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- Soviet Destroyers of the 1930s: Trying to Rebuild/Build a navy in the face of heart led shipyards...37:46How barrel wear restricted gun-crew trainingNotable Point
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- Bruships 263: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...14:20Twin naval guns, recoil and wartime firepowerQ&A
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- Royal Navy Destroyers of WWI...1:04:28Checking changing armament in warship photographsNotable Point
- Royal Navy Destroyers of WWI...1:09:35Why useful small-gun calibres keep returningNotable Point
- Bruships 262: Naval History Questions Answered Live2:35:29Explosive drone boats, sea conditions and defenceQ&A
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- What happends if you Tigered the Queen Elizabeth Class?45:43A provisional armour and turret arrangementNotable Point
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- Bruships 258: Naval History Questions Answered Live1:30:49Books for studying naval guns and ship constructionQ&A
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- Bruships 258: Naval History Questions Answered Live2:45:09Capital-ship main guns against aircraftQ&A
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- Churchill's Good ideas: the actually good, the bad, and the ridiculous1:15:10British chivalry and the use of overwhelming forceQ&A
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- What happens if WWII took place as scheduled... after 1942? (Patreon)2:52:42A hypothetical sixteen-gun British answer to YamatoNotable Point
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- What happens if WWII took place as scheduled... after 1942? (Patreon)4:41:32Cruisers with guns above eight inches remain plausibleQ&A
- What happens if WWII took place as scheduled... after 1942? (Patreon)4:58:23Would a later war change the move from guns to missiles?Q&A
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- What happens if instead of Gallipoli, Fisher gets Churchill to go for the Baltic? (Patreon)2:15:43Early U-boats cannot replace the decisive surface battleNotable Point
- What happens if instead of Gallipoli, Fisher gets Churchill to go for the Baltic? (Patreon)2:26:55Could 1915 air power make the Baltic plan work?Q&A
- What happens if instead of Gallipoli, Fisher gets Churchill to go for the Baltic? (Patreon)2:51:35Would every British pre-dreadnought be lost?Q&A
- What happens if instead of Gallipoli, Fisher gets Churchill to go for the Baltic? (Patreon)2:53:24Could capital ships ram each other in the Baltic battle?Q&A
- What happens if instead of Gallipoli, Fisher gets Churchill to go for the Baltic? (Patreon)2:56:53Could aircraft direct fire into the Kiel Canal?Q&A
- What happens if instead of Gallipoli, Fisher gets Churchill to go for the Baltic? (Patreon)2:59:04How would the Baltic battle reshape the Admiral class?Q&A
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- Bruships 254: Naval History Questions Answered Live4:57:07Railguns, Gauss guns, and the barrel-life problemQ&A
- Bruships 253: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...8:19Battleship autoloaders need fire-control contextNotable Point
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- Bruships 253: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:13:30Protecting an early battleship autoloader from shockQ&A
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- Claiming Mare Nostrum; Italian Destroyer Design & Procurment of the 1920s & 30s48:25I-class and Tribal armament compared with Italian destroyersNotable Point
- Claiming Mare Nostrum; Italian Destroyer Design & Procurment of the 1920s & 30s50:40Hull form and the missing Italian destroyer firepowerNotable Point
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- Ideal Destroyers: Screening Fleets & National Interests from 1890 to Today33:28Why destroyer guns shield and torpedoes strikeNotable Point
- Ideal Destroyers: Screening Fleets & National Interests from 1890 to Today43:55World War II demands stable destroyer gun platformsNotable Point
- Ideal Destroyers: Screening Fleets & National Interests from 1890 to Today48:54Postwar destroyers combine dual-purpose guns and ASW weaponsNotable Point
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- Durand de la Penne Class: The Destroyer class which showed the Oto Melara 76mm had came of age1:28A compact destroyer with layered weapons and sensorsChapter
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- Durand de la Penne Class: The Destroyer class which showed the Oto Melara 76mm had came of age18:09Visible guns and peacetime deterrenceNotable Point
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- Durand de la Penne Class: The Destroyer class which showed the Oto Melara 76mm had came of age48:09What if Horizon had spread Italy's 76 mm emphasis?Notable Point
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- Bruships 247: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:58:02An Olympic-class hull makes an expensive cruiserQ&A
- Bruships 247: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:58:44A 1937 3-inch/70 would reshape Royal Navy air defenseQ&A
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- The Defence Investment Plan: A Live Review if it's been published, A Chat of What to Look For if not1:05:16Underwater drones, torpedoes, and cheap massQ&A
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- Bruships 246: Naval History Questions Answered Live...33:06When firepower wins, active defence and ship size growQ&A
- Bruships 246: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:10:13Building UP.41 would trade Italian fleet balance for heavier battleshipsQ&A
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- 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...1:44:50Alaska outclasses Deutschland before the fight developsQ&A
- Bruships 246: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:35:23A 12,000-ton Tiger cruiser needs more than four 6-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships 246: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:39:03Quad cruiser turrets save space but add too much complexityQ&A
- Bruships 246: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:41:25A land-attack frigate needs heavy guns and deep strike cellsQ&A
- Bruships 246: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:43:37A modern conventional gun is viable, but railgun experiments should change scaleQ&A
- Bruships 246: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:04:06A proposed modern destroyer would carry four twin 76 mm mountsQ&A
- Bruships 246: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:40:41Hood's 4-inch ammunition was distributed around the shipQ&A
- Bruships 246: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:58:09Six twin 76 mm mounts demand a large hull with clear arcsQ&A
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- Bruships 245: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:35:50Six-inch Bristol-class cruisers and the later TownsQ&A
- Bruships 245: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:06:02HMS London as a dependable second-rateQ&A
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- Trials and Tribulations: Why Testing Warships Matters...48:39Iowa gun shock and missile fitsNotable Point
- Trials and Tribulations: Why Testing Warships Matters...50:04Weapons testing after JutlandNotable Point
- Bruships 243: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...29:49Vertical dive attacks and interwar destroyer AA lessonsQ&A
- Bruships 243: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:48:11Why upper belt armour appeared and disappearedQ&A
- Bruships 243: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:07:02Balancing a 320-cell cruiserQ&A
- What do Offshore Patrol Vessels do and are the useful in War as well as Peace?7:07A larger gun does not turn a River into a frigateNotable Point
- What do Offshore Patrol Vessels do and are the useful in War as well as Peace?16:52Krabi's 76 mm gun deters peer patrol shipsNotable Point
- What do Offshore Patrol Vessels do and are the useful in War as well as Peace?1:01:22The case for a 76 mm gun on smaller warshipsNotable Point
- Bruships 242: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:23:23Why the 76 mm naval gun became a durable sweet spotQ&A
- Bruships 242: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:26:01How larger main guns could make room for 3-inch weaponsNotable Point
- Bruships 242: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:41:27Replacing Hood's 5.5-inch secondary batteryQ&A
- Bruships 242: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:27:45The cost argument against a 16.5-inch Colorado reboreQ&A
- Bruships 242: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:30:04Where a treaty-free battleship gun race would plateauQ&A
- Bruships 242: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:07:25Modern Swedish battleships as Baltic fire supportQ&A
- Bruships 242: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:08:59Estimating the reach of a modern 15-inch gunQ&A
- Bruships 242: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:13:31Protecting VLS cells beside 15-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships 242: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:16:31Guided 15-inch shells and revised range estimatesQ&A
- Bruships 242: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:17:57Effective range and maximum range for guided shellsNotable Point
- Bruships 242: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:19:34Small drones spotting for very long-range gunsNotable Point
- Bruships 242: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:28:05Prewar U.S. 5-, 6-, and 8-inch autoloadersQ&A
- Bruships 242: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:39:53Why Hood and Alaska are not the same ship typeQ&A
- Bruships 242: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:42:37Eight-inch destroyers and naval fire supportQ&A
- Bruships 242: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:44:22G3, N3, and the limits of gun-calibre classificationsQ&A
- Bruships 242: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:52:17Coastal battleship guns versus mobile missilesQ&A
- Bruships 242: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:52:39What reactivating Gibraltar's coastal guns would requireQ&A
- Five Topics which tend to lead to me debating vigorously with other historians... (Patreon Live)1:06:49The modern case for a twin-gun mountQ&A
- Destroyers: Modern Navy's most powerful surface combatants - 134yrs of development10:59The uncertain HMS Nelson anti-aircraft anecdoteNotable Point
- Bruships 241: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...56:07A Pacific Rim kaiju attacks San Francisco in 1941Q&A
- Bruships 241: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:22:39Des Moines rapid fire against battlecruisers and battleshipsQ&A
- Bruships 241: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:38:22Warhammer gun loading and inconsistent automationNotable Point
- Ironclads go Two Decker....41:33Two gun decks could bring armored decks forwardNotable Point
- Ironclads go Two Decker....46:21Visible gun count can outweigh effective firepower in public judgmentNotable Point
- Live: What the Royal Navy's Type 83 Will Not Be: AKA Reality of Future Air Dominance System(FADS)24:21Type 83's gun battery remains an open design choiceNotable Point
- Live: What the Royal Navy's Type 83 Will Not Be: AKA Reality of Future Air Dominance System(FADS)44:48Type 83 does not need battleship fire supportQ&A
- Live: What the Royal Navy's Type 83 Will Not Be: AKA Reality of Future Air Dominance System(FADS)58:44A suggested source for Type 45 gunnery tablesQ&A
- Live: What the Royal Navy's Type 83 Will Not Be: AKA Reality of Future Air Dominance System(FADS)1:03:32Kraken's drone-defence role has limits as a fleet modelNotable Point
- Live: What the Royal Navy's Type 83 Will Not Be: AKA Reality of Future Air Dominance System(FADS)1:36:17Gun-fired underwater defence and an active anti-torpedo layerNotable Point
- Live: What the Royal Navy's Type 83 Will Not Be: AKA Reality of Future Air Dominance System(FADS)2:02:09Rapid-fire guns remain a practical answer to dronesQ&A
- Live: What the Royal Navy's Type 83 Will Not Be: AKA Reality of Future Air Dominance System(FADS)2:04:06Hawkins-class geometry worked against an 8-inch refitQ&A
- Imperial Russian Destroyers: The Paper Numbers vs The Reality of what they didn't have at Tsushima4:40Buinyi's gun positions limited its destroyer roleNotable Point
- Imperial Russian Destroyers: The Paper Numbers vs The Reality of what they didn't have at Tsushima10:17Tsushima exposed Russia's screening shortfallChapter
- Imperial Russian Destroyers: The Paper Numbers vs The Reality of what they didn't have at Tsushima29:28Torpedo arcs took priority over usable gun positionsNotable Point
- Bruships 240: Naval History Questions Answered Live...41:44F3 battlecruiser protection tradeoffsQ&A
- Bruships 240: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:08:24StanFlex and a five-inch gunQ&A
- Bruships 240: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:29:31The information supplied by a tracking droneNotable Point
- Bruships 240: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:30:34A full-magazine explosion aboard HMS BelfastQ&A
- Bruships 240: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:01:20Modern six-inch naval gun compatibilityQ&A
- Bruships 240: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:03:39Gun-fired defenses against shallow-running uncrewed craftNotable Point
- Bruships 240: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:10:03Restoring layered gun defenses against dronesNotable Point
- Bruships 240: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:13:53Missile launchers beside Tiger's gun batteryQ&A
- Bruships 240: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:15:45Eight 9.2-inch guns on a post-Hawkins cruiserQ&A
- Bruships 240: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:18:59A dedicated anti-drone gunship or a mixed escortQ&A
- What happens if the British & Japanese refuse to break their alliance? (Patreon Live)1:32:00Possible gun calibres without Washington restrictionsNotable Point
- Bruships 239: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...restart14:26Replacing two heavy MACs with one super MACNotable Point
- Bruships 239: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...restart25:46HMS Incomparable as deterrent and white elephantQ&A
- Bruships 239: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...restart31:16Refitting Incomparable for radar-controlled gunneryNotable Point
- Bruships 239: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...restart35:33A radar-controlled Incomparable at Denmark StraitNotable Point
- Bruships 239: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...restart39:10Why radar ranging changes the gunnery problemNotable Point
- Bruships 239: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...restart40:02Why alternate gun fits would not simplify IncomparableQ&A
- Bruships 239: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...restart42:39Where did Britain's quadruple-turret studies come from?Q&A
- Bruships 239: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...restart48:51Why six 20-inch guns are poor for pre-radar rangingNotable Point
- Bruships0:00The narrow case for 18-inch naval gunsNotable Point
- Bruships 239: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...23:19S-boats in the Thames EstuaryQ&A
- Bruships 239: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...35:02Nagato barbette diameter uncertaintyQ&A
- Bruships 239: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...44:07A sail-only central-battery ironclad in the 1700sQ&A
- Bruships 239: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:09:05Fourteen-inch battleship gun doctrineQ&A
- Bruships 239: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:11:03Six-inch firing volume and the case for 9.2-inch gunsNotable Point
- Bruships 239: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:20:15Two-pounder fire against escort flotillasQ&A
- Bruships 239: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:32:47What a continuously developed modern battleship might look likeQ&A
- Bruships 239: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:35:34Gun barrels as a display of naval powerNotable Point
- Bruships 239: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:36:39The dimensions of a proposed 14-inch/70 gunQ&A
- Special Catch Up Ramblings on Behalf of @TheFleetOfOceans42:46Jutland with 1890s fire controlQ&A
- Special Catch Up Ramblings on Behalf of @TheFleetOfOceans43:29Would faulty British shells still penetrate at close range?Q&A
- Special Catch Up Ramblings on Behalf of @TheFleetOfOceans2:00:37Izumo and the A-140 J2 design tradeoffsQ&A
- What happens if the entirety of the French Navy decides to carry on fighting in WWII? (Patreon Live)56:46French experience reduced quad-turret accuracy problemsQ&A
- What happens if the entirety of the French Navy decides to carry on fighting in WWII? (Patreon Live)57:41Existing ammunition postpones a wholesale French rearmamentQ&A
- What happens if the entirety of the French Navy decides to carry on fighting in WWII? (Patreon Live)1:00:51Jean Bart would need a uniform main batteryQ&A
- What happens if the entirety of the French Navy decides to carry on fighting in WWII? (Patreon Live)1:06:15British 5.25-inch and 4.5-inch rearmament optionsQ&A
- What happens if the entirety of the French Navy decides to carry on fighting in WWII? (Patreon Live)1:12:04A Mers-el-Kebir sortie still favors SomervilleQ&A
- What happens if the entirety of the French Navy decides to carry on fighting in WWII? (Patreon Live)2:04:11Earlier carrier strikes could change Hood's encounterNotable Point
- What happens if the entirety of the French Navy decides to carry on fighting in WWII? (Patreon Live)2:22:33Production-security plans help sustain unique French calibersQ&A
- What happens if the entirety of the French Navy decides to carry on fighting in WWII? (Patreon Live)2:23:46A modern 15-inch/45 refit would be formidable but hypotheticalQ&A
- What happens if the entirety of the French Navy decides to carry on fighting in WWII? (Patreon Live)2:36:35Older cruisers and large destroyers could receive AA conversionsQ&A
- Could the Royal Navy have lauched a Carrier Strike in WWI on Wilhelmshaven?45:35Too few heavy guns for effective battlecruiser salvosNotable Point
- Bruships 238: Naval History Questions Answered Live...45:05Base-bleed shells for Royal Navy destroyersQ&A
- Bruships 238: Naval History Questions Answered Live...54:11A British five-inch gun for Type 45Q&A
- Bruships 238: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:41:24US battleships standardized on triple 14-inch turretsQ&A
- Bruships 238: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:15:17Six automatic eight-inch guns on a game cruiserQ&A
- Bruships 238: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:18:16Why a destroyer's single gun does not settle a cruiser layoutQ&A
- Bruships 238: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:22:24Three-inch firing arcs versus high-altitude reachQ&A
- Bruships 238: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:35:14British gun standardization and destroyer sizeQ&A
- Bruships 238: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:45:10How quickly a four-inch gun crew fires 86 roundsQ&A
- Bruships 238: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:04:23Every Royal Navy light cruiser becomes HMS PlymouthQ&A
- Admiral Arleigh Burke: The Convenor of the Modern US Navy...10:49USS Mugford and Burke's gunnery foundationNotable Point
- Lions not Indefatigables; What if Australia & New Zealand go Battlecruiser not Battle Cruiser...7:51What dreadnought really meant for secondary gunsNotable Point
- Lions not Indefatigables; What if Australia & New Zealand go Battlecruiser not Battle Cruiser...58:18Why Tiger could become the first 15-inch battlecruiserNotable Point
- Lions not Indefatigables; What if Australia & New Zealand go Battlecruiser not Battle Cruiser...1:10:45Why Dogger Bank is the counterfactual's firmest battleChapter
- Lions not Indefatigables; What if Australia & New Zealand go Battlecruiser not Battle Cruiser...1:15:46A victory that could erase Germany's Dogger Bank lessonsNotable Point
- Dutch Destroyers in WWII: The Free Dutch navy at it's Freeest?23:29Dutch crews as doctrine translatorsChapter
- Dutch Destroyers in WWII: The Free Dutch navy at it's Freeest?24:31Why Allied anti-aircraft formations needed different spacingNotable Point
- How the USN learnt the lessons to conceive the Arleigh Burke class... From the Gearings to the Kidds19:52Forrest Sherman brings the new-build caseChapter
- How the USN learnt the lessons to conceive the Arleigh Burke class... From the Gearings to the Kidds21:06USS Hull tests the Mark 71 8-inch gunNotable Point
- How the USN learnt the lessons to conceive the Arleigh Burke class... From the Gearings to the Kidds40:06What an 8-inch Spruance might have changedNotable Point
- How the USN learnt the lessons to conceive the Arleigh Burke class... From the Gearings to the Kidds42:57The 5-inch gun's automation and perceived diplomatic effectNotable Point
- Bruships 237: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...31:24Why navies adopted regular gunnery drillQ&A
- France Libre's daring contre-torpilleurs & torpilleur d'escadre; The Free French Destroyers of WWII22:08Le Fantasque's gun elevation and ammunition limitsNotable Point
- Hitler's Destroyers: How Type 1934 & Type 1936 Classes, including their variations were developed...44:42Why destroyers need a steady gun platformNotable Point
- Bruships 236: Naval History Questions Answered Live...58:40Iowa reload rates and gun-loading mechanicsQ&A
- Bruships 236: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:05:40Courbet turret loading and France's delayed dreadnoughtsNotable Point
- Bruships 236: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:07:40German destroyer stability, heavy guns and fuel restrictionsNotable Point
- Bruships 236: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:09:36Scaling triple secondary-mount problems to five inchesQ&A
- Bruships 236: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:15:46King George V quad-turret faults versus battle durationQ&A
- Bruships 236: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:38:28Why cannon warships developed differently in East AsiaQ&A
- Bruships 236: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:44:39Naval orders and the dispersal of French cannon productionNotable Point
- Bruships 236: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:09:51Was a US five-inch triple turret seriously considered?Q&A
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....11:01Greyhound's speed margin and balanced armamentNotable Point
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....25:43Laforey-class firepower on the eve of warChapter
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....40:39Tribal-class guns meet the aircraft threatNotable Point
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....48:36A large gun destroyer still needs missilesQ&A
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....49:46The Fletcher class as a general-purpose warshipChapter
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....54:13Daring-class balance before guided missilesChapter
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....58:55Gun armament covers the wait for new defensive weaponsNotable Point
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....1:25:14Power density changes a destroyer's design tradeoffsNotable Point
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....1:38:42Close-in guns can complement point-defence missilesNotable Point
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....1:46:38Could twin naval gun mounts return?Q&A
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....1:54:59Possible 5-inch/38 autoloader trials remain uncertainQ&A
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....1:55:33Why specialized destroyers miss the general-purpose testQ&A
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....6:05National roles shape destroyer designNotable Point
- Bruships 235: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...54:46Testing the World of Warships Fort Worth designQ&A
- Bruships 235: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:29:28Why triple five-inch mounts struggle as fast-tracking weaponsQ&A
- Bruships 235: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:30:10Why historical gun names cannot always be reduced to millimetresNotable Point
- Bruships 235: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:54:53How superfiring turrets could reshape British dreadnoughtsQ&A
- Bruships 234: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:05:33Forrest Sherman as a transitional destroyer classQ&A
- Bruships 234: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:24:41Real precedents for Smolensk's stacked gun mountQ&A
- Bruships 234: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:43:33F3, longer 15-inch guns and the political appeal of 16-inch gunsNotable Point
- Bruships 234: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:46:42The postwar Minotaurs' magazines and room for conversionNotable Point
- Bruships 234: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:08:34What Vickers would sell as a 1913 battleshipQ&A
- Bruships 234: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:39:15The niche for a modern sixteen-inch naval gunQ&A
- Bruships 234: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:14:39How spare gun barrels supported a fleet that changed theatresQ&A
- Japan's First Destroyers: How they intimidated the Russian Empire on less than 1000tons...47:28Togo turns fleet depth into operational freedomNotable Point
- Japan's First Destroyers: How they intimidated the Russian Empire on less than 1000tons...49:56Why improved Russian gunnery could not prevent disasterNotable Point
- Japan's First Destroyers: How they intimidated the Russian Empire on less than 1000tons...56:15Why an 80 mm Type 41 gun could still have a 76 mm boreNotable Point
- Top/Bottom 5 inventions/adaptations of RN ships that came from the ships themselves...(Patreon Live)2:05:36HMS Captain's gun performance and the need for more hullNotable Point
- If WWII is delayed, what do the Warships of the 1950s look like?12:50Fast battleships remain central beyond treaty limitsChapter
- If WWII is delayed, what do the Warships of the 1950s look like?34:35Cruiser guns approach the practical limits of autoloadingNotable Point
- If WWII is delayed, what do the Warships of the 1950s look like?40:57Automatic six-inch cruisers screen fleets and hunt raidersNotable Point
- If WWII is delayed, what do the Warships of the 1950s look like?43:13Missile equipment could favour cruisers with smaller main gunsNotable Point
- Bruships 232: Naval History Questions Answered Live...8:36How Japanese orders sustained British detonator productionQ&A
- Bruships 232: Naval History Questions Answered Live...32:06What makes an all-big-gun ship a dreadnought?Q&A
- Bruships 232: Naval History Questions Answered Live...50:05A rebuilt Warspite returns to JutlandQ&A
- Bruships 232: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:18:13What a naval 155 mm gun would need beyond a land weaponQ&A
- Bruships 232: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:21:21The OTO Melara 127/64 and Vulcano ammunitionNotable Point
- Bruships 232: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:22:11How the OTO Melara 127/64 changes its ready ammunitionQ&A
- Bruships 232: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:39:58What heavier 9.2-inch armament changes for British armored cruisersQ&A
- Bruships 232: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:56:09What a modern quadruple naval turret might becomeQ&A
- The Arguments that made American Seapower: Roosevelt, Mahan, Sims & More34:37Why Britain built lighter frigatesNotable Point
- Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live)1:24:14Naval gunfire and parted tows in U-boat disposalNotable Point
- Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live)1:39:00U-3514 and Deadlight weapons testsChapter
- Bruships 231: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:22:34Earlier armored cruisers lead to dreadnought light cruisersQ&A
- Bruships 231: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:27:38Assembling the worst interwar destroyerQ&A
- Bruships 231: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:49:17Why Austro-Hungarian destroyers mixed gun sizes poorlyQ&A
- Bruships 231: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:53:54Arming a penny-pinching interwar battleshipQ&A
- Bruships 231: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:19:48Making Yamato more useful through speed and publicityQ&A
- Bruships 231: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:30:03Dropping 1945 American gunmaking into the dreadnought eraQ&A
- Bruships 231: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:36:12An accelerated gun race strains German naval budgetsNotable Point
- Bruships 231: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:46:26How 9.2-inch Hawkins cruisers reshape treaty limitsQ&A
- Bruships 231: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:50:28Designing an interwar cruiser around 9.2-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships 231: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:49:30Distinguishing 8-inch and 16-inch shell splashesQ&A
- Bruships 231: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:59:13Why the Royal Navy accumulated so many gun calibresQ&A
- Bruships 231: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:12:09A 15-inch/45 battery for the King George V classQ&A
- Bruships 231: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:39:55Why treaty battleships adopted quadruple turretsQ&A
- Bruships 231: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:16:33British 16.5-inch guns versus American 16-inch/50sQ&A
- What if Force Z(HMS Prince of Wales & HMS Repulse) doesn't get sunk on the 10th of December 1941?20:21Surviving battleships raise the cost of a Japanese surface advanceNotable Point
- Bruships 230: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3rd Start28:53The technologies that remade navies from 1815 to 1914Q&A
- Bruships 230: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3rd Start32:31Why protected and armored cruisers do not map neatly onto treaty cruisersQ&A
- Bruships 230: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3rd Start44:08A modern destroyer's guns and radios in earlier naval battlesQ&A
- Bruships 230: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3rd Start1:28:10A 9.2-inch Invincible at the Battle of CoronelQ&A
- Bruships 230: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:16:18Why naval games compress gunnery accuracyQ&A
- Bruships 230: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:17:50A 47-second shell flight and World of Warships scaleNotable Point
- Bruships 229: Naval History Questions Answered Live...7:39Could King George V carry 15-inch guns?Q&A
- Bruships 229: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:03:46How Royal Navy gunfire literally reshaped landscapesQ&A
- Bruships 229: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:10:26Why 10-inch and 8-inch cruiser bands failQ&A
- Bruships 229: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:08:55A modernized Bofors 120 mm gun in 2010Q&A
- Bruships 228: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:05:31Why HMS Tiger's gunnery reputation is misleadingQ&A
- Bruships 228: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:11:13A battleship armed with eight Schwerer Gustav gunsQ&A
- Bruships 228: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:15:37Tiger's gunnery between Dogger Bank and JutlandQ&A
- Bruships 228: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:39:55What turret damage can be repaired during battleQ&A
- Bruships 228: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:41:29Hand-training a turret can obstruct its ammunition supplyNotable Point
- Bruships 228: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:57:35Ibuki's old guns do not solve a new cruiser's weight problemQ&A
- Germany's Torpedo Boats 1890-1913: Torpedo Boats, Destroyers or Something Uniquely German?17:10D10 combined a British hull with German weaponsNotable Point
- Germany's Torpedo Boats 1890-1913: Torpedo Boats, Destroyers or Something Uniquely German?32:18G132 and G135 explored different gun batteriesNotable Point
- Germany's Torpedo Boats 1890-1913: Torpedo Boats, Destroyers or Something Uniquely German?53:57V1 economy retained large crews and weak gunsNotable Point
- Germany's Torpedo Boats 1890-1913: Torpedo Boats, Destroyers or Something Uniquely German?1:17:55Were Germany's large torpedo boats really destroyers?Q&A
- Scuttlebutt 18: Guns & Points of Order1:49Why the Royal Navy fielded so many gun calibresQ&A
- Scuttlebutt 18: Guns & Points of Order11:33The industrial network behind Dutch naval gunsChapter
- Scuttlebutt 18: Guns & Points of Order15:28How Rheinmetall know-how survived through Dutch firmsNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 18: Guns & Points of Order29:46Prestige guns versus practical battleship firepowerNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 18: Guns & Points of Order35:24Yamato's maximum range versus effective rangeQ&A
- Scuttlebutt 18: Guns & Points of Order38:51Why half an inch could fail to justify a new gun industryNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 18: Guns & Points of Order43:39Talos and the shipboard factory problemNotable Point
