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- Japan's Mogami Class: The Ultimate Light Frigate Design?7:49Missile choice can limit a thirty-two-cell magazineNotable Point
- Bruships 266: Naval History Questions Answered Live1:54:18CAPTAS-4 and Sonar 2087: recognising shared equipmentNotable Point
- Bruships 266: Naval History Questions Answered Live2:03:10Dutch ASW frigates and uncertain construction milestonesQ&A
- Bruships 266: Naval History Questions Answered Live2:11:34ASROC and Ikara serve different ASW prioritiesNotable Point
- Bruships 266: Naval History Questions Answered Live4:11:35What would earlier bomber transfers give Coastal Command?Q&A
- Bruships 266: Naval History Questions Answered Live4:12:26How might a Lancaster hunt submarines?Q&A
- Bruships 266: Naval History Questions Answered Live4:15:51Could Mosquito-style six-pounders arm a submarine-hunting Lancaster?Q&A
- What happens if France joins the Russo-Japanese war from the beginning?57:18Could wartime pressure accelerate depth-charge development?Notable Point
- Rise of the Frigate Navies: Why so many nations are going Frigate and why others want them as well!5:09Type 26 shows why a primary mission is not an exclusive missionNotable Point
- Rise of the Frigate Navies: Why so many nations are going Frigate and why others want them as well!19:38River-class frigates bring sloop capability to more shipyardsChapter
- Rise of the Frigate Navies: Why so many nations are going Frigate and why others want them as well!25:35Fast-frigate conversions and the Type 12 familyChapter
- Rise of the Frigate Navies: Why so many nations are going Frigate and why others want them as well!28:00American Cold War frigates as submarine huntersNotable Point
- Rise of the Frigate Navies: Why so many nations are going Frigate and why others want them as well!40:08Type 23 outlives its Cold War task-group assumptionsChapter
- Rise of the Frigate Navies: Why so many nations are going Frigate and why others want them as well!1:47:18American frigate requirements include endurance and diplomacyChapter
- Rise of the Frigate Navies: Why so many nations are going Frigate and why others want them as well!2:05:20From ASDIC escorts to uncrewed submarine-hunting groupsChapter
- South Korea's Chungnam Class Frigates: Aesthetics vs Missile Depth3:04Capable sensors and weapons alongside a small VLS magazineNotable Point
- Kaibōkan: The Imperial Japanese Navy Corvettes of WWII10:00Fisheries patrol, minesweeping and convoy defenceChapter
- Kaibōkan: The Imperial Japanese Navy Corvettes of WWII16:53Why an initial depth-charge allowance can misleadNotable Point
- Kaibōkan: The Imperial Japanese Navy Corvettes of WWII18:41Mediterranean experience and assumptions about submarine targetsChapter
- Kaibōkan: The Imperial Japanese Navy Corvettes of WWII20:53Convoy defence and uncertain evidence of successNotable Point
- Kaibōkan: The Imperial Japanese Navy Corvettes of WWII28:32Mortars, projectors and fluid weapon terminologyNotable Point
- Kaibōkan: The Imperial Japanese Navy Corvettes of WWII50:21Type C submarine successes and the Bonefish exampleNotable Point
- Kaibōkan: The Imperial Japanese Navy Corvettes of WWII50:51Why depth-charge attacks needed several shipsChapter
- Kaibōkan: The Imperial Japanese Navy Corvettes of WWII54:20Type D's claimed successes, losses and late programmeNotable Point
- Kaibōkan: The Imperial Japanese Navy Corvettes of WWII57:29Recognising the escort problem without solving it in timeNotable Point
- Kaibōkan: The Imperial Japanese Navy Corvettes of WWII1:03:13Armed trawlers as useful additions to an escort groupNotable Point
- Bruships 265: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...49:24Argentine torpedo claims and British contact assessmentNotable Point
- Japanese Destroyers of WWII: Quantity is a Quality of it's own, it can also be a Decisive one16:55Yugumo's second torpedo salvo depended on survivalNotable Point
- Bruships 264: Naval History Questions Answered Live2:40:10Choosing a modern Royal Navy ship for the Second World WarQ&A
- China's Type 54 Frigate: Mass Production and Tactical Balance0:00Why China's frigates prioritize ASW and presenceChapter
- China's Type 54 Frigate: Mass Production and Tactical Balance1:12Diesel propulsion, acoustic quieting and operating rangeChapter
- China's Type 54 Frigate: Mass Production and Tactical Balance6:07VLS capacity and the preference for larger missile magazinesChapter
- China's Type 54 Frigate: Mass Production and Tactical Balance7:41Torpedoes and HQ-10 complement the VLS armamentNotable Point
- China's Type 54 Frigate: Mass Production and Tactical Balance9:48Type 054B range, hull size and the Z-20 helicopterNotable Point
- China's Type 54 Frigate: Mass Production and Tactical Balance11:02A forecast of more layers in naval task groupsNotable Point
- Nilgiri Class... A Great Indian Frigate7:54RBU-6000 rockets in inshore and shallow watersNotable Point
- Bruships 263: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...36:33Vertical launch systems and defensive missile rolesNotable Point
- The Big Frigate Discussion: ASWFs, F110s & Pohjanmaas vs Gowind, European Patrol Corvette & FF(X)4:15ASWF: an anti-submarine frigate for the Netherlands and BelgiumChapter
- The Big Frigate Discussion: ASWFs, F110s & Pohjanmaas vs Gowind, European Patrol Corvette & FF(X)10:19Diesel propulsion and the ASWF escort missionChapter
- The Big Frigate Discussion: ASWFs, F110s & Pohjanmaas vs Gowind, European Patrol Corvette & FF(X)21:14F110 sensors, CAPTAS-4, and electrical demandChapter
- The Big Frigate Discussion: ASWFs, F110s & Pohjanmaas vs Gowind, European Patrol Corvette & FF(X)21:30Do CAPTAS-4 and Sonar 2087 imply different ASW capabilities?Q&A
- The Big Frigate Discussion: ASWFs, F110s & Pohjanmaas vs Gowind, European Patrol Corvette & FF(X)36:41Pohjanmaa combines air defence, strike weapons, and minelayingNotable Point
- The Big Frigate Discussion: ASWFs, F110s & Pohjanmaas vs Gowind, European Patrol Corvette & FF(X)1:09:35European Patrol Corvette and the challenge of many variantsChapter
- Royal Navy Destroyers of WWI...32:55Operation BB and the limits of submarine huntsNotable Point
- Royal Navy Destroyers of WWI...40:17S-class destroyers and the demand for wartime numbersChapter
- Bruships 262: Naval History Questions Answered Live1:34:06Type 31 as an anti-submarine coordinatorQ&A
- The "M" Class destroyers of WWI: The Grand Fleet's Workhorses...20:34Oracle's submarine search and the rescue of Nottingham's sailorsChapter
- The "M" Class destroyers of WWI: The Grand Fleet's Workhorses...22:56Oracle rams a submarine disguised with a sailChapter
- The "M" Class destroyers of WWI: The Grand Fleet's Workhorses...24:22Why submarine sweeps competed with convoy protectionNotable Point
- The "M" Class destroyers of WWI: The Grand Fleet's Workhorses...30:04Following a torpedo track before sonarNotable Point
- The "M" Class destroyers of WWI: The Grand Fleet's Workhorses...39:58Pasley and the unsuccessful effort to bring Falmouth homeChapter
- Bruships 261: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:07:29Drone sensors and the pressure for longer-range torpedoesNotable Point
- Bruships 261: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:12:35Carrying a torpedo closer to its targetQ&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...2:37:36Why a submarine-only fleet could simplify British defenceNotable Point
- Bruships 261: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:42:53Why LHAs do not replace carrier battle groupsNotable Point
- Bruships 260: Naval History Questions Answered Live55:15Thirty advanced destroyers for the Royal Navy in 1939Q&A
- Bruships 260: Naval History Questions Answered Live1:28:28Fifty extra Sunderlands against U-boats in 1940Q&A
- Bruships 260: Naval History Questions Answered Live1:29:20Tugboats and trawlers in coastal convoy defenceQ&A
- Bruships 260: Naval History Questions Answered Live1:58:24Sonar 2087 and CAPTAS-4Notable Point
- Bruships 260: Naval History Questions Answered Live2:01:50FFG(X): anti-submarine design and shipyard partnershipsQ&A
- Bruships 260: Naval History Questions Answered Live3:43:48Frigates, destroyers and aircraft-style role designationsQ&A
- Marine Nationale go all Free French in June 1940...12:07French escorts and submarines across several seasChapter
- Marine Nationale go all Free French in June 1940...1:04:22Béarn and aircraft patrols in the Atlantic gapChapter
- Key Frigates of Today & Tomorrow 2: T54, Istanbul & Gorshkov vs Thaon di Revel, Tamandare & Chungnam4:20Why the Type 054 family developed incrementallyChapter
- Key Frigates of Today & Tomorrow 2: T54, Istanbul & Gorshkov vs Thaon di Revel, Tamandare & Chungnam5:30The Type 054's diesel propulsion tradeoffNotable Point
- Key Frigates of Today & Tomorrow 2: T54, Istanbul & Gorshkov vs Thaon di Revel, Tamandare & Chungnam12:22Close-in defenses on the Type 054Notable Point
- Key Frigates of Today & Tomorrow 2: T54, Istanbul & Gorshkov vs Thaon di Revel, Tamandare & Chungnam15:21How Type 054 frigates may support layered task groupsNotable Point
- Key Frigates of Today & Tomorrow 2: T54, Istanbul & Gorshkov vs Thaon di Revel, Tamandare & Chungnam25:21Istanbul's sensors, helicopters and UAVsNotable Point
- Key Frigates of Today & Tomorrow 2: T54, Istanbul & Gorshkov vs Thaon di Revel, Tamandare & Chungnam37:07Gorshkov's ASW fit and proposed enlarged variantsNotable Point
- Key Frigates of Today & Tomorrow 2: T54, Istanbul & Gorshkov vs Thaon di Revel, Tamandare & Chungnam43:36Why frigate specifications need a mission contextChapter
- Key Frigates of Today & Tomorrow 2: T54, Istanbul & Gorshkov vs Thaon di Revel, Tamandare & Chungnam49:11Frigate, light frigate and OPV design prioritiesNotable Point
- Key Frigates of Today & Tomorrow 2: T54, Istanbul & Gorshkov vs Thaon di Revel, Tamandare & Chungnam58:43PPA task-group support and patrol presenceNotable Point
- Key Frigates of Today & Tomorrow 2: T54, Istanbul & Gorshkov vs Thaon di Revel, Tamandare & Chungnam1:20:45Chungnam's weapons fit and 16-cell questionNotable Point
- What the unbuilt destroyers of the Regia Marina tell us about WWII?5:05A larger hull with a multi-role weapons loadChapter
- What the unbuilt destroyers of the Regia Marina tell us about WWII?30:17The overlooked Mediterranean submarine warChapter
- What the unbuilt destroyers of the Regia Marina tell us about WWII?33:03Gunpower versus anti-submarine capacityChapter
- Air Defence At Sea: From Air Ships in 1906, to drones in 2026 and everything in between...1:43:27Why early weapon adopters also develop countermeasuresQ&A
- Air Defence At Sea: From Air Ships in 1906, to drones in 2026 and everything in between...2:18:27What drones were doing in the 1966 naval settingNotable Point
- Air Defence At Sea: From Air Ships in 1906, to drones in 2026 and everything in between...4:33:23Submarine SAMs, exposure and escapeQ&A
- Bruships 258: Naval History Questions Answered Live21:39Japanese kaibokan and the late start in escort constructionQ&A
- Bruships 258: Naval History Questions Answered Live2:38:44The Royal Navy's postwar Type numberingNotable Point
- What if Britain joined with Australian & Canada to build a 'Maximum' Invincible Class instead?4:28Carrier air cover protects the anti-submarine forceNotable Point
- What if Britain joined with Australian & Canada to build a 'Maximum' Invincible Class instead?9:52Why Britain still needed the Invincible classNotable Point
- What if Britain joined with Australian & Canada to build a 'Maximum' Invincible Class instead?34:41Choosing a carrier air group for its intended jobsChapter
- What if Britain joined with Australian & Canada to build a 'Maximum' Invincible Class instead?58:41The enlarged carrier's baseline air groupNotable 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?1:15:30Interchangeable helicopter mission equipmentNotable Point
- 14 Acts and 7 Classes - the story of the USN Interwar Destroyers0:00How the World War I destroyer surplus hid an aging forceChapter
- 14 Acts and 7 Classes - the story of the USN Interwar Destroyers46:59The First Cruiser Act modernized presence ships and omitted destroyersChapter
- Bruships 257: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:04:13A Chinese submarine success could redirect Japanese ASW researchQ&A
- Bruships 257: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:06:05Why steady interwar naval research funding matteredNotable Point
- Bruships 257: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:08:13World War I losses shaped British cruiser ASWNotable Point
- Key Frigates of Today & Tomorrow: Type 26s, FREMMs & Nilgiris vs Mogami, Type 31s & FDIs4:06Type 26 as a specialist submarine hunterChapter
- Key Frigates of Today & Tomorrow: Type 26s, FREMMs & Nilgiris vs Mogami, Type 31s & FDIs5:09Why does a specialist ASW frigate cost so much?Q&A
- Key Frigates of Today & Tomorrow: Type 26s, FREMMs & Nilgiris vs Mogami, Type 31s & FDIs5:49What shows that Type 26 is designed around ASW?Q&A
- Key Frigates of Today & Tomorrow: Type 26s, FREMMs & Nilgiris vs Mogami, Type 31s & FDIs7:15Type 26 as the task group's ASW directorNotable Point
- Key Frigates of Today & Tomorrow: Type 26s, FREMMs & Nilgiris vs Mogami, Type 31s & FDIs11:22How Type 26 is arranged around ASW sensorsChapter
- Key Frigates of Today & Tomorrow: Type 26s, FREMMs & Nilgiris vs Mogami, Type 31s & FDIs16:32FREMM trades some ASW specialization for breadthChapter
- Key Frigates of Today & Tomorrow: Type 26s, FREMMs & Nilgiris vs Mogami, Type 31s & FDIs34:44Indian ASW helicopters and the cost of learningChapter
- Key Frigates of Today & Tomorrow: Type 26s, FREMMs & Nilgiris vs Mogami, Type 31s & FDIs38:18Three heavy-frigate design philosophiesNotable Point
- Guadalcanal, HMS Africa, Spy Ships, Metacentric Height & Cruiser build Ticonderoga: 5 in 1 Live2:07:52Could containerized aircraft replace escort carriers?Q&A
- Bruships 256: Naval History Questions Answered Live1:33:10A quiet submarine must blend into the oceanNotable Point
- Bruships 256: Naval History Questions Answered Live2:31:27Why anti-submarine forces still mistake whales for targetsQ&A
- HMS Walker: A Reliable Warrior in Two World Wars39:42The destruction of U-100 and U-99Chapter
- HMS Walker: A Reliable Warrior in Two World Wars44:06Convoy zigzagging and the inner escortNotable Point
- HMS Walker: A Reliable Warrior in Two World Wars46:15Asdic contact and coordinated depth-charge attacksNotable Point
- HMS Walker: A Reliable Warrior in Two World Wars55:06Atlantic patrols and the 1945 stand-downChapter
- What happens if WWII took place as scheduled... after 1942? (Patreon)31:29Japan gains time, but retains its strategic tradeoffsChapter
- What happens if WWII took place as scheduled... after 1942? (Patreon)1:13:16Britain's larger 1942 escort and carrier forceChapter
- What happens if WWII took place as scheduled... after 1942? (Patreon)1:15:13Prewar escorts need trained reserve crews as well as hullsNotable Point
- What happens if WWII took place as scheduled... after 1942? (Patreon)4:03:06What would a Red Navy carrier actually do?Q&A
- Why France bought Japanese Destroyers in WWI?26:31An unfinished destroyer as a measure of industrial strainChapter
- Why France bought Japanese Destroyers in WWI?31:42Why did France order only 12 Japanese destroyers?Notable Point
- Bruships 255: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...54:19A modern Flower-class corvette conceptQ&A
- Bruships 255: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...57:26Escorts, fleet screens, and a cruiser's delaying roleNotable Point
- Bruships 255: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:54:09Why anti-submarine and air-defence computing need different resourcesNotable Point
- Bruships 255: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:07:55What a Malaysian frigate can do before its missiles arriveQ&A
- Bruships 255: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:33:57Could a 3-inch shell threaten a modern submarine?Q&A
- ShinMaywa US-2: Seaplane for the Future0:00What the Swordfish teaches about judging aircraftNotable Point
- ShinMaywa US-2: Seaplane for the Future7:44How the PS-1 and US-1A handled rough seasChapter
- ShinMaywa US-2: Seaplane for the Future36:19US-2 exports, the P-8 production line, and a possible ASW variantChapter
- Bruships 254: Naval History Questions Answered Live47:04NATO's understanding of Soviet submarine bastionsQ&A
- Bruships 254: Naval History Questions Answered Live52:40Why Cold War navies carried nuclear depth chargesQ&A
- Bruships 254: Naval History Questions Answered Live1:25:45Why national stereotypes misread military equipmentQ&A
- Bruships 254: Naval History Questions Answered Live1:50:38A much larger US escort fleet and transfers to alliesQ&A
- Bruships 254: Naval History Questions Answered Live2:08:56India's iterative frigate-building strategyQ&A
- Bruships 254: Naval History Questions Answered Live2:18:00Expected naval attrition in a Cold War warQ&A
- Bruships 254: Naval History Questions Answered Live2:42:47Sea-level change, ocean currents, and the limits of predictive modelsQ&A
- What happens if the French navy goes all Free French in 1940?7:00Béarn as an Atlantic escort carrierNotable Point
- What happens if the French navy goes all Free French in 1940?47:41Atlantic escorts and the U-boat force's early lossesChapter
- Balancing the Humors: How are modern nations balancing diplomacy and war in the ships they build?2:10:21Older ASW weapons and new underwater threatsNotable Point
- Why Can't Modern Russia Build Destroyers?20:44Gorshkov frigates and the limits of routine naval presenceChapter
- Swedish Destroyers of the Cold War and Beyond: Balancing the Soviet Union & Russia2:47Halland class destroyers and an all-arms fitChapter
- Swedish Destroyers of the Cold War and Beyond: Balancing the Soviet Union & Russia11:07Östergötland class as a compact multi-role destroyerNotable Point
- Swedish Destroyers of the Cold War and Beyond: Balancing the Soviet Union & Russia30:40Göteborg corvettes and the Gävle refitChapter
- Swedish Destroyers of the Cold War and Beyond: Balancing the Soviet Union & Russia32:34Stockholm corvettes: submarine defence and SomaliaNotable Point
- Swedish Destroyers of the Cold War and Beyond: Balancing the Soviet Union & Russia34:00Visby class stealth corvettes as sea-denial assetsChapter
- Nazi Destroyers of WWII: Failing to Learn, Failing to Build, Failing to Deliver...53:30Why a submarine-only threat was easier to counterNotable Point
- Nazi Destroyers of WWII: Failing to Learn, Failing to Build, Failing to Deliver...56:21A submarine must find and approach the moving convoyNotable Point
- Bruships 252: Naval History Questions Answered Live...take 225:41Should the Fleet Air Arm operate Britain's P-8 Poseidons?Q&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 242:20Would an 18-inch gun make a useful anti-submarine mortar?Q&A
- Bruships 252: Naval History Questions Answered Live...take 243:46Would larger ASW rounds improve reliability or depth performance?Q&A
- Bruships 252: Naval History Questions Answered Live...take 244:46Naval guns as reusable multi-purpose launchersNotable Point
- Bruships 252: Naval History Questions Answered Live...take 231:37Why a 12,000-ton Canadian combatant may be a poor fitNotable Point
- 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 21:32:50Could Argentina have stationed a submarine near Ascension?Q&A
- Bruships 252: Naval History Questions Answered Live...take 22:42:30How drones may reshape ships and helicopter operationsQ&A
- Bruships 252: Naval History Questions Answered Live...take 22:45:07Why an ASW drone command ship should also hunt submarinesNotable Point
- The Perils of Standardisation: Can Navy's Standardise too much? (Patreon Premier)32:24Why an all-submarine fleet is a one-dimensional threatChapter
- Task Force Doctrine; How it evolved from WWI to WWII in the big three navys - IJN, RN & USN(Patreon)46:56Why convoy observers misread submarine attacksQ&A
- Claiming Mare Nostrum; Italian Destroyer Design & Procurment of the 1920s & 30s1:03:44Soldati production, attrition, and competing constructionChapter
- Bruships 251: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:11:10From Spruce Goose proof of concept to maritime patrolQ&A
- Bruships 251: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:13:08Why air-defence missiles are a poor fit for submarinesQ&A
- Bruships 250: Naval History Questions Answered Live...56:06The Swordfish air-combat claim over NarvikNotable Point
- Bruships 250: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:40:34Adapting the Type 26 hull for air warfareQ&A
- WWI delayed by six years? What would the Navies look like? (Patreon Alternate History)2:53:21Why a submarine-only threat is easier to counterQ&A
- WWI delayed by six years? What would the Navies look like? (Patreon Alternate History)2:55:50The Type XXI faced a 1945 anti-submarine systemQ&A
- WWI delayed by six years? What would the Navies look like? (Patreon Alternate History)3:31:02Could hydrophones and ASDIC mature without the war?Q&A
- Building upon experience from a position of strength; Imperial Japan's Destroyers in WWI0:01Wartime service reshapes Japanese destroyer designChapter
- Building upon experience from a position of strength; Imperial Japan's Destroyers in WWI5:41Kaba-class destroyers serve from the Indian Ocean to MaltaNotable Point
- Building upon experience from a position of strength; Imperial Japan's Destroyers in WWI11:57Japan's Mediterranean anti-submarine expertiseNotable Point
- Bruships 249: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:38:39Why European frigates often lack ASROCQ&A
- Bruships 249: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:33:07Promising next-generation submarine conceptsQ&A
- Bruships 249: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:58:06Canadian submarine choice and AUKUS limitsQ&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 Today20:27World War I gives destroyers several kinds of escort experienceNotable 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
- 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 age21:13Layered weapons for air, surface, and undersea threatsChapter
- The Defence Investment Plan is Out... Let's Talk it through, Good, Bad & What the Frigate?3:01:52The maritime budget is principally an ASW programmeChapter
- The Defence Investment Plan is Out... Let's Talk it through, Good, Bad & What the Frigate?3:14:06Underwater protection and Type 31 missile upgradesNotable Point
- The Defence Investment Plan is Out... Let's Talk it through, Good, Bad & What the Frigate?4:13:20Air allocations leave P-8 numbers and Hawk replacement exposedChapter
- The Defence Investment Plan is Out... Let's Talk it through, Good, Bad & What the Frigate?4:41:53Munitions production needs continuous orders and enough factories to survive attackChapter
- The Defence Investment Plan is Out... Let's Talk it through, Good, Bad & What the Frigate?5:25:42Project Proteus develops a full-size autonomous helicopter for anti-submarine warfareNotable Point
- The USN Pre-WWI Destroyers; Never Enough Ordered42:03O'Brien-class war service meets a six-ship limitChapter
- The USN Pre-WWI Destroyers; Never Enough Ordered46:25Cork service and the wider ocean-coverage gapNotable Point
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:41:03The Type 83 as an air-defence and ASW hybridQ&A
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:05:28Common AAW and ASW hulls before NFR-90Q&A
- Yak-38 Forger: The Nasty Surprise of the Kiev Class32:37What the Yak-38 gave the Kiev classChapter
- Resurgent Japan, the "Destroyer Navy" of the 21st Century2:37Asagiri and Abukuma show how smaller escorts build fleet massChapter
- Resurgent Japan, the "Destroyer Navy" of the 21st Century10:37Murasame supplies helicopters and general-purpose escort strengthChapter
- Resurgent Japan, the "Destroyer Navy" of the 21st Century28:37Hyuga generates ASW helicopter sortiesChapter
- Resurgent Japan, the "Destroyer Navy" of the 21st Century32:18Hyuga's reinforcement model leaves useful aviation capacity in reserveNotable Point
- Resurgent Japan, the "Destroyer Navy" of the 21st Century35:26Hunter-killer helicopter pairs reveal the escort group's ASW arithmeticChapter
- 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 Century51:42Izumo's aircraft capacity limits the size of its submarine screenNotable Point
- Resurgent Japan, the "Destroyer Navy" of the 21st Century58:57Asahi pairs quiet electric cruising with a balanced ASW fitChapter
- Resurgent Japan, the "Destroyer Navy" of the 21st Century1:05:29Mogami adds wartime escort mass and deeper VLS magazinesChapter
- 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...1:06:12Drone missile vessels need protected rearming routesNotable Point
- Bruships 247: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:38:46Why the sabotage counterfactual selects British ASDICQ&A
- Bruships 247: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:41:14Why a prolonged war favored the AlliesNotable Point
- Britain's Cold War Destroyers: Logically Building for the War they didn't Fight...4:30The Cold War starts with a destroyer-heavy Royal NavyChapter
- Britain's Cold War Destroyers: Logically Building for the War they didn't Fight...51:26Two destroyer tiers and a probable division among frigatesNotable Point
- Britain's Cold War Destroyers: Logically Building for the War they didn't Fight...1:16:57Lynx helicopters inherited the fight against small surface combatantsNotable Point
- The Defence Investment Plan: A Live Review if it's been published, A Chat of What to Look For if not1:05:16Underwater drones, torpedoes, and cheap massQ&A
- The Defence Investment Plan: A Live Review if it's been published, A Chat of What to Look For if not1:06:56ASW frigates as command ships for uncrewed screensQ&A
- The Defence Investment Plan: A Live Review if it's been published, A Chat of What to Look For if not1:51:19Uncrewed boats remain testbeds for a crewed fleetNotable Point
- Bruships 246: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:24:42US escort reclassification brought names into line with fleet rolesQ&A
- Bruships 246: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:26:44India's SMART missile shows the learning curve of indigenizationQ&A
- Flotilla or Squadron? What Naval Unit is this?0:47Strike Fleet Atlantic turns the Soviet bastion into a defensive burdenNotable Point
- 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?11:12The Perry's basic escort designNotable Point
- Could the US Navy have kept the Oliver Hazard Perry's in service for longer?15:23How the Perry fit supported escort warfareChapter
- Could the US Navy have kept the Oliver Hazard Perry's in service for longer?16:37How auxiliary propulsion supported Perry operationsNotable Point
- Could the US Navy have kept the Oliver Hazard Perry's in service for longer?46:30Was the Perry already a specialized ASW ship?Q&A
- Could the US Navy have kept the Oliver Hazard Perry's in service for longer?59:58Could NATO develop a shared modern frigate?Q&A
- 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?1:18:20A VLS Perry changes US Navy force structureNotable Point
- Could the US Navy have kept the Oliver Hazard Perry's in service for longer?1:38:48How an ASW frigate line could shape officer careersNotable Point
- Could the US Navy have kept the Oliver Hazard Perry's in service for longer?1:55:01What LCS could be without the missing-frigate burdenQ&A
- Bruships 245: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:11:46Why submarines are not automatic superweaponsQ&A
- Bruships 245: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:23:14Uncertain submarine contacts in the Falklands WarNotable Point
- What if HMS Hermes was the first of a class of Cruiser Carriers?1:30:06Light-carrier duties in the Atlantic could change later losses off NorwayNotable Point
- Ram Dass Katari: Father of the Modern Indian Navy7:04From river survey work to wartime anti-submarine experienceChapter
- Ram Dass Katari: Father of the Modern Indian Navy25:35Black Swan sloops and specialist anti-submarine crewsChapter
- Modularity Squared... What happens if the Stanflex & Meko combined into a single program?11:45StanFlex extends combat roles within the limits of each hullChapter
- 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?3:22Perry class as the basic frigate benchmarkNotable 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?28:44Why prefer Type 26 for ASW when FREMM is still in production?Q&A
- The Rise & Fall of the Constellation Class: What happened to the FFG-62 Program?31:03Why FREMM offered a plausible parent for a large frigate programChapter
- 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?1:03:01The proposed weapons fit for an ASW-first frigateNotable Point
- 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
- How Ship Design is a reflection of Navy's attempts to balance technology, strategy and memory...0:52Why British cruisers carried ASDICNotable Point
- 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
- How Ship Design is a reflection of Navy's attempts to balance technology, strategy and memory...29:08World War I's submarine crisis shaped later Atlantic readinessNotable Point
- How Ship Design is a reflection of Navy's attempts to balance technology, strategy and memory...41:14Why German and Japanese warship labels differNotable Point
- Korean Destroyers: Core of a Statement Surface Fleet20:37Gwanggaeto the Great starts as a practical ASW destroyerChapter
- Korean Destroyers: Core of a Statement Surface Fleet28:44KDX-II combines Mark 41 and Korean VLS in a multipurpose destroyerChapter
- Korean Destroyers: Core of a Statement Surface Fleet41:41Sejong pairs exceptional missile density with two helicoptersNotable Point
- Bruships 244: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:41:30Choosing a Second World War submarine by theaterQ&A
- Bruships 244: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:49:19Kingfisher gun-launched munitions against undersea dronesQ&A
- Trials and Tribulations: Why Testing Warships Matters...24:01Maneuvering tests and survivabilityNotable Point
- Trials and Tribulations: Why Testing Warships Matters...27:37Machinery shock and quieting checksNotable Point
- KA-27 Helix; Rugged, Reliable, Pin Up Model for Contra Rotating Rotors!0:00KA-27 Helix as a rugged shipborne ASW answerChapter
- KA-27 Helix; Rugged, Reliable, Pin Up Model for Contra Rotating Rotors!12:09Coaxial lift, weight, and ASW systemsNotable Point
- KA-27 Helix; Rugged, Reliable, Pin Up Model for Contra Rotating Rotors!17:03Crew roles balance aircraft safety and ASW mission controlNotable Point
- KA-27 Helix; Rugged, Reliable, Pin Up Model for Contra Rotating Rotors!29:12Paired and three-aircraft tactics divide ASW detection from attackChapter
- KA-27 Helix; Rugged, Reliable, Pin Up Model for Contra Rotating Rotors!31:45Specialized KA-27 projects span reconnaissance, attack, mine, and rescue rolesChapter
- KA-27 Helix; Rugged, Reliable, Pin Up Model for Contra Rotating Rotors!35:08KA-27M modernization takes seventeen years to complete testingChapter
- KA-27 Helix; Rugged, Reliable, Pin Up Model for Contra Rotating Rotors!39:17Wartime rules make helicopter ASW more aggressiveNotable Point
- What Happens if Australia, Canada & the UK go all in on the Invincibles in the 1970s? (Patreon Live)13:42NATO's German front wins the budget fightNotable Point
- What Happens if Australia, Canada & the UK go all in on the Invincibles in the 1970s? (Patreon Live)20:12Real Invincibles set the technical baselineChapter
- What Happens if Australia, Canada & the UK go all in on the Invincibles in the 1970s? (Patreon Live)25:41Invincible protects Norway reinforcement and Atlantic ASW groupsChapter
- 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)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)2:16:35Why is the Dynavert a poor ASW aircraft?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)2:30:59Could 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
- Jeune Ecole Batch 2... The French Destroyers up to WWI38:29Wartime weapons upset a finely balanced designNotable Point
- Bruships 243: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:48:41Specialized hulls with common naval systemsNotable Point
- What do Offshore Patrol Vessels do and are the useful in War as well as Peace?7:07A larger gun does not turn a River into a frigateNotable Point
- What do Offshore Patrol Vessels do and are the useful in War as well as Peace?19:38Irish patrol ships separate submarine detection from attackChapter
- What do Offshore Patrol Vessels do and are the useful in War as well as Peace?24:09Knud Rasmussen's StanFlex slots accept alternative weapon fitsChapter
- What do Offshore Patrol Vessels do and are the useful in War as well as Peace?25:39Extra StanFlex positions could widen Knud Rasmussen's escort fitNotable Point
- What do Offshore Patrol Vessels do and are the useful in War as well as Peace?59:43How should a navy balance the capability and cost of its patrol fleet?Q&A
- US Navy Ship Building Plan 2026... a Live look at what is being planned...1:57:02Protecting auxiliaries in contested watersNotable Point
- US Navy Ship Building Plan 2026... a Live look at what is being planned...2:58:34Ocean models and anomaly detection around SSBNsNotable Point
- US Navy Ship Building Plan 2026... a Live look at what is being planned...4:56:55The nuclear depth charge proposal that endangered its own shipQ&A
- 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?57:33Flight IIA restart chooses reliabilityNotable Point
- Total Burke Domination: Why the US Navy could be rebranded the Arleigh Burke Flotilla & Friends?1:00:59Harpoon removal and the limits of shipboard torpedoesNotable Point
- Destroyers: Modern Navy's most powerful surface combatants - 134yrs of development19:45World War I reorganizes destroyers for fleet warChapter
- Destroyers: Modern Navy's most powerful surface combatants - 134yrs of development1:01:20Cold War destroyers must fight and look convincingNotable Point
- Japans Cold War Destroyers: Building up a Navy the Right Way...6:21Harukaze and Ayanami make ASW growth acceptableChapter
- Japans Cold War Destroyers: Building up a Navy the Right Way...6:48Harukaze combines ASW weapons with US-standard equipmentNotable Point
- Japans Cold War Destroyers: Building up a Navy the Right Way...10:24Ayanami adds anti-ship torpedoes to a submarine-hunting escortNotable Point
- Japans Cold War Destroyers: Building up a Navy the Right Way...16:01Murasame and Akizuki move toward indigenous command shipsChapter
- Japans Cold War Destroyers: Building up a Navy the Right Way...16:01Murasame restores heavier guns for flotilla escort workNotable Point
- Japans Cold War Destroyers: Building up a Navy the Right Way...18:05Akizuki develops an indigenous flotilla leaderNotable Point
- Japans Cold War Destroyers: Building up a Navy the Right Way...33:02Yamagumo, Takatsuki, and Minegumo keep the yards buildingChapter
- Japans Cold War Destroyers: Building up a Navy the Right Way...34:28Yamagumo makes quiet diesel propulsion serve ASW massNotable Point
- Japans Cold War Destroyers: Building up a Navy the Right Way...42:09How does Type 26's ASW focus compare with FREMM?Q&A
- Japans Cold War Destroyers: Building up a Navy the Right Way...43:55Takatsuki refits exchange guns and drones for missilesNotable Point
- Japans Cold War Destroyers: Building up a Navy the Right Way...46:21Minegumo keeps production moving with room for changesNotable Point
- Japans Cold War Destroyers: Building up a Navy the Right Way...47:54Haruna and Shirane turn destroyers into helicopter command shipsChapter
- Japans Cold War Destroyers: Building up a Navy the Right Way...48:17Carrier politics channel Japan toward the Haruna designNotable Point
- Japans Cold War Destroyers: Building up a Navy the Right Way...49:32Haruna provides space for three helicopters and a long working deckNotable Point
- Japans Cold War Destroyers: Building up a Navy the Right Way...53:24Sea-lane defence shapes the Cold War JMSDFNotable Point
- Bruships 241: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:27:50Why frigate and destroyer labels depend on the main missionNotable 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)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)1:10:20A 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)1:11:12Hybrid escorts combine towed arrays, helicopters, and UAVsNotable Point
- 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
- Protecting Ikea in the Cradle; Swedish Destroyers in WWII9:40New boilers and weapons extend Hugin's serviceNotable Point
- Protecting Ikea in the Cradle; Swedish Destroyers in WWII15:08The Ehrensköld class moves Sweden toward larger destroyersChapter
- Protecting Ikea in the Cradle; Swedish Destroyers in WWII34:48The Göteborg program expands from two ships to six as war approachesChapter
- Protecting Ikea in the Cradle; Swedish Destroyers in WWII40:19The Visby class improves a familiar weapons packageChapter
- Protecting Ikea in the Cradle; Swedish Destroyers in WWII46:17Öland combines dual-purpose guns with a heavy coastal weapons loadChapter
- Protecting Ikea in the Cradle; Swedish Destroyers in WWII48:36Öland remains dangerous through repeated modernisationNotable Point
- Imperial Russian Destroyers: The Paper Numbers vs The Reality of what they didn't have at Tsushima31:16Helicopter facilities revealed a ship's anti-submarine priorityNotable Point
- Bruships 240: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:03:19How the 1914 cruiser losses hardened Royal Navy zigzag doctrineNotable Point
- Bruships 240: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:48:24Variable-pitch propellers in warshipsQ&A
- Bruships 240: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:53:42Why a warship might retain fixed-pitch propellersQ&A
- Bruships 240: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:57:49Sending the wartime Canadian Navy to the PacificQ&A
- Bruships 240: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:03:39Gun-fired defenses against shallow-running uncrewed craftNotable Point
- What happens if the British & Japanese refuse to break their alliance? (Patreon Live)44:09Japanese escorts and battlecruisers widen Allied coverageNotable Point
- SH-60 Seahawk/Oceanhawk/Rescuehawk/Romeo/Knighthawk... Key Aircraft Series 4 Aircraft 10:19Seahawk as an ASW methodology benchmarkChapter
- SH-60 Seahawk/Oceanhawk/Rescuehawk/Romeo/Knighthawk... Key Aircraft Series 4 Aircraft 17:41Turning the Black Hawk into a shipboard SeahawkChapter
- SH-60 Seahawk/Oceanhawk/Rescuehawk/Romeo/Knighthawk... Key Aircraft Series 4 Aircraft 111:27Why shipborne helicopters need broad missionsNotable Point
- SH-60 Seahawk/Oceanhawk/Rescuehawk/Romeo/Knighthawk... Key Aircraft Series 4 Aircraft 115:11SH-60B and LAMPS III service entryChapter
- SH-60 Seahawk/Oceanhawk/Rescuehawk/Romeo/Knighthawk... Key Aircraft Series 4 Aircraft 118:50SH-60F Ocean Hawk carrier ASW fitNotable Point
- SH-60 Seahawk/Oceanhawk/Rescuehawk/Romeo/Knighthawk... Key Aircraft Series 4 Aircraft 121:13Seahawk economics and the S-3 Viking tradeoffNotable Point
- SH-60 Seahawk/Oceanhawk/Rescuehawk/Romeo/Knighthawk... Key Aircraft Series 4 Aircraft 127:40MH-60R Romeo as an off-board combat systemChapter
- SH-60 Seahawk/Oceanhawk/Rescuehawk/Romeo/Knighthawk... Key Aircraft Series 4 Aircraft 136:33A Seahawk successor with locally controlled uncrewed teammatesNotable Point
- Special Catch Up Ramblings on Behalf of @TheFleetOfOceans2:16:20Type XXI knowledge in 1936Q&A
- Special Catch Up Ramblings on Behalf of @TheFleetOfOceans2:18:22Armed tugs against U-boatsQ&A
- What happens if the entirety of the French Navy decides to carry on fighting in WWII? (Patreon Live)26:06Béarn is limited but still usefulNotable Point
- What happens if the entirety of the French Navy decides to carry on fighting in WWII? (Patreon Live)1:28:31French North African airfields shorten the Malta supply problemNotable Point
- What happens if the entirety of the French Navy decides to carry on fighting in WWII? (Patreon Live)1:39:38Early U-boat losses could damage Germany's training cadreNotable Point
- What happens if Winston Churchill doesn't pause the Carriers, Fast Battleships & Cruisers in 1939?9:45Prewar escort orders complicate the emergency-building rationaleNotable Point
- What happens if Winston Churchill doesn't pause the Carriers, Fast Battleships & Cruisers in 1939?51:05North African airfields reopen a fast convoy route to SuezNotable Point
