Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

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Armour Piercing Shells

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  1. Bruships 256: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    1:21:03Why German and Japanese smaller guns lacked AP shellsQ&A
  2. Bruships 256: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    2:12:05Estimating a 21-inch shell's explosive loadQ&A
  3. Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress
    7:48:30Steel shot shape and armour penetration in Warrior's eraQ&A
  4. Bruships 217: Back from Japan 2025: Jetlag is a Myth - Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:14:08How one naval gun serves deck and belt targetsQ&A
  5. Torpex: A Short History of it's History...
    6:52TNT lets armour-piercing shells detonate after penetrationNotable Point
  6. Bruships 209: Science Fiction Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:07:07The tradeoffs of nuclear and antimatter armor-piercing shellsQ&A
  7. HMS Bellerophon: A Dreadnought, but better...
    57:49Bellerophon's limited but effective fire at JutlandChapter
  8. Jellicoe's Jutland: Analytical leadership at its best and its most problematic
    36:17The Third Sea Lord's responsibility for a future fleetChapter
  9. Jellicoe's Jutland: Analytical leadership at its best and its most problematic
    42:09The prewar Greenboy shell counterfactualNotable Point
  10. Jellicoe's Jutland: Analytical leadership at its best and its most problematic
    1:00:59Crossing the T with shells that failed the fleetChapter
  11. Tribal, Battle & Daring Class Destroyers: 5yrs since the first live stream!
    14:42Greenboy shells and the Battle of JutlandNotable Point
  12. The Life of Admiral Sir Frederick Hew George Dalrymple-Hamilton: When Speed is never enough!
    2:32:09Point-blank range was outside battleship gunnery assumptionsNotable Point
  13. Bruships 163: I need a Kalax Kalax, a Kalax is what I need! Naval History Questions & Chat
    2:04:06Shell fuzes behind layered battleship armorQ&A
  14. Bruships 153: Naval History Questions Answered & Boxes being Packed... still, there are more books!
    3:10:01Estimating the weight of 20-inch naval shellsQ&A
  15. Bruships 153: Naval History Questions Answered & Boxes being Packed... still, there are more books!
    3:57:42A 21-inch shell against battleship protectionQ&A
  16. Patreon 90: How were warship autoloader turrets prototyped? A development History
    59:55Combat reliability and shell selection set the hard problemsChapter
  17. Patreon 90: How were warship autoloader turrets prototyped? A development History
    1:26:29Why a turret cannot switch shell types instantlyNotable Point
  18. Bruships 130: Battleships
    2:28:08Selecting ammunition in a capital-ship autoloaderQ&A
  19. What Battleships and Battlecruisers that were not built can tell us...
    44:07When more armour can make a shell more destructiveNotable Point
  20. Jutland with Competent Leadership of the British Battlecruiser Fleet - Sturdee replaces Beatty
    49:11The run to the south with a coherent British forceChapter
  21. Patreon 86: Jutland with Competent British Battlecruiser Fleet Commander - Sturdee replaces Beatty
    1:46:54Victory could delay British shell reformNotable Point
  22. Testing Sixteen Autoloaded 14in Gun Battleship (Chatfield's Dream) to Destruction
    1:18:37Shell choice changes the ammunition problemNotable Point
  23. Iron Clad Battles of the War of the Pacific & Chilean Civil War
    55:34Angamos: armour-piercing fire and Huáscar’s captureChapter
  24. Chilean Civil War & the sinking of the Blanco Encalada
    1:55:43Palliser shells dismantle Huáscar at AngamosNotable Point
  25. Huáscar: Key Ships Series 1, Ship 7
    21:48Angamos matched rival ironclad designs built in BritainChapter
  26. Huáscar: Key Ships Series 1, Ship 7
    26:01Range control and armour-piercing fire decided AngamosNotable Point
  27. Nothing Wrong With Our Shells Today; Alternate History, What if British Shells at Jutland Work?
    1:11The counterfactual is shell quality control, not a paint colourChapter
  28. Nothing Wrong With Our Shells Today; Alternate History, What if British Shells at Jutland Work?
    4:32Technical literacy shaped the politics of shell reformNotable Point
  29. Nothing Wrong With Our Shells Today; Alternate History, What if British Shells at Jutland Work?
    8:28Why a bursting shell needs containmentNotable Point
  30. Nothing Wrong With Our Shells Today; Alternate History, What if British Shells at Jutland Work?
