s? (Patreon Live)1:58:02Would every fleet carrier receive a defensive light carrier?Q&A
- Bruships 234: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:20:08Adding land-based air defence beside Falklands missile stocksQ&A
- Bruships 233: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:10:51Anti-ship ballistic missiles as a cost problemQ&A
- Bruships 233: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:04:51Extra Type 82 destroyers in the Falklands WarQ&A
- Bruships 233: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:06:57Point-defence lasers within twenty yearsQ&A
- Modern Chinese Destroyers: How the Current People's Liberation Army Navy's surface ships came to be8:00Type 052 turns imported ideas into domestic capabilityChapter
- Modern Chinese Destroyers: How the Current People's Liberation Army Navy's surface ships came to be54:43Type 052B, 052C, and 051C test the route to sea controlChapter
- Modern Chinese Destroyers: How the Current People's Liberation Army Navy's surface ships came to be58:19Radar arrays help explain the Type 052C's Burke resemblanceNotable Point
- Modern Chinese Destroyers: How the Current People's Liberation Army Navy's surface ships came to be59:08Air-defence design must survive maintenance and battle damageNotable Point
- Modern Chinese Destroyers: How the Current People's Liberation Army Navy's surface ships came to be1:09:09Carrier sea control drives the Type 052DChapter
- Modern Chinese Destroyers: How the Current People's Liberation Army Navy's surface ships came to be1:19:47Type 052D layers close-in weapons without duplicating themNotable Point
- Modern Chinese Destroyers: How the Current People's Liberation Army Navy's surface ships came to be1:26:05Type 052D cell depths may vary between batchesNotable Point
- Bruships 232: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:00:01What an enlarged Type 45 should gain in missile capacityQ&A
- Bruships 232: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:22:35Why offboarding Type 83 missiles creates a fragile flotillaQ&A
- Bruships 232: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:36:11How directed-energy weapons could fit into a destroyer's defencesQ&A
- Bruships 232: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:16:27Mission comes before the modern Commonwealth cruiserQ&A
- Bruships 232: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:49:56Why the Type 45 program cannot be judged from a £4.96 billion figureQ&A
- The Reality of Soviet Naval Presence in the Cold War: Destroyers are the Fleet4:09Project 56A brings missiles to a compact destroyerChapter
- The Reality of Soviet Naval Presence in the Cold War: Destroyers are the Fleet27:17Kanin conversions follow weapons as they changeChapter
- The Reality of Soviet Naval Presence in the Cold War: Destroyers are the Fleet38:27Kashin becomes the multi-role Soviet destroyer templateChapter
- The Reality of Soviet Naval Presence in the Cold War: Destroyers are the Fleet48:28Kiev's air cover supports diesel-submarine bastionsNotable Point
- The Reality of Soviet Naval Presence in the Cold War: Destroyers are the Fleet57:12Gadfly shows the cost of navalizing a missileNotable Point
- The Reality of Soviet Naval Presence in the Cold War: Destroyers are the Fleet1:17:47Period analysts expected fewer but stronger destroyersNotable Point
- Bruships 231: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:06:02The target of a hypothetical German nuclear V-2Q&A
- Bruships 231: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:10:40Preventing launches of a hypothetical nuclear V-2Q&A
- What if Force Z(HMS Prince of Wales & HMS Repulse) doesn't get sunk on the 10th of December 1941?9:36Phillips's return could clarify requests for fighter coverNotable Point
- What if Force Z(HMS Prince of Wales & HMS Repulse) doesn't get sunk on the 10th of December 1941?17:31Hermes offers a limited carrier option against unescorted bombersNotable Point
- What if Force Z(HMS Prince of Wales & HMS Repulse) doesn't get sunk on the 10th of December 1941?34:27Air-support language and fleet air-defence lessonsNotable Point
- What if Force Z(HMS Prince of Wales & HMS Repulse) doesn't get sunk on the 10th of December 1941?1:04:04Layered carrier air defence aims to break up the strikeNotable Point
- How many Warships does your Navy need?38:57A proposed lower tier of large uncrewed escortsNotable Point
- How many Warships does your Navy need?46:45Type 45s could provide mobile homeland air defenseChapter
- Bruships 230: Naval History Questions Answered Live...31:09Swing-arm launchers beside modern VLS batteriesQ&A
- Bruships 230: Naval History Questions Answered Live...32:28A family design for a heavily armed Type 45Notable Point
- Bruships 230: Naval History Questions Answered Live...36:44Aegis formations against mass missile attacksQ&A
- Bruships 230: Naval History Questions Answered Live...40:22The aircraft carrier as a reloadable air-defence layerNotable Point
- Bruships 230: Naval History Questions Answered Live...41:53How Aegis would use swing-arm and vertical launchers togetherQ&A
- Bruships 229: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:27:47Linking British ground air defence to Aster productionNotable Point
- Bruships 228: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:22:03What Sea Cat contributed in the Falklands WarQ&A
- Bruships 228: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:30:04Destroying scouts before they can report the fleetNotable Point
- Who was to blame for Norway falling in 1940?38:02Gladiators could still defend Norway if its airfields heldNotable Point
- Who was to blame for Norway falling in 1940?41:26Curtiss fighters reached Norway before they were ready to fightChapter
- 134yrs of evolution: How a Destroyer's Role has evolved from as envisaged in 1892 to 20261:16:33Interwar destroyers became general-purpose fleet screensChapter
- 134yrs of evolution: How a Destroyer's Role has evolved from as envisaged in 1892 to 20261:22:38Battle and Daring classes broadened the destroyer's weapons fitNotable Point
- Bruships 227: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:19:30Why a Nordic navy might need carriers beyond the BalticQ&A
- Bruships 227: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:03:23Ticonderoga and the wartime meaning of a cruiserQ&A
- Bruships 227: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:23:35Why Rapier was not pursued as Sea Cat's replacementQ&A
- A Chinese Invasion of Taiwan: A Historian’s Eye View & A Patreon’s Request…7:39Japan's island chain complicates the Taiwan battlespaceChapter
- A Chinese Invasion of Taiwan: A Historian’s Eye View & A Patreon’s Request…30:53Carrier groups could manage airspace but add exposureNotable Point
- Bruships 226: Naval History Questions Answered Live...22:24Typhoon and Growler in air-defence suppressionQ&A
- Bruships 226: Naval History Questions Answered Live...27:31Why familiar air-defense systems are easier to counterNotable Point
- Bruships 226: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:41:34Keeping Type 45 destroyers alongside Type 83Q&A
- Bruships 226: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:30:08A Type 45 batch two with an inserted missile sectionQ&A
- Bruships 226: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:16:53European air-defense missiles and the size of their user fleetNotable Point
- How to go about Designing a Warship... and a Fleet!41:25Choose combat systems before drawing the hullChapter
- Why is a Frigate a Frigate and other questions of modern navys?45:49Modern frigate and destroyer labels signal system priorityChapter
- Why is a Frigate a Frigate and other questions of modern navys?55:08Integrated combat systems reshape hulls and crewsChapter
- Why is a Frigate a Frigate and other questions of modern navys?1:01:42Computing helps define a modern frigate or destroyerNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 17: Missiles, Guns & Other Barrels of Fun1:44Does each Taiwan-bound convoy need 10,000 VLS cells?Q&A
- Scuttlebutt 17: Missiles, Guns & Other Barrels of Fun16:19What gun calibre suits a modern capital ship?Q&A
- Bruships 225: Naval History & Current Affairs Questions Answered Live...24:38Spanish frigates and Constellation's different mission requirementsQ&A
- Bruships 225: Naval History & Current Affairs Questions Answered Live...29:12Why Constellation's escort mission required ASW and area defenceNotable Point
- Bruships 225: Naval History & Current Affairs Questions Answered Live...46:06Type 26 cannot substitute for Type 83's fleet air-defence roleQ&A
- Bruships 225: Naval History & Current Affairs Questions Answered Live...2:03:57Transport icebreakers as a proposed next step for Canada's fleetQ&A
- Bruships 225: Naval History & Current Affairs Questions Answered Live...3:36:47CVA-01's Sea Dart fit and the prospect of its later removalQ&A
- Why are Modern Warships getting bigger? (Live)51:07Canada's fighter choice depends on missionQ&A
- Why are Modern Warships getting bigger? (Live)2:57:54Radar horizon helps separate destroyers from frigatesQ&A
- Why are Modern Warships getting bigger? (Live)2:58:56A frigate must choose specialization or become a mini-BurkeQ&A
- Future Fleets: Some Ideas of Naval Warfare53:39Force Z shows how mistakes shape weapon effectivenessChapter
- Scuttlebutt 16: Logistics6:20Defending fleet auxiliaries inside the task groupChapter
- Scuttlebutt 16: Logistics12:30Why Red Sea pickets are a poor convoy templateChapter
- Scuttlebutt 16: Logistics15:42Why crossing missiles complicate convoy air defenseNotable Point
- Bruships 224: Alternate Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:08:52Arsenal Birds replace the world's aircraft carriersQ&A
- Bruships 224: Alternate Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:41:48A British Aegis system in the 1980sQ&A
- Bruships 224: Alternate Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:43:37Defending a task group and defending passing merchant shipsNotable Point
- Bruships 224: Alternate Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:50:44A BAE air battlecruiser starts a new arms raceQ&A
- What the Frigates up with our Frigates? A Bilgepumps Christmas 2025 @Drachinifel& @wgowshipping53:07Type 83 shows the price of doing every escort jobNotable Point
- Talking through the Myths of WWI with @GariusTheBrit2:13:12Zeppelin defence challenged the bomber mythNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 15: Frigates30:35Why a convoy might deliberately broadcast active sonarNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 15: Frigates31:42How wartime naval air defense broke up mass attacksNotable Point
- Bruships 222: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:53:02Armed trainers, interceptors, and missile-carrying aircraftNotable Point
- Bruships 222: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:55:38Allied air defence depends on an available shipNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 14: Aircraft Carriers21:28Hercules power and the redesign of the BarracudaQ&A
