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Defence Industry

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  1. Bruships 266: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    3:42:28Engineering disciplines and defence-industry recruitmentQ&A
  2. Bruships 266: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    3:43:35Arms and perfume companies competing for engineering talentQ&A
  3. Britain's Rearmament 1937 vs 2026: What Lessons are we forgetting?
    4:55Why drones do not remove the costs of warfareNotable Point
  4. Britain's Rearmament 1937 vs 2026: What Lessons are we forgetting?
    13:54Matching Britain's global ambitions to its armed forcesNotable Point
  5. Bruships 264: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    16:30Boxer versus Patria: keeping an established production line workingNotable Point
  6. Bruships 264: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    1:15:49Defence spending as insurance and domestic investmentQ&A
  7. The Big Frigate Discussion: ASWFs, F110s & Pohjanmaas vs Gowind, European Patrol Corvette & FF(X)
    1:10:57EPC purchasing decisions and continuing industrial involvementNotable Point
  8. The Big Frigate Discussion: ASWFs, F110s & Pohjanmaas vs Gowind, European Patrol Corvette & FF(X)
    1:16:26A common European ship identity and competing national needsNotable Point
  9. Bruships 262: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    3:04:12The Defender replacement and British industrial workQ&A
  10. Bruships 262: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    3:25:40Boeing fighter contracts and competing suppliersQ&A
  11. Bruships 262: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    3:28:53British aircraft manufacturing and F-35 workNotable Point
  12. Bruships 262: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    3:32:42Competing aircraft companies and different design ideasNotable Point
  13. Bruships 262: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    3:38:03Japan as an alternative arms supplier for TaiwanQ&A
  14. Bruships 260: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    1:17:05Defence procurement, skilled work and exportsNotable Point
  15. Bruships 260: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    2:34:24Studying foreign weapons during indigenous developmentQ&A
  16. Bruships 260: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    2:37:59OTO Melara's Vickers and Italian originsQ&A
  17. Bruships 260: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    2:39:15Vickers connections across the arms industryNotable Point
  18. Bruships 260: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    2:40:35Protecting industrial plans and assets from Nazi controlNotable Point
  19. Bruships 260: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    2:45:16Vickers and Mitsubishi as industrial partnersQ&A
  20. Bruships 260: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    2:46:27What states could buy from Vickers and ArmstrongChapter
  21. Bruships 260: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    2:54:31Imagining Vickers-Armstrongs surviving intactQ&A
  22. Bruships 260: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    2:56:02Government resistance to further Vickers expansionNotable Point
  23. Air Defence At Sea: From Air Ships in 1906, to drones in 2026 and everything in between...
    2:02:17Affordable guns in a layered defence against dronesQ&A
  24. Air Defence At Sea: From Air Ships in 1906, to drones in 2026 and everything in between...
    3:35:14Drone volume and the cost of advanced missilesNotable Point
  25. What if Britain joined with Australian & Canada to build a 'Maximum' Invincible Class instead?
    6:58Defence spending and the cost of losing capabilityNotable Point
  26. Bruships 257: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:26:33A J-10 purchase would force Egypt to build a new support systemQ&A
  27. Bruships 256: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    1:59:57Risks of military ownership in industrial enterprisesQ&A
