Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

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Bismarck Class Battleships

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    36:48Scharnhorst hull cycles and slipway investmentNotable Point
  2. What happends if you Tigered the Queen Elizabeth Class?
    25:02A common Scharnhorst hull in a diesel-fleet scenarioNotable Point
  3. Bruships 258: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    2:49:39A reading recommendation for the Bismarck classQ&A
  4. Bruships 256: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    4:04:33A postwar Bismarck would need missiles and new machineryQ&A
  5. What happens if WWII took place as scheduled... after 1942? (Patreon)
    4:26:15Lion replaces Hood at a 1942 Denmark StraitQ&A
  6. What happens if WWII took place as scheduled... after 1942? (Patreon)
    4:33:10Bismarck's AA must split between attack typesQ&A
  7. What happens if WWII took place as scheduled... after 1942? (Patreon)
    4:33:55Three German capital ships would draw a larger British forceQ&A
  8. What would need to change for HMAS Australia & HMS New Zealand to be retained under Washington?
    59:19More fast capital ships could disrupt German rearmamentChapter
  9. Bruships 245: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:26:42How Europe reacts to an announced Yamato classQ&A
  10. Bruships 240: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:26:31A treaty-compliant Bismarck designQ&A
  11. Bruships 238: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:29:10Why German and Italian naval designers did not cooperateQ&A
  12. Bruships 222: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:20:32How far high-pressure marine boilers could be pushedQ&A
  13. 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P6 of 9 - The Royal Navy’s Submarine Killers – Black Swans at War
    4:35:11How politics distorted Bismarck, Graf Zeppelin, and HoodQ&A
  14. Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress
    11:48:41Maximum gun range is not effective battle rangeNotable Point
  15. Bruships 211: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    4:43:36Six Bismarcks armed with V-2 rocketsQ&A
  16. If Force Z survived... if HMS Prince of Wales & HMS Repulse what would the RN have done with them?
    2:45:20Could Prince of Wales return for a Tirpitz rematch?Q&A
  17. Bruships 207: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:27:46A World of Warships design replaces Bismarck and TirpitzQ&A
  18. The Atlantic Charter: Signed 14th of August 1941...84 yrs ago today!
    33:37Why the combined summit force deterred a surface raiderNotable Point
  19. The Atlantic Charter: Signed 14th of August 1941...84 yrs ago today!
    2:04:18Five smaller German capital ships instead of Bismarck and TirpitzNotable Point
  20. Bruships 203: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    6:52:01A mass German surface-fleet breakout in 1941Q&A
  21. Bruships 200: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:26:49Why US two-ship classes were supportableQ&A
  22. Plan Z: What was the Concept of Operations behind it? Tirpitz Mk II or something else?
    3:03What Plan Z proposed to build by 1948Chapter
  23. Bruships 198: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:45:54A stretched Scharnhorst with 15-inch guns was preferred to BismarckQ&A
  24. Bruships 190: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:38:19If Germany's First World War battleships became BismarcksQ&A
  25. Bruships 190: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:47:51Could First World War crews operate Bismarck's machinery?Q&A
  26. Bruships 189: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:02:04A Scharnhorst-derived alternative to the Bismarck classNotable Point
  27. Bruships 180: Naval History Questions Answered...
    1:25:29Weight of fire versus individual shell calibreNotable Point
  28. Bruships 175: Pre- Christmas Party 2024
    2:05:18Steam submarines, topweight, and other candidates for the worst wartime design mistakesQ&A
  29. Bruships 174: Ten Days to Christmas... have I got the lights up yet?
    1:43:43What design organization changed between Scharnhorst and BismarckNotable Point