- Naval Architecture from Turret Ironclads to Super Dreadnoughts: HMS Monarch 1868 & 1911...7:53Why twelve-inch muzzle-loaders needed such large turretsNotable Point
- Naval Architecture from Turret Ironclads to Super Dreadnoughts: HMS Monarch 1868 & 1911...19:12Larger guns favoured turrets before engines could free their firing arcsNotable Point
- Naval Architecture from Turret Ironclads to Super Dreadnoughts: HMS Monarch 1868 & 1911...29:46Muzzle-loading gunnery at AlexandriaChapter
- Naval Architecture from Turret Ironclads to Super Dreadnoughts: HMS Monarch 1868 & 1911...31:02How could loaders keep handling heavy six-inch shells?Q&A
- Naval Architecture from Turret Ironclads to Super Dreadnoughts: HMS Monarch 1868 & 1911...43:31Why the Orion class kept the 13.5-inch gunNotable Point
- Naval Architecture from Turret Ironclads to Super Dreadnoughts: HMS Monarch 1868 & 1911...54:24Why Monarch fired only 53 heavy shells at JutlandChapter
- Naval Architecture from Turret Ironclads to Super Dreadnoughts: HMS Monarch 1868 & 1911...56:32Why loading speed did not determine the combat rate of fireNotable Point
- An introduction to Torpedo Boat Destoyers2:44Ironclads and HMS Monarch show evolutionary warship designChapter
- An introduction to Torpedo Boat Destoyers20:06Jeune Ecole moved from explosive shells to fast torpedo boatsNotable Point
- An introduction to Torpedo Boat Destoyers28:33SMS Greif used gun power to push French torpedo boats awayNotable Point
- Bruships 226: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:25:59A Royal Navy carrier at JutlandQ&A
- Tragedy & Revenge/Wolfpack... Key Books!7:51Carmania fights Cap TrafalgarChapter
- Tragedy & Revenge/Wolfpack... Key Books!16:59Falklands victory raises shell-quality warningsChapter
- Scuttlebutt 17: Missiles, Guns & Other Barrels of Fun16:19What gun calibre suits a modern capital ship?Q&A
- Scuttlebutt 17: Missiles, Guns & Other Barrels of Fun24:03Why ten-inch naval guns miss the useful calibre stepsQ&A
- Bruships 225: Naval History & Current Affairs Questions Answered Live...56:13Small-craft threats had already shaped naval gun developmentNotable Point
- Bruships 225: Naval History & Current Affairs Questions Answered Live...58:33Disagreement over 3P, ALAMO and Vulcano against small craftNotable Point
- Bruships 225: Naval History & Current Affairs Questions Answered Live...3:12:41Two 1945 Lion-class battleships could dismantle the High Seas Fleet at nightQ&A
- Why are Modern Warships getting bigger? (Live)43:53Peacetime firing restrictions can mislead historiansNotable Point
- Bruships 224: Alternate Naval History Questions Answered Live...21:41Building the worst destroyer of 1939Q&A
- Bruships 224: Alternate Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:15:35German armored cruisers keep 9.4-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships 224: Alternate Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:20:40Would an earlier German 9.4-inch policy change British gun choices?Q&A
- Bruships 224: Alternate Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:39:48An airborne fortress above the approaches to BrestQ&A
- Bruships 224: Alternate Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:02:48The ambiguity in Fisher's proposed fast capital shipQ&A
- What changes if the Royal Navy gets a Proper Staff in 1905, instead relying on NID for everything?1:06:30Dogger Bank with more British battlecruisersNotable Point
- Lions not Indefatigables - the Dominions chose to build 13.5in Battlecruisers prior to WWI...19:08Lion's broadside and the cruiser-hunting tradeoffNotable Point
- Lions not Indefatigables - the Dominions chose to build 13.5in Battlecruisers prior to WWI...2:17:31Why speed alone could not confer capital-ship prestigeNotable Point
- Lions not Indefatigables - the Dominions chose to build 13.5in Battlecruisers prior to WWI...2:32:19Gun length versus barrel lifeQ&A
- Talking through the Myths of WWI with @GariusTheBrit1:51:56Battleship gun calibre did not decide sustained firepowerNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 15: Frigates21:32Why army gun production does not translate directly to frigatesQ&A
- Scuttlebutt 15: Frigates25:10Choosing between 76 mm, 5-inch and 6-inch gunsNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 15: Frigates31:42How wartime naval air defense broke up mass attacksNotable Point
- Bruships 222: Naval History Questions Answered Live...36:58Vanguard's 5.25-inch guns and the 4.5-inch alternativeQ&A
- Bruships 222: Naval History Questions Answered Live...40:28Could 4.5-inch guns have prolonged Vanguard's service?Q&A
- Bruships 222: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:33:30When naval batteries became weapon systemsQ&A
- Bruships 222: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:48:57Why the Ludendorff super-battleship design fails scrutinyQ&A
- Bruships 222: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:09:31A cruiser design for emergency mass productionQ&A
- Bruships 222: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:25:35Adapting cruiser fire control to a battleshipQ&A
- Bruships 222: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:26:21Slip rings connecting a rotating turret to its shipNotable Point
- Bruships 222: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:16:56Disagreement over Somers’ Mark 22 antiaircraft capabilityQ&A
- Bruships 222: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:23:03A tentative answer about a W19 naval-shot scenarioQ&A
- Bruships 222: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:45:43Star Wars battle ranges and competing explanations of ECMNotable Point
- A Chinese Invasion of Taiwan: A Historian’s Eye View & A Patreon’s Request…(Live 2)1:18:56Surviving coastal batteries could punish the invasion crossingQ&A
- Scuttlebutt 13: Questions on Battleships26:39Why battlecruisers were not simply second-class battleshipsQ&A
- Scuttlebutt 13: Questions on Battleships32:16Fourteen-inch guns, armour, and the Yamato problemQ&A
- Scuttlebutt 13: Questions on Battleships35:00Nelson gun logistics and the F3 design boundaryNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 13: Questions on Battleships40:35Why rate of fire mattered before radar fire controlNotable Point
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle4:22:28Armour immunity zones and the ranges of actual combatNotable Point
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle5:28:08Why a shell must match the gun and fuze arrangementQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P8 of 9 - UAD chat requested design testing…48:46Could a battleship gun be replaced at sea?Q&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P8 of 9 - UAD chat requested design testing…1:06:36What if the 5.25-inch gun achieved 12 rounds per minute in 1930?Q&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P8 of 9 - UAD chat requested design testing…1:29:05Yamato's two-opponent gunnery conceptNotable Point
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P8 of 9 - UAD chat requested design testing…1:30:03Yamato joins Hood at Denmark StraitQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P8 of 9 - UAD chat requested design testing…1:31:07Three Yamatos against the Grand Fleet at JutlandNotable Point
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P8 of 9 - UAD chat requested design testing…1:55:38An upgraded Iowa against a First World War fleetQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P8 of 9 - UAD chat requested design testing…2:15:15Why treaty cruisers retained twin turretsQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P8 of 9 - UAD chat requested design testing…2:31:02HMS Victoria appears in place of HMS WarriorQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P8 of 9 - UAD chat requested design testing…5:33:17When UAD mechanics distort armor and secondary batteriesNotable Point
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P8 of 9 - UAD chat requested design testing…7:49:32What wreck archaeology can infer from gunfire and fireQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon1:29:01World of Warships can reproduce only fragments of JutlandQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P6 of 9 - The Royal Navy’s Submarine Killers – Black Swans at War2:29:55A maximal Type 45 arsenal-cruiser thought experimentQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P6 of 9 - The Royal Navy’s Submarine Killers – Black Swans at War5:25:16Why longer-ranged secondary shells do not replace Dreadnought's batteryQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust8:01The Hawkins 7.5-inch gun's barrel lengthQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust22:20Why battlecruisers and battleships favored different gun weightsQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust55:19How a 32-pounder maps onto a modern six-inch gunQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust1:01:11Why British guns retained pounder designationsQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust1:02:31Why round shot is a poor load for a rifled six-inch gunQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust1:12:26The logistics benefit of standardizing on five-inch ammunitionQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust1:23:25Two small battleships against one larger opponentNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust1:35:04Why nuclear-gun fleet actions offered no useful victoryQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust2:17:36Eight automatic six-inch guns versus twelve conventional barrelsQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust2:51:23How the Hawkins class set an outdated treaty-cruiser templateQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust3:09:26Why matching shell trajectories would not save mixed-calibre battleshipsQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust3:23:34From specialized frigates to a Type 23 deck gunQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust3:27:06Why promising naval gun calibres become design dead zonesQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust3:59:31When land artillery was pressed into naval serviceQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust4:04:59Lepanto's cannon-armed galleys had earlier precedentsQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust5:48:39Why a three-tier cruiser treaty would squeeze out the middle classQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust7:13:30What an Age of Sail breech-loader would requireQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust7:31:15How a larger Spanish fleet could reshape naval treaty limitsQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust9:56How Britain might choose naval gun calibers without treatiesQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust12:22What happened to obsolete Age of Sail cannonQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust4:10:45Why OTO's 127 mm gun leads this modern comparisonQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust5:33:20A Tribal-class museum ship as a gunnery and manufacturing resourceNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust11:13:49Victory with a gun from the battleship NelsonQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust11:19:13A Royal Sovereign pre-dreadnought at TrafalgarQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress1:23:09Why navies independently adopted triple turretsQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress1:44:16Why an early battlecruiser would avoid a Lord NelsonNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress3:26:34Why early English iron guns would force an Iberian naval responseQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress4:12:34Penelope's armament, protection, and fuel capacityChapter
- Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress5:11:49Force K's radar ambush of the Duisburg convoyChapter
- Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress5:16:33Divided batteries and confusion in the Duisburg convoyChapter
- Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress5:59:50Comparing British and American 6-inch cruiser gunsQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress6:01:49Why QF and BL labels complicate British 6-inch gun comparisonsNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress6:05:58Why short shell flight times matter in night actionsNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress6:07:43The artillery weight carried by four Force K shipsNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress6:12:41Why sustained gun rates can understate a short burstNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress6:18:11How a Town-class cruiser could expend most of its ammunitionNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress6:39:08How Königsberg's 150 mm guns compare with 6-inch cruiser gunsQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress7:05:05The uncertain evidence for a British 20-inch/54 gunNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress7:16:01Why a 20-inch/54 naval gun never became practicalQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress7:16:44Krupp's preference for sliding-block breechesQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress7:20:59When naval games trade accuracy for mechanicsQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress7:26:10Why battleships carried 15-inch shrapnel shellsQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress7:48:30Steel shot shape and armour penetration in Warrior's eraQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress8:06:28Why a visible gun strengthens a warship's presenceQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress8:23:21Why heavy end-on batteries declined in sailing warshipsQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress9:10:42Why Cold War JMSDF destroyers retained two forward gunsQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress9:13:35Arming Great Eastern with heavy breechloadersQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress10:51:19Why a smaller gun need not produce a much smaller turretQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress11:48:41Maximum gun range is not effective battle rangeNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress11:51:14Iowa's turret elevation in the range comparisonNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida30:27The earliest English fleet that could stop Claudius's invasionQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida34:47What navies could use if the Oerlikon 20 mm disappearedQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida35:40Do naval gunnery ranges protect wildlife and archaeology?Q&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida36:29How large a wooden warship could practical shipbuilding sustain?Q&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida37:39Could one Tribal destroyer defeat the Russian Pacific squadrons?Q&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida40:32Choosing the battery for a 74- or 84-gun ship of the lineQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida1:48:18Assessing the game's Devastation as a British designNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida2:31:22A Deutschland-class ship in the German battle lineQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida2:48:11Would a carrier's guns add much at Cape Matapan?Q&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida2:50:39Designing a 35-knot Lexington-style battlecruiserQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida5:42:12Why the game's République draws a turret-layout objectionQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida6:02:51A heavier 30-knot King George V proposalQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida6:35:34A fifteen-gun Bayern and the volume of fireQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida7:53:08Building and testing a fifteen-gun fast battleshipNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida8:02:15A rotary 6-inch gun and ammunition handlingQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida8:12:38German experiments with alternative battleship turret layoutsQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida8:22:45Firing arcs, tower space, and propellant in a game-built battleshipNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida8:38:15Designing a light cruiser with twenty-four automatic 6-inch gunsNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida8:47:23Testing the automatic 6-inch cruiser against torpedoesNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida9:05:32The trap in a cruiser built only to kill destroyersNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida9:15:04Destroyer guns firing antisubmarine projectilesQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida9:25:19Why cruiser designers used casemates before rapid powered turretsQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida9:47:17How a reliable breech block would change an age-of-sail gunQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida9:49:45The French cruiser trades larger guns for a technology advantageNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida10:07:41The weight penalty in French divided quad turretsQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida10:20:25Why a battleship-scale Puckle gun adds more machinery than firepowerQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida10:31:29Would spare Puckle-style chambers solve slow reloading?Q&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida10:33:25Why higher-yield explosives could be safer than black powderQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida10:55:13The British mechanized 9.2-inch cruiser as an Alaska answerNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida10:57:40The Royal Navy's overlapping secondary and destroyer gunsQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida10:59:49Where the Royal Navy's 5.5-inch guns fitQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II1:34:50A Japanese fleet of twelve-inch large cruisersQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II1:46:55Why six-inch guns are a poor destroyer weaponQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II1:57:58Did capital-ship secondary batteries contribute in battle?Q&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II1:58:40Surface power versus anti-aircraft rate in secondary batteriesNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II2:06:16Why a Japanese destroyer gun had to work beyond night battlesQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II2:07:36Gun performance, barrel wear, and distance from home industryNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II2:08:44Why shell size changes the time needed to stop a destroyerNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II2:15:15Why a 137 mm US destroyer gun was not worth the costQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II2:26:36Would four-inch shells penetrate a destroyer's armor?Q&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II2:28:27Why long-range weapons still need a complete targeting chainNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II2:48:23How strong is the case for Japan's 100 mm gun?Q&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II5:12:34Twin versus triple battleship turretsQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II6:05:44Testing a heavy-gun Type 83 conceptQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II6:54:10Rearming a Danton with twelve-inch wing gunsQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II7:44:19How US dynamite-gun ships aimed fixed weaponsQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II9:10:12A 16.5-inch naval gun in 1902Q&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II9:13:40The limits of a 72-caliber 136 mm naval gunQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II9:20:45A high-rate six-inch rotary gun for Vickers in the 1930sQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy I17:28Tracing Casablanca's 16-inch shells through wartime logisticsQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy I44:47Designing a treaty-free 1928 armored cruiserQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy I53:00How the Tsukuba and Ibuki armored cruisers comparedQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy I1:40:04A better gun constrained by Flower-class availabilityQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy I1:46:07Why naval big-gun logic misled land artillery planningNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy I1:53:37Long-range 15-inch fire and a different JutlandQ&A
- Bruships 219: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:35:06The French 36-pounder in age-of-sail combatQ&A
- Bruships 219: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:46:13Scaling the 16-inch/50 into a 15-inch naval gunQ&A
- Bruships 219: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:25:33The Royal Navy's slow move to the 5-inch/62 gunQ&A
- Bruships 219: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:14:18The Alaska class followed a heavy-cruiser gun pathQ&A
- Bruships 219: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:21:40Constitution remained a heavy frigate, not a disguised ship of the lineQ&A
- Bruships 219: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:28:14A first rate can be too lively for accurate gunneryQ&A
- What happpens if Admiral "Jackie" Fisher & Admiral R.G.H Henderson Swap Third Sea Lord Tenures?18:32Fisher's forward-fire doctrine before long-range gunneryNotable Point
- What happpens if Admiral "Jackie" Fisher & Admiral R.G.H Henderson Swap Third Sea Lord Tenures?42:11Turrets, turbines, and fire control reshape the Victorian fleetChapter
- What happpens if Admiral "Jackie" Fisher & Admiral R.G.H Henderson Swap Third Sea Lord Tenures?46:19Turreted secondary guns become a manpower reformNotable Point
- What happpens if Admiral "Jackie" Fisher & Admiral R.G.H Henderson Swap Third Sea Lord Tenures?1:29:23Gun upgrades or faster torpedo bombers define Fisher's fleetNotable Point
- What would the World's Major Navys look like in 1950 if WWII didn't happen? (Live)21:47Why battleships remain central without wartime carrier proofChapter
- What would the World's Major Navys look like in 1950 if WWII didn't happen? (Live)25:34Yamato's 18-inch guns distort every rival building programNotable Point
- What would the World's Major Navys look like in 1950 if WWII didn't happen? (Live)35:40Why might Vanguard remain a one-off?Q&A
- What would the World's Major Navys look like in 1950 if WWII didn't happen? (Live)59:04Autoloaders and large destroyers redraw the cruiser hierarchyChapter
- What would the World's Major Navys look like in 1950 if WWII didn't happen? (Live)2:08:31Aircraft speed pushes naval air defence farther outwardNotable Point
- 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...3:08:32What determines a battleship's ammunition mixQ&A
- Bruships 218: New Books! British Telecom is a terrible ISP! Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:11:36Which shells did Warspite use against the Zara class?Q&A
- Bruships 218: New Books! British Telecom is a terrible ISP! Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:12:54Why paper ammunition loads need supply logsNotable Point
- Bruships 218: New Books! British Telecom is a terrible ISP! Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:12:49What lets a frigate hurt a first-rate shipQ&A
- Bruships 218: New Books! British Telecom is a terrible ISP! Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:17:55Completing Mackensen battlecruisers for the US NavyQ&A
- The Real Life Captain Jack Sparrow: Peter Tordenskjold9:10The marathon duel with Olbing GalleyChapter
- The Real Life Captain Jack Sparrow: Peter Tordenskjold30:43Gunnery and boarding decide DynekilenChapter
- Bruships 217: Back from Japan 2025: Jetlag is a Myth - Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:20:50Battle carriers: gunfire support and aviation demandsNotable Point
- Bruships 217: Back from Japan 2025: Jetlag is a Myth - Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:57:02The range and payload tradeoff in ramjet shellsQ&A
- Bruships 217: Back from Japan 2025: Jetlag is a Myth - Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:14:08How one naval gun serves deck and belt targetsQ&A
- What happens if the X-1 Cruiser Submarine becomes genesis not a dockyard queen?3:24Why X-1 was built as a cruiser submarineChapter
- What happens if the X-1 Cruiser Submarine becomes genesis not a dockyard queen?12:40Surcouf receives a treaty exception for a different gun doctrineNotable Point
- What happens if the X-1 Cruiser Submarine becomes genesis not a dockyard queen?38:18Fighting cruiser submarines changes sloop protection and gun powerNotable Point
- What happens if the X-1 Cruiser Submarine becomes genesis not a dockyard queen?39:59Carriers gain heavier defenses against surface attacksNotable Point
- Nuclear Powered Warships: are they worth the cost?41:31Electromagnetic guns can deepen magazinesNotable Point
- Bruships 216 On the Road Japan 2025: Last one from Japan! Naval History Questions Answered Live...42:22Why a seven-gun battleship layout complicates firingQ&A
- The Argentine Navy's Plan of Attack in the 1982 Falklands War22:10Belgrano's guns made sense as a finishing forceNotable Point
- What if the High Seas Fleet was not Scuttled in Scapa Flow?48:12German technology sparks a naval construction boomChapter
- What if the High Seas Fleet was not Scuttled in Scapa Flow?55:08German armor technique and fire-control choicesNotable Point
- Cuthbert Collingwood: Nelson's Second at Trafalgar & the man who secured the Mediterranean19:29HMS Excellent and Collingwood's gunnery cultureNotable Point
- Cuthbert Collingwood: Nelson's Second at Trafalgar & the man who secured the Mediterranean28:21Royal Sovereign leads Collingwood's Trafalgar columnChapter
- Captain Maurice Suckling: From Walpole to Nelson in one degree of Seperation39:24Dreadnought forced Palmier to break awayNotable Point
- What if duing the Battle of Leyte Gulf, Vice Admiral Ching Lee does a Nelson at Copenhagen?59:44Center Force matches the Americans only on paperChapter
- Bruships 212: Naval History Questions Answered Live...After Power Cut1:00:32Why awkward postwar battleships would become donor shipsQ&A
- Bruships 212: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:48:24Why Scharnhorst's 11-inch guns do not define her as a battlecruiserNotable Point
- Bruships 212: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:50:10Why Littorio's turrets would not readily become French quadsQ&A
- Bruships 212: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:51:44Rearming a captured Jean Bart in British serviceQ&A
- Bruships 212: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:05:52Assessing the Bofors 105 mm naval gunQ&A
- #2Historians Live: With @Drachinifel comes to chat & build UAD Dreadnoughts that Almost were P36:20A Royal Navy answer to Japan's Number 13 classChapter
- #2Historians Live: With @Drachinifel comes to chat & build UAD Dreadnoughts that Almost were P348:58Would gun blast endanger deck-mounted torpedoes?Q&A
- #2Historians Live: With @Drachinifel comes to chat & build UAD Dreadnoughts that Almost were P31:07:29How ammunition reached an 8-inch turret stacked on a 12-inch turretQ&A
- #2Historians Live: With @Drachinifel comes to chat & build UAD Dreadnoughts that Almost were P31:37:17German and British 90,000-ton fast battleshipsChapter
- #2Historians Live: With @Drachinifel comes to chat & build UAD Dreadnoughts that Almost were P31:54:58Why use 16.5-inch guns on the German super-battleship?Q&A
- #2Historians Live: With @Drachinifel comes to chat & build UAD Dreadnoughts that Almost were P32:17:08Alternative designs for HMS AgincourtChapter
- #2Historians Live: With @Drachinifel comes to chat & build UAD Dreadnoughts that Almost were P32:32:52Why consider 18-inch guns for the unbuilt Agincourt?Notable Point
- #2Historians Live: With @Drachinifel comes to chat & build UAD Dreadnoughts that Almost were P32:41:04What is the largest warship Hoche could defeat?Q&A
- Bruships 211: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:32:28Why Anglo-Dutch and Napoleonic naval wars differedQ&A
- Bruships 211: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:42:08Why shipboard magazine explosions are rare but memorableQ&A
- The Value of Surprise as a Tactic: Going For Spanish Silver6:48Tactical victory without the treasureNotable Point
- The Value of Surprise as a Tactic: Going For Spanish Silver10:12Destroying the Santa Cruz squadronChapter
- HMS Gorgon(HNoMS Nidaros) takes part in the First Battle of Narvik9:15Nidaros as an armored floating fortNotable Point
- HMS Gorgon(HNoMS Nidaros) takes part in the First Battle of Narvik10:56Gorgon's 9.2-inch guns and armored coreNotable Point
- HMS Gorgon(HNoMS Nidaros) takes part in the First Battle of Narvik47:44If the opening torpedoes hit Nidaros insteadNotable Point
- HMS Gorgon(HNoMS Nidaros) takes part in the First Battle of Narvik50:11A point-blank salvo against Wilhelm HeidkampNotable Point
- Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...11:10Why tracer ammunition did not suit First World War main gunsQ&A
- Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...13:13How postwar gun tests could mislead the Royal NavyQ&A
- Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...28:55Galleys and carracks beyond the familiar age-of-sail storyQ&A
- Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...30:18Why an 18-pounder label does not settle shot weightNotable Point
- Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...39:54Why the Kriegsmarine preferred twin turretsQ&A
- Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:10:51Would early 35 cm gun production change Scharnhorst?Notable Point
- Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:03:50Why Furious's 18-inch gun did not lead straight to HoodQ&A
- Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:59:56Why 125 mm did not become a wartime destroyer standardQ&A
- Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:14:46Why Assassin's Creed's Jackdaw is too heavily armed to be a brigQ&A
- Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:17:47Could triple 18-inch turrets fit an Iowa-class barbette?Q&A
- Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:24:06Why armies are unlikely to return to eight-inch field gunsQ&A
- Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:26:46When shore power could operate a warship's gunsQ&A
- Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:29:24Why a corvette had the advantage in a U-boat gun duelQ&A
- Bruships 209: Science Fiction Naval History Questions Answered Live...58:37Why some 4.5-inch shells carried spiral groovesQ&A
- Bruships 209: Science Fiction Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:23:48Distinguishing naval-shell rear tapers from boat tailsQ&A
- Bruships 209: Science Fiction Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:36:48BAE's recurring 14-inch naval-gun conceptQ&A
- Zumwalt Class: Defined by Procurment... Destroyed by Politics of Procurement.18:16Advanced Gun System range and production economicsChapter
- #2Historians Special: @Drachinifel comes to chat Dreadnoughts that Almost were P2 of ?14:55More guns help only while their shells can penetrateQ&A
- #2Historians Special: @Drachinifel comes to chat Dreadnoughts that Almost were P2 of ?15:33Why favour a 16.5-inch battleship gun?Q&A
- #2Historians Special: @Drachinifel comes to chat Dreadnoughts that Almost were P2 of ?22:39Private gun development outpaced conservative Royal Navy ordersNotable Point
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...15:30Why squeeze-bore guns become harder to scale upQ&A
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...25:17Why a newer 14-inch gun could outperform older weaponsQ&A
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:16:41Admiral-class ships with 16.5-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:18:18K2 and K3: the turret designation correctionQ&A
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:33:20Would 16.5-inch British guns push America to 18 inches?Q&A
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:56:50Scaling Queen Elizabeth to octuple 20-inch turretsQ&A
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:25:04How treaty wording leaves room for a heavily armed sloopNotable Point
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:48:52Funding AGS or Japanese railgun developmentQ&A
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:19:43Why American frigate gun calibres differed before PerryQ&A
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:28:33Three approaches to a 1919 British station cruiserQ&A
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:30:46Could triple 9.2-inch turrets be ready for a 1919 cruiser?Q&A
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:53:28Agincourt followed by a 28-knot battleshipQ&A
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:54:52Perfect British naval gunnery from 1939Q&A
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...6:40:10A guided 76 mm barrage against KongoQ&A
- What changes if the Royal Navy Tribal class got built with 4.5in guns?1:01Why the early 4.5-inch mount was difficult for destroyersChapter
- What changes if the Royal Navy Tribal class got built with 4.5in guns?3:25Royal Navy gun diversity reflected changing prioritiesNotable Point
- What changes if the Royal Navy Tribal class got built with 4.5in guns?10:104.7-inch and 4.5-inch performance depended on the mountChapter
- What changes if the Royal Navy Tribal class got built with 4.5in guns?35:41Prewar exercises expose mount and ammunition problemsChapter
- Why do Naval Historians not still use the Age of Sail Rating system?0:00How Age of Sail ratings counted gunsChapter
- Why do Naval Historians not still use the Age of Sail Rating system?0:36Why modern gun totals became misleadingNotable Point