- What happens if Winston Churchill doesn't pause the Carriers, Fast Battleships & Cruisers in 1939?1:09:17A larger Force Z complicates Japan's opening movesNotable Point
- What happens if Winston Churchill doesn't pause the Carriers, Fast Battleships & Cruisers in 1939?1:14:51Continuing major ships need not weaken British ASWNotable Point
- What happens if Winston Churchill doesn't pause the Carriers, Fast Battleships & Cruisers in 1939?1:17:58A slower U-boat expansion risks losing its training cadreNotable Point
- What happens if Winston Churchill doesn't pause the Carriers, Fast Battleships & Cruisers in 1939?1:22:43Later escort gains do not outweigh the major-ship delaysChapter
- Could the Royal Navy have lauched a Carrier Strike in WWI on Wilhelmshaven?36:54Sueter supplies ideas and Beatty secures political supportNotable 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?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?19:25Type 23 outlived assumptions about protection and replacementNotable Point
- What if the Royal Navy used the Lessons of the 1982 Falklands War to go Stanflex?39:04Dutch close-in defence and British ASW modulesNotable Point
- 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?59:17A modular Type 45 with an eighty-eight-missile fitChapter
- Why the Royal Navy's Type 45s Daring Class Destroyers are what they are & what their future is?57:48Extra drones and a stern boat ramp remained unfittedNotable Point
- Why the Royal Navy's Type 45s Daring Class Destroyers are what they are & what their future is?1:28:42BAE offered land-attack and anti-submarine Type 45 variantsNotable Point
- Would an AUKUS Destroyer make a sensible 3rd pillar for the Australia, UK & US Defence Cooperation?40:24Combat-system diversity creates dilemmasNotable Point
- Would an AUKUS Destroyer make a sensible 3rd pillar for the Australia, UK & US Defence Cooperation?41:38How a submarine-only German fleet would change British deploymentsNotable Point
- Would an AUKUS Destroyer make a sensible 3rd pillar for the Australia, UK & US Defence Cooperation?48:02Common aviation needs can shape different shipsChapter
- HMS Walker(D27); a destroyer of two World Wars(Live)48:55Norwegian evacuations and the last departure from NarvikChapter
- HMS Walker(D27); a destroyer of two World Wars(Live)51:54A costly pursuit of U-47 in July 1940Notable Point
- HMS Walker(D27); a destroyer of two World Wars(Live)54:37Donald Macintyre and Walker's ASW command styleNotable Point
- HMS Walker(D27); a destroyer of two World Wars(Live)1:01:03Macintyre's books as a participant's view of naval warNotable Point
- HMS Walker(D27); a destroyer of two World Wars(Live)1:03:50HX 112 and the fall of U-99 and U-100Chapter
- HMS Walker(D27); a destroyer of two World Wars(Live)1:11:21V and W destroyers on the outer troop-convoy screenChapter
- HMS Walker(D27); a destroyer of two World Wars(Live)1:13:31Extra depth charges and improvised launching arrangementsNotable Point
- HMS Walker(D27); a destroyer of two World Wars(Live)1:16:16Walker's long-range escort conversionChapter
- HMS Walker(D27); a destroyer of two World Wars(Live)1:17:46Rowland's objections to sending escorts out under-equippedNotable Point
- HMS Walker(D27); a destroyer of two World Wars(Live)1:19:58Protecting the convoy's most vulnerable shipsNotable Point
- HMS Walker(D27); a destroyer of two World Wars(Live)1:22:16Arthur Nicol Roll's experience before Walker's Arctic serviceNotable Point
- HMS Walker(D27); a destroyer of two World Wars(Live)1:26:24Walker as an additional escort and ASW exercise shipNotable Point
- HMS Walker(D27); a destroyer of two World Wars(Live)1:28:08Walker and Starling on an Arctic convoyNotable Point
- HMS Walker(D27); a destroyer of two World Wars(Live)1:30:34Normandy troop convoys and Walker's final wartime dutiesChapter
- HMS Walker(D27); a destroyer of two World Wars(Live)1:48:01Early homing torpedoes worked but were spoofableQ&A
- HMS Walker(D27); a destroyer of two World Wars(Live)1:51:07Walker's true depth-charge load is uncertainQ&A
- How the USN learnt the lessons to conceive the Arleigh Burke class... From the Gearings to the Kidds0:00Gearing destroyers as the Cold War baselineChapter
- How the USN learnt the lessons to conceive the Arleigh Burke class... From the Gearings to the Kidds2:52DASH extends ASW reach without a full helicopterNotable Point
- How the USN learnt the lessons to conceive the Arleigh Burke class... From the Gearings to the Kidds9:18Norfolk tests a postwar heavy-destroyer ideaNotable 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 Kidds19:52Forrest Sherman brings the new-build caseChapter
- 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 Kidds28:46The lost volume of heavyweight torpedo tubesNotable Point
- 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 Kidds38:02Spruance turns destroyer size into presenceChapter
- How the USN learnt the lessons to conceive the Arleigh Burke class... From the Gearings to the Kidds40:25Spruance's weapons and the later Tomahawk VLSNotable Point
- 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 Kidds48:21Spruance pushes toward multi-role destroyersNotable 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
- 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...2:37:35Why a helicopter hangar was not the decisive ASW gapQ&A
- Bruships 237: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:59:37The panel's anti-submarine frigate proposalQ&A
- Bruships 237: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:11:19Lost Soviet successors to the Mi-14 and Ka-27Q&A
- Bruships 237: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:35:26Three specialist frigates versus one general-purpose classQ&A
- France Libre's daring contre-torpilleurs & torpilleur d'escadre; The Free French Destroyers of WWII5:01Léopard's training service and changing weaponsChapter
- France Libre's daring contre-torpilleurs & torpilleur d'escadre; The Free French Destroyers of WWII10:19Léopard's British rearmament and uncertain submarine claimChapter
- France Libre's daring contre-torpilleurs & torpilleur d'escadre; The Free French Destroyers of WWII12:24Trading Léopard's speed for fuel, depth charges, and radarChapter
- France Libre's daring contre-torpilleurs & torpilleur d'escadre; The Free French Destroyers of WWII15:15Tigre's long war with few opportunitiesNotable Point
- France Libre's daring contre-torpilleurs & torpilleur d'escadre; The Free French Destroyers of WWII23:42Machinery trouble brings Le Triomphant to the Free FrenchChapter
- Hitler's Destroyers: How Type 1934 & Type 1936 Classes, including their variations were developed...50:56Reading a Type 1936 armament-source conflictNotable Point
- 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....30:20R-class flexibility in wartime productionNotable Point
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....54:13Daring-class balance before guided missilesChapter
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....59:42Charles F. Adams combines guided missiles with guns and ASWChapter
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....1:02:36Spruance adds aviation and room for missile growthChapter
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....1:15:31Capability matters more than displacement labelsQ&A
- 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....2:53:48A European fleet balance of destroyers and frigatesQ&A
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....2:58:12Uncrewed missile trucks still create an escort problemNotable Point
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....6:05National roles shape destroyer designNotable Point
- Bruships 235: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:09:42Designing a modern Black Swan-style escortQ&A
- Where has Britain's Royal Navy Gone?23:51What selling three Type 23s cost in fleet availabilityNotable Point
- Where has Britain's Royal Navy Gone?1:25:30Type 45 costs and the cheaper-frigate tradeoffNotable Point
- Where has Britain's Royal Navy Gone?2:41:20What the 2021 North Atlantic graphic required in practiceNotable Point
- Where has Britain's Royal Navy Gone?3:08:51The 2025 review rediscovered an enduring maritime riskChapter
- Where has Britain's Royal Navy Gone?3:15:16Allied Type 26 frigates are reinforcement, not a substituteNotable Point
- Where has Britain's Royal Navy Gone?3:22:35The 2025 hybrid fleet and autonomous air defenceChapter
- What if the Royal Navy's Aircraft Carrier HMS Hermes had sisters in the 1920s? (Patreon Live)12:27Why Britain protected cruiser and sloop numbersNotable Point
- What if the Royal Navy's Aircraft Carrier HMS Hermes had sisters in the 1920s? (Patreon Live)37:22Judge Type 31 against its intended roleNotable Point
- What if the Royal Navy's Aircraft Carrier HMS Hermes had sisters in the 1920s? (Patreon Live)1:23:41More carriers also mean more escortsNotable Point
- What if the Royal Navy's Aircraft Carrier HMS Hermes had sisters in the 1920s? (Patreon Live)1:54:11How light carriers reshape early Royal Navy carrier lossesQ&A
- Bruships 234: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:26:29Choosing a conventional submarine for ocean operationsQ&A
- Bruships 234: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:30:00Why very noisy uncrewed submarines make weak decoysQ&A
- Bruships 234: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:13:11Helicopter destroyers as ASW group leadersQ&A
- Bruships 234: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:00:18Why a full Aegis-like system would enlarge an ASW frigateQ&A
- Escaping Hitler's Europe; How the warships of Europe escaped capture in WWII...20:45Wilk's mines draw a submarine hunt months after its departureNotable Point
- Japan's First Destroyers: How they intimidated the Russian Empire on less than 1000tons...1:06:07Japanese destroyers learn anti-submarine warfare at MaltaNotable Point
- Japan's First Destroyers: How they intimidated the Russian Empire on less than 1000tons...1:07:06Why Japan's early destroyers vanished before the Second World WarNotable Point
- If WWII is delayed, what do the Warships of the 1950s look like?1:05:45Mine warfare can misdirect escort productionNotable Point
- If WWII is delayed, what do the Warships of the 1950s look like?1:10:51Most navies underinvest in unshowy escort hullsNotable Point
- Modern Chinese Destroyers: How the Current People's Liberation Army Navy's surface ships came to be20:00Z-9 and Ka-27 helicopters divide general-purpose and ASW workNotable 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
- Modern Chinese Destroyers: How the Current People's Liberation Army Navy's surface ships came to be1:29:46Type 055 presence and Type 052DL massChapter
- Bruships 232: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:30:19How to refine the Yugumo-class destroyerQ&A
- Bruships 232: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:55:18When submarine-launched SAMs might buy an escapeQ&A
- Bruships 232: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:16:27Mission comes before the modern Commonwealth cruiserQ&A
- The Arguments that made American Seapower: Roosevelt, Mahan, Sims & More54:06Sims makes World War I sea power visibleChapter
- The Arguments that made American Seapower: Roosevelt, Mahan, Sims & More57:25How Sims and Hendrick explained the submarine war to civiliansNotable Point
- The Arguments that made American Seapower: Roosevelt, Mahan, Sims & More1:00:21Troopship routing versus the commerce warChapter
- Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live)10:51How Allied escorts intercepted retreating U-boatsNotable Point
- Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live)13:10A submerged torpedo attack without modern fire controlNotable Point
- Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live)1:18:28Why Polish warships helped guarantee U-boat destructionNotable Point
- Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live)1:24:14Naval gunfire and parted tows in U-boat disposalNotable Point
- Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live)1:36:53The escort hidden inside the convoyNotable Point
- Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live)1:39:00U-3514 and Deadlight weapons testsChapter
- Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live)1:48:12Comparative damage tests and Cold War submarine tacticsNotable Point
- The Reality of Soviet Naval Presence in the Cold War: Destroyers are the Fleet17:19Kildin torpedoes develop an ASW roleNotable Point
- The Reality of Soviet Naval Presence in the Cold War: Destroyers are the Fleet19:03ASW requirements support larger Soviet destroyersNotable Point
- 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 Fleet46:09Kiev task groups reveal the next destroyer gapChapter
- 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 Fleet52:32Sovremenny spends displacement on flexibilityChapter
- The Reality of Soviet Naval Presence in the Cold War: Destroyers are the Fleet1:11:29Udaloy's Silex complicates single-role labelsChapter
- The Reality of Soviet Naval Presence in the Cold War: Destroyers are the Fleet1:19:21Minefields above a submarine bastionNotable Point
- The Reality of Soviet Naval Presence in the Cold War: Destroyers are the Fleet1:20:15A possible shared helicopter rotationNotable Point
- The Reality of Soviet Naval Presence in the Cold War: Destroyers are the Fleet1:26:31Why Udaloy outlasted Sovremenny in Russian serviceNotable Point
- Bruships 231: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:44:26What capital-ship hydrophones and ASDIC achievedQ&A
- Bruships 231: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:42:31A surviving Yamato discovered by the JMSDFQ&A
- Bruships 231: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:23:34Refitting Katsuragi for the early JMSDFQ&A
- How many Warships does your Navy need?33:02The fleet-ready escort also protects the nuclear deterrentNotable 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?1:18:23What future US frigates could take off destroyersNotable Point
- The rise and fall of Constellation class Frigate program? (Patreon Live)11:12Why the Perry class set the frigate baselineChapter
- The rise and fall of Constellation class Frigate program? (Patreon Live)44:16Why FFG(X) became a mini-Burke requirementChapter
- The rise and fall of Constellation class Frigate program? (Patreon Live)54:42Why the sonar priority mattered for an ASW frigateNotable Point
- The rise and fall of Constellation class Frigate program? (Patreon Live)1:29:19When a smaller ASW-focused frigate could workQ&A
- The rise and fall of Constellation class Frigate program? (Patreon Live)2:03:19Multimission language pushed ASW out of first placeNotable Point
- Trials and Tribulations- why ships go through the testing they do before they enter service1:32:07Operational exercises teach a carrier to obey the task groupChapter
- Trials and Tribulations- why ships go through the testing they do before they enter service1:48:52One F-35B would make a frigate worse at its real jobQ&A
- Trials and Tribulations- why ships go through the testing they do before they enter service2:11:55Arming a Merlin for air combat displaces its ASW missionQ&A
- Trials and Tribulations- why ships go through the testing they do before they enter service2:19:06Longer ASW engagement ranges could return shipboard torpedo tubesQ&A
- Trials and Tribulations- why ships go through the testing they do before they enter service2:19:34Task groups should put aircraft on the ships that support them bestNotable Point
- Trials and Tribulations- why ships go through the testing they do before they enter service2:25:17Crewed helicopters could lead uncrewed ASW hunting packsNotable Point
- Harnessing and Maintaining Thoughtful Aggression! Royal Navy Destroyers of the Interwar Years...46:19The war manual puts torpedo attack firstNotable Point
- Harnessing and Maintaining Thoughtful Aggression! Royal Navy Destroyers of the Interwar Years...56:04Alphabet classes grow around the torpedo attackChapter
- Harnessing and Maintaining Thoughtful Aggression! Royal Navy Destroyers of the Interwar Years...1:07:34I-class destroyers add endurance and supporting weaponsNotable Point
- Harnessing and Maintaining Thoughtful Aggression! Royal Navy Destroyers of the Interwar Years...1:24:05What an early twin 4.7-inch mount might changeNotable Point
- How do you Compare & Analyse Warships?2:14Why ships with the same class name can demand different comparisonsNotable Point
- The USN's WWI Destroyer Designs... Making Four Stackers Global1:07:29Allied navies divided scarce destroyers across the U-boat warNotable Point
- What if Winston Churchill doesn't pause Carriers, Capital Ships & Cruisers in 1939? Patreon Live31:15Norway's surviving U-boat crews supported later German expansionNotable Point
- What if Winston Churchill doesn't pause Carriers, Capital Ships & Cruisers in 1939? Patreon Live33:15British anti-submarine doctrine depended on carrier aircraftNotable Point
- What if Winston Churchill doesn't pause Carriers, Capital Ships & Cruisers in 1939? Patreon Live1:44:04Escort momentum could magnify early U-boat lossesChapter
- Bruships 228: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:43:18Would Black Cat Catalinas outperform Coastal Command?Q&A
- Bruships 228: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:48:02France's withdrawal from integrated command changed Atlantic reinforcement routesNotable Point
- The Tribal Class's Sisters... the Royal Navy's J, K & N Class Destroyers of WWII7:34How the L and M classes kept eight torpedoes while strengthening escortsNotable Point
- The Tribal Class's Sisters... the Royal Navy's J, K & N Class Destroyers of WWII47:22Fleet-destroyer generalists and Hunt-class specialistsNotable Point
- The Tribal Class's Sisters... the Royal Navy's J, K & N Class Destroyers of WWII59:45Nepal's Indian Ocean escorts and carrier strikesChapter
- 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
- 134yrs of evolution: How a Destroyer's Role has evolved from as envisaged in 1892 to 20262:37:11Would a long Type 45 production run resemble the Burke story?Q&A
- 134yrs of evolution: How a Destroyer's Role has evolved from as envisaged in 1892 to 20262:41:54A proposed Type 45 fit combines 96 missile cells and two MerlinsNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 18: Guns & Points of Order9:42Why ASW officers valued pairs of Hunt-class escortsQ&A
- Bruships 227: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:05:12Dönitz's decisive U-boat fleet would provoke an Allied answerQ&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...2:19:37Airships over the North Atlantic gapQ&A
- Bruships 227: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:21:42The risks of attacking a submarine from an airshipQ&A
- Bruships 226: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:35:35How sonobuoys, towed arrays, and MAD divide ASW workQ&A
- Bruships 226: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:32:39When a US frigate without Mark 41 still mattersQ&A
- Bruships 226: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:57:23Why nuclear depth bombs carry exceptional escalation riskQ&A
- Bruships 226: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:39:07The smallest practical modern convoy escortQ&A
- What if the Royal Navy carried out a carrier strike against Wilhelmshaven in WWI? Patreon Live58:19How much credit should Max Horton receive for Atlantic ASW?Q&A
- What if the Royal Navy carried out a carrier strike against Wilhelmshaven in WWI? Patreon Live2:30:39What role remains for seaplane tenders?Q&A
- Tragedy & Revenge/Wolfpack... Key Books!46:41Type XXI ambition could not overcome logistics and ASW massNotable Point
- Why the different major navies used Cruiser Aviation in the 1920s&30s...1:10:20Submarine shock shapes British cruiser cautionNotable Point
- How to go about Designing a Warship... and a Fleet!34:23Turn missions into measurable ship requirementsChapter
- How to go about Designing a Warship... and a Fleet!43:12Balance new combat systems with proven equipmentChapter
- How to go about Designing a Warship... and a Fleet!1:08:01Flower-class corvettes favored fitness over perfectionNotable Point
- Why is a Frigate a Frigate and other questions of modern navys?30:10Interwar sloops prepared Britain for mass escort constructionChapter
- Why is a Frigate a Frigate and other questions of modern navys?31:18How merchant standards made the Flower class scalableNotable Point
- Why is a Frigate a Frigate and other questions of modern navys?32:09One sloop lineage produced Black Swans and HuntsNotable Point
- Why is a Frigate a Frigate and other questions of modern navys?33:14The River class revived frigate as an ASW escort nameChapter
- 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 Fun12:09Do Canada's River-class combatants offer value?Q&A
- Scuttlebutt 17: Missiles, Guns & Other Barrels of Fun12:50Eight or sixteen VLS cells on Dutch and Belgian ASW frigatesNotable Point
- 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...52:52Uncrewed task-force assets divide into recoverable craft and ocean-going shipsQ&A
- Bruships 225: Naval History & Current Affairs Questions Answered Live...1:21:18Extra fast battleships and escorts in 1939 would compound across every theatreQ&A
- Bruships 225: Naval History & Current Affairs Questions Answered Live...3:57:39Fleet-carrier anti-submarine patrols and the loss of CourageousQ&A
- Why are Modern Warships getting bigger? (Live)22:00Compare ships through their task-group rolesNotable Point
- 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
- Type 26 & Type 31 Frigate Program Updates: City, Hunter, River(Destroyer), Inspiration & the rest!5:10Australia trades Hunter-class depth for fleet breadthChapter
- Type 26 & Type 31 Frigate Program Updates: City, Hunter, River(Destroyer), Inspiration & the rest!17:27Why Type 83 should not simply enlarge Type 26Chapter
- Type 26 & Type 31 Frigate Program Updates: City, Hunter, River(Destroyer), Inspiration & the rest!37:47The Type 31's CODAD propulsion tradeoffNotable Point
- Future Fleets: Some Ideas of Naval Warfare12:04Modern frigates and destroyers still perform the cruising roleChapter
- Future Fleets: Some Ideas of Naval Warfare45:18Uncrewed sloops multiply anti-submarine coverageChapter
- Future Fleets: Some Ideas of Naval Warfare47:26A carrier group gains depth from an uncrewed escort screenNotable Point
- Trumps Battleship; A Naval History view on what we know of the Defiant Class so far32:04Survivability begins before the torpedo is firedNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 16: Logistics6:20Defending fleet auxiliaries inside the task groupChapter
- Bruships 224: Alternate Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:32:30Why Axis technology sharing is not enoughQ&A
- Bruships 224: Alternate Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:49:26Why a modified F100 frigate would keep growingQ&A
- Bruships 224: Alternate Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:09:16Courageous exposed by fleet-carrier ASW doctrineQ&A
- What changes if the Royal Navy gets a Proper Staff in 1905, instead relying on NID for everything?55:30A post-1908 capital-ship building standardChapter
- What the Frigates up with our Frigates? A Bilgepumps Christmas 2025 @Drachinifel& @wgowshipping20:54Frigate ASW and destroyer air-defence rolesQ&A
- What the Frigates up with our Frigates? A Bilgepumps Christmas 2025 @Drachinifel& @wgowshipping32:19Red Sea air defence and underwater-drone surveillanceNotable Point
- What the Frigates up with our Frigates? A Bilgepumps Christmas 2025 @Drachinifel& @wgowshipping33:17Competing accounts of submarine-community influenceNotable Point
- What the Frigates up with our Frigates? A Bilgepumps Christmas 2025 @Drachinifel& @wgowshipping34:33Frigates retain an ASW and escort roleQ&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
- What the Frigates up with our Frigates? A Bilgepumps Christmas 2025 @Drachinifel& @wgowshipping1:15:12Constellation tried to combine three combat rolesQ&A
- What the Frigates up with our Frigates? A Bilgepumps Christmas 2025 @Drachinifel& @wgowshipping1:23:23Survivability standards depend on the ship's missionNotable Point
- What the Frigates up with our Frigates? A Bilgepumps Christmas 2025 @Drachinifel& @wgowshipping1:34:31F100 capabilities and the expanded Constellation requirementChapter
- What the Frigates up with our Frigates? A Bilgepumps Christmas 2025 @Drachinifel& @wgowshipping1:53:11A smaller cutter hull limits the replacement frigate's fitChapter
- What the Frigates up with our Frigates? A Bilgepumps Christmas 2025 @Drachinifel& @wgowshipping1:57:46ASROC and ESSM compete for a small frigate's launcher spaceNotable Point
- The World Naval Review 2026: A Great Key Book Series20:36Falklands lessons lead to depth fuses for existing bombsNotable Point
- The World Naval Review 2026: A Great Key Book Series22:01Wars of choice encouraged neglect of the submarine threatNotable Point
- The World Naval Review 2026: A Great Key Book Series23:01ASROC turns sonar range into a firing solutionNotable Point
- The World Naval Review 2026: A Great Key Book Series23:56A captain planned four ASROCs to cover submarine movementNotable Point
- The World Naval Review 2026: A Great Key Book Series24:34MATCH and Ikara keep the ship in the attack loopChapter
- The World Naval Review 2026: A Great Key Book Series25:02Sonar geometry caps useful ASW missile rangeChapter
- The World Naval Review 2026: A Great Key Book Series26:22Long-range ASW proposals combine missile reach with local sensingChapter
- The World Naval Review 2026: A Great Key Book Series26:55A helicopter could retain contact while a ship supplies more weaponsNotable Point
- The World Naval Review 2026: A Great Key Book Series27:33SMART's claimed range demands more precise forward sensorsNotable Point
- The World Naval Review 2026: A Great Key Book Series28:26Crewed helicopters may lead uncrewed ASW teamsNotable Point
- The World Naval Review 2026: A Great Key Book Series28:55Mark 48 scarcity cancels a Knox-class armament planNotable Point
- The World Naval Review 2026: A Great Key Book Series29:18Shipboard ASW competes for magazine and launcher spaceChapter
- Building the Royal Canadian Navy for WWII26:05Snowberry moved where escort pressure was greatestChapter
- Building the Royal Canadian Navy for WWII32:49Snowberry and experienced escorts sank U-536Notable Point
- Building the Royal Canadian Navy for WWII34:14River frigates arrived for the late-war fightChapter
- Building the Royal Canadian Navy for WWII36:41Escort, support, and hunter groups formed a ladderNotable Point
- Building the Royal Canadian Navy for WWII39:49The Battle of the St. Lawrence forged ASW skillChapter
- Building the Royal Canadian Navy for WWII52:35Convoy RA66 survived a late U-boat attackNotable Point
- Bruships 223: Naval History & Science Fiction Questions Answered Live...4:13:08Why Britain rarely confirms submarine detectionsNotable Point
- What the Frigate is wrong with how we buy ships, tanks & aircraft?23:42Type 26 ASW capability and possible uncrewed supportNotable Point
- What the Frigate is wrong with how we buy ships, tanks & aircraft?34:08Constellation grew from presence frigate to fleet picketChapter
- What the Frigate is wrong with how we buy ships, tanks & aircraft?36:17Flower corvettes: define the equipment, then find the hullNotable Point
- What the Frigate is wrong with how we buy ships, tanks & aircraft?54:10A forecast of crewed ships coordinating uncrewed groupsChapter
- What the Frigate is wrong with how we buy ships, tanks & aircraft?54:59Convoys, guided bombs, and gaps between escortsNotable Point
- Talking through the Myths of WWI with @GariusTheBrit48:37Mines, deck guns, and Japanese patrols in the submarine warChapter
- Talking through the Myths of WWI with @GariusTheBrit2:10:05Convoys required escorts, funding, and political supportChapter
- Scuttlebutt 15: Frigates5:22Constellation's mission and the cost of a smaller combatantQ&A
- Scuttlebutt 15: Frigates27:05A layered escort model for modern convoysQ&A
- Scuttlebutt 15: Frigates30:35Why a convoy might deliberately broadcast active sonarNotable Point
- Bruships 222: Naval History Questions Answered Live...10:40British stockpiles in 1937: pom-poms, ASDIC, armor and radarQ&A
- Bruships 222: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:32:52A late-1960s ASW conversion for the Daring classQ&A
- Bruships 222: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:33:30When naval batteries became weapon systemsQ&A
- Bruships 222: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:31:52Where azimuth pods could serve in naval fleetsQ&A
- 3 Books to understand the USN, RN & IJN preperations for WWII! Key Books 31:01:52Exercise 77 biases the lesson on submarine attackChapter
- Exploring the meme: Top 5 & Bottom 5 inventions/systems of war that started in British Sheds(Live)1:20:15The hydrostatic pistol made depth charges practicalChapter
- Exploring the meme: Top 5 & Bottom 5 inventions/systems of war that started in British Sheds(Live)1:24:00Helicopter depth charges retained in the 2025 discussionNotable Point
- Exploring the meme: Top 5 & Bottom 5 inventions/systems of war that started in British Sheds(Live)1:27:28Why depth charges still matter in shallow waterNotable Point
- Exploring the meme: Top 5 & Bottom 5 inventions/systems of war that started in British Sheds(Live)1:38:54Locating U-boats through their radio transmissionsNotable Point
- Exploring the meme: Top 5 & Bottom 5 inventions/systems of war that started in British Sheds(Live)1:51:16Wrens and assumptions about U-boat warfareNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 14: Aircraft Carriers12:29Dominion carriers complicate treaty limitsNotable Point
- Bruships 221: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:11:11Does a submarine's historical kill record make it the best submarine hunter?Q&A
- Bruships 221: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:11:57Why anti-submarine warfare needs ships, aircraft, and helicoptersQ&A
- Bruships 221: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:13:20Dreadnought's submarine kill and the pitfalls of tallying ASW successQ&A
- Bruships 221: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:48:21Why the Royal Navy retained the Fairey GannetQ&A
- Bruships 221: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:43:21Battleship ramming and the symbolic appeal of large gunsQ&A
- Bruships 221: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:52:27Why naval drones may not keep carriers smallQ&A
- Bruships 221: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:59:40Why grouping merchant ships can reduce encounters at seaNotable Point
- 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...3:59:10New Zealand replacement needs and regional frigate choicesQ&A
- Bruships 221: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:20:18Why the Royal Navy chose Sea King over Puma for ASWQ&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)1:39:57Shallow western waters favor mines while eastern ports remain usableChapter
- Commodore Michael Clapp & the 1982 Falklands War; #2Historians 2025 starts off21:19Fleet Air Arm observers as operational thinkersNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 13: Questions on Battleships43:57What an earlier integrated Royal Navy staff might changeQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle44:36Using foreknowledge to accelerate ASDIC, convoys, and escortsQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle3:06:00Why faster sound in water would not transform naval warfareQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle5:09:38Castle-class corvette design and anti-submarine fitChapter
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle5:15:19HMS Portchester Castle hunts U-484 and U-1200Chapter
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle5:19:05HMS Denbigh Castle survives a U-boat torpedoChapter
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle5:21:36Why successful late-war escorts receive less attentionNotable Point
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle5:35:08Otto Kretschmer's depth-charged surrenderQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle5:39:20When a convoy needed battleship protectionQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle5:49:01If Japan had world-leading anti-submarine warfareQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle6:42:47Could a diesel submarine outmaneuver a nuclear fleet?Q&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle7:01:20Why Canada calls Type 26 ships destroyersQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P8 of 9 - UAD chat requested design testing…1:01:05The treaty loophole for interwar escort fleetsNotable Point
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P8 of 9 - UAD chat requested design testing…4:06:13An early escort program changes the U-boat warChapter
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P8 of 9 - UAD chat requested design testing…8:21:12A 1929 submarine war forces Japan to learn ASW earlyNotable Point
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon6:43Black Swan sloops contributed across the submarine kill chainQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon7:21Black Swan sloops as a submarine-threat reserveQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon8:36Type 26 as a modern Black Swan analogueQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon20:54Why the US Navy had no direct Black Swan equivalentQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon2:32:32Japan most needed a Black Swan-style escort leaderQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon4:56:27Placing the CP-107 Argus against the P-3 OrionQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon5:35:14Why modern convoys could still use escort carriersQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P6 of 9 - The Royal Navy’s Submarine Killers – Black Swans at War14:46Why submerged submarine kills are so rareQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P6 of 9 - The Royal Navy’s Submarine Killers – Black Swans at War20:18An underwater torpedo shot worked out by handNotable Point
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P6 of 9 - The Royal Navy’s Submarine Killers – Black Swans at War1:34:05A decade-by-decade map of postwar naval technologyQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P6 of 9 - The Royal Navy’s Submarine Killers – Black Swans at War3:07:17What a modern carrier could and could not do for PQ 17Q&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P6 of 9 - The Royal Navy’s Submarine Killers – Black Swans at War3:13:08Ticonderoga and Type 82 were not direct equivalentsQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P6 of 9 - The Royal Navy’s Submarine Killers – Black Swans at War3:39:13Why the Type 22 edges the Knox in ASWQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P6 of 9 - The Royal Navy’s Submarine Killers – Black Swans at War5:24:01Beaufighters in Coastal Command's maritime warQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P6 of 9 - The Royal Navy’s Submarine Killers – Black Swans at War7:10:44Why ASW skill could not spread instantlyNotable Point
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P6 of 9 - The Royal Navy’s Submarine Killers – Black Swans at War7:52:43What VLS adds to the Mogami frigateQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P6 of 9 - The Royal Navy’s Submarine Killers – Black Swans at War8:05:17How ASDIC reshaped anti-submarine shipsChapter
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P6 of 9 - The Royal Navy’s Submarine Killers – Black Swans at War8:05:49When did active underwater sound research begin?Q&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P6 of 9 - The Royal Navy’s Submarine Killers – Black Swans at War8:10:20Powerful sonar and the limits of a close-range claimQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P6 of 9 - The Royal Navy’s Submarine Killers – Black Swans at War8:12:26From Flower-class sloops to interwar specialistsChapter
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P6 of 9 - The Royal Navy’s Submarine Killers – Black Swans at War8:18:00How the Bittern hull led to different escort rolesNotable Point
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P6 of 9 - The Royal Navy’s Submarine Killers – Black Swans at War8:19:48The crack ASW group behind convoy escortsChapter
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P6 of 9 - The Royal Navy’s Submarine Killers – Black Swans at War8:25:32Why Black Swan kill totals understate their effectChapter
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P6 of 9 - The Royal Navy’s Submarine Killers – Black Swans at War8:38:12Buttercup and shared ownership of anti-U-boat tacticsNotable Point
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P6 of 9 - The Royal Navy’s Submarine Killers – Black Swans at War8:51:45Bubble decoys instead of whale callsQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P6 of 9 - The Royal Navy’s Submarine Killers – Black Swans at War8:56:06How aircraft and hunter-killer groups shared U-boat killsQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust1:29:14What submarines could give Nationalist China before war with JapanQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust1:40:07A common Baltic patrol ship without surrendering national yardsQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust3:23:34From specialized frigates to a Type 23 deck gunQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust50:31Why Raeder's surface fleet mattered even when its ships rarely foughtQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust1:00:15Why Type 14 frigates had limited shock resistanceQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust1:26:41A British rocket-delivered Sting Ray and the VLS questionQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust1:33:21Funding choices behind American and Italian ASW rocketsQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust1:36:03How an early Type XXI could accelerate Allied ASWQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust1:43:21Why the Type 21 was not a Knox-class ASW equivalentQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust10:24:51Why Norfolk's destroyer-leader label did not require heavier gunsQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust10:33:45What protects the hypothetical Alaska group from submarines?Q&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress1:40:59The Castle class as a modern sloopQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida9:15:04Destroyer guns firing antisubmarine projectilesQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida9:16:45How USS Nautilus changed the anti-submarine problemQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida9:20:22A brief comparison of Ikara and other ASW weaponsQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida11:05:37How wartime experience changed fears of air and submarine attackQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II34:46Would mass British antiwar protests change the First World War?Q&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II1:50:21Would better anti-aircraft guns save Britain's early carriers?Notable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II2:39:54Turning the Tribal class into a war-emergency escortQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II3:51:55Diesel-electric propulsion for a modern fast attack craftQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II9:03:10Sunderland flying boats in US Navy patrol groupsQ&A
- Sergey Georgyevich Gorshkov: The Architect Behind and the Face of the Soviet Navy1:09:05The capability gaps that kept the Soviet Navy coastalNotable Point
- Andrew Cunningham: Master of Deception35:16Cunningham challenges wartime ship designsChapter
- Andrew Cunningham: Master of Deception39:21Why late-war U-boat losses did not end the threatNotable Point
- Bruships 219: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:03:49Destroyer escorts and frigates used different wartime standardsQ&A
- Bruships 219: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:05:58Modern combatant labels still conceal specialized design choicesQ&A
- Unryū class: Japan's Light Fleet Carriers!13:24Radar and sonar fits varied by individual shipChapter