  30. Bruships 174: Ten Days to Christmas... have I got the lights up yet?
    3:59:10France designs against Littorio, not a weaker BismarckQ&A
  31. Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/4
    5:25:30KGVs for Germany and Lions for Japan in a delayed warQ&A
  32. Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/4
    5:01:00The consequences of common German-Italian naval armamentQ&A
  33. Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/4
    7:28:41A twelve-gun Bismarck would push King George V toward heavier weaponsQ&A
  34. Bruships 160: Money for Kallax, Book Space ain’t Free! Naval History Questions & Chat...
    1:52:55Why Bismarck's citadel was so longQ&A
  35. Bruships 155: Last time answering naval history questions from the Brushack?
    2:02:58Could Bismarck fit triple 15-inch turrets?Q&A
  36. Bruships 144: Some Books(Can't Find Lego Cam Sorry) & Naval History Questions
    3:04:05How G3 battlecruisers reshape the German surface warQ&A
  37. The Royal Navy's Forgotten Lost Battleship Generation: Key Ship Series 8 - Ships 6
    47:28Renewed escalation dooms the small treaty battleshipsNotable Point
  38. The Last Invasion of Britain: Battle of Fishguard(1797)
    3:00:32Panama limits make Tillman III plausible enough to change later fleetsNotable Point
  39. Bruships 140 - Patreon Suggestions, Some Interesting Books (Hopefully) & Lots of Naval History Qs!
    1:07:42A larger treaty fleet would expose Germany's infrastructure ceilingQ&A
  40. Bruships 138: Random Naval History Books from Me, Random Naval History Questions from You!
    2:49:10What reliable autoloaders could do for German capital shipsQ&A
  41. Bruships 137: Naval Aviation Books Discussed & Naval History Questions Answered
    2:57:17Bismarck's air defenses and Germany's intelligence gapQ&A
  42. Bruships 136: Some Books & Some Questions Answered
    2:17:22Why Bismarck did not borrow Italian triple turretsQ&A
  43. Bruships 134: Imperial Japanese Navy Books
    1:23:42Why a German 5-inch dual-purpose battery was unlikelyQ&A
  44. Bruships 133: Questions till the Bru runs out...
    1:40:58The Channel Dash forced closer naval-air coordinationQ&A
  45. Bruships 133: Questions till the Bru runs out...
    2:01:29A hostile procurement list pairs impressive ships with hidden weaknessesQ&A