    18:05Shellite trades some explosive power for stabilityNotable Point
  31. Nothing Wrong With Our Shells Today; Alternate History, What if British Shells at Jutland Work?
    23:48Long-range gunnery outgrew Tsushima-era ammunition doctrineNotable Point
  32. Nothing Wrong With Our Shells Today; Alternate History, What if British Shells at Jutland Work?
    24:19Dreyer turns post-Jutland criticism into new shell standardsChapter
  33. Nothing Wrong With Our Shells Today; Alternate History, What if British Shells at Jutland Work?
    28:45Why a known shell problem resisted reformNotable Point
  34. Nothing Wrong With Our Shells Today; Alternate History, What if British Shells at Jutland Work?
    39:14A damaged Goeben could supply proof and timeNotable Point
  35. Nothing Wrong With Our Shells Today; Alternate History, What if British Shells at Jutland Work?
    40:31Wartime evidence could break industrial resistanceNotable Point
  36. Nothing Wrong With Our Shells Today; Alternate History, What if British Shells at Jutland Work?
    47:52Better shells also reward gunnery and rate of fireNotable Point
  37. Nothing Wrong With Our Shells Today; Alternate History, What if British Shells at Jutland Work?
    49:35Early-war shell reform faces less industrial competitionNotable Point
  38. Nothing Wrong With Our Shells Today; Alternate History, What if British Shells at Jutland Work?
    54:21Which British ships get the new shells first?Notable Point
  39. Nothing Wrong With Our Shells Today; Alternate History, What if British Shells at Jutland Work?
    58:02British hit volume mattered despite poor shell performanceNotable Point
  40. Nothing Wrong With Our Shells Today; Alternate History, What if British Shells at Jutland Work?
    1:12:46Shell testing also raises the standard for armourNotable Point
  41. Patreon 74: What if History - Greenboy shells had been developed and deployed in time for Jutland.
    23:41Why Greenboy shells were differentChapter
  42. Patreon 74: What if History - Greenboy shells had been developed and deployed in time for Jutland.
    27:30Dreyer's shell trials and the eighteen-month development cycleNotable Point
  43. Patreon 74: What if History - Greenboy shells had been developed and deployed in time for Jutland.
    55:30The Royal Navy planned different shells for different rangesNotable Point
  44. Patreon 74: What if History - Greenboy shells had been developed and deployed in time for Jutland.
    2:51:01Were faulty fuzes the only British shell problem?Q&A
  45. Turret Selection: What in What Distribution Makes Sense for you
    50:47Škoda guns, Witkowitz armor, and Austro-Hungarian industryNotable Point
  46. UAD: 18in gun Agincourt & Other Ideas
    1:49:43The narrow range window favoring the Bismarck-like shipNotable Point
  47. Patreon 66: "Washington Cheaties"
    1:54:07Could a smaller-gun ship strip defenses with high explosive first?Q&A
  48. Escort Carriers, the idea, designs, development and some notable operations
    1:15:47Taffy 3 fights surface ships off SamarChapter
  49. 19th Century Cruisers: Comment Response Video 1 (Introduction - Shannon)
    38:10Pacocha and the difference between survival and victoryQ&A
  50. Blonde Class(Take 2): Scout Cruisers of the WWI Royal Navy (Long Patrol)
    19:37Protecting the battle line's unengaged sideNotable Point
  51. My Royal Navy Washington Treaty Cruiser: with added Qs from "1939 Destroyer Doctrine" (Long Patrol)
    1:08:45Why high explosive can outperform armour-piercing shellsNotable Point
  52. The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Long Patrol)
    39:01How expected opponents determine cruiser armamentNotable Point
  53. Bruships 58: Some Cool Books & Naval History Chat
    3:11:31Why naval shells need explosive fillersQ&A
  54. Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (4)
    2:03:29Reliable British shells at JutlandQ&A
  55. Crown Colony Class Cruisers
    2:30:07What six-inch shells did Crown Colony cruisers carry?Q&A
  56. Bruships 34: Random History
    30:07Could a Clemson-class destroyer sink a wooden first rate?Q&A
  57. The Great White Fleet
    1:51:30Choosing high-explosive or armour-piercing shells against raidersQ&A
  58. Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P5a Introduction to Patreon Video 4
    55:42Ammunition consumption and the friction of warNotable Point
  59. Battle of The River Plate - A River Plate 80 Video
    11:05Long-range fire control exposes technical and ammunition limitsNotable Point