- Unryū class: Japan's Light Fleet Carriers!16:10The limits of weapon-heavy carrier defenseNotable Point
- Unryū class: Japan's Light Fleet Carriers!28:59Aso reveals the efficient original hull formNotable Point
- What would the World's Major Navys look like in 1950 if WWII didn't happen? (Live)50:54Fleet Shadowers become early-warning aircraftNotable Point
- What would the World's Major Navys look like in 1950 if WWII didn't happen? (Live)1:20:53Destroyers divide into fleet and escort rolesChapter
- What would the World's Major Navys look like in 1950 if WWII didn't happen? (Live)1:42:13Submarines advance without wartime operational selectionChapter
- What would the World's Major Navys look like in 1950 if WWII didn't happen? (Live)2:01:20Routine sonar use creates an anti-submarine countermeasure raceNotable Point
- Jimmy Carter: The Only Submariner President... so far...22:16USS K-1 (SSK-1), later Barracuda, and hunter-killer developmentChapter
- Bruships 218: New Books! British Telecom is a terrible ISP! Naval History Questions Answered Live...35:14Why satellites cannot simply reveal submarinesQ&A
- Procuring for Peace First Draft57:18Flower, Grimsby, and Black Swan sloops carried diplomacy abroadChapter
- Procuring for Peace First Draft1:02:01Sloops turned ASW experiments into Flower-class requirementsChapter
- Fairey Barracuda: A Tale of Engine Metalurgy, Government Lethargy & Too Late Entropy42:38Radar, ASW, and Griffon variants extend the designChapter
- Bruships 217: Back from Japan 2025: Jetlag is a Myth - Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:17:47When depth charges damaged surface combatantsQ&A
- Bruships 217: Back from Japan 2025: Jetlag is a Myth - Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:34:03Why an early U-boat buildup would not guarantee British starvationQ&A
- What happens if the X-1 Cruiser Submarine becomes genesis not a dockyard queen?0:43How would a successful X-1 change treaties and World War II?Q&A
- What happens if the X-1 Cruiser Submarine becomes genesis not a dockyard queen?35:41Cruiser submarines accelerate British ASW constructionChapter
- What happens if the X-1 Cruiser Submarine becomes genesis not a dockyard queen?37:00Bittern and Egret development leads toward Black Swan and Hunt escortsChapter
- What happens if the X-1 Cruiser Submarine becomes genesis not a dockyard queen?38:18Fighting cruiser submarines changes sloop protection and gun powerNotable Point
- What happens if the X-1 Cruiser Submarine becomes genesis not a dockyard queen?39:12Britain matches destroyer orders with Commonwealth sloopsNotable Point
- What happens if the X-1 Cruiser Submarine becomes genesis not a dockyard queen?41:00Germany enters an established submarine-ASW race lateNotable Point
- What happens if the X-1 Cruiser Submarine becomes genesis not a dockyard queen?45:15Congress may convert four-stackers and order destroyers earlierNotable Point
- What happens if the X-1 Cruiser Submarine becomes genesis not a dockyard queen?45:51Foreign cruiser submarines sustain a much larger British escort fleetChapter
- What happens if the X-1 Cruiser Submarine becomes genesis not a dockyard queen?48:38World War II may begin with Germany already outmatched at seaNotable Point
- Bruships 215 On the Road Japan 2025: Naval History Questions Answered Live...57:35Crewed and uncrewed helicopters as ASW wolf packsQ&A
- Bruships 215 On the Road Japan 2025: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:00:38Arming a Canadian 1956 convoy sloopQ&A
- Darings to Countys... and beyond; How Royal Navy Fleet Destroyer design evolved in the Missile Age26:24Escort cruisers created a need for large destroyer leadersChapter
- Darings to Countys... and beyond; How Royal Navy Fleet Destroyer design evolved in the Missile Age39:37Ikara extended a ship's anti-submarine reachNotable Point
- Izumo Class; Building for the future or planned preperation?4:10From anti-submarine flagship to fleet air defenceChapter
- Izumo Class; Building for the future or planned preperation?35:10Building a sustainable Izumo air groupChapter
- The Argentine Navy's Plan of Attack in the 1982 Falklands War2:23The airborne early-warning gap exposed an out-of-area assumptionNotable Point
- The Argentine Navy's Plan of Attack in the 1982 Falklands War22:10Radar emissions could reveal the fleet, but submarines still barred the approachChapter
- Bruships 213 On the Road Japan 2025: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:38:51Why the OTO Melara 76 mm fits almost any warshipQ&A
- What the Royal Navy thought of Coral Sea, Midway and Leyte Gulf?12:32Why aerial torpedoes needed a controlled water entryChapter
- What the Royal Navy thought of Coral Sea, Midway and Leyte Gulf?51:14Why the Royal Navy invested in night shadowingNotable Point
- Bruships 212: Naval History Questions Answered Live...After Power Cut2:09:12The Royal Navy receives hundreds of Gearing-class destroyers in 1940Q&A
- Bruships 212: Naval History Questions Answered Live...20:19A heavily armed Black Swan escortQ&A
- Maya Class: The Ultimate Arleigh Burke Flight IIA or something else?16:25Rocket-assisted torpedoes offset a one-helicopter limitNotable Point
- Torpex: A Short History of it's History...9:16RDX research targets stronger depth chargesChapter
- Liberty Leadership: How the ships that were the blood cells of WWII came to be...40:14US Navy Armed Guards defend Liberty ship crews and cargoNotable Point
- Bruships 211: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:00:51Why Coast Guard combat service receives less attentionQ&A
- Bruships 211: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:18:39A 1935 Saunders-Roe Princess and the Atlantic patrol gapQ&A
- Bruships 211: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:47:30Norway should not force one calibre ashore and afloatQ&A
- Sikorsky S-55/H-19 Chickasaw/Westland Whirlwind: Ploughing the Waves for the Modern Naval Helicopter5:29Payload and range make the S-55 usefulNotable Point
- Sikorsky S-55/H-19 Chickasaw/Westland Whirlwind: Ploughing the Waves for the Modern Naval Helicopter9:54Lift, range, and hover control define utilityChapter
- Sikorsky S-55/H-19 Chickasaw/Westland Whirlwind: Ploughing the Waves for the Modern Naval Helicopter30:20Utility helicopters become a naval necessityChapter
- Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:08:11Why the Swordfish sank so much Axis shippingQ&A
- Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:24:39How later radar tactics can obscure the original purposeNotable Point
- Bruships 209: Science Fiction Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:00:16Comparing Tacoma frigates and Evarts-Buckley destroyer escortsQ&A
- Bruships 209: Science Fiction Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:53:38Why Norway's Type 26 decision mattersQ&A
- Zumwalt Class: Defined by Procurment... Destroyed by Politics of Procurement.16:43The discarded surface-combatant alternativesNotable Point
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:24:06How Sunderland guns covered several different tasksNotable Point
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:12:14Why the Seahawk justified replacing the SeaspriteQ&A
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:21:17Matching destroyer orders with interwar sloopsQ&A
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:27:27A modern 3-inch battery inside an interwar sloop ruleNotable Point
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:28:26More Black Swans and the loss of experienced U-boat crewsNotable Point
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:12:48Navies lose aircraft carriers and the doctrine behind themQ&A
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:28:38USS Wasp learns British carrier defense with Force HQ&A
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:35:46Should a station cruiser carry depth charges?Notable Point
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...6:18:36Adolphus Andrews and the Eastern Sea FrontierQ&A
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...6:32:55Twin pom-poms versus the Mosquito's six-pounderQ&A
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...6:37:31An American program of improved Flower-class corvettesQ&A
- Grumman A6 Intruder: Utilty Bomb Truck that gave Aircraft Carriers Reach, Punch & Flexibility38:21Utility aircraft make the carrier system workChapter
- What changes if the Royal Navy Tribal class got built with 4.5in guns?49:39Modified Tribals become a wartime fleet backboneChapter
- #2Historians Special: @Drachinifel comes to chat Dreadnoughts that Almost were P1 of ?1:25:03The interwar sloop fleet Britain could have builtNotable Point
- Bruships 206: Naval History Questions Answered Live...(Continued)22:56An improvised Canadian submarine boardingQ&A
- Bruships 206: Naval History Questions Answered Live...8:00Why ASW rockets suit the BalticQ&A
- Bruships 206: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:45:32Defending ships against near-surface UUVsQ&A
- Bruships 206: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:59:47Malafon and Ikara comparedQ&A
- Bruships 206: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:12:01Why modern ASW rockets are usually 300 mm or largerQ&A
- OTO Melara 76/62: Flexible Capability in ways that matter!38:49FREMM gun fits follow mission rolesChapter
- Procurement for Peace: Second Draft46:00Type 22 and Type 23 reveal the cost of role mismatchNotable Point
- Procurement for Peace: Second Draft58:15Interwar sloops as adaptable station shipsChapter
- Procurement for Peace: Second Draft1:44:10How many ships do Britain and Canada need?Q&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 Draft2:12:34Why Britain rejected blimps for interwar ASWQ&A
- Bruships 205: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:26:44Naval trawlers that still caught fishQ&A
- Bruships 205: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:45:28Why 100-pound bombs do not rescue the Midway DevastatorsQ&A
- Bruships 205: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:52:50Reading Moffett's flight-deck cruiser in its own timeNotable Point
- Bruships 205: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:53:55A NATO Atlantic convoy escort in 1975Q&A
- Queen Bees: The almost 'Original Drones' from the 1930s33:22Why useful carrier drone pools must be largeNotable Point
- WWII Submarines that served the Polish, Greek, Dutch & Norwegian Navys33:25Dutch K boats and the demands of colonial serviceChapter
- WWII Submarines that served the Polish, Greek, Dutch & Norwegian Navys39:24K IX becomes an Australian anti-submarine training targetNotable Point
- WWII Submarines that served the Polish, Greek, Dutch & Norwegian Navys44:07K XIV-class boats combine range, speed, and heavy torpedo firepowerChapter
- Bruships 204: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:15:17Why historical naval operations fit World of Warships only selectivelyQ&A
- Bruships 204: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:24:49An Iceland seaplane tender and the Atlantic air gapQ&A
- Bruships 204: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:32:51US frigates and destroyers replace British Falklands escortsQ&A
- Bruships 204: Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:09:46Could convoy escorts have received towed-array sonar in WWII?Q&A
- Bruships 203: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...6:23:21Could Germany win the Battle of the Atlantic?Q&A
- Bruships 203: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...6:31:32Convoy escorts and specialist U-boat huntersNotable Point
- Cruiser-borne aviation of the major navies; aspirations, doctrine & realities of this capability2:10:30The modern descendants of cruiser aviationQ&A
- Bruships 202: Naval History Questions Answered Live...36:24Could Tiger-class cruisers become guided-missile ships?Q&A
- Bruships 202: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:35:21Could a Blackburn Blackburn carry anti-submarine rockets?Q&A
- Bruships 202: Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:04:31If every Royal Navy aircraft became a Fairey Gannet in 1939Q&A
- Bruships 202: Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:09:05What the US Navy could do after cancelling ConstellationQ&A
- Bruships 201: Naval History Questions Answered Live...46:28How a Type 32 could differ from Type 31Q&A
- Bruships 201: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:29:221970s Leander frigates transported to 1939Q&A
- Bruships 200: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:51:17How an Atlantic airfield changes the U-boat warQ&A
- Bruships 200: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:58:35How the Type 26 fights submarines without fixed torpedo tubesQ&A
- Bruships 200: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:30:18How carrier anti-submarine patrol aircraft workedQ&A
- Bruships 199: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:00:29Japan trades later Yamatos for convoy escortsQ&A
- Bruships 199: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:20:07Sea Guardian drones extend Queen Elizabeth-class surveillanceQ&A
- Bruships 199: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:54:44Treaty cruiser-carriers create numerous light flight decksQ&A
- Pom-Pom or Bofors: Which 40mm do you want?46:51A global navy needs viable weapons, not perfection everywhereNotable Point
- Britains Obsession with Supersonic Harriers20:31How a supersonic Harrier might have changed the Falklands baselineNotable Point
- What happens to WWI if the Royal Navy got a full Admiralty Staff when the General Staff came to be?2:09:34Earlier convoys and a more resilient imperial networkNotable Point
- Admiral Nelles: The man who built the Royal Canadian Navy of WWII23:35The interwar sloop opportunity Canada missedNotable Point
- Bruships 198: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:01:19Australia needs escorts and an industrial base as well as submarinesNotable Point
- Bruships 198: Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:17:51Construction standards separated corvettes, frigates, and sloopsNotable Point
- Bruships 197: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:10:25Why the Moskva-class helicopter carriers were unstableQ&A
- Submarines of the Minor Navys...Polish, Greek, Dutch & Norwegian Boats in WWII39:54Jastrzab and the lethal identification rules around convoy PQ 15Notable Point
- Submarines of the Minor Navys...Polish, Greek, Dutch & Norwegian Boats in WWII1:34:20Early Dutch K boats: colonial service, obsolescence, and trainingNotable Point
- Submarines of the Minor Navys...Polish, Greek, Dutch & Norwegian Boats in WWII2:52:48Which minor navy had the strongest ASW doctrine?Q&A
- Scuttlebutt 11: from SDSR to Pearl Harbor, with a stop at CVA-01 along the way...2:41Why a quoted sonar range can misleadNotable Point
- Bruships 196: Naval History Questions Answered Live...52:47How a submarine-first German fleet would change British strategyNotable Point
- Bruships 196: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:28:58Submarine anti-aircraft missiles and disputed Soviet installationsQ&A
- Bruships 196: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:39:42How lightweight torpedoes armed anti-submarine helicoptersNotable Point
- Bruships 196: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:43:35The QH-50 DASH as a destroyer's remote ASW weaponQ&A
- Isolationist America: What should Australia, Britain & Canada do if it happens in the next 5 years?22:36Replacing American mass in maritime patrol aviationChapter
- Isolationist America: What should Australia, Britain & Canada do if it happens in the next 5 years?33:04Australia's exposed sea lanes and undersea cablesChapter
- Bruships 195: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:25:24Helicopter-deployed uncrewed vehicles for mine warfare and ASWQ&A
- Bruships 195: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:39:26When ships fire one ASW torpedo and when they salvoQ&A
- Bruships 195: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:17:57What the Maestrale-class frigates passed to later Italian designsQ&A
- Bruships 195: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:46:30Anti-submarine weapons used on landQ&A
- Bruships 195: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:34:34World War II combatants with modern drone controlsQ&A
- Bruships 195: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:52:05Giuseppe Garibaldi as an Indonesian light carrierQ&A
- Didos, Atlantas & Conversions: Which were the true Screening, Scouting or AA Cruisers of WWII?29:13Why Didos carried ASDIC without becoming submarine huntersNotable Point
- Bruships 194: Naval History Questions Answered Live...38:28How ASROC could complement Royal Navy helicoptersQ&A
- Bruships 194: Naval History Questions Answered Live...42:40Matching an ASW drone to a 1,000 kg torpedo packageNotable Point
- Bruships 194: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:07:57Why adding ASW weapons can turn an OPV into a frigateQ&A
- Bruships 194: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:38:29What the Royal Navy learned and missed in interwar exercisesQ&A
- Jellicoe's Jutland: Analytical leadership at its best and its most problematic29:09Learning to force a naval case through wartime politicsNotable Point
- Jellicoe's Jutland: Analytical leadership at its best and its most problematic1:25:12Henderson carries analytical command into the next fleetChapter
- Bruships 193: Naval History Questions Answered Live...37:15Why arming patrol vessels for ASW can backfireQ&A
- Bruships 193: Naval History Questions Answered Live...48:13How a submarine-only Germany could strengthen a British attack on TarantoNotable Point
- Bruships 193: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:50:33Russia's continuing bastion strategyQ&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...3:58:37Processing sonar data aboard an uncrewed sensor craftNotable Point
- Bruships 193: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:59:41Why airborne and shipborne ASW work togetherQ&A
- Bruships 193: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:01:56A torpedo-delivery drone that can be recalledNotable Point
- Bring in the Heavies... AA Cruisers in WWII, what was their value?57:14Dido's radar and ASDic supported fleet screeningNotable Point
- Bring in the Heavies... AA Cruisers in WWII, what was their value?1:50:22Air and surface screening in the Bay of BiscayChapter
- Bruships 192: Naval History Questions Answered Live...29:57Can naval guns defeat uncrewed underwater vehicles?Q&A
- Bruships 192: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:09:18Why early U-boat losses had a compounding personnel costNotable Point
- Bruships 192: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:04:13How effective early homing torpedoes were in the Second World WarQ&A
- Bruships 192: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:06:39What limited wartime homing-torpedo impactQ&A
- Bruships 191: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:04:04From CVA-01 cancellation to the Invincible classQ&A
- Bruships 191: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:31:15Modernizing Bismarck as a surface-action-group flagshipQ&A
- Bruships 191: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:50:56The newspaper report that exposed shallow Japanese depth chargesQ&A
- Bruships 191: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:16:35Would Captain Johnnie Walker have thrived as an admiral?Q&A
- What makes an Admiral, but not a Captain?42:40Walker and the captain's three command problemsChapter
- What makes an Admiral, but not a Captain?56:30An admiral optimizes the fleet, not the flagshipChapter
- Leadership of the 1930 London Naval Treaty2:42:50How British sloops used the gunboat exemptionQ&A
- Leadership of the 1930 London Naval Treaty2:44:27Why twin 4-inch guns suited sloops better than a 6-inch gunQ&A
- Leadership of the 1930 London Naval Treaty2:46:43Could either gun calibre disable a submarine?Q&A
- Bruships 190: Naval History Questions Answered Live...42:55Who Argentine carrier ASW doctrine was meant to fightQ&A
- Bruships 190: Naval History Questions Answered Live...53:46How carrier ASW doctrine met nuclear submarinesQ&A
- 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...continued45:26Why a Taiwan Strait invasion would be exceptionally difficultQ&A
- Bruships 189: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:38:05Why the Swordfish survived after becoming an anachronismNotable Point
- Italian Submarines of WWII: Shackled Potential or Victims of Geography?12:27The Adua class paid heavily in contested watersChapter
- Italian Submarines of WWII: Shackled Potential or Victims of Geography?28:23Royal Navy cruisers carried anti-submarine lessons into battleNotable Point
- Italian Submarines of WWII: Shackled Potential or Victims of Geography?44:39A submarine victory could still lose the exchangeNotable Point
- Italian Submarines of WWII: Shackled Potential or Victims of Geography?46:22A torpedo attack begins the submarine's escape problemNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 21st Century Battleship: Chat & Comment Response...5:07The battleship as an uncrewed task-group hubChapter
- Scuttlebutt 21st Century Battleship: Chat & Comment Response...12:12A long-range torpedo must defeat the whole ASW screenQ&A
- Scuttlebutt 21st Century Battleship: Chat & Comment Response...54:01Correcting claims about torpedo depth, silence, and easy killsQ&A
- Scuttlebutt 21st Century Battleship: Chat & Comment Response...1:00:25The battleship would not deploy alone against submarinesQ&A
- The Battle Line Sallied Forth: the USN Pacific Fleet goes to sea on the 6th of December 19411:13:55Why the Japanese submarine screen might miss the departing fleetNotable Point
- Strategic Defence & Security Review 2025: What would a naval historian do?1:35:23Extra-large uncrewed submarines can multiply the fleetNotable Point
- Tribal, Battle & Daring Class Destroyers: 5yrs since the first live stream!1:18:18Turbo-electric control for submarine hunting and carrier flight operationsNotable Point
- Tribal, Battle & Daring Class Destroyers: 5yrs since the first live stream!1:47:42The U-class hunter-killer path Britain did not takeNotable Point
- 21st Century Battleship: What would a battleship built today need to be a battleship?1:18:23Offboard anti-submarine screening completes the hybrid designChapter
- A 1920s Caspian Sea Carrier: What happens if the German/Soviet relationship includes a carrier?56:56Wartime losses shape British safety prioritiesNotable Point
- The Life of Admiral Sir Frederick Hew George Dalrymple-Hamilton: When Speed is never enough!26:34A rapid succession of First World War commandsChapter
- Bruships 188: Naval History Questions Answered Liven & Birthday Party...45:58Why Western SSBNs avoid bastionsQ&A
- Bruships 188: Naval History Questions Answered Liven & Birthday Party...1:39:28Japan's long-range flying boats in the ASW roleQ&A
- So you want to Build a Battleship today? For the 21st Century? Naval History Live50:38Would a broken keel make the battleship uniquely vulnerable?Q&A
- So you want to Build a Battleship today? For the 21st Century? Naval History Live2:18:58The mission bay turns one hull into a self-escorting flotillaChapter
- So you want to Build a Battleship today? For the 21st Century? Naval History Live2:56:30Would modern smart torpedoes defeat the battleship concept?Q&A
- Leadership Alive: What happens if Adm R. Henderson & Adm W. Fisher Live through WWII?50:40Henderson likely prevents Courageous hunting submarinesChapter
- How Admirals Shape Ships? From the Frigate built Galleons to Arleigh Burkes...1:46:32Why early Burkes lacked helicopter hangarsNotable Point
- Bruships 186: Naval History Questions Answered Live...22:55Were FRAM destroyers really frigates?Q&A
- An Indomitable Force Z6:28Losses and overwork exhausted Britain's available carriersNotable Point
- An Indomitable Force Z22:07Older destroyers remained useful ASW and AA assetsNotable Point
- Bruships 185: Naval History Questions Answered Live...32:47An ASW-leaning Type 26 for NorwayQ&A
- Bruships 185: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:44:16Why mine-laying submarines caused more strategic troubleQ&A
- Bruships 185: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:00:02Constellation, Type 26, and Type 31 serve different tiersQ&A
- Bruships 185: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:44:10An optionally crewed Flower-class ASW picketQ&A
- Bruships 184: Naval History Questions Answered Live...14:08Why interwar anti-submarine development appeared slowQ&A
- Bruships 184: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:38:28How the Fleet Air Arm might have used SunderlandsQ&A
- Bruships 184: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:06:19Why Warspite's floatplane attack at Narvik was exceptionalQ&A
- Seaplane Tenders: An Earlier Answer to the Battle of the Atlantic?0:00Why seaplane tenders were not the historical Atlantic answerQ&A
- Seaplane Tenders: An Earlier Answer to the Battle of the Atlantic?39:14Walrus, Swordfish, and Catalina offered different patrol reachChapter
- Seaplane Tenders: An Earlier Answer to the Battle of the Atlantic?43:27Tender patrols could release fleet carriers for primary dutiesNotable Point
- Seaplane Tenders: An Earlier Answer to the Battle of the Atlantic?1:01:24Mediterranean basing could change carrier employmentChapter
- Bruships 183: Science Fiction/Naval History Questions Answered Live...51:28The World War II design that could transform World War IQ&A
- Bruships 183: Science Fiction/Naval History Questions Answered Live...55:50Why larger submarine guns would struggle against destroyer escortsNotable Point
- Bruships 183: Science Fiction/Naval History Questions Answered Live...57:53Why Bay-class frigates could scale World War I convoy defenceNotable Point
- Bruships 183: Science Fiction/Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:29:51Frigate missions and criticism of the Littoral Combat ShipQ&A
- Bruships 182: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:39:21Detached escorts and flight operations exposed Courageous to submarinesNotable Point
- Bruships 182: Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:12:27Rebuilding HMS Renown as a modern surface-action leaderQ&A
- Could Seaplanes Tenders have been used in the Battle for the Atlantic? Naval History Live!1:31:23Replacing fleet carriers in early Western Approaches ASWChapter
- Could Seaplanes Tenders have been used in the Battle for the Atlantic? Naval History Live!2:01:59HMAS Albatross as the practical Atlantic exampleChapter
- Could Seaplanes Tenders have been used in the Battle for the Atlantic? Naval History Live!2:22:46Would tenders escort convoys or support fixed patrol zones?Q&A
- Could Seaplanes Tenders have been used in the Battle for the Atlantic? Naval History Live!2:52:30How extra air patrols would disrupt U-boat operationsQ&A
- Could Seaplanes Tenders have been used in the Battle for the Atlantic? Naval History Live!3:00:10Would more ASW aircraft replace Hedgehog development?Q&A
- Bruships 181: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:21:45Carrier battle groups against Soviet bastionsQ&A
- Bruships 181: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:56:08Why helicopter ASW and V-22 delivery replaced fixed-wing rolesQ&A
- The Admiralty: A Contest of Leadership with Management... Naval History Live3:22:49Treaty-exempt sloops could have expanded escort capacityNotable Point
- The Admiralty: A Contest of Leadership with Management... Naval History Live3:34:21Why interwar submarine danger did not guarantee escort fundingQ&A
- Bruships 180: Naval History Questions Answered...Part II47:24Royal Navy anti-submarine preparation between the warsQ&A
- Bruships 180: Naval History Questions Answered...Part II50:42Why AEW and ASW aircraft are not easily interchangeableQ&A
- Bruships 180: Naval History Questions Answered...Part II1:26:17Why battleships briefly carried depth-charge throwersQ&A
- Bruships 180: Naval History Questions Answered...Part II1:59:33Is Battlestar Galactica's Raptor closer to AEW or ASW?Q&A
- Bruships 180: Naval History Questions Answered...Part II2:29:23Canada’s River-class destroyers as large Type 26 derivativesQ&A
- Bruships 180: Naval History Questions Answered...1:28:17The missing escorts in Japan's Circle One programmeQ&A
- What if the 1900s Royal Navy went full DARPA?3:15:40Would submarines and anti-submarine warfare advance sooner?Q&A
- Bruships 179: Future Projects & Naval History Questions...2:33:38Why surface ships prefer standoff anti-submarine attacksQ&A
- Bruships 179: Future Projects & Naval History Questions...2:39:05Would a 5-inch gun refit make sense for the Type 45?Q&A
- Bruships 179: Future Projects & Naval History Questions...3:16:20Royal Navy observers and the division of cockpit rolesQ&A
- Bruships 179: Future Projects & Naval History Questions...3:25:42Torpex, anti-submarine weapons, and warhead secrecyQ&A
- Guard Ships: What they were & What they are... Key Ship Series 922:41What guard ship means in the modern Royal NavyChapter
- The Leadership Factor: The Battle of the Barents Sea53:41Why more U-boats were not a simple substitute for battleshipsNotable Point
- Bruships 178: Naval History or Exercise1:09:42Where modern frigates, destroyers, and cruisers divergeQ&A
- Bruships 178: Naval History or Exercise4:26:26Could Hedgehog-style ASW weapons return?Q&A
- Bruships 177: New Year, same Dr Alex... possibly with new gym membership15:57Why the R class was a precursor rather than a complete SSKQ&A
- Bruships 177: New Year, same Dr Alex... possibly with new gym membership1:03:48Why two Type IIB submarines would not transform China's war with JapanQ&A
- Battle of the Barents Sea: Naval History Live38:48How treaty-exempt sloops answered a submarine-only threatNotable Point
- Battle of the Barents Sea: Naval History Live1:05:00How a convoy escort could hunt submarinesNotable Point
- Battle of the Barents Sea: Naval History Live2:05:16Specialized British escorts and a flexible fighting screenChapter
- Convoys: When, Why & What, the Benefits & the Negatives…31:50How an escorted convoy can become a submarine trapChapter
- Bruships 176: Christyear or Newmas?15:16How threat and mission shape amphibious escortsQ&A
- Bruships 176: Christyear or Newmas?47:14Forrest Sherman destroyers as adaptable general-purpose shipsQ&A
- Bruships 176: Christyear or Newmas?1:09:02S-3 Viking and distant carrier ASW screeningQ&A
- Bruships 176: Christyear or Newmas?1:22:05Why more interwar ASDIC money alone was not enoughQ&A
- Bruships 176: Christyear or Newmas?2:43:30Royal Navy ASW groups used helicopters under allied air coverQ&A
- Bruships 176: Christyear or Newmas?2:51:44Ireland's limited personnel favor air defense, patrol ships, and ASW helicoptersQ&A
- Battle of Elli(1912): When Regional Powers Go to War33:02Cruiser design begins with endurance and habitabilityNotable Point
- Tribal Class of 1907: The WWI Channel Response Force13:40HMS Afridi as a Dover Patrol response destroyerNotable Point
- Tribal Class of 1907: The WWI Channel Response Force28:03HMS Gurkha attacks U-8 at the Dover BarrageNotable Point
- Tribal Class of 1907: The WWI Channel Response Force40:41Specialist Dover ships free destroyers for the main fleetNotable Point
- Tribal Class of 1907: The WWI Channel Response Force1:04:24Chatham combines Zulu and Nubian into HMS ZubianChapter
- Royal Navy go for speed not bulwark in the Nelson Class design...2:36:20Fleet confidence changes diplomacy and frustrates a submarine offsetNotable Point
- Royal Navy go for speed not bulwark in the Nelson Class design...3:05:48The Indian Ocean brought three Axis submarine services togetherNotable Point
- Prof Mercogliano & Dr C Discuss What is going on with Logistics(Shipping)? #2Historians Ep 543:00World War I convoy debates anticipated the Battle of the AtlanticChapter
- Prof Mercogliano & Dr C Discuss What is going on with Logistics(Shipping)? #2Historians Ep 549:21Unfinished wartime problems shaped later naval capabilitiesNotable Point
- Prof Mercogliano & Dr C Discuss What is going on with Logistics(Shipping)? #2Historians Ep 550:43World War I suppression tactics anticipated hunter-killer groupsNotable Point
- Prof Mercogliano & Dr C Discuss What is going on with Logistics(Shipping)? #2Historians Ep 51:12:41Lend-Lease escorts also flowed to American watersNotable Point
- Prof Mercogliano & Dr C Discuss What is going on with Logistics(Shipping)? #2Historians Ep 51:14:00Worldwide convoy coverage narrowed the U-boats' choicesNotable Point
- So You Want to Build an Aircraft Carrier: Operation & Learning From Experience! Part 3 or 1 of 313:10The carrier as a command-and-control hubChapter
- Frigating in WWII for the Allies: HMAS Diamantina & the River Class Frigates3:15Diamantina's stable hull and ASDIC dome in dry dockChapter
- Frigating in WWII for the Allies: HMAS Diamantina & the River Class Frigates20:50The River class between corvettes and Black Swan sloopsChapter
- Frigating in WWII for the Allies: HMAS Diamantina & the River Class Frigates45:56Diamantina's convoy-defense weapons fitChapter
- Frigating in WWII for the Allies: HMAS Diamantina & the River Class Frigates1:02:25USS Natchez joined the attack that sank U-879Notable Point
- Frigating in WWII for the Allies: HMAS Diamantina & the River Class Frigates1:03:12Waskesiu shows how a defended convoy became an offensive forceNotable Point
- Bruships 175: Pre- Christmas Party 20247:23A Christmas shelf of destroyers, U-boats, shipyards, cruisers, and naval aircraftChapter
- Bruships 175: Pre- Christmas Party 202448:09When convoys began and why technology has not made them obsoleteQ&A
- Bruships 175: Pre- Christmas Party 202450:14Why improvised carrier substitutes fail in contested airspaceNotable Point
- Bruships 175: Pre- Christmas Party 20241:19:02Why carriers, submarines, and escorts remain a durable fleet systemQ&A
- Bruships 175: Pre- Christmas Party 20242:09:35Why the Royal Navy has been unconvinced by VL-ASROCQ&A
- Bruships 175: Pre- Christmas Party 20242:55:04Why the Baltic Project was the only way to tighten the blockade of GermanyQ&A
- Bruships 175: Pre- Christmas Party 20243:06:19What widespread submarine snorkels would change in World War IIQ&A
- Bruships 175: Pre- Christmas Party 20245:00:06Why flying boats could not simply land and refuel beside Atlantic convoysQ&A
- Hunting Submarines from WWI to Present Day; How Aircraft, Ships & Submarines Work Together?0:34Why submarine speed is constrained by noiseChapter
- Hunting Submarines from WWI to Present Day; How Aircraft, Ships & Submarines Work Together?4:01Convoys as an offensive anti-submarine systemNotable Point
- Hunting Submarines from WWI to Present Day; How Aircraft, Ships & Submarines Work Together?11:08Anti-submarine warfare is mission denialNotable Point
- Hunting Submarines from WWI to Present Day; How Aircraft, Ships & Submarines Work Together?20:23Felixstowe flying boats suppressed U-boatsChapter
- Hunting Submarines from WWI to Present Day; How Aircraft, Ships & Submarines Work Together?23:46The Spider's Web flying-boat patrolChapter
- Hunting Submarines from WWI to Present Day; How Aircraft, Ships & Submarines Work Together?30:18Anti-submarine warfare begins with informationChapter
- Hunting Submarines from WWI to Present Day; How Aircraft, Ships & Submarines Work Together?48:21Why adding a friendly SSN raises hunt risksChapter
- Hunting Submarines from WWI to Present Day; How Aircraft, Ships & Submarines Work Together?55:56Shore headquarters prioritize contacts; ships retain cautionChapter
- Hunting Submarines from WWI to Present Day; How Aircraft, Ships & Submarines Work Together?58:06Why an unverified submarine kill remains a threatNotable Point
- Hunting Submarines from WWI to Present Day; How Aircraft, Ships & Submarines Work Together?59:16ASW requires mass against hundreds of possible contactsNotable Point
- Hunting Submarines from WWI to Present Day; How Aircraft, Ships & Submarines Work Together?1:01:14Design a practical ASW hunting forceNotable Point
- Prof Bennet & Dr C Discuss Naval Culture: does it exist & whether it matters? #2Historians ep 415:26How Jutland turned Royal Navy learning inwardNotable Point
- Prof Bennet & Dr C Discuss Naval Culture: does it exist & whether it matters? #2Historians ep 444:30Merchant experience aboard Bathurst-class corvettesNotable Point
- Prof Bennet & Dr C Discuss Naval Culture: does it exist & whether it matters? #2Historians ep 449:42Why warships do more than their headline missionChapter
- Bruships 174: Ten Days to Christmas... have I got the lights up yet?2:43:50Why surveillance ships rely on distance and layered protectionQ&A
- Bruships 174: Ten Days to Christmas... have I got the lights up yet?3:09:30Why Arctic anti-submarine surveillance still depends on submarinesQ&A
- Anti Submarine Warfare, a primer history & overview6:03Why early submarines were vulnerable from the airChapter
- Anti Submarine Warfare, a primer history & overview15:07Air search, visual detection, and the submarine mission killChapter
- Anti Submarine Warfare, a primer history & overview19:04Q-ships, convoys, escorts, and radio monitoringChapter
- Anti Submarine Warfare, a primer history & overview25:30Why German U-boat tonnage promises collapsed after mid-1917Notable Point
- Anti Submarine Warfare, a primer history & overview26:51Felixstowe flying boats and the Spider's Web patrolChapter
- Anti Submarine Warfare, a primer history & overview32:34How British ASW experience shaped Allied interwar assumptionsNotable Point
- Anti Submarine Warfare, a primer history & overview45:57Modern ASW begins with an information pictureChapter
- Anti Submarine Warfare, a primer history & overview59:24Acoustic signatures in a noisy oceanChapter
- Anti Submarine Warfare, a primer history & overview1:09:38IUSS, SOSUS, and mobile towed-array surveillanceChapter
- Anti Submarine Warfare, a primer history & overview1:14:08The post-counterinsurgency ASW infrastructure gapNotable Point
- Anti Submarine Warfare, a primer history & overview1:19:41Maritime patrol aircraft turn clues into local contactsChapter
- Anti Submarine Warfare, a primer history & overview1:26:05Multi-vector submarine huntingChapter
- Anti Submarine Warfare, a primer history & overview1:46:01Command decisions, uncertain contacts, and active sonarChapter
- Anti Submarine Warfare, a primer history & overview1:48:14Why peacetime ASW exercises struggle to reproduce warNotable Point
- Anti Submarine Warfare, a primer history & overview1:56:09From convoy protection to oceanic homeland defenseNotable Point
- Anti Submarine Warfare, a primer history & overview1:57:24Why more sensors will not quickly make the oceans transparentNotable Point
- Anti Submarine Warfare, a primer history & overview2:12:06ASW evolution and the possible return of flying boatsNotable Point
- Anti Submarine Warfare, a primer history & overview2:19:15Uncrewed sensors, undersea drones, and AUKUS submarinesQ&A
- Anti Submarine Warfare, a primer history & overview2:24:13Who invented ASDIC?Q&A
- Anti Submarine Warfare, a primer history & overview2:28:32Can Littoral Combat Ships fill the US Navy's ASW gap?Q&A
- Anti Submarine Warfare, a primer history & overview2:28:48How Type 23 and Type 26 compare with Perry-class frigatesQ&A
- Anti Submarine Warfare, a primer history & overview2:29:38How the Alfa class turned automation and speed into a new threatQ&A
- Anti Submarine Warfare, a primer history & overview2:30:53Choosing SSNs, AIP submarines, and XLUUVs by theaterQ&A
- Anti Submarine Warfare, a primer history & overview2:37:31Can an SSN outrun an incoming torpedo?Q&A
- Anti Submarine Warfare, a primer history & overview2:51:43What would make submarines obsolete?Q&A
- Anti Submarine Warfare, a primer history & overview2:54:35The ultimate submarine defense is a layered systemQ&A
- Built in Australia: HMAS Castlemaine & the Bathurst Class Corvettes27:19Deloraine and supporting escorts hunted I-124Notable Point
- Built in Australia: HMAS Castlemaine & the Bathurst Class Corvettes36:05Merchant mariners supplied experienced corvette commandersChapter
- Built in Australia: HMAS Castlemaine & the Bathurst Class Corvettes54:25Minesweeping gear consumed space but protected vital approachesChapter
- Built in Australia: HMAS Castlemaine & the Bathurst Class Corvettes1:05:33Submarine alerts complicated towing and boiler maintenanceNotable Point