- Why do Naval Historians not still use the Age of Sail Rating system?1:20Why main-battery calibre matters in a gunnery duelNotable Point
- Why do Naval Historians not still use the Age of Sail Rating system?2:22Why modern warship labels are wordierNotable Point
- Bruships 207: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:52:42Tiger's captain keeps Beatty's staff at a distanceNotable Point
- The Battle of the Nile 1798: Nelson's Most Decisive Victory33:34The opposing fleets: French weight versus British depthChapter
- The Battle of the Nile 1798: Nelson's Most Decisive Victory1:01:30Anchor springs let stationary ships aim their broadsidesNotable Point
- The Battle of the Nile 1798: Nelson's Most Decisive Victory1:12:47The French van is attacked from both sidesChapter
- The Battle of the Nile 1798: Nelson's Most Decisive Victory1:36:57Bellerophon holds the 120-gun Orient aloneNotable Point
- Sir Eustace Tennyson d'Eyncourt: WWI Royal Navy's Director of Naval Construction38:43The 9.2-inch cruiser that might have raised the treaty ceilingNotable Point
- Sir Eustace Tennyson d'Eyncourt: WWI Royal Navy's Director of Naval Construction59:35Nelson's 16-inch gun and the danger of a false test resultNotable Point
- The Atlantic Charter: Signed 14th of August 1941...84 yrs ago today!33:37Why the combined summit force deterred a surface raiderNotable Point
- Admiral Hornby: Britain's 19th Century Master of Conflict Management & Detterrence46:43HMS Minotaur rewarded exceptional shiphandlingNotable Point
- Admiral Hornby: Britain's 19th Century Master of Conflict Management & Detterrence50:22HMS Alexandra made Hornby's Mediterranean signal credibleNotable Point
- Bruships 206: Naval History Questions Answered Live...(Continued)3:42Modern Kongō versus the battlecruiser KongōQ&A
- Bruships 206: Naval History Questions Answered Live...(Continued)8:10How heavier guns reshape a 7,000-ton designQ&A
- Bruships 206: Naval History Questions Answered Live...(Continued)26:16A heavier Type 31 gun batteryQ&A
- Bruships 206: Naval History Questions Answered Live...(Continued)55:54A 6-inch and 128-cell Type 45 conceptQ&A
- Bruships 206: Naval History Questions Answered Live...(Continued)1:01:40Why Scharnhorst could not jam her way clearQ&A
- Bruships 206: Naval History Questions Answered Live...(Continued)1:12:34Why Type 31 has an unusually light mixed gun batteryQ&A
- Bruships 206: Naval History Questions Answered Live...(Continued)1:30:32Price air defense by damage preventedNotable Point
- Bruships 206: Naval History Questions Answered Live...23:25What limited 1880s ironclad battle rangeQ&A
- Bruships 206: Naval History Questions Answered Live...44:44Why British 15-inch/50 development stalledQ&A
- Bruships 206: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:06:00Why 100 mm naval guns lack a market nicheQ&A
- Bruships 206: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:47:31Choosing between today's 5-inch naval gunsQ&A
- Bruships 206: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:29:33Gun-barrel length depends on metallurgy and design prioritiesNotable Point
- OTO Melara 76/62: Flexible Capability in ways that matter!0:22Why the OTO 76 became an iconic naval gunChapter
- OTO Melara 76/62: Flexible Capability in ways that matter!14:05Vulcano ammunition stretches the gun to 40 kilometersChapter
- OTO Melara 76/62: Flexible Capability in ways that matter!48:08Italy's PPA combines patrol flexibility with frigate firepowerChapter
- Procurement for Peace: Second Draft2:03:27Why the X1's 5.2-inch gun did not become a destroyer weaponQ&A
- Bruships 205: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:53:45A nuclear battleship shell at GuadalcanalQ&A
- Bruships 205: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:35:49Why Des Moines could not simply hand-load its gunsQ&A
- Battle of Gravelines 1588: Point of No Return for the Spanish Armada0:00Gravelines as the Armada's last chance to reformChapter
- Battle of Gravelines 1588: Point of No Return for the Spanish Armada51:14English harassment destroyed the Armada's timetableNotable Point
- Battle of Gravelines 1588: Point of No Return for the Spanish Armada58:37Gravelines trapped the Armada between shoals and gunfireChapter
- Battle of Gravelines 1588: Point of No Return for the Spanish Armada1:02:37The English close-range attack at GravelinesChapter
- Bruships 204: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:20:00Why the British battlecruiser game line changes character at G3Q&A
- Bruships 204: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:37:19Questioning an Agincourt refit with single 15-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships 203: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:09:27Can a heavily armored light cruiser survive gunfire?Q&A
- Bruships 203: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:50:22Shannon, Chesapeake, and the limits of counting gunsQ&A
- HMS Bellerophon: A Dreadnought, but better...4:11HMS Dreadnought was a deliberately conservative leapNotable Point
- HMS Bellerophon: A Dreadnought, but better...54:27Sweeps and gunnery drills prepared Bellerophon for battleChapter
- HMS Bellerophon: A Dreadnought, but better...56:53Battlecruiser losses combined gunnery practice with tactical exposureNotable Point
- HMS Bellerophon: A Dreadnought, but better...57:49Bellerophon's limited but effective fire at JutlandChapter
- Cruiser-borne aviation of the major navies; aspirations, doctrine & realities of this capability1:35:57A less specialized nine-gun alternative to the Tone classNotable Point
- Cruiser-borne aviation of the major navies; aspirations, doctrine & realities of this capability1:39:31Why submarines alone could not replace cruiser scoutsNotable Point
- Cruiser-borne aviation of the major navies; aspirations, doctrine & realities of this capability2:28:03How air spotting fitted Royal Navy gunnery doctrineQ&A
- Cruiser-borne aviation of the major navies; aspirations, doctrine & realities of this capability3:01:14Why Tone still carried a full forward gun batteryQ&A
- CSS Arkansas & Isaac N. Brown... A study in tactical excellence & strategic incompetence...3:39Steam leakage dampens Arkansas's powderNotable Point
- CSS Arkansas & Isaac N. Brown... A study in tactical excellence & strategic incompetence...3:39Arkansas attacks the Yazoo reconnaissance squadronChapter
- CSS Arkansas & Isaac N. Brown... A study in tactical excellence & strategic incompetence...35:03Arkansas fights through to VicksburgChapter
- Bruships 202: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:59:25Three triple turrets in Drach's proposed Bismarck redesignQ&A
- Bruships 202: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:52:18Modernized Lord Nelson battleships arriving in today's Royal NavyQ&A
- Bruships 202: Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:34:21If Dreadnought launched as the Second World War Prince of WalesQ&A
- Why didn't the Royal Navy go for High Pressure boilers & what if they got 850psi boilers in 1934?37:50A faster twelve-gun King George VNotable Point
- Suffren: The Royal Navy's 18th Century Voldermort23:19Sadras: limited gunnery, successful convoyNotable Point
- Suffren: The Royal Navy's 18th Century Voldermort51:18Embarked troops strengthen Suffren's Cuddalore fleetNotable Point
- Bruships 201: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:31:07One layered defense against drones and missilesQ&A
- Bruships 201: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:47:20The case for multiple guns on future warshipsQ&A
- Bruships 201: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:52:29Fitting guns around dispersed missile batteriesNotable Point
- Bruships 201: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:56:13Larger-caliber Phalanx-style weapons and the weight problemQ&A
- Bruships 201: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:01:03Why Deutschland's guns did not make it a battleshipNotable Point
- Bruships 201: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:19:30Why barbette width does not dictate turret sizeQ&A
- Chūichi Nagumo: The Creation of the Kidō Butai's Kaigun Chūjō30:35Fleet politics and command of the MogamisChapter
- Chūichi Nagumo: The Creation of the Kidō Butai's Kaigun Chūjō34:00Why the Mogamis' larger guns were a disputed choiceNotable Point
- How has Ukraine confirmed, dispelled or updated the lessons of the Falklands War 1982?50:13Why naval guns complete the defensive layersChapter
- How has Ukraine confirmed, dispelled or updated the lessons of the Falklands War 1982?1:20:30Tiger-class firepower and the cost of neglected maintenanceQ&A
- How has Ukraine confirmed, dispelled or updated the lessons of the Falklands War 1982?2:26:46Why naval railguns may revive larger calibersQ&A
- How has Ukraine confirmed, dispelled or updated the lessons of the Falklands War 1982?2:29:55Precision versus volume in close defenseQ&A
- Bruships 200: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:24:57Rearming Tribal-class destroyers with 5.25-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships 200: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:37:04If the Mogami class kept its 6-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships 200: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:48:21Why early triple turrets would not overturn the dreadnought raceQ&A
- Bruships 199: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:34:38Why shell-dye spotting emerged across naviesQ&A
- Bruships 199: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:49:44A superstorm interrupts the Battle of Denmark StraitQ&A
- Bruships 198: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:27:36Gun CIWS trades reach for reloadability and magazine depthQ&A
- Bruships 198: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:41:18A three-pounder saluting gun was small enough for a swivel mountingQ&A
- Bruships 198: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:45:21Elswick's postwar 18-inch railway howitzers remain a contract questionQ&A
- Bruships 198: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:23:48Early 16-inch/50 guns could reshape the Washington treatyQ&A
- Bruships 198: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:39:03A 1912 US policy change could arm Pennsylvania with 16-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships 198: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:05:31Vanguard and Warspite used the same gun typeQ&A
- Bruships 198: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:07:53A Japanese 510 mm gun was technically workableQ&A
- Bruships 198: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:09:42A secret 20-inch gun sacrifices deterrent valueNotable Point
- Bruships 198: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:14:30Super-heavy naval guns would devastate fixed shore targetsQ&A
- Bruships 198: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:17:12Handling 20-inch shells is a machinery problemQ&A
- Bruships 198: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:37:24Coastal artillery can exceed shipboard gun limitsQ&A
- Bruships 198: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:46:31Britain was approaching an autoloading 4.5-inch mount before the warQ&A
- Bruships 198: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:55:59A Crown Colony-sized Dido needs fewer heavy mounts and more light AAQ&A
- Why the Battle of the Nile, 1798, was Nelson's Greatest Feat of Leadership...52:34How did Napoleon apply army methods to naval warfare?Q&A
- Why the Battle of the Nile, 1798, was Nelson's Greatest Feat of Leadership...1:45:58Foley finds the gap inside the French lineChapter
- Why the Battle of the Nile, 1798, was Nelson's Greatest Feat of Leadership...2:00:57Why Sérieuse could not survive Orion's broadsideNotable Point
- Why the Battle of the Nile, 1798, was Nelson's Greatest Feat of Leadership...2:09:57French gunnery compounds the tactical defeatNotable Point
- Why the Battle of the Nile, 1798, was Nelson's Greatest Feat of Leadership...2:17:16The 50-gun Leander rakes two heavier French shipsNotable Point
- Why the Battle of the Nile, 1798, was Nelson's Greatest Feat of Leadership...2:19:43The fire and explosion aboard L'OrientChapter
- Why the Battle of the Nile, 1798, was Nelson's Greatest Feat of Leadership...2:43:20Double-shotting trades range for damage inside the hullNotable Point
- Why the Battle of the Nile, 1798, was Nelson's Greatest Feat of Leadership...2:45:00Were all the British guns double-shotted?Q&A
- Why the Battle of the Nile, 1798, was Nelson's Greatest Feat of Leadership...2:50:26Did double-shotting require more powder?Q&A
- Why the Battle of the Nile, 1798, was Nelson's Greatest Feat of Leadership...3:16:46How much powder could a first rate carry?Q&A
- Why the Battle of the Nile, 1798, was Nelson's Greatest Feat of Leadership...3:17:25Conflicting carronade calibres for L'OrientNotable Point
- Bruships 197: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:04:25Could a Fletcher beat an early battleship with guns alone?Q&A
- Rostislav: the Russian Victory from 1784?7:32Rostislav compared with HMS VictoryChapter
- Rostislav: the Russian Victory from 1784?33:43Similar hull counts conceal Russia's advantage at ÖlandChapter
- Rostislav: the Russian Victory from 1784?38:32Reval turns an anchored fleet into a layered fortressChapter
- Rostislav: the Russian Victory from 1784?40:53Sailing past Reval's guns magnifies every disadvantageNotable Point
- Rostislav: the Russian Victory from 1784?49:13Russia concentrates its first rates at VyborgNotable Point
- Rostislav: the Russian Victory from 1784?50:55An extra gun deck improves firepower and crew protectionNotable Point
- Yi Sun Sins May 1592: When Preperation and Reading History really paid off!1:02:00Sacheon combines deception, cannon, and the first turtle shipChapter
- Scuttlebutt 11: from SDSR to Pearl Harbor, with a stop at CVA-01 along the way...37:45Why 25,000-ton battlecruisers were poor Revenge-class replacementsQ&A
- Scuttlebutt 11: from SDSR to Pearl Harbor, with a stop at CVA-01 along the way...42:47An F3-style alternative for Nelson and RodneyNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 11: from SDSR to Pearl Harbor, with a stop at CVA-01 along the way...44:19Larger naval guns and layered defense against dronesQ&A
- Admiral of the Fleet Philip Vian: Boundless Aggression or...53:41A Norwegian convoy attack became a lesson in night fightingChapter
- Admiral of the Fleet Philip Vian: Boundless Aggression or...57:48Flashless cordite and star shell reduced the hazards of night gunneryNotable Point
- Admiral of the Fleet Philip Vian: Boundless Aggression or...1:18:19Effective gun range measures accuracy within a defined areaNotable Point
- Admiral of the Fleet Philip Vian: Boundless Aggression or...1:56:05Vian rebuilt Pacific anti-aircraft training through constant practiceNotable Point
- Bruships 196: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:47:37British battleship gun development in 1.5-inch stepsQ&A
- Bruships 196: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:00:23If Italy solved its naval ammunition problems before entering the warQ&A
- Bruships 196: Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:15:27Why Royal Navy carriers carried substantial gun batteriesQ&A
- Battle of Jutland: The Strategic Leadership which both defined it and denied it satisfaction1:08:35Jutland accelerated fire-control investmentNotable Point
- Battle of Tsushima: Leadership, Logisitics and Lessons to be learned2:13:19What other navies learned from TsushimaChapter
- Bruships 195: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:01:04Australian County cruisers using eight-inch guns against aircraftNotable Point
- Didos, Atlantas & Conversions: Which were the true Screening, Scouting or AA Cruisers of WWII?16:17Why 6-inch guns could win a visual cruiser engagementNotable Point
- Didos, Atlantas & Conversions: Which were the true Screening, Scouting or AA Cruisers of WWII?25:01Dido concentrated six forward guns against destroyer attacksNotable Point
- Didos, Atlantas & Conversions: Which were the true Screening, Scouting or AA Cruisers of WWII?1:09:16Why the 5.25-inch gun reached useful cruiser fighting rangesNotable Point
- 40mm AA in WWII: Pom-Pom or Bofors? how did the two systems compare in theory and practice?44:17A like-for-like Mark 8 Pom-Pom and L60 comparisonChapter
- 40mm AA in WWII: Pom-Pom or Bofors? how did the two systems compare in theory and practice?2:51:53How many loaders did a 40 mm mount need?Q&A
- 40mm AA in WWII: Pom-Pom or Bofors? how did the two systems compare in theory and practice?2:56:52Were 40 mm guns designed for surface combat?Q&A
- 40mm AA in WWII: Pom-Pom or Bofors? how did the two systems compare in theory and practice?3:06:41Why Royal Navy opinion shifted toward tracer ammunitionQ&A
- Bruships 194: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:04:38Replacing the Clemson swarm and raising battleship speedNotable Point
- Bruships 194: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:07:23Better-protected Counties and small carriers for global scoutingNotable Point
- Bruships 194: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:52:38Choosing overwhelming force for a sinking exerciseQ&A
- Bruships 194: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:54:12How large could battleships grow without naval treaties?Q&A
- Admiral Scheer: Germany's answer to the wrong question?7:51Scheer's ordinary start concealed practical strengthsChapter
- Admiral Scheer: Germany's answer to the wrong question?58:58The High Seas Fleet chased ships it could not catchChapter
- Jellicoe's Jutland: Analytical leadership at its best and its most problematic11:23HMS Excellent and Jellicoe's gunnery standardsChapter
- Jellicoe's Jutland: Analytical leadership at its best and its most problematic36:17The Third Sea Lord's responsibility for a future fleetChapter
- Jellicoe's Jutland: Analytical leadership at its best and its most problematic42:09The prewar Greenboy shell counterfactualNotable Point
- Jellicoe's Jutland: Analytical leadership at its best and its most problematic53:41Readiness and shell testing through repeated false alarmsChapter
- Jellicoe's Jutland: Analytical leadership at its best and its most problematic58:29Gunnery coaching that earned Grand Fleet trustNotable Point
- Jellicoe's Jutland: Analytical leadership at its best and its most problematic1:00:59Crossing the T with shells that failed the fleetChapter
- Bruships 193: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:35:23Where HMS Belfast's forward guns are aimedQ&A
- Bruships 193: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:25:48Why the King George V class received 14-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships 193: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:27:20Why a larger-gunned KGV alternative stops at 16 inchesQ&A
- Bruships 193: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:27:37Why the KGV battery used a 4-2-4 arrangementQ&A
- Bruships 193: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:28:24The 15-inch KGV idea and Britain's parallel gun programmesQ&A
- Bruships 193: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:33:44British naval gun length, barrel wear, and distant basesNotable Point
- Bruships 193: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:38:02Why APFSDS is the wrong way to attack a submerged submarineQ&A
- Bruships 193: Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:01:41An American 18-inch gun program before the treaty eraQ&A
- Bruships 193: Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:09:55Could the 1860s reproduce Iron Duke's ammunition?Q&A
- Vice-Admiral Joshua Rowley: The Trials of Being the Solid Deputy for the Greats!1:07:02HMS Montagu among Hawke's captains at Quiberon BayChapter
- Bruships 191: Naval History Questions Answered Live...11:38Could Edinburgh-class cruisers carry 9.2-inch guns?Q&A
- Bruships 191: Naval History Questions Answered Live...31:53How naval treaties arrived at 8-inch and 16-inch gun limitsQ&A
- Bruships 191: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:36:40British 15-inch/50 versus American 16-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships 191: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:37:28Using Warspite to reshape interwar Royal Navy policyQ&A
- Bruships 191: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:04:52Why a magazine may be flooded before everyone escapesQ&A
- Bruships 191: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:10:31How the panel would modernize HMS WarspiteQ&A
- Bruships 191: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:14:55Why most pre-C-class cruisers became obsolete after 1918Q&A
- Bruships 191: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:28:58What if every US cruiser became a Des Moines in 1941?Q&A
- Bruships 191: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:48:29What the 1920s Royal Navy should stockpile for the next warQ&A
- Simone Antonio Pacoret de Saint Bon: Father of the Regia Marina19:45Lissa valor extended below the quarterdeckNotable Point
- Leadership of the 1930 London Naval Treaty2:44:27Why twin 4-inch guns suited sloops better than a 6-inch gunQ&A
- Leadership of the 1930 London Naval Treaty2:46:43Could either gun calibre disable a submarine?Q&A
- Leadership of the 1930 London Naval Treaty2:48:23Who should win: Warspite or Yamato?Q&A
- Coastal defenses in WWII: Why did they fail to stop so many amphibious operations?3:20:10A battleship on tracks would still need close-defense weaponsQ&A
- Bruships 189: Naval History Questions Answered Live...continued43:30Choosing battleship main-gun barrel lengthQ&A
- Dalrymple Hamilton: The Captain of HMS Rodney who believed she could be a destroyer28:18Why expanding missions made destroyers largerNotable Point
- Dalrymple Hamilton: The Captain of HMS Rodney who believed she could be a destroyer1:39:38Rodney ranges and disables BismarckChapter
- Dalrymple Hamilton: The Captain of HMS Rodney who believed she could be a destroyer1:46:04A battleship fights like a destroyer at point-blank rangeNotable Point
- Strategic Defence & Security Review 2025: What would a naval historian do?57:30New technology usually joins warfare instead of replacing itNotable Point
- Tribal, Battle & Daring Class Destroyers: 5yrs since the first live stream!14:42Greenboy shells and the Battle of JutlandNotable Point
- Tribal, Battle & Daring Class Destroyers: 5yrs since the first live stream!44:08Daring versus Forrest Sherman as postwar gun destroyersQ&A
- Tribal, Battle & Daring Class Destroyers: 5yrs since the first live stream!1:54:52F3 and 15-inch King George V alternativesQ&A
- Tribal, Battle & Daring Class Destroyers: 5yrs since the first live stream!3:47:12Designing a gun-based modern air-defense destroyerQ&A
- 21st Century Battleship: What would a battleship built today need to be a battleship?12:15Gunnery readiness depends on designing a ship to be cleanedNotable Point
- 21st Century Battleship: What would a battleship built today need to be a battleship?30:18Big guns turn presence into public signalingNotable Point
- 21st Century Battleship: What would a battleship built today need to be a battleship?1:07:51Large railguns, deep VLS, and distributed lethalityChapter
- The Life of Admiral Sir Frederick Hew George Dalrymple-Hamilton: When Speed is never enough!2:13:37Why a battleship waited between salvosNotable Point
- The Life of Admiral Sir Frederick Hew George Dalrymple-Hamilton: When Speed is never enough!2:13:37Rodney closes to torpedo BismarckChapter
- The Life of Admiral Sir Frederick Hew George Dalrymple-Hamilton: When Speed is never enough!2:18:13Concentrating every available gun on BismarckNotable Point
- The Life of Admiral Sir Frederick Hew George Dalrymple-Hamilton: When Speed is never enough!2:19:44Does maneuvering trade gunnery accuracy for survival?Q&A
- The Life of Admiral Sir Frederick Hew George Dalrymple-Hamilton: When Speed is never enough!2:25:53Rodney's own gunfire damages decks and machineryNotable Point
- The Life of Admiral Sir Frederick Hew George Dalrymple-Hamilton: When Speed is never enough!2:32:09Point-blank range was outside battleship gunnery assumptionsNotable Point
- Bruships 188: Naval History Questions Answered Liven & Birthday Party...34:02The prestige cost of Nelson's 16-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships 188: Naval History Questions Answered Liven & Birthday Party...41:46Why treaty negotiators favored a 14-inch limitQ&A
- Bruships 188: Naval History Questions Answered Liven & Birthday Party...1:04:34A 9.2-inch Royal Navy super cruiserQ&A
- Bruships 188: Naval History Questions Answered Liven & Birthday Party...2:01:38If King George V had retained 16-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships 188: Naval History Questions Answered Liven & Birthday Party...2:35:17Choosing gun size and turret layout for the taskQ&A
- Bruships 188: Naval History Questions Answered Liven & Birthday Party...4:13:26Colorado and Nelson 16-inch guns comparedQ&A
- Bruships 188: Naval History Questions Answered Liven & Birthday Party...4:32:25Why Germany struggled with a 12.5 cm dual-purpose gunQ&A
- Bruships 188: Naval History Questions Answered Liven & Birthday Party...4:37:30Modern gun salesmanship and OTO's 3-inch weaponQ&A
- Bruships 188: Naval History Questions Answered Liven & Birthday Party...4:49:27Why Soviet cruisers used 180 mm gunsQ&A
- Bruships 188: Naval History Questions Answered Liven & Birthday Party...4:55:37How large would a gun-launched missile barrel need to be?Notable Point
- Making Gallipoli Look Competent: The 1741 Battle of Cartagena de Indias43:14Why fleets could overwhelm forts in the age of sailNotable Point
- Making Gallipoli Look Competent: The 1741 Battle of Cartagena de Indias45:05The combined operation that captured Fort San LuisChapter
- HMS Queen Mary: An Evolutionary Ship in a Time of Fleet Transition46:25Queen Mary's loss at the Battle of JutlandChapter
- HMS Queen Mary: An Evolutionary Ship in a Time of Fleet Transition50:13Distance as armour and the magazine riskNotable Point
- So you want to Build a Battleship today? For the 21st Century? Naval History Live34:22Large guns make naval power visible before they fireNotable Point
- So you want to Build a Battleship today? For the 21st Century? Naval History Live1:51:42Railguns combine long-range fire with visible deterrenceChapter
- So you want to Build a Battleship today? For the 21st Century? Naval History Live1:57:12Can a railgun vary projectile velocity?Q&A
- So you want to Build a Battleship today? For the 21st Century? Naval History Live1:57:46Railgun costs depend on development and production scaleChapter
- So you want to Build a Battleship today? For the 21st Century? Naval History Live2:23:10Where should the battleship's railguns go?Q&A
- So you want to Build a Battleship today? For the 21st Century? Naval History Live2:59:19Why naval guns work better against drones attacking the warshipNotable Point
- Leading the Japanese 1890s Six-Six Fleet Plan! Taikan Kyohō Shugi & the Origins of the Yamato Class1:02:27Izumo-class armored cruisers and practical standardizationChapter
- Bruships 187: Naval History Questions Answered Live...46:20Why the L-class 120 mm mount had widely spaced gunsQ&A
- Bruships 187: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:03:56Rifled muzzle-loaders in an age-of-sail fleetQ&A
- Bruships 187: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:15:15How proximity fuzes changed anti-aircraft fireNotable Point
- Bruships 187: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:14:25Why a 1930s German 210 mm cruiser gun would be a new designQ&A
- Bruships 187: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:27:17How a 210 mm Deutschland class changes German cruisersQ&A
- Bruships 187: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:32:17Why modern naval engagements are limited by magazinesQ&A
- Bruships 187: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:06:46Why the Royal Navy moved toward a five-inch gunQ&A
- Bruships 187: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:10:28Could Rio de Janeiro carry 15-inch and 9.2-inch guns?Q&A
- Bruships 187: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:14:57What could bring rail guns back to warshipsQ&A
- Bruships 187: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:20:26Why an Alsace-class battleship would not begin with a 1948 gunQ&A
- Bruships 187: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:22:26Railguns, coilguns, and the problem of guided projectilesNotable Point
- Bruships 187: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:44:06Why the next close-in defense may combine guns and lasersQ&A
- Bruships 187: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:49:39Where sabot rounds could help interwar naval gunsQ&A
- Bruships 187: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:54:16Why modern navies have not standardized on 155 mm gunsQ&A
- Bruships 187: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:57:25Specialized sabot rounds for battleships and destroyersNotable Point
- Bruships 187: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:58:36Why six-inch naval guns could returnQ&A
- Bruships 187: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:01:35Why the Constellation class uses a 76 mm gunQ&A
- Mary Rose to Victory: How the Wooden Wall Grew as both forest and trees27:32Low gun decks balanced stability against rough-weather firepowerNotable Point
- Admiral James Saumarez & the Battles of Algeciras41:43Battle geometry complicates claims that Britain targeted AlgecirasNotable Point
- Admiral James Saumarez & the Battles of Algeciras50:19HMS Superb attacked the rear guard in darknessChapter
- How Admirals Shape Ships? From the Frigate built Galleons to Arleigh Burkes...10:00John Hawkins and the race-built galleonChapter
- How Admirals Shape Ships? From the Frigate built Galleons to Arleigh Burkes...55:20Benbow's gun and numbers turn design into deterrenceNotable Point
- John Jervis, Earl St Vincent: Permanently Angry before it was fashionable…1:01:49Nelson's initiative and Jervis's command climateNotable Point
- Admiral Rodney:The victor of Moonlight & Saintes24:25How Hawke brought his numerical advantage into actionNotable Point
- Bruships 185: Naval History Questions Answered Live...7:41What powder monkeys did aboard sailing warshipsQ&A
- Bruships 185: Naval History Questions Answered Live...15:59Crew demands of twin 135 mm and 5.25-inch mountsQ&A
- Bruships 185: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:04:38Building a Second World War navy around five gun calibersQ&A
- Bruships 185: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:11:16When cruiser volume of fire beats shell sizeQ&A
- Bruships 185: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:29:41Favourite gun calibres and their historical associationsQ&A
- Bruships 185: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:18:48What modern warship could HMS Dreadnought defeat?Q&A
- Paulet Affair of 1843: When the Royal Navy found itself in charge of Hawaii1:19:23Dublin's advantage depended on fighting range and an uncertain gun totalNotable Point
- Could Teddy Roosevelt do a Naval Treaty in 1909 & if so what might it be like?49:45The plausible treaty: cap individual ships, not fleetsChapter
- Greenwich Naval College: The Royal Navy's University of Command0:02Why the Royal Navy needed formal officer educationChapter
- Greenwich Naval College: The Royal Navy's University of Command41:08Herbert Richmond unites technical service with naval scholarshipChapter
- Greenwich Naval College: The Royal Navy's University of Command58:58Eric Brind demonstrates controlled naval diplomacy at TsingtaoChapter
- Greenwich Naval College: The Royal Navy's University of Command1:03:55Birmingham's gunlaying makes deterrence personalNotable Point
- Bruships 183: Science Fiction/Naval History Questions Answered Live...30:29What Tribal-class destroyers attacked in World War IIQ&A
- Bruships 183: Science Fiction/Naval History Questions Answered Live...37:44Missile ships and planet-bomb interception in the Yamato scenarioNotable Point
- Bruships 183: Science Fiction/Naval History Questions Answered Live...55:50Why larger submarine guns would struggle against destroyer escortsNotable Point
- Bruships 183: Science Fiction/Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:29:19American-built shells for Richelieu's French gunsQ&A
- Bruships 183: Science Fiction/Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:31:28How naval terminology becomes online misinformationNotable Point
- Bruships 183: Science Fiction/Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:39:01How battleships used torpedoes in combatQ&A
- The British Admiralty 1628-1964: Some Examples of First Sea Lords and How they worked1:32:08George Cockburn uses politics to reform the NavyChapter
- Marquis de Santa Cruz: The Man who could have given Spain the World...9:17Muros Bay and the Bazán method of battleNotable Point
- Marquis de Santa Cruz: The Man who could have given Spain the World...22:00The Gibraltar clash and lessons from English cannonNotable Point
- Marquis de Santa Cruz: The Man who could have given Spain the World...38:54Ponta Delgada and the destruction of a larger fleetChapter
- Bruships 182: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:50:49Why larger naval guns may returnQ&A
- Bruships 182: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:52:55Why a naval gun should retain cheap unguided ammunitionNotable Point
- Bruships 182: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:27:25A four-gun main battery and six 76 mm guns suggest the Tiger classQ&A
- Bruships 182: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:28:28The 5-inch gun was the practical destroyer ceilingQ&A
- Lord Howard of Effingham: Leadership of a Disparate Band of Individualists... the 'English Fleet'45:39Plymouth, the weather gauge, and opposing battle doctrinesChapter
