Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

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Anti-Aircraft Guns

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  1. Royal Navy Destroyers of WWI...
    31:15Anzac's freeboard and anti-aircraft provisionNotable Point
  2. Royal Navy Destroyers of WWI...
    48:20The V-class flotilla leadersChapter
  3. Royal Navy Destroyers of WWI...
    52:08Air-attack exercises and misleading lessons for destroyersNotable Point
  4. Bruships 262: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    3:58:16Sending later designs back to prewar industriesQ&A
  5. Air Defence At Sea: From Air Ships in 1906, to drones in 2026 and everything in between...
    9:24Could battleship guns defend against Zeppelins in 1906?Chapter
  6. Air Defence At Sea: From Air Ships in 1906, to drones in 2026 and everything in between...
    12:39Early balloon-defence guns and awkward mountingsNotable Point
  7. Air Defence At Sea: From Air Ships in 1906, to drones in 2026 and everything in between...
    27:31Why the 3-inch gun suited air defence in 1916Chapter
  8. Air Defence At Sea: From Air Ships in 1906, to drones in 2026 and everything in between...
    42:55Cheap attacking aircraft and concentrated machine-gun fireNotable Point
  9. Air Defence At Sea: From Air Ships in 1906, to drones in 2026 and everything in between...
    43:25Is the pictured quadruple mounting a pom-pom?Q&A
  10. Air Defence At Sea: From Air Ships in 1906, to drones in 2026 and everything in between...
    1:07:52Catching aircraft orbiting beyond 5-inch gun rangeNotable Point
  11. Air Defence At Sea: From Air Ships in 1906, to drones in 2026 and everything in between...
    1:16:12Why automatic 6-inch guns disappointed in air defenceNotable Point
  12. Air Defence At Sea: From Air Ships in 1906, to drones in 2026 and everything in between...
    1:27:46The reach and elevation of the 3-inch/70 gunNotable Point
  13. Air Defence At Sea: From Air Ships in 1906, to drones in 2026 and everything in between...
    1:49:33When anti-aircraft work demanded purpose-designed gunsQ&A
  14. Air Defence At Sea: From Air Ships in 1906, to drones in 2026 and everything in between...
    1:57:43Why the German 88 mm worked in anti-aircraft and anti-tank rolesQ&A
  15. Air Defence At Sea: From Air Ships in 1906, to drones in 2026 and everything in between...
    3:13:42Preserving point-defence missiles and the return of gunsNotable Point
  16. Bruships 249: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:31:42HMS Belfast and short-range drone defenceQ&A
  17. Bruships 247: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:44:49Gun-based air defence returns to the drone discussionNotable Point
  18. Jeune Ecole Batch 2... The French Destroyers up to WWI
    38:29Wartime weapons upset a finely balanced designNotable Point
  19. The Dutch Interwar Destroyer Debate
    22:45Admiral de Ruyter-class guns, speed, and enduranceNotable Point
  20. Bruships 238: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:22:24Three-inch firing arcs versus high-altitude reachQ&A
