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- What happens to the Navys if the Washington Treaty is held off till 1927?44:40Carrier fighters and the problem of warning before radarNotable Point
- Air Defence At Sea: From Air Ships in 1906, to drones in 2026 and everything in between...56:36Why keeping four fighters airborne can require eighteen aircraftNotable Point
- Air Defence At Sea: From Air Ships in 1906, to drones in 2026 and everything in between...58:16Why naval fighters break off after turning an attack awayNotable Point
- Air Defence At Sea: From Air Ships in 1906, to drones in 2026 and everything in between...1:31:59Terrier, Tartar and a missile screen spread across shipsNotable Point
- Air Defence At Sea: From Air Ships in 1906, to drones in 2026 and everything in between...2:43:23Tomcat patrol distance and Strike Fleet AtlanticNotable Point
- Air Defence At Sea: From Air Ships in 1906, to drones in 2026 and everything in between...3:09:45Attacking launchers to protect the fleet's missile stocksNotable Point
- What if Britain joined with Australian & Canada to build a 'Maximum' Invincible Class instead?2:14Aircraft range versus persistent fleet air coverNotable 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?28:17Sea Harrier capability within procurement constraintsNotable Point
- What if Britain joined with Australian & Canada to build a 'Maximum' Invincible Class instead?59:35Sustaining a fighter patrol and airborne early warningChapter
- What if Britain joined with Australian & Canada to build a 'Maximum' Invincible Class instead?1:14:18More aircraft allow a stronger alert forceNotable Point
- What if Britain joined with Australian & Canada to build a 'Maximum' Invincible Class instead?1:17:31More Sea Harriers could reduce Falklands lossesChapter
- Yak-38 Forger: The Nasty Surprise of the Kiev Class25:00Why six Yak-38s could still help a missile cruiserNotable Point
- What Happens if Australia, Canada & the UK go all in on the Invincibles in the 1970s? (Patreon Live)1:32:34Two Sea Harrier squadrons share patrol and strike readinessNotable Point
- What Happens if Australia, Canada & the UK go all in on the Invincibles in the 1970s? (Patreon Live)1:47:20Falklands air defence changes sharplyChapter
- What Happens if Australia, Canada & the UK go all in on the Invincibles in the 1970s? (Patreon Live)1:49:14AEW changes the proposed Falklands patrol lineNotable Point
- Bruships 223: Naval History & Science Fiction Questions Answered Live...4:17:00Continuous air patrol changes a carrier's space requirementsNotable Point
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle1:02:55Would standing fighter patrols solve Malaya's warning problem?Q&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust1:48:09Why modern radar alone would not let Japan win the Pacific WarQ&A
- Bruships 214 On the Road Japan 2025: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:15:36Replacing six Invincible-class carriersQ&A
- J-15 Flying Shark; The Foundation of a New Era6:50Organic air defense for Chinese carrier groupsNotable Point
- J-15 Flying Shark; The Foundation of a New Era42:03Launch positions, combat air patrols, and carrier air-group sizeChapter
- J-15 Flying Shark; The Foundation of a New Era45:32Electronic warfare, CAP packages, and air-group depthNotable Point
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:05:28How Fulmars engage an escorted air attackQ&A
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:06:49How layered air defense disrupts a pilot's final attackNotable Point
- Queen Bees: The almost 'Original Drones' from the 1930s33:22Why useful carrier drone pools must be largeNotable Point
- Tom's Cat: The Story of the F14 Tomcat25:49Why a heavy fighter expands the carrier's defensive bubbleNotable Point
- Britains Obsession with Supersonic Harriers13:34Rolling V/STOL launches for Cold War fleet defenseChapter