- Built in Australia: HMAS Castlemaine & the Bathurst Class Corvettes1:17:02Castlemaine entered service with a compact specialist crewChapter
- Built in Australia: HMAS Castlemaine & the Bathurst Class Corvettes1:39:14Escort warfare rewarded presence more than individual powerNotable Point
- Bruships 173: Christmas Books for the History Lover in your life...1:25:44Why the US Navy moved carrier delivery toward V-22Q&A
- Bruships 173: Christmas Books for the History Lover in your life...4:02:17Why convoy timing depended on escort capacityQ&A
- Bruships 173: Christmas Books for the History Lover in your life...4:30:30Possible naval roles for Bell high-speed VTOL aircraftQ&A
- Bruships 173: Christmas Books for the History Lover in your life...5:04:55Why helicopter cruisers work as ASW shipsQ&A
- Bruships 173: Christmas Books for the History Lover in your life...5:07:58A future uncrewed successor to the S-3 VikingQ&A
- Just 10 Days of Submarine Sinkings53:34How U-331 penetrated the screen and sank HMS BarhamChapter
- Just 10 Days of Submarine Sinkings1:07:42The Gilbert Islands response costs Japan six submarinesNotable Point
- Just 10 Days of Submarine Sinkings1:15:07Rescue under threat and I-175's later lossNotable Point
- Bruships 172: So the Historiophon Happened...1:32Carriers and maritime patrol aircraft reshape naval warfareQ&A
- Bruships 172: So the Historiophon Happened...1:41:05How tactical nuclear use at sea could escalateQ&A
- Three Days from Pearl Harbor: The World if the Kido Butai is Spotted on the 4th of December...28:13Task Force 3 as the credible discovery forceChapter
- Of Two Submarines, in two wars... The sinkings of HMHS Britannic & IJS Kongo2:13:55Black Swan and Stonecrop destroy U-124Notable Point
- Of Two Submarines, in two wars... The sinkings of HMHS Britannic & IJS Kongo2:27:19Why Mediterranean U-boat deployment was nearly one-wayNotable Point
- Of Two Submarines, in two wars... The sinkings of HMHS Britannic & IJS Kongo2:46:07U-177's long-range reach and destruction from the airNotable Point
- WWI in the English Channel... A Primer on Years of Hard Forgotten Fighting6:42The Dover Barrage as an adapting anti-submarine barrierChapter
- WWI in the English Channel... A Primer on Years of Hard Forgotten Fighting8:14How a single breach can rewrite defensive assumptionsNotable Point
- WWI in the English Channel... A Primer on Years of Hard Forgotten Fighting9:44The lost interwar surveillance opportunity in the ChannelNotable Point
- WWI in the English Channel... A Primer on Years of Hard Forgotten Fighting23:38Reginald Bacon corrects a failed assumption about U-boatsNotable Point
- WWI in the English Channel... A Primer on Years of Hard Forgotten Fighting1:10:44HMS Swift and the experiment with a six-inch destroyer gunChapter
- WWI in the English Channel... A Primer on Years of Hard Forgotten Fighting1:11:46HMS Swift finds survivors from the torpedoed HMS HawkeNotable Point
- 85% is still a First! The Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers...46:39RFA helicopters and global carrier operationsNotable Point
- 85% is still a First! The Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers...1:05:39The escort shortage around the carriersChapter
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/439:45Tribal and Beagle classes shape Royal Navy destroyersChapter
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/44:33:36Why Britain armed auxiliary AA and ASW shipsQ&A
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/45:08:40A 1970s war around the GIUK GapQ&A
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/45:53Why Royal Navy operational research outpaced the KriegsmarineQ&A
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/415:33How First World War failures shaped Royal Navy preparationNotable Point
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/42:08:44Japanese anti-submarine shells for five-inch gunsQ&A
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/44:10:33Why a supercarrier needs helicopters for ASW and liftQ&A
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/47:38:39HMS Dianthus made certain a U-boat could not escapeNotable Point
- World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/44:13:51German, Italian, and Japanese submarines in the Indian OceanQ&A
- World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/46:37:17HMS Una from Mediterranean patrols to ASW trainingChapter
- World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/46:52:37Utmost: a successful patrol and a probable depth-charge lossChapter
- World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/47:00:25Using anti-submarine expertise to design a harder targetNotable Point
- World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/47:49:40Mediterranean, Baltic, and Taiwan submarine threats comparedQ&A
- World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/47:57:34Why Mediterranean submarines needed to dive quicklyNotable Point
- World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/48:17:57Why Norway could prefer the Type 26 frigateNotable Point
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/419:47Why the Royal Navy risked carriers in submarine hunting groupsQ&A
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/42:11:47Britain pursued its own FRAM-like destroyer conversionsQ&A
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/43:51:46How Flowers gained weapons, sensors, and endurance during the warChapter
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/44:26:23A Flower Corvette fought a surfaced U-boat at point-blank rangeNotable Point
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/45:41:52Why the Atlantic needed Flowers before Tacoma-class frigatesQ&A
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/45:49:27Autogyros offered a limited route to shipborne submarine huntingQ&A
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/45:54:22Why mass British sloop building would not automatically produce Type XXIQ&A
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/45:57:57Converting seaplane tenders could preserve fleet carriers for fleet workQ&A
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/46:06:26Uncrewed escorts can make active sensors tactically expendableNotable Point
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/46:34:50Early I-400 operations would pull American escorts homeQ&A
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/46:50:20Why breaching Soviet SSBN bastions risks nuclear escalationQ&A
- Kido Butai spotted on december 4th 1941... 3 days before Pearl Harbour, what changes? Patreon 10817:09Task Force 3 provides the plausible sightingChapter
- Steadfastly with Winged Sword: 881 Squadron RNAS/RCNAS37:50881 returns in Canada for anti-submarine warfareChapter
- Bruships 171: Oh Kallax my Kallax, Where art though my Kallax2:29:10A Type 45 destroyer as a Second World War fleet assetQ&A
- Bruships 171: Oh Kallax my Kallax, Where art though my Kallax2:41:46Why a 5.1-inch gun would barely change wartime destroyer conversionsQ&A
- Bruships 171: Oh Kallax my Kallax, Where art though my Kallax4:17:50A STOVL ASW aircraft must match the fleet's search methodQ&A
- Bruships 171: Oh Kallax my Kallax, Where art though my Kallax5:13:17The Fairey Rotodyne's plausible naval jobsQ&A
- @Drachinifel & Dr Clarke Discuss Royal Navy Aircraft Carriers that almost were! #2Historians ep 145:18Survivable fleet carriers and smaller ASW escortsNotable Point
- Bruships 170: Once more unto the Kalax dear listners, once more unto the Kalax!1:25:11Designing a British Stalingrad counter around guns and helicoptersNotable Point
- Bruships 170: Once more unto the Kalax dear listners, once more unto the Kalax!1:32:47The Gannet, S-3 Viking, and the reach of carrier-based ASWQ&A
- Bruships 170: Once more unto the Kalax dear listners, once more unto the Kalax!2:00:34A Stalingrad aviation cruiser in the Red Fleet timelineQ&A
- Bruships 170: Once more unto the Kalax dear listners, once more unto the Kalax!2:19:19Distributed missile ships still need sensors and commandNotable Point
- Bruships 170: Once more unto the Kalax dear listners, once more unto the Kalax!2:41:53When a submarine might fire a surface-to-air missileQ&A
- Bruships 170: Once more unto the Kalax dear listners, once more unto the Kalax!4:26:48How small should a nuclear-powered escort be?Q&A
- Frigating Tiger Cubs: WWI if the Royal Navy builds some 9.2in armed 'Dreadnought Cruisers'59:21Could the Tiger Cubs have revived the frigate name?Notable Point
- Bruships 169: Kalax o Kalax, my kingdom for a Kalax...2:01:23Privateer and Shackleton are harder to compare than their service dates suggestQ&A
- Bruships 169: Kalax o Kalax, my kingdom for a Kalax...2:19:18Why networks and missiles do not eliminate capital shipsQ&A
- Bruships 169: Kalax o Kalax, my kingdom for a Kalax...2:35:37Why better sensors will not make the oceans transparentQ&A
- What happens if Britain has a Malta off the coast of Germany in WWI? Helgoland!1:19:43A forward base for air and anti-submarine warfareNotable Point
- Third Rate Ships of the Line: Ubiquity, Ubiquity, o' the Ubiquity!45:50Cold War prestige versus specialized warshipsNotable Point
- French Naval Aviation Doctrine & Other potential carrier powers of the 1930s17:58A flexible air group and fighter doctrineChapter
- French Naval Aviation Doctrine & Other potential carrier powers of the 1930s41:37Italy's belated case for organic air coverChapter
- Bruships 168: And a empty Kalax, sang the aisles a serenade, longing for books with a love song13:50A surviving CVA-01 fleet into the F-35 eraQ&A
- Bruships 168: And a empty Kalax, sang the aisles a serenade, longing for books with a love song59:24Why the Supermarine Seagull lost out to helicoptersQ&A
- Bruships 168: And a empty Kalax, sang the aisles a serenade, longing for books with a love song1:04:46Leanders versus Knox, Garcia, and Brooke escortsQ&A
- Fortress Heligoland: Britain doesn't give Heligoland to Germany in the 1890 Agreement... Patreon 1061:40:26A submarine contest in Germany's coastal watersNotable Point
- Fortress Heligoland: Britain doesn't give Heligoland to Germany in the 1890 Agreement... Patreon 1062:10:57Air defence, supply, and Germany's naval choicesChapter
- Fortress Heligoland: Britain doesn't give Heligoland to Germany in the 1890 Agreement... Patreon 1062:10:57Fighter range, radar, and keeping the fortress suppliedChapter
- Traditional French Bonhomie to spare via the only non USN Nuclear Carrier! The Charles de Gaulle!0:00Why a carrier force needs spare hullsChapter
- Traditional French Bonhomie to spare via the only non USN Nuclear Carrier! The Charles de Gaulle!35:36Rafales, helicopters, and space for troopsChapter
- Bruships 167: Tell me why, everything turned book – packing up, stacking up is all kalax want to do.1:32:07Type 23 or Oliver Hazard Perry: capability versus numbersQ&A
- Bruships 167: Tell me why, everything turned book – packing up, stacking up is all kalax want to do.2:23:22Canada's escort navy in the Battle of the AtlanticQ&A
- Bruships 167: Tell me why, everything turned book – packing up, stacking up is all kalax want to do.2:56:45Hedgehog accuracy versus depth-charge totalsQ&A
- Bruships 167: Tell me why, everything turned book – packing up, stacking up is all kalax want to do.3:26:44Anechoic tiles on a Type XXI in the Second World WarQ&A
- Soviet Naval Aviation Doctrine: Always Wrestling the Same Demons1:32:33What the 1990 naval aviation inventory revealsNotable Point
- Bruships 166: As I walk through the library of Naval History, I take a look at my shelf space....13:00Anti-submarine shells and underwater dronesQ&A
- Bruships 166: As I walk through the library of Naval History, I take a look at my shelf space....54:45The Grumman Guardian's hunter-killer pairsQ&A
- Bruships 166: As I walk through the library of Naval History, I take a look at my shelf space....3:59:46Should Coast Guard cutters carry sonar?Q&A
- Scuttlebutt 6: Responding to some History Hot Takes...5:36Postwar naval aid as an alliance bargainQ&A
- V.Adm Beatty is sent to Command the Mediterranean Battle Cruisers in 1914... Patreon 1051:36:03Freed escorts and victories could reshape naval policyNotable Point
- Kuznetsov Class Aircraft Carriers: Smoking the Mazut43:59Helicopters extend carrier warning and rescue coverageChapter
- Bruships 165: I saw a Poodle with a Kalax Manual in his hand, walking through the moors of cornwall34:18What would the Royal Navy do with 2,000-ton sloops?Q&A
- Bruships 165: I saw a Poodle with a Kalax Manual in his hand, walking through the moors of cornwall1:27:14The intended CVA-01 escort groupQ&A
- Bruships 165: I saw a Poodle with a Kalax Manual in his hand, walking through the moors of cornwall1:55:30Armed fishing trawlers against U-boatsQ&A
- Bruships 165: I saw a Poodle with a Kalax Manual in his hand, walking through the moors of cornwall2:20:10Interwar priorities for a forewarned First Sea LordQ&A
- The Current Carrier Generation: War is over/War has yet to begin35:08Falklands: when air control displaces amphibious liftChapter
- The Current Carrier Generation: War is over/War has yet to begin38:29Diesel-electric submarines and layered carrier defenceNotable Point
- The Current Carrier Generation: War is over/War has yet to begin46:20How helicopter carriers serve national maritime rolesChapter
- Bruships 164: Is this Book life? Is this just a library?Caught in a landslide, no Kallax for safety!1:06:18The sea-control ship's multi-role design trapQ&A
- Bruships 164: Is this Book life? Is this just a library?Caught in a landslide, no Kallax for safety!2:47:19The Shirane class as Japan's aviation stepping stoneQ&A
- Bruships 164: Is this Book life? Is this just a library?Caught in a landslide, no Kallax for safety!2:56:10How the Dutch Van Speijk frigates served NATOQ&A
- The Nimitz Class: The Tenacious Ten that underpin America on the Global Stage1:03:03The Cold War air wing’s layered specialist capabilitiesChapter
- Drones & The Future of the Carrier Air Group - Patreon Premier1:16:21A crewed helicopter leading an uncrewed ASW packChapter
- Through Deck Cruisers: The Kiev & Invincible Classes of Aircraft Carrier13:38Kiev supported Soviet bastion defenceChapter
- Through Deck Cruisers: The Kiev & Invincible Classes of Aircraft Carrier21:49A missile-heavy battle carrier with a limited Yak-38Notable Point
- Through Deck Cruisers: The Kiev & Invincible Classes of Aircraft Carrier25:20The GIUK gap as a North Atlantic surveillance lineNotable Point
- Through Deck Cruisers: The Kiev & Invincible Classes of Aircraft Carrier26:36Invincible's Royal Navy missions around the GIUK gapChapter
- Through Deck Cruisers: The Kiev & Invincible Classes of Aircraft Carrier58:28Sea King and Kamov Ka-25 reveal different ASW force designsChapter
- Bruships 163: I need a Kalax Kalax, a Kalax is what I need! Naval History Questions & Chat31:12A plausible CVA-01 air wing after the BuccaneerQ&A
- 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...39:08A modular helicopter concept for carrier flexibilityNotable Point
- Empire Prepares: What if the British Empire invested more in the 1920s & 30s47:28Sloops and torpedo boats as distributed defenceNotable Point
- Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat25:19Early snorkels would make First World War U-boats harder to counterQ&A
- Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat34:11How the GUPPY program reshaped surviving American fleet boatsQ&A
- Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat51:21FRAM refits as a bridge to Cold War frigate doctrineQ&A
- Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat1:53:05Why a 1,200-ton autoloading destroyer needs a complete mission designQ&A
- Royal Navy Submarines vs Axis Warships: WWII in every theatre, Patreon Premier46:23Treaty submarine parity and confidence in ASDICNotable Point
- Royal Navy Submarines vs Axis Warships: WWII in every theatre, Patreon Premier53:14HMS Splendid's torpedo economy and surface gun actionsChapter
- Royal Navy Submarines vs Axis Warships: WWII in every theatre, Patreon Premier58:49Splendid's convoy salvo sinks an Italian destroyerNotable Point
- Royal Navy Submarines vs Axis Warships: WWII in every theatre, Patreon Premier1:05:10Splendid's loss to Hermes and her commander's escapeChapter
- Royal Navy Submarines vs Axis Warships: WWII in every theatre, Patreon Premier1:30:37HMS Upholder's Malta patrols and wartime reputationChapter
- Royal Navy Submarines vs Axis Warships: WWII in every theatre, Patreon Premier1:34:58Why Upholder's loss remains difficult to explainNotable Point
- Royal Navy Submarines vs Axis Warships: WWII in every theatre, Patreon Premier1:38:17HMS Venturer's underwater attack on U-864Chapter
- Bruships 161: All you need are Kallax, Shelves are all Books need... Naval History Questions & Chat!26:49A larger Royal Navy sloop program before 1939Q&A
- Bruships 161: All you need are Kallax, Shelves are all Books need... Naval History Questions & Chat!1:53:47Why twenty early escort carriers could change the Royal NavyQ&A
- Bruships 161: All you need are Kallax, Shelves are all Books need... Naval History Questions & Chat!1:57:41Starling's escort group is a poor opponent for I-400Q&A
- Japan's I-400 Class: Waste of Resources, Idea to Soon or Idea to late?42:44Two boats could not create strategic pressureNotable Point
- Japan's I-400 Class: Waste of Resources, Idea to Soon or Idea to late?1:06:41The verdict: a good idea executed too lateChapter
- Finding Forrestal Class... The First Supercarriers...9:57Modern frigates and destroyers perform cruiser workNotable Point
- Finding Forrestal Class... The First Supercarriers...22:50Air-group capacity depends on deck arrangementChapter
- Finding Forrestal Class... The First Supercarriers...38:26Multiple carriers concentrate air power and mutual supportChapter
- Bruships 160: Money for Kallax, Book Space ain’t Free! Naval History Questions & Chat...45:06Kamov's coaxial rotors and naval ASW workQ&A
- Bruships 159: New Office - This may be quick, discord may work & I may not have a Pneumonia attack!1:46:23Henderson would pair fleet carriers with dedicated anti-submarine escortsQ&A
- HMAS Melbourne and HMCS Bonaventure28:32Bonaventure as Canada's anti-submarine centrepieceChapter
- What do the fleets look like if they achieve full pre-WWII Modernisation? Patreon Premier1:11:25Colonial escorts and joint imperial fleetsNotable Point
- What do the fleets look like if they achieve full pre-WWII Modernisation? Patreon Premier1:18:16Britain's two-tier destroyers and global escort networkChapter
- Death from Above? Germany develops the Fritz X Early - Patreon Premier38:21Carrier air groups widen the task group's defensive onionNotable Point
- Check Campaign 25: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign33:36Torpedo caution and a usable coalition flagshipNotable Point
- What is an Escort Carrier to be for? Bogue & Ruler Classes - Why building Woolworths made sense!1:15:32The modern escort-carrier mission and hull problemNotable Point
- Check Campaign 24: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:55:59Submarine-heavy port defenseNotable Point
- Check Campaign 24: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:12:01The First World War origins of towed sonarNotable Point
- Check Campaign 24: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:15:00Designing a large mine-laying destroyerChapter
- Check Campaign 24: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:35:51Mine warfare and ASW buildoutNotable Point
- War Emergency Carriers of WWII... Lessons for future procurement?1:36Escort carriers were planned before the emergencyNotable Point
- Check Campaign 23: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign13:27ASW cruisers as a submarine screenNotable Point
- Bruships 157: Books so good they've blown the budget on the #ScandiShip24 tour already!12:44ASW mortars for littoral underwater threatsQ&A
- Bruships 157: Books so good they've blown the budget on the #ScandiShip24 tour already!1:28:28An early German snorkel advantage would invite an early counterQ&A
- Bruships 157: Books so good they've blown the budget on the #ScandiShip24 tour already!1:33:20An early snorkel accelerates the First World War ASW cycleQ&A
- Bruships 157: Books so good they've blown the budget on the #ScandiShip24 tour already!1:45:01Wire-guided torpedoes and the countermeasure cycleQ&A
- Fisher's Furious Flying off Ships: Courageous Class built as Aircraft Carriers47:49Minesweeping, Denmark, and the route into the BalticChapter
- Bruships Gothenborg style...45:46Småland's unusually dense Swedish destroyer armamentChapter
- Kongōs at Jutland: IJN goes all or nothing in the North Sea in WWI... Patreon Premier 31:49:05An earlier peace also leaves dangerous lessons unlearnedNotable Point
- The Royal Navy's Interwar Dream... The Implacable Class: Key Ships Series 9, Ship 31:43:42What if carrier construction had continued without the pause?Notable Point
- Damage Control - The WWII Aircraft Carriers Edition; when it went wrong & when it went right12:53Courageous and damage prevention through escort doctrineNotable Point
- Damage Control - The WWII Aircraft Carriers Edition; when it went wrong & when it went right21:01Small uncrewed ASW escorts would still need capable frigatesNotable Point
- Damage Control - The WWII Aircraft Carriers Edition; when it went wrong & when it went right22:27Low-end escort mass must exist before warNotable Point
- Damage Control - The WWII Aircraft Carriers Edition; when it went wrong & when it went right1:54:17Hammann's loss and depth charges undo Yorktown's salvage workNotable Point
- Damage Control - The WWII Aircraft Carriers Edition; when it went wrong & when it went right2:32:35Wasp and a torpedo spread beside aviation storesChapter
- Bruships 155: Last time answering naval history questions from the Brushack?26:16Type 27 midget submarines and ASW pressureQ&A
- Bruships 155: Last time answering naval history questions from the Brushack?1:05:21Why a bazooka would not reliably sink an ASW frigateQ&A
- Bruships 155: Last time answering naval history questions from the Brushack?1:21:39Infrared sensors instead of the Leigh LightQ&A
- Bruships 155: Last time answering naval history questions from the Brushack?2:02:34Fleet Air Arm aircraft as submarine huntersQ&A
- Bruships 155: Last time answering naval history questions from the Brushack?4:09:48Hedgehog available at the start of the warQ&A
- Bruships 155: Last time answering naval history questions from the Brushack?4:18:28Identifying the Squid anti-submarine mortarQ&A
- Persistent Percient Patrol: Supermarine Walrus - Key Aircraft Series 2, Aircraft 54:26Maritime patrol between air force and navyNotable Point
- Persistent Percient Patrol: Supermarine Walrus - Key Aircraft Series 2, Aircraft 522:37Walrus weapons, endurance, and patrol designNotable Point
- Persistent Percient Patrol: Supermarine Walrus - Key Aircraft Series 2, Aircraft 545:35Foreign and postwar Walrus serviceNotable Point
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...2:21:29Prewar super-sloops could ease the convoy escort crisisQ&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...4:25:45A US Navy wartime frigate would look like a destroyer escortQ&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...4:51:05Bogue-class escort carriers delivered the needed flight deckQ&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...4:51:31Gun blast and missile placement in hypothetical Soviet refitsNotable Point
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...6:01:49Sensors and submarine screening in a battleship surface actionNotable Point
- Mediterranean Convoy Runs Done Well: Operations Tiger, Splice & Rocket!43:58Splice changed escorts as the threat changedNotable Point
- Mediterranean Convoy Runs Done Well: Operations Tiger, Splice & Rocket!45:41Operation Splice and carrier aircraft transferChapter
- Mediterranean Convoy Runs Done Well: Operations Tiger, Splice & Rocket!1:03:00How interwar sloop production could have created wartime slackNotable Point
- Mediterranean Convoy Runs Done Well: Operations Tiger, Splice & Rocket!1:05:23Simple sloop escorts and an interwar reserveNotable Point
- Mediterranean Convoy Runs Done Well: Operations Tiger, Splice & Rocket!1:08:57Quantity creates operational opportunityNotable 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
- Bruships 153: Naval History Questions Answered & Boxes being Packed... still, there are more books!3:04:33World War I U-boats with snorkelsQ&A
- The OG Junglies: 845 Squadron Fleet Air Arm, Audio Hostem10:47Whirlwinds, anti-submarine work, and the Suez helicopter assaultChapter
- The OG Junglies: 845 Squadron Fleet Air Arm, Audio Hostem45:17Should troop-transport helicopters keep human crews?Q&A
- Bruships 152: Patreon July Premiers Announcement, Special Guests & Naval History Questions Answered30:11Why warship sonar can miss wreckage on the seabedQ&A
- Bruships 152: Patreon July Premiers Announcement, Special Guests & Naval History Questions Answered3:52:23Why attacking the Home Fleet would squander the U-boat armQ&A
- Check Campaign 18: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:41:20Edward Seymour instead of Fisher in 1914Notable Point
- Lexington Class: The First Modern Carriers?58:03Aviation fuel exposes a carrier survivability problemNotable Point
- Check Campaign 17: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:13Propulsion research over submarine upgradesNotable Point
- Check Campaign 17: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:47:17A 3,000-ton ASW destroyer runs out of weightNotable Point
- Bruships 151: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Vote36:23A layered escort for a carrier battle groupQ&A
- Bruships 151: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Vote2:54:54Early helicopters transform convoy escortQ&A
- Evolution of Carrier Air Groups 1918-2024: A Discussion47:25Combat aircraft blocks and the smaller early-warning detachmentNotable Point
- Evolution of Carrier Air Groups 1918-2024: A Discussion1:02:12Carrier aircraft create a moving anti-submarine corridorChapter
- Evolution of Carrier Air Groups 1918-2024: A Discussion1:04:23Viking and Gannet extend anti-submarine patrols beyond helicoptersNotable Point
- Evolution of Carrier Air Groups 1918-2024: A Discussion1:13:03Rare spares and shared airframes shape carrier resupplyNotable Point
- Patreon 103: The Nightmare returns - 4 WWI Town class are discovered by the Royal Navy in 19381:02:32Provision for radar and hydrophonesQ&A
- Treaty Era Aircraft Carriers: A Discussion38:49A separate light-carrier allowance could reshape fleet rolesNotable Point
- Check Campaign 16: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:28:04An anti-submarine cruiser with a destroyer's roleNotable Point
- Bruships 150: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Suggestions Kicks Off3:17:07The Fairey Fulmar in a war delayed to 1949Q&A
- The Drivers of the Evolution of Carrier Air Groups...55:43Helicopters keep ASW inside the carrier groupNotable Point
- The Drivers of the Evolution of Carrier Air Groups...1:55:29Gibraltar's current exposed the limits of early submarinesChapter
- The Drivers of the Evolution of Carrier Air Groups...2:00:00When did navies stop using 100-pound bombs?Q&A
- The Drivers of the Evolution of Carrier Air Groups...2:02:25The S-3 Viking gave carrier ASW long reachNotable Point
- The Drivers of the Evolution of Carrier Air Groups...2:04:37Are magnetic anomaly detectors still useful for ASW?Q&A
- The Drivers of the Evolution of Carrier Air Groups...2:14:51Modular mission packages could make every Merlin more flexibleNotable Point
- The Drivers of the Evolution of Carrier Air Groups...2:40:10Mission modules could separate Merlin upgrades from airframesNotable Point
- The Drivers of the Evolution of Carrier Air Groups...2:55:42A carrier task group works like a naval divisionNotable Point
- Striking First: The Development of US Carrier Naval Aviation Doctrine by War Gaming & Fleet Problems1:02:15Pratt preserves Coast Guard search expertise from mergerNotable Point
- Bruships 149: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Ends1:38:53The First World War Electric Eel towed sonarQ&A
- "Willy Fudd" The Grumman E-1 Tracer: The Prevolution Hawkeye! Key Aircraft Series 2, Aircraft 210:28The S-2 Tracker supplied a proven carrier ASW foundationChapter
- "Willy Fudd" The Grumman E-1 Tracer: The Prevolution Hawkeye! Key Aircraft Series 2, Aircraft 230:30Moving-target indication turns radar range into defensive depthNotable Point
- "Willy Fudd" The Grumman E-1 Tracer: The Prevolution Hawkeye! Key Aircraft Series 2, Aircraft 239:12Grumman's robust airframe supported three fleet missionsNotable Point
- USS Triton (SSRN-586): First Submerged Cirumnavigation of the World16:20Earlier U-boats would provoke earlier British escort buildingNotable Point
- The Red Fleet Project Teaser: Discussing Graf Zepplinski with Fleet of Oceans1:30:38Does Graf Zepplinski become a helicopter assault carrier?Q&A
- Check Campaign 14: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign8:09How more carriers change Britain's 1939 choicesQ&A
- Patreon 102: Zeroes over the Med! Japan joins the Britain & Free powers on 25th of June 1940...22:00Would Japanese submarines be useful in the Mediterranean?Q&A
- Patreon 102: Zeroes over the Med! Japan joins the Britain & Free powers on 25th of June 1940...2:53:12Joint combat could improve Japanese radar and night fightingNotable Point
- So You Want to Build an Aircraft Carrier: Design! Part 1 or 324:11Build the air group from simultaneous missionsChapter
- So You Want to Build an Aircraft Carrier: Design! Part 1 or 333:49See how a balanced air group reaches sixty aircraftNotable Point
- French Naval Aviation: A Quick Historical Overview & Introduction to it's Squadrons26:01What French naval aviation squadron numbers indicateChapter
- French Naval Aviation: A Quick Historical Overview & Introduction to it's Squadrons36:53Clemenceau and Foch anchored a distinctly French carrier armNotable Point
- Check Campaign 13: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign42:15Uncrewed assets as naval force multipliersQ&A
- The reality that the Marvel Shield Helicarriers Drew From: The USS Akron an Airship Aircraft Carrier1:54:59What airborne carriers might have added in wartimeNotable Point
- Patreon 101: If Lord Fisher died in Jan 1914, how does Prince Louis of Battenberg perform as 1SL?2:31:52Battenberg's late-1916 succession and naval research roleNotable Point
- Hansa-Brandenburg - The Builder behind WWI German Naval Aviation: Key Aircraft Series 2, Aircraft 132:38W.12 reconnaissance and mobile seaplane supportChapter
- Hansa-Brandenburg - The Builder behind WWI German Naval Aviation: Key Aircraft Series 2, Aircraft 159:57W.29 combat changed North Sea patrol tacticsChapter
- Suggest Series Name Please: Comment Response video with a twist29:27How German floatplane scouts could change escort-carrier air groupsNotable Point
- Suggest Series Name Please: Comment Response video with a twist35:44Why eighteen aircraft became a carrier minimumNotable Point
- Suggest Series Name Please: Comment Response video with a twist43:19How carrier missions build an air group of sixty or more aircraftChapter
- Suggest Series Name Please: Comment Response video with a twist48:55Carrier capability and Argentine expectations before the Falklands WarNotable Point
- Conception, Operation & Conclusion of Atlantic Conveyor & other rapid conversions15:03Modern detection networks change the CAM-ship problemNotable Point
- Conception, Operation & Conclusion of Atlantic Conveyor & other rapid conversions29:18Merchant conversions bought time for escort carriersNotable Point
- Conception, Operation & Conclusion of Atlantic Conveyor & other rapid conversions32:47Reconnaissance denial protected convoys and UltraNotable Point
- Conception, Operation & Conclusion of Atlantic Conveyor & other rapid conversions1:12:27Alliances do not replace national capabilitiesChapter
- USS Akron; The World's First Purpose Built Flying Aircraft Carrier3:14:14Could Akron's successors have closed wartime search gaps?Notable Point
- The Furious Age: The First Aircraft Carriers14:17Carrier protection shapes Tribal and Dido design thinkingNotable Point
- Check Campaign 11: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:54:13Matching a fast anti-submarine cruiser to its battle fleetChapter
- Check Campaign 11: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:58:59Balancing machinery, survivability, and torpedoes in an ASW cruiserNotable Point
- Bruships 145: Naval History Questions Answered & Will it be lego building or book boxing?49:40How expectations can turn a friendly submarine into a U-boatQ&A
- Carriers of the Kaiserlichemarine: the WWI potential of German Naval Aviation34:34World War I Germany had the stronger base for naval innovationNotable Point
- Bruships 144: Some Books(Can't Find Lego Cam Sorry) & Naval History Questions1:31:49What a Falklands-era task force could do at Pearl HarborQ&A
- 824 Sqn Royal Naval Air Service: Spectat Ubique Spiritus (The Wind Everywhere Looks On)1:00824 Squadron trains the Royal Navy's Merlin submarine huntersChapter
- 824 Sqn Royal Naval Air Service: Spectat Ubique Spiritus (The Wind Everywhere Looks On)17:59The Fairey Seal served the fleet's information problem firstNotable Point
- 824 Sqn Royal Naval Air Service: Spectat Ubique Spiritus (The Wind Everywhere Looks On)18:34Royal Fleet Auxiliary helicopters expand task-force ASW capacityChapter
- 824 Sqn Royal Naval Air Service: Spectat Ubique Spiritus (The Wind Everywhere Looks On)36:09Firefly ASW variants bridged wartime aircraft and postwar systemsChapter
- 824 Sqn Royal Naval Air Service: Spectat Ubique Spiritus (The Wind Everywhere Looks On)43:34Gannet patrols made long-range ASW a form of operational deterrenceChapter
- 824 Sqn Royal Naval Air Service: Spectat Ubique Spiritus (The Wind Everywhere Looks On)49:41Whirlwind and Sea King experience helped create helicopter AEWChapter
- 824 Sqn Royal Naval Air Service: Spectat Ubique Spiritus (The Wind Everywhere Looks On)52:11Falklands helicopters turned the task force into a distributed air systemChapter
- 824 Sqn Royal Naval Air Service: Spectat Ubique Spiritus (The Wind Everywhere Looks On)56:01Merlin integration supports continuous Royal Navy ASW readinessChapter
- Check Campaign 10: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign0:28Task-group ASW depends on the whole formationNotable Point
- Bruships 143: Some Book Tales and Naval History Questions Answered33:42Earlier cavity magnetrons reshape radar warfareQ&A
- Bruships 143: Some Book Tales and Naval History Questions Answered2:21:05Earlier snorkels change fleet building more than ASW doctrineQ&A
- Bruships 143: Some Book Tales and Naval History Questions Answered2:51:41Naval control helps Coastal Command only with continuityQ&A
- Battle of Blackett Strait: Victory goes to those who are prepared for Battle47:27The Fletcher succeeds as a general-purpose destroyerNotable Point
- Fairey Fulmar: innate soundness and competence but not the stuff of headlines4:31Courageous, Glorious, and the cost of misusing carrier doctrineNotable Point
- Check Campaign 9: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign34:07A specialist cruiser substitutes for an inadequate ASW destroyerChapter
- Check Campaign 9: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign44:01The Smoked Haddock class balances torpedoes, armour, and global escort demandChapter
- Check Campaign 9: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:30:39The Washington class becomes a cruiser-sized super destroyerChapter
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books41:11What the largest Type 45 design could have deliveredQ&A
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books2:20:53How more carriers could change Royal Navy task forcesNotable Point
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books3:08:54Why River and Loch frigates could not simply appear before the warQ&A
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books3:13:16How annual sloops prepared Britain's ocean escortsQ&A
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books3:22:08Why an escort can defeat a U-boat without sinking itQ&A
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books3:39:59Fighting the Second World War with 1945 technologyQ&A
- Aircraft Carriers in Science Fiction2:40:19Could an airship carrier hunt U-boats?Q&A
- Bruships 141: Some Cool Books & Naval History Questions Answered28:51What a larger Rothesay-class frigate could carryQ&A
- Bruships 141: Some Cool Books & Naval History Questions Answered35:15Why Starling edges Wild Goose in an escort comparisonQ&A
- Bruships 141: Some Cool Books & Naval History Questions Answered42:50What extra displacement gives a Type 12 frigateQ&A
- Check Campaign 8: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign45:18Electronics make an old hull more usefulNotable Point
- Check Campaign 8: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:30:07Designing a fast torpedo destroyer within 1,700 tonsChapter
- Bruships 140 - Patreon Suggestions, Some Interesting Books (Hopefully) & Lots of Naval History Qs!1:56:52Why Germany could not simply accelerate the ElektrobootQ&A
- Bruships 140 - Patreon Suggestions, Some Interesting Books (Hopefully) & Lots of Naval History Qs!3:17:58River, Loch, and Bay frigates followed yard and convoy needs, not destroyer treatiesQ&A
- Bruships 140 - Patreon Suggestions, Some Interesting Books (Hopefully) & Lots of Naval History Qs!3:51:32What 3,000-ton British destroyers could carryQ&A
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered3:27:11Type 26 numbers versus the Type 83 air-defense needQ&A
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered3:28:42Type 26 variants and the cost of taking a frigate out of serviceNotable Point
- Bruships 138: Random Naval History Books from Me, Random Naval History Questions from You!1:38:52How to read a warship's mission from its hull formQ&A
- MAC Ships: Success having many Parents or simply Logical Conclusions? - Key Ship Series 8 Ship 212:55Why the Royal Navy expected submarines everywhereNotable Point
- MAC Ships: Success having many Parents or simply Logical Conclusions? - Key Ship Series 8 Ship 234:39Convoy success meant delivery, not submarine killsChapter
- MAC Ships: Success having many Parents or simply Logical Conclusions? - Key Ship Series 8 Ship 238:10Technology kept reversing hunter and huntedNotable Point
- British Naval Aviation Doctrine during the 1920s & 30s: it's Context & Development12:29Admiral Madden's eleven-carrier fleet planNotable Point
- British Naval Aviation Doctrine during the 1920s & 30s: it's Context & Development1:22:17Continuous air operations create a proactive defenseChapter
- British Naval Aviation Doctrine during the 1920s & 30s: it's Context & Development2:07:24Carrier task forces combine scouting, reach, and gunpowerChapter
- British Naval Aviation Doctrine during the 1920s & 30s: it's Context & Development2:20:49Henderson warns that peacetime tests can misleadChapter
- Bruships 137: Naval Aviation Books Discussed & Naval History Questions Answered59:23British homing-torpedo development in World War IIQ&A
- Bruships 137: Naval Aviation Books Discussed & Naval History Questions Answered1:11:38Sloops and aviation support ships as Britain's best prewar investmentQ&A
- Twelve Odd Ships6:30Ise and Hyuga as compromised battle-carriersChapter
- Twelve Odd Ships24:56FLIP's long-lived ocean research valueChapter
- Twelve Odd Ships53:04K-class fleet submarines arrived before workable coordinationChapter
- Twelve Odd Ships54:14Modern task groups coordinate submarines at arm's lengthNotable Point
- Patreon 96: Odd ship designs that actually work.17:38Would ASW helicopters rescue the hybrid-carrier idea?Q&A
- Patreon 96: Odd ship designs that actually work.43:36Adapting Ramform's sensor platform for ocean surveillanceNotable Point
- Patreon 96: Odd ship designs that actually work.1:02:28FLIP becomes a vertical ocean laboratoryChapter
- The HMS Ark Royals Saga: A History of Naval Aviation in a Name...24:53Three First World War lessons shaped carrier doctrineChapter
- The HMS Ark Royals Saga: A History of Naval Aviation in a Name...44:49CVA-01 cancellation and the Harrier substituteChapter
- Bruships 136: Some Books & Some Questions Answered14:52Why a task group is more than its individual shipsQ&A
