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- Bruships 265: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:42:16Frigate delays and the cost of interrupted shipbuildingQ&A
- Bruships 265: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:57:38Why a cheaper vehicle can still cost more to introduceNotable Point
- Britain's Rearmament 1937 vs 2026: What Lessons are we forgetting?12:27Why a larger budget could not instantly rebuild capacityNotable Point
- Britain's Rearmament 1937 vs 2026: What Lessons are we forgetting?39:19Machine tools must come before new factoriesChapter
- Britain's Rearmament 1937 vs 2026: What Lessons are we forgetting?42:45Cruiser orders kept armour production aliveNotable Point
- Japanese Destroyers of WWII: Quantity is a Quality of it's own, it can also be a Decisive one1:08Quality had to include the ability to build enough shipsChapter
- Japanese Destroyers of WWII: Quantity is a Quality of it's own, it can also be a Decisive one4:46Crimea, Ukraine and the time needed to expand forcesNotable Point
- Japanese Destroyers of WWII: Quantity is a Quality of it's own, it can also be a Decisive one8:19Shimakaze's construction time and replacement valueNotable Point
- Japanese Destroyers of WWII: Quantity is a Quality of it's own, it can also be a Decisive one12:50Yugumo construction before the Pearl Harbor operationNotable Point
- Japanese Destroyers of WWII: Quantity is a Quality of it's own, it can also be a Decisive one14:11Shipyard selection and unused Japanese capacityNotable Point
- Japanese Destroyers of WWII: Quantity is a Quality of it's own, it can also be a Decisive one25:12Type 98 guns and the cost of an Akizuki redesignChapter
- Japanese Destroyers of WWII: Quantity is a Quality of it's own, it can also be a Decisive one26:24New guns consumed industrial capacity and logistical effortNotable Point
- Japanese Destroyers of WWII: Quantity is a Quality of it's own, it can also be a Decisive one27:57Akizuki orders and the gap between plans and completionsChapter
- Japanese Destroyers of WWII: Quantity is a Quality of it's own, it can also be a Decisive one29:57Akizuki construction times varied sharplyNotable Point
- Japanese Destroyers of WWII: Quantity is a Quality of it's own, it can also be a Decisive one34:14Treaty withdrawal and destroyer spending prioritiesNotable Point
- Japanese Destroyers of WWII: Quantity is a Quality of it's own, it can also be a Decisive one37:23Shipbuilding capacity needed preparation before wartime demandNotable Point
- Soviet Destroyers of the 1930s: Trying to Rebuild/Build a navy in the face of heart led shipyards...16:22Rebuilding shipbuilding skill through achievable designsNotable Point
- Soviet Destroyers of the 1930s: Trying to Rebuild/Build a navy in the face of heart led shipyards...27:26Why advanced boilers needed accumulated manufacturing experienceNotable Point
- Bruships 262: Naval History Questions Answered Live1:15:47Britain's rapid capital-ship expansionChapter
- What the unbuilt destroyers of the Regia Marina tell us about WWII?0:00Forensic engineering as a way to read warship designChapter
- What the unbuilt destroyers of the Regia Marina tell us about WWII?12:39Cruiser priority and the destroyer construction gapChapter
- What the unbuilt destroyers of the Regia Marina tell us about WWII?22:33How navies understate or exaggerate capabilityChapter
- What the unbuilt destroyers of the Regia Marina tell us about WWII?42:51Distributed shipyards and a design that came too lateChapter
- Air Defence At Sea: From Air Ships in 1906, to drones in 2026 and everything in between...3:59:26Could modern Germany outbuild Britain?Q&A
- Air Defence At Sea: From Air Ships in 1906, to drones in 2026 and everything in between...4:09:57Rebuilding Western industrial advantageQ&A
- What happens if WWII took place as scheduled... after 1942? (Patreon)4:42:36German nuclear power could outpace industrial conversionQ&A
- Bruships 253: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:49:41Perfect communications would not erase Japan's resource deficitQ&A
- Bruships 252: Naval History Questions Answered Live...take 253:40Could Britain manufacture 15-inch naval guns again?Q&A
- Building upon experience from a position of strength; Imperial Japan's Destroyers in WWI8:29Isokaze gains fighting power with relatively few extra crewNotable Point
- Building upon experience from a position of strength; Imperial Japan's Destroyers in WWI10:07The Momo class works around yard and turbine limitsChapter
- Building upon experience from a position of strength; Imperial Japan's Destroyers in WWI18:43British Acorn-class destroyers ease Japan's wartime shortageNotable Point
- Building upon experience from a position of strength; Imperial Japan's Destroyers in WWI23:09The Enoki class meets a six-month emergency deadlineChapter
- Bruships 246: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:32:30L20 gun calibre depends on why Bayern stopped at 14 inchesQ&A
- Bruships 246: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:36:43Fleet ambition ends where yards, money, and specialist labour run outQ&A
- Bruships 246: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:40:02Nuclear shipbuilding wages reflect scarce skills and civilian competitionNotable Point
- Bruships 246: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:57:29Retaining Hong Kong would not reduce China to North Korean stagnationQ&A
- Bruships 246: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:26:44India's SMART missile shows the learning curve of indigenizationQ&A
- Bruships 245: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...41:42French industrial effort, war injuries, and demands at VersaillesNotable Point
- Bruships 245: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...48:26An 18-inch alternative to the Montana designQ&A
- Bruships 240: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:54:44A larger Canada and later North American warsNotable Point
- What if the Royal Navy's Aircraft Carrier HMS Hermes had sisters in the 1920s? (Patreon Live)2:04:57Could civilian shipyards build treaty light carriers?Q&A
- Bruships 233: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:10:45Rebuilding FedCom warships before the Clan invasionQ&A
- Bruships 233: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:28:20BC-304 wormhole drives need a supply of ZPMsNotable Point
- Bruships 233: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:28:33Shipyard size is an investment choiceNotable Point
- What if Winston Churchill doesn't pause Carriers, Capital Ships & Cruisers in 1939? Patreon Live13:26Moving workers disrupted specialist armor skillsNotable Point
- What if Winston Churchill doesn't pause Carriers, Capital Ships & Cruisers in 1939? Patreon Live15:36Restart priorities stretched a six-month pause into longer delaysNotable Point
- What if Winston Churchill doesn't pause Carriers, Capital Ships & Cruisers in 1939? Patreon Live36:20Labor transfers delayed auxiliaries and their suppliersNotable Point
- What if Winston Churchill doesn't pause Carriers, Capital Ships & Cruisers in 1939? Patreon Live46:04Modern ships and continuous production strengthen the later fleetQ&A
- What if Winston Churchill doesn't pause Carriers, Capital Ships & Cruisers in 1939? Patreon Live57:43Interrupted engine production constrained later light fleet carriersQ&A
- What if Winston Churchill doesn't pause Carriers, Capital Ships & Cruisers in 1939? Patreon Live1:06:08Why Italy would struggle to recover from a larger Taranto raidQ&A
- What if Winston Churchill doesn't pause Carriers, Capital Ships & Cruisers in 1939? Patreon Live1:54:04Allied industrial capacity permits more strategic choicesNotable Point
- What if Winston Churchill doesn't pause Carriers, Capital Ships & Cruisers in 1939? Patreon Live2:16:03Would avoiding the pause shorten the war by a year?Q&A
- Bruships 228: Naval History Questions Answered Live...33:30French and Russian shipbuilding without the entente agreementsQ&A
- Bruships 228: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:47:07Canada-China trade and NATO concernsQ&A
- The Tribal Class's Sisters... the Royal Navy's J, K & N Class Destroyers of WWII8:55The J class compromise was industrial capacityChapter