  28. Britain's Cold War Destroyers: Logically Building for the War they didn't Fight...
    2:50The Third Sea Lord tied procurement to one accountable officeNotable Point
  29. Britain's Cold War Destroyers: Logically Building for the War they didn't Fight...
    22:37World War II infrastructure made Cold War missile research cheaperNotable Point
  30. Admiral Katsutoshi Kawano: The defining Chief of Staff of Japan's Joint Staff of 21st Century
    31:44Mogami exports and Japan's defense industryNotable Point
  31. Bruships 235: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:13:33Whether US munitions expansion can outlast an election cycleQ&A
  32. Bruships 235: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:58:05Why Fincantieri can profit from expanding warship capacityQ&A
  33. Bruships 231: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    9:41How Swedish industrial backing shapes a frigate choiceQ&A
  34. Bruships 231: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    29:02Lider and the value of an unbuilt prestige projectNotable Point
  35. Trials and Tribulations- why ships go through the testing they do before they enter service
    2:09:17Offensive weapons advertise themselves; defensive demand followsNotable Point
  36. Bruships 228: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:36:49Greenland tensions and NATO defence supply chainsQ&A
  37. Why are Modern Warships getting bigger? (Live)
    25:47Why short production runs inflate warship pricesQ&A
  38. Why are Modern Warships getting bigger? (Live)
    1:16:45Goalkeeper made Phalanx a stronger competitorNotable Point
  39. Future Fleets: Some Ideas of Naval Warfare
    57:05Defence marketing rewards new wonder-weapon narrativesNotable Point
  40. Bruships 223: Naval History & Science Fiction Questions Answered Live...
    2:02:34What Ajax reveals about defence procurement failureQ&A
  41. Bruships 223: Naval History & Science Fiction Questions Answered Live...
    2:09:23Creating a defence monopoly and then avoiding itNotable Point
  42. Bruships 223: Naval History & Science Fiction Questions Answered Live...
    2:13:01An attributed account of inconsistent Ajax hullsNotable Point
  43. Bruships 223: Naval History & Science Fiction Questions Answered Live...
    2:51:34Why inheriting Soviet weapons did not equal usable powerQ&A
  44. Bruships 221: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:24:12Why gas-turbine choices cluster around two suppliersNotable Point
  45. Bruships 221: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    4:04:18Why FCAS and GCAP turn on industrial workshareQ&A
  46. Bruships 221: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    4:06:08Industrial contributions and access to European defence programmesQ&A
  47. Bruships 221: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    4:38:40What would a new GCAP member have to contribute?Q&A
  48. A Chinese Invasion of Taiwan: A Historian’s Eye View & A Patreon’s Request…(Live 2)
    2:42:01Taiwan supplements scarce Patriots with domestic missile workQ&A
  49. 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P8 of 9 - UAD chat requested design testing…
    12:35How invading a critical supplier crippled Russian productionNotable Point
  50. 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P8 of 9 - UAD chat requested design testing…
    16:42How the Hostomel coup de main became a long warNotable Point
  51. 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P8 of 9 - UAD chat requested design testing…
    21:59Why allies are rebuilding domestic defence productionQ&A
  52. 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon
    3:28:35Industrial contacts mattered as much as covert naval intelligenceQ&A
  53. 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon
    8:54:34Why advanced arms sales to Iran carry technology-transfer risksQ&A
  54. 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P6 of 9 - The Royal Navy’s Submarine Killers – Black Swans at War
    6:18:18From Vickers' national systems to BAE's partnershipsNotable Point
  55. Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress
    1:34:11Could Britain have built its own submarine-launched missile?Q&A
  56. Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida
    33:16Would Switzerland have let Oerlikon go bankrupt?Q&A
  57. Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida
    10:10:18A British Red Hawk as training and industrial policyQ&A
  58. Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida
    10:14:30Why a trainer's production location enters the procurement debateQ&A
  59. Tom's Cat: The Story of the F14 Tomcat
    26:12How the TF30's problems strengthened engine competitionNotable Point
  60. How has Ukraine confirmed, dispelled or updated the lessons of the Falklands War 1982?
    1:52:33Raw footage and the wider information warNotable Point
  61. Bruships 198: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    4:01:19Australia needs escorts and an industrial base as well as submarinesNotable Point
  62. Bruships 196: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    4:23:19Why GCAP matters as an industrial-sovereignty programNotable Point
  63. Bruships 194: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:25:34What a headline defence price can concealNotable Point
