Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

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Littoral Combat Ship

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  1. Rise of the Frigate Navies: Why so many nations are going Frigate and why others want them as well!
    59:49LCS speed and competing designs weaken the economy argumentChapter
  2. Rise of the Frigate Navies: Why so many nations are going Frigate and why others want them as well!
    1:01:43Unlimited requirements undermine an affordable frigateNotable Point
  3. Rise of the Frigate Navies: Why so many nations are going Frigate and why others want them as well!
    1:04:45StanFlex and the risk of inventing ship and modules togetherNotable Point
  4. Rise of the Frigate Navies: Why so many nations are going Frigate and why others want them as well!
    1:47:18American frigate requirements include endurance and diplomacyChapter
  5. Bruships 264: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    2:28:49Misidentified ships in online naval videosNotable Point
  6. Bruships 264: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    3:14:01Could littoral combat ships operate drones?Q&A
  7. Bruships 263: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:30:38Saudi LCS or FFX: the mission defines the comparisonQ&A
  8. The Big Frigate Discussion: ASWFs, F110s & Pohjanmaas vs Gowind, European Patrol Corvette & FF(X)
    1:21:30FF(X), naval presence, and the lessons of LCS and ConstellationChapter
  9. The Big Frigate Discussion: ASWFs, F110s & Pohjanmaas vs Gowind, European Patrol Corvette & FF(X)
    1:26:39Why destroyer standards can overwhelm a frigate designNotable Point
  10. Bruships 256: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    4:17:54The US Navy should have preserved low-rate frigate productionQ&A
  11. Bruships 255: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:04:55If Littoral Combat Ship modules had workedQ&A
  12. Bruships 254: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    4:49:30Why uncrewed vessels intended for LCS lost supportQ&A
  13. Bruships 252: Naval History Questions Answered Live...take 2
    12:26Should warships carry HIMARS-style launcher canisters?Q&A
  14. Bruships 252: Naval History Questions Answered Live...take 2
    1:15:33Proposed changes to LCS, Zumwalt and FordNotable Point
  15. Bruships 252: Naval History Questions Answered Live...take 2
    1:40:59The case for dedicated US mine-countermeasure vesselsQ&A
  16. Bruships 252: Naval History Questions Answered Live...take 2
    2:26:15Why LCS and Type 055 are not peer designsQ&A
  17. Bruships 252: Naval History Questions Answered Live...take 2
    2:28:56LCS missile fits and a fairer destroyer comparisonQ&A
  18. Bruships 250: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:20:51Freedom-class VLS and high-speed hull requirementsQ&A
  19. Could the US Navy have kept the Oliver Hazard Perry's in service for longer?
    1:23:02Shared guns and radar options for Perry and LCSNotable Point
  20. Could the US Navy have kept the Oliver Hazard Perry's in service for longer?
    1:55:01What LCS could be without the missing-frigate burdenQ&A
  21. Could the US Navy have kept the Oliver Hazard Perry's in service for longer?
    2:08:13Why clear ownership matters in frigate requirementsQ&A
  22. Bruships 245: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:55:29What successful naval technology transitions look likeQ&A
  23. Modularity Squared... What happens if the Stanflex & Meko combined into a single program?
    41:18LCS shows how contractor coordination can undermine modular weaponsNotable Point
  24. The Rise & Fall of the Constellation Class: What happened to the FFG-62 Program?
    5:39Post-Cold War transformation and the move toward LCSChapter
  25. The Rise & Fall of the Constellation Class: What happened to the FFG-62 Program?
    9:27LCS mission overload sets up the next frigate problemChapter
  26. The Rise & Fall of the Constellation Class: What happened to the FFG-62 Program?
    20:22FFG(X) reverses the LCS mission graftChapter
  27. The Rise & Fall of the Constellation Class: What happened to the FFG-62 Program?
    24:50The parent-design competition offered several kinds of risk reductionChapter
  28. Bruships 243: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:12:41What 72 Littoral Combat Ships would have meantQ&A