- Bruships 136: Some Books & Some Questions Answered33:17Why even early helicopters threatened wartime submarinesQ&A
- Bruships 136: Some Books & Some Questions Answered2:36:10Arming wartime helicopters with heavy rocketsQ&A
- Bruships 136: Some Books & Some Questions Answered3:18:30How wartime helicopters could pressure US submarinesQ&A
- What changes if Helicopters are at their third generation in 1939?8:20Shipborne helicopters remove the seaplane recovery penaltyNotable Point
- What changes if Helicopters are at their third generation in 1939?34:45Treaty-exempt sloops become early helicopter escortsChapter
- What changes if Helicopters are at their third generation in 1939?1:14:03Helicopter convoys overwhelm surface-operating U-boatsChapter
- Patreon 95: Helios on Route- A lucky development of helicopters & appropriate tech in 1930s11:31What the Westland Whirlwind benchmark demandsChapter
- Patreon 95: Helios on Route- A lucky development of helicopters & appropriate tech in 1930s34:28The treaty-era aviation cruiserChapter
- Patreon 95: Helios on Route- A lucky development of helicopters & appropriate tech in 1930s43:52Why convoy helicopters would need rocketsNotable Point
- Patreon 95: Helios on Route- A lucky development of helicopters & appropriate tech in 1930s44:51Helicopters deny U-boats their convoy approachQ&A
- Patreon 95: Helios on Route- A lucky development of helicopters & appropriate tech in 1930s54:24How helicopters reshape early-war ASWChapter
- Patreon 95: Helios on Route- A lucky development of helicopters & appropriate tech in 1930s1:01:14Swordfish range and helicopter responsiveness divide the workNotable Point
- Patreon 95: Helios on Route- A lucky development of helicopters & appropriate tech in 1930s1:07:39Convoy helicopter numbers reverse the wolf-pack problemNotable Point
- Patreon 95: Helios on Route- A lucky development of helicopters & appropriate tech in 1930s1:11:18Helicopter speed relative to a submarineNotable Point
- Patreon 95: Helios on Route- A lucky development of helicopters & appropriate tech in 1930s1:32:23An ASDIC escort holds contact while helicopters attackNotable Point
- Patreon 95: Helios on Route- A lucky development of helicopters & appropriate tech in 1930s1:38:57Could interwar acoustics produce dipping sonar?Q&A
- Patreon 95: Helios on Route- A lucky development of helicopters & appropriate tech in 1930s1:42:41Why Hedgehog and Squid do not replace helicopter depth chargesQ&A
- Patreon 95: Helios on Route- A lucky development of helicopters & appropriate tech in 1930s1:43:28Early submarines remain vulnerable to acoustic detectionNotable Point
- Patreon 95: Helios on Route- A lucky development of helicopters & appropriate tech in 1930s1:45:35Why convoy helicopters belong on dedicated platformsQ&A
- Patreon 95: Helios on Route- A lucky development of helicopters & appropriate tech in 1930s2:19:16Surface-search radar gives helicopters an airborne-warning pathChapter
- Patreon 95: Helios on Route- A lucky development of helicopters & appropriate tech in 1930s2:23:06Mature helicopters change postwar escort choicesNotable Point
- Patreon 95: Helios on Route- A lucky development of helicopters & appropriate tech in 1930s2:54:16Could dawn helicopter patrols warn Pearl Harbor?Q&A
- Bruships 135: Japan again... Can I get through 12 books this time15:01The thermocline offered submarines only a temporary acoustic refugeQ&A
- Bruships 135: Japan again... Can I get through 12 books this time3:11:09Constellation frigates may ease carrier escort pressureQ&A
- What kind of Carrier do you need or want?35:21Seaplane carriers as movable air basesChapter
- What kind of Carrier do you need or want?1:02:48Why Queen Elizabeth can be a fleet or strike carrierNotable Point
- Pierre Levasseur: A Designer of Note, Key Aircraft Series 1 - Aircraft 540:03Useful PL.14 and PL.15 airframes become anti-submarine aircraftNotable Point
- Patreon 94: The different types of Aircraft Carriers/Seaplane Carriers/Hybrids1:47:22Cold War amphibious ships were designed around acceptable riskNotable Point
- Conception of Admiral Moffett’s Flight Deck Cruisers & the IJN’s construction of Ryūjō31:12A more viable forward aviation shipNotable Point
- Bruships 134: Imperial Japanese Navy Books31:33Why US cruisers held course while British ships zigzaggedQ&A
- Old Crocks at War: The Value of Reserve Ships to Navys in WWI20:40Reserve mobilisation deters war and adds convoy depthNotable Point
- Old Crocks at War: The Value of Reserve Ships to Navys in WWI1:25:41General-purpose Type 23s released specialists for harder missionsNotable Point
- Patreon 93: Old crocks at war. How useful to WWI were the old ships brought out of reserve?20:23Older escorts still matter in secondary theatersNotable Point
- Patreon 93: Old crocks at war. How useful to WWI were the old ships brought out of reserve?2:07:47What would one hundred reserve sloops change in 1939?Q&A
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!10:41Extra Tribal and J/K/N destroyers or more escort sloopsQ&A
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!51:43Why Italian torpedo boats did well against submarinesQ&A
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!2:36:27Why the Halifax class suited CanadaQ&A
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!2:52:29Japanese escorts in the Battle of the AtlanticQ&A
- What Happens If Whittle is supported & Britain develops Jet Engines + Gas Turbines in 1930s1:20:03Early radar changes carrier and submarine warfareNotable Point
- Sloops Adaptability of Presence35:38Mass-produced sloops become convoy infrastructureChapter
- Sloops Adaptability of Presence40:18Treaty rules leave room for adaptable sloopsChapter
- Sloops Adaptability of Presence44:04A proposed interwar sloop reserve for 1939Notable Point
- Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!1:04:30An early Mark 24 acoustic torpedo could cripple the U-boat forceQ&A
- Patreon 92: Frank Whittle is given consistent funding by Britain to develop jet engines from 19282:28:11Turboshaft helicopters reshape convoy anti-submarine warfareChapter
- Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century?1:03:00World War I exposed the need for purpose-built small escortsChapter
- Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century?1:08:11Five Flower batches produced 120 wartime escortsChapter
- Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century?1:11:38Judge a sloop by its mission, not first-rate statusChapter
- Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century?1:16:36Ramming submarines was an escort tacticQ&A
- Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century?1:24:53Flower-class sloops as task-group security shipsNotable Point
- Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century?1:56:10Which famous officers emerged from sloop service?Q&A
- Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century?2:36:37Why Royal Navy sloops omitted torpedoesQ&A
- HMS Diamond(1950) D35: Presence without Conviction is no Detterence - Key Ship Series 7 Ship 827:33A layered anti-air, anti-surface, and ASW armamentNotable Point
- HMS Diamond(1950) D35: Presence without Conviction is no Detterence - Key Ship Series 7 Ship 840:30Why a medium power needs flexible warshipsNotable Point
- 'S' Class Submarines: The Royal Navy's All Rounders for WWII - Key Ship Series 7 Ship 722:30ASDIC managed the submarine threat rather than eliminating itNotable Point
- 'S' Class Submarines: The Royal Navy's All Rounders for WWII - Key Ship Series 7 Ship 738:19Seawolf becomes an anti-submarine training asset in CanadaNotable Point
- 'S' Class Submarines: The Royal Navy's All Rounders for WWII - Key Ship Series 7 Ship 744:19Sea Lion's patrol record and convoy-escort training valueNotable Point
- 'S' Class Submarines: The Royal Navy's All Rounders for WWII - Key Ship Series 7 Ship 71:13:15Seraph simulates the Type XXI for Allied anti-submarine trialsNotable Point
- 'T' Class Submarines: The Royal Navy's Ambush Predators - Key Ship Series 7 Ship 617:29Planning against strong Japanese ASWNotable Point
- Bruships 133: Questions till the Bru runs out...50:47A Royal Navy ASROC remains possible but unconfirmedQ&A
- Bruships 133: Questions till the Bru runs out...1:04:44Fixed hydrophone defenses predate SOSUS and the world warsQ&A
- Bruships 133: Questions till the Bru runs out...2:19:30Foreknowledge of U-boat numbers accelerates British escortsQ&A
- Bruships 133: Questions till the Bru runs out...2:21:19The Armistice ended the case for more R-class submarinesQ&A
- Naval Historian Reacts to Aircraft Carriers the Debate Part 2 of 251:31Escort-carrier patrols and intelligence coverNotable Point
- Naval Historian Reacts to Aircraft Carriers the Debate Part 2 of 253:11Dale-class tankers as carrier conversionsNotable Point
- Naval Historian Reacts to Aircraft Carriers the Debate: Part 1 of 29:02Courageous and Glorious broke the planned carrier forceNotable Point
- Stalingrad Class: Stalin's Ship Dreams - KSS2 S7 Comment Response18:21How a balanced Soviet fleet changes NATO prioritiesChapter
- Scharnhorst Class(1936): Most Valued Player of the German Capital Ships - Key Ships Series 7 Ship 48:02How Britain could mass-produce submarine escortsNotable Point
- Scharnhorst Class(1936): Most Valued Player of the German Capital Ships - Key Ships Series 7 Ship 410:39Surface raiders complicate British convoy defenseChapter
- The Missed Generation - The G3 & N3 classes: KSS2 S2 Comment Response1:03:09World War I strained Britain without repeating 1945Notable Point
- Acacia Class: Batch 1 of World War I's Flower Class - Key Ships Series 7, Ship 217:49Foxglove turns a minesweeper into a submarine hunterChapter
- Acacia Class: Batch 1 of World War I's Flower Class - Key Ships Series 7, Ship 233:13Why old sloops still mattered in 1939Notable Point
- Acacia Class: Batch 1 of World War I's Flower Class - Key Ships Series 7, Ship 240:12A practical ASDic modernization caseNotable Point
- Acacia Class: Batch 1 of World War I's Flower Class - Key Ships Series 7, Ship 243:33What six extra sloops might have changed in 1939Notable Point
- British Response to Graf Zeppelin: KSS2 S1 Comment Response1:27North Atlantic weather changes the carrier air-group comparisonQ&A
- British Response to Graf Zeppelin: KSS2 S1 Comment Response2:17Courageous showed the cost of ignoring carrier ASW doctrineNotable Point
- British Response to Graf Zeppelin: KSS2 S1 Comment Response11:23Flower-class output depended on slipways and fitting-out capacityQ&A
- Operation Berlin: Tour De Force or Tour De Farce?1:42:31Finite magazines constrain submarines and surface shipsNotable Point
- Bruships 131: Battleships...1:16:58A British war-emergency River-class escortQ&A
- Bruships 131: Battleships...1:34:54Naval warfare without sonarQ&A
- Bruships 131: Battleships...1:42:03Fleet tactics with hydrophones but no active sonarQ&A
- Bruships 131: Battleships...1:44:19The fastest American response to a submarine raid on New YorkQ&A
- Bruships 131: Battleships...3:04:32Naval research priorities in Canada's national archivesQ&A
- Dante Alighieri: Not Dreadnought but still an Inferno - Key Ships Series 7, Ship 123:20A multinational Durazzo force faces submarines and shore batteriesNotable Point
- Operation Berlin (Atlantic) – a Failure of Both Sides?56:40Surface raiders turned convoy protection into a two-threat problemChapter
- Operation Berlin (Atlantic) – a Failure of Both Sides?1:17:33Why not escort Atlantic convoys with British submarines?Q&A
- Operation Berlin (Atlantic) – a Failure of Both Sides?1:55:52How much speed helped merchants against submarines?Q&A
- Bruships 130: Battleships1:18:33Depth-charge cluster munitions from 86Q&A
- What Happens if 1930s Germany Standardises on the Scharnhorst hull for Capital Ships & Carriers?20:34Why the Kriegsmarine remains third in lineNotable Point
- Patreon 89: Everything a Scharnhorst - Germany standardises on one hull for Capital ships & Carriers2:47:17U-boats cannot keep pace with the raider battleNotable Point
- The Sydney Strategy: What if the British Empire Far East Base was Sydney not Singapore38:44Beatty argued that Far East infrastructure could not wait for warNotable Point
- Patreon 88: Sydney Strategy: When looking for a Far East Naval Base - what if Sydney not Singapore?39:27Why Australia and New Zealand trusted Japan in 1921Notable Point
- Unrotated Projectiles to Hypersonics: Some History & thoughts on Missiles as part of navies20:58The RP-3 finds useful naval and anti-submarine rolesChapter
- Unrotated Projectiles to Hypersonics: Some History & thoughts on Missiles as part of navies52:23Anti-submarine missiles deliver torpedoes beyond the shipChapter
- Bruships 128: Invasions & Amphibious Warfare11:30Why endurance matters for maritime patrol aircraftQ&A
- Bruships 128: Invasions & Amphibious Warfare20:34Reaction and insurance models for maritime patrol aviationNotable Point
- Bruships 128: Invasions & Amphibious Warfare2:14:00Reserve recall and Royal Navy rearmament in 1951Chapter
- Bruships 128: Invasions & Amphibious Warfare2:55:09Modern convoys, escort carriers, and uncrewed ASWQ&A
- Battle of Empress Augusta Bay(1943): The First Radar Battle?2:39:08Were surface ships using hydrophones in this battle?Q&A
- When does a navy know it is time to replace a type or class of ships? P2/2 Lego enhanced discussion15:49Anti-submarine warfare cannot be wished awayNotable Point
- When does a navy know it is time to replace a type or class of ships? Part 1 of 2 - Slides11:35New machinery can expose an old hull's limitsChapter
- When does a navy know it is time to replace a type or class of ships? Part 1 of 2 - Slides29:24New missions force hard space and weight choicesChapter
- Battle Cruisers and Battleships are Separate Categories in the 1922 Washington Naval Treaty1:13:01Could a stronger Washington settlement improve London?Notable Point
- Battle Cruisers and Battleships are Separate Categories in the 1922 Washington Naval Treaty1:17:51Carrier aviation under a different treaty balanceChapter
- What Battleships and Battlecruisers that were not built can tell us...18:49Why submarine success cannot be read from sinkings aloneNotable Point
- Bruships 126: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series2:10:06Helicopter numbers follow the frigate's missionQ&A
- Bruships 126: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series2:20:31A King Stallion has room for Merlin-style mission kitsQ&A
- WWII if Norway Wins & Operation Weserübung Fails...56:36U-boat endurance makes the North Sea a strategic choke pointChapter
- Patreon 87: Norway Stands! WWII if Norway repels the German invasion...1:52:20The Atlantic convoy war without Norwegian U-boat basesChapter
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 92:07:12Trading speed for a tougher, harder-hitting Chester classChapter
- Bruships 125: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series1:11:05Could Britain retain an 18-inch anti-submarine torpedoQ&A
- Bruships 125: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series1:32:14Turning an imported helicopter into a British naval systemQ&A
- Neptune Class: The Cruiser Conundrum Crisis - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 68:30Why specialist fleets demand more hullsChapter
- A Naval Historian Reacts to... a Decade of Brasseys (4RB 19)23:45Prewar helicopters and the anti-submarine questionNotable Point
- Sea Power of the Cold War: When Strategy got overwritten by Technology and Week Planner13:50How bipolar competition narrowed military rolesChapter
- Sea Power of the Cold War: When Strategy got overwritten by Technology and Week Planner41:26Sea sovereignty and the promise of the GIUK barrierNotable Point
- Bruships 124: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series56:58Why submarine homing torpedoes were hard to adapt for aircraftQ&A
- Bruships 124: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series1:10:46Why the sloop-frigate boundary blurredQ&A
- Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: Pacific, Black Sea & Baltic Designs1:29:36SH-4 production, seakeeping, and maintenance declineNotable Point
- Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: Pacific, Black Sea & Baltic Designs2:00:56Shared missions produced similar small-boat designsNotable Point
- How & Why during WWII Motor Torpedo Boats(MTBs) became Motor Gun Boats(MGBs): Pacific Theatre56:05Why Elco and Fairmile production totals are hard to compareNotable Point
- HMS Formidable(1898): Lessons of a Highly Conventional Carreer - Key Ship Series 6, Ship 447:38Bayly’s experience before Formidable’s last exerciseNotable Point
- HMS Formidable(1898): Lessons of a Highly Conventional Carreer - Key Ship Series 6, Ship 449:17U-24 sinks HMS FormidableChapter
- HMS Formidable(1898): Lessons of a Highly Conventional Carreer - Key Ship Series 6, Ship 456:03The Admiralty inquiry, Bayly’s relief, and institutional learningNotable Point
- HMS Formidable(1898): Lessons of a Highly Conventional Carreer - Key Ship Series 6, Ship 457:24The Aboukir, Cressy, and Hogue warning before FormidableNotable Point
- HMS Formidable(1898): Lessons of a Highly Conventional Carreer - Key Ship Series 6, Ship 459:48Fleet strength depends on integrated screeningNotable Point
- HMS Formidable(1898): Lessons of a Highly Conventional Carreer - Key Ship Series 6, Ship 41:01:46Judging naval decisions without hindsightNotable Point
- Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: European & Mediteranean theatres1:12Why European torpedo boats became gunboatsChapter
- Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: European & Mediteranean theatres32:47Harbour defence launches as adaptable coastal craftNotable Point
- Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: European & Mediteranean theatres42:43Fairmile A: an anti-submarine starting pointChapter
- Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: European & Mediteranean theatres47:43Fairmile B improvised armament and submarine huntingChapter
- Bruships 123: Naval History Questions and Books on Strategy & Tactics20:48Why submarine propellers are covered in dry dockQ&A
- How & Why during WWII MTBs became MGBs: European & Mediterranean Theatre58:56Harbour defence launches with oceanic reachChapter
- How & Why during WWII MTBs became MGBs: European & Mediterranean Theatre1:17:17Fairmile A and B: the subchaser lineageChapter
- How & Why during WWII MTBs became MGBs: European & Mediterranean Theatre2:22:07Hedgehog, Mousetrap, and coastal anti-submarine craftQ&A
- HMS Nelson(1876): The Flagship that incubated the Royal Australian Navy - Key Ship Series 5, Part 948:42Sloops, frigates, and constabulary naval presenceNotable Point
- Bruships: Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!1:20:59Why wartime depth-charge loads exceed the handbookQ&A
- Bruships: Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!2:10:31A Black Swan as a Second World War submarine hunterQ&A
- Bruships: Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!2:27:27Using naval guns to disrupt submarines in littoral waterNotable Point
- The Underpaid and Underappreciated Merchant Marine of WWII1:32:10New ships mattered, but so did moving anti-submarine knowledgeNotable Point
- The Hunt Class: The WWII Royal Navy's Escort Destroyers - Key Ship Series 6, Ship 35:00Could earlier Hunt orders have changed 1940?Notable Point
- The Hunt Class: The WWII Royal Navy's Escort Destroyers - Key Ship Series 6, Ship 335:42Teazer in the hunt for U-372Notable Point
- The Hunt Class: The WWII Royal Navy's Escort Destroyers - Key Ship Series 6, Ship 337:18Type III: trading a gun mount for torpedoesChapter
- The Hunt Class: The WWII Royal Navy's Escort Destroyers - Key Ship Series 6, Ship 346:59HMS Holcombe and U-593Notable Point
- The Hunt Class: The WWII Royal Navy's Escort Destroyers - Key Ship Series 6, Ship 354:22The Type IV trade-off: torpedoes for escort enduranceNotable Point
- The Hunt Class: The WWII Royal Navy's Escort Destroyers - Key Ship Series 6, Ship 31:09:31Hunts and Black Swans as generalists and specialistsNotable Point
- Naval History Questions Live... with Irn Bru... which is a scottish soft drink... not fizzy whisky!10:53St. Laurent escorts in an anti-submarine transitionQ&A
- Naval History Questions Live... with Irn Bru... which is a scottish soft drink... not fizzy whisky!50:48Corvettes as escorts for Ukraine’s merchant trafficQ&A
- Black Swan Class: The F-22 of WWII ASW? - Key Ships Series 6, Episode 28:16From Bittern and Egret to the Black SwanNotable Point
- Black Swan Class: The F-22 of WWII ASW? - Key Ships Series 6, Episode 211:22Operation Torch drains escort strength elsewhereNotable Point
- Black Swan Class: The F-22 of WWII ASW? - Key Ships Series 6, Episode 212:25Gun mounts and the real depth-charge loadNotable Point
- Black Swan Class: The F-22 of WWII ASW? - Key Ships Series 6, Episode 217:00Operation Husky concentrates scarce ASW shipsNotable Point
- Black Swan Class: The F-22 of WWII ASW? - Key Ships Series 6, Episode 218:28HMIS Sutlej and the assault on RangoonChapter
- Black Swan Class: The F-22 of WWII ASW? - Key Ships Series 6, Episode 219:55Why a Black Swan was a sloop, not a frigateNotable Point
- Black Swan Class: The F-22 of WWII ASW? - Key Ships Series 6, Episode 225:25HMS Wren in Walker’s Second Support GroupChapter
- Black Swan Class: The F-22 of WWII ASW? - Key Ships Series 6, Episode 226:41HMS Wren's postwar ASW conversionNotable Point
- Black Swan Class: The F-22 of WWII ASW? - Key Ships Series 6, Episode 227:27Wren’s U-boat kills and patrol-aircraft supportNotable Point
- Egret Class: The First Class to lose as ship to a guided missile - Key Ships Series 6, Episode 111:13Why an anti-aircraft sloop still carried a surface-fighting batteryNotable Point
- Egret Class: The First Class to lose as ship to a guided missile - Key Ships Series 6, Episode 114:26HMS Pelican's long war of coastal escorts and U-boat huntingChapter
- Egret Class: The First Class to lose as ship to a guided missile - Key Ships Series 6, Episode 117:11HMS Pelican's four U-boat actions and long serviceNotable Point
- Egret Class: The First Class to lose as ship to a guided missile - Key Ships Series 6, Episode 121:42Convoy SL 97: escorts held the line until reinforcements arrivedNotable Point
- Bittern Class: The Foundation Stone of the British WWII ASW efforts - Key Ship Series 5, Episode 101:36The small sloops behind Britain's later ASW escortsChapter
- Bittern Class: The Foundation Stone of the British WWII ASW efforts - Key Ship Series 5, Episode 1013:23HMS Stork's survey fit left a quick route to wartime escort serviceNotable Point
- Bittern Class: The Foundation Stone of the British WWII ASW efforts - Key Ship Series 5, Episode 1014:54Sloops traded torpedoes and speed for treaty-compliant escort workChapter
- Bittern Class: The Foundation Stone of the British WWII ASW efforts - Key Ship Series 5, Episode 1015:48Sloop assignments show deliberate prewar ASW specializationChapter
- Bittern Class: The Foundation Stone of the British WWII ASW efforts - Key Ship Series 5, Episode 1018:57Shikari showed where Johnny Walker's skills layChapter
- Bittern Class: The Foundation Stone of the British WWII ASW efforts - Key Ship Series 5, Episode 1025:04Confirmed submarine sinkings by Enchantress and StorkChapter
- What was the Italian Red Sea Squadron(Reiga Marina Italiana Flottiglia del mar rosso) to do in 1940?25:27Evangelista Torricelli's crew fought a desperate surface actionNotable Point
- What was the Italian Red Sea Squadron(Reiga Marina Italiana Flottiglia del mar rosso) to do in 1940?28:46HMS Moonstone captured Galileo Galilei after a gun duelNotable Point
- What was the Italian Red Sea Squadron(Reiga Marina Italiana Flottiglia del mar rosso) to do in 1940?55:56Released escorts could have supported carrier anti-submarine patrolsNotable Point
- Henning Von Holtzendorff & Unrestricted Submarine Warfare40:41Britain's escort response was already buildingNotable Point
- Memoirs as Historical Sources21:58Read Somerville's letter as a map of wartime commandNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 559:44Blockading Mediterranean ports requires escortsNotable Point
- Mistakes of WWII caused by WWI15:41The underused threat of submarine minelayingChapter
- Patreon 83: What were the most serious mistakes made in WWII based on WWI experience?42:16Why British anti-submarine preparation still had limitsQ&A
- Patreon 83: What were the most serious mistakes made in WWII based on WWI experience?1:34:49Britain's pre-emptive occupation of IcelandNotable Point
- Patreon 83: What were the most serious mistakes made in WWII based on WWI experience?2:43:55Why even a single ship zigzagged against submarinesQ&A
- Patreon 83: What were the most serious mistakes made in WWII based on WWI experience?2:54:47What made a submarine firing solution difficult?Q&A
- Patreon 83: What were the most serious mistakes made in WWII based on WWI experience?2:58:56Why fast liners did not always zigzag at seaQ&A
- Bruships 121: Questions till the Bru Runs Out!2:21:11What helicopter ASW would demand of an escortQ&A
- Bruships 121: Questions till the Bru Runs Out!2:23:56Why an ASW carrier still needs fixed-wing aircraftQ&A
- A150 & BB64; After Yamato - Key Ship Series 4, Ships 74:17Why capital ships displaced escorts and support forcesNotable Point
- Mistakes & Missed Opportunities of the Washington Naval Treaties21:27Canadian maritime dependence and adaptable sloopsNotable Point
- Mistakes & Missed Opportunities of the Washington Naval Treaties26:58Why Italian escort sonar did not scaleNotable Point
- Mistakes & Missed Opportunities of the Washington Naval Treaties1:13:24Britain tested sloops but ordered too fewNotable Point
- Patreon 82: WNT Nations during 1920s/30s, what was their biggest mistake & missed opportunity?36:22Would more submarines force greater ASW spending?Q&A
- Patreon 82: WNT Nations during 1920s/30s, what was their biggest mistake & missed opportunity?1:02:47Italy's sonar was effective but not producible at scaleNotable Point
- Patreon 82: WNT Nations during 1920s/30s, what was their biggest mistake & missed opportunity?1:14:27Why patrol aircraft could not replace cruisers in the 1920sQ&A
- Patreon 82: WNT Nations during 1920s/30s, what was their biggest mistake & missed opportunity?1:19:36Airpower forecasts versus deployable forcesNotable Point
- Patreon 82: WNT Nations during 1920s/30s, what was their biggest mistake & missed opportunity?1:46:51Why early submarine losses could matter beyond hull numbersNotable Point
- Patreon 82: WNT Nations during 1920s/30s, what was their biggest mistake & missed opportunity?2:00:47Could a mass of sloops threaten a battleship?Q&A
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 32:08:25When fleet demand outruns shipyard capacityNotable Point
- Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer46:59Why long-endurance airships were not a simple coastal-command answerQ&A
- Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer2:22:17Where military seaplanes still offer valueQ&A
- Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer3:01:38Why destroyers concentrate so much firepowerQ&A
- Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer3:29:34Why anti-submarine ships need manoeuvrabilityQ&A
- Bruships 119: Cool Books - but they're definitely a Mixture1:26:34Atomic-bomb dispersal competes with anti-submarine protectionNotable Point
- Bruships 119: Cool Books - but they're definitely a Mixture4:09:53Why anti-submarine escorts still needed deck gunsQ&A
- Bruships 119: Cool Books - but they're definitely a Mixture4:12:20A hypothetical fleet for Ukrainian grain shipping in 2023Q&A
- Bruships 119: Cool Books - but they're definitely a Mixture4:13:48Type 26 and Constellation approach versatility differentlyNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy...2:28:02Refitting cruisers for mines and anti-submarine workNotable Point
- Bruships 118: Unbuilt Battleships, Romans & French Strategic Philosophy3:25:55Type 26 can add torpedoes through modular spaceQ&A
- Bruships 117: Battle Cruisers, Battle-Cruisers or Battlecruisers?3:38:50River-class frigates as an earlier Flower replacementQ&A
- Some Myths of the Royal Navy in WWII & Treaty Years40:50Courageous and the danger of exercise biasNotable Point
- Some Myths of the Royal Navy in WWII & Treaty Years42:19The 1942 readiness horizon and escort carriersNotable Point
- Some Myths of the Royal Navy in WWII & Treaty Years45:53Royal Navy submarines as ambush weaponsChapter
- Some Myths of the Royal Navy in WWII & Treaty Years50:07How treaty sloops preserved escort design capacityNotable Point
- Patreon 80: The most annoying & damaging 'myths' about the Royal Navy in the Treaty Years & WWII?23:24Admiral Henderson's mixed sea and staff careerChapter
- Patreon 80: The most annoying & damaging 'myths' about the Royal Navy in the Treaty Years & WWII?1:09:14British submarines and anti-submarine preparationChapter
- Patreon 80: The most annoying & damaging 'myths' about the Royal Navy in the Treaty Years & WWII?1:14:07T-class torpedo spreads and prewar ASW planningNotable Point
- Patreon 80: The most annoying & damaging 'myths' about the Royal Navy in the Treaty Years & WWII?1:20:18The Hunt class as evidence of prewar planningNotable Point
- Patreon 80: The most annoying & damaging 'myths' about the Royal Navy in the Treaty Years & WWII?2:08:58Night range and repairability kept the Swordfish usefulNotable Point
- Bruships 116: Australia Trip Books... Continued4:32:27Carrier losses and the danger of misleading exercisesNotable Point
- Inglorious 6th of July: Battle of Grenada(1779) & Battle of Algeciras(1801)3:03:56Britain's submarine-ban campaign concealed a strategic tradeoffQ&A
- HMS Ark Royal(1937): Key Ships Series 3, Ship 931:30The risk of using fleet carriers as submarine huntersNotable Point
- HMS Ark Royal(1937): Key Ships Series 3, Ship 91:01:42Three carrier losses and ignored safeguardsNotable Point
- Bruships 115: Hopefully Australia Trip in Summary!1:19:08Wartime shortages shaped corvette armamentQ&A
- Bruships 115: Hopefully Australia Trip in Summary!1:31:55More prewar sloops would multiply escort capacityQ&A
- Bruships 115: Hopefully Australia Trip in Summary!2:16:26Dipping sonar evolved from earlier experimentsQ&A
- Ticonderoga Class: Comment Response31:57Why current anti-submarine operations require careful sourcingQ&A
- US Nuclear Powered Cruisers: Comment Response6:02Fast boats, submarines, and littoral sea denialQ&A
- US Nuclear Powered Cruisers: Comment Response37:10Nuclear escorts still need a balanced task groupQ&A
- HMS Illustrious: Key Ships Series 3, Ship 71:09:26Swordfish and Martlets over Diego SuarezChapter
- Leahy Class(+Bainbridge Class): Comment Response4:35Missile fits shaped US Navy roles and classificationsNotable Point
- Western Approaches Tactical Unit(WATU)0:17WATU within the anti-submarine systemChapter
- Western Approaches Tactical Unit(WATU)15:10From intelligence reports to a tactical playbookNotable Point
- Western Approaches Tactical Unit(WATU)17:03Why WATU used repeated war gamesChapter
- Western Approaches Tactical Unit(WATU)33:45Raspberry hunts a U-boat inside the convoyChapter
- Western Approaches Tactical Unit(WATU)39:20Pineapple and Banana separate pack from single-boat attacksChapter
- Western Approaches Tactical Unit(WATU)46:26The Beta search shapes a U-boat's escapeNotable Point
- Western Approaches Tactical Unit(WATU)52:30Evading acoustic torpedoes below 24 knotsNotable Point
- Albany Class: Comment Response25:53How escorts divide carrier-group defenceNotable Point
- Building the Fleets for the Battle of Midway59:26World War I losses shaped later ASW practiceNotable Point
- HMS Nubian: Key Ship Series 3, Ship 520:41Convoy escort and uncertain U-boat claimsChapter
- Some Books Aquired So Far in #NavHistAus23! Sydney51:41Why Bathurst corvettes were not merely enlarged FlowersQ&A
- Some Books Aquired So Far in #NavHistAus23! Sydney1:10:28What made the Daring class a capable destroyerQ&A
- What would battleship and cruiser guns look like If modern technology were applied to them?13:41Large guns as launchers for specialist naval payloadsNotable Point
- Jeune Ecole: A Cheaper Way of War? The Jeune Ecole24:40Submarines add reach but invite anti-submarine warfareNotable Point
- Jeune Ecole: A Cheaper Way of War? The Jeune Ecole25:43Peacetime submarine detection creates a secrecy dilemmaNotable Point
- HMS Cossack: Key Ships Series 3, Ship 1...special edition...46:37Cossack's loss and the destroyer's vulnerable routine missionNotable Point
- Stalins Dream Fleets & the Potential Responses31:49Homing-torpedo countermeasures as a warning about wonder weaponsNotable Point
- US Treaty Cruisers in War & Retrospect: Comment Response6:13Why US cruisers relied on speed, screens, and fleet supportNotable Point
- US Treaty Cruisers in War & Retrospect: Comment Response10:56Are US treaty cruisers really cruisers?Q&A
- Bruships 114: Alternate Histories, What Ifs & Questions from Chat3:11:40Why a teardrop hull was not a universal wartime answerQ&A
- Bruships 113: Jutland36:00Why more submarines would not transform JutlandQ&A
- Building the Fleets for Jutland1:22:50Cruisers and destroyers made fleet strength deeperChapter
- Patreon 79: AH - WW1 incidents happen that bring the US enters war on the side of Germany...10:22Mark 41 cells do not give Type 31 an area-defence roleNotable Point
- 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
- Patreon 79: AH - WW1 incidents happen that bring the US enters war on the side of Germany...22:32The capital ships had an unseen escort screenNotable Point
- Patreon 79: AH - WW1 incidents happen that bring the US enters war on the side of Germany...1:40:44How fishing trawlers became a wartime auxiliary patrolNotable Point
- Ship-Shape Special: Alex & Garius Command a Carrier... How bad can this be? Mission 215:41Why a carrier escort needs both air and submarine defenseNotable Point
- Ship-Shape Special: Alex & Garius Command a Carrier... How bad can this be? Mission 21:39:59How First World War shocks reshaped the Royal NavyChapter
- Building a NelRod County Class...1:21:50Cruiser missions from ASW to diplomatic workNotable Point
- What were the 'Bearns' of the other Major Navies? RM, IJN, USN, RN & Kreigsmarine1:11:32The Sims class attempted too many improvements at onceNotable Point
- Amagi Class Battlecruiser: Key Ship Series 2, Ship 51:18What makes a warship a capital strategic assetNotable Point
- Patreon 78: The Bearn of every major treaty navy...2:15:54Admiral King's resistance complicated Anglo-American cooperationNotable Point
- Julian Corbett: Speaking Truth to Power57:24Peer war makes distributed naval capability unavoidableNotable Point
- Bruships 111: Random Books of History18:20Churchill's like-for-like naval procurement logicNotable Point
- Bruships 111: Random Books of History1:07:36The naval equivalent of a tank destroyerQ&A
- Mayfly to the Future: A History of Naval Aviation17:24The integrated carrier and capital-ship task forceChapter
- Mayfly to the Future: A History of Naval Aviation42:12Building for the war you might faceNotable Point
- Mayfly to the Future: A History of Naval Aviation51:55The Merlin as a multi-role naval helicopterNotable Point
- Ship-Shape Special: Alex & Garius Command a Carrier... How bad can this be?1:05:18How competing missions jam a carrier deckNotable Point
- HMS Dreadnought, but built around the RN's favourite battleship guns...3:37:27Why a fleet should keep weavingNotable Point
- Cold War Goes Hot: Red Storm Norway 198028:35Why Denmark and Norway anchor British northern securityChapter
- Cold War Goes Hot: Red Storm Norway 198033:20Why heavy reinforcement still has to cross by seaChapter
- Cold War Goes Hot: Red Storm Norway 198037:25A broad transit route rather than a narrow straitNotable Point
- Cold War Goes Hot: Red Storm Norway 19801:01:13Turning SOSUS contacts into a shared operating pictureNotable Point
- Cold War Goes Hot: Red Storm Norway 19801:19:43Submarine posture creates dilemmas before warChapter
- Cold War Goes Hot: Red Storm Norway 19801:28:07The strain of persistent maritime surveillanceNotable Point
- Red Storm Rising: The GIUK Gap in a 1980 conventional war between the Warsaw Pact & NATO(Patreon 77)54:04How SOSUS evolved into a North Atlantic surveillance networkQ&A
- Red Storm Rising: The GIUK Gap in a 1980 conventional war between the Warsaw Pact & NATO(Patreon 77)1:10:13What if Britain had long-range maritime patrol aircraft in 1939?Q&A
- Red Storm Rising: The GIUK Gap in a 1980 conventional war between the Warsaw Pact & NATO(Patreon 77)1:14:06SOSUS, sonobuoys, and maritime patrol aircraftChapter
- Red Storm Rising: The GIUK Gap in a 1980 conventional war between the Warsaw Pact & NATO(Patreon 77)1:18:16Why do maritime patrol aircraft still need long range?Q&A
- Red Storm Rising: The GIUK Gap in a 1980 conventional war between the Warsaw Pact & NATO(Patreon 77)1:19:10Does magnetic anomaly detection still matter?Q&A
- Red Storm Rising: The GIUK Gap in a 1980 conventional war between the Warsaw Pact & NATO(Patreon 77)1:19:37Could 1980 sonobuoys listen below the thermocline?Q&A
- Red Storm Rising: The GIUK Gap in a 1980 conventional war between the Warsaw Pact & NATO(Patreon 77)1:32:20Could Britain have built an early SOSUS-style barrier?Q&A
- Red Storm Rising: The GIUK Gap in a 1980 conventional war between the Warsaw Pact & NATO(Patreon 77)3:28:19Why quiet diesel submarines complicate the undersea fightNotable Point
- Red Storm Rising: The GIUK Gap in a 1980 conventional war between the Warsaw Pact & NATO(Patreon 77)3:48:57How might the Soviet Navy protect northern convoys from NATO submarines?Q&A
- Red Storm Rising: The GIUK Gap in a 1980 conventional war between the Warsaw Pact & NATO(Patreon 77)3:59:46Why could the Soviet Navy mass more RBU rockets than NATO ASROC weapons?Q&A
- Ship Shape & Running on Gas24:04Why the Type 81 programme stopped at seven shipsChapter
- Bruships 109: Mahan, an inspiration & a Reflection + Bonus16:59How WATU's women carried anti-submarine lessons across a barrierNotable 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
- Royal Navy retains the 'Fleet Units' of Royal Naval Air Service in 1918 - an Alternate History10:33The RNAS already had a global naval roleChapter
- Royal Navy retains the 'Fleet Units' of Royal Naval Air Service in 1918 - an Alternate History21:41Aircraft as an anti-submarine patrol toolNotable Point
- Royal Navy retains the 'Fleet Units' of Royal Naval Air Service in 1918 - an Alternate History1:29:53Escort carriers and the Atlantic air gapChapter
- Alternate History - Royal Navy retains the Fleet 'units' of Royal Naval Air Service: Patreon 7642:20RNAS patrols against U-boats in 1917Notable Point
- Alternate History - Royal Navy retains the Fleet 'units' of Royal Naval Air Service: Patreon 762:12:01Scout carriers turn into convoy air coverChapter
- Alternate History - Royal Navy retains the Fleet 'units' of Royal Naval Air Service: Patreon 762:52:48The Battle of the Atlantic with carrier cover from the startChapter
- Alternate History - Royal Navy retains the Fleet 'units' of Royal Naval Air Service: Patreon 762:58:30Could carrier air cover reduce convoy escort demand?Q&A
- Alternate History - Royal Navy retains the Fleet 'units' of Royal Naval Air Service: Patreon 762:59:53How U-boats might answer continuous carrier air coverQ&A
- Bruships 108: PLanned for Random Books off the Shelf & Chat1:46:06Walker and Roberts in anti-submarine warfareQ&A
- Bruships 108: PLanned for Random Books off the Shelf & Chat1:52:44Where to research Western Approaches wargaming rulesQ&A
- HNLMS Schorpioen(1868): Key Ship Series 1, Ship 68:33The Falklands War and submarine sea denialNotable Point
- Bruships 107: Some New to Me Books & Some New from Pen & Sword2:48:43How Axis submarine coordination aided British submarinesNotable Point
- Bruships 107: Some New to Me Books & Some New from Pen & Sword2:58:36Modern escorts as functional cruisersQ&A
- Help I Inadvertently Built a Super Bismarck...1:10:19A mass submarine programme would trigger a responseNotable Point
- Help I Inadvertently Built a Super Bismarck...1:16:38Could mass minelaying submarines close British waters?Q&A
- Help I Inadvertently Built a Super Bismarck...1:27:35How much would competent Japanese ASW change the submarine war?Q&A
- Timberborne: A Test for the Year of Technology/My students favourite 'engineering game'2:27:50Could an Italian submarine have attacked New York?Q&A
