Icebreakers

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   3:52:12HMS Protector and the cost of a hard polar service lifeQ&A
2. Bruships 255: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...16 Aug 2026
   19:37What navies lost by outsourcing warship designQ&A
3. Bruships 255: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...16 Aug 2026
   21:40Why navies buy auxiliary ships from foreign yardsQ&A
4. Bruships 254: Naval History Questions Answered Live9 Aug 2026
   4:45:03Armament for a hypothetical Canadian icebreaking cruiserNotable Point
5. Bruships 254: Naval History Questions Answered Live9 Aug 2026
   4:48:48An Arctic icebreaker as an amphibious baseQ&A
6. Bruships 237: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...22 Mar 2026
   4:52:08An ice-rated Canadian large surface combatantQ&A
7. Bruships 234: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1 Mar 2026
   2:14:26Why hydrographic and icebreaking ships cannot be afterthoughtsNotable Point
8. Bruships 233: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...22 Feb 2026
   3:19:37Could Canada field nuclear-powered surface combatants?Q&A
9. Bruships 226: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4 Jan 2026
   4:30:43Arming a nuclear-powered icebreakerQ&A
10. Bruships 226: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4 Jan 2026
    4:32:03Would an arm launcher help protect an icebreaker's missiles?Q&A
11. How to go about Designing a Warship... and a Fleet!31 Dec 2025
    22:23Choose between a common hull and a specialist icebreakerNotable Point
12. Bruships 225: Naval History & Current Affairs Questions Answered Live...28 Dec 2025
    2:03:57Transport icebreakers as a proposed next step for Canada's fleetQ&A
13. Bruships 225: Naval History & Current Affairs Questions Answered Live...28 Dec 2025
    4:13:38Counting Arctic escorts against the ships they would protectQ&A
14. Bruships 225: Naval History & Current Affairs Questions Answered Live...28 Dec 2025
    4:14:10Why Arctic escorts need to break ice independentlyQ&A
15. Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida18 Nov 2025
    7:00:16Civilian nuclear propulsion and Russian icebreakersQ&A
16. Bruships 218: New Books! British Telecom is a terrible ISP! Naval History Questions Answered Live...2 Nov 2025
    3:37:11Japan's Arctic experience and Coast Guard strengthQ&A
17. Bruships 214 On the Road Japan 2025: Naval History Questions Answered Live...5 Oct 2025
    51:17Canada's planned Arpatuuq-class icebreakersQ&A
18. #Japan2025 #ShipShape naval history trip... update 4 the Soya2 Oct 2025
    0:18Soya's icebreaker hull and later modificationsNotable Point
19. Bruships 204: Naval History Questions Answered Live...27 Jul 2025
    3:29:06Endurance adapted to an age-of-sail combat roleQ&A
20. Bruships 183: Science Fiction/Naval History Questions Answered Live...16 Feb 2025
    1:37:13When Arctic warships need icebreaking hullsQ&A
21. Bruships 178: Naval History or Exercise12 Jan 2025
    1:37:58Why China is building an icebreaker fleetQ&A
22. Bruships 178: Naval History or Exercise12 Jan 2025
    1:39:24What limits an armed icebreaker?Q&A
23. Bruships 175: Pre- Christmas Party 202422 Dec 2024
    4:13:41Why a carrier is the wrong tool for attacking Russia's Arctic routeQ&A
24. Glynn Stewart & Alex Discuss How Do You Create a Science Fiction Fleet? #2Historians ep 311 Dec 2024
    1:14:09A Canadian Arctic carrier tests capability against affordabilityNotable Point
25. Bruships 171: Oh Kallax my Kallax, Where art though my Kallax17 Nov 2024
    4:12:11How Canada could build shipyard employment into naval capacityQ&A
26. Bruships 170: Once more unto the Kalax dear listners, once more unto the Kalax!10 Nov 2024
