Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

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Atlanta Class Cruisers

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  1. The Rise & Fall of the Constellation Class: What happened to the FFG-62 Program?
    49:01Task-group frigates and independent pickets need different designsNotable Point
  2. Bruships 233: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:27:55Royal Navy dual-purpose guns and the Dido roleQ&A
  3. Bruships 228: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:04:45How large a ship needs to be for TalosQ&A
  4. Scuttlebutt 14: Aircraft Carriers
    14:22A 5.3-inch US dual-purpose cruiser for carrier warQ&A
  5. 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P6 of 9 - The Royal Navy’s Submarine Killers – Black Swans at War
    7:04:35Dido and Atlanta solved different cruiser problemsQ&A
  6. 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P6 of 9 - The Royal Navy’s Submarine Killers – Black Swans at War
    7:17:38Why the Juneau class fits better among destroyer leadersQ&A
  7. Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress
    5:48:51Arethusa and Cleveland reveal different cruiser doctrinesQ&A
  8. Bruships 202: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    5:49:40Would skipping Tulagi improve the Coral Sea ambush?Q&A
  9. Scuttlebutt 12: Not Pocket Battleships, No Guadalcanal and a load of Submarine Signals?
    28:40How an even Battle of Midway could reshape US carrier buildingQ&A
  10. Leadership of the Battle of Midway: When decisions go wrong...
    1:03:42Task Force 16 and 17 divided scarce escortsNotable Point
  11. Bruships 195: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    4:29:26A modern gun-only Atlanta-style AA cruiserQ&A