- The Tribal Class's Sisters... the Royal Navy's J, K & N Class Destroyers of WWII27:42Why prewar destroyer numbers shaped the whole warNotable Point
- The Tribal Class's Sisters... the Royal Navy's J, K & N Class Destroyers of WWII42:37Why long wars modernize existing warshipsNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 18: Guns & Points of Order38:51Why half an inch could fail to justify a new gun industryNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 18: Guns & Points of Order41:34Fleet replacements depend on support ships and yard capacityNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 18: Guns & Points of Order42:26How low-rate production preserves fleet optionsNotable Point
- Naval Architecture from Turret Ironclads to Super Dreadnoughts: HMS Monarch 1868 & 1911...21:52Building Monarch modernized Chatham DockyardChapter
- Why the different major navies used Cruiser Aviation in the 1920s&30s...45:17Japan's attrition plan outruns its industrial baseNotable Point
- The Leadership of Santa & The Trauma of 12 Days of Christmas10:10Santa's factory scale and internal transportNotable Point
- Bruships 223: Naval History & Science Fiction Questions Answered Live...8:49British car manufacturing after the loss of British ownershipNotable Point
- Bruships 223: Naval History & Science Fiction Questions Answered Live...2:08:30Closed production lines and the cost of replacing FV432Notable Point
- Bruships 223: Naval History & Science Fiction Questions Answered Live...2:10:57Why add LAV 6 when Britain is buying Boxer?Q&A
- Bruships 223: Naval History & Science Fiction Questions Answered Live...2:29:35What available capital-ship spares imply about productionNotable Point
- Bruships 223: Naval History & Science Fiction Questions Answered Live...4:10:47What the Soviets could learn from a captured NATO submarineQ&A
- 3 Books to understand the USN, RN & IJN preperations for WWII! Key Books 319:38Operational attrition versus a methodical Pacific advanceNotable Point
- 3 Books to understand the USN, RN & IJN preperations for WWII! Key Books 327:11Range, speed, and aircraft survivability tradeoffsNotable Point
- Exploring the meme: Top 5 & Bottom 5 inventions/systems of war that started in British Sheds(Live)2:14:09Local industrial skills and the reuse of memorial weaponsNotable Point
- Bruships 221: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:53:23Rebuilding large naval guns from an 8-inch starting pointQ&A
- A Chinese Invasion of Taiwan: A Historian’s Eye View & A Patreon’s Request…(Live 2)2:38:08China cannot quickly replace Taiwan's advanced chip productionQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P8 of 9 - UAD chat requested design testing…12:35How invading a critical supplier crippled Russian productionNotable Point
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P8 of 9 - UAD chat requested design testing…7:28:35Why reopening a steel furnace can mean rebuilding itQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress8:49:32Why modern nuclear knowledge would still need industrial supportQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida1:04:51If Europe divided into Protestant and Catholic great-power blocsQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida1:50:56How a 1909 super-steel would change British warship designQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida6:32:30Grant's logistics turned losses into sustained pressureQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II7:53:01The industrial foundations of the next great naval powerQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II7:56:17The panel's concerns about U.S. research and energy policyQ&A
- Bruships 219: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:09:53China's twenty-submarine capacity is not annual outputQ&A
- What happpens if Admiral "Jackie" Fisher & Admiral R.G.H Henderson Swap Third Sea Lord Tenures?24:37Saving shipyards while rearmament consumed its plannersNotable Point
- What would the World's Major Navys look like in 1950 if WWII didn't happen? (Live)1:08:07Peacetime research produces different weapons, not technological stasisNotable Point
- Bruships 218: New Books! British Telecom is a terrible ISP! Naval History Questions Answered Live...53:32Modern China sent back before World War IIQ&A
- Bruships 218: New Books! British Telecom is a terrible ISP! Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:37:54Doctrine, range, and the shells actually availableQ&A
- Bruships 218: New Books! British Telecom is a terrible ISP! Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:42:35Why equal ship losses affect fleets differentlyNotable Point
- Bruships 214 On the Road Japan 2025: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:12:24How far ahead Britain plans warship constructionQ&A
- Building Ships Out of Time; or Why sometimes nations seem to build last generation ships12:34Industrial limits kept wooden warships relevantChapter
- Building Ships Out of Time; or Why sometimes nations seem to build last generation ships28:44Shipbuilding knowledge, infrastructure, and fleet massNotable Point
- Bruships 213 On the Road Japan 2025: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:11:05Canals behind Royal Navy industrial powerQ&A
- Battlestar Galactica: Logistics, Leadership & Realism36:04Mining ships offer endurance but still need an industrial chainChapter
- What the Royal Navy thought of Coral Sea, Midway and Leyte Gulf?5:52Coral Sea logistics and the fast-tanker shortageChapter
- Bruships 212: Naval History Questions Answered Live...After Power Cut31:24Building a defence white paper around threat horizonsQ&A
- Bruships 212: Naval History Questions Answered Live...After Power Cut37:46The peacetime cost of preserving wartime capacityNotable Point
- Bruships 212: Naval History Questions Answered Live...After Power Cut41:57World War I scrap and interwar metal marketsQ&A
- Bruships 212: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:03:20Why German naval industry never recovered before 1939Q&A
- Bruships 212: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:48:24Why Scharnhorst's 11-inch guns do not define her as a battlecruiserNotable Point
- Cultural Drivers of National Military Organisation/Structure - a quick guide...45:56Raw materials shape military specialisationNotable Point
- Cultural Drivers of National Military Organisation/Structure - a quick guide...57:43Peacetime inefficiency can be wartime capacityChapter
- Cultural Drivers of National Military Organisation/Structure - a quick guide...57:54Supply-chain slack protects critical productionNotable Point
- Cultural Drivers of National Military Organisation/Structure - a quick guide...1:34:52GDP does not reveal what a state can manufactureNotable Point
- Torpex: A Short History of it's History...12:05RDX performance collides with mass-production costNotable Point
- Torpex: A Short History of it's History...16:46Centuries-old institutions sustain British explosives researchNotable Point
- Bruships 209: Science Fiction Naval History Questions Answered Live...56:40Why Type 32 was tied to the Type 31 production lineNotable Point
- Bruships 209: Science Fiction Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:27:51How a fleet of Infinity-class ships changes the Human-Covenant WarQ&A
- Bruships 209: Science Fiction Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:31:09Why another Type 26 yard could matter more than Type 31 capacityQ&A
- Bruships 209: Science Fiction Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:18:18E-wings, K-wings, and the industrial transformation of the RebellionQ&A
- Bruships 209: Science Fiction Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:28:50The Rebel Alliance inherits a droid army and navyQ&A
- Bruships 209: Science Fiction Naval History Questions Answered Live...6:07:36Which shipyards mattered most in the Second World War?Q&A
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...57:03An earlier American fleet accelerates the naval arms raceQ&A
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:39:13Would a non-communist Russia necessarily be stronger?Q&A
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:57:24Kryptman and the decision to abandon a forge worldNotable Point
