Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

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Light Fleet Carriers

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  1. What if Britain joined with Australian & Canada to build a 'Maximum' Invincible Class instead?
    22:01Light carriers and middle-power independenceNotable Point
  2. Churchill's Good ideas: the actually good, the bad, and the ridiculous
    1:42:17Would avoiding the pause have brought the Malta carriers closer to completion?Q&A
  3. Task Force Doctrine; How it evolved from WWI to WWII in the big three navys - IJN, RN & USN(Patreon)
    1:13:29HMS Unicorn linked aviation support with carrier developmentNotable Point
  4. Bruships 251: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:19:11Why Town-class cruisers were not simply turned into carriersQ&A
  5. Bruships 247: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:47:40Unryu-class carriers as a bridge to postwar Japanese designsQ&A
  6. What if HMS Hermes was the first of a class of Cruiser Carriers?
    16:01Hermes already contains the outline of a light fleet carrierChapter
  7. What if HMS Hermes was the first of a class of Cruiser Carriers?
    1:05:04Twelve imperial light carriers share one treaty allowanceChapter
  8. What if Winston Churchill doesn't pause Carriers, Capital Ships & Cruisers in 1939? Patreon Live
    52:07Why a sister ship for Unicorn still requires a new orderQ&A
  9. What if Winston Churchill doesn't pause Carriers, Capital Ships & Cruisers in 1939? Patreon Live
    57:43Interrupted engine production constrained later light fleet carriersQ&A
  10. What if Winston Churchill doesn't pause Carriers, Capital Ships & Cruisers in 1939? Patreon Live
    2:35:08Fleet-carrier continuity favors Audacious and Malta designsQ&A
  11. Bruships 222: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:34:44From cruiser carrier to light fleet carrierQ&A
  12. Bruships 222: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:35:48Majestic-class ships as early-war cruiser carriersQ&A
  13. Bruships 221: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:14:55Which unbuilt carrier concepts were least worthwhileQ&A
  14. 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon
    7:43:34Gross tonnage can disguise a large aviation shipQ&A
  15. Unryū class: Japan's Light Fleet Carriers!
    0:00The Unryu class was not a British copyChapter
  16. Unryū class: Japan's Light Fleet Carriers!
    3:16Sixteen carriers planned, only three completedChapter
  17. Bruships 218: New Books! British Telecom is a terrible ISP! Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:25:23The hard limits of a 10,000-ton carrierQ&A
  18. Bruships 217: Back from Japan 2025: Jetlag is a Myth - Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:53:17How US warship transfers helped and constrained alliesQ&A
  19. Admiral Henderson's Dream? A Four Carrier Battle of Taranto...
    4:23Fleet carriers, strike carriers, and treaty tonnageChapter
  20. Bruships 205: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    5:41:25Light-carrier air groups for the British Pacific FleetQ&A
  21. Bruships 203: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:02:48A German raider threat drives British light-carrier policyNotable Point
  22. Bruships 203: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:08:22Earlier carriers strengthen naval aviation and British shipyardsNotable Point
  23. Bruships 190: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    38:59Why light carriers could operate Skyhawks and Harriers but not Super ÉtendardsQ&A
  24. A 1920s Caspian Sea Carrier: What happens if the German/Soviet relationship includes a carrier?
    50:14A Kirov-derived Soviet light fleet carrierNotable Point
  25. Leadership Alive: What happens if Adm R. Henderson & Adm W. Fisher Live through WWII?
    43:28A large L class could anticipate the Battle-class destroyerNotable Point
  26. Bruships 177: New Year, same Dr Alex... possibly with new gym membership
    1:57:50Why HMS Unicorn still belongs in a larger treaty-carrier fleetQ&A
  27. Three Days from Pearl Harbor: The World if the Kido Butai is Spotted on the 4th of December...
    1:09:56Withdrawal and the possibility of a new Pacific agreementChapter
  28. Bruships 169: Kalax o Kalax, my kingdom for a Kalax...
    45:05What would a modern European light fleet carrier look like?Q&A
  29. Bruships 169: Kalax o Kalax, my kingdom for a Kalax...
    1:27:12Essex and British light fleets offered different jet-conversion advantagesQ&A
