Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

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IJN Akagi

Amagi-class battlecruiser conversion serving as an aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy.

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  1. Bruships 252: Naval History Questions Answered Live...take 2
    1:02:00Why Courageous and Glorious were not modernised like Akagi and KagaQ&A
  2. Forging the Kido Butai's Teeth: Imperial Japanese Aircraft Development from Hosho to Pearl Harbor
    3:41Hosho experiments give way to Akagi and Kaga's larger air groupsChapter
  3. Cheatimus Maximus Washington Naval Treaty: What happens if all the powers do all the cheats?
    1:06:43Why Kaga's battleship hull weakens Japanese carrier doctrineChapter
  4. Planning for Pearl Harbor: Decisions to Strike at the USN's mid-pacific base...
    8:18How early did Japan consider a carrier strike on Pearl Harbor?Chapter
  5. 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon
    11:41Akagi's strength versus Béarn's value before carrier conversionQ&A
  6. Bruships 213 On the Road Japan 2025: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:45:30Akagi's lifts limit D4Y and B6N aircraftQ&A
  7. Attacking Pearl Harbour: The Decisions that led to the Japanese Planning…
    1:03:27Why Japan selected six carriers instead of its whole carrier forceChapter
  8. Bruships 172: So the Historiophon Happened...
    4:05:41Treaty carrier conversions were compromises, not ideal carriersQ&A
  9. Bruships 171: Oh Kallax my Kallax, Where art though my Kallax
    3:49:14A damaged Akagi could abort the Pearl Harbor raidQ&A
  10. Sōryū/Hiryū Class… Breaking into the future? Key Ships Series 9, Ships 5
    43:01Soryu, Hiryu, and Kido Butai doctrineChapter
  11. Sōryū/Hiryū Class… Breaking into the future? Key Ships Series 9, Ships 5
    55:27Soryu and Hiryu at Pearl HarborNotable Point
  12. Japanese Naval Aviation Organisation; Going their own way from 1912
    59:28First Carrier Division as a doctrinal laboratoryNotable Point
  13. Carriers of the Planned War Fleets: How Shokaku, Implacables & Essexs reflect their Navys Doctrines
    11:23Shokaku and Zuikaku in Kido ButaiNotable Point
  14. Treaty Era Aircraft Carriers: A Discussion
    19:12Japanese carrier experiments expose aircraft-growth riskNotable Point
  15. Bruships 150: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Suggestions Kicks Off
    1:32:44Implacable versus Akagi in a night surface actionQ&A
  16. Taranto Zero: Japan joins WWII on side of Britain in June 1940 - Patreon Alternate History
    5:40Akagi and Soryu form Japan's proposed carrier contributionNotable Point
  17. Taranto Zero: Japan joins WWII on side of Britain in June 1940 - Patreon Alternate History
    58:44Force H gains speed while the Home Fleet gains weightChapter
  18. Racking up the Fight Back: American Carrier raids of 1942
    1:07:33Lexington versus Akagi in a surface gunfightQ&A
  19. Naval History Writing Competition 2023/2024
    4:27If the Great Kanto earthquake had not doomed AmagiNotable Point
  20. Bruships 133: Questions till the Bru runs out...
    30:34Without the Great Kanto earthquake, Amagi replaces Kaga as a carrierQ&A
  21. Bruships 133: Questions till the Bru runs out...
    1:25:17A carrier gun battle turns on speed before it turns on gunsQ&A
  22. The Amagi Class: Super Kongos or Nascent Fast Battleships? - KSS2 S5 Comment Response
    14:39Why Amagi may have made the better carrier conversionQ&A
  23. Bruships 132: Questions till the Milk or Pancreas Runs Out
    23:35Akagi's possible peacetime longevityQ&A
  24. Graf Zeppelin: Key Ships Series 2, Ship 1
    46:08From treaty allowance to an overloaded carrier briefChapter
  25. Ship-Shape Special: Alex & Garius Command a Carrier... How bad can this be?
    58:45Which Japanese carrier had the early multi-deck layout?Q&A
  26. Shortcomings of Early Aircraft Carriers: What Lessons can we Learn from Innovation?
    44:37Akagi's multiple decks could not keep pace with aircraft growthChapter
  27. Shortcomings with the designs of 'Early' Aircraft Carriers: Patreon 65
    1:57:39Akagi and Kaga multiplied flying decks instead of capacityChapter
  28. Bruships 89: New Books (Christmas Recomendations) & Personal Accounts of War
    2:23:35Lexingtons were the best conversions, but arrived slowlyQ&A
  29. Bruships 89: New Books (Christmas Recomendations) & Personal Accounts of War
    2:32:53Smaller Courageous conversions bought more flight decksQ&A
  30. Bruships 89: New Books (Christmas Recomendations) & Personal Accounts of War
    2:35:45Treasury limits kept British carrier conversions austereQ&A
  31. 2022 Canada Naval History Trip Reading List (Long Patrol Book Review)
    15:43Akagi's reconstruction and Japan's industrial limitsNotable Point
  32. Anglo-Japanese War Feb 39 - if Tsingtao incident blows up, what would be IJN doctrine? (Long Patrol)
    1:05:00What Japan's carrier force actually contained in February 1939Notable Point
  33. Bruships 32: Ships & Space Ships (Reality & Scifi)
    2:58:59Who would win: HMS Furious or Akagi?Q&A
  34. Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s Long Patrol Part 6: 1930s Aircraft Carriers of the Big 3
    11:29Soryu outgrows Japanese treaty arithmeticChapter
  35. Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s Long Patrol Part 4: 1920s Aircaft Carriers of the Big 3
    20:42Lexington and Saratoga overtake Akagi in 1927Chapter
  36. Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s Long Patrol Part 2: Papers & Treaties
    6:55How treaty quotas shaped early carrier fleetsChapter
  37. Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s Long Patrol Part 2: Papers & Treaties
    14:45Island and flush-deck carrier design tradeoffsChapter
  38. Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s Long Patrol Part 2: Papers & Treaties
    18:02Lower flying-off decks sped fighter launches before radarChapter
  39. Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s Long Patrol Part 2: Papers & Treaties
    23:42Royal Navy carrier numbers built early operational experienceNotable Point
  40. Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s
    2:17:44Furious and Akagi show how exhaust trunking consumed hangarsChapter
  41. Blackburn Aircraft of the 1920s & 1930s a long patrol (& introduction)
    45:30A Blackburn design enters Japanese carrier aviationNotable Point
  42. Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P2a Introduction to Patreon Video 4
    17:00Using HMS Eagle to find Akagi firstChapter
  43. Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P2a Introduction to Patreon Video 4
    23:56Retaliation after Birmingham is attackedNotable Point
  44. An Introduction to What was paid for in Blood, in Sweat, in Tears & so much Money... Part 3 of 3
    23:27Japanese Midway games suppressed an unwelcome resultChapter