Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

Topic

Fighter Direction

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  1. Bruships 265: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    43:53Night aviation in the Force Z counterfactualNotable Point
  2. What happens if Winston Churchill doesn't pause the Carriers, Fast Battleships & Cruisers in 1939?
    1:09:17A larger Force Z complicates Japan's opening movesNotable Point
  3. What if Winston Churchill doesn't pause Carriers, Capital Ships & Cruisers in 1939? Patreon Live
    1:57:26Fulmar fighter direction and Swordfish radar support a joint carrier forceNotable Point
  4. 3 Books to understand the USN, RN & IJN preperations for WWII! Key Books 3
    46:14Henderson challenges confidence in fleet air defenseNotable Point
  5. Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    5:01:19Could limited Italian carrier fighters still defend a fleet?Q&A
  6. Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    5:05:28How Fulmars engage an escorted air attackQ&A
  7. If Force Z survived... if HMS Prince of Wales & HMS Repulse what would the RN have done with them?
    12:04Phillips repairs the fighter-support failureNotable Point
  8. If Force Z survived... if HMS Prince of Wales & HMS Repulse what would the RN have done with them?
    1:28:47British night attack and American dawn strikeNotable Point
  9. If Force Z survived... if HMS Prince of Wales & HMS Repulse what would the RN have done with them?
    1:31:38British fighter direction offers the US Navy a shortcutNotable Point
  10. Bruships 188: Naval History Questions Answered Liven & Birthday Party...
    1:02:45Swordfish fighter control before the Wellington AEW trialsQ&A
  11. Leadership Alive: What happens if Adm R. Henderson & Adm W. Fisher Live through WWII?
    1:19:31A carrier-rich fleet can rotate ships across three theatresChapter
  12. How Admirals Shape Ships? From the Frigate built Galleons to Arleigh Burkes...
    1:30:37Pre-radar assumptions constrain carrier air groupsNotable Point
  13. What if HMS Indomitable replaced Prince of Wales in Force Z?
    1:20:16How Indomitable could sustain a combat air patrolNotable Point
  14. What if HMS Indomitable replaced Prince of Wales in Force Z?
    1:29:26Could Indomitable also bring the Australian fighters into battle?Notable Point
  15. What if HMS Indomitable replaced Prince of Wales in Force Z?
    1:32:03Did naval and RAF fighter controllers use the same frequency?Q&A
  16. What if HMS Indomitable replaced Prince of Wales in Force Z?
    1:32:38Why Indomitable probably saves Force Z from the air attackChapter
  17. What if HMS Indomitable replaced Prince of Wales in Force Z?
    2:32:22The Fulmar performed better than its reputation suggestsChapter
  18. What if HMS Indomitable replaced Prince of Wales in Force Z?
    2:37:03Indomitable's reconnaissance could reshape the Malayan campaignChapter
  19. Could Seaplanes Tenders have been used in the Battle for the Atlantic? Naval History Live!
    2:30:51Would carrier fighters have saved Force Z?Q&A
  20. Could Seaplanes Tenders have been used in the Battle for the Atlantic? Naval History Live!
    2:41:21How carrier fighter direction could bring Buffaloes to Force ZNotable Point