- Scuttlebutt 14: Aircraft Carriers24:23Bomber priorities shape naval aircraft engine supplyNotable Point
- Bruships 221: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:49:33Why Sea Dart belonged forward on InvincibleQ&A
- Bruships 221: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:36:22Could Green Mace have become a naval anti-aircraft gun?Q&A
- Bruships 221: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:50:00Why cruisers survive under destroyer and frigate namesQ&A
- Bruships 221: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:52:35Judging Sea Slug, Sea Cat and Sea Dart in contextQ&A
- More Lessons of Never Built Carriers26:44Hybrid warships can lose focus in both missionsNotable Point
- A Chinese Invasion of Taiwan: A Historian’s Eye View & A Patreon’s Request…(Live 2)1:05:11Can Taiwan counter missile saturation?Q&A
- A Chinese Invasion of Taiwan: A Historian’s Eye View & A Patreon’s Request…(Live 2)1:53:34Carrier groups and airspace separation around TaiwanNotable Point
- A Chinese Invasion of Taiwan: A Historian’s Eye View & A Patreon’s Request…(Live 2)2:30:55Japan shapes the battlespace even without firingQ&A
- A Chinese Invasion of Taiwan: A Historian’s Eye View & A Patreon’s Request…(Live 2)2:32:05Taiwan can pursue air denial without fifth-generation dominanceQ&A
- A Chinese Invasion of Taiwan: A Historian’s Eye View & A Patreon’s Request…(Live 2)2:42:01Taiwan supplements scarce Patriots with domestic missile workQ&A
- Commodore Michael Clapp & the 1982 Falklands War; #2Historians 2025 starts off23:12Why air defense struggled in San Carlos WaterChapter
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle59:18Why Hurricanes fit Malaya better than MaltaNotable Point
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle1:02:55Would standing fighter patrols solve Malaya's warning problem?Q&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P8 of 9 - UAD chat requested design testing…6:29:10Aster versus SM-6 as an industrial choiceQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon2:39:34F-35B versus Super Hornet depends on the carrier missionQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon7:09:20The 2025 case for keeping Type 45 in service until Type 83Q&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon7:13:08Why Type 83 should be more than an enlarged Type 26Q&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon7:26:35Two ways to create a Second World War command shipQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P6 of 9 - The Royal Navy’s Submarine Killers – Black Swans at War3:12:05Chain Home's planning also considered FranceNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust2:02:24Modern reconnaissance and weapons in the April 1945 Germany scenarioQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust2:29:42How a larger A7M Reppu force could complicate B-29 raidsQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust2:48:54A transport gunship under Second World War air defensesQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida7:49:05What fifteen De Zeven Provinciën-class frigates would give the NetherlandsQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II4:30:03The air-defence argument for hypothetical Iranian ship acquisitionsQ&A
- Andrew Cunningham: Master of Deception26:37Timing Taranto around convoy cover and a concealed approachChapter
- Bruships 219: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:05:58Modern combatant labels still conceal specialized design choicesQ&A
- What would the World's Major Navys look like in 1950 if WWII didn't happen? (Live)54:32Hazemeyer-controlled Bofors guns spread radar-directed air defenceNotable Point
- What would the World's Major Navys look like in 1950 if WWII didn't happen? (Live)1:05:08Radar-guided weapons reshape capital shipsChapter
- What would the World's Major Navys look like in 1950 if WWII didn't happen? (Live)1:27:17Air-launched standoff weapons answer stronger fleet defensesNotable Point
- What would the World's Major Navys look like in 1950 if WWII didn't happen? (Live)2:08:31Aircraft speed pushes naval air defence farther outwardNotable Point
- Bruships 218: New Books! British Telecom is a terrible ISP! Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:43:55V-1 interception and versatile aircraft ferry pilotsNotable Point
- Bruships 217: Back from Japan 2025: Jetlag is a Myth - Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:44:42Which Sea Cat ships would receive lightweight Sea Wolf?Q&A
- Bruships 217: Back from Japan 2025: Jetlag is a Myth - Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:00:22Why a larger Type 21 would not keep Sea CatQ&A
- Bruships 216 On the Road Japan 2025: Last one from Japan! Naval History Questions Answered Live...53:10Using ships to cue land-based Baltic missile batteriesQ&A
- Bruships 215 On the Road Japan 2025: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:26:15Why San Carlos lacked barrage balloons and improvised flagshipsQ&A
- Darings to Countys... and beyond; How Royal Navy Fleet Destroyer design evolved in the Missile Age32:04Falklands combat exposed the limits of missile exercisesNotable Point
- Darings to Countys... and beyond; How Royal Navy Fleet Destroyer design evolved in the Missile Age41:11Why cheaper Type 42 comparisons missed Type 82's wider roleNotable Point
- Darings to Countys... and beyond; How Royal Navy Fleet Destroyer design evolved in the Missile Age51:04Type 83 revives the large all-round fleet destroyerChapter
- Darings to Countys... and beyond; How Royal Navy Fleet Destroyer design evolved in the Missile Age1:00:17Close-in defence needs overlapping weapons, not a token pairNotable Point
- Bruships 212: Naval History Questions Answered Live...After Power Cut1:37:40De-escalation through stronger NATO posture in EstoniaQ&A
- Bruships 211: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:16:42Choosing the Axis destroyer best suited to its theaterQ&A
- Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:38:52How the Royal Navy reduced Luftwaffe damage in dockyardsQ&A
- Bruships 209: Science Fiction Naval History Questions Answered Live...43:42Zumwalt's unrealized ballistic-missile-defence pathQ&A
- Bruships 209: Science Fiction Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:34:23The War of the Worlds heat ray as a naval weaponQ&A
- If Force Z survived... if HMS Prince of Wales & HMS Repulse what would the RN have done with them?1:10:50Why Singapore is a difficult Pearl Harbor targetNotable Point
- Bruships 206: Naval History Questions Answered Live...(Continued)26:16A heavier Type 31 gun batteryQ&A
- Bruships 206: Naval History Questions Answered Live...(Continued)30:05Japan keeps the naval railgun aliveQ&A
- Bruships 206: Naval History Questions Answered Live...(Continued)55:54A 6-inch and 128-cell Type 45 conceptQ&A
- Bruships 206: Naval History Questions Answered Live...(Continued)1:12:34Why Type 31 has an unusually light mixed gun batteryQ&A
- Bruships 206: Naval History Questions Answered Live...(Continued)1:30:32Price air defense by damage preventedNotable Point
- Bruships 206: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:43:14An OTO 76 mm gun on Repulse could save Force ZQ&A
- Bruships 206: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:56:02Why missiles replaced torpedo bombersQ&A
- Procurement for Peace: Second Draft1:56:03An ideal British escort and OPV mixQ&A
- Procurement for Peace: Second Draft2:10:09Should uncrewed warships be specialized?Q&A
- Procurement for Peace: Second Draft2:23:31Can modularity control procurement tinkering?Q&A
- Bruships 204: Naval History Questions Answered Live...18:28Why more German air attacks at Salerno still face steep oddsQ&A
- Bruships 204: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:39:09Why airborne turret fighters are a poor answer to ground-attack drone swarmsQ&A
- Fortress Crete: What if the Greek Government had invested in Crete in the 1920s & 30s?57:24Southern ports and radar make Crete resilientNotable Point
- Bruships 202: Naval History Questions Answered Live...32:25Vulcans challenged Red Flag from low and high altitudeNotable Point
- Bruships 202: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:50:40Why a future naval gun may jump from five to six inchesQ&A
- Bruships 202: Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:29:43Combining twin Phalanx mounts with RAMQ&A
- Attacking Pearl Harbour: The Decisions that led to the Japanese Planning…1:09:35Why did the Navy rely on Army radar in Hawaii?Q&A
- Attacking Pearl Harbour: The Decisions that led to the Japanese Planning…2:02:34Would a Navy radar station have changed Pearl Harbor?Q&A
- Bruships 199: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:04:15Daylight strikes and the suppression of Iranian air defencesNotable Point
- Bruships 199: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:38:49Atomic weapons compress a mass bombing raid into one aircraftNotable Point
- Pom-Pom or Bofors: Which 40mm do you want?16:37Sweden develops the Bofors for a Baltic defense problemChapter
- Bruships 198: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:27:36Gun CIWS trades reach for reloadability and magazine depthQ&A
- Bruships 198: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:48:42A timely warning changes Pearl Harbor's alert postureQ&A
- Leadership of the Battle of Midway: When decisions go wrong...52:37Kido Butai as an underprotected sword and shieldChapter
- Leadership of the Battle of Midway: When decisions go wrong...1:30:48Leaving Zuikaku behind while breaking doctrine elsewhereChapter
- Leadership of the Battle of Midway: When decisions go wrong...2:05:59Could Zuikaku have served as a fighter carrier?Q&A
- Bruships 197: Naval History Questions Answered Live...59:24A heavily armed Type 83 force-defense conceptQ&A
- Bruships 197: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:07:37Why Europe cannot have one ideal anti-air corvetteQ&A
- Bruships 197: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:30:43Why Royal Navy air-defense ships become destroyersQ&A
- Isolationist America: What should Australia, Britain & Canada do if it happens in the next 5 years?19:09Raising the threshold for attacks in the Canadian ArcticNotable Point
- Bruships 194: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:04:19Who controlled land-based anti-aircraft guns in World War II?Q&A
- Bruships 193: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:44:42Why drones may not merge frigates and destroyersQ&A
- Bruships 193: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:13:45Could 1940s Germany shoot down Smaug?Q&A
- Bruships 192: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:28:38Why the Kidd class outmatched the Type 42 without making it a bad destroyerQ&A
- Were Coastal Defences worth it in WWII?11:58Force Z and the danger of demanding absolute protectionNotable Point
- Coastal defenses in WWII: Why did they fail to stop so many amphibious operations?30:46Longer-ranged weapons dispersed the modern coastal fortressChapter
