Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

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Fleet Maintenance

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  1. Britain's Rearmament 1937 vs 2026: What Lessons are we forgetting?
    33:00Dry-dock capacity and fleet availabilityNotable Point
  2. 14 Acts and 7 Classes - the story of the USN Interwar Destroyers
    1:34:14The 1930-1932 appropriations had to rebuild the means of constructionChapter
  3. 14 Acts and 7 Classes - the story of the USN Interwar Destroyers
    1:38:12Why maintenance capacity matters to British fleet availabilityNotable Point
  4. Bruships 257: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:24:24Common Type 23s offered more value than a small Type 22 remnantQ&A
  5. Bruships 257: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:48:01China's fleet growth creates a maintenance-yard lagQ&A
  6. Bruships 257: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:52:06Keeping 110 ships at sea strains a much smaller supporting fleetNotable Point
  7. Bruships 257: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:52:49Older warships can train a yard for harder refitsNotable Point
  8. Bruships 257: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:03:37Unfinished Centaur hulls as fleet maintenance carriersQ&A
  9. US Navy Ship Building Plan 2026... a Live look at what is being planned...
    4:53:17Why retire the remaining Ticonderoga-class cruisers?Q&A
  10. What happens if the entirety of the French Navy decides to carry on fighting in WWII? (Patreon Live)
    56:03France would decide which surviving ships to keepQ&A
  11. What happens if the entirety of the French Navy decides to carry on fighting in WWII? (Patreon Live)
    1:27:07French control of the western Mediterranean frees Force HNotable Point
  12. Why the Royal Navy's Type 45s Daring Class Destroyers are what they are & what their future is?
    1:09:05The six-ship readiness model assumed a predictable worldChapter
  13. Why the Royal Navy's Type 45s Daring Class Destroyers are what they are & what their future is?
    1:16:07Daring's completed power refit did not guarantee a return to seaNotable Point
  14. Why the Royal Navy's Type 45s Daring Class Destroyers are what they are & what their future is?
    1:22:49Reserved machinery space made a stronger diesel installation possibleChapter
  15. Why the Royal Navy's Type 45s Daring Class Destroyers are what they are & what their future is?
    1:33:24Fewer destroyers also increased the burden on Type 23 frigatesNotable Point
  16. Planning for Pearl Harbor: Decisions to Strike at the USN's mid-pacific base...
    1:09:45Fleet depth, surge deployments and maintenanceNotable Point
  17. 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle
    5:00:03A 1980 NATO-Warsaw Pact fleet swap and the maintenance problemQ&A
  18. 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle
    5:37:49Floating dry docks as deployable naval infrastructureQ&A
  19. 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle
    5:38:27When the US Navy sold its floating docksQ&A
  20. 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P8 of 9 - UAD chat requested design testing…
    48:46Could a battleship gun be replaced at sea?Q&A
  21. Bruships 220: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    30:32When Chinese fleet growth may shift toward maintenanceQ&A
  22. Bruships 220: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    39:51Why uncrewed warships shift manpower costs ashoreQ&A
  23. Bruships 220: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    55:12Which warships could remain viable through a pandemicNotable Point
  24. Bruships 219: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:38:27Dry-dock length limits practical carrier sizeNotable Point
  25. What if the High Seas Fleet was not Scuttled in Scapa Flow?
    56:51Why larger French and Italian fleets matter globallyNotable Point
  26. Battlestar Galactica: Logistics, Leadership & Realism
    17:36Passenger ships cannot become permanent habitats without refit supportChapter
  27. Battlestar Galactica: Logistics, Leadership & Realism
    22:30Every lost hull removes space, spares, and resilienceNotable Point
  28. Battlestar Galactica: Logistics, Leadership & Realism
    36:04Mining ships offer endurance but still need an industrial chainChapter
  29. Battlestar Galactica: Logistics, Leadership & Realism
    38:04Agricultural ships connect food, oxygen, sewage, and maintenanceChapter
  30. Bruships 193: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    4:33:44British naval gun length, barrel wear, and distant basesNotable Point
  31. Admiral Rodney:The victor of Moonlight & Saintes
    1:49:29Why Rodney stopped the pursuit after the SaintesNotable Point
  32. Admiral Rodney:The victor of Moonlight & Saintes
    1:57:29Leaving Formidable behind and returning in MontaguNotable Point
  33. Royal Navy gets activist for Research & Development from 1900 onwards...
    1:46:39Longer gun barrels imposed a worldwide maintenance burdenNotable Point
  34. A Hearts of Iron Christmas 2... For Shipshape & Christmas, it's HOI4 with @GariusTheBrit
    2:56:22South American dreadnoughts reveal the cost of fleet upkeepNotable Point
  35. A Hearts of Iron Christmas 2... For Shipshape & Christmas, it's HOI4 with @GariusTheBrit
    3:10:11Argentine and Chilean upkeep qualifies the criticism of South American fleetsNotable Point
  36. Middle of the Road doesn't always provide Best Bang for your Buck... Fourth Rates
    30:29Adventure's career ranged from winter guard to the Anglo-Dutch battlesChapter
  37. Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/4
    4:44:38Why cruiser growth stops at the fleet's support capacityQ&A
  38. Check Campaign 27: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign
    22:13What mothballing a warship actually involvesNotable Point
  39. Check Campaign 27: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign
    35:42Peacetime budgets versus a wartime-scale fleetNotable Point
  40. Check Campaign 27: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign
    47:24Mothballing and scrapping to make a fleet affordableChapter
  41. Check Campaign 27: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign
    1:16:59Reserve fleets are normal peacetime force structureNotable Point
  42. Swedish 1930s Torpedo Bomber Strategy: Key Aircraft Series 7, Aircraft 7 & ScandiShip24 Montage
    37:10Baltic winter and fortress basingChapter
  43. Check Campaign 14: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign
    1:02:49Repairs compete with new constructionNotable Point
  44. Check Campaign 12: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign
    36:59Why damaged ships should not be committed before repairNotable Point
  45. Check Campaign 11: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign
    2:11:51How repairs and refits compete with new ship constructionNotable Point
  46. Check Campaign 10: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign
    21:54Old ships can still provide operational massNotable Point
  47. Check Campaign 10: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign
    23:20What happens to mothballed ships in the campaign?Q&A
  48. Glen Class: An Insight into Landing Ship Infantry - Key Ships Series 8, Ship 3
    5:25Why British ships were valuable near JapanNotable Point
  49. Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!
