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- Bruships 266: Naval History Questions Answered Live1:58:51A qualitative naval race needs role-specific comparisonsQ&A
- What happens if France joins the Russo-Japanese war from the beginning?42:17Cruiser and destroyer strength changes the fleet balanceNotable Point
- What happens if France joins the Russo-Japanese war from the beginning?43:33Standard classes and screening make a fleet easier to assembleNotable Point
- What happens if France joins the Russo-Japanese war from the beginning?54:41Testing the Jeune École against guns and destroyer screensNotable Point
- Rise of the Frigate Navies: Why so many nations are going Frigate and why others want them as well!7:14Uncrewed escorts push crewed frigates into cruiser functionsChapter
- Rise of the Frigate Navies: Why so many nations are going Frigate and why others want them as well!11:26Frigate fleets already outnumber destroyer fleetsNotable Point
- Rise of the Frigate Navies: Why so many nations are going Frigate and why others want them as well!18:41Torpedo boats, destroyers and the return of old ship namesNotable Point
- Rise of the Frigate Navies: Why so many nations are going Frigate and why others want them as well!58:25General-purpose FREMMs complicate the single-mission definitionNotable Point
- Rise of the Frigate Navies: Why so many nations are going Frigate and why others want them as well!1:41:59Japan's 13DDX as a possible American design starting pointNotable Point
- Rise of the Frigate Navies: Why so many nations are going Frigate and why others want them as well!1:58:53Frigates, destroyers, corvettes and deployment enduranceChapter
- Bruships 265: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...20:46Light armour and the danger of detonations inside vehiclesNotable Point
- Destroyer Leaders: Where did they come from and why?0:40Why successful destroyers invite larger designsChapter
- Destroyer Leaders: Where did they come from and why?4:09Where a flotilla leader ends and a cruiser beginsChapter
- Destroyer Leaders: Where did they come from and why?33:18Why crew size limits a destroyer's deploymentNotable Point
- Destroyer Leaders: Where did they come from and why?45:14New duties require more than an extra weapon mountNotable Point
- Destroyer Leaders: Where did they come from and why?48:28Ordinary destroyers absorb the leader's workNotable Point
- Japanese Destroyers of WWII: Quantity is a Quality of it's own, it can also be a Decisive one0:00Allied destroyer production and misleading class namesChapter
- Japanese Destroyers of WWII: Quantity is a Quality of it's own, it can also be a Decisive one3:07One Shimakaze could not cover a fleet's missionsNotable Point
- Japanese Destroyers of WWII: Quantity is a Quality of it's own, it can also be a Decisive one6:59Shimakaze's fifteen-torpedo broadsideNotable Point
- Japanese Destroyers of WWII: Quantity is a Quality of it's own, it can also be a Decisive one8:19Shimakaze's construction time and replacement valueNotable Point
- Japanese Destroyers of WWII: Quantity is a Quality of it's own, it can also be a Decisive one8:40Shimakaze's speed, range and combat fuel reserveNotable Point
- Japanese Destroyers of WWII: Quantity is a Quality of it's own, it can also be a Decisive one27:57Akizuki orders and the gap between plans and completionsChapter
- Japanese Destroyers of WWII: Quantity is a Quality of it's own, it can also be a Decisive one31:24Gun comparisons against thin-skinned destroyersNotable Point
- Bruships 264: Naval History Questions Answered Live2:44:07What would a Royal Navy of 42 escorts require?Q&A
- Bruships 264: Naval History Questions Answered Live3:08:46Comparing frigate and destroyer range across naviesNotable Point
- Bruships 264: Naval History Questions Answered Live3:43:08Estimating a US destroyer's helicopter ordnanceQ&A
- China's Type 54 Frigate: Mass Production and Tactical Balance2:37An iterative frigate family inherits destroyer technologyNotable Point
- China's Type 54 Frigate: Mass Production and Tactical Balance6:07VLS capacity and the preference for larger missile magazinesChapter
- China's Type 54 Frigate: Mass Production and Tactical Balance10:36Frigate presence and the signal sent by a destroyerNotable Point
- Soviet Destroyers of the 1930s: Trying to Rebuild/Build a navy in the face of heart led shipyards...0:47Rebuilding a navy after losing its experienced peopleChapter
- Soviet Destroyers of the 1930s: Trying to Rebuild/Build a navy in the face of heart led shipyards...8:01Destroyers as a screen for the Soviet stateNotable Point
- Soviet Destroyers of the 1930s: Trying to Rebuild/Build a navy in the face of heart led shipyards...10:49Arctic endurance versus air defence in enclosed seasNotable Point
- Soviet Destroyers of the 1930s: Trying to Rebuild/Build a navy in the face of heart led shipyards...32:52Project 7: workable machinery and inconsistent fuel capacityChapter
- Nilgiri Class... A Great Indian Frigate2:27Project 17B and preferred VLS capacityNotable Point
- Bruships 263: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:50:38Italian DDX destroyers for task-group screeningQ&A
- What does the Kreigsmarine look like if it goes all diesel powered & Scharnhorst framed?12:15Diesel destroyers for the opening campaignsNotable Point
- What does the Kreigsmarine look like if it goes all diesel powered & Scharnhorst framed?28:28Selecting how many diesel engines drive each shaftNotable Point
- What does the Kreigsmarine look like if it goes all diesel powered & Scharnhorst framed?46:56Diesel destroyer endurance and the Narvik problemChapter
- What does the Kreigsmarine look like if it goes all diesel powered & Scharnhorst framed?50:53A raiding fleet needs escorts with matching reachNotable Point
- Royal Navy Destroyers of WWI...1:35Why British destroyer orders differed from Clemson and WickesChapter
- Royal Navy Destroyers of WWI...3:15Britain's pre-war destroyer depth and wartime adaptationChapter
- Royal Navy Destroyers of WWI...5:33Admiralty M-class capabilities and rapid productionChapter
- Royal Navy Destroyers of WWI...7:40Destroyer screens expand from the Grand Fleet to convoysChapter
- Royal Navy Destroyers of WWI...11:58Talisman design practice and the V and W classNotable Point
- Royal Navy Destroyers of WWI...15:49Shipbuilding throughput cushions destroyer lossesNotable Point
- Royal Navy Destroyers of WWI...38:34Why mines posed such a serious destroyer threatNotable Point
- Royal Navy Destroyers of WWI...42:04S-class ships as late-war strength and a later reserveNotable Point
- Royal Navy Destroyers of WWI...47:21The V and W classes and their shared design inheritanceChapter
- Royal Navy Destroyers of WWI...52:08Air-attack exercises and misleading lessons for destroyersNotable Point
- Royal Navy Destroyers of WWI...54:47Thornycroft variants and the extra speedNotable Point
- Bruships 262: Naval History Questions Answered Live2:17:22Modernised 4.7-inch and 155 mm destroyer gunsQ&A
- Bruships 262: Naval History Questions Answered Live3:38:17A new Italian destroyer's Mediterranean roleQ&A
- What happens to the Navys if the Washington Treaty is held off till 1927?54:25Destroyer authorisation is separate from fundingNotable Point
- What happens to the Navys if the Washington Treaty is held off till 1927?1:31:55A possible 2,500- to 3,000-ton destroyerNotable Point
- USN Destroyers Fletcher to Gearings14:25Patrol and screening duties require room for systems and crewsNotable Point
- USN Destroyers Fletcher to Gearings17:16Finding modern equivalents for the numerous general-purpose destroyerNotable Point
- USN Destroyers Fletcher to Gearings19:03Destroyer numbers make layered fleet screens possibleChapter
- USN Destroyers Fletcher to Gearings23:57Battle damage increases the ships needed to maintain a forward forceChapter
- The "M" Class destroyers of WWI: The Grand Fleet's Workhorses...0:30The scale of M-class destroyer constructionChapter
- Bruships 261: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...10:59Asahi destroyers, European frigates and Japan's mixed fleetQ&A
- Bruships 261: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...25:44Italian DDX range and Mediterranean operationsQ&A
- Bruships 261: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...31:44Why modern destroyers need room for computers and powerNotable Point
- Bruships 261: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:18:53Mechanical and manual torpedo reloads in battleQ&A
- Bruships 261: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:11:16A useful destroyer range for Pacific operationsQ&A
- Bruships 260: Naval History Questions Answered Live55:15Thirty advanced destroyers for the Royal Navy in 1939Q&A
- Bruships 260: Naval History Questions Answered Live3:30:04A Cadorna-sized destroyer with multiple 5.5-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships 260: Naval History Questions Answered Live3:43:48Frigates, destroyers and aircraft-style role designationsQ&A
- Marine Nationale go all Free French in June 1940...12:07French escorts and submarines across several seasChapter
- What the unbuilt destroyers of the Regia Marina tell us about WWII?2:11What the unbuilt successor reveals about Italian prioritiesChapter
- What the unbuilt destroyers of the Regia Marina tell us about WWII?5:05A larger hull with a multi-role weapons loadChapter
- What the unbuilt destroyers of the Regia Marina tell us about WWII?7:59From screening lance to convoy shieldChapter
- What the unbuilt destroyers of the Regia Marina tell us about WWII?14:20Cruiser tonnage versus destroyer numbersNotable Point
- What the unbuilt destroyers of the Regia Marina tell us about WWII?16:08Designing for contested skies and close destroyer combatChapter
- What the unbuilt destroyers of the Regia Marina tell us about WWII?29:17Convergent Italian destroyer developmentNotable Point
- What the unbuilt destroyers of the Regia Marina tell us about WWII?34:33Why wartime destroyers weighted fire forwardNotable Point
- What the unbuilt destroyers of the Regia Marina tell us about WWII?42:51Distributed shipyards and a design that came too lateChapter
- Air Defence At Sea: From Air Ships in 1906, to drones in 2026 and everything in between...3:23:12Frigate and destroyer expectations in Type 45 planningNotable Point
- Air Defence At Sea: From Air Ships in 1906, to drones in 2026 and everything in between...3:40:39Destroyer designs and eroding technological superiorityNotable Point
- Air Defence At Sea: From Air Ships in 1906, to drones in 2026 and everything in between...4:25:12Larger destroyers and sustained engagementsQ&A
- Operation Sea Lion: How bad could it have gone?38:07How Britain could anticipate the tidal windowNotable Point
- Operation Sea Lion: How bad could it have gone?45:36Sea Lion as a planning exerciseNotable Point
- Operation Sea Lion: How bad could it have gone?1:01:40A failed invasion with costs for both sidesNotable Point
- 14 Acts and 7 Classes - the story of the USN Interwar Destroyers0:00How the World War I destroyer surplus hid an aging forceChapter
- 14 Acts and 7 Classes - the story of the USN Interwar Destroyers35:56The 1922 appropriation built naval aviation while destroyer work stoppedChapter
- 14 Acts and 7 Classes - the story of the USN Interwar Destroyers1:01:30Why a destroyer's cruising range overstates its combat enduranceNotable Point
- 14 Acts and 7 Classes - the story of the USN Interwar Destroyers1:56:01The Vinson-Trammell Act finally authorized treaty-strength replacementChapter
- 14 Acts and 7 Classes - the story of the USN Interwar Destroyers2:03:42Benson made machinery layout a form of protectionChapter
- 14 Acts and 7 Classes - the story of the USN Interwar Destroyers2:23:53The Naval Act of 1938 authorized more than industry could deliver quicklyChapter
- Bruships 257: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:17:54How Infante Juan might have fared in Royal Navy serviceQ&A
- Bruships 257: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:23:05A 1936 Tribal-class destroyer at JutlandQ&A
- America goes Big Cruiser in the 1930s: Ending the Naval Treaties for the Alaska Class52:26Earlier destroyer, aircraft, and factory ordersChapter
- Bruships 256: Naval History Questions Answered Live1:09:10A Canadian large destroyer to complement the River classQ&A
- Bruships 256: Naval History Questions Answered Live1:21:03Why German and Japanese smaller guns lacked AP shellsQ&A
- Bruships 256: Naval History Questions Answered Live3:49:59Navies often adopt what an opponent used against themQ&A
- What happens if WWII took place as scheduled... after 1942? (Patreon)1:01:01The US Navy without an early Two-Ocean Navy ActChapter
- What happens if WWII took place as scheduled... after 1942? (Patreon)2:17:24Would thirty destroyers support a much larger German fleet?Q&A
- What happens if WWII took place as scheduled... after 1942? (Patreon)4:19:43More Tribals trade torpedoes for gun powerQ&A
- What happens if WWII took place as scheduled... after 1942? (Patreon)4:35:54What would Polish submarines and destroyers contribute?Q&A
- Why France bought Japanese Destroyers in WWI?0:00Why France bought destroyers from JapanChapter
- Why France bought Japanese Destroyers in WWI?4:50Why destroyers grew beyond torpedo boatsNotable Point
- Why France bought Japanese Destroyers in WWI?5:46France's prewar destroyers and the unfinished third shipChapter
- Why France bought Japanese Destroyers in WWI?7:28The nine M89 destroyers France could not buildNotable Point
- Why France bought Japanese Destroyers in WWI?12:05From Argentina's Mendoza class to France's Aventurier classNotable Point
- Why France bought Japanese Destroyers in WWI?19:37Japan's rapid wartime destroyer constructionChapter
- Why France bought Japanese Destroyers in WWI?21:36Type 41 guns and the Japanese destroyers' performanceNotable Point
- Why France bought Japanese Destroyers in WWI?23:04The limits of importing an allied destroyer designNotable Point
- Why France bought Japanese Destroyers in WWI?25:04How shipbuilding capacity kept destroyer development movingNotable Point
- Why France bought Japanese Destroyers in WWI?26:31An unfinished destroyer as a measure of industrial strainChapter
- Why France bought Japanese Destroyers in WWI?31:42Why did France order only 12 Japanese destroyers?Notable Point
- Building for Research & Development: The Royal Navy's Pre-WWI Destroyer Programs...0:24Torpedo boat destroyers as fleet screensChapter
- Building for Research & Development: The Royal Navy's Pre-WWI Destroyer Programs...4:12The first six destroyers and the later A-class labelNotable Point
- Building for Research & Development: The Royal Navy's Pre-WWI Destroyer Programs...5:29Daring, Ferret and Havoc: different lives of naval namesNotable Point
- Building for Research & Development: The Royal Navy's Pre-WWI Destroyer Programs...12:17The A-class as industrial researchChapter
- Building for Research & Development: The Royal Navy's Pre-WWI Destroyer Programs...13:50A-class orders spread destroyer building across BritainNotable Point
- Building for Research & Development: The Royal Navy's Pre-WWI Destroyer Programs...17:36Exercises helped define what the new destroyers should doNotable Point
- Building for Research & Development: The Royal Navy's Pre-WWI Destroyer Programs...19:16B-class destroyers: raising the requirement to 30 knotsChapter
- Building for Research & Development: The Royal Navy's Pre-WWI Destroyer Programs...21:51Albacore: altered speed figures and survival after a mineNotable Point
- Building for Research & Development: The Royal Navy's Pre-WWI Destroyer Programs...24:35C-class 30-knotters and the case for earlier turbine adoptionNotable Point
- Building for Research & Development: The Royal Navy's Pre-WWI Destroyer Programs...27:18HMS Fairy rams UC-75 during convoy escortNotable Point
- Building for Research & Development: The Royal Navy's Pre-WWI Destroyer Programs...28:46Private yards carried early destroyer productionChapter
- Building for Research & Development: The Royal Navy's Pre-WWI Destroyer Programs...29:36D-class hull shaping and real speedNotable Point
- Building for Research & Development: The Royal Navy's Pre-WWI Destroyer Programs...32:21River-class seakeeping, range and the weight of fuelNotable Point
- Building for Research & Development: The Royal Navy's Pre-WWI Destroyer Programs...33:38River-class turbine trials and hull efficiencyNotable Point
- Building for Research & Development: The Royal Navy's Pre-WWI Destroyer Programs...36:48The Cricket class and coastal torpedo-boat defenceNotable Point
- Building for Research & Development: The Royal Navy's Pre-WWI Destroyer Programs...38:30Tribal-class speed, oil, and turbine trialsChapter
- Building for Research & Development: The Royal Navy's Pre-WWI Destroyer Programs...40:06Amazon's fuel consumption and the Tribals' structural strengthNotable Point
- Building for Research & Development: The Royal Navy's Pre-WWI Destroyer Programs...42:03Why fleet screens needed a speed marginNotable Point
- Building for Research & Development: The Royal Navy's Pre-WWI Destroyer Programs...47:29HMS Swift, an expensive destroyer-leader experimentChapter
- Building for Research & Development: The Royal Navy's Pre-WWI Destroyer Programs...50:52HMS Swift and HMS Broke in the Dover StraitNotable Point
- Building for Research & Development: The Royal Navy's Pre-WWI Destroyer Programs...52:27Beagle-class economy and a firmer specificationChapter
- Building for Research & Development: The Royal Navy's Pre-WWI Destroyer Programs...59:10Acorn-class oil firing within a common designChapter
- Building for Research & Development: The Royal Navy's Pre-WWI Destroyer Programs...1:02:38White-Forster boilers: tube entries, seals and pressureNotable Point
- Building for Research & Development: The Royal Navy's Pre-WWI Destroyer Programs...1:06:00Acheron-class competition and Yarrow specialsChapter
- Building for Research & Development: The Royal Navy's Pre-WWI Destroyer Programs...1:09:51Acasta-class turbine and framing experimentsChapter
- Building for Research & Development: The Royal Navy's Pre-WWI Destroyer Programs...1:15:07How destroyer turbine trials could benefit larger warshipsNotable Point
- Building for Research & Development: The Royal Navy's Pre-WWI Destroyer Programs...1:15:57Laforey-class armament, geared turbines and new buildersChapter
- Building for Research & Development: The Royal Navy's Pre-WWI Destroyer Programs...1:19:39Prewar experiments fed the M-class production programmesNotable Point
- Bruships 255: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:47:15Why missile warships stop short of maximum stealthQ&A
- Bruships 255: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:52:55Why displacement alone cannot define a destroyerNotable Point
- No Pearl Harbor: Japan Enters WWII without attacking America18:38Why Allied submarines cannot multiply in three monthsNotable Point
- ShinMaywa US-2: Seaplane for the Future40:45France's First World War destroyer purchases from JapanNotable Point
- What happens if instead of Gallipoli, Fisher gets Churchill to go for the Baltic? (Patreon)23:11How the dreadnought race weakened Germany's supporting fleetNotable Point
- What happens if instead of Gallipoli, Fisher gets Churchill to go for the Baltic? (Patreon)1:10:54Assembling roughly 300 warships for a limited Baltic operationChapter
- What happens if instead of Gallipoli, Fisher gets Churchill to go for the Baltic? (Patreon)1:27:34A do-or-die battle outside Germany's home portsChapter
- What happens if instead of Gallipoli, Fisher gets Churchill to go for the Baltic? (Patreon)1:49:59Why either outcome wrecks both battle fleetsChapter
- Bruships 254: Naval History Questions Answered Live46:31Why Star Destroyers can confuse real warship terminologyNotable Point
- Bruships 254: Naval History Questions Answered Live2:21:41How underinvestment created Canada's replacement bow waveQ&A
- What happens if the French navy goes all Free French in 1940?18:33The scale of the French fleet in 1939Notable Point
- Balancing the Humors: How are modern nations balancing diplomacy and war in the ships they build?1:27:49Why VLS counts need like-for-like ship comparisonsQ&A
- Balancing the Humors: How are modern nations balancing diplomacy and war in the ships they build?1:39:16The US Navy's layered diplomacy problemChapter
- Why Can't Modern Russia Build Destroyers?2:23An ageing destroyer force and its refit burdenChapter
- Bruships 253: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:52:22A Canadian destroyer built around Burke systemsQ&A
- Bruships 253: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:26:24HMAS Tattoo and Australia's flexible ship-naming traditionsQ&A
- Nazi Destroyers of WWII: Failing to Learn, Failing to Build, Failing to Deliver...0:00Why Germany needed a credible destroyer forceChapter
- Nazi Destroyers of WWII: Failing to Learn, Failing to Build, Failing to Deliver...2:41Narvik left the Kriegsmarine without enough destroyersChapter
- Nazi Destroyers of WWII: Failing to Learn, Failing to Build, Failing to Deliver...5:03Why bigger guns could handicap a destroyerNotable Point
- Nazi Destroyers of WWII: Failing to Learn, Failing to Build, Failing to Deliver...7:23The Narvik fighting exposed the destroyer mismatchNotable Point
- Nazi Destroyers of WWII: Failing to Learn, Failing to Build, Failing to Deliver...9:03The Type 1936A response repeated earlier choicesChapter
- Nazi Destroyers of WWII: Failing to Learn, Failing to Build, Failing to Deliver...10:56Removing destroyer names carried a morale costNotable Point
- Nazi Destroyers of WWII: Failing to Learn, Failing to Build, Failing to Deliver...12:04Type 1936B: a better destroyer that arrived in too few numbersChapter
- Nazi Destroyers of WWII: Failing to Learn, Failing to Build, Failing to Deliver...14:18Z35 and Z36 were lost in a German mine barrageNotable Point
- Nazi Destroyers of WWII: Failing to Learn, Failing to Build, Failing to Deliver...16:40Type 1936C showed how late German destroyer recovery had becomeNotable Point
- Nazi Destroyers of WWII: Failing to Learn, Failing to Build, Failing to Deliver...20:10Forward firepower matters for an aggressive destroyerNotable Point
- Nazi Destroyers of WWII: Failing to Learn, Failing to Build, Failing to Deliver...24:32The Type 1942 showed a more useful destroyer directionChapter
- Nazi Destroyers of WWII: Failing to Learn, Failing to Build, Failing to Deliver...30:57Destroyers could support coastal convoys and regional operationsNotable Point
- Nazi Destroyers of WWII: Failing to Learn, Failing to Build, Failing to Deliver...35:01Plan Z escorts were a missed small-cruiser opportunityChapter
- Nazi Destroyers of WWII: Failing to Learn, Failing to Build, Failing to Deliver...41:13The 1938 projects pursued refinement instead of availabilityNotable Point
- Nazi Destroyers of WWII: Failing to Learn, Failing to Build, Failing to Deliver...46:54The 1945 project finally reflected the destroyer lessonsChapter
- Nazi Destroyers of WWII: Failing to Learn, Failing to Build, Failing to Deliver...51:22A slightly larger hull could have served the fighting requirementNotable Point
- Nazi Destroyers of WWII: Failing to Learn, Failing to Build, Failing to Deliver...53:30Why a submarine-only threat was easier to counterNotable Point
- Nazi Destroyers of WWII: Failing to Learn, Failing to Build, Failing to Deliver...57:34Would earlier destroyer recovery have changed German options?Notable Point
- Bruships 252: Naval History Questions Answered Live...take 22:36Why Cape Matapan makes a compelling battle storyChapter
- Bruships 252: Naval History Questions Answered Live...take 26:44Taffy 3's escorts stand against a heavier forceNotable Point
- Bruships 252: Naval History Questions Answered Live...take 218:36Why German shore guns struggled against the D-Day bombardment fleetQ&A
- Bruships 252: Naval History Questions Answered Live...take 212:02What the 1944 G-class destroyers were forQ&A
- Bruships 252: Naval History Questions Answered Live...take 21:03:25The River class as a general-purpose destroyerQ&A
- Bruships 252: Naval History Questions Answered Live...take 21:35:46Why large recoilless guns would not replace destroyer torpedoesQ&A
- Bruships 252: Naval History Questions Answered Live...take 22:47:10Could Britain have built more Tribal-class destroyers?Q&A
- Bruships 252: Naval History Questions Answered Live...take 23:26:11Why Narvik is a favourite naval battleQ&A
- Task Force Doctrine; How it evolved from WWI to WWII in the big three navys - IJN, RN & USN(Patreon)20:02Harwich Force as a First World War task forceChapter
- Task Force Doctrine; How it evolved from WWI to WWII in the big three navys - IJN, RN & USN(Patreon)1:54:49Japanese task forces served an attrition strategyChapter
- Claiming Mare Nostrum; Italian Destroyer Design & Procurment of the 1920s & 30s0:00Italian destroyer design as a changing compromiseNotable Point
- Claiming Mare Nostrum; Italian Destroyer Design & Procurment of the 1920s & 30s3:26Palestro, Curtatone, and Generali in postwar serviceChapter
- Claiming Mare Nostrum; Italian Destroyer Design & Procurment of the 1920s & 30s6:41Modern destroyer labels, roles, and relative capabilityNotable Point
- Claiming Mare Nostrum; Italian Destroyer Design & Procurment of the 1920s & 30s9:52Leone-class scout cruisers as large destroyersChapter
- Claiming Mare Nostrum; Italian Destroyer Design & Procurment of the 1920s & 30s15:51Sella, Sauro, and Turbine under fiscal pressureChapter
- Claiming Mare Nostrum; Italian Destroyer Design & Procurment of the 1920s & 30s20:58French battleships and Italian torpedo prioritiesNotable Point
- Claiming Mare Nostrum; Italian Destroyer Design & Procurment of the 1920s & 30s21:58Mine warfare and control of Mediterranean chokepointsNotable Point
- Claiming Mare Nostrum; Italian Destroyer Design & Procurment of the 1920s & 30s24:21Gun arcs and the torpedo-boat destroyer problemNotable Point
- Claiming Mare Nostrum; Italian Destroyer Design & Procurment of the 1920s & 30s25:11First World War lessons and destroyer doctrineNotable Point
- Claiming Mare Nostrum; Italian Destroyer Design & Procurment of the 1920s & 30s29:17Navigatori gunnery and machinery survivabilityNotable Point
- Claiming Mare Nostrum; Italian Destroyer Design & Procurment of the 1920s & 30s32:05Navigatori-class speed claims and seakeepingChapter
- Claiming Mare Nostrum; Italian Destroyer Design & Procurment of the 1920s & 30s37:49Adriatic experience and Mediterranean destroyer doctrineNotable Point
- Claiming Mare Nostrum; Italian Destroyer Design & Procurment of the 1920s & 30s44:31Maestrale and Oriani: larger hulls with familiar armamentChapter
- Claiming Mare Nostrum; Italian Destroyer Design & Procurment of the 1920s & 30s48:25I-class and Tribal armament compared with Italian destroyersNotable Point
- Claiming Mare Nostrum; Italian Destroyer Design & Procurment of the 1920s & 30s50:40Hull form and the missing Italian destroyer firepowerNotable Point
- Claiming Mare Nostrum; Italian Destroyer Design & Procurment of the 1920s & 30s55:50Force structure when mass cannot replace qualityNotable Point
- Claiming Mare Nostrum; Italian Destroyer Design & Procurment of the 1920s & 30s56:30Spica and the persistence of torpedo-boat rolesNotable Point
- Claiming Mare Nostrum; Italian Destroyer Design & Procurment of the 1920s & 30s59:17Destroyer quality and procurement affordabilityNotable Point
- Claiming Mare Nostrum; Italian Destroyer Design & Procurment of the 1920s & 30s1:00:00Soldati's gun battery and reported accuracy problemsChapter
- Claiming Mare Nostrum; Italian Destroyer Design & Procurment of the 1920s & 30s1:01:07Destroyer gun houses and weather protectionNotable Point
- Claiming Mare Nostrum; Italian Destroyer Design & Procurment of the 1920s & 30s1:03:44Soldati production, attrition, and competing constructionChapter
- Claiming Mare Nostrum; Italian Destroyer Design & Procurment of the 1920s & 30s1:07:08Soldati machinery derating and service speedNotable Point
- Claiming Mare Nostrum; Italian Destroyer Design & Procurment of the 1920s & 30s1:08:39Why Italian ships remained torpedo-boat destroyersNotable Point
- Claiming Mare Nostrum; Italian Destroyer Design & Procurment of the 1920s & 30s1:11:55A Leone-class counterfactual for Italian destroyer gunneryQ&A
- Bruships 251: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:12:23Scaling Arrowhead for a 96-cell missile destroyerQ&A
- Bruships 251: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:41:31Azur Lane ship choices and the case for HMS CavalierQ&A
- Bruships 250: Naval History Questions Answered Live...17:36Trump-class naming and fleet requirements across administrationsQ&A
- Bruships 250: Naval History Questions Answered Live...48:52Operating and loading a quintuple torpedo launcherQ&A
- Bruships 250: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:00:28Larger torpedoes before a delayed First World WarQ&A
- Bruships 250: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:29:53Which preliminary design became the Tribal class?Q&A
- Building upon experience from a position of strength; Imperial Japan's Destroyers in WWI0:01Wartime service reshapes Japanese destroyer designChapter
- Building upon experience from a position of strength; Imperial Japan's Destroyers in WWI2:13The Kaba class and France's Japanese-built destroyersChapter
- Building upon experience from a position of strength; Imperial Japan's Destroyers in WWI3:40Kaba combines reciprocating machinery with a 30-knot hullNotable Point
- Building upon experience from a position of strength; Imperial Japan's Destroyers in WWI18:43British Acorn-class destroyers ease Japan's wartime shortageNotable Point
- Building upon experience from a position of strength; Imperial Japan's Destroyers in WWI21:01Kawakaze pushes Japanese torpedo firepower upwardChapter
- Bruships 249: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...25:00Spain's Oquendo-class destroyers and delayed constructionQ&A
- Bruships 249: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...56:43Future destroyers, gun mixes, and LUSVsQ&A
- Bruships 249: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:11:48A Zumwalt-hull route to the US Navy's DDG(X)Q&A
- Bruships 249: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:38:51Belgian and Dutch frigate-program tradeoffsQ&A
- Bruships 249: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:31:25How battlecruisers and smaller warships divide naval workNotable Point
- Bruships 249: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:43:31What would bring twin-gun mounts back to destroyersQ&A
- Bruships 249: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:48:18Iroquois-class equivalents and the value of a larger fleetQ&A
- Bruships 249: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:59:33Ideal Royal Navy composition with proper fundingQ&A
- Bruships 249: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:14:45Why large task-group leaders may returnQ&A
- Bruships 249: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:16:01Why warship labels reveal less than roles and design compromisesNotable Point
- Bruships 249: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:24:08The Philippine Navy's founding fleet and future needsQ&A
- Ideal Destroyers: Screening Fleets & National Interests from 1890 to Today0:07Why screening defines the destroyerChapter
- Ideal Destroyers: Screening Fleets & National Interests from 1890 to Today1:25Token general-purpose capability on specialist destroyersNotable Point
- Ideal Destroyers: Screening Fleets & National Interests from 1890 to Today3:02HMS Greyhound and the first destroyer screenNotable Point
- Ideal Destroyers: Screening Fleets & National Interests from 1890 to Today5:25Destroyer evolution offered battlecruiser designers a warningNotable Point
- Ideal Destroyers: Screening Fleets & National Interests from 1890 to Today7:03Why destroyers grew into seagoing generalistsNotable Point
- Ideal Destroyers: Screening Fleets & National Interests from 1890 to Today8:33Why modern destroyers need cruiser-sized hullsNotable Point
- Ideal Destroyers: Screening Fleets & National Interests from 1890 to Today12:36Funnels become shorthand for destroyer powerNotable Point
- Ideal Destroyers: Screening Fleets & National Interests from 1890 to Today13:32National priorities shape early destroyer designNotable Point
- Ideal Destroyers: Screening Fleets & National Interests from 1890 to Today18:52World War I destroyers need speed for the battle lineNotable Point
- Ideal Destroyers: Screening Fleets & National Interests from 1890 to Today20:27World War I gives destroyers several kinds of escort experienceNotable Point
- Ideal Destroyers: Screening Fleets & National Interests from 1890 to Today21:42Interwar destroyer mass lets navies experimentChapter
- Ideal Destroyers: Screening Fleets & National Interests from 1890 to Today23:03Destroyer command builds future fleet leadersNotable Point
- Ideal Destroyers: Screening Fleets & National Interests from 1890 to Today26:27Information overload and the judgment learned in destroyersNotable Point
- Ideal Destroyers: Screening Fleets & National Interests from 1890 to Today29:20Exercise bias understates destroyer air defenceNotable Point
- Ideal Destroyers: Screening Fleets & National Interests from 1890 to Today33:28Why destroyer guns shield and torpedoes strikeNotable Point
- Ideal Destroyers: Screening Fleets & National Interests from 1890 to Today36:46Destroyer presence and winning the peaceNotable Point
- Ideal Destroyers: Screening Fleets & National Interests from 1890 to Today43:55World War II demands stable destroyer gun platformsNotable Point
- Ideal Destroyers: Screening Fleets & National Interests from 1890 to Today46:02Independent destroyer forces before World War IINotable Point
- Ideal Destroyers: Screening Fleets & National Interests from 1890 to Today47:07DesRon 21 shows why destroyer screens need autonomyNotable Point
- Ideal Destroyers: Screening Fleets & National Interests from 1890 to Today48:54Postwar destroyers combine dual-purpose guns and ASW weaponsNotable Point
- Ideal Destroyers: Screening Fleets & National Interests from 1890 to Today50:30Destroyer gunfire on the Belgian coast and the rewards for fast crewsNotable Point
- Ideal Destroyers: Screening Fleets & National Interests from 1890 to Today52:27Daring-class presence makes deterrence visibleNotable Point
- Ideal Destroyers: Screening Fleets & National Interests from 1890 to Today54:39Charles F. Adams destroyers balance the Cold War screenChapter
- Ideal Destroyers: Screening Fleets & National Interests from 1890 to Today56:18Why a bulkhead can decide who survives a missile hitNotable Point
- Ideal Destroyers: Screening Fleets & National Interests from 1890 to Today1:00:27Spruance and Burke divide the screening missionNotable Point
- Ideal Destroyers: Screening Fleets & National Interests from 1890 to Today1:03:53Nuclear assumptions distort Cold War force planningNotable Point
- Ideal Destroyers: Screening Fleets & National Interests from 1890 to Today1:06:49First-flight Burkes screen the carrier groupNotable Point
- Ideal Destroyers: Screening Fleets & National Interests from 1890 to Today1:08:32Naval control does not solve merchant war-risk insuranceNotable Point
- Ideal Destroyers: Screening Fleets & National Interests from 1890 to Today1:10:23Burke-class endurance and VLS depthNotable Point
- Ideal Destroyers: Screening Fleets & National Interests from 1890 to Today1:13:39Post-Cold War destroyer progress stallsNotable Point
- Ideal Destroyers: Screening Fleets & National Interests from 1890 to Today1:18:38Asymmetric-war habits meet renewed peer threatsNotable Point
- Ideal Destroyers: Screening Fleets & National Interests from 1890 to Today1:21:01Maya-class firepower and stealth tradeoffsChapter
- Ideal Destroyers: Screening Fleets & National Interests from 1890 to Today1:23:08How could destroyers operate with uncrewed escorts?Q&A
- Ideal Destroyers: Screening Fleets & National Interests from 1890 to Today1:24:31Uncrewed escorts are not cheap expendable missile boxesNotable Point
- Durand de la Penne Class: The Destroyer class which showed the Oto Melara 76mm had came of age0:00Luigi Durand de la Penne and Italy's Cold War destroyersChapter
- Durand de la Penne Class: The Destroyer class which showed the Oto Melara 76mm had came of age1:28A compact destroyer with layered weapons and sensorsChapter
- Durand de la Penne Class: The Destroyer class which showed the Oto Melara 76mm had came of age5:21Three decades as Italy's leading air-defence destroyersNotable Point
- Durand de la Penne Class: The Destroyer class which showed the Oto Melara 76mm had came of age6:40Task-group escort design prioritizes usable firepowerNotable Point
- Durand de la Penne Class: The Destroyer class which showed the Oto Melara 76mm had came of age9:50A destroyer equipped to take command of the task groupNotable Point
- Durand de la Penne Class: The Destroyer class which showed the Oto Melara 76mm had came of age11:03Impavido brings guided missiles to Italy's destroyersChapter
- Durand de la Penne Class: The Destroyer class which showed the Oto Melara 76mm had came of age13:53Audace gains room for modernizationChapter
- Durand de la Penne Class: The Destroyer class which showed the Oto Melara 76mm had came of age16:14A larger hull fixes the 76 mm coverage problemNotable Point
- Durand de la Penne Class: The Destroyer class which showed the Oto Melara 76mm had came of age18:09Visible guns and peacetime deterrenceNotable Point
- Durand de la Penne Class: The Destroyer class which showed the Oto Melara 76mm had came of age21:13Layered weapons for air, surface, and undersea threatsChapter
- Durand de la Penne Class: The Destroyer class which showed the Oto Melara 76mm had came of age22:42A weapons layout designed to work in diplomacyNotable Point
- Durand de la Penne Class: The Destroyer class which showed the Oto Melara 76mm had came of age31:38Francesco Mimbelli's modernization and multinational missionsChapter
- Durand de la Penne Class: The Destroyer class which showed the Oto Melara 76mm had came of age33:25Why a warship's diplomatic presence is hard to reduce to a formulaNotable Point
- Durand de la Penne Class: The Destroyer class which showed the Oto Melara 76mm had came of age35:36An older air-defence destroyer represents the Italian stateNotable Point
- Durand de la Penne Class: The Destroyer class which showed the Oto Melara 76mm had came of age38:51Carrier escort work with Garibaldi and allied fleetsChapter
- Durand de la Penne Class: The Destroyer class which showed the Oto Melara 76mm had came of age41:56Continuous shipbuilding lets Italy adapt through procurementNotable Point
- The Defence Investment Plan is Out... Let's Talk it through, Good, Bad & What the Frigate?48:33An ideal Royal Navy sketch built around escort groupsQ&A
- The Defence Investment Plan is Out... Let's Talk it through, Good, Bad & What the Frigate?52:38CCV, Type 32, and Type 83 are compared as programme signalsQ&A
- The Defence Investment Plan is Out... Let's Talk it through, Good, Bad & What the Frigate?1:03:31Munitions spending and Type 45 air-defence upgrades are weighedChapter
- The Defence Investment Plan is Out... Let's Talk it through, Good, Bad & What the Frigate?2:55:08Cutting Type 45 numbers raised unit and readiness costsQ&A
- The Defence Investment Plan is Out... Let's Talk it through, Good, Bad & What the Frigate?3:33:43Canada's Type 26 is called a destroyer because of role and traditionQ&A
- The USN Pre-WWI Destroyers; Never Enough Ordered0:00Mahan's case for naval preparednessChapter
- The USN Pre-WWI Destroyers; Never Enough Ordered4:04Why Farragut could not replace a destroyerNotable Point
- The USN Pre-WWI Destroyers; Never Enough Ordered6:52Bainbridge-class variations complicate the first mass orderChapter
- The USN Pre-WWI Destroyers; Never Enough Ordered9:23Nineteen battleships outpace sixteen early destroyersNotable Point
- The USN Pre-WWI Destroyers; Never Enough Ordered13:56Four large torpedo boats leave the battle line top-heavyNotable Point
- The USN Pre-WWI Destroyers; Never Enough Ordered15:30The six-year gap ends with five Smith-class destroyersNotable Point
- The USN Pre-WWI Destroyers; Never Enough Ordered18:40Five Smiths cannot screen a battle divisionNotable Point
- The USN Pre-WWI Destroyers; Never Enough Ordered24:02From Jeune Ecole shortcuts to flotilla defenceNotable Point
- The USN Pre-WWI Destroyers; Never Enough Ordered26:35Fleet ratios expose the Paulding order's limitsNotable Point
- The USN Pre-WWI Destroyers; Never Enough Ordered29:58Paulding design strengths cannot overcome escort scarcityChapter
- The USN Pre-WWI Destroyers; Never Enough Ordered33:43Naval acts demand speed inside a fixed destroyer cost capNotable Point
- The USN Pre-WWI Destroyers; Never Enough Ordered34:47Cassin begins the thousand-tonner lineNotable Point
- The USN Pre-WWI Destroyers; Never Enough Ordered36:56Thousand-tonners lead from four-ship batches to 111 WickesChapter
- The USN Pre-WWI Destroyers; Never Enough Ordered38:38Why two ships struggle to replace the rule of threeNotable Point
- The USN Pre-WWI Destroyers; Never Enough Ordered39:36Destroyers double as scouts when cruisers are scarceNotable Point
- The USN Pre-WWI Destroyers; Never Enough Ordered40:50Aylwin refinements improve an oil-fired gun platformNotable Point
- The USN Pre-WWI Destroyers; Never Enough Ordered42:03O'Brien-class war service meets a six-ship limitChapter
- The USN Pre-WWI Destroyers; Never Enough Ordered43:30Capital-ship status outpaces the supporting fleetChapter
- The USN Pre-WWI Destroyers; Never Enough Ordered45:15Destroyer quality cannot erase a four-to-one gapNotable Point
- The USN Pre-WWI Destroyers; Never Enough Ordered46:25Cork service and the wider ocean-coverage gapNotable Point
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:23:08What cancelling Type 83 would mean for destroyer developmentQ&A
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:23:58A modern destroyer sent back to the Korean WarQ&A
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:32:25Why science-fiction destroyers can dwarf cruisersQ&A
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:41:03The Type 83 as an air-defence and ASW hybridQ&A
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:31:01Full-specification Type 82 destroyers in the Falklands WarQ&A
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:31:48Why the Type 43 destroyer was studied with HarriersQ&A
- Resurgent Japan, the "Destroyer Navy" of the 21st Century2:37Asagiri and Abukuma show how smaller escorts build fleet massChapter
- Resurgent Japan, the "Destroyer Navy" of the 21st Century5:10Japan's escort terminology explains its maritime screening strategyChapter
- Resurgent Japan, the "Destroyer Navy" of the 21st Century7:00Kongo combines long-range air defence with fleet command facilitiesNotable Point
- Resurgent Japan, the "Destroyer Navy" of the 21st Century10:37Murasame supplies helicopters and general-purpose escort strengthChapter
- Resurgent Japan, the "Destroyer Navy" of the 21st Century14:58Takanami increases missile capacity with a common Mark 41 launcherChapter
- Resurgent Japan, the "Destroyer Navy" of the 21st Century18:27Atago and the ship numbers needed for continuous screeningNotable Point
- Resurgent Japan, the "Destroyer Navy" of the 21st Century21:31High-end destroyers turn industrial strength into visible deterrenceNotable Point
- Resurgent Japan, the "Destroyer Navy" of the 21st Century28:37Hyuga generates ASW helicopter sortiesChapter
- Resurgent Japan, the "Destroyer Navy" of the 21st Century43:04Akizuki combines electronic warfare with a balanced escort fitChapter
- Resurgent Japan, the "Destroyer Navy" of the 21st Century58:57Asahi pairs quiet electric cruising with a balanced ASW fitChapter
- Resurgent Japan, the "Destroyer Navy" of the 21st Century1:01:3413DDX could combine Asahi and Mogami ideas for a wider marketNotable Point
- Resurgent Japan, the "Destroyer Navy" of the 21st Century1:02:27Maya refines Japan's Aegis destroyers but leaves little maintenance marginChapter
- Resurgent Japan, the "Destroyer Navy" of the 21st Century1:05:29Mogami adds wartime escort mass and deeper VLS magazinesChapter
- Bruships 247: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:01:21Arromanches and Le Intrepide in Azur Lane's French fleetQ&A
- Bruships 247: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:52:32Destroyer captains inherited the frigate-captain traditionQ&A
- Britain's Cold War Destroyers: Logically Building for the War they didn't Fight...0:20Design studies versus ships the Royal Navy actually builtNotable Point
- Britain's Cold War Destroyers: Logically Building for the War they didn't Fight...4:30The Cold War starts with a destroyer-heavy Royal NavyChapter
- Britain's Cold War Destroyers: Logically Building for the War they didn't Fight...5:28Destroyer flotillas gave future admirals early command experienceNotable Point
- Britain's Cold War Destroyers: Logically Building for the War they didn't Fight...13:43Daring class destroyers set a high postwar benchmarkChapter
- Britain's Cold War Destroyers: Logically Building for the War they didn't Fight...19:13Sea Slug shows how missile systems changed destroyer designNotable Point
- Britain's Cold War Destroyers: Logically Building for the War they didn't Fight...27:33County class destroyers kept presence and air defence togetherChapter
- Britain's Cold War Destroyers: Logically Building for the War they didn't Fight...29:30Sea Slug's Falklands use extended beyond air defenceNotable Point
- Britain's Cold War Destroyers: Logically Building for the War they didn't Fight...49:16Type 82 was conceived as a fleet leader and presence shipChapter
- Britain's Cold War Destroyers: Logically Building for the War they didn't Fight...51:26Two destroyer tiers and a probable division among frigatesNotable Point
- Britain's Cold War Destroyers: Logically Building for the War they didn't Fight...1:06:21Type 42 added Sea Dart firepower to a larger task groupChapter
- Britain's Cold War Destroyers: Logically Building for the War they didn't Fight...1:20:12What could a fleet built around Type 82 and CVA-01 have changed?Notable Point
- The Defence Investment Plan: A Live Review if it's been published, A Chat of What to Look For if not1:06:56ASW frigates as command ships for uncrewed screensQ&A
- The Defence Investment Plan: A Live Review if it's been published, A Chat of What to Look For if not2:02:52Swordfish spotting turned the tables at NarvikNotable Point
- The Defence Investment Plan: A Live Review if it's been published, A Chat of What to Look For if not2:27:54Uncrewed VLS barges still need escorts and resupplyNotable Point
- The Defence Investment Plan: A Live Review if it's been published, A Chat of What to Look For if not2:43:06Naval Strike Missile fills the Harpoon gapQ&A
- Bruships 246: Naval History Questions Answered Live...14:46Harwich Force would turn the Channel Dash into a fleet actionQ&A
- Bruships 246: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:03:58Type 43 would find few export buyersQ&A
- Bruships 246: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:04:16Japan's destroyer force is currently the closest fit to its needsQ&A
- Bruships 246: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:26:31A 5.25-inch super-Tribal crosses into cruiser territoryQ&A
- Bruships 246: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:43:12Shipyard practice explains displacement differences within the Tribal classQ&A
- Bruships 246: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:56:59A Fletcher derivative gave postwar Japan a familiar destroyer baselineQ&A
- Bruships 246: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:04:06A proposed modern destroyer would carry four twin 76 mm mountsQ&A
- Bruships 246: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:24:42US escort reclassification brought names into line with fleet rolesQ&A
- Bruships 246: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:25:37ESSM magazine depth and SM-6 fleet defence serve different jobsNotable Point
- Bruships 246: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:40:07Destroyer harassment hurt Bismarck chiefly through crew fatigueQ&A
- Bruships 246: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:53:47A 343-ship escort force could give each US carrier roughly eight escortsQ&A
- Bruships 246: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:50:13A modern battleship would be an enlarged missile destroyerNotable Point
- Flotilla or Squadron? What Naval Unit is this?3:08Squadrons organize a navy's primary combatantsChapter
- Flotilla or Squadron? What Naval Unit is this?5:33Flotillas group destroyers and other small combatantsChapter
- Could the US Navy have kept the Oliver Hazard Perry's in service for longer?6:25Frigates, destroyers, and fleet balanceChapter
- Bruships 245: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:01:07Why sustained high speed gave destroyers 'turbinitis'Notable Point
- Ram Dass Katari: Father of the Modern Indian Navy10:36Command experience through integration, Delhi, and the destroyer flotillaChapter
- Ram Dass Katari: Father of the Modern Indian Navy36:05Why small-warship officers disappear into fleet totalsNotable Point
- Modularity Squared... What happens if the Stanflex & Meko combined into a single program?22:59Frigate and destroyer labels often follow role rather than tonnageNotable Point
- 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
- The Rise & Fall of the Constellation Class: What happened to the FFG-62 Program?1:10:21Why Constellation invited comparisons with the BurkeNotable Point
- How Ship Design is a reflection of Navy's attempts to balance technology, strategy and memory...41:14Why German and Japanese warship labels differNotable Point
- Korean Destroyers: Core of a Statement Surface Fleet0:00Trade and strategic depth drive Korea's destroyer fleetChapter
- Korean Destroyers: Core of a Statement Surface Fleet11:28Hyundai and Hanwha anchor KDX constructionChapter
- Korean Destroyers: Core of a Statement Surface Fleet15:34Cancelled variants and long gaps interrupt KDX developmentNotable Point
- Korean Destroyers: Core of a Statement Surface Fleet20:37Gwanggaeto the Great starts as a practical ASW destroyerChapter
- Korean Destroyers: Core of a Statement Surface Fleet28:44KDX-II combines Mark 41 and Korean VLS in a multipurpose destroyerChapter
- Korean Destroyers: Core of a Statement Surface Fleet30:52A late KDX-II upgrade points to roughly forty years of serviceNotable Point
- Korean Destroyers: Core of a Statement Surface Fleet32:39French stealth influence and Sejong's Burke-like silhouetteNotable Point
- Korean Destroyers: Core of a Statement Surface Fleet34:19Sejong the Great scales up the Burke-shaped destroyer ideaNotable Point
- Korean Destroyers: Core of a Statement Surface Fleet35:43Sejong missile density makes the destroyer a fleet shieldChapter
- Korean Destroyers: Core of a Statement Surface Fleet37:34Hyunmoo-3 gives Sejong a growing land-attack reachNotable Point
- Korean Destroyers: Core of a Statement Surface Fleet41:41Sejong pairs exceptional missile density with two helicoptersNotable Point
- Korean Destroyers: Core of a Statement Surface Fleet43:17KVLS-II gives Jeongjo a heavier ballistic-missile roleChapter