- Coastal defenses in WWII: Why did they fail to stop so many amphibious operations?33:01Britain's land-based area air defence faded after BloodhoundNotable Point
- Coastal defenses in WWII: Why did they fail to stop so many amphibious operations?2:52:00Defensive cost is measured against the asset at riskNotable Point
- Coastal defenses in WWII: Why did they fail to stop so many amphibious operations?2:56:46Modern coastal defense can use mobile teams as tripwiresNotable Point
- Bruships 189: Naval History Questions Answered Live...continued20:22Type 31 as the task group's inner escortQ&A
- Bruships 189: Naval History Questions Answered Live...continued40:12Could M247 Sergeant York return for anti-drone defense?Q&A
- Bruships 189: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:58:10Why V-2 rockets were effectively impossible to interceptQ&A
- Scuttlebutt 21st Century Battleship: Chat & Comment Response...7:15Why air defense at sea differs from area defense ashoreNotable Point
- Tribal, Battle & Daring Class Destroyers: 5yrs since the first live stream!2:54:51Could Type 45 destroyers become reserve arsenal ships?Q&A
- Tribal, Battle & Daring Class Destroyers: 5yrs since the first live stream!3:47:12Designing a gun-based modern air-defense destroyerQ&A
- Bruships 188: Naval History Questions Answered Liven & Birthday Party...2:57:23Exercise Ardent and the postwar air-defense testQ&A
- So you want to Build a Battleship today? For the 21st Century? Naval History Live2:48:23Would the VLS battery favor strike or air defense?Q&A
- So you want to Build a Battleship today? For the 21st Century? Naval History Live3:01:36A fixed hypersonic target is not a moving warshipNotable Point
- Bruships 187: Naval History Questions Answered Live...52:59The A-10's shrinking high-threat role and remaining low-intensity utilityNotable Point
- What if HMS Indomitable replaced Prince of Wales in Force Z?48:19The fatal ambiguity over air support for Force ZNotable Point
- Bruships 184: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:20:16Choosing a useful naval railgun caliberQ&A
- Bruships 183: Science Fiction/Naval History Questions Answered Live...29:25Avro Arrow and English Electric Lightning roles comparedQ&A
- Bruships 182: Naval History Questions Answered Live...48:47Why Pucará torpedo attacks would failQ&A
- Bruships 182: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:30:22Fusion and beam weapons transform the prewar balanceQ&A
- Bruships 182: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:27:19Why standoff torpedoes might help Sea DartQ&A
- Bruships 182: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:31:31Radar is the decisive 1935 development for World War IQ&A
- Bruships 182: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:47:41When a 135 mm gun becomes point defenseQ&A
- Could Seaplanes Tenders have been used in the Battle for the Atlantic? Naval History Live!24:03Could float Sea Gladiators have bought Force Z time?Notable Point
- Could Seaplanes Tenders have been used in the Battle for the Atlantic? Naval History Live!2:10:16Why defensive missile stocks matter when comparing bases and carriersNotable Point
- Could Seaplanes Tenders have been used in the Battle for the Atlantic? Naval History Live!2:30:51Would carrier fighters have saved Force Z?Q&A
- Bruships 181: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:58:03South Korea's carrier ambitions and competing defence needsNotable Point
- Bruships 178: Naval History or Exercise51:07Why Baltic air defence needs more than two Type 45 destroyersQ&A
- Bruships 177: New Year, same Dr Alex... possibly with new gym membership3:29:05The next layers in warship air defenseQ&A
- Bruships 176: Christyear or Newmas?19:36Type 43, Aegis, and the evolution of fleet air defenseQ&A
- Bruships 176: Christyear or Newmas?2:51:44Ireland's limited personnel favor air defense, patrol ships, and ASW helicoptersQ&A
- Bruships 176: Christyear or Newmas?3:16:27The Royal Navy's Type 83 numbers problemQ&A
- So You Want to Build an Aircraft Carrier: Operation & Learning From Experience! Part 3 or 1 of 38:17Why carriers may shift close defence to escortsNotable Point
- So You Want to Build an Aircraft Carrier: Operation & Learning From Experience! Part 3 or 1 of 31:00:18HMS Argus and the drone-carrier precedentNotable Point
- Bruships 175: Pre- Christmas Party 20243:57:32Why upgrading Type 45 does not by itself prove Type 83 is delayedQ&A
- Santa's Sleigh... A Quick History - Key Aircraft Series 3, Aircraft 312:37Radar and the changing risk to Santa's flightChapter
- Prof Bennet & Dr C Discuss Naval Culture: does it exist & whether it matters? #2Historians ep 449:42Why warships do more than their headline missionChapter
- So, You Want to Build an Aircraft Carrier? Infrastructure & Industry, the Realities of Construction!3:03Mobile carriers expose the weakness of undefended fixed air basesNotable Point
- So, You Want to Build an Aircraft Carrier? Infrastructure & Industry, the Realities of Construction!1:12:31Interceptor economics follow the value being defendedNotable Point
- Bruships 173: Christmas Books for the History Lover in your life...1:20:03Why sixteen missile cells leave doubts about Australia's frigate requirementNotable Point
- Bruships 173: Christmas Books for the History Lover in your life...4:55:15The narrow mission where STOBAR carriers make senseQ&A
- Bruships 172: So the Historiophon Happened...4:12:12Prove the tiltrotor before making it fleet air-defense commandQ&A
- Three Days from Pearl Harbor: The World if the Kido Butai is Spotted on the 4th of December...48:48How Kimmel could secure Army and Navy readiness in HawaiiNotable Point
- Three Days from Pearl Harbor: The World if the Kido Butai is Spotted on the 4th of December...51:11Preparing Pearl Harbor while Japan fires firstNotable Point
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/41:59:02Why Aster 30 and SM-6 are not direct equivalentsQ&A
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/433:18Counter-drone defense is a systems and cost problemNotable Point
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/41:06:21Why drone-heavy fleets still need crewed interceptorsNotable Point
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/41:45:12An occupied Oahu and nuclear warning would harden American war aimsQ&A
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/42:05:58Building a balanced blue-water fleet from existing classesQ&A
- Kido Butai spotted on december 4th 1941... 3 days before Pearl Harbour, what changes? Patreon 10856:15Aircraft totals do not equal ready defendersQ&A
- The Battlecruiser/Fast Battleship Differential & Soviet Carriers: Scuttlebutt 71:00:32A carrier is vulnerable, but a fixed air base is easier to findNotable Point
- Bruships 171: Oh Kallax my Kallax, Where art though my Kallax1:28:40Why Canada's Type 26 derivative can reasonably be called a destroyerQ&A
- Bruships 171: Oh Kallax my Kallax, Where art though my Kallax1:56:44Mount performance matters more than caliber against fast jetsQ&A
- Bruships 171: Oh Kallax my Kallax, Where art though my Kallax2:29:10A Type 45 destroyer as a Second World War fleet assetQ&A
- @Drachinifel & Dr Clarke Discuss Royal Navy Aircraft Carriers that almost were! #2Historians ep 11:49:29Merchant ships as distributed fighter basesNotable Point
- The Plane as imagined by a 5yr old! The A5 Vigilante - Key Aircraft Series 2, Aircraft 106:34Why reconnaissance losses can conceal an aircraft's valueNotable Point
- What happens if Britain has a Malta off the coast of Germany in WWI? Helgoland!35:34A base for light forces and aircraft, not a battle fleetChapter
- Third Rate Ships of the Line: Ubiquity, Ubiquity, o' the Ubiquity!45:50Cold War prestige versus specialized warshipsNotable Point
- Bruships 168: And a empty Kalax, sang the aisles a serenade, longing for books with a love song3:35:09How a weaker nuclear taboo would reshape warship protectionQ&A
- Battle of Santa Cruz: The Deathsong of Japanese Naval Aviation in WWII1:16:54Fighter direction needed better interception geometryNotable Point
- Battle of Santa Cruz: The Deathsong of Japanese Naval Aviation in WWII1:19:28Hornet is overwhelmed despite defensive doctrineChapter
- Fortress Heligoland: Britain doesn't give Heligoland to Germany in the 1890 Agreement... Patreon 1061:42:18Heligoland as a forward defence against ZeppelinsNotable Point
- Fortress Heligoland: Britain doesn't give Heligoland to Germany in the 1890 Agreement... Patreon 1062:05:25Heligoland in a Second World War scenarioChapter
- Fortress Heligoland: Britain doesn't give Heligoland to Germany in the 1890 Agreement... Patreon 1062:10:57Air defence, supply, and Germany's naval choicesChapter
- Bruships 166: As I walk through the library of Naval History, I take a look at my shelf space....25:11Type 45, Mark 41, and multi-role growthQ&A
- Bruships 166: As I walk through the library of Naval History, I take a look at my shelf space....2:32:23Why underway VLS replenishment is difficultQ&A
- Bruships 166: As I walk through the library of Naval History, I take a look at my shelf space....3:49:04Kimmel at Pearl Harbor with warningQ&A
- Bruships 165: I saw a Poodle with a Kalax Manual in his hand, walking through the moors of cornwall3:08:53Why containerized ship air defence stalledQ&A
- The Current Carrier Generation: War is over/War has yet to begin1:08:32Chinese carriers and defensive depth at seaChapter
- The Nimitz Class: The Tenacious Ten that underpin America on the Global Stage25:50Designing the ship around flexible sortie generationChapter
- The Nimitz Class: The Tenacious Ten that underpin America on the Global Stage1:13:18Air-wing commonality can sacrifice specialist performanceNotable Point
- Drones & The Future of the Carrier Air Group - Patreon Premier1:14:31Air defence still demands close human judgmentChapter
- Through Deck Cruisers: The Kiev & Invincible Classes of Aircraft Carrier34:20Phantom veterans gave Sea Harrier squadrons an aggressive cultureNotable Point
- Super Carriers & Specialists: The Aircraft Carrier Debate from WWII to present...18:11Why a carrier's air group needs depthChapter
- Super Carriers & Specialists: The Aircraft Carrier Debate from WWII to present...51:27Carrier capability as independence of actionChapter
- Bruships 161: All you need are Kallax, Shelves are all Books need... Naval History Questions & Chat!2:52:22A 1942 war sends the AA cruisers to the MediterraneanQ&A
- Japan's I-400 Class: Waste of Resources, Idea to Soon or Idea to late?22:48What the Seiran strike aircraft could threatenChapter
- Bruships 160: Money for Kallax, Book Space ain’t Free! Naval History Questions & Chat...50:22How the Z Battery answered an Unrotated Projectile proposalNotable Point
- Bruships 160: Money for Kallax, Book Space ain’t Free! Naval History Questions & Chat...2:02:32If Britain lay one hundred miles farther westQ&A
- Laying Minefields in the Sky... Some WWII Rocketry and Supersized T-Shirt Cannons...10:06Why anti-aircraft rockets looked promisingChapter
- Laying Minefields in the Sky... Some WWII Rocketry and Supersized T-Shirt Cannons...1:16:51Could old rocket ideas inform counter-UAV defence?Notable Point