- Lord Howard of Effingham: Leadership of a Disparate Band of Individualists... the 'English Fleet'1:09:16At Gravelines, English gunnery exploits Spanish doctrineChapter
- Lord Howard of Effingham: Leadership of a Disparate Band of Individualists... the 'English Fleet'1:12:48Gravelines reveals the limits of sustained gunneryNotable Point
- Bruships 181: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:26:58Why pom-pom and Bofors production faced different problemsQ&A
- Bruships 181: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:22:24Nelson and Rodney: gun blast, firing arcs, and machinery protectionNotable Point
- Royal Navy gets activist for Research & Development from 1900 onwards...1:21:18Triple turrets offered a gunnery advantage beyond gun countNotable Point
- Tōgō Heihachirō: Victor of Tsushima & Japan's Nelson...58:20Why drill requires discipline under fireNotable Point
- Tōgō Heihachirō: Victor of Tsushima & Japan's Nelson...1:02:02Why mutiny does not automatically mean indisciplineNotable Point
- Tōgō Heihachirō: Victor of Tsushima & Japan's Nelson...1:03:09How defective ammunition hollowed out paper strengthNotable Point
- Tōgō Heihachirō: Victor of Tsushima & Japan's Nelson...1:21:44Choosing the ground for decisive battle at TsushimaChapter
- Tōgō Heihachirō: Victor of Tsushima & Japan's Nelson...1:27:34The artilleryman's preparation for TsushimaNotable Point
- The Admiralty: A Contest of Leadership with Management... Naval History Live2:18:49George Cockburn manages the transition from sail to steamChapter
- Bruships 180: Naval History Questions Answered...Part II15:16The decisive interwar technology: radar fire controlQ&A
- Bruships 180: Naval History Questions Answered...Part II28:30Why a single 5-inch Mark 42 could fire quicklyQ&A
- Bruships 180: Naval History Questions Answered...Part II38:46Would Britain have preferred a 16.5-inch treaty limit?Q&A
- Bruships 180: Naval History Questions Answered...Part II42:47Why oscillating turrets make little sense at seaQ&A
- Bruships 180: Naval History Questions Answered...Part II45:53Firing naval guns as the ship reaches the right angleQ&A
- Bruships 180: Naval History Questions Answered...Part II55:51When capital ships outgrew armour against their own gunsQ&A
- Bruships 180: Naval History Questions Answered...Part II1:22:43Why naval guns did not use tank-style spotting riflesQ&A
- Bruships 180: Naval History Questions Answered...Part II1:53:53Why Nelson’s three turrets were not all superfiringQ&A
- Bruships 180: Naval History Questions Answered...Part II1:59:46Why larger naval shells still matter after penetrationQ&A
- Bruships 180: Naval History Questions Answered...Part II2:06:02Why a larger naval gun calibre can reduce barrel wearNotable Point
- Bruships 180: Naval History Questions Answered...Part II2:43:16How quadruple turrets would change a Nelson-type battleshipQ&A
- Bruships 180: Naval History Questions Answered...1:14:34The attraction and limits of automatic 14-inch gunsNotable Point
- Bruships 180: Naval History Questions Answered...1:25:29Weight of fire versus individual shell calibreNotable Point
- Bruships 180: Naval History Questions Answered...1:27:55Why Britain did not simply copy German loading systemsQ&A
- Bruships 180: Naval History Questions Answered...2:09:37How navies tested guns, shells, and armourQ&A
- Fifth Rate: A Price Point Which Matters... Key Ship Series 9 - Ship 1032:15Why Constellation exchanged 24-pounders for 18-poundersNotable Point
- What if the 1900s Royal Navy went full DARPA?46:48Testing 14-inch guns and triple turrets earlierChapter
- What if the 1900s Royal Navy went full DARPA?53:04Do gun trials come before turret trials?Q&A
- What if the 1900s Royal Navy went full DARPA?53:42Armour weight, stability and independent shell trialsNotable Point
- What if the 1900s Royal Navy went full DARPA?1:26:28Arthur Wilson's likely technical prioritiesNotable Point
- What if the 1900s Royal Navy went full DARPA?2:51:39Would very heavy shells stop the race towards bigger guns?Q&A
- What if the 1900s Royal Navy went full DARPA?3:08:24How might the 1910 Town-class cruisers change?Q&A
- What if the 1900s Royal Navy went full DARPA?3:11:01Why not simply keep the 12-inch gun?Q&A
- What if the 1900s Royal Navy went full DARPA?3:21:14Vickers aircraft and long-range gunneryNotable Point
- What if the 1900s Royal Navy went full DARPA?3:22:25The 15-inch/42 gun supplies the funding modelNotable Point
- What if the 1900s Royal Navy went full DARPA?3:23:35Prizes for proven naval technologyNotable Point
- What if the 1900s Royal Navy went full DARPA?3:26:24How large could rangefinders become?Q&A
- What if the 1900s Royal Navy went full DARPA?3:27:06Could optics and radar keep pace with longer-range guns?Q&A
- What if the 1900s Royal Navy went full DARPA?3:29:52Does a long-range gun need better accuracy to be useful?Q&A
- So what about the Jeune Ecole made the Hoche and other French BattleHotels inevitable?30:50Flotilla threats drive a cycle of bigger and better-protected shipsNotable Point
- So what about the Jeune Ecole made the Hoche and other French BattleHotels inevitable?48:48Redoutable trades gun numbers for heavier weapons and armourNotable Point
- Bruships 179: Future Projects & Naval History Questions...38:25Why three stacked heavy turrets are a hard design problemQ&A
- Bruships 179: Future Projects & Naval History Questions...55:41Why 9.2-inch guns hit harder in shore bombardmentQ&A
- Bruships 179: Future Projects & Naval History Questions...1:00:59What a 16-inch shell adds to shore bombardmentNotable Point
- Bruships 179: Future Projects & Naval History Questions...1:28:4715-inch triples or 18-inch twins: combat power and deterrenceQ&A
- Bruships 179: Future Projects & Naval History Questions...2:39:05Would a 5-inch gun refit make sense for the Type 45?Q&A
- Bruships 179: Future Projects & Naval History Questions...3:02:38Modern weapons on a Roman quinqueremeQ&A
- Bruships 179: Future Projects & Naval History Questions...3:14:09Can firing a ship's ammunition affect stability?Q&A
- Bruships 179: Future Projects & Naval History Questions...3:46:18Arming a Roman quinquereme for the late Age of SailQ&A
- Bruships 179: Future Projects & Naval History Questions...3:48:22Why 16.5-inch guns rarely justify replacing 16-inch gunsQ&A
- Guard Ships: What they were & What they are... Key Ship Series 93:50What quarter, half, and two-thirds crews could doNotable Point
- The Leadership Factor: The Battle of the Barents Sea43:47Tribal-class gunfire prepared targets for night torpedo attacksNotable Point
- The Leadership Factor: The Battle of the Barents Sea1:06:47British cruiser doctrine rewarded volume of fire and disciplined adaptationChapter
- The Leadership Factor: The Battle of the Barents Sea1:11:20German destroyer gun choices and the morale cost of NarvikChapter
- The Leadership Factor: The Battle of the Barents Sea1:45:32British lessons helped shape the Battle of North CapeChapter
- Bruships 178: Naval History or Exercise5:12Six-inch dual-purpose guns and barrel-life tradeoffsQ&A
- Bruships 178: Naval History or Exercise11:38Lion's heavier 16-inch shell and intended battle rangeNotable Point
- Bruships 178: Naval History or Exercise3:02:03Why guns and missiles solve different naval fire-support problemsNotable Point
- Bruships 178: Naval History or Exercise3:24:43If Town-class cruisers carried sixteen 6-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships 178: Naval History or Exercise3:48:19Why naval and aircraft guns returnedQ&A
- Bruships 178: Naval History or Exercise4:26:26Could Hedgehog-style ASW weapons return?Q&A
- Flotillas of the Danube (Continued)5:47Did the gunboat fire over its own crew?Q&A
- Bruships 177: New Year, same Dr Alex... possibly with new gym membership1:51:30What four triple 15-inch turrets would change on N3Q&A
- Bruships 177: New Year, same Dr Alex... possibly with new gym membership2:18:22What twin six-inch turrets would do to Britain's prewar cruiser fleetQ&A
- Bruships 177: New Year, same Dr Alex... possibly with new gym membership2:22:21Why mixed triple and twin turrets worsen a King George V redesignQ&A
- Bruships 177: New Year, same Dr Alex... possibly with new gym membership3:07:21The uncertain paper trail for a French 18-inch-gun battleshipQ&A
- Bruships 177: New Year, same Dr Alex... possibly with new gym membership3:29:05The next layers in warship air defenseQ&A
- Bruships 177: New Year, same Dr Alex... possibly with new gym membership3:46:13Why scuttling IJN Natori required gunfireQ&A
- Bruships 177: New Year, same Dr Alex... possibly with new gym membership3:47:02When warships came too close for their main gunsQ&A
- Bruships 177: New Year, same Dr Alex... possibly with new gym membership4:02:07Why Blucher would fare poorly against Harwood at the River PlateQ&A
- Bruships 177: New Year, same Dr Alex... possibly with new gym membership4:03:03Why an eight-inch cruiser gun beats a comparable 7.5-inch weaponQ&A
- What if HMS Nelson & HMS Rodney were built for speed?10:54An improved 15-inch gun might fit the treaty's reconstruction wordingNotable Point
- What if HMS Nelson & HMS Rodney were built for speed?15:11A common 15-inch barrel pool could support the longer gun's maintenanceNotable Point
- What if HMS Nelson & HMS Rodney were built for speed?28:30F3 balanced nine heavy guns, 28.5-knot speed, and room for later upgradesChapter
- What if HMS Nelson & HMS Rodney were built for speed?31:47F3's forward firing arcs change the risks of a bow-on approachNotable Point
- What if HMS Nelson & HMS Rodney were built for speed?44:53Speed controls the range, angle, and pace of an engagementNotable Point
- What if HMS Nelson & HMS Rodney were built for speed?1:29:45The final choice was 16-inch firepower or another 5.5 knotsNotable Point
- Battle of the Barents Sea: Naval History Live42:43Why Deutschland-class guns struggled against maneuvering destroyersNotable Point
- Battle of the Barents Sea: Naval History Live1:31:59Why British six-inch cruisers fired so effectivelyNotable Point
- Battle of the Barents Sea: Naval History Live1:35:27How did British six-inch fire compare with the Brooklyn class?Q&A
- Battle of the Barents Sea: Naval History Live1:37:45Did Royal Navy ships compete in timed gunnery shoots?Q&A
- Battle of the Barents Sea: Naval History Live1:38:55Why Germany kept building eleven-inch naval gunsNotable Point
- Battle of the Barents Sea: Naval History Live1:42:20Would twin turrets have improved the Deutschland class?Q&A
- Battle of the Barents Sea: Naval History Live1:59:24Why heavier German destroyer guns reduced practical firepowerNotable Point
- Battle of the Barents Sea: Naval History Live2:45:29Bramble's last stand and the arrival of Force RChapter
- Battle of the Barents Sea: Naval History Live3:01:36Radar gunnery still had an Arctic learning curveNotable Point
- Battle of the Barents Sea: Naval History Live3:54:03Would 8.3-inch guns have helped Admiral Hipper?Q&A
- Bruships 176: Christyear or Newmas?1:08:02Why Germany did not up-gun its old pre-dreadnoughtsQ&A
- Bruships 176: Christyear or Newmas?1:10:50Why the King George V class retained its 5.25-inch Mark I systemQ&A
- Bruships 176: Christyear or Newmas?2:36:05War timing changes the King George V turret decisionQ&A
- Battle of Elli(1912): When Regional Powers Go to War37:13Ottoman ironclad refits blur paper strength and readinessNotable Point
- Battle of Elli(1912): When Regional Powers Go to War49:54Kountouriotis uses Averof's speed to cross the Ottoman lineChapter
- Tribal Class of 1907: The WWI Channel Response Force13:40HMS Afridi as a Dover Patrol response destroyerNotable Point
- Tribal Class of 1907: The WWI Channel Response Force35:22HMS Mohawk and the fractured Dover Strait responseChapter
- Tribal Class of 1907: The WWI Channel Response Force1:00:20Six-funnel HMS Viking tests speed and heavy gunsChapter
- Royal Navy go for speed not bulwark in the Nelson Class design...1:04:45Did the 15-inch/50 use the same shell as the 15-inch/42?Q&A
- Royal Navy go for speed not bulwark in the Nelson Class design...1:07:55Presenting 15-inch guns as naval restraintNotable Point
- Royal Navy go for speed not bulwark in the Nelson Class design...1:10:02The counterfactual stays inside 1920 technologyNotable Point
- Royal Navy go for speed not bulwark in the Nelson Class design...1:13:09German test pieces did not guarantee production qualityNotable Point
- Royal Navy go for speed not bulwark in the Nelson Class design...2:06:04Keeping 15-inch guns saves weight throughout the shipNotable Point
- Royal Navy go for speed not bulwark in the Nelson Class design...2:22:00Were 16-inch/50 guns already available for the cancelled American ships?Q&A
- Royal Navy go for speed not bulwark in the Nelson Class design...3:22:55What would a 4,000-BM-ton warship look like in a 1799 scenario?Q&A
- Frigating in WWII for the Allies: HMAS Diamantina & the River Class Frigates3:15Diamantina's stable hull and ASDIC dome in dry dockChapter
- Frigating in WWII for the Allies: HMAS Diamantina & the River Class Frigates50:35Operating the manual high-angle 4-inch mountingNotable Point
- Bruships 175: Pre- Christmas Party 202426:58Tirpitz's capable fire control and limited gunnery practiceQ&A
- Bruships 175: Pre- Christmas Party 20241:46:51Would a modernized Hood survive Bismarck?Q&A
- Battle of Elli1:25:11Greek destroyers and Georgios Averof create a speed advantageChapter
- Battle of Elli1:30:36Hydra-class refits improve weapons while leaving speed unchangedNotable Point
- Battle of Elli1:49:37Averof hoists the Z flag and attacks independentlyChapter
- Battle of Elli1:53:27Why concentrated Ottoman fire struggled against AverofNotable Point
- Bruships 174: Ten Days to Christmas... have I got the lights up yet?7:46Hoche's short window as a capable ironcladNotable Point
- Bruships 174: Ten Days to Christmas... have I got the lights up yet?4:34:42Why L'Orient's explosion has no single clean attributionQ&A
- The Royal Navy's Spirit Ship: HMS Tiger(1913) - Key Ships Series 9, Ship 937:43Tiger's protection, armament, and fighting loadChapter
- The Royal Navy's Spirit Ship: HMS Tiger(1913) - Key Ships Series 9, Ship 943:58Dogger Bank: speed, fire control, and a confused target orderChapter
- The Royal Navy's Spirit Ship: HMS Tiger(1913) - Key Ships Series 9, Ship 91:05:25The logic of long-range gunnery and controlled closingNotable Point
- So, You Want to Build an Aircraft Carrier? Infrastructure & Industry, the Realities of Construction!49:31First World War turbines and fuzes reveal asymmetric dependenceNotable Point
- Bruships 173: Christmas Books for the History Lover in your life...23:47British Naval Gun Mountings and the industry behind big gunsChapter
- Bruships 173: Christmas Books for the History Lover in your life...25:27Elswick gun production and the cost of individual barrelsNotable Point
- Bruships 173: Christmas Books for the History Lover in your life...27:21The 1932 estimate for emergency sixteen-inch mountingsNotable Point
- Bruships 173: Christmas Books for the History Lover in your life...28:53Why the Admiralty brought Coventry into gun-mounting contractsNotable Point
- Bruships 173: Christmas Books for the History Lover in your life...3:35:58What a prewar naval research blank cheque could changeNotable Point
- Bruships 173: Christmas Books for the History Lover in your life...4:18:30The Price of Victory and Royal Navy professionalizationChapter
- Bruships 173: Christmas Books for the History Lover in your life...4:19:06HMS Excellent linked gunnery training with research and promotionNotable Point
- Bruships 173: Christmas Books for the History Lover in your life...4:26:52Rozhestvensky with the Grand Fleet in 1914Q&A
- Bruships 172: So the Historiophon Happened...12:18Testing the historical plausibility of the German Annar designQ&A
- Bruships 172: So the Historiophon Happened...1:15:53Why an Asama-class cruiser overwhelms HocheQ&A
- Bruships 172: So the Historiophon Happened...1:29:04Modernized Yavuz holds the advantage over Admiral ScheerQ&A
- Bruships 172: So the Historiophon Happened...1:58:27A Vickers triple turret could reshape DreadnoughtQ&A
- Bruships 172: So the Historiophon Happened...2:21:12Autoloading 20-inch guns make speed more valuable than armorQ&A
- Bruships 172: So the Historiophon Happened...3:56:18Five autoloading cruisers could overwhelm Yamato at nightQ&A
- Middle of the Road doesn't always provide Best Bang for your Buck... Fourth Rates0:14Why fourth rates struggled in the middle groundChapter
- Middle of the Road doesn't always provide Best Bang for your Buck... Fourth Rates8:51Small gun-count differences compounded into a third-rate advantageNotable Point
- Middle of the Road doesn't always provide Best Bang for your Buck... Fourth Rates56:29Heavy American frigates still faced a two-deck disadvantageNotable Point
- Of Two Submarines, in two wars... The sinkings of HMHS Britannic & IJS Kongo1:56:44Why Suffren's 6.5-inch shells strained manual handlingNotable Point
- WWI in the English Channel... A Primer on Years of Hard Forgotten Fighting1:10:44HMS Swift and the experiment with a six-inch destroyer gunChapter
- WWI in the English Channel... A Primer on Years of Hard Forgotten Fighting1:13:12Swift and Viking as a challenge to Type 83 gun armamentNotable Point
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/456:23Orion combines heavier guns with director fire controlNotable Point
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/42:33:41Were Argonaut, Narwhal, and Nautilus cruiser submarines?Q&A
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/43:29:58Could oil-fired American battleships strengthen the Grand Fleet at Jutland?Q&A
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/45:03:02The electricians behind effective naval gunneryQ&A
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/45:20:09A 15-inch/45 gun for King George V and older battleshipsQ&A
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/48:15:01How open destroyer gun mounts received ammunitionQ&A
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/48:16:57Dido-class 4.5-inch refits and disputed wartime gun fitsQ&A
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/48:45:19Alaska and Des Moines under competing cruiser definitionsNotable Point
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/48:47:40How much did Baltimore improve on treaty cruisers?Q&A
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/40:55Could First World War sabot rounds rival the Paris Gun?Q&A
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/429:41Modern weapons through an age-of-sail gunportQ&A
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/435:24Why the Royal Navy held so many spare four-inch barrelsQ&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
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/42:01:38Why gunfire rarely stops an approaching torpedoQ&A
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/42:08:44Japanese anti-submarine shells for five-inch gunsQ&A
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/42:48:43Designing a viable España-sized small dreadnoughtChapter
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/43:01:11Testing a small dreadnought for long-range fireNotable Point
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/43:50:10Why spare displacement does not guarantee a steady gun platformNotable Point
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/44:06:09How stability and course changes defeat a heavier UAD batteryNotable Point
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/45:57:09Are plunging shells causing the super-battleship losses?Q&A
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/46:04:59Saving weapon weight for a battleship intended to fight at long rangeNotable Point
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/46:29:54Propellant chemistry, magazine heat, and G3 layoutQ&A
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/46:34:27Why gun propellant needs controlled gas expansionNotable Point
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/46:36:51The practical limit on battleship main-battery turretsQ&A
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/46:39:15Gun length, propellant burn rate, and barrel wearQ&A
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/46:44:38How shell weight limits rotary magazinesQ&A
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/46:46:00Why linked ammunition feeds become risky as shells growQ&A
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/46:47:43Burn timing, charge condition, and breech obturationQ&A
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/46:52:06Cartridge cases, lifting machinery, and manual shell handlingQ&A
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/47:38:39HMS Dianthus made certain a U-boat could not escapeNotable Point
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/48:22:57Why longer modern warships do not carry less firepowerQ&A
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/48:27:38Why the Albany-class missile cruisers retained gunsNotable Point
- World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/43:45:56Why realistic naval hit rates make poor arcade pacingNotable Point
- World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/43:48:07Which Royal Navy officers most resemble Willis Lee?Q&A
- World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/43:48:43How guided battleship shells would appeal to gunnery specialistsQ&A
- World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/43:49:23Were large American guided naval shells already tried?Q&A
- World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/44:25:31What G3 magazine separation reveals about shell consistencyNotable Point
- World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/45:09:30What recoil does to an eight-gun 15-inch super-monitorQ&A
- World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/47:10:19Why a German 15-inch turret conversion was a tight fitQ&A
- World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/47:23:39How a larger cruiser shell could cost rate of fireNotable Point
- World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/47:32:02Why gun range exceeds effective fire-control rangeNotable Point
- World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/47:40:26What does longer gun range demand from the rangefinder?Q&A
- World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/48:22:39Why caliber alone does not determine turret-ring sizeQ&A
- World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/48:28:01Why fifteen autoloading 9.2-inch guns make an unbalanced cruiserQ&A
- World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/48:36:52Would downward-opening breeches save space in German turrets?Q&A
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/439:44Which HMS Warspite fired before an order was given?Q&A
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/41:16:59Why HMS Vanguard was unlikely to receive US 5-inch gunsQ&A
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/41:40:57What a viable 6-inch dual-purpose gun would requireQ&A
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/41:49:07A 1934 plan to rationalize Royal Navy gun calibersQ&A
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/42:13:43Capitani Romani guns could simplify a Littorio secondary batteryQ&A
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/42:35:48How dual-purpose batteries divide air and surface threatsQ&A
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/42:40:34Why the Royal Navy did not standardize one dual-purpose gunQ&A
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/42:46:00Secondary batteries still mattered after JutlandQ&A
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/42:47:54How the US Navy attacked ships before HarpoonQ&A
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/44:53:13A different Tiger-class gun fit changes the later helicopter conversionQ&A
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/45:34:56Why a modern 3-inch gun would not necessarily arm the FlowersQ&A
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/46:08:37Why Insect-class river gunboats carried 6-inch gunsQ&A
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/46:12:32Why a Flower could not carry a spinal 4-inch gunQ&A
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/46:17:33A quick-firing 130 mm gun makes rebuild weight the limiting factorQ&A
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/47:21:07Omaha's paper advantage narrows against later British cruisersQ&A
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/48:21:10Assessing the competition's modified F3 fast battleshipNotable Point
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/48:44:54Guided 16-inch shells trade range for cheaper heavy strikesQ&A
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/48:53:32A gun-launched Harpoon is possible but mechanically awkwardQ&A
- The Battlecruiser/Fast Battleship Differential & Soviet Carriers: Scuttlebutt 71:18:23Why the Lion class would not simply mount larger gunsQ&A
- The Battlecruiser/Fast Battleship Differential & Soviet Carriers: Scuttlebutt 71:20:45Lion gun development could improve Nelson and RodneyNotable Point
- Ramblings Emergency Broadcast21:43Freya's three-calibre main batteryNotable Point
- Ramblings Emergency Broadcast1:14:34Why shore bombardment needs dedicated fire controlQ&A
- Ramblings Emergency Broadcast2:01:52Three-inch guns before close-in weapon systemsQ&A
- Bruships 171: Oh Kallax my Kallax, Where art though my Kallax8:17How a British 130 mm gun could reshape the Dido classQ&A
- Bruships 171: Oh Kallax my Kallax, Where art though my Kallax15:36Why even the Tribals were poor hosts for a 130 mm gunQ&A
- Bruships 171: Oh Kallax my Kallax, Where art though my Kallax48:37Why a 60-caliber 5.1-inch gun brings diminishing returnsQ&A
- Bruships 171: Oh Kallax my Kallax, Where art though my Kallax1:18:01A 4.7-inch test mount would not make the 130 mm gun interchangeableQ&A
- Bruships 171: Oh Kallax my Kallax, Where art though my Kallax1:35:08Why Britain preferred 4.5-inch to 4.7-inch dual-purpose gunsQ&A
- Bruships 171: Oh Kallax my Kallax, Where art though my Kallax1:44:24Why a British 130 mm gun would probably stay 130 mmQ&A
- Bruships 171: Oh Kallax my Kallax, Where art though my Kallax1:56:44Mount performance matters more than caliber against fast jetsQ&A
- Bruships 171: Oh Kallax my Kallax, Where art though my Kallax2:19:16How the Falklands corrected the all-missile warship ideaQ&A
- Bruships 171: Oh Kallax my Kallax, Where art though my Kallax2:38:05Why the missile-only warship had a very short design windowQ&A
- Bruships 171: Oh Kallax my Kallax, Where art though my Kallax2:51:26Why Washington's cruiser group could not beat Yamato by daylightQ&A
- Bruships 171: Oh Kallax my Kallax, Where art though my Kallax3:58:29Why Japan would verify a report of 12-inch American destroyersQ&A
- Bruships 171: Oh Kallax my Kallax, Where art though my Kallax4:43:43British cannon consistency and charts became strategic advantagesQ&A
- The Backbone of Royal Navy Interwar Aviation, HMS Eagle(1918)! Key Ship Series 6 Ship 728:15Eagle's size, guns, protection, and aircraft capacityChapter
- The Backbone of Royal Navy Interwar Aviation, HMS Eagle(1918)! Key Ship Series 6 Ship 748:28How treaty-era industrial contraction favored quadruple turretsNotable Point
- @Drachinifel & Dr Clarke Discuss Royal Navy Aircraft Carriers that almost were! #2Historians ep 133:33Blackburn Blackburn spotting and early warningNotable Point
- Frigating Tiger Cubs: WWI if the Royal Navy builds some 9.2in armed 'Dreadnought Cruisers'3:13Gun selection was also an industrial policyNotable Point
- Frigating Tiger Cubs: WWI if the Royal Navy builds some 9.2in armed 'Dreadnought Cruisers'22:00The Mark XII's promise and the limits of monitor gun trialsChapter
- Frigating Tiger Cubs: WWI if the Royal Navy builds some 9.2in armed 'Dreadnought Cruisers'31:22Cruisers as technology trials and command schoolsNotable Point
- Frigating Tiger Cubs: WWI if the Royal Navy builds some 9.2in armed 'Dreadnought Cruisers'36:25Why Tiger Cubs still needed quick-firing secondary gunsNotable Point
- Frigating Tiger Cubs: WWI if the Royal Navy builds some 9.2in armed 'Dreadnought Cruisers'43:50Blücher shows what the Tiger Cub had to beatNotable Point
- Frigating Tiger Cubs: WWI if the Royal Navy builds some 9.2in armed 'Dreadnought Cruisers'1:10:14Tiger Cubs turn Dogger Bank into a German disasterChapter
- Frigating Tiger Cubs: WWI if the Royal Navy builds some 9.2in armed 'Dreadnought Cruisers'1:17:039.2-inch fire could cripple what belt armour did not coverNotable Point
- Frigating Tiger Cubs: WWI if the Royal Navy builds some 9.2in armed 'Dreadnought Cruisers'1:46:23Jellicoe turned the Grand Fleet into a gunnery instrumentNotable Point
- Frigating Tiger Cubs: WWI if the Royal Navy builds some 9.2in armed 'Dreadnought Cruisers'2:10:51Why a 10-inch treaty maximum could favour 9.2-inch gunsNotable Point
- Bruships 169: Kalax o Kalax, my kingdom for a Kalax...7:19Which ship could defeat both Trafalgar fleets?Q&A
- Bruships 169: Kalax o Kalax, my kingdom for a Kalax...58:11The early US 6-inch dual-purpose gun was ahead of its timeQ&A
- Bruships 169: Kalax o Kalax, my kingdom for a Kalax...1:15:42How practical rail guns could reshape surface combatantsQ&A
- Bruships 169: Kalax o Kalax, my kingdom for a Kalax...1:28:11HMS Unicorn answered shore fire with her own gunsNotable Point
- Bruships 169: Kalax o Kalax, my kingdom for a Kalax...2:03:40A fictional space conversion turns Hoche's secondary battery into the edgeQ&A
- Bruships 169: Kalax o Kalax, my kingdom for a Kalax...2:13:51A PT boat at Trafalgar faces thick oak after its torpedoes run outQ&A
- Bruships 169: Kalax o Kalax, my kingdom for a Kalax...2:48:38Why the quadruple 6-inch Town-class turret was abandonedQ&A
- Bruships 169: Kalax o Kalax, my kingdom for a Kalax...3:12:17Why Des Moines is the Sverdlov class's dedicated predatorQ&A
- Bruships 169: Kalax o Kalax, my kingdom for a Kalax...3:55:36Gun availability favored 4-inch escort armamentQ&A
- Bruships 169: Kalax o Kalax, my kingdom for a Kalax...4:05:50Estimating Friesland's 120 mm ammunition supplyQ&A
- What happens if Britain has a Malta off the coast of Germany in WWI? Helgoland!24:39Shipbuilding knowledge that manuals do not preserveNotable Point
- What happens if Britain has a Malta off the coast of Germany in WWI? Helgoland!1:09:17German armour drives British gun developmentChapter
- What happens if Britain has a Malta off the coast of Germany in WWI? Helgoland!1:22:46Triple turrets for the armour-penetration problemNotable Point
- Tiger Cubs - RN actually builds dreadnought armoured cruisers with 9.2in guns alongside HMS Tiger...11:11A 28-knot cruiser with 9.2-inch gunsChapter
- Tiger Cubs - RN actually builds dreadnought armoured cruisers with 9.2in guns alongside HMS Tiger...34:42Why Blucher would be outclassedNotable Point
- Tiger Cubs - RN actually builds dreadnought armoured cruisers with 9.2in guns alongside HMS Tiger...1:27:04Modern fire control for Gallipoli bombardmentNotable Point
- Tiger Cubs - RN actually builds dreadnought armoured cruisers with 9.2in guns alongside HMS Tiger...2:02:50Why 9.2-inch guns remain the preferred batteryNotable Point
- Tiger Cubs - RN actually builds dreadnought armoured cruisers with 9.2in guns alongside HMS Tiger...2:14:17Japanese convertible cruiser turretsNotable Point
- Tiger Cubs - RN actually builds dreadnought armoured cruisers with 9.2in guns alongside HMS Tiger...2:26:13Could carrier limits accelerate a dual-purpose 6-inch gun?Q&A
- Tiger Cubs - RN actually builds dreadnought armoured cruisers with 9.2in guns alongside HMS Tiger...2:32:09Why 9.2 inches is the cruiser sweet spotQ&A
- Tiger Cubs - RN actually builds dreadnought armoured cruisers with 9.2in guns alongside HMS Tiger...2:37:04How 9.2-inch shells compare with 8-inch shellsQ&A
- Tiger Cubs - RN actually builds dreadnought armoured cruisers with 9.2in guns alongside HMS Tiger...2:38:11Why 10-inch loading is a different problemQ&A
- Tiger Cubs - RN actually builds dreadnought armoured cruisers with 9.2in guns alongside HMS Tiger...2:43:239.2-inch firepower versus 6-inch cruisersNotable Point
- Tiger Cubs - RN actually builds dreadnought armoured cruisers with 9.2in guns alongside HMS Tiger...2:49:51Shell weight and the ammunition-handling thresholdNotable Point
- Tiger Cubs - RN actually builds dreadnought armoured cruisers with 9.2in guns alongside HMS Tiger...3:00:41A protected 9.2-inch cruiser designQ&A
- Bruships 168: And a empty Kalax, sang the aisles a serenade, longing for books with a love song37:32How Type 41 frigates might have helped in the FalklandsQ&A
- Bruships 168: And a empty Kalax, sang the aisles a serenade, longing for books with a love song1:09:29Why a 16-inch Kongō rebuild would be a radical compromiseQ&A
- Bruships 168: And a empty Kalax, sang the aisles a serenade, longing for books with a love song1:43:03Why Royal Navy spit and polish could displace gunnery practiceQ&A
- Bruships 168: And a empty Kalax, sang the aisles a serenade, longing for books with a love song2:43:03A 20-inch Tillman II would destroy the treaty pauseQ&A
- Bruships 168: And a empty Kalax, sang the aisles a serenade, longing for books with a love song3:32:00What limits the length of a 20-inch gun barrelQ&A
- Bruships 168: And a empty Kalax, sang the aisles a serenade, longing for books with a love song3:52:46A more capable Nelson-class design through the F3 alternativeQ&A
- Fortress Heligoland: Britain doesn't give Heligoland to Germany in the 1890 Agreement... Patreon 1061:01:15Could German coastal artillery shell the island?Q&A
- Fortress Heligoland: Britain doesn't give Heligoland to Germany in the 1890 Agreement... Patreon 1061:55:04A multi-power gun-calibre raceNotable Point
- Fortress Heligoland: Britain doesn't give Heligoland to Germany in the 1890 Agreement... Patreon 1062:01:04A 14-inch, triple-turret British dreadnought pathNotable Point
- Bruships 167: Tell me why, everything turned book – packing up, stacking up is all kalax want to do.6:54Could early dreadnoughts be rearmed with 15-inch guns?Q&A