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...6:13:57Japan gains oil self-sufficiency in 1937Q&A
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...6:56:09Paper supplies and the limits of domestic self-sufficiencyNotable Point
- Procurement for Peace: Second Draft49:06Oliver Hazard Perry frigates made mass visibleChapter
- Procurement for Peace: Second Draft1:53:23Britain's near-term fighter gap spans three programmesNotable Point
- Bruships 205: Naval History Questions Answered Live...21:24Why a Japanese Coral Sea victory delays rather than decides the warQ&A
- Bruships 205: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:49:15Industrial capacity does not remove Japan's resource problemQ&A
- Bruships 203: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:51:06The SparrowHawk modular-cruiser compromiseQ&A
- Bruships 203: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:50:00Could Britain's computing lead improve naval electronics?Q&A
- Attacking Pearl Harbour: The Decisions that led to the Japanese Planning…56:04American rearmament closed Japan's remaining strategic windowNotable Point
- Attacking Pearl Harbour: The Decisions that led to the Japanese Planning…1:54:39How Pearl Harbor disrupted Japan's own attrition strategyNotable Point
- Attacking Pearl Harbour: The Decisions that led to the Japanese Planning…2:09:48Would destroying Pearl Harbor's infrastructure have changed the war?Q&A
- Attacking Pearl Harbour: The Decisions that led to the Japanese Planning…2:10:30Britain alone and the British Empire give different industrial comparisonsNotable Point
- Bruships 201: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:13:43Where Britain should invest defense-infrastructure fundingQ&A
- Bruships 201: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:15:43Domestic purchasing as part of defence infrastructureNotable Point
- Bruships 201: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:19:26Why practical industrial experience matters in defence policyQ&A
- Bruships 201: Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:00:52Why better turbines would not solve German shipbuildingQ&A
- The Vlieter incident of 1799: When Leadership meant a battle wasn't needed for the Batavian to lose2:36:52Why domestic steel capacity matters in naval mobilizationNotable Point
- What happens to WWI if the Royal Navy got a full Admiralty Staff when the General Staff came to be?2:36:45Could British yards build the extra cruisers without cutting battleships?Q&A
- Bruships 197: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:24:18Why naval knowledge has exceptional leverage around 1900Q&A
- Bruships 195: Naval History Questions Answered Live...49:14Germany's options after a larger American gun jumpQ&A
- Bruships 195: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:10:02Would other navies demand ships after an early Italian challenge?Q&A
- Bruships 195: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:11:49Was limited French dockyard expansion only a state-yard problem?Q&A
- Bruships 195: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:36:21Port Alpha's robotic shipyard compared with the Kaiser yardsQ&A
- How Pursuing Peace(with bonus cost cutting) can lead to War: 1930s London Naval Treaty Leadership9:26Why Anglo-American strength still depended on political cohesionNotable Point
- How Pursuing Peace(with bonus cost cutting) can lead to War: 1930s London Naval Treaty Leadership23:47Hamaguchi and Saionji use naval limits to buy timeNotable Point
- Bruships 191: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:48:10Why infrastructure alone would not solve Corsair production limitsQ&A
- Bruships 189: Naval History Questions Answered Live...continued29:47Could unrestricted shipbuilding accelerate British jets?Q&A
- Strategic Defence & Security Review 2025: What would a naval historian do?52:14Shipyard specialisation limits competition and adds capacity costsNotable Point
- Mary Rose to Victory: How the Wooden Wall Grew as both forest and trees49:01Cast-iron cannon made fleet-scale armament affordableChapter
- Mary Rose to Victory: How the Wooden Wall Grew as both forest and trees57:44Cannon needed inspection, reassignment, and replacementNotable Point
- Bruships 186: Naval History Questions Answered Live...35:53Could Britain replace US components in future frigates?Q&A
- What if HMS Indomitable replaced Prince of Wales in Force Z?27:53Why pausing warship construction also congested shipyardsNotable Point
- Bruships 181: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:36:51When navies adopted metal bracing in wooden shipsQ&A
- Tōgō Heihachirō: Victor of Tsushima & Japan's Nelson...23:11Why France could not jump straight to dreadnoughtsNotable Point
- Tōgō Heihachirō: Victor of Tsushima & Japan's Nelson...1:28:34Building infrastructure after TsushimaNotable Point
- What if the 1900s Royal Navy went full DARPA?17:34The industrial scale behind Edwardian naval innovationNotable Point
- What if the 1900s Royal Navy went full DARPA?2:18:55How large would the projected super-dreadnought be?Q&A
- What if the 1900s Royal Navy went full DARPA?2:32:44Could Britain sustain its research lead?Q&A
- So what about the Jeune Ecole made the Hoche and other French BattleHotels inevitable?33:38Pausing capital-ship orders erodes industrial capabilityChapter
- So what about the Jeune Ecole made the Hoche and other French BattleHotels inevitable?41:19Devastation and Courbet reveal diverging construction rhythmsChapter
- So what about the Jeune Ecole made the Hoche and other French BattleHotels inevitable?51:44Before the pause, French yards could complete warships in six yearsNotable Point
- So what about the Jeune Ecole made the Hoche and other French BattleHotels inevitable?53:49The Terrible class was restoring a repeatable build rhythmNotable Point
- So what about the Jeune Ecole made the Hoche and other French BattleHotels inevitable?56:23Hoche, Amiral Baudin, and Formidable took roughly ten yearsNotable Point
- Bruships 179: Future Projects & Naval History Questions...1:21:08Why future warships cannot solve Germany's industrial problemQ&A
- David Farragut: Leadership from Roll Models & Experience4:31:42Rope shortages reveal Confederate industrial strainNotable Point
- Square Pegs for Round Holes: When it's not a bad Admiral but the wrong job for that Admiral34:05Doorman, Dutch naval aviation, and an East Indies carrierNotable Point
- Bruships 174: Ten Days to Christmas... have I got the lights up yet?3:39:54When Japan would need a 20-inch YamatoQ&A
- Glynn Stewart & Alex Discuss How Do You Create a Science Fiction Fleet? #2Historians ep 31:12:26Distance, economics, and secrecy create believable technology gapsChapter
- Scuttlebutt 8: Beatty, Sopwith Cuckoos, Carriers & the Defence Debate...1:25:50Was Japan a technological peer of the United States in 1941?Q&A
- Scuttlebutt 8: Beatty, Sopwith Cuckoos, Carriers & the Defence Debate...1:27:50How peacetime exchange helped Japan become a naval peerNotable Point
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/41:54:45What limits modern surface-combatant construction?Q&A
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/44:25:20Keeping a recovered Warrior armed in a fictional worldNotable Point
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/453:35Versailles targeted Germany's naval industrial memoryQ&A
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/41:27:22Why battleship calibres clustered around 13.5 and 14 inchesQ&A
- Bruships 171: Oh Kallax my Kallax, Where art though my Kallax1:07:04Why transformer stockpiles cannot rapidly rebuild an electrical gridQ&A
- Bruships 171: Oh Kallax my Kallax, Where art though my Kallax3:27:28American wartime mass production did not mean disposable qualityQ&A
- A path to negotiation for Japan in August 1941?1:22The counterfactual: Japan leaves China in August 1941Chapter
- A path to negotiation for Japan in August 1941?30:07An emperor wary of war with America and BritainNotable Point
- A path to negotiation for Japan in August 1941?53:28Yonai's naval moderation and economic prioritiesChapter
- A path to negotiation for Japan in August 1941?1:34:14A peace used to rebuild for a later warChapter