- Leadership of the Battle of Midway: When decisions go wrong...2:05:59Could Zuikaku have served as a fighter carrier?Q&A
- The Battle Line Sallied Forth: the USN Pacific Fleet goes to sea on the 6th of December 19411:15:15Lexington and Enterprise give the sortie air powerChapter
- The Battle Line Sallied Forth: the USN Pacific Fleet goes to sea on the 6th of December 19412:08:11Would the fleet keep a combat air patrol overhead?Q&A
- An Indomitable Force Z38:52Indomitable restores the missing fighter layerNotable Point
- An Indomitable Force Z53:16How Indomitable's fighter cycle could defeat the bomber attackChapter
- What if HMS Indomitable replaced Prince of Wales in Force Z?34:53How carrier fighters were meant to break up an air strikeChapter
- What if HMS Indomitable replaced Prince of Wales in Force Z?1:20:16How Indomitable could sustain a combat air patrolNotable Point
- Bruships 184: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:47:21When a twin-engine air group might need specialist fightersQ&A
- Bruships 184: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:49:00Getting through fighter escorts to disrupt a naval strikeQ&A
- Bruships 176: Christyear or Newmas?3:11:04Why fewer than eighteen fighters cannot sustain fleet air defenseQ&A
- So You Want to Build an Aircraft Carrier: Operation & Learning From Experience! Part 3 or 1 of 31:01:42Why larger US carriers gain operating efficiencyChapter
- So You Want to Build an Aircraft Carrier: Operation & Learning From Experience! Part 3 or 1 of 31:03:07How eighteen aircraft sustain a combat air patrolNotable Point
- The Seafire Doctrine Saga: How the RN's fighter control system came to be...10:07Visual warning from destroyers and airborne lookoutsChapter
- The Seafire Doctrine Saga: How the RN's fighter control system came to be...14:00Why two-seat fighters favored combat air patrolChapter
- The Seafire Doctrine Saga: How the RN's fighter control system came to be...25:08Radar-directed CAP replaces simple launch warningChapter
- The Seafire Doctrine Saga: How the RN's fighter control system came to be...26:40Vectoring Fulmars for energy-fighting interceptsChapter
- The Seafire Doctrine Saga: How the RN's fighter control system came to be...28:58The Seafire arrives after doctrine moves onNotable Point
- The Seafire Doctrine Saga: How the RN's fighter control system came to be...30:46From point defense to layered fighter directionChapter
- The Seafire Doctrine Saga: How the RN's fighter control system came to be...35:51Wartime availability reshapes doctrineNotable Point
- The Seafire Doctrine Saga: How the RN's fighter control system came to be...38:13Could the ideal interceptor have been a poison chalice?Notable Point
- Bruships 172: So the Historiophon Happened...4:29:14Catapult type does not determine carrier sizeQ&A
- Three Days from Pearl Harbor: The World if the Kido Butai is Spotted on the 4th of December...56:00How an American carrier ambush might workChapter
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/48:51:20Hypersonic reach does not automatically replace carrier aviationQ&A
- Bruships 171: Oh Kallax my Kallax, Where art though my Kallax1:37:24Why fleet-carrier air groups organize around blocks of eighteenQ&A
- French Naval Aviation Doctrine & Other potential carrier powers of the 1930s41:37Italy's belated case for organic air coverChapter
- Battle of Santa Cruz: The Deathsong of Japanese Naval Aviation in WWII1:16:54Fighter direction needed better interception geometryNotable Point
- Battle of Santa Cruz: The Deathsong of Japanese Naval Aviation in WWII1:19:28Hornet is overwhelmed despite defensive doctrineChapter
- Vought F 8 Crusader: The Cold War Corgi! Key Aircraft Series 2, Aircraft 933:03Low-altitude dogfighting over VietnamChapter