- Timberborne: A Test for the Year of Technology/My students favourite 'engineering game'2:31:28Anti-submarine warfare depends on trained formationsNotable Point
- Bruships 106: Song Dynasty & Three New Books from Pen & Sword54:44Floatplane sloops could extend convoy reconnaissance and ASWQ&A
- Bruships 106: Song Dynasty & Three New Books from Pen & Sword1:34:45A magnetic Squid fuze had to survive launch, impact, and depthQ&A
- Bruships 106: Song Dynasty & Three New Books from Pen & Sword2:58:53Variable-depth sonar reaches beneath masking thermal layersQ&A
- Bruships 106: Song Dynasty & Three New Books from Pen & Sword4:14:49Mediterranean ASW and the British submarine force mixQ&A
- The Submarine Century? How Submarines evolved over the 20th Century0:08Why submarines change naval warfare into a three-dimensional contestChapter
- The Submarine Century? How Submarines evolved over the 20th Century6:06Why sinkings alone distort submarine warfareNotable Point
- The Submarine Century? How Submarines evolved over the 20th Century31:57The Russo-Japanese War and surface-era anti-submarine warfareNotable Point
- The Submarine Century? How Submarines evolved over the 20th Century34:05Why better underwater endurance did not automatically make submarines lethalNotable Point
- The Submarine Century? How Submarines evolved over the 20th Century54:30Convoys, ASDIC, and the real objective of anti-submarine warfareNotable Point
- The Submarine Century? How Submarines evolved over the 20th Century1:59:03PNS Ghazi and the difficulty of attributing a submarine lossNotable Point
- The Submarine Century? How Submarines evolved over the 20th Century2:09:29Seawolf and the post-Cold-War price of peer-war specializationNotable Point
- The Submarine Century? How Submarines evolved over the 20th Century2:11:15Why neither century belongs to submarines aloneChapter
- A potential American Response to the 18in HMS Agincourt?21:02Why British anti-torpedo fittings looked so extensiveNotable Point
- Bruships 104: Primary or Secondary Sources3:26:55The Condor's transition from airliner to Atlantic reconnaissanceChapter
- Bruships 104: Primary or Secondary Sources3:40:23Escort carriers reduced the Condor threat despite Audacity's lossNotable Point
- Bombardment of Ellwood27:37Japan's thin submarine patrol off the West CoastNotable Point
- Bombardment of Ellwood32:03Why tankers also need escort shipsQ&A
- Bruships 103: Belfast Parts yet to arrive... so let's consider the Run up to War...3:21:36Taking the Falklands is not the same as holding themQ&A
- Patreon 73: Queen Elizabeth class battleships - Brave first step, faltering leap or something else?2:03:55Why an early German submarine turn would be dangerousNotable Point
- Blockade!!12:21Submarine campaigns as blockades of BritainNotable Point
- Bruships 102: New Books, Sea Wolves & Skagerrak2:09:18Type XXI U-boats against Allied escort depthQ&A
- If the January 1939 Tsingtao incident leads to war, how does RN carrier force fair against IJN?54:01Kantai kessen must adapt to the Royal NavyChapter
- If the January 1939 Tsingtao incident leads to war, how does RN carrier force fair against IJN?1:06:47Trade intelligence makes distant blockade practicalChapter
- Patreon 72: If Jan 1939 Tsingtao incident leads to war, how does RN carrier force fair against IJN?1:04:04Why zigzagging blunts the Long Lance's rangeNotable Point
- Patreon 72: If Jan 1939 Tsingtao incident leads to war, how does RN carrier force fair against IJN?2:19:11The Royal Navy answer to Japanese submarinesQ&A
- Patreon 72: If Jan 1939 Tsingtao incident leads to war, how does RN carrier force fair against IJN?3:29:14Would Pacific mobilization weaken a later convoy war?Q&A
- Gunboats of the 1920s, 1930s & WWII including Dragonfly Class39:38HMS Locust's Dunkirk service, refit, and survivalNotable Point
- Gunboats of the 1920s, 1930s & WWII including Dragonfly Class46:41Sloop capacity, anti-submarine cover, and Far East readinessNotable Point
- Gunboats of the 1920s, 1930s & WWII including Dragonfly Class51:25HNLMS Abraham Crijnssen escapes disguised as an islandNotable Point
- Gunboats of the 1920s, 1930s & WWII including Dragonfly Class1:26:14Fairmile D dog boats and flexible coastal warfareChapter
- Gunboats of the 1920s, 1930s & WWII including Dragonfly Class1:31:23Treaty-exempt small ships and missed procurementNotable Point
- Gunboats of the 1920s, 1930s & WWII including Dragonfly Class1:54:31Small ships, aggregate value, and modern OPV successorsNotable Point
- Dragonfly Class and other Gunboats Service in WWII1:08:01Sloop shortfall and Royal Navy procurementNotable Point
- Dragonfly Class and other Gunboats Service in WWII1:19:56How did sloops serve beyond the battle fleet?Q&A
- Dragonfly Class and other Gunboats Service in WWII2:21:10Could night gunboats deter coastal submarines?Q&A
- Dragonfly Class and other Gunboats Service in WWII3:00:59Converting submarine chasers during an ASW shortageNotable Point
- USS Wichita: Comment Response3:58Cruiser sonar and ASW role debateChapter
- Bruships 100: Science Fiction & Some Fvourites2:01:13Mass-produced drone escorts against U-boatsQ&A
- Christmas Comment Response: HMCS Sackville, Descartes & some 60s shorts41:33Sackville, Flower-class manning, and convoy valueChapter
- Christmas Comment Response: HMCS Sackville, Descartes & some 60s shorts46:25Royal Navy personnel geography and Commonwealth crewingNotable Point
- Christmas Comment Response: HMCS Sackville, Descartes & some 60s shorts50:33Flower-class whaler ancestry and precise vessel termsNotable 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 shorts57:46The Flower class as a minimum viable convoy escortNotable Point
- What if Germany didn't invade Belgium in 1914? Comment Response30:41French submarines were dangerous but not an automatic Channel stopperNotable Point
- Why did the French Navy not more fully embrace carrier aviation after WWI?1:03:34Joffre and continuous air operationsChapter
- Why did the French Navy not more fully embrace carrier aviation after WWI?1:06:39Fast carriers, global commitments, and task groupsNotable Point
- Patreon 71: Why did the French Navy not more fully embrace carrier aviation after WWI?1:06:49Bearn's long afterlife beyond carrier operationsNotable Point
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Comus Class, Kynda Class & Kresta Class16:42Surface-raider counters depend on basesQ&A
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Comus Class, Kynda Class & Kresta Class19:48A hydrofoil escort trades speed for hull strainNotable Point
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Comus Class, Kynda Class & Kresta Class23:01RBU launchers added a last-ditch torpedo defenceNotable Point
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Comus Class, Kynda Class & Kresta Class50:40Soviet ASW mixed old and new detection methodsNotable Point
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Soviet Navy 1918-39 & Cruisers of the Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine28:49A larger U-boat program invites escort productionQ&A
- Insect Class: Force Multiplication of the Inshore Kind49:25Gunboats and sloops as force multipliersNotable Point
- New Years 2023 Naval History Questions till the Bru runs out...1:13:10A submarine-only German fleet would simplify Britain's warQ&A
- New Years 2023 Naval History Questions till the Bru runs out...2:03:24ASROC modernization attracts less attention than headline missilesQ&A
- 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...59:51Truxtun tests nuclear power in anti-submarine warfareNotable Point
- Leahy Class(+Bainbridge Class): Destroyer Leaders to Cruisers by the Stroke of a Pen24:55ASROC extended anti-submarine reachNotable Point
- Leahy Class(+Bainbridge Class): Destroyer Leaders to Cruisers by the Stroke of a Pen52:45USS England carried an anti-submarine legacyNotable Point
- Albany Class; Conversioning for a Missile(A quick boxing day recording)7:11Chicago's weapons fit defines the new missionChapter
- HMCS Haida & The Tribal Class: Always Service30:14Australian Tribals adapted for Pacific and postwar serviceChapter
- HMCS Haida & The Tribal Class: Always Service57:18Tribal ASW loadouts and the limits of official figuresNotable Point
- HMCS Haida & The Tribal Class: Always Service1:08:38How Haida turned ASDIC contacts into ASW attacksNotable Point
- HMCS Haida & The Tribal Class: Always Service1:39:56Korean War refits, carriers, and ASW gearNotable Point
- HMCS Haida & The Tribal Class: Always Service1:59:03Matabele's sacrifice with Arctic convoy PQ-8Chapter
- Soviet Navy 1918-19913:40:41Moskva-class helicopter carriers filled an anti-submarine gapNotable Point
- Soviet Navy 1918-19913:45:19Did the Moskva design make sense for anti-submarine work?Q&A
- Soviet Navy 1918-19913:46:53Is the VA-111 Shkval faster than Spearfish?Q&A
- Soviet Navy 1918-19913:51:18Was Shkval intended for a defensive snapshot?Q&A
- Soviet Navy 1918-19913:54:42Alfa-class speed collided with Soviet personnel structureChapter
- Soviet Navy 1918-19914:02:15Kiev and the Yak-38 solved a peacetime air-cover problemChapter
- Kara Class: Cruisers of Deterrence?11:34Gas turbines and the balanced missile-cruiser fitNotable Point
- Kara Class: Cruisers of Deterrence?14:07A general-purpose cruiser built to backfill the escort screenNotable Point
- Bruships 96: Vikings, Okinawa & 2nd to Last Pre-Christmas 2022 Naval Chat1:31:45Depth charges by total kills, Hedgehog by wartime effectQ&A
- Bruships 96: Vikings, Okinawa & 2nd to Last Pre-Christmas 2022 Naval Chat2:01:56How an extended Pacific war would redirect Atlantic escortsQ&A
- Bruships 96: Vikings, Okinawa & 2nd to Last Pre-Christmas 2022 Naval Chat3:16:28Falklands carriers kept clear of San CarlosQ&A
- Soviet Navy Part 3/3: 1965-1991 - Trying to Win Cold War before it turned Hot?21:12Why the Moskva class carried so many helicoptersNotable Point
- USS Wichita(CA-45); The Greatest Treaty 8in Cruiser41:01Rennell Island and the danger of one-threat planningNotable Point
- HMCS Sackville & The Flower Class1:52Why convoys needed Flower-class critical massChapter
- HMCS Sackville & The Flower Class7:03From First World War sloops to the 1939 Flower classChapter
- HMCS Sackville & The Flower Class8:47Why a coastal escort still needed ocean-going seakeepingNotable Point
- HMCS Sackville & The Flower Class20:12Henderson and Goodall turn escort demands into a shipNotable Point
- HMCS Sackville & The Flower Class20:18Why a sloop's peacetime outfit could conceal its wartime roleNotable Point
- HMCS Sackville & The Flower Class32:19How U-boats penetrated the center of a convoyNotable Point
- HMCS Sackville & The Flower Class36:18Mine warfare and the Bittern escort templateNotable Point
- HMCS Sackville & The Flower Class39:58How Southern Pride became the Flower-class hullChapter
- HMCS Sackville & The Flower Class44:11Southern Pride proves the whaler hull in convoy serviceNotable Point
- HMCS Sackville & The Flower Class58:49Why the Royal Navy revived the name corvetteNotable Point
- HMCS Sackville & The Flower Class1:11:11Four-inch gun, Hedgehog, and depth-charge patternsChapter
- HMCS Sackville & The Flower Class1:11:11Why the Flower's four-inch gun targeted surfaced submarinesNotable Point
- HMCS Sackville & The Flower Class1:13:47How Hedgehog let one escort keep attacking a submarineNotable Point
- HMCS Sackville & The Flower Class1:19:52From lanyard charges to K-gun attack patternsNotable Point
- HMCS Sackville & The Flower Class1:41:24Pursuing U-379 leaves fewer convoy escortsNotable Point
- HMCS Sackville & The Flower Class1:43:00How ASDIC and Type 271 divided the submarine searchChapter
- HMCS Sackville & The Flower Class1:44:10How ASDIC sets developed around ships and weaponsNotable Point
- HMCS Sackville & The Flower Class1:49:45Convoy arrival, intelligence cover, and the production raceNotable Point
- Bruships 95: Science Fiction, Including Paddle 'Corn Oil' (Aka BioDiesel) Battleship Twist...29:37Environmental pressure and neglected naval force multipliersNotable Point
- Bruships 95: Science Fiction, Including Paddle 'Corn Oil' (Aka BioDiesel) Battleship Twist...41:59A 1940 war gives Britain an escort advantageQ&A
- Bruships 95: Science Fiction, Including Paddle 'Corn Oil' (Aka BioDiesel) Battleship Twist...50:16Why British carrier construction matteredQ&A
- Bruships 95: Science Fiction, Including Paddle 'Corn Oil' (Aka BioDiesel) Battleship Twist...1:22:07How a German attack on Ireland could aid Atlantic convoysQ&A
- Bruships 95: Science Fiction, Including Paddle 'Corn Oil' (Aka BioDiesel) Battleship Twist...1:27:01Irish convoy assembly and forward escort basesNotable Point
- Soviet Navy Part 2/3: 1939-651:33:01Kresta II grew within the politics of de-StalinizationChapter
- Patreon 68: What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?2:11:36Better guns do not prevent every carrier lossQ&A
- Kresta Class Cruisers Iterative Development of the Soviet Style0:02From Kynda to Kresta after 1961-63Chapter
- 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 Style23:54Stern volume arrives before a towed arrayNotable Point
- Kresta Class Cruisers Iterative Development of the Soviet Style35:01Metel gives the Kresta II reach against submarinesNotable Point
- Kresta Class Cruisers Iterative Development of the Soviet Style40:01Kresta II in North Atlantic ASW operationsNotable Point
- Kresta Class Cruisers Iterative Development of the Soviet Style50:09The retractable Kresta II helicopter hangarNotable Point
- Kresta Class Cruisers Iterative Development of the Soviet Style1:02:10Ka-25 makes organic ASW aviation practicalChapter
- Kresta Class Cruisers Iterative Development of the Soviet Style1:09:47Why an anti-submarine ship can still be a cruiserNotable Point
- Groznyy/Kynda (1961) Class: Gorshkov's Template for a Blue Water Navy16:44A cruiser hull built around missilesChapter
- Groznyy/Kynda (1961) Class: Gorshkov's Template for a Blue Water Navy41:25Radical missiles paired with conservative safeguardsNotable Point
- Bruships 94: Some New Books, Some Others Books and a lot of Naval Chat10:17Small escorts do the fleet's daily workQ&A
- Cruiser Policy of the Reichsmarine & Kriegsmarine41:49From cruiser rules to wolf packs - and the escort responseNotable Point
- Cruiser Policy of the Reichsmarine & Kriegsmarine1:00:00Plan Z and the Allied industrial responseNotable Point
- Bruships 93: Soviet Navy Books & Random Books3:40:33How threatening were the Moskva-class helicopter cruisers?Q&A
- Bruships 93: Soviet Navy Books & Random Books3:54:49A Trieste-type ship as the task group's helicopter hubNotable Point
- Sverdlov Class: Comment Response35:58Why Kiev's bastion role cannot explain the earlier SverdlovsQ&A
- Sverdlov Class: Comment Response1:04:32How Sverdlovs complicated NATO's anti-submarine effortNotable Point
- Sverdlov Class: Comment Response1:09:40The concealment and identification problems inside submarine bastionsNotable Point
- Cressy(1899) Class: Famous for the Wrong Things - 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 1257:32The torpedo threat the Cressys were built to defeatNotable Point
- Cressy(1899) Class: Famous for the Wrong Things - 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 121:21:17How U-9 sank Aboukir, Hogue, and CressyChapter
- Cressy(1899) Class: Famous for the Wrong Things - 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 121:25:54Civilian rescue and the anti-submarine gap after U-9Notable Point
- Cressy(1899) Class: Famous for the Wrong Things - 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 121:27:38The Cressy disaster, hindsight, and the escort lessonNotable Point
- Bruships 92: New Books, Naval Chat and Late 19th Century Warships...2:50:24How corvettes, sloops, and destroyer escorts differedQ&A
- Châteaurenault (1898): The French Columbia Class... (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 9)34:27UC-38's single hit and the rescue of both crewsChapter
- Bruships 91: New Books & Cruiser Books3:14:44Mediterranean Fleet planning before the Second World WarChapter
- Bruships 91: New Books & Cruiser Books3:18:26Why Pound preferred convoy protection to Scheme ZNotable Point
- Bruships 91: New Books & Cruiser Books3:20:24Keeping twelve destroyers on patrol required a larger forceNotable Point
- Bruships 91: New Books & Cruiser Books3:21:53Scheme Z relied on uncertain morale effectsNotable Point
- Bruships 90: Books From the Road29:47Destroyer conversions could emerge as smaller postwar frigatesQ&A
- Bruships 90: Books From the Road3:48:52Plan books and biographies open routes into Black Swan and Captain Walker researchQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 441:47A more robust airframe may have given Gannet the procurement edgeQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 41:30:11A shared jet-MPA assumption misled Britain and AmericaQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 41:39:48Retiring S-3 Viking left a carrier ASW range gapQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 41:49:22Maritime patrol aircraft benefit from a mass-produced airframeQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 42:29:22The US Navy respected Nimrod as a specialist patrol aircraftQ&A
- Shortcomings of Early Aircraft Carriers: What Lessons can we Learn from Innovation?55:29Ark Royal left treaty tonnage unusedChapter
- BC-304 Daedalus Class: Stargate SG1's Battle Cruisers (Comment Response)1:14:38Classify science-fiction frigates by roleNotable Point
- Shortcomings with the designs of 'Early' Aircraft Carriers: Patreon 651:29:49Why losing Courageous and Glorious mattered beyond two hullsNotable Point
- Active Class: The Last Scout Cruisers?11:03HMS Active as a Grand Fleet flotilla leaderChapter
- Bruships 89: New Books (Christmas Recomendations) & Personal Accounts of War20:21Modernized submarines in 1941 improve endurance but remain visibleQ&A
- Bruships 89: New Books (Christmas Recomendations) & Personal Accounts of War1:31:44Béarn's limitations still left a convoy roleNotable Point
- Bruships 89: New Books (Christmas Recomendations) & Personal Accounts of War1:36:58Defending fleets and ports against Kaiten submarinesQ&A
- Bruships 89: New Books (Christmas Recomendations) & Personal Accounts of War2:56:11The Fairey Gannet traded jet speed for enduranceQ&A
- Epic Blunders of Naval History: Comment Response Video1:01:41Force Z and the consequences of pausing carrier constructionQ&A
- Bruships 88: Way of War3:38:23A crewed-uncrewed future for airborne ASWQ&A
- Epic Blunders of Naval History52:07The escort surge's hidden cost in carrier strengthNotable Point
- Brooklyn Class(US Treaty Cruisers): Comment Response10:32Why large warships become general-purpose assetsNotable Point
- Abruzzi Class: Condottieri of the Regia Marina16:54Layered armor and practical air defenseNotable Point
- Bruships 87: Books Found on My Travels, New Books & Christmas Recomendations53:57A technical owner's manual for wartime U-boatsChapter
- Bruships 87: Books Found on My Travels, New Books & Christmas Recomendations1:25:53Why a combined snorkel was not a simple modificationQ&A
- French Navy Fights on in 1940: Comment Response Video14:49Building an eastern fleet when the Mediterranean is quieterQ&A
- Brooklyn Class: The Not Quite Last US Treaty Era Cruisers30:20Philadelphia supports the Safi landings in Operation TorchChapter
- Brooklyn Class: The Not Quite Last US Treaty Era Cruisers1:41:10Falklands logistics show why near-peer wars stay difficultNotable Point
- Bruships 86: Science Fiction Strikes Some More3:03:46A helicopter cruiser should coordinate ASW from the rearNotable Point
- Escort Carriers, the idea, designs, development and some notable operations8:08HMS Argus as an interwar escort-carrier precedentNotable Point
- Escort Carriers, the idea, designs, development and some notable operations10:33Convoy survival is the measure of anti-submarine successNotable Point
- Escort Carriers, the idea, designs, development and some notable operations15:07A damaged U-boat can divert more forces than a sinkingNotable Point
- Escort Carriers, the idea, designs, development and some notable operations23:19Escort carriers anchor the Royal Navy's late-war ASW systemChapter
- 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 operations54:13Aircraft ferrying and trade protection share one hullChapter
- Escort Carriers, the idea, designs, development and some notable operations1:29:19Modern escort-carrier versatility limits availabilityNotable Point
- 19th Century Cruisers: Comment Response Video 3 (Sfax - Geffion)9:55A larger Type 26 as command ship and escort leaderQ&A
- 19th Century Cruisers: Comment Response Video 3 (Sfax - Geffion)22:35Magnetic mapping complicates submarine stealthQ&A
- Patreon 63: Escort carriers, the idea, designs, development and notable operations24:51Why merely forcing a U-boat to dive matteredChapter
- Patreon 63: Escort carriers, the idea, designs, development and notable operations32:02Hermes as Force H's anti-submarine carrierNotable Point
- Patreon 63: Escort carriers, the idea, designs, development and notable operations37:09Convoy defense is measured by arrivals, not U-boats sunkChapter
- Patreon 63: Escort carriers, the idea, designs, development and notable operations43:58Why early helicopters were poor ASW substitutesQ&A
- Patreon 63: Escort carriers, the idea, designs, development and notable operations45:59How the Swordfish hunted submarinesChapter
- Patreon 63: Escort carriers, the idea, designs, development and notable operations50:05What could ASV Mark II radar do?Q&A
- Patreon 63: Escort carriers, the idea, designs, development and notable operations54:38The case for a continuous Empire sloop programNotable Point
- Patreon 63: Escort carriers, the idea, designs, development and notable operations55:53Was Hedgehog inspired by aircraft depth charges?Q&A
- Patreon 63: Escort carriers, the idea, designs, development and notable operations57:57Why the Swordfish Mark III traded its torpedo for radarNotable Point
- 19th Century Cruisers: Comment Response Video 2 (Velasco - Imperieuse)39:09Why a smaller navy benefits from general-purpose escortsQ&A
- Patreon 62: What If The French Navy in 1940 Fought On?1:08:24More patrols and earlier convoy air coverChapter
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 350:59British submarines and Japan's inadequate escort fleetQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 33:04:42Why a 500-ship IJN escort program was unrealisticQ&A
- SMS Gefion(1894): 19th Century Cruisers part 1243:54Why Britain might have used a cruiser Germany did not needNotable Point
- Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1941-4237:56Could Courageous have validated carrier anti-submarine warfare?Q&A
- Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1941-421:19:11Why joining the P-8 program beat the MRA4 NimrodQ&A
- Columbia (1892) Class: 19th Century Cruisers (+ Star Trek & SSBNX) part 111:07:07Could ocean prediction erode submarine stealth?Chapter
- Sfax(1884) of Marine Nationale: 19th Century Cruisers p915:29Sfax between commerce raider and general-purpose cruiserChapter
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 211:42Sandown-class minehunters in Ukrainian serviceQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 254:47RUM-139 ASROC and Royal Navy Mk 41 launchersQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 21:22:34Air-dropped depth charges versus Hedgehog and SquidQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 22:33:28Retiring the S-3 Viking without a replacementQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out46:38How ASW cruisers became through-deck carriersQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out47:56An updated Hermes instead of InvincibleQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out1:54:35Would a VC10 have avoided Nimrod's flaws?Q&A
- Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1939-406:00How continuing British carrier construction changes the early warQ&A
- Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1939-4016:22Churchill applied the last war's escort lesson to a future submarine threatQ&A
- Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1939-4021:25How Coastal Command and the Royal Navy bypassed interservice politicsQ&A
- Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1939-4032:30Why transferring Stirlings to Coastal Command has an unknowable payoffQ&A
- Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1939-401:54:53Japan's best 1937 series-production choiceQ&A
- Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1939-402:16:00River frigates and Flower corvettes served different stages of the escort warQ&A
- Bruships 85: Cruiser, New & Random Reading1:57:40Allocating four protective shields across a task groupQ&A
- Bruships 85: Cruiser, New & Random Reading2:06:16How 26-knot freighters would change Atlantic convoysQ&A
- Five Weaknesses of Allied/Axis/Minor Navies in 1941 & 1942; Response to some Comments47:16Building naval counterfactuals from contemporary argumentsQ&A
- Five Weaknesses of Allied/Axis/Minor Navies in 1941 & 1942; Response to some Comments1:00:15Why Japan needed an earlier mass escort programQ&A
- Major Allied Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 19422:20Carriers became essential to Royal Navy survivalChapter
- Major Allied Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 19427:45Escort carriers multiplied convoy protectionNotable Point
- Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 194112:12Italy's capital ships deepen its escort shortageNotable Point
- Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 194123:36Carrier vulnerability makes escorts indispensableNotable Point
- Major Allied Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 19410:31What can still be fixed by January 1941?Chapter
- Major Allied Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 194123:40Disperse at Pearl Harbor and accelerate escortsChapter
- Five Weaknesses of Allied/Axis/Minor Navies in 1939 & 1940; Response to some Comments8:59Churchill, Chamberlain, and wartime carrier constructionQ&A
- Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times14:56How more British sloops could have changed the U-boat warQ&A
- Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times2:42:58How heavier depth charges widen the submarine kill zoneQ&A
- Major Allied Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 194014:48Carriers as enablers alongside the battle fleetChapter
- Major Allied Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 194022:10Scapa Flow defenses and convertible fleet oilersNotable Point
- Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 19397:55Turning the Kagero design into an ASW escortNotable Point
- Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 193938:57Building German escorts from the Mowe classChapter
- Major Allied Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 193927:18Building escorts and submarines across the CommonwealthChapter
- Major Allied Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 193943:12Bittern-class sloops as a Commonwealth escort programChapter
- Infrastructure in the Colonies: shipyards of the Commonwealth and Empire.26:16An interwar sloop program could have transformed convoy defenseChapter
- Infrastructure in the Colonies: shipyards of the Commonwealth and Empire.1:20:39Carriers and submarines create complementary protectionNotable Point
- Patreon 59: Infrastructure in the Colonies: shipyards of the Commonwealth and Empire.56:47Why British ASW construction still arrived lateQ&A
- Patreon 59: Infrastructure in the Colonies: shipyards of the Commonwealth and Empire.2:23:00Sloop and destroyer officers shared a small-ship command cultureQ&A
- Ruse de guerre0:18Why open-ocean warfare rewards deceptionChapter
- Ruse de guerre38:05Flower-class sloops bridge Q-ships and escortsChapter
- Kirov Class Cruisers; the Alaska Class of the Late Cold War? (Soviet Navy)6:27How a multi-axis attack could strain AegisNotable Point
- Kirov Class Cruisers; the Alaska Class of the Late Cold War? (Soviet Navy)16:11Project 1144 sensors, layered defenses, and aviationChapter
- Kirov Class Cruisers (Soviet Navy)13:50Kirov survives the siege of LeningradChapter
- Doug Clarke Bruships; As today would have been my Dad's Birthday, it's his books today3:08:52Why destroyers cannot win every rankingQ&A
- The Jeune Ecole in 30mins or Less10:51France pursues an effective early submarine forceNotable Point
- Projecting Mussonlini's Mare Nostrum: Italian 1920s & 1930s cruiser design/doctrine1:36:57Why not sweep British submarines more aggressively?Q&A
- Naval History Questions: Live From The Brushack2:30:16Sea Hurricane rockets against submarines and small craftQ&A
- 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
- Northampton Class: US Treaty Cruisers (Long Patrol)18:38USS Northampton from carrier escort to TassafarongaChapter
- 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)42:05Type 054A trades global range for affordable fleet massChapter
- 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)1:17:47Álvaro 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)1:27:05Type 26 variants reflect three national fleet structuresChapter
- Patreon 57: Modern frigates, cruisers by another name?9:02What a towed-array sonar requiresQ&A
- Patreon 57: Modern frigates, cruisers by another name?43:42Why a cruiser needs a helicopterQ&A
- 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?1:15:28Type 054A as a true frigate baselineChapter
- Patreon 57: Modern frigates, cruisers by another name?1:18:59How numerous frigates complicate submarine attackNotable Point
- Patreon 57: Modern frigates, cruisers by another name?1:25:13Fridtjof Nansen and small-navy cruiser dutiesChapter
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out Take 22:16:36Type 26 as a drone mothershipQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out Take 22:36:22When a warship's turning radius matters mostQ&A
- Bruships 80: Books From Travels3:09:39Why a 57 mm gun fits the Constellation-class missionQ&A
- Action of the 18th June 1799: How to Lose Frigates and Influence (Live)2:03:16What guns did wartime trawlers carry?Q&A
- Equitable Naval Treaties Discussion (Live)1:14:55The unused treaty opportunity to build hundreds of sloopsChapter
- Equitable Naval Treaties Discussion (Live)1:21:21Why convoy sloops should not become second-rate destroyersQ&A
- Equitable Naval Treaties Discussion (Live)1:29:51Why interwar sloops could still take wartime sensorsNotable Point
- Equitable Naval Treaties Discussion (Live)2:55:10Where a treaty counterfactual must stopQ&A
- Equitable London Treaty: Summary (Long Patrol)1:00:01The missed opportunity to mass-produce treaty-exempt sloopsChapter
- Equitable London Treaty: Summary (Long Patrol)1:05:00How escort mass could disrupt U-boat learningNotable Point
- Equitable London Treaties: Submarines & Fortifications (Long Patrol)0:52Submarines as sea-denial insuranceChapter
- Equitable London Treaties: Submarines & Fortifications (Long Patrol)3:10British submarine bans versus ASW investmentNotable Point
- Equitable London Treaties: Submarines & Fortifications (Long Patrol)30:00Submarine limits without an ASW counterweightChapter
- Equitable London Treaty: Sloops & Other Ships (Long Patrol)7:13Unlimited sloops for anti-submarine warfareChapter
- Equitable London Treaty: Sloops & Other Ships (Long Patrol)12:18Japan's missed escort opportunityNotable Point
- Equitable London Treaty: Sloops & Other Ships (Long Patrol)17:08The treaties did not cause the escort shortageNotable Point
- Equitable London Treaty: Sloops & Other Ships (Long Patrol)24:07A destroyer-sized hull optimized for ASWChapter
- Equitable London Treaty: Sloops & Other Ships (Long Patrol)28:47More patrol craft at Scapa FlowNotable Point
- Equitable London Treaty: Sloops & Other Ships (Long Patrol)33:17ASW needs hulls for contact and attackChapter
- Equitable London Treaty: Sloops & Other Ships (Long Patrol)35:00Distributed sonar as a modern parallelNotable Point
- Equitable London Treaty: Sloops & Other Ships (Long Patrol)38:24River-class performance was treaty-compatibleChapter
- Equitable London Treaty: Sloops & Other Ships (Long Patrol)47:43Submarine war shifts from quantity to technologyNotable Point
- Equitable London Treaty: Destroyers (Long Patrol)28:40Modern destroyer missions demanded more displacementChapter
- Equitable London Treaty: Destroyers (Long Patrol)49:23Why unlimited sloops cannot replace destroyersChapter
- Equitable London Treaty: Destroyers (Long Patrol)51:23Old escorts preserve the modern striking forceNotable Point
- Pensacola Class: US Interwar Cruisers (Long Patrol)22:55Pensacola escorts a vital reinforcement convoy to AustraliaChapter
- Equitable London Treaty: Aircraft Carriers (Long Patrol)0:54The treaty category that small carriers never receivedChapter
- My Royal Navy Washington Treaty Cruiser: with added Qs from "1939 Destroyer Doctrine" (Long Patrol)36:46Polish destroyers as Baltic mine and ASW platformsNotable Point
- My Royal Navy Washington Treaty Cruiser: with added Qs from "1939 Destroyer Doctrine" (Long Patrol)54:53More torpedoes still do not overcome the protection tradeoffNotable Point
- Royal Navy Survey Ships: A History - Patreon 55 (Long Patrol)12:15Public charts, trusted data, and sensitive seabedsNotable Point
- Royal Navy Survey Ships: A History - Patreon 55 (Long Patrol)14:44From lead lines to multibeam sonarChapter
- Royal Navy Survey Ships: A History - Patreon 55 (Long Patrol)50:13Beagle and the importance of survey data processingNotable Point
- Patreon 55: History of Survey Ships in the Royal Navy11:09Why cruise-missile torpedo hybrids remain a niche weaponQ&A
- Patreon 55: History of Survey Ships in the Royal Navy27:35From lead lines to multibeam sonarChapter
- Patreon 55: History of Survey Ships in the Royal Navy1:18:44HMS Challenger as survey ship, escort, and test bedChapter
- Patreon 55: History of Survey Ships in the Royal Navy1:25:24How survey ships informed Flower-class merchant-hull thinkingQ&A
- Patreon 55: History of Survey Ships in the Royal Navy1:33:52Can satellites replace survey ships or track submarines?Q&A
- Patreon 55: History of Survey Ships in the Royal Navy1:53:42Why nuclear ASROC is a poor answer to uncertain contactsQ&A
- Torpedoes and their Ships 1900-39: Patreon 54 (Long Patrol)39:40Tassafaronga: experience and culture shape survivalNotable Point
- 2022 Canada Naval History Trip Reading List (Long Patrol Book Review)20:20Camouflage and the adaptable Flower-class corvetteNotable Point
- 2022 Canada Naval History Trip Reading List (Long Patrol Book Review)41:21Reassessing the postwar British submarine fleetChapter
- Patreon 54: Torpedo development 1900-1939 and it's impact on destroyer design an doctrine1:52:43Anti-torpedo defenses seek to confuse the weaponQ&A
- Patreon 54: Torpedo development 1900-1939 and it's impact on destroyer design an doctrine2:45:49Surface ASW torpedoes are a close-range last resortQ&A
- Galaxy Class: A Naval Historian's view of Federation Cruisers & Ships of the 24th Century (Live)20:27Why capital ships stayed out of the ChannelQ&A
- Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN52:24Why anti-submarine frigates demand expensive quietingNotable Point
- Patreon 53: Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN24:33An uncrewed Flower-class concept for future convoy escortQ&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/RNZN2:55:11Uncrewed systems as the broadest field for cooperationChapter
- Patreon 53: Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN3:29:27Why an attack on an SSBN risks immediate escalationQ&A
- Patreon 53: Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN3:32:02The ocean model needed for satellite submarine detectionQ&A
- Cut Price County Questions and a Modern Battle Cruiser: A UAD Infused Discussion (Long Patrol)39:52What interwar ASDIC exercises taught - and distortedChapter
- Finnish War 1808-9 (214th Anniversary of the Battle of Kuopio)2:41:19London Treaty scope for a larger sloop forceNotable Point
- Finnish War 1808-9 (214th Anniversary of the Battle of Kuopio)2:47:56When ASDIC exercises met a different warQ&A
- Finnish War 1808-9 (214th Anniversary of the Battle of Kuopio)2:54:13Was ASDIC fitted for but not with?Q&A
- Bruships 78: Favourite Cruisers A Discussion...1:45:07What Type 26 variants are designed to doQ&A
- Bruships 78: Favourite Cruisers A Discussion...2:12:14Why modern escorts often act as cruisersQ&A
- Bruships 78: Favourite Cruisers A Discussion...3:42:19When a helicopter cruiser makes sense for ASWQ&A
- Patreon 52: Scapa Flow - A History & A Future1:31:47Two World War I submarine attacks show the defenses evolvingChapter
- Patreon 52: Scapa Flow - A History & A Future2:17:47The missing patrol layer in Royal Oak's defenseNotable Point
- Patreon 52: Scapa Flow - A History & A Future2:25:53How U-47 passed Scapa Flow's blockship defensesQ&A
- Bruships 77: Leadership, books & questions...3:33:11Why modern destroyers blur into cruisersQ&A
- Patreon 51: Sieges of Malta...2:57:17What if Britain destroyed the German surface fleet in Norway?Q&A
- Bruships 76: Five New Books & a Lot of New Questions11:45Hedgehog versus Squid anti-submarine weaponsQ&A
- Bruships 76: Five New Books & a Lot of New Questions29:58From Squid to LimboQ&A
- An Equitable Washington Treaty: Aircraft Carriers (Long Patrol)1:05:56How carrier missions changed from 1920 to 1926Notable Point
- Bruships 75: Following the 614th Running the Gauntlet1:42:39Dreadnought rams a submarineNotable Point
- 1939 Destroyer Doctrine: Patreon 50 (Long Patrol)25:34British zigzagging and Japanese long-range torpedo attacksNotable Point
- 1939 Destroyer Doctrine: Patreon 50 (Long Patrol)33:17Match destroyer weapons to the threatNotable Point
- 1939 Destroyer Doctrine: Patreon 50 (Long Patrol)39:14Soviet destroyers as coalition observersNotable Point
- Patreon 50: 1939 Destroyer Doctrine of the combatant navies & Where did it come from?48:30How Britain prepared escorts before the U-boat warQ&A
- Patreon 50: 1939 Destroyer Doctrine of the combatant navies & Where did it come from?1:39:29When French and Italian navies gained Hedgehog-style ASW weaponsQ&A
- Patreon 50: 1939 Destroyer Doctrine of the combatant navies & Where did it come from?3:12:37U.S. destroyers balance torpedo attack with fleet defenseNotable Point
- Patreon 50: 1939 Destroyer Doctrine of the combatant navies & Where did it come from?3:16:56How prepared were U.S. destroyers for U-boats?Q&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (11)1:14:52Why pre-war MAC ships could blunt the U-boat campaignQ&A
- Anglo Japanese War: If Tsingtao caused a war in January 1939 (Comment Response)3:18What would extra Commonwealth carriers change?Q&A
- Pathfinder Class(1904): Scout Cruiser (Long Patrol)24:02A submarine sighting without a hunting forceNotable Point
- Pathfinder Class(1904): Scout Cruiser (Long Patrol)24:02A submarine threat the fleet was not ready to huntNotable Point
- Anglo-Japanese War Feb 39 - if Tsingtao incident blows up, what would be IJN doctrine? (Long Patrol)25:00Interception and attrition before a fleet battleChapter
- Anglo-Japanese War Feb 39 - if Tsingtao incident blows up, what would be IJN doctrine? (Long Patrol)1:07:03Commerce raiding exposes Japan's escort shortfallNotable Point
- Patreon 48: Anglo-Japanese War in Feb 39 - if Tsingtao Incident goes "hot", what's IJN doctrine?2:40:08Where would the Allies take their heaviest losses?Q&A
- Patreon 48: Anglo-Japanese War in Feb 39 - if Tsingtao Incident goes "hot", what's IJN doctrine?3:09:28Would Germany reach the Type XXI before war in Europe?Q&A
- Bruships 73: Some Old, Some New, None Borrowed, but Some Blue30:31How an escort carrier's air group follows its missionQ&A
- Bruships 73: Some Old, Some New, None Borrowed, but Some Blue52:08How one nuclear attack submarine would affect different wartime naviesQ&A
- Bruships 73: Some Old, Some New, None Borrowed, but Some Blue1:33:57Zigzagging as a practical wartime command habitNotable Point
- Bruships 73: Some Old, Some New, None Borrowed, but Some Blue3:24:39Knight of the North Atlantic reconstructs U-402's patrol warChapter
- Bruships 73: Some Old, Some New, None Borrowed, but Some Blue3:43:00Classifying destroyers by fleet, tactical, and escort rolesQ&A
- Operation Tan No.2 (77yrs ago today)22:20Escort production separated Britain from Japan in submarine warNotable Point
- All Forward 8in Cruiser & a Battle of the River Plate (RN Dream Team): A UAD Infused Discussion41:11Battle-class destroyers: arcs versus wartime weight demandsNotable Point