- Korean Destroyers: Core of a Statement Surface Fleet45:23Jeongjo's missile-defence role comes with a redesigned batteryNotable Point
- Korean Destroyers: Core of a Statement Surface Fleet47:34Pairing Sejong and Jeongjo for defence and strikeNotable Point
- Korean Destroyers: Core of a Statement Surface Fleet51:17Jeongjo's strike role raises a close-in defence questionNotable Point
- The Large Torpedoboats & Torpedoboat Destroyers of the Imperial German Navy in WWI2:42V25 as the German wartime baselineChapter
- The Large Torpedoboats & Torpedoboat Destroyers of the Imperial German Navy in WWI3:49Compare destroyers from equivalent development cyclesNotable Point
- The Large Torpedoboats & Torpedoboat Destroyers of the Imperial German Navy in WWI8:37Offensive design from strategic shortageNotable Point
- The Large Torpedoboats & Torpedoboat Destroyers of the Imperial German Navy in WWI11:57B97 moves closer to a screening destroyerChapter
- The Large Torpedoboats & Torpedoboat Destroyers of the Imperial German Navy in WWI26:42Destroyer language and torpedo-boat prioritiesNotable Point
- The Large Torpedoboats & Torpedoboat Destroyers of the Imperial German Navy in WWI27:52G96 and the late-war peak of the large torpedo boatChapter
- The Large Torpedoboats & Torpedoboat Destroyers of the Imperial German Navy in WWI31:02Hit-and-run attacks versus longer screening fightsNotable Point
- The Large Torpedoboats & Torpedoboat Destroyers of the Imperial German Navy in WWI34:56S113 hull quality meets the 6-inch gun problemChapter
- The Large Torpedoboats & Torpedoboat Destroyers of the Imperial German Navy in WWI39:22Why close-range destroyer combat favors rapid fireNotable Point
- The Large Torpedoboats & Torpedoboat Destroyers of the Imperial German Navy in WWI42:49V170 returns to 105 mm guns but still lacks weight of fireChapter
- The Large Torpedoboats & Torpedoboat Destroyers of the Imperial German Navy in WWI47:32Redesign the boats under real German constraintsNotable Point
- Bruships 244: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:02:41Arleigh Burke success and USN procurementQ&A
- Bruships 244: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:23:00Why Italo-Spanish destroyer cooperation stayed on paperQ&A
- Bruships 244: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:42:49Why Italy's future destroyer needs missile depthQ&A
- Jeune Ecole Batch 2... The French Destroyers up to WWI0:00Aviso torpilleurs and France's destroyer starting pointChapter
- Jeune Ecole Batch 2... The French Destroyers up to WWI0:27Expanding missions make destroyers and frigates growNotable Point
- Jeune Ecole Batch 2... The French Destroyers up to WWI7:07The Arquebuse program creates a two-coast destroyer forceNotable Point
- Jeune Ecole Batch 2... The French Destroyers up to WWI11:02Claymore and Branlebas expose Jeune Ecole legacyChapter
- Jeune Ecole Batch 2... The French Destroyers up to WWI11:15Industrial specialization constrains French destroyer growthNotable Point
- Jeune Ecole Batch 2... The French Destroyers up to WWI16:11Flotilla defence still requires a balanced fleetNotable Point
- Jeune Ecole Batch 2... The French Destroyers up to WWI17:44Standardized small destroyers create flotilla massNotable Point
- Jeune Ecole Batch 2... The French Destroyers up to WWI22:03Spahi and Voltigeur show the tradeoffs of larger destroyersChapter
- Jeune Ecole Batch 2... The French Destroyers up to WWI23:06The 65 mm gun offers a compromise between two calibresNotable Point
- Jeune Ecole Batch 2... The French Destroyers up to WWI26:42Hull shaping explains range efficiencyNotable Point
- Jeune Ecole Batch 2... The French Destroyers up to WWI33:01Chasseur layout anticipates later destroyersNotable Point
- Jeune Ecole Batch 2... The French Destroyers up to WWI35:12Bouclier-era ships approach contemporary destroyersChapter
- Jeune Ecole Batch 2... The French Destroyers up to WWI38:29Wartime weapons upset a finely balanced designNotable Point
- Jeune Ecole Batch 2... The French Destroyers up to WWI40:18Reliable turbines replace mixed destroyer machineryNotable Point
- Jeune Ecole Batch 2... The French Destroyers up to WWI42:14French turbine development draws on international exchangeNotable Point
- Jeune Ecole Batch 2... The French Destroyers up to WWI45:07The final prewar classes gain range and carry larger crewsChapter
- Jeune Ecole Batch 2... The French Destroyers up to WWI46:53Cramped machinery increases maintenance manpowerNotable Point
- Jeune Ecole Batch 2... The French Destroyers up to WWI49:43The M89 fleet destroyer remains unrealizedNotable Point
- Jeune Ecole Batch 2... The French Destroyers up to WWI52:46Turtleback bows give way to an Atlantic-style shapeNotable Point
- Jeune Ecole Batch 2... The French Destroyers up to WWI53:24Larger destroyers compete with the need for more hullsNotable Point
- Bruships 243: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...29:49Vertical dive attacks and interwar destroyer AA lessonsQ&A
- Bruships 243: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:27:24Did the Jeune École win by forcing defensive spending?Q&A
- Bruships 243: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:04:36What an impossibly large 1939 Royal Navy would changeQ&A
- US Navy Ship Building Plan 2026... a Live look at what is being planned...31:39The surface-combatant retirement bow wave arrives before replacement growthNotable Point
- US Navy Ship Building Plan 2026... a Live look at what is being planned...4:45:20Will the Navy build both the battleship and DDG(X)?Q&A
- US Navy Ship Building Plan 2026... a Live look at what is being planned...5:17:15Could Japanese destroyer requirements connect with a future Burke design?Q&A
- US Navy Ship Building Plan 2026... a Live look at what is being planned...5:17:29How many surface-combatant types should the Navy keep?Q&A
- Bruships 242: Naval History Questions Answered Live...17:41Kongo naming politics for Japanese Aegis destroyersQ&A
- Bruships 242: Naval History Questions Answered Live...27:42Space convoys as naval escort geometryQ&A
- Bruships 242: Naval History Questions Answered Live...47:12Zumwalt, cruiser politics, and Burke procurement inertiaQ&A
- Bruships 242: Naval History Questions Answered Live...55:51Hornblower's imagined twentieth-century commandsQ&A
- Bruships 242: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:21:42Why very different Burke flights keep one class nameQ&A
- Bruships 242: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:42:37Eight-inch destroyers and naval fire supportQ&A
- Total Burke Domination: Why the US Navy could be rebranded the Arleigh Burke Flotilla & Friends?0:00A possible century of Arleigh Burke influenceChapter
- Total Burke Domination: Why the US Navy could be rebranded the Arleigh Burke Flotilla & Friends?5:45A proven Burke hull reaches its design limitsNotable Point
- Total Burke Domination: Why the US Navy could be rebranded the Arleigh Burke Flotilla & Friends?8:15Early Burkes as carrier task-group shipsNotable Point
- Total Burke Domination: Why the US Navy could be rebranded the Arleigh Burke Flotilla & Friends?9:58Why early Burkes carried 90 VLS cellsNotable Point
- Total Burke Domination: Why the US Navy could be rebranded the Arleigh Burke Flotilla & Friends?11:51Mark 41 VLS makes the Burke adaptableNotable Point
- Total Burke Domination: Why the US Navy could be rebranded the Arleigh Burke Flotilla & Friends?17:00Magazine depth and targeting systems drive Burke sizeNotable Point
- Total Burke Domination: Why the US Navy could be rebranded the Arleigh Burke Flotilla & Friends?19:04Flight II offers evolution more than transformationNotable Point
- Total Burke Domination: Why the US Navy could be rebranded the Arleigh Burke Flotilla & Friends?23:23SPY-1D and the transition from PESA to AESA radarNotable Point
- Total Burke Domination: Why the US Navy could be rebranded the Arleigh Burke Flotilla & Friends?33:04Flight IIA brings the practical upgradeChapter
- Total Burke Domination: Why the US Navy could be rebranded the Arleigh Burke Flotilla & Friends?36:56Kingfisher mine detection and the risks of destroyer minehuntingNotable Point
- Total Burke Domination: Why the US Navy could be rebranded the Arleigh Burke Flotilla & Friends?43:43Zumwalt becomes a Christmas-tree programNotable Point
- Total Burke Domination: Why the US Navy could be rebranded the Arleigh Burke Flotilla & Friends?45:11Mark 57 survivability and the 80-versus-96-cell comparisonNotable Point
- Total Burke Domination: Why the US Navy could be rebranded the Arleigh Burke Flotilla & Friends?46:36A shrinking Zumwalt production run magnifies program costNotable Point
- Total Burke Domination: Why the US Navy could be rebranded the Arleigh Burke Flotilla & Friends?49:29Different destroyer roles complicate the Burke comparisonChapter
- Total Burke Domination: Why the US Navy could be rebranded the Arleigh Burke Flotilla & Friends?57:33Flight IIA restart chooses reliabilityNotable Point
- Total Burke Domination: Why the US Navy could be rebranded the Arleigh Burke Flotilla & Friends?1:00:59Harpoon removal and the limits of shipboard torpedoesNotable Point
- Total Burke Domination: Why the US Navy could be rebranded the Arleigh Burke Flotilla & Friends?1:04:45Useful Burke retrofits meet a structural limitNotable Point
- Total Burke Domination: Why the US Navy could be rebranded the Arleigh Burke Flotilla & Friends?1:10:31ODIN and the effect of hull limits on laser selectionNotable Point
- Total Burke Domination: Why the US Navy could be rebranded the Arleigh Burke Flotilla & Friends?1:12:07The original Flight III concept aimed at 122 VLS cellsNotable Point
- Total Burke Domination: Why the US Navy could be rebranded the Arleigh Burke Flotilla & Friends?1:13:18DDG(X) and the new-hull dilemmaChapter
- Total Burke Domination: Why the US Navy could be rebranded the Arleigh Burke Flotilla & Friends?1:21:25The Flight IIA technology insert bridges toward Flight IIINotable Point
- Total Burke Domination: Why the US Navy could be rebranded the Arleigh Burke Flotilla & Friends?1:23:47Construction dates reveal the long transition between Burke flightsNotable Point
- Total Burke Domination: Why the US Navy could be rebranded the Arleigh Burke Flotilla & Friends?1:24:32Ticonderoga's destroyer origins and cruiser designationNotable Point
- Total Burke Domination: Why the US Navy could be rebranded the Arleigh Burke Flotilla & Friends?1:26:19Flight III takes on cruiser duties without the old 122-cell expansionChapter
- Total Burke Domination: Why the US Navy could be rebranded the Arleigh Burke Flotilla & Friends?1:31:25Frigate requirements must escape the Burke comparisonNotable Point
- Total Burke Domination: Why the US Navy could be rebranded the Arleigh Burke Flotilla & Friends?1:33:18How a successor's classification affects its comparison with BurkeNotable Point
- Total Burke Domination: Why the US Navy could be rebranded the Arleigh Burke Flotilla & Friends?1:36:31A Zumwalt Flight II would still need political touchstonesNotable Point
- Total Burke Domination: Why the US Navy could be rebranded the Arleigh Burke Flotilla & Friends?1:38:38A hypothetical Flight IV would require substantial redesignNotable Point
- Total Burke Domination: Why the US Navy could be rebranded the Arleigh Burke Flotilla & Friends?1:39:19Burkes become the visible presence of the US NavyChapter
- Total Burke Domination: Why the US Navy could be rebranded the Arleigh Burke Flotilla & Friends?1:41:28The replacement must balance novelty and continuityNotable Point
- Five Topics which tend to lead to me debating vigorously with other historians... (Patreon Live)17:02Destroyers as individual warshipsNotable Point
- Five Topics which tend to lead to me debating vigorously with other historians... (Patreon Live)20:05Could extra American destroyers have saved Force Z?Notable Point
- Destroyers: Modern Navy's most powerful surface combatants - 134yrs of development0:00Destroyers remain both shield and spearChapter
- Destroyers: Modern Navy's most powerful surface combatants - 134yrs of development1:14The Whitehead torpedo tests the balanced-fleet ideaNotable Point
- Destroyers: Modern Navy's most powerful surface combatants - 134yrs of development5:51Quick-firing guns establish layered fleet defenceNotable Point
- Destroyers: Modern Navy's most powerful surface combatants - 134yrs of development10:28Speed and manoeuvrability let destroyers screen the fleetNotable Point
- Destroyers: Modern Navy's most powerful surface combatants - 134yrs of development10:59The uncertain HMS Nelson anti-aircraft anecdoteNotable Point
- Destroyers: Modern Navy's most powerful surface combatants - 134yrs of development13:12Charger and Eden show how quickly destroyers grewNotable Point
- Destroyers: Modern Navy's most powerful surface combatants - 134yrs of development17:52Eden trades torpedo emphasis for stronger gunsNotable Point
- Destroyers: Modern Navy's most powerful surface combatants - 134yrs of development19:45World War I reorganizes destroyers for fleet warChapter
- Destroyers: Modern Navy's most powerful surface combatants - 134yrs of development22:09Why build destroyers instead of torpedo-boat leaders?Q&A
- Destroyers: Modern Navy's most powerful surface combatants - 134yrs of development24:45Paired destroyers create mutual support and torpedo trapsNotable Point
- Destroyers: Modern Navy's most powerful surface combatants - 134yrs of development29:36Destroyer command creates the interwar admiral pipelineNotable Point
- Destroyers: Modern Navy's most powerful surface combatants - 134yrs of development33:41Destroyer silhouettes advertise speed, status, and confidenceNotable Point
- Destroyers: Modern Navy's most powerful surface combatants - 134yrs of development42:50Destroyer pickets extend reconnaissance and air defenceNotable Point
- Destroyers: Modern Navy's most powerful surface combatants - 134yrs of development44:44Exercise incentives distort destroyer air-defence lessonsNotable Point
- Destroyers: Modern Navy's most powerful surface combatants - 134yrs of development48:33Aircraft growth drives larger destroyer anti-aircraft gunsNotable Point
- Destroyers: Modern Navy's most powerful surface combatants - 134yrs of development50:46Tribal-class guns support night torpedo attacksChapter
- Destroyers: Modern Navy's most powerful surface combatants - 134yrs of development52:21Haida and Vampire show destroyers becoming cruisersNotable Point
- Destroyers: Modern Navy's most powerful surface combatants - 134yrs of development55:22Battle-class armament reflects a wartime design pauseNotable Point
- Destroyers: Modern Navy's most powerful surface combatants - 134yrs of development56:52Daring-class destroyers become cruiser substitutesNotable Point
- Destroyers: Modern Navy's most powerful surface combatants - 134yrs of development59:39Guns and VLS should be complementary magazinesNotable Point
- Destroyers: Modern Navy's most powerful surface combatants - 134yrs of development1:01:20Cold War destroyers must fight and look convincingNotable Point
- Destroyers: Modern Navy's most powerful surface combatants - 134yrs of development1:05:00A successful warship must fit and break the moldNotable Point
- Destroyers: Modern Navy's most powerful surface combatants - 134yrs of development1:09:26Conventional deterrence needs visible escalation optionsNotable Point
- Destroyers: Modern Navy's most powerful surface combatants - 134yrs of development1:13:18Post-Cold War destroyers inherit cruiser diplomacyChapter
- Destroyers: Modern Navy's most powerful surface combatants - 134yrs of development1:19:17Burke success raises the replacement thresholdNotable Point
- Destroyers: Modern Navy's most powerful surface combatants - 134yrs of development1:20:45Peacetime gray zones overload high-end destroyersNotable Point
- Destroyers: Modern Navy's most powerful surface combatants - 134yrs of development1:24:31Order size changes average destroyer programme costsNotable Point
- Destroyers: Modern Navy's most powerful surface combatants - 134yrs of development1:28:18Allied reliance on Burkes encourages shallow magazinesNotable Point
- Destroyers: Modern Navy's most powerful surface combatants - 134yrs of development1:32:12Larger destroyer proposals raise questions about magazine depthNotable Point
- Destroyers: Modern Navy's most powerful surface combatants - 134yrs of development1:39:03Cruiser-sized destroyers may become USV mothershipsNotable Point
- Japans Cold War Destroyers: Building up a Navy the Right Way...0:30Transferred US destroyers give postwar Japan a starting forceChapter
- Japans Cold War Destroyers: Building up a Navy the Right Way...4:39Destroyer totals conceal differences in capabilityNotable Point
- Japans Cold War Destroyers: Building up a Navy the Right Way...6:21Harukaze and Ayanami make ASW growth acceptableChapter
- Japans Cold War Destroyers: Building up a Navy the Right Way...16:01Murasame and Akizuki move toward indigenous command shipsChapter
- Japans Cold War Destroyers: Building up a Navy the Right Way...24:23Amatsukaze makes the missile-destroyer leapNotable Point
- Japans Cold War Destroyers: Building up a Navy the Right Way...33:02Yamagumo, Takatsuki, and Minegumo keep the yards buildingChapter
- Japans Cold War Destroyers: Building up a Navy the Right Way...34:28Yamagumo makes quiet diesel propulsion serve ASW massNotable Point
- Japans Cold War Destroyers: Building up a Navy the Right Way...47:54Haruna and Shirane turn destroyers into helicopter command shipsChapter
- Japans Cold War Destroyers: Building up a Navy the Right Way...52:37Tachikaze and Hatakaze add air-defence command depthNotable Point
- Japans Cold War Destroyers: Building up a Navy the Right Way...59:35Why did Shirane retain two 5-inch guns?Q&A
- Japans Cold War Destroyers: Building up a Navy the Right Way...1:02:01Hatsuyuki and Asagiri carry Cold War habits into the modern JMSDFChapter
- Japans Cold War Destroyers: Building up a Navy the Right Way...1:03:37Hatsuyuki trades machinery redundancy for compact massNotable Point
- Japans Cold War Destroyers: Building up a Navy the Right Way...1:10:54Asagiri combines COGAG power with allied presenceNotable Point
- Japans Cold War Destroyers: Building up a Navy the Right Way...1:12:41Cold War construction produces modern JMSDF scaleNotable Point
- Bruships 241: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:05:41Andromeda's glass-cannon destroyers and fleet balanceQ&A
- Bruships 241: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:26:05F125, F127, and Type 055 comparisonQ&A
- Bruships 241: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:27:50Why frigate and destroyer labels depend on the main missionNotable Point
- Modern Indian Destroyers: Creation of an Indigenous Naval Capability, Dehli to Visakhaptnam Classes3:43Rajput class as India's customized Soviet baselineChapter
- Modern Indian Destroyers: Creation of an Indigenous Naval Capability, Dehli to Visakhaptnam Classes8:08Delhi class and surface-action commandNotable Point
- Modern Indian Destroyers: Creation of an Indigenous Naval Capability, Dehli to Visakhaptnam Classes10:21Delhi speed, layered air defence, and task-group rangeNotable Point
- Modern Indian Destroyers: Creation of an Indigenous Naval Capability, Dehli to Visakhaptnam Classes13:10Project 18 reaches cruiser scaleNotable Point
- Modern Indian Destroyers: Creation of an Indigenous Naval Capability, Dehli to Visakhaptnam Classes20:34Project 15A modifications amid fleet shortfallsNotable Point
- Modern Indian Destroyers: Creation of an Indigenous Naval Capability, Dehli to Visakhaptnam Classes22:03Kolkata stealth growth and decade-long deliveryNotable Point
- Modern Indian Destroyers: Creation of an Indigenous Naval Capability, Dehli to Visakhaptnam Classes23:38Kolkata gun layers and drone-defence economicsNotable Point
- Modern Indian Destroyers: Creation of an Indigenous Naval Capability, Dehli to Visakhaptnam Classes32:02Project 15B automation and 9,000-nautical-mile reachChapter
- Modern Indian Destroyers: Creation of an Indigenous Naval Capability, Dehli to Visakhaptnam Classes36:44Construction cadence improves across Project 15BNotable Point
- Modern Indian Destroyers: Creation of an Indigenous Naval Capability, Dehli to Visakhaptnam Classes37:50Peer comparisons and three-batch learningNotable Point
- Modern Indian Destroyers: Creation of an Indigenous Naval Capability, Dehli to Visakhaptnam Classes39:08From Soviet silhouette to Indian design identityNotable Point
- Modern Indian Destroyers: Creation of an Indigenous Naval Capability, Dehli to Visakhaptnam Classes40:10Project 18 and Project 17B continue India's design developmentNotable Point
- Modern Indian Destroyers: Creation of an Indigenous Naval Capability, Dehli to Visakhaptnam Classes41:20Project 18 and Indian destroyer force structureNotable Point
- Live: What the Royal Navy's Type 83 Will Not Be: AKA Reality of Future Air Dominance System(FADS)2:42Type 83 points toward a larger air-defence destroyerChapter
- Live: What the Royal Navy's Type 83 Will Not Be: AKA Reality of Future Air Dominance System(FADS)13:21International destroyer growth provides a size comparisonNotable Point
- Live: What the Royal Navy's Type 83 Will Not Be: AKA Reality of Future Air Dominance System(FADS)45:20Type 83 is expected to exceed Type 82's size and capabilityQ&A
- Live: What the Royal Navy's Type 83 Will Not Be: AKA Reality of Future Air Dominance System(FADS)55:18Older battlecarrier proposals are a poor Type 83 modelQ&A
- Live: What the Royal Navy's Type 83 Will Not Be: AKA Reality of Future Air Dominance System(FADS)1:22:14India's Project 18 offers a practical Type 83 comparatorChapter
- Live: What the Royal Navy's Type 83 Will Not Be: AKA Reality of Future Air Dominance System(FADS)1:31:40How VLS demands can make 192 cells sound modestChapter
- Live: What the Royal Navy's Type 83 Will Not Be: AKA Reality of Future Air Dominance System(FADS)1:48:44Royal Navy type numbers preserve role-based bandsQ&A
- Live: What the Royal Navy's Type 83 Will Not Be: AKA Reality of Future Air Dominance System(FADS)1:54:12Frigate and destroyer labels still point to design prioritiesQ&A
- Live: What the Royal Navy's Type 83 Will Not Be: AKA Reality of Future Air Dominance System(FADS)1:56:53The Burke benchmark pulled Constellation toward a destroyerQ&A
- Live: What the Royal Navy's Type 83 Will Not Be: AKA Reality of Future Air Dominance System(FADS)2:03:02Uncrewed escorts are approaching torpedo-boat-destroyer sizeQ&A
- Live: What the Royal Navy's Type 83 Will Not Be: AKA Reality of Future Air Dominance System(FADS)2:09:27Type 83 deployments are likely to remain six to nine monthsQ&A
- Live: What the Royal Navy's Type 83 Will Not Be: AKA Reality of Future Air Dominance System(FADS)2:25:28France's FDI is not the Type 83 comparatorQ&A
- Live: What the Royal Navy's Type 83 Will Not Be: AKA Reality of Future Air Dominance System(FADS)2:29:04A twelve-ship Type 83 fleet and an illustrative design menuQ&A
- Live: What the Royal Navy's Type 83 Will Not Be: AKA Reality of Future Air Dominance System(FADS)2:34:55Indian destroyer growth highlights the Royal Navy's shortfallQ&A
- Protecting Ikea in the Cradle; Swedish Destroyers in WWII0:58Swedish destroyers make every amphibious approach uncertainChapter
- Protecting Ikea in the Cradle; Swedish Destroyers in WWII5:20Ragnar's modest weapons still complicate an invasionNotable Point
- Protecting Ikea in the Cradle; Swedish Destroyers in WWII7:13Småland illustrates route denial in confined watersNotable Point
- Protecting Ikea in the Cradle; Swedish Destroyers in WWII8:02Hugin develops Swedish turbine and shipbuilding capabilityChapter
- Protecting Ikea in the Cradle; Swedish Destroyers in WWII9:40New boilers and weapons extend Hugin's serviceNotable Point
- Protecting Ikea in the Cradle; Swedish Destroyers in WWII10:45Wrangel and Wachmeister reserve a sixth torpedo for the turn awayChapter
- Protecting Ikea in the Cradle; Swedish Destroyers in WWII15:08The Ehrensköld class moves Sweden toward larger destroyersChapter
- Protecting Ikea in the Cradle; Swedish Destroyers in WWII19:30Judge destroyers against national needsNotable Point
- Protecting Ikea in the Cradle; Swedish Destroyers in WWII24:15Klas Horn and Klas Uggla expand mine capacity at modest costChapter
- Protecting Ikea in the Cradle; Swedish Destroyers in WWII26:43Explosions, burning oil, and depth charges devastate HårsfjärdenChapter
- Protecting Ikea in the Cradle; Swedish Destroyers in WWII34:48The Göteborg program expands from two ships to six as war approachesChapter
- Protecting Ikea in the Cradle; Swedish Destroyers in WWII37:59Göteborg salvos reserve torpedoes to catch an evasive targetNotable Point
- Protecting Ikea in the Cradle; Swedish Destroyers in WWII40:19The Visby class improves a familiar weapons packageChapter
- Protecting Ikea in the Cradle; Swedish Destroyers in WWII41:55Visby commissioning strengthens Sweden during a volatile Baltic endgameNotable Point
- Protecting Ikea in the Cradle; Swedish Destroyers in WWII44:49Öland trades maximum speed for Baltic enduranceChapter
- Protecting Ikea in the Cradle; Swedish Destroyers in WWII46:17Öland combines dual-purpose guns with a heavy coastal weapons loadChapter
- Protecting Ikea in the Cradle; Swedish Destroyers in WWII48:36Öland remains dangerous through repeated modernisationNotable Point
- Protecting Ikea in the Cradle; Swedish Destroyers in WWII50:53The 1972 fast-attack-craft turn closes a destroyer traditionNotable Point
- Imperial Russian Destroyers: The Paper Numbers vs The Reality of what they didn't have at Tsushima0:00Russian destroyer labels versus actual rolesChapter
- Imperial Russian Destroyers: The Paper Numbers vs The Reality of what they didn't have at Tsushima2:12Why torpedo-boat leaders were destroyersQ&A
- Imperial Russian Destroyers: The Paper Numbers vs The Reality of what they didn't have at Tsushima3:17Sokol combined destroyer armament with 29-knot speedNotable Point
- Imperial Russian Destroyers: The Paper Numbers vs The Reality of what they didn't have at Tsushima10:17Tsushima exposed Russia's screening shortfallChapter
- Imperial Russian Destroyers: The Paper Numbers vs The Reality of what they didn't have at Tsushima13:41Ukrainets showed what a capable Russian destroyer could carryNotable Point
- Imperial Russian Destroyers: The Paper Numbers vs The Reality of what they didn't have at Tsushima17:08German-influenced destroyers missed TsushimaNotable Point
- Imperial Russian Destroyers: The Paper Numbers vs The Reality of what they didn't have at Tsushima20:09Outnumbered Russian fleets needed destroyer gunpowerNotable Point
- Imperial Russian Destroyers: The Paper Numbers vs The Reality of what they didn't have at Tsushima26:50Four-ship orders exposed Russia's rebuilding limitsNotable Point
- Imperial Russian Destroyers: The Paper Numbers vs The Reality of what they didn't have at Tsushima29:28Torpedo arcs took priority over usable gun positionsNotable Point
- Imperial Russian Destroyers: The Paper Numbers vs The Reality of what they didn't have at Tsushima37:48Lieutenant Shestakov combined heavy armament with limited speedNotable Point
- Imperial Russian Destroyers: The Paper Numbers vs The Reality of what they didn't have at Tsushima42:03Novik combined turbine speed with a heavy destroyer armamentChapter
- Imperial Russian Destroyers: The Paper Numbers vs The Reality of what they didn't have at Tsushima43:13Novik's descendants reached service across a prolonged programmeNotable Point
- Imperial Russian Destroyers: The Paper Numbers vs The Reality of what they didn't have at Tsushima45:32Four separated fleets required far more destroyersNotable Point
- Imperial Russian Destroyers: The Paper Numbers vs The Reality of what they didn't have at Tsushima47:22Destroyer crews benefited from close cooperationNotable Point
- Imperial Russian Destroyers: The Paper Numbers vs The Reality of what they didn't have at Tsushima48:26The Orfey subclass remained a useful destroyerNotable Point
- Imperial Russian Destroyers: The Paper Numbers vs The Reality of what they didn't have at Tsushima51:27Baltic destroyers could preserve Swedish supply routesNotable Point
- Imperial Russian Destroyers: The Paper Numbers vs The Reality of what they didn't have at Tsushima52:35What if Russia had built balanced destroyers earlier?Notable Point
- Bruships 240: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:32:51When the next Burke needs a larger hullQ&A
- Bruships 240: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:05:22The Battle of Cape Bon night ambushNotable Point
- What happens if the British & Japanese refuse to break their alliance? (Patreon Live)18:02A battleship fleet needs enough escortsNotable Point
- The Dutch Interwar Destroyer Debate0:39The 1923 naval law and Dutch destroyer shortfallChapter
- The Dutch Interwar Destroyer Debate3:17Wolf/Fret-class ships as the weak starting pointNotable Point
- The Dutch Interwar Destroyer Debate21:43Admiral de Ruyter class: mine warfare, floatplanes, and torpedoesChapter
- The Dutch Interwar Destroyer Debate22:45Admiral de Ruyter-class guns, speed, and enduranceNotable Point
- The Dutch Interwar Destroyer Debate24:13Wartime losses reveal the force-depth problemNotable Point
- The Dutch Interwar Destroyer Debate34:27How many destroyers for home waters and the East Indies?Notable Point
- The Dutch Interwar Destroyer Debate35:14Russian torpedo-boat destroyers before TsushimaNotable Point
- Bruships2:34VLS cell counts and destroyer expectationsNotable Point
- Bruships4:12Pahlavi Iran as a high-end regional navyQ&A
- Bruships5:29Japanese destroyers and the cost of equipping a large fleetNotable Point
- Bruships 239: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:08Cavalry doctrine translated to naval combatQ&A
- Bruships 239: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...44:43How reserve time affects a destroyer's hull lifeQ&A
- What happens if the entirety of the French Navy decides to carry on fighting in WWII? (Patreon Live)48:48France brings substantial forces below the capital-ship levelNotable Point
- What happens if the entirety of the French Navy decides to carry on fighting in WWII? (Patreon Live)1:06:15British 5.25-inch and 4.5-inch rearmament optionsQ&A
- What happens if the entirety of the French Navy decides to carry on fighting in WWII? (Patreon Live)1:11:25Seventy French destroyers improve Churchill's bargaining positionQ&A
- What happens if the entirety of the French Navy decides to carry on fighting in WWII? (Patreon Live)1:38:08France's collapse was the Allies' largest single warship lossNotable Point
- What happens if the entirety of the French Navy decides to carry on fighting in WWII? (Patreon Live)2:38:39French ship quality varies by class but matches Italy overallQ&A
- What happens if Winston Churchill doesn't pause the Carriers, Fast Battleships & Cruisers in 1939?1:22:43Later escort gains do not outweigh the major-ship delaysChapter
- Building for National Survival: Italian Destroyers prior to WWI1:29Italy's Mediterranean and Adriatic destroyer problemChapter
- Building for National Survival: Italian Destroyers prior to WWI6:56Fulmine and the limits of a 300-ton destroyerNotable Point
- Building for National Survival: Italian Destroyers prior to WWI9:21Lampo and the cost of chasing speedNotable Point
- Building for National Survival: Italian Destroyers prior to WWI13:13Nembo and Morin's operational theoryChapter
- Building for National Survival: Italian Destroyers prior to WWI16:18Nembo's oil-fired refit and high-speed enduranceNotable Point
- Building for National Survival: Italian Destroyers prior to WWI24:58Soldati: heavier armament and the prestige of soldier namesNotable Point
- Building for National Survival: Italian Destroyers prior to WWI27:09Cattolica's Indomito class and the mathematics of combat advantageNotable Point
- Building for National Survival: Italian Destroyers prior to WWI30:26Why more fuel reduced Indomito's enduranceNotable Point
- Building for National Survival: Italian Destroyers prior to WWI31:45Why Italy developed destroyers faster than it funded themNotable Point
- Building for National Survival: Italian Destroyers prior to WWI35:29Ardente, Ardito, and the Indomito class boundaryNotable Point
- Building for National Survival: Italian Destroyers prior to WWI36:20Rosolino Pilo and continuity in prewar destroyer designChapter
- Building for National Survival: Italian Destroyers prior to WWI38:54Capable destroyers in insufficient numbers for the AdriaticNotable Point
- Building for National Survival: Italian Destroyers prior to WWI40:03Could reserve crews have closed Italy's destroyer gap?Notable Point
- Bruships 238: Naval History Questions Answered Live...45:05Base-bleed shells for Royal Navy destroyersQ&A
- Bruships 238: Naval History Questions Answered Live...53:28Zumwalt was not designed as a Perry replacementNotable Point
- Bruships 238: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:18:16Why a destroyer's single gun does not settle a cruiser layoutQ&A
- Bruships 238: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:35:14British gun standardization and destroyer sizeQ&A
- Admiral Arleigh Burke: The Convenor of the Modern US Navy...10:49USS Mugford and Burke's gunnery foundationNotable Point
- Admiral Arleigh Burke: The Convenor of the Modern US Navy...12:47Destroyer command, delegated initiative, and decision speedChapter
- Admiral Arleigh Burke: The Convenor of the Modern US Navy...16:12Cape St. George: machinery strain and command judgmentNotable Point
- Admiral Arleigh Burke: The Convenor of the Modern US Navy...40:30Conversions and destroyer leaders build the guided-missile fleetNotable Point
- Admiral Arleigh Burke: The Convenor of the Modern US Navy...44:04A warship silhouette becomes diplomatic brand recognitionNotable Point
- Why the Royal Navy's Type 45s Daring Class Destroyers are what they are & what their future is?0:00NFR-90 and the magazine-depth problemChapter
- Why the Royal Navy's Type 45s Daring Class Destroyers are what they are & what their future is?16:36Horizon, radar quality, and destroyer expectationsChapter
- Why the Royal Navy's Type 45s Daring Class Destroyers are what they are & what their future is?28:07Leaving Horizon did not deliver an earlier destroyerNotable Point
- Why the Royal Navy's Type 45s Daring Class Destroyers are what they are & what their future is?31:19A hurried destroyer design combined several unproven systemsNotable Point
- Why the Royal Navy's Type 45s Daring Class Destroyers are what they are & what their future is?33:29How should a destroyer programme introduce unproven technology?Q&A
- Why the Royal Navy's Type 45s Daring Class Destroyers are what they are & what their future is?46:21Propulsion trouble and lost design slackChapter
- Why the Royal Navy's Type 45s Daring Class Destroyers are what they are & what their future is?59:35Measure defence spending by the capability it buysNotable Point
- Why the Royal Navy's Type 45s Daring Class Destroyers are what they are & what their future is?1:01:06Construction stretch and the six-ship forceChapter
- Would an AUKUS Destroyer make a sensible 3rd pillar for the Australia, UK & US Defence Cooperation?0:14AUKUS destroyer case starts with systemsChapter
- Would an AUKUS Destroyer make a sensible 3rd pillar for the Australia, UK & US Defence Cooperation?3:12Hobart, Type 45, and Burke replacement pressureNotable Point
- Would an AUKUS Destroyer make a sensible 3rd pillar for the Australia, UK & US Defence Cooperation?13:13A battleship cannot replace every BurkeNotable Point
- Would an AUKUS Destroyer make a sensible 3rd pillar for the Australia, UK & US Defence Cooperation?14:09VLS depth and design lock-inChapter
- Dutch Destroyers in WWII: The Free Dutch navy at it's Freeest?0:43Dutch destroyers and the Far East problemChapter
- Dutch Destroyers in WWII: The Free Dutch navy at it's Freeest?2:17Gerard Callenburgh design tradeoffsNotable Point
- Dutch Destroyers in WWII: The Free Dutch navy at it's Freeest?5:54Z1 against the Normandy screenNotable Point
- Dutch Destroyers in WWII: The Free Dutch navy at it's Freeest?7:55Isaac Sweers completed and rearmed in BritainChapter
- Dutch Destroyers in WWII: The Free Dutch navy at it's Freeest?9:49Isaac Sweers at Cape Bon: a qualified contributionNotable Point
- Dutch Destroyers in WWII: The Free Dutch navy at it's Freeest?10:51Isaac Sweers's rescues and loss to U-431Notable Point
- Dutch Destroyers in WWII: The Free Dutch navy at it's Freeest?14:28British and Dutch accounts of Gurkha's rescueNotable Point
- Dutch Destroyers in WWII: The Free Dutch navy at it's Freeest?20:53Wartime orders and simplified emergency destroyersNotable Point
- Dutch Destroyers in WWII: The Free Dutch navy at it's Freeest?23:29Dutch crews as doctrine translatorsChapter
- Dutch Destroyers in WWII: The Free Dutch navy at it's Freeest?24:31Why Allied anti-aircraft formations needed different spacingNotable Point
- Dutch Destroyers in WWII: The Free Dutch navy at it's Freeest?26:50Timor, Saratoga, and blockade-runner huntsChapter
- Dutch Destroyers in WWII: The Free Dutch navy at it's Freeest?29:04The missing Hazemeyer advantageNotable Point
- Dutch Destroyers in WWII: The Free Dutch navy at it's Freeest?30:49Banckert, Quilliam, and the manpower for JapanChapter
- Dutch Destroyers in WWII: The Free Dutch navy at it's Freeest?33:27Destroyers as the fleet's shield and spearNotable Point
- Dutch Destroyers in WWII: The Free Dutch navy at it's Freeest?34:56S-class ships and postwar Dutch lessonsChapter
- Dutch Destroyers in WWII: The Free Dutch navy at it's Freeest?37:34Why the S class was not an austerity destroyerNotable Point
- Dutch Destroyers in WWII: The Free Dutch navy at it's Freeest?39:17The destroyers the Netherlands ordered too lateNotable Point
- Dutch Destroyers in WWII: The Free Dutch navy at it's Freeest?40:39Hazemeyer destroyer counterfactualNotable Point
- HMS Walker(D27); a destroyer of two World Wars(Live)3:20V and W destroyers as a wartime reserveChapter
- HMS Walker(D27); a destroyer of two World Wars(Live)11:02William Denny and the depth of British destroyer buildingNotable Point
- HMS Walker(D27); a destroyer of two World Wars(Live)13:39Harwich Force and destroyer professionalismNotable Point
- HMS Walker(D27); a destroyer of two World Wars(Live)18:07Baltic service without a battle honourNotable Point
- HMS Walker(D27); a destroyer of two World Wars(Live)21:02Cunningham, the A-to-K line, and interwar destroyer doctrineNotable Point
- HMS Walker(D27); a destroyer of two World Wars(Live)26:09V and W destroyers were built beyond emergency standardsQ&A
- HMS Walker(D27); a destroyer of two World Wars(Live)27:24Daring and Charles F. Adams among standout postwar destroyersQ&A
- HMS Walker(D27); a destroyer of two World Wars(Live)28:18Why V and W destroyers could absorb escort conversionsQ&A
- HMS Walker(D27); a destroyer of two World Wars(Live)28:46How the A-to-K scouting line screened a fleetQ&A
- HMS Walker(D27); a destroyer of two World Wars(Live)30:50The Royal Navy expected to replace older destroyers in the 1920sQ&A
- HMS Walker(D27); a destroyer of two World Wars(Live)31:21Reserve ships preserved a balanced Royal NavyChapter
- HMS Walker(D27); a destroyer of two World Wars(Live)48:55Norwegian evacuations and the last departure from NarvikChapter
- HMS Walker(D27); a destroyer of two World Wars(Live)54:37Donald Macintyre and Walker's ASW command styleNotable Point
- HMS Walker(D27); a destroyer of two World Wars(Live)1:16:16Walker's long-range escort conversionChapter
- HMS Walker(D27); a destroyer of two World Wars(Live)1:39:26The cost of losing an older destroyerQ&A
- HMS Walker(D27); a destroyer of two World Wars(Live)1:39:59W-class reserve life if World War II had come laterQ&A
- HMS Walker(D27); a destroyer of two World Wars(Live)1:43:11What is known about the Walker-Vanquisher collisionQ&A
- HMS Walker(D27); a destroyer of two World Wars(Live)1:45:05Thornycroft and White as personal favouritesQ&A
- HMS Walker(D27); a destroyer of two World Wars(Live)1:46:25The W-class role maps closer to a modern light frigateQ&A
- HMS Walker(D27); a destroyer of two World Wars(Live)1:47:20W-class destroyers and Black Swan sloops had similar displacementQ&A
- HMS Walker(D27); a destroyer of two World Wars(Live)1:52:14Aircraft overwhelmed destroyer-sized marginsQ&A
- How the USN learnt the lessons to conceive the Arleigh Burke class... From the Gearings to the Kidds0:00Gearing destroyers as the Cold War baselineChapter
- How the USN learnt the lessons to conceive the Arleigh Burke class... From the Gearings to the Kidds2:52DASH extends ASW reach without a full helicopterNotable Point
- How the USN learnt the lessons to conceive the Arleigh Burke class... From the Gearings to the Kidds9:18Norfolk tests a postwar heavy-destroyer ideaNotable Point
- How the USN learnt the lessons to conceive the Arleigh Burke class... From the Gearings to the Kidds10:36Norfolk and Mitscher test status against capabilityChapter
- How the USN learnt the lessons to conceive the Arleigh Burke class... From the Gearings to the Kidds19:52Forrest Sherman brings the new-build caseChapter
- How the USN learnt the lessons to conceive the Arleigh Burke class... From the Gearings to the Kidds21:06USS Hull tests the Mark 71 8-inch gunNotable Point
- How the USN learnt the lessons to conceive the Arleigh Burke class... From the Gearings to the Kidds28:18Farragut equips the missile-era carrier screenChapter
- How the USN learnt the lessons to conceive the Arleigh Burke class... From the Gearings to the Kidds31:37FRAM modernization reaches its physical ceilingNotable Point
- How the USN learnt the lessons to conceive the Arleigh Burke class... From the Gearings to the Kidds34:52Older destroyers buy time for a clean redesignNotable Point
- How the USN learnt the lessons to conceive the Arleigh Burke class... From the Gearings to the Kidds38:02Spruance turns destroyer size into presenceChapter
- How the USN learnt the lessons to conceive the Arleigh Burke class... From the Gearings to the Kidds48:21Spruance pushes toward multi-role destroyersNotable Point
- How the USN learnt the lessons to conceive the Arleigh Burke class... From the Gearings to the Kidds51:42Kidd shows the route to BurkeChapter
- How the USN learnt the lessons to conceive the Arleigh Burke class... From the Gearings to the Kidds54:27Hardened computing drives destroyer growthNotable Point
- Bruships 237: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...32:19Tribal-class bow sheerQ&A
- Bruships 237: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:53:46How Japan could stretch the destroyer label beyond IzumoQ&A
- Bruships 237: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:18:18When a destroyer becomes a cruiserQ&A
- France Libre's daring contre-torpilleurs & torpilleur d'escadre; The Free French Destroyers of WWII0:46A great-power fleet beyond Free French reachChapter
- France Libre's daring contre-torpilleurs & torpilleur d'escadre; The Free French Destroyers of WWII1:36Which French ships did the Royal Navy miss most?Q&A
- France Libre's daring contre-torpilleurs & torpilleur d'escadre; The Free French Destroyers of WWII2:42Contre-torpilleurs in task-group doctrineNotable Point
- France Libre's daring contre-torpilleurs & torpilleur d'escadre; The Free French Destroyers of WWII5:01Léopard's training service and changing weaponsChapter
- France Libre's daring contre-torpilleurs & torpilleur d'escadre; The Free French Destroyers of WWII7:29Léopard's Channel fighting and the need for a staff shipChapter
- France Libre's daring contre-torpilleurs & torpilleur d'escadre; The Free French Destroyers of WWII9:23Léopard's Free French commander and wartime pseudonymNotable Point
- France Libre's daring contre-torpilleurs & torpilleur d'escadre; The Free French Destroyers of WWII10:19Léopard's British rearmament and uncertain submarine claimChapter
- France Libre's daring contre-torpilleurs & torpilleur d'escadre; The Free French Destroyers of WWII12:24Trading Léopard's speed for fuel, depth charges, and radarChapter
- France Libre's daring contre-torpilleurs & torpilleur d'escadre; The Free French Destroyers of WWII14:18Léopard and the liberation of La RéunionNotable Point
- France Libre's daring contre-torpilleurs & torpilleur d'escadre; The Free French Destroyers of WWII15:15Tigre's long war with few opportunitiesNotable Point
- France Libre's daring contre-torpilleurs & torpilleur d'escadre; The Free French Destroyers of WWII19:31Le Fantasque and the cruiser-destroyer boundaryNotable Point
- France Libre's daring contre-torpilleurs & torpilleur d'escadre; The Free French Destroyers of WWII23:42Machinery trouble brings Le Triomphant to the Free FrenchChapter
- France Libre's daring contre-torpilleurs & torpilleur d'escadre; The Free French Destroyers of WWII25:10Why high speed in heavy seas damaged destroyer turbinesNotable Point
- France Libre's daring contre-torpilleurs & torpilleur d'escadre; The Free French Destroyers of WWII26:37Le Triomphant's Pacific patrols and ten-month Sydney refitChapter
- France Libre's daring contre-torpilleurs & torpilleur d'escadre; The Free French Destroyers of WWII27:37Le Triomphant's cruiser label and worldwide repair cycleNotable Point
- France Libre's daring contre-torpilleurs & torpilleur d'escadre; The Free French Destroyers of WWII31:40La Terrible from Mers-el-Kebir to CorsicaChapter
- France Libre's daring contre-torpilleurs & torpilleur d'escadre; The Free French Destroyers of WWII33:53How naval treaties pushed destroyers toward cruiser rolesNotable Point
- France Libre's daring contre-torpilleurs & torpilleur d'escadre; The Free French Destroyers of WWII35:18La Terrible as a useful but late Allied assetNotable Point
- France Libre's daring contre-torpilleurs & torpilleur d'escadre; The Free French Destroyers of WWII36:48Why the Bourrasque class's ordinary utility matteredNotable Point
- France Libre's daring contre-torpilleurs & torpilleur d'escadre; The Free French Destroyers of WWII42:53A Polish-crewed Bourrasque-class destroyer without sparesChapter
- France Libre's daring contre-torpilleurs & torpilleur d'escadre; The Free French Destroyers of WWII45:07Mistral from partial scuttling to NormandyChapter
- France Libre's daring contre-torpilleurs & torpilleur d'escadre; The Free French Destroyers of WWII49:40L'Adroit as workhorse design and Dunkirk lossChapter
- France Libre's daring contre-torpilleurs & torpilleur d'escadre; The Free French Destroyers of WWII52:32Alcyon and Basque enter Allied service lateNotable Point
- France Libre's daring contre-torpilleurs & torpilleur d'escadre; The Free French Destroyers of WWII55:21La Combattante's Hunt-class service at NormandyChapter
- France Libre's daring contre-torpilleurs & torpilleur d'escadre; The Free French Destroyers of WWII56:23La Combattante carries de Gaulle and French currency to NormandyChapter
- France Libre's daring contre-torpilleurs & torpilleur d'escadre; The Free French Destroyers of WWII58:49La Combattante's mine loss and the rejected torpedo claimNotable Point
- France Libre's daring contre-torpilleurs & torpilleur d'escadre; The Free French Destroyers of WWII1:00:00Could a larger Free French fleet have supported itself?Notable Point
- Interwar mutinies of the Royal Navy...(Patreon Live)21:06First Destroyer Flotilla and volunteer wordingNotable Point
- Hitler's Destroyers: How Type 1934 & Type 1936 Classes, including their variations were developed...0:00Torpedo-boat roots of German destroyersChapter
- Hitler's Destroyers: How Type 1934 & Type 1936 Classes, including their variations were developed...4:42Versailles and torpedo-boat displacement accountingNotable Point
- Hitler's Destroyers: How Type 1934 & Type 1936 Classes, including their variations were developed...8:47Fleet torpedo boats versus escort workNotable Point
- Hitler's Destroyers: How Type 1934 & Type 1936 Classes, including their variations were developed...11:51Type 1934 fuel ballast, bow spray and stabilityChapter
- Hitler's Destroyers: How Type 1934 & Type 1936 Classes, including their variations were developed...18:22Large destroyers and Narvik firepowerNotable Point
- Hitler's Destroyers: How Type 1934 & Type 1936 Classes, including their variations were developed...22:50Plan Z and individually powerful destroyersNotable Point
- Hitler's Destroyers: How Type 1934 & Type 1936 Classes, including their variations were developed...27:08Hull testing and the limits of scaling designsChapter
- Hitler's Destroyers: How Type 1934 & Type 1936 Classes, including their variations were developed...35:25Why more T1 machinery bought little speedNotable Point
- Hitler's Destroyers: How Type 1934 & Type 1936 Classes, including their variations were developed...40:57Reliable torpedo boats in Germany's small-destroyer roleNotable Point
- Hitler's Destroyers: How Type 1934 & Type 1936 Classes, including their variations were developed...42:23Type 1936 construction lessons before sea trialsChapter
- Hitler's Destroyers: How Type 1934 & Type 1936 Classes, including their variations were developed...47:51Wagner boilers as artisanal machineryNotable Point
- Hitler's Destroyers: How Type 1934 & Type 1936 Classes, including their variations were developed...50:56Reading a Type 1936 armament-source conflictNotable Point
- Hitler's Destroyers: How Type 1934 & Type 1936 Classes, including their variations were developed...56:49Why 5.9-inch guns overburdened the Type 1936ANotable Point
- Hitler's Destroyers: How Type 1934 & Type 1936 Classes, including their variations were developed...1:00:00Narvik and rushed destroyer developmentChapter
- Bruships 236: Naval History Questions Answered Live...47:07Uncertain names for a Chinese Project 7-derived destroyerQ&A
- Bruships 236: Naval History Questions Answered Live...50:04Minimum size for a modern presence shipQ&A
- Bruships 236: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:00:05Fen Yang after Japanese disarmamentQ&A
- Bruships 236: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:05:46A 1930s task group for hunting surface raidersQ&A
- Bruships 236: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:07:40German destroyer stability, heavy guns and fuel restrictionsNotable Point
- Bruships 236: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:04:48Retiring a huge Cold War US escort fleetQ&A
- Bruships 236: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:08:31A French fleet built against Jeune École ideasQ&A
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....4:02Why three high-end destroyers do not make a high-low mixQ&A
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....7:51Small destroyers still need commissioning resourcesNotable Point
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....8:40The shield-and-spear test for destroyersChapter
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....11:01Greyhound's speed margin and balanced armamentNotable Point
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....16:34Speed and firepower before the First World WarChapter
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....23:21Why a 36-knot battle line breaks escort-speed logicQ&A
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....24:49Oil-fired destroyers test technology before capital ships adopt itNotable Point
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....25:43Laforey-class firepower on the eve of warChapter
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....30:20R-class flexibility in wartime productionNotable Point