- Through Deck Cruisers: The Kiev & Invincible Classes of Aircraft Carrier1:52:38Large Cold War air forces made land-based fleet cover seem practicalChapter
- Through Deck Cruisers: The Kiev & Invincible Classes of Aircraft Carrier1:54:16Tankers cannot solve the rearming gap in land-based fleet coverChapter
- Japanese Naval Aviation Organisation; Going their own way from 19121:20:11The near loss of Japanese carrier fightersNotable Point
- The Royal Navy's Interwar Dream... The Implacable Class: Key Ships Series 9, Ship 31:18:39Deck parking, northern weather, and combat readinessNotable Point
- The Royal Navy's Interwar Dream... The Implacable Class: Key Ships Series 9, Ship 31:23:00Indefatigable and Britain's final air combat of World War IINotable Point
- Damage Control - The WWII Aircraft Carriers Edition; when it went wrong & when it went right25:43Glorious and the consequences of inadequate escortNotable Point
- Damage Control - The WWII Aircraft Carriers Edition; when it went wrong & when it went right27:50Illustrious and the layers of carrier air defenceChapter
- Damage Control - The WWII Aircraft Carriers Edition; when it went wrong & when it went right28:49Why an eighteen-fighter force supported a four-aircraft patrolNotable Point
- Damage Control - The WWII Aircraft Carriers Edition; when it went wrong & when it went right1:28:08Lexington's torpedo attack and the timing of defensive killsNotable Point
- Damage Control - The WWII Aircraft Carriers Edition; when it went wrong & when it went right1:51:37Yorktown launches nearly empty fighters before the torpedo attackNotable Point
- Damage Control - The WWII Aircraft Carriers Edition; when it went wrong & when it went right2:17:18Enterprise, Saratoga, and clearing the decksNotable Point
- Damage Control - The WWII Aircraft Carriers Edition; when it went wrong & when it went right2:24:32Enterprise and keeping fighters out of the AA engagement zoneNotable Point
- Damage Control - The WWII Aircraft Carriers Edition; when it went wrong & when it went right2:58:18Strike doctrine competed with fighter-control trainingNotable Point
- Carriers of the Planned War Fleets: How Shokaku, Implacables & Essexs reflect their Navys Doctrines18:00Pacific alpha-strike logicNotable Point
- Lexington Class: The First Modern Carriers?42:03Coral Sea tests Lexington's wartime carrier valueNotable Point
- Evolution of Carrier Air Groups 1918-2024: A Discussion44:30Mission count sets the air group size problemNotable Point
- Evolution of Carrier Air Groups 1918-2024: A Discussion53:45Fighters and anti-aircraft guns break up naval air attacksChapter
- Evolution of Carrier Air Groups 1918-2024: A Discussion58:08Missiles and successive combat air patrols disrupt carrier attacksNotable Point
- F8F Bearcat: Overshadowed Greatness - Key Aircraft Series 2 Aircraft 327:42Climb performance meets a changing interception problemChapter
- Treaty Era Aircraft Carriers: A Discussion1:00:04Ark Royal and Illustrious split British carrier prioritiesChapter
- Treaty Era Aircraft Carriers: A Discussion1:03:03British carriers sustain combat air patrol near enemy airfieldsNotable Point
- The Drivers of the Evolution of Carrier Air Groups...1:08:05Why does a four-aircraft CAP need eighteen fighters?Q&A
- The Drivers of the Evolution of Carrier Air Groups...1:08:54Thirty-six F-35Bs support overlapping CAP and strike cyclesNotable Point
- The Drivers of the Evolution of Carrier Air Groups...1:29:28Carrier air defense evolves from climb rate to fighter directionChapter
- Striking First: The Development of US Carrier Naval Aviation Doctrine by War Gaming & Fleet Problems1:51:27Essex production scales the doctrine while exposing its limitsChapter
- "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
- What the post WWI Navys really wanted from Aircraft Carriers: Hermes, Hōshō & Langley!55:42Fleet Air Arm institutions shape Hermes's small air groupNotable Point