- Bruships 167: Tell me why, everything turned book – packing up, stacking up is all kalax want to do.1:15:21Kongo versus ScharnhorstQ&A
- 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 167: Tell me why, everything turned book – packing up, stacking up is all kalax want to do.2:16:16Would triple 15-inch turrets improve First World War monitors?Q&A
- Bruships 167: Tell me why, everything turned book – packing up, stacking up is all kalax want to do.2:24:16Turbine battleships without the Dreadnought revolutionQ&A
- Bruships 167: Tell me why, everything turned book – packing up, stacking up is all kalax want to do.2:39:39Would automatic naval guns grow beyond eight inches?Q&A
- Bruships 167: Tell me why, everything turned book – packing up, stacking up is all kalax want to do.2:45:43Could twin five-inch naval mounts return?Q&A
- Bruships 167: Tell me why, everything turned book – packing up, stacking up is all kalax want to do.3:29:29How long can a practical naval gun barrel be?Q&A
- Beatty of the Mediterranean: Finding the Right Peg for the Right Hole?38:52Wartime necessity changes machinery limitsNotable Point
- Beatty of the Mediterranean: Finding the Right Peg for the Right Hole?47:43Lion and Troubridge turn pursuit into a trapChapter
- Soviet Naval Aviation Doctrine: Always Wrestling the Same Demons6:52Type 22 frigates and the value of a general-purpose gunNotable Point
- Bruships 166: As I walk through the library of Naval History, I take a look at my shelf space....13:00Anti-submarine shells and underwater dronesQ&A
- Bruships 166: As I walk through the library of Naval History, I take a look at my shelf space....1:00:37High-angle heavy guns and ammunition weightQ&A
- Bruships 166: As I walk through the library of Naval History, I take a look at my shelf space....1:24:24KGV turret rings and progressive upgunningQ&A
- Bruships 166: As I walk through the library of Naval History, I take a look at my shelf space....2:28:51The largest autoloading naval gun in serviceQ&A
- Bruships 166: As I walk through the library of Naval History, I take a look at my shelf space....2:29:53Could 6-inch naval guns return?Q&A
- Bruships 166: As I walk through the library of Naval History, I take a look at my shelf space....3:27:38Valkyria Chronicles and tank guns at seaQ&A
- Bruships 166: As I walk through the library of Naval History, I take a look at my shelf space....4:16:09Twin gun mounts and destroyer stabilityQ&A
- Bruships 166: As I walk through the library of Naval History, I take a look at my shelf space....4:19:43A modern Swedish battleship-calibre gunQ&A
- Bruships 166: As I walk through the library of Naval History, I take a look at my shelf space....4:22:29Destroyer leaders, Atlantas, and topweightQ&A
- Bruships 166: As I walk through the library of Naval History, I take a look at my shelf space....4:35:54Why K31 favoured 6-inch gunsQ&A
- V.Adm Beatty is sent to Command the Mediterranean Battle Cruisers in 1914... Patreon 1051:23:28Lion's flash protection before rate-of-fire pressureNotable Point
- V.Adm Beatty is sent to Command the Mediterranean Battle Cruisers in 1914... Patreon 1051:24:00Why Goeben could not simply fight through the trapNotable Point
- V.Adm Beatty is sent to Command the Mediterranean Battle Cruisers in 1914... Patreon 1051:28:24A captured Goeben could reveal how British shells performedNotable Point
- Bruships 165: I saw a Poodle with a Kalax Manual in his hand, walking through the moors of cornwall3:52Is a forward or aft turret safer?Q&A
- Bruships 165: I saw a Poodle with a Kalax Manual in his hand, walking through the moors of cornwall54:14Design limits of a high-angle quad 11-inch turretQ&A
- Bruships 165: I saw a Poodle with a Kalax Manual in his hand, walking through the moors of cornwall1:39:21A 3,000-ton Royal Navy destroyerQ&A
- Bruships 165: I saw a Poodle with a Kalax Manual in his hand, walking through the moors of cornwall2:19:35Why the U.S. Navy mounted anti-aircraft guns on cranesQ&A
- Bruships 165: I saw a Poodle with a Kalax Manual in his hand, walking through the moors of cornwall3:10:36Modern shore batteries still in serviceQ&A
- Bruships 165: I saw a Poodle with a Kalax Manual in his hand, walking through the moors of cornwall3:41:22Would 5-inch AA guns protect Hipper or the M class?Q&A
- Bruships 164: Is this Book life? Is this just a library?Caught in a landslide, no Kallax for safety!2:04:17Why battleships could not sensibly bombard TirpitzQ&A
- Bruships 164: Is this Book life? Is this just a library?Caught in a landslide, no Kallax for safety!2:20:58Admiral Hood and a different Battle of JutlandQ&A
- Bruships 164: Is this Book life? Is this just a library?Caught in a landslide, no Kallax for safety!2:24:55Fair one-on-one battleship matchupsQ&A
- Bruships 163: I need a Kalax Kalax, a Kalax is what I need! Naval History Questions & Chat14:18A fifteen-gun, 14-inch HMS DreadnoughtQ&A
- Bruships 163: I need a Kalax Kalax, a Kalax is what I need! Naval History Questions & Chat20:52Why the Royal Navy preferred twin turretsQ&A
- Bruships 163: I need a Kalax Kalax, a Kalax is what I need! Naval History Questions & Chat26:35Tiger-derived cruisers as a bridge for British shipyardsQ&A
- Bruships 163: I need a Kalax Kalax, a Kalax is what I need! Naval History Questions & Chat30:07Layered citadel armour for a standard battleshipQ&A
- Bruships 163: I need a Kalax Kalax, a Kalax is what I need! Naval History Questions & Chat1:11:47French battlecruiser choices before 1914Q&A
- Bruships 163: I need a Kalax Kalax, a Kalax is what I need! Naval History Questions & Chat1:14:48A delayed First World War and the Entente's larger capital shipsNotable Point
- Bruships 163: I need a Kalax Kalax, a Kalax is what I need! Naval History Questions & Chat1:55:51Six-inch guns on destroyers, then and nowQ&A
- Bruships 163: I need a Kalax Kalax, a Kalax is what I need! Naval History Questions & Chat2:04:06Shell fuzes behind layered battleship armorQ&A
- Bruships 163: I need a Kalax Kalax, a Kalax is what I need! Naval History Questions & Chat2:11:04The Radetzky class in a 14-inch dreadnought worldQ&A
- Bruships 163: I need a Kalax Kalax, a Kalax is what I need! Naval History Questions & Chat2:14:53How transferable were sailors between naval gun crews?Q&A
- Bruships 163: I need a Kalax Kalax, a Kalax is what I need! Naval History Questions & Chat2:32:05Finding a fair gunboat opponent for HMS WarriorQ&A
- Bruships 163: I need a Kalax Kalax, a Kalax is what I need! Naval History Questions & Chat3:06:33Four 15-inch British battlecruisers at JutlandQ&A
- Bruships 163: I need a Kalax Kalax, a Kalax is what I need! Naval History Questions & Chat3:13:35Why sloped armour does not guarantee a ricochetQ&A
- Empire Prepares: What if the British Empire invested more in the 1920s & 30s1:06:33Coastal artillery as an industrial and operational reserveNotable Point
- Empire Prepares: What if the British Empire invested more in the 1920s & 30s1:18:40Heavy guns at Gibraltar and the problem of emplacementNotable Point
- Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat2:24:34F3-style British heavy cruisers would complicate recognitionQ&A
- Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat2:37:33Why four Alaskas overwhelm two ScharnhorstsQ&A
- Bruships 161: All you need are Kallax, Shelves are all Books need... Naval History Questions & Chat!6:25Choosing the best British dreadnought before OrionQ&A
- Bruships 161: All you need are Kallax, Shelves are all Books need... Naval History Questions & Chat!12:35Why KGV's 5.25-inch guns were not simply wasted weightQ&A
- Bruships 161: All you need are Kallax, Shelves are all Books need... Naval History Questions & Chat!41:38A twelve-gun North Carolina changes battleship weight, not carriersQ&A
- Bruships 161: All you need are Kallax, Shelves are all Books need... Naval History Questions & Chat!1:02:10Why the Splendid Cats should avoid ScharnhorstQ&A
- Japan's I-400 Class: Waste of Resources, Idea to Soon or Idea to late?38:21Impressive gun and radar figures met physical limitsNotable Point
- Bruships 160: Money for Kallax, Book Space ain’t Free! Naval History Questions & Chat...56:50A Town-class cruiser armed with 5.25-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships 160: Money for Kallax, Book Space ain’t Free! Naval History Questions & Chat...59:31The limits of a modern British gun cruiserQ&A
- Bruships 160: Money for Kallax, Book Space ain’t Free! Naval History Questions & Chat...1:05:13USS Alaska against HMS DreadnoughtQ&A
- Bruships 160: Money for Kallax, Book Space ain’t Free! Naval History Questions & Chat...1:10:01Why five-inch guns dominate rapid naval fireQ&A
- Bruships 160: Money for Kallax, Book Space ain’t Free! Naval History Questions & Chat...1:35:46Combustible cartridges and early naval autoloadersQ&A
- Bruships 160: Money for Kallax, Book Space ain’t Free! Naval History Questions & Chat...1:38:23Would a fifteen-gun Edinburgh have Nelson-like fire-arc problems?Q&A
- Bruships 160: Money for Kallax, Book Space ain’t Free! Naval History Questions & Chat...1:39:05A Nelson class built around 15-inch/50 gunsQ&A
- Bruships 160: Money for Kallax, Book Space ain’t Free! Naval History Questions & Chat...1:52:23How fifteen-gun Towns could support missile modernizationQ&A
- Bruships 159: New Office - This may be quick, discord may work & I may not have a Pneumonia attack!14:26Why 10-inch guns sit awkwardly between cruiser and capital-ship rolesQ&A
- Bruships 159: New Office - This may be quick, discord may work & I may not have a Pneumonia attack!15:54Why rapid-fire 6-inch guns appealed to the Royal NavyQ&A
- Bruships 159: New Office - This may be quick, discord may work & I may not have a Pneumonia attack!34:14Why 17-inch guns offered little over 18-inch weaponsQ&A
- Bruships 159: New Office - This may be quick, discord may work & I may not have a Pneumonia attack!36:35Why 12-inch guns usually displaced 11-inch weaponsQ&A
- Bruships 159: New Office - This may be quick, discord may work & I may not have a Pneumonia attack!51:33Why deck armor grew more important after 1943Q&A
- Bruships 159: New Office - This may be quick, discord may work & I may not have a Pneumonia attack!57:07Coastal 15-inch guns would not make Spanish battleships straightforwardQ&A
- Bruships 159: New Office - This may be quick, discord may work & I may not have a Pneumonia attack!58:14Eight 18-inch guns would turn a Queen Elizabeth enlargement into a Hood-size shipQ&A
- Bruships 159: New Office - This may be quick, discord may work & I may not have a Pneumonia attack!1:21:30A 15-inch King George V design could simplify guns and logisticsQ&A
- Bruships 159: New Office - This may be quick, discord may work & I may not have a Pneumonia attack!1:26:01Why triple dual-purpose mounts bring more trouble than benefitQ&A
- Bruships 159: New Office - This may be quick, discord may work & I may not have a Pneumonia attack!1:58:16Mixed 40 mm systems complicate a warship's ammunition supplyQ&A
- Twitch Live: USA Goes Battlecruiser for all their Capital Ships Campaign 31:00:12Using fall of shot to control gunnery rangeNotable Point
- Twitch Live: USA Goes Battlecruiser for all their Capital Ships Campaign 31:58:34Gun destroyers versus torpedo destroyersNotable Point
- Twitch Live: USA Goes Battlecruiser for all their Capital Ships Campaign 32:27:22Why cage masts reached so highNotable Point
- Twitch Live: USA Goes Battlecruiser for all their Capital Ships Campaign 22:01:33When technology and torpedo boats fail in battleNotable Point
- Twitch Live: USA Goes Battlecruiser for all their Capital Ships Campaign 22:31:55Balancing range, torpedoes, and secondary gunsChapter
- Twitch Live: USA Goes Battlecruiser for all their Capital Ships Campaign 11:43:30A heavy cruiser bridges the path to battlecruisersNotable Point
- Twitch Live: USA Goes Battlecruiser for all their Capital Ships Campaign 13:23:29Manual aiming limits early concentrated gunfireNotable Point
- What do the fleets look like if they achieve full pre-WWII Modernisation? Patreon Premier25:43Japan: qualitative superiority versus shipyard bottlenecksChapter
- What do the fleets look like if they achieve full pre-WWII Modernisation? Patreon Premier26:09Twenty-inch guns: loading cycles and rangeNotable Point
- What do the fleets look like if they achieve full pre-WWII Modernisation? Patreon Premier1:27:45British responses to very large guns and imperial logisticsNotable Point
- What do the fleets look like if they achieve full pre-WWII Modernisation? Patreon Premier1:34:01Radar and automation reshape the delayed-war fleetsNotable Point
- Check Campaign 27: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:15:58Designing HMS Deterrence as a battlecruiserChapter
- Check Campaign 26: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign47:04Why choose a 5.5-inch gun over a 6-inch gun?Q&A
- Check Campaign 26: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign49:23When destroyer guns erode the case for a cruiserNotable Point
- Check Campaign 25: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:00:50A fast battleship design built to absorb punishmentNotable Point
- Bruships 158: Home for Naval History Questions & Trialing the new Question Bot... so cross fingers!1:24:20Historical battleship tactics versus World of WarshipsNotable Point
- Bruships 158: Home for Naval History Questions & Trialing the new Question Bot... so cross fingers!1:25:27Why Scharnhorst's shells need not repeat River Plate failuresQ&A
- Bruships 158: Home for Naval History Questions & Trialing the new Question Bot... so cross fingers!2:59:44Why Skoda's naval guns faced political limitsQ&A
- Bruships 158: Home for Naval History Questions & Trialing the new Question Bot... so cross fingers!3:24:53What a full Hood salvo does to Prinz EugenQ&A
- Check Campaign 24: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign12:26Canada-class refit firepower tradeoffsNotable Point
- Check Campaign 24: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign34:27Uneven surface action and force overmatchNotable Point
- Check Campaign 24: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:53:38G3 and N3 gun lineage and the fast-battleship turnNotable Point
- Check Campaign 24: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:15:00Designing a large mine-laying destroyerChapter
- Check Campaign 24: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:53:49The gas-turbine Librarian-class battlecruiserChapter
- The Worth of the 74s: Why Navys found them so useful, Patreon Premier 527:19Gun power, hull rigidity, and ocean enduranceNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt Three: Chatting with Drach, British War Plans and Lots of Carrier Stuff34:02Narvik's harbor reveals close-range firepower and restraintNotable Point
- Check Campaign 23: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:01Why a larger gun can be the wrong upgradeNotable Point
- Check Campaign 23: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign6:44Light-cruiser gunnery and torpedo riskNotable Point
- Check Campaign 23: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign14:23Weather, radar, and crew quality in a capital-ship duelChapter
- Check Campaign 23: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign49:16Why every available turret is a logistics trapNotable Point
- Check Campaign 23: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign58:14What HMS Furious reveals about 18-inch-gun limitsNotable Point
- Check Campaign 23: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign58:49Can the Royal Navy's 18-inch-gun tests be documented?Q&A
- Check Campaign 23: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:30:53Capital-ship overmatch and unfair fightsNotable Point
- Check Campaign 23: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:37:08British and American battleship caliber stepsNotable Point
- Check Campaign 23: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:53:34US battleships and Grand Fleet gunnery readinessNotable Point
- Check Campaign 23: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign3:08:25Refitting an obsolete battleship under weight constraintsChapter
- Bruships 157: Books so good they've blown the budget on the #ScandiShip24 tour already!31:11Faster loading requires a redesigned German turretQ&A
- Bruships 157: Books so good they've blown the budget on the #ScandiShip24 tour already!1:01:44Why boring out a 410 mm gun sacrifices barrel marginQ&A
- Bruships 157: Books so good they've blown the budget on the #ScandiShip24 tour already!1:04:48The crescent formation balances firepower and protectionQ&A
- Bruships 157: Books so good they've blown the budget on the #ScandiShip24 tour already!1:13:08A 9.2-inch cruiser line changes the Goeben pursuitQ&A
- Bruships 157: Books so good they've blown the budget on the #ScandiShip24 tour already!1:17:13German metallurgy and lost industrial memoryQ&A
- Bruships 157: Books so good they've blown the budget on the #ScandiShip24 tour already!2:10:33Bigger coastal guns cannot cover every landing siteQ&A
- Check Campaign 22: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign48:02Turret arcs turn layout into tactical flexibilityNotable Point
- Check Campaign 22: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:46:30Speed, range, and battlecruiser designNotable Point
- Check Campaign 22: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:57:31Slowing into line ahead improves the firing solutionNotable Point
- Check Campaign 22: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:14:17Littorio's problem was ammunition quality controlQ&A
- Kongōs at Jutland: IJN goes all or nothing in the North Sea in WWI... Patreon Premier 316:16Kawachi and Settsu would reinforce the Channel forceNotable Point
- Kongōs at Jutland: IJN goes all or nothing in the North Sea in WWI... Patreon Premier 318:11Sending the new Fuso would demonstrate Japan's commitmentNotable Point
- Kongōs at Jutland: IJN goes all or nothing in the North Sea in WWI... Patreon Premier 349:34Rosyth's crowded anchorage could encourage gunnery rotationsNotable Point
- Kongōs at Jutland: IJN goes all or nothing in the North Sea in WWI... Patreon Premier 31:10:48Extra shellfire could change Queen Mary's fateNotable Point
- Kongōs at Jutland: IJN goes all or nothing in the North Sea in WWI... Patreon Premier 31:25:03Fresh Queen Elizabeths could lead Jellicoe's battle lineNotable Point
- Kongōs at Jutland: IJN goes all or nothing in the North Sea in WWI... Patreon Premier 31:37:58A decisive victory could open the coast while delaying a Baltic offensiveNotable Point
- Check Campaign 21: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign50:25Destroyer deception and cruiser gunfireNotable Point
- Check Campaign 21: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:05:56Research priorities for fleet qualityNotable Point
- Check Campaign 21: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:40:08Assessing a seventeen-inch battlecruiserNotable Point
- Check Campaign 21: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:19:15Long-range hits and capital-ship reputationNotable Point
- Check Campaign 21: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:25:46Dividing fire in a cruiser actionNotable Point
- Check Campaign 21: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:33:20King George V's fourteen-inch guns in contextNotable Point
- Brushipdock(156) with ShipShape in Narvik4:06Alaska-class 14-inch gun counterfactualQ&A
- Kaiser Wilhelm II goes full navy: Kaiserliche Marine wins the funding battle! Patreon Premier 241:57Britain answers with bigger guns and better testingChapter
- Kaiser Wilhelm II goes full navy: Kaiserliche Marine wins the funding battle! Patreon Premier 251:35German fast battleships pressure British designNotable Point
- Kaiser Wilhelm II goes full navy: Kaiserliche Marine wins the funding battle! Patreon Premier 21:12:27British design escalation avoids the R-class pauseChapter
- Check Campaign 20: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign21:24G3-style battlecruiser design choicesNotable Point
- Check Campaign 20: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign47:03Battlecruisers as heavy-cruiser substitutesNotable Point
- Check Campaign 20: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:01:32Battle-line speed and range controlNotable Point
- Check Campaign 20: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:39:59Shell weight trades range and penetration against accuracyNotable Point
- Check Campaign 20: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:51:17Secondary-tower firepower versus firing qualityQ&A
- Check Campaign 20: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:21:55Six-inch versus 5.5-inch secondary gunsQ&A
- Check Campaign 20: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:25:34Secondary fire priorities against torpedo boatsNotable Point
- Check Campaign 20: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:53:45Single-ship battles as controlled design experimentsNotable Point
- Bruships 155: Last time answering naval history questions from the Brushack?49:43A five-turret Queen Elizabeth-class designQ&A
- Bruships 155: Last time answering naval history questions from the Brushack?1:18:31Refitting Monmouth-class armored cruisers in 1912Q&A
- Bruships 155: Last time answering naval history questions from the Brushack?1:26:24German triple turrets and Britain's qualitative responseQ&A
- Bruships 155: Last time answering naval history questions from the Brushack?1:32:12King George V with 15-inch/45 gunsQ&A
- Bruships 155: Last time answering naval history questions from the Brushack?1:52:59Concealing 6-inch guns in a cargo raiderQ&A
- Bruships 155: Last time answering naval history questions from the Brushack?2:02:58Could Bismarck fit triple 15-inch turrets?Q&A
- Bruships 155: Last time answering naval history questions from the Brushack?2:32:16Centerline secondary turrets and forward fireQ&A
- Bruships 155: Last time answering naval history questions from the Brushack?2:59:41Radar before the First World WarQ&A
- Bruships 155: Last time answering naval history questions from the Brushack?3:09:16An Anglo-Italian 3-inch naval gun projectQ&A
- Bruships 155: Last time answering naval history questions from the Brushack?4:00:14Choosing a post-Falklands big-gun caliberQ&A
- Bruships 155: Last time answering naval history questions from the Brushack?4:04:01American 16- and 18-inch guns before WashingtonQ&A
- Bruships 155: Last time answering naval history questions from the Brushack?4:07:10Why plan a 6-inch anti-aircraft cruiser?Q&A
- Bruships 155: Last time answering naval history questions from the Brushack?4:20:2016-inch shells or Tomahawks against a bridgeQ&A
- Bruships 155: Last time answering naval history questions from the Brushack?4:26:14A gliding extended-range 16-inch shellQ&A
- Persistent Percient Patrol: Supermarine Walrus - Key Aircraft Series 2, Aircraft 541:28Gunnery spotting and radar patrolNotable Point
- What would the economic impact have been if the Naval Treaties hadn't happened? Patreon Premier 113:25How shipbuilding could accelerate radar, welding, and gunneryChapter
- What would the economic impact have been if the Naval Treaties hadn't happened? Patreon Premier 114:32Shipboard workshops and the possibility of earlier radarNotable Point
- What would the economic impact have been if the Naval Treaties hadn't happened? Patreon Premier 118:51Reducing gunfire shock so crews could keep workingNotable Point
- What would the economic impact have been if the Naval Treaties hadn't happened? Patreon Premier 126:31British gun experiments and the lessons drawn from German weaponsNotable Point
- What would the economic impact have been if the Naval Treaties hadn't happened? Patreon Premier 126:31A qualitative Anglo-American race in capital shipsNotable Point
- What would the economic impact have been if the Naval Treaties hadn't happened? Patreon Premier 128:10Iowa's gun-weight dispute and the battleship spectrumNotable Point
- What would the economic impact have been if the Naval Treaties hadn't happened? Patreon Premier 11:17:27New 15-inch guns supported by a global ammunition systemNotable Point
- What would the economic impact have been if the Naval Treaties hadn't happened? Patreon Premier 11:52:11Gun-barrel wear and Britain's global supply linesNotable Point
- Check Campaign 19: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign11:22Capital-ship targeting and broadside overmatchNotable Point
- Check Campaign 19: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign27:20Who can still make a 12-inch naval gun?Q&A
- Check Campaign 19: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign32:18Could a 12-inch flak gun work?Q&A
- Check Campaign 19: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:30:50The 5.5-inch naval gun as a path not takenNotable Point
- Check Campaign 19: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:40:57Battlecruiser as heavy-cruiser substituteNotable Point
- Check Campaign 19: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:21:28Rodney-class gun, armor, and speed compromiseNotable Point
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...15:35Why HMS Eagle retained her 6-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...16:21The F3 design and a Royal Navy 15-inch/50 standardQ&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...20:24F3 secondary batteries and anti-aircraft additionsNotable Point
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...21:02What a warship carrying Schwerer Gustav guns would requireQ&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...24:03HMS Eagle's wartime armament reflected a ship awaiting replacementQ&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...25:32Japanese 14-inch shells and British 13.5-inch qualityQ&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...35:03The unbuilt Salamis and her Royal Navy monitor gunsQ&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...36:42The tonnage cost of four triple 15-inch/50 turretsQ&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...45:17Eight fast Queen Elizabeths at JutlandQ&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...1:03:27Finland's surviving 12-inch coastal artilleryNotable Point
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...1:33:13Accounts of Nelson's 16-inch shells destroying aircraftNotable Point
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...1:40:15Why rapid firing blisters paint on naval gun barrelsQ&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...1:41:17Six-inch shell damage and Graf Spee's protection at the River PlateNotable Point
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...1:58:51The estimated weight penalty of the 15-inch/50Q&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...2:47:18Why liquid gun propellant proved troublesomeQ&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...2:55:38Proof charges and testing naval guns to destructionQ&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...3:00:05Cordite was a family of evolving propellantsQ&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...3:02:08The final disposal of Salamis's monitor gunsQ&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...3:11:20Bismarck's success was not needed for a 15-inch German twin refitQ&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...4:05:41Reloading limits in a hypothetical 20-inch-gun battleshipNotable Point
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...4:09:01Two forward turrets would improve Deutschland's layoutQ&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...4:32:40VT fuzes saved magazine space and engagement timeNotable Point
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...4:54:16The King George V class added a third battleship gun caliberQ&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...4:54:47The Royal Navy's many medium-caliber gun systemsNotable Point
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...4:56:23Why spare naval guns could not immediately rearm the ArmyNotable Point
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...5:32:17Henderson and the Dido class's 5.25-inch compromiseQ&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...5:42:29Would a Howe testbed need Vanguard's 15-inch turret?Q&A
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...5:44:45Nelson's heavy guns and radar-assisted anti-aircraft fireNotable Point
- Bruships 154: Ship-Shape's Scandi Ship 2024... answering naval history questions...6:01:49Sensors and submarine screening in a battleship surface actionNotable Point
- Hearts of Oak: First Rate Ships of the Line - Key Ships Series 9, Ships 23:57Broadside weight mattered more than gun count aloneNotable Point
- Hearts of Oak: First Rate Ships of the Line - Key Ships Series 9, Ships 241:29Santisima Trinidad and the pursuit of maximum firepowerChapter
- Naval History Live... The Ships of the Wooden Wall(1781)54:28A 74's gunports did not settle her armamentNotable Point
- IJN Doctrine in Carrier form... The Shōkaku class22:49Trading cruiser guns for carrier protectionNotable Point
- IJN Doctrine in Carrier form... The Shōkaku class1:11:57Yamato's 18-inch guns as a deterrent design analogyNotable Point
- Günther Lütjens: The Bismarck's Admiral for its Final Mission49:22Karlsruhe's design weaknesses on a world cruiseNotable Point
- Günther Lütjens: The Bismarck's Admiral for its Final Mission1:55:28Chilean Reefer draws Gneisenau into an expensive fightNotable Point
- Günther Lütjens: The Bismarck's Admiral for its Final Mission2:29:16Fire discipline and the decision not to pursue Prince of WalesChapter
- Bruships 153: Naval History Questions Answered & Boxes being Packed... still, there are more books!23:05Warspite versus Yamato at nightQ&A
- Bruships 153: Naval History Questions Answered & Boxes being Packed... still, there are more books!53:04North Carolina Scheme F in wartimeQ&A
- Bruships 153: Naval History Questions Answered & Boxes being Packed... still, there are more books!1:07:12A six-turret H-class battleship against MontanaQ&A
- Bruships 153: Naval History Questions Answered & Boxes being Packed... still, there are more books!1:17:57Standardizing the Royal Navy on the 4.7-inch gunQ&A
- Bruships 153: Naval History Questions Answered & Boxes being Packed... still, there are more books!1:42:39Tiger-era 9.2-inch cruisersQ&A
- Bruships 153: Naval History Questions Answered & Boxes being Packed... still, there are more books!1:57:32The last battleships in a world without World War IIQ&A
- Bruships 153: Naval History Questions Answered & Boxes being Packed... still, there are more books!1:59:25Why an armor belt buys time rather than invulnerabilityQ&A
- Bruships 153: Naval History Questions Answered & Boxes being Packed... still, there are more books!2:35:20The N3's 16.5-inch gunQ&A
- Bruships 153: Naval History Questions Answered & Boxes being Packed... still, there are more books!2:41:42Designing a battleship in a peaceful 1942Q&A
- Bruships 153: Naval History Questions Answered & Boxes being Packed... still, there are more books!2:47:11Bismarck at Savo Island rangeQ&A
- Bruships 153: Naval History Questions Answered & Boxes being Packed... still, there are more books!3:10:01Estimating the weight of 20-inch naval shellsQ&A
- Bruships 153: Naval History Questions Answered & Boxes being Packed... still, there are more books!3:38:04German 17-inch guns and the British responseQ&A
- Bruships 153: Naval History Questions Answered & Boxes being Packed... still, there are more books!3:51:00How to refit Hood in the late 1930sQ&A
- Naval History Live: Operations Tiger and Splice53:18South Dakota-class turret troubleQ&A
- Naval History Live: Operations Tiger and Splice2:26:54Why Malta did not receive 15-inch coastal gunsQ&A
- Bruships 152: Patreon July Premiers Announcement, Special Guests & Naval History Questions Answered3:05:27Why a close-range opening at Jutland is unrealisticQ&A
- Bruships 152: Patreon July Premiers Announcement, Special Guests & Naval History Questions Answered3:11:21Ammunition handling and British battlecruiser losses at JutlandNotable Point
- Bruships 152: Patreon July Premiers Announcement, Special Guests & Naval History Questions Answered3:14:45The 9.2- and 9.4-inch pre-dreadnought sweet spotQ&A
- Check Campaign 18: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign3:47Destroyer and cruiser convoy attackNotable Point
- Check Campaign 18: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign23:02Heavy cruisers withdraw from a battleshipNotable Point
- Check Campaign 18: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign44:23Why battleship rankings hide design tradeoffsNotable Point
- Check Campaign 18: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:32:26Destroyer screens and sensible battery targetsNotable Point
- Check Campaign 18: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:34:38Long-range guns and the politics of modernizationNotable Point
- Check Campaign 18: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:22:46The survivability of a 90,000-ton battleshipNotable Point
- Check Campaign 18: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:36:57Plunging fire and the point to abandon shipNotable Point
- Check Campaign 18: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:49:58Modernizing the Revenge II battleshipsNotable Point
- Check Campaign 18: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:57:34A complementary 18-inch-gun battleshipNotable Point
- Check Campaign 17: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign17:47Speed margin trades closure for gunnery accuracyNotable Point
- Check Campaign 17: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:44:25Pursuit geometry over broadside firepowerNotable Point
- Bruships 151: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Vote12:04Automated loading before DreadnoughtQ&A
- Bruships 151: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Vote16:33Attributing Bismarck's fatal hit on HoodQ&A
- Bruships 151: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Vote32:44How automated twin turrets make ships largerQ&A