  21. The Seafire Doctrine Saga: How the RN's fighter control system came to be...
    10:07Visual warning from destroyers and airborne lookoutsChapter
  22. The Seafire Doctrine Saga: How the RN's fighter control system came to be...
    15:03Type 79 radar revives the interceptor conceptChapter
  23. The Seafire Doctrine Saga: How the RN's fighter control system came to be...
    25:08Radar-directed CAP replaces simple launch warningChapter
  24. The Seafire Doctrine Saga: How the RN's fighter control system came to be...
    26:40Vectoring Fulmars for energy-fighting interceptsChapter
  25. The Seafire Doctrine Saga: How the RN's fighter control system came to be...
    30:46From point defense to layered fighter directionChapter
  26. Battle of Santa Cruz: The Deathsong of Japanese Naval Aviation in WWII
    1:16:54Fighter direction needed better interception geometryNotable Point
  27. Battle of Santa Cruz: The Deathsong of Japanese Naval Aviation in WWII
    1:19:28Hornet is overwhelmed despite defensive doctrineChapter
  28. Battle of Santa Cruz: The Deathsong of Japanese Naval Aviation in WWII
    1:25:22Enterprise survives the second waveChapter
  29. War Experience Carriers: Taiho, Ticonderoga, Audacious, Midways & Maltas... a discussion
    25:13Ticonderoga's long-hull Essex improvementsChapter
  30. War Experience Carriers: Taiho, Ticonderoga, Audacious, Midways & Maltas... a discussion
    27:17Victorious and Saratoga exchange fighter-direction lessonsNotable Point
  31. Bruships 155: Last time answering naval history questions from the Brushack?
    2:59:41Radar before the First World WarQ&A
  32. Patreon 103: The Nightmare returns - 4 WWI Town class are discovered by the Royal Navy in 1938
    1:54:26Floatplanes and space for radar on the rebuilt TownsQ&A
  33. The Drivers of the Evolution of Carrier Air Groups...
    1:29:28Carrier air defense evolves from climb rate to fighter directionChapter
  34. Striking First: The Development of US Carrier Naval Aviation Doctrine by War Gaming & Fleet Problems
    1:51:27Essex production scales the doctrine while exposing its limitsChapter
  35. Patreon 102: Zeroes over the Med! Japan joins the Britain & Free powers on 25th of June 1940...
    2:30:04Extra fighters could change Illustrious's air defenceNotable Point
  36. Carriers of the Kaiserlichemarine: the WWI potential of German Naval Aviation
    24:43How World War I air defence led toward fighter directionNotable Point
  37. Fairey Fulmar: innate soundness and competence but not the stuff of headlines
    7:29Apply the same standard to British and American air-defence learningNotable Point