- So You Want to Build an Aircraft Carrier: Design! Part 1 or 320:45Understand why a four-fighter patrol needs eighteen aircraftNotable Point
- So You Want to Build an Aircraft Carrier: Design! Part 1 or 324:11Build the air group from simultaneous missionsChapter
- Suggest Series Name Please: Comment Response video with a twist30:52Why the Fulmar needs a carrier-specific comparisonNotable Point
- Suggest Series Name Please: Comment Response video with a twist32:42Why might a Fulmar make only one pass at an incoming raid?Q&A
- 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 twist36:18Invincible's changing helicopters and tailored air groupsNotable Point
- Suggest Series Name Please: Comment Response video with a twist43:19How carrier missions build an air group of sixty or more aircraftChapter
- Conception, Operation & Conclusion of Atlantic Conveyor & other rapid conversions42:41Carrier air groups sustain local air powerChapter
- Carriers of the Kaiserlichemarine: the WWI potential of German Naval Aviation24:43How World War I air defence led toward fighter directionNotable Point
- Bruships 144: Some Books(Can't Find Lego Cam Sorry) & Naval History Questions2:59:54Why armored British carriers still depended on fightersNotable Point
- Fairey Fulmar: innate soundness and competence but not the stuff of headlines31:32Combat air patrol endurance and layered fleet defenceChapter
- Fairey Fulmar: innate soundness and competence but not the stuff of headlines1:08:06Strike disruption and the birth of practical fighter directionChapter
- Aircraft Carriers in Science Fiction28:46A working definition of the space carrierChapter
- Aircraft Carriers in Science Fiction32:31Why carrier air groups can be built in modules of eighteenNotable Point
- Aircraft Carriers in Science Fiction44:41Would a carrier maintain combat space patrols?Q&A
- Europa & Giuseppe Miraglia: The Regia Marina's Love for Seaplane Carriers44:28Reconnaissance without surrendering naval controlChapter
- Racking up the Fight Back: American Carrier raids of 19422:09:08How British carrier doctrine divided night attack from day defenseNotable Point
- Racking up the Fight Back: American Carrier raids of 19422:29:12Lexington breaks up the first Betty bomber attackChapter
- Racking up the Fight Back: American Carrier raids of 19422:34:31Butch O'Hare breaks up the second Betty attackChapter
- HMS Unicorn: Honestly Not An Aircraft Carrier - Key Ship Series 8, Ship 11:00:04Unicorn and HMS Ocean share combat air operationsChapter
- 809 Squadron Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm: The Immortals24:29Why convoy fighters cannot be judged only by killsNotable Point
- Conception of Admiral Moffett’s Flight Deck Cruisers & the IJN’s construction of Ryūjō39:10Ryūjō's practical 1942 air groupChapter
- Conception of Admiral Moffett’s Flight Deck Cruisers & the IJN’s construction of Ryūjō43:47Ryūjō's Henderson Field strike drains its air groupChapter
- Conception of Admiral Moffett’s Flight Deck Cruisers & the IJN’s construction of Ryūjō46:58Enterprise finds Ryūjō and Saratoga sinks herChapter
- Sopwith Cuckoo: The Exodus Chapter for Naval Aviation - Key Aircraft Series 1 Aircraft 230:08Why a biplane layout does not make the Swordfish a World War I designNotable Point
- Graf Zeppelin: KSS2 S1 Comment Response1:02:36HMS Glorious and the cost of ignoring carrier doctrineQ&A
- Bruships 126: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series2:31:26Defeat a hypersonic threat by finding its launch platformQ&A
- Bruships 119: Cool Books - but they're definitely a Mixture2:25:28Preparing the British Pacific Fleet's Sakishima strikesChapter
- Bruships 119: Cool Books - but they're definitely a Mixture3:51:14Why large carriers generate air power more efficientlyQ&A
