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- Bruships 247: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:14:18Science-fiction ideas likely to appear in near-future naviesQ&A
- Bruships 247: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:14:42Star Wars blasters lead to real particle-beam weaponsQ&A
- Bruships 247: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:16:21Particle beams exist, but mobility and weapon range remain problemsQ&A
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- Bruships 241: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:37:10Designing an Arleigh Burke for space warfareQ&A
- Bruships 241: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:52:31The hull volume behind science-fiction energy weaponsQ&A
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- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....58:55Gun armament covers the wait for new defensive weaponsNotable Point
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....1:38:42Close-in guns can complement point-defence missilesNotable Point
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....2:32:18Why Type 83 is unlikely to be a 96-cell Type 26Q&A
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....2:38:00Integrated electric propulsion better serves future loadsQ&A
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....2:44:19Lasers should complement proven close-in weapons firstQ&A
- Bruships 234: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:39:15The niche for a modern sixteen-inch naval gunQ&A
- Bruships 233: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:06:57Point-defence lasers within twenty yearsQ&A
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- What the Frigate is wrong with how we buy ships, tanks & aircraft?48:34Hypersonic weapons and changing countermeasuresChapter
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- Bruships 215 On the Road Japan 2025: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:11:05What a modern capital surface combatant needsQ&A
- Bruships 215 On the Road Japan 2025: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:17:38A Dreadnought-class SSGN before railguns and lasers matureNotable Point
- Bruships 212: Naval History Questions Answered Live...After Power Cut2:19:20A nuclear cruiser escort for every US carrierQ&A
- Maya Class: The Ultimate Arleigh Burke Flight IIA or something else?45:18Evolutionary design prepares Maya for railguns and lasersNotable Point
- Bruships 209: Science Fiction Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:34:23The War of the Worlds heat ray as a naval weaponQ&A
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- How has Ukraine confirmed, dispelled or updated the lessons of the Falklands War 1982?50:13Why naval guns complete the defensive layersChapter
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- Bruships 187: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:44:06Why the next close-in defense may combine guns and lasersQ&A
- Bruships 183: Science Fiction/Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:10:20Favorite science-fiction weapons and their usesQ&A
- Bruships 183: Science Fiction/Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:17:53A 1910 fusion and beam-weapon arms raceQ&A
- Bruships 182: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:30:22Fusion and beam weapons transform the prewar balanceQ&A
- Bruships 182: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:49:35How beam weapons in 1910 Canada would redirect naval rivalryQ&A
- Bruships 177: New Year, same Dr Alex... possibly with new gym membership3:29:05The next layers in warship air defenseQ&A
- Bruships 172: So the Historiophon Happened...2:59:12Drones add depth rather than erase naval fundamentalsQ&A
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/433:18Counter-drone defense is a systems and cost problemNotable Point
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/45:31:00A modern battleship built around power, railguns, and missilesQ&A
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- Bruships 170: Once more unto the Kalax dear listners, once more unto the Kalax!1:12:40Small modular reactors for high-power surface combatantsQ&A
- Bruships 170: Once more unto the Kalax dear listners, once more unto the Kalax!4:41:09Batteries and supercapacitors aboard surface warshipsQ&A
- Bruships 169: Kalax o Kalax, my kingdom for a Kalax...1:15:42How practical rail guns could reshape surface combatantsQ&A
- Bruships 167: Tell me why, everything turned book – packing up, stacking up is all kalax want to do.34:41Would directed-energy weapons justify a British nuclear cruiser?Q&A
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- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered4:32:25Guns and lasers against future drone attacksQ&A
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- Patreon 53: Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN21:22Drone warfare repeats early aviation's countermeasure cycleNotable Point
- Patreon 53: Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN3:04:35Why naval counter-drone lasers were slow to fieldQ&A
- Bruships 78: Favourite Cruisers A Discussion...3:46:19Why an armed orbital platform creates a first-mover problemQ&A
- Bruships 68: Random Naval History Books & Questions1:36:26Why naval laser defence is more than a power-supply problemQ&A
- Bruships 62: Naval History Book Review & Chat3:20:49Lasers, railguns, and the shipboard energy problemQ&A
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- Patreon 38: Evaluating Type 26 Frigates against WW2 ship classes...16:35Why the close-in weapon fit still mattersNotable Point
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