- County Cruisers P5: Getting Proscriptive with Cruisers… London Naval Treaty of 1930 (Long Patrol)16:34Procurement as a measured deterrent signalNotable Point
- Cutting through some Cutters of the US Coast Guard (Long Patrol)19:19Lake-class cutters as wartime escortsChapter
- Cutting through some Cutters of the US Coast Guard (Long Patrol)22:01Lulworth's unusually broad anti-submarine recordNotable Point
- Patreon 47: Putting the USA's 2nd fleet to work - US Coast Guard's presence missions & deployment52:53Coast Guard wartime service from U-boats to NormandyChapter
- Patreon 47: Putting the USA's 2nd fleet to work - US Coast Guard's presence missions & deployment57:40Lake-class cutters as Atlantic convoy escortsNotable Point
- Patreon 47: Putting the USA's 2nd fleet to work - US Coast Guard's presence missions & deployment1:46:07USCGC Campbell's U-boat ramming and its screen portrayalQ&A
- Patreon 47: Putting the USA's 2nd fleet to work - US Coast Guard's presence missions & deployment2:52:47What a small Ukrainian submarine force might have changedQ&A
- An Introduction to US Coast Guard's presence missions & deployment (Long Patrol)10:01Convoy warfare and a cutter's combat roleNotable Point
- All Forward Main Guns: Patreon 46 Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles (Long Patrol)1:10:18Battle-class destroyers: guns forward, air defence aftNotable Point
- HMS Tiger - The Battle Cruiser Hunter 2, The UAD Version: A UAD infused Discussion (Long Patrol)41:42When changing Type 26 means designing a new shipChapter
- HMS Tiger - The Battle Cruiser Hunter 2, The UAD Version: A UAD infused Discussion (Long Patrol)49:46Type 45 shortfall and specialist task groupsChapter
- Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books1:22:06What robust wartime helicopters would changeQ&A
- Bruships 70: Travelling along...1:28:22When torpedoes became practical anti-submarine weaponsQ&A
- Some Sunday Naval Books15:58Escort carriers, mining, and shared repair capacityChapter
- County Cruisers P3: The London Class (Long Patrol)45:41A near miss shows why machinery is raftedNotable Point
- Bruships 68: Random Naval History Books & Questions16:18Why Captain-class escorts are frigatesQ&A
- Bruships 68: Random Naval History Books & Questions1:26:55What an eighty-frigate Royal Navy would changeQ&A
- Bruships 68: Random Naval History Books & Questions2:42:23Why worn Town-class destroyers still matteredQ&A
- Patreon 43: "Unverified stories of Norwegian Campaign: Tall Tales of Tribals"1:36:07A divided Norway would become a maritime stalemateQ&A
- Bruships 67: Cruising on through with Questions & Bru1:04:18Why peacetime ASDIC trials had limitsQ&A
- Bruships 67: Cruising on through with Questions & Bru1:12:06How Hedgehog changes an ASDIC attackQ&A
- The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Long Patrol)18:45Mission fit drives the cruiser layoutNotable Point
- The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Live)38:18Combat roles and the shared pictureNotable Point
- The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Live)42:42Does every ship contribute to naval intelligence?Q&A
- The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Live)1:18:50Why did cruisers carry depth charges?Q&A
- The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Live)3:05:50Modern navies distribute cruiser work across other namesNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (10)2:02:45Why escort carriers mattered beyond convoy air coverQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (10)3:48:14Escort, fleet, and large fleet destroyersQ&A
- Quirky Classes and What they tell us about their navies… (Live)2:36:17Visby class and Swedish Baltic defenceNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (9)4:19Treaty frigates and the early escort shortfallQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (9)25:43Modern fleets have outgrown interwar treaty categoriesQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (9)1:55:51Ten years of warning changes the fleet around HoodQ&A
- ASW and Submarine Warfare in the Inter-War Royal Navy: 1920s & 1930s (Long Patrol)0:58Why ASW cannot be reduced to ASDIC and depth chargesChapter
- ASW and Submarine Warfare in the Inter-War Royal Navy: 1920s & 1930s (Long Patrol)5:41Building submarines to improve anti-submarine warfareNotable Point
- ASW and Submarine Warfare in the Inter-War Royal Navy: 1920s & 1930s (Long Patrol)9:46Why the Royal Navy placed less emphasis on snorkelsNotable Point
- ASW and Submarine Warfare in the Inter-War Royal Navy: 1920s & 1930s (Long Patrol)18:40How escort roles shaped speed, weapons, and enduranceChapter
- ASW and Submarine Warfare in the Inter-War Royal Navy: 1920s & 1930s (Long Patrol)20:12How ASDIC found a submerged submarineChapter
- ASW and Submarine Warfare in the Inter-War Royal Navy: 1920s & 1930s (Long Patrol)21:47Why ASDIC struggled at high speed and in heavy weatherNotable Point
- ASW and Submarine Warfare in the Inter-War Royal Navy: 1920s & 1930s (Long Patrol)23:39Sloops as long-range anti-submarine convoy escortsChapter
- ASW and Submarine Warfare in the Inter-War Royal Navy: 1920s & 1930s (Long Patrol)28:37Why Hedgehog took time to reach serviceNotable Point
- ASW and Submarine Warfare in the Inter-War Royal Navy: 1920s & 1930s (Long Patrol)29:53Hunt-class destroyers in escort and carrier defenceChapter
- ASW and Submarine Warfare in the Inter-War Royal Navy: 1920s & 1930s (Long Patrol)31:29Mediterranean exercises gave ASDIC unusually good conditionsNotable Point
- ASW and Submarine Warfare in the Inter-War Royal Navy: 1920s & 1930s (Long Patrol)34:22ASW depended on specialist officers and intelligenceChapter
- ASW and Submarine Warfare in the Inter-War Royal Navy: 1920s & 1930s (Long Patrol)36:20Why Hugh Sinclair's death mattered to wartime ASWNotable Point
- ASW and Submarine Warfare in the Inter-War Royal Navy: 1920s & 1930s (Long Patrol)40:36Good ASW intelligence had to be communicated effectivelyNotable Point
- ASW and Submarine Warfare in the Inter-War Royal Navy: 1920s & 1930s (Long Patrol)41:48Every ASDIC improvement invited a submarine countermeasureNotable Point
- ASW and Submarine Warfare in the Inter-War Royal Navy: 1920s & 1930s (Long Patrol)42:37Why one escort could not easily destroy a submarineNotable Point
- Patreon 41: RN Strategic & Tactical thinking on submarines & anti-submarine forces between the Wars5:46Why submarines and ASW forces had to train togetherChapter
- Patreon 41: RN Strategic & Tactical thinking on submarines & anti-submarine forces between the Wars43:34Royal Navy convoy exercises used fleet auxiliariesQ&A
- Patreon 41: RN Strategic & Tactical thinking on submarines & anti-submarine forces between the Wars52:31Active ASDIC displaced passive listening during the 1920sQ&A
- Patreon 41: RN Strategic & Tactical thinking on submarines & anti-submarine forces between the Wars1:08:34Convoy ASW and fleet ASW required different escortsChapter
- Patreon 41: RN Strategic & Tactical thinking on submarines & anti-submarine forces between the Wars1:15:40Modern convoy protection still depends on escort numbersQ&A
- Patreon 41: RN Strategic & Tactical thinking on submarines & anti-submarine forces between the Wars1:17:30ASDIC found range and bearing, not certaintyChapter
- Patreon 41: RN Strategic & Tactical thinking on submarines & anti-submarine forces between the Wars1:24:11Forward-thrown weapons aimed to free an escortChapter
- Patreon 41: RN Strategic & Tactical thinking on submarines & anti-submarine forces between the Wars1:29:31Naval treaty rules created a useful sloop formulaChapter
- Patreon 41: RN Strategic & Tactical thinking on submarines & anti-submarine forces between the Wars1:35:45Where the Grimsby class fitted into interwar escort thinkingQ&A
- Patreon 41: RN Strategic & Tactical thinking on submarines & anti-submarine forces between the Wars1:39:19How an escort's own weapons could damage ASDICQ&A
- Patreon 41: RN Strategic & Tactical thinking on submarines & anti-submarine forces between the Wars1:39:53Why diesel machinery was unattractive for ASW sloopsQ&A
- Patreon 41: RN Strategic & Tactical thinking on submarines & anti-submarine forces between the Wars1:48:01Trawlers offered a scalable coastal ASW answerChapter
- Patreon 41: RN Strategic & Tactical thinking on submarines & anti-submarine forces between the Wars1:51:30Modern ASW links ship, helicopter, and submarine sensorsQ&A
- Patreon 41: RN Strategic & Tactical thinking on submarines & anti-submarine forces between the Wars1:54:50Seabed hydrophones existed before SOSUS-scale surveillanceQ&A
- Patreon 41: RN Strategic & Tactical thinking on submarines & anti-submarine forces between the Wars2:01:15The Hunt class turned ASW into a primary missionChapter
- Patreon 41: RN Strategic & Tactical thinking on submarines & anti-submarine forces between the Wars2:03:50An ASW screen needed numbers to expose an ambushNotable Point
- Patreon 41: RN Strategic & Tactical thinking on submarines & anti-submarine forces between the Wars2:16:38Exercises taught lessons but also created blind spotsChapter
- Patreon 41: RN Strategic & Tactical thinking on submarines & anti-submarine forces between the Wars2:19:53Specialist leaders sustained submarine and ASW expertiseNotable Point
- Patreon 41: RN Strategic & Tactical thinking on submarines & anti-submarine forces between the Wars2:22:57How often destroyers and submarines trained togetherQ&A
- Patreon 41: RN Strategic & Tactical thinking on submarines & anti-submarine forces between the Wars2:28:32Undersea warfare as a contest of anticipated countermovesChapter
- Patreon 41: RN Strategic & Tactical thinking on submarines & anti-submarine forces between the Wars2:35:09Modern ASW rests on decades of shadow boxingNotable Point
- Patreon 41: RN Strategic & Tactical thinking on submarines & anti-submarine forces between the Wars2:39:34Escort captains carried as many depth charges as space allowedQ&A
- Patreon 41: RN Strategic & Tactical thinking on submarines & anti-submarine forces between the Wars2:41:29An Argentine submarine was caught at South GeorgiaQ&A
- Patreon 41: RN Strategic & Tactical thinking on submarines & anti-submarine forces between the Wars2:44:37Computer simulations can preserve exercise blind spotsQ&A
- Patreon 41: RN Strategic & Tactical thinking on submarines & anti-submarine forces between the Wars2:51:19Black Swan sloops became prolific submarine huntersQ&A
- Bruships 64: Naval History & Sci-fi Books reviewed and Questions answered...33:14Why an all-submarine German navy would be easier to counterQ&A
- Bruships 64: Naval History & Sci-fi Books reviewed and Questions answered...1:05:06Why Britain would fold carrier delivery into a future Merlin replacementQ&A
- Bruships 64: Naval History & Sci-fi Books reviewed and Questions answered...1:12:24Why Seahawk is not a direct replacement for MerlinQ&A
- How was British Night Fighting Doctrine developed for and then practiced during WWII? (Long Patrol)1:14:56How wargaming exposed the U-boat night attackNotable Point
- Patreon 40: How was British Night Fighting Doctrine developed for and then practiced during WWII1:00:48Convoy demand reduced the destroyers available at HarwichQ&A
- Patreon 40: How was British Night Fighting Doctrine developed for and then practiced during WWII2:50:25Night convoy defence could turn a U-boat's tactic against itChapter
- Patreon 40: How was British Night Fighting Doctrine developed for and then practiced during WWII2:55:56German analysis inferred Allied radar detectionQ&A
- Tribals, Battles & Darings/British Trawlers & Drifters in 2 World Wars: A Book or Two To Review (36)24:19Drifters adapting to danger at GallipoliChapter
- Tribals, Battles & Darings/British Trawlers & Drifters in 2 World Wars: A Book or Two To Review (36)25:32What balloon-towing auxiliaries could - and could not - do for convoysNotable Point
- Patreon 39:What if Courageous and Glorious had survived?49:30Why 36 Swordfish did not mean a strike-only air groupNotable Point
- Patreon 39:What if Courageous and Glorious had survived?1:06:51Courageous and the limits of anti-submarine exercisesChapter
- Patreon 39:What if Courageous and Glorious had survived?1:13:28How exercise incentives concealed wartime riskNotable Point
- Patreon 39:What if Courageous and Glorious had survived?1:21:24German torpedo failures make Courageous's survival plausibleNotable Point
- Patreon 39:What if Courageous and Glorious had survived?2:51:45Why Béarn remained usefulQ&A
- Patreon 39:What if Courageous and Glorious had survived?3:26:57Why the two losses were avoidableChapter
- Bruships 63: The Writing Theorists - Corbett & Mahan, Richmond & Simms, Cable & Gorshkhov4:53:34What Royal Navy Type numbers reveal about rolesQ&A
- Bruships 62: Naval History Book Review & Chat36:01Neptune or Shackleton: similar aircraft, different choicesQ&A
- Bruships 62: Naval History Book Review & Chat1:18:15Fixed-wing ASW versus helicopter flexibilityQ&A
- Bruships 61 - Ship Design; Sci-fi, Wooden & Steel, and some Naval History Questions1:29:00Merchant aircraft carriers built around urgent convoy needsChapter
- Bruships 61 - Ship Design; Sci-fi, Wooden & Steel, and some Naval History Questions3:46:50Destroyer conversions could supply two decades of frigate serviceQ&A
- The 3 Type 26s - City, Hunter & CSC, where do they fit in the WWII navies that they will serve?0:46Why Type 26 is an anti-submarine specialistChapter
- The 3 Type 26s - City, Hunter & CSC, where do they fit in the WWII navies that they will serve?4:32A frigate with cruiser-like scale and a flexible weapon fitChapter
- The 3 Type 26s - City, Hunter & CSC, where do they fit in the WWII navies that they will serve?12:19Hunter and CSC turn an ASW hull into broader combatantsChapter
- The 3 Type 26s - City, Hunter & CSC, where do they fit in the WWII navies that they will serve?19:11Merlin, Wildcat and UAVs in the ASW aviation packageChapter
- The 3 Type 26s - City, Hunter & CSC, where do they fit in the WWII navies that they will serve?24:55Specialist British escort or all-round Commonwealth combatant?Chapter
- The 3 Type 26s - City, Hunter & CSC, where do they fit in the WWII navies that they will serve?30:24The Tribal-class model for Hunter and CSCChapter
- The 3 Type 26s - City, Hunter & CSC, where do they fit in the WWII navies that they will serve?31:31Dido firepower, Black Swan ASW and Britain's specialist choiceChapter
- The 3 Type 26s - City, Hunter & CSC, where do they fit in the WWII navies that they will serve?34:22Why allied task groups still value specialist ASW escortsNotable Point
- The 3 Type 26s - City, Hunter & CSC, where do they fit in the WWII navies that they will serve?37:19How flexible escorts buy a place in allied task groupsNotable Point
- Patreon 38: Evaluating Type 26 Frigates against WW2 ship classes...11:39What Royal Navy type numbers are meant to signalNotable Point
- Patreon 38: Evaluating Type 26 Frigates against WW2 ship classes...12:36Why Type 26 should improve on Type 23 in anti-submarine warfareQ&A
- Patreon 38: Evaluating Type 26 Frigates against WW2 ship classes...22:51Type 26, Constellation, and FREMM emphasize different escort rolesQ&A
- Patreon 38: Evaluating Type 26 Frigates against WW2 ship classes...49:18Different air-defence burdens for Britain, Canada, and AustraliaQ&A
- Patreon 38: Evaluating Type 26 Frigates against WW2 ship classes...59:00How Type 23s became general-purpose frigatesQ&A
- Patreon 38: Evaluating Type 26 Frigates against WW2 ship classes...1:12:36A design built around anti-submarine warfareNotable Point
- Patreon 38: Evaluating Type 26 Frigates against WW2 ship classes...1:14:42Canada's balanced anti-submarine and area-air-defence escortNotable Point
- Patreon 38: Evaluating Type 26 Frigates against WW2 ship classes...1:16:36Why uncrewed towed sonar is being introduced cautiouslyQ&A
- Patreon 38: Evaluating Type 26 Frigates against WW2 ship classes...1:19:49Helicopters reveal different anti-submarine conceptsNotable Point
- Patreon 38: Evaluating Type 26 Frigates against WW2 ship classes...1:26:12Why strike options can expose an escort shortageNotable Point
- Patreon 38: Evaluating Type 26 Frigates against WW2 ship classes...1:30:38Could China's submarine fleet recreate an Atlantic-style convoy battle?Q&A
- Patreon 38: Evaluating Type 26 Frigates against WW2 ship classes...1:39:23Britain's Type 26 blends Dido and Black Swan functionsNotable Point
- Patreon 38: Evaluating Type 26 Frigates against WW2 ship classes...1:42:52The Type 26's real measure is its task-group contributionChapter
- Patreon 38: Evaluating Type 26 Frigates against WW2 ship classes...1:43:31What the Perry retirement left Arleigh Burke destroyers to coverNotable Point
- Patreon 38: Evaluating Type 26 Frigates against WW2 ship classes...1:58:55Why Merlin is the likely Type 26 helicopterQ&A
- Trafalgar to Dreadnought: 1805-1905 Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc - Long Patrol56:38Dreadnought's ram bow claims a German submarineNotable Point
- Battle of Taranto: The 81st Anniversary19:36Why a parachute-dropped torpedo would lose the Swordfish's advantageQ&A
- 21 Christmas Books for 2021 - Bruships 59: Books & Naval History Chat1:47:34Why Canada converted Britannias for ASWQ&A
- 21 Christmas Books for 2021 - Bruships 59: Books & Naval History Chat1:51:49An ASW superpower still needs defined limitsQ&A
- Bruships 58: Some Cool Books & Naval History Chat1:56:40A carrier's best torpedo defence starts outside weapon rangeQ&A
- Patreon 37: Interwar RN logistics - The Good, The Bad, and The Singapore2:08:20A German war prioritized different shipsNotable Point
- Patreon 37: Interwar RN logistics - The Good, The Bad, and The Singapore2:21:04German submarine expansion drove British ASW prioritiesNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (8)2:56:19Why the U.S. Navy cannot shrink an escort much below a frigateQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (8)3:07:37Why Swordfish and Barracuda could not remain leading ASW aircraftQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (8)3:10:48A plausible British fixed-wing carrier air group after GannetQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (8)3:24:53Why the Fairey Gannet beat Blackburn's B.54 and B.88Q&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (8)4:02:26The Blackburn Blackburn's place in early carrier ASWQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (8)5:41:59When homing torpedoes became the main anti-submarine weaponQ&A
- Erebus Class: Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front Long Patrol Part 823:14Zeebrugge and attacking submarines at their baseChapter
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7)2:26:30Why fleet carriers were poor early ASW hunter shipsQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7)3:24:34Drones as sonar probes and electronic decoysQ&A
- Favourite Dreadnoughts – Battleships & Battle Cruisers…2:00:26German ASW investment could protect convoys, not win sea controlNotable Point
- Patreon 34: Inter-war Naval Aircraft Development - what could have been?1:48:25Mercantilism, industrial capacity, and Japan's convoy weaknessNotable Point
- Patreon 34: Inter-war Naval Aircraft Development - what could have been?3:25:09Barracuda and Firefly in anti-submarine warfareQ&A
- Patreon 34: Inter-war Naval Aircraft Development - what could have been?4:04:34Tracker, Gannet, Neptune, and Nimrod filled different ASW nichesQ&A
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies – Comment Response 3/420:19Operation Drumbeat and the U-boat search for weak defencesQ&A
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies – Comment Response 2/428:18Why the Regia Marina was Britain's strategically awkward opponentNotable Point
- Patreon 33: Amphibious ship development from 1980's to modern day.3:23:34Early homing torpedoes did not replace ASW weapons overnightQ&A
- Patreon 32: Japanese heavy cruisers of the 1920s & 1930s, were they worth it?1:12:59Japanese cruisers and the limits of anti-submarine workQ&A
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P12/14: Henning von Holtzendorff37:55A report helped move Jellicoe toward convoysChapter
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P12/14: Henning von Holtzendorff39:30Operational tempo wore down the U-boat campaignNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P12/14: Henning von Holtzendorff49:00Why a 1917 submarine campaign faced a different BritainNotable Point
- Bruships 56: "Walking Softly & Carrying a Big Stick" - Admirals, Diplomacy & Detterence3:00:02The Black Swan's value as an upgradeable escortQ&A
- Karl Dönitz (on his Birthday) - how capable an Admiral was he?2:36:10Radio traffic gives wolfpacks awayQ&A
- A Book or Two to Review (32): Total Germany7:54CAM ships, MAC ships, and escort carriersChapter
- A Book or Two to Review (32): Total Germany11:17MAC squadrons and their Atlantic convoy recordChapter
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P7/12: Karl Dönitz11:51Wolfpacks as escort-saturation warfareChapter
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P7/12: Karl Dönitz17:16Plan Z meets industrial capacity and escort productionChapter
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: Long Patrol - P6/14: Osami Nagano14:11The neglected preparation for submarine warfareChapter
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 11/11 The Whiskey War0:30Whitby and the specialist convoy escortChapter
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 11/11 The Whiskey War3:12Whiskey-class numbers revive the Atlantic escort problemChapter
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 11/11 The Whiskey War7:20Why diesel submarines remain a difficult anti-submarine targetNotable Point
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 11/11 The Whiskey War10:00How Types 12, 14, and 15 formed an escort familyChapter
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 11/11 The Whiskey War11:44The mass submarine threat behind postwar shipbuildingNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (6)19:53When a postwar rebuild pays offQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (6)36:46How to build a deliberately incoherent 1960 fleetQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (6)3:18:21Why The Cruel Sea is a credible ASW filmQ&A
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 10/11 Why the Battleship Fizzled Out8:43Fast submarines still had to find the convoyNotable Point
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 10/11 Why the Battleship Fizzled Out14:44The destroyer as a versatile postwar combatantNotable Point
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 9/11 Building for Victory9:53Cold War fleets still needed mobile workshopsNotable Point
- Shipbuilding through the 1880s-1950s1:58:11Could a sloop switch between depth-charge and mine work?Q&A
- Shipbuilding through the 1880s-1950s3:10:36Why conventional submarines still matterChapter
- Shipbuilding through the 1880s-1950s3:13:54Whiskey-class production and the postwar submarine scareNotable Point
- Shipbuilding through the 1880s-1950s3:25:14Why Dönitz and the US Pacific submarine war differQ&A
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 6/11 WWI9:43The First World War convoy decision created an escort crisisChapter
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (5)16:45How Germany, Italy, and Japan posed different maritime risksNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (5)1:06:39Type XXI submarines and the Allied escort problemQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (5)2:20:17The security risk if Germany discovered U-505's captureQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (5)2:22:07Close escort and distant cover in convoy defenceQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (5)2:32:08Merlin helicopters in carrier anti-submarine screeningNotable Point
- Pseudo Patreon: The 1966 Defence White Paper & Lessons for the 2021 Defence Command Paper1:45:26Royal Navy carriers in NATO's Atlantic war planChapter
- Pseudo Patreon: The 1966 Defence White Paper & Lessons for the 2021 Defence Command Paper2:25:33Cold War nuclear assumptions and carrier debateChapter
- Pseudo Patreon: The 1966 Defence White Paper & Lessons for the 2021 Defence Command Paper2:41:42A possible CVA-01 and Invincible force mixQ&A
- British Geostrategic Situation in the 1960s: The 1966 White Paper21:28CVA-01 and the cost of carrier aviationChapter
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (4)46:39The case for a concrete convoy sloopQ&A
- Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol Part 7, M15 Class14:19Improvised anti-submarine defence in shallow waterNotable Point
- Battle of the Atlantic: Escort Procurement - Comment Response6:39A modern convoy escort cannot be a cheap small shipQ&A
- Battle of the Atlantic: Escort Procurement - Comment Response24:28Why Type XXI boats would still face a growing escort forceQ&A
- Battle of the Atlantic: Escort Procurement - Comment Response59:54The Royal Navy understood submarines but paused carrier procurementNotable Point
- Battle of the Atlantic (Original): Comment Response5:17Logistics shapes the escort forceNotable Point
- Battle of the Atlantic (Original): Comment Response7:00Hedgehog changes the anti-submarine attackQ&A
- Battle of the Atlantic (Original): Comment Response8:36Escort carriers close the mid-Atlantic air gapQ&A
- Battle of the Atlantic (Original): Comment Response10:16Black Swan sloops were not coast-only escortsQ&A
- Battle of the Atlantic (Original): Comment Response15:31Hedgehog and depth charges damaged submarines differentlyQ&A
- Battle of the Atlantic (Original): Comment Response31:39Pre-war preparation did not remove ASDIC's limitsQ&A
- Bruships 55: New Books29:57The exchange rate of the Battle of the AtlanticQ&A
- Bruships 55: New Books55:06Canada's Cold War anti-submarine specializationQ&A
- Bruships 55: New Books1:50:39Why cheap escorts still need combat systemsNotable Point
- Bruships 55: New Books3:57:30American unpreparedness and the U-boats' second happy timeNotable Point
- Bruships 55: New Books4:14:50A retained Norway and the Atlantic warQ&A
- Battle of the Atlantic (Redo): Comment Response15:40Escort building and ASW readinessQ&A
- Battle of the Atlantic (Redo): Comment Response18:00Black Swan sloops and the escort-carrier answerQ&A
- Battle of the Atlantic (Redo): Comment Response23:05Submarine strategy and diminishing returnsQ&A
- Battle of the Atlantic (Redo): Comment Response36:48Wolfpack radio traffic and submarine detectionQ&A
- Battle of the Atlantic (Redo): Comment Response37:16Squid and Hedgehog in the late-war escort fleetQ&A
- Battle of the Atlantic (Redo): Comment Response37:29Flower-class timing and the convoy-planning disputeQ&A
- Battle of the Atlantic (Redo): Comment Response38:41Coastal convoys around BritainQ&A
- Battle of the Atlantic (Redo): Comment Response42:21An interwar sloop-building counterfactualQ&A
- Patreon 30: Japanese hybrid warships of WW21:10:45Shimane Maru and tanker conversions for anti-submarine air coverNotable Point
- Patreon 30: Japanese hybrid warships of WW21:24:29Yamashio Maru and the Army's small anti-submarine carriersNotable Point
- Patreon 30: Japanese hybrid warships of WW21:34:17Army-Navy duplication weakened Japan's escort-carrier effortNotable Point
- Patreon 30: Japanese hybrid warships of WW21:38:19Why Japan needed both fleet and escort carriersQ&A
- Battle of the Atlantic: Escort Procurement Long Patrol6:06Kingfishers, trawlers, and prototype escortsChapter
- Battle of the Atlantic: Escort Procurement Long Patrol10:50From Bridgewater sloops to Flower corvettesNotable Point
- Battle of the Atlantic: Escort Procurement Long Patrol18:23Convoy coverage and escort shortageNotable Point
- Battle of the Atlantic: Escort Procurement Long Patrol20:16Escort scarcity, convoy size, and solo sailingsNotable Point
- Battle of the Atlantic: Escort Procurement Long Patrol21:20Bittern hull lineage and iterative escort designChapter
- Battle of the Atlantic: Escort Procurement Long Patrol24:51Hunter groups and the escort-carrier oversightNotable Point
- Battle of the Atlantic: Escort Procurement Long Patrol28:43Black Swan specialization and HMS StarlingNotable Point
- Battle of the Atlantic: Escort Procurement Long Patrol35:30How aircraft disrupted U-boat operations without a killNotable Point
- Battle of the Atlantic: Escort Procurement Long Patrol37:01Convoy-interior attacks and doctrine adaptationNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (3)1:06:23How navies answer a submarine-heavy GermanyQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (3)2:29:04Why Constellation needs hull-mounted sonarQ&A
- Battle of the Atlantic (Original): Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p7/72:39Escort orders and the 1938 answerNotable Point
- Battle of the Atlantic (Original): Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p7/76:39Type VIIs versus escort massChapter
- Battle of the Atlantic (Original): Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p7/713:15A later war strengthens British ASWNotable Point
- Battle of the Atlantic (Original): Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p7/715:01More U-boats provoke counterbuildingNotable Point
- Battle of the Atlantic (Original): Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p7/718:04ASW weapons and institutional learningNotable Point
- Battle of the Atlantic (Original): Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p7/721:02Trained ASW crews as capacityNotable Point
- Battle of the Atlantic (Original): Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p7/723:57Escort pool and Operation TorchNotable Point
- Battle of the Atlantic (Original): Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p7/724:43Atlantic geography and tradeoffsChapter
- Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas (Non-Churchill) – The Comment Questions...1:38:15Escorts and Q-ships narrowed the deck gun's roleNotable Point
- Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas (Churchill WWII) – The Comment Questions26:43Why pausing carrier construction did not solve the escort problemQ&A
- Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas (Churchill WWII) – The Comment Questions52:14Trawler conversion and the postwar small-boat industryQ&A
- Battle of the Atlantic (Redo): Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p7/71:27Dönitz's 300-submarine force calculationChapter
- Battle of the Atlantic (Redo): Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p7/76:55Escorts outbuild submarinesChapter
- Battle of the Atlantic (Redo): Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p7/712:02Convoy geometry favors escortsNotable Point
- Battle of the Atlantic (Redo): Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p7/714:06Escort carriers and shore-based aircraft tighten convoy defenseNotable Point
- Battle of the Atlantic (Redo): Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p7/717:01British shipyard asymmetry multiplies escortsChapter
- Battle of the Atlantic (Redo): Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p7/719:54August 1941 U-boat mapChapter
- Battle of the Atlantic (Redo): Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p7/726:40Convoys counter surfaced U-boat attacksNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review(20): Sinking Force Z 19415:09Carrier pauses, shipyards, and escort productionNotable Point
- Cruiser Submarine: Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p5/73:21Convoys undercut gun-armed raidersNotable Point
- Cruiser Submarine: Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p5/74:20A cruiser submarine's odds against escort gunsChapter
- Churchill's Iniatives (WWII); Long patrol p1/3 - Altmark Incident7:13Norway's strategic consequencesNotable Point
- Churchill's Iniatives (WWII); Long patrol p1/3 - Altmark Incident16:32Norway, Arctic convoys, and the North Sea ASW barrierNotable Point
- Churchill's Iniatives (WWI); Long patrol p2/4 - RNAS1:30Early RNAS roles from reconnaissance to armoured carsNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (12): British Naval Aviation by Ray Sturviant3:58Albatross and 710 Squadron at FreetownNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (12): British Naval Aviation by Ray Sturviant4:14Fleet carriers in anti-submarine patrolsNotable Point
- Patreon 29: Coastal Defence Ships10:49Why frigates strain the armor-speed-firepower diagramNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (2)1:49:56Early helicopters and naval air rolesQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (2)3:49:47Rocket-delivered anti-submarine torpedoesQ&A
- Bruships 52: A Year of Bruships - Questions & Books3:30:20Radiological clues from nuclear submarinesNotable Point
- Bruships 52: A Year of Bruships - Questions & Books3:33:12The quietness and range tradeoff of AIP submarinesNotable Point
- Bruships 52: A Year of Bruships - Questions & Books3:37:01Detecting submarine effects from spaceQ&A
- Bruships 52: A Year of Bruships - Questions & Books3:37:31Do not use the fleet carrier as the littoral ASW platformQ&A
- Bruships 52: A Year of Bruships - Questions & Books3:45:00An uncrewed successor to the S-3 VikingQ&A
- Patreon 27: Some Actions of the French Navy in WWI1:31:22Did the U.S. Navy contribute effectively to World War I ASW?Q&A
- Patreon 27: Some Actions of the French Navy in WWI2:28:33French ASW and small-ship effortNotable Point
- Patreon 27: Some Actions of the French Navy in WWI2:30:13British-built sloops gave French ASW forces better Channel shipsNotable Point
- Operation Aerial: France after Dunkirk (Long Patrol)1:02:31Why the U-boats missed Aerial's shippingNotable Point
- Bruships 50: A D-Day special with Questions & some New Books from Pen & Sword1:37:51A visual guide to British wartime sloops and frigatesChapter
- Bruships 50: A D-Day special with Questions & some New Books from Pen & Sword4:00:49The Admiralty's interwar studies of merchant shippingQ&A
- “Coastal Command in the 1920s & 1930s”5:42How to reassess Coastal Command's interwar recordNotable Point
- “Coastal Command in the 1920s & 1930s”50:56Why Coastal Command U-boat kill totals need attribution checksQ&A
- “Coastal Command in the 1920s & 1930s”1:10:23The Bay of Biscay technology contestQ&A
- “Coastal Command in the 1920s & 1930s”1:11:29HMS Empress and the First World War maritime-air precedentNotable Point
- “Coastal Command in the 1920s & 1930s”1:45:02Why the Royal Navy did not simply neglect anti-submarine warfareChapter
- “Coastal Command in the 1920s & 1930s”1:52:53What interwar airships contributed to coastal patrolQ&A
- “Coastal Command in the 1920s & 1930s”1:53:52Interwar depth charges gained explosive powerQ&A
- “Coastal Command in the 1920s & 1930s”1:58:37Submarine warfare extended far beyond two famous campaignsNotable Point
- “Coastal Command in the 1920s & 1930s”2:01:17The budget holder did not own the maritime problemNotable Point
- “Coastal Command in the 1920s & 1930s”2:10:58Why patrol-aircraft density mattered in the AtlanticQ&A
- “Coastal Command in the 1920s & 1930s”2:17:05How Bletchley Park intelligence reached patrol aircraftQ&A
- “Coastal Command in the 1920s & 1930s”2:52:11Coastal Command's wartime anti-submarine combinationQ&A
- Patreon 23: Coal, Canals, Convoys & Coastal Carrying: traffic around the British isles from 1939-4530:45Why coastal shipping losses were so highQ&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 1939-451:04:15War channels balanced mines, submarines, and navigationNotable Point
- Patreon 23: Coal, Canals, Convoys & Coastal Carrying: traffic around the British isles from 1939-451:06:32How early escort carriers might have changed the U-boat warQ&A
- Patreon 23: Coal, Canals, Convoys & Coastal Carrying: traffic around the British isles from 1939-451:27:57Small warships formed the coastal convoy escort poolChapter
- Patreon 23: Coal, Canals, Convoys & Coastal Carrying: traffic around the British isles from 1939-451:48:06Q-ships among coastal convoysQ&A
- Robert Sherbrooke: Patreon 21, Notable Commanders, Long Patrol Part 25:22HMS Cossack as a balanced fighting destroyerChapter
- Hawker Aircraft of the 1920s & 1930s2:59:49Why mature equipment can outperform its replacement at firstQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out?20:49Why escort carriers transformed the Battle of the AtlanticQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out?32:11Turning a container ship into an ASW helicopter platformQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out?39:18How Q-ships used apparent damage as baitQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out?44:04How an Allied Norway constricts German Atlantic accessQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out?1:39:06Earlier Type XXI submarines complicate the Atlantic battleQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out?3:12:33Why early magnetic detection worked best in shallow straitsQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out?3:23:14Why Courageous, Glorious, and Ark Royal were avoidable lossesQ&A
- Pseudo Patreon British Aircraft Carrier development Since 1945 (as suggested by Kyle Hardman)1:39:59Airborne early warning becomes the center of layered fleet defenceChapter
- Pseudo Patreon British Aircraft Carrier development Since 1945 (as suggested by Kyle Hardman)2:29:31Why Harrier was not the carrier's ASW aircraftQ&A
- Pseudo Patreon British Aircraft Carrier development Since 1945 (as suggested by Kyle Hardman)2:43:16A possible anti-submarine P.139 familyNotable Point
- Patreon 22: If the Cold War went hot in 1986 would NATO's navies keep the Altantic Going?19:43The GIUK Gap and the Soviet bastion problemChapter
- Patreon 22: If the Cold War went hot in 1986 would NATO's navies keep the Altantic Going?1:05:23SURTASS ships and merchant conversions reinforce NATO ASWChapter
- Patreon 22: If the Cold War went hot in 1986 would NATO's navies keep the Altantic Going?1:13:18Preplanned merchant-carrier conversions meet an aircraft bottleneckNotable Point
- Patreon 22: If the Cold War went hot in 1986 would NATO's navies keep the Altantic Going?1:15:49Convoys shrink the ocean NATO must defendNotable Point
- Patreon 22: If the Cold War went hot in 1986 would NATO's navies keep the Altantic Going?1:27:16Los Angeles boats attack forward while diesel boats guard the gapNotable Point
- Patreon 22: If the Cold War went hot in 1986 would NATO's navies keep the Altantic Going?1:50:45A quiet torpedo launch still risks an active-sonar counterattackQ&A
- Patreon 22: If the Cold War went hot in 1986 would NATO's navies keep the Altantic Going?1:56:20Thermal layers complicate ASW but do not make submarines invisibleChapter
- Patreon 22: If the Cold War went hot in 1986 would NATO's navies keep the Altantic Going?2:11:59The war divides into a forward carrier battle and a convoy battleChapter
- Patreon 22: If the Cold War went hot in 1986 would NATO's navies keep the Altantic Going?2:12:29A Soviet missile strike could neutralize Iceland without occupying itNotable Point
- Patreon 22: If the Cold War went hot in 1986 would NATO's navies keep the Altantic Going?2:14:34ASW pressure attacks a submarine commander's confidenceNotable Point
- Patreon 22: If the Cold War went hot in 1986 would NATO's navies keep the Altantic Going?2:43:45Which NATO platforms might perform better than expected?Q&A
- 'K' Class Submarines; not such a Kalamity56:36Why surface groups and submarines protect each otherNotable Point
- Bruships 45: Something Medieval3:50:46How should a carrier group cover detached escorts?Q&A
- Prince Philips Navy37:03How Flower-class corvettes mixed reservists and wartime crewsQ&A
- Prince Philips Navy1:08:00HMS Wallace as a WAIR anti-aircraft escort conversionChapter
- Prince Philips Navy1:16:58Wallace, FN 655, and the danger of East Coast convoysChapter
- Prince Philips Navy1:31:24HMS Whelp gave Philip a new destroyer to commissionChapter
- Prince Philips Navy2:14:54HMS Magpie was Philip's own anti-submarine commandChapter
- Prince Philips Navy2:21:07Why a sloop could be a prestigious anti-submarine commandQ&A
- Prince Philips Navy2:24:10Why sloops achieved a high U-boat kill rate per hullQ&A
- Prince Philips Navy2:25:21Why postwar records can call a sloop a frigateQ&A
- Four Random Books Episode 32: Destroyer Challenge (Live)21:12Repulse trials expose destroyer seakeeping limitsNotable Point
- Bruships 44: Strategy2:37:38Capital-ship ambitions competed with the wartime need for escortsNotable Point
