Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

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Anti Aircraft Weapons

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  1. Churchill's Good ideas: the actually good, the bad, and the ridiculous
    1:19:14Why support for unrotated projectiles survived failureQ&A
  2. Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida
    1:48:18Assessing the game's Devastation as a British designNotable Point
  3. Bruships 213 On the Road Japan 2025: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    13:22Cheap guns and shotguns against small dronesNotable Point
  4. What changes if the Royal Navy Tribal class got built with 4.5in guns?
    41:43How heavy anti-aircraft fire disrupts an air strikeChapter
  5. Bruships 203: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    4:00:46The US Navy adopts the pom-pomQ&A
  6. Bruships 186: Naval History Questions Answered Live...Restart 2!
    1:01:39What if the US Navy had standardized on the pom-pom?Q&A
  7. Bruships 181: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:26:58Why pom-pom and Bofors production faced different problemsQ&A
  8. Bruships 174: Ten Days to Christmas... have I got the lights up yet?
    33:09What a 1937 reconstruction of HMS Tiger might includeQ&A
  9. Bruships 174: Ten Days to Christmas... have I got the lights up yet?
    50:20Why the Oerlikon suited ships better than the HispanoQ&A
  10. Of Two Submarines, in two wars... The sinkings of HMHS Britannic & IJS Kongo
    1:37:55Could Type 3 shells explain Kongō's magazine explosion?Q&A
  11. Of Two Submarines, in two wars... The sinkings of HMHS Britannic & IJS Kongo
    2:32:09Barham's interwar modernisation and its limitsNotable Point
  12. What if Japan pulls out of China in August 1941 instead of preparing for War? Patreon 108
    2:29:23Selling peace as a program of military reconstructionChapter
  13. Bruships 158: Home for Naval History Questions & Trialing the new Question Bot... so cross fingers!
    1:35:18If Japan's 25 mm antiaircraft gun worked like the OerlikonQ&A
  14. Bruships 145: Naval History Questions Answered & Will it be lego building or book boxing?
    35:32Why two more torpedoes per broadside may not be worth the weightQ&A
  15. Bruships 145: Naval History Questions Answered & Will it be lego building or book boxing?
    2:42:30Three practical improvements for the Tribal-class destroyersQ&A
  16. Bruships 145: Naval History Questions Answered & Will it be lego building or book boxing?
    5:01:36Could Japan turn the Type 91 pom-pom into an effective AA gun?Q&A
  17. Bruships 143: Some Book Tales and Naval History Questions Answered
    2:01:23An L/60 pom-pom could combine range and rate of fireQ&A
  18. Fairey Fulmar: innate soundness and competence but not the stuff of headlines
    31:32Combat air patrol endurance and layered fleet defenceChapter
  19. Patreon 100: Stalin's 1930 London Treaty - the USSR joins the Naval Treaties at London
    2:15:00Larger carrier fleets expose differences in pilot replacementChapter
  20. Glen Class: An Insight into Landing Ship Infantry - Key Ships Series 8, Ship 3
    29:15Glen-class troop lift, landing craft, speed, and gunsChapter
  21. Glen Class: An Insight into Landing Ship Infantry - Key Ships Series 8, Ship 3
    42:28Conversion completion did not mean immediate readinessNotable Point
  22. Patreon 98: The World Spins on a Coin: The February Revolution Fails & Imperial Russia survives WWI
    2:23:13Royal Navy carrier anti-aircraft defenses in 1939Notable Point
  23. Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!
    37:57How Bofors and pom-poms might divide the fleetQ&A
  24. Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!
    54:22Why Bofors did not replace the pom-pom before 1939Q&A
  25. Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!
    1:06:39A new quad Bofors or a reworked pom-pom?Q&A
  26. Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!
    1:07:28Range and rate of fire in an alternative AA mountingQ&A
  27. Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!
    1:21:58How a stronger Midway AA fit would change the battleQ&A
  28. Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!
    1:25:21Canal boats in Britain's wartime home defenseQ&A
  29. Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!
    3:52:32Early turreted secondary batteriesQ&A
  30. Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!
    3:54:35Why British medium AA guns resisted standardizationQ&A
  31. Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!
    30:17A workable 4.5-inch mount would close the Tribal class's high-angle gapQ&A
  32. Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!
    38:27Battle-class destroyers carried a formidable anti-drone gun batteryQ&A
  33. Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!
    1:34:31A containerized 40 mm gun offers cheaper anti-drone defense than missilesQ&A
  34. Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!
    3:21:27Destroyers and cruisers suit the Mark 146 AA mountQ&A
  35. Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!
    3:22:18An early Mark 146 would replace quad Vickers mounts fleetwideQ&A
  36. Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!
    3:28:16Bofors and pom-pom strengths matched different air-war environmentsQ&A
  37. Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!
    3:31:07The sextuple Bofors mount sought pom-pom volume with Bofors performanceQ&A
  38. Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!