- Bruships 119: Cool Books - but they're definitely a Mixture3:53:45How an 18-aircraft pool sustains four fighters on patrolNotable Point
- HMS Illustrious: Key Ships Series 3, Ship 738:46Illustrious enters the Mediterranean warChapter
- HMS Illustrious: Key Ships Series 3, Ship 740:03Why Fulmars needed a standing combat air patrolNotable Point
- USS Enterprise (CV6): Key Ship Series 3, Ship 422:06Enterprise's aircraft at Pearl HarborChapter
- USS Enterprise (CV6): Key Ship Series 3, Ship 430:33Covering Hornet and fighting at MidwayChapter
- Ship-Shape Special: Alex & Garius Command a Carrier... How bad can this be? Mission 236:15Radar fighter direction and the counter-scouting problemNotable Point
- Ship-Shape Special: Alex & Garius Command a Carrier... How bad can this be? Mission 22:15:14Layered carrier defense in a simplified Pacific scenarioChapter
- Ship-Shape Special: Alex & Garius Command a Carrier... How bad can this be? Mission 22:35:16Why replenishment under air attack is so dangerousNotable Point
- Graf Zeppelin: Key Ships Series 2, Ship 111:13Rails, trolleys, and the catapult bottleneckChapter
- Ship-Shape Special: Alex & Garius Command a Carrier... How bad can this be?47:21Alpha strikes versus continuous carrier operationsChapter
- Ship-Shape Special: Alex & Garius Command a Carrier... How bad can this be?55:55Why a carrier keeps fighters ready on deckNotable Point
- Ship-Shape Special: Alex & Garius Command a Carrier... How bad can this be?1:21:30Keeping fighters ready while assembling a carrier strikeNotable Point
- Ship-Shape Special: Alex & Garius Command a Carrier... How bad can this be?2:14:07Saratoga and Victorious: complementary carrier strengthsNotable Point
- Royal Navy retains the 'Fleet Units' of Royal Naval Air Service in 1918 - an Alternate History5:42Why naval air power cannot be treated as placelessNotable Point
- Bruships 103: Belfast Parts yet to arrive... so let's consider the Run up to War...57:58Illustrious myths: fuel, lifts, and strike operationsChapter
- Bruships 103: Belfast Parts yet to arrive... so let's consider the Run up to War...1:05:49Fulmar combat air patrols and relief fightersNotable Point
- If the January 1939 Tsingtao incident leads to war... Comment Response10:34Battlecruiser fighter rails versus carriersQ&A
- If the January 1939 Tsingtao incident leads to war... Comment Response19:00Aircraft growth, deck parking, and British carrier doctrineNotable Point
- Bruships 96: Vikings, Okinawa & 2nd to Last Pre-Christmas 2022 Naval Chat3:06:06How layered fleet defenses broke up kamikaze attacksQ&A
- BC-304 Daedalus Class: Stargate SG1's Battle Cruisers (Comment Response)11:02Eighteen fighters as a minimum sustained patrol groupQ&A
- BC-304 Daedalus Class: Stargate SG1's Battle Cruisers (Comment Response)34:47A warship cannot always escape through hyperspaceQ&A
- BC-304 Daedalus Class: Stargate SG1's Battle Cruisers (Comment Response)1:12:47Metallic asteroids could feed onboard railgun productionQ&A
- Shortcomings with the designs of 'Early' Aircraft Carriers: Patreon 651:20:25Courageous and Glorious retained a doctrinally obsolete deckChapter
- BC-304 Daedalus Class: Stargate's Battle Cruisers16:11Sizing a sustainable combat space patrolChapter
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 354:28The Big Blue Blanket against dispersed kamikaze attacksQ&A
- Patron 49: Admiral Kimmel: A Failure of Leadership? (Live)1:33:53Could Short's aircraft provide an offshore patrol?Q&A
- Bruships 69: The Decider1:44:00The SR.177’s endurance would determine its carrier valueQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (10)25:43Why the Fulmar suited a layered carrier defenceQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (10)32:15Why a standardized fighter group could sustain Mediterranean CAPNotable Point
- Take 2: Pearl Harbour – A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do? (Live)2:29:53Cruise-missile saturation is a systems problemQ&A