  30. Super Carriers & Specialists: The Aircraft Carrier Debate from WWII to present...
    9:00Carrier size pays for systems, stores, and peopleNotable Point
  31. Super Carriers & Specialists: The Aircraft Carrier Debate from WWII to present...
    22:37Carrier choices for medium powersChapter
  32. Super Carriers & Specialists: The Aircraft Carrier Debate from WWII to present...
    31:29Why postwar medium powers bought British light fleet carriersNotable Point
  33. HMAS Melbourne and HMCS Bonaventure
    10:20Light fleet carriers: rapid construction and long adaptabilityChapter
  34. HMAS Melbourne and HMCS Bonaventure
    10:45How HMS Unicorn pointed toward the light fleet carrierNotable Point
  35. HMAS Melbourne and HMCS Bonaventure
    13:26How light carriers outlasted their wartime briefNotable Point
  36. HMAS Melbourne and HMCS Bonaventure
    36:02The interwar development behind light fleet carriersNotable Point
  37. HMAS Melbourne and HMCS Bonaventure
    38:28The missing modern light fleet carrierChapter
  38. Scuttlebutt Three: Chatting with Drach, British War Plans and Lots of Carrier Stuff
    4:27Implacable carrier tonnage source problemQ&A
  39. Bruships 157: Books so good they've blown the budget on the #ScandiShip24 tour already!
    1:47:07Unicorn's turbines sit on a scale between cruisers and battleshipsQ&A
  40. Fisher's Furious Flying off Ships: Courageous Class built as Aircraft Carriers
    1:15:31Treaties may invent three carrier categories earlyNotable Point
  41. Evolution of Carrier Air Groups 1918-2024: A Discussion
    33:10Doctrine defines small and fleet carriersChapter
  42. Evolution of Carrier Air Groups 1918-2024: A Discussion
    39:34Carrier size categories depend on the era and the shipyardNotable Point
  43. Treaty Era Aircraft Carriers: A Discussion
    1:19:51Unicorn's maintenance role and the treaty's auxiliary categoryNotable Point
  44. Bruships 137: Naval Aviation Books Discussed & Naval History Questions Answered
    3:55:12Why more HMS Unicorn-type support carriers became light fleet carriersQ&A
  45. Bruships 136: Some Books & Some Questions Answered
    3:25:19Why a trade-protection carrier needed 16,000 tonsQ&A
  46. HMS Unicorn: Honestly Not An Aircraft Carrier - Key Ship Series 8, Ship 1
    34:08Unicorn could have become the first of a support fleetNotable Point
  47. What kind of Carrier do you need or want?
    0:31Why carrier labels depend on missionChapter
  48. What kind of Carrier do you need or want?
    44:37Fleet carriers versus light fleet carriersChapter
  49. What kind of Carrier do you need or want?
    46:48The treaty threshold that caught HMS HermesNotable Point
  50. Patreon 94: The different types of Aircraft Carriers/Seaplane Carriers/Hybrids
    1:28:44Light fleet carriers, fleet carriers, and supercarriersChapter
  51. Patreon 94: The different types of Aircraft Carriers/Seaplane Carriers/Hybrids
    1:34:14Is Clemenceau a light fleet carrier?Q&A
  52. Patreon 94: The different types of Aircraft Carriers/Seaplane Carriers/Hybrids
    1:35:05Why light fleet carriers spread among medium naviesNotable Point
  53. USS Enterprise: A Star is Born - KSS3 S4 Comment Response
    6:22How repeated experiments produced viable light carriersNotable Point
  54. Patreon 89: Everything a Scharnhorst - Germany standardises on one hull for Capital ships & Carriers
    1:18:02Would Britain rush light carriers into production?Q&A
  55. Joffre Class: Too Many Enemies - Key Ship Series 5, Epsiode 5
    28:20Vichy and Allied service implied very different fatesNotable Point
  56. Malta Class: Once more the Royal Navy building for the After War? - Key Ships Series 5, Episode 2
    28:57Why the Royal Navy did not begin with Malta-sized carriersChapter
  57. Bruships 116: Australia Trip Books... Continued
    2:51:49Light fleet carriers were not merchant conversionsQ&A
  58. Royal Navy retains the 'Fleet Units' of Royal Naval Air Service in 1918 - an Alternate History
    1:36:15Larger escort carriers could replace a separate light-fleet tierNotable Point
  59. Alternate History - Royal Navy retains the Fleet 'units' of Royal Naval Air Service: Patreon 76
    1:53:31How scout carriers change the path to UnicornNotable Point
  60. Bruships 107: Some New to Me Books & Some New from Pen & Sword
    2:10:26How Unicorn shaped the light fleet carriersNotable Point
  61. Bruships 107: Some New to Me Books & Some New from Pen & Sword
    2:13:37A starting book for British light fleet carriersQ&A
  62. Shortcomings with the designs of 'Early' Aircraft Carriers: Patreon 65
    2:54:57What later carriers learned from the interwar experimentsChapter
  63. Bruships 89: New Books (Christmas Recomendations) & Personal Accounts of War
    2:19:35Unicorn's support-ship design helped shape capable light carriersNotable Point