    3:48:31Cold War cruisers favored 5-inch dual-purpose guns over automatic 8-inch weaponsQ&A
  39. 'S' Class Submarines: The Royal Navy's All Rounders for WWII - Key Ship Series 7 Ship 7
    24:54How displacement, crew, armament, and speed changed by groupChapter
  40. Bruships 132: Questions till the Milk or Pancreas Runs Out
    39:45A universal 5.5-inch secondary batteryQ&A
  41. Bruships 132: Questions till the Milk or Pancreas Runs Out
    58:16Using Graf Zeppelin's deleted 6-inch-gun weightQ&A
  42. Bruships 132: Questions till the Milk or Pancreas Runs Out
    2:12:05A full-size 1947 Minotaur could carry four or five autoloading pairsQ&A
  43. Bruships 132: Questions till the Milk or Pancreas Runs Out
    2:24:15Gun choice for early JMSDF destroyersQ&A
  44. Scylla & Charybdis: 4.5in gun Didos - Key Ships Reserve Series, Ship 1
    15:20Crews kept adapting the light armamentNotable Point
  45. USS Enterprise (CV6): Key Ship Series 3, Ship 4
    44:41The 1943 overhaul and a multiplying carrier fleetNotable Point
  46. Still Trying to deal with the Inadvertently Created Super Bismarck
    9:31What the weight budget does to a fifteen-gun battleshipNotable Point
  47. Still Trying to deal with the Inadvertently Created Super Bismarck
    19:03Fitting 4.5-inch, Bofors, and Oerlikon batteries around the main gunsNotable Point
  48. Bruships 88: Way of War
    1:00:01Why heavy anti-aircraft shells used fragmentationQ&A
  49. Bruships 87: Books Found on My Travels, New Books & Christmas Recomendations
    28:51A one-day modernization of the 1939 Royal NavyQ&A
  50. Raimondo Montecuccoli Class: Condottieri of the Regia Marina
    5:31Anti-aircraft layout and topweight tradeoffsNotable Point
  51. Projecting Mussonlini's Mare Nostrum: Italian 1920s & 1930s cruiser design/doctrine
    1:25:56Did the Trento-class cruisers carry torpedoes?Q&A
  52. Projecting Mussonlini's Mare Nostrum: Italian 1920s & 1930s cruiser design/doctrine
    1:35:17Why did HMS Renown carry so many Oerlikons?Q&A
  53. Naval History Questions: Live From The Brushack
    1:27:22The wrong lesson about light anti-aircraft weaponsQ&A
  54. Blonde Class(Take 2): Scout Cruisers of the WWI Royal Navy (Long Patrol)
    21:17The rapid-firing Vickers 3-pounderChapter
  55. Patreon 45: Comparing Sisters(Not Kardashians) - HMS Renown & Repulse / HMS Nelson & Rodney
    1:31:00Renown's major 1936 reconstructionChapter
  56. Patreon 45: Comparing Sisters(Not Kardashians) - HMS Renown & Repulse / HMS Nelson & Rodney
    1:45:32Q&A: what were Renown's 4.5-inch guns for?Q&A
  57. Question Time: Answering Knight6831's Questions (Long Patrol)
    9:45What might a ten-barrel pom-pom have changed?Notable Point
  58. Bruships 65: Naval History Books & Questions Answered
    2:13:42Why the unrotated projectile was a failed ship weaponQ&A
  59. Bruships 65: Naval History Books & Questions Answered
    2:24:54Turning the unrotated projectile into an early guided weaponQ&A
  60. Bruships 65: Naval History Books & Questions Answered
    2:27:35Why Japan persisted with shipboard anti-aircraft rocketsQ&A
  61. M29 Class (M33 special, Ep2/2) - Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol Part 9
    45:44The high-angle gun also engaged troops ashoreNotable Point
  62. Bruships 61 - Ship Design; Sci-fi, Wooden & Steel, and some Naval History Questions
    4:05:37A 1954 Unicorn rebuild would trade old guns for modern AAQ&A
  63. Dreadnoughts that Almost Were of the WWI Era...
    2:42Ammunition limits Iowa's anti-aircraft gun countQ&A
  64. Dreadnoughts that Almost Were of the WWI Era...
    15:27Replacing Hood's Vickers anti-aircraft mountsQ&A
  65. Dreadnoughts that Almost Were of the WWI Era...
    21:54Why anti-aircraft refits are not just a deck-space problemQ&A
  66. Dreadnoughts that Almost Were of the WWI Era...
    49:35Type 5 offered Yamato better anti-aircraft defenceQ&A
  67. Dreadnoughts that Almost Were of the WWI Era...
    59:04A Yamato refit should prioritize 100 mm and 40 mm gunsQ&A
  68. Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 7/11 The Roaring Twenties
    19:10Why destroyers needed room to growNotable Point
  69. Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s
    2:09:41Aircraft development quickly outpaced carrier weaponsQ&A
  70. HMS Penelope (1935) an introduction to the Arethusa Class part 3/4
    7:50Penelope's guns and torpedo armamentChapter
  71. HMS Penelope (1935) an introduction to the Arethusa Class part 3/4
    8:49Why anti-aircraft stopping power favoured cannonNotable Point
  72. HMS Penelope (1935) an introduction to the Arethusa Class part 3/4
    9:47Trading cruiser aircraft for anti-aircraft gunsNotable Point
  73. An Introduction to the "E" Class; part 2 - HMS Enterprise
    19:20How war transformed Enterprise's air defencesNotable Point
  74. Bru Ships Episode 12: New to Me Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    3:27:50Choosing the Bofors over the OerlikonQ&A
  75. 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
  76. An introduction to the ‘Littleships’ of the big war Part 3 of 4
    14:20Military-class trawlers varied from ship to shipChapter
  77. Introuduction to Refits/Taking Care of Buisness Allied Style
    9:19Puget Sound prepares Warspite for the Eastern FleetNotable Point
  78. Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    1:33:21Why Japan kept its inadequate 25 mm antiaircraft gunQ&A