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....35:59Existing destroyer programmes speed wartime expansionNotable Point
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....36:44Why the Clemson class set an interwar benchmarkChapter
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....40:39Tribal-class guns meet the aircraft threatNotable Point
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....42:20Destroyers become independent diplomatic and combat assetsNotable Point
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....46:29Submerged torpedo tubes on destroyersQ&A
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....48:36A large gun destroyer still needs missilesQ&A
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....49:46The Fletcher class as a general-purpose warshipChapter
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....52:42Why mass fleets rarely buy the perfect destroyerNotable Point
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....54:13Daring-class balance before guided missilesChapter
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....59:42Charles F. Adams combines guided missiles with guns and ASWChapter
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....1:05:27Why the generational examples lean toward benchmark naviesQ&A
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....1:09:22The design lineage from Fletcher to Charles F. AdamsNotable Point
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....1:12:46German destroyer hull variation complicates group operationsNotable Point
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....1:13:40Spruance's size does not guarantee a modern missile magazineNotable Point
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....1:15:31Capability matters more than displacement labelsQ&A
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....1:17:13Arleigh Burke and the networked escort tradeoffNotable Point
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....1:22:57Post-Cold War assumptions and shallow missile magazinesNotable Point
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....1:26:14Redundancy for an independently operating BurkeNotable Point
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....1:29:36Strike-length VLS preserves future weapon choicesChapter
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....1:35:43Why the Maya class is a modern destroyer benchmarkChapter
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....1:42:25How frigates and destroyers divide fleet protectionNotable Point
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....1:55:33Why specialized destroyers miss the general-purpose testQ&A
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....2:05:36Strategic speed may matter more than sprint speedQ&A
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....2:25:48Why twelve destroyers is a precarious global minimumQ&A
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....2:49:08VLS capacity at the destroyer-cruiser boundaryQ&A
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....2:53:48A European fleet balance of destroyers and frigatesQ&A
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....2:59:33Large destroyer hulls offer room for aviation derivativesQ&A
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....4:21Benchmark ships frame the ideal destroyerNotable Point
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....6:05National roles shape destroyer designNotable Point
- Building for the Adriatic: Austro-Hungarian Destroyers of WWI...0:14Why destroyers were a difficult imperial investmentChapter
- Building for the Adriatic: Austro-Hungarian Destroyers of WWI...3:06The Huszars arrived with a conservative destroyer designNotable Point
- Building for the Adriatic: Austro-Hungarian Destroyers of WWI...7:06Wildfang's extra knot and the Huszars' light gunsNotable Point
- Building for the Adriatic: Austro-Hungarian Destroyers of WWI...9:03Warasdin used speed to raid and escape in the AdriaticNotable Point
- Building for the Adriatic: Austro-Hungarian Destroyers of WWI...18:19Austro-Hungarian engineering drew on foreign machinery designsChapter
- Building for the Adriatic: Austro-Hungarian Destroyers of WWI...19:23Why the small Huszars still count as destroyersNotable Point
- Building for the Adriatic: Austro-Hungarian Destroyers of WWI...20:21The Tatra class balanced guns, speed and enduranceChapter
- Building for the Adriatic: Austro-Hungarian Destroyers of WWI...24:55Mixed-fuel boilers gave the Tatras more flexibilityNotable Point
- Building for the Adriatic: Austro-Hungarian Destroyers of WWI...25:36The Durazzo raid began with the submarine Monge and a fog-bound harbour entryChapter
- Building for the Adriatic: Austro-Hungarian Destroyers of WWI...27:32At Durazzo, minefields turned a raid into a rescue problemChapter
- Building for the Adriatic: Austro-Hungarian Destroyers of WWI...30:37Why Durazzo resists a simple victory or defeat labelNotable Point
- Building for the Adriatic: Austro-Hungarian Destroyers of WWI...33:45Helgoland used manoeuvre and darkness to escape the Allied pursuitNotable Point
- Building for the Adriatic: Austro-Hungarian Destroyers of WWI...34:32Full engine power freed a fouled shaft at serious mechanical riskNotable Point
- Building for the Adriatic: Austro-Hungarian Destroyers of WWI...37:17Durazzo exposed the cost of having no modern destroyer reserveNotable Point
- Building for the Adriatic: Austro-Hungarian Destroyers of WWI...38:43A replacement class learned from wartime lossesNotable Point
- Building for the Adriatic: Austro-Hungarian Destroyers of WWI...40:46Adriatic confinement weakened the case for naval fundingChapter
- Building for the Adriatic: Austro-Hungarian Destroyers of WWI...42:32Capable multilingual crews still needed more destroyersNotable Point
- Building for the Adriatic: Austro-Hungarian Destroyers of WWI...43:35Would more Tatras and earlier destroyer investment change the Adriatic war?Q&A
- Cost Efficiency vs Capacity Efficiency0:48Why military capabilities cannot be hired at short noticeNotable Point
- Bruships 235: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...31:12Why a 3,000-ton six-inch destroyer becomes a fragile cruiserQ&A
- Bruships 235: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:42:19What earlier PLA reform could do for Chinese destroyersQ&A
- Bruships 235: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:21:33Coordinating cruisers and destroyers against BismarckNotable Point
- Bruships 235: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:28:27A postwar Royal Canadian Navy built around large escort fleetsQ&A
- Bruships 235: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:12:18Why the Soviet Union could not match 340 American escortsQ&A
- Where has Britain's Royal Navy Gone?1:09:262003 cuts to escorts and submarinesChapter
- Where has Britain's Royal Navy Gone?3:18:09Why long-range missiles belong on escorts, not the carrier deckNotable Point
- What if the Royal Navy's Aircraft Carrier HMS Hermes had sisters in the 1920s? (Patreon Live)1:23:41More carriers also mean more escortsNotable Point
- What if the Royal Navy's Aircraft Carrier HMS Hermes had sisters in the 1920s? (Patreon Live)1:37:12What if carriers arrived with destroyers and sloops?Q&A
- Bruships 234: Naval History Questions Answered Live...34:19Why destroyer captains were not routinely given stimulantsQ&A
- Bruships 234: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:05:33Forrest Sherman as a transitional destroyer classQ&A
- Bruships 234: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:56:52Earlier gas-turbine destroyers and LM2500 adoptionQ&A
- Bruships 234: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:07:11Destroyer commands as a window into Royal Navy family networksQ&A
- Bruships 234: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:21:01The panel's preferred roles in a World War II navyQ&A
- Escaping Hitler's Europe; How the warships of Europe escaped capture in WWII...5:37Peking Plan links naval escape to a Romanian bridgeheadChapter
- Escaping Hitler's Europe; How the warships of Europe escaped capture in WWII...7:44Sealed orders take Polish destroyers to Britain before invasionNotable Point
- Escaping Hitler's Europe; How the warships of Europe escaped capture in WWII...51:20Draug's reactivation exposes the cost of neglected reservesNotable Point
- Escaping Hitler's Europe; How the warships of Europe escaped capture in WWII...53:53Draug prepares for invasion and captures a German supply shipNotable Point
- Escaping Hitler's Europe; How the warships of Europe escaped capture in WWII...1:01:28City of Flint tests Norwegian neutrality before the invasionChapter
- Escaping Hitler's Europe; How the warships of Europe escaped capture in WWII...1:04:20Sleipner and a local militia capture German shipsNotable Point
- Escaping Hitler's Europe; How the warships of Europe escaped capture in WWII...1:07:38Sleipner survives repeated air attack and withdraws when ammunition runs outChapter
- Japan's First Destroyers: How they intimidated the Russian Empire on less than 1000tons...0:00Why the 6-6 fleet still needed light forcesChapter
- Japan's First Destroyers: How they intimidated the Russian Empire on less than 1000tons...4:14Japanese destroyer terms and Russia's torpedo-boat fearsNotable Point
- Japan's First Destroyers: How they intimidated the Russian Empire on less than 1000tons...6:13What the captured Akatsuki reveals about Japanese doctrineNotable Point
- Japan's First Destroyers: How they intimidated the Russian Empire on less than 1000tons...7:16Light forces spread shipbuilding capacity across JapanNotable Point
- Japan's First Destroyers: How they intimidated the Russian Empire on less than 1000tons...13:11Why destroyers began displacing torpedo boatsChapter
- Japan's First Destroyers: How they intimidated the Russian Empire on less than 1000tons...18:26Testing Thornycroft and Yarrow destroyer ideasChapter
- Japan's First Destroyers: How they intimidated the Russian Empire on less than 1000tons...23:41Destroyer speed becomes a tactical weaponNotable Point
- Japan's First Destroyers: How they intimidated the Russian Empire on less than 1000tons...27:45Harusame exposes the trade-offs of domestic designNotable Point
- Japan's First Destroyers: How they intimidated the Russian Empire on less than 1000tons...30:28Domestic destroyer production and the option of foreign adviceNotable Point
- Japan's First Destroyers: How they intimidated the Russian Empire on less than 1000tons...34:33War spreads destroyer production across JapanChapter
- Japan's First Destroyers: How they intimidated the Russian Empire on less than 1000tons...37:12Kamikaze-class lessons for night operationsNotable Point
- Japan's First Destroyers: How they intimidated the Russian Empire on less than 1000tons...39:51Destroyers protect the fighting edge at TsushimaChapter
- Japan's First Destroyers: How they intimidated the Russian Empire on less than 1000tons...47:28Togo turns fleet depth into operational freedomNotable Point
- Japan's First Destroyers: How they intimidated the Russian Empire on less than 1000tons...53:10How Japan balanced its squadrons at TsushimaNotable Point
- Japan's First Destroyers: How they intimidated the Russian Empire on less than 1000tons...55:44Umikaze tests the limits of turbine destroyersNotable Point
- Japan's First Destroyers: How they intimidated the Russian Empire on less than 1000tons...59:09Sakura restores range with proven machineryChapter
- Japan's First Destroyers: How they intimidated the Russian Empire on less than 1000tons...1:02:45Urakaze reopens the turbine and boiler experimentNotable Point
- Japan's First Destroyers: How they intimidated the Russian Empire on less than 1000tons...1:04:16Kaba turns imported knowledge into warship exportsChapter
- Japan's First Destroyers: How they intimidated the Russian Empire on less than 1000tons...1:07:06Why Japan's early destroyers vanished before the Second World WarNotable Point
- Japan's First Destroyers: How they intimidated the Russian Empire on less than 1000tons...1:08:40Why Tsushima's light forces faded from memoryNotable Point
- Top/Bottom 5 inventions/adaptations of RN ships that came from the ships themselves...(Patreon Live)1:29:22The dual-purpose gun the Tribal class neededQ&A
- Top/Bottom 5 inventions/adaptations of RN ships that came from the ships themselves...(Patreon Live)2:06:41Destroyer radar, PPI displays, and night formation keepingNotable Point
- Top/Bottom 5 inventions/adaptations of RN ships that came from the ships themselves...(Patreon Live)2:17:21Why destroyers carried more than one radarQ&A
- Top/Bottom 5 inventions/adaptations of RN ships that came from the ships themselves...(Patreon Live)2:27:42If naval treaties had not limited destroyer numbersQ&A
- Bruships 233: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:08:44Royal Navy port dredging in the 1920sQ&A
- If WWII is delayed, what do the Warships of the 1950s look like?37:03Large destroyers take over small-cruiser dutiesNotable Point
- If WWII is delayed, what do the Warships of the 1950s look like?49:13Destroyers divide into leaders, fleet ships, and escortsChapter
- If WWII is delayed, what do the Warships of the 1950s look like?53:23American destroyer procurement favours prestige over numbersNotable Point
- If WWII is delayed, what do the Warships of the 1950s look like?56:44Large destroyers become small cruisers in practiceNotable Point
- If WWII is delayed, what do the Warships of the 1950s look like?58:31Småland's torpedo turntable suggests a missile retrofit pathNotable Point
- If WWII is delayed, what do the Warships of the 1950s look like?1:08:53Dedicated escorts free destroyers for fleet dutiesNotable Point
- Modern Chinese Destroyers: How the Current People's Liberation Army Navy's surface ships came to be0:00From the Yellow Sea low point to destroyer powerChapter
- Modern Chinese Destroyers: How the Current People's Liberation Army Navy's surface ships came to be30:17Shenzhen bridges imported machinery and Chinese designChapter
- Modern Chinese Destroyers: How the Current People's Liberation Army Navy's surface ships came to be54:43Type 052B, 052C, and 051C test the route to sea controlChapter
- Modern Chinese Destroyers: How the Current People's Liberation Army Navy's surface ships came to be1:09:09Carrier sea control drives the Type 052DChapter
- Modern Chinese Destroyers: How the Current People's Liberation Army Navy's surface ships came to be1:29:46Type 055 presence and Type 052DL massChapter
- Modern Chinese Destroyers: How the Current People's Liberation Army Navy's surface ships came to be1:54:40A future Type 051 could divide carrier and surface-action rolesNotable Point
- Bruships 232: Naval History Questions Answered Live...37:13How Type 42 kept Royal Navy destroyers smallQ&A
- Bruships 232: Naval History Questions Answered Live...54:18The limits of building six warships in one dry dockNotable Point
- Bruships 232: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:00:01What an enlarged Type 45 should gain in missile capacityQ&A
- Bruships 232: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:06:55The Soviet reaction to Akizuki-class war prizesQ&A
- Bruships 232: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:07:16Choosing among Italian, French, Dutch, and Polish interwar destroyersQ&A
- Bruships 232: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:30:19How to refine the Yugumo-class destroyerQ&A
- Bruships 232: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:35:08Why a modern Japanese destroyer needs missile capacity in reserveQ&A
- Bruships 232: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:36:11How directed-energy weapons could fit into a destroyer's defencesQ&A
- Bruships 232: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:18:13What a naval 155 mm gun would need beyond a land weaponQ&A
- Bruships 232: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:37:24Where Mogador and Volta would fit in Free French serviceQ&A
- Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live)1:29:10Did battleships participate in the U-boat sinkings?Q&A
- Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live)2:15:35Akizuki and Fletcher destroyers: design and numbersQ&A
- The Reality of Soviet Naval Presence in the Cold War: Destroyers are the Fleet0:00Why Cold War memory misses destroyersNotable Point
- The Reality of Soviet Naval Presence in the Cold War: Destroyers are the Fleet2:19Gorshkov survives opposition to the surface fleetChapter
- The Reality of Soviet Naval Presence in the Cold War: Destroyers are the Fleet4:09Project 56A brings missiles to a compact destroyerChapter
- The Reality of Soviet Naval Presence in the Cold War: Destroyers are the Fleet6:42Kotlin system layout eases upgrades and influences LudaNotable Point
- The Reality of Soviet Naval Presence in the Cold War: Destroyers are the Fleet12:20Continuous destroyer building links presence to securityNotable Point
- The Reality of Soviet Naval Presence in the Cold War: Destroyers are the Fleet15:04Kildin turns Project 56 toward anti-ship missilesChapter
- The Reality of Soviet Naval Presence in the Cold War: Destroyers are the Fleet17:19Kildin torpedoes develop an ASW roleNotable Point
- The Reality of Soviet Naval Presence in the Cold War: Destroyers are the Fleet19:03ASW requirements support larger Soviet destroyersNotable Point
- The Reality of Soviet Naval Presence in the Cold War: Destroyers are the Fleet27:17Kanin conversions follow weapons as they changeChapter
- The Reality of Soviet Naval Presence in the Cold War: Destroyers are the Fleet33:38Destroyers provide a political backup plan for Soviet naval powerNotable Point
- The Reality of Soviet Naval Presence in the Cold War: Destroyers are the Fleet38:27Kashin becomes the multi-role Soviet destroyer templateChapter
- The Reality of Soviet Naval Presence in the Cold War: Destroyers are the Fleet41:43Kashin's ten-day endurance strengthens the case for larger shipsNotable Point
- The Reality of Soviet Naval Presence in the Cold War: Destroyers are the Fleet52:32Sovremenny spends displacement on flexibilityChapter
- The Reality of Soviet Naval Presence in the Cold War: Destroyers are the Fleet1:00:01Sovremenny turns a destroyer into a status shipNotable Point
- The Reality of Soviet Naval Presence in the Cold War: Destroyers are the Fleet1:06:54Destroyer mass supports Soviet cruiser prestigeChapter
- The Reality of Soviet Naval Presence in the Cold War: Destroyers are the Fleet1:11:29Udaloy's Silex complicates single-role labelsChapter
- The Reality of Soviet Naval Presence in the Cold War: Destroyers are the Fleet1:14:59Why older destroyers receive less attentionNotable Point
- The Reality of Soviet Naval Presence in the Cold War: Destroyers are the Fleet1:15:40A completion gap concealed new destroyer constructionNotable Point
- The Reality of Soviet Naval Presence in the Cold War: Destroyers are the Fleet1:17:47Period analysts expected fewer but stronger destroyersNotable Point
- The Reality of Soviet Naval Presence in the Cold War: Destroyers are the Fleet1:20:15A possible shared helicopter rotationNotable Point
- The Reality of Soviet Naval Presence in the Cold War: Destroyers are the Fleet1:21:01Coordinating Sunburn and Silex attacksChapter
- The Reality of Soviet Naval Presence in the Cold War: Destroyers are the Fleet1:23:10Gorshkov's succession leaves a historiographical questionNotable Point
- The Reality of Soviet Naval Presence in the Cold War: Destroyers are the Fleet1:25:12Udaloy II points toward converging destroyer designsNotable Point
- The Reality of Soviet Naval Presence in the Cold War: Destroyers are the Fleet1:26:31Why Udaloy outlasted Sovremenny in Russian serviceNotable Point
- The Reality of Soviet Naval Presence in the Cold War: Destroyers are the Fleet1:28:47Post-Soviet financial damage delays destroyer replacementNotable Point
- Bruships 231: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...29:02Lider and the value of an unbuilt prestige projectNotable Point
- Bruships 231: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...57:43Replacing Mountbatten in the Fifth Destroyer FlotillaQ&A
- Bruships 231: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:27:38Assembling the worst interwar destroyerQ&A
- Bruships 231: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:49:17Why Austro-Hungarian destroyers mixed gun sizes poorlyQ&A
- What if Force Z(HMS Prince of Wales & HMS Repulse) doesn't get sunk on the 10th of December 1941?18:24Mediterranean losses and repairs constrain Allied reinforcementsNotable Point
- How many Warships does your Navy need?54:27Working out a 35-escort Royal NavyChapter
- How many Warships does your Navy need?59:00A 40-escort fleet creates both surge and recovery capacityChapter
- How many Warships does your Navy need?1:06:54A 32-year replacement cycle for submarines and escortsChapter
- How many Warships does your Navy need?1:17:46US carrier and amphibious groups consume the escort fleetChapter
- Bruships 230: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3rd Start44:08A modern destroyer's guns and radios in earlier naval battlesQ&A
- Bruships 230: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3rd Start49:15The long U.S. Navy search for a true cruiser successorQ&A
- Bruships 230: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3rd Start50:54Would the new large combatant keep the DDG(X) name?Q&A
- Bruships 230: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3rd Start1:00:07Reusing Royal Navy R names for hypothetical battlecruisersQ&A
- Bruships 230: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3rd Start1:11:13Why wartime missile demand drives larger VLS magazinesQ&A
- Bruships 230: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3rd Start1:11:26Deployment range and armament distinguish frigates, corvettes, and patrol vesselsNotable Point
- Trials and Tribulations- why ships go through the testing they do before they enter service54:16Destroyer trial reports preserve collisions as well as performanceQ&A
- Trials and Tribulations- why ships go through the testing they do before they enter service1:55:00A destroyer may gain more from an AEW drone than a fighter droneQ&A
- Trials and Tribulations- why ships go through the testing they do before they enter service2:19:06Longer ASW engagement ranges could return shipboard torpedo tubesQ&A
- Trials and Tribulations- why ships go through the testing they do before they enter service2:22:52Routine aviation capability has to be designed into the shipNotable Point
- Harnessing and Maintaining Thoughtful Aggression! Royal Navy Destroyers of the Interwar Years...0:00Why destroyer fighting edge fades in peacetimeChapter
- Harnessing and Maintaining Thoughtful Aggression! Royal Navy Destroyers of the Interwar Years...3:42Harwich Force turns aggression into a methodChapter
- Harnessing and Maintaining Thoughtful Aggression! Royal Navy Destroyers of the Interwar Years...8:24Vian's handling accident tests the value of candourNotable Point
- Harnessing and Maintaining Thoughtful Aggression! Royal Navy Destroyers of the Interwar Years...11:46R, S, and V/W classes become a design laboratoryChapter
- Harnessing and Maintaining Thoughtful Aggression! Royal Navy Destroyers of the Interwar Years...15:56Destroyers cross from boats to shipsNotable Point
- Harnessing and Maintaining Thoughtful Aggression! Royal Navy Destroyers of the Interwar Years...17:22R and S destroyers share speed but differ in rangeNotable Point
- Harnessing and Maintaining Thoughtful Aggression! Royal Navy Destroyers of the Interwar Years...24:08Effective destroyers need officers, doctrine, and shipsNotable Point
- Harnessing and Maintaining Thoughtful Aggression! Royal Navy Destroyers of the Interwar Years...28:13Why Amazon became the preferred prototypeChapter
- Harnessing and Maintaining Thoughtful Aggression! Royal Navy Destroyers of the Interwar Years...31:03Harwich memory becomes an institutional systemNotable Point
- Harnessing and Maintaining Thoughtful Aggression! Royal Navy Destroyers of the Interwar Years...38:19Easier machinery access reduces maintenance workloadNotable Point
- Harnessing and Maintaining Thoughtful Aggression! Royal Navy Destroyers of the Interwar Years...45:05Night exercises build delegated destroyer commandChapter
- Harnessing and Maintaining Thoughtful Aggression! Royal Navy Destroyers of the Interwar Years...46:19The war manual puts torpedo attack firstNotable Point
- Harnessing and Maintaining Thoughtful Aggression! Royal Navy Destroyers of the Interwar Years...46:45Global commitments make local destroyer dominance essentialNotable Point
- Harnessing and Maintaining Thoughtful Aggression! Royal Navy Destroyers of the Interwar Years...49:07Searchlights can reveal a battle fleet to destroyersNotable Point
- Harnessing and Maintaining Thoughtful Aggression! Royal Navy Destroyers of the Interwar Years...55:00Independent operations push destroyers to growNotable Point
- Harnessing and Maintaining Thoughtful Aggression! Royal Navy Destroyers of the Interwar Years...56:04Alphabet classes grow around the torpedo attackChapter
- Harnessing and Maintaining Thoughtful Aggression! Royal Navy Destroyers of the Interwar Years...58:18Why official torpedo loads omit spare weaponsNotable Point
- Harnessing and Maintaining Thoughtful Aggression! Royal Navy Destroyers of the Interwar Years...1:02:18Published destroyer figures offer an incomplete pictureNotable Point
- Harnessing and Maintaining Thoughtful Aggression! Royal Navy Destroyers of the Interwar Years...1:05:23The E/F and G/H comparison questions a 60-ton savingNotable Point
- Harnessing and Maintaining Thoughtful Aggression! Royal Navy Destroyers of the Interwar Years...1:07:34I-class destroyers add endurance and supporting weaponsNotable Point
- Harnessing and Maintaining Thoughtful Aggression! Royal Navy Destroyers of the Interwar Years...1:09:34Foreign destroyer orders become wartime reinforcementsNotable Point
- Harnessing and Maintaining Thoughtful Aggression! Royal Navy Destroyers of the Interwar Years...1:10:58Torpedo priority shapes destroyer layout and gun supportNotable Point
- Harnessing and Maintaining Thoughtful Aggression! Royal Navy Destroyers of the Interwar Years...1:13:40Flotilla tactics turn torpedo numbers into a weaponNotable Point
- Harnessing and Maintaining Thoughtful Aggression! Royal Navy Destroyers of the Interwar Years...1:14:50Destroyer officers learn fleet command earlyNotable Point
- Harnessing and Maintaining Thoughtful Aggression! Royal Navy Destroyers of the Interwar Years...1:20:05Ideal mass attack meets exercise realityNotable Point
- Harnessing and Maintaining Thoughtful Aggression! Royal Navy Destroyers of the Interwar Years...1:24:05What an early twin 4.7-inch mount might changeNotable Point
- Bruships 229: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:03:09Why an F110 frigate is a poor destroyer baselineQ&A
- Bruships 229: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:17:05Spain must choose between patrol and expeditionary fleetsQ&A
- Bruships 229: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:31:54Why the flush-deck destroyers were not war-emergency designsQ&A
- Bruships 229: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:33:50The Royal Navy escort replacement bottleneckQ&A
- Bruships 229: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:02:34Historical ships with Starbug's fictional resilienceQ&A
- Bruships 229: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:18:11A cruiser-heavy surface group for KoreaQ&A
- Bruships 229: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:49:28What extended-service Iroquois destroyers could contributeQ&A
- The USN's WWI Destroyer Designs... Making Four Stackers Global0:00Four funnels advertised speed and a step beyond torpedo boatsNotable Point
- The USN's WWI Destroyer Designs... Making Four Stackers Global2:26Tucker and Sampson classes set an Atlantic destroyer baselineChapter
- The USN's WWI Destroyer Designs... Making Four Stackers Global4:15Only 26 of 69 American destroyers were thousand-tonnersNotable Point
- The USN's WWI Destroyer Designs... Making Four Stackers Global7:31Yarrow boilers and Brown-Curtis turbines show transatlantic design exchangeNotable Point
- The USN's WWI Destroyer Designs... Making Four Stackers Global9:45The 1915 Naval Act combined fleet planning with a constrained destroyer orderChapter
- The USN's WWI Destroyer Designs... Making Four Stackers Global16:34Small destroyer orders sacrificed economies of scaleNotable Point
- The USN's WWI Destroyer Designs... Making Four Stackers Global22:52Mahan and Sims argued beyond a battleship-only fleetChapter
- The USN's WWI Destroyer Designs... Making Four Stackers Global27:56Six destroyers left only three escorts per new battleshipNotable Point
- The USN's WWI Destroyer Designs... Making Four Stackers Global31:03Destroyer orders needed to precede wartime demandNotable Point
- The USN's WWI Destroyer Designs... Making Four Stackers Global33:21Caldwell-class experiments produced the flush-deck templateChapter
- The USN's WWI Destroyer Designs... Making Four Stackers Global38:20The 1916 Naval Act shifted destroyers to mass procurementChapter
- The USN's WWI Destroyer Designs... Making Four Stackers Global49:43Wickes mass production exposed the cost of rapid yard expansionChapter
- The USN's WWI Destroyer Designs... Making Four Stackers Global53:13The promise of Wickes production freed older destroyers for wartime serviceNotable Point
- The USN's WWI Destroyer Designs... Making Four Stackers Global53:29Wickes was the fourteenth of its class to commissionNotable Point
- The USN's WWI Destroyer Designs... Making Four Stackers Global55:37A deep destroyer reserve made aggressive training affordableNotable Point
- The USN's WWI Destroyer Designs... Making Four Stackers Global56:44Sims learned destroyer command culture from Lewis BaylyChapter
- The USN's WWI Destroyer Designs... Making Four Stackers Global1:00:57An admiral's backing protected junior destroyer commandersNotable Point
- The USN's WWI Destroyer Designs... Making Four Stackers Global1:05:32Bayly and Sims fed practical destroyer lessons into Clemson designChapter
- The USN's WWI Destroyer Designs... Making Four Stackers Global1:07:29Allied navies divided scarce destroyers across the U-boat warNotable Point
- The USN's WWI Destroyer Designs... Making Four Stackers Global1:09:30Clemson design predated meaningful Wickes-class serviceNotable Point
- The USN's WWI Destroyer Designs... Making Four Stackers Global1:12:22Clemsons entered reserve before returning to global serviceChapter
- The USN's WWI Destroyer Designs... Making Four Stackers Global1:14:22Clemson machinery and range supported fleet and overseas serviceChapter
- The USN's WWI Destroyer Designs... Making Four Stackers Global1:16:34Reserve destroyers gave the U.S. Navy room to develop and operateNotable Point
- The USN's WWI Destroyer Designs... Making Four Stackers Global1:17:38Four triple launchers and the case for successive torpedo attacksNotable Point
- The USN's WWI Destroyer Designs... Making Four Stackers Global1:18:54Four funnels gave American destroyers a recognizable silhouetteChapter
- The USN's WWI Destroyer Designs... Making Four Stackers Global1:20:39Can a distinctive warship design justify some engineering compromise?Q&A
- What if Winston Churchill doesn't pause Carriers, Capital Ships & Cruisers in 1939? Patreon Live2:42:25Would the larger fleet prevent Tribal-class bow losses?Q&A
- Bruships 228: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:16:46North Korea's new submarines and aspiring destroyersQ&A
- Bruships 228: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:34:00How long China's older destroyers remain worth upgradingQ&A
- Bruships 228: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:10:07What a genuine Burke Flight IV would requireQ&A
- Who was to blame for Norway falling in 1940?23:13Norway's aging destroyers left coastal ships exposedChapter
- Germany's Torpedo Boats 1890-1913: Torpedo Boats, Destroyers or Something Uniquely German?0:00Why Germany kept building torpedo boatsChapter
- Germany's Torpedo Boats 1890-1913: Torpedo Boats, Destroyers or Something Uniquely German?30:03How did the S90 compare with British turbine destroyers?Q&A
- Germany's Torpedo Boats 1890-1913: Torpedo Boats, Destroyers or Something Uniquely German?37:01Why Royal Navy destroyers grew beyond the S138sNotable Point
- Germany's Torpedo Boats 1890-1913: Torpedo Boats, Destroyers or Something Uniquely German?39:42Cruiser cuts weakened German torpedo-boat support at JutlandNotable Point
- Germany's Torpedo Boats 1890-1913: Torpedo Boats, Destroyers or Something Uniquely German?44:45Arleigh Burke upgrades within an inherited designNotable Point
- Germany's Torpedo Boats 1890-1913: Torpedo Boats, Destroyers or Something Uniquely German?54:47Construction and survivability separate destroyers from torpedo boatsNotable Point
- Germany's Torpedo Boats 1890-1913: Torpedo Boats, Destroyers or Something Uniquely German?1:07:00What if the German fleet ambush became a brawl?Q&A
- Germany's Torpedo Boats 1890-1913: Torpedo Boats, Destroyers or Something Uniquely German?1:17:55Were Germany's large torpedo boats really destroyers?Q&A
- The Tribal Class's Sisters... the Royal Navy's J, K & N Class Destroyers of WWII1:45How the J class complemented the Tribal classChapter
- The Tribal Class's Sisters... the Royal Navy's J, K & N Class Destroyers of WWII3:49Why ten torpedoes changed the attack problemNotable Point
- The Tribal Class's Sisters... the Royal Navy's J, K & N Class Destroyers of WWII22:42The N class adapted the design for wartime air attackChapter
- The Tribal Class's Sisters... the Royal Navy's J, K & N Class Destroyers of WWII24:31Why prewar air exercises understated the danger to destroyersNotable Point
- The Tribal Class's Sisters... the Royal Navy's J, K & N Class Destroyers of WWII47:22Fleet-destroyer generalists and Hunt-class specialistsNotable Point
- 134yrs of evolution: How a Destroyer's Role has evolved from as envisaged in 1892 to 202625:44The first destroyers combined attack and defense before turbinesChapter
- 134yrs of evolution: How a Destroyer's Role has evolved from as envisaged in 1892 to 202635:20Speed made early destroyers both the fleet's shield and swordNotable Point
- 134yrs of evolution: How a Destroyer's Role has evolved from as envisaged in 1892 to 202637:05Sea conditions and fleet needs shaped early destroyer designsNotable Point
- 134yrs of evolution: How a Destroyer's Role has evolved from as envisaged in 1892 to 202640:58Gun positions help distinguish a destroyer from a torpedo boatNotable Point
- 134yrs of evolution: How a Destroyer's Role has evolved from as envisaged in 1892 to 202643:04Harwich Force made destroyers independent surface combatantsChapter
- 134yrs of evolution: How a Destroyer's Role has evolved from as envisaged in 1892 to 202647:23Jutland turned destroyer night fighting into fleet doctrineChapter
- 134yrs of evolution: How a Destroyer's Role has evolved from as envisaged in 1892 to 202650:33Were superfiring guns already appearing on these destroyers?Q&A
- 134yrs of evolution: How a Destroyer's Role has evolved from as envisaged in 1892 to 202651:21Interwar destroyer abundance enabled experimentation and conversion planningChapter
- 134yrs of evolution: How a Destroyer's Role has evolved from as envisaged in 1892 to 20261:01:40Did treaty limits hold back destroyer growth?Q&A
- 134yrs of evolution: How a Destroyer's Role has evolved from as envisaged in 1892 to 20261:05:54Where does the old aggressive destroyer-captain mentality belong today?Q&A
- 134yrs of evolution: How a Destroyer's Role has evolved from as envisaged in 1892 to 20261:11:46Japanese destroyers gained value as individual warshipsChapter
- 134yrs of evolution: How a Destroyer's Role has evolved from as envisaged in 1892 to 20261:16:33Interwar destroyers became general-purpose fleet screensChapter
- 134yrs of evolution: How a Destroyer's Role has evolved from as envisaged in 1892 to 20261:19:52Tribal gun power supported torpedo-heavy flotilla partnersChapter
- 134yrs of evolution: How a Destroyer's Role has evolved from as envisaged in 1892 to 20261:27:39Postwar destroyers absorbed disappearing cruiser rolesChapter
- 134yrs of evolution: How a Destroyer's Role has evolved from as envisaged in 1892 to 20261:33:30Missiles expanded the missions carried by one destroyerChapter
- 134yrs of evolution: How a Destroyer's Role has evolved from as envisaged in 1892 to 20262:32:09Would surviving cruisers have kept destroyers small?Q&A
- 134yrs of evolution: How a Destroyer's Role has evolved from as envisaged in 1892 to 20262:52:31Fleet air defense needs missile magazine depthNotable Point
- 134yrs of evolution: How a Destroyer's Role has evolved from as envisaged in 1892 to 20263:01:43Should the Philippines acquire destroyers?Q&A
- Scuttlebutt 18: Guns & Points of Order9:42Why ASW officers valued pairs of Hunt-class escortsQ&A
- Bruships 227: Naval History Questions Answered Live...17:51A Nordic federation's bases and sea-control problemQ&A
- Bruships 227: Naval History Questions Answered Live...40:48Why the Dutch were a dangerous small naval power in 1939Q&A
- Bruships 227: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:59:27Why early destroyers had limited enduranceQ&A
- Bruships 227: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:03:23Ticonderoga and the wartime meaning of a cruiserQ&A
- Naval Architecture from Turret Ironclads to Super Dreadnoughts: HMS Monarch 1868 & 1911...1:01:04Why Germany kept the torpedo-boat identityNotable Point
- An introduction to Torpedo Boat Destoyers19:12Flotilla defence works as one layer of a balanced fleetChapter
- An introduction to Torpedo Boat Destoyers34:19The torpedo boat destroyer closes the light-force cycleNotable Point
- An introduction to Torpedo Boat Destoyers37:40Low forecastles left early destroyer crews exposedNotable Point
- An introduction to Torpedo Boat Destoyers39:01Speed lets early destroyers control the light-force battleChapter
- An introduction to Torpedo Boat Destoyers43:04Jutland was numerically a destroyer and torpedo battleChapter
- An introduction to Torpedo Boat Destoyers44:18Naval budgets shaped the light-force balance at JutlandNotable Point
- An introduction to Torpedo Boat Destoyers46:23Destroyers shaped Jutland without dominating its historyNotable Point
- An introduction to Torpedo Boat Destoyers48:04Transitional destroyer classes reveal development between the famous designsNotable Point
- Bruships 226: Naval History Questions Answered Live...53:08Vickers, Spanish yards, and the market for smaller warshipsNotable Point
- Bruships 226: Naval History Questions Answered Live...56:13Why China operated Type 052D and Type 055 destroyers togetherQ&A
- Bruships 226: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:06:17Canadian destroyers before the Tribal classQ&A
- Bruships 226: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:14:06Building a European fleet independent of US supportQ&A
- Tragedy & Revenge/Wolfpack... Key Books!25:53Destroyer history through national design philosophiesNotable Point
- Why is a Frigate a Frigate and other questions of modern navys?6:41Why torpedo boats produced the destroyerChapter
- Why is a Frigate a Frigate and other questions of modern navys?24:24Frigate briefly disappeared while corvette enduredNotable Point
- Why is a Frigate a Frigate and other questions of modern navys?38:22A multipolar world restores the naval presence missionChapter
- Why is a Frigate a Frigate and other questions of modern navys?45:49Modern frigate and destroyer labels signal system priorityChapter
- Why is a Frigate a Frigate and other questions of modern navys?48:09Mission bays can carry workshops for long deploymentsNotable Point
- Why is a Frigate a Frigate and other questions of modern navys?51:21The Arleigh Burke class distorts the warship design marketChapter
- Why is a Frigate a Frigate and other questions of modern navys?1:04:24Port visits explain why diplomacy still needs crewed shipsNotable Point
- Bruships 225: Naval History & Current Affairs Questions Answered Live...1:31:00Why US wartime shipbuilding did not prevent early escort shortagesNotable Point
- Bruships 225: Naval History & Current Affairs Questions Answered Live...2:28:46Concerns about the ships needed to replace Arleigh BurkesQ&A
- Bruships 225: Naval History & Current Affairs Questions Answered Live...2:48:58Why a Fletcher-style hull is a poor basis for an optionally crewed sloopQ&A
- Why are Modern Warships getting bigger? (Live)46:35Larger machinery spaces can reduce maintenance labourNotable Point
- Why are Modern Warships getting bigger? (Live)48:59Will frigates grow past today's destroyers?Q&A
- Why are Modern Warships getting bigger? (Live)53:46How treaty limits restrained interwar ship growthQ&A
- Why are Modern Warships getting bigger? (Live)58:33Global presence turns escorts into cruiser-sized shipsChapter
- Why are Modern Warships getting bigger? (Live)1:05:44Threat diversity restarts the small-craft arms cycleChapter
- Why are Modern Warships getting bigger? (Live)2:18:22A World War I destroyer's modern peer is an OPVQ&A
- Why are Modern Warships getting bigger? (Live)2:57:54Radar horizon helps separate destroyers from frigatesQ&A
- Trumps Battleship; A Naval History view on what we know of the Defiant Class so far14:56A battleship cannot solve the Arleigh Burke replacement problemNotable Point
- Trumps Battleship; A Naval History view on what we know of the Defiant Class so far45:43Would other navies follow Defiant with larger ships?Q&A
- Bruships 224: Alternate Naval History Questions Answered Live...21:41Building the worst destroyer of 1939Q&A
- Bruships 224: Alternate Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:12:10Dominion fleets and a West Indies federationQ&A
- Bruships 224: Alternate Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:28:50What extra British destroyers could changeQ&A
- Bruships 224: Alternate Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:30:20When destroyers deserved to winQ&A
- Bruships 224: Alternate Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:13:21Why destroyer steam pressures laggedQ&A
- What changes if the Royal Navy gets a Proper Staff in 1905, instead relying on NID for everything?55:30A post-1908 capital-ship building standardChapter
- Lions not Indefatigables - the Dominions chose to build 13.5in Battlecruisers prior to WWI...1:44:25What follows if the First Scouting Group is destroyed?Chapter
- What the Frigates up with our Frigates? A Bilgepumps Christmas 2025 @Drachinifel& @wgowshipping18:15Crewed frigates could command uncrewed escort groupsChapter
- What the Frigates up with our Frigates? A Bilgepumps Christmas 2025 @Drachinifel& @wgowshipping20:54Frigate ASW and destroyer air-defence rolesQ&A
- Building the Royal Canadian Navy for WWII8:22River covered several Canadian destroyer designsNotable Point
- Bruships 223: Naval History & Science Fiction Questions Answered Live...2:39:48A twin-arm launcher on the County classQ&A
- What the Frigate is wrong with how we buy ships, tanks & aircraft?56:14Enduring military roles and a balanced fleetNotable Point
- Why did Germany & Italy declare war on the USA? & What happens if they don’t?1:23:22Atlantic neutrality patrols versus the Pacific warQ&A
- Why did Germany & Italy declare war on the USA? & What happens if they don’t?1:31:59The Pacific-war aid loophole for BritainNotable Point
- Why did Germany & Italy declare war on the USA? & What happens if they don’t?1:33:48Why modern escorts perform cruiser workNotable Point
- Bruships 222: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:13:17Choosing a game destroyer for the US Navy in 1938Q&A
- Planning for Pearl Harbor: Decisions to Strike at the USN's mid-pacific base...29:02Why a balanced fleet matters more than ship totalsChapter
- Planning for Pearl Harbor: Decisions to Strike at the USN's mid-pacific base...37:40Kido Butai's escort strength and surface riskChapter
- Chatting Books, Amazon & Youtube with Glynn Stewart: #2historians #scifi19:13Fleet Problems and the US Navy's recurring destroyer shortageChapter
- Bruships 221: Naval History Questions Answered Live...52:44A favourable assessment of Zumwalt's hull and power systemQ&A
- Bruships 221: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:07:55A better Allied disposition at Savo IslandQ&A
- Bruships 221: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:31:10Destroyer size, treaty tonnage, and deployable numbersQ&A
- Bruships 221: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:49:40What dismantled tooling means for a Zumwalt restartQ&A
- Bruships 221: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:50:00Why cruisers survive under destroyer and frigate namesQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P8 of 9 - UAD chat requested design testing…21:27How wartime typhoons influenced postwar destroyer designQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P8 of 9 - UAD chat requested design testing…3:10:31Why Russia is unlikely to buy Chinese destroyersQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P8 of 9 - UAD chat requested design testing…8:17:49Which ships would Japan replace after a hypothetical 1929 war?Q&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P8 of 9 - UAD chat requested design testing…8:25:38A qualitative-only treaty transforms British carrier developmentChapter
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P8 of 9 - UAD chat requested design testing…8:27:17Would earlier carrier construction give destroyers dual-purpose guns?Q&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P8 of 9 - UAD chat requested design testing…8:43:02How class themes make warship names memorableChapter
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon20:54Why the US Navy had no direct Black Swan equivalentQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon29:22North Sea endurance versus fleet-keeping speedQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon1:02:04How the French fleet could reshape Britain's 1940 warQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon1:29:01World of Warships can reproduce only fragments of JutlandQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon7:22:25Continuous escort production avoids the shipyard restart penaltyNotable Point
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon7:52:52Philip Vian risked his orders to stay with BismarckQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon7:57:23Towing Pola home would reward unauthorized initiativeQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon8:18:21Destroyers strike at knife-fighting range off Cape BonChapter
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P6 of 9 - The Royal Navy’s Submarine Killers – Black Swans at War8:54:37Why British wartime destroyers aged differentlyQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust34:42Why Germany needed more than battleships to reverse JutlandQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust1:37:01Why American entry in 1915 would not instantly end World War IQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust3:27:06Why promising naval gun calibres become design dead zonesQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust4:11:34Why similar frigate designs can emerge at different timesQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust9:56How Britain might choose naval gun calibers without treatiesQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust14:33How extra anti-aircraft cruisers could change destroyer armamentQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust10:05:35Why the interwar US Navy built many destroyer classesQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress7:26:10Why battleships carried 15-inch shrapnel shellsQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress7:32:25The modernization limits of the Arleigh Burke designQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress7:34:46A proposed general-purpose role for the Zumwalt hullNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress7:50:11Why Flight III deliveries need not immediately replace Flight I BurkesQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress9:10:42Why Cold War JMSDF destroyers retained two forward gunsQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida5:24:48Sicily, Normandy, and authority to protect the landing areaNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida6:27:56Large rockets as an alternative to early torpedoesQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida9:05:32The trap in a cruiser built only to kill destroyersNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida9:15:04Destroyer guns firing antisubmarine projectilesQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida9:23:56Testing the destroyer-killer against attacks from several directionsNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida10:59:49Where the Royal Navy's 5.5-inch guns fitQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II1:46:55Why six-inch guns are a poor destroyer weaponQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II1:50:21Would better anti-aircraft guns save Britain's early carriers?Notable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II2:08:44Why shell size changes the time needed to stop a destroyerNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II2:10:35How better destroyer air defense could compound across campaignsNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II2:15:15Why a 137 mm US destroyer gun was not worth the costQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II2:19:56Why Britain did not standardize on a four-inch dual-purpose gunQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II2:26:36Would four-inch shells penetrate a destroyer's armor?Q&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II2:37:46The production tradeoff between specialized escorts and fleet destroyersNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II2:39:54Turning the Tribal class into a war-emergency escortQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II2:42:39Canada's wartime naval industry and its prewar starting pointQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II2:45:52Why prewar preparation shaped destroyer outputNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II4:30:03The air-defence argument for hypothetical Iranian ship acquisitionsQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy I1:22:15Why a 2,500-ton light cruiser is effectively a destroyerQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy I1:23:52Operation Chariot and the cost of sacrificing CampbeltownQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy I1:24:46Why U.S. naval commitment in the Atlantic rose and fellNotable Point
- Bruships 220: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:26:40A starting book for post-Daring Royal Navy escortsQ&A
- Sergey Georgyevich Gorshkov: The Architect Behind and the Face of the Soviet Navy9:41Rapid promotion in the rebuilding Soviet fleetChapter
- Sergey Georgyevich Gorshkov: The Architect Behind and the Face of the Soviet Navy13:54First command, destroyer training, and the Soviet officer shortageNotable Point