  64. Scuttlebutt 21st Century Battleship: Chat & Comment Response...
    1:01:27Why public defense claims demand cautionNotable Point
  65. Strategic Defence & Security Review 2025: What would a naval historian do?
    39:53Single-customer defence industry defies ordinary market logicChapter
  66. Strategic Defence & Security Review 2025: What would a naval historian do?
    52:14Shipyard specialisation limits competition and adds capacity costsNotable Point
  67. Strategic Defence & Security Review 2025: What would a naval historian do?
    1:29:53Replacing the Land Rover Defender exposes an industrial-policy gapNotable Point
  68. Tribal, Battle & Daring Class Destroyers: 5yrs since the first live stream!
    3:53:30Can Britain sustain a competitive naval-shipyard model?Q&A
  69. Bruships 188: Naval History Questions Answered Liven & Birthday Party...
    2:17:59Israeli anti-torpedo systems and active defensesNotable Point
  70. Seaplane Tenders: An Earlier Answer to the Battle of the Atlantic?
    15:45Split Fleet Air Arm control obstructed a tender programChapter
  71. Royal Navy gets activist for Research & Development from 1900 onwards...
    1:04How naval research and development worked in 1900Chapter
  72. Royal Navy gets activist for Research & Development from 1900 onwards...
    2:35State and industry took different research risksNotable Point
  73. Royal Navy gets activist for Research & Development from 1900 onwards...
    5:46Integrated armaments firms could equip entire statesNotable Point
  74. Royal Navy gets activist for Research & Development from 1900 onwards...
    1:55:38The qualitative naval race ran through international suppliersNotable Point