- Bruships 159: New Office - This may be quick, discord may work & I may not have a Pneumonia attack!2:12:03Early CF-100 jet fighters would transform Commonwealth air defenseQ&A
- What do the fleets look like if they achieve full pre-WWII Modernisation? Patreon Premier46:01Imperial armies let Britain prioritise sea and air powerNotable Point
- What do the fleets look like if they achieve full pre-WWII Modernisation? Patreon Premier1:03:38Peacetime procurement changes Anglo-American industryNotable Point
- Swedish 1930s Torpedo Bomber Strategy: Key Aircraft Series 7, Aircraft 7 & ScandiShip24 Montage7:48A mixed air fleet protected by distanceNotable Point
- Damage Control - The WWII Aircraft Carriers Edition; when it went wrong & when it went right1:24:28Hermes, Force Z, and the value of fighter coverNotable Point
- Damage Control - The WWII Aircraft Carriers Edition; when it went wrong & when it went right1:28:08Lexington's torpedo attack and the timing of defensive killsNotable Point
- Damage Control - The WWII Aircraft Carriers Edition; when it went wrong & when it went right2:17:18Enterprise, Saratoga, and clearing the decksNotable Point
- Damage Control - The WWII Aircraft Carriers Edition; when it went wrong & when it went right2:24:32Enterprise and keeping fighters out of the AA engagement zoneNotable Point
- Damage Control - The WWII Aircraft Carriers Edition; when it went wrong & when it went right2:58:18Strike doctrine competed with fighter-control trainingNotable Point
- Check Campaign 20: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign49:27Naval radar roles are not interchangeableNotable Point
- Bruships 155: Last time answering naval history questions from the Brushack?3:21:44If Pearl Harbor's radar warning had been heededQ&A
- Scuttlebutt 2: H Class Battleships, Japanese Carrier Aircraft Design and lots more29:53Helicopter AEW versus fixed-wing AWACSQ&A
- Carriers of the Planned War Fleets: How Shokaku, Implacables & Essexs reflect their Navys Doctrines41:53Implacable's anti-aircraft batteries and uncertain countsNotable Point
- Hearts of Oak: First Rate Ships of the Line - Key Ships Series 9, Ships 247:33First-rate logic in a modern allied task forceNotable Point
- IJN Doctrine in Carrier form... The Shōkaku class1:02:43Carrier radar needs an escort networkNotable Point
- Bruships 153: Naval History Questions Answered & Boxes being Packed... still, there are more books!39:48Patriot integration with US warshipsQ&A
- Bruships 153: Naval History Questions Answered & Boxes being Packed... still, there are more books!52:13Britain's land-based air-defence gapQ&A
- USS Midway is it magic or surviable? Key Ships Series 9: Ship 140:30Radar and layered defense completed the designChapter
- Check Campaign 17: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign27:33Air-defense frigate speed for carrier escortQ&A
- Bruships 151: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Vote2:04:11A British F-14 changes the fighter successionQ&A
- Bruships 150: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Suggestions Kicks Off3:15:49Why the Royal Navy rejected radar-picket submarinesQ&A
- Agamemnon was not alone: The Ardent Class Third Rate 64s - Key Ships Series 8, Ship 101:23:26Type 83, air defense, and the cost of specializationNotable Point
- The Drivers of the Evolution of Carrier Air Groups...1:44:06Does stealth reduce missile engagement range?Q&A
- "Willy Fudd" The Grumman E-1 Tracer: The Prevolution Hawkeye! Key Aircraft Series 2, Aircraft 243:06A 1943 moving-target radar could have sharpened the horizonNotable Point
- So You Want to Build an Aircraft Carrier: Design! Part 1 or 31:06:43Balance a carrier's own weapons with layered defenceChapter
- Suggest Series Name Please: Comment Response video with a twist32:42Why might a Fulmar make only one pass at an incoming raid?Q&A
- Suggest Series Name Please: Comment Response video with a twist35:44Why eighteen aircraft became a carrier minimumNotable Point
- Conception, Operation & Conclusion of Atlantic Conveyor & other rapid conversions14:21CAM ships and one-launch convoy air defenceChapter
- Conception, Operation & Conclusion of Atlantic Conveyor & other rapid conversions1:08:14Atlantic Conveyor inside the task force's layered air defenseChapter
- Bruships 146: Naval History Questions, Boxes Getting Packed & Lego Getting Built3:42:20Carrier survivability is a task-group problemQ&A
- Bruships 146: Naval History Questions, Boxes Getting Packed & Lego Getting Built3:59:44Why anti-ship capability would not change Type 42 employmentQ&A
- Curtiss SB2C Helldiver: Impression vs Reality - Key Aicraft Series 1, Aircraft 101:04:31Why specialized dive bombing declinedChapter
- Bruships 144: Some Books(Can't Find Lego Cam Sorry) & Naval History Questions56:38How radar and diving fighters could meet Japan's paper bombersQ&A
- Bruships 143: Some Book Tales and Naval History Questions Answered33:42Earlier cavity magnetrons reshape radar warfareQ&A
- Check Campaign 9: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:24:46Can a Vauban-style fort anchor a modern city's air defence?Q&A
- Carriers in Science Fiction: Parsite Craft as a primary means of defence & offence...3:30Why warship definitions should follow roles, not rangesChapter
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books41:11What the largest Type 45 design could have deliveredQ&A
- Aircraft Carriers in Science Fiction3:43:34Stargate waits for the crisis before building readinessNotable Point
- Bruships 140 - Patreon Suggestions, Some Interesting Books (Hopefully) & Lots of Naval History Qs!2:12:57Why Force Z needed fighters more than another cruiserQ&A
- Patreon 98: The World Spins on a Coin: The February Revolution Fails & Imperial Russia survives WWI2:22:20Did Fleet Air Arm fighters use RAF vic formations?Q&A
- Patreon 98: The World Spins on a Coin: The February Revolution Fails & Imperial Russia survives WWI2:23:13Royal Navy carrier anti-aircraft defenses in 1939Notable Point
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered11:02Why Aegis depends on airborne early warningNotable Point
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered44:23What a Red Sea interception shows about point defenseQ&A
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered3:27:11Type 26 numbers versus the Type 83 air-defense needQ&A
- Naval Aviation in 1914: It's Standing Before War Began55:11Integration turns technology into operational powerNotable Point
- Bruships 138: Random Naval History Books from Me, Random Naval History Questions from You!2:41:48Why the Falklands 'Type 64' was not a Royal Navy classQ&A
- Bruships 138: Random Naval History Books from Me, Random Naval History Questions from You!3:55:05How continuous naval control could strengthen British fightersQ&A
- Racking up the Fight Back: American Carrier raids of 19422:18:24Why Pearl Harbor's barrage balloons were not aloftQ&A
- Racking up the Fight Back: American Carrier raids of 19423:56:13Japan had no barrage balloons ready for DoolittleQ&A
- Bruships 137: Naval Aviation Books Discussed & Naval History Questions Answered2:55:54Why twelve aircraft is a normal carrier squadronQ&A
- 809 Squadron Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm: The Immortals50:36809 returns south to secure Falklands air defenceChapter
- Bruships 135: Japan again... Can I get through 12 books this time46:50Carrier air groups should be judged against their missionQ&A
- Bruships 135: Japan again... Can I get through 12 books this time1:29:25Cloud over Pearl Harbor hinders attackers and defenders differentlyQ&A
- Bruships 135: Japan again... Can I get through 12 books this time3:11:09Constellation frigates may ease carrier escort pressureQ&A
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!53:47Swordfish aircraft against Falklands-era defensesQ&A
- Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!2:32:55A fully alert Pearl Harbor could still suffer from badly distributed defensesQ&A
- Patreon 92: Frank Whittle is given consistent funding by Britain to develop jet engines from 19282:18:30Jet fighters alter Britain's wartime air defenseChapter
- If Not Pearl Harbor: Other Options for Japanese Suprise Strike5:11Why Pearl Harbor looked like the obvious targetChapter
- A Naval Historian Reacts to: Battle cruisers in a modern navy… Well a WWII Navy1:39:30Why all-forward guns suit a modernized battleshipNotable Point
- Bruships 130: Battleships35:50Choosing between 100 mm and 10.5 cm dual-purpose gunsQ&A
- Bruships 130: Battleships51:05A layered gun layout for a Type 83 destroyerQ&A
- Bruships 130: Battleships1:42:36Replacing Scharnhorst's 15 cm battery with 10.5 cm gunsQ&A
- The Sydney Strategy: What if the British Empire Far East Base was Sydney not Singapore1:02:38Fixed guns preserve battleships for the mobile fleetNotable Point
- Patreon 88: Sydney Strategy: When looking for a Far East Naval Base - what if Sydney not Singapore?1:54:31Sydney's fleet base accelerates Australian air defenceChapter
- Patreon 88: Sydney Strategy: When looking for a Far East Naval Base - what if Sydney not Singapore?1:57:35Did Australia already have a Chain Home radar network?Q&A
- Bruships 128: Invasions & Amphibious Warfare52:47A missile-heavy air-defence network for BritainQ&A
- Bruships 127: 2023 Christmas Naval History Releases4:56:49Scapa Flow's air defences answered a real German threatQ&A
- Bruships 126: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series1:59:24Containerized missiles need stability, power, and practiceQ&A
- Bruships 126: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series2:07:02Phalanx is a more practical containerized defenceQ&A
- Bruships 126: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series2:12:28A tiny drone still needs the mass and reach to stop a missileQ&A
- Bruships 126: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series2:23:05Hypersonic missiles are not a solitary wonder weaponQ&A
- Bruships 126: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series2:37:27Three close-in weapon mounts preserve an arc after failureQ&A
- WWII if Norway Wins & Operation Weserübung Fails...32:00An Allied Norway changes Scandinavian strategyChapter
- WWII if Norway Wins & Operation Weserübung Fails...51:53Norwegian geography frees ships and eases pressure on BritainNotable Point
- WWII if Norway Wins & Operation Weserübung Fails...1:06:11A northern air front changes the Battle of Britain and CreteChapter
- Neptune Class: The Cruiser Conundrum Crisis - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 68:30Why specialist fleets demand more hullsChapter
- Patreon 86: Jutland with Competent British Battlecruiser Fleet Commander - Sturdee replaces Beatty3:06:34Would NORAD exist in an isolationist United States?Q&A
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 850:03Would twin 76 mm mounts improve air defence?Q&A
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 855:05Carrier defence needs layers, not a last-ditch substituteQ&A