  29. US Navy Ship Building Plan 2026... a Live look at what is being planned...
    4:36:15What historical procurement failure does the LCS resemble?Q&A
  30. Live: What the Royal Navy's Type 83 Will Not Be: AKA Reality of Future Air Dominance System(FADS)
    1:44:50FFG(X) is a rushed attempt to reset the US frigate baselineQ&A
  31. Live: What the Royal Navy's Type 83 Will Not Be: AKA Reality of Future Air Dominance System(FADS)
    1:46:55StanFlex needs a wider module market to pay offQ&A
  32. Live: What the Royal Navy's Type 83 Will Not Be: AKA Reality of Future Air Dominance System(FADS)
    2:01:36A limited Constellation buy could bridge the US frigate gapQ&A
  33. What happens if the entirety of the French Navy decides to carry on fighting in WWII? (Patreon Live)
    1:03:27Drone operations still require space aboard crewed shipsNotable Point
  34. Bruships 238: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:17:25Could an international StanFlex standard have changed LCS?Q&A
  35. Bruships 238: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    4:07:38Keeping British StanFlex from repeating LCSQ&A
  36. What if the Royal Navy used the Lessons of the 1982 Falklands War to go Stanflex?
    1:06:31Strict StanFlex interfaces versus the Littoral Combat Ship approachNotable Point
  37. Bruships 237: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:42:25A British or Canadian answer to the Freedom-class LCSQ&A
  38. Bruships 236: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:26:16One-way attack drones aboard littoral combat shipsQ&A
  39. Bruships 236: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:57:49How a World War I crew would read a modern warshipQ&A
  40. Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....
    2:55:35The Littoral Combat Ship concept met hull-life limitsNotable Point
  41. Bruships 234: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:49:11How Thornycroft might have rebuilt the LCS conceptQ&A
  42. Bruships 233: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:14:29How old is a modern warship design?Notable Point
  43. Bruships 233: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:20:07A larger Oliver Hazard Perry escort fleetQ&A
  44. Bruships 233: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:55:48Hood and the LCS as ships burdened by impossible idealsQ&A
  45. The rise and fall of Constellation class Frigate program? (Patreon Live)
    22:36Rumsfeld-era transformation and immature naval technologyChapter
  46. The rise and fall of Constellation class Frigate program? (Patreon Live)
    33:32How LCS requirements defeated fleet-scale efficiencyChapter
  47. The rise and fall of Constellation class Frigate program? (Patreon Live)
    39:20Why splitting LCS across two hulls reduced usable fleet strengthQ&A
  48. The rise and fall of Constellation class Frigate program? (Patreon Live)
    44:16The LCS mission concept and declining fleet protectionNotable Point
  49. The rise and fall of Constellation class Frigate program? (Patreon Live)
    1:25:39A practical speed ceiling for the Littoral Combat ShipQ&A
  50. The rise and fall of Constellation class Frigate program? (Patreon Live)
    1:30:02Why buying both LCS designs damaged the programQ&A
  51. The rise and fall of Constellation class Frigate program? (Patreon Live)
    2:13:53LCS retirement changes the arithmetic of future frigate totalsNotable Point