- Andrew Cunningham: Master of Deception7:47Operational command over staff apprenticeshipNotable Point
- Andrew Cunningham: Master of Deception35:16Cunningham challenges wartime ship designsChapter
- Bruships 219: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:05:58Modern combatant labels still conceal specialized design choicesQ&A
- Bruships 219: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:17:40Why US destroyers delayed permanent helicopter facilitiesQ&A
- Bruships 219: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:21:37Congress funds capital ships but neglects escortsQ&A
- What happpens if Admiral "Jackie" Fisher & Admiral R.G.H Henderson Swap Third Sea Lord Tenures?6:17Why a larger destroyer could need fewer engineersNotable Point
- What happpens if Admiral "Jackie" Fisher & Admiral R.G.H Henderson Swap Third Sea Lord Tenures?10:56Fisher's speed doctrine and the limits of RenownChapter
- What happpens if Admiral "Jackie" Fisher & Admiral R.G.H Henderson Swap Third Sea Lord Tenures?1:25:10Would Fisher choose aviation or battleship primacy?Chapter
- What would the World's Major Navys look like in 1950 if WWII didn't happen? (Live)1:05:08Radar-guided weapons reshape capital shipsChapter
- What would the World's Major Navys look like in 1950 if WWII didn't happen? (Live)1:20:53Destroyers divide into fleet and escort rolesChapter
- What would the World's Major Navys look like in 1950 if WWII didn't happen? (Live)1:29:28How many destroyers would the major navies need?Q&A
- What would the World's Major Navys look like in 1950 if WWII didn't happen? (Live)2:44:17Would numbered escort types replace traditional ship names?Q&A
- What would the World's Major Navys look like in 1950 if WWII didn't happen? (Live)2:51:19Which warships would adopt gas turbines first?Q&A
- Bruships 218: New Books! British Telecom is a terrible ISP! Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:37:54Doctrine, range, and the shells actually availableQ&A
- Bruships 218: New Books! British Telecom is a terrible ISP! Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:54:13Why Tribal-class destroyers stayed with the fleetQ&A
- Bruships 218: New Books! British Telecom is a terrible ISP! Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:16:34What Tribal-class torpedo tables leave outNotable Point
- Bruships 218: New Books! British Telecom is a terrible ISP! Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:18:49Why Royal Navy destroyers had to serve globallyNotable Point
- Bruships 218: New Books! British Telecom is a terrible ISP! Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:20:04Heating older destroyers for Arctic convoysQ&A
- Bruships 218: New Books! British Telecom is a terrible ISP! Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:10:27Sketching a multi-carrier US task forceQ&A
- Bruships 218: New Books! British Telecom is a terrible ISP! Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:13:38What an independent Dominion navy should buildQ&A
- Procuring for Peace First Draft32:18Why peacetime commitments imply twenty-four escortsNotable Point
- Procuring for Peace First Draft1:05:09Treaty rules distorted the choice between sloops and destroyersChapter
- Procuring for Peace First Draft1:07:29Presence gives smaller navies a seat at the tableChapter
- Bruships 217: Back from Japan 2025: Jetlag is a Myth - Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:29:53Which modern ships fit the Battle and Weapon class names?Q&A
- Bruships 217: Back from Japan 2025: Jetlag is a Myth - Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:17:47When depth charges damaged surface combatantsQ&A
- Bruships 217: Back from Japan 2025: Jetlag is a Myth - Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:47:32Why seaplane-carrying destroyers failedQ&A
- What happens if the X-1 Cruiser Submarine becomes genesis not a dockyard queen?31:42Article 8 leaves room for powerful escort hullsNotable Point
- What happens if the X-1 Cruiser Submarine becomes genesis not a dockyard queen?39:12Britain matches destroyer orders with Commonwealth sloopsNotable Point
- What happens if the X-1 Cruiser Submarine becomes genesis not a dockyard queen?45:51Foreign cruiser submarines sustain a much larger British escort fleetChapter
- Nuclear Powered Warships: are they worth the cost?13:44Modern escorts often perform cruiser rolesNotable Point
- Flagships for the Dominions; What if the 1922 Washington Naval Treaty gives the Dominions Flagships?2:19Industrial capacity limits Dominion naval expansionNotable Point
- Bruships 215 On the Road Japan 2025: Naval History Questions Answered Live...35:34Tiltrotor drones aboard escortsQ&A
- Bruships 215 On the Road Japan 2025: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:27:17Why modern navies understate ship classesQ&A
- Darings to Countys... and beyond; How Royal Navy Fleet Destroyer design evolved in the Missile Age4:43Daring class as the peak Royal Navy gun destroyerChapter
- Why do Historians never seem to run out of projects?0:48How a destroyer question became a Royal Navy studyNotable Point
- #Japan2025 #ShipShape naval history trip... update 7 Mikasa thinking about Sloops0:00Modern warships as cruisers by functionNotable Point
- What if duing the Battle of Leyte Gulf, Vice Admiral Ching Lee does a Nelson at Copenhagen?25:52Destroyer culture rewarded attacks against stronger shipsNotable Point
- What if duing the Battle of Leyte Gulf, Vice Admiral Ching Lee does a Nelson at Copenhagen?28:23Taffy 3's destroyers stop a superior forceChapter
- What if duing the Battle of Leyte Gulf, Vice Admiral Ching Lee does a Nelson at Copenhagen?29:02Fleet destroyers and destroyer escorts had different jobsNotable Point
- What if duing the Battle of Leyte Gulf, Vice Admiral Ching Lee does a Nelson at Copenhagen?1:05:24A night ambush could destroy Center ForceNotable Point
- What the Royal Navy thought of Coral Sea, Midway and Leyte Gulf?17:24The US Navy's precarious position before MidwayChapter
- What the Royal Navy thought of Coral Sea, Midway and Leyte Gulf?21:28Midway lessons for fighters, torpedo bombers, and screensChapter
- What the Royal Navy thought of Coral Sea, Midway and Leyte Gulf?37:41The Allied advance that set up Leyte GulfChapter
- What the Royal Navy thought of Coral Sea, Midway and Leyte Gulf?45:42How the Shogo diversion opened the road to SamarChapter
- What the Royal Navy thought of Coral Sea, Midway and Leyte Gulf?53:43Leyte Gulf: decisive victory without annihilationChapter
- Bruships 212: Naval History Questions Answered Live...After Power Cut56:15Why destroyer captains had to be told noQ&A
- Bruships 212: Naval History Questions Answered Live...After Power Cut1:13:54The Daring class as the Royal Navy’s dream destroyerQ&A
- Bruships 212: Naval History Questions Answered Live...After Power Cut2:09:12The Royal Navy receives hundreds of Gearing-class destroyers in 1940Q&A
- Bruships 212: Naval History Questions Answered Live...After Power Cut2:21:50A heavily armed modern destroyer conceptQ&A
- Bruships 212: Naval History Questions Answered Live...29:59Why a Black Swan escort cost less than a Tribal destroyerNotable Point
- Bruships 212: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:00:34Songs as memory hooks for Polish destroyers and HMS WarspiteQ&A
- Maya Class: The Ultimate Arleigh Burke Flight IIA or something else?32:01How Maya fits Japan's graduated escort forceChapter
- #2Historians Live: With @Drachinifel comes to chat & build UAD Dreadnoughts that Almost were P32:21:55What should a Type 83 destroyer class be called?Q&A
- Bruships 211: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:04:57What Norway could replace its old coastal-defence ships withQ&A
- Bruships 211: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:08:18Fast destroyers and minelayers for Norway's fjordsNotable Point
- Bruships 211: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:16:42Choosing the Axis destroyer best suited to its theaterQ&A
- Bruships 211: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:53:27A hypothetical 1950 navy built from surplus shipsQ&A
- Bruships 211: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:04:17World War II escorts worth saving as museum shipsQ&A
- HMS Gorgon(HNoMS Nidaros) takes part in the First Battle of Narvik21:44Why confined-water training mattered at NarvikNotable Point
- Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:59:56Why 125 mm did not become a wartime destroyer standardQ&A
- Destroyer Guns of WWII: Why, Why & Why0:00Why destroyer-gun choices reveal doctrineChapter
- Destroyer Guns of WWII: Why, Why & Why3:50Japan's 100 mm gun and the air-defense tradeoffChapter
- Destroyer Guns of WWII: Why, Why & Why6:21Why torpedoes did not remove the need for destroyer gunfireNotable Point
- Destroyer Guns of WWII: Why, Why & Why32:29Swedish 120 mm guns for medium and neutral naviesChapter
- Destroyer Guns of WWII: Why, Why & Why38:30The 4.7-inch gun and British destroyer tacticsChapter
- Destroyer Guns of WWII: Why, Why & Why56:23Italy's 120 mm choice: velocity over rate of fireChapter
- Destroyer Guns of WWII: Why, Why & Why1:02:01Dutch Bofors guns for East Indies operationsChapter
- Destroyer Guns of WWII: Why, Why & Why1:15:23Germany's 127 mm gun and the deployment gapChapter
- Destroyer Guns of WWII: Why, Why & Why1:40:50What large destroyers were expected to do for different naviesNotable Point
- Destroyer Guns of WWII: Why, Why & Why1:44:21Why wartime shipbuilding made destroyers the mass threatNotable Point
- Destroyer Guns of WWII: Why, Why & Why1:48:44The decisive advantage was the whole gun systemNotable Point
- Battle of Actium(31BC); Last Gasp of the Roman Republic26:13History as input to Type 83 destroyer designNotable Point
- Bruships 209: Science Fiction Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:54:50Does the Leander destroyer-sloop fit its interception mission?Q&A
- Zumwalt Class: Defined by Procurment... Destroyed by Politics of Procurement.23:23Why lower-cost destroyer programs escaped interferenceNotable Point
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:40:04Why Abdiel's speed was too costly for a standard destroyerQ&A
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:16:12Admiral Duncan takes four hundred destroyers to the PacificQ&A
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:33:17A 1919 cruiser's secondary guns and destroyer developmentNotable Point
- If Force Z survived... if HMS Prince of Wales & HMS Repulse what would the RN have done with them?23:00Destroyer command culture favors decisive responsibilityNotable Point
- If Force Z survived... if HMS Prince of Wales & HMS Repulse what would the RN have done with them?27:18ABDA concentrates its scattered ships around Force ZChapter
- What changes if the Royal Navy Tribal class got built with 4.5in guns?20:02Standardization spreads beyond the Tribal classChapter
- Bruships 207: Naval History Questions Answered Live...37:05Locating a destroyer's center of massQ&A
- Bruships 207: Naval History Questions Answered Live...58:39Aggression, mistakes, and destroyer command cultureNotable Point
- Bruships 207: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:04:03Why British destroyers kept the 21-inch torpedoQ&A
- Bruships 207: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:20:23Warship designs dangerous to their own crewsQ&A
- Bruships 207: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:03:45Swapping Allied cruisers and destroyers between theatersQ&A
- Bruships 207: Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:34:21A tripled Dutch naval budget before 1940Q&A
- #2Historians Special: @Drachinifel comes to chat Dreadnoughts that Almost were P1 of ?1:12:37America built battleships without a balanced fleet screenChapter
- #2Historians Special: @Drachinifel comes to chat Dreadnoughts that Almost were P1 of ?1:20:16Mahan's naval influence and the neglected fleet screenNotable Point
- Bruships 206: Naval History Questions Answered Live...(Continued)59:11Who could build useful warships before World War IIQ&A
- Bruships 206: Naval History Questions Answered Live...(Continued)1:23:01Railguns on Japan's future BMD shipsQ&A
- Bruships 206: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:56:42HMS Amazon was technically possible earlierQ&A
- Procurement for Peace: Second Draft2:03:27Why the X1's 5.2-inch gun did not become a destroyer weaponQ&A
- Procurement for Peace: Second Draft2:20:52What type means in naval terminologyQ&A
- Procurement for Peace: Second Draft2:21:37Why Japan, Korea, and China build warships fasterQ&A
- Bruships 205: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:15:42Tribal-class destroyer Atlantic rangeQ&A
- Bruships 204: Naval History Questions Answered Live...16:08Why Yumi was unlikely as a Japanese warship nameQ&A
- Fortress Crete: What if the Greek Government had invested in Crete in the 1920s & 30s?50:42Italy faces a dangerous commitment off CreteNotable Point
- Admiral Richardson: The USN's Japan War Seer & First Casualty of Roosevelts Hawaii Gambit29:40Broadening command and staff experienceChapter
- Admiral Sergey Gorshkov: Life, Lessons & Writings of the man who Conceived the Cold War Soviet Navy28:27Gorshkov's first destroyer connected Imperial and Soviet fleetsNotable Point
- Admiral Sergey Gorshkov: Life, Lessons & Writings of the man who Conceived the Cold War Soviet Navy40:27Destroyer construction and Lake Khasan broadened Gorshkov's preparationNotable Point
- Cruiser-borne aviation of the major navies; aspirations, doctrine & realities of this capability2:10:30The modern descendants of cruiser aviationQ&A
- Bruships 202: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:52:51The minimum crew needed to move a Tribal-class destroyerQ&A
- Bruships 202: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:49:12How Western Anatolia would reshape Greek naval planningQ&A
- Why didn't the Royal Navy go for High Pressure boilers & what if they got 850psi boilers in 1934?25:58The G class becomes the destroyer test fleetNotable Point
- Why didn't the Royal Navy go for High Pressure boilers & what if they got 850psi boilers in 1934?1:02:56A stronger fleet changes deterrence and destroyer designChapter
- Why didn't the Royal Navy go for High Pressure boilers & what if they got 850psi boilers in 1934?1:05:33The Tribal class can trade power for survivabilityNotable Point
- Attacking Pearl Harbour: The Decisions that led to the Japanese Planning…1:02:27Was Nagumo too cautious to command Kido Butai?Q&A
- Bruships 201: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:46:25Why pre-Fletcher destroyers came in many small classesQ&A
- Bruships 201: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:18:24What would follow the Gearing class in a longer World War II?Q&A
- Chūichi Nagumo: The Creation of the Kidō Butai's Kaigun Chūjō15:16Destroyer command and attrition warfareChapter
- Chūichi Nagumo: The Creation of the Kidō Butai's Kaigun Chūjō20:22Overseas study, China service, and teachingChapter
- Bruships 200: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:24:57Rearming Tribal-class destroyers with 5.25-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships 200: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:19:04Why prewar US destroyers came in many small classesQ&A
- Bruships 200: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:45:26How a 24-knot Dreadnought raises every fleet speedQ&A
- 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
- Plan Z: What was the Concept of Operations behind it? Tirpitz Mk II or something else?44:01Capital-ship ambition crowded out essential escortsNotable Point
- Bruships 199: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:04:04Destroyer layouts in UAD and Rule the Waves 3Q&A
- Bruships 199: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:11:01Destroyer tow proposals and the limits of personal archival accountsQ&A
- Bruships 199: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:58:12An early 5.25-inch dual-purpose gun standardizes the Royal NavyQ&A
- Bruships 199: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:25:36Sustained Canadian naval spending builds two-ocean escort fleetsQ&A
- Pom-Pom or Bofors: Which 40mm do you want?4:02Layered air defense ends with one aircraft and one evasive decisionNotable Point
- Pom-Pom or Bofors: Which 40mm do you want?34:37Mark VIII mountings spread medium AA down the fleetNotable Point
- What happens to WWI if the Royal Navy got a full Admiralty Staff when the General Staff came to be?1:09:01Dominion naval integration and global trade protectionChapter
- Admiral Nelles: The man who built the Royal Canadian Navy of WWII23:05Why Canada's River class was not one destroyer designNotable Point
- Admiral Nelles: The man who built the Royal Canadian Navy of WWII23:35The interwar sloop opportunity Canada missedNotable Point
- Admiral Nelles: The man who built the Royal Canadian Navy of WWII28:48A two-destroyer-a-year path to readinessNotable Point
- Admiral Nelles: The man who built the Royal Canadian Navy of WWII29:17Why escort comparisons can misleadNotable Point
- Admiral Nelles: The man who built the Royal Canadian Navy of WWII48:13A counterfactual Canadian fleet for 1939Notable Point
- Bruships 198: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:28:54Capital ships were often more valuable covering a towQ&A
- Bruships 198: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:46:40Yamato might reach the battle line but would not be capturedQ&A
- Admiral King: America's Champion of Preparation they didn't turn too till too late!5:27Torpedoes, staff work, and King's first destroyer commandsChapter
- Bruships 197: Naval History Questions Answered Live...39:39Portugal's small but useful Second World War navyQ&A
- Bruships 197: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:13:42Repairing North Korea's damaged new destroyerQ&A
- Bruships 197: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:58:23What an all-Sumner US destroyer fleet changes in 1941Q&A
- Submarines of the Minor Navys...Polish, Greek, Dutch & Norwegian Boats in WWII3:03:40Why Norway's Sleipner class were torpedo boats in all but nameNotable Point
- Submarines of the Minor Navys...Polish, Greek, Dutch & Norwegian Boats in WWII3:23:53Why a refloated North Korean destroyer could remain unsafeQ&A
- Bruships 196: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:43:35The QH-50 DASH as a destroyer's remote ASW weaponQ&A
- Battle of Jutland: The Strategic Leadership which both defined it and denied it satisfaction6:18The High Seas Fleet's top-heavy force structureChapter
- Battle of Jutland: The Strategic Leadership which both defined it and denied it satisfaction1:09:56The Harwich Force was left out of the battleNotable Point
- Battle of Tsushima: Leadership, Logisitics and Lessons to be learned1:40:00A balanced fleet beat arithmetic gun countingChapter
- Battle of Tsushima: Leadership, Logisitics and Lessons to be learned1:48:28The early mobilization Russia did not attemptNotable Point
- Bruships 195: Naval History Questions Answered Live...50:06Could Germany spend battleship savings on cruisers and destroyers?Q&A
- Bruships 195: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:14:59Classifying North Korea's new large combatantsQ&A
- Bruships 195: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:03:31Was the Somers class still designed around torpedoes?Q&A
- Bruships 195: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:48:10HMS Zubian and German fears of secret British shipyardsQ&A
- Bruships 195: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:09:20When small warships rammed larger opponentsQ&A
- Bruships 195: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:41:44The Scrap Iron Flotilla with modern destroyers of its own periodQ&A
- Didos, Atlantas & Conversions: Which were the true Screening, Scouting or AA Cruisers of WWII?11:39The Dido requirement was fleet screeningChapter
- 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
- Didos, Atlantas & Conversions: Which were the true Screening, Scouting or AA Cruisers of WWII?1:16:44Radar changed the balance of Dido guns and close air defenseNotable Point
- Bruships 194: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:04:38Replacing the Clemson swarm and raising battleship speedNotable Point
- Bruships 194: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:12:33Five Tribal-class destroyers worth preservingQ&A
- Not a Top 10 Mad Destroyer Captains of World War II List0:34Why destroyer command rewarded calculated aggressionChapter
- Not a Top 10 Mad Destroyer Captains of World War II List23:44Why Taffy 3's destroyers had to lead the defenseNotable Point
- Not a Top 10 Mad Destroyer Captains of World War II List25:51The screen's duty to absorb attacks meant for capital shipsNotable Point
- Not a Top 10 Mad Destroyer Captains of World War II List1:02:31The HMS Somali baked-bean story as destroyer oral historyNotable Point
- Not a Top 10 Mad Destroyer Captains of World War II List1:11:10What modern fleets lost with the riskable destroyerNotable Point
- Admiral Scheer: Germany's answer to the wrong question?1:14:17Neither fleet controlled the night battleChapter
- Admiral Scheer: Germany's answer to the wrong question?1:16:55Jutland loss claims reveal operational confusionNotable Point
- Jellicoe's Jutland: Analytical leadership at its best and its most problematic17:59Why warrior ethos cannot replace command specializationNotable Point
- Jellicoe's Jutland: Analytical leadership at its best and its most problematic1:19:44Jellicoe's legacy of quiet professional leadershipChapter
- Bruships 193: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:50:20How destroyer flotillas cultivated extreme aggressionQ&A
- Bruships 193: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:44:42Why drones may not merge frigates and destroyersQ&A
- How Pursuing Peace(with bonus cost cutting) can lead to War: 1930s London Naval Treaty Leadership6:05Keeping naval professionals outside the treaty roomNotable Point
- How Pursuing Peace(with bonus cost cutting) can lead to War: 1930s London Naval Treaty Leadership55:30A. V. Alexander faces the fleet his treaty curtailedNotable Point
- How Pursuing Peace(with bonus cost cutting) can lead to War: 1930s London Naval Treaty Leadership1:04:22Equal submarine tonnage masks unequal global missionsNotable Point
- How Pursuing Peace(with bonus cost cutting) can lead to War: 1930s London Naval Treaty Leadership1:06:57Wakatsuki wins Japan's practical 7:10 gainsChapter
- Bring in the Heavies... AA Cruisers in WWII, what was their value?28:57How fleet exercises underestimated attacks on destroyersNotable Point
- Bring in the Heavies... AA Cruisers in WWII, what was their value?2:27:20Why the US Navy built few Atlanta-class cruisersChapter
- Bruships 192: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:31:00Why Canada calls its Type 26 a destroyerQ&A
- Bruships 192: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:45:04What an early 5-inch/54 gun would change in the wartime US NavyQ&A
- Were Coastal Defences worth it in WWII?3:28Narvik cost Germany the crews needed to rebuild its destroyer armNotable Point
- Simone Antonio Pacoret de Saint Bon: Father of the Regia Marina36:07Sejong the Great versus Arleigh Burke: capability and numbersNotable Point
- Leadership of the 1930 London Naval Treaty1:28:51A Royal Navy without London construction limitsNotable Point
- Leadership of the 1930 London Naval Treaty2:44:27Why twin 4-inch guns suited sloops better than a 6-inch gunQ&A
- Coastal defenses in WWII: Why did they fail to stop so many amphibious operations?2:36:15Destroyers could provide more responsive shore fire than battleshipsNotable Point
- General George S. Hammond USAF: A Science Fiction Flag/General Officer who lives up to the rank!1:15:00Modern destroyer development and the danger of design by committeeNotable Point
- Bruships 189: Naval History Questions Answered Live...57:38Which wartime ship classes should have been replaced?Q&A
- Bruships 189: Naval History Questions Answered Live...58:16Why the Weapon class was not simply a late-war redundancyNotable Point
- Bruships 189: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:06:31Why Shimakaze's torpedo-heavy role was already fadingNotable Point
- Bruships 189: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:55:09Why the US Navy's 5.4-inch gun went nowhereQ&A
- What happens if Pearl Harbor is empty on the 7th of December?1:38What the Pacific Fleet could take to seaChapter
- What happens if Pearl Harbor is empty on the 7th of December?46:15Rendezvous with Lexington and EnterpriseChapter
- Scuttlebutt 21st Century Battleship: Chat & Comment Response...40:14Extra roles drive destroyer growthNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 21st Century Battleship: Chat & Comment Response...41:28Presence ships changed names more than sizeQ&A
- Dalrymple Hamilton: The Captain of HMS Rodney who believed she could be a destroyer6:36A destroyer officer shaped by speed and early commandChapter
- Dalrymple Hamilton: The Captain of HMS Rodney who believed she could be a destroyer15:10World War I command, collisions, and retained confidenceChapter
- Dalrymple Hamilton: The Captain of HMS Rodney who believed she could be a destroyer25:01Why destroyer service produced senior naval leadersNotable Point
- Dalrymple Hamilton: The Captain of HMS Rodney who believed she could be a destroyer28:18Why expanding missions made destroyers largerNotable Point
- Dalrymple Hamilton: The Captain of HMS Rodney who believed she could be a destroyer31:37Reserve readiness and the Fourth Destroyer FlotillaChapter
- Dalrymple Hamilton: The Captain of HMS Rodney who believed she could be a destroyer2:05:32Destroyer growth and a command-culture legacyChapter
- The Battle Line Sallied Forth: the USN Pacific Fleet goes to sea on the 6th of December 19418:39The Pacific Fleet battle line on 6 December 1941Chapter
- The Battle Line Sallied Forth: the USN Pacific Fleet goes to sea on the 6th of December 19411:20:40The sortie empties Pearl Harbor's naval screenNotable Point
- Tribal, Battle & Daring Class Destroyers: 5yrs since the first live stream!44:08Daring versus Forrest Sherman as postwar gun destroyersQ&A
- Tribal, Battle & Daring Class Destroyers: 5yrs since the first live stream!46:26Daring's ancestry in a larger prewar L-class designNotable Point
- Tribal, Battle & Daring Class Destroyers: 5yrs since the first live stream!3:47:12Designing a gun-based modern air-defense destroyerQ&A
- The Life of Admiral Sir Frederick Hew George Dalrymple-Hamilton: When Speed is never enough!17:58Destroyers as a school of commandNotable Point
- The Life of Admiral Sir Frederick Hew George Dalrymple-Hamilton: When Speed is never enough!22:31HMS Garry's machinery and seventy-person crewNotable Point
- The Life of Admiral Sir Frederick Hew George Dalrymple-Hamilton: When Speed is never enough!24:41Did First World War destroyers hot-bunk?Q&A
- The Life of Admiral Sir Frederick Hew George Dalrymple-Hamilton: When Speed is never enough!26:34A rapid succession of First World War commandsChapter
- The Life of Admiral Sir Frederick Hew George Dalrymple-Hamilton: When Speed is never enough!42:07Why destroyer officers became wartime admiralsNotable Point
- The Life of Admiral Sir Frederick Hew George Dalrymple-Hamilton: When Speed is never enough!59:43HMS Keppel shows how destroyers grew after 1918Chapter
- The Life of Admiral Sir Frederick Hew George Dalrymple-Hamilton: When Speed is never enough!1:06:45The Nore reserve flotilla links people, ships, and dockyardsChapter
- The Life of Admiral Sir Frederick Hew George Dalrymple-Hamilton: When Speed is never enough!1:12:02The Royal Navy's ideal of a small-ship manNotable Point
- The Life of Admiral Sir Frederick Hew George Dalrymple-Hamilton: When Speed is never enough!1:17:37The Fourth Flotilla rehearses anti-raider tacticsChapter
- The Life of Admiral Sir Frederick Hew George Dalrymple-Hamilton: When Speed is never enough!1:22:39Piorun's attack belonged to a coordinated destroyer operationNotable Point
- The Life of Admiral Sir Frederick Hew George Dalrymple-Hamilton: When Speed is never enough!1:29:11Why could Royal Navy engineers push machinery so hard?Q&A
- The Life of Admiral Sir Frederick Hew George Dalrymple-Hamilton: When Speed is never enough!3:18:13Did destroyers prefer capturing enemy ships?Q&A
- The Life of Admiral Sir Frederick Hew George Dalrymple-Hamilton: When Speed is never enough!3:30:23Closing Bismarck for a destroyer torpedo attackNotable Point
- Leading the Japanese 1890s Six-Six Fleet Plan! Taikan Kyohō Shugi & the Origins of the Yamato Class49:59The fleet hidden behind the Six-Six headlineChapter
- Leading the Japanese 1890s Six-Six Fleet Plan! Taikan Kyohō Shugi & the Origins of the Yamato Class1:14:39Destroyers and torpedo boats gave the battle fleet clawsChapter
- Mary Rose to Victory: How the Wooden Wall Grew as both forest and trees40:59Why large warships retained an adaptation advantageNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 9 - A long time coming...13:01How prescriptive naval treaties limited fleet adaptationNotable Point
- How Admirals Shape Ships? From the Frigate built Galleons to Arleigh Burkes...1:44:19Successive CNOs shape the Arleigh Burke classChapter
- Bruships 186: Naval History Questions Answered Live...22:55Were FRAM destroyers really frigates?Q&A
- An Indomitable Force Z16:38Indomitable would probably bring a much larger destroyer screenChapter
- An Indomitable Force Z22:07Older destroyers remained useful ASW and AA assetsNotable Point
- Bruships 185: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:45:29Direct steam, turbo-electric, and diesel-electric drivesQ&A
- Bruships 185: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:59:03A surviving Soviet Navy's answer to Arleigh BurkeQ&A
- Bruships 185: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:34:37Småland's guns and subdivisionNotable Point
- What if HMS Indomitable replaced Prince of Wales in Force Z?19:28The U.S. destroyers that might have reinforced Force ZNotable Point
- What if HMS Indomitable replaced Prince of Wales in Force Z?2:10:41How U.S. ship types shape who receives a naval namesakeQ&A
- What if HMS Indomitable replaced Prince of Wales in Force Z?2:25:20Would an earlier victory prevent the Daring-class destroyers?Q&A
- Seaplane Tenders: An Earlier Answer to the Battle of the Atlantic?25:39Trade protection was an insurance argumentChapter
- The Royal Navy's Transition from Coal to Oil: HMS Spiteful to HMS Queen Elizabeth47:01HMS Spiteful demonstrated oil's operating advantagesChapter
- Greenwich Naval College: The Royal Navy's University of Command34:37Frederic Fisher prepares all-round officers for wartime expansionChapter
- Greenwich Naval College: The Royal Navy's University of Command51:03Augustus Agar models aggressive professional leadershipChapter
- Bruships 183: Science Fiction/Naval History Questions Answered Live...30:29What Tribal-class destroyers attacked in World War IIQ&A
- Bruships 183: Science Fiction/Naval History Questions Answered Live...55:50Why larger submarine guns would struggle against destroyer escortsNotable Point
- Bruships 183: Science Fiction/Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:25:47Why the Arleigh Burke class is still a production-line warshipQ&A
- Bruships 182: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:02:59Where nuclear propulsion fits an American escort fleetQ&A
- Bruships 182: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:50:57How many destroyers lost their bows in World War II?Q&A
- Bruships 182: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:35:05Why HMS Glowworm met Admiral Hipper aloneQ&A
- Bruships 182: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:28:28The 5-inch gun was the practical destroyer ceilingQ&A
- Bruships 182: Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:10:58The next HMS Renown is more likely to be a Type 83 destroyerQ&A
- Bruships 182: Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:11:42Why restarting Zumwalt production would cost like a new programQ&A
- Bruships 181: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:08:58Repairing Germany's World War II destroyer designQ&A
- Bruships 181: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:13:46German destroyer range and the problem of reaching the AtlanticNotable Point
- Royal Navy gets activist for Research & Development from 1900 onwards...20:59Why cruisers and destroyers made safer experimental platformsNotable Point
- Tōgō Heihachirō: Victor of Tsushima & Japan's Nelson...24:29When naval competition still included shared ideasNotable Point
- Tōgō Heihachirō: Victor of Tsushima & Japan's Nelson...1:21:44Choosing the ground for decisive battle at TsushimaChapter
- The Admiralty: A Contest of Leadership with Management... Naval History Live3:34:21Why interwar submarine danger did not guarantee escort fundingQ&A
- Bruships 180: Naval History Questions Answered...Part II1:38:52Why new Second World War Darings would not fit a modern fleetQ&A
- Bruships 180: Naval History Questions Answered...Part II2:03:32Why Taffy 3 destroyers kept fighting after heavy hitsQ&A
- So what about the Jeune Ecole made the Hoche and other French BattleHotels inevitable?0:00Jeune École as a warning against one-technology fleetsChapter
- Bruships 179: Future Projects & Naval History Questions...3:14:09Can firing a ship's ammunition affect stability?Q&A
- Bruships 179: Future Projects & Naval History Questions...3:22:39Zubian: the destroyer made from two damaged shipsQ&A
- The Leadership Factor: The Battle of the Barents Sea9:02Tactical commanders, darkness, and independent actionChapter
- The Leadership Factor: The Battle of the Barents Sea1:29:54Official armament lists could miss wartime crew modificationsNotable Point
- The Leadership Factor: The Battle of the Barents Sea1:43:32A nearby return convoy could have trapped the German forceNotable Point
- The Leadership Factor: The Battle of the Barents Sea1:50:59Early destroyer losses restricted Germany's later operationsNotable Point
- Bruships 178: Naval History or Exercise1:09:42Where modern frigates, destroyers, and cruisers divergeQ&A
- Bruships 178: Naval History or Exercise1:34:46What would make Japan abandon the Type 93 Long Lance?Q&A
- Bruships 178: Naval History or Exercise1:40:40Choosing the best destroyer of World War IIQ&A
- Bruships 178: Naval History or Exercise2:15:44Destroyer captains who attacked much heavier shipsQ&A
- Bruships 177: New Year, same Dr Alex... possibly with new gym membership43:17When leaving a Tribal-class destroyer looked like promotion or punishmentQ&A
- Bruships 177: New Year, same Dr Alex... possibly with new gym membership56:22Why a Tachibana-class escort could not safely chase much more speedQ&A
- Bruships 177: New Year, same Dr Alex... possibly with new gym membership1:20:20Why no single ship owns the Second World War damage recordQ&A
- Bruships 177: New Year, same Dr Alex... possibly with new gym membership2:14:43The limited surface-combat value of Tenryu and TatsutaQ&A
- Bruships 177: New Year, same Dr Alex... possibly with new gym membership3:42:57How Barents Sea destroyer tactics differed from Johnston at SamarQ&A
- Battle of the Barents Sea: Naval History Live14:27Command from destroyer bridge to national strategyChapter
- Battle of the Barents Sea: Naval History Live14:27How damage restrictions helped British destroyers control the fightNotable Point
- Battle of the Barents Sea: Naval History Live24:10How destroyer service built trust and wartime command skillNotable Point
- Battle of the Barents Sea: Naval History Live42:43Why Deutschland-class guns struggled against maneuvering destroyersNotable Point
- Battle of the Barents Sea: Naval History Live49:21How elite destroyer identity reinforced command standardsNotable Point
- Battle of the Barents Sea: Naval History Live2:05:16Specialized British escorts and a flexible fighting screenChapter
- Battle of the Barents Sea: Naval History Live2:17:25Achates and the hard service of the early interwar destroyersNotable Point
- Battle of the Barents Sea: Naval History Live3:14:22The torpedo strength behind HMS Anson's distant coverNotable Point
- Battle of the Barents Sea: Naval History Live3:18:44Was carrying spare torpedoes on deck worth the risk?Q&A
- Square Pegs for Round Holes: When it's not a bad Admiral but the wrong job for that Admiral35:42Lütjens belonged with destroyers and light forcesChapter
- Square Pegs for Round Holes: When it's not a bad Admiral but the wrong job for that Admiral55:17Specialists can be misassigned at every naval rankNotable Point
- Prof Capt Armstrong & Dr C Discuss the value of Mahan, Corbett & Sims today? #2Historians Ep 62:13:34Destroyers as a school for wartime commandNotable Point
- Convoys: When, Why & What, the Benefits & the Negatives…35:58Material limits behind anti-convoy decisionsNotable Point
- Convoys: When, Why & What, the Benefits & the Negatives…37:17Why Grand Fleet destroyers could not simply escort convoysNotable Point
- Bruships 176: Christyear or Newmas?47:14Forrest Sherman destroyers as adaptable general-purpose shipsQ&A
- Bruships 176: Christyear or Newmas?1:50:32Smoke screens could save convoys and isolate a destroyerQ&A
- Bruships 176: Christyear or Newmas?1:56:58World War I navies used broadly similar smoke-generation methodsQ&A
- Bruships 176: Christyear or Newmas?2:55:42Destroyer standardization cannot ignore Japanese shipyardsQ&A
- Bruships 176: Christyear or Newmas?4:08:22The Royal Navy found wartime work for any serviceable old destroyerQ&A
- Battle of Elli(1912): When Regional Powers Go to War33:02Cruiser design begins with endurance and habitabilityNotable Point
- Battle of Elli(1912): When Regional Powers Go to War42:33Averof gives Greece a decisive speed optionChapter
- Battle of Elli(1912): When Regional Powers Go to War42:46A cancelled Argentine order modernizes the Greek destroyer forceNotable Point
- Tribal Class of 1907: The WWI Channel Response Force0:00Why 1907 destroyers were short-range response shipsChapter
- Tribal Class of 1907: The WWI Channel Response Force4:12High-speed operations wear out destroyers and shape postwar fleetsNotable Point
- Tribal Class of 1907: The WWI Channel Response Force23:34Hawthorn Leslie links locomotive engineering to destroyer buildingNotable Point
- Tribal Class of 1907: The WWI Channel Response Force58:34Palmers' collapse removes a proven warship yardNotable Point
- Prof Mercogliano & Dr C Discuss What is going on with Logistics(Shipping)? #2Historians Ep 546:18Queenstown made concentrated destroyer escort possibleQ&A
- Prof Mercogliano & Dr C Discuss What is going on with Logistics(Shipping)? #2Historians Ep 550:43World War I suppression tactics anticipated hunter-killer groupsNotable Point
- Bruships 175: Pre- Christmas Party 20247:23A Christmas shelf of destroyers, U-boats, shipyards, cruisers, and naval aircraftChapter
- Bruships 175: Pre- Christmas Party 20242:40:51A book on the Tribal, Battle, and Daring-class destroyersQ&A
- Bruships 175: Pre- Christmas Party 20244:26:55Which warships carried surgeons and doctors?Q&A
- A Hearts of Iron Christmas 2... For Shipshape & Christmas, it's HOI4 with @GariusTheBrit13:05Armor choices, destroyer designs, and an abstract naval modelQ&A
- A Hearts of Iron Christmas... For Shipshape & Christmas, it's HOI4 with @GariusTheBrit40:33An impossible refit in HOI4's Swedish fleetNotable Point
- Battle of Elli1:25:11British-built Greek destroyers outmatch Ottoman torpedo boatsNotable Point
- Battle of Elli1:25:11Greek destroyers and Georgios Averof create a speed advantageChapter
- Prof Bennet & Dr C Discuss Naval Culture: does it exist & whether it matters? #2Historians ep 457:08How Tribal-class crews became the elite of the eliteNotable Point
- Bruships 174: Ten Days to Christmas... have I got the lights up yet?2:33:34A larger Canadian navy in the First World WarQ&A
- Anti Submarine Warfare, a primer history & overview2:27:34When will navies build less cruise-oriented warships?Q&A
- Glynn Stewart & Alex Discuss How Do You Create a Science Fiction Fleet? #2Historians ep 339:08Good space battles use established ships and distinctive commandersChapter
- Glynn Stewart & Alex Discuss How Do You Create a Science Fiction Fleet? #2Historians ep 31:35:11Ship visits can correct damage-control reportingNotable Point
- Just 10 Days of Submarine Sinkings1:22:39The torpedoes Nagato avoided destroy UrakazeNotable 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...17:30Warships designed for future radarNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 8: Beatty, Sopwith Cuckoos, Carriers & the Defence Debate...1:42Why British carriers relied on escorts instead of torpedoesNotable Point
- WWI in the English Channel... A Primer on Years of Hard Forgotten Fighting17:09The 1905 Tribal-class destroyers become the reaction forceChapter
- WWI in the English Channel... A Primer on Years of Hard Forgotten Fighting59:07The Dover raid's lesson for destroyer tactics off NormandyNotable Point
- WWI in the English Channel... A Primer on Years of Hard Forgotten Fighting59:48Swift and Broke attack at the 1917 Battle of Dover StraitChapter
- WWI in the English Channel... A Primer on Years of Hard Forgotten Fighting1:10:44HMS Swift and the experiment with a six-inch destroyer gunChapter
- 85% is still a First! The Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers...1:05:39The escort shortage around the carriersChapter
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/439:45Tribal and Beagle classes shape Royal Navy destroyersChapter
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/41:16:38Jellicoe's destroyers and E-class submarinesNotable Point
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/41:54:45What limits modern surface-combatant construction?Q&A
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/42:19:30Were Dutch light cruisers and destroyers poor ships?Q&A
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/42:37:10How the L70 destroyer proposal led toward the Daring classQ&A
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/45:22:27Choosing a new hull for a larger US cruiserQ&A
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/48:07:41Why Tribal-class destroyers carry their aft guns so far backQ&A
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/48:15:01How open destroyer gun mounts received ammunitionQ&A
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/47:13:10Comparing First World War destroyers by year and missionQ&A
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/47:17:38Italian destroyer speed and the demands of the operating areaNotable Point
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/47:20:19The Tribal class and the general-purpose destroyerQ&A
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/48:09:53Why a fourth Gearing turret was not a simple experimentQ&A
- World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/41:41:04Captain Creswell and the Tribal class's esprit de corpsQ&A
- World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/42:35:28How an extra destroyer changes a Jutland-themed gameNotable Point
- World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/44:48:16Why fleet composition cannot be reduced to one ratioQ&A
- World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/48:00:36What removing destroyer and submarine tonnage limits changesQ&A
- World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/48:02:56Would more destroyers have saved Glorious?Q&A
- World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/48:06:19How torpedoes from several directions restrict a battleshipNotable Point
- World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/49:01:15How combat information centres changed night fightingNotable Point
- World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/49:06:36Are the destroyers modernized in the Savo Island scenario?Q&A
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/42:11:47Britain pursued its own FRAM-like destroyer conversionsQ&A
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/42:46:00Secondary batteries still mattered after JutlandQ&A
- Steadfastly with Winged Sword: 881 Squadron RNAS/RCNAS5:35Carrier patrols protect D-Day's sea approachesChapter
- Steadfastly with Winged Sword: 881 Squadron RNAS/RCNAS8:04Tribal destroyers close the Channel approachesNotable Point
- Ramblings Emergency Broadcast23:15An all-gun cruiser group against Soviet escortsQ&A
- Bruships 171: Oh Kallax my Kallax, Where art though my Kallax15:36Why even the Tribals were poor hosts for a 130 mm gunQ&A
- Bruships 171: Oh Kallax my Kallax, Where art though my Kallax1:28:40Why Canada's Type 26 derivative can reasonably be called a destroyerQ&A
- Bruships 171: Oh Kallax my Kallax, Where art though my Kallax3:58:29Why Japan would verify a report of 12-inch American destroyersQ&A
- Bruships 170: Once more unto the Kalax dear listners, once more unto the Kalax!3:00:53Trading 4.5-inch rate of fire for a heavier 155 mm shellQ&A
- Bruships 169: Kalax o Kalax, my kingdom for a Kalax...7:19Which ship could defeat both Trafalgar fleets?Q&A
- What happens if Britain has a Malta off the coast of Germany in WWI? Helgoland!14:25A Helgoland force on Germany's doorstepNotable Point
- What happens if Britain has a Malta off the coast of Germany in WWI? Helgoland!35:34A base for light forces and aircraft, not a battle fleetChapter
- Third Rate Ships of the Line: Ubiquity, Ubiquity, o' the Ubiquity!45:50Cold War prestige versus specialized warshipsNotable Point
- Tiger Cubs - RN actually builds dreadnought armoured cruisers with 9.2in guns alongside HMS Tiger...2:10:09The cruiser-and-destroyer carrier screenNotable Point
- Tiger Cubs - RN actually builds dreadnought armoured cruisers with 9.2in guns alongside HMS Tiger...2:23:19How a carrier escort formation was sizedNotable Point
- Bruships 168: And a empty Kalax, sang the aisles a serenade, longing for books with a love song1:23:52Why 1950s Darings suit a 1950s Soviet-war scenarioQ&A
- Fortress Heligoland: Britain doesn't give Heligoland to Germany in the 1890 Agreement... Patreon 10636:34What a British fortress could supportNotable Point
- Fortress Heligoland: Britain doesn't give Heligoland to Germany in the 1890 Agreement... Patreon 1061:40:26A submarine contest in Germany's coastal watersNotable Point
- Fortress Heligoland: Britain doesn't give Heligoland to Germany in the 1890 Agreement... Patreon 1061:56:48Why Heligoland would not host a British battle squadronNotable Point
- Fortress Heligoland: Britain doesn't give Heligoland to Germany in the 1890 Agreement... Patreon 1062:00:47Why the fortress does not need modern light cruisersNotable Point
- Fortress Heligoland: Britain doesn't give Heligoland to Germany in the 1890 Agreement... Patreon 1062:25:34Would Britain need to block the Kiel Canal physically?Q&A
- Bruships 167: Tell me why, everything turned book – packing up, stacking up is all kalax want to do.3:01:07Why a cruiser hull is more than a large destroyer hullQ&A
- Bruships 166: As I walk through the library of Naval History, I take a look at my shelf space....4:16:09Twin gun mounts and destroyer stabilityQ&A
- V.Adm Beatty is sent to Command the Mediterranean Battle Cruisers in 1914... Patreon 1051:24:00Why Goeben could not simply fight through the trapNotable Point
- Bruships 165: I saw a Poodle with a Kalax Manual in his hand, walking through the moors of cornwall1:39:21A 3,000-ton Royal Navy destroyerQ&A
- Scuttlebutt 5: Some Tremendous Questions & Frustrations!46:53Royal Navy AA conversions in a war delayed to 1942Q&A
- For History: Which Three ships should never have been scrapped?1:08:28The Tribal destroyers left outside the final threeNotable Point
- Bruships 164: Is this Book life? Is this just a library?Caught in a landslide, no Kallax for safety!2:38:46If treaty destroyers displaced 3,000 tonsQ&A
- Bruships 164: Is this Book life? Is this just a library?Caught in a landslide, no Kallax for safety!3:47:12A thirty-two-ship Zumwalt classQ&A
- Drones & The Future of the Carrier Air Group - Patreon Premier21:36How exercises can distort air-attack lessonsNotable Point
- Bruships 163: I need a Kalax Kalax, a Kalax is what I need! Naval History Questions & Chat1:55:51Six-inch guns on destroyers, then and nowQ&A
- Bruships 163: I need a Kalax Kalax, a Kalax is what I need! Naval History Questions & Chat2:14:53How transferable were sailors between naval gun crews?Q&A
- Bruships 163: I need a Kalax Kalax, a Kalax is what I need! Naval History Questions & Chat4:09:52The Flight III Burke and the cost of surface-fleet risk aversionNotable Point
- Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat1:18:26A much larger Argentine destroyer force needs more than shipsQ&A
- Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat1:35:46Why specialization depends on the mission, not a fixed ship labelQ&A
- Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat1:53:05Why a 1,200-ton autoloading destroyer needs a complete mission designQ&A
- Japan's I-400 Class: Waste of Resources, Idea to Soon or Idea to late?22:48What the Seiran strike aircraft could threatenChapter
- Japan's I-400 Class: Waste of Resources, Idea to Soon or Idea to late?42:44Two boats could not create strategic pressureNotable Point
- Japan's I-400 Class: Waste of Resources, Idea to Soon or Idea to late?1:06:41The verdict: a good idea executed too lateChapter
- Finding Forrestal Class... The First Supercarriers...9:57Modern frigates and destroyers perform cruiser workNotable Point
- Bruships 160: Money for Kallax, Book Space ain’t Free! Naval History Questions & Chat...55:57Which lost warship would merit a replica?Q&A
- Bruships 160: Money for Kallax, Book Space ain’t Free! Naval History Questions & Chat...1:10:01Why five-inch guns dominate rapid naval fireQ&A
- Bruships 160: Money for Kallax, Book Space ain’t Free! Naval History Questions & Chat...1:30:59How Britain and France would hunt a Captain Romani-class raiderQ&A
- Bruships 160: Money for Kallax, Book Space ain’t Free! Naval History Questions & Chat...1:34:04Judging the Mogador class by wartime opportunityQ&A
- Bruships 160: Money for Kallax, Book Space ain’t Free! Naval History Questions & Chat...1:49:05What four-turret Tribal destroyers would changeQ&A
- Bruships 160: Money for Kallax, Book Space ain’t Free! Naval History Questions & Chat...2:17:03What surplus four-stackers would mean for smaller naviesQ&A
- Twitch Live: USA Goes Battlecruiser for all their Capital Ships Campaign 31:58:34Gun destroyers versus torpedo destroyersNotable Point
- HOI4 Practice for the Ship Shape Game - Democratic Japan Challenge Rounds 1 & 228:02V and W destroyers versus American four-stackersQ&A
- Naval Logistics of the Major Powers in 1939. Patreon Premier1:09:33Japan's expansion outpaces its ability to sustain itChapter
- What do the fleets look like if they achieve full pre-WWII Modernisation? Patreon Premier53:04Germany's balanced peacetime fleetNotable Point
- What do the fleets look like if they achieve full pre-WWII Modernisation? Patreon Premier1:11:25Colonial escorts and joint imperial fleetsNotable Point
- What do the fleets look like if they achieve full pre-WWII Modernisation? Patreon Premier1:18:16Britain's two-tier destroyers and global escort networkChapter
- What do the fleets look like if they achieve full pre-WWII Modernisation? Patreon Premier1:34:01Radar and automation reshape the delayed-war fleetsNotable Point