- Bruships 124: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series3:25:36Acoustic aircraft detection as a dead-end technologyQ&A
- Bruships 123: Naval History Questions and Books on Strategy & Tactics35:14Turning Pearl Harbor into an ambushQ&A
- Bruships 123: Naval History Questions and Books on Strategy & Tactics1:49:46Could a larger Falklands garrison deter invasion?Q&A
- Bruships 123: Naval History Questions and Books on Strategy & Tactics3:36:24A Leander frigate under the air attack faced by Ning HaiQ&A
- Bruships: Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!53:09Why the Weapon class retained twin 4-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships: Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!1:15:27The grim logic of a nuclear anti-aircraft missileQ&A
- Bruships: Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!2:40:36The Type 31's peacetime and wartime jobsQ&A
- CVA-58 USS United States: Range upon Range - Key Ships Series 5, Episode 120:00CVA-58's scale and strike-escort air groupNotable Point
- Patreon 83: What were the most serious mistakes made in WWII based on WWI experience?1:12:43Were early bombers too fast to intercept?Q&A
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 41:59:32Rebuilding British forces for peer conflictChapter
- Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer44:28Why close-in guns are the last layerNotable Point
- Bruships 119: Cool Books - but they're definitely a Mixture14:54Why air-defence planning must allow for a capable opponentNotable Point
- Bruships 119: Cool Books - but they're definitely a Mixture4:12:20A hypothetical fleet for Ukrainian grain shipping in 2023Q&A
- Some Myths of the Royal Navy in WWII & Treaty Years38:42Layered air defence at seaNotable Point
- Some Myths of the Royal Navy in WWII & Treaty Years50:07How treaty sloops preserved escort design capacityNotable Point
- Some Myths of the Royal Navy in WWII & Treaty Years1:01:03How industrial depth accelerated Royal Navy air-defence upgradesNotable Point
- HMS Illustrious: Key Ships Series 3, Ship 78:00Radar changes the carrier-defence problemNotable Point
- HMS Illustrious: Key Ships Series 3, Ship 730:06Breaking up an air attackNotable Point
- HMS Illustrious: Key Ships Series 3, Ship 71:36:11Friendly fire exposed an air-defence discipline gapNotable Point
- Leahy Class(+Bainbridge Class): Comment Response4:35Missile fits shaped US Navy roles and classificationsNotable Point
- What books did I bring for #NavHistAus23?36:02Australian defence priorities by timescaleQ&A
- What books did I bring for #NavHistAus23?39:46Using the Blackburn Roc as a naval-base night fighterQ&A
- Patreon 79: AH - WW1 incidents happen that bring the US enters war on the side of Germany...13:23Australia's Type 26 fit trades away upgrade spaceNotable Point
- Mayfly to the Future: A History of Naval Aviation17:24The integrated carrier and capital-ship task forceChapter
- Red Storm Rising: The GIUK Gap in a 1980 conventional war between the Warsaw Pact & NATO(Patreon 77)26:10Why is a day-one conventional strike on Britain difficult?Q&A
- Red Storm Rising: The GIUK Gap in a 1980 conventional war between the Warsaw Pact & NATO(Patreon 77)2:03:13Iceland's dispersed defence and vulnerable supply routesChapter
- Red Storm Rising: The GIUK Gap in a 1980 conventional war between the Warsaw Pact & NATO(Patreon 77)3:27:41Pre-Falklands air-defence gaps force wartime improvisationNotable Point
- Starting with Building HMS Thunderchild...2:32:38Destroyer air defence is limited by space and arcsNotable Point
- Bruships 109: Mahan, an inspiration & a Reflection + Bonus3:26:53Frigates, destroyers, and modern cruiser rolesQ&A
- Bruships 109: Mahan, an inspiration & a Reflection + Bonus3:31:49Why modern escorts perform cruiser missionsQ&A
- Bruships 109: Mahan, an inspiration & a Reflection + Bonus3:37:32Why a globally deployed Type 83 grows toward cruiser sizeQ&A
- Royal Navy retains the 'Fleet Units' of Royal Naval Air Service in 1918 - an Alternate History1:25:12A continuous cycle of carrier fightersNotable Point
- Alternate History - Royal Navy retains the Fleet 'units' of Royal Naval Air Service: Patreon 7612:23Why this does not create the Japanese service modelQ&A
- Alternate History - Royal Navy retains the Fleet 'units' of Royal Naval Air Service: Patreon 761:04:41Direct expertise changes aircraft and air-defence decisionsQ&A
- Alternate History - Royal Navy retains the Fleet 'units' of Royal Naval Air Service: Patreon 762:03:12Carrier experience drives better destroyer air defenceNotable Point
- Alternate History - Royal Navy retains the Fleet 'units' of Royal Naval Air Service: Patreon 763:01:46Why Germany still builds pocket battleships firstQ&A
- Alternate History - Royal Navy retains the Fleet 'units' of Royal Naval Air Service: Patreon 763:09:16Why battleships remain broadly recognisableQ&A
- Bruships 108: PLanned for Random Books off the Shelf & Chat1:29:16Escorts before extra missiles on a carrierQ&A
- Bruships 107: Some New to Me Books & Some New from Pen & Sword52:34A mass radar-directed Defiant night-fighter forceNotable Point
- Bruships 107: Some New to Me Books & Some New from Pen & Sword2:58:36Modern escorts as functional cruisersQ&A
- Blockading Brest: A Royal Navy Tradition1:11:41Q&A: Do modern cities still have fortifications?Q&A
- Bruships 106: Song Dynasty & Three New Books from Pen & Sword3:03:27Early air power could not replace cross-Channel sea controlQ&A
- Bruships 106: Song Dynasty & Three New Books from Pen & Sword3:08:39Zeppelins lacked the lift and survivability for airborne invasion forcesQ&A
- The Submarine Century? How Submarines evolved over the 20th Century1:53:22Missile submarines bring launch sites inside the air-defense perimeterNotable Point
- Bruships 105: Six Age of Sail Useful Books1:27:26How turboprop success in Korea might alter British naval aviationQ&A
- Revolutionary Battles - Battle of the Rice Boats(1776) & Battle of San Nicolás (1811)2:08:28Share development costs, but retain an assembly lineQ&A
- Bombardment of Ellwood56:19Carrier raids on Dutch HarborChapter
- Bombardment of Ellwood46:33Ellwood and the Battle of Los AngelesNotable Point
- Bombardment of Ellwood53:40Did the anti-aircraft fire hit the Los Angeles balloon?Q&A
- Bombardment of Ellwood2:16:12Dutch Harbor's improvised ground defenseNotable Point
- Bruships 102: New Books, Sea Wolves & Skagerrak41:49Falklands weapons and advertised performanceNotable Point
- Bruships 102: New Books, Sea Wolves & Skagerrak2:11:18Hypersonic missiles without the hypeChapter
- Bruships 102: New Books, Sea Wolves & Skagerrak2:40:38Sea Wolf proposals for the Type 42 destroyersQ&A
- USS Wichita: Comment Response25:27Wichita hull anti-air and missile ideasNotable Point
- Admirals, Lexingtons & Tosa; What if the Washington Naval Treaty built them?44:19An F3 turret layout trims weight and opens the sternNotable Point
- Christmas Comment Response: HMCS Sackville, Descartes & some 60s shorts34:25Repulse refit, dual-purpose guns, and Force ZNotable Point
- Christmas Comment Response: HMCS Sackville, Descartes & some 60s shorts57:15Why the Flower's 4-inch gun was not dual-purposeQ&A
- Christmas Comment Response: HMCS Sackville, Descartes & some 60s shorts1:08:43Wichita's hybrid lineage and a 5-inch anti-aircraft cruiserNotable Point
- Why did the French Navy not more fully embrace carrier aviation after WWI?1:13:15Mediterranean fighter protection and layered air defenceChapter
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Comus Class, Kynda Class & Kresta Class23:38Countering Kynda required carrier and escort upgradesNotable Point
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Comus Class, Kynda Class & Kresta Class1:03:22Dual-purpose guns compound destroyer survivalQ&A
- Top 5 Inventions that came too Late14:25Dual-purpose guns before Norway and the MediterraneanChapter
- Top 5 Inventions that came too Late18:10The out-of-area airborne-early-warning gapChapter
- Top 5 Inventions that came too Late23:36How Sea King AEW could reshape Falklands air defenceNotable Point
- New Years 2023 Naval History Questions till the Bru runs out...1:03:23A Virginia-class CGN would anchor a Falklands picket lineQ&A
- New Years 2023 Naval History Questions till the Bru runs out...1:25:38A British nuclear cruiser would scale up familiar air-defense designsQ&A
- New Years 2023 Naval History Questions till the Bru runs out...1:28:54Early detection could turn Pearl Harbor into a fighter trapQ&A
- New Years 2023 Naval History Questions till the Bru runs out...1:36:47Carrier AEW and Phantoms would move Falklands interception outwardQ&A
- New Years 2023 Naval History Questions till the Bru runs out...2:08:41Sea Cat limits point toward Sea Dart and lightweight Sea WolfQ&A
- Ticonderoga(1981) Class: Aegis Covers it All0:00How a DDG became an Aegis cruiserChapter
- Ticonderoga(1981) Class: Aegis Covers it All5:04Spruance roots and crowded air-warfare requirementsNotable Point
- Ticonderoga(1981) Class: Aegis Covers it All13:49Aegis and SPY-1 made the class matterChapter
- Ticonderoga(1981) Class: Aegis Covers it All17:39From Mark 26 rails to 122 VLS cellsNotable Point
- US Nuclear Powered Cruisers: Long Beach to Arkansas - The Atom Unleashed1:53Aegis promised exceptional radar power on a nuclear hullNotable Point
- US Nuclear Powered Cruisers: Long Beach to Arkansas - The Atom Unleashed31:46Reactors supported powerful radars and a wider nuclear workforceChapter
- US Nuclear Powered Cruisers: Long Beach to Arkansas - The Atom Unleashed44:45California's New Threat Upgrade traded ASW for air defenceChapter
- Belknap Class(Truxton Class): Good Ships, not sure about the naming...0:00Belknap starts with guns, missiles, and cruiser labelsChapter
- Belknap Class(Truxton Class): Good Ships, not sure about the naming...22:42Standard missile modernized older launcher architectureChapter
- Belknap Class(Truxton Class): Good Ships, not sure about the naming...25:46Standard missile range meets Cold War nuclear doctrineNotable Point
- Belknap Class(Truxton Class): Good Ships, not sure about the naming...27:10Belknap at the Malta SummitNotable Point
- Belknap Class(Truxton Class): Good Ships, not sure about the naming...38:22Did Sterett ever serve with Enterprise?Q&A
- Albany Class; Conversioning for a Missile(A quick boxing day recording)7:11Chicago's weapons fit defines the new missionChapter
- Albany Class; Conversioning for a Missile(A quick boxing day recording)9:03Arm launchers trade magazine depth for handling riskNotable Point
- Albany Class; Conversioning for a Missile(A quick boxing day recording)16:10Red Crown turned Chicago into an air-control nodeChapter
- Albany Class; Conversioning for a Missile(A quick boxing day recording)16:48Chicago linked rescue support with air-warfare commandNotable Point
- Albany Class; Conversioning for a Missile(A quick boxing day recording)17:46Radar reach made Chicago a strategic warning platformNotable Point
- HMCS Haida & The Tribal Class: Always Service11:24Why the Tribals sat between destroyers and cruisersChapter