  21. Hitler's Destroyers: How Type 1934 & Type 1936 Classes, including their variations were developed...
    20:29Trading a Type 1934 gun for weight savingsNotable Point
  22. Naval Architecture from Turret Ironclads to Super Dreadnoughts: HMS Monarch 1868 & 1911...
    48:21Monarch's armour and early wartime fire-control and AA upgradesNotable Point
  23. Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust
    3:27:06Why promising naval gun calibres become design dead zonesQ&A
  24. Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida
    33:16Would Switzerland have let Oerlikon go bankrupt?Q&A
  25. Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida
    34:47What navies could use if the Oerlikon 20 mm disappearedQ&A
  26. Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II
    2:48:23How strong is the case for Japan's 100 mm gun?Q&A
  27. #2Historians Live: With @Drachinifel comes to chat & build UAD Dreadnoughts that Almost were P3
    3:33:01Extra protection and disputed antiaircraft equipmentNotable Point
  28. Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    59:53The limits of the Mackensen game refitNotable Point
  29. Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    24:14A pom-pom alternative to Japan's 25 mm gunQ&A
  30. Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:30:03An earlier Royal Navy adoption of the OerlikonQ&A
  31. Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    4:46:48Radar range sent directly to the fuze setterNotable Point
  32. Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    4:54:56Could proximity fuzes save Force Z?Q&A
  33. Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    5:06:49How layered air defense disrupts a pilot's final attackNotable Point
  34. Bruships 207: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    5:35:22How navies borrow weapons from other servicesQ&A
  35. Bruships 185: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:04:38Building a Second World War navy around five gun calibersQ&A
  36. Bruships 184: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    4:49:00Getting through fighter escorts to disrupt a naval strikeQ&A
  37. Bruships 183: Science Fiction/Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:43:19The U.S. 1.1-inch gun versus Japan's 25 mm anti-aircraft gunQ&A
  38. Bruships 180: Naval History Questions Answered...
    1:08:15Anti-aircraft machine-gun farms without autocannonsQ&A
  39. Battle of the Barents Sea: Naval History Live
    2:12:45British destroyer gun and torpedo fits for different escort rolesNotable Point
  40. The Royal Navy's Spirit Ship: HMS Tiger(1913) - Key Ships Series 9, Ship 9
    37:43Tiger's protection, armament, and fighting loadChapter
  41. Scuttlebutt 5: Some Tremendous Questions & Frustrations!
    43:20Why Royal Navy anti-aircraft standardisation laggedQ&A
  42. Scuttlebutt 5: Some Tremendous Questions & Frustrations!
    46:53Royal Navy AA conversions in a war delayed to 1942Q&A
  43. Bruships 161: All you need are Kallax, Shelves are all Books need... Naval History Questions & Chat!
    2:00:31Hood's late-war AA fit depends on stability marginsQ&A
  44. Check Campaign 26: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign
    42:49What the 12,000-ton escort cruiser buysNotable Point
  45. Carriers of the Planned War Fleets: How Shokaku, Implacables & Essexs reflect their Navys Doctrines
    13:09What Shokaku gained over HiryuNotable Point
  46. Carriers of the Planned War Fleets: How Shokaku, Implacables & Essexs reflect their Navys Doctrines
    41:53Implacable's anti-aircraft batteries and uncertain countsNotable Point
  47. Patreon 102: Zeroes over the Med! Japan joins the Britain & Free powers on 25th of June 1940...
    1:58:37Would the Allies give Japan better anti-aircraft guns?Q&A
  48. Bruships 146: Naval History Questions, Boxes Getting Packed & Lego Getting Built
    2:37:24Why a Japanese 40 mm gun has no fixed development timelineQ&A
  49. Bruships 146: Naval History Questions, Boxes Getting Packed & Lego Getting Built
    2:40:45Why better Japanese anti-aircraft guns do not yield a simple Midway resultQ&A