  12. Didos, Atlantas & Conversions: Which were the true Screening, Scouting or AA Cruisers of WWII?
    35:18Why the Atlanta duplicated destroyer capabilityChapter
  13. Didos, Atlantas & Conversions: Which were the true Screening, Scouting or AA Cruisers of WWII?
    38:44Why the U.S. Navy stopped at eight AtlantasNotable Point
  14. Didos, Atlantas & Conversions: Which were the true Screening, Scouting or AA Cruisers of WWII?
    43:14Universal guns traded experimentation for logisticsNotable Point
  15. Didos, Atlantas & Conversions: Which were the true Screening, Scouting or AA Cruisers of WWII?
    45:19More directors would leave Atlanta with the same main gunNotable Point
  16. Didos, Atlantas & Conversions: Which were the true Screening, Scouting or AA Cruisers of WWII?
    1:22:32Guadalcanal exposed Atlanta's role mismatchChapter
  17. Didos, Atlantas & Conversions: Which were the true Screening, Scouting or AA Cruisers of WWII?
    1:28:52Atlanta and Juneau first broke the air attackNotable Point
  18. Didos, Atlantas & Conversions: Which were the true Screening, Scouting or AA Cruisers of WWII?
    1:31:38A case for pairing Atlantas with every EssexNotable Point
  19. Bring in the Heavies... AA Cruisers in WWII, what was their value?
    36:28Atlanta and Dido emerged in parallelChapter
  20. Bring in the Heavies... AA Cruisers in WWII, what was their value?
    48:36Did planning for Japan shape Dido and Atlanta?Q&A
  21. Bring in the Heavies... AA Cruisers in WWII, what was their value?
    49:46How did Dido and Atlanta compare in combat power?Q&A
  22. Bring in the Heavies... AA Cruisers in WWII, what was their value?
    1:05:34Atlanta as a destroyer-built cruiserChapter
  23. Bring in the Heavies... AA Cruisers in WWII, what was their value?
    1:13:24Gun numbers, directors, and VT fuzesNotable Point
  24. Bring in the Heavies... AA Cruisers in WWII, what was their value?
    1:45:11What made a destroyer leader?Q&A
  25. Bring in the Heavies... AA Cruisers in WWII, what was their value?
    2:27:20Why the US Navy built few Atlanta-class cruisersChapter
  26. Bring in the Heavies... AA Cruisers in WWII, what was their value?
    2:34:38USS Juneau and the five Sullivan brothersNotable Point
  27. Bring in the Heavies... AA Cruisers in WWII, what was their value?
    2:36:34USS Atlanta screened Enterprise and Hornet at MidwayNotable Point
  28. Bring in the Heavies... AA Cruisers in WWII, what was their value?
    2:37:44Were there two cruisers named USS Juneau?Q&A
  29. Bring in the Heavies... AA Cruisers in WWII, what was their value?
    2:39:08Were Juneau's wing turrets missing from the photograph?Q&A
  30. Bring in the Heavies... AA Cruisers in WWII, what was their value?
    2:40:35What an Atlanta might have added at SamarNotable Point
  31. Bring in the Heavies... AA Cruisers in WWII, what was their value?
    3:14:06Would the 5-inch/54 have prolonged Atlanta production?Q&A
  32. Bruships 189: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:03:32Why Atlanta-class cruisers struggled outside the destroyer-leader roleNotable Point
  33. Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/4
    7:31:47Why the US Navy did not convert Omaha into an anti-aircraft cruiserQ&A
  34. Bruships 168: And a empty Kalax, sang the aisles a serenade, longing for books with a love song
    2:54:33World War II analogues for Burkes and TiconderogasQ&A
  35. Bruships 166: As I walk through the library of Naval History, I take a look at my shelf space....
    4:22:29Destroyer leaders, Atlantas, and topweightQ&A
  36. Bruships 151: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Vote
    55:38An Atlanta-style Dido needs a larger cruiser hullQ&A
  37. Check Campaign 15: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign
    1:14:29Secondary batteries turn battleships into anti-destroyer screensChapter
  38. Bruships 140 - Patreon Suggestions, Some Interesting Books (Hopefully) & Lots of Naval History Qs!
    19:01The Capitani Romani class as Italy's Atlanta analogueQ&A
  39. Bruships 130: Battleships
    1:56:15A purpose-built American destroyer leader for 1939Q&A
  40. Slava Class: Comment Response
    17:28A cruiser analogy for Kara and SlavaQ&A
  41. Starting off Franco-Italian Battleship race... come see what a Francisco Caracciolo might have done
    1:58:04Atlanta-style cruisers and saturation fireNotable Point
  42. USS Wichita: Comment Response
    25:27Wichita hull anti-air and missile ideasNotable Point
  43. US Treaty Cruiser in War & Retrospect
    30:42Atlanta, Dido, and layered air defenceChapter
  44. Brooklyn Class: The Not Quite Last US Treaty Era Cruisers
    40:35The Brooklyn hull becomes a wartime design foundationNotable Point
  45. Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1939-40
    49:07Why the Atlanta class offered a better fleet-wide gun systemQ&A
  46. Doug Clarke Bruships; As today would have been my Dad's Birthday, it's his books today
    2:43:43Why five-inch guns better matched the Atlanta-class missionQ&A
  47. Projecting Mussonlini's Mare Nostrum: Italian 1920s & 1930s cruiser design/doctrine
    1:49:28Would an Italian Atlanta-style cruiser fit the doctrine?Q&A
  48. Naval History Questions: Live From The Brushack
    55:13Why the Atlanta class offered more than a Somers destroyerQ&A
  49. UAD Homage and Questions of US Cruiser Introduction Answered (Long Patrol)
    21:38Industrial capacity made Allied design learning possibleQ&A
  50. Patreon 55: History of Survey Ships in the Royal Navy
    1:29:32Building a balanced twenty-ship historical strike forceQ&A
  51. Bruships 68: Random Naval History Books & Questions
    25:50What extra anti-aircraft cruisers would give the Royal NavyQ&A
  52. Bruships 65: Naval History Books & Questions Answered
    2:55:41The Atlanta class as a Second World War Burke analogueQ&A
  53. Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs Ago to the Day)
    3:11:19Choosing one modern ship to fight TrafalgarQ&A
  54. Bruships 34: Random History
    1:19:10Would an Arethusa-class cruiser be a better choice at Narvik?Q&A
  55. Bruships 32: Ships & Space Ships (Reality & Scifi)
    33:34Were the Atlanta and Dido classes destroyer-killing cruisers?Q&A
  56. RN Paper Cruisers; the what might have beens…
    39:29Why American cruisers would not transform the firepower chartQ&A
  57. Bru Ships Episode 15: Diplomacy & When it Fails, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    2:02:09Atlanta and Dido as super-destroyersQ&A
  58. Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    3:24:43How effective was the Dido class in its intended role?Q&A