Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

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Lexington Class Aircraft Carriers

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  1. What happens to the Navys if the Washington Treaty is held off till 1927?
    24:07How navies stretch treaty limitsNotable Point
  2. Bruships 260: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    1:30:15What delayed integrated electric propulsion?Q&A
  3. Bruships 257: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:57:35The supercarrier label begins with ForrestalNotable Point
  4. America goes Big Cruiser in the 1930s: Ending the Naval Treaties for the Alaska Class
    3:57Why a large cruiser looked usefulChapter
  5. America goes Big Cruiser in the 1930s: Ending the Naval Treaties for the Alaska Class
    1:10:15A Coral Sea escort counterfactualChapter
  6. Bruships 256: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    1:22:39Favorite warship appearances and the details behind themQ&A
  7. Bruships 256: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    3:56:33Treaty carrier limits and the Lexington exceptionQ&A
  8. Bruships
    19:13Carrier strike victory and dominion carrier flagshipsQ&A
  9. Bruships 236: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:36:29How Dutch capital ships could change carrier procurementNotable Point
  10. What if the Royal Navy's Aircraft Carrier HMS Hermes had sisters in the 1920s? (Patreon Live)
    1:03:14Lexington conversions consume half the US carrier allowanceNotable Point
  11. What if the Royal Navy's Aircraft Carrier HMS Hermes had sisters in the 1920s? (Patreon Live)
    1:30:06Would navies trade battleships for 35,000-ton carriers in 1922?Q&A
  12. What if the Royal Navy's Aircraft Carrier HMS Hermes had sisters in the 1920s? (Patreon Live)
    1:55:55What would the Royal Navy do with a Lexington-class carrier?Q&A
  13. Cheatimus Maximus Washington Naval Treaty: What happens if all the powers do all the cheats?
    1:02:01Why Lexington's 8-inch guns waste carrier capacityChapter
  14. Why the different major navies used Cruiser Aviation in the 1920s&30s...
    55:14US cruiser scouts locate targets for the battle forceChapter
  15. Talking through the Myths of WWI with @GariusTheBrit
    1:20:04Carrier investment hedged risk before combat proved the conceptNotable Point
  16. Planning for Pearl Harbor: Decisions to Strike at the USN's mid-pacific base...
    49:08The 1932 carrier exercise rehearses a Sunday surpriseChapter
  17. Scuttlebutt 14: Aircraft Carriers
    35:18Lexington-class ships split across capital-ship rolesQ&A
  18. Scuttlebutt 14: Aircraft Carriers
    38:22Lexington's eight-inch guns and the cruiser treaty limitsNotable Point
  19. 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle
    4:36:39If treaty powers had to buy capital ships from one anotherQ&A
  20. #2Historians Live: With @Drachinifel comes to chat & build UAD Dreadnoughts that Almost were P3
    2:28:00Do Battlestars qualify as battlecarriers?Q&A
  21. Bruships 211: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:02:20Fitting giant I3 carrier conversions into a treaty ratioNotable Point
  22. Cruiser-borne aviation of the major navies; aspirations, doctrine & realities of this capability
    1:38:19US scouting cruisers, gunfire spotting, and the SOC SeagullChapter
  23. Pom-Pom or Bofors: Which 40mm do you want?
    30:41Peacetime exercises produced a false picture of air attack prioritiesNotable Point
  24. Scuttlebutt 21st Century Battleship: Chat & Comment Response...
    39:00Why carrier size grew faster than electrical demandQ&A
  25. 21st Century Battleship: What would a battleship built today need to be a battleship?
    44:36The Lexington class supplies an electric-propulsion precedentNotable Point
  26. Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/4
    4:57:21Why battlecruisers made the best carrier conversionsQ&A
  27. Tiger Cubs - RN actually builds dreadnought armoured cruisers with 9.2in guns alongside HMS Tiger...
    2:17:09Higher treaty tonnage reshapes carriers and capital shipsChapter
  28. Tiger Cubs - RN actually builds dreadnought armoured cruisers with 9.2in guns alongside HMS Tiger...
    2:34:49Larger carrier allowances reshape Lexington and YorktownQ&A
  29. War Experience Carriers: Taiho, Ticonderoga, Audacious, Midways & Maltas... a discussion
    25:13Ticonderoga's long-hull Essex improvementsChapter
  30. Carriers of the Planned War Fleets: How Shokaku, Implacables & Essexs reflect their Navys Doctrines
    43:42From Yorktown to Essex: designing for rapid constructionChapter
  31. Carriers of the Planned War Fleets: How Shokaku, Implacables & Essexs reflect their Navys Doctrines
    46:32Essex survivors and the meaning of a modern carrierNotable Point
  32. Lexington Class: The First Modern Carriers?
    2:22Treaty conversion preserves the Lexingtons' Pacific missionChapter
  33. Lexington Class: The First Modern Carriers?
    16:41Sims turns the scouting role into a carrier problemNotable Point
  34. Lexington Class: The First Modern Carriers?
    1:03:17The Lexington model points toward the modern carrierChapter
  35. Lexington Class: The First Modern Carriers?
    1:08:29A third Lexington conversion becomes a naval-architecture exerciseNotable Point
  36. F8F Bearcat: Overshadowed Greatness - Key Aircraft Series 2 Aircraft 3
    42:55Canals and infrastructure impose different carrier-design limitsNotable Point