  50. Bruships 146: Naval History Questions, Boxes Getting Packed & Lego Getting Built
    2:56:38The smallest gun caliber fitted with a proximity fuzeQ&A
  51. USS Akron; The World's First Purpose Built Flying Aircraft Carrier
    3:49:10Could Zeppelins have disabled the Grand Fleet at Scapa Flow?Q&A
  52. Battle of Valparaíso(1814): When Hunting for Glory breaks on the Rocks of Solid Professionalism
    3:25:19Why did Japan standardize around the Type 96 25 mm gun?Q&A
  53. Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered
    2:43:33Designing a County-class cruiser around 9.2-inch gunsQ&A
  54. Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered
    3:31:50Why the ten-gun pom-pom was a poor bluffQ&A
  55. Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered
    3:33:06How VT-fuzed pom-poms change wartime air defenseQ&A
  56. Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered
    3:34:52Choosing single or multiple-barrel AA mountsQ&A
  57. MAC Ships: Success having many Parents or simply Logical Conclusions? - Key Ship Series 8 Ship 2
    31:35The Rapana group and Dutch-operated Swordfish flightsChapter
  58. Patreon 90: How were warship autoloader turrets prototyped? A development History
    2:41:14How far could the pom-pom concept scale?Q&A
  59. HMS Dreadnought: Key Ship Series 1 Ship 1 Comment Response
    49:37Peacetime firing limits versus wartime turret riskNotable Point
  60. Dunkerque Class: Fast Battleship or Battle Cruiser? - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 7
    34:47All-forward guns shaped Dunkerque's protection and firepowerChapter
  61. Bruships 126: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series
    1:43:13Cut-down anti-aircraft shields improved handling and visibilityQ&A
  62. Bruships: Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!
    24:37What Britain's experimental 16.7 mm AA gun might addQ&A
  63. The Hunt Class: The WWII Royal Navy's Escort Destroyers - Key Ship Series 6, Ship 3
    10:10HMS Berkeley and the Type I fitChapter
  64. The Hunt Class: The WWII Royal Navy's Escort Destroyers - Key Ship Series 6, Ship 3
    30:54Why aft-heavy guns could suit an escortNotable Point
  65. Ersatz Monarch Class: Pebbles casting Ripples can lead to Tsunamis - Key Ship Series 4, Episode 10
    22:56A gun and armour scheme tailored to close watersChapter
  66. Bruships 121: Questions till the Bru Runs Out!
    52:32Why Argus kept single 4-inch gunsQ&A
  67. Bruships 121: Questions till the Bru Runs Out!
    1:18:50Why more machine guns add little to CourageousQ&A
  68. Bruships 121: Questions till the Bru Runs Out!
    1:35:05Why quad machine guns could be worse than the UP launcherQ&A
  69. Bruships 121: Questions till the Bru Runs Out!
    2:44:07Why 40 mm Bofors guns could persist without missilesQ&A
  70. H Class Battleships: Ignoring Reality for Perfection, Key Ships Series 4, Ship 4
    19:10Why split secondary batteries consume a shipNotable Point
  71. HMS Illustrious: Key Ships Series 3, Ship 7
    30:06Breaking up an air attackNotable Point
  72. HMS Illustrious: Key Ships Series 3, Ship 7
    1:16:10Refit for faster aircraft and the Salerno landingsChapter
  73. Starting with Building HMS Thunderchild...
    2:32:38Destroyer air defence is limited by space and arcsNotable Point
  74. UAD: 18in gun Agincourt & Other Ideas
    41:10Redesigning protection and secondaries after the failed trialChapter
  75. UAD: 18in gun Agincourt & Other Ideas
    44:08Six-inch secondaries and three-inch anti-aircraft gunsNotable Point
  76. UAD: 18in gun Agincourt & Other Ideas
    1:36:29German limits in an 18-inch-gun worldChapter
  77. UAD: 18in gun Agincourt & Other Ideas
    2:14:55Reconstructing Yamato for the comparisonChapter
  78. If the January 1939 Tsingtao incident leads to war... Comment Response
    7:06Why a 6-inch heavy-AA battery was unlikelyQ&A
  79. Patreon 71: Why did the French Navy not more fully embrace carrier aviation after WWI?
    2:21:07A fast French fleet without its air componentChapter
  80. Soviet Navy Part 1/3: 1918-1939
    45:02Gnevny destroyers and a fleet that could be builtNotable Point