    53:47Ark Royal was easier to keep operating than EagleQ&A
  50. Bruships 133: Questions till the Bru runs out...
    1:31:03Global station duties kept old Royal Navy ships in serviceQ&A
  51. Scharnhorst Class(1936): Most Valued Player of the German Capital Ships - Key Ships Series 7 Ship 4
    27:46Technical improvement versus fleet standardizationNotable Point
  52. Patreon 88: Sydney Strategy: When looking for a Far East Naval Base - what if Sydney not Singapore?
    1:30:10Sydney's dockyards force a Far East joint commandChapter
  53. Patreon 88: Sydney Strategy: When looking for a Far East Naval Base - what if Sydney not Singapore?
    1:36:48Could Cockatoo Island dock a King George V battleship?Q&A
  54. Patreon 81: When the Royal Navy Lost Sea Control in the Age of Sail
    1:15:19Can hurricane losses excuse a fleet's weakness?Q&A
  55. Bruships 114: Alternate Histories, What Ifs & Questions from Chat
    3:14:15How a tender differs from a repair shipQ&A
  56. Battle of Coronel in Retrospect
    19:32Why naval readiness resists a fixed timetableNotable Point
  57. Bruships 91: New Books & Cruiser Books
    2:51:06Why the salvage ship Kommuna remained usefulQ&A
  58. BC-304 Daedalus Class: Stargate's Battle Cruisers
    44:41Daedalus becomes the war-zone workhorseNotable Point
  59. Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 3
    24:50Sizing floating dry docks for supercarriersQ&A
  60. Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 3
    2:07:25The missing resilience in British carrier dry-dock capacityQ&A
  61. Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out
    1:53:59Why Britain needs another carrier dry dockQ&A
  62. Patreon 59: Infrastructure in the Colonies: shipyards of the Commonwealth and Empire.
    1:58:23Would more colonial yards repair capital ships?Q&A
  63. Projecting Mussonlini's Mare Nostrum: Italian 1920s & 1930s cruiser design/doctrine
    44:52Naval treaties make cruisers Italy's status unitsChapter
  64. Patreon 57: Modern frigates, cruisers by another name?
    1:15:28Type 054A as a true frigate baselineChapter
  65. My Royal Navy Washington Treaty Cruiser: with added Qs from "1939 Destroyer Doctrine" (Long Patrol)
    4:41Why design speed is not a guaranteed tactical advantageNotable Point
  66. The Battle of Cape Ecnomus (256BC): Long Patrol
    30:33Carthage's naval infrastructure and readinessNotable Point
  67. Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (11)
    1:25:47Why more graving docks outrank another ship programmeQ&A
  68. Anglo-Japanese War Feb 39 - if Tsingtao incident blows up, what would be IJN doctrine? (Long Patrol)
    3:41Forward basing ties doctrine to maintenance and securityNotable Point
  69. Operation Tan No.2 (77yrs ago today)
    1:17:40Floating docks offered a higher-value targetNotable Point
  70. Battle of the Aegates (241BC)
    1:23:00What Carthage's ship sheds reveal about fleet careNotable Point
  71. British Industry: The More than Just Ships P3/4: Maintaining (Royal Navy Dockyards II)
    43:44A naval dock trades commercial profit for assured readinessNotable Point
  72. Patreon 44 "More than just ships: Infrastructure - the yards that ruled the world"
    1:13:44Pembroke built ships while Portsmouth sustained the Channel FleetChapter
  73. Bruships 67: Cruising on through with Questions & Bru
    1:13:23Why inheriting two great-power fleets could bankrupt SpainQ&A
  74. Patreon 38: Evaluating Type 26 Frigates against WW2 ship classes...
    48:31Why later Type 26 batches should remain similarQ&A
  75. Patreon 38: Evaluating Type 26 Frigates against WW2 ship classes...
    51:00Why Canada favours one large surface-combatant classNotable Point
  76. Bruships 58: Some Cool Books & Naval History Chat
    33:25Why three carriers create a usable forceQ&A
  77. Bruships 58: Some Cool Books & Naval History Chat
    1:07:19Why capability numbers must survive an unchosen crisisNotable Point
  78. Dreadnoughts that Almost Were of the WWI Era...
    1:26:06How many ships sustain a force at sea?Q&A
  79. Patreon 24: Everything Wrong With Star Wars Fleets (From a Naval History Perspective)
    2:39:15How should a Venator group provide deep maintenance?Q&A
  80. Town Class Part 4 of 7: Overview of War
    4:33Why wartime demands overwhelmed deterrent deploymentsChapter
  81. Dream Fleet for the Current Integrated Review A Little Proposal
    29:34A tiered reserve model for fleet readinessChapter