  52. The rise and fall of Constellation class Frigate program? (Patreon Live)
    3:15:35Why converting LCS into corvettes would not fix the fleet gapQ&A
  53. The rise and fall of Constellation class Frigate program? (Patreon Live)
    4:07:22Why Mogami's small crew is not simply an LCS repeatQ&A
  54. The rise and fall of Constellation class Frigate program? (Patreon Live)
    4:11:12How the Global War on Terror widened the US frigate gapQ&A
  55. Scuttlebutt 17: Missiles, Guns & Other Barrels of Fun
    30:53Are mission bays a liability for future destroyers?Q&A
  56. Bruships 225: Naval History & Current Affairs Questions Answered Live...
    4:15:31The uncertain future of large multihull warshipsQ&A
  57. Bruships 225: Naval History & Current Affairs Questions Answered Live...
    4:21:05Saudi MMSC: different combining gear and procurement choicesQ&A
  58. What the Frigates up with our Frigates? A Bilgepumps Christmas 2025 @Drachinifel& @wgowshipping
    4:50How Constellation lost its off-the-shelf advantageQ&A
  59. What the Frigates up with our Frigates? A Bilgepumps Christmas 2025 @Drachinifel& @wgowshipping
    20:54Frigate ASW and destroyer air-defence rolesQ&A
  60. What the Frigates up with our Frigates? A Bilgepumps Christmas 2025 @Drachinifel& @wgowshipping
    28:31Procurement delay can age a design before it enters serviceNotable Point
  61. What the Frigates up with our Frigates? A Bilgepumps Christmas 2025 @Drachinifel& @wgowshipping
    1:05:53Public-yard contraction and the shipbuilding workforceChapter
  62. What the Frigate is wrong with how we buy ships, tanks & aircraft?
    16:21LCS speed and the frigate-conversion problemNotable Point
  63. What the Frigate is wrong with how we buy ships, tanks & aircraft?
    18:13LCS ambition required integration disciplineChapter
  64. What the Frigate is wrong with how we buy ships, tanks & aircraft?
    19:04LCS corrosion protection and sacrificial anodesNotable Point
  65. What the Frigate is wrong with how we buy ships, tanks & aircraft?
    38:23Congressional affordability and the mission-creep argumentNotable Point
  66. Scuttlebutt 15: Frigates
    5:22Constellation's mission and the cost of a smaller combatantQ&A
  67. Bruships 222: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    4:40:18Why a slower Freedom-class frigate still does not workQ&A
  68. Bruships 222: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    4:40:49LCS retirements and a separate corrosion concernNotable Point
  69. 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P6 of 9 - The Royal Navy’s Submarine Killers – Black Swans at War
    2:18:09Why the LCS is not America's offshore patrol vesselQ&A
  70. Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust
    8:15:58Why Littoral Combat Ship contracts continued despite criticismQ&A
  71. Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust
    10:45:50Clarke's account of the US battleship and fleet-signaling debateQ&A
  72. Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust
    10:48:34Burke workload and visibly different deployment optionsNotable Point
  73. Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress
    1:22:31Why unwanted LCS hulls kept being commissionedQ&A
  74. Bruships 220: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:12:46Flawed warship programs that might have workedQ&A
  75. Bruships 218: New Books! British Telecom is a terrible ISP! Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:16:15Why StanFlex modularity workedNotable Point
  76. Procuring for Peace First Draft
    1:32:50Conservative frigates still leave a missing lower tierNotable Point
  77. Bruships 212: Naval History Questions Answered Live...After Power Cut
    2:18:45Why impossible requirements rarely produce balanced warshipsQ&A
  78. Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    26:20Why armed naval trimarans remain unusualQ&A
  79. Zumwalt Class: Defined by Procurment... Destroyed by Politics of Procurement.
    20:59Designing high-end ships for a second-line convoy roleNotable Point
  80. Procurement for Peace: Second Draft
    2:30:45Why the US Navy failed to replace the Perry classQ&A
  81. Bruships 205: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    58:13The fastest surface warship questionQ&A
  82. Bruships 203: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    4:34:27A conventional frigate instead of LCSQ&A
  83. Bruships 202: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:51:51Judging Zumwalt's curtailed programme and LCS speed requirementsNotable Point
  84. Leadership of the Russo-Swedish Wars of the 18th Century: Bringing your Politics to the Battlefield
    1:58:32Leadership decides whether mass or skill prevailsChapter
  85. Bruships 190: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    28:31Why the Littoral Combat Ship still merits harsh criticismQ&A
  86. Scuttlebutt 21st Century Battleship: Chat & Comment Response...
    51:48Zumwalt and the political reputation of railgunsChapter
  87. Tribal, Battle & Daring Class Destroyers: 5yrs since the first live stream!
    2:19:19Can the Constellation frigate escape the LCS legacy?Q&A
  88. Tribal, Battle & Daring Class Destroyers: 5yrs since the first live stream!
    2:22:49LCS firefighting limits and the 45-knot requirementNotable Point
  89. Bruships 188: Naval History Questions Answered Liven & Birthday Party...
    1:30:46A 35-knot limit for the Littoral Combat Ship requirementQ&A
  90. Bruships 187: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    12:04Warspite, Rurik, Iron Duke, and Independence-class aestheticsQ&A
  91. Bruships 187: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:29:20What makes a modern warship or naval aircraft look sillyQ&A
  92. Bruships 183: Science Fiction/Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:29:51Frigate missions and criticism of the Littoral Combat ShipQ&A
  93. Bruships 180: Naval History Questions Answered...Part II
    2:07:03The Littoral Combat Ship’s design failure: requirements without disciplineQ&A
  94. Bruships 180: Naval History Questions Answered...Part II
    2:09:00Why Zumwalt and LCS had different programme failuresQ&A
  95. Prof Capt Armstrong & Dr C Discuss the value of Mahan, Corbett & Sims today? #2Historians Ep 6
    1:36:39Sloops, the Littoral Combat Ship, and forgotten design precedentsNotable Point