- Check Campaign 26: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign5:35Expanding a British fleet without losing its purposeNotable Point
- Check Campaign 26: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign7:42Crew training as the limit on fleet growthQ&A
- Check Campaign 26: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign10:22Turning construction tonnage into useful ship numbersNotable Point
- Check Campaign 26: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign47:04Why choose a 5.5-inch gun over a 6-inch gun?Q&A
- Check Campaign 26: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign49:23When destroyer guns erode the case for a cruiserNotable Point
- Check Campaign 25: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign16:17Retiring old destroyers without losing fleet massNotable Point
- Bruships 158: Home for Naval History Questions & Trialing the new Question Bot... so cross fingers!29:52County cruisers against Scharnhorst and GneisenauQ&A
- Bruships 158: Home for Naval History Questions & Trialing the new Question Bot... so cross fingers!51:27Australian Pacific force structure in 1914Q&A
- Bruships 158: Home for Naval History Questions & Trialing the new Question Bot... so cross fingers!1:27:20Racing as an unofficial destroyer traditionQ&A
- Bruships 158: Home for Naval History Questions & Trialing the new Question Bot... so cross fingers!1:34:42Bremse was already destroyer-sizedQ&A
- Bruships 158: Home for Naval History Questions & Trialing the new Question Bot... so cross fingers!1:59:05Type 83 and the modern cruiser under another nameQ&A
- Check Campaign 24: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign34:27Uneven surface action and force overmatchNotable Point
- Check Campaign 24: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:15:00Designing a large mine-laying destroyerChapter
- Check Campaign 24: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:35:51Mine warfare and ASW buildoutNotable Point
- Check Campaign 24: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:51:14Asymmetric British and American fleet structuresNotable Point
- War Emergency Carriers of WWII... Lessons for future procurement?27:09Småland modernized without surrendering torpedo powerNotable Point
- Check Campaign 23: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:39Submarine-heavy fleet balanceNotable Point
- Bruships 157: Books so good they've blown the budget on the #ScandiShip24 tour already!6:30Canadian River class destroyer tradeoffsQ&A
- Bruships 157: Books so good they've blown the budget on the #ScandiShip24 tour already!10:57Interwar destroyer tonnage and stabilityQ&A
- Why did the Royal Navy need a Forward Aviation Support Ship: Unicorn, the why, the how & the value!3:49Henderson's leverage over Royal Navy constructionNotable Point
- Check Campaign 22: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign34:15Destroyer screening against a capital shipNotable Point
- Check Campaign 22: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign41:31Torpedo danger after the screen breaksNotable Point
- Check Campaign 22: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign54:43Destroyers must defend the convoyNotable Point
- Check Campaign 22: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:22:35Thin convoy escort and Mediterranean controlNotable Point
- Bruships Gothenborg style...45:46Småland's unusually dense Swedish destroyer armamentChapter
- Bruships Gothenborg style...56:54Småland's rockets and sustained anti-aircraft firepowerQ&A
- Bruships Gothenborg style...1:19:39Why Tribal-class destroyers could survive catastrophic damageNotable Point
- Bruships Gothenborg style...1:21:57Why the MEKO 360 is better understood as a frigateQ&A
- Bruships Gothenborg style...1:24:16Extra U.S. destroyers in Royal Navy serviceQ&A
- Kongōs at Jutland: IJN goes all or nothing in the North Sea in WWI... Patreon Premier 336:13Japanese reinforcement could expand the Channel commandNotable Point
- Kongōs at Jutland: IJN goes all or nothing in the North Sea in WWI... Patreon Premier 338:49Harwich could accelerate Japanese destroyer experienceNotable Point
- Kongōs at Jutland: IJN goes all or nothing in the North Sea in WWI... Patreon Premier 354:24Destroyers and armored cruisers complete the Japanese fleet packageNotable Point
- Kongōs at Jutland: IJN goes all or nothing in the North Sea in WWI... Patreon Premier 31:30:37Destroyer pursuit could close the German escape routesNotable Point
- Check Campaign 21: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign50:25Destroyer deception and cruiser gunfireNotable Point
- Check Campaign 21: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:00:52Fleet size versus force structureNotable Point
- Check Campaign 21: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:44:28Destroyers with battleship fire supportNotable Point
- Check Campaign 21: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:25:46Dividing fire in a cruiser actionNotable Point
- Brushipdock(156) with ShipShape in Narvik1:42Narvik as a visible naval battlefieldNotable Point
- Brushipdock(156) with ShipShape in Narvik3:01Narvik wreck evidence and fjord depthNotable Point
- Damage Control - The WWII Aircraft Carriers Edition; when it went wrong & when it went right55:35Nubian lost her rudder but could steer with her enginesNotable Point
- Check Campaign 20: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:12:10Screen disposition before a destroyer-heavy actionNotable Point
- Check Campaign 20: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:15:21Destroyer-heavy force teaches a screening lessonNotable Point
- Check Campaign 20: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:21:55Six-inch versus 5.5-inch secondary gunsQ&A
- Check Campaign 20: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:23:05Fleet cohesion over an ideal firing angleNotable Point
- Check Campaign 20: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:25:34Secondary fire priorities against torpedo boatsNotable Point
- Check Campaign 20: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:45:06Italian battle losses drive a fleet-wide refitNotable Point
- Bruships 155: Last time answering naval history questions from the Brushack?39:31Deploying a 36-ship French large-destroyer fleetQ&A
- Bruships 155: Last time answering naval history questions from the Brushack?1:00:05Larger destroyers under treaty limitsQ&A
- Bruships 155: Last time answering naval history questions from the Brushack?1:12:42Royal Navy destroyers as fast transportsQ&A
- Bruships 155: Last time answering naval history questions from the Brushack?2:24:26Building a fleet around a 28-knot battle lineQ&A
- Bruships 155: Last time answering naval history questions from the Brushack?3:49:07Sextuple torpedo launchers on a large destroyerQ&A
- What would the economic impact have been if the Naval Treaties hadn't happened? Patreon Premier 11:04:16Why Spanish Civil War patrols needed status shipsNotable Point
- What would the economic impact have been if the Naval Treaties hadn't happened? Patreon Premier 11:44:17The opportunity cost of Japanese super-battleshipsNotable Point
- Check Campaign 19: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign34:12Small destroyer design under tonnage pressureNotable Point
- Check Campaign 19: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:14:16Escort destroyers and torpedo pressureNotable Point
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...5:00Destroyers as full-service warshipsQ&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...12:01The missing museum history of minor warshipsQ&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...32:07Building a balanced hypothetical fleet for 1939Q&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...2:14:01Beatty's failure to think like an admiralQ&A
- Mediterranean Convoy Runs Done Well: Operations Tiger, Splice & Rocket!20:06Malta combined Enigma intelligence with air reconnaissanceNotable Point
- Mediterranean Convoy Runs Done Well: Operations Tiger, Splice & Rocket!27:10Operation Tiger's layered convoy deceptionChapter
- Mediterranean Convoy Runs Done Well: Operations Tiger, Splice & Rocket!34:08Supplying Malta and fueling the destroyers' returnNotable Point
- Mediterranean Convoy Runs Done Well: Operations Tiger, Splice & Rocket!43:58Splice changed escorts as the threat changedNotable Point
- Mediterranean Convoy Runs Done Well: Operations Tiger, Splice & Rocket!1:08:57Quantity creates operational opportunityNotable Point
- Günther Lütjens: The Bismarck's Admiral for its Final Mission8:44Torpedo-boat habits and fleet commandNotable Point
- Günther Lütjens: The Bismarck's Admiral for its Final Mission18:03World War I as Lutjens's torpedo-boat schoolChapter
- Günther Lütjens: The Bismarck's Admiral for its Final Mission51:55Personnel policy, Nazi pressure, and destroyer identityNotable Point
- Günther Lütjens: The Bismarck's Admiral for its Final Mission58:48From Gdynia to the Humber minefieldChapter
- Günther Lütjens: The Bismarck's Admiral for its Final Mission1:08:25Norway, Renown, and the destroyers left at NarvikChapter
- Günther Lütjens: The Bismarck's Admiral for its Final Mission2:45:19Why Bismarck could not recover her steeringNotable Point
- Bruships 153: Naval History Questions Answered & Boxes being Packed... still, there are more books!16:21World War I emergency ship classesQ&A
- Bruships 153: Naval History Questions Answered & Boxes being Packed... still, there are more books!1:31:36Henderson's larger Royal Navy destroyerQ&A
- Bruships 153: Naval History Questions Answered & Boxes being Packed... still, there are more books!3:09:23Continuing Zumwalt and building CG(X)Q&A
- Legacy of Billy Mitchell Hijacking the 1921 tests53:38Project B tested a sequence of submarines, a destroyer, a cruiser, and a battleshipNotable Point
- Naval History Live: Operations Tiger and Splice1:18:18Operation Tiger's heavy cover and mine lossChapter
- Naval History Live: Operations Tiger and Splice1:56:00Force K turns Malta into a surface strike baseNotable Point
- Bruships 152: Patreon July Premiers Announcement, Special Guests & Naval History Questions Answered27:51Why the Fletcher and Gearing classes needed no obvious redesignQ&A
- Bruships 152: Patreon July Premiers Announcement, Special Guests & Naval History Questions Answered35:16Estimating US destroyer-leader needs after 1918Q&A
- Bruships 152: Patreon July Premiers Announcement, Special Guests & Naval History Questions Answered2:22:20French large-destroyer design after MogadorQ&A
- Bruships 152: Patreon July Premiers Announcement, Special Guests & Naval History Questions Answered2:37:43Why twin gun mounts spread slowly to smaller warshipsQ&A
- Bruships 152: Patreon July Premiers Announcement, Special Guests & Naval History Questions Answered4:03:57A 24.5-inch Royal Navy torpedo would reshape the fleetQ&A
- Check Campaign 18: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign3:47Destroyer and cruiser convoy attackNotable Point
- Check Campaign 18: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign48:28Plan Z and battleships for a Royal Indian NavyQ&A
- Check Campaign 18: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:32:26Destroyer screens and sensible battery targetsNotable Point
- Check Campaign 18: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:52:53Merchant cruisers and convoy-defense researchNotable Point
- Check Campaign 18: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:57:13Destroyer and submarine mass buildoutNotable Point
- Check Campaign 18: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:04:04Low-fuel destroyers and battle-line focusNotable Point
- Check Campaign 18: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign3:24:24Mothballing old ships to crew new destroyersNotable Point
- Kriegsmarine(Kaiserliche Marine)'s Nightmare Returns: The RN finds some 1910 Town Class in a couch!29:00Destroyer guns on a cruiser hullChapter
- Kriegsmarine(Kaiserliche Marine)'s Nightmare Returns: The RN finds some 1910 Town Class in a couch!30:31The production choice behind a dual-purpose 4.7-inch gunNotable Point
- Kriegsmarine(Kaiserliche Marine)'s Nightmare Returns: The RN finds some 1910 Town Class in a couch!36:30Henderson's large-destroyer opportunityNotable Point
- Kriegsmarine(Kaiserliche Marine)'s Nightmare Returns: The RN finds some 1910 Town Class in a couch!42:03Fighting escort for an Arctic convoyChapter
- Kriegsmarine(Kaiserliche Marine)'s Nightmare Returns: The RN finds some 1910 Town Class in a couch!44:02What 4.7-inch guns contribute against destroyersNotable Point
- Kriegsmarine(Kaiserliche Marine)'s Nightmare Returns: The RN finds some 1910 Town Class in a couch!1:27:51Splitting a fighting escort from the convoy screenNotable Point
- Check Campaign 17: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign11:42Scouting speed and torpedo avoidanceNotable Point
- Check Campaign 17: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:47:17A 3,000-ton ASW destroyer runs out of weightNotable Point
- Check Campaign 17: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign3:15:14American tonnage drives British small-ship expansionNotable Point
- Bruships 151: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Vote14:04British surplus ships for FinlandQ&A
- Bruships 151: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Vote17:00Destroyer aggression in cruiser commandQ&A
- Bruships 151: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Vote32:44How automated twin turrets make ships largerQ&A
- Bruships 151: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Vote38:59Turning the Tribal class into an early DaringQ&A
- Bruships 151: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Vote4:08:44Modernization, not inherent inferiority, separated old destroyersQ&A
- Patreon 103: The Nightmare returns - 4 WWI Town class are discovered by the Royal Navy in 193843:53Destroyer-armed Atlantic cruiser refitChapter
- Patreon 103: The Nightmare returns - 4 WWI Town class are discovered by the Royal Navy in 19381:03:59Scaling destroyer machinery for the old cruiserNotable Point
- Patreon 103: The Nightmare returns - 4 WWI Town class are discovered by the Royal Navy in 19381:05:33Henderson's large-destroyer doctrineNotable Point
- Patreon 103: The Nightmare returns - 4 WWI Town class are discovered by the Royal Navy in 19381:11:06What follows if the 4.7-inch modification works?Q&A
- Patreon 103: The Nightmare returns - 4 WWI Town class are discovered by the Royal Navy in 19381:17:39Crewing a cruiser-destroyer hybridQ&A
- Patreon 103: The Nightmare returns - 4 WWI Town class are discovered by the Royal Navy in 19381:20:42Convoy escort and flotilla leader employmentChapter
- Patreon 103: The Nightmare returns - 4 WWI Town class are discovered by the Royal Navy in 19381:57:30Designing a purpose-built cruiser-destroyer successorChapter
- Patreon 103: The Nightmare returns - 4 WWI Town class are discovered by the Royal Navy in 19382:54:32Why six-inch guns do not suit a Tribal hullQ&A
- Patreon 103: The Nightmare returns - 4 WWI Town class are discovered by the Royal Navy in 19383:19:494.7-inch cruisers at GuadalcanalQ&A
- Treaty Era Aircraft Carriers: A Discussion1:25:50A light-carrier category invites wider changes to treaty limitsNotable Point
- Check Campaign 16: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign25:31When larger ship types take over smaller ships' jobsNotable Point
- Check Campaign 16: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign31:04Exhausting the enemy's torpedoes before closingNotable Point
- Check Campaign 16: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:04:25How destroyer guns can force cruiser growthNotable Point
- Check Campaign 16: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:28:04An anti-submarine cruiser with a destroyer's roleNotable Point
- Check Campaign 16: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:28:48Large Soviet destroyers and naval-treaty boundariesNotable Point
- Check Campaign 16: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:06:50Organizing a mixed fleet by speed and tactical roleChapter
- Bruships 150: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Suggestions Kicks Off15:20Warspite inside Narvik fjordQ&A
- Bruships 150: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Suggestions Kicks Off1:58:45The fleet interwar India could supportQ&A
- Bruships 150: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Suggestions Kicks Off2:06:57How the Shakespeare and Scott leaders performedQ&A
- Bruships 150: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Suggestions Kicks Off2:12:09How many large destroyer leaders survive to 1939Q&A
- Bruships 150: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Suggestions Kicks Off2:51:32Destroyers as cycle shipsQ&A
- Bruships 150: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Suggestions Kicks Off2:52:17M-class destroyers as a point of design maturityQ&A
- Striking First: The Development of US Carrier Naval Aviation Doctrine by War Gaming & Fleet Problems1:09:57Carrier mobility demands new cruisers and destroyersNotable Point
- Check Campaign 15: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign25:41Torpedo-heavy designs need speedNotable Point
- Check Campaign 15: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:08:47Building a screened battle line for long-range fireChapter
- Check Campaign 15: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:14:29Secondary batteries turn battleships into anti-destroyer screensChapter
- Check Campaign 15: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:45:53A fifteen-torpedo broadside explains repeated hitsNotable Point
- Bruships 149: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Ends2:10:13When 105 mm guns suffice against destroyersQ&A
- Bruships 149: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Ends2:53:22Why heavier destroyers would not automatically create frigates soonerQ&A
- Bruships 149: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Ends3:33:02Building an interwar Canadian cruiser-and-destroyer fleetQ&A
- USS Triton (SSRN-586): First Submerged Cirumnavigation of the World2:03:57Q&A: Why destroyer officers can be ready for fleet commandQ&A
- Check Campaign 14: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign36:52Grouping fast cruisers for a torpedo attackNotable Point
- Check Campaign 14: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:40:52Cruiser screens and destroyer attack groupsNotable Point
- Bruships 148: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Begins45:44Guided-missile destroyer or frigate distinctionQ&A
- Bruships 148: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Begins47:33If Mogador set the London destroyer-leader limitQ&A
- Bruships 148: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Begins1:12:35French naval deployment in the Norway campaignQ&A
- Bruships 148: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Begins1:30:31How range determines a useful torpedo broadsideQ&A
- Bruships 148: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Begins2:11:14Turning a J-class destroyer into a fast luxury yachtQ&A
- Bruships 148: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Begins2:16:36The cramped maintenance spaces behind marine boilersQ&A
- Bruships 148: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Begins2:50:09Drone motherships versus existing warshipsQ&A
- Admiral Fisher no longer replaces Admiral Battenberg as First Sea Lord in November 1914...1:45:05Coastal defense after the North Sea raidsNotable Point
- Check Campaign 13: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign35:13The Royal Navy paired cruiser numbers with Tribal flotillasNotable Point
- Check Campaign 13: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign53:58Why torpedo tubes complicate a hullQ&A
- Check Campaign 13: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:48:23What heavy shells can do to destroyersNotable Point
- Check Campaign 13: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:51:21Replacement time shapes attrition prioritiesNotable Point
- Check Campaign 13: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:52:14Speed and smoke do not guarantee escapeNotable Point
- Bruships 147: Naval History Questions & Book Boxes Getting Packed58:56Naval construction as Depression-era policyQ&A
- Bruships 147: Naval History Questions & Book Boxes Getting Packed2:22:33Why destroyers are bought as flotillasQ&A
- Bruships 147: Naval History Questions & Book Boxes Getting Packed2:44:35The limits of 8-inch secondary batteriesQ&A
- Patreon 101: If Lord Fisher died in Jan 1914, how does Prince Louis of Battenberg perform as 1SL?1:38:15HMS Swift, larger destroyers, and earlier Flower-class sloopsChapter
- Check Campaign 12: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign24:15A submarine-heavy fleet for global sea controlNotable Point
- Check Campaign 12: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign28:19When anti-mine cruisers replace unworkable destroyersNotable Point
- Check Campaign 12: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign43:10What the early Tribal-class armament was built to fightNotable Point
- Bruships 146: Naval History Questions, Boxes Getting Packed & Lego Getting Built55:05Why an Irish Channel squadron would not need cruisersQ&A
- Bruships 146: Naval History Questions, Boxes Getting Packed & Lego Getting Built1:54:06How Fletcher-class destroyers compared with Royal Navy shipsQ&A
- Bruships 145: Naval History Questions Answered & Will it be lego building or book boxing?1:25:13When battleships paired with destroyers and carriers with cruisersQ&A
- Bruships 145: Naval History Questions Answered & Will it be lego building or book boxing?2:36:58How an unlimited destroyer allowance reshapes the Royal NavyQ&A
- Bruships 145: Naval History Questions Answered & Will it be lego building or book boxing?2:42:30Three practical improvements for the Tribal-class destroyersQ&A
- Bruships 144: Some Books(Can't Find Lego Cam Sorry) & Naval History Questions1:12:52What it takes to give a Tribal class heavier torpedoesQ&A
- Bruships 144: Some Books(Can't Find Lego Cam Sorry) & Naval History Questions1:15:19Why Canada should standardize a purpose-built destroyer programQ&A
- Bruships 144: Some Books(Can't Find Lego Cam Sorry) & Naval History Questions1:25:48Where South African destroyer construction was consideredQ&A
- Bruships 144: Some Books(Can't Find Lego Cam Sorry) & Naval History Questions4:02:46Why 21 inches became the effective torpedo limitQ&A
- Bruships 144: Some Books(Can't Find Lego Cam Sorry) & Naval History Questions4:07:34How battleship prestige starved the early US balanced fleetQ&A
- The Soviet Man of Steel wants Bigs Ships: Stalin joins the Naval Treaties!37:57Destroyer leaders as substitutes for scarce cruisersNotable Point
- The Soviet Man of Steel wants Bigs Ships: Stalin joins the Naval Treaties!53:20Larger allowances and nine-ship Tribal flotillasNotable Point
- The Soviet Man of Steel wants Bigs Ships: Stalin joins the Naval Treaties!1:38:32Minor powers and dominion fleet contributionsNotable Point
- Patreon 99: What would Imperial Star Destroyers look if designed by 1938 USN, RN, KM, IJN, RM & SN?2:58:54Why wartime aircrews often attacked the target they could reachNotable Point
- 824 Sqn Royal Naval Air Service: Spectat Ubique Spiritus (The Wind Everywhere Looks On)5:13Tribal, Battle, and Daring classes foreshadowed the general-purpose destroyerNotable Point
- Check Campaign 10: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign20:26A heavy secondary battery keeps escorts awayQ&A
- Check Campaign 10: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign44:20Break up destroyer attacks before torpedo rangeChapter
- Check Campaign 10: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:07:24Target fixation overturns a favourable destroyer duelNotable Point
- Check Campaign 10: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:15:51A controlled action builds destroyer experienceNotable Point
- Bruships 143: Some Book Tales and Naval History Questions Answered40:00Le Fantasque reached 45 knots through hull designQ&A
- Bruships 143: Some Book Tales and Naval History Questions Answered1:07:58A maximum-effort empire could order about 64 destroyers yearlyQ&A
- Bruships 143: Some Book Tales and Naval History Questions Answered2:16:04German destroyers lacked the endurance for a British blockadeQ&A
- Bruships 143: Some Book Tales and Naval History Questions Answered2:23:13Tribal-class gunnery rewards maneuver and rate of fireNotable Point
- Bruships 143: Some Book Tales and Naval History Questions Answered3:47:49Modern destroyers and frigates inherited cruiser missionsQ&A
- Battle of Blackett Strait: Victory goes to those who are prepared for Battle20:20Bombardments confront the Tokyo Express supply systemChapter
- Battle of Blackett Strait: Victory goes to those who are prepared for Battle47:27The Fletcher succeeds as a general-purpose destroyerNotable Point
- Patreon 100: Stalin's 1930 London Treaty - the USSR joins the Naval Treaties at London52:29The historical ratios define the bargaining spaceChapter
- Patreon 100: Stalin's 1930 London Treaty - the USSR joins the Naval Treaties at London1:26:06Defensive doctrine favors battleships and destroyers over cruisersNotable Point
- Check Campaign 9: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign6:52Destroyer refits expose national gun-layout differencesChapter
- Check Campaign 9: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign34:07A specialist cruiser substitutes for an inadequate ASW destroyerChapter
- Check Campaign 9: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign52:40A super-battleship's secondary battery is built to break the enemy screenNotable Point
- Check Campaign 9: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:30:39The Washington class becomes a cruiser-sized super destroyerChapter
- Check Campaign 9: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:45:47Deliberate force mismatches overwhelm enemy destroyers and cruisersNotable Point
- Check Campaign 9: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:47:14How fast should a 257,000-horsepower light cruiser be?Q&A
- Battle of Blackett Strait59:47Second Fleet organizes Japan's Solomons strike powerChapter
- Battle of Blackett Strait1:43:00Why could interwar navies give risky destroyer officers second chances?Q&A
- Battle of Blackett Strait1:49:03Clevelands and Fletchers form a fast raiding packageChapter
- Battle of Blackett Strait1:59:47Japanese aircraft were the main threat to fast bombardment raidsNotable Point
- Battle of Blackett Strait2:07:30Ad hoc destroyer pairings eroded Japan's prewar night-fighting systemChapter
- Battle of Blackett Strait2:11:03Destroyer supply runs reveal Japan's logistics trapChapter
- Battle of Blackett Strait2:49:12Were Japanese supply destroyers stripped of weapons?Q&A
- Battle of Blackett Strait2:50:20Radar, cruiser salvos, and Waller's torpedoes decide the night actionChapter
- Battle of Blackett Strait3:07:48Bombardment damage mattered less than irreplaceable destroyer lossesNotable Point
- Battle of Blackett Strait3:31:17Blackett Strait demonstrates quiet operational professionalismNotable Point
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books1:17:12Who benefits from larger treaty destroyersQ&A
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books1:19:55Britain's experience with larger destroyersQ&A
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books1:34:33Would larger destroyers survive Typhoon Cobra better?Q&A
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books3:47:47What 'overage' meant in the Second London Naval TreatyQ&A
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books3:51:12Counting Arleigh Burke-class destroyersQ&A
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books3:52:05Why V and W destroyers were converted into escortsQ&A
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books4:01:59The Royal Navy's destroyer production in the First World WarQ&A
- HMS Revenge(1915): the Reliable Pikeman of the Royal Navys Battle Line!43:21Britain's balanced fleet and industrial depthNotable Point
- Aircraft Carriers in Science Fiction1:52:50Peacekeepers of Sol gives the carrier a fleetChapter
- Aircraft Carriers in Science Fiction2:20:39Ark Royal and the danger of solo carrier missionsChapter
- Aircraft Carriers in Science Fiction2:33:07Would USS Johnston have changed the Glorious battle?Q&A
- Navys in the Embassy Bar after the Washington Treaty(1922)6:41Paper parity becomes Congress's maximumNotable Point
- Bruships 141: Some Cool Books & Naval History Questions Answered1:38:18Why Hood reached Denmark Strait without her destroyersQ&A
- Bruships 141: Some Cool Books & Naval History Questions Answered1:51:23Why Tribal-class destroyers handled heavy weather betterQ&A
- Check Campaign 8: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:30:07Designing a fast torpedo destroyer within 1,700 tonsChapter
- Check Campaign 8: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:47:15Mass destroyer construction changes fleet scaleNotable Point
- Check Campaign 8: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:51:17Fleet balance points toward the Kiel CanalChapter
- Bruships 140 - Patreon Suggestions, Some Interesting Books (Hopefully) & Lots of Naval History Qs!14:56A 3,000-ton Tribal-class destroyer leaderQ&A
- Bruships 140 - Patreon Suggestions, Some Interesting Books (Hopefully) & Lots of Naval History Qs!28:09Why a 24.5-inch torpedo remained too heavy for destroyersQ&A
- Bruships 140 - Patreon Suggestions, Some Interesting Books (Hopefully) & Lots of Naval History Qs!2:43:30Why a super-battleship still benefits from 6-inch secondariesQ&A
- Bruships 140 - Patreon Suggestions, Some Interesting Books (Hopefully) & Lots of Naval History Qs!3:35:12Larger fleet destroyers would pull high-end escorts toward 2,000 tonsQ&A
- Bruships 140 - Patreon Suggestions, Some Interesting Books (Hopefully) & Lots of Naval History Qs!3:51:32What 3,000-ton British destroyers could carryQ&A
- Senator Tilman's Washington Naval Treaty22:13Charleston cruisers turn naval spending into patronageChapter
- Check Campaign 7: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign48:49Roger Hill's memoir of wartime destroyer commandQ&A
- Check Campaign 7: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign57:50Why a balanced destroyer design anchors the fleetNotable Point
- Check Campaign 7: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:31:45Comparing fleets without ignoring the crew poolChapter
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered26:55Torpedo size versus fleet logisticsQ&A
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered29:22How British destroyers might grow without treaty limitsQ&A
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered1:38:43What almost 3,000 tons could buy a Tribal-class destroyerQ&A
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered1:52:27Why British AEW helicopters operate from flat topsQ&A
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered4:25:41How wartime officers would view 10,000-ton destroyersQ&A
- The American Carrier Raids of 1942: Wresting Control of the Pace of War from the Japanese1:02:32Building carrier task forces without fast battleshipsChapter
- Patreon 97: What if Senator Tillman was at the Washington Naval Treaty...1:56:17Secondary batteries stop screen breakthroughsQ&A
- Check Campaign 6: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign17:13Heavy secondary batteries against cruisers and destroyersNotable Point
- Check Campaign 6: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign53:23Choosing which naval battles deserve direct commandNotable Point
- Bruships 138: Random Naval History Books from Me, Random Naval History Questions from You!1:30:23Why Horizon produced frigates for France and ItalyQ&A
- Bruships 138: Random Naval History Books from Me, Random Naval History Questions from You!3:24:08What a 2,000-ton treaty destroyer could carryQ&A
- British Naval Aviation Doctrine during the 1920s & 30s: it's Context & Development1:22:17Continuous air operations create a proactive defenseChapter
- British Naval Aviation Doctrine during the 1920s & 30s: it's Context & Development1:44:23Tribal-class destroyers clear the path for torpedo attacksNotable Point
- Check Campaign 5: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign54:05Destroyer mass substitutes for scarce local capital shipsChapter
- Bruships 137: Naval Aviation Books Discussed & Naval History Questions Answered1:56Why destroyers were not armored like battleshipsQ&A
- Twelve Odd Ships28:08Surcouf and the cruiser-submarine glass jawChapter
- Check Campaign 4: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign48:27Sherbrooke as a model for aggressive destroyer raidingQ&A
- Check Campaign 4: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:01:23Why destroyers and light cruisers converge over timeQ&A
- Check Campaign 4: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign3:04:56Different warships reward different command personalitiesQ&A
- Check Campaign 3: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:31:15Destroyers must close before their torpedoes matterNotable Point
- Bruships 136: Some Books & Some Questions Answered48:09Improvised splinter protection on wartime destroyersQ&A
- Bruships 136: Some Books & Some Questions Answered2:41:49Why early DDG(X) images reveal littleQ&A
- Bruships 136: Some Books & Some Questions Answered3:10:33A Tribal class with two heavy quadruple launchersQ&A
- Bruships 136: Some Books & Some Questions Answered3:23:00The cruiser race hidden inside the Washington treatyQ&A
- Bruships 136: Some Books & Some Questions Answered3:30:12Why destroyers avoided a single 5.25-inch gunQ&A
- Patreon 95: Helios on Route- A lucky development of helicopters & appropriate tech in 1930s2:43:00Guided shells could change destroyer gun calibresNotable Point
- Patreon 95: Helios on Route- A lucky development of helicopters & appropriate tech in 1930s2:44:03Treaty limits make destroyer helicopters unlikelyQ&A
- Patreon 95: Helios on Route- A lucky development of helicopters & appropriate tech in 1930s2:54:35Could German helicopter landings alter the Norwegian campaign?Q&A
- Check Campaign 2: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:36:44Would an all-Tribal destroyer force help Britain in 1939?Q&A
- Conception of Admiral Moffett’s Flight Deck Cruisers & the IJN’s construction of Ryūjō21:13Royal Navy exercises defined a carrier's escortNotable Point
- Bruships 134: Imperial Japanese Navy Books2:35:00How to build a Canadian two-ocean fleet from 1928Q&A
- Old Crocks at War: The Value of Reserve Ships to Navys in WWI52:45Germany's Jutland order of battle exposed a force-structure gapChapter
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!37:02Tribal-class destroyers with Taffy 3Q&A
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!51:43Why Italian torpedo boats did well against submarinesQ&A
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!1:21:28Germany's shortage of usable destroyer strengthQ&A
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!1:47:52Why USS Laffey survived kamikaze attackQ&A
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!2:32:15What lighter high-strength steel could do for warshipsQ&A
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!3:06:02British choices for a larger destroyer gunQ&A
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!3:23:22An effective self-propelled torpedo before 1857Q&A
- What Happens If Whittle is supported & Britain develops Jet Engines + Gas Turbines in 1930s44:02Four gas turbines could improve Tribal speed and readinessChapter
- Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!17:14Hull role matters more than ship size in choosing V or U formsQ&A
- Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!3:21:27Destroyers and cruisers suit the Mark 146 AA mountQ&A
- Patreon 92: Frank Whittle is given consistent funding by Britain to develop jet engines from 192840:20Gas turbines reshape destroyer power and machinery layoutChapter
- Patreon 92: Frank Whittle is given consistent funding by Britain to develop jet engines from 19281:08:21Machinery savings unlock dual-purpose destroyer gunsNotable Point
- Patreon 92: Frank Whittle is given consistent funding by Britain to develop jet engines from 19281:15:19Smaller engine-room crews and simpler refitsNotable Point
- Patreon 92: Frank Whittle is given consistent funding by Britain to develop jet engines from 19281:16:46Why gas turbines could simplify machinery refitsQ&A
- Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century?1:42:36Bomb-hit location shaped small-warship survivalNotable Point
- Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century?2:17:40How sustained sloop building could aid destroyersQ&A
- Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century?2:36:37Why Royal Navy sloops omitted torpedoesQ&A
- 'S' Class Submarines: The Royal Navy's All Rounders for WWII - Key Ship Series 7 Ship 737:12Why replacing destroyer names with numbers can damage moraleNotable Point
- Sopwith Cuckoo: The Exodus Chapter for Naval Aviation - Key Aircraft Series 1 Aircraft 233:30Destroyer-towed targets moved Cuckoo training beyond harbor attackNotable Point
- HMS Nubian: Most Battle Honours of the Tribal Class - KSS3 S5 Comment Response2:14Why German destroyers adopted 150 mm gunsQ&A
- HMS Nubian: Most Battle Honours of the Tribal Class - KSS3 S5 Comment Response6:01Sherbrooke's destroyers defend an Arctic convoyChapter
- HMS Warspite: The Survivor - KSS3 S3 Comment Response3:05Why one destroyer at Narvik effectively ceased to existNotable Point
- Naval Historian Reacts to Aircraft Carriers the Debate Part 2 of 229:37Destroyer box tactics against BismarckNotable Point
- Tillman Class: Dreams of Super Battleships - KSS2 S8 Comment Response37:32Super-battleships pull destroyers toward Daring sizeNotable Point
- Francesco Caracciolo: The Almost Next Battleship Era - KSS2 S6 Comment Response0:17Why submarines were a poor answer to fast battleshipsQ&A
- Bruships 132: Questions till the Milk or Pancreas Runs Out1:06:42A source for destroyer equipment delaysQ&A
- Bruships 132: Questions till the Milk or Pancreas Runs Out1:44:53Long Lance torpedoes in British destroyer night attacksQ&A
- Bruships 132: Questions till the Milk or Pancreas Runs Out2:24:15Gun choice for early JMSDF destroyersQ&A
- Landing Ship Tanks Mk1s: The First Attempts to Get Troops Ashore - Key Ships Series 7 Ship 331:48Destroyer anti-aircraft exercises conceal a wartime flawNotable Point
- Graf Zeppelin: KSS2 S1 Comment Response50:20Could Graf Zeppelin's guns stop destroyer attacks?Q&A
- Bruships 131: Battleships...37:28Tribal-class destroyers versus FletchersQ&A
- Bruships 131: Battleships...1:19:26The 1938 German scout cruiser as an oceanic destroyerQ&A
- Bruships 131: Battleships...3:10:16How Tribal destroyers change Denmark StraitQ&A
- Operation Berlin (Atlantic) – a Failure of Both Sides?39:26Changing the spotlight at Narvik is not the same as rewriting the battleNotable Point
- Operation Berlin (Atlantic) – a Failure of Both Sides?1:17:33Why not escort Atlantic convoys with British submarines?Q&A
- Operation Berlin (Atlantic) – a Failure of Both Sides?2:02:12Ramillies only had to deny the convoy, not sink both raidersNotable Point
- A Naval Historian Reacts to: Battle cruisers in a modern navy… Well a WWII Navy2:44:12Why the Royal Navy fielded several medium gun calibersQ&A
- A Naval Historian Reacts to: Battle cruisers in a modern navy… Well a WWII Navy3:14:18Battlecruiser roles dispersed during the Second World WarChapter
- A Naval Historian Reacts to: Battle cruisers in a modern navy… Well a WWII Navy3:28:50How would battlecruisers organize for commerce protection?Q&A
- A Naval Historian Reacts to: Battle cruisers in a modern navy… Well a WWII Navy3:32:29Destroyer command trained wartime admiralsNotable Point
- Battle of Tsushima: Fleets at War39:29Torpedo boats could shape a battle before firingNotable Point
- Battle of Tsushima: Fleets at War2:06:33Japanese light forces closed around the Russians at nightNotable Point
- SMS Seydlitz - The Pivotol 4th German Battlecruiser - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 935:57How German capital-ship priority weakened the light fleetChapter
- Bruships 130: Battleships1:31:01Why US treaty concern centered on ship sizeQ&A
- Bruships 130: Battleships2:34:11What an interwar Dominion naval buildup would actually buildQ&A
- What Happens if 1930s Germany Standardises on the Scharnhorst hull for Capital Ships & Carriers?9:14Narvik exposes destroyer firepower trade-offsNotable Point
- What Happens if 1930s Germany Standardises on the Scharnhorst hull for Capital Ships & Carriers?44:55Why Germany still lacks enough destroyersNotable Point
- Patreon 89: Everything a Scharnhorst - Germany standardises on one hull for Capital ships & Carriers3:23:40Would Germany build enough escorts for its carriers?Q&A
- Check Campaign: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:14:30The automatic torpedo-boat design confirms the stability problemNotable Point
- Bruships 129: Travels, Rememberance & Questions from Chat59:31HMS Swift as a destroyer precursorNotable Point
- Bruships 129: Travels, Rememberance & Questions from Chat1:07:52A treasure fleet or Tribal destroyer against the ArmadaQ&A
- Patreon 88: Sydney Strategy: When looking for a Far East Naval Base - what if Sydney not Singapore?1:11:05How Sydney would double the fleet's design rangeChapter
- Patreon 88: Sydney Strategy: When looking for a Far East Naval Base - what if Sydney not Singapore?2:37:11Could the expanded Australian industry build warships?Q&A
- Bruships 128: Invasions & Amphibious Warfare23:24A four-twin-turret rule reshapes the Royal NavyQ&A
- Bruships 128: Invasions & Amphibious Warfare39:52Displacement for an eight-gun Tribal-style destroyerQ&A
- Bruships 128: Invasions & Amphibious Warfare1:27:15Why nuclear-powered escorts may returnQ&A
- Bruships 128: Invasions & Amphibious Warfare2:20:35The scale of the postwar Royal Navy building programNotable Point
- Battle of Empress Augusta Bay(1943): The First Radar Battle?28:41Tribal-class destroyers as early radar shipsQ&A
- Battle of Empress Augusta Bay(1943): The First Radar Battle?50:15Why Mark 15 torpedoes were improving by late 1943Q&A
- Battle of Empress Augusta Bay(1943): The First Radar Battle?1:00:44Why '31-Knot Burke' has competing origin storiesNotable Point
- Battle of Empress Augusta Bay(1943): The First Radar Battle?2:21:22Why Japanese destroyer squadrons had light-cruiser leadersNotable Point
- Battle of Empress Augusta Bay(1943): The First Radar Battle?2:39:08Were surface ships using hydrophones in this battle?Q&A
- When does a navy know it is time to replace a type or class of ships? Part 1 of 2 - Slides18:32Wartime readiness can consume one engine's lifeNotable Point
- When does a navy know it is time to replace a type or class of ships? Part 1 of 2 - Slides34:21Accommodation standards affect specialist retentionChapter
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 115:38Using a fast screen to run down an isolated battleshipNotable Point
- Bruships 127: 2023 Christmas Naval History Releases4:23:58A destroyer flotilla mixed captains, commanders, and lieutenant commandersNotable Point
- Battle Cruisers and Battleships are Separate Categories in the 1922 Washington Naval Treaty1:03:21Lexingtons as a US reconnaissance forceChapter
- Battle Cruisers and Battleships are Separate Categories in the 1922 Washington Naval Treaty1:09:05Congress, carrier conversions, and a US scouting forceNotable Point
- Patreon Bonus: Battle Cruisers & Battleships are separate Categories in the Washington Naval Treaty1:44:12How new capital ships reshape Japanese cruisers and destroyersQ&A
- Patreon Bonus: Battle Cruisers & Battleships are separate Categories in the Washington Naval Treaty1:48:56Treaty pressure and Japan's top-heavy destroyersQ&A
- Patreon Bonus: Battle Cruisers & Battleships are separate Categories in the Washington Naval Treaty3:31:55Japan may still pursue torpedo destroyers as an offsetQ&A
- Scylla & Charybdis: 4.5in gun Didos - Key Ships Reserve Series, Ship 11:24Why these Didos resemble destroyersChapter
- Scylla & Charybdis: 4.5in gun Didos - Key Ships Reserve Series, Ship 112:16Why fixed 4.5-inch ammunition suited cruisers betterNotable Point
- Scylla & Charybdis: 4.5in gun Didos - Key Ships Reserve Series, Ship 118:10The Dido's contested place between cruiser and destroyerChapter
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 1056:29A battlecruiser building challenge leaves too few destroyersNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 101:10:44Correcting the G and H-class destroyer torpedo fitNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 103:44:14Why the campaign uses light cruisers instead of destroyersQ&A
- Bruships 126: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series40:58World War II priorities varied by navyQ&A
- Bruships 126: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series1:06:56Northern waters and a pictorial war in the futureNotable Point
- Bruships 126: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series1:22:58Norman Friedman's destroyer history is a technical starting pointQ&A
- Bruships 126: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series2:10:06Helicopter numbers follow the frigate's missionQ&A
- Patreon 87: Norway Stands! WWII if Norway repels the German invasion...1:47:10A Norwegian escort force for the new convoy routeQ&A
- Bruships 125: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series40:20The trade-off behind a 24.5-inch fleet torpedoQ&A
- Bruships 125: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series51:29Where British destroyer design might go without wartime economic damageQ&A
- Bruships 125: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series1:54:27How surviving Neptune cruisers could preserve the six-inch gunQ&A
- Jutland with Competent Leadership of the British Battlecruiser Fleet - Sturdee replaces Beatty1:07:09Why a close-range melee favors British numbersNotable Point
- Neptune Class: The Cruiser Conundrum Crisis - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 62:11Cunningham and Pound's competing cruiser visionsNotable Point
- Neptune Class: The Cruiser Conundrum Crisis - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 628:06What a 1937 Neptune could have changedNotable Point
- Patreon 86: Jutland with Competent British Battlecruiser Fleet Commander - Sturdee replaces Beatty2:23:48Could mass torpedo attacks destroy both fleets?Q&A
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 82:08:09Diagnosing a destroyer design after combat failureChapter
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 82:13:17Balancing a destroyer’s weight, shells, speed, and stabilityChapter
- Bruships 124: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series39:06Could Kaiser-style building methods speed warship construction?Q&A
- Bruships 124: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series1:04:07Destroyers, aircraft, and the contest to attack railwaysNotable Point
- Bruships 124: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series2:17:29If destroyer torpedoes had sunk BismarckQ&A
- Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: Pacific, Black Sea & Baltic Designs58:49Shallow water gave armed small craft a defensive nicheNotable Point
- Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: Pacific, Black Sea & Baltic Designs59:17Japan's torpedo-boat line met the Pacific badlyChapter
- HMS Formidable(1898): Lessons of a Highly Conventional Carreer - Key Ship Series 6, Ship 459:48Fleet strength depends on integrated screeningNotable Point
- Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: European & Mediteranean theatres57:03The Italian CRDA 60 and Mediterranean flexibilityChapter
- Bruships 123: Naval History Questions and Books on Strategy & Tactics0:36Why the Harwich Force missed JutlandQ&A
- Bruships 123: Naval History Questions and Books on Strategy & Tactics37:15How four-inch guns turned destroyers into air-defence escortsQ&A
- Bruships 123: Naval History Questions and Books on Strategy & Tactics1:38:51What Canada's proposed 1910 fleet might have becomeQ&A
- Bruships 123: Naval History Questions and Books on Strategy & Tactics1:52:22Why the first postwar warships were still gun-armedQ&A
- Bruships 123: Naval History Questions and Books on Strategy & Tactics2:28:24Why the Royal Navy needs more escortsQ&A
- Capital Ships of Science Fiction: Battlestars to Star Destroyers with a Naval Historian2:34How destroyers grew into cruiser and aviation rolesNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 711:59Screening and scouting ahead of the battle lineChapter
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 71:14:27A capital ship designed to escort itselfNotable Point
- Bruships: Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!29:29The shared logic behind Egret, Tribal, and Black Swan gunsQ&A
- Bruships: Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!39:03Why HMS Blencathra straddles two Hunt-class batchesQ&A
- Bruships: Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!46:33What the Weapon class was meant to beQ&A
- Bruships: Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!50:20What an Egret-class sloop could do to a destroyerQ&A
- Bruships: Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!1:03:47Could a battleship fire a giant shotgun shell?Q&A
- Bruships: Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!1:18:32Why the Tribal class has no exact foreign twinQ&A
- Bruships: Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!2:21:16The design choice German destroyers could not avoidQ&A
- Bruships: Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!2:24:18Why copied HMS Kelly plans would not produce a German KellyQ&A
- Bruships: Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!2:25:58Where German Type 24 torpedo boats fitQ&A
- Bruships: Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!2:34:46Why the Type 82 is called a missed Royal Navy opportunityQ&A
- Bruships: Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!2:36:13Why torpedo counts can misjudge the Tribal classNotable Point
- Bruships: Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!3:10:16Why topside torpedoes are a danger to their own shipQ&A
- The Hunt Class: The WWII Royal Navy's Escort Destroyers - Key Ship Series 6, Ship 30:37Why the Hunt class were escort destroyersChapter
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 636:58Destroyers buy time for the capital shipsNotable Point
- Black Swan Class: The F-22 of WWII ASW? - Key Ships Series 6, Episode 22:01Why sloops could expand shipyard capacityNotable Point
- What was the Italian Red Sea Squadron(Reiga Marina Italiana Flottiglia del mar rosso) to do in 1940?9:55The Red Sea Flotilla looked formidable on paperChapter
- Being the Benchmark Navy: It has Costs as well as Benefits5:22Presence ships and the appearance of powerNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 559:44Blockading Mediterranean ports requires escortsNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 51:57:19Secondary batteries cannot replace a fleet screenChapter