- Bruships 170: Once more unto the Kalax dear listners, once more unto the Kalax!2:47:33How long would restarting 16-inch gun production take?Q&A
- Bruships 169: Kalax o Kalax, my kingdom for a Kalax...3:29:00Brunel's advanced Warrior matters because the yards make it repeatableQ&A
- Battle of Santa Cruz: The Deathsong of Japanese Naval Aviation in WWII0:00Santa Cruz as a fight for the initiativeChapter
- Battle of Santa Cruz: The Deathsong of Japanese Naval Aviation in WWII0:33Essex construction changed the cost of carrier lossesNotable Point
- Traditional French Bonhomie to spare via the only non USN Nuclear Carrier! The Charles de Gaulle!25:48The cost of a one-off domestic carrier and the lost PA2Chapter
- Bruships 167: Tell me why, everything turned book – packing up, stacking up is all kalax want to do.1:37:11Could industry make new Iowa-class 16-inch guns?Q&A
- Bruships 163: I need a Kalax Kalax, a Kalax is what I need! Naval History Questions & Chat1:44:31What a technical library can build in thirty yearsQ&A
- Bruships 163: I need a Kalax Kalax, a Kalax is what I need! Naval History Questions & Chat2:52:12Britain's capital-ship construction ceiling before 1914Q&A
- Bruships 163: I need a Kalax Kalax, a Kalax is what I need! Naval History Questions & Chat2:56:53Why shipyard expansion depends on trained workersQ&A
- Naval Logistics of the Major Powers in 1939. Patreon Premier1:08:03Scarce raw materials reward Japanese craftsmanshipNotable Point
- Japan's Naval Aviation Doctrine of the 1930s & WWII: Yûgeki Zengen Sakusen!30:20Japan's place in the global naval technology networkNotable Point
- Japan's Naval Aviation Doctrine of the 1930s & WWII: Yûgeki Zengen Sakusen!32:51Education and officer recruitment as strategic bottlenecksNotable Point
- Check Campaign 27: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign38:37A large dock is not the same as shipbuilding capacityNotable Point
- Bruships 158: Home for Naval History Questions & Trialing the new Question Bot... so cross fingers!1:18:23German capital-ship production and lost industrial memoryQ&A
- Bruships 158: Home for Naval History Questions & Trialing the new Question Bot... so cross fingers!3:25:43Capital-ship building capacity after a 1936 treaty collapseQ&A
- Check Campaign 24: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:48:39Refitting old hulls versus replacing themNotable Point
- Check Campaign 20: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:56:46Oil revenue supports naval expansionNotable Point
- Bruships 153: Naval History Questions Answered & Boxes being Packed... still, there are more books!36:43Reading Chinese missile-factory production claimsQ&A
- Check Campaign 18: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign3:32:03War Plan Red and the industrial-fleet balanceNotable Point
- Bruships 151: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Vote4:03:51Continuous building changes super-battleship riskNotable Point
- Striking First: The Development of US Carrier Naval Aviation Doctrine by War Gaming & Fleet Problems1:45:45Two-ocean doctrine depends on yards, bases, and rapid productionChapter
- Check Campaign 14: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:13:43Tillman designs and a qualitative arms raceQ&A
- Check Campaign 14: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:55:17British 16.5-inch guns and the Washington treatyQ&A
- Check Campaign 14: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:14:02Imperial scale does not remove fleet constraintsNotable Point
- Bruships 148: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Begins2:12:06When covered shipyards can speed warship constructionQ&A
- Patreon 102: Zeroes over the Med! Japan joins the Britain & Free powers on 25th of June 1940...46:04Japanese industry could reduce Britain's dependence on American aidNotable Point
- Patreon 102: Zeroes over the Med! Japan joins the Britain & Free powers on 25th of June 1940...1:35:45Could Japan accelerate its warship construction?Q&A
- Patreon 102: Zeroes over the Med! Japan joins the Britain & Free powers on 25th of June 1940...2:42:38Could Germany finish Graf Zeppelin in response?Q&A
- The Furious Age: The First Aircraft Carriers25:26Wartime industrial allocation lets Britain build carrier experimentsNotable Point
- Giulio Cesare: The Lucky Ceasar of the Regia Marina, Key Ships Series 8 – Ship 548:50Fire-control quality undermined by inconsistent Italian shellsNotable Point
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books57:29Why Russian dreadnought design followed Russian yardsQ&A
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books57:44Could smaller battleships ease the Soviet construction problem?Q&A
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books59:30Which parts of warship construction can be automatedQ&A
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books1:01:46A simpler design for restarting Soviet battleship constructionNotable Point
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books1:15:58The industrial foundations of domestic battleship buildingQ&A
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books3:03:30Could 1940s factories reproduce the AVGP engine?Q&A
- Type 96 Mitsubishi A5M "Claude": Genesis Fighter for the WWII IJN Air Service46:14The Nakajima Kotobuki was more than a copied Bristol JupiterNotable Point
- Bruships 140 - Patreon Suggestions, Some Interesting Books (Hopefully) & Lots of Naval History Qs!1:52:20Plans alone could not restore German heavy-gun productionQ&A
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered2:30:36How Germany might use a captured Dutch battlecruiserQ&A
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered2:37:36Why a large slipway was insufficient for Dutch battlecruisersQ&A
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered2:55:07What one Ferrari Enzo could teach engineers in 1934Q&A
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered4:09:52Why Britain's shipyards build below emergency paceQ&A
- The American Carrier Raids of 1942: Wresting Control of the Pace of War from the Japanese1:56:46Ki-61 identification and Japanese aircraft designNotable Point
- Naval Aviation in 1914: It's Standing Before War Began31:49Infrastructure and the plateaus of innovationNotable Point
- Naval Aviation in 1914: It's Standing Before War Began52:33Strategic bombing theory and the bomb-supply problemChapter
- Bruships 138: Random Naval History Books from Me, Random Naval History Questions from You!2:27:23Why a modern twelve-ship class can take two decadesQ&A
- Bruships 138: Random Naval History Books from Me, Random Naval History Questions from You!3:32:48Britain's enormous post-World War One shipbuilding advantageQ&A
- Patreon 94: The different types of Aircraft Carriers/Seaplane Carriers/Hybrids1:27:49Peace dividends can make later procurement more expensiveNotable Point
- Patreon 92: Frank Whittle is given consistent funding by Britain to develop jet engines from 192829:10Parsons and Rolls-Royce create a broader turbine industryChapter
- Patreon 92: Frank Whittle is given consistent funding by Britain to develop jet engines from 192839:40Why peacetime development changes turbine resource constraintsQ&A
- Patreon 92: Frank Whittle is given consistent funding by Britain to develop jet engines from 19282:56:28Gas turbines redirect wartime factories and skilled laborChapter
- USS Enterprise: A Star is Born - KSS3 S4 Comment Response20:04Enterprise at Eastern Solomons and the Pearl Harbor counterfactualQ&A
- USS Enterprise: A Star is Born - KSS3 S4 Comment Response20:42Why Germany needed a short war against stronger coalitionsNotable Point
- The Missed Generation - The G3 & N3 classes: KSS2 S2 Comment Response1:23:51A crippled Bismarck as an industrial burdenNotable Point
- HMS Renown 1895: KSS1 S10 Comment Response18:10Gun availability made a 10-inch Dreadnought impracticalNotable Point
- Who killed the Battleship? / Why no more battleships?15:22Small production runs drive defence inflationChapter
- Bruships 131: Battleships...20:51Russia's constraint on building large warshipsQ&A
- Bruships 131: Battleships...1:17:41The yards needed for a sixty-eight-submarine forceQ&A