  96. Anti Submarine Warfare, a primer history & overview
    2:28:32Can Littoral Combat Ships fill the US Navy's ASW gap?Q&A
  97. Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/4
    4:05:11Restoring high-speed carrier-group mobilityQ&A
  98. Bruships 171: Oh Kallax my Kallax, Where art though my Kallax
    3:12:52Why US naval procurement stands out for wasted scaleQ&A
  99. Bruships 171: Oh Kallax my Kallax, Where art though my Kallax
    3:23:55Why retired Freedom-class LCS hulls are difficult to transferQ&A
  100. Bruships 169: Kalax o Kalax, my kingdom for a Kalax...
    2:15:56Attractive hull lines do not settle the LCS design debateQ&A
  101. Bruships 166: As I walk through the library of Naval History, I take a look at my shelf space....
    2:44:11LCS as a naval Atari 2600 momentQ&A
  102. The Current Carrier Generation: War is over/War has yet to begin
    12:10A growing and varied world fleet of flight decksChapter
  103. The Nimitz Class: The Tenacious Ten that underpin America on the Global Stage
    6:10Why a carrier group became America’s strongest diplomatic signalNotable Point
  104. Bruships 155: Last time answering naval history questions from the Brushack?
    1:35:18Can modern navies still lay mines quickly?Q&A
  105. Bruships 150: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Suggestions Kicks Off
    3:23:46Why an LCS cannot simply take a 4.5-inch gunQ&A
  106. Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books
    3:54:21Preserving failed warships as procurement warningsQ&A
  107. Bruships 140 - Patreon Suggestions, Some Interesting Books (Hopefully) & Lots of Naval History Qs!
    19:40Why a patrol corvette may not need 40 knotsQ&A
  108. Bruships 138: Random Naval History Books from Me, Random Naval History Questions from You!
    4:06:38British cruiser design began with the role, then defined the targetQ&A
  109. Bruships 136: Some Books & Some Questions Answered
    2:09:12Why the Littoral Combat Ship lost a stable design standardQ&A
  110. Bruships 136: Some Books & Some Questions Answered
    2:15:45If Constellation replaced LCS from 2008Q&A
  111. Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century?