- HMCS Haida & The Tribal Class: Always Service20:09Afridi and the cost of weak destroyer air defenceChapter
- HMCS Haida & The Tribal Class: Always Service30:14Australian Tribals adapted for Pacific and postwar serviceChapter
- HMCS Haida & The Tribal Class: Always Service1:24:38Haida's conversion into a stronger air-defence shipNotable Point
- HMCS Haida & The Tribal Class: Always Service1:39:56Korean War refits, carriers, and ASW gearNotable Point
- What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?12:26The performance case for a high-angle 4.7-inch gunChapter
- What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?19:07Capital ships and carriers join the common-gun fleetChapter
- What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?21:41C-class anti-aircraft cruisers keep a surface punchChapter
- What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?27:06An Abdiel-class minelayer with six 4.7-inch gunsNotable Point
- What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?34:02Tribal destroyers against Norway's dive bombersChapter
- What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?40:01Heavy anti-aircraft fire breaks up an attackNotable Point
- What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?41:45An existing 4.5-inch plan makes mass conversion credibleNotable Point
- What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?48:54Tribals and C-class cruisers reinforce the MediterraneanNotable Point
- What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?52:18Escort conversions and Operation ClaymoreChapter
- What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?56:12Better fleet air defence invites a German countermeasureNotable Point
- What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?57:52Repulse trades two specialist batteries for one common fitNotable Point
- What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?59:19Force Z remains a contingent outcomeChapter
- What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?1:03:12Redirecting 4.5-inch investment into the common gunNotable Point
- What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?1:05:26Why the Royal Navy kept specialist gun solutionsNotable Point
- What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?1:07:22Damage instead of loss is a long-war advantageNotable Point
- Patreon 68: What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?8:45Choosing a 4.7-inch dual-purpose gunChapter
- Patreon 68: What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?17:47How interwar doctrine left 4.7 inch low-angleChapter
- Patreon 68: What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?23:59Why naval and land AA guns were not interchangeableQ&A
- Patreon 68: What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?43:06Why some Tribal-class gun fits differedQ&A
- Patreon 68: What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?44:51Why 80 degrees matters against dive-bombersNotable Point
- Patreon 68: What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?51:35The four-inch, 4.5-inch, and 4.7-inch roles were not inevitableQ&A
- Patreon 68: What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?1:06:37Layered air defence needs continuous coverageChapter
- Patreon 68: What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?1:15:08Tribals, Didos, and massed high-angle fireChapter
- Patreon 68: What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?1:30:33Norway: mutual support and pilot attritionChapter
- Patreon 68: What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?1:41:32How destroyers could treble a task group's high-angle fireNotable Point
- Patreon 68: What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?1:52:53Operation Claymore: 14 high-angle guns or 32Notable Point
- Patreon 68: What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?1:58:36Repulse trades 15 specialized guns for 12 dual-purpose gunsNotable Point
- Patreon 68: What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?2:04:18Better fleet AA would provoke enemy adaptationNotable Point
- Patreon 68: What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?2:07:41Force Z depends on carriers, fighters, and earlier lossesChapter
- Patreon 68: What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?2:11:12A common calibre speeds proximity-fuze distributionQ&A
- Patreon 68: What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?2:38:48Could Brewster Buffaloes have protected Force Z?Q&A
- Kresta Class Cruisers Iterative Development of the Soviet Style5:38Cuba exposes the need for organic blue-water capabilitiesChapter
- Kresta Class Cruisers Iterative Development of the Soviet Style17:04How Kresta I became Kresta IIChapter
- Kresta Class Cruisers Iterative Development of the Soviet Style31:25Weapon placement reveals the Kresta's prioritiesNotable Point
- Kresta Class Cruisers Iterative Development of the Soviet Style45:00Storm air defence and the Kresta II sensor fitNotable Point
- Kresta Class Cruisers Iterative Development of the Soviet Style53:43AK-630 trials expose the cost of rapid close-in fireNotable Point
- Kresta Class Cruisers Iterative Development of the Soviet Style57:33Marshal Voroshilov carries Kresta II into the PacificNotable Point
- Nelson Class & Patreon 67 Comment Response17:38A 5.5-inch dual-purpose battery for the Nelson eraNotable Point
- Nelson Class & Patreon 67 Comment Response50:39The twin 4.7-inch dual-purpose alternativeQ&A
- Sverdlov Class: Comment Response14:14Why a new weapon rarely makes navies obsolete by itselfNotable Point
- Sverdlov Class: Comment Response37:34Soviet saturation attacks and the logic behind AegisNotable Point
- Sverdlov Class: Comment Response39:11How cheaper defences could change missile saturationNotable Point
- Arethusa(1913) Class: Light Cruisers or....25:05Aurora adapts to Zeppelins, mines, and changing warChapter
- Sverdlov Class: The Last of Stalin's Soviet Gun Cruisers1:13:55Project 70E turned a Sverdlov into a missile test shipNotable Point
- Apollo(1890?) Class: Quantity = Quality (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 7)48:48Brilliant fights ashore and adapts to the airship threatNotable Point
- Patreon 66: "Washington Cheaties"3:22:54Anti-aircraft armament for a 28,000-ton fast battlecruiserQ&A
- Bruships 90: Books From the Road52:53County-class missile conversions could bridge Britain to later air-defence shipsQ&A
- Bruships 90: Books From the Road2:32:30A twin 76 mm battery would give Type 31 stronger all-round gun coverageQ&A
- Bruships 88: Way of War36:55The limited anti-aircraft role of Des Moines gunsQ&A
- Bruships 88: Way of War48:32A modern five-inch system transported to 1925Q&A
- Bruships 88: Way of War1:00:01Why heavy anti-aircraft shells used fragmentationQ&A
- Brooklyn Class(US Treaty Cruisers): Comment Response10:32Why large warships become general-purpose assetsNotable Point
- Bruships 87: Books Found on My Travels, New Books & Christmas Recomendations47:13How coastal batteries could reshape the 1982 invasionQ&A
- Escort Carriers, the idea, designs, development and some notable operations45:45PQ 18 integrates an escort carrier into the convoyChapter
- Escort Carriers, the idea, designs, development and some notable operations52:23The Swordfish makes small convoy flight decks practicalNotable Point
- Escort Carriers, the idea, designs, development and some notable operations54:13Aircraft ferrying and trade protection share one hullChapter
- Escort Carriers, the idea, designs, development and some notable operations58:47PQ 18 shields Avenger inside its air-defence formationNotable Point
- Escort Carriers, the idea, designs, development and some notable operations1:29:19Modern escort-carrier versatility limits availabilityNotable Point
- Patreon 63: Escort carriers, the idea, designs, development and notable operations23:56How many fighters did a convoy escort need?Q&A
- 19th Century Cruisers: Comment Response Video 2 (Velasco - Imperieuse)39:09Why a smaller navy benefits from general-purpose escortsQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 354:28The Big Blue Blanket against dispersed kamikaze attacksQ&A
- Sfax(1884) of Marine Nationale: 19th Century Cruisers p915:29Sfax between commerce raider and general-purpose cruiserChapter
- Five Weaknesses of Allied/Axis/Minor Navies in 1941 & 1942; Response to some Comments57:26A global fortress program for British naval basesQ&A
- Major Allied Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 19422:20Carriers became essential to Royal Navy survivalChapter
- Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times1:24:04What a Belfast-standard Town class would changeQ&A
- Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times1:50:14Why the RAF resisted naval area-air-defense missilesQ&A
- Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times2:47:07Falklands experience reshaped Rapier and close air defenseNotable Point
- Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times2:51:46Why Vanguard would transform San Carlos BayQ&A
- Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times2:55:36Canadian Iroquois-class destroyers reinforce the Falklands screenQ&A
- Some Minor Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 19400:33Crete as Greece's defensible naval hubChapter
- Some Minor Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 193914:34Build Crete into Greece's submarine strongholdChapter
- Modern Frigates: Cruisers by another name? (Patreon 57 Videos Comment Response)43:36Why a large ASW frigate still needs general-purpose defensesQ&A
- Modern Frigates: Cruisers by another name? (Patreon 57 Videos Comment Response)46:11Classifying frigates, destroyers, and cruisers by roleQ&A
- Modern Frigates: Cruisers by any other name? (Patreon 57 Long Patrol)22:16Independence, endurance, and the task-group testNotable Point
- Modern Frigates: Cruisers by any other name? (Patreon 57 Long Patrol)26:22Iver Huitfeldt as a cruiser-like frigateChapter
- Modern Frigates: Cruisers by any other name? (Patreon 57 Long Patrol)56:24Horizon shows where multinational standardization worksChapter
- Modern Frigates: Cruisers by any other name? (Patreon 57 Long Patrol)1:00:02Why 76 mm guns matter for close-in defenseNotable Point
- Modern Frigates: Cruisers by any other name? (Patreon 57 Long Patrol)1:08:08From deployment ratios to a 36-hull Royal Navy mixNotable Point
- Modern Frigates: Cruisers by any other name? (Patreon 57 Long Patrol)1:11:54The F125 mismatch between size and air defenseNotable Point
- Modern Frigates: Cruisers by any other name? (Patreon 57 Long Patrol)1:17:47Álvaro de Bazán and Hobart blur frigate and destroyer labelsChapter
- Modern Frigates: Cruisers by any other name? (Patreon 57 Long Patrol)1:21:52Indian frigates combine imported systems with national growthChapter
- Modern Frigates: Cruisers by any other name? (Patreon 57 Long Patrol)1:34:23De Zeven Provinciën as a general-purpose cruiserChapter
- Patreon 57: Modern frigates, cruisers by another name?45:04Iver Huitfeldt on the cruiser spectrumChapter