  64. French Navy Fights on in 1940: Comment Response Video
    22:47French crews for British light fleet carriersQ&A
  65. Escort Carriers, the idea, designs, development and some notable operations
    21:33HMS Unicorn signals a new prewar aviation directionNotable Point
  66. Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out
    47:56An updated Hermes instead of InvincibleQ&A
  67. Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out
    1:03:14Why a 1950s light carrier could reuse Colossus dimensionsQ&A
  68. Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out
    2:04:29What a Cold War German carrier might look likeQ&A
  69. Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1939-40
    2:20:49Survivable light carriers for smaller naviesQ&A
  70. Major Allied Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 1942
    2:20Carriers became essential to Royal Navy survivalChapter
  71. Major Allied Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 1942
    5:51Britain needed both crash carrier construction and VanguardChapter
  72. Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out Take 2
    2:20:34Adapting a 1942 light fleet carrier for the Cold WarQ&A
  73. Anglo Japanese War: If Tsingtao caused a war in January 1939 (Comment Response)
    31:16Could HMS Unicorn lead to wartime light fleet carriers?Q&A
  74. Bruships 73: Some Old, Some New, None Borrowed, but Some Blue
    50:22Strengthened decks were not the same as armoured carrier decksQ&A
  75. Bruships 69: The Decider
    42:54Alternative carrier conversions after HMS EagleQ&A
  76. Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 8/11 Both Queens but Different
    18:50From carrier conversions to fleet programmesChapter
  77. Churchill's Iniatives (WWII); Long patrol p2/3 - Force Z
    22:36HMS Unicorn's lost year of wartime serviceNotable Point
  78. Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (2)
    1:05:20Why escort carriers should not become fleet carriersQ&A
  79. Pseudo Patreon British Aircraft Carrier development Since 1945 (as suggested by Kyle Hardman)
    26:48Attlee's fiscal priorities and the Malta cancellationQ&A
  80. Pseudo Patreon British Aircraft Carrier development Since 1945 (as suggested by Kyle Hardman)
    31:33Why existing light carriers weakened Malta's caseQ&A
  81. Pseudo Patreon British Aircraft Carrier development Since 1945 (as suggested by Kyle Hardman)
    39:18Smaller carriers drive steam catapults and angled decksChapter
  82. Pseudo Patreon British Aircraft Carrier development Since 1945 (as suggested by Kyle Hardman)
    46:58Why HMS Pioneer was scrapped after a short careerQ&A
  83. Pseudo Patreon British Aircraft Carrier development Since 1945 (as suggested by Kyle Hardman)
    1:16:21The 1955 carrier force confronts jets and missilesChapter
  84. Lend Lease Act 80yrs on...
    30:05The Royal Navy's path toward Dominion light fleet carriersNotable Point
  85. Lend Lease Act 80yrs on...
    36:44Light fleet carriers were already on the Royal Navy's horizonQ&A
  86. Crown Colony Class Cruisers
    1:18:46Why didn't Britain convert more light-cruiser hulls into aircraft carriers?Q&A
  87. RN Paper Cruisers; the what might have beens…
    1:44:07Did light fleet carriers replace cruiser roles?Q&A
  88. Part 2 of 4 "The effect of the early jet age on naval warfare strategy/tactics?"
    1:55Light fleet carriers lead Britain's Korean War air effortChapter
  89. Part 2 of 4 "The effect of the early jet age on naval warfare strategy/tactics?"
    9:10Light fleet carriers become other navies' fleet carriersChapter
  90. Part 2 of 4 "The effect of the early jet age on naval warfare strategy/tactics?"
    10:00Wartime carriers underpin Britain's early Cold War naval-air positionNotable Point
  91. Patreon 11: "The effect of the early jet age on naval warfare strategy/tactics?"
    1:06:16Light Fleet carriers remained valuable postwar assetsChapter
  92. Patreon 11: "The effect of the early jet age on naval warfare strategy/tactics?"
    1:19:23Why light carriers mixed naval and merchant standardsQ&A
  93. Patreon 11: "The effect of the early jet age on naval warfare strategy/tactics?"
    2:51:10Why light carriers carried the Korean deploymentQ&A
  94. HMS Formidable: A Special Chat With Jamie from Armoured Carriers
    22:18Cunningham's case for eighteen fighters over the fleetNotable Point
  95. 50th Live Special: Thank You
    12:51HMS Unicorn as aviation support infrastructureNotable Point
  96. An Introduction to My Top 10 Warships (No Tribal, Battle, Daring or Town Classes allowed)
    23:01HMS Unicorn and forward fleet aviation supportNotable Point
  97. Bru Ships Episode 2b: Book Reviews/Q&A
    15:03Light fleet carriers in an invasion of JapanQ&A