    40:33Presence ships need diplomatic facilities alongside weaponsNotable Point
  112. Bruships 133: Questions till the Bru runs out...
    52:52The Littoral Combat Ship is the design-by-committee cautionQ&A
  113. Scharnhorst Class(1936): Most Valued Player of the German Capital Ships - Key Ships Series 7 Ship 4
    1:02:45Why cramming in every new technology failsNotable Point
  114. When does a navy know it is time to replace a type or class of ships? P2/2 Lego enhanced discussion
    1:45Replacement, renewal, or continued productionChapter
  115. When does a navy know it is time to replace a type or class of ships? P2/2 Lego enhanced discussion
    10:39Post-Cold War certainty shaped LCS assumptionsNotable Point
  116. When does a navy know it is time to replace a type or class of ships? P2/2 Lego enhanced discussion
    15:49Anti-submarine warfare cannot be wished awayNotable Point
  117. When does a navy know it is time to replace a type or class of ships? P2/2 Lego enhanced discussion
    1:21:16Modularity works best with realistic technical ambitionNotable Point
  118. Bruships 127: 2023 Christmas Naval History Releases
    2:13:42Britain would answer the LCS requirement with proven frigate familiesQ&A
  119. Bruships 117: Battle Cruisers, Battle-Cruisers or Battlecruisers?
    3:35:24Why the Littoral Combat Ship problem began with its missionNotable Point
  120. Patreon 79: AH - WW1 incidents happen that bring the US enters war on the side of Germany...
    21:30A personal US Navy mix skips the LCS tierNotable Point
  121. Top 5 Inventions that came too Early...
    36:30LCS failure does not prove modular warships cannot workChapter
  122. Battle of Coronel in Retrospect
    3:51:44How navies track distant foreign warshipsQ&A
  123. New Years 2023 Naval History Questions till the Bru runs out...
    28:02LCS was not a convincing nuclear-carrier escortQ&A
  124. New Years 2023 Naval History Questions till the Bru runs out...
    46:18Fixing LCS machinery could require rebuilding the shipQ&A
  125. New Years 2023 Naval History Questions till the Bru runs out...
    2:09:17The trimaran form was not the Littoral Combat Ship's central flawQ&A
  126. Epic Blunders of Naval History: Patreon 64
    3:16:15Why the Royal Navy was unlikely to follow the LCS routeQ&A
  127. Doug Clarke Bruships; As today would have been my Dad's Birthday, it's his books today
    2:07:28Standard Flex as a safer first LCS stepNotable Point
  128. Doug Clarke Bruships; As today would have been my Dad's Birthday, it's his books today
    3:19:38The industrial case for two LCS production linesQ&A
  129. Modern Frigates: Cruisers by another name? (Patreon 57 Videos Comment Response)
    18:01Constellation and the US Navy's frigate dilemmaQ&A
  130. Bruships 81: Some Books from Chalk Valley & Tank Fest and Naval History Questions
    1:18:52Why the LCS could not reproduce StanFlexQ&A
  131. Galaxy Class: Federation 24th Century
    1:10:19Danish frigates and the LCS clarify Galaxy modularityNotable Point
  132. HMS Tiger - The Battle Cruiser Hunter 2, The UAD Version: A UAD infused Discussion (Long Patrol)
    10:33Deterrence and the ship visible on sceneNotable Point
  133. HMS Tiger - The Battle Cruiser Hunter 2, The UAD Version: A UAD infused Discussion (Long Patrol)
    22:33Constellation and the costly last ten percentChapter
  134. The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Live)
    2:18:27How StanFlex supports flexible cruiser workQ&A
  135. Quirky Classes and What they tell us about their navies… (Live)
    2:44:06Zumwalt: a capable hull in a broken programmeChapter
  136. Bruships 64: Naval History & Sci-fi Books reviewed and Questions answered...
    3:12:52Why a warship design cannot be copied outside its fleet systemNotable Point
  137. Bruships 63: The Writing Theorists - Corbett & Mahan, Richmond & Simms, Cable & Gorshkhov
    3:43:46How a criticized LCS can still exert naval pressureNotable Point
  138. Bruships 63: The Writing Theorists - Corbett & Mahan, Richmond & Simms, Cable & Gorshkhov
    3:51:03Was the Littoral Combat Ship underestimated?Q&A
  139. Bruships 63: The Writing Theorists - Corbett & Mahan, Richmond & Simms, Cable & Gorshkhov
    4:47:21LCS and Zumwalt: ambitious requirements and shrinking classesNotable Point
  140. 21 Christmas Books for 2021 - Bruships 59: Books & Naval History Chat
    3:11:22Short-term thinking and the LCS problemQ&A
  141. Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7)
    2:47:57Japan's compact frigates as a task-group screenQ&A
  142. Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 1/11 Archer Class
    10:01Why the Archer type gave way to specialised shipsNotable Point
  143. Patreon 29: Coastal Defence Ships
    13:49Where does the Littoral Combat Ship fit in the design triangle?Q&A
  144. Bruships 51: The Age of Iron
    3:49:46Zumwalt, LCS, and the risk of technology leapsNotable Point
  145. Bruships 42: Some More Scifi
    2:17:54Why choose a 57 mm gun instead of a 76 mm gun?Q&A
  146. Britain of the 1980s: Long Patrol P3a/7 Keith Speed (Continued)
    15:03Why modern fleets still need a high-low frigate mixChapter
  147. Patreon 16: Royal Navy anti-piracy operations of the 1920s & 1930s in the Far East
    1:47:27What makes a useful modern anti-piracy patrol ship?Q&A
  148. Town Class Part 7 of 7: Edinburghs & Legacy
    18:15What a presence warship needs beyond weaponsChapter
  149. Bilge Pumps does Battlestar Galactica Deadlock for Navy Con 1/2
    0:14Using science fiction to test naval ideasChapter
  150. The Ships that Fisher scrapped… suggested by Geoff Grognard
    2:20:42Would Fisher have made the Littoral Combat Ship work?Q&A
  151. Bru Ships Episode 12: New to Me Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    2:10:45Matching a Polish frigate to Baltic operationsQ&A
  152. Bru Ships Episode 11: Top Trumps/Ship Comparison Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    2:46:43An upgraded LCS as a Saudi mini-BurkeQ&A
  153. An Extended Introduction to "Naval Diplomacy"
    37:46Presence missions falling to high-end warshipsNotable Point
  154. An Introduction to Some More Admirals, Engineers & Historians
    6:22Rickover's nuclear navy and deterrent logicChapter
  155. Bru Ships Episode 8: Amphibious Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    2:08:44Where the Littoral Combat Ship went wrongQ&A
  156. Bru Ships Episode 4: Naval Aviation Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    1:24:17LCS suffers from being sold as a Swiss Army knifeQ&A
  157. Top 10 Ships – not Tribal, Battle, Daring or Town classes…
    2:06:10The Royal Navy's distributed LCS equivalentQ&A
  158. Bru Ships Episode 2a: Book Reviews/Q&A
    1:19:24Why Danish modularity worked where LCS struggledQ&A
  159. Sloops during the Inter-War – what were they for?
    1:04:42A Danish patrol-ship lesson for the Littoral Combat ShipNotable Point