- Patreon 57: Modern frigates, cruisers by another name?1:14:09Why mission codes do not solve classificationQ&A
- Patreon 57: Modern frigates, cruisers by another name?1:57:48F125 and the peacetime-frigate trapChapter
- Patreon 57: Modern frigates, cruisers by another name?2:01:57Why more F125s would not fix the fleetQ&A
- Patreon 57: Modern frigates, cruisers by another name?2:36:51De Zeven Provinciën as a balanced air-defence shipChapter
- Patreon 57: Modern frigates, cruisers by another name?2:46:39Why a class needs more than two shipsQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out Take 244:32Modern Maunsell forts as fixed air-defense sitesQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out Take 22:36:22When a warship's turning radius matters mostQ&A
- Equitable London Treaty: Summary (Long Patrol)8:44Why offset strategies rarely erase industrial advantageNotable Point
- Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN42:44New Zealand's neutrality problem in a contested PacificChapter
- Patreon 53: Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN21:22Drone warfare repeats early aviation's countermeasure cycleNotable Point
- Patreon 53: Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN59:35F-35 stealth as a continuing radar contestQ&A
- Patreon 53: Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN1:52:24Why the Hunter design is being pulled toward air defenceNotable Point
- Patreon 53: Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN1:57:30A sustainable Hobart-class forceNotable Point
- Patreon 53: Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN2:21:31The maritime force an independent Scotland might sustainQ&A
- Patreon 53: Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN2:51:49A shared Type 83-era destroyer familyNotable Point
- Bruships 78: Favourite Cruisers A Discussion...1:07:14What Ukraine would need to retake Snake IslandQ&A
- Bruships 77: Leadership, books & questions...7:57River monitors for Ukraine's shallow watersQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (11)2:57:28Why a port can be the wrong place to unload landing shipsQ&A
- Operation Tan No.2 (77yrs ago today)42:21Could Swordfish have attacked the anchorage at night?Q&A
- Operation Tan No.2 (77yrs ago today)49:05Royal Navy experience supports Okinawa's night air defenseNotable Point
- Patreon 47: Putting the USA's 2nd fleet to work - US Coast Guard's presence missions & deployment3:11:33Why warships carried layered anti-aircraft batteriesQ&A
- Forward (1904) Class: Scout Cruisers (Long Patrol)16:13HMS Forward from flotilla service to wartime patrolsChapter
- Bruships 70: Travelling along...36:30Why Tiger's amidships three-inch turret was usefulQ&A
- Bruships 69: The Decider33:49Why another close-in missile can be a fleet burdenQ&A
- Bruships 69: The Decider2:13:07A Japanese Me 262 counterpart would have to reach the B-29sQ&A
- Bruships 69: The Decider3:22:20What different warning times could change at Pearl HarborQ&A
- Bruships 68: Random Naval History Books & Questions2:50:05The Baltic air-defence problem as seen in 2022Q&A
- Bruships 67: Cruising on through with Questions & Bru1:42:24How illumination flares shaped night air attacksQ&A
- Bruships 67: Cruising on through with Questions & Bru3:13:03Why close-in weapon systems use different gun arrangementsQ&A
- The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Long Patrol)1:06:21Ticonderoga carries cruiser status on a destroyer hullNotable Point
- The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Live)57:16Air defence is shaped by the theatreNotable Point
- The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Live)1:14:33Why were Baltimore cruisers kept with carriers?Q&A
- The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Live)2:07:13Were Arethusa and Dido designed for the same role?Q&A
- The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Live)3:01:41Ticonderoga: a cruiser title for air defenceNotable Point
- The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Live)3:05:50Modern navies distribute cruiser work across other namesNotable Point
- Quirky Classes and What they tell us about their navies… (Live)2:36:17Visby class and Swedish Baltic defenceNotable Point
- How was British Night Fighting Doctrine developed for and then practiced during WWII? (Long Patrol)58:31Type 79's path from warning to surface detectionChapter
- Take 2: Pearl Harbour – A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do? (Live)1:01:39Thirty minutes could activate Pearl Harbor's defensesQ&A
- Take 2: Pearl Harbour – A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do? (Live)1:12:53What warning could have changed at Pearl HarborQ&A
- Bruships 62: Naval History Book Review & Chat3:42:37Why a small navy may need specialised destroyersNotable Point
- Bruships 60: Covid Jab, Bad Back & New Books1:05:36Why small escort fleets specialiseChapter
- Battle of Taranto: The 81st Anniversary40:18Why Scapa Flow was not another TarantoQ&A
- Battle of Taranto: The 81st Anniversary1:27:18The defensive lesson the United States missedQ&A
- Battle of Taranto: The 81st Anniversary1:33:42Taranto and Italy's radar problemQ&A
- The Results: Taranto Long Patrol0:18The cost of stopping twenty SwordfishNotable Point
- The Results: Taranto Long Patrol2:01Why Taranto's damage figures need cautionNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (8)39:11Making the case for a larger Type 83 destroyer forceChapter
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (8)1:28:47Why carriers need a critical mass of aircraftQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (8)3:14:06Could twin naval gun mounts help against hypersonic threats?Q&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (8)3:37:26What Argentina needed to change the Falklands balanceQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7)1:00:38Why Type 45 diverged from the Horizon programmeQ&A
- Patreon 34: Inter-war Naval Aircraft Development - what could have been?2:29:41How Britain protected aircraft factories without prototype fightersQ&A
- A Book or Two to Review(30): Fight for the Fjords, The Battle for Norway 19403:18Building a fleet around carrier cover and shore bombardmentNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (6)2:16:42Can large-calibre gunfire saturate modern defences?Q&A
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) P3/14: Domenico Cavagnari18:24Carriers, air defence, and radar left behindNotable Point
- Shipbuilding through the 1880s-1950s3:12:55Could Zumwalt serve as an Aegis air-defence cruiser?Q&A
- British Geostrategic Situation in the 1960s: The 1966 White Paper12:17Air reinforcement in the surface-to-air missile ageNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (4)4:01:50Dowding in Far East CommandQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (3)1:25:05The Battle of Britain if radar arrived in 1950Q&A
- A Book or Two to Review(20): Sinking Force Z 19413:36Hermes, Indomitable, and Force Z air coverNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review(20): Sinking Force Z 19418:12Singapore defenses and the Malayan air shortfallChapter
- A Book or Two to Review(20): Sinking Force Z 19418:12Singapore's deliberate restraint and landward coastal gunsNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review(20): Sinking Force Z 194111:10Britain knew the naval-air threatNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review(20): Sinking Force Z 194112:31Boulton Paul Defiant production and Far East fighter shortagesNotable Point
- Turreted Fighter: Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p4/70:14Turreted fighter 360-degree fire ideaChapter
- Turreted Fighter: Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p4/74:04Good concept, wrong technology windowNotable Point
- Turreted Fighter: Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p4/75:08Defiant night fighter and Beaufighter replacementNotable Point
- Turreted Fighter: Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p4/75:51Turret armament weight and firepower tradeoffNotable Point
- Turreted Fighter: Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p4/77:29Wellington turret night fighters as a doubtful alternativeChapter
- A Book or Two to Review (16): Carrier, A Century of First-Hand Accounts of Naval Operations...9:18Illustrious under sustained air attackChapter
- Churchill's Iniatives (WWI); Long patrol p2/4 - RNAS2:21Air defence makes the naval air service too largeChapter
- Churchill's Iniatives (WWI); Long patrol p2/4 - RNAS3:37RAF formation and the Fleet Air Arm problemNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (12): British Naval Aviation by Ray Sturviant5:17Ark Royal's early air attacksNotable Point
- Bruships 53: The Big Gun Era... Questions1:25:16A large destroyer was Russia's likely next shipbuilding testQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (2)3:23:10Why the Type 83 must exceed the Type 45Q&A
- Operation Aerial: France after Dunkirk (Long Patrol)1:05:52Evacuees use Bren guns against a Ju 88Notable Point
- Bruships 51: The Age of Iron3:36:45Why Tirpitz survived longer than Pearl Harbor battleshipsQ&A
- Bruships 51: The Age of Iron3:56:35HMS Vanguard in the Falklands WarQ&A
- Bruships 51: The Age of Iron4:00:39Vanguard against Falklands bombs and ExocetsQ&A
- Patreon 23: Coal, Canals, Convoys & Coastal Carrying: traffic around the British isles from 1939-4538:42Coastal convoys faced every kind of wartime hazardChapter
- Patreon 23: Coal, Canals, Convoys & Coastal Carrying: traffic around the British isles from 1939-4557:10The endurance problem in coastal convoy air coverQ&A
- Patreon 23: Coal, Canals, Convoys & Coastal Carrying: traffic around the British isles from 1939-452:18:39Floating anti-aircraft defenses on waterwaysQ&A
- Basil Jones: Patreon 21, Notable Commanders, Long Patrol Part 130:45Destroyers and Liberators coordinate under air attackChapter
- Hawker Aircraft of the 1920s & 1930s2:20:41What 1930s exercises taught about speed and air defenceQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out?27:09How fighter cover could disrupt the attack on Force ZQ&A
- Four Random Books 34: A Special Place2:34Why escort carriers mattered against shadowing aircraftNotable Point
- Bruships 46: Accounts of Naval War2:19:53HMS Ardent's exposed air-defence station in Falkland SoundChapter
- Bruships 46: Accounts of Naval War2:28:10Why Sea Cat remained in service during the Falklands WarQ&A
- Bruships 46: Accounts of Naval War2:32:56Was Sea Wolf unreliable in the Falklands?Q&A
- Prince Philips Navy1:23:15Wallace covered the seam in Operation Husky's landing forcesChapter
- Four Random Books Episode 32: Destroyer Challenge (Live)28:03HMS Gipsy's failed air-defense engagementNotable Point
- Four Random Books Episode 32: Destroyer Challenge (Live)32:53Destroyer patrols on the Dover frontChapter
- Four Random Books Episode 32: Destroyer Challenge (Live)36:05A destroyer evades a massed air attackNotable Point
- Four Random Books Episode 32: Destroyer Challenge (Live)37:04Rescuing the bombed coaster BoulderNotable Point
- Minotaur & Tiger Class Cruisers1:22:03The postwar cruiser needed a new purposeNotable Point