  46. Scharnhorst Class(1936): Most Valued Player of the German Capital Ships - Key Ships Series 7 Ship 4
    28:59What Tirpitz gained for 10,000 extra tonsChapter
  47. Scharnhorst Class(1936): Most Valued Player of the German Capital Ships - Key Ships Series 7 Ship 4
    54:42Bismarck's fame obscures the German design sequenceNotable Point
  48. Scharnhorst Class(1936): Most Valued Player of the German Capital Ships - Key Ships Series 7 Ship 4
    1:03:58Scharnhorst changed one major system at a timeChapter
  49. Scharnhorst Class(1936): Most Valued Player of the German Capital Ships - Key Ships Series 7 Ship 4
    1:07:07What should have followed Scharnhorst?Notable Point
  50. Graf Zeppelin: KSS2 S1 Comment Response
    4:16Should Germany have built a training carrier first?Q&A
  51. Bruships 131: Battleships...
    44:28Why Littorio was more efficient than BismarckQ&A
  52. Operation Berlin (Atlantic) – a Failure of Both Sides?
    3:19:45Should four German battleships operate together or in pairs?Q&A
  53. Bruships 130: Battleships
    21:19Why repeated Scharnhorst construction could outperform BismarckQ&A
  54. Bruships 130: Battleships
    1:02:28Why a fourth Scharnhorst turret changes the whole programQ&A
  55. Check Campaign: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign
    16:52Why Vanguard was technically superior to TirpitzQ&A
  56. What Battleships and Battlecruisers that were not built can tell us...
    1:24:09Plan Z and the limits of German rearmamentChapter
  57. Patreon 86: Jutland with Competent British Battlecruiser Fleet Commander - Sturdee replaces Beatty
    3:00:28How would later battleships fit a higher treaty baseline?Q&A
  58. Bruships 123: Naval History Questions and Books on Strategy & Tactics
    2:48:57The shipyard constraint behind a larger German capital-ship programQ&A
  59. H Class Battleships: Ignoring Reality for Perfection, Key Ships Series 4, Ship 4
    11:13Four main-battery calibres for ten battleshipsChapter
  60. H Class Battleships: Ignoring Reality for Perfection, Key Ships Series 4, Ship 4
    24:13Scharnhorst and the meaning of a fast battleshipNotable Point
  61. H Class Battleships: Ignoring Reality for Perfection, Key Ships Series 4, Ship 4
    34:28High-pressure boilers turn engineering into craftNotable Point
  62. Patreon 80: The most annoying & damaging 'myths' about the Royal Navy in the Treaty Years & WWII?
    3:36:11A concentrated German capital-ship force would change the Atlantic problemChapter
  63. Stalins Dream Fleets & the Potential Responses
    21:27How Soviet battleships could alter three maritime theatresNotable Point
  64. Bruships 113: Jutland
    2:03:00A four-capital-ship Bismarck sortie forces an Atlantic fleet actionQ&A
  65. Starting off Franco-Italian Battleship race... come see what a Francisco Caracciolo might have done
    13:36Why game damage can overstate capital-ship survivalNotable Point
  66. Starting off Franco-Italian Battleship race... come see what a Francisco Caracciolo might have done
    17:46What a modernised Bismarck would demandNotable Point
  67. Starting off Franco-Italian Battleship race... come see what a Francisco Caracciolo might have done
    46:20Why a complete magazine explosion ends the shipNotable Point
  68. Starting off Franco-Italian Battleship race... come see what a Francisco Caracciolo might have done
    2:34:24Alaska-class firepower against an outnumbered raiderNotable Point
  69. A Totally Diesel Kreigsmarine: What Could it Do?
    33:00Diesel propulsion for Scharnhorst, Hipper, and BismarckChapter
  70. Patreon Bonus: Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine eschews steam and goes all Diesel(-electric) propulsion
    54:07Hipper as the heavy-cruiser step toward a diesel fleetChapter
  71. Patreon Bonus: Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine eschews steam and goes all Diesel(-electric) propulsion
    56:57Scaling a diesel plant to BismarckNotable Point
  72. Help I Inadvertently Built a Super Bismarck...
    58:06Setting up an alternate Denmark Strait battleChapter
  73. Help I Inadvertently Built a Super Bismarck...
    1:41:34Long-range fire turns deck armour into the problemNotable Point
  74. Help I Inadvertently Built a Super Bismarck...
    1:52:32The Denmark Strait mission aimed at an Atlantic breakoutNotable Point
  75. Help I Inadvertently Built a Super Bismarck...
    2:20:34Bismarck was limited by industry, not a treaty ceilingNotable Point
  76. A potential American Response to the 18in HMS Agincourt?
    1:56:36Why a larger German gun needed more than a barrelNotable Point
  77. Bruships 105: Six Age of Sail Useful Books
    2:04:33How many extra Scharnhorsts could replace Bismarck and TirpitzQ&A
  78. UAD: 18in gun Agincourt & Other Ideas
    1:36:29German limits in an 18-inch-gun worldChapter
  79. UAD: 18in gun Agincourt & Other Ideas
    1:43:40Testing Bismarck's speed, range, and canal limitsNotable Point
  80. If the January 1939 Tsingtao incident leads to war... Comment Response
    31:31Blockade changes the 1939 fleet problemQ&A
  81. Bruships 102: New Books, Sea Wolves & Skagerrak
    32:05Why Bismarck could not simply take 18-inch gunsQ&A