- Minotaur & Tiger Class Cruisers24:49Old cruisers were costly ASW substitutesNotable Point
- Minotaur & Tiger Class Cruisers48:59When credible ASW torpedoes arrivedQ&A
- Minotaur & Tiger Class Cruisers51:32Wartime airborne ASW weapons and FidoQ&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
- Minotaur & Tiger Class Cruisers3:20:51Type 31 and Type 32 rely on offboard ASWQ&A
- Four Random Books 31: The Conduct of War17:12How CVA-01 requirements drove size and cost upwardNotable Point
- Bruships 43: Aircraft Carriers & Naval Aviation22:17Why fewer aircraft types simplify carrier logisticsNotable Point
- Bruships 43: Aircraft Carriers & Naval Aviation48:31The V-22's carrier logistics tradeoffQ&A
- Bruships 43: Aircraft Carriers & Naval Aviation56:01Reconfiguring Merlins as the mission changesNotable Point
- Bruships 43: Aircraft Carriers & Naval Aviation1:17:15What a modern merchant escort carrier would requireQ&A
- Bruships 43: Aircraft Carriers & Naval Aviation1:24:43Helicopter ripple cycles sustain continuous ASW coverageNotable Point
- Bruships 43: Aircraft Carriers & Naval Aviation2:40:57Three avoidable carrier losses reshaped Britain's warNotable Point
- Bruships 43: Aircraft Carriers & Naval Aviation2:58:12How Swordfish attacked submarinesQ&A
- Bruships 42: Some More Scifi36:31Carrier support aircraft enable the strike forceNotable Point
- Lend Lease Long Patrol: P1/5 WW2 prior to Lend Lease26:32Allied Norway could create an anti-submarine barrierNotable 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)4:09:48Why a Type 45 successor might need a different hullNotable Point
- Bruships 41: A History of Armour & Amphibious Warfare (Kyle Hardman)4:18:01The carrier air group has sonar even when the hull does notQ&A
- Bruships 41: A History of Armour & Amphibious Warfare (Kyle Hardman)4:24:27Carrier ASW helicopters add depth to the escort screenQ&A
- Bruships 41: A History of Armour & Amphibious Warfare (Kyle Hardman)4:27:51Could an escort's sonar sit well aft of the bow?Q&A
- Bruships 41: A History of Armour & Amphibious Warfare (Kyle Hardman)4:29:53Fixed-wing ASW aircraft or a common helicopter fleet?Q&A
- Bruships 41: A History of Armour & Amphibious Warfare (Kyle Hardman)4:30:26Could the S-3 Viking gain a successor?Q&A
- Crown Colony Class Long Patrol: Part 3 Trinidad to Bermuda10:13Colony frigates adapted British escorts to American productionChapter
- Four Random Books 28: Mavericks10:01Empire MacAlpine becomes an improvised convoy air carrierChapter
- Crown Colony Class Cruisers1:57:41The American-built Colony-class frigates behind HMS TobagoNotable Point
- Crown Colony Class Cruisers3:37:07When did anti-submarine torpedoes begin appearing on warships?Q&A
- Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol Part 4, Lord Clive Class M10-1336:28General Wolfe enters service and protects the net barrageChapter
- Patreon 18 "Fast attack craft, ie. torpedo-, U- and gunboats in WWI Adriatic "Klein Krieg"1:03:13U-5 hunts French armored cruisers for daysChapter
- Patreon 18 "Fast attack craft, ie. torpedo-, U- and gunboats in WWI Adriatic "Klein Krieg"1:06:10Could trawler nets still trouble a nuclear submarine?Q&A
- Britain of the 1980s: Long Patrol P5 the Royal Navy of the 1980s8:03Destroyer and frigate readiness behind the fleet listChapter
- Britain of the 1980s: Long Patrol P5 the Royal Navy of the 1980s10:53How Leander batches traded guns for Ikara and ExocetNotable Point
- Britain of the 1980s: Long Patrol P5 the Royal Navy of the 1980s19:09SSK cuts, force substitution, and uncrewed submarinesNotable Point
- Britain of the 1980s: Long Patrol P5 the Royal Navy of the 1980s22:19Invincible and Swiftsure as complementary global assetsNotable Point
- Britain of the 1980s: Long Patrol P5 the Royal Navy of the 1980s34:34Hermes, Sea Harriers, and the airborne early-warning gapNotable Point
- Britain of the 1980s: Long Patrol P4 Britain in the World0:38The Royal Navy's 1980s mission setChapter
- Britain of the 1980s: Long Patrol P4 Britain in the World1:41Invincible-class carriers as defensive sea-control shipsNotable Point
- Britain of the 1980s: Long Patrol P4 Britain in the World18:52Mine warfare and the submarine arithmeticNotable Point
- Britain of the 1980s: Long Patrol P4 Britain in the World21:59Maritime air power and the bomber threatNotable Point
- Britain of the 1980s: Long Patrol P4 Britain in the World23:48Modern quality versus shrinking replacement ratesNotable Point
- Britain of the 1980s: Long Patrol P3b/7 Keith Speed (Continued)22:15From cancelled CVA-01 to the Invincible classChapter
- 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)9:17The high-low fleet balance behind the Type 23Chapter
- Britain of the 1980s: Long Patrol P2/7 Keith Speed21:57The Royal Navy's Cold War anti-submarine roleChapter
- Britain of the 1980s: Long Patrol P2/7 Keith Speed37:23Trafalgar, Invincible, Type 22, and Sting Ray as one ASW systemChapter
- Britain of the 1980s: Long Patrol P1/7 Sir Patrick Duffy10:04Backfire aircraft make sea-lane interdiction an air as well as submarine threatChapter
- Britain of the 1980s: Long Patrol P1/7 Sir Patrick Duffy17:25Choke points favor NATO ASW barriers but demand scarce patrol aircraftChapter
- Britain of the 1980s: Long Patrol P1/7 Sir Patrick Duffy32:18Invincible's split role leaves too few Sea Harriers for fleet defenceChapter
- Patreon 17 "The Royal Navy’s Strategic Role in 1980s NATO" as suggested by Joseph Sullivan40:04Soviet submarines, NATO barriers, and scarce escortsChapter
- Patreon 17 "The Royal Navy’s Strategic Role in 1980s NATO" as suggested by Joseph Sullivan1:02:26A P-8 network from Britain to the Indo-PacificNotable Point
- Patreon 17 "The Royal Navy’s Strategic Role in 1980s NATO" as suggested by Joseph Sullivan1:06:19Invincible's divided role and missing close defenseChapter
- Patreon 17 "The Royal Navy’s Strategic Role in 1980s NATO" as suggested by Joseph Sullivan1:14:22US-Royal Navy cooperation around the GIUK gapQ&A
- Patreon 17 "The Royal Navy’s Strategic Role in 1980s NATO" as suggested by Joseph Sullivan2:00:57The Royal Navy's 1980 anti-submarine modernization planChapter
- Patreon 17 "The Royal Navy’s Strategic Role in 1980s NATO" as suggested by Joseph Sullivan2:17:10Balancing high-end warships with simpler ASW hullsChapter
- Bruships 37: New Books & Some More Transactions of the Institute of Naval Architects3:08:43Type 26 warfighting and Type 31 forward presenceQ&A
- Bruships 37: New Books & Some More Transactions of the Institute of Naval Architects3:31:41Can Constellation rely on towed-array sonar?Q&A
- Bruships 37: New Books & Some More Transactions of the Institute of Naval Architects3:37:10When could sonar drones replace towed arrays?Q&A
- Bruships 36: International Relations1:08:50Atlantic shipping losses, escort growth and U-boat crewsNotable Point
- Bruships 36: International Relations2:42:10When cheaper, simpler warships can do the jobNotable Point
- Bruships 35: Personal Wars + a New Book from Pen & Sword1:48:53Implacable's Norwegian raid and a recovered FireflyNotable Point
- Patreon 16: Royal Navy anti-piracy operations of the 1920s & 1930s in the Far East1:18:10Treaty-exempt sloops offered a route to fleet numbersChapter
- Bruships 34: Random History2:26:17Castle-class corvettes ship by shipChapter
- Bruships 34: Random History2:35:27Operating ASDIC and Squid aboard Dumbarton CastleNotable Point
- Bruships 34: Random History3:21:03Black Swan-class sloops through builders' plansChapter
- Bruships 34: Random History3:47:50A stronger prewar British anti-submarine fleetQ&A
- Bruships 32: Ships & Space Ships (Reality & Scifi)1:15:37Could the Type 45 be considered a cruiser?Q&A
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s Long Patrol Part 8: Questions Answered20:47A Free French Bearn as an escort carrierQ&A
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s Long Patrol Part 6: 1930s Aircraft Carriers of the Big 32:47HMS Glorious and the cost of risking fleet carriersChapter
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s2:27:09Why large fleet carriers were poor submarine huntersNotable Point
- For Random Books 18: Freidman's Royal Navy2:17Why a postwar multi-role destroyer became too largeNotable Point
- Bruships30: Nine Transactions of the Institute of Naval Architects(Including 1939) & Three New Books1:02:57Convoy as a way to force contact and concentrate defenceNotable Point
- Steel of a Hundred Years Ago: Ships of 192049:45Shirakaze and the Minekaze destroyer balanceChapter
- Steel of a Hundred Years Ago: Ships of 19201:14:12Hydrophone promises and interwar budget cutsQ&A
- Steel of a Hundred Years Ago: Ships of 19202:12:42Could coal ease Japan's wartime fuel shortage?Q&A
- Bruships 29: Best Seller History2:32:20Ark Royal, ASW detection, and survivabilityQ&A
- Bruships 28: New Books & Christmas Buys55:02What if Dönitz began the war with 300 U-boats?Q&A
- Bruships 28: New Books & Christmas Buys1:10:18Empire-wide sloop production in the 300-U-boat counterfactualNotable Point
- Bruships 28: New Books & Christmas Buys3:22:15Under-ice sonar drones and communication limitsQ&A
- Town Class; big impact with a light footprint2:45:19The modern frigate-destroyer distinction is mission-ledNotable Point
- Town Class; big impact with a light footprint3:04:05Why an all-U-boat German fleet could simplify Britain's warQ&A
- Patreon 12: “The Battle of Sluys: ...one of the Western World decisive battles"1:50:29Former Allied anti-submarine teams would face the U.S. NavyNotable Point
- The Fairey Story - Part 3 of 4: The Difficult Next Generation42:00Swordfish anti-submarine patrols remained front-line combatChapter
- Part 4 of 4 "The effect of the early jet age on naval warfare strategy/tactics?"4:44The Fairey Gannet against Soviet submarines and raidersNotable Point
- Part 4 of 4 "The effect of the early jet age on naval warfare strategy/tactics?"5:48HMS Bulwark's balanced 1958 carrier air groupChapter
- Part 3 of 4 "The effect of the early jet age on naval warfare strategy/tactics?"18:15Carrier missions expanded beyond the Suez strikeNotable Point
- Part 2 of 4 "The effect of the early jet age on naval warfare strategy/tactics?"15:34Fairey Firefly combines strike, night, and anti-submarine rolesChapter
- Part 1 of 4 "The effect of the early jet age on naval warfare strategy/tactics?"2:24Defining the early jet-age transitionChapter
- Part 1 of 4 "The effect of the early jet age on naval warfare strategy/tactics?"24:30How carrier airpower frees submarines for offensive actionNotable Point
- Part 1 of 4 "The effect of the early jet age on naval warfare strategy/tactics?"33:36Carrier flexibility beyond fleet battleNotable Point
- The Fairey Story Anew...1:41:47A Black Swan sloop programme could have transformed early-war convoy escortNotable Point
- The Fairey Story Anew...2:50:31Swordfish outlives the aircraft meant to replace itQ&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?"32:29Why Warspite's helicopter kill did not make her an ASW frigateQ&A
- Patreon 11: "The effect of the early jet age on naval warfare strategy/tactics?"1:43:17The Swordfish served far beyond torpedo attackQ&A
- Patreon 11: "The effect of the early jet age on naval warfare strategy/tactics?"3:03:52Carrier numbers shape aircraft specialisationQ&A
- Patreon 11: "The effect of the early jet age on naval warfare strategy/tactics?"3:12:17ASW carriers needed their own close screenQ&A
- Amphion Class Cruisers: Long Patrol37:41How carrier losses consumed irreplaceable expertiseNotable Point
- Bruships 26 - The Random Collection1:37:18From torpedo-boat destroyers to modern escortsQ&A
- Bruships 26 - The Random Collection1:57:43Why Type 31 resembles a modern sloopQ&A
- Bilgepumps Taranto 80 part 3 of 3: Ripples in Musso's Pond16:02Could gunfire or submarines have deepened the Taranto blow?Notable Point
- Patreon 10: “If the Trent affair had gone hot, how badly would it have gone for the US navy?"2:25:16What a larger Royal Navy could and could not coverQ&A
- 1940 Norway Campaign Part 3 of 5: Namsos, De Wiart & Fleischer31:46Northern Norway as a base for maritime operationsNotable Point
- Battle of Taranto - a Stringbag Strike from the Dark2:26:18Italian air and submarine attacks before the strikeNotable Point
- Bruships 25 - Some More Naval Aviation1:03:13Escort carriers put aircraft with the convoyChapter
- Bruships 25 - Some More Naval Aviation1:05:21Trade-protection and assault escort carriersNotable Point
- Bruships 25 - Some More Naval Aviation2:11:03Gannet: from anti-submarine patrol to early warningQ&A
- Bruships 25 - Some More Naval Aviation3:26:02What Fleet Air Arm airfields in Pembrokeshire supportedQ&A
- Bruships 25 - Some More Naval Aviation3:36:29Why carriers may need longer-range ASW aircraftQ&A
- Bruships 25 - Some More Naval Aviation3:42:24An upgraded Viking as a carrier ASW optionQ&A
- Bruships 25 - Some More Naval Aviation3:42:39A naval V-280 proposal and the Merlin replacement timetableNotable Point
- Bruships 25 - Some More Naval Aviation3:49:01What to reactivate in an emergencyQ&A
- Bruships 25 - Some More Naval Aviation3:56:39A submarine's last-ditch missile against helicoptersQ&A
- Bruships 25 - Some More Naval Aviation4:00:29Spearfish answered the Alfa class's speedQ&A
- Bruships 25 - Some More Naval Aviation4:17:24The difficulty of attacking a submarine below 1,000 metresQ&A
- Bilgepumps does Battlestar Galatica Deadlock for Navy Con 2/225:18A missile that delivers a torpedoChapter
- 1930 London Naval Treaty: An Introduction Part 5 of 5/Articles 17-2244:25Why radar kept the Swordfish usefulNotable Point
- 1930 London Naval Treaty: An Introduction Part 4 of 5/Articles 14-1623:02Submarine parity and Britain's interest in abolishing the typeNotable Point
- Bruships 23 - New Book Review1:30:33Rescue buoys could expose a damaged U-boatNotable Point
- Bruships 23 - New Book Review2:14:50Sonar and the promise of ending the submarine threatNotable Point
- Bruships 23 - New Book Review3:06:28Circular and spiral searches by air-dropped torpedoesNotable Point
- Patreon 9 – “Suez goes hot in 1956” by Martin Doherty2:48:31Why the Later U-Boat War Fades from the StoryQ&A
- Flower Class Shorts no 5: HMS Coreopsis0:04HMS Coreopsis and the naval drifter Coreopsis IINotable Point
- Flower Class Shorts no 4: HMS Polyanthus0:57From convoy sloop to disguised submarine trapNotable Point
- Flower Class Shorts no 4: HMS Polyanthus2:07Guns and depth charges behind the disguiseNotable Point
- Flower Class Shorts no 4: HMS Polyanthus2:26Why a small merchant-ship silhouette matteredNotable Point
- Sloops of the Interwar a Long Patrol15:20Flower-class sloops built as Q-shipsNotable Point
- Sloops of the Interwar a Long Patrol51:07Grimsby and Kingfisher adaptabilityChapter
- Sloops of the Interwar a Long Patrol58:18From Bittern surveys to Black Swan escortsChapter
- Sloops of the Interwar a Long Patrol1:02:38HMS Rochester's wartime conversionNotable Point
- Sloops of the Interwar a Long Patrol1:04:27Peacetime presence and wartime escortChapter
- Sloops of the Interwar a Long Patrol1:12:44From refined sloops to mass-produced escortsChapter
- Flower Class Shorts no 2: HMS Zinnia (& HMS Azalea)1:14Zinnia, U-44, and the Begonia rescueNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 20: Brasseys & Janes, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:40:48Type 26 and Type 31 serve different escort jobsQ&A
- Patreon 7 – How the RN countered E-Boats in the English Channel as proposed by Paul15:18Fairmile Bs could serve in anti-submarine workQ&A
- Patreon 7 – How the RN countered E-Boats in the English Channel as proposed by Paul26:15Irish Sea escorts faced submarines and aircraftQ&A
- Patreon 7 – How the RN countered E-Boats in the English Channel as proposed by Paul44:11Fairmile production turns timber into fighting craftChapter
- Patreon 7 – How the RN countered E-Boats in the English Channel as proposed by Paul1:27:46A hydrophone was not useful at full speedQ&A
- 2 Minutes: HMS Rutherford1:16HMS Rutherford's guns and anti-submarine armamentNotable Point
- How the RN countered E-Boats in the English Channel - Patreon 7 Introduction Part 3 of 30:06The E-boat threat as an operational problemChapter
- How the RN countered E-Boats in the English Channel - Patreon 7 Introduction Part 3 of 332:27Capacity was the decisive constraintNotable Point
- How the RN countered E-Boats in the English Channel - Patreon 7 Introduction Part 2 of 31:20Dunkirk and the need for an E-boat counterforceChapter
- How the RN countered E-Boats in the English Channel - Patreon 7 Introduction Part 2 of 35:08Layering escorts against E-boat attacksNotable Point
- Four Random Books 3: Naval Aviation in a Swordfish10:49Naval Wings: a Swordfish pilot's wider warChapter
- HMS Formidable: A Special Chat With Jamie from Armoured Carriers6:49Formidable as a battle-fleet support carrierChapter
- HMS Formidable: A Special Chat With Jamie from Armoured Carriers41:10Why the Swordfish kept returning to depleted air groupsNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 18: Really Big Books, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A23:33Why Black Swan sloops became an ASW standardQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 18: Really Big Books, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:50:40A Swordfish dive-bombing attack on a submarineNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 18: Really Big Books, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:54:46From depth-charge concussion to ASW mortarsQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 18: Really Big Books, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:01:31Why anti-submarine throwers were not Carl GustavsQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 18: Really Big Books, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A3:15:34Early dipping sonar from naval airshipsQ&A
- The Ships: An Introduction to the Convoy war & the Perfect Storm of PQ17… P2/37:09Flower corvettes: slow but handy convoy escortsNotable Point
- The Ships: An Introduction to the Convoy war & the Perfect Storm of PQ17… P2/311:51How small escorts accumulated firepowerNotable Point
- The Ships: An Introduction to the Convoy war & the Perfect Storm of PQ17… P2/318:13Trawlers as the convoy war's mass escort forceNotable Point
- Battle of Atlantic: An Introduction to The Convoy war & the Perfect Storm of PQ17… P1/36:28Why the anti-submarine balance shifted in 1943Chapter
- Battle of Atlantic: An Introduction to The Convoy war & the Perfect Storm of PQ17… P1/38:11Convoys faced a full spectrum of threatsNotable Point
- Battle of Atlantic: An Introduction to The Convoy war & the Perfect Storm of PQ17… P1/310:53From ramming to ASDIC and depth-charge attacksChapter
- Battle of Atlantic: An Introduction to The Convoy war & the Perfect Storm of PQ17… P1/312:53Why wartime submarines targeted escortsNotable Point
- Battle of Atlantic: An Introduction to The Convoy war & the Perfect Storm of PQ17… P1/314:11Hunter groups need the right carrierNotable Point
- Battle of Atlantic: An Introduction to The Convoy war & the Perfect Storm of PQ17… P1/315:30Closing the mid-Atlantic air gapChapter
- Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...37:06HMS Folkestone from the Persian Gulf to Atlantic convoysNotable Point
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P6b Introduction to Patreon Video 4...16:01Submarines, anti-submarine warfare, and an unproven torpedoChapter
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P5b Introduction to Patreon Video 412:59An old cruiser makes convoy attacks costlyNotable Point
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P5a Introduction to Patreon Video 49:26Peacetime procurement and a balanced fleetChapter
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P5a Introduction to Patreon Video 447:52Canada and Germany's uneven naval mobilisationNotable Point
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P2b Introduction to Patreon Video 420:29Worked-up destroyer flotillas and forward reservesNotable Point
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P2b Introduction to Patreon Video 448:10Submarine ambushes before the fleet battleNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 14: Special & Covert Operations Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A30:12Why the US Navy selected a FREMM-derived frigateQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 14: Special & Covert Operations Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:15:01A Mark 48-style torpedo in the Second World WarQ&A
- Long Patrol: Making Mare Nostrum a Hollow Jest - RN Submarines in the Meditteranean27:51Bioluminescence could betray a submerged submarineNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 13: Weapons, Both Personal & Ship, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A41:41Towed arrays, sonobuoys, and ASW picket tacticsQ&A
- P2 Introduction to Pre-Tribal Class Destroyers of the RN0:52Why destroyers need reach and speedChapter
- P2 Introduction to Pre-Tribal Class Destroyers of the RN9:48G- and H-class leaders: Grenville and HardyChapter
- P2 Introduction to Pre-Tribal Class Destroyers of the RN11:12ASDIC changes hidden by a stable type labelNotable Point
- P1 Introduction to Pre-Tribal Class Destroyers of the RN (special guest; Fluffy Research Assistant)2:39Why the Royal Navy needed pre-Tribal destroyersChapter
- P1 Introduction to Pre-Tribal Class Destroyers of the RN (special guest; Fluffy Research Assistant)9:05HMS Amazon and the prototype leader ideaChapter
- P1 Introduction to Pre-Tribal Class Destroyers of the RN (special guest; Fluffy Research Assistant)16:22HMS Keith and the B-class size dilemmaNotable Point
- BAD SOUND - An Introduction to Making Mare Nostrum a Hollow Jest Part 2 of 210:01Gibraltar and the S-class submarine bottleneckNotable Point
- BAD SOUND - An Introduction to Making Mare Nostrum a Hollow Jest Part 2 of 231:16Mediterranean submarine war as close combatNotable Point
- BAD SOUND - An Introduction to Making Mare Nostrum a Hollow Jest part 1 of 212:14The logic of a large torpedo salvoNotable Point
- BAD SOUND - An Introduction to Making Mare Nostrum a Hollow Jest part 1 of 225:39S-class boats in the Mediterranean danger zoneNotable Point
- BAD SOUND - An Introduction to Making Mare Nostrum a Hollow Jest part 1 of 228:43Recognition rules and submarine friendly fireNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 12: New to Me Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:47:15Merchant ships ramming surfaced U-boatsQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 12: New to Me Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:28:59Why naval needs are easy for politics to overlookQ&A
- Patreon Video 2: Royal Navy Operations in the Indian Ocean 1941-432:28:431943 shifted the Indian Ocean toward air and anti-submarine warfareChapter
- Patreon Video 2: Royal Navy Operations in the Indian Ocean 1941-432:33:01Did German submarines belong in the Far East?Q&A
- Patreon Video 2: Royal Navy Operations in the Indian Ocean 1941-432:54:09Tenth Air Force and the 1943 offensive against PenangChapter
- Patreon Video 2: Royal Navy Operations in the Indian Ocean 1941-433:07:13Seychelles and Mauritius as anti-submarine and air basesQ&A
- An Introduction to the Royal Navy in the Indian Ocean 1941-3 (Patreon Video 2)58:38The Monsoon Group complicated submarine identificationChapter
- An Introduction to the Royal Navy in the Indian Ocean 1941-3 (Patreon Video 2)59:42Air coordination targeted Penang's exposed support networkNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 11: Top Trumps/Ship Comparison Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A24:38Anti-submarine success is more than sinking U-boatsQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 11: Top Trumps/Ship Comparison Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A32:12Why Swordfish speed could help in anti-submarine workQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 11: Top Trumps/Ship Comparison Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A39:07Why a surfaced U-boat usually loses to aircraftQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 11: Top Trumps/Ship Comparison Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A40:48Comparing aircraft U-boat totals and disputed Swordfish claimsNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 11: Top Trumps/Ship Comparison Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A50:16What Second World War technology might still be usefulQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 11: Top Trumps/Ship Comparison Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A57:49Rocket-assisted heavy torpedoes and distant submarine detectionQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 11: Top Trumps/Ship Comparison Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:02:27Could a Swordfish-style aircraft operate without a crewQ&A
- An Extended Introduction to "Naval Diplomacy"16:37Presence frigates as reserve combat capabilityNotable Point
- 50th Proper Live Stream - Bru Ships Episode 10: Naval Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:00:11B. B. Schofield on Arctic convoys and cold-water warfareChapter
- 50th Live Special: Thank You1:31:46Flying boats: capability as well as necessityNotable Point
- 50th Live Special: What, Why & How of Armed Forces…35:38Layered naval presence and crisis responseChapter
- 50th Live Special: What, Why & How of Armed Forces…39:30Atlantic convoys and Norway in Cold War planningNotable Point
- 50th Live Special: What, Why & How of Armed Forces…41:27Through-deck cruisers preserved carrier aviationNotable Point
- An Introduction to "Flying Boats & Seaplanes; Mothered by Capability or Necessity?" P3/4 WWII (L)3:21Why flying boats remained indispensable in World War IIChapter
- An Introduction to "Flying Boats & Seaplanes; Mothered by Capability or Necessity?" P3/4 WWII (L)5:59Seaford: a heavily armed Sunderland successorNotable Point
- An Introduction to "Flying Boats & Seaplanes; Mothered by Capability or Necessity?" P4/4 Post WWII11:46Harbin SH-5 maritime patrol and rescue rolesNotable Point
- An Introduction to "Flying Boats & Seaplanes; Mothered by Capability or Necessity?" P3/4 WWII (Q)1:00Why flying boats mattered to long-range patrolChapter
- An Introduction to "Flying Boats & Seaplanes; Mothered by Capability or Necessity?" P3/4 WWII (Q)2:01Short Seaford: a heavily armed Sunderland developmentNotable Point
- An Introduction to "Flying Boats & Seaplanes; Mothered by Capability or Necessity?" P2/4 Inter-War12:40The Kawanishi H6K's multirole reachNotable Point
- An Introduction to "Flying Boats & Seaplanes; Mothered by Capability or Necessity?" P2/4 Inter-War16:30Catalina search radius and force employmentChapter
- An Introduction to "Flying Boats & Seaplanes; Mothered by Capability or Necessity?" P2/4 Inter-War34:59The Short Sunderland's durable patrol serviceChapter
- An Introduction to "Flying Boats & Seaplanes; Mothered by Capability or Necessity?" P2/4 Inter-War35:54Sunderland armament protected a heavy patrol loadNotable Point
- An Introduction "Flying Boats & Seaplanes; Mothered by Capability or Necessity?" P1/4 WWI7:12How aircraft constrained First World War submarinesChapter
- Patreon Video 1: What would you put in warehouses at the end of WWI for WWII if you could?22:20A Commonwealth coast-guard fleet as prewar capacityQ&A
- Patreon Video 1: What would you put in warehouses at the end of WWI for WWII if you could?31:31Why maritime patrol is the aviation capability to saveChapter
- Patreon Video 1: What would you put in warehouses at the end of WWI for WWII if you could?1:10:10Why older destroyer hulls still matter in early ASW warQ&A
- Patreon Video 1: What would you put in warehouses at the end of WWI for WWII if you could?1:45:49Sloops could reduce the early-war escort gapQ&A
- Patreon Video 1: Intro - What would you put in warehouses at the end of WWI for WWII if you could?10:45Coast guards as imperial escort reservesNotable Point
- Patreon Video 1: Intro - What would you put in warehouses at the end of WWI for WWII if you could?18:42A naval home for Coastal CommandNotable Point
- An Introduction to “Back Pocket Cruisers” Part 3: Daring Class11:49Mk VI guns, anti-aircraft weapons, and SquidNotable Point
- An Introduction to “Back Pocket Cruisers” Part 1: Tribal Class (+Admiral Henderson)31:07From Pedestal to a new destroyer templateChapter
- Bru Ships Episode 8: Amphibious Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:48:54What the H-4 Hercules might have carriedQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 8: Amphibious Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:36:18Japanese anti-submarine warfare before World War IIQ&A
- 4000 Subscribers Thankyou Special – The Royal Navy if I were Prime Minister10:30Queen Elizabeth-class troop and air group optionsNotable Point
- 4000 Subscribers Thankyou Special – The Royal Navy if I were Prime Minister20:20Three escort groups for carrier and amphibious task forcesChapter
- 4000 Subscribers Thankyou Special – The Royal Navy if I were Prime Minister44:37A joint P-8 force for maritime patrolNotable Point
- An Introduction to Ships of the Convoy War; the Battle of Atlantic in Steel Part 4 Escort Destroyers2:56Why the U-boat threat receded in 1944-45Chapter
- An Introduction to Ships of the Convoy War; the Battle of Atlantic in Steel Part 4 Escort Destroyers6:43Numbers, experience, and new ASW weaponsNotable Point
- An Introduction to Ships of the Convoy War; the Battle of Atlantic in Steel Part 4 Escort Destroyers8:35Hunt-class destroyers as dedicated escortsChapter
- An Introduction to Ships of the Convoy War; the Battle of Atlantic in Steel Part 4 Escort Destroyers23:30Reserve escorts and the ability to surgeNotable Point
- An Introduction to Ships of the Convoy War; the Battle of Atlantic in Steel Part 4 Escort Destroyers26:14Flying boats gave anti-submarine aviation a First World War precedentNotable Point
- An Introduction to Ships of the Convoy War - the Battle of Atlantic in Steel Part 3 Frigates2:36The anti-submarine technology race before 1943Chapter
- An Introduction to Ships of the Convoy War - the Battle of Atlantic in Steel Part 3 Frigates6:59Why 1943 became much more dangerous for U-boatsChapter
- An Introduction to Ships of the Convoy War - the Battle of Atlantic in Steel Part 3 Frigates12:57ONS 5, SC 130, HX 239, and layered convoy defenceChapter
- An Introduction to Ships of the Convoy War - the Battle of Atlantic in Steel Part 3 Frigates16:05Loch-class frigates and Squid anti-submarine firepowerNotable Point
- An Introduction to Ships of the Convoy War - the Battle of Atlantic in Steel Part 2 Sloops8:01Why sloops set the escort standardChapter
- An Introduction to Ships of the Convoy War - the Battle of Atlantic in Steel Part 2 Sloops17:42Black Swan speed and built-in modification marginChapter
- An Introduction to Ships of the Convoy War - the Battle of Atlantic in Steel Part 2 Sloops20:30HMS Starling turns sloop design into U-boat killsNotable Point
- An Introduction to Ships of the Convoy War - the Battle of Atlantic in Steel Part 2 Sloops21:36Subdivision and slow-speed handling made Black Swans durable huntersNotable Point
- An Introduction to Ships of the Convoy War - the Battle of Atlantic in Steel Part 2 Sloops23:05Why escort carriers needed fighters as well as ASW aircraftNotable Point
- An Introduction to Ships of the Convoy War - the Battle of Atlantic in Steel Part 1 Corvettes...6:13ASDIC, depth charges, and the convoy missionChapter
- An Introduction to Ships of the Convoy War - the Battle of Atlantic in Steel Part 1 Corvettes...8:30Aircraft as a submarine-suppression toolNotable Point
- An Introduction to Ships of the Convoy War - the Battle of Atlantic in Steel Part 1 Corvettes...18:17Why escorts prosecuted uncertain contactsChapter
- Bru Ships Episode 7: Warship Design Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:21:23Type 26 and Type 31 perform different force rolesQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 7: Warship Design Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:40:31How HMS Dreadnought sank a submarine by rammingQ&A
- An Introduction to Not the Big Ships: NGFS As Provided by Destroyers & Below Part 2 of 218:28The Type 22's post-Falklands gun lessonChapter
- An Introduction to What was paid for in Blood, in Sweat, in Tears & so much Money... Part 2 of 37:21Type 22 frigates outgrow a single Cold War scenarioChapter
- An introduction to the ‘Littleships’ of the Big War Part 4 of 44:39Why Wakatake-class destroyers fit the little-ship storyNotable Point
- An introduction to the ‘Littleships’ of the Big War Part 4 of 437:18Cutters and sloops became adaptable wartime escortsNotable Point
- An introduction to the ‘Littleships’ of the big war Part 3 of 411:03Why a Hill-class trawler complicated a U-boat attackChapter
- An introduction to the ‘Littleships’ of the big war Part 3 of 414:20Military-class trawlers varied from ship to shipChapter
- An introduction to the ‘Littleships’ of the big war Part 3 of 425:43Mass-produced Flowers made Atlantic convoy coverage possibleChapter
- An introduction to the ‘Littleships’ of the big war Part 3 of 431:51Castle-class corvettes paired long range with SquidChapter
- An introduction to the ‘Littleships’ of the big war Part 3 of 434:28Black Swan sloops brought destroyer-like combat powerChapter
- Minesweepers, Torpedo Boats & Gunboats – the ‘Littleships’ of the big war13:55The Basset class as an economical convoy defenderChapter
- Minesweepers, Torpedo Boats & Gunboats – the ‘Littleships’ of the big war16:16The Basset class as a risk-fleet escortNotable Point
- Minesweepers, Torpedo Boats & Gunboats – the ‘Littleships’ of the big war20:20The Admirable class and the overloaded minesweeper problemChapter
- Minesweepers, Torpedo Boats & Gunboats – the ‘Littleships’ of the big war1:18:32A modern armed small-boat conceptQ&A
- Minesweepers, Torpedo Boats & Gunboats – the ‘Littleships’ of the big war1:39:40Depth charging fish shoals after Operation TorchNotable Point
- Minesweepers, Torpedo Boats & Gunboats – the ‘Littleships’ of the big war2:11:21Using treaty rules to build more ocean escortsQ&A
- Minesweepers, Torpedo Boats & Gunboats – the ‘Littleships’ of the big war2:27:09Japan understood US submarines but overestimated its defensesNotable Point
- An introduction to the ‘Littleships’ of the big war Part 1 of 21:27How the London Naval Treaty defined little shipsChapter
- An introduction to the ‘Littleships’ of the big war Part 1 of 28:43HMS Bassett as an ocean-going trawler prototypeChapter
- An introduction to the ‘Littleships’ of the big war Part 1 of 212:15Admirable-class minesweepers packed escort weapons into a small hullNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 4: Naval Aviation Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A31:26Choosing the useful book is not always obviousNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 4: Naval Aviation Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A57:51Johnnie Walker's sloop background signals competenceQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 4: Naval Aviation Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:01:40Hedgehog and Squid grew from prewar ASW workQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 4: Naval Aviation Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:58:16Unmanned combatants can force submarines into bad choicesQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 4: Naval Aviation Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:50:58A modern escort carrier would be austere and mission-specificQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 4: Naval Aviation Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:56:31Astute-class submarines are central to future ASW confidenceQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 4: Naval Aviation Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A3:01:09Merlin combines several shipboard helicopter rolesQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 4: Naval Aviation Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A3:22:35Uncrewed craft will multiply mine and submarine warfare forcesQ&A
- An Introduction to My Top 10 Warships (No Tribal, Battle, Daring or Town Classes allowed)18:11USS Winston S. Churchill and a one-size-fits-all fleetNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 2b: Book Reviews/Q&A12:20What a treaty ban on submarines would changeQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 2b: Book Reviews/Q&A20:25ASDIC and sonar terminologyQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 2a: Book Reviews/Q&A1:12:32AAR, AEW, ASW, and ASuW explainedQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 2a: Book Reviews/Q&A1:15:32Why Merlin mission-kit swapping suits a small fleetQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 2a: Book Reviews/Q&A1:21:02From MEKO modularity to Type 31Q&A
- Bru Ships Episode 2a: Book Reviews/Q&A1:25:14How ASDIC spread across interwar naviesQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 2a: Book Reviews/Q&A1:29:27Escort carriers versus long-range B-24 patrolsQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 2a: Book Reviews/Q&A1:34:43Why Britain risked fleet carriers in submarine huntsQ&A
- Exercises & War Gaming Rules in 192926:19Air attack tables connected weapons effects to operational rangeChapter
- Exercises & War Gaming Rules in 192957:20Submarines overloaded the fleet before they scored a hitChapter
- Exercises & War Gaming Rules in 19291:10:58OC opened a wider problem of air-ASW cooperationNotable Point
- A Name to illustrate a navy - HMS Leander through history37:05Modern Leander frigates and distant deploymentsChapter
- A Name to illustrate a navy - HMS Leander through history1:18:28Diesel submarines as mobile minefieldsNotable Point
- Aircraft Carriers the Debate - Dr Alex Clarke vs Armoured Carrier's Jamie1:21:56Could stronger advocacy have brought escort carriers sooner?Q&A
- Aircraft Carriers the Debate - Dr Alex Clarke vs Armoured Carrier's Jamie1:24:21Dale-class fleet oilers and an escort-carrier compromiseNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 1: Book Reviews/Q&A28:42Modern frigates and destroyers divide their sensor prioritiesQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 1: Book Reviews/Q&A39:39Royal Navy ASW doctrine favored Merlin over ASROCQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 1: Book Reviews/Q&A46:25Delivered ASW torpedoes increasingly relied on autonomous homingQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 1: Book Reviews/Q&A1:03:23Unmanned ASW escorts need manned command and presence shipsQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 1: Book Reviews/Q&A1:31:02Submarines became anti-submarine hunters in both world warsQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 1: Book Reviews/Q&A1:35:56Scrapping Nimrod created an avoidable maritime-patrol gapQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 1: Book Reviews/Q&A1:42:22Carrier air wings lost range when specialist aircraft disappearedQ&A
- Anglo-Japanese Relations Part 1: 1902-192125:15Japan's naval and military contribution in the First World WarChapter
- Sloops during the Inter-War – what were they for?7:51The sloop label survived changing hulls and missionsNotable Point
- Sloops during the Inter-War – what were they for?44:08Black Swan experience underpinned wartime escortsChapter
- Sloops during the Inter-War – what were they for?59:18Were Bitterns really flak sloops?Q&A
- Sloops during the Inter-War – what were they for?1:34:15Sloops could be fitted rapidly for depth chargesQ&A
- Special Episode: Design, Design, Design!49:42HMS Argus and the escort-carrier ideaChapter
- Special Episode: Design, Design, Design!52:17How much prewar thought lay behind MAC shipsQ&A
- Special Episode: Design, Design, Design!1:53:22From interwar sloops to modern offshore patrol vesselsQ&A
- The RN in 1939, more than just a Question of Geography - A Quarterdeck Talk (26/11/2019)41:42The Mediterranean Fleet as a planned reinforcement forceChapter
- Harwood & Captains - a River Plate 80 video20:39Captain Parry's anti-submarine expertiseChapter
- Harwood & Captains - a River Plate 80 video24:05Parry carries specialist judgment into senior commandNotable Point
- Tribal Class in 60s (Combined)3:05Gun-heavy layout and advanced fire controlNotable Point
- Back Pocket Cruisers Presentation (Practice 2)34:35The Daring class completed the move to general-purpose destroyersChapter