- A Naval Historian Reacts to: Battle cruisers in a modern navy… Well a WWII Navy2:40:31Treaty tonnage met production economicsChapter
- Battle of Empress Augusta Bay(1943): The First Radar Battle?1:33:36Long cruiser runs made standardization practicalQ&A
- Battle of Empress Augusta Bay(1943): The First Radar Battle?1:39:53Japan's radar problem was production as well as inventionQ&A
- Battle of Empress Augusta Bay(1943): The First Radar Battle?2:18:35A tactical victory inside Cartwheel's attrition campaignChapter
- Battle of Empress Augusta Bay(1943): The First Radar Battle?2:21:22Why Japanese destroyer squadrons had light-cruiser leadersNotable Point
- Battle of Empress Augusta Bay(1943): The First Radar Battle?2:22:33Kantai Kessen began with an attrition problemNotable Point
- Battle of Empress Augusta Bay(1943): The First Radar Battle?2:27:27A tipping point in Japanese fleet cohesionQ&A
- Bruships 126: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series3:03:31The US Navy cannot escape its production bottleneck without new yardsQ&A
- Thoughts on Problems for Future of Strategy from a Naval Historian6:31Additive manufacture could change the logistics targetNotable Point
- Bruships 125: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series1:27:50Why buying American can be the practical procurement answerQ&A
- Bruships 125: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series1:31:12How small supply delays become major shipyard delaysQ&A
- Sea Power of the Cold War: When Strategy got overwritten by Technology and Week Planner9:25A steady shipbuilding drumbeat preserves capacityNotable Point
- Ranging & Stabilising: How Gunnery Evolved from 1860 to 196022:33Wire winding and monobloc casting answered the limits of steelNotable Point
- Ranging & Stabilising: How Gunnery Evolved from 1860 to 19601:01:29From USS Monitor to King George V, turrets became industrial systemsChapter
- Ranging & Stabilising: How Gunnery Evolved from 1860 to 19601:19:34Monobloc casting capped the century of gun-centred developmentNotable Point
- Bruships: Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!2:10:48Why British aircraft engines cost Poland so muchNotable Point
- USS North Dakota(BB-29): The USN's First True Dreadnought - Key Ships Series 5, Episode 837:28Could a failed North Dakota have delayed the turbine navy?Notable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 41:03:50Oil and industrial capacity as campaign objectivesChapter
- A150 & BB64; After Yamato - Key Ship Series 4, Ships 711:01A stronger battle fleet still could not win the PacificChapter
- H Class Battleships: Ignoring Reality for Perfection, Key Ships Series 4, Ship 40:01Paper strength versus industrial realityChapter
- H Class Battleships: Ignoring Reality for Perfection, Key Ships Series 4, Ship 426:18Design growth outruns German yard capacityChapter
- H Class Battleships: Ignoring Reality for Perfection, Key Ships Series 4, Ship 440:36H-42's gun existed ahead of its factoryNotable Point
- H Class Battleships: Ignoring Reality for Perfection, Key Ships Series 4, Ship 441:46Plan Z needed time, money, and naval priorityChapter
- Bruships 119: Cool Books - but they're definitely a Mixture40:17Why Germany moved from 11-inch to 12-inch gunsQ&A
- Montana Class, The Bulwarks for the New Battle Line: Key Ship Series 4, Part 222:26Why quality control can defeat a strong designNotable Point
- Montana Class, The Bulwarks for the New Battle Line: Key Ship Series 4, Part 257:50Yamato’s resource trap in an infrastructure warNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy...9:30Shipyard investment underwrites fleet expansionNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy...2:11:15Design progress outpaces shipyard capacityNotable Point
- Lion Class: Key Ships Series 4, Part 143:57Britain's ability to build a fleet, not just one battleshipNotable Point
- Lion Class: Key Ships Series 4, Part 11:17:38How a known Yamato could distort rival building programmesNotable Point
- American vs Japanese Battleships... testing some historical ideas29:50Attrition war favors replacement capacityChapter
- Testing Out Soviet Battleship Designs...40:23Ambition versus a buildable Soviet battle fleetNotable Point
- Bruships 117: Battle Cruisers, Battle-Cruisers or Battlecruisers?1:42:51Why scrapping alone cannot sustain shipbuilding capacityQ&A
- Bruships 117: Battle Cruisers, Battle-Cruisers or Battlecruisers?3:29:01The American debate over Britain's shipbuilding capacityNotable Point
- Some Myths of the Royal Navy in WWII & Treaty Years54:18Why Britain ranked Japan and Italy ahead of GermanyNotable Point
- Some Myths of the Royal Navy in WWII & Treaty Years1:01:03How industrial depth accelerated Royal Navy air-defence upgradesNotable Point
- Some Myths of the Royal Navy in WWII & Treaty Years1:23:39Why a long war favoured Allied industrial depthNotable Point
- Some Myths of the Royal Navy in WWII & Treaty Years1:27:21Procurement volume and the cost of single-source supplyNotable Point
- Bruships 116: Australia Trip Books... Continued1:02:28Delay risks an Anglo-American industrial coalitionQ&A
- Bruships 116: Australia Trip Books... Continued1:24:20Commonwealth shipbuilding needs machinery and timeQ&A
- Bruships 116: Australia Trip Books... Continued1:26:27Infrastructure growth points toward 70,000-ton capital shipsQ&A
- Bruships 116: Australia Trip Books... Continued1:31:40Interwar yard closures reduced escort-building depthQ&A
- Bruships 116: Australia Trip Books... Continued1:35:59Small warships could be shipped as construction kitsQ&A
- Bruships 116: Australia Trip Books... Continued2:21:49Plan Z runs into industrial limitsQ&A
- Bruships 116: Australia Trip Books... Continued2:42:38Turbine manufacture limits Germany's capital-ship programmeQ&A
- Bruships 116: Australia Trip Books... Continued3:58:02Automation changes the skills heavy engineering requiresNotable Point
- Bruships 116: Australia Trip Books... Continued4:06:01A thirty-six-ship Crown Colony program in peacetimeQ&A
- Stalins Dream Fleets & the Potential Responses8:01Project 21 as a more attainable Soviet battlefleetChapter
- Stalins Dream Fleets & the Potential Responses16:21The Second Five-Year Plan meets shipyard capacityChapter
- Stalins Dream Fleets & the Potential Responses39:28A realistic ceiling on the Soviet fleet planned for 1947Notable Point
- Stalins Dream Fleets & the Potential Responses45:24Keeping the Malta class as a postwar reserve optionNotable Point
- Stalins Dream Fleets & the Potential Responses47:24The industrial pressure behind the postwar building paceNotable Point
- US Treaty Cruisers in War & Retrospect: Comment Response22:06Economic scale narrowed Britain's strategic optionsNotable Point
- Bruships 113: Jutland2:27:08Why access to Galician oil did not create an oil-fired German fleetQ&A
- Bruships 113: Jutland2:38:01Soviet armour manufacture and production volumeQ&A
- HMS Dreadnought, but built around the RN's favourite battleship guns...3:04:24Why equal-cost fleet comparisons can misleadQ&A
- HMS Dreadnought, but built around the RN's favourite battleship guns...3:42:53When a super-battleship arms race reaches an industrial cutoffNotable Point
- Bruships 110: Naval Aviation46:15Resources alone cannot remove Japan's industrial geographyQ&A
- Bruships 110: Naval Aviation1:13:04Better rope lets the Royal Navy rig for smaller crewsNotable Point
- Bruships 109: Mahan, an inspiration & a Reflection + Bonus3:32:30Why Poland would need a foreign-built cruiserQ&A
- Bruships 109: Mahan, an inspiration & a Reflection + Bonus3:53:17What an Australian Skyhawk equivalent would requireQ&A
- Alfred Thayer Mahan: Justifying a Navy to a Continent36:58From USS Chicago to the first USS TexasChapter
- Alfred Thayer Mahan: Justifying a Navy to a Continent40:03A battle fleet and its infrastructure built within a decadeChapter
- Bruships 108: PLanned for Random Books off the Shelf & Chat1:14:39Could Canadian orders have saved Thames Ironworks?Q&A
- Grand Strategy: A Short Video Essay21:24Turning technology into usable volumeChapter
- Grand Strategy: A Short Video Essay29:02Public finance, industry, and national defenceChapter
- Bruships 106: Song Dynasty & Three New Books from Pen & Sword49:11The Royal Navy often ordered a lifetime supply of gun barrelsQ&A