  82. Christmas Videos Comment Response: Soviet Navy 1918-39 & Cruisers of the Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine
    35:07Scharnhorst offered a better model than prestige copyingQ&A
  83. Christmas Videos Comment Response: Soviet Navy 1918-39 & Cruisers of the Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine
    37:42German capital ships confused raiding and battle-fleet rolesQ&A
  84. Bruships 97: Random Books, Naval Chat & Possibly the Sound of Rain
    3:18:31Axis battleships were constrained by numbers, oilers, and lost expertiseQ&A
  85. 1860-1960 A Hundred Years of Gun Cruisers
    32:31A 15,500-ton heavy cruiser against German raidersNotable Point
  86. Bruships 96: Vikings, Okinawa & 2nd to Last Pre-Christmas 2022 Naval Chat
    45:15An N3 escort would make a convoy untouchable to German raidersQ&A
  87. Cruiser Policy of the Reichsmarine & Kriegsmarine
    52:32The Anglo-German agreement and Bismarck's reactive escalationNotable Point
  88. German Heavy Cruisers & Cruiser Policy/Procurement of WWII
    54:37Polycratic bureaucracy made Bismarck inefficientQ&A
  89. Nelson Class & Patreon 67 Comment Response
    1:02:42The German design problem posed by a 29-knot F3Notable Point
  90. Patreon 66: "Washington Cheaties"
    2:59:27A 28-knot Rodney could reshape German battleship developmentQ&A
  91. Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 3
    31:54Why Germany could not mass-produce Bismarck-sized shipsQ&A
  92. Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 1941
    13:19Why the Kriegsmarine feels strong in January 1941Chapter
  93. Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 1941
    19:36A German carrier-battleship force ties down BritainChapter
  94. Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 1939
    6:22Why famous weapons distort fleet historyNotable Point
  95. Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 1939
    27:05Standardizing German capital ships on ScharnhorstChapter
  96. Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 1939
    30:46Simplifying Graf Zeppelin with Japanese experienceChapter
  97. Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 1939
    37:04How Yamato disclosure could reshape German ambitionsNotable Point
  98. County Class Cruiser Comment Response: A UAD Infused Discussion of the Part 8 Response (Long Patrol)
    4:02Why treaties were not Germany's only Bismarck constraintNotable Point
  99. County Class Cruiser Comment Response: A UAD Infused Discussion of the Part 8 Response (Long Patrol)
    18:29Twelve-gun British battleships overwhelm the German pairNotable Point
  100. The 614th Running the Gauntlet: Six Books Reviewed (Long Patrol)
    5:15Bismarck's reputation and force concentration at Denmark StraitNotable Point
  101. British Light Cruisers & Treaties: A UAD Infused discussion
    13:47Prestige ships and industrial opportunity costNotable Point
  102. Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (11)
    25:54Why a larger Bismarck invites design troubleQ&A
  103. Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (11)
    1:41:42Why Bismarck-class ships begun in 1942 would never finishQ&A
  104. Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (11)
    2:01:02Why a 1942 Bismarck hunt brings Lion and VanguardQ&A
  105. Patreon 48: Anglo-Japanese War in Feb 39 - if Tsingtao Incident goes "hot", what's IJN doctrine?
    3:12:36Could Bismarck reach the war against Japan?Q&A
  106. Konigsberg Class (Reichsmarine): Long Patrol
    15:18The light-cruiser shortage behind German surface raidingChapter
  107. Patreon 47: Putting the USA's 2nd fleet to work - US Coast Guard's presence missions & deployment
    2:34:50How the Royal Navy would answer a mass German surface sortieQ&A
  108. Bruships 70: Travelling along...
    57:54How a larger Bismarck would escape the BalticQ&A
  109. What a the choice of Secondary gun calibre tells us: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol)
    23:17Why independent surface raiders accumulate gunsNotable Point
  110. Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7)
    3:45:24Who benefits from swapping Bismarck and Yamato?Q&A
  111. Favourite Dreadnoughts – Battleships & Battle Cruisers…
    2:49:39Why German battleships miss the top fiveQ&A
  112. Dreadnoughts (Commissioned Ships 1905-55)
    2:12:50Bismarck and the myth of effortless German superiorityQ&A
  113. Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) P1/14: Erich Raeder
    23:22Procurement complexity versus a sustainable raiding fleetNotable Point
  114. Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (3)
    1:43:12Richelieu versus BismarckQ&A
  115. Steel of a Hundred Years Ago: Ships of 1920
    1:52:41More Scharnhorsts instead of two BismarcksQ&A
  116. Bru Ships Episode 20: Brasseys & Janes, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    3:09:02Bismarck's efficiency problem as a design-experience problemQ&A
  117. Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...
    3:00:39Which German capital ships could join an early war?Q&A
  118. Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    2:59:14Lion versus Iowa: judging battleships by fleet doctrineQ&A