- Bruships 151: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Vote38:59Turning the Tribal class into an early DaringQ&A
- Bruships 151: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Vote55:38An Atlanta-style Dido needs a larger cruiser hullQ&A
- Bruships 151: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Vote1:07:16An 18-inch R class reshapes treaty limitsQ&A
- Bruships 151: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Vote1:10:09Why gunfire can sink ships through the waterlineQ&A
- Bruships 151: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Vote1:18:08Rate of fire versus an 18-inch shellQ&A
- Bruships 151: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Vote2:45:06An all-forward King George V armamentQ&A
- Bruships 151: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Vote2:47:13Why Vanguard would reject American 16-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships 151: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Vote3:31:26The cost of sixteen 14-inch guns on King George VQ&A
- Bruships 151: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Vote3:36:24Battleship turrets as Gibraltar batteriesQ&A
- Bruships 151: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Vote4:01:45Why continuous battleship development favors radar gunneryQ&A
- Bruships 151: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Vote4:05:57Washington joins Hood at Denmark StraitQ&A
- Evolution of Carrier Air Groups 1918-2024: A Discussion49:09Carrier reconnaissance enables battle-line gunneryNotable Point
- Treaty Era Aircraft Carriers: A Discussion24:24Lexington's eight-inch guns and the case for escortsNotable Point
- Check Campaign 16: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign3:12Turning a battlecruiser hull into a heavy cruiserNotable Point
- Check Campaign 16: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign15:06Trading propulsion efficiency and shell weight for rangeNotable Point
- Check Campaign 16: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign45:09Why a battle line needs combined firepowerNotable Point
- Check Campaign 16: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:04:25How destroyer guns can force cruiser growthNotable Point
- Check Campaign 16: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:11:07British gun calibre choices and nine-gun salvosQ&A
- Check Campaign 16: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:21:54Why 20-inch guns make fire-control errors costlyNotable Point
- Check Campaign 16: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:53:32Heavy cruisers as a second line behind battleshipsNotable Point
- Check Campaign 16: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:54:56Range control beats nominal calibre - until a magazine explodesChapter
- Check Campaign 16: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:29:11Is an extra half-inch of gun calibre worthwhile?Q&A
- Check Campaign 16: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:36:54Modernizing a battleship within its weight limitsNotable Point
- Bruships 150: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Suggestions Kicks Off10:17Automation in a no-treaty Royal NavyQ&A
- Bruships 150: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Suggestions Kicks Off20:07Argentina's Leander-pattern triple turretQ&A
- Bruships 150: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Suggestions Kicks Off20:25A 40,000-ton F3-layout NelsonQ&A
- Bruships 150: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Suggestions Kicks Off43:55Why £200 million in 1937 arrives too lateQ&A
- Bruships 150: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Suggestions Kicks Off1:10:12Keeping a 16.5-inch gun program aliveQ&A
- Bruships 150: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Suggestions Kicks Off1:16:27The dubious appeal of a 10-inch treaty cruiser gunQ&A
- Bruships 150: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Suggestions Kicks Off1:33:18If the first carrier battle became a night gunfightQ&A
- Bruships 150: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Suggestions Kicks Off1:36:00Lexington's eight-inch gun problemQ&A
- Bruships 150: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Suggestions Kicks Off1:39:50Why Unicorn should not carry 8-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships 150: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Suggestions Kicks Off2:27:26Why multiple mounts reached smaller guns slowlyQ&A
- Bruships 150: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Suggestions Kicks Off2:52:42The displacement cost of triple-gun RenownsQ&A
- Bruships 150: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Suggestions Kicks Off3:14:24Why a naval 5-inch gun is too large for a normal tankQ&A
- Bruships 150: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Suggestions Kicks Off3:15:54A 1950s modernization for HMS TigerQ&A
- Bruships 150: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Suggestions Kicks Off3:17:24Two modernized Tigers against ScharnhorstQ&A
- Bruships 150: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Suggestions Kicks Off3:23:46Why an LCS cannot simply take a 4.5-inch gunQ&A
- Bruships 150: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Suggestions Kicks Off3:41:37Chatfield's influence on King George V armamentQ&A
- Bruships 150: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Suggestions Kicks Off3:50:59Triple-turret Queen Elizabeths at JutlandQ&A
- Bruships 150: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Suggestions Kicks Off3:54:02How twelve-gun British battleships reshape the arms raceQ&A
- Check Campaign 15: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign40:19Close-range 2-inch fire against torpedo boatsNotable Point
- Check Campaign 15: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign56:55An 85,000-ton battleship built around overwhelming firepowerNotable Point
- Check Campaign 15: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:14:29Secondary batteries turn battleships into anti-destroyer screensChapter
- Check Campaign 15: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:25:09Ammunition storage for an enormous secondary batteryQ&A
- Check Campaign 15: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:42:18Closing the range can surrender a fire-control advantageNotable Point
- Check Campaign 15: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:38:39An Alaska-inspired cruiser meets the game's hull limitsChapter
- Bruships 149: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Ends3:51Triple-turret County cruiser tradeoffsQ&A
- Bruships 149: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Ends12:47How HMS Ajax won against an Italian squadronQ&A
- Bruships 149: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Ends1:07:04Repulse alongside Renown at the Lofoten actionQ&A
- Bruships 149: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Ends1:11:33Lion-class guns and maximum practicable rangeQ&A
- Bruships 149: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Ends1:25:37Des Moines-class cruisers at JutlandQ&A
- Bruships 149: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Ends1:41:36Lion-class turrets, resources, and Yamato intelligenceQ&A
- Bruships 149: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Ends1:49:36Two Alsaces against two LionsQ&A
- Bruships 149: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Ends1:55:45Autoloaders and warship design pressureQ&A
- Bruships 149: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Ends2:02:53Loose liners and naval-gun maintenanceQ&A
- Bruships 149: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Ends2:04:54Scaling battleship guns to an Imperial Star DestroyerQ&A
- Bruships 149: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Ends2:10:13When 105 mm guns suffice against destroyersQ&A
- Bruships 149: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Ends2:30:29Why Lion kept a 45-calibre sixteen-inch gunQ&A
- Bruships 149: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Ends2:42:32How rivals would answer a British battleship autoloaderQ&A
- Bruships 149: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Ends3:45:09Why convert Hawkins to six-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships 149: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Ends4:02:13Whether postwar super-battleships would lose gunsQ&A
- Taranto Zero: Japan joins WWII on side of Britain in June 1940 - Patreon Alternate History1:36:40Combined carrier groups hunt German surface raidersChapter
- Taranto Zero: Japan joins WWII on side of Britain in June 1940 - Patreon Alternate History1:40:10Hood's loss and the limits of comparing fleet strengthNotable Point
- Bruships 148: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Begins14:43Eighteen-inch capital ships and Washington treaty pressureQ&A
- Bruships 148: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Begins35:45Tennessee refit five-inch gun arcsQ&A
- Bruships 148: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Begins38:55What supporting cruisers could add at Denmark StraitQ&A
- Bruships 148: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Begins51:31Roberts-class monitors and the spare-gun explanationQ&A
- Bruships 148: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Begins1:10:09Why an eighteen-inch gun has no clean development priceQ&A
- Bruships 148: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Begins1:20:33Why eight-inch guns need not pierce Bismarck's beltQ&A
- Bruships 148: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Begins1:32:16Triple 13.5-inch turrets on the Lion-class hullQ&A
- Bruships 148: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Begins2:07:11The case for a 16.5-inch battleship gunNotable Point
- Bruships 148: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Begins3:38:53Shell splash dyes versus colored muzzle flashesQ&A
- Admiral Fisher no longer replaces Admiral Battenberg as First Sea Lord in November 1914...1:13:28A Fisher-class fast-battleship memorialNotable Point
- Admiral Fisher no longer replaces Admiral Battenberg as First Sea Lord in November 1914...1:54:50Jutland, intelligence, and time to finish the battleNotable Point
- Admiral Fisher no longer replaces Admiral Battenberg as First Sea Lord in November 1914...2:01:09Battenberg and shell quality before JutlandNotable Point
- Admiral Fisher no longer replaces Admiral Battenberg as First Sea Lord in November 1914...2:09:28The postwar legacy of an 18-inch-gun fleetChapter
- Patreon 102: Zeroes over the Med! Japan joins the Britain & Free powers on 25th of June 1940...3:18:45Would cruisers grow beyond 12-inch guns?Q&A
- Check Campaign 13: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:46:38Combat results expose warship design flawsNotable Point
- Check Campaign 13: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:48:23What heavy shells can do to destroyersNotable Point
- Check Campaign 13: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:52:14Speed and smoke do not guarantee escapeNotable Point
- Check Campaign 13: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:19:46Refitting a battleship for long-range gunfireNotable Point
- Patreon 101: If Lord Fisher died in Jan 1914, how does Prince Louis of Battenberg perform as 1SL?2:29:31Could Cradock reverse the battlecruiser fleet's gunnery culture?Q&A
- Patreon 101: If Lord Fisher died in Jan 1914, how does Prince Louis of Battenberg perform as 1SL?3:03:54How a Coronel victory could reshape the Hawkins classNotable Point
- Suggest Series Name Please: Comment Response video with a twist10:21Why battleship turret count affected survivabilityQ&A
- Check Campaign 12: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign28:06Designing a sixteen-gun battleshipNotable Point
- Check Campaign 12: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign43:10What the early Tribal-class armament was built to fightNotable Point
- Check Campaign 12: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign45:32Rapid-fire guns and the danger of torpedo magazinesNotable Point
- Check Campaign 12: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:28:24Jutland shell failures and quality controlNotable Point
- Bruships 146: Naval History Questions, Boxes Getting Packed & Lego Getting Built21:14Why obsolete shell tests concealed a gunnery problemQ&A
- Bruships 146: Naval History Questions, Boxes Getting Packed & Lego Getting Built24:41What an age-of-sail three-pounder would do to a medieval cogQ&A
- Bruships 146: Naval History Questions, Boxes Getting Packed & Lego Getting Built29:37Fitting three superfiring twin turrets forward on a battleshipQ&A
- Bruships 146: Naval History Questions, Boxes Getting Packed & Lego Getting Built37:22Why spare 15-inch turrets defined HMS VanguardQ&A
- Bruships 146: Naval History Questions, Boxes Getting Packed & Lego Getting Built52:53Why projected German 42 cm gun figures disagreeQ&A
- Bruships 146: Naval History Questions, Boxes Getting Packed & Lego Getting Built1:08:32What a fifth triple turret changes for BelfastQ&A
- Bruships 146: Naval History Questions, Boxes Getting Packed & Lego Getting Built1:10:46What might follow the 1920 South Dakota classQ&A
- Bruships 146: Naval History Questions, Boxes Getting Packed & Lego Getting Built1:15:32Which guns fired star shells at North CapeQ&A
- Bruships 146: Naval History Questions, Boxes Getting Packed & Lego Getting Built1:16:10How Germany might answer foreign 9.2-inch cruisersQ&A
- Bruships 146: Naval History Questions, Boxes Getting Packed & Lego Getting Built1:42:23How oversized guns can trap a cruiser between rolesQ&A
- Bruships 146: Naval History Questions, Boxes Getting Packed & Lego Getting Built2:14:40Why flooded propellant cannot simply be dried and reusedQ&A
- Bruships 146: Naval History Questions, Boxes Getting Packed & Lego Getting Built2:56:38The smallest gun caliber fitted with a proximity fuzeQ&A
- Bruships 146: Naval History Questions, Boxes Getting Packed & Lego Getting Built4:27:43Why 10-inch County cruisers erase the 12-inch cruiser nicheQ&A
- Bruships 146: Naval History Questions, Boxes Getting Packed & Lego Getting Built4:39:28Why cruiser gun caliber follows naval doctrineQ&A
- Battle of Valparaíso(1814): Where Glory dies at the feet of Professionalism & Gossip!1:00:50British rearmament gave Essex a long-gun batteryNotable Point
- Battle of Valparaíso(1814): Where Glory dies at the feet of Professionalism & Gossip!1:01:23Phoebe paired a long service record with deceptive gun-count labelsNotable Point
- Battle of Valparaíso(1814): Where Glory dies at the feet of Professionalism & Gossip!2:07:10Essex's casualty figures show how her gun crews were disabledNotable Point
- Check Campaign 11: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:17:20Why bigger battleship guns were not automatically betterQ&A
- Check Campaign 11: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:21:47Why battleships carried heavy secondary batteriesNotable Point
- Check Campaign 11: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:16:11Why closing a defended strait can simplify enemy gunneryNotable Point
- Check Campaign 11: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:17:58How repeated battles can widen a fleet's quality advantageNotable Point
- Check Campaign 11: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:19:46Matching gun power to targets in a fleet actionNotable Point
- Bruships 145: Naval History Questions Answered & Will it be lego building or book boxing?32:24Why a postwar Lion still needs nine 16-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships 145: Naval History Questions Answered & Will it be lego building or book boxing?1:25:54Why more cruiser guns can mean less firepowerQ&A
- Bruships 145: Naval History Questions Answered & Will it be lego building or book boxing?1:34:36Why autoloading would not produce single-gun battleship turretsQ&A
- Bruships 145: Naval History Questions Answered & Will it be lego building or book boxing?2:00:22Why twin mounts were harder for smaller naval gunsQ&A
- Bruships 145: Naval History Questions Answered & Will it be lego building or book boxing?2:16:18Why super-dreadnought development was inevitableQ&A
- Bruships 145: Naval History Questions Answered & Will it be lego building or book boxing?3:16:52How early twin-turret cruisers could accelerate gun growthQ&A
- Bruships 145: Naval History Questions Answered & Will it be lego building or book boxing?3:30:50Which guns would arm new British monitors?Q&A
- Bruships 145: Naval History Questions Answered & Will it be lego building or book boxing?4:30:35An F3-influenced King George V with 15-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships 145: Naval History Questions Answered & Will it be lego building or book boxing?4:34:17Why a post-First-World-War K3 points to 16.5-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships 145: Naval History Questions Answered & Will it be lego building or book boxing?4:59:42How low-rate 16-inch production could change the King George V classQ&A
- Bruships 145: Naval History Questions Answered & Will it be lego building or book boxing?5:07:49Could monitors and coastal batteries evade the 16-inch limit?Q&A
- Imperial Star Destroyers if designed by the World's Major Navys in 193831:27Scharnhorst's guns and the status of having a battleshipNotable Point
- Battle of Valparaíso(1814): When Hunting for Glory breaks on the Rocks of Solid Professionalism1:18:22Essex's carronades create a decisive range problemChapter
- Battle of Valparaíso(1814): When Hunting for Glory breaks on the Rocks of Solid Professionalism1:27:54Why an 18-gun sloop could carry more than 18 gunsQ&A
- Battle of Valparaíso(1814): When Hunting for Glory breaks on the Rocks of Solid Professionalism1:28:57Why frigates could not simply mount long 32-pounders everywhereQ&A
- Battle of Valparaíso(1814): When Hunting for Glory breaks on the Rocks of Solid Professionalism1:31:09Broadside weight mattered only inside effective rangeNotable Point
- Battle of Valparaíso(1814): When Hunting for Glory breaks on the Rocks of Solid Professionalism1:37:52Cherub trades carronades for longer-range gunsNotable Point
- Battle of Valparaíso(1814): When Hunting for Glory breaks on the Rocks of Solid Professionalism1:51:10A prisoner exchange confirms Essex's carronade weaknessNotable Point
- Battle of Valparaíso(1814): When Hunting for Glory breaks on the Rocks of Solid Professionalism2:26:19Mast loss and anchoring surrender range controlChapter
- Battle of Valparaíso(1814): When Hunting for Glory breaks on the Rocks of Solid Professionalism2:38:08Could USS Constitution fight HMS Victory?Q&A
- Battle of Valparaíso(1814): When Hunting for Glory breaks on the Rocks of Solid Professionalism2:40:09Long guns dominate the dead calmNotable Point
- Battle of Valparaíso(1814): When Hunting for Glory breaks on the Rocks of Solid Professionalism2:42:28Damage breaks Essex's command system before surrenderNotable Point
- Battle of Valparaíso(1814): When Hunting for Glory breaks on the Rocks of Solid Professionalism2:51:37The casualty and damage totals reveal the range mismatchNotable Point
- Bruships 144: Some Books(Can't Find Lego Cam Sorry) & Naval History Questions1:11:41Why peacetime firing rules do not define wartime capabilityNotable Point
- Bruships 144: Some Books(Can't Find Lego Cam Sorry) & Naval History Questions2:39:05How Hawkins-class cruisers could reverse CoronelQ&A
- Bruships 144: Some Books(Can't Find Lego Cam Sorry) & Naval History Questions2:53:31What happened to the Royal Navy's 18-inch guns after FuriousQ&A
- Bruships 144: Some Books(Can't Find Lego Cam Sorry) & Naval History Questions3:39:44How 18-inch guns would reshape the Admiral classQ&A
- Bruships 144: Some Books(Can't Find Lego Cam Sorry) & Naval History Questions4:03:41Why extreme gun elevation does not guarantee better battleship fireQ&A
- The Royal Navy's Forgotten Lost Battleship Generation: Key Ship Series 8 - Ships 615:18The 1927 designs search for a minimum viable battleshipChapter
- The Royal Navy's Forgotten Lost Battleship Generation: Key Ship Series 8 - Ships 622:37Missing sixteen-inch studies expose gaps in the design recordNotable Point
- The Royal Navy's Forgotten Lost Battleship Generation: Key Ship Series 8 - Ships 627:06Design 16A favors twin-turret survivability at treaty displacementChapter
- The Royal Navy's Forgotten Lost Battleship Generation: Key Ship Series 8 - Ships 632:38Fourteen-inch designs trade armor and weight for speedNotable Point
- The Royal Navy's Forgotten Lost Battleship Generation: Key Ship Series 8 - Ships 637:32Small-gun treaty battleships face a fatal mismatchChapter
- The Royal Navy's Forgotten Lost Battleship Generation: Key Ship Series 8 - Ships 646:00Design 12L hints at a fast battleship fallbackNotable Point
- The Royal Navy's Forgotten Lost Battleship Generation: Key Ship Series 8 - Ships 658:39Chatfield's fourteen-inch gamble points toward a nine-gun alternativeNotable Point
- The Royal Navy's Forgotten Lost Battleship Generation: Key Ship Series 8 - Ships 61:01:49Diving-shell research creates a gunnery safe-zone dilemmaChapter
- Patreon 99: What would Imperial Star Destroyers look if designed by 1938 USN, RN, KM, IJN, RM & SN?34:58Why Warspite would be dangerous to BismarckQ&A
- Patreon 99: What would Imperial Star Destroyers look if designed by 1938 USN, RN, KM, IJN, RM & SN?2:49:15Sixteen 5.25-inch guns and the limits of extra firepowerNotable Point
- Patreon 99: What would Imperial Star Destroyers look if designed by 1938 USN, RN, KM, IJN, RM & SN?2:58:02Cleveland versus Town-class cruiser rate of fireQ&A
- Check Campaign 10: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign20:26A heavy secondary battery keeps escorts awayQ&A
- Check Campaign 10: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign25:39A twelve-gun Queen Elizabeth counterfactualNotable Point
- Check Campaign 10: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign44:20Break up destroyer attacks before torpedo rangeChapter
- Check Campaign 10: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:15:51A controlled action builds destroyer experienceNotable Point
- Check Campaign 10: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:49:48Torpedo losses drive a battleship refitChapter
- Check Campaign 10: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:09:11Target the ships that pose the immediate threatNotable Point
- Bruships 143: Some Book Tales and Naval History Questions Answered27:50Triple and quadruple turrets were feasible before 1914Q&A
- Bruships 143: Some Book Tales and Naval History Questions Answered39:16Why early cruisers carried guns wherever they couldQ&A
- Bruships 143: Some Book Tales and Naval History Questions Answered1:09:56A 5.9-inch Hipper would not become a viable light cruiserQ&A
- Bruships 143: Some Book Tales and Naval History Questions Answered1:10:53The Royal Navy could have developed the 5.5-inch gun furtherQ&A
- Bruships 143: Some Book Tales and Naval History Questions Answered1:11:07Seven thousand extra tons transform King George VQ&A
- Bruships 143: Some Book Tales and Naval History Questions Answered1:35:32Multiple 18-inch British ships rewrite the treaty ceilingQ&A
- Bruships 143: Some Book Tales and Naval History Questions Answered1:38:38Triple turrets on Tiger accelerate capital-ship firepowerQ&A
- Bruships 143: Some Book Tales and Naval History Questions Answered1:51:47Guaranteeing a one-hit battleship disablement takes extreme weaponsQ&A
- Bruships 143: Some Book Tales and Naval History Questions Answered2:01:23An L/60 pom-pom could combine range and rate of fireQ&A
- Bruships 143: Some Book Tales and Naval History Questions Answered2:23:13Tribal-class gunnery rewards maneuver and rate of fireNotable Point
- Bruships 143: Some Book Tales and Naval History Questions Answered3:11:22Four triple turrets beat a mixed German batteryQ&A
- Bruships 143: Some Book Tales and Naval History Questions Answered3:29:34Why the King George V class mixed quadruple and twin turretsQ&A
- Bruships 143: Some Book Tales and Naval History Questions Answered3:51:48Nine 9.2-inch guns turn Courageous into a heavy cruiserNotable Point
- Bruships 143: Some Book Tales and Naval History Questions Answered4:09:57Later missiles preserve balanced gun batteriesQ&A
- Battle of Blackett Strait: Victory goes to those who are prepared for Battle50:18Cleveland firepower expands bombardment choicesNotable Point
- Check Campaign 9: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign6:52Destroyer refits expose national gun-layout differencesChapter
- Check Campaign 9: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign52:40A super-battleship's secondary battery is built to break the enemy screenNotable Point
- Giulio Cesare: The Lucky Ceasar of the Regia Marina, Key Ships Series 8 – Ship 55:34Why Giulio Cesare became Italy's lucky battleshipNotable Point
- Giulio Cesare: The Lucky Ceasar of the Regia Marina, Key Ships Series 8 – Ship 519:39The Conte di Cavour class as originally builtChapter
- Giulio Cesare: The Lucky Ceasar of the Regia Marina, Key Ships Series 8 – Ship 533:23Rebuilding Giulio Cesare into a 27-knot battleshipChapter
- Giulio Cesare: The Lucky Ceasar of the Regia Marina, Key Ships Series 8 – Ship 548:50Fire-control quality undermined by inconsistent Italian shellsNotable Point
- Giulio Cesare: The Lucky Ceasar of the Regia Marina, Key Ships Series 8 – Ship 550:06Giulio Cesare and Warspite duel at CalabriaChapter
- Battle of Blackett Strait2:50:20Radar, cruiser salvos, and Waller's torpedoes decide the night actionChapter
- Battle of Blackett Strait2:59:25The force resumes its main task and bombards Vila StanmoreChapter
- Battle of Blackett Strait3:05:32Why did Japan favor torpedoes before gunfire at night?Q&A
- The Age of the Seaplane Carrier: Why WWI was the true first Naval Aviation War17:13Reconnaissance mattered more than early bomb loadsChapter
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books27:10Why armed merchant ships carried carronadesQ&A
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books40:11Sending HMS Victory back before the Spanish ArmadaQ&A
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books1:04:38How a major refit changed a sailing warship's gunsQ&A
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books1:05:29How much heavier a 9.2-inch cruiser shell wasQ&A
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books2:46:15Emden's proposed twin-gun batteryQ&A
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books3:30:59A doubtful story about improvised cannon ammunitionQ&A
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books4:18:08Could Neptune lead to a successor cruiser?Q&A
- HMS Revenge(1915): the Reliable Pikeman of the Royal Navys Battle Line!6:01Big-gun competition beyond GermanyNotable Point
- HMS Revenge(1915): the Reliable Pikeman of the Royal Navys Battle Line!32:20Gun caliber, barrel pools, and fleet logisticsNotable Point
- HMS Revenge(1915): the Reliable Pikeman of the Royal Navys Battle Line!46:39Revenge's accurate fire at JutlandChapter
- HMS Revenge(1915): the Reliable Pikeman of the Royal Navys Battle Line!51:03From Jutland survivor to Scapa Flow flagshipNotable Point
- Bruships 141: Some Cool Books & Naval History Questions Answered3:35:44Why peacetime firing limits do not prove a gun cannot fireNotable Point
- HMS Furious: Finding Virtue and Utility in Evolution3:32Fisher's two-gun battlecruiser design problemChapter
- Check Campaign 8: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign27:16A Lion-class major refit balances armor and firepowerChapter
- Check Campaign 8: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign38:22Keeping a fast battleship at 32 knotsNotable Point
- Check Campaign 8: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign48:18The campaign fleet ignores Washington treaty limitsNotable Point
- Check Campaign 8: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign48:46British and American battleship guns reach different balance pointsNotable Point
- Check Campaign 8: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:19:42Radar, guns, and mine warfare must develop togetherNotable Point
- Check Campaign 8: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:32:56A Rodney-hulled super-battleship escorts itselfChapter
- Bruships 140 - Patreon Suggestions, Some Interesting Books (Hopefully) & Lots of Naval History Qs!1:33:38Heavier Nelson shells would require a deliberate gun reworkQ&A
- Bruships 140 - Patreon Suggestions, Some Interesting Books (Hopefully) & Lots of Naval History Qs!2:38:14Britain experimented with battleship guns in anti-aircraft defenseQ&A
- Bruships 140 - Patreon Suggestions, Some Interesting Books (Hopefully) & Lots of Naval History Qs!4:24:57The 4.5-inch Mark 5 offered a strong dual-purpose baselineQ&A
- Senator Tilman's Washington Naval Treaty58:18A treaty ceiling redirects British gun developmentNotable Point
- Senator Tilman's Washington Naval Treaty1:18:50American cruisers scout for the battle fleetNotable Point
- Senator Tilman's Washington Naval Treaty1:30:17One 15-inch/50 project could rearm the British fleetNotable Point
- Patreon 98: The World Spins on a Coin: The February Revolution Fails & Imperial Russia survives WWI1:38:01Why the battleship race jumps to 18-inch gunsNotable Point
- Patreon 98: The World Spins on a Coin: The February Revolution Fails & Imperial Russia survives WWI2:06:02Cruiser and carrier limits in a qualitative treatyChapter
- Patreon 98: The World Spins on a Coin: The February Revolution Fails & Imperial Russia survives WWI2:26:55Would qualitative limits encourage big-gun submarines?Q&A
- Check Campaign 7: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign10:20Concentrating cruisers against a Russian battleshipChapter
- Check Campaign 7: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign38:21Five heavy cruisers attack a Chinese battleshipChapter
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered18:43Why Japanese battleships developed pagoda mastsNotable Point
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered23:42Why Washington fought Kirishima at close rangeQ&A
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered24:40What a Tiger-standard Renown might have gainedQ&A
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered32:46A 1970s battleship built around rate of fireQ&A
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered38:24A faster Nelson class with triple 15-inch turretsQ&A
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered40:13What counted as capital-ship night-fighting rangeQ&A
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered1:15:34The weight cost of twelve guns in the King George V classQ&A
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered1:18:28Why modern navies favor single gun mountsQ&A
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered1:23:54A refitted G3 against BismarckQ&A
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered1:38:43What almost 3,000 tons could buy a Tribal-class destroyerQ&A
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered1:41:46How a British two-inch gun progression reshapes WashingtonQ&A
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered2:09:50Why N3 gun performance cannot be predicted preciselyQ&A
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered2:20:16How G3 and N3 would raise German battleship calibersQ&A
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered2:27:52What counts as plunging naval gunfireQ&A
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered2:32:56Why an underwater hit on Hood is not plunging fireQ&A
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered2:35:07Weight and budget limits on automatic six-inch turretsQ&A
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered3:05:41How a 9.2-inch Hawkins changes cruiser treatiesQ&A
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered4:32:25Guns and lasers against future drone attacksQ&A
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered4:34:48Where to see surviving British 15-inch gunsQ&A
- Naval Aviation in 1914: It's Standing Before War Began12:30Cruiser shell use created a quality-control advantageNotable Point
- Check Campaign 6: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign17:13Heavy secondary batteries against cruisers and destroyersNotable Point
- Check Campaign 6: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:12:55Refitting new battleships before allies copy themChapter
- Bruships 138: Random Naval History Books from Me, Random Naval History Questions from You!1:42:45Why 9.2-inch guns offer a useful cruiser balanceQ&A
- Bruships 138: Random Naval History Books from Me, Random Naval History Questions from You!1:45:40What larger guns would change for French cruisersQ&A
- Bruships 138: Random Naval History Books from Me, Random Naval History Questions from You!1:53:38Where modern gun-based night attacks might still workQ&A
- Bruships 138: Random Naval History Books from Me, Random Naval History Questions from You!2:30:36Why larger guns would not solve Surcouf's firing limitsQ&A
- Bruships 138: Random Naval History Books from Me, Random Naval History Questions from You!2:40:47Why the ten-inch gun is an awkward cruiser weaponQ&A
- Bruships 138: Random Naval History Books from Me, Random Naval History Questions from You!2:49:10What reliable autoloaders could do for German capital shipsQ&A
- Bruships 138: Random Naval History Books from Me, Random Naval History Questions from You!3:28:39Why an automatic 6-inch gun could displace the 5.25-inch caliberQ&A
- Check Campaign 5: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign15:12Six dreadnoughts demonstrate overwhelming overmatchNotable Point
- Check Campaign 5: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign40:04A 27-knot battle squadron hunts in 1914Notable Point
- Check Campaign 5: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:02:01Does barrel length change magazine requirements?Q&A