- Patreon 39:What if Courageous and Glorious had survived?1:32:55Why an airborne patrol did not reveal a carrierQ&A
- Patreon 39:What if Courageous and Glorious had survived?1:36:48Radar did not remove the need for fightersNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (8)13:37How earlier airborne early warning changes carrier defenceQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (8)2:32:43F-4 Phantom II versus Mirage III over the FalklandsQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (4)3:04:26Battleships and a dedicated CAP at MidwayQ&A
- Bruships 55: New Books2:30:47HMS Victorious, USS Saratoga, and the Robin deploymentQ&A
- The Battle of the Philippine Sea: Live2:04:40Why carrier fighter control differed from the RAF systemQ&A
- Kantai Kessen: The Battle of the Philippine Sea 1944 (Long Patrol)1:11:48Guam aircraft reveal a split air-command failureNotable Point
- Prince Philips Navy19:54Did Swordfish fly combat air patrols?Q&A
- Bruships 43: Aircraft Carriers & Naval Aviation2:16:19Carrier fighters and the defense of Force ZQ&A
- Bruships 43: Aircraft Carriers & Naval Aviation2:19:37Air defense succeeds by disrupting concentrationNotable Point
- Four Random Books 28: Mavericks2:29Blue Fox radar enables a surprise Sea Harrier interceptNotable Point
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s Long Patrol Part 5: French & German Carriers24:26Joffre's maintenance hangar versus its flight-deck cycleNotable Point
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s Long Patrol Part 2: Papers & Treaties18:02Lower flying-off decks sped fighter launches before radarChapter
- Was Pearl Harbour a missed opportunity for the US?1:20:11What Kimmel and Short could do without a declaration of warQ&A
- Was Pearl Harbour a missed opportunity for the US?1:39:06Air defense only needed to disrupt the first waveChapter
- Was Pearl Harbour a missed opportunity for the US?1:55:20How many fighters could Hawaii launch?Q&A
- Part 2 of 4 "The effect of the early jet age on naval warfare strategy/tactics?"25:33Jet speed collapses radar warning timeNotable Point
- Part 1 of 4 "The effect of the early jet age on naval warfare strategy/tactics?"7:14The Big Blue Blanket fighter-direction systemChapter
- Part 1 of 4 "The effect of the early jet age on naval warfare strategy/tactics?"12:59British and American combat air patrol tradeoffsNotable Point
- Patreon 11: "The effect of the early jet age on naval warfare strategy/tactics?"8:18Fighter direction before the Big Blue BlanketChapter
- Patreon 11: "The effect of the early jet age on naval warfare strategy/tactics?"1:32:23Why piston aircraft remained effective in KoreaQ&A
- Patreon 11: "The effect of the early jet age on naval warfare strategy/tactics?"2:34:36Airborne early warning moves the radar horizon outwardChapter
- Patreon 11: "The effect of the early jet age on naval warfare strategy/tactics?"2:35:41Layered air defence starts with the launch aircraftNotable Point
- Patreon 11: "The effect of the early jet age on naval warfare strategy/tactics?"2:58:23Jets extended existing naval tactics rather than replacing themChapter
- Bru Ships Episode 20: Brasseys & Janes, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A42:32How layered fighter CAP made eighteen practicalQ&A
- HMS Formidable: A Special Chat With Jamie from Armoured Carriers6:49Formidable as a battle-fleet support carrierChapter
- Battlestar Galactica Deadlock - Some Naval History Fun...15:09Boarding threats and combat air patrolNotable Point
- Special Episode: Design, Design, Design!36:09Armor as an answer to distant-war logisticsChapter
- Special Episode: Design, Design, Design!1:02:46Fighter cover before the modern combat air patrolQ&A
- Special Episode: Design, Design, Design!1:35:54British and American sustained air operations convergeQ&A