  75. The Admiralty: A Contest of Leadership with Management... Naval History Live
    1:30:17Why the Royal Navy retained its own dockyardsQ&A
  76. The Admiralty: A Contest of Leadership with Management... Naval History Live
    3:39:43Why warship contracts went to politically important yardsQ&A
  77. Scuttlebutt 8: Beatty, Sopwith Cuckoos, Carriers & the Defence Debate...
    12:52How competition can make open-ended naval research productiveNotable Point
  78. Bruships 171: Oh Kallax my Kallax, Where art though my Kallax
    3:27:28American wartime mass production did not mean disposable qualityQ&A
  79. Bruships 171: Oh Kallax my Kallax, Where art though my Kallax
    5:20:48The economic case for Royal Navy-owned specialist yardsQ&A
  80. Bruships 163: I need a Kalax Kalax, a Kalax is what I need! Naval History Questions & Chat
    2:10:08Why Britain might still choose the F/A-18Q&A
  81. Bruships 161: All you need are Kallax, Shelves are all Books need... Naval History Questions & Chat!
    2:31:43Britain's defence industry needed consistent plansQ&A
  82. Bruships 161: All you need are Kallax, Shelves are all Books need... Naval History Questions & Chat!
    3:08:11A major postwar Royal Canadian Navy needs national commitmentQ&A
  83. Bruships 158: Home for Naval History Questions & Trialing the new Question Bot... so cross fingers!
    2:36:44F/A-18 commonality versus a domestic British carrier fighterQ&A
  84. Bruships 153: Naval History Questions Answered & Boxes being Packed... still, there are more books!
    36:43Reading Chinese missile-factory production claimsQ&A
  85. Bruships 151: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Vote
    13:33Brewster without a Second World War production surgeQ&A
  86. Bruships 148: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Begins
    1:10:09Why an eighteen-inch gun has no clean development priceQ&A
  87. Bruships 148: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Begins
    1:35:30Why Britain would not seed a rival French jet-engine industryQ&A
  88. Bruships 148: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Begins
    3:18:03Breguet 1120 adoption and later French carrier fightersQ&A
  89. Imperial Star Destroyers if designed by the World's Major Navys in 1938
    20:02Vickers-Armstrongs and Britain's arms industryNotable Point
  90. Bruships 131: Battleships...
    2:26:43Why Britain would try to copy an early F-35Q&A
  91. Bruships 131: Battleships...
    2:34:16WG.1 versus Chinook as an industrial choiceQ&A
  92. Unrotated Projectiles to Hypersonics: Some History & thoughts on Missiles as part of navies
    38:02Treat missile performance claims as sales claimsNotable Point
  93. Bruships: Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!
    3:18:56How American isolationism could sustain British aircraft productionQ&A
  94. A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 4
    2:03:19Defence industry survives through political geographyNotable Point
  95. A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 4
    2:36:49Who built Royal Navy gun turrets?Q&A
  96. Sovetsky Soyuz (Советский Союз) Class: Stalin's Battleship Dreams - Key Ships Series 4, Ship 3
    38:20Why shipyard competition changes naval procurement costsNotable Point
  97. US Nuclear Powered Cruisers: Comment Response
    32:19Warsaw Pact control over Polish industry and aviationNotable Point
  98. What would battleship and cruiser guns look like If modern technology were applied to them?
    23:13Why an 18-inch gun cannot simply be restartedNotable Point
  99. Starting off Franco-Italian Battleship race... come see what a Francisco Caracciolo might have done
    2:44:27Italian ammunition quality and corrupt contractingNotable Point
  100. Nothing Wrong With Our Shells Today; Alternate History, What if British Shells at Jutland Work?
    28:45Why a known shell problem resisted reformNotable Point
  101. Bruships 101: No Dalmations, but a whole HMS Belfast to build
    27:38Distributing a Commonwealth defence industryQ&A
  102. Bruships 101: No Dalmations, but a whole HMS Belfast to build
    2:30:17Foreign aircraft as Commonwealth stopgapsQ&A
  103. The Great Ships: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Rates in 18th Century (Comment Response)
    59:27The 32-pounder boom-and-bust marketNotable Point
  104. The Great Ships: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Rates in 18th Century (Comment Response)
    1:00:41National arsenals and competing gun demandsNotable Point
  105. Top 5 Inventions that came too Early...
    21:27Christmas-tree programs recruit allies but can threaten rival budgetsNotable Point
  106. Bruships 96: Vikings, Okinawa & 2nd to Last Pre-Christmas 2022 Naval Chat
    2:33:53Why Turkey markets an uncrewed attack helicopter so heavilyQ&A
  107. Bruships 93: Soviet Navy Books & Random Books
    4:00:14Why defense-industry disruptors rarely stay independentNotable Point
  108. Bruships 93: Soviet Navy Books & Random Books
    4:30:29Missile stocks, factory throughput, and scrap-metal demandNotable Point
  109. Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1941-42
    1:27:56The limits of national control over modern defence supply chainsQ&A
  110. Tre Kronor Class: Because the Swedish had a lot of Bofors guns to use..
    7:30Swedish armed neutrality rested on industrial depthNotable Point
  111. Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times
    1:36:48How a six-carrier policy could preserve British naval aviationQ&A
  112. Some Minor Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 1940
    19:32Why Sweden could enforce its neutralityNotable Point
  113. Luigi Cadorna Class: The Regia Marina's Condottieri Part 2
    26:42Armando Diaz's builder and the OTO Melara legacyNotable Point
  114. Bruships 81: Some Books from Chalk Valley & Tank Fest and Naval History Questions
    39:54Why the US Navy stayed with the five-inch gunQ&A
  115. Patreon 56: Why Retire Admirals in a World War? (Live)
    33:11What Percy Addison did before his wartime recallQ&A
  116. Patreon 56: Why Retire Admirals in a World War? (Live)
    35:24Why firms valued retired senior officersQ&A
  117. Patreon 54: Torpedo development 1900-1939 and it's impact on destroyer design an doctrine
    2:25:03Spearfish production restarted after a long pauseQ&A
  118. Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN
    10:48Australia's uranium wealth does not create a nuclear industry by itselfNotable Point