- Bruships 137: Naval Aviation Books Discussed & Naval History Questions Answered2:30:09Why the Royal Navy valued more gun turretsQ&A
- Twelve Odd Ships28:08Surcouf and the cruiser-submarine glass jawChapter
- Patreon 96: Odd ship designs that actually work.1:12:47Why Surcouf's 8-inch guns offered little safety from escortsNotable Point
- Patreon 96: Odd ship designs that actually work.1:18:30Why did Surcouf need several minutes before firing?Q&A
- Check Campaign 4: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:25:49A modernized battle line overwhelms Russian pre-dreadnoughtsChapter
- Check Campaign 3: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign58:02Crossfire punishes an isolated battleship and its unsupported cruisersNotable Point
- Check Campaign 3: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:19:19Range and secondary batteries shape the terms of an actionNotable Point
- Bruships 136: Some Books & Some Questions Answered1:38:41Balancing shell weight and muzzle velocityQ&A
- Bruships 136: Some Books & Some Questions Answered1:54:52Why Iowa overwhelmingly outmatches BismarckQ&A
- Patreon 95: Helios on Route- A lucky development of helicopters & appropriate tech in 1930s2:43:00Guided shells could change destroyer gun calibresNotable Point
- Patreon 95: Helios on Route- A lucky development of helicopters & appropriate tech in 1930s2:48:48F3 designs change the fleet's gun standardNotable Point
- Patreon 95: Helios on Route- A lucky development of helicopters & appropriate tech in 1930s3:05:52Could shell guidance survive firing acceleration?Q&A
- Bruships 135: Japan again... Can I get through 12 books this time31:14A 4.5-inch Dido trades range for volume rather than transforming battlesQ&A
- Bruships 135: Japan again... Can I get through 12 books this time48:57A two-calibre treaty forces every navy into awkward compromisesQ&A
- Bruships 135: Japan again... Can I get through 12 books this time2:27:54N3 and South Dakota balance armor, shell weight, and volume of fireQ&A
- Patreon 94: The different types of Aircraft Carriers/Seaplane Carriers/Hybrids5:14Why gun-and-flight-deck hybrids sacrifice both rolesNotable Point
- Patreon 94: The different types of Aircraft Carriers/Seaplane Carriers/Hybrids23:16Could surplus capital-ship turrets arm new cruisers?Q&A
- Patreon 94: The different types of Aircraft Carriers/Seaplane Carriers/Hybrids46:20Royal Navy carriers sometimes fought with their own gunsNotable Point
- Patreon 94: The different types of Aircraft Carriers/Seaplane Carriers/Hybrids2:37:47Why battleships abandoned five main turretsQ&A
- Conception of Admiral Moffett’s Flight Deck Cruisers & the IJN’s construction of Ryūjō26:26Why the hybrid inherited both ships' weaknessesNotable Point
- Bruships 134: Imperial Japanese Navy Books18:49Why nobody wanted Courageous and Glorious as gunshipsQ&A
- Bruships 134: Imperial Japanese Navy Books29:19Repairability versus protection in battleship armor beltsQ&A
- Bruships 134: Imperial Japanese Navy Books1:23:42Why a German 5-inch dual-purpose battery was unlikelyQ&A
- Bruships 134: Imperial Japanese Navy Books2:08:31Why twin 7.5-inch turrets make Hawkins much heavierQ&A
- Bruships 134: Imperial Japanese Navy Books2:17:38Fixing the British triple 4-inch mount for dual-purpose useQ&A
- Bruships 134: Imperial Japanese Navy Books2:21:40Nelson's high secondary mounts began with a dual-purpose ideaQ&A
- Bruships 134: Imperial Japanese Navy Books2:30:55Why the Warrior class was not a dreadnought armoured cruiserQ&A
- The Philosophy behind Autoloader Development for Navies0:01Why navies sought automated gun loadingChapter
- The Philosophy behind Autoloader Development for Navies13:43Caliber proliferation multiplies fleet burdensNotable Point
- The Philosophy behind Autoloader Development for Navies16:07Six inches marks the practical hand-loading ceilingNotable Point
- The Philosophy behind Autoloader Development for Navies28:02Why advertised gun rates mislead at seaChapter
- The Philosophy behind Autoloader Development for Navies39:25Firing first creates more chances to disable the enemyNotable Point
- The Philosophy behind Autoloader Development for Navies41:24Balancing shell power against volume of fireNotable Point
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!37:02Tribal-class destroyers with Taffy 3Q&A
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!1:18:58What 9.2-inch guns change in a cruiserQ&A
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!2:14:19Rate of fire versus shell weight in cruiser gunsQ&A
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!2:27:20Naming pre-dreadnought turretsQ&A
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!2:33:43Would triple turrets make Courageous more useful?Q&A
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!2:34:00How unlikely was the historical Denmark Strait resultQ&A
- HMS Princess Beatrix & HMS Queen Emma Landing Ship Infantry(Medium) - When Dutch Ferries go to War12:11From 1,800 passengers to 372 assault troopsChapter
- HMS Princess Beatrix & HMS Queen Emma Landing Ship Infantry(Medium) - When Dutch Ferries go to War39:58Mixed-purpose destroyer guns covered Claymore's risksNotable Point
- The Other 7th of December Harbour Attack: Operation Frankton, aka the Cockleshell Heroes2:45:42Why U.S. designers accepted superimposed secondary gunsQ&A
- Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!16:02Mount weight kept the 4.5-inch gun off the Tribal classQ&A
- Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!30:17A workable 4.5-inch mount would close the Tribal class's high-angle gapQ&A
- Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!42:04Yamato could plausibly carry twelve 16-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!1:10:54Blücher's speed gives her a narrow path against MinotaurQ&A
- Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!1:19:49A 2.4-knot margin lets Blücher choose the firing geometryQ&A
- Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!1:32:31Heavy naval-gun capability disappeared when continuous development stoppedQ&A
- Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!1:47:00Postwar large naval guns refined more than they reinventedQ&A
- Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!2:23:14An Admiral-class carrier could move beyond Eagle's gun patternQ&A
- Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!2:24:42A 1950 British fast battleship would align with American 16-inch logisticsQ&A
- Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!2:33:51Two Alaska-class cruisers would outmatch Scharnhorst and GneisenauQ&A
- Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!3:21:27Destroyers and cruisers suit the Mark 146 AA mountQ&A
- Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!3:31:07The sextuple Bofors mount sought pom-pom volume with Bofors performanceQ&A
- Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!3:34:12A 9.2-inch treaty limit would pull rival cruisers toward the British calibreQ&A
- Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!3:36:08The 9.2-inch gun combined cruiser rate of fire with heavier penetrationQ&A
- Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!3:43:37Loading machinery creates practical naval-gun calibre breakpointsQ&A
- Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!3:45:56Graf Spee's 11-inch shells were poorly matched to thin-skinned cruisersQ&A
- Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!3:48:31Cold War cruisers favored 5-inch dual-purpose guns over automatic 8-inch weaponsQ&A
- Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century?1:11:38Judge a sloop by its mission, not first-rate statusChapter
- Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century?1:16:36Ramming submarines was an escort tacticQ&A
- Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century?1:24:53Flower-class sloops as task-group security shipsNotable Point
- Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century?1:28:30How rolling affected sloop deck-gun fireQ&A
- Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century?2:43:22Why not heavily up-gun River-class patrol ships?Q&A
- Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century?2:59:29Why 40 mm leaves room for better ammunitionNotable Point
- Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century?3:06:26The right OPV gun depends on the fleetQ&A
- Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century?3:13:34Why many NATO patrol ships retain 20 mm gunsQ&A
- HMS Diamond(1950) D35: Presence without Conviction is no Detterence - Key Ship Series 7 Ship 824:16The Daring class's 4.5-inch dual-purpose batteryChapter
- HMS Diamond(1950) D35: Presence without Conviction is no Detterence - Key Ship Series 7 Ship 844:20Big destroyers preserved a cruiser-like imageNotable Point
- Blackburn Blackburn: The Ugliest Eyes of the Fleet Ever Seen - Key Aircraft Series 1 Aircraft 18:33Why the Blackburn Blackburn was a fleet spotterChapter
- HMS Nubian: Most Battle Honours of the Tribal Class - KSS3 S5 Comment Response2:14Why German destroyers adopted 150 mm gunsQ&A
- HMS Enterprise: Tell Me Where You Need Your Royals or Gold Delivered - Key Ships Series 7 Ship 50:03Enterprise and the missing step toward turreted cruisersChapter
- HMS Enterprise: Tell Me Where You Need Your Royals or Gold Delivered - Key Ships Series 7 Ship 515:30Mixed mounts made the new turret a controlled experimentNotable Point
- HMS Enterprise: Tell Me Where You Need Your Royals or Gold Delivered - Key Ships Series 7 Ship 518:31Three twin turrets could preserve a six-gun broadsideNotable Point
- HMS Enterprise: Tell Me Where You Need Your Royals or Gold Delivered - Key Ships Series 7 Ship 522:31Enterprise's crowded stern framed the next design problemNotable Point
- HMS Enterprise: Tell Me Where You Need Your Royals or Gold Delivered - Key Ships Series 7 Ship 549:29A successful turret pointed toward the LeandersNotable Point
- Bruships 133: Questions till the Bru runs out...37:55Low-rate coastal turret production preserves capital-ship skillsQ&A
- Bruships 133: Questions till the Bru runs out...44:27Coastal batteries can be built around full ship-standard turretsQ&A
- Bruships 133: Questions till the Bru runs out...55:39A modern Martello tower becomes a layered sea-and-air defense fortQ&A
- Bruships 133: Questions till the Bru runs out...1:05:26Axis battleship gunnery failures had different national causesQ&A
- Bruships 133: Questions till the Bru runs out...1:21:05A pre-dreadnought can stop a pursuing battlecruiser at close rangeQ&A
- Bruships 133: Questions till the Bru runs out...1:22:10A 40,000-ton King George V could carry four quadruple 14-inch turretsQ&A
- Bruships 133: Questions till the Bru runs out...1:22:29Ten 15-inch guns may outthrow nine 16-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships 133: Questions till the Bru runs out...1:25:17A carrier gun battle turns on speed before it turns on gunsQ&A
- Bruships 133: Questions till the Bru runs out...1:27:58Henderson's 15-inch preference opens two King George V batteriesQ&A
- Bruships 133: Questions till the Bru runs out...1:39:00A dreadnought armored cruiser line can split into battlecruisers and cruisersQ&A
- Bruships 133: Questions till the Bru runs out...1:45:58Radar and rate of fire favor Belfast against TrentoQ&A
- Bruships 133: Questions till the Bru runs out...2:10:17A 12-inch/50 path carries longer guns into later British calibresQ&A
- Bruships 133: Questions till the Bru runs out...2:11:34Surcouf and the M class share a failed cruiser-submarine ideaQ&A
- Bruships 133: Questions till the Bru runs out...2:16:47Why the M-class cruiser-submarine concept was a dead endQ&A
- USS Texas: Always Bigger in Spirit - KSS3 S2 Comment Response1:59USS Texas and the weight of a 14-inch broadsideNotable Point
- USS Texas: Always Bigger in Spirit - KSS3 S2 Comment Response5:36Would a modern nuclear-powered battleship be practical?Q&A
- USS Texas: Always Bigger in Spirit - KSS3 S2 Comment Response8:55Battleships as shore-bombardment platformsNotable Point
- The Royal Navys Response to a 1906 Dante Alighieri35:28Why published gun rates of fire need contextNotable Point
- The Royal Navys Response to a 1906 Dante Alighieri1:05:42Why the simulation adds deck armour, not belt armourNotable Point
- The Royal Navys Response to a 1906 Dante Alighieri1:13:12Gun numbers, salvo fire, and the mathematics of warNotable Point
- The Royal Navys Response to a 1906 Dante Alighieri1:43:05Did Fisher prefer wing turrets themselves?Q&A
- Tillman Class: Dreams of Super Battleships - KSS2 S8 Comment Response22:48The sextuple turret's elegant theory and harsh realityNotable Point
- Scharnhorst Class(1936): Most Valued Player of the German Capital Ships - Key Ships Series 7 Ship 450:11Why the 11-inch gun suited ScharnhorstChapter
- Scharnhorst Class(1936): Most Valued Player of the German Capital Ships - Key Ships Series 7 Ship 453:44Who escalated the Anglo-German gun race?Notable Point
- Scharnhorst Class(1936): Most Valued Player of the German Capital Ships - Key Ships Series 7 Ship 41:01:12How the Royal Navy ground down ScharnhorstChapter
- Bruships 132: Questions till the Milk or Pancreas Runs Out57:51A US Navy fire-control table would improve gunnery accuracyQ&A
- Bruships 132: Questions till the Milk or Pancreas Runs Out1:45:32Eight 16.5-inch guns offer the stronger heavy-battery choiceQ&A
- Bruships 132: Questions till the Milk or Pancreas Runs Out1:46:21A 16.5-inch treaty limit could carry G3 gun work into the Lion classQ&A
- Bruships 132: Questions till the Milk or Pancreas Runs Out1:53:40Britain had the beginnings of a 16-inch Mark II battery for VanguardNotable Point
- Bruships 132: Questions till the Milk or Pancreas Runs Out1:57:19Battleship gun-barrel life depends on charge and powderQ&A
- Bruships 132: Questions till the Milk or Pancreas Runs Out2:08:37Rearming HMS Tiger with 14-inch or 15-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships 132: Questions till the Milk or Pancreas Runs Out2:12:27Large naval guns may return under a new labelQ&A
- Bruships 132: Questions till the Milk or Pancreas Runs Out2:24:15Gun choice for early JMSDF destroyersQ&A
- The Missed Generation - The G3 & N3 classes: KSS2 S2 Comment Response7:14Battlecruisers do not require fewer turretsQ&A
- The Missed Generation - The G3 & N3 classes: KSS2 S2 Comment Response12:12N3 gun caliber and an unknowable service historyQ&A
- The Missed Generation - The G3 & N3 classes: KSS2 S2 Comment Response48:04G3s could set a 16.5-inch treaty limitNotable Point
- The Missed Generation - The G3 & N3 classes: KSS2 S2 Comment Response1:06:32All-forward guns traded stern fire for tactical controlQ&A
- Acacia Class: Batch 1 of World War I's Flower Class - Key Ships Series 7, Ship 29:18Improvised weapons and hard-driven machineryChapter
- Acacia Class: Batch 1 of World War I's Flower Class - Key Ships Series 7, Ship 215:34Foxglove's refit records expose shifting small-ship armamentNotable Point
- Battle of Sinop(1853): The Death Knell or a Useful Patsy?1:33Why Sinop did not simply end the wooden warshipChapter
- Battle of Sinop(1853): The Death Knell or a Useful Patsy?38:16Russian firepower was more than a 722-gun totalChapter
- Battle of Sinop(1853): The Death Knell or a Useful Patsy?42:36Ottoman losses despite shell guns on both sidesChapter
- Battle of Sinop(1853): The Death Knell or a Useful Patsy?1:09:31How a different victor might have changed Sinop’s design lessonNotable Point
- Graf Zeppelin: KSS2 S1 Comment Response13:26Why Graf Zeppelin's raw specifications misleadQ&A
- Graf Zeppelin: KSS2 S1 Comment Response19:49Why six-inch guns seemed rational to German designersQ&A
- Graf Zeppelin: KSS2 S1 Comment Response36:13When carrier gunfire does not prove a design needQ&A
- HMS Renown 1895: KSS1 S10 Comment Response9:46The specialist officers in a Victorian flagship staffNotable Point
- HMS Renown 1895: KSS1 S10 Comment Response16:30Fisher's tests rule out the Dreadnought 10-inch-gun mythNotable 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?3:04Jet aircraft outrange battleship gunsChapter
- HMS Repulse (1892): KSS1 S9 Comment Response1:58Why HMS Dreadnought used ready twelve-inch gunsQ&A
- HMS Repulse (1892): KSS1 S9 Comment Response5:00Using viable alternatives to judge DreadnoughtNotable Point
- HMS Repulse (1892): KSS1 S9 Comment Response18:08A twelve-gun 16.5-inch battleship counterfactualQ&A
- Bruships 131: Battleships...37:28Tribal-class destroyers versus FletchersQ&A
- Bruships 131: Battleships...46:36Would autoloaders favour 18- or 20-inch guns?Q&A
- Bruships 131: Battleships...48:10The fleet effects of a successful British five-inch gunQ&A
- Bruships 131: Battleships...56:41Why twelve guns help a battleship engage two targetsQ&A
- Bruships 131: Battleships...1:40:30Keeping a pre-dreadnought usefulQ&A
- Bruships 131: Battleships...2:14:15Corbett reconstructs Tsushima's confused second phaseChapter
- Bruships 131: Battleships...2:27:59Plunging shellfire and aerial attack stress the same protection problemNotable Point
- New Ironsides: KSS1 S8 Comment Response7:00Why two coastal ironclads might achieve nothingQ&A
- Dante Alighieri: Not Dreadnought but still an Inferno - Key Ships Series 7, Ship 112:10Dante Alighieri versus HMS DreadnoughtChapter
- Operation Berlin (Atlantic) – a Failure of Both Sides?2:01:37Could 11-inch guns penetrate Ramillies's belt?Q&A
- Operation Berlin (Atlantic) – a Failure of Both Sides?2:02:12Ramillies only had to deny the convoy, not sink both raidersNotable Point
- Operation Berlin (Atlantic) – a Failure of Both Sides?2:04:08Could Ramillies engage both German raiders?Q&A
- Operation Berlin (Atlantic) – a Failure of Both Sides?2:20:27Would a 13.5-inch super-dreadnought protect a convoy?Q&A
- Operation Berlin (Atlantic) – a Failure of Both Sides?2:23:33How would an Alaska-class cruiser fare against Scharnhorst?Q&A
- Operation Berlin (Atlantic) – a Failure of Both Sides?2:27:01Could Ramillies's secondary guns damage the German ships?Q&A
- A Naval Historian Reacts to: Battle cruisers in a modern navy… Well a WWII Navy1:02:43Why Hood could dominate earlier dreadnoughtsNotable Point
- A Naval Historian Reacts to: Battle cruisers in a modern navy… Well a WWII Navy1:34:49Could the F3 have been the first fast battleship?Notable Point
- A Naval Historian Reacts to: Battle cruisers in a modern navy… Well a WWII Navy1:39:30Why all-forward guns suit a modernized battleshipNotable Point
- A Naval Historian Reacts to: Battle cruisers in a modern navy… Well a WWII Navy3:20:28Would Hood match Renown against Scharnhorst and Gneisenau?Q&A
- Battle of Tsushima: Fleets at War39:29Torpedo boats could shape a battle before firingNotable Point
- Battle of Tsushima: Fleets at War2:00:58Togo's turn exposed the decisive training gapChapter
- Building A British Super Battleship!3:06A British super-battleship takes shapeChapter
- Building A British Super Battleship!15:28Why the main battery drops to 16.5 inchesNotable Point
- Building A British Super Battleship!18:58Rodney meets an Italian battleship test opponentChapter
- Building A British Super Battleship!24:53Secondary batteries can shape engagement rangeNotable Point
- Building A British Super Battleship!25:56Barbette width links guns, protection, and hull strengthQ&A
- Building A British Super Battleship!28:29A six-inch secondary battery reshapes the shipChapter
- Building A British Super Battleship!38:33Armageddon: rebuilding from the heaviest requirementsChapter
- Building A British Super Battleship!51:24The final Rodney combines speed, heavy guns, and all-around secondary fireChapter
- SMS Seydlitz - The Pivotol 4th German Battlecruiser - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 929:41Seydlitz's armor, 11-inch guns, and secondary batteryChapter
- SMS Seydlitz - The Pivotol 4th German Battlecruiser - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 931:51Why Seydlitz's G6 and G7 torpedoes lagged behind her gunsNotable Point
- SMS Seydlitz - The Pivotol 4th German Battlecruiser - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 943:16Dogger Bank and the magazine fire that changed German practiceChapter
- Bruships 130: Battleships26:30Why Victory survived the approach at TrafalgarQ&A
- Bruships 130: Battleships35:50Choosing between 100 mm and 10.5 cm dual-purpose gunsQ&A
- Bruships 130: Battleships43:20Scaling a British autoloader for the Iowa classQ&A
- Bruships 130: Battleships51:05A layered gun layout for a Type 83 destroyerQ&A
- Bruships 130: Battleships1:49:46Replacing Zumwalt's AGS with updated 8-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships 130: Battleships2:09:47Why railgun metallurgy lags behind the conceptQ&A
- What Happens if 1930s Germany Standardises on the Scharnhorst hull for Capital Ships & Carriers?9:14Narvik exposes destroyer firepower trade-offsNotable Point
- HMS Dreadnought: Key Ship Series 1 Ship 1 Comment Response28:35A fifteen-gun Dreadnought changes the global baselineChapter
- HMS Dreadnought: Key Ship Series 1 Ship 1 Comment Response41:47Superfiring turret blast and sighting hoodsQ&A
- HMS Dreadnought: Key Ship Series 1 Ship 1 Comment Response49:37Peacetime firing limits versus wartime turret riskNotable Point
- Patreon 89: Everything a Scharnhorst - Germany standardises on one hull for Capital ships & Carriers1:26:26Could Vanguard follow-ons reuse R-class turrets?Q&A
- Patreon 89: Everything a Scharnhorst - Germany standardises on one hull for Capital ships & Carriers1:31:12Would Britain arm the Lions with 15-inch guns?Q&A
- Patreon 89: Everything a Scharnhorst - Germany standardises on one hull for Capital ships & Carriers2:39:24A common barbette makes 15-inch conversion possibleNotable Point
- Patreon 89: Everything a Scharnhorst - Germany standardises on one hull for Capital ships & Carriers3:01:50Could spare 11-inch turrets arm large cruisers?Q&A
- Patreon 89: Everything a Scharnhorst - Germany standardises on one hull for Capital ships & Carriers3:19:49How much hull would a fourth Scharnhorst turret require?Q&A
- Patreon 89: Everything a Scharnhorst - Germany standardises on one hull for Capital ships & Carriers3:22:46How would British 14-inch guns fight Yamato?Q&A
- Check Campaign: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign5:16An early battleship exposes stability and armament tradeoffsChapter
- Bruships 129: Travels, Rememberance & Questions from Chat32:17Six-inch volume of fire versus eight-inch theoryQ&A
- Bruships 129: Travels, Rememberance & Questions from Chat46:52Fitting a 9.2-inch gun into an eight-inch mountingQ&A
- Bruships 129: Travels, Rememberance & Questions from Chat55:19Nelson's Trafalgar fleet against the ArmadaQ&A
- Bruships 129: Travels, Rememberance & Questions from Chat1:07:52A treasure fleet or Tribal destroyer against the ArmadaQ&A
- Town Class(1936): Building for Presence - Key Ships Reserve Series, Ship 22:34Why the Town class favored twelve six-inch gunsChapter
- Town Class(1936): Building for Presence - Key Ships Reserve Series, Ship 219:19Six-inch volume of fire could blind heavier shipsNotable Point
- Asahi(1899): Cornerstone of the Six/Six Pland - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 87:07Why Asahi carried fourteen six-inch gunsNotable Point
- Asahi(1899): Cornerstone of the Six/Six Pland - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 814:30Asahi's machinery, armament, and armorChapter
- Asahi(1899): Cornerstone of the Six/Six Pland - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 820:08Heavy-sea fire and standardized gunsChapter
- Asahi(1899): Cornerstone of the Six/Six Pland - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 837:24Asahi's decisive bridge hit in the Yellow SeaChapter
- Asahi(1899): Cornerstone of the Six/Six Pland - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 840:18Asahi at TsushimaChapter
- Asahi(1899): Cornerstone of the Six/Six Pland - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 841:05Command targeting from conning towers to radioNotable Point
- Unrotated Projectiles to Hypersonics: Some History & thoughts on Missiles as part of navies2:12Congreve rockets put heavy firepower on light shipsChapter
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: There was a game update1:06:20Primitive fire control shapes a battle with RussiaChapter
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: There was a game update1:28:52Fuel exhaustion and structural damage complicate defeatNotable Point
- Bruships 128: Invasions & Amphibious Warfare23:24A four-twin-turret rule reshapes the Royal NavyQ&A
- Bruships 128: Invasions & Amphibious Warfare34:57HMS Vanguard in the Falklands WarQ&A
- Bruships 128: Invasions & Amphibious Warfare39:52Displacement for an eight-gun Tribal-style destroyerQ&A
- Bruships 128: Invasions & Amphibious Warfare54:11The cost of a fourth Yamato main turretQ&A
- Bruships 128: Invasions & Amphibious Warfare1:07:39The unfulfilled autoloading King George V batteryQ&A
- Bruships 128: Invasions & Amphibious Warfare1:12:06Modern naval weapons against Age of Sail fleetsQ&A
- Bruships 128: Invasions & Amphibious Warfare2:59:14How early US 16-inch guns could escalate British battleshipsQ&A
- Bruships 128: Invasions & Amphibious Warfare3:13:18Why a late-war battlecruiser still needs battleship gunsQ&A
- Bruships 128: Invasions & Amphibious Warfare3:16:59Bringing Lexington under treaty tonnage during constructionQ&A
- Bruships 128: Invasions & Amphibious Warfare3:34:29Why a late battlecruiser needs speed and battleship gunsNotable Point
- Bruships 128: Invasions & Amphibious Warfare3:40:44Colorado's twin turrets in US 16-inch gun developmentNotable Point
- Battle of Empress Augusta Bay(1943): The First Radar Battle?5:23What makes Empress Augusta Bay a radar battle?Chapter
- Battle of Empress Augusta Bay(1943): The First Radar Battle?11:46How closely was radar linked to fire control?Q&A
- Battle of Empress Augusta Bay(1943): The First Radar Battle?53:39Aaron Merrill's path to radar-directed gunneryChapter
- Battle of Empress Augusta Bay(1943): The First Radar Battle?2:06:02Flares, smoke, and the advantage of radar fire controlNotable Point
- Battle of Empress Augusta Bay(1943): The First Radar Battle?2:36:18Why Merrill kept the cruisers at six-inch rangeQ&A
- Dunkerque Class: Fast Battleship or Battle Cruiser? - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 73:42French industry bounded the early capital-ship studiesNotable Point
- Dunkerque Class: Fast Battleship or Battle Cruiser? - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 715:21Why Britain explored a 25,000-ton battleship limitNotable Point
- Dunkerque Class: Fast Battleship or Battle Cruiser? - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 719:10The case for calling Dunkerque a fast battleshipChapter
- Dunkerque Class: Fast Battleship or Battle Cruiser? - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 734:47All-forward guns shaped Dunkerque's protection and firepowerChapter
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 1134:10Introducing Eagle's heavily armored capital-ship designChapter
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 1137:59Trialing Eagle against an obsolete isolated cruiserNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 1146:17Why mature 16.5-inch turrets beat newer 17-inch gunsChapter
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 1154:38Spending saved gun weight on shells, protection, speed, and radarChapter
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 111:20:30Designing the Glasgow-class light cruiser within a tight weight marginChapter
- Bruships 127: 2023 Christmas Naval History Releases51:49A Royal Navy jump to 16-inch guns reshapes treaty arithmeticQ&A
- Bruships 127: 2023 Christmas Naval History Releases1:04:47Explosive shells make Trafalgar far more lethalQ&A
- Bruships 127: 2023 Christmas Naval History Releases1:15:38How much gun is needed against a galleon?Q&A
- Bruships 127: 2023 Christmas Naval History Releases1:33:32A 1945 battlecruiser becomes a faster, heavier VanguardQ&A
- Bruships 127: 2023 Christmas Naval History Releases3:11:51The 18-inch Mark I may have been a shortened longer gunQ&A
- Bruships 127: 2023 Christmas Naval History Releases3:54:02Vanguard used maintained fleet gun stocks, not accidental surplusQ&A
- Bruships 127: 2023 Christmas Naval History Releases4:10:09An extreme battleship uses salvo rhythm to offset slow gunsQ&A
- Bruships 127: 2023 Christmas Naval History Releases4:22:17The H3 battlecruiser answers a need for 18-inch gun powerQ&A
- Bruships 127: 2023 Christmas Naval History Releases4:43:26A 9-pound shot might lodge in USS Midway's islandQ&A
- What Battleships and Battlecruisers that were not built can tell us...1:18Why 11-inch guns did not make Scharnhorst a battlecruiserNotable Point
- What Battleships and Battlecruisers that were not built can tell us...3:31Why bigger naval guns were not automatically betterNotable Point
- What Battleships and Battlecruisers that were not built can tell us...9:40Germany's L20 and the appeal of 16.5-inch gunsNotable Point
- What Battleships and Battlecruisers that were not built can tell us...34:50Why 28 knots mattered in the MediterraneanNotable Point
- What Battleships and Battlecruisers that were not built can tell us...1:49:20Aircraft spotting and the declining battlecruiser roleNotable Point
- What Battleships and Battlecruisers that were not built can tell us...1:53:59Soviet battleship and battlecruiser ambitionsChapter
- Patreon Bonus: Battle Cruisers & Battleships are separate Categories in the Washington Naval Treaty18:35Why carrier spotting belongs in capital-ship planningNotable Point
- Patreon Bonus: Battle Cruisers & Battleships are separate Categories in the Washington Naval Treaty1:08:26A 38,000-ton F3-derived British battlecruiserNotable Point
- Patreon Bonus: Battle Cruisers & Battleships are separate Categories in the Washington Naval Treaty1:34:40How continuous orders accelerate guns and capital-ship designNotable Point
- Patreon Bonus: Battle Cruisers & Battleships are separate Categories in the Washington Naval Treaty2:16:42Italian gunnery was undermined by shell quality, not aimingQ&A
- Patreon Bonus: Battle Cruisers & Battleships are separate Categories in the Washington Naval Treaty3:42:27Would larger cruisers change the fast-firing 6-inch gun's timing?Q&A
- Scylla & Charybdis: 4.5in gun Didos - Key Ships Reserve Series, Ship 112:16Why fixed 4.5-inch ammunition suited cruisers betterNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 1015:48Trading cruiser speed for firepower, armor, and rangeNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 1032:53Why treaty cruisers used four twin turrets instead of three triplesQ&A
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 101:49:08Eight 34-knot battleships mark the fleet's transitionNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 103:27:27Newer 6-inch guns could outperform older 10-inch weaponsNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 104:05:31Gun count could not rescue an under-protected battlecruiserNotable Point
- Bruships 126: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series13:54When a newspaper mistakes gun calibre for barrel lengthQ&A
- Bruships 126: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series22:45A six-inch secondary battery for a new Iowa-like battleshipQ&A
- Bruships 126: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series33:55A faster, superfiring DreadnoughtQ&A
- Bruships 126: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series50:11Buying a 16-inch gun design does not create the gunQ&A
- Bruships 126: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series59:00Why large naval guns cannot be recreated quicklyQ&A
- Bruships 126: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series1:18:36The R class needed a trade-offQ&A
- Bruships 126: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series1:26:24A true Courageous-class light cruiser would carry 9.2-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships 126: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series1:43:13Cut-down anti-aircraft shields improved handling and visibilityQ&A
- Bruships 126: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series1:46:48A future US cruiser needs more than eighty VLS cellsQ&A
- Bruships 126: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series1:54:59Missile shortages alone may not fund a gun revivalQ&A
- Bruships 126: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series2:14:39Why a naval gun should not begin as land artilleryQ&A
- Bruships 126: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series2:15:54Modern naval gun range depends on shells and barrel metallurgyNotable Point
- Bruships 126: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series2:37:27Three close-in weapon mounts preserve an arc after failureQ&A
- Bruships 126: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series2:41:32The Falklands exposed the limits of missile-only shipsQ&A
- Orion Class - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 72:22A more radical Dreadnought and the limits of superfiringChapter
- Orion Class - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 710:5113.5-inch guns and the return to battle-line firepowerChapter
- Orion Class - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 713:17Why firepower arithmetic cannot decide a naval battleNotable Point
- Orion Class - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 714:36Why Britain chose the 13.5-inch stepChapter
- Orion Class - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 717:14Gun calibre, logistics and turret weightNotable Point
- Orion Class - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 719:15Hull form, torpedoes and redundant gunnery controlNotable Point
- Orion Class - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 739:23Jutland gunnery and ammunition uncertaintyChapter
- Building the Fleets of Trafalgar(1805)14:09Why the third rate dominates TrafalgarNotable Point
- Building the Fleets of Trafalgar(1805)22:46HMS Revenge as a heavy 74Notable Point
- Building the Fleets of Trafalgar(1805)1:00:01Santísima Trinidad: firepower versus stabilityChapter