  37. The Drivers of the Evolution of Carrier Air Groups...
    1:06:29Lexington complicates treaty-era carrier labelsNotable Point
  38. The Drivers of the Evolution of Carrier Air Groups...
    1:27:37Carrier conversion planning was already technically matureNotable Point
  39. What the post WWI Navys really wanted from Aircraft Carriers: Hermes, Hōshō & Langley!
    23:33Lexington and Saratoga expose carrier-gun tradeoffsNotable Point
  40. Carriers in Science Fiction: Parsite Craft as a primary means of defence & offence...
    24:19The Venator as a carrier built on delegated trustChapter
  41. Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books
    3:59:02Why cruiser-carriers remain poor compromisesQ&A
  42. The American Carrier Raids of 1942: Wresting Control of the Pace of War from the Japanese
    0:01Carrier raids as a test of American aviation doctrineChapter
  43. The American Carrier Raids of 1942: Wresting Control of the Pace of War from the Japanese
    34:28Why an early massed strike on Tokyo was too riskyChapter
  44. The American Carrier Raids of 1942: Wresting Control of the Pace of War from the Japanese
    39:56Yorktown and Lexington traded speed against enduranceNotable Point
  45. The American Carrier Raids of 1942: Wresting Control of the Pace of War from the Japanese
    1:28:46Hull count does not equal operational availabilityNotable Point
  46. Racking up the Fight Back: American Carrier raids of 1942
    1:49:22Lexington battlecruisers as carrier escortsNotable Point
  47. Patreon 93: Old crocks at war. How useful to WWI were the old ships brought out of reserve?
    2:36:59Could a US carrier reserve change the Wasp design?Q&A
  48. Montana Class, The Bulwarks for the New Battle Line: Key Ship Series 4, Part 2
    59:51A Lexington reconnaissance-fleet counterfactualNotable Point
  49. Some Myths of the Royal Navy in WWII & Treaty Years
    31:31Carrier size, hull numbers, and dedicated commandNotable Point
  50. Lexington & Saratoga Carrier Conception: Key Ship Series 3, Ships 10 &11
    2:11Why the battlecruisers became carriersChapter
  51. Lexington & Saratoga Carrier Conception: Key Ship Series 3, Ships 10 &11
    7:07Why a battlecruiser hull suited conversionNotable Point
  52. Lexington & Saratoga Carrier Conception: Key Ship Series 3, Ships 10 &11
    30:01Lexington at the Coral SeaChapter
  53. Lexington & Saratoga Carrier Conception: Key Ship Series 3, Ships 10 &11
    30:52Saratoga's combat career and survivalNotable Point
  54. Lexington & Saratoga Carrier Conception: Key Ship Series 3, Ships 10 &11
    33:20A six-ship Lexington counterfactualNotable Point
  55. USS Enterprise (CV6): Key Ship Series 3, Ship 4
    16:01From Yorktown to the Midway classNotable Point
  56. USS Enterprise (CV6): Key Ship Series 3, Ship 4
    30:33Covering Hornet and fighting at MidwayChapter
  57. Patreon 78: The Bearn of every major treaty navy...
    1:33:31The Washington Treaty left room for carrier escort cruisersNotable Point
  58. G3 & N3 Classes: The Lost Dreadnought Generation, Key Ship Series 2, Ships 2 & 3
    26:36A K3 counterfactual: treaty limits and rival responsesNotable Point
  59. Ship-Shape Special: Alex & Garius Command a Carrier... How bad can this be?
    23:36Why Lexington's 90-aircraft capacity can misleadNotable Point
  60. USS Wichita(CA-45); The Greatest Treaty 8in Cruiser
    4:37How treaty rules reshaped the heavy cruiserNotable Point
  61. Shortcomings of Early Aircraft Carriers: What Lessons can we Learn from Innovation?
    39:20Lexington and Saratoga spent carrier capacity on cruiser gunsChapter
  62. Shortcomings with the designs of 'Early' Aircraft Carriers: Patreon 65
    1:42:20Lexington and Saratoga carried the wrong defensive weightChapter
  63. Shortcomings with the designs of 'Early' Aircraft Carriers: Patreon 65
    1:55:54Who wins: two Lexingtons or three Courageous-class carriers?Q&A
  64. Northampton Class: US Treaty Cruisers (Long Patrol)
    8:12Carrier-cruiser scouting groups for Pacific distancesChapter
  65. Quirky Classes and What they tell us about their navies… (Long Patrol)
    14:47Lexington's eight-inch guns and the changing carrier roleChapter
  66. Quirky Classes and What they tell us about their navies… (Live)
    45:51Why smaller dual-purpose guns suited carriers betterQ&A
  67. Quirky Classes and What they tell us about their navies… (Live)
    48:36A Lexington model photograph and US Navy bureau politicsNotable Point
  68. Washington’s cherry trees: the G3 and N3 class - Patreon 15 Comments Response
    9:24G3 conversions and a larger treaty carrier normNotable Point
  69. Washington’s cherry trees: the G3 and N3 class - Patreon 15 Comments Response
    31:11Names for additional Lexington-class carrier conversionsQ&A
  70. Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s Long Patrol Part 8: Questions Answered
    34:48Admiral-class carrier conversions and US parityNotable Point
  71. Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s Long Patrol Part 2: Papers & Treaties
    6:55How treaty quotas shaped early carrier fleetsChapter
  72. Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s Long Patrol Part 2: Papers & Treaties
    30:46Carrier treaties closed tonnage and armament loopholesChapter
  73. Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...
    2:19:15Lexington's guns and an accelerated HMS IllustriousQ&A