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 52:13:46Scouts extend long-range capital-ship fireNotable Point
- Bruships 122: Patreon Special - how wooden ships between 1700 to 1860 are built3:03:31Why eight Brazilian destroyers would not alarm the United StatesQ&A
- Mistakes of WWII caused by WWI6:12Why the Royal Navy needed more large destroyersNotable Point
- Mistakes of WWII caused by WWI1:24:31Dispersed fleets needed larger, multi-role destroyersNotable Point
- Ersatz Monarch Class: Pebbles casting Ripples can lead to Tsunamis - Key Ship Series 4, Episode 105:41Why capital ships need a balanced fleetNotable Point
- Patreon 83: What were the most serious mistakes made in WWII based on WWI experience?42:16Why British anti-submarine preparation still had limitsQ&A
- Patreon 83: What were the most serious mistakes made in WWII based on WWI experience?2:20:45Force Z: deterrence without a balanced task forceChapter
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 453:31Screens buy time in an unfavourable fightNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 41:08:37Capital-ship cover makes a blockade force credibleNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 41:24:03A destroyer screen creates an opening against capital shipsChapter
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 41:44:25Why period destroyers do not need 6-inch gunsQ&A
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 41:50:02Organising a mixed-speed battlecruiser forceNotable Point
- Bruships 121: Questions till the Bru Runs Out!1:03:32A Finnish coastal-defence fleet conceptQ&A
- Bruships 121: Questions till the Bru Runs Out!1:08:25A balanced interwar fleet Canada could affordQ&A
- Bruships 121: Questions till the Bru Runs Out!2:57:00When a large destroyer becomes cruiser-likeQ&A
- Bruships 121: Questions till the Bru Runs Out!2:58:46How plausible is a Halland with 152 mm guns?Q&A
- Bruships 121: Questions till the Bru Runs Out!3:22:53Where an autoloading 5.25-inch destroyer gun would fitQ&A
- Bruships 121: Questions till the Bru Runs Out!3:31:36What a destroyer leader adds to a flotillaQ&A
- Alsace class: France Building Back - Key Ships Series 4, Ship 97:44The destroyer design Britain wanted but could not yet buildNotable Point
- Fourth Rates: When the Fourth is Just Not Enough7:58Peacetime layout and the two-tier cruiser caseNotable Point
- A150 & BB64; After Yamato - Key Ship Series 4, Ships 74:17Why capital ships displaced escorts and support forcesNotable Point
- Number 13 Class: Dreams of Yamatos - Key Ship Series 4, Ship 66:02More Daring-class destroyers and postwar naval presenceNotable Point
- Dutch Dream of 1913: A Dreadnought Battle Fleet of their very own - Key Ship Series 4, Ship 520:16Delivery risk and self-escorting capital shipsChapter
- Mistakes & Missed Opportunities of the Washington Naval Treaties5:32Why destroyers were not the central treaty failureNotable Point
- Mistakes & Missed Opportunities of the Washington Naval Treaties59:08How scarce assets shaped command riskNotable Point
- H Class Battleships: Ignoring Reality for Perfection, Key Ships Series 4, Ship 419:10Why split secondary batteries consume a shipNotable Point
- Patreon 82: WNT Nations during 1920s/30s, what was their biggest mistake & missed opportunity?28:48Why the 4.7-inch dual-purpose mount was not the biggest treaty mistakeQ&A
- Patreon 82: WNT Nations during 1920s/30s, what was their biggest mistake & missed opportunity?1:47:51Bombay Dockyard as the base for Indian naval growthNotable Point
- Dominating the World from Second Place: Alfred Von Tirpitz & his 'Risk Fleet' Theory36:05Fleet depth mattered beyond the battle lineNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 31:22:02Torpedo threats and destroyer screeningNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 31:48:21Why all-big-gun ships still need smaller gunsNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 32:15:46Reinforcing a distant fleet after attritionNotable Point
- Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer25:47How permissive destroyer limits would enlarge every navy's designsQ&A
- Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer3:01:38Why destroyers concentrate so much firepowerQ&A
- Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer3:13:57Wartime destroyer classes as the postwar fleet's coreQ&A
- Governments of the Washington Treaty: What were their priorities?1:40:37Was George Pearce a technocrat?Q&A
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 225:38Six-inch guns give battlecruisers an answer to screensNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 21:04:31A destroyer attack exploits a gap but risks encirclementNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 21:07:55Variation within the Bisson-class destroyersNotable Point
- Bruships 119: Cool Books - but they're definitely a Mixture2:13:15Why destroyers still matter in UAD fleet battlesQ&A
- Bruships 119: Cool Books - but they're definitely a Mixture2:17:22Did fleet destroyers use high- and low-pressure turbines?Q&A
- Montana Class, The Bulwarks for the New Battle Line: Key Ship Series 4, Part 21:09:39Capital ships inside a whole fleet systemNotable Point
- Testing out Lion Class & Potential Lion Class Successors on UAD1:32:49Reconstructing a Narvik-class destroyer in a design gameNotable Point
- Testing out Lion Class & Potential Lion Class Successors on UAD1:40:42Reconstructing a Tribal-class destroyer exposes more game limitsNotable Point
- Testing out Lion Class & Potential Lion Class Successors on UAD1:49:09Why game destroyer range can misrepresent historyNotable Point
- Testing out Lion Class & Potential Lion Class Successors on UAD1:53:21Warship silhouettes could complicate identificationQ&A
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy...42:04Designing and distributing destroyer flotillasNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy...2:51:01Designing destroyers for close defence and mine warfareChapter
- Bruships 118: Unbuilt Battleships, Romans & French Strategic Philosophy56:54Autoloaders would reshape ships and fire controlQ&A
- Bruships 118: Unbuilt Battleships, Romans & French Strategic Philosophy3:28:39Tribal versus Fletcher depends on the missionQ&A
- Losing Control of the Sea: Bad time for the Royal Navy in the Age of Sail7:19How capital-ship memory obscures Operation ClaymoreNotable Point
- Fleets of Lissa(1866): Lessons for Technology0:00Why a small battle shaped later warship designChapter
- American vs Japanese Battleships... testing some historical ideas1:06:23Secondary batteries: game effect versus battle realityNotable Point
- American vs Japanese Battleships... testing some historical ideas1:28:45How one early loss unbalances an equal fleet actionNotable Point
- Bruships 117: Battle Cruisers, Battle-Cruisers or Battlecruisers?3:11:57Turning the 4.7-inch mount into a true dual-purpose weaponQ&A
- Bruships 117: Battle Cruisers, Battle-Cruisers or Battlecruisers?3:16:29N-class versus Fletcher in a destroyer gunfightQ&A
- Bruships 117: Battle Cruisers, Battle-Cruisers or Battlecruisers?3:23:02When a destroyer gains a realistic chance against DreadnoughtQ&A
- Bruships 117: Battle Cruisers, Battle-Cruisers or Battlecruisers?3:26:50Why modern destroyers build more like capital shipsNotable Point
- Some Myths of the Royal Navy in WWII & Treaty Years19:46Reginald Henderson's route from destroyers to carrier constructionNotable Point
- Some Myths of the Royal Navy in WWII & Treaty Years27:17How destroyer flotillas trained future senior commandersNotable Point
- Some Myths of the Royal Navy in WWII & Treaty Years57:49Sea Lion's Channel crossing and German surface weaknessChapter
- Some Myths of the Royal Navy in WWII & Treaty Years1:01:03How industrial depth accelerated Royal Navy air-defence upgradesNotable Point
- Some Myths of the Royal Navy in WWII & Treaty Years1:13:59Dunkirk beyond the small-boats storyNotable Point
- Patreon 80: The most annoying & damaging 'myths' about the Royal Navy in the Treaty Years & WWII?31:11Destroyer flotillas trained future fleet commandersNotable Point
- Patreon 80: The most annoying & damaging 'myths' about the Royal Navy in the Treaty Years & WWII?1:20:18The Hunt class as evidence of prewar planningNotable Point
- Patreon 80: The most annoying & damaging 'myths' about the Royal Navy in the Treaty Years & WWII?2:42:22Dunkirk's small boats worked within a much larger lift systemChapter
- Patreon 80: The most annoying & damaging 'myths' about the Royal Navy in the Treaty Years & WWII?2:50:41Why Dunkirk evacuees crowded destroyer decksNotable Point
- Bruships 116: Australia Trip Books... Continued56:48A shared Commonwealth destroyer cultureQ&A
- Bruships 116: Australia Trip Books... Continued1:22:19The human limit on multi-target fire controlQ&A
- Bruships 116: Australia Trip Books... Continued4:16:33Global commitments produce broader Royal Navy designsQ&A
- Testing out my Spanish Dreadnought Designs1:42:27Could Poland's Grom serve as an export Tribal?Q&A
- Lexington & Saratoga Carrier Conception: Key Ship Series 3, Ships 10 &1120:04Reconnaissance and escorts were the real defenceNotable Point
- Lexington & Saratoga Carrier Conception: Key Ship Series 3, Ships 10 &1128:09Destroyers complete the carrier screenNotable Point
- US Nuclear Powered Cruisers: Comment Response30:25A balanced Royal Navy force-structure sketchQ&A
- Building the Fleets for the Battle of Midway31:10Japan's carrier force had too few escortsChapter
- Building the Fleets for the Battle of Midway47:22American task forces treated escorts as part of carrier powerChapter
- Building the Fleets for the Battle of Midway53:07Japan needed cheaper escorts alongside elite destroyersNotable Point
- Building the Fleets for the Battle of Midway56:39Yamato and the opportunity cost of naval megaprojectsNotable Point
- Building the Fleets for the Battle of Midway1:01:24Class labels can conceal standardised destroyer familiesNotable Point
- Building the Fleets for the Battle of Midway1:04:51Protecting oilers is part of protecting the fleetNotable Point
- HMCS Haida Comment Response4:27Why is there no preserved Battle-class destroyer?Notable Point
- HMCS Haida Comment Response19:54When destroyers grew into scout-cruiser rolesNotable Point
- HMCS Haida Comment Response21:13Could destroyers replenish torpedoes and depth charges at sea?Q&A
- HMS Nubian: Key Ship Series 3, Ship 54:18Why Nubian merited preservationNotable Point
- HMS Nubian: Key Ship Series 3, Ship 55:35Pennant changes, hull figures, and radar readinessNotable Point
- HMS Nubian: Key Ship Series 3, Ship 58:26Industrial depth behind destroyer fire controlNotable Point
- HMS Nubian: Key Ship Series 3, Ship 513:03Torpedo capacity beyond the paper fitNotable Point
- HMS Nubian: Key Ship Series 3, Ship 513:03Keeping the Matapan ambush silentChapter
- HMS Nubian: Key Ship Series 3, Ship 519:10Taking damage while screening a carrier off CreteNotable Point
- HMS Nubian: Key Ship Series 3, Ship 523:11Preferred escort for carrier strikes off NorwayNotable Point
- HMS Nubian: Key Ship Series 3, Ship 526:50The Tribal destroyer as a fleet's forward screenNotable Point
- Some Books Aquired So Far in #NavHistAus23! Sydney1:10:28What made the Daring class a capable destroyerQ&A
- What would battleship and cruiser guns look like If modern technology were applied to them?29:34Cruiser labels, destroyer leaders, and independent presenceNotable Point
- Meeting HMAS Vampire!1:39The Daring class as a Tribal successorNotable Point
- Meeting HMAS Vampire!3:53Why Vampire traded torpedoes for radarNotable Point
- Meeting HMAS Vampire!4:33Why the Daring silhouette reads as a warshipNotable Point
- USS Long Beach: Comment Response0:18Why Long Beach ends the US cruiser lineageQ&A
- Jeune Ecole: A Cheaper Way of War? The Jeune Ecole34:04Fisher's use of flotilla defenceNotable Point
- Some Books Aquired So Far in #NavHistAus23! Brisbane10:46A destroyer officer's service memoirNotable Point
- Some Books Aquired So Far in #NavHistAus23! Brisbane17:40Why Tribal destroyers kept torpedoesQ&A
- Some Books Aquired So Far in #NavHistAus23! Brisbane44:43Why U.S. destroyers did not immediately adopt twin five-inch mountsQ&A
- Some Books Aquired So Far in #NavHistAus23! Brisbane1:17:09When destroyer guns begin to create a cruiserQ&A
- HMS Warspite: Key Ships Series 3, Ship 335:36Narvik: spotting aircraft and battleship firepowerChapter
- HMS Cossack: Key Ships Series 3, Ship 1...special edition...2:48Why Cossack's Tribal class was a general-purpose destroyerChapter
- The Shipwreck Museum - The Destroyer Models #NavHistAus 20:09Dual-purpose guns make a flexible destroyerNotable Point
- The Shipwreck Museum - The Destroyer Models #NavHistAus 20:59Mixed gun batteries divide surface and air-defence rolesNotable Point
- The Shipwreck Museum - The Destroyer Models #NavHistAus 21:28Why a small destroyer force needs flexibilityChapter
- Glorious First of June (1794)23:01No surviving Battle-class destroyersNotable Point
- Bruships 114: Alternate Histories, What Ifs & Questions from Chat2:08:04What a standardized 1950s NATO fleet might borrowQ&A
- Bruships 114: Alternate Histories, What Ifs & Questions from Chat2:41:51Why Graf Zeppelin's guns do not make a carrier duel sensibleQ&A
- Bruships 114: Alternate Histories, What Ifs & Questions from Chat2:56:34What replaces the submarine as a torpedo threatQ&A
- Günther Lütjens, useful idiot or misunderstood leadership?4:01:52A steering hit reduced Bismarck to seven knots under a night-long pursuitChapter
- A 13.5in gun Dreadnought? Would it work?2:07:00Destroyer convoy defence and access to torpedo rangeNotable Point
- Bruships 113: Jutland36:00Why more submarines would not transform JutlandQ&A
- Bruships 113: Jutland59:19Destroyers and monitors in a Great Lakes warQ&A
- Bruships 113: Jutland1:14:17Mixed gun batteries and a modern destroyer's radar returnQ&A
- Bruships 113: Jutland2:00:27The destroyer arithmetic behind Jellicoe's cautionNotable Point
- Building the Fleets for Jutland8:20Reading Jutland’s fleet types before counting shipsChapter
- Building the Fleets for Jutland1:22:50Cruisers and destroyers made fleet strength deeperChapter
- Building the Fleets for Jutland1:37:02German torpedo-boat labels can hide destroyer rolesNotable Point
- Building the Fleets for Jutland2:03:50Closing counterfactuals test unused fleet optionsNotable Point
- Patreon 79: AH - WW1 incidents happen that bring the US enters war on the side of Germany...22:32The capital ships had an unseen escort screenNotable Point
- Patreon 79: AH - WW1 incidents happen that bring the US enters war on the side of Germany...2:33:22The famous four-stack destroyers do not yet existQ&A
- Building a NelRod County Class...1:23:49Building a German destroyer around cruiser-calibre gunsQ&A
- Building a NelRod County Class...1:56:00Why a torpedo-heavy destroyer threatens a cruiserNotable Point
- Building a NelRod County Class...2:21:36What four-inch secondary guns are forNotable Point
- What were the 'Bearns' of the other Major Navies? RM, IJN, USN, RN & Kreigsmarine17:23Mogador's speed outran its torpedoesNotable Point
- What were the 'Bearns' of the other Major Navies? RM, IJN, USN, RN & Kreigsmarine28:01Turbine was a torpedo craft labeled as a destroyerChapter
- What were the 'Bearns' of the other Major Navies? RM, IJN, USN, RN & Kreigsmarine31:59Why did Italy's destroyers limit fleet operations?Q&A
- What were the 'Bearns' of the other Major Navies? RM, IJN, USN, RN & Kreigsmarine45:25Fubuki firepower versus stabilityNotable Point
- What were the 'Bearns' of the other Major Navies? RM, IJN, USN, RN & Kreigsmarine1:11:32The Sims class attempted too many improvements at onceNotable Point
- What were the 'Bearns' of the other Major Navies? RM, IJN, USN, RN & Kreigsmarine1:39:06Type 1934 and Graf Zeppelin expose design-system problemsNotable Point
- Patreon 78: The Bearn of every major treaty navy...39:35Mogador's speed and torpedo mismatchNotable Point
- Patreon 78: The Bearn of every major treaty navy...43:28Mogador's 138.6 mm gun adds another design complicationNotable Point
- Patreon 78: The Bearn of every major treaty navy...45:47What if Tribal-class destroyers had dual-purpose 5.5-inch guns?Q&A
- Patreon 78: The Bearn of every major treaty navy...53:57Small Italian destroyers and the escort gapChapter
- Patreon 78: The Bearn of every major treaty navy...1:20:09Giussano's thin armour offered little safety from destroyer fireNotable Point
- Patreon 78: The Bearn of every major treaty navy...1:22:42Fubuki's firepower needed a broader hullChapter
- Patreon 78: The Bearn of every major treaty navy...2:17:23The Sims class tried to advance too many destroyer features at onceChapter
- Patreon 78: The Bearn of every major treaty navy...3:19:15What would an autoloading 5.25-inch super-destroyer resemble?Q&A
- Starting off Franco-Italian Battleship race... come see what a Francisco Caracciolo might have done49:09Reading Tribal and Fletcher destroyer silhouettesNotable Point
- Starting off Franco-Italian Battleship race... come see what a Francisco Caracciolo might have done1:41:54Destroyer screens and stopping torpedo attacksNotable Point
- Starting off Franco-Italian Battleship race... come see what a Francisco Caracciolo might have done1:58:04Atlanta-style cruisers and saturation fireNotable Point
- Rome is Won, What Carthage does now the Romans are Really Annoyed! Rome Total War 2, April 20233:06:43Why light cruisers need a credible attack methodQ&A
- Bruships 111: Random Books of History3:14:18Replacing torpedo mounts with more destroyer gunsQ&A
- Bruships 111: Random Books of History3:16:18What a surviving nuclear surface fleet changesQ&A
- Ship-Shape Special: Alex & Garius Command a Carrier... How bad can this be?22:30Carrier force priorities: radar, aircraft, and escortsNotable Point
- Ship-Shape Special: Alex & Garius Command a Carrier... How bad can this be?32:40HMAS Vampire as the surviving Daring-class comparisonQ&A
- HMS Dreadnought, but built around the RN's favourite battleship guns...1:17:37Can a destroyer carry a ship-of-the-line broadside?Q&A
- HMS Dreadnought, but built around the RN's favourite battleship guns...1:37:30Destroyer divisions converging into crossfireNotable Point
- HMS Dreadnought, but built around the RN's favourite battleship guns...1:38:52Why costly Japanese destroyer resistance could distort the attrition pictureNotable Point
- HMS Dreadnought, but built around the RN's favourite battleship guns...1:51:25Why gun-armed Tribal destroyers matteredNotable Point
- HMS Dreadnought, but built around the RN's favourite battleship guns...2:51:35Destroyer armament and the reach of heavy secondary gunsNotable Point
- HMS Dreadnought, but built around the RN's favourite battleship guns...3:33:17Closing range in a night battleNotable Point
- HMS Dreadnought, but built around the RN's favourite battleship guns...3:39:49Why overpenetration does not make an 18-inch hit harmlessNotable Point
- Bruships 110: Naval Aviation2:50:09More treaty categories create more boundary problemsQ&A
- Bruships 110: Naval Aviation3:08:28Spähkreuzer make more sense as long-range destroyersQ&A
- Starting with Building HMS Thunderchild...26:08Destroyers spotting for heavier gunsQ&A
- Starting with Building HMS Thunderchild...2:32:38Destroyer air defence is limited by space and arcsNotable Point
- Starting with Building HMS Thunderchild...2:39:38Destroyer combat as manoeuvre and range-findingNotable Point
- Starting with Building HMS Thunderchild...2:42:32Italian destroyers in Mediterranean and Atlantic seasNotable Point
- Starting with Building HMS Thunderchild...2:51:19Recognising national destroyer design in a simulationNotable Point
- Starting with Building HMS Thunderchild...3:07:44The Italian super-destroyer as a small cruiserNotable Point
- Empire Total War Twitch Stream 9(April 2023)27:07Standardised armament and cruiser numbersNotable Point
- Empire Total War Twitch Stream 9(April 2023)40:11The unrealised possibility of Second World War boarding actionsNotable Point
- Bruships 109: Mahan, an inspiration & a Reflection + Bonus3:26:53Frigates, destroyers, and modern cruiser rolesQ&A
- Bruships 109: Mahan, an inspiration & a Reflection + Bonus3:31:49Why modern escorts perform cruiser missionsQ&A
- Bruships 109: Mahan, an inspiration & a Reflection + Bonus3:33:09The cost of converting old destroyers for missilesQ&A
- Alternate History - Royal Navy retains the Fleet 'units' of Royal Naval Air Service: Patreon 7653:40Emergency aircraft spares cross the Channel by destroyerNotable Point
- Alternate History - Royal Navy retains the Fleet 'units' of Royal Naval Air Service: Patreon 762:03:12Carrier experience drives better destroyer air defenceNotable Point
- Alfred Thayer Mahan: Justifying a Navy to a Continent5:43Visible presence and real naval securityNotable Point
- Bruships 108: PLanned for Random Books off the Shelf & Chat1:23:22The long history of the name DelightNotable Point
- Bruships 108: PLanned for Random Books off the Shelf & Chat2:41:26Who commanded a destroyer flotillaQ&A
- A Totally Diesel Kreigsmarine: What Could it Do?10:36The Kriegsmarine's mixed diesel and steam baselineChapter
- A Totally Diesel Kreigsmarine: What Could it Do?18:21Diesel destroyers: speed versus enduranceChapter
- A Totally Diesel Kreigsmarine: What Could it Do?25:28The projected 1942 diesel destroyer and its implicationsNotable Point
- A Totally Diesel Kreigsmarine: What Could it Do?30:26How more endurance could reshape NarvikNotable Point
- A Totally Diesel Kreigsmarine: What Could it Do?59:19More carriers and large destroyers for Atlantic hunting groupsChapter
- HMS Dreadnought: Key Ships Series 1, Ship 114:10Main guns, anti-destroyer weapons, and torpedo tubesChapter
- Patreon Bonus: Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine eschews steam and goes all Diesel(-electric) propulsion31:35Destroyer speed traded against a radically larger radiusChapter
- Patreon Bonus: Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine eschews steam and goes all Diesel(-electric) propulsion36:00Z51 shows the intended three-shaft diesel architectureNotable Point
- Patreon Bonus: Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine eschews steam and goes all Diesel(-electric) propulsion38:52Scaling 1932 diesels into an earlier three-shaft destroyerNotable Point
- Patreon Bonus: Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine eschews steam and goes all Diesel(-electric) propulsion1:13:05Long-range destroyers enable German task forcesChapter
- Patreon Bonus: Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine eschews steam and goes all Diesel(-electric) propulsion1:21:50Denmark Strait becomes a task-force battleNotable Point
- Patreon Bonus: Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine eschews steam and goes all Diesel(-electric) propulsion1:34:45Britain could start an anti-destroyer sloop programme earlyNotable Point
- Patreon Bonus: Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine eschews steam and goes all Diesel(-electric) propulsion1:37:35French, Japanese, and destroyer responses reshape treaty limitsChapter
- Bruships 107: Some New to Me Books & Some New from Pen & Sword58:23Why good-enough ships can win warsQ&A
- Bruships 107: Some New to Me Books & Some New from Pen & Sword2:54:26Type 82, Ticonderoga, and the politics of cruiser labelsQ&A
- Bruships 107: Some New to Me Books & Some New from Pen & Sword2:58:36Modern escorts as functional cruisersQ&A
- Timberborne: A Test for the Year of Technology/My students favourite 'engineering game'1:42:25The industrial challenge behind a German destroyer-cruiser programmeQ&A
- Bruships 106: Song Dynasty & Three New Books from Pen & Sword48:37The destroyer name records a shift from defence to attackQ&A
- Bruships 106: Song Dynasty & Three New Books from Pen & Sword1:07:52Escort growth could outpace German U-boat expansion before 1942Notable Point
- Bruships 106: Song Dynasty & Three New Books from Pen & Sword1:21:16Three more peacetime years reshape carriers and destroyer armamentQ&A
- Bruships 106: Song Dynasty & Three New Books from Pen & Sword3:30:35Early Royal Navy torpedo craft mixed invention with dead endsChapter
- Nothing Wrong With Our Shells Today; Alternate History, What if British Shells at Jutland Work?43:44Goeben's pursuit turns on coal, speed, and force weightNotable Point
- Patreon 74: What if History - Greenboy shells had been developed and deployed in time for Jutland.1:16:15The shell crisis extended below the capital-ship gunsNotable Point
- Patreon 74: What if History - Greenboy shells had been developed and deployed in time for Jutland.2:30:19Shark fights four German torpedo boatsNotable Point
- Patreon 74: What if History - Greenboy shells had been developed and deployed in time for Jutland.3:05:25Could U-boats still stop a Baltic offensive?Q&A
- The Submarine Century? How Submarines evolved over the 20th Century0:08Why submarines change naval warfare into a three-dimensional contestChapter
- Bruships 105: Six Age of Sail Useful Books2:55:30Did any ships named Ardent survive to retirement?Q&A
- Bruships 105: Six Age of Sail Useful Books3:00:15The brief use of Cromwell as a Royal Navy ship nameQ&A
- Bruships 105: Six Age of Sail Useful Books3:08:04The many Royal Navy ships named AntelopeNotable Point
- UAD: 18in gun Agincourt & Other Ideas1:18:30Why six-inch secondaries transform the UAD fightChapter
- UAD: Queen Elizabeth Maximus & Other Ideas2:30:16Destroyer smoke and the unresolved cause of Ajax's close engagementNotable Point
- Bruships 103: Belfast Parts yet to arrive... so let's consider the Run up to War...26:42Battle and Weapon class destroyers comparedQ&A
- Bruships 103: Belfast Parts yet to arrive... so let's consider the Run up to War...1:17:53Destroyers used local protection instead of armor beltsQ&A
- Bruships 103: Belfast Parts yet to arrive... so let's consider the Run up to War...3:36:26Japan's large destroyers replace Aegis AshoreNotable Point
- Patreon 72: If Jan 1939 Tsingtao incident leads to war, how does RN carrier force fair against IJN?1:55:55What role would the Tribal-class destroyers play?Q&A
- Patreon 72: If Jan 1939 Tsingtao incident leads to war, how does RN carrier force fair against IJN?2:19:11The Royal Navy answer to Japanese submarinesQ&A
- Patreon 72: If Jan 1939 Tsingtao incident leads to war, how does RN carrier force fair against IJN?2:50:40Canada's role in the Pacific warQ&A
- Patreon 72: If Jan 1939 Tsingtao incident leads to war, how does RN carrier force fair against IJN?2:53:54The East China Sea blockade-breakerChapter
- Bruships 101: No Dalmations, but a whole HMS Belfast to build36:23Infrastructure for an Australian light-destroyer programQ&A
- Bruships 101: No Dalmations, but a whole HMS Belfast to build36:33An oversized British candidate for Australia's light destroyerQ&A
- Dragonfly Class and other Gunboats Service in WWII1:23:22How sloop orders could strengthen the naval industrial baseNotable Point
- Christmas Comment Response: HMCS Sackville, Descartes & some 60s shorts1:394.7-inch dual-purpose mount tradeoffsQ&A
- Christmas Comment Response: HMCS Sackville, Descartes & some 60s shorts21:55Tribals, Crown Colonies, and 4.7-inch commonalityQ&A
- Christmas Comment Response: HMCS Sackville, Descartes & some 60s shorts26:35Twin 4.7-inch mounts on War Emergency destroyersQ&A
- Christmas Comment Response: HMCS Sackville, Descartes & some 60s shorts27:23Practical 4.7-inch versus 4.5-inch rates of fireQ&A
- Why did the French Navy not more fully embrace carrier aviation after WWI?2:20French innovation versus carrier weaknessChapter
- Why did the French Navy not more fully embrace carrier aviation after WWI?6:24Why land-based aircraft could not replace fleet aviationNotable Point
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: 4.7in Dual Purpose what if & Soviet Navy 1939-6525:15The Northern Fleet grew from a thin flotillaNotable Point
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: 4.7in Dual Purpose what if & Soviet Navy 1939-6551:22Universal dual-purpose guns needed usable mountsNotable Point
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: 4.7in Dual Purpose what if & Soviet Navy 1939-6555:59Dual-purpose 4.7-inch guns and escort survivalQ&A
- Patreon 71: Why did the French Navy not more fully embrace carrier aviation after WWI?2:16:13A carrier also demanded cruisers and destroyersNotable Point
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Comus Class, Kynda Class & Kresta Class5:29Dutch shipbuilding and German design politicsQ&A
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Comus Class, Kynda Class & Kresta Class19:48A hydrofoil escort trades speed for hull strainNotable Point
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Comus Class, Kynda Class & Kresta Class23:38Countering Kynda required carrier and escort upgradesNotable Point
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Comus Class, Kynda Class & Kresta Class1:03:22Dual-purpose guns compound destroyer survivalQ&A
- Bruships 98: Steam Engines (both maritime and rail), random & naval questions5:09Triple four-inch mounts traded handling for firepowerQ&A
- Bruships 98: Steam Engines (both maritime and rail), random & naval questions49:04Cold steam plants needed hours to raise powerQ&A
- Bruships 98: Steam Engines (both maritime and rail), random & naval questions1:07:31Hunt and Flower escorts show yard tradeoffsQ&A
- Bruships 98: Steam Engines (both maritime and rail), random & naval questions3:43:40DDG(X) requirements were already driving displacement upwardQ&A
- What if Germany didn't invade Belgium in 1914?39:25The Channel Fleet's pre-dreadnought screenNotable Point
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Soviet Navy 1918-39 & Cruisers of the Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine18:34Raider support plans still needed practical logisticsQ&A
- Bruships 97: Random Books, Naval Chat & Possibly the Sound of Rain36:47Poland needs escorts and people more than a lone battleshipQ&A
- Bruships 97: Random Books, Naval Chat & Possibly the Sound of Rain1:05:10A 5.5-inch dual-purpose gun could arm cruisers and large destroyersQ&A
- Bruships 97: Random Books, Naval Chat & Possibly the Sound of Rain2:27:10Destroyer growth made the separate leader category disappearQ&A
- Top 5 Inventions that came too Early...25:35Zumwalt and railguns show the power-supply problemNotable Point
- Top 5 Inventions that came too Early...27:44Zumwalt design overreach reaches the peripheral VLS arrangementNotable Point
- Top 5 Inventions that came too Late14:25Dual-purpose guns before Norway and the MediterraneanChapter
- Insect Class: Force Multiplication of the Inshore Kind49:25Gunboats and sloops as force multipliersNotable Point
- New Years 2023 Naval History Questions till the Bru runs out...1:05:18Royal Navy priorities with a bigger prewar budgetQ&A
- New Years 2023 Naval History Questions till the Bru runs out...1:18:03A modern Haida would grow into a first-rate escortQ&A
- Ticonderoga(1981) Class: Aegis Covers it All5:04Spruance roots and crowded air-warfare requirementsNotable Point
- Ticonderoga(1981) Class: Aegis Covers it All36:24From cruiser labels back to destroyers doing the cruiser jobChapter
- 1860-1960 A Hundred Years of Gun Cruisers21:01Why Tribal-class ships remained destroyersQ&A
- 1860-1960 A Hundred Years of Gun Cruisers2:31:02Three Tribals for the price of one DidoQ&A
- 1860-1960 A Hundred Years of Gun Cruisers2:49:53HMS Zubian joins two damaged destroyersQ&A
- Leahy Class(+Bainbridge Class): Destroyer Leaders to Cruisers by the Stroke of a Pen1:32Destroyer leaders became cruisers on paperChapter
- Leahy Class(+Bainbridge Class): Destroyer Leaders to Cruisers by the Stroke of a Pen9:02Leahy and Bainbridge design fitChapter
- Leahy Class(+Bainbridge Class): Destroyer Leaders to Cruisers by the Stroke of a Pen1:01:17Destroyer-built cruisers became a bridge to nuclear experienceChapter
- HMCS Haida & The Tribal Class: Always Service11:24Why the Tribals sat between destroyers and cruisersChapter
- HMCS Haida & The Tribal Class: Always Service17:22Open bridges and destroyer commandNotable Point
- HMCS Haida & The Tribal Class: Always Service20:09Afridi and the cost of weak destroyer air defenceChapter
- HMCS Haida & The Tribal Class: Always Service38:31Athabaskan, Haida, and Channel destroyer fightingChapter
- HMCS Haida & The Tribal Class: Always Service2:04:12Why Canada wanted Tribal-class destroyersNotable Point
- HMCS Haida & The Tribal Class: Always Service2:12:55A Tribal destroyer's engine room and power densityNotable Point
- HMCS Haida & The Tribal Class: Always Service2:52:19Why general-purpose capability consumed the TribalsChapter
- Soviet Navy 1918-19911:23:59Soviet destroyer armament balanced guns, torpedoes, and minesNotable Point
- Soviet Navy 1918-19912:22:44Why German torpedo boats could resemble small destroyersNotable Point
- USS Long Beach(CGN-9): The USN's Last Cruiser...44:47A Canadian design echo in the Aegis conceptNotable Point
- Bruships 96: Vikings, Okinawa & 2nd to Last Pre-Christmas 2022 Naval Chat1:52:43Modern Royal Navy escort sketchQ&A
- Bruships 96: Vikings, Okinawa & 2nd to Last Pre-Christmas 2022 Naval Chat3:03:18Daring-class destroyers as Falklands command and gun shipsQ&A
- Bruships 96: Vikings, Okinawa & 2nd to Last Pre-Christmas 2022 Naval Chat4:04:29An invasion of Japan would redirect Royal Navy productionQ&A
- Calypso (1883) Class0:10From Daring-class experiments to Calypso's finalized pairNotable Point
- Bruships 95: Science Fiction, Including Paddle 'Corn Oil' (Aka BioDiesel) Battleship Twist...29:37Environmental pressure and neglected naval force multipliersNotable Point
- Bruships 95: Science Fiction, Including Paddle 'Corn Oil' (Aka BioDiesel) Battleship Twist...1:36:14Matching velocity to intercept a missile swarmChapter
- Bruships 95: Science Fiction, Including Paddle 'Corn Oil' (Aka BioDiesel) Battleship Twist...1:40:03Samar and the destroyer's duty to protect othersNotable Point
- Bruships 95: Science Fiction, Including Paddle 'Corn Oil' (Aka BioDiesel) Battleship Twist...1:44:37Launcher endurance and safe interception coursesNotable Point
- What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?27:06An Abdiel-class minelayer with six 4.7-inch gunsNotable Point
- What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?34:02Tribal destroyers against Norway's dive bombersChapter
- What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?40:01Heavy anti-aircraft fire breaks up an attackNotable Point
- What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?48:54Tribals and C-class cruisers reinforce the MediterraneanNotable Point
- What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?52:18Escort conversions and Operation ClaymoreChapter
- What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?59:19Force Z remains a contingent outcomeChapter
- What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?1:10:41A feasible mount opens a 50-calibre follow-onNotable Point
- Soviet Navy Part 2/3: 1939-651:23:24Postwar destroyers traded refinement for reproducible quantityNotable Point
- Patreon 68: What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?25:49A single calibre reshapes much more than destroyersChapter
- Patreon 68: What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?34:29Why destroyers used open mounts instead of turretsQ&A
- Patreon 68: What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?43:06Why some Tribal-class gun fits differedQ&A
- Patreon 68: What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?50:22Why the 4.5-inch upper-deck mount arrived too lateNotable Point
- Patreon 68: What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?1:15:08Tribals, Didos, and massed high-angle fireChapter
- Patreon 68: What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?1:20:09Why the 4.5-inch upper-deck mount kept slippingQ&A
- Patreon 68: What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?1:41:32How destroyers could treble a task group's high-angle fireNotable Point
- Patreon 68: What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?1:52:53Operation Claymore: 14 high-angle guns or 32Notable Point
- Patreon 68: What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?2:09:12Removed destroyer mounts could return on new shipsQ&A
- Patreon 68: What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?2:56:30Why Battle-class destroyers reached the war so lateNotable Point
- Bruships 94: Some New Books, Some Others Books and a lot of Naval Chat10:17Small escorts do the fleet's daily workQ&A
- Bruships 94: Some New Books, Some Others Books and a lot of Naval Chat2:42:27A modern third rate as a 16,000-ton Type 83Q&A
- Bruships 94: Some New Books, Some Others Books and a lot of Naval Chat3:06:25Force planning against a five-carrier fleetQ&A
- Cruiser Policy of the Reichsmarine & Kriegsmarine43:44The surface fleet an oceanic submarine war requiredNotable Point
- Soviet Navy Part 1/3: 1918-193924:17Slow construction squandered Russian destroyer ideasNotable Point
- Soviet Navy Part 1/3: 1918-193945:02Gnevny destroyers and a fleet that could be builtNotable Point
- German Heavy Cruisers & Cruiser Policy/Procurement of WWII1:20:26Light cruisers designed around mines, not fleet balanceChapter
- German Heavy Cruisers & Cruiser Policy/Procurement of WWII1:28:04German Z destroyers tried to become small cruisersQ&A
- German Heavy Cruisers & Cruiser Policy/Procurement of WWII2:19:20Fast scout cruisers and the counterforce they would provokeChapter
- Washington Cheaties: Comment Response18:11Why the Royal Navy delayed higher-pressure boilersNotable Point
- Bruships 93: Soviet Navy Books & Random Books4:24:48Why 2030s surface combatants keep growingQ&A
- Arethusa(1913) Class: Light Cruisers or....40:01Undaunted uses resemblance and surprise at TexelChapter
- Arethusa(1913) Class: Light Cruisers or....44:12Destroyer coordination decides the Battle of TexelChapter
- Bruships 92: New Books, Naval Chat and Late 19th Century Warships...2:50:24How corvettes, sloops, and destroyer escorts differedQ&A
- Bruships 92: New Books, Naval Chat and Late 19th Century Warships...3:00:57Two routes into Royal Navy destroyer operationsQ&A
- Bruships 92: New Books, Naval Chat and Late 19th Century Warships...3:10:14How treaty limits contributed to destroyer turbine wearQ&A
- Asama Class: Armoured Cruiser or Battleship? (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 11)6:20A balanced fleet needs supporting craft and infrastructureChapter
- Diadem Class: First Class Protected Cruisers (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 10)1:08:19Why the Royal Navy abandoned the middle cruiser tierChapter
- Bruships 91: New Books & Cruiser Books19:44Type 82 as a task-force command shipQ&A
- Bruships 91: New Books & Cruiser Books27:50Modern fire control versus World War II destroyersQ&A
- Bruships 91: New Books & Cruiser Books37:19Sketching a Royal Navy Type 90Q&A
- Bruships 91: New Books & Cruiser Books3:20:24Keeping twelve destroyers on patrol required a larger forceNotable Point
- Bruships 91: New Books & Cruiser Books3:30:37Why destroyer development advances in wavesQ&A
- Washington "Cheaties'': an Inevitability of Winning a Treaty45:12A destroyer loophole could channel Italian constructionNotable Point
- Patreon 66: "Washington Cheaties"2:29:10Italy built torpedo boats beneath the destroyer thresholdChapter
- Capitani Romani Class Cruisers: Supersized Destroyers or Shrunk Cruisers?1:25Why the Capitani Romani were supersized destroyersChapter
- Capitani Romani Class Cruisers: Supersized Destroyers or Shrunk Cruisers?7:43Why destroyers were flotilla assets and cruisers independent shipsNotable Point
- Capitani Romani Class Cruisers: Supersized Destroyers or Shrunk Cruisers?19:22Minimal armour left speed as the class's main protectionNotable Point
- Capitani Romani Class Cruisers: Supersized Destroyers or Shrunk Cruisers?20:20Machinery, mine rails, and broadside torpedoes shaped the deck planChapter
- Capitani Romani Class Cruisers: Supersized Destroyers or Shrunk Cruisers?21:19The Dido comparison exposes a cruiser-on-cruiser mismatchNotable Point
- Capitani Romani Class Cruisers: Supersized Destroyers or Shrunk Cruisers?38:52Speed and survival were not enough to win a cruiser fightNotable Point
- Bruships 90: Books From the Road29:47Destroyer conversions could emerge as smaller postwar frigatesQ&A
- Bruships 90: Books From the Road48:07Poland's Grom class filled the same heavy-destroyer niche as the TribalsQ&A
- Bruships 90: Books From the Road1:18:27Brassey's 1900 records the Bullfinch machinery disaster in engineering detailChapter
- Bruships 90: Books From the Road2:52:47Vian's Tribals alongside Hood would radically alter the Bismarck chaseQ&A
- Bruships 90: Books From the Road3:03:31The Hunt class was Britain's overlooked mass-produced light destroyerNotable Point
- Giovanni Bausan(1883): 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 241:33Capability tiers for modern frigates and destroyersNotable Point
- Active Class: The Last Scout Cruisers?30:39Fearless at the Battle of Heligoland BightChapter
- Bruships 89: New Books (Christmas Recomendations) & Personal Accounts of War49:54Farragut approached the general-purpose destroyer by accidentQ&A
- Bruships 88: Way of War48:32A modern five-inch system transported to 1925Q&A
- Bruships 88: Way of War1:53:00Would G3 carriers produce larger destroyers sooner?Q&A
- Epic Blunders of Naval History1:18:21Zumwalt's design inherits the blame for unready technologyNotable Point
- Brooklyn Class(US Treaty Cruisers): Comment Response10:32Why large warships become general-purpose assetsNotable Point
- Brooklyn Class(US Treaty Cruisers): Comment Response35:44Why Helena could not safely remain with JuneauQ&A
- Epic Blunders of Naval History: Patreon 642:43:32Why mistaking a Tribal for a cruiser is understandableQ&A
- Abruzzi Class: Condottieri of the Regia Marina11:14Cruiser roles outlive the cruiser labelNotable Point
- Bruships 87: Books Found on My Travels, New Books & Christmas Recomendations1:20:35A visual route into Royal Navy camouflageChapter
- French Navy Fights on in 1940: Comment Response Video13:00Dreadnought and Warspite defy the boring-battleship labelNotable Point
- Bruships 86: Science Fiction Strikes Some More1:08:55Two destroyers exploit velocity, surprise, and time-on-target fireChapter
- Bruships 86: Science Fiction Strikes Some More1:55:53Balance faster weapons against ship numbers and available crewsQ&A
- Escort Carriers, the idea, designs, development and some notable operations15:07A damaged U-boat can divert more forces than a sinkingNotable Point
- Escort Carriers, the idea, designs, development and some notable operations45:45PQ 18 integrates an escort carrier into the convoyChapter
- Patreon 63: Escort carriers, the idea, designs, development and notable operations1:34:08How PQ 18 protected its escort carrierChapter
- Town Class 1913 +: Birmingham & Birkenhead Classes + HMAS Adelaide49:05The 5.5-inch versus six-inch cruiser-gun tradeoffChapter
- 19th Century Cruisers: Comment Response Video 2 (Velasco - Imperieuse)5:37Could an unprotected cruiser still count as a warship?Q&A
- If the French Navy Fought on in 1940: Vive La France48:33A destroyer-led Mediterranean supports an Indian Ocean reserveNotable Point
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 332:43How a nineteenth-century cruiser fares against WWII escortsQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 31:24:28Why Italian warships carried so many gunsQ&A
- Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1941-421:21:23Keeping modern escorts in ordinary reserveQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 21:31:10What Fletcher and Tribal reveal in personQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 21:47:25Choosing one Royal Navy destroyer class for 1942Q&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 22:05:22Japan's proposed 20,000-ton destroyersQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 22:29:23The 4.5-inch gun Britain most needed in 1936Q&A
- Velasco Class(1881): 19th Century Cruisers p58:39Isabel II tests the blockade of San JuanChapter
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out26:03Could destroyer guns penetrate a pre-dreadnought?Q&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out45:19Why finding Pacific destroyer wrecks mattersQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out53:05Why larger warships absorb upgrades more easilyQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out1:18:01North Cape if Scharnhorst kept her destroyersQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out1:32:47Destroyer gunfire against a capital shipQ&A
- Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1939-4052:51A 4.5-inch standard weapon for the Royal NavyQ&A
- Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1939-401:12:00A 4.5-inch dual-purpose battery for Tribal-class destroyersQ&A
- Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1939-401:30:40How capable destroyers could strengthen German surface raidingQ&A
- Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1939-401:54:53Japan's best 1937 series-production choiceQ&A
- Tre Kronor Class: Because the Swedish had a lot of Bofors guns to use..3:30Specifications for a Baltic task-group leaderChapter
- Tre Kronor Class: Because the Swedish had a lot of Bofors guns to use..29:56The odd gun layout suited destroyer attack tacticsNotable Point
- Bruships 85: Cruiser, New & Random Reading5:49Destroyer captains moving to larger commandsQ&A
- Bruships 85: Cruiser, New & Random Reading18:12The Harwich Force at Dogger BankChapter
- Bruships 85: Cruiser, New & Random Reading2:30:40Airburst shells against infantry and exposed ship crewsNotable Point
- Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 19429:11Bismarck exposed the Kriegsmarine's unbalanced forceChapter
- Major Allied Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 19429:20Earlier sloop construction could free fast destroyers for carriersNotable Point
- Some Minor Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 19412:05The Free Norwegian Navy's practical wartime missionsChapter
- Major Allied Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 194130:49Match Commonwealth expansion to useful force mixesChapter
- Cruiser Actions of the 1898 Spanish American War1:04:43Were Plutón and Furor true torpedo-boat destroyers?Notable Point
- Cruiser Actions of the 1898 Spanish American War1:13:29Cervera's formation and sacrificial breakout planChapter
- Five Weaknesses of Allied/Axis/Minor Navies in 1939 & 1940; Response to some Comments3:28How destroyer screens could delay Denmark StraitQ&A
- Five Weaknesses of Allied/Axis/Minor Navies in 1939 & 1940; Response to some Comments45:08Rebalancing British construction toward carriers and escortsQ&A
- Five Weaknesses of Allied/Axis/Minor Navies in 1939 & 1940; Response to some Comments52:28Destroyer crews improvising attacks on bridgesQ&A
- Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times38:44Why early cruisers mixed four- and six-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times1:00:48The value and difficulty of torpedo boats at Denmark StraitQ&A
- Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times1:30:55How more Norwegian destroyers could alter NarvikQ&A
- Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times2:58:39A 1945 Malayan buffer navy built for delayQ&A
- Major Allied Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 194041:46Royal Navy dawn bombardment methods in 1939Notable Point
- Some Minor Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 19396:16Destroyers, submarines, and torpedo boats for PolandChapter
- Some Minor Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 193910:10Coastal firepower for Norway's fjordsChapter
- Some Minor Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 193913:47Greek submarines offset an ageing surface fleetNotable Point
- Some Minor Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 193918:26Finish Dutch submarines and destroyers firstChapter
- Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 19397:55Turning the Kagero design into an ASW escortNotable Point
- Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 193935:17Why bigger guns weakened German destroyersNotable Point
- Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 193938:57Building German escorts from the Mowe classChapter
- Major Allied Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 193939:11Expanding American cruisers and destroyers after treaty collapseNotable Point
- Infrastructure in the Colonies: shipyards of the Commonwealth and Empire.18:27A practical shipbuilding ladder for the DominionsChapter
- Infrastructure in the Colonies: shipyards of the Commonwealth and Empire.20:08Steady batches and treaty space could have preserved Australian yardsChapter
- Infrastructure in the Colonies: shipyards of the Commonwealth and Empire.54:33Flotilla defence would align New Zealand's navy with local needsChapter
- Patreon 59: Infrastructure in the Colonies: shipyards of the Commonwealth and Empire.47:19Why interwar sloops were industrial training shipsNotable Point
- Patreon 59: Infrastructure in the Colonies: shipyards of the Commonwealth and Empire.1:54:34Sloop orders could accelerate a four-and-a-half-inch gun mountNotable Point
- Patreon 59: Infrastructure in the Colonies: shipyards of the Commonwealth and Empire.2:23:00Sloop and destroyer officers shared a small-ship command cultureQ&A
- Bruships 82: New Books, Fun Books & Random Books2:43:45Effective gun ranges for cruisers and destroyersQ&A
- Doug Clarke Bruships; As today would have been my Dad's Birthday, it's his books today1:35:57Modern destroyer guns trade volume for accuracyQ&A
- Doug Clarke Bruships; As today would have been my Dad's Birthday, it's his books today3:00:38L and M classes versus Allen M. Sumner destroyersQ&A
- Doug Clarke Bruships; As today would have been my Dad's Birthday, it's his books today3:08:52Why destroyers cannot win every rankingQ&A
- Doug Clarke Bruships; As today would have been my Dad's Birthday, it's his books today3:14:58How Daring-class destroyers might fare in a Guadalcanal night fightQ&A
- Reginae Maris Nostri: The Cruisers of Mussolini's Regia Marina43:13Why the Cadorna class made fragile destroyer huntersChapter
- Reginae Maris Nostri: The Cruisers of Mussolini's Regia Marina53:59Capitani Romani and a more coherent two-tier cruiser forceChapter
- The Jeune Ecole in 30mins or Less9:25Destroyers and quick-firing guns answer torpedo boatsChapter
- The Jeune Ecole in 30mins or Less10:51France pursues an effective early submarine forceNotable Point
- The Jeune Ecole in 30mins or Less14:06Jackie Fisher uses flotillas to buy time for the battle fleetChapter
- The Jeune Ecole in 30mins or Less15:36Mixed fleets turn torpedo boats into force multipliersNotable Point
- Projecting Mussonlini's Mare Nostrum: Italian 1920s & 1930s cruiser design/doctrine27:00Postwar austerity collides with battleship prestigeChapter
- Projecting Mussonlini's Mare Nostrum: Italian 1920s & 1930s cruiser design/doctrine1:30:13Early Condottieri behave like enlarged destroyersChapter
- Projecting Mussonlini's Mare Nostrum: Italian 1920s & 1930s cruiser design/doctrine1:48:19Did radar invalidate Italian attack doctrine?Q&A
- Projecting Mussonlini's Mare Nostrum: Italian 1920s & 1930s cruiser design/doctrine2:45:21Capitani Romani are cruisers in name, destroyers in roleChapter