  119. Patreon 53: Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN
    1:20:52The cost of boom-and-bust Australian shipbuildingChapter
  120. Bruships 77: Leadership, books & questions...
    3:07:01AW.681, C-130, and the cost of a small fleetQ&A
  121. Bruships 77: Leadership, books & questions...
    3:14:07Industrial capacity as part of national defenceNotable Point
  122. County Cruisers P6: York, Exeter & The Cut Price County Concept (Long Patrol)
    40:52Palmer's shipyard, the Depression, and the Jarrow MarchChapter
  123. Patreon 45: Comparing Sisters(Not Kardashians) - HMS Renown & Repulse / HMS Nelson & Rodney
    30:56Q&A: can British warships be built abroad?Q&A
  124. Adventure (1904) Class: Scout Cruisers (Long Patrol)
    18:10Armstrong's origins and an early conflict-of-interest safeguardChapter
  125. Adventure (1904) Class: Scout Cruisers (Long Patrol)
    19:54Armstrong Whitworth's integrated industrial capacityChapter
  126. 21 Christmas Books for 2021 - Bruships 59: Books & Naval History Chat
    1:47:34Why Canada converted Britannias for ASWQ&A
  127. Patreon 37: Interwar RN logistics - The Good, The Bad, and The Singapore
    5:25Industrial concentration and defence procurementQ&A
  128. Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (2)
    3:27:06Why drone leadership depends on mission and scaleQ&A
  129. Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 1915
    20:23Export markets behind naval rivalryNotable Point
  130. Patreon 24: Everything Wrong With Star Wars Fleets (From a Naval History Perspective)
    28:03Did designer defections leave the Empire stuck with the TIE?Q&A
  131. Hawker Aircraft of the 1920s & 1930s
    30:25How Hawker rebuilt Sopwith's aviation capabilityChapter
  132. Hawker Aircraft of the 1920s & 1930s
    37:33Why Sopwith failed after the First World WarQ&A
  133. Hawker Aircraft of the 1920s & 1930s
    42:41Tank builders' connections with naval industryQ&A
  134. Bruships 46: Accounts of Naval War
    3:35:29Why short-war assumptions hollow out the industrial baseQ&A
  135. Bruships 46: Accounts of Naval War
    3:38:19Why the Abrams production line stays activeNotable Point
  136. Bruships 42: Some More Scifi
    2:28:39A Bofors analogy links engineering independence to integration problemsNotable Point
  137. Patreon 19: 2nd Tier powers Dreadnoughts: Spain, Austria-Hungary, S.America, Greece & Ottomans
    2:54:23Why advanced warship exports could fund developmentQ&A
  138. Britain of the 1980s: Long Patrol P3b/7 Keith Speed (Continued)
    20:43Could defence constituencies act as a parliamentary bloc?Notable Point
  139. Britain of the 1980s: Long Patrol P2/7 Keith Speed
    37:23Trafalgar, Invincible, Type 22, and Sting Ray as one ASW systemChapter
  140. Britain of the 1980s: Long Patrol P2/7 Keith Speed
    44:37Britain's uncrewed undersea vehicle as an industrial shortcutChapter
  141. Patreon 17 "The Royal Navy’s Strategic Role in 1980s NATO" as suggested by Joseph Sullivan
    1:19:16Humberside trawlers as mine-countermeasure hullsNotable Point
  142. Patreon 17 "The Royal Navy’s Strategic Role in 1980s NATO" as suggested by Joseph Sullivan
    1:20:20Defense spending as deterrence and skilled employmentNotable Point
  143. Patreon 17 "The Royal Navy’s Strategic Role in 1980s NATO" as suggested by Joseph Sullivan
    2:42:28Civilian expertise, dockyard accountability, and defence economicsChapter
  144. The Fairey Story Anew...
    1:55:33How interwar aircraft prototype competitions workedQ&A
  145. The Fairey Story Anew...
    1:58:42Privately funded prototypes put aircraft companies' capital at riskQ&A
  146. Bru Ships Episode 15: Diplomacy & When it Fails, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    35:19Why arms companies do not act as one coordinated blocNotable Point
  147. Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P2b Introduction to Patreon Video 4
    10:12How a Pacific-first war changes British procurementNotable Point
  148. Bru Ships Episode 2a: Book Reviews/Q&A
    1:47:53Component sourcing and control of Britain's deterrentNotable Point