- Minotaur & Tiger Class Cruisers1:43:38Carrier area denial has historical precedentsNotable Point
- Minotaur & Tiger Class Cruisers2:14:54Tiger served as an interim air-defense cruiserChapter
- Minotaur & Tiger Class Cruisers2:16:42Tiger had a limited radar-picket roleQ&A
- Minotaur & Tiger Class Cruisers2:22:43Why Tiger kept a rapid-fire six-inch gunQ&A
- Minotaur & Tiger Class Cruisers2:33:24Why the Tigers sailed without BoforsQ&A
- Minotaur & Tiger Class Cruisers2:55:19County and Bristol performed cruiser functionsQ&A
- Minotaur & Tiger Class Cruisers3:14:16Type 83 grows because it combines specialized fleetsQ&A
- Bruships 43: Aircraft Carriers & Naval Aviation38:11Queen Elizabeth class sortie generation without catapultsNotable Point
- Bruships 43: Aircraft Carriers & Naval Aviation2:19:37Air defense succeeds by disrupting concentrationNotable Point
- Bruships 42: Some More Scifi2:17:54Why choose a 57 mm gun instead of a 76 mm gun?Q&A
- Lend Lease Long Patrol: P1/5 WW2 prior to Lend Lease11:03Hurricane range followed the interceptor requirementNotable Point
- Bruships 41: A History of Armour & Amphibious Warfare (Kyle Hardman)4:09:20Why modern escorts combine primary and secondary rolesQ&A
- Bruships 41: A History of Armour & Amphibious Warfare (Kyle Hardman)4:19:52The case for twin 40 mm mounts on Type 31Q&A
- Bruships 40: Favourite Books to Use When Writing...2:10:54A fatal night interception forces rapid fleet-wide trainingNotable Point
- Britain of the 1980s: Long Patrol P3a/7 Keith Speed (Continued)3:08Layered air defence for Atlantic ASW groupsChapter
- Britain of the 1980s: Long Patrol P3a/7 Keith Speed (Continued)7:24Where could Sea Wolf fit on an Invincible-class carrier?Notable Point
- Bruships 38: Amphibious Operations & Equipment3:10:13The Malaysian airliner and regional radar coverageQ&A
- Supemarine Aircraft of the Interwar: Long Patrol Part 3/3 Scapa to Type 32226:19Radar forces the Air Ministry toward fighter defenceNotable Point
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s Long Patrol Part 3: What Aircraft Carriers were for...9:19Why spotting mattered before carrier strike maturedNotable Point
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s Long Patrol Part 3: What Aircraft Carriers were for...12:12Fighter-reconnaissance and pre-radar air defenseChapter
- Bruships 31: Some more Science Fiction from a Naval Historians Perspective...2:48:22Kingship: combat experience changes an exploration cruiser's armamentNotable Point
- Bruships 31: Some more Science Fiction from a Naval Historians Perspective...3:54:30Imperial Star Destroyer fighter defence and exposed command towersNotable Point
- Bruships 31: Some more Science Fiction from a Naval Historians Perspective...4:04:39Axis naval flak and Japan's missing mid-range weaponQ&A
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s28:51Barrage balloons created an aerial obstacle fieldQ&A
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s2:57:57Lower flying-off decks promised faster fighter launchesQ&A
- Was Pearl Harbour a missed opportunity for the US?53:19The missing Hawaiian air-defense systemQ&A
- Was Pearl Harbour a missed opportunity for the US?1:20:11What Kimmel and Short could do without a declaration of warQ&A
- Was Pearl Harbour a missed opportunity for the US?1:39:06Air defense only needed to disrupt the first waveChapter
- Town Class; big impact with a light footprint2:32:46The Type 42's air-defense role on too small a hullQ&A
- Town Class; big impact with a light footprint2:45:19The modern frigate-destroyer distinction is mission-ledNotable Point
- The Fairey Story - Part 3 of 4: The Difficult Next Generation6:22Why faster bombers complicated interwar air defenceNotable Point
- Patreon 11: "The effect of the early jet age on naval warfare strategy/tactics?"13:38Why radar picket submarines were awkwardQ&A
- Patreon 11: "The effect of the early jet age on naval warfare strategy/tactics?"27:34Why anti-aircraft submarines sacrifice their best defenceNotable Point
- Patreon 11: "The effect of the early jet age on naval warfare strategy/tactics?"1:48:30The Saunders-Roe jet flying-boat ideaNotable Point
- Patreon 11: "The effect of the early jet age on naval warfare strategy/tactics?"2:34:36Airborne early warning moves the radar horizon outwardChapter
- Patreon 11: "The effect of the early jet age on naval warfare strategy/tactics?"2:54:34The Type 42 and Type 22 worked as a complementary pairQ&A
- Bruships 26 - The Random Collection1:37:18From torpedo-boat destroyers to modern escortsQ&A
- Bilgepumps Taranto 80 part 3 of 3: Ripples in Musso's Pond48:48Night attack exposes an unfinished defensive systemNotable Point
- Patreon 10: “If the Trent affair had gone hot, how badly would it have gone for the US navy?"1:56Type 32 as a step toward a Type 33 air-defence frigateNotable Point
- Patreon 10: “If the Trent affair had gone hot, how badly would it have gone for the US navy?"2:13:39What Type 32 was not intended to replaceQ&A
- Patreon 10: “If the Trent affair had gone hot, how badly would it have gone for the US navy?"2:37:43A possible Type 32 fleet roleQ&A
- Four Random Books 12: Destroyers II7:09Destroyer survival under Luftwaffe attack in NorwayNotable Point
- Four Random Books 12: Destroyers II15:59The Tribal class and interwar air-defence thinkingNotable Point
- 1940 Norway Campaign Part 3 of 5: Namsos, De Wiart & Fleischer43:37A three-port strategy for defending NorwayChapter
- Bilge Pumps does Battlestar Galactica Deadlock for Navy Con 1/248:09Point-defence weapons that can fight aloneNotable Point
- Amphion Class Cruisers27:32Why Mediterranean cruisers landed their aircraftQ&A
- Amphion Class Cruisers37:04Air attack on Formidable after MatapanNotable Point
- Amphion Class Cruisers39:05Hobart's twin four-inch anti-aircraft gunsQ&A
- Patreon 9 – “Suez goes hot in 1956” by Martin Doherty38:19Air Superiority and Egypt’s Air-Defence LegacyNotable Point
- Patreon 9 – “Suez goes hot in 1956” by Martin Doherty2:06:40Deterrence in the Bomber-Delivery EraQ&A
- Four Random Books 7: Dunkirk12:20RAF interception over Dunkirk and the home-defence reserveNotable Point
- Four Random Books 5: Destroyers13:15Mediterranean operations and the limits of early naval radarNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 18: Really Big Books, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A3:04:02Why radar alone could not fix Japanese carrier defenceQ&A
- Introduction to Crete 194114:57The early assessment warns that Crete may be indefensibleNotable Point
- Introduction to Crete 194125:08Air defence fails to become airfield denialNotable Point
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P2b Introduction to Patreon Video 432:42Moving fighters and bombers to SingaporeNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 14: Special & Covert Operations Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:47:29Sea Ceptor production and common-missile benefitsQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 14: Special & Covert Operations Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:52:04Why a carrier should rely on escort missilesQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 13: Weapons, Both Personal & Ship, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A33:43Sea Dart and Sergeant York as oversold weaponsQ&A
- An Introduction to From the Sea... How Navies Influence Land Campaigns.1:17:43A Fairey Gannet confused American air defenceNotable Point
- Patreon Video 2: Royal Navy Operations in the Indian Ocean 1941-431:54:08What Indomitable might have changed for Force ZQ&A
- An Introduction to the Royal Navy in the Indian Ocean 1941-3 (Patreon Video 2)39:58What Formidable reveals about Indian Ocean carrier scarcityNotable Point
- An Introduction to the Royal Navy in the Indian Ocean 1941-3 (Patreon Video 2)56:55A counterfactual Japanese path to better air attack and defenceNotable Point
- An Extended Introduction to "Naval Diplomacy"16:37Presence frigates as reserve combat capabilityNotable Point
- Patreon Video 1: What would you put in warehouses at the end of WWI for WWII if you could?2:09:59Air defence at sea aims to disrupt an attackNotable Point
- An Introduction to “The Battle of Malaya & Force Z” – Part 2: The Counter-Factual; My Plan17:29Concentrate and disperse the air defenceNotable Point
- An Introduction to “The Battle of Malaya & Force Z” – Part 1: What Happened?15:27Aircraft strength cannot substitute for concentrationChapter
- An Introduction to “The Battle of Malaya & Force Z” – Part 1: What Happened?16:19Fighters only had to disrupt the raidsNotable Point
- An Introduction to “The Battle of Malaya & Force Z” – Part 1: What Happened?30:25Indomitable would not fix the force's small scaleNotable Point
- 4000 Subscribers Thankyou Special – The Royal Navy if I were Prime Minister20:20Three escort groups for carrier and amphibious task forcesChapter
- Bru Ships Episode 7: Warship Design Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:46:37The Type 45 reached a narrow export marketQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 4: Naval Aviation Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A49:45Canada's fighter choice favors numbers and supportabilityQ&A
- Top 10 Ships – not Tribal, Battle, Daring or Town classes…45:13Type 45 capability and engine compromiseNotable Point
- Top 10 Ships – not Tribal, Battle, Daring or Town classes…1:50:41When a navy might need an arsenal shipQ&A
- An Introduction to My Top 10 Warships (No Tribal, Battle, Daring or Town Classes allowed)10:16HMS Dragon, Sea Viper, and unused Type 45 potentialNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:35:02Why rotating Force Z into shore bombardment still required air coverQ&A
- An Introduction to Falklands Command43:49How 3 Commando Brigade absorbed reinforcementsChapter
- An Introduction To Battle Cruisers11:03How treaty wording shaped refits and reconstructionNotable Point
- A Name to illustrate a navy - HMS Leander through history1:11:52Why Britain chose Sea ViperQ&A
- A Question of Getting Them There - Landing Ships & Amphibious Warfare Part 2(iv)11:10Fighter-direction tenders for Normandy air controlChapter
- A Question of Getting Them There - Landing Ships & Amphibious Warfare Part 2(iv)14:02HMS Boxer as a larger fighter-direction shipNotable Point
- Aircraft Carriers the Debate - Dr Alex Clarke vs Armoured Carrier's Jamie1:15:32How British carriers operated in wartimeQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 1: Book Reviews/Q&A28:42Modern frigates and destroyers divide their sensor prioritiesQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 1: Book Reviews/Q&A1:25:54Lasers need guns in a weather-resistant defensive layerQ&A
- Special Episode: Design, Design, Design!1:04:11Why favor smaller repeated strikes?Q&A
- Namsos & the Central Norway Campaign (Norway 80)3:19Destroyers supplied the army's fire support and air defenseChapter
- Namsos & the Central Norway Campaign (Norway 80)6:06The case for concentrating Allied resources at NamsosNotable Point