    3:04:32Missile capacity follows a warship's missionQ&A
27. Bruships 167: Tell me why, everything turned book – packing up, stacking up is all kalax want to do.20 Oct 2024
    1:13:37Arctic routes without Suez and PanamaQ&A
28. Swedish 1930s Torpedo Bomber Strategy: Key Aircraft Series 7, Aircraft 7 & ScandiShip24 Montage7 Jul 2024
    29:54He 115 dispersed seaplane strikeChapter
29. Bruships 157: Books so good they've blown the budget on the #ScandiShip24 tour already!30 Jun 2024
    1:50:23Scandinavian patrol-boat and icebreaker referencesChapter
30. Bruships Gothenborg style...23 Jun 2024
    9:48Icebreaker St Erik and Stockholm's museum shipsChapter
31. Bruships 123: Naval History Questions and Books on Strategy & Tactics1 Oct 2023
    29:30Ice class is also an endurance questionQ&A
32. Bruships 123: Naval History Questions and Books on Strategy & Tactics1 Oct 2023
    58:43Why Scandinavian builders set a high icebreaker standardQ&A
33. Bruships 121: Questions till the Bru Runs Out!20 Aug 2023
    2:02:30Why the Second Pacific Squadron could not use the Arctic routeQ&A
34. Mistakes & Missed Opportunities of the Washington Naval Treaties12 Aug 2023
    21:27Canadian maritime dependence and adaptable sloopsNotable Point
35. Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer6 Aug 2023
    2:04:23The Royal Navy's access to wartime icebreakersQ&A
36. Bruships 113: Jutland21 May 2023
    2:45:00The industrial cost of letting Canadian shipyards closeNotable Point
37. Timberborne: A Test for the Year of Technology/My students favourite 'engineering game'15 Mar 2023
    1:01:30An icebreaker, not a ram, for an Arctic conflictQ&A
38. Royal Navy Survey Ships: A History - Patreon 55 (Long Patrol)30 May 2022
    58:38The second Endurance and icebreaker survivabilityNotable Point
39. Patreon 55: History of Survey Ships in the Royal Navy29 May 2022
    1:16:23Why ice-class ratings may leave a safety marginQ&A
40. Patreon 55: History of Survey Ships in the Royal Navy29 May 2022
    2:29:42The later HMS Endurance and the loss of a class-one icebreakerChapter
41. Patreon 55: History of Survey Ships in the Royal Navy29 May 2022
    2:56:23What HMS Protector lost when she replaced EnduranceChapter
42. Cutting through some Cutters of the US Coast Guard (Long Patrol)28 Feb 2022
    32:02Healy and the challenge of arming icebreakersNotable Point
43. Patreon 47: Putting the USA's 2nd fleet to work - US Coast Guard's presence missions & deployment27 Feb 2022
    1:58:06The polar icebreaker readiness gapChapter
44. Patreon 47: Putting the USA's 2nd fleet to work - US Coast Guard's presence missions & deployment27 Feb 2022
    2:08:41Ice patrol: moving hazards instead of trying to destroy themNotable Point
45. An Introduction to US Coast Guard's presence missions & deployment (Long Patrol)27 Feb 2022
    30:31Icebreakers are Arctic infrastructureChapter
46. British Industry: The More than Just Ships P1/4 - Building (Long Patrol)31 Jan 2022
    19:51An icebreaking train ferry built in sectionsNotable Point
47. Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (5)5 Sept 2021
    2:17:17Arctic access, Russian pressure, and icebreaker capacityQ&A
48. Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas (Non-Churchill) – The Comment Questions...15 Aug 2021
    1:59:53Steam rams failed when collision became the main weaponQ&A
49. Bruships 28: New Books & Christmas Buys6 Dec 2020
    3:11:58Russian Project 22220 icebreakers and the boundary of a warshipNotable Point
50. Bruships 28: New Books & Christmas Buys6 Dec 2020
    3:22:15Under-ice sonar drones and communication limitsQ&A
51. Town Class; big impact with a light footprint3 Dec 2020
    2:54:52A two-ocean fleet design for CanadaQ&A