  38. Fairey Fulmar: innate soundness and competence but not the stuff of headlines
    1:08:06Strike disruption and the birth of practical fighter directionChapter
  39. The American Carrier Raids of 1942: Wresting Control of the Pace of War from the Japanese
    1:33:49Why carrier fighters might have saved Force ZNotable Point
  40. Bruships 138: Random Naval History Books from Me, Random Naval History Questions from You!
    3:56:07What Enterprise could bring back from British carrier serviceQ&A
  41. Landing Ship Tanks Mk1s: The First Attempts to Get Troops Ashore - Key Ships Series 7 Ship 3
    26:11Thruster shifts from landing ship to fighter directionNotable Point
  42. Landing Ship Tanks Mk1s: The First Attempts to Get Troops Ashore - Key Ships Series 7 Ship 3
    27:06Bruiser from Salerno to merchant serviceNotable Point
  43. Landing Ship Tanks Mk1s: The First Attempts to Get Troops Ashore - Key Ships Series 7 Ship 3
    27:58Boxer becomes an information and radar-training shipNotable Point
  44. British Response to Graf Zeppelin: KSS2 S1 Comment Response
    21:21Royal Navy night attack could bypass Graf Zeppelin's fightersQ&A
  45. Ship-Shape Special: Alex & Garius Command a Carrier... How bad can this be? Mission 2
    36:15Radar fighter direction and the counter-scouting problemNotable Point
  46. Bruships 112: Julian Corbett
    3:07:39British Wildcat armament matched boom-and-zoom tacticsQ&A
  47. Ship-Shape Special: Alex & Garius Command a Carrier... How bad can this be?
    2:14:07Saratoga and Victorious: complementary carrier strengthsNotable Point
  48. Top 5 Inventions that came too Late
    20:27Radar horizon, Sea Harriers, and carrier positioningNotable Point
  49. Top 5 Inventions that came too Late
    23:36How Sea King AEW could reshape Falklands air defenceNotable Point
  50. Patreon 63: Escort carriers, the idea, designs, development and notable operations
    23:56How many fighters did a convoy escort need?Q&A
  51. Patreon 63: Escort carriers, the idea, designs, development and notable operations
    2:04:54Layering escort carriers, MAC ships, and CAM shipsNotable Point
  52. Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out
    1:15:34The 48-hour measure that might have helped Force ZQ&A
  53. Five Weaknesses of Allied/Axis/Minor Navies in 1941 & 1942; Response to some Comments
    6:26How a carrier might have changed Force ZQ&A
  54. Five Weaknesses of Allied/Axis/Minor Navies in 1941 & 1942; Response to some Comments
    13:42Force Z's air-cover problem was partly a signals failureQ&A
  55. Bruships 73: Some Old, Some New, None Borrowed, but Some Blue
    2:12:26Victorious could shield American strike carriers as USS RobinQ&A
  56. Operation Tan No.2 (77yrs ago today)
    49:05Royal Navy experience supports Okinawa's night air defenseNotable Point
  57. Patreon 39:What if Courageous and Glorious had survived?
    2:35:13Why carriers still change Force Z despite uncertaintyQ&A
  58. Patreon 39:What if Courageous and Glorious had survived?
    2:54:44How Sea Hurricanes could fight the ZeroQ&A
  59. Bruships 55: New Books
    2:30:47HMS Victorious, USS Saratoga, and the Robin deploymentQ&A
  60. Bruships 55: New Books
    2:33:31Victorious and Saratoga exchange carrier experienceNotable Point
  61. The Battle of the Philippine Sea: Live
    2:01:32Japanese fighter direction at the Philippine SeaQ&A
  62. Bruships 52: A Year of Bruships - Questions & Books
    2:33:29Victory at the Philippine Sea was a system advantageQ&A
  63. Hawker Aircraft of the 1920s & 1930s
    2:22:17Osprey exercises expose fighter direction before radarNotable Point
  64. Bruships 43: Aircraft Carriers & Naval Aviation
    1:05:30Life and work aboard a wartime escort carrierChapter
  65. Bruships 43: Aircraft Carriers & Naval Aviation
    1:57:17How a carrier could have changed Force ZQ&A
  66. Bruships 43: Aircraft Carriers & Naval Aviation
    2:16:19Carrier fighters and the defense of Force ZQ&A
  67. The Battles of Dogger Bank 1696-1916
    2:51:36Why short-range radio suited fighter directionQ&A
  68. Was Pearl Harbour a missed opportunity for the US?
    1:39:06Air defense only needed to disrupt the first waveChapter
  69. Was Pearl Harbour a missed opportunity for the US?
    1:55:20How many fighters could Hawaii launch?Q&A
  70. Part 1 of 4 "The effect of the early jet age on naval warfare strategy/tactics?"
    10:17British and American fighter-direction radio systemsChapter
  71. Part 1 of 4 "The effect of the early jet age on naval warfare strategy/tactics?"
    12:13Why carrier-mounted radar became a fighter-direction hubNotable Point
  72. Part 1 of 4 "The effect of the early jet age on naval warfare strategy/tactics?"
    12:59British and American combat air patrol tradeoffsNotable Point
  73. Patreon 11: "The effect of the early jet age on naval warfare strategy/tactics?"
    8:18Fighter direction before the Big Blue BlanketChapter
  74. Patreon 11: "The effect of the early jet age on naval warfare strategy/tactics?"
    11:48Pilot rotation preserved air-defence expertiseNotable Point
  75. Amphion Class Cruisers: Long Patrol
    41:55What a carrier could have changed for Force ZNotable Point
  76. Bilgepumps Taranto 80 part 3 of 3: Ripples in Musso's Pond
    48:48Night attack exposes an unfinished defensive systemNotable Point
  77. Battle of Taranto - a Stringbag Strike from the Dark
    2:52:58How an available Formidable might have changed Force ZQ&A
  78. Bruships 23 - New Book Review
    54:50Malta and Midway with the same air groupQ&A
  79. Bru Ships Episode 18: Really Big Books, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    3:04:02Why radar alone could not fix Japanese carrier defenceQ&A
  80. An Introduction to What was paid for in Blood, in Sweat, in Tears & so much Money... Part 3 of 3
    19:50Falklands air defence depended on sensor distanceChapter
  81. Introuduction to Refits/Taking Care of Buisness Allied Style
    3:27Victorious expands fighter direction before crossing the AtlanticNotable Point
  82. Introuduction to Refits/Taking Care of Buisness Allied Style
    5:51Victorious and Saratoga divide strike and fighter rolesNotable Point
  83. Bru Ships Episode 4: Naval Aviation Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    17:04Radar changed how navies coordinated at seaNotable Point
  84. Bru Ships Episode 4: Naval Aviation Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    1:32:31Sea Fury success frames a wider point about underestimated naval aviationQ&A
  85. A Question of Getting Them There - Landing Ships & Amphibious Warfare Part 2(iv)
    11:10Fighter-direction tenders for Normandy air controlChapter
  86. A Question of Getting Them There - Landing Ships & Amphibious Warfare Part 2(iv)
    14:02HMS Boxer as a larger fighter-direction shipNotable Point
  87. Aircraft Carriers the Debate - Dr Alex Clarke vs Armoured Carrier's Jamie
    45:15How radar-directed fighters could disrupt a Japanese strikeNotable Point