  81. Shortcomings with the designs of 'Early' Aircraft Carriers: Patreon 65
    2:43:15What are the tradeoffs of open carrier gun mounts?Q&A
  82. Bruships 89: New Books (Christmas Recomendations) & Personal Accounts of War
    2:06:57Eagle's likely later refit follows an escort-carrier roleQ&A
  83. Brooklyn Class(US Treaty Cruisers): Comment Response
    12:56How World War II layered air defense was meant to workNotable Point
  84. Boadicea Class (1907): Scout Cruiser (Long Patrol)
    13:59Dual-fuel machinery embodied a conservative design compromiseNotable Point
  85. Duquesne class, Marine National (Long Patrol)
    25:00Force X, internment, and return to Allied serviceChapter
  86. Duquesne class, Marine National (Long Patrol)
    29:38Wartime modernisation could not erase the design limitsNotable Point
  87. What if Washington allowed more than Nelson & Rodney: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol)
    17:33Weight savings in the secondary battery and conning towerNotable Point
  88. HMS Tiger - The Battle Cruiser Hunter: A UAD infused discussion
    15:05Speed, endurance, armour, and the six-inch batteryChapter
  89. Bruships 70: Travelling along...
    36:30Why Tiger's amidships three-inch turret was usefulQ&A
  90. Bruships 70: Travelling along...
    1:10:24When Britain and America nearly chose different 40 mm weaponsQ&A
  91. Bruships 70: Travelling along...
    1:12:09What changes if British and American anti-aircraft systems are swappedQ&A
  92. What a the choice of Secondary gun calibre tells us: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol)
    8:48Rate of fire against destroyers and torpedo boatsNotable Point
  93. Bruships 69: The Decider
    38:43Why a triple 6-inch turret was not ready for 5.25-inch gunsQ&A
  94. Quirky Classes and What they tell us about their navies… (Long Patrol)
    34:29Abdiel class: speed, mines and a narrow design marginChapter
  95. Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 3/11 Pre-Dreadnought Cruisers
    6:07USS Chester and the scout-to-light-cruiser transitionChapter
  96. Patreon 19: 2nd Tier powers Dreadnoughts: Spain, Austria-Hungary, S.America, Greece & Ottomans
    51:50Ammunition handling for turret-top light gunsQ&A
  97. RN Paper Cruisers; the what might have beens…
    1:00:34Eight-inch anti-aircraft fire depended on fuze timingQ&A
  98. RN Paper Cruisers; the what might have beens…
    1:21:20The changing comparison between British 5.25-inch and American 5-inch gunsQ&A
  99. RN Paper Cruisers; the what might have beens…
    1:35:04Pom-Pom rate of fire versus Bofors reachQ&A
  100. RN Paper Cruisers; the what might have beens…
    1:46:44Automatic loading answered both air attack and a manning shortageQ&A
  101. RN Paper Cruisers; the what might have beens…
    1:54:43Minotaur's three-inch battery sought range and rapid fireQ&A
  102. Bruships 26 - The Random Collection
    2:17:51The appeal of a quadruple 40 mm Bofors mountQ&A
  103. 2 Minutes: RN vs the E Boat a quick Summary...
    1:57Why small escorts carried anti-aircraft guns against E-boatsNotable Point
  104. 2 Minutes: HMS Rutherford
    1:16HMS Rutherford's guns and anti-submarine armamentNotable Point
  105. An Introduction to “Back Pocket Cruisers” Part 2: Battle Class (+Stanley Goodall)
    30:01Why 40 mm mattered to air defenceNotable Point
  106. An Introduction to Ships of the Convoy War - the Battle of Atlantic in Steel Part 2 Sloops
    10:25The Bittern class as a multi-role sloopNotable Point
  107. An Introduction to the "D" Class Cruisers Part 1 of 2
    23:45Removing aircraft gear and strengthening air defenceNotable Point
  108. An Introduction to What was paid for in Blood, in Sweat, in Tears & so much Money... Part 3 of 3
    17:25Exercise incentives concealed air-defence weaknessesChapter
  109. An Introduction to What was paid for in Blood, in Sweat, in Tears & so much Money... Part 3 of 3
    20:55San Carlos gunfire mattered even without a killNotable Point
  110. T he Altmark 80 Videos in Full
    21:42Why the Tribal class needed stronger anti-aircraft armamentNotable Point