- Building the Fleets of Trafalgar(1805)1:07:55Rayo's rebuild added guns but harmed handlingNotable Point
- Jutland with Competent Leadership of the British Battlecruiser Fleet - Sturdee replaces Beatty34:34Henry Wise Parker's battlecruiser and fleet-staff experienceNotable Point
- Jutland with Competent Leadership of the British Battlecruiser Fleet - Sturdee replaces Beatty36:48Training, cohesion, and battlecruiser survivabilityChapter
- Jutland with Competent Leadership of the British Battlecruiser Fleet - Sturdee replaces Beatty49:11The run to the south with a coherent British forceChapter
- Jutland with Competent Leadership of the British Battlecruiser Fleet - Sturdee replaces Beatty1:07:09Why a close-range melee favors British numbersNotable Point
- Neptune Class: The Cruiser Conundrum Crisis - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 619:16Neptune's speed, range, and weapons packageChapter
- Patreon 86: Jutland with Competent British Battlecruiser Fleet Commander - Sturdee replaces Beatty43:48The material advantage Britain brought to JutlandNotable Point
- Patreon 86: Jutland with Competent British Battlecruiser Fleet Commander - Sturdee replaces Beatty1:04:49Flash protection over rapid ammunition supplyNotable Point
- Patreon 86: Jutland with Competent British Battlecruiser Fleet Commander - Sturdee replaces Beatty1:12:14Training the battlecruisers as a fleetChapter
- Patreon 86: Jutland with Competent British Battlecruiser Fleet Commander - Sturdee replaces Beatty1:44:21A stronger run to the southChapter
- Patreon 86: Jutland with Competent British Battlecruiser Fleet Commander - Sturdee replaces Beatty1:46:54Victory could delay British shell reformNotable Point
- Patreon 86: Jutland with Competent British Battlecruiser Fleet Commander - Sturdee replaces Beatty2:25:19Could British gunfire break the German breakout?Q&A
- Patreon 86: Jutland with Competent British Battlecruiser Fleet Commander - Sturdee replaces Beatty2:34:23Fast battleships after a different JutlandNotable Point
- Patreon 86: Jutland with Competent British Battlecruiser Fleet Commander - Sturdee replaces Beatty2:41:44Why not keep 15-inch guns?Q&A
- Patreon 86: Jutland with Competent British Battlecruiser Fleet Commander - Sturdee replaces Beatty3:03:08How would a decisive Jutland change cruisers?Q&A
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 87:41From battlecruiser to fast battleshipNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 817:35Shell weight and the limits of manual loadingQ&A
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 830:14Why 16.5-inch guns appeal as a heavy-gun compromiseNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 843:46Muzzle velocity does not decide downrange shell performanceNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 850:03Would twin 76 mm mounts improve air defence?Q&A
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 81:00:52A naval weapon choice also chooses a supply relationshipNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 82:08:09Diagnosing a destroyer design after combat failureChapter
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 82:13:17Balancing a destroyer’s weight, shells, speed, and stabilityChapter
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 82:28:21A capital-ship refit is a weight-budget exerciseChapter
- Bruships 124: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series17:04Identifying a cruiser from a wartime illustrationNotable Point
- Bruships 124: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series37:25Lord Nelson versus USS South CarolinaQ&A
- Bruships 124: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series1:53:39A dual-purpose gun's ammunition choicesQ&A
- Bruships 124: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series2:03:43Why navies standardized propellants and explosivesQ&A
- Bruships 124: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series2:09:44Manual work in British and American heavy-gun loadingQ&A
- Bruships 124: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series4:00:44G3 turret layout and the problem with wing turretsQ&A
- Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: Pacific, Black Sea & Baltic Designs37:24Elco PT boats carried field-modified firepowerChapter
- Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: Pacific, Black Sea & Baltic Designs39:18Torpedo scarcity made gun armament essentialNotable Point
- Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: Pacific, Black Sea & Baltic Designs43:02PT-658 left the factory as a heavily armed gunboatNotable Point
- Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: Pacific, Black Sea & Baltic Designs49:46The Huckins PT boat prioritized strength and crew enduranceNotable Point
- Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: Pacific, Black Sea & Baltic Designs1:02:38Japanese torpedo salvos versus British close-range night fightingNotable Point
- Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: Pacific, Black Sea & Baltic Designs1:41:05G-5s fought less often than they transportedNotable Point
- Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: Pacific, Black Sea & Baltic Designs1:43:04The D-3: from failed prototypes to a usable boatNotable Point
- HMS Lord Nelson(1906): Britain's Last Soverign Style Battleship - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 55:01An insurance policy against Dreadnought riskNotable Point
- HMS Lord Nelson(1906): Britain's Last Soverign Style Battleship - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 58:46High-mounted guns for torpedo-boat defenceNotable Point
- HMS Lord Nelson(1906): Britain's Last Soverign Style Battleship - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 535:09Occupation duty and Agamemnon's target-ship conversionChapter
- HMS Lord Nelson(1906): Britain's Last Soverign Style Battleship - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 552:28If long-range fire control had failedNotable Point
- HMS Formidable(1898): Lessons of a Highly Conventional Carreer - Key Ship Series 6, Ship 48:21Formidable’s twelve-round gunnery trialNotable Point
- HMS Formidable(1898): Lessons of a Highly Conventional Carreer - Key Ship Series 6, Ship 412:05Why rigorous gun and shell testing was discouragedNotable Point
- Ranging & Stabilising: How Gunnery Evolved from 1860 to 19601:41Naval gunnery depended on more than the gun barrelChapter
- Ranging & Stabilising: How Gunnery Evolved from 1860 to 19607:02Why pre-1860 naval guns still looked familiarChapter
- Ranging & Stabilising: How Gunnery Evolved from 1860 to 196011:25HMS Warrior made armour, speed, and firepower inseparableNotable Point
- Ranging & Stabilising: How Gunnery Evolved from 1860 to 196015:01The Mark 16 self-loading gun shows a century of changeNotable Point
- Ranging & Stabilising: How Gunnery Evolved from 1860 to 196017:48Rapid weapons change demanded continuous professional learningNotable Point
- Ranging & Stabilising: How Gunnery Evolved from 1860 to 196021:13Built-up gun barrels contained explosive pressure in layersChapter
- Ranging & Stabilising: How Gunnery Evolved from 1860 to 196025:30Monobloc casting and barrel life set limits on rangeNotable Point
- Ranging & Stabilising: How Gunnery Evolved from 1860 to 196029:18Gun smoke could blind the firing shipChapter
- Ranging & Stabilising: How Gunnery Evolved from 1860 to 196031:51Propellant consistency controlled shell dispersionNotable Point
- Ranging & Stabilising: How Gunnery Evolved from 1860 to 196034:29Warrior-era rifling experiments complicated loadingNotable Point
- Ranging & Stabilising: How Gunnery Evolved from 1860 to 196035:26Engineered shells replaced the old solid-shot arsenalChapter
- Ranging & Stabilising: How Gunnery Evolved from 1860 to 196041:24Rifling traded barrel wear for predictable shell flightNotable Point
- Ranging & Stabilising: How Gunnery Evolved from 1860 to 196043:14Controlled explosives made long-range shell fire possibleChapter
- Ranging & Stabilising: How Gunnery Evolved from 1860 to 196045:29Laboratory tools and process control underpinned naval explosivesNotable Point
- Ranging & Stabilising: How Gunnery Evolved from 1860 to 196047:46Fire control grew from gunport judgment into specialist teamworkChapter
- Ranging & Stabilising: How Gunnery Evolved from 1860 to 196049:41Mechanical firing tables turned observations into aiming solutionsNotable Point
- Ranging & Stabilising: How Gunnery Evolved from 1860 to 196051:45Effective range could matter more than maximum rangeNotable Point
- Ranging & Stabilising: How Gunnery Evolved from 1860 to 196056:00Heavy shells made mechanical ammunition handling essentialChapter
- Ranging & Stabilising: How Gunnery Evolved from 1860 to 196059:13A warship became a system of supporting systemsNotable Point
- Ranging & Stabilising: How Gunnery Evolved from 1860 to 19601:17:07Dreadnought showed that guns needed control as well as rangeChapter
- Ranging & Stabilising: How Gunnery Evolved from 1860 to 19601:19:34Monobloc casting capped the century of gun-centred developmentNotable Point
- Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: European & Mediteranean theatres14:36Why the Italian MAS formula reached its limitsChapter
- Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: European & Mediteranean theatres53:50Fairmile C: turning the family into a motor gun boatChapter
- Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: European & Mediteranean theatres1:13:11Vosper's 73-foot torpedo-and-gun tradeoffNotable Point
- Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: European & Mediteranean theatres1:16:40Why small coastal boats could be reconfigured so readilyNotable Point
- Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: European & Mediteranean theatres1:20:31The final balance: speed, seaworthiness, and firepowerChapter
- How & Why during WWII MTBs became MGBs: European & Mediterranean Theatre23:43Why anti-aircraft guns worked against fast boatsNotable Point
- How & Why during WWII MTBs became MGBs: European & Mediterranean Theatre1:30:14Why “quick-firing” did not mean automaticNotable Point
- How & Why during WWII MTBs became MGBs: European & Mediterranean Theatre1:33:13Fairmile C: the motor gun boat arrivesNotable Point
- HMS Nelson(1876): The Flagship that incubated the Royal Australian Navy - Key Ship Series 5, Part 950:09Escalating from presence to a deterrent ship visitChapter
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 725:42Secondary batteries create a crossfire problemNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 739:02Range, speed, and armor in a battlecruiser duelChapter
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 752:36Disengaging instead of gambling a battlecruiserNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 71:46:27The Hood class: broadside and fire arcsNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 72:11:37Gun calibre should change turret scaleNotable Point
- Bruships: Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!20:24Four 15-inch battlecruisers at JutlandQ&A
- Bruships: Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!29:29The shared logic behind Egret, Tribal, and Black Swan gunsQ&A
- Bruships: Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!32:24Could long-range gunfire keep battleships relevant?Q&A
- Bruships: Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!43:24How larger warships can answer small fast attackersNotable Point
- Bruships: Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!50:20What an Egret-class sloop could do to a destroyerQ&A
- Bruships: Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!1:03:47Could a battleship fire a giant shotgun shell?Q&A
- Bruships: Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!1:06:18Why a 15-inch gun does not have one simple cooling timeQ&A
- Bruships: Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!1:10:39What Rodney's 16-inch fire could do to aircraftQ&A
- Bruships: Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!1:16:13What wire winding does in a naval gunNotable Point
- Bruships: Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!1:22:53Why more barrels can slow a turretQ&A
- Bruships: Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!1:32:58The two omissions that complicate Jellicoe's reputationQ&A
- Bruships: Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!2:21:16The design choice German destroyers could not avoidQ&A
- Bruships: Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!2:24:47How small-tube boilers and 14-inch guns change Orion and LionQ&A
- Bruships: Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!2:27:27Using naval guns to disrupt submarines in littoral waterNotable Point
- Bruships: Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!3:21:23What a 16,000-ton treaty cruiser looks likeQ&A
- Bruships: Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!3:24:21Why triple-turret guns do not automatically disrupt one anotherQ&A
- The Hunt Class: The WWII Royal Navy's Escort Destroyers - Key Ship Series 6, Ship 330:54Why aft-heavy guns could suit an escortNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 617:53Using a battlecruiser pack against battleshipsChapter
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 643:20Would a 20-inch naval shell need explosives?Notable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 646:12Why fast battlecruisers still need better fire controlNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 62:13:42Why a 20-inch gun is more than a scaling problemChapter
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 62:40:05Why overpenetration can still destroy a light cruiserNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 62:44:00Why closing range can negate capital-ship armourNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 62:58:34Designing a fast battlecruiser within a weight limitChapter
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 63:08:16Balancing armour, range, stability, and weightChapter
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 63:27:36Checking main- and secondary-battery fire arcsNotable Point
- Naval History Questions Live... with Irn Bru... which is a scottish soft drink... not fizzy whisky!16:14Why the Mark 33 twin 3-inch mount remained usefulNotable Point
- Bittern Class: The Foundation Stone of the British WWII ASW efforts - Key Ship Series 5, Episode 1022:51The four-inch battery could serve above and on the waterNotable Point
- What was the Italian Red Sea Squadron(Reiga Marina Italiana Flottiglia del mar rosso) to do in 1940?28:46HMS Moonstone captured Galileo Galilei after a gun duelNotable Point
- USS North Dakota(BB-29): The USN's First True Dreadnought - Key Ships Series 5, Episode 818:32Machinery layout, turret placement, and magazine heatNotable Point
- USS North Dakota(BB-29): The USN's First True Dreadnought - Key Ships Series 5, Episode 825:47Centerline guns in the Anglo-American qualitative raceChapter
- USS North Dakota(BB-29): The USN's First True Dreadnought - Key Ships Series 5, Episode 831:48From capital ship to radio-controlled gunnery targetChapter
- King George V(1911) Class: Why the Orion Class didn't stick as 'Super Dreadnoughts'13:48A scaled-up Orion: machinery, range, armament, and armourChapter
- King George V(1911) Class: Why the Orion Class didn't stick as 'Super Dreadnoughts'18:26Why marginal stability mattered to long-range gunneryNotable Point
- The Landship Story35:18How naval ownership might have changed tank armamentNotable Point
- Ersatz Yorck Class: Trying to Be All Things - Key Ships Series 4, Episode 315:00A decade from launch to planned replacementNotable Point
- Ersatz Yorck Class: Trying to Be All Things - Key Ships Series 4, Episode 323:12The cost of a heavily armed German battlecruiserChapter
- From Beavers to Ersatz Monarchs & Francesco Caracciolos33:58Fitting the Ersatz Monarch's secondary battery and machineryChapter
- From Beavers to Ersatz Monarchs & Francesco Caracciolos1:14:01What an earlier American 16-inch gun might have changedQ&A
- From Beavers to Ersatz Monarchs & Francesco Caracciolos1:37:22The propulsion cost of treaty-battleship speed and enduranceNotable Point
- From Beavers to Ersatz Monarchs & Francesco Caracciolos2:03:54What the Caracciolo counterfactual battle can and cannot showNotable Point
- Being the Benchmark Navy: It has Costs as well as Benefits33:22Argincourt simulation: range, firepower, and fleet contextNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 511:21Battlecruisers overwhelm isolated light cruisersNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 537:02Fast capital ships, allied orders, and class scaleNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 553:55Useful firing speed and forward fire shape capital shipsNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 51:29:23Forming line ahead for concentrated fireNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 51:38:15London demonstrates the fast-battleship conceptNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 52:55:32Balancing a survivable Queen Elizabeth-class conceptChapter
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 53:16:21A modern hull gives the design a better starting pointChapter
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 53:27:30Weight and trim defeat the second Queen Elizabeth designChapter
- Mistakes of WWII caused by WWI6:12Why the Royal Navy needed more large destroyersNotable Point
- Mistakes of WWII caused by WWI31:25British lessons from Jutland centered on shells and commandNotable Point
- Ersatz Monarch Class: Pebbles casting Ripples can lead to Tsunamis - Key Ship Series 4, Episode 101:38Ten 14-inch guns and an Adriatic battle-fleet fistNotable Point
- Ersatz Monarch Class: Pebbles casting Ripples can lead to Tsunamis - Key Ship Series 4, Episode 1022:56A gun and armour scheme tailored to close watersChapter
- Patreon 83: What were the most serious mistakes made in WWII based on WWI experience?32:19Would a bulbous bow have saved HMS Hood?Q&A
- Patreon 83: What were the most serious mistakes made in WWII based on WWI experience?3:13:09How did the 16-inch/50 compare with the British 15-inch/42?Q&A
- Problems with Building Bigger Guns - A Short Discussion3:26Could a 45-calibre 20-inch naval gun have been built then?Q&A
- Problems with Building Bigger Guns - A Short Discussion3:37Cranes and quenching wells could be expandedNotable Point
- Problems with Building Bigger Guns - A Short Discussion8:38A small calibre increase drives a much heavier turret systemChapter
- Problems with Building Bigger Guns - A Short Discussion11:04Barrel droop makes extreme-calibre guns a metallurgical problemChapter
- Problems with Building Bigger Guns - A Short Discussion16:26Heavier shells slow fire control even with radarNotable Point
- Problems with Building Bigger Guns - A Short Discussion18:28The 10-inch gun illustrates the danger of paper compromisesNotable Point
- Problems with Building Bigger Guns - A Short Discussion20:07British 16.5-inch and 18-inch work was more credible than a 20-inch leapChapter
- Problems with Building Bigger Guns - A Short Discussion36:10Gun-building capability narrows sharply above 14 inchesNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 41:59Rearward fire and speed preserve an isolated battlecruiserNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 41:44:25Why period destroyers do not need 6-inch gunsQ&A
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 42:33:31Were automated small-calibre guns worth adopting?Q&A
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 42:36:49Who built Royal Navy gun turrets?Q&A
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 42:51:10Choosing 16.5-inch guns for fast capital shipsChapter
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 42:59:50A 36-knot battlecruiser refitNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 43:33:15Refitting or retiring an ageing battlecruiser fleetChapter
- Bruships 121: Questions till the Bru Runs Out!11:56Fake bow waves only disrupt the opening salvosQ&A
- Bruships 121: Questions till the Bru Runs Out!17:18Why more 16-inch guns can beat fewer 18-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships 121: Questions till the Bru Runs Out!19:34The engineering problem behind 20-inch gunsNotable Point
- Bruships 121: Questions till the Bru Runs Out!24:08Why radar did not eliminate ranging salvosNotable Point
- Bruships 121: Questions till the Bru Runs Out!29:14Why a saboted 18-inch gun still depends on metallurgyQ&A
- Bruships 121: Questions till the Bru Runs Out!31:20How naval treaties classified warshipsQ&A
- Bruships 121: Questions till the Bru Runs Out!49:02Why 16.5 inches could be a useful gun compromiseNotable Point
- Bruships 121: Questions till the Bru Runs Out!1:00:51Why neither navy would perfect its first quad turretQ&A
- Bruships 121: Questions till the Bru Runs Out!1:09:20When guns larger than 16 inches become practicalQ&A
- Bruships 121: Questions till the Bru Runs Out!1:12:03Why Beatty's torpedo-farm carrier was a bad tradeQ&A
- Bruships 121: Questions till the Bru Runs Out!1:21:03The scale of a twenty-one-gun battleshipQ&A
- Bruships 121: Questions till the Bru Runs Out!1:46:42Why U.S. and Japanese 18-inch gun tests led to different answersQ&A
- Bruships 121: Questions till the Bru Runs Out!2:19:48Armor against 8-inch cruiser fireQ&A
- Bruships 121: Questions till the Bru Runs Out!2:49:51Jutland if both fleets keep closing the rangeQ&A
- Bruships 121: Questions till the Bru Runs Out!2:57:00When a large destroyer becomes cruiser-likeQ&A
- Bruships 121: Questions till the Bru Runs Out!2:58:46How plausible is a Halland with 152 mm guns?Q&A
- Bruships 121: Questions till the Bru Runs Out!3:05:51A twin 5.5-inch secondary battery for RenownQ&A
- Alsace class: France Building Back - Key Ships Series 4, Ship 912:53Quadruple turrets: salvo weight and riskNotable Point
- Alsace class: France Building Back - Key Ships Series 4, Ship 926:17Choosing shell weight or volume of fireNotable Point
- HMS Incomparable: When Jackie Fisher Dreamed to Big - Key Ships Series 4, Ship 82:22Calibre versus usable firepowerNotable Point
- HMS Incomparable: When Jackie Fisher Dreamed to Big - Key Ships Series 4, Ship 83:34F3 and the 15-inch alternative to all-forward turretsNotable Point
- HMS Incomparable: When Jackie Fisher Dreamed to Big - Key Ships Series 4, Ship 85:43Why gun number matters for ranging fireNotable Point
- HMS Incomparable: When Jackie Fisher Dreamed to Big - Key Ships Series 4, Ship 815:33A battlecruiser's real speed is speed of engagementNotable Point
- HMS Incomparable: When Jackie Fisher Dreamed to Big - Key Ships Series 4, Ship 818:40Why six-inch cruisers could overwhelm eight-inch rivalsNotable Point
- HMS Incomparable: When Jackie Fisher Dreamed to Big - Key Ships Series 4, Ship 819:58Incomparable versus G3: calibre against volume of fireChapter
- HMS Incomparable: When Jackie Fisher Dreamed to Big - Key Ships Series 4, Ship 824:19Why Dreadnought was a practical firepower revolutionNotable Point
- HMS Incomparable: When Jackie Fisher Dreamed to Big - Key Ships Series 4, Ship 826:35Fire-control redundancy and the speed of engagementNotable Point
- HMS Incomparable: When Jackie Fisher Dreamed to Big - Key Ships Series 4, Ship 836:08Building an Incomparable test with explicit game limitsNotable Point
- HMS Incomparable: When Jackie Fisher Dreamed to Big - Key Ships Series 4, Ship 841:33Volume of fire defeats the Incomparable modelNotable Point
- Fourth Rates: When the Fourth is Just Not Enough2:06Why fourth rates sat in an awkward middle groundChapter
- Fourth Rates: When the Fourth is Just Not Enough31:28Indefatigable as a heavy fifth-rate alternativeChapter
- A150 & BB64; After Yamato - Key Ship Series 4, Ships 712:54Why six enormous guns can lose the ranging contestNotable Point
- A150 & BB64; After Yamato - Key Ship Series 4, Ships 718:36B-64 as a carrier escort and cruiser killerChapter
- Number 13 Class: Dreams of Yamatos - Key Ship Series 4, Ship 616:43Number 13's 18-inch, 50-calibre striking powerNotable Point
- Number 13 Class: Dreams of Yamatos - Key Ship Series 4, Ship 618:42Calibre, rate of fire, and turret handlingNotable Point
- Number 13 Class: Dreams of Yamatos - Key Ship Series 4, Ship 637:28Shell volume can outweigh larger calibreNotable Point
- Dutch Dream of 1913: A Dreadnought Battle Fleet of their very own - Key Ship Series 4, Ship 530:36Testing the Dutch brief in a design gameNotable Point
- Dutch Dream of 1913: A Dreadnought Battle Fleet of their very own - Key Ship Series 4, Ship 536:00The 14-inch-gun supply problemNotable Point
- H Class Battleships: Ignoring Reality for Perfection, Key Ships Series 4, Ship 419:10Why split secondary batteries consume a shipNotable Point
- H Class Battleships: Ignoring Reality for Perfection, Key Ships Series 4, Ship 424:13Scharnhorst and the meaning of a fast battleshipNotable Point
- H Class Battleships: Ignoring Reality for Perfection, Key Ships Series 4, Ship 436:18Mixed diesel and steam drive multiplies failure pathsChapter
- 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 450:42Why H-44's displacement is not simply fantasyNotable Point
- Patreon 82: WNT Nations during 1920s/30s, what was their biggest mistake & missed opportunity?28:48Why the 4.7-inch dual-purpose mount was not the biggest treaty mistakeQ&A
- Patreon 82: WNT Nations during 1920s/30s, what was their biggest mistake & missed opportunity?56:57Why County-class cruisers used four twin turretsQ&A
- Patreon 82: WNT Nations during 1920s/30s, what was their biggest mistake & missed opportunity?2:18:33Could coastal guns preserve future battleship armament?Q&A
- Patreon 82: WNT Nations during 1920s/30s, what was their biggest mistake & missed opportunity?2:46:41Could a treaty battlecarrier keep battleship guns?Q&A
- Patreon 82: WNT Nations during 1920s/30s, what was their biggest mistake & missed opportunity?3:05:12Eight guns or nine in a Nelson successor?Notable Point
- How Many Guns Does that USN Battleship have?2:00Dreadnought faces a Montana-style opponentChapter
- How Many Guns Does that USN Battleship have?5:45Why long-range fire tests deck armourNotable Point
- How Many Guns Does that USN Battleship have?12:13Fitting twenty-four 16-inch guns on Tillman IVChapter
- How Many Guns Does that USN Battleship have?29:20Tillman IV-2 turns fifteen 18-inch guns into a design problemChapter
- How Many Guns Does that USN Battleship have?51:43An 18-inch Tillman design meets the stability limitChapter
- How Many Guns Does that USN Battleship have?1:06:01The HARP gun as a battleship thought experimentNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 319:07Grouping fast battlecruisers against a battleshipNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 333:27Forming a battle line for accurate gunfireNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 31:10:49Combining armour, speed, and heavy gunsChapter
- Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer10:25What happens when a broadside gun is disabledQ&A
- Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer11:08How a first-rate uses its height against a third-rateQ&A
- Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer16:45How an H3a battlecruiser could raise treaty limitsQ&A
- Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer19:42Town and County cruisers against German surface raidersQ&A
- Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer29:00Why re-gunning the Nelson class means rebuilding the turretsQ&A
- Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer1:07:18What HMS Victory's broadside could do to a container shipQ&A
- Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer1:55:54Why ever-larger guns can harm long-range gunneryNotable Point
- Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer2:15:07Turning Lord Nelson into a Cold War patrol shipQ&A
- Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer2:28:07From opening salvo to fire at willNotable Point
- Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer2:38:17Training tempo behind British and French rates of fireQ&A
- Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer2:46:34The practical limit on naval shell sizeQ&A
- Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer2:47:04Why age-of-sail crews kept working under fireQ&A
- Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer2:54:00Where rate of fire overtook accuracy before JutlandQ&A
- Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer3:01:38Why destroyers concentrate so much firepowerQ&A
- Sovetsky Soyuz (Советский Союз) Class: Stalin's Battleship Dreams - Key Ships Series 4, Ship 30:53What a game reconstruction can reveal about Project 23Notable Point
- Sovetsky Soyuz (Советский Союз) Class: Stalin's Battleship Dreams - Key Ships Series 4, Ship 344:51The formidable paper specification behind Project 23Notable Point
- What Cannon is right for this ship?4:47Operating an age-of-sail cannonChapter
- What Cannon is right for this ship?10:07How gun locks changed firing controlNotable Point
- What Cannon is right for this ship?14:53Recoil, rate of fire, and gunnery trainingChapter
- What Cannon is right for this ship?19:21Danger inside an age-of-sail gun deckNotable Point
- What Cannon is right for this ship?20:51Why more gun ports were not always betterNotable Point
- What Cannon is right for this ship?26:37Industrial capacity favors proven standard gunsNotable Point
- What Cannon is right for this ship?30:53Weight distribution and the carronade trade-offChapter
- What Cannon is right for this ship?35:04Hull curvature and gun-deck placementNotable Point
- What Cannon is right for this ship?36:03Ammunition endurance is part of armament choiceNotable Point
- What Cannon is right for this ship?42:32Why ancient galleys faced a different endurance problemNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 216:28Where Armstrong tested naval gunsQ&A
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 225:38Six-inch guns give battlecruisers an answer to screensNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 257:43Choosing a 16.5-inch battlecruiser batteryChapter
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 21:01:02Why incomplete warships are difficult to finish laterQ&A
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 21:17:18Chase geometry determines which guns can bearNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 22:09:18Balancing armour, secondary guns, and speedChapter
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 22:14:26Turret placement trades firing arcs against weightNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 22:15:30The range tradeoff behind a 16.5-inch batteryNotable Point
- Bruships 119: Cool Books - but they're definitely a Mixture19:37Jutland: better shells and gunnery disciplineNotable Point
- Bruships 119: Cool Books - but they're definitely a Mixture33:57Safer cordite could not compensate for defeated flash precautionsQ&A
- Bruships 119: Cool Books - but they're definitely a Mixture46:13British capital ships had flash precautions before JutlandQ&A
- Bruships 119: Cool Books - but they're definitely a Mixture1:38:34The missed opportunity for a common improved British 15-inch gunQ&A
- Battle Cruisers, Battle-Cruisers & Battlecruisers of pre-WWI design stock28:24Moltke class and the cross-deck-fire compromiseNotable Point
- Battle Cruisers, Battle-Cruisers & Battlecruisers of pre-WWI design stock30:45German 11-inch guns in a worldwide design raceNotable Point
- Battle Cruisers, Battle-Cruisers & Battlecruisers of pre-WWI design stock40:12Larger guns and the limits of German naval lawsNotable Point
- Battle Cruisers, Battle-Cruisers & Battlecruisers of pre-WWI design stock1:05:28Derfflinger and the design triangleNotable Point
- Battle Cruisers, Battle-Cruisers & Battlecruisers of pre-WWI design stock1:17:46Borodino class as a German strategic problemNotable Point
- Battle Cruisers, Battle-Cruisers & Battlecruisers of pre-WWI design stock1:20:33Tiger's clearer after firing arcsNotable Point
- Battle Cruisers, Battle-Cruisers & Battlecruisers of pre-WWI design stock1:26:22Mackensen and a more balanced German battlecruiserNotable Point
- Battle Cruisers, Battle-Cruisers & Battlecruisers of pre-WWI design stock1:53:43How might Fisher have redesigned Invincible?Q&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 233:02Deck armour for plunging long-range fireChapter
- Montana Class, The Bulwarks for the New Battle Line: Key Ship Series 4, Part 236:39Long-range gunnery needed a supply systemNotable Point
- Montana Class, The Bulwarks for the New Battle Line: Key Ship Series 4, Part 245:13What a Montana-Yamato duel cannot showNotable Point
- Montana Class, The Bulwarks for the New Battle Line: Key Ship Series 4, Part 251:31A response to Yamato without advance knowledgeNotable Point
- Montana Class, The Bulwarks for the New Battle Line: Key Ship Series 4, Part 21:21:05Volume of fire over an 18-inch gunNotable Point
- The Navigation Acts (1651/1660/1663/1670/1673/1696/1733/1764)1:59:41Why game-AI handling sinks a Montana designNotable Point
- Testing out Lion Class & Potential Lion Class Successors on UAD2:02Gun elevation changes Yamato's practical rangeNotable Point
- Testing out Lion Class & Potential Lion Class Successors on UAD8:46Speed is a gunnery trade-off, not a free advantageNotable Point
- Testing out Lion Class & Potential Lion Class Successors on UAD20:28Salvo volume and ammunition endurance decide the Yamato trialNotable Point
- Testing out Lion Class & Potential Lion Class Successors on UAD24:47An off-the-shelf Lion successor with quadruple turretsNotable Point
- Testing out Lion Class & Potential Lion Class Successors on UAD36:22Building a 36-knot battlecruiser around its missionChapter
- Testing out Lion Class & Potential Lion Class Successors on UAD51:40A battlecruiser survives by using range and speedNotable Point
- Testing out Lion Class & Potential Lion Class Successors on UAD1:00:40An aft director preserves fire control after battle damageNotable Point
- Testing out Lion Class & Potential Lion Class