- Nothing Wrong With Our Shells Today; Alternate History, What if British Shells at Jutland Work?49:35Early-war shell reform faces less industrial competitionNotable Point
- The Submarine Century? How Submarines evolved over the 20th Century1:48:05The research and industrial foundations behind nuclear submarinesChapter
- Revolutionary Battles - Battle of the Rice Boats(1776) & Battle of San Nicolás (1811)2:08:28Share development costs, but retain an assembly lineQ&A
- Steam Rates: When the Wooden Wall gained a hiss & a huff!43:16Steam-engine builders could not promise schedule, power, or efficiencyNotable Point
- Bruships 104: Primary or Secondary Sources4:03:07Japan's naval aircrew rotation failureQ&A
- Bruships 104: Primary or Secondary Sources4:04:00A Four Power coalition's shortage of trucks and fuelNotable Point
- Bruships 101: No Dalmations, but a whole HMS Belfast to build36:06Why British shipyards developed excess capacityQ&A
- Bruships 101: No Dalmations, but a whole HMS Belfast to build38:12StanFlex as a long-term capacity investmentNotable Point
- Bruships 101: No Dalmations, but a whole HMS Belfast to build39:50HS2, California rail, and long-term capacityNotable Point
- The Great Ships: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Rates in 18th Century1:38:55Six years of timber in reserveNotable Point
- Bruships 99: Political History, Geostrategic History & Naval History3:36:32Shipbuilding steel and real industrial capacityNotable Point
- Bruships 99: Political History, Geostrategic History & Naval History3:42:01Industrial capacity beyond steel tonnageNotable Point
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: 4.7in Dual Purpose what if & Soviet Navy 1939-6515:20The Red Army of 1939 was not the army of 1945Notable Point
- Patreon 71: Why did the French Navy not more fully embrace carrier aviation after WWI?1:27:00France had yards available for carrier constructionNotable Point
- Patreon 71: Why did the French Navy not more fully embrace carrier aviation after WWI?1:40:54Did French yards retain carrier-building skills?Q&A
- Top 5 Inventions that came too Late34:27Whitehead torpedoes and the Civil War blockadeChapter
- 1860-1960 A Hundred Years of Gun Cruisers33:56U.S. cruiser production through iterative refinementNotable Point
- New Years 2023 Naval History Questions till the Bru runs out...1:19:25Armor-grade steel constrained early dreadnought constructionQ&A
- Bruships 96: Vikings, Okinawa & 2nd to Last Pre-Christmas 2022 Naval Chat3:28:03Japanese magnetron designs exceeded production capacityNotable Point
- Patreon 68: What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?22:42Britain's broad gun-development baseQ&A
- Patreon 68: What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?1:19:23Commonwealth yards do not eliminate machinery bottlenecksNotable Point
- Patreon 68: What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?2:31:08Mount assembly was not the same as turret productionNotable Point
- Giovanni Bausan(1883): 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 235:33American power remains short of coalition dominanceNotable Point
- BC-304 Daedalus Class: Stargate's Battle Cruisers0:01The BC-304 as a procurement compromiseChapter
- Epic Blunders of Naval History43:09Interwar economies and defense as industrial investmentNotable Point
- Bruships 87: Books Found on My Travels, New Books & Christmas Recomendations1:11:36Why capital ships still slow escort productionQ&A
- 19th Century Cruisers: Comment Response Video 3 (Sfax - Geffion)24:52Missile depletion could return naval guns to prominenceQ&A
- 19th Century Cruisers: Comment Response Video 3 (Sfax - Geffion)30:09The lost Zumwalt railgun fleet conceptQ&A
- Chapyev Class (Projekt 68 of the Soviet Navy): Fighting the Peace36:54An impossible battlefleet leaves Project 68 as the cornerstoneNotable Point
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 31:36Yamato and the industrial cost of prestige battleshipsQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 320:29The infrastructure behind 100,000-ton capital shipsQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 331:54Why Germany could not mass-produce Bismarck-sized shipsQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 334:07Arming and sustaining Atlantis as a capital shipQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 344:18Four naval-industrial cities for a stronger Soviet fleetQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 33:04:42Why a 500-ship IJN escort program was unrealisticQ&A
- Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1941-4211:34The industrial foundations needed to fix the Soviet fleetQ&A
- Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1941-421:38:36Why delaying war would not complete Plan ZQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 21:52:22Why armor and shell production depends on specialist industryQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out1:14:08Why Allied navies adapted faster during World War IINotable Point
- Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1939-404:18Why fleet fixes had to begin before the warQ&A
- Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1939-4010:49Why heavy naval guns were difficult to manufactureQ&A
- Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1939-4022:37Building escorts and submarines in IndiaQ&A
- Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1939-4025:47Why Canada could support an old capital ship more readily than South AfricaQ&A
- Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1939-401:06:02Why Britain retained familiar steam machineryQ&A
- Bruships 85: Cruiser, New & Random Reading1:04:08Could Soviet yards build Stalin's planned fleet?Q&A
- Town Class (1911): Chathams24:07Replacement cost shapes which warships commanders riskNotable Point
- Bruships 84: Science Fiction Strikes Again1:01:39How replicators could change warship battle-damage repairQ&A
- Bruships 84: Science Fiction Strikes Again2:09:44Onboard fabrication does not eliminate magazine disciplineNotable Point
- Some Minor Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 19421:36Australia and New Zealand lacked naval-industrial depthChapter
- Some Minor Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 194215:27The impossible geography of an ideal warChapter
- Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 19420:52Japan could not match American ships or secure its fuelChapter
- Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 19428:09Use Italian engineering for simpler carrier equipmentNotable Point
- Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 194219:29British intelligence targeted German industrial bottlenecksChapter
- Major Allied Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 194211:02The US Navy had to buy time for promised productionChapter
- Major Allied Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 194215:19America was both a sleeping giant and a hollow treeNotable Point
- Algerie (1932): Marine National6:25Welding as weight saving and industrial learningNotable Point
- Algerie (1932): Marine National9:37A decade of investment made Algérie possibleChapter
- Algerie (1932): Marine National21:26Treaty limits froze earlier ships while French design advancedNotable Point
- Algerie (1932): Marine National22:48Algérie as a procurement lesson for smaller naviesNotable Point
- Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 19411:38Japan's countdown to an expected losing warChapter
- Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times1:01:58Synthetic fuel as Japan's minimum naval operating baseNotable Point
- Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times1:20:52Japan led the Axis in naval construction capacityQ&A
- Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 19402:26Yamato construction and Japan's hidden industrial burdenChapter
- Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 19398:42Japan's long-war infrastructure problemChapter
- Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 193920:28The dockyard bottleneck behind Japanese capital shipsNotable Point
- Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 193922:12Fuel reserves and production scale for the Regia MarinaChapter
- Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 193933:55Moving German naval production into factoriesChapter
- Projecting Mussonlini's Mare Nostrum: Italian 1920s & 1930s cruiser design/doctrine57:15British machinery exposes Italy's industrial constraintChapter
- Northampton Class: US Treaty Cruisers (Long Patrol)23:27Bethlehem Steel and the industrial logic behind the designNotable Point
- Northampton Class: US Treaty Cruisers (Long Patrol)35:47Puget Sound shipbuilding and the morale value of a major warshipNotable Point
- Northampton Class: US Treaty Cruisers (Long Patrol)41:50Mare Island's building ways set a hard limit on cruiser constructionChapter
- Northampton Class: US Treaty Cruisers (Long Patrol)49:42Newport News links the Northamptons to modern carrier constructionNotable Point
- UAD Homage and Questions of US Cruiser Introduction Answered (Long Patrol)21:38Industrial capacity made Allied design learning possibleQ&A
- Patreon 57: Modern frigates, cruisers by another name?54:52Why missile shortages could restore naval gunsNotable Point
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out Take 251:24Why Gloriana repairs do not imply new-ship productionQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out Take 22:08:51Why reliability defeats specification comparisonsNotable Point
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out Take 22:23:55What British commercial shipbuilding can still produceQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out Take 22:52:58Could modern yards build for battleship-gun recoil?Q&A
- Technology an Introduction to a History... of Sorts...14:23How HMS Warrior combined existing technologiesNotable Point
- Technology an Introduction to a History... of Sorts...23:13How naval logistics sustained British rifle useChapter
- Action of the 18th June 1799: How to Lose Frigates and Influence (Live)2:15:25Why not every Queen Elizabeth received the same rebuildQ&A
- Equitable London Treaty: Summary (Long Patrol)8:44Why offset strategies rarely erase industrial advantageNotable Point
- My Royal Navy Washington Treaty Cruiser: with added Qs from "1939 Destroyer Doctrine" (Long Patrol)41:30Fletcher capability worked because America could build it at scaleNotable Point
- Galaxy Class: A Naval Historian's view of Federation Cruisers & Ships of the 24th Century (Live)12:10Why can a radical starship rebuild still be called a refit?Q&A
- Galaxy Class: A Naval Historian's view of Federation Cruisers & Ships of the 24th Century (Live)49:07A starship replicator instead of a mothball fleetNotable Point
- Galaxy Class: A Naval Historian's view of Federation Cruisers & Ships of the 24th Century (Live)3:13:06How quickly can the Federation build a Galaxy-class ship?Q&A
- Bruships 76: Five New Books & a Lot of New Questions1:34:21Why military ships cost more than civilian equipmentNotable Point
- Bruships 76: Five New Books & a Lot of New Questions2:30:35If the London naval treaties had failedQ&A
- Bruships 76: Five New Books & a Lot of New Questions2:46:44Paying for earlier British naval rearmamentQ&A
- Bruships 76: Five New Books & a Lot of New Questions3:33:41Defence procurement without an in-house benchmarkNotable Point
- An Equitable Washington Treaty: Aircraft Carriers (Long Patrol)51:54Continuous construction as industrial deterrenceNotable Point
- The Maple Confrontation (Equitable Washington Treaty Scenario): UAD Infused Discussion (Long Patrol)58:34Battlecruisers only make sense beside enough battleshipsNotable Point
- British Light Cruisers & Treaties: A UAD Infused discussion13:47Prestige ships and industrial opportunity costNotable Point
- British Light Cruisers & Treaties: A UAD Infused discussion26:22Treaties, deterrence, and visible industrial strengthChapter
- An Equitable Washington Treaty: Capital Ships with UAD (Long Patrol)29:22Shipbuilding as interwar industrial policyNotable Point
- An Equitable Washington Treaty: Capital Ships with UAD (Long Patrol)1:44:45Non-proliferation and the cost of blanket prohibitionNotable Point
- If Hood Was the Washington Template not the exception: A UAD infused discussion33:05Gun numbers matter when logistics support themNotable Point
- Konigsberg Class (Reichsmarine): Long Patrol13:02Treaty limits, industrial continuity, and a dated designChapter
- Konigsberg Class (Reichsmarine): Long Patrol23:01Shipyards as a bridge to German rearmamentNotable Point
- What if Washington allowed more than Nelson & Rodney: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol)28:08How a larger order could sustain industryNotable Point
- Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books2:28:43Why HMS Vanguard reused stored 15-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books3:10:11Why better commanders cannot erase industrial limitsQ&A
- Patreon 45: Comparing Sisters(Not Kardashians) - HMS Renown & Repulse / HMS Nelson & Rodney19:55Q&A: could Britain build more Type 45 destroyers?Q&A
- Some Sunday Naval Books34:54An unconstrained capital-ship technology raceNotable Point
- Bruships 68: Random Naval History Books & Questions3:24:02Why Atlantis needs shipyardsQ&A
- Patreon 44 "More than just ships: Infrastructure - the yards that ruled the world"2:13Northeast England's shipbuilding concentrationChapter
- Patreon 44 "More than just ships: Infrastructure - the yards that ruled the world"12:18Swan Hunter's yard machinery moved from the Tyne to IndiaQ&A
- Patreon 44 "More than just ships: Infrastructure - the yards that ruled the world"27:04Harland and Wolff and Workman, Clark filled Belfast's waterfrontChapter
- Patreon 44 "More than just ships: Infrastructure - the yards that ruled the world"34:27An apocryphal shipyard boast becomes a source-criticism lessonNotable Point
- Patreon 44 "More than just ships: Infrastructure - the yards that ruled the world"1:46:31Why Britain avoided a Second World War repair-yard shortageQ&A
- Adventure (1904) Class: Scout Cruisers (Long Patrol)19:54Armstrong Whitworth's integrated industrial capacityChapter
- Adventure (1904) Class: Scout Cruisers (Long Patrol)23:56Competitive capitalism and vertical integration in British shipbuildingNotable Point
- Patreon 41: RN Strategic & Tactical thinking on submarines & anti-submarine forces between the Wars1:44:25Why imperial shipyard capacity was slow to expandQ&A
- Bruships 64: Naval History & Sci-fi Books reviewed and Questions answered...18:04Trade dependence, outsourced skills, and service-economy limitsNotable Point
- Roberts Class - Naval Fire Support of the WWI (WWII) Western Front: Long Patrol Part 827:07A surviving monitor gun preserves an industrial systemNotable Point
- Roberts Class - Naval Fire Support of the WWI (WWII) Western Front: Long Patrol Part 827:17Why the Royal Navy kept supporting the 15-inch gunNotable Point
- Pearl Harbor: A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do?23:01Big ships and big guns as deterrenceNotable Point
- Pearl Harbor: A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do?45:28Preparing for war while trying to avoid itNotable Point
- Pearl Harbor: A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do?1:30:50Yamato secrecy undermines deterrenceNotable Point
- Bruships 63: The Writing Theorists - Corbett & Mahan, Richmond & Simms, Cable & Gorshkhov2:37:10Why Scharnhorst carried 11-inch gunsQ&A
- Strategy & Stragists: An Introduction to Bruships 635:34Professional silos miss the economic side of warNotable Point
- Sherman's March to the Sea9:22Industry, supply, and the advantage of firepowerNotable Point
- Sherman's March to the Sea13:43Slavery, infrastructure, and strategic blindnessNotable Point
- Sherman's March to the Sea20:12Groupthink, preparation, and responsibility for warNotable Point
- Trafalgar to Dreadnought: 1805-1905 Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc - Long Patrol14:54When technology outruns warship constructionNotable Point
- Battle of Taranto: The 81st Anniversary1:06:10Would sinking the battleships in deep water have cost Italy more?Q&A
- Battle of Taranto: The 81st Anniversary1:59:38An Allied Norway counterfactual: air range and Swedish ironNotable Point
- Bruships 58: Some Cool Books & Naval History Chat3:45:15Why budget alone cannot restore fleet numbersQ&A