- Projecting Mussonlini's Mare Nostrum: Italian 1920s & 1930s cruiser design/doctrine2:55:56Cruiser tonnage might have bought battleships or torpedo swarmsNotable Point
- Luigi Cadorna Class: The Regia Marina's Condottieri Part 24:41Cruisers or very large destroyers?Notable Point
- Naval History Questions: Live From The Brushack55:13Why the Atlanta class offered more than a Somers destroyerQ&A
- Naval History Questions: Live From The Brushack1:03:49How France might answer the Tribal-class destroyersQ&A
- Naval History Questions: Live From The Brushack2:29:11What a full destroyer squadron adds to Force ZQ&A
- Modern Frigates: Cruisers by another name? (Patreon 57 Videos Comment Response)21:47Zumwalt is larger than an early battleshipQ&A
- Modern Frigates: Cruisers by another name? (Patreon 57 Videos Comment Response)30:32Why DDG(X) may perform a cruiser roleQ&A
- Modern Frigates: Cruisers by another name? (Patreon 57 Videos Comment Response)38:07How frigates, cruisers, and destroyers changed rolesQ&A
- Modern Frigates: Cruisers by another name? (Patreon 57 Videos Comment Response)46:11Classifying frigates, destroyers, and cruisers by roleQ&A
- French 1920s & 1930s cruiser design/doctrine (Live)2:44:48Were Tribal-class destroyers structurally overbuilt?Q&A
- French 1920s & 1930s cruiser design/doctrine (Live)2:53:40Could destroyer packs overwhelm French cruisers?Q&A
- Bruships 81: Some Books from Chalk Valley & Tank Fest and Naval History Questions1:04:49Why frigate, destroyer, and cruiser names still matterNotable Point
- Bruships 81: Some Books from Chalk Valley & Tank Fest and Naval History Questions2:34:11German destroyers and a North Sea communications fiascoChapter
- Bruships 81: Some Books from Chalk Valley & Tank Fest and Naval History Questions3:35:14The potential of France's large destroyersQ&A
- Modern Frigates: Cruisers by any other name? (Patreon 57 Long Patrol)13:39Warship categories grow beyond their original scaleNotable Point
- Modern Frigates: Cruisers by any other name? (Patreon 57 Long Patrol)1:00:02Why 76 mm guns matter for close-in defenseNotable Point
- Modern Frigates: Cruisers by any other name? (Patreon 57 Long Patrol)1:17:47Álvaro de Bazán and Hobart blur frigate and destroyer labelsChapter
- Modern Frigates: Cruisers by any other name? (Patreon 57 Long Patrol)1:37:02A mission-based definition of the modern cruiserChapter
- Modern Frigates: Cruisers by any other name? (Patreon 57 Long Patrol)1:40:19Apply the cruiser test to a modern warshipNotable Point
- Patreon 57: Modern frigates, cruisers by another name?2:44:11Frigates and destroyers as cruiser variantsChapter
- Blonde Class(Take 2): Scout Cruisers of the WWI Royal Navy (Long Patrol)4:48Why the Blonde class were destroyer killersChapter
- Blonde Class(Take 2): Scout Cruisers of the WWI Royal Navy (Long Patrol)16:13The 4-inch Mark VII as a counter-destroyer weaponChapter
- Blonde Class(Take 2): Scout Cruisers of the WWI Royal Navy (Long Patrol)19:37Protecting the battle line's unengaged sideNotable Point
- Blonde Class(Take 2): Scout Cruisers of the WWI Royal Navy (Long Patrol)21:17The rapid-firing Vickers 3-pounderChapter
- Blonde Class(Take 2): Scout Cruisers of the WWI Royal Navy (Long Patrol)37:45The small-ship battle hidden by Jutland mapsNotable Point
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out Take 226:35If the first Swordfish strike had crippled BismarckQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out Take 21:03:16Could another navy's destroyers survive Typhoon Cobra?Q&A
- Why Retire Admirals in a World War? (Patreon 56: Long Patrol))9:51Albert Percy Addison and dockyard mobilizationChapter
- Why Retire Admirals in a World War? (Patreon 56: Long Patrol))44:42D-Day destroyer selection explains wartime officer choiceNotable Point
- Suffren Class: Mon croiseur de 1ère classe de la Marine Nationale préféré (Long Patrol)5:20Protection for cruiser work, undermined by narrow gun arcsChapter
- Bruships 80: Books From Travels48:39The Fighting Tenth in the Channel before D-DayChapter
- Bruships 80: Books From Travels59:22Railway guns against destroyers in NorwayQ&A
- Bruships 80: Books From Travels1:01:48Why a machinery-space torpedo hit doomed HMCS AthabaskanQ&A
- Bruships 80: Books From Travels2:06:19Why HMCS Haida became the preserved TribalQ&A
- Bruships 80: Books From Travels2:24:10Why Tribals and Fletchers dominate destroyer comparisonsQ&A
- Bruships 80: Books From Travels3:24:51Battleships as rare instruments of naval diplomacyQ&A
- Action of the 18th June 1799: How to Lose Frigates and Influence (Live)2:10:23What stands out aboard a Tribal-class destroyer?Q&A
- Equitable Naval Treaties Discussion (Live)1:21:21Why convoy sloops should not become second-rate destroyersQ&A
- Equitable Naval Treaties Discussion (Live)2:03:36How treaty limits constrained Dominion navies as well as BritainNotable Point
- Equitable Naval Treaties Discussion (Live)2:04:09How continuous destroyer building could accelerate the 4.5-inch gunQ&A
- Equitable Naval Treaties Discussion (Live)2:15:18How treaty-free Tribal-class destroyers might growQ&A
- Equitable Naval Treaties Discussion (Live)2:38:51Destroyer allocation built around complete flotillasChapter
- Equitable London Treaty: Summary (Long Patrol)52:51Turning destroyer tonnage into usable flotillasChapter
- Equitable London Treaty: Summary (Long Patrol)1:02:52Sloops and destroyers against a converted merchant raiderNotable Point
- Giussano Class: Regia Marina's First Condottieri (Long Patrol)6:44French large destroyers set the threatChapter
- Giussano Class: Regia Marina's First Condottieri (Long Patrol)50:39Cape Spada tests the destroyer-hunter claimChapter
- A Treaty Inspired Destroyer Design Discussion: UAD & Patreon Infused video1:50What do five destroyer tonnage briefs reveal?Q&A
- A Treaty Inspired Destroyer Design Discussion: UAD & Patreon Infused video3:03Machinery consumes the small destroyer's weight marginNotable Point
- A Treaty Inspired Destroyer Design Discussion: UAD & Patreon Infused video6:01The 1,500-ton design cannot carry its intended armamentChapter
- A Treaty Inspired Destroyer Design Discussion: UAD & Patreon Infused video10:52Navies understated destroyer tonnage under treaty limitsNotable Point
- A Treaty Inspired Destroyer Design Discussion: UAD & Patreon Infused video14:14A gun destroyer still needs a torpedo threatChapter
- A Treaty Inspired Destroyer Design Discussion: UAD & Patreon Infused video18:17Gun layout creates forward-weight and stability penaltiesNotable Point
- A Treaty Inspired Destroyer Design Discussion: UAD & Patreon Infused video19:20Concealed torpedo reloads undermine declared tonnageNotable Point
- A Treaty Inspired Destroyer Design Discussion: UAD & Patreon Infused video20:17High-speed manoeuvre requires a balanced destroyerNotable Point
- A Treaty Inspired Destroyer Design Discussion: UAD & Patreon Infused video21:49The 2,000-ton design finds a workable weapon balanceChapter
- A Treaty Inspired Destroyer Design Discussion: UAD & Patreon Infused video30:46The Fuze Keeping Clock gives a small destroyer accurate fireNotable Point
- A Treaty Inspired Destroyer Design Discussion: UAD & Patreon Infused video31:43Destroyer balance depends on the navy's missionNotable Point
- A Treaty Inspired Destroyer Design Discussion: UAD & Patreon Infused video34:29Engine spaces form a destroyer's central Achilles' heelChapter
- A Treaty Inspired Destroyer Design Discussion: UAD & Patreon Infused video37:25Subdivision blurs the destroyer-cruiser boundaryNotable Point
- A Treaty Inspired Destroyer Design Discussion: UAD & Patreon Infused video39:17Gun mounts impose hidden structural costsNotable Point
- A Treaty Inspired Destroyer Design Discussion: UAD & Patreon Infused video40:22Destroyers survive by avoiding vital hitsNotable Point
- A Treaty Inspired Destroyer Design Discussion: UAD & Patreon Infused video41:51Without treaties, a two-tier destroyer fleet emergesChapter
- A Treaty Inspired Destroyer Design Discussion: UAD & Patreon Infused video44:44Longitudinal bulkheads contain flooding but create a heelNotable Point
- A Treaty Inspired Destroyer Design Discussion: UAD & Patreon Infused video46:24Large destroyers displace light-cruiser rolesNotable Point
- Equitable London Treaty: Destroyers (Long Patrol)2:19HMS Kempenfelt sets the destroyer scaleNotable Point
- Equitable London Treaty: Destroyers (Long Patrol)12:00The London Treaty's destroyer rulesChapter
- Equitable London Treaty: Destroyers (Long Patrol)15:41Category transfers complicated treaty complianceNotable Point
- Equitable London Treaty: Destroyers (Long Patrol)18:13Japanese destroyers and treaty incentivesNotable Point
- Equitable London Treaty: Destroyers (Long Patrol)20:39The 1936 treaty left destroyers loosely definedChapter
- Equitable London Treaty: Destroyers (Long Patrol)25:22USS The Sullivans shows the post-treaty scaleNotable Point
- Equitable London Treaty: Destroyers (Long Patrol)26:28Historical ceilings produced small destroyer fleetsNotable Point
- Equitable London Treaty: Destroyers (Long Patrol)29:34A 10:10:7:4:4 destroyer settlementChapter
- Equitable London Treaty: Destroyers (Long Patrol)39:12Mediterranean navies feared a second destroyer raceNotable Point
- Equitable London Treaty: Destroyers (Long Patrol)47:12The treaty underfunded wartime fleet screeningChapter
- Equitable London Treaty: Destroyers (Long Patrol)49:23Why unlimited sloops cannot replace destroyersChapter
- Equitable London Treaty: Destroyers (Long Patrol)51:23Old escorts preserve the modern striking forceNotable Point
- Equitable London Treaties: Cruisers (Long Patrol)19:26The London Treaty's unequal cruiser allowancesChapter
- Alex & Drach @ Haida (live)10:18How the Tribal class acquired a cruiser-like silhouetteNotable Point
- Meeting a Tribal at last: HMCS Haida (live)3:38Why ocean-going destroyers had to be largeNotable Point
- Meeting a Tribal at last: HMCS Haida (live)5:23Tribal-class forward firepower in destroyer combatChapter
- Meeting a Tribal at last: HMCS Haida (live)6:32Tribal-class losses and wartime mission overloadNotable Point
- A Quick Outline of the Equitable Treaty Series1:17London Treaty subjects and fleet categoriesChapter
- SMS Admiral Spaun & the Novara class: Scout Cruisers of the Austro-Hungarian Navy (Long Patrol)34:06Scout-cruiser doctrine versus fighting for informationNotable Point
- Torpedoes and their Ships 1900-39: Patreon 54 (Long Patrol)19:41Fisher's flotilla defence as a force enablerNotable Point
- Torpedoes and their Ships 1900-39: Patreon 54 (Long Patrol)31:03Mass, firepower, and the origin of destroyersChapter
- Torpedoes and their Ships 1900-39: Patreon 54 (Long Patrol)34:20When a torpedo attack becomes too valuable to riskNotable Point
- Torpedoes and their Ships 1900-39: Patreon 54 (Long Patrol)42:20Mass and manoeuvre in Second World War torpedo attacksNotable Point
- Torpedoes and their Ships 1900-39: Patreon 54 (Long Patrol)50:33Harwich Force and training for aggressive commandChapter
- 2022 Canada Naval History Trip Reading List (Long Patrol Book Review)0:41Tribal destroyers and rapid wartime learningNotable Point
- 2022 Canada Naval History Trip Reading List (Long Patrol Book Review)4:50From Tribal, Battle, and Daring classes to the modern destroyerNotable Point
- 2022 Canada Naval History Trip Reading List (Long Patrol Book Review)32:11HMS Savage as a Battle-class gun test bedNotable Point
- Patreon 54: Torpedo development 1900-1939 and it's impact on destroyer design an doctrine30:42Why 21-inch torpedoes became the practical standardQ&A
- Patreon 54: Torpedo development 1900-1939 and it's impact on destroyer design an doctrine43:33Jackie Fisher used flotillas to free the battle fleetChapter
- Patreon 54: Torpedo development 1900-1939 and it's impact on destroyer design an doctrine1:13:12Destroyers could chase targets that early submarines could notNotable Point
- Patreon 54: Torpedo development 1900-1939 and it's impact on destroyer design an doctrine1:14:12Mass attacks made destroyers both threat and defenseChapter
- Patreon 54: Torpedo development 1900-1939 and it's impact on destroyer design an doctrine1:35:50Tassafaronga showed the danger of night torpedo snipingChapter
- Patreon 54: Torpedo development 1900-1939 and it's impact on destroyer design an doctrine1:45:22Smoke let destroyers attack from several directionsChapter
- Patreon 54: Torpedo development 1900-1939 and it's impact on destroyer design an doctrine1:59:25World War I made torpedoes a force-structure problemChapter
- Patreon 54: Torpedo development 1900-1939 and it's impact on destroyer design an doctrine2:10:57Interwar exercises refined destroyer torpedo doctrineChapter
- Galaxy Class: A Naval Historian's view of Federation Cruisers & Ships of the 24th Century (Live)3:24:08Defiant's detachable bow through two destroyer storiesNotable Point
- Galaxy Class: A Naval Historian's view of Federation Cruisers & Ships of the 24th Century (Live)3:59:04Defiant as Starfleet's purpose-built destroyerNotable Point
- Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN54:58Shared destroyer design can spread development cost and improve availabilityNotable Point
- Bruships 79: Eight New Books, plus Discussions of a Naval Nature28:42The Defiant resists a simple battleship or cruiser labelNotable Point
- Bruships 79: Eight New Books, plus Discussions of a Naval Nature32:27Warship type names carry political as well as technical meaningsNotable Point
- Bruships 79: Eight New Books, plus Discussions of a Naval Nature52:52Modern cruiser labels partly descend from destroyer leadersQ&A
- Finnish War 1808-9 (214th Anniversary of the Battle of Kuopio)2:54:13Was ASDIC fitted for but not with?Q&A
- Bruships 78: Favourite Cruisers A Discussion...1:54:11Could eight Tribals defeat Graf Spee?Q&A
- Bruships 78: Favourite Cruisers A Discussion...2:08:46Why naval gunfire support favours a larger calibreQ&A
- County Class Cruiser Comment Response: A UAD Infused Discussion of the Part 8 Response (Long Patrol)37:01Main-battery fire on destroyers creates an ammunition trade-offNotable Point
- County Class Cruiser Comment Response: A UAD Infused Discussion of the Part 8 Response (Long Patrol)54:00Using destroyers to create a torpedo threatNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (8)28:39Commonwealth demand for Battle-class destroyersQ&A
- Bruships 77: Leadership, books & questions...54:04Why 4.5-inch destroyer mounts took timeQ&A
- Bruships 77: Leadership, books & questions...3:33:11Why modern destroyers blur into cruisersQ&A
- Bruships 76: Five New Books & a Lot of New Questions3:17:47An Ethiopian navy backed by British basing rightsQ&A
- All Forward vs Aft Balance Main Armament: A UAD infused Discussion (Long Patrol)19:17Battle-class destroyers and sectional armamentNotable Point
- All Forward vs Aft Balance Main Armament: A UAD infused Discussion (Long Patrol)20:28Close action changes the value of firing arcsChapter
- The Maple Confrontation (Equitable Washington Treaty Scenario): UAD Infused Discussion (Long Patrol)18:31What destroyers and carriers would changeNotable Point
- Battle of Shiloh: a Riverine, if not quite Maritime, confluence of events2:51:44What role was the 5.5-inch gun meant to fill?Q&A
- County Cruisers P7: The Canaris Class (Long Patrol)24:45A destroyer rear guard protects shipping near ValenciaNotable Point
- County Cruisers P7: The Canaris Class (Long Patrol)27:37Destroyer torpedoes at the Battle of Cape PalosChapter
- Bruships 75: Following the 614th Running the Gauntlet11:18How the 32 planned Tribal-class destroyers were dividedQ&A
- Bruships 75: Following the 614th Running the Gauntlet16:55Why the final planned Tribal-class ships disappearedQ&A
- Bruships 75: Following the 614th Running the Gauntlet24:09Why Tribal-class crews might try to capture almost anythingQ&A
- Bruships 75: Following the 614th Running the Gauntlet2:43:49French destroyer doctrine and the missing escort roleQ&A
- 1939 Destroyer Doctrine: Patreon 50 (Long Patrol)4:15Destroyer doctrine starts with the missionChapter
- 1939 Destroyer Doctrine: Patreon 50 (Long Patrol)7:08Technology and exercises can mislead doctrineNotable Point
- 1939 Destroyer Doctrine: Patreon 50 (Long Patrol)9:06Crews and formations turn ships into doctrineNotable Point
- 1939 Destroyer Doctrine: Patreon 50 (Long Patrol)12:26German destroyers and the Narvik lossesChapter
- 1939 Destroyer Doctrine: Patreon 50 (Long Patrol)13:22German destroyer guns and the cost of slower fireNotable Point
- 1939 Destroyer Doctrine: Patreon 50 (Long Patrol)19:03Italian speed doctrine meets the escort problemChapter
- 1939 Destroyer Doctrine: Patreon 50 (Long Patrol)24:01Japanese destroyers and night torpedo doctrineChapter
- 1939 Destroyer Doctrine: Patreon 50 (Long Patrol)29:42French destroyers in a Mediterranean speed competitionNotable Point
- 1939 Destroyer Doctrine: Patreon 50 (Long Patrol)33:17Match destroyer weapons to the threatNotable Point
- 1939 Destroyer Doctrine: Patreon 50 (Long Patrol)35:04Soviet destroyers without the planned fleetChapter
- 1939 Destroyer Doctrine: Patreon 50 (Long Patrol)40:19A Greek island ambush force without the numbersChapter
- 1939 Destroyer Doctrine: Patreon 50 (Long Patrol)43:26Dutch destroyers lose their planned formationChapter
- 1939 Destroyer Doctrine: Patreon 50 (Long Patrol)50:02Norwegian destroyers and the coastal-defense mismatchChapter
- 1939 Destroyer Doctrine: Patreon 50 (Long Patrol)54:02Poland builds a Baltic light surface forceChapter
- 1939 Destroyer Doctrine: Patreon 50 (Long Patrol)56:33Royal Navy destroyers for global commitmentsChapter
- 1939 Destroyer Doctrine: Patreon 50 (Long Patrol)1:04:14The Tribal class as a night-fighting screenNotable Point
- 1939 Destroyer Doctrine: Patreon 50 (Long Patrol)1:07:22Tribal destroyers and the need for fleet reservesNotable Point
- 1939 Destroyer Doctrine: Patreon 50 (Long Patrol)1:09:19Australia's Scrap Iron Flotilla becomes combat powerNotable Point
- 1939 Destroyer Doctrine: Patreon 50 (Long Patrol)1:12:58Fletcher-class numbers turn doctrine into capabilityChapter
- 1939 Destroyer Doctrine: Patreon 50 (Long Patrol)1:15:41Destroyer doctrine outran prewar fleet readinessNotable Point
- 1939 Destroyer Doctrine: Patreon 50 (Long Patrol)1:18:19The Fletcher package for Italy's escort gapNotable Point
- 1939 Destroyer Doctrine: Patreon 50 (Long Patrol)1:19:05Why there is no universal destroyerNotable Point
- 1939 Destroyer Doctrine: Patreon 50 (Long Patrol)1:23:07Repair and replacement capacity shape destroyer doctrineNotable Point
- Patreon 50: 1939 Destroyer Doctrine of the combatant navies & Where did it come from?0:43Read doctrine through missions and ship designChapter
- Patreon 50: 1939 Destroyer Doctrine of the combatant navies & Where did it come from?7:02A destroyer force can divide missions among different designsNotable Point
- Patreon 50: 1939 Destroyer Doctrine of the combatant navies & Where did it come from?10:28Why no destroyer is universally bestChapter
- Patreon 50: 1939 Destroyer Doctrine of the combatant navies & Where did it come from?12:48Henderson and Chatfield argue over destroyer sizeNotable Point
- Patreon 50: 1939 Destroyer Doctrine of the combatant navies & Where did it come from?23:01Should a navy buy more small destroyers or fewer powerful ones?Q&A
- Patreon 50: 1939 Destroyer Doctrine of the combatant navies & Where did it come from?26:18Which naval treaty actually limited destroyer sizeQ&A
- Patreon 50: 1939 Destroyer Doctrine of the combatant navies & Where did it come from?32:08German destroyers: ambitious roles, inadequate numbersNotable Point
- Patreon 50: 1939 Destroyer Doctrine of the combatant navies & Where did it come from?46:21How destroyer doctrine answers an enemy battleshipQ&A
- Patreon 50: 1939 Destroyer Doctrine of the combatant navies & Where did it come from?47:21Why German destroyer guns were weak dual-purpose weaponsQ&A
- Patreon 50: 1939 Destroyer Doctrine of the combatant navies & Where did it come from?53:32Italian destroyers built for speed and torpedo attackChapter
- Patreon 50: 1939 Destroyer Doctrine of the combatant navies & Where did it come from?1:05:12Japanese destroyers as carrier screens and night huntersChapter
- Patreon 50: 1939 Destroyer Doctrine of the combatant navies & Where did it come from?1:22:14Did large destroyers fight cruisers and smaller destroyers?Q&A
- Patreon 50: 1939 Destroyer Doctrine of the combatant navies & Where did it come from?1:38:17What Soviet destroyers actually did in the warQ&A
- Patreon 50: 1939 Destroyer Doctrine of the combatant navies & Where did it come from?1:44:09Greece lacked the destroyer force its islands requiredChapter
- Patreon 50: 1939 Destroyer Doctrine of the combatant navies & Where did it come from?1:44:09Small navies still need a coherent destroyer forceChapter
- Patreon 50: 1939 Destroyer Doctrine of the combatant navies & Where did it come from?1:59:45Dutch destroyers outlived their intended battlecruiser fleetChapter
- Patreon 50: 1939 Destroyer Doctrine of the combatant navies & Where did it come from?2:10:49Norway's destroyers could not shield its coastal-defense shipsNotable Point
- Patreon 50: 1939 Destroyer Doctrine of the combatant navies & Where did it come from?2:20:02Poland designed powerful destroyers for Baltic warChapter
- Patreon 50: 1939 Destroyer Doctrine of the combatant navies & Where did it come from?2:22:56Could Norway have afforded more capable destroyers?Q&A
- Patreon 50: 1939 Destroyer Doctrine of the combatant navies & Where did it come from?2:25:12Why S-boats could not replace German destroyersQ&A
- Patreon 50: 1939 Destroyer Doctrine of the combatant navies & Where did it come from?2:30:17Were the J-, K-, and N-class ships fleet destroyers?Q&A
- Patreon 50: 1939 Destroyer Doctrine of the combatant navies & Where did it come from?2:30:40Where a destroyer becomes a scout cruiserQ&A
- Patreon 50: 1939 Destroyer Doctrine of the combatant navies & Where did it come from?2:31:05Royal Navy destroyers: the Tribal spearhead and flotillaChapter
- Patreon 50: 1939 Destroyer Doctrine of the combatant navies & Where did it come from?2:32:57Air attack forced British destroyer armament to changeNotable Point
- Patreon 50: 1939 Destroyer Doctrine of the combatant navies & Where did it come from?2:43:45How British destroyers illuminated a night targetQ&A
- Patreon 50: 1939 Destroyer Doctrine of the combatant navies & Where did it come from?2:45:20Why Tribal destroyers suited Canada and AustraliaNotable Point
- Patreon 50: 1939 Destroyer Doctrine of the combatant navies & Where did it come from?2:48:25Canadian Tribals kept German destroyers from Normandy's supply lanesNotable Point
- Patreon 50: 1939 Destroyer Doctrine of the combatant navies & Where did it come from?2:56:43Australia's Scrap Iron Flotilla made aggression a doctrineChapter
- Patreon 50: 1939 Destroyer Doctrine of the combatant navies & Where did it come from?3:04:09The Sims lineage behind the Fletcher destroyersChapter
- Patreon 50: 1939 Destroyer Doctrine of the combatant navies & Where did it come from?3:12:37U.S. destroyers balance torpedo attack with fleet defenseNotable Point
- Patreon 50: 1939 Destroyer Doctrine of the combatant navies & Where did it come from?3:16:56How prepared were U.S. destroyers for U-boats?Q&A
- Patreon 50: 1939 Destroyer Doctrine of the combatant navies & Where did it come from?3:24:23Judge destroyers by mission fit, not a universal rankingChapter
- Patreon 50: 1939 Destroyer Doctrine of the combatant navies & Where did it come from?3:28:18Destroyers force battleships to maneuver and lose their aimNotable Point
- Patreon 50: 1939 Destroyer Doctrine of the combatant navies & Where did it come from?3:37:10What '31-Knot Burke' says about destroyer commandQ&A
- British Light Cruisers & Treaties: A UAD Infused discussion5:00Why the Royal Navy retained six-inch cruisersNotable Point
- An Equitable Washington Treaty: Capital Ships with UAD (Long Patrol)1:12:30Why the bare battle-line test is artificialNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (11)19:24Ship-number limits versus destroyer tonnage limitsQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (11)29:52How escaped French destroyers could serve BritainQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (11)1:01:10Why HMS Swift needed sisters to become a capabilityQ&A
- Patron 49: Admiral Kimmel: A Failure of Leadership? (Live)38:10Which ships received the best junior officers?Q&A
- Patron 49: Admiral Kimmel: A Failure of Leadership? (Live)42:18Kimmel's operational service at VeracruzChapter
- Pathfinder Class(1904): Scout Cruiser (Long Patrol)6:36Why the Royal Navy needed scout cruisersChapter
- Adriatic if WWI hadn't started till 1918: A UAD infused Discussion (Long Patrol)33:39River Plate command and adaptive thinkingQ&A
- Glorious Heritage Class of the Systems Commonwealth & SciFi Bruships3:24:13Use frigates to preserve aggressive command skillNotable Point
- Patreon 48: Anglo-Japanese War in Feb 39 - if Tsingtao Incident goes "hot", what's IJN doctrine?3:03:25Would the Battle and Daring classes arrive earlier?Q&A
- Bruships 73: Some Old, Some New, None Borrowed, but Some Blue33:58What an early Battle-class destroyer programme could have deliveredQ&A
- Bruships 73: Some Old, Some New, None Borrowed, but Some Blue54:44Fisher's big ships belonged inside a flotilla navyNotable Point
- Bruships 73: Some Old, Some New, None Borrowed, but Some Blue1:26:08How the Tribal hull shaped later British destroyersQ&A
- Bruships 73: Some Old, Some New, None Borrowed, but Some Blue1:53:42The U.S. light destroyer is really an air-warfare frigateNotable Point
- Bruships 73: Some Old, Some New, None Borrowed, but Some Blue2:10:24Upgrades cannot erase the age of the Arleigh Burke architectureNotable Point
- Bruships 73: Some Old, Some New, None Borrowed, but Some Blue2:24:03A Zumwalt hull could bridge the U.S. destroyer-design gapNotable Point
- Bruships 73: Some Old, Some New, None Borrowed, but Some Blue3:43:00Classifying destroyers by fleet, tactical, and escort rolesQ&A
- Battle Cruiser Squadron Action: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol)17:15How secondary guns changed after DreadnoughtChapter
- Battle Cruiser Squadron Action: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol)29:29Why Britain did not extend its 24-inch torpedo to destroyersChapter
- Bruships 72: A Litte Bit of Everything Makes the World1:26:29How to build a navy from scratchQ&A
- Bruships 72: A Litte Bit of Everything Makes the World3:22:29Why pursuing Prince of Wales remained riskyQ&A
- County Cruisers P5: Getting Proscriptive with Cruisers… London Naval Treaty of 1930 (Long Patrol)12:06Defining cruisers and destroyers by displacement and gunsChapter
- All Forward Main Guns: Patreon 46 Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles (Long Patrol)1:10:18Battle-class destroyers: guns forward, air defence aftNotable Point
- HMS Tiger - The Battle Cruiser Hunter 2, The UAD Version: A UAD infused Discussion (Long Patrol)37:19Secondary batteries should follow the threatNotable Point
- Patreon 46: Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles - Good or Bad to Concentrate Main Armament28:00Earlier precedents for separating guns and machineryNotable Point
- Patreon 46: Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles - Good or Bad to Concentrate Main Armament1:10:44Could destroyers exploit an all-forward battleship?Q&A
- Patreon 46: Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles - Good or Bad to Concentrate Main Armament1:57:17How exercise assumptions shaped the Tribal-class destroyerNotable Point
- Patreon 46: Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles - Good or Bad to Concentrate Main Armament2:00:16Why Battle-class destroyers put their main guns forwardChapter
- Patreon 46: Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles - Good or Bad to Concentrate Main Armament2:06:04Lighter mounts make an aft destroyer gun practical againNotable Point
- Patreon 46: Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles - Good or Bad to Concentrate Main Armament2:09:54How archival access limits a destroyer historyNotable Point
- HMS Tiger - The Battle Cruiser Hunter: A UAD infused discussion58:10How destroyers grew into a cruiser roleNotable Point
- British Industry P4/4: Mobile Infrastructure (Bermuda Floating Docks to Illustrate)39:58A worldwide ladder of dock capacityChapter
- Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books12:35When a destroyer needs more than a five-inch gunQ&A
- Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books3:28:18The useful calibre range for dual-purpose secondary gunsQ&A
- Duke of Edinburgh Class: Year of Crusier (Long Patrol)6:10A cruiser armed to disrupt the screenNotable Point
- Duke of Edinburgh Class: Year of Crusier (Long Patrol)1:06:24Why destroyers could risk the battle lineNotable Point
- Bruships 70: Travelling along...35:29A late-war Arctic camouflage scheme for destroyersQ&A
- Bruships 70: Travelling along...1:01:13Finding ship-by-ship history of the Tribal-class destroyersQ&A
- Bruships 70: Travelling along...1:02:46Royal Navy workhorses beyond the famous classesQ&A
- Bruships 70: Travelling along...1:17:30The design penalty of mandating six-inch turrets on destroyersQ&A
- What a the choice of Secondary gun calibre tells us: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol)5:18Why dreadnought secondaries targeted torpedo craftChapter
- What a the choice of Secondary gun calibre tells us: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol)8:48Rate of fire against destroyers and torpedo boatsNotable Point
- What a the choice of Secondary gun calibre tells us: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol)12:26Why the battlecruisers target destroyers firstNotable Point
- What a the choice of Secondary gun calibre tells us: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol)18:54How mount layout and destroyer size affect calibreNotable Point
- Brummer Class (1915): Long Patrol (Year of the Cruiser)39:19Why the Royal Navy limited more Tribal-class destroyersNotable Point
- Bruships 69: The Decider13:24Triple 4.5-inch turrets on Tribal destroyersQ&A
- Bruships 69: The Decider59:51Trading Taffy 3’s torpedoes for Tribal gunfireQ&A
- Bruships 69: The Decider2:00:30Polish commitment and the Tribal-class experience barrierQ&A
- Bruships 69: The Decider3:28:00Why smaller navies need general-purpose escortsQ&A
- Bruships 68: Random Naval History Books & Questions10:36A disciplined way to use alternate historyQ&A
- Bruships 68: Random Naval History Books & Questions24:09Why the Royal Navy favoured 4.7- and 4.5-inch gunsNotable Point
- Bruships 68: Random Naval History Books & Questions38:36Why Japan lacked an ideal destroyer gunQ&A
- Bruships 68: Random Naval History Books & Questions1:52:37Why frigate and destroyer labels blurQ&A
- Bruships 68: Random Naval History Books & Questions3:13:29Why other navies should adapt rather than copy the Tribal classQ&A
- Scout Cruisers & Conning Towers: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol)0:23Designing a scout cruiser to fight destroyersChapter
- Scout Cruisers & Conning Towers: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol)15:16Closing with destroyers after their torpedo attackChapter
- Scout Cruisers & Conning Towers: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol)33:21Where the simulation overstates destroyer durability and long-range fireNotable Point
- Patreon 44 "More than just ships: Infrastructure - the yards that ruled the world"2:48:20Floating docks for forward fleet supportChapter
- The Imperial Russian Navy between the Russo-Japanese War & WWI: Long Patrol17:34Port Arthur and the cost of an unsupported baseNotable Point
- The Imperial Russian Navy between the Russo-Japanese War & WWI: Long Patrol33:00Naval plans reshaped by the DumaChapter
- The Imperial Russian Navy between the Russo-Japanese War & WWI: Long Patrol50:29Novik destroyers across a divided navyChapter
- The Imperial Russian Navy between the Russo-Japanese War & WWI: Long Patrol1:01:01What Russia's 1914 fleet totals revealChapter
- Patreon 42: "Recovering from Disaster: The Imperial Russian Navy between Russo-Japanese War & WW1."1:25:07Gangut-class battleships in a mine-and-destroyer defenseChapter
- Patreon 42: "Recovering from Disaster: The Imperial Russian Navy between Russo-Japanese War & WW1."1:30:55The 1911 program expanded beyond the GangutsChapter
- Patreon 42: "Recovering from Disaster: The Imperial Russian Navy between Russo-Japanese War & WW1."1:50:10Fast destroyers and the lessons Russia drew from Port ArthurChapter
- Patreon 42: "Recovering from Disaster: The Imperial Russian Navy between Russo-Japanese War & WW1."1:52:54Why the prewar naval race was more than dreadnoughtsNotable Point
- Patreon 42: "Recovering from Disaster: The Imperial Russian Navy between Russo-Japanese War & WW1."2:00:27Novik as an international design adapted in RussiaNotable Point
- Patreon 42: "Recovering from Disaster: The Imperial Russian Navy between Russo-Japanese War & WW1."2:27:28The 1914 fleet was strongest below the capital-ship levelChapter
- Patreon 42: "Recovering from Disaster: The Imperial Russian Navy between Russo-Japanese War & WW1."2:40:16Q&A: What should Russia have built for the Baltic?Q&A
- Patreon 42: "Recovering from Disaster: The Imperial Russian Navy between Russo-Japanese War & WW1."2:57:24Q&A: Should Russia have favored submarines and destroyers?Q&A
- Bruships 67: Cruising on through with Questions & Bru9:18Why the 2022 DDG(X) concept remained provisionalQ&A
- Bruships 67: Cruising on through with Questions & Bru16:22How the Royal Navy could answer a Jeune École fleetQ&A
- Bruships 67: Cruising on through with Questions & Bru1:32:39When light cruisers made sense as destroyer leadersQ&A
- Bruships 67: Cruising on through with Questions & Bru1:52:12Could railguns create another Dreadnought moment?Q&A
- Bruships 67: Cruising on through with Questions & Bru3:33:21Why 'utility destroyer' is not a Royal Navy classificationQ&A
- Bruships 67: Cruising on through with Questions & Bru3:39:43How the 10th Destroyer Flotilla screened the invasion fleetQ&A
- The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Live)50:48How did the Sendai-to-Agano gap affect Japanese light forces?Q&A
- The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Live)1:02:19Was Type 82 a destroyer or a cruiser?Q&A
- The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Live)1:19:58Did destroyer experience sharpen cruiser tactics?Q&A
- The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Live)2:04:12What made the Brooklyn role distinctive?Q&A
- The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Live)2:25:35Could Tribal destroyers substitute for light cruisers?Q&A
- The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Live)3:05:50Modern navies distribute cruiser work across other namesNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (10)2:00:14A destroyer-heavy fleet for Scandinavian watersQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (10)2:44:44Why peacetime navies struggle to preserve fighting leadershipQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (10)3:48:14Escort, fleet, and large fleet destroyersQ&A
- Quirky Classes and What they tell us about their navies… (Live)1:40:17Why destroyers charge larger warshipsNotable Point
- Quirky Classes and What they tell us about their navies… (Live)2:44:06Zumwalt: a capable hull in a broken programmeChapter
- Bruships 65: Naval History Books & Questions Answered35:08Why warships moved from DC toward AC powerQ&A
- Bruships 65: Naval History Books & Questions Answered1:00:32Operation Pedestal as a Leyte Gulf counterfactualQ&A
- Bruships 65: Naval History Books & Questions Answered1:19:22The Weapon class and shipyard capacityQ&A
- Bruships 65: Naval History Books & Questions Answered1:22:28Why the Royal Navy moved beyond the Tribal classQ&A
- Bruships 65: Naval History Books & Questions Answered1:32:37Range decides a Fletcher-versus-carrier battleQ&A
- Bruships 65: Naval History Books & Questions Answered1:34:00The L class as Britain's Fletcher counterpartQ&A
- Bruships 65: Naval History Books & Questions Answered2:08:10The unbuilt Gallant class and the limits of the intermediate destroyerNotable Point
- Bruships 65: Naval History Books & Questions Answered2:28:03The Grom class as Baltic gun-fighting destroyersQ&A
- Youtube Vote 1: The 1905-1906 and the 1911 Morocco Crises2:15:26Turning an Abdiel-class minelayer into a super-destroyerQ&A
- A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Comment Response)31:17Can a destroyer disrupt a torpedo with its bow wave?Q&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (9)29:41Dominion navies would choose treaty-disposal ships differentlyQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (9)1:41:16Why the E-class did not receive a new main batteryQ&A
- M29 Class (M33 special, Ep1/2) - Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol Part 922:09Could a Gorgon-class monitor have changed Narvik?Notable Point
- Patreon 41: RN Strategic & Tactical thinking on submarines & anti-submarine forces between the Wars47:42Peacetime scoring pushed submarines toward the wrong targetsQ&A
- Patreon 41: RN Strategic & Tactical thinking on submarines & anti-submarine forces between the Wars1:08:34Convoy ASW and fleet ASW required different escortsChapter
- Patreon 41: RN Strategic & Tactical thinking on submarines & anti-submarine forces between the Wars2:01:15The Hunt class turned ASW into a primary missionChapter
- Patreon 41: RN Strategic & Tactical thinking on submarines & anti-submarine forces between the Wars2:09:20How the treaty limit constrained the Tribal-class destroyersQ&A
- Patreon 41: RN Strategic & Tactical thinking on submarines & anti-submarine forces between the Wars2:22:57How often destroyers and submarines trained togetherQ&A
- Patreon 41: RN Strategic & Tactical thinking on submarines & anti-submarine forces between the Wars2:39:34Escort captains carried as many depth charges as space allowedQ&A
- How was British Night Fighting Doctrine developed for and then practiced during WWII? (Long Patrol)38:12Radar-enabled destroyer formationsNotable Point
- How was British Night Fighting Doctrine developed for and then practiced during WWII? (Long Patrol)53:31Illumination without becoming the targetNotable Point
- How was British Night Fighting Doctrine developed for and then practiced during WWII? (Long Patrol)1:18:24Turning starshell into concealment in the ChannelNotable Point
- Roberts Class - Naval Fire Support of the WWI (WWII) Western Front: Long Patrol Part 811:50The monitor's job was not high-speed defenceNotable Point
- Patreon 40: How was British Night Fighting Doctrine developed for and then practiced during WWII18:55Jutland's destroyer night action and HMS SpitfireChapter
- Patreon 40: How was British Night Fighting Doctrine developed for and then practiced during WWII29:12The Harwich Force as the foundation of British night fightingChapter
- Patreon 40: How was British Night Fighting Doctrine developed for and then practiced during WWII47:34Routine exercises kept night fighting from becoming a specialist trickNotable Point
- Patreon 40: How was British Night Fighting Doctrine developed for and then practiced during WWII55:00Why German night fighting did not meet expectationsQ&A
- Patreon 40: How was British Night Fighting Doctrine developed for and then practiced during WWII58:20Why destroyers and naval aviation became Britain's night specialistsNotable Point
- Patreon 40: How was British Night Fighting Doctrine developed for and then practiced during WWII1:00:48Convoy demand reduced the destroyers available at HarwichQ&A
- Patreon 40: How was British Night Fighting Doctrine developed for and then practiced during WWII1:16:02Why interwar destroyers made night fighting their momentChapter
- Patreon 40: How was British Night Fighting Doctrine developed for and then practiced during WWII1:42:06Hydrophones gave destroyers a bearing in the darkNotable Point
- Patreon 40: How was British Night Fighting Doctrine developed for and then practiced during WWII1:44:28Calculated risk was part of destroyer training cultureNotable Point
- Patreon 40: How was British Night Fighting Doctrine developed for and then practiced during WWII1:48:50The Geddes Axe also shaped who commanded interwar destroyersNotable Point
- Patreon 40: How was British Night Fighting Doctrine developed for and then practiced during WWII1:52:51Who built the most destroyers depends on the period countedQ&A
- Patreon 40: How was British Night Fighting Doctrine developed for and then practiced during WWII2:23:19How British night doctrine might have met Japanese torpedoesQ&A
- Patreon 40: How was British Night Fighting Doctrine developed for and then practiced during WWII2:48:18Dido-class cruisers supplied starshell for destroyer flotillasQ&A
- Patreon 40: How was British Night Fighting Doctrine developed for and then practiced during WWII2:58:12HMS Black Prince illuminated the Battle of UshantChapter
- Patreon 40: How was British Night Fighting Doctrine developed for and then practiced during WWII3:02:38Operation C: close British attacks versus Japanese torpedo ambushChapter
- Tribals, Battles & Darings/British Trawlers & Drifters in 2 World Wars: A Book or Two To Review (36)0:35Writing a destroyer-class history under archival constraintsNotable Point
- Tribals, Battles & Darings/British Trawlers & Drifters in 2 World Wars: A Book or Two To Review (36)2:35How a destroyer escort fought off a superior force in the Barents SeaChapter
- Tribals, Battles & Darings/British Trawlers & Drifters in 2 World Wars: A Book or Two To Review (36)8:23Why Scharnhorst faced overwhelming odds off North CapeChapter
- Tribals, Battles & Darings/British Trawlers & Drifters in 2 World Wars: A Book or Two To Review (36)18:19Destroyers as the safety net for fleet commandersNotable Point
- Tribals, Battles & Darings/British Trawlers & Drifters in 2 World Wars: A Book or Two To Review (36)35:55Three destroyer generations are also three generations of crewsNotable Point
- Tribals, Battles & Darings/British Trawlers & Drifters in 2 World Wars: A Book or Two To Review (36)37:30The gun-to-missile transition was not a simple replacementNotable Point
- Tribals, Battles & Darings/British Trawlers & Drifters in 2 World Wars: A Book or Two To Review (36)38:23From Tribals to Counties: destroyers taking on cruiser functionsNotable Point
- Tribals, Battles & Darings has just arrived2:52Destroyer design as a policy choiceChapter
- Tribals, Battles & Darings has just arrived3:27Destroyers as diplomatic instruments under fleet constraintsNotable Point
- Tribals, Battles & Darings has just arrived4:02Why the Tribals were more than large destroyersNotable Point
- Tribals, Battles & Darings has just arrived7:18Destroyer design and operations reading pathsNotable Point
- Tribals, Battles & Darings has just arrived7:44A Tribal flotilla poem and destroyer service identityNotable Point
- Tribals, Battles & Darings has just arrived8:46Using photographs and maps to follow a destroyer classNotable Point
- Bruships 63: The Writing Theorists - Corbett & Mahan, Richmond & Simms, Cable & Gorshkhov46:45What modern ship should carry the USS Hammann name?Q&A
- Battle of Tassafaronga: 30th of November 1942 - Long Patrol38:58Task Force 67's powerful but mixed columnChapter
- Battle of Tassafaronga: 30th of November 1942 - Long Patrol1:02:17Destroyer star shells become an improvised substituteNotable Point
- Battle of Tassafaronga: 30th of November 1942 - Long Patrol1:16:15The American destroyer plan breaks down during withdrawalNotable Point
- Bruships 62: Naval History Book Review & Chat18:36Building an ideal Second World War fleetQ&A
- Bruships 62: Naval History Book Review & Chat3:42:37Why a small navy may need specialised destroyersNotable Point
- Patreon 36: Repair Ships, Depot Ships, Tenders and Stores Ships...1:56:26USS Vulcan and Japanese forward repairChapter
- Patreon 36: Repair Ships, Depot Ships, Tenders and Stores Ships...2:50:45Where do corvettes end and frigates begin?Q&A
- My G3/N3 Dreadnought Battleship + Battle Cruiser = Fast Battleship Design26:25Testing the design against a Regia Marina-style forceNotable Point
- Bruships 61 - Ship Design; Sci-fi, Wooden & Steel, and some Naval History Questions51:36Reading warship plans beyond the headline classChapter
- Bruships 61 - Ship Design; Sci-fi, Wooden & Steel, and some Naval History Questions2:09:26Why smaller warships and expendable drones matterChapter
- Bruships 61 - Ship Design; Sci-fi, Wooden & Steel, and some Naval History Questions3:37:31Comparing World War II destroyers across naviesChapter
- Bruships 61 - Ship Design; Sci-fi, Wooden & Steel, and some Naval History Questions4:05:02Cruiser missions survive under the destroyer labelQ&A
- Bruships 61 - Ship Design; Sci-fi, Wooden & Steel, and some Naval History Questions4:07:46Why Tribal destroyers missed the intended dual-purpose batteryQ&A
- Bruships 61 - Ship Design; Sci-fi, Wooden & Steel, and some Naval History Questions4:17:34When a 6-inch destroyer becomes a cruiserQ&A
- Trafalgar to Dreadnought: 1805-1905 Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc - Long Patrol34:01Turbine design follows the ship's missionNotable Point
- Battle of Taranto: The 81st Anniversary1:22:22How Illustrious was covered during the raidQ&A
- Battle of Taranto: The 81st Anniversary1:43:41Recovering downed Fleet Air Arm crewsQ&A
- 21 Christmas Books for 2021 - Bruships 59: Books & Naval History Chat37:22Destroyers lower deck rails before torpedo actionQ&A
- Trafalgar to Dreadnought: A Century in Fifteen Ships and Battles1:15:53Reduction gearing makes marine turbines more efficientNotable Point
- Trafalgar to Dreadnought: A Century in Fifteen Ships and Battles1:19:46When torpedoes began changing warship designQ&A
- Operation MB8 - Taranto's Big Picture... more than just Sinking Battleships! (Long Patrol)22:21MW3 and the useful work of older destroyersChapter
- Operation MB8 - Taranto's Big Picture... more than just Sinking Battleships! (Long Patrol)43:13The Otranto raid extended MB8's psychological pressureChapter
- Bruships 58: Some Cool Books & Naval History Chat19:42Destroyers without treaty limitsQ&A
- Bruships 58: Some Cool Books & Naval History Chat2:06:59Why replenishment matters more than packing months of rationsQ&A
- Bruships 58: Some Cool Books & Naval History Chat3:48:04The destroyers hidden behind capital-ship narrativesNotable Point
- Patreon 37: Interwar RN logistics - The Good, The Bad, and The Singapore3:25:59British planners expected powerful Japanese torpedoesQ&A
- 'The Imperial High Seas Fleet: Tarkin replaces Tirpitz...': Patreon 36 Introductory Long Patrol26:02Torpedo-boat numbers meet British turbines and larger destroyersChapter
- Admiral John Arbuthnot 'Jackie' Fisher: Long Patrol43:06Destroyers, boilers, and the limits of industrial adoptionChapter
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (8)34:28Why changing U.S. carrier size does not solve force structureQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (8)39:11Making the case for a larger Type 83 destroyer forceChapter
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (8)50:13Where an Anglo-American destroyer programme might convergeQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (8)2:20:20A staged path to a larger U.S. naval base in AustraliaQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (8)3:22:28Precision destroyer fire versus Vanguard's area effectQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7)15:53The Battle off Samar's apparent mismatchQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7)26:31Why Vella Gulf was a decisive destroyer actionQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7)46:03Early U.S. destroyer performance was also a command problemQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7)1:15:04A Swedish Baltic force built around large destroyersQ&A
- Dreadnoughts (Commissioned Ships 1905-55)2:00:57Secondary batteries as insurance against close threatsQ&A
- Patreon 34: Inter-war Naval Aircraft Development - what could have been?1:15:40Anglo-American parity if later naval conferences failedQ&A
- Patreon 33: Amphibious ship development from 1980's to modern day.3:19:04Britain answered Italian light cruisers with several ship typesQ&A
- Patreon 32: Japanese heavy cruisers of the 1920s & 1930s, were they worth it?2:19:31Force reconnaissance was not the same as post-battle mopping upQ&A
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P14/14: Ernesto Burzagli4:00Destroyer command, staff work, and Libia's Atlantic voyageChapter
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P14/14: Ernesto Burzagli16:00Speed, cruisers, and the Mediterranean air threatChapter
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P14/14: Ernesto Burzagli26:49A fleet programme that still lacked a carrierNotable Point
- Bruships 56: "Walking Softly & Carrying a Big Stick" - Admirals, Diplomacy & Detterence1:25:48Why torpedo boats rarely attacked far ahead of the fleetQ&A
- Bruships 56: "Walking Softly & Carrying a Big Stick" - Admirals, Diplomacy & Detterence1:27:22Why a Tribal-class destroyer does not appear in the Force Z rosterQ&A
- Bruships 56: "Walking Softly & Carrying a Big Stick" - Admirals, Diplomacy & Detterence1:33:31How foreknowledge could redirect Royal Navy preparationQ&A
- Bruships 56: "Walking Softly & Carrying a Big Stick" - Admirals, Diplomacy & Detterence1:40:10How to identify Royal Navy destroyers by silhouetteQ&A
- Bruships 56: "Walking Softly & Carrying a Big Stick" - Admirals, Diplomacy & Detterence2:37:08A German fleet designed for commerce raiding rather than battleQ&A
- Karl Dönitz (on his Birthday) - how capable an Admiral was he?31:11Plan Z's missing destroyer screenChapter
- Karl Dönitz (on his Birthday) - how capable an Admiral was he?49:09Johnston, Campbeltown, Eskimo, or Javelin?Q&A
- Karl Dönitz (on his Birthday) - how capable an Admiral was he?49:37Which pre-1945 warship offered the best living conditions?Q&A
- Karl Dönitz (on his Birthday) - how capable an Admiral was he?1:27:29Cavagnari built an Italian fleet around two ship typesNotable Point
- Karl Dönitz (on his Birthday) - how capable an Admiral was he?1:31:44The Italian fleet needed balance more than another battleshipChapter
- A Book or Two to Review(30): Fight for the Fjords, The Battle for Norway 19405:48Turning cruisers and destroyers into a landing forceChapter
- A Book or Two to Review(30): Fight for the Fjords, The Battle for Norway 194013:49Destroyer shortages and vulnerable flying-boat reconnaissanceNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (6)19:53When a postwar rebuild pays offQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (6)3:39:24Who commands a battleship captured by destroyers?Q&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (6)3:42:45A Second World War Tribal against SMS EmdenQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (6)4:00:25Eight Tribal-class destroyers against Graf Spee's fleetQ&A
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 10/11 Why the Battleship Fizzled Out14:44The destroyer as a versatile postwar combatantNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) P3/14: Domenico Cavagnari13:25Battleships and submarines over a balanced fleetChapter
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) P3/14: Domenico Cavagnari16:00Mediterranean containment and French rail logisticsNotable Point
- Shipbuilding through the 1880s-1950s8:47Were the Archer class destroyers?Q&A
- Shipbuilding through the 1880s-1950s49:57Did turtleback bows mean destroyer design had stagnated?Q&A
- Shipbuilding through the 1880s-1950s2:50:44Were destroyers built only for Nelson or carrier escort?Q&A
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 7/11 The Roaring Twenties14:39Italy's Turbine class and the torpedo-boat inheritanceChapter
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 7/11 The Roaring Twenties16:58Turbine-class losses and the air threatNotable Point
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 7/11 The Roaring Twenties24:41How smaller navies magnify a narrow doctrineNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (29): The Spanish Civil War at Sea18:25Sloops could build escorts and shipyard capacityChapter
- A Book or Two to Review (29): The Spanish Civil War at Sea20:54Escort capacity, Force Z, and carrier survivalNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (5)50:56Tribal-class destroyers and illumination by fireNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (5)2:03:35A next-generation US destroyer built around the Zumwalt hullQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (5)2:33:28Why wartime anti-aircraft fits varied ship by shipQ&A
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 3/11 Pre-Dreadnought Cruisers7:41Scout cruisers: information and destroyer leadershipNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (25): Churchill's Admiral10:36The closed officer class of a changing navyChapter
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 1/11 Archer Class4:19Torpedo cruisers before the destroyer nameNotable Point
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 1/11 Archer Class10:01Why the Archer type gave way to specialised shipsNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (4)2:19:24Tribal-class destroyers with 4.5-inch dual-purpose gunsQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (4)4:08:30Why Britain would decline loaned FletchersQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (4)4:14:46The 5-inch/38 and British 4.5-inch gunQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (4)5:02:08Why Britain built the Weapon-class destroyersQ&A
- An Introduction to Armoured Cruisers & the Mediteranean4:18The armoured cruiser as a commerce raiderChapter
- Patreon 31: Armoured Cruisers in the Mediterranean in WWI2:43:44Why the Arethusas fought like large destroyersQ&A
- Patreon 31: Armoured Cruisers in the Mediterranean in WWI2:49:13Were the Tribals destroyers or very light cruisers?Q&A
- Battle of the Atlantic: Escort Procurement - Comment Response53:45Why Hood lacked Tribal-class destroyers at Denmark StraitNotable Point
- Battle of the Atlantic (Original): Comment Response18:01A bigger German destroyer force invites a countermoveQ&A
- Bruships 55: New Books6:14Reference books for a Tribal-class destroyer modelNotable Point
- Bruships 55: New Books22:56Why destroyer flotillas needed leadersQ&A
- Bruships 55: New Books4:21:57Destroyers carried the first German troops to NarvikQ&A
- Bruships 55: New Books4:22:10Two Arleigh Burke-class destroyers in Nelson's fleetQ&A
- Patreon 30: Japanese hybrid warships of WW21:55:04Why a Fletcher-class destroyer was too small for useful aircraft launchesQ&A
- Battle of Makin Island (1942): Long Patrol11:25The Tribal-class elite-standard analogyNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (3)17:43Walter Cowan would still go ashore at NarvikQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (3)3:48:39Specialist escorts versus the Dido compromiseQ&A
- Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas (Non-Churchill) – The Comment Questions...1:39:09Surcouf's guns against a Tribal-class destroyerQ&A
- Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas (Non-Churchill) – The Comment Questions...1:43:27A convoy screen offered the wrong targets for big-gun submarinesNotable Point
- Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas (Churchill WWII) – The Comment Questions52:55Carriers, destroyers, and the industrial tradeoffQ&A
- Cruiser Submarine: Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p5/74:20A cruiser submarine's odds against escort gunsChapter
- Cruiser Submarine: Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p5/75:49Why a larger gun did not guarantee a longer engagement rangeNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (18): Battles and Honours of the Royal Navy11:57Cape Bon destroyers and night attackNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (12): British Naval Aviation by Ray Sturviant16:27Counterfactuals as a naval-history methodNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (11): Skua! The Royal Navy's Dive Bomber3:47Peter C. Smith on Tribal and J-class destroyersNotable Point
- Bruships 53: The Big Gun Era... Questions50:53Thirteen battleship salvos could equal a destroyer's massNotable Point
- Bruships 53: The Big Gun Era... Questions1:20:07Naval treaty compliance was a spectrumQ&A
- Bruships 53: The Big Gun Era... Questions1:25:16A large destroyer was Russia's likely next shipbuilding testQ&A
- Bruships 53: The Big Gun Era... Questions1:35:08Wartime torpedo reloads reveal treaty design marginsNotable Point
- Bruships 53: The Big Gun Era... Questions1:49:07A trapped warship can be hurt by tanks but still hits harderQ&A
- Bruships 53: The Big Gun Era... Questions3:54:35Brassey's 1939 shows the Tribal class as a prestige programNotable Point
- Bruships 53: The Big Gun Era... Questions3:58:29Why the German 1934 type was a poor destroyerQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (2)1:14:12Railgun readiness and the Zumwalt lessonQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (2)4:11:12British 4.7-inch gun anti-aircraft limitsQ&A
- Bruships 52: A Year of Bruships - Questions & Books1:06:42Yamato versus destroyer investmentQ&A
- Patreon 27: Some Actions of the French Navy in WWI1:33:28Why did French light ships struggle in the Channel?Q&A
- Patreon 27: Some Actions of the French Navy in WWI2:11:32Did the Allies fail to scout the Dardanelles minefields?Q&A
- Operation Aerial: France after Dunkirk (Long Patrol)54:45Naismith, Brest, and Saint-NazaireChapter
- Operation Aerial: France after Dunkirk (Long Patrol)1:02:31Why the U-boats missed Aerial's shippingNotable Point
- Operation Aerial: France after Dunkirk (Long Patrol)1:04:35Rumours misdirect shipping at Saint-NazaireNotable Point
- Operation Aerial: France after Dunkirk (Long Patrol)1:06:28Lancastria and destroyer rescue riskNotable Point
- Operation Aerial: France after Dunkirk (Long Patrol)1:12:28Improvised command at La PalliceChapter
- Operation Aerial: France after Dunkirk (Long Patrol)1:18:47Berkeley and the Bordeaux communications networkChapter
- Bruships 51: The Age of Iron2:40:43Torpedo boats and destroyer originsChapter
- Bruships 51: The Age of Iron2:47:04Havoc, Hornet, and the first torpedo-boat destroyersNotable Point
- Bruships 51: The Age of Iron2:48:23Why early destroyers missed their trial speeds at seaNotable Point
- Bruships 51: The Age of Iron3:09:00Earlier Royal Navy ships named ChurchillQ&A
- Bruships 51: The Age of Iron3:47:37A future U.S. destroyer with cruiser displacementQ&A
- Bruships 51: The Age of Iron3:54:14Do flag facilities and missile counts define a cruiser?Q&A
- Bruships 51: The Age of Iron3:55:56How destroyers escorted seagoing monitorsQ&A
- Bruships 50: A D-Day special with Questions & some New Books from Pen & Sword16:31Why E-boats posed the sharper Channel threatQ&A
- Bruships 50: A D-Day special with Questions & some New Books from Pen & Sword1:22:02What battleship guns could do that destroyer guns could notQ&A
- “Coastal Command in the 1920s & 1930s”1:57:18What the Royal Navy funded first in 1930s rearmamentQ&A
- “Coastal Command in the 1920s & 1930s”2:19:08Battlecruisers depended on keeping the range openQ&A
- “Coastal Command in the 1920s & 1930s”2:38:09Hornfischer's destroyer history captured the tin-can sailorsNotable Point
- Bruships 49 Special: 'Questions on ‘Battle Cruisers’ & ‘Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14)2:52:35Why destroyer mass did not replace a balanced fleetQ&A
- Patreon 24: Everything Wrong With Star Wars Fleets (From a Naval History Perspective)1:14:00Did First World War battleships have point defence?Q&A
- Some More Battle Cruisers18:22Hood survives wartime priorities and Admiralty pressureNotable Point
- Patreon 23: Coal, Canals, Convoys & Coastal Carrying: traffic around the British isles from 1939-452:53:43Novik and the Town-class cruisersQ&A
- Four Random Books Episode 36: No Good Choices14:23Operation Torch's harbor coups de mainNotable Point
- William Agnew: Patreon 21, Notable Commanders, Long Patrol Part 320:10HMS Lively's short, active Mediterranean careerNotable Point
- Robert Sherbrooke: Patreon 21, Notable Commanders, Long Patrol Part 21:48Robert Sherbrooke's route to destroyer commandChapter
- Robert Sherbrooke: Patreon 21, Notable Commanders, Long Patrol Part 25:22HMS Cossack as a balanced fighting destroyerChapter
- Robert Sherbrooke: Patreon 21, Notable Commanders, Long Patrol Part 224:05Sherbrooke's torpedo feints exploited German cautionChapter
- Robert Sherbrooke: Patreon 21, Notable Commanders, Long Patrol Part 226:12Achates held the smoke screen until Burnett arrivedChapter
- Basil Jones: Patreon 21, Notable Commanders, Long Patrol Part 16:01The Tenth Destroyer Flotilla's shield for D-DayChapter
- Basil Jones: Patreon 21, Notable Commanders, Long Patrol Part 18:23Radar enables a line-abreast destroyer attackNotable Point
- Basil Jones: Patreon 21, Notable Commanders, Long Patrol Part 111:22Intelligence and training shape the night engagementChapter
- Basil Jones: Patreon 21, Notable Commanders, Long Patrol Part 117:26The destroyer action off Ile de BatzChapter
- Basil Jones: Patreon 21, Notable Commanders, Long Patrol Part 121:00Operation Irregular targets Japanese island logisticsChapter
- Basil Jones: Patreon 21, Notable Commanders, Long Patrol Part 130:45Destroyers and Liberators coordinate under air attackChapter
- Pepsiships 47: Age of Sail3:36:46Tribal-class destroyers served effectively in the PacificQ&A
- Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol, Part 5, Marshal Ney Class24:07Marshal Ney circles under fire from the Tirpitz batteryNotable Point
- Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol, Part 5, Marshal Ney Class30:45Hugh Tweedy's career from Victorian ships to Grand Fleet destroyersChapter
- Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol, Part 5, Marshal Ney Class34:04The Tweedy family carries military service into the Second World WarNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out?2:46:56What a 15-inch near miss does to different warshipsQ&A
- Bruships 46: Accounts of Naval War9:53Why Warspite could not replace destroyers in the fjordsQ&A
- Bruships 46: Accounts of Naval War28:20Why battleships carried six-inch secondary gunsQ&A
- Bruships 46: Accounts of Naval War31:41Destroyer routine and Operation Hats in the MediterraneanChapter
- Bruships 46: Accounts of Naval War1:01:26Why Jutland hit-rate totals need battle-phase contextNotable Point
- Bruships 46: Accounts of Naval War1:31:59Why Dunkirk needed both little ships and destroyersQ&A
- Patreon 21: Notable WW2 commanders of smaller naval forces12:19Basil Jones and the wartime destroyer command trackChapter
- Patreon 21: Notable WW2 commanders of smaller naval forces35:45Robert Sherbrooke finds his calling in destroyersChapter
- Patreon 21: Notable WW2 commanders of smaller naval forces1:46:40Why sailors, not Royal Marines, dominated the Altmark boardingQ&A
- Patreon 21: Notable WW2 commanders of smaller naval forces2:13:57Operation Terminal's parallel harbor assaultNotable Point
- Prince Philips Navy21:16Which lost Tribal-class destroyer most deserves a survey?Q&A
- Prince Philips Navy1:08:00HMS Wallace as a WAIR anti-aircraft escort conversionChapter
- Prince Philips Navy1:23:15Wallace covered the seam in Operation Husky's landing forcesChapter
- Prince Philips Navy1:31:24HMS Whelp gave Philip a new destroyer to commissionChapter
- Prince Philips Navy1:38:56Whelp supplied Spitsbergen while the fleet focused on D-DayNotable Point
- Prince Philips Navy1:41:43Why War Emergency destroyers accepted design compromisesQ&A
- Prince Philips Navy2:12:30Chequers gave Philip flotilla-level executive responsibilityChapter
- Four Random Books Episode 32: Destroyer Challenge (Live)5:34Operation Halberd's layered escort forceChapter
- Four Random Books Episode 32: Destroyer Challenge (Live)11:01Why destroyers dominate a convoy operationNotable Point
- Four Random Books Episode 32: Destroyer Challenge (Live)21:12Repulse trials expose destroyer seakeeping limitsNotable Point
- Four Random Books Episode 32: Destroyer Challenge (Live)23:46Handling destroyer torpedoes at seaChapter
- Four Random Books Episode 32: Destroyer Challenge (Live)25:33Magnetic mines threaten Britain's destroyersChapter
- Four Random Books Episode 32: Destroyer Challenge (Live)28:03HMS Gipsy's failed air-defense engagementNotable Point
- Four Random Books Episode 32: Destroyer Challenge (Live)28:30Decentralized command before HMS Gipsy's miningNotable Point
- Four Random Books Episode 32: Destroyer Challenge (Live)29:08A survivor's account of HMS Gipsy's miningChapter
- Four Random Books Episode 32: Destroyer Challenge (Live)32:53Destroyer patrols on the Dover frontChapter
- Four Random Books Episode 32: Destroyer Challenge (Live)36:05A destroyer evades a massed air attackNotable Point
- Four Random Books Episode 32: Destroyer Challenge (Live)37:04Rescuing the bombed coaster BoulderNotable Point
- Bruships 44: Strategy22:08The Tribal class punished tactics built around an average destroyerNotable Point
- Minotaur & Tiger Class Cruisers6:46Replacing wartime cruiser lossesChapter
- Bruships 43: Aircraft Carriers & Naval Aviation4:13:57Why Tribal-class turbines demanded frequent reconditioningQ&A
- Lend Lease Long Patrol: P4/5 Summary... was Lend Lease worth it?14:42Why specifications alone misjudge wartime equipmentNotable Point
- Lend Lease Long Patrol: P1/5 WW2 prior to Lend Lease30:28The Kriegsmarine and Italian Navy posed different threatsNotable Point
- Lend Lease Act 80yrs on...1:14:56How destroyer flotillas produced wartime flag officersQ&A
- Lend Lease Act 80yrs on...3:23:56Why gun trials do not settle destroyer performanceQ&A
- Bruships 40: Favourite Books to Use When Writing...1:36:31How an alphabetical destroyer scheme produced Daring, Delight, and DaintyNotable Point
- Patreon 18 "Fast attack craft, ie. torpedo-, U- and gunboats in WWI Adriatic "Klein Krieg"1:27:18Mines and escort mistakes at DurazzoChapter
- Patreon 18 "Fast attack craft, ie. torpedo-, U- and gunboats in WWI Adriatic "Klein Krieg"1:39:01A night destroyer clash defeats itselfChapter
- Patreon 18 "Fast attack craft, ie. torpedo-, U- and gunboats in WWI Adriatic "Klein Krieg"2:10:03Hornet, Jackal, and Torrens press the April 1918 clashChapter
- Battles of Dogger Bank: Response to Comments15:46Could destroyers have been held in reserve at Dogger Bank?Q&A
- Britain of the 1980s: Long Patrol P5 the Royal Navy of the 1980s8:03Destroyer and frigate readiness behind the fleet listChapter
- Britain of the 1980s: Long Patrol P4 Britain in the World14:19NATO and Warsaw Pact surface-force balanceChapter
- Bruships 38: Amphibious Operations & Equipment3:17:52How a battleship holiday redirected naval constructionQ&A
- Bruships 38: Amphibious Operations & Equipment3:20:04The destroyer design iron triangleNotable Point
- Patreon 17 "The Royal Navy’s Strategic Role in 1980s NATO" as suggested by Joseph Sullivan49:55Why the U.S. four-piper reserve was accidentalQ&A
- Patreon 17 "The Royal Navy’s Strategic Role in 1980s NATO" as suggested by Joseph Sullivan1:27:33Why a navy fights first with the fleet it hasNotable Point
- Battles of Dogger Bank: Long Patrol P5/6 191617:16Torpedo emphasis and the missed pursuitNotable Point
- Battles of Dogger Bank: Long Patrol P4/6 191521:47The British order of battle and its layered commandsChapter
- Battles of Dogger Bank: Long Patrol P4/6 191529:20British light forces create overwhelming numerical superiorityNotable Point
- Battles of Dogger Bank: Long Patrol P4/6 191536:31British and German destroyer doctrine divergesNotable Point
- Battles of Dogger Bank: Long Patrol P4/6 191547:33Lion's radio loss turns Beatty's flags into a fatal ambiguityChapter
- Battles of Dogger Bank: Long Patrol P4/6 191557:04An intelligence-led ambush fails to destroy Hipper's forceChapter
- Bruships 37: New Books & Some More Transactions of the Institute of Naval Architects2:03:03Why destroyer officers gained command experience earlyQ&A
- The Battles of Dogger Bank 1696-19162:25:52Could the British destroyers have attacked?Q&A
- The Battles of Dogger Bank 1696-19162:26:26Why early submarines sailed with destroyer escortsQ&A
- The Battles of Dogger Bank 1696-19162:29:29Ship names build identity and fighting spiritNotable Point
- Bruships 35: Personal Wars + a New Book from Pen & Sword2:48:05Warships that fought far above their apparent weightQ&A
- The Great White Fleet49:23Why the fleet's cruisers and destroyers did not complete the voyageNotable Point
- Bruships 32: Ships & Space Ships (Reality & Scifi)33:34Were the Atlanta and Dido classes destroyer-killing cruisers?Q&A
- Bruships 32: Ships & Space Ships (Reality & Scifi)59:46Can an Arleigh Burke destroyer perform a cruiser role?Q&A
- Bruships 32: Ships & Space Ships (Reality & Scifi)1:15:37Could the Type 45 be considered a cruiser?Q&A
- Bruships 32: Ships & Space Ships (Reality & Scifi)1:31:33Is the Defiant a pocket battleship or a destroyer?Q&A
- Four Random Books 19: A Decade of Brasseys27:51Postwar naval industry in the 1949 annualNotable Point
- Bruships 31: Some more Science Fiction from a Naval Historians Perspective...3:40:45L9 destroyers and earlier adoption of the 4.5-inch gunQ&A
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s2:30:07Carrier escort groups matured around cruisers and destroyersQ&A
- For Random Books 18: Freidman's Royal Navy0:47Norman Friedman's books as Royal Navy design referencesChapter
- For Random Books 18: Freidman's Royal Navy2:17Why a postwar multi-role destroyer became too largeNotable Point
- Bruships30: Nine Transactions of the Institute of Naval Architects(Including 1939) & Three New Books2:08:22Italian flotilla-leader trials and the 1,850-ton destroyer problemChapter
- Steel of a Hundred Years Ago: Ships of 192049:45Shirakaze and the Minekaze destroyer balanceChapter
- Steel of a Hundred Years Ago: Ships of 192059:37The Pacific range problem for Japanese destroyersQ&A
- Steel of a Hundred Years Ago: Ships of 19201:55:41USS Pope and Clemson-class mass productionChapter
- Bruships 29: Best Seller History1:58:49HMS Eskimo at Narvik: severe damage and return to serviceNotable Point
- Bruships 29: Best Seller History3:37:57A destroyer history with a Band of Brothers approachQ&A
- RN Paper Cruisers; the what might have beens…49:38Royal Navy destroyers practised torpedo aiming by firelightNotable Point
- RN Paper Cruisers; the what might have beens…57:25The Tribal class as an elite within an eliteQ&A
- Was Pearl Harbour a missed opportunity for the US?13:35How American carriers would have changed the attackQ&A
- Was Pearl Harbour a missed opportunity for the US?1:21:31Would warning have put the battleships at sea?Q&A
- Bruships 28: New Books & Christmas Buys2:51Chasing actions and lost interwar naval languageNotable Point
- Bruships 28: New Books & Christmas Buys2:17:25United States Navy Destroyers in photographs and systems detailChapter
- Bruships 28: New Books & Christmas Buys2:18:24Why lightweight destroyer turrets could become lethal trapsNotable Point
- Town Class; big impact with a light footprint2:43:34How postwar Royal Navy type numbers divided missionsQ&A
- Town Class; big impact with a light footprint2:45:19The modern frigate-destroyer distinction is mission-ledNotable Point
- Four Random Books 14: Tricky Decisions7:58Greek evacuation convoy complexity and the Scottish Prince rescueChapter
- Four Random Books 14: Tricky Decisions11:21Greek evacuation routing across dispersed Aegean embarkation pointsNotable Point
- Bruships 27: Science Fiction Books3:58:30Why write about destroyers before cruisers?Q&A
- Patreon 11: "The effect of the early jet age on naval warfare strategy/tactics?"32:29Why Warspite's helicopter kill did not make her an ASW frigateQ&A
- Amphion Class Cruisers: Long Patrol59:21Why Australia chose destroyers over a training cruiserNotable Point
- Amphion Class Cruisers: Long Patrol1:15:48How Sydney became a premier Australian warship nameNotable Point
- Bruships 26 - The Random Collection1:30:50Checking a landing-craft history against the recordNotable Point
- Bruships 26 - The Random Collection1:37:18From torpedo-boat destroyers to modern escortsQ&A
- Bruships 26 - The Random Collection1:41:46Torpedo boats stayed with coastal defenceNotable Point
- Battle of Quiberon Bay4:16Who commands a frigate or destroyer?Q&A
- Battle of Quiberon Bay2:14:40The 2020 proposal to grow Royal Navy escort numbersNotable Point
- Four Random Books 12: Destroyers II0:53The Tribal class as a family of wartime shipsChapter
- Four Random Books 12: Destroyers II4:52Cossack and the political afterlife of the Altmark affairNotable Point
- Four Random Books 12: Destroyers II7:09Destroyer survival under Luftwaffe attack in NorwayNotable Point
- Four Random Books 12: Destroyers II9:57A destroyer screen in the 1941 Tripoli operationChapter
- Four Random Books 12: Destroyers II11:40Destroyer memoirs preserve the officer's operational viewNotable Point
- 1940 Norway Campaign Part 5 of 5: What ifs, Ships & Patreon Votes9:37Norway as a destroyer warNotable Point
- 1940 Norway Campaign Part 5 of 5: What ifs, Ships & Patreon Votes10:54Glowworm damages Admiral Hipper before sinkingNotable Point
- 1940 Norway Campaign Part 3 of 5: Namsos, De Wiart & Fleischer10:34Destroyers as Namsos headquarters, artillery, and defenceChapter
- 1940 Norway Campaign Part 3 of 5: Namsos, De Wiart & Fleischer23:34Evacuating Namsos under air attack and gunfireChapter
- 1940 Norway Campaign Part 2 of 5: Planning, Invasion & Narvik,15:40HMS Glowworm's last fight with Admiral HipperNotable Point
- 1940 Norway Campaign Part 2 of 5: Planning, Invasion & Narvik,38:38British destroyers strike the Narvik forceChapter
- What if the 1956 Suez Crisis had gotten even hotter? (Long Patrol)27:49The scale of the Anglo-French task forceNotable Point
- What if the 1956 Suez Crisis had gotten even hotter? (Long Patrol)46:29Destroyers, cruisers, and controlled naval firepowerNotable Point
- Battle of Taranto - a Stringbag Strike from the Dark43:09What the bomb and flare aircraft achievedQ&A
- Bruships 25 - Some More Naval Aviation4:14:36Why a destroyer label could be easier to fund than a battlecruiserQ&A
- The Ships that Fisher scrapped… suggested by Geoff Grognard50:03Combat quality and peacetime numbers are different measuresNotable Point
- The Ships that Fisher scrapped… suggested by Geoff Grognard1:24:19The escort shortage behind early convoy reluctanceChapter
- The Ships that Fisher scrapped… suggested by Geoff Grognard1:40:31Why wartime demand for escorts never disappearsNotable Point
- The Ships that Fisher Scrapped: Orlando Class (The Forgotten Coast Guard)12:55The Orlando guns' shore-support roleQ&A
- Four Random Books 10: Overview Books6:21Camouflage references for destroyers and escortsChapter
- Four Random Books 10: Overview Books9:30Using repeated profiles to trace ships through the warNotable Point
- Bruships 24 - An Autobiography from War1:00:11How many destroyers can screen a capital ship?Q&A
- Bruships 24 - An Autobiography from War1:13:46What worked-up French ships might change in 1942Q&A
- Bruships 24 - An Autobiography from War1:20:23Useful ships from occupied European naviesQ&A
- Bruships 24 - An Autobiography from War1:28:37Why small destroyers still matter in convoy workQ&A
- Bruships 24 - An Autobiography from War3:02:37Vian's aggressive approach to the Malta fightChapter
- Bruships 24 - An Autobiography from War3:12:17HMS Isis, Pantelleria, and the Italian surrenderChapter
- Four Random Books 9: Command in Their Own Words7:54Operation Demon and the limits of the Greece evacuationNotable Point
- Four Random Books 9: Command in Their Own Words12:48HMS Cossack and the Altmark rescueNotable Point
- Four Random Books 9: Command in Their Own Words14:10Philip Vian on Gurkha's separation under air attackChapter
- 1930 London Naval Treaty: An Introduction Part 5 of 5/Articles 17-228:00Article 19: stopping a clean-slate rebuildChapter
- 1930 London Naval Treaty: An Introduction Part 5 of 5/Articles 17-2210:14Article 20's national replacement exceptionsChapter
- 1930 London Naval Treaty: An Introduction Part 4 of 5/Articles 14-165:58The force margin hidden behind peacetime numbersNotable Point
- 1930 London Naval Treaty: An Introduction Part 4 of 5/Articles 14-167:27How Articles 14-16 classified and limited fleetsChapter
- 1930 London Naval Treaty: An Introduction Part 4 of 5/Articles 14-1613:21Destroyer leaders as treaty-efficient flotilla command shipsChapter
- 1930 London Naval Treaty: An Introduction Part 4 of 5/Articles 14-1628:40Destroyer engine rooms under heavy fireQ&A
- 1930 London Naval Treaty: An Introduction Part 3 of 5/Articles 11-1327:35Treaty limits and the Fubuki-class design compromiseNotable Point
- 1930 London Naval Treaty: An Introduction Part 2 of 5/Articles 8-100:40Article 8's exempt-vessel rulesChapter
- 1930 London Naval Treaty: An Introduction Part 2 of 5/Articles 8-104:53The six-inch threshold and small-cruiser pressureNotable Point
- 1930 London Naval Treaty: An Introduction Part 2 of 5/Articles 8-106:03Treaty pressure and the super-destroyer raceChapter
- 1930 London Naval Treaty: An Introduction Part 2 of 5/Articles 8-108:33Destroyers: rapid fire, screening, and torpedoesNotable Point
- 1930 London Naval Treaty: An Introduction Part 2 of 5/Articles 8-1010:38National destroyer solutions and the six-inch cruiserChapter
- 1930 London Naval Treaty: An Introduction Part 2 of 5/Articles 8-1012:40Eight-inch turrets and firing while withdrawingNotable Point
- 1930 London Naval Treaty: An Introduction Part 1 of 5/Articles 1-78:16Cruiser imbalances behind the negotiationsNotable Point
- Bruships 23 - New Book Review1:52:34Brief Soldati coverage in the treaty-era booksQ&A
- Bruships 23 - New Book Review1:55:53Le Fantasque combined gun range with exceptional trial speedNotable Point
- Patreon 9 – “Suez goes hot in 1956” by Martin Doherty1:24:33Destroyers and Restrained Naval GunfireQ&A
- Four Random Books 7: Dunkirk10:27Why committing destroyers to Dunkirk was a strategic riskNotable Point
- Four Random Books 7: Dunkirk11:22Correcting the Royal Navy's 1940 destroyer distributionNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 21: Leadership, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:58:30Farragut destroyers at Pearl HarborNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 20: Brasseys & Janes, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A47:57A starting book for the Royal Canadian NavyQ&A
- WWI in the Far East; Penang, Tsingtao, Emden & Cormoran the Long Patrol48:20Mousquet meets Emden outside PenangNotable Point
- Four Random Books 5: Destroyers0:05A destroyer officer’s account of the Bismarck huntChapter
- Four Random Books 5: Destroyers5:20Narvik and the need to learn from early failureNotable Point
- Four Random Books 5: Destroyers9:14Veteran memories from the First Battle of NarvikNotable Point
- Four Random Books 5: Destroyers11:21Why the destroyers considered returning to Narvik harbourNotable Point
- Patreon 7 – How the RN countered E-Boats in the English Channel as proposed by Paul26:50Why E-boats avoided Tribal-class destroyersQ&A
- 2 Minutes: RN vs the E Boat a quick Summary...1:28Gunboats and destroyers against E-boatsNotable Point
- 2 Minutes: HMS Rutherford1:45A radar-equipped command ship for motor torpedo boatsNotable Point
- How the RN countered E-Boats in the English Channel - Patreon 7 Introduction Part 2 of 317:10A coordinated night interception of E-boat groupsChapter
- How the RN countered E-Boats in the English Channel - Patreon 7 Introduction Part 1 of 316:00Planing hulls and light machinery unlock high speedNotable Point
- The Force K Long Patrol; Economic Warfare Royal Navy Style40:07Operation Stone Age rebuilds Force KNotable Point
- The Force K Long Patrol; Economic Warfare Royal Navy Style42:49Dido cruisers supporting a destroyer strike forceNotable Point
- The Force K Long Patrol; Economic Warfare Royal Navy Style48:02The destroyer-led second Force KNotable Point
- The Force K Long Patrol; Economic Warfare Royal Navy Style49:06Night navigation and the cost of minesNotable Point
- 2 Minutes: HMS Orion The Leander Class Bonus0:50What battle-honour totals hideNotable Point
- 2 Minutes: Force K's an Overview Part 2/21:21Aurora, Penelope and Force K's 1941 raiding groupNotable Point
- 2 Minutes: Force K's an Overview Part 2/21:41Force K in 1942: strength against convoy escortsNotable Point
- Patreon 6 - Force K… Malta’s mailed fist, as proposed by Ian Car17:18Could Tribal-class destroyers receive better dual-purpose guns?Q&A
- Patreon 6 - Force K… Malta’s mailed fist, as proposed by Ian Car1:54:54Sumner versus Fletcher as a destroyer designQ&A
- Patreon 6 - Force K… Malta’s mailed fist, as proposed by Ian Car1:57:12How the Royal Navy confirmed HMS Glowworm's lossQ&A
- Patreon 6 - Force K… Malta’s mailed fist, as proposed by Ian Car2:00:46The 1942 Force K put destroyers in frontChapter
- Patreon 6 - Force K… Malta’s mailed fist, as proposed by Ian Car2:01:15Cape Bon: attacking from the unexpected sideNotable Point
- Patreon 6 - Force K… Malta’s mailed fist, as proposed by Ian Car2:04:40A reference for British destroyer ammunition dataQ&A
- Patreon 6 - Force K… Malta’s mailed fist, as proposed by Ian Car2:09:44How HMS Zubian combined two damaged destroyersQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 18: Really Big Books, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A52:26Sherbrooke's Barents Sea action: buying timeQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 18: Really Big Books, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:44:46HMS Campbeltown as a destroyer-sized torpedoNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 18: Really Big Books, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:16:11Battle-class destroyers as a crowded general-purpose designChapter
- Bru Ships Episode 17: Fiction & Fraction, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A25:26Did destroyers carry Royal Marines?Q&A
- Bru Ships Episode 17: Fiction & Fraction, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A3:16:33Could Tribal-class destroyers fight in the Pacific?Q&A
- The Ships: An Introduction to the Convoy war & the Perfect Storm of PQ17… P2/320:40Why small escorts could not solve the surface-raider threatChapter
- Battle of Atlantic: An Introduction to The Convoy war & the Perfect Storm of PQ17… P1/312:53Why wartime submarines targeted escortsNotable Point
- Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...2:05:12Using battlecruisers to trap Japanese heavy cruisersQ&A
- Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...3:06:02How a Pacific war could reshape Royal Navy ship designNotable Point
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P6b Introduction to Patreon Video 4...19:39The uneven strength of American cruisers, escorts, and submarinesNotable Point
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P5b Introduction to Patreon Video 412:59An old cruiser makes convoy attacks costlyNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 15: Diplomacy & When it Fails, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:30:20How Willis Lee's battleships could change SamarQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 15: Diplomacy & When it Fails, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:34:04Why the British Eastern Fleet deserves attentionQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 15: Diplomacy & When it Fails, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:49:17When destroyer fiction is nearly a memoirQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 15: Diplomacy & When it Fails, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:02:09Atlanta and Dido as super-destroyersQ&A
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P4 Introduction to Patreon Video 4...27:41Blockade, invasion, and Pacific fleet prioritiesChapter
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P3 Introduction to Patreon Video 413:06Keeping naval leaders alive changes the forceNotable Point
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P2b Introduction to Patreon Video 42:21French and Dutch ships in the Far Eastern balanceChapter
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P2b Introduction to Patreon Video 420:29Worked-up destroyer flotillas and forward reservesNotable Point
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P2b Introduction to Patreon Video 424:10HMS Bulldog and the escort culture around GloriousNotable Point
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P2b Introduction to Patreon Video 445:21The concentrated fleet battle the Royal Navy planned forNotable Point
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P2b Introduction to Patreon Video 448:10Submarine ambushes before the fleet battleNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 14: Special & Covert Operations Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A34:26Johnston and Haida as kindred fighting destroyersQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 14: Special & Covert Operations Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A38:35Why some Type 45 modernizations are harderQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 14: Special & Covert Operations Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:35:31Why Taiwan keeps former Kidd-class destroyersQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 14: Special & Covert Operations Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:49:43Could railguns bring back stern-mounted main guns?Q&A
- Bru Ships Episode 14: Special & Covert Operations Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:06:09A future Type 48 railgun destroyerQ&A
- P2 Introduction to Pre-Tribal Class Destroyers of the RN0:52Why destroyers need reach and speedChapter
- P2 Introduction to Pre-Tribal Class Destroyers of the RN2:24The cost of building small for numbersChapter
- P2 Introduction to Pre-Tribal Class Destroyers of the RN4:07Designing for an unlikely Anglo-American warNotable Point
- P2 Introduction to Pre-Tribal Class Destroyers of the RN5:58E and F classes: a standard destroyer fitNotable Point
- P2 Introduction to Pre-Tribal Class Destroyers of the RN11:12ASDIC changes hidden by a stable type labelNotable Point
- P2 Introduction to Pre-Tribal Class Destroyers of the RN12:03H-class growth and treaty reportingChapter
- P2 Introduction to Pre-Tribal Class Destroyers of the RN16:19I-class torpedoes and the path to the TribalsChapter
- P2 Introduction to Pre-Tribal Class Destroyers of the RN18:03I-class minelayers and Turkish ordersNotable Point
- P2 Introduction to Pre-Tribal Class Destroyers of the RN19:21From First World War lessons to new destroyer generationsChapter
- P1 Introduction to Pre-Tribal Class Destroyers of the RN (special guest; Fluffy Research Assistant)2:39Why the Royal Navy needed pre-Tribal destroyersChapter
- P1 Introduction to Pre-Tribal Class Destroyers of the RN (special guest; Fluffy Research Assistant)5:07Destroyers as an imperial presence forceNotable Point
- P1 Introduction to Pre-Tribal Class Destroyers of the RN (special guest; Fluffy Research Assistant)6:10HMS Ambuscade as a 1924 destroyer testbedNotable Point
- P1 Introduction to Pre-Tribal Class Destroyers of the RN (special guest; Fluffy Research Assistant)9:05HMS Amazon and the prototype leader ideaChapter
- P1 Introduction to Pre-Tribal Class Destroyers of the RN (special guest; Fluffy Research Assistant)10:34Stanley Goodall and destroyer design continuityNotable Point
- P1 Introduction to Pre-Tribal Class Destroyers of the RN (special guest; Fluffy Research Assistant)11:15How an interwar destroyer flotilla was organizedNotable Point
- P1 Introduction to Pre-Tribal Class Destroyers of the RN (special guest; Fluffy Research Assistant)12:40HMS Codrington and the A-class leaderChapter
- P1 Introduction to Pre-Tribal Class Destroyers of the RN (special guest; Fluffy Research Assistant)16:22HMS Keith and the B-class size dilemmaNotable Point
- P1 Introduction to Pre-Tribal Class Destroyers of the RN (special guest; Fluffy Research Assistant)19:13Why peacetime presence gives way to wartime concentrationNotable Point
- P1 Introduction to Pre-Tribal Class Destroyers of the RN (special guest; Fluffy Research Assistant)20:06The C-class and the cost of cutting a flotillaNotable Point
- P1 Introduction to Pre-Tribal Class Destroyers of the RN (special guest; Fluffy Research Assistant)22:36HMS Duncan's command spaces and flotilla roleChapter
- BAD SOUND - An Introduction to Making Mare Nostrum a Hollow Jest Part 2 of 223:25Why Royal Navy submarines vanish from broader historiesNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 12: New to Me Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:00:18Understanding Flight III Arleigh Burke procurementQ&A
- Patreon Video 2: Royal Navy Operations in the Indian Ocean 1941-4311:48The Royal Navy's eastern problem: protect a trading empireChapter
- An Introduction to the Royal Navy in the Indian Ocean 1941-3 (Patreon Video 2)26:10Why Tribal-class destroyers guarded the Red SeaNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 11: Top Trumps/Ship Comparison Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A35:22Whitley's international destroyer comparisonNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 11: Top Trumps/Ship Comparison Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:38:18Why ocean-going combatants grow toward 10,000 tonsNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 11: Top Trumps/Ship Comparison Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:40:39Could a collision damage a destroyer's propeller shaftQ&A
- An Introduction to Some More Admirals, Engineers & Historians29:15Zumwalt's DesRon 26 experimentNotable Point
- 50th Proper Live Stream - Bru Ships Episode 10: Naval Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:45:22Destroyer actions from the opening war yearsChapter
- 50th Proper Live Stream - Bru Ships Episode 10: Naval Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:02:27A Canadian destroyer officer’s naval careerChapter
- 50th Live Special: Thank You16:37Spica-class boats in the convoy warNotable Point
- 50th Live Special: Thank You23:07Why the little ships mattered in massChapter
- 50th Live Special: Thank You1:11:58The opening years of war are fought with the prewar fleetNotable Point
- Dream Fleet for the Current Integrated Review A Little Proposal23:56Mobilisation and maintaining capabilityChapter
- An Introduction "Flying Boats & Seaplanes; Mothered by Capability or Necessity?" P1/4 WWI4:24Patrols, destroyers, and early maritime air operationsNotable Point
- Patreon Video 1: What would you put in warehouses at the end of WWI for WWII if you could?16:00Using coast-guard service to preserve destroyer capacityQ&A
- Patreon Video 1: What would you put in warehouses at the end of WWI for WWII if you could?22:20A Commonwealth coast-guard fleet as prewar capacityQ&A
- Patreon Video 1: What would you put in warehouses at the end of WWI for WWII if you could?1:10:10Why older destroyer hulls still matter in early ASW warQ&A
- Patreon Video 1: What would you put in warehouses at the end of WWI for WWII if you could?1:14:48The V and W destroyers' second life as escortsQ&A
- Patreon Video 1: What would you put in warehouses at the end of WWI for WWII if you could?1:20:18Why multi-bearing torpedo salvos are harder to evadeNotable Point
- Patreon Video 1: What would you put in warehouses at the end of WWI for WWII if you could?1:54:43Spare hull sections and fittings can shorten repairsQ&A
- Patreon Video 1: What would you put in warehouses at the end of WWI for WWII if you could?1:56:44Three First World War ships worth preservingQ&A
- Patreon Video 1: Intro - What would you put in warehouses at the end of WWI for WWII if you could?9:02Reclassifying old destroyers as coast-guard shipsNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 9: Super Power Contest (as in the nations) Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:40:15How fleets might evolve without World War IIQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 9: Super Power Contest (as in the nations) Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A3:03:56Why the Fletcher fit US Pacific doctrineQ&A
- An Introduction to “Back Pocket Cruisers” Part 3: Daring Class0:06The Daring class as a postwar back-pocket cruiserChapter
- An Introduction to “Back Pocket Cruisers” Part 3: Daring Class2:00Destroyer growth from First World War scale to DaringNotable Point
- An Introduction to “Back Pocket Cruisers” Part 3: Daring Class21:46Torpedoes and the last back-pocket cruisersChapter
- An Introduction to “Back Pocket Cruisers” Part 2: Battle Class (+Stanley Goodall)14:58Radar, power, and fire control aboard the classNotable Point
- An Introduction to “The Battle of Malaya & Force Z” – Part 1: What Happened?18:49Force Z: capital ships with a thin screenNotable Point
- An Introduction to “The Battle of Malaya & Force Z” – Part 1: What Happened?27:37A destroyer concentration offered another gambleNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 8: Amphibious Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:22:42Why Beatty was a poor fit for small shipsQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 8: Amphibious Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:27:23Why a modern Daring would be easier than a modern TribalQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 8: Amphibious Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:32:18How destroyer experience reached flag rankQ&A
- An Introduction to Admiral Somerville & Force H – Part 1 Admiral Somerville19:02Somerville's uneasy fit with destroyer commandNotable Point
- An Introduction to Ships of the Convoy War - the Battle of Atlantic in Steel Part 2 Sloops25:18Heavy fleet units answer the surface-raider threatNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 7: Warship Design Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A31:28Why the single 4.7-inch anti-aircraft mount fadedQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 7: Warship Design Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A54:19A trimaran escort could create space for unmanned systemsQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 7: Warship Design Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:10:36Why successor warship programs begin decades earlyQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 7: Warship Design Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:15:24An alternative cruiser-destroyer for the late 1930sQ&A
- An Introduction to Not the Big Ships: NGFS As Provided by Destroyers & Below Part 2 of 20:25When destroyers and frigates become the biggest gunsNotable Point
- An Introduction to Not the Big Ships: NGFS As Provided by Destroyers & Below Part 1 of 20:10What counts as small-ship naval gunfire support?Chapter
- An Introduction to Not the Big Ships: NGFS As Provided by Destroyers & Below Part 1 of 216:36China Station anti-piracy operations adapt beyond destroyersChapter
- An Introduction to What was paid for in Blood, in Sweat, in Tears & so much Money... Part 3 of 317:25Exercise incentives concealed air-defence weaknessesChapter
- An introduction to the ‘Littleships’ of the Big War Part 4 of 44:39Why Wakatake-class destroyers fit the little-ship storyNotable Point
- An introduction to the ‘Littleships’ of the Big War Part 4 of 48:21Ōtori-class torpedo boats blur the destroyer boundaryNotable Point
- Minesweepers, Torpedo Boats & Gunboats – the ‘Littleships’ of the big war2:10:08The largest practical gun for a wartime destroyerQ&A
- An introduction to the ‘Littleships’ of the big war Part 1 of 234:17Spica-class torpedo boats sustained Italy's convoy warChapter
- Bru Ships Episode 4: Naval Aviation Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A49:14Shipboard air-defense improvisation had uncertain resultsQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 4: Naval Aviation Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A3:40:22HMS Cossack's Narvik charge captures destroyer combatQ&A
- Top 10 Ships – not Tribal, Battle, Daring or Town classes…25:45The Royal Navy's postwar type numbersQ&A
- An Introduction to My Top 10 Warships (No Tribal, Battle, Daring or Town Classes allowed)4:25HMS Meteor and the M-class destroyersNotable Point
- An Introduction to My Top 10 Warships (No Tribal, Battle, Daring or Town Classes allowed)10:16HMS Dragon, Sea Viper, and unused Type 45 potentialNotable Point
- An Introduction to My Top 10 Warships (No Tribal, Battle, Daring or Town Classes allowed)18:11USS Winston S. Churchill and a one-size-fits-all fleetNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:13:21A peacetime 1942 Royal Navy under Reginald HendersonQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:00:06Improving the Tribal, Battle, Town, and Daring classesQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:29:13Germany needed a balanced fleet, not simply more U-boatsQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:56:51How an Italian oil boom might reshape the Regia MarinaQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A3:13:43Using Yamato-class resources for destroyers and convoy escortsQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A3:23:35Why Tribal-class firepower worked better than oversized Axis destroyersQ&A
- Battle cruisers in a ‘modern navy’…. Well a WWII Navy33:21Why Gurkha's early loss was not simple failureQ&A
- Battle cruisers in a ‘modern navy’…. Well a WWII Navy2:05:02How treaty limits encouraged larger destroyersQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 2b: Book Reviews/Q&A7:58Choosing a Daring over a GearingQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 2b: Book Reviews/Q&A51:19The Fighting Tenth and the Tribal destroyersNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 2b: Book Reviews/Q&A55:34HMS Cavalier and HMCS Haida as surviving destroyersQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 2a: Book Reviews/Q&A1:34:21Why Fletcher is the favorite US Navy destroyerQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 2a: Book Reviews/Q&A1:45:16First World War destroyers that returned to serviceQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 2a: Book Reviews/Q&A1:47:17How destroyers could threaten a battleship at nightQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 2a: Book Reviews/Q&A1:55:35Battles, animals, and inherited Royal Navy ship namesQ&A
- Exercises & War Gaming Rules in 192915:09The tables preserved speculative designs and an evolving destroyer roleNotable Point
- Exercises & War Gaming Rules in 192950:19Exercise OA tested mixed battle fleets and divided screensChapter
- Exercises & War Gaming Rules in 19291:04:45OD used air search to set up a night interceptionChapter
- Bru Ships Episode 1: Book Reviews/Q&A28:42Modern frigates and destroyers divide their sensor prioritiesQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 1: Book Reviews/Q&A31:19A balanced medium navy built around interchangeable aviation decksQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 1: Book Reviews/Q&A1:21:41Warship stern forms follow speed, stability, and load requirementsQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 1: Book Reviews/Q&A1:56:30HMS Nubian was a leading destroyer combat-record candidateQ&A
- A Question of Getting Them There - Landing Ships & Amphibious Warfare Part 2(i)18:21Medium LSIs make Operation Claymore possibleChapter
- A Question of Getting There – Landing Craft & Amphibious Warfare Part 11:11:28Why heavy warships could not replace close-support craftQ&A
- Sloops during the Inter-War – what were they for?24:01Endurance for global convoy escortChapter
- Sloops during the Inter-War – what were they for?49:00Did the US and Royal Navies value destroyers differently?Q&A
- Sloops during the Inter-War – what were they for?53:10A peacetime convoy escort force estimateQ&A
- Sloops during the Inter-War – what were they for?58:11Could sloops lead groups of smaller escorts?Q&A
- Sloops during the Inter-War – what were they for?1:03:10Where junior Royal Navy commanders gained experienceQ&A
- Sloops during the Inter-War – what were they for?1:07:08Why torpedoes defined interwar destroyersNotable Point
- Special Episode: Design, Design, Design!29:24How Tribal-class destroyers could protect carriersQ&A
- Special Episode: Design, Design, Design!1:33:40From carrier gun batteries to layered task forcesQ&A
- Special Episode: Design, Design, Design!1:41:29ORP Blyskawica as the oldest preserved destroyerQ&A
- A bit more on RN Destroyers - The Hunt for the Bismarck28:52Royal Navy and allied destroyers as one fighting systemNotable Point
- A bit more on RN Destroyers - The Hunt for the Bismarck34:07How Narvik shaped Bismarck's missing destroyer screenQ&A
- A bit more on RN Destroyers - The Hunt for the Bismarck38:37What radar revealed about Bismarck's incoming shellsQ&A
- A bit more on RN Destroyers - The Hunt for the Bismarck40:54Bismarck's heavy-gun response to Piorun and CossackQ&A
- A bit more on RN Destroyers - The Hunt for the Bismarck42:24How destroyer culture spread across the postwar Royal NavyQ&A
- Namsos & the Central Norway Campaign (Norway 80)1:31Tribal-class destroyers enabled reconnaissance and landingsChapter
- Namsos & the Central Norway Campaign (Norway 80)3:19Destroyers supplied the army's fire support and air defenseChapter
- Namsos & the Central Norway Campaign (Norway 80)4:20Naval depot ships sustained destroyer fire supportNotable Point
- Namsos & the Central Norway Campaign (Norway 80)7:10Why the central campaign may have been the Allies' best chanceChapter
- T he Altmark 80 Videos in Full20:16Why Tribal-class destroyers were built to fightChapter
- Tribal, Battle & Daring Class Destroyers - A live stream1:27Tribal, Battle, and Daring destroyers as back-pocket cruisersChapter
- Sunday Updates Movie - A River Plate 80 Video37:03Destroyer shortages reshape Harwood's South Atlantic forceNotable Point
- Battle of the River Plate a Quick Overview - A River Plate 80 Video3:14Graf Spee underestimates the British cruiser forceNotable Point
- The RN in 1939, more than just a Question of Geography - A Quarterdeck Talk (26/11/2019)21:37Naval treaties, total tonnage, and the division of fleet rolesNotable Point
- The RN in 1939, more than just a Question of Geography - A Quarterdeck Talk (26/11/2019)39:53Defending Singapore while cruisers attacked Japanese tradeNotable Point
- RN Commands in 1939 - A River Plate 80 Video3:11Cruisers and carriers across the Royal Navy's regional commandsChapter
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