- Interwar RN logistics - The Good, The Bad, and The Singapore: Long Patrol20:36Fast tankers competed with combat-ship productionNotable Point
- Interwar RN logistics - The Good, The Bad, and The Singapore: Long Patrol29:48War arrived before the planned industrial buildupNotable Point
- Interwar RN logistics - The Good, The Bad, and The Singapore: Long Patrol46:43War redirected the construction programChapter
- Patreon 34: Inter-war Naval Aircraft Development - what could have been?2:35:41The B5M and Japan's search for a second production lineNotable Point
- Patreon 34: Inter-war Naval Aircraft Development - what could have been?3:06:08The Zero's performance came with an industrial limitChapter
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P11/14 Soemu Toyoda18:38The Allied fleets converging on an invasion of JapanNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P11/14 Soemu Toyoda19:46Industrial preparedness behind Japan's fuel crisisNotable Point
- Karl Dönitz (on his Birthday) - how capable an Admiral was he?1:07:43Naval treaties postponed Japan's infrastructure reckoningNotable Point
- Karl Dönitz (on his Birthday) - how capable an Admiral was he?1:22:49Synthetic fuel could have reduced Japan's strategic panicQ&A
- Karl Dönitz (on his Birthday) - how capable an Admiral was he?2:12:03Synthetic fuel offered Japan an alternative to resource warNotable Point
- Karl Dönitz (on his Birthday) - how capable an Admiral was he?2:52:05The Atlantic war was ultimately an infrastructure contestNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P7/12: Karl Dönitz17:16Plan Z meets industrial capacity and escort productionChapter
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 5/11 Building a Navy1:34China builds a small navy through foreign yardsChapter
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 5/11 Building a Navy2:12Construction time reveals industrial capacityNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (3)2:13:31Super-battleships that their navies could not buildQ&A
- A Book or Two to Review (19): British Battle Tanks16:17Procurement balance and the Warrior-Ajax comparisonNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (19): British Battle Tanks17:58British tank portfolio and procurement resilienceNotable Point
- Bruships 51: The Age of Iron25:33Union river ironclads and industrial logisticsNotable Point
- Bruships 51: The Age of Iron1:36:34Specialist steels for tools, engines, and corrosion resistanceNotable Point
- Some More Battle Cruisers15:13Blockade intelligence tests German shipbuilding claimsNotable Point
- Bruships 46: Accounts of Naval War3:38:19Why the Abrams production line stays activeNotable Point
- Bruships 44: Strategy2:16:46What if HMS Nelson appeared at Trafalgar?Q&A
- Bruships 44: Strategy2:20:14A displaced battleship brings an engineering workforceNotable Point
- Bruships 44: Strategy2:26:23Could 1805 Britain reproduce HMS Nelson's ammunition?Q&A
- Bruships 44: Strategy2:29:28Would an aircraft carrier be more useful in an earlier era?Q&A
- Bruships 44: Strategy2:49:12Could alcohol keep HMS Nelson's boilers running in 1805?Q&A
- Patreon 17 "The Royal Navy’s Strategic Role in 1980s NATO" as suggested by Joseph Sullivan52:47Two shipyards and a continuous frigate drumbeatNotable Point
- Patreon 17 "The Royal Navy’s Strategic Role in 1980s NATO" as suggested by Joseph Sullivan1:19:16Humberside trawlers as mine-countermeasure hullsNotable Point
- Supemarine Aircraft of the Interwar: Long Patrol Part 1/3 Sea Lion 1-Sea Lion 237:47Sea Lion II linked racing performance to industrial renewalNotable Point
- Bruships 32: Ships & Space Ships (Reality & Scifi)3:23:59Pegasus and the logistics of building replacement fightersNotable Point
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s Long Patrol Part 4: 1920s Aircaft Carriers of the Big 326:56Carrier doctrine shapes hangars and air-group sizeNotable Point
- Naval Defence Act of 1889 Long Patrol Part 2: Debate3:45Private contracts build national shipyard capacityNotable Point
- Naval Defence Act of 1889 Long Patrol Part 2: Debate6:19Four tests for judging the 1889 naval programChapter
- Naval Defence Act of 1889 Long Patrol Part 1: Context8:42German naval growth began before Tirpitz's fleet lawsChapter
- Naval Defence Act of 1889 Long Patrol Part 1: Context10:17The Brandenburg class demonstrated German naval capacityChapter
- Bruships30: Nine Transactions of the Institute of Naval Architects(Including 1939) & Three New Books22:24A 15-inch-gun stopgap for rapid Lion-class constructionNotable Point
- Bruships30: Nine Transactions of the Institute of Naval Architects(Including 1939) & Three New Books1:26:13Coordinating shipyard cranes between berths and plating shedsNotable Point
- Bruships30: Nine Transactions of the Institute of Naval Architects(Including 1939) & Three New Books1:29:50Choosing shipyard cranes for workload and construction methodsChapter
- Steel of a Hundred Years Ago: Ships of 192025:30Foreign engines behind early US submarinesNotable Point
- Steel of a Hundred Years Ago: Ships of 192028:51Why steady shipbuilding can lower fleet costsQ&A
- Steel of a Hundred Years Ago: Ships of 19201:22:38Decades of shipyard investment behind giant capital shipsNotable Point
- Bruships 23 - New Book Review32:06Carrier protection followed repair geographyNotable Point
- Bruships 23 - New Book Review49:24Essex production reflected invasion-loss estimatesNotable Point
- How the RN countered E-Boats in the English Channel - Patreon 7 Introduction Part 2 of 339:23Mass-produced Fairmiles behind the elite boatsNotable Point
- Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...1:33:13Industrial limits matter more than treaty limitsQ&A
- Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...3:00:39Which German capital ships could join an early war?Q&A
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P6c Introduction to Patreon Video 43:20A Pacific war as an early rearmament triggerNotable Point
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P6c Introduction to Patreon Video 45:07Germany encounters British industrial capacityNotable Point
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P2b Introduction to Patreon Video 437:47Why January 1939 favours the AlliesChapter
- 50th Proper Live Stream - Bru Ships Episode 10: Naval Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A49:29Why warships are not built from stainless steelQ&A
- 50th Proper Live Stream - Bru Ships Episode 10: Naval Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A3:03:28Why German capital ships began with smaller gunsQ&A
- 50th Proper Live Stream - Bru Ships Episode 10: Naval Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A3:12:34Why rebuilding a capability takes more than new factoriesQ&A
- 50th Proper Live Stream - Bru Ships Episode 10: Naval Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A3:15:41Why battleship guns demanded industrial depthQ&A
- 4000 Subscribers Thankyou Special – The Royal Navy if I were Prime Minister39:03Britain's nuclear-submarine shipyard limits fleet numbersNotable Point
- Minesweepers, Torpedo Boats & Gunboats – the ‘Littleships’ of the big war1:47:54What a catastrophic explosion at Kiel could have destroyedQ&A
- Minesweepers, Torpedo Boats & Gunboats – the ‘Littleships’ of the big war2:28:09Moving Yamato's turrets exposed an industrial bottleneckQ&A
- Introuduction to Refits/Taking Care of Buisness Allied Style23:15Indomitable repeatedly draws on American repair capacityNotable Point
- Introuduction to Refits/Taking Care of Buisness Allied Style30:20American capacity outweighs differences in naval standardsNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A49:25Why Japan could not solve its wartime production gapQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:31:47Resource reserves are not the same as economical extractionNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:33:21Why Japan kept its inadequate 25 mm antiaircraft gunQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A3:03:02Resources and strategic overreach in Germany's defeatNotable Point
- Sloops during the Inter-War – what were they for?1:19:01Sloops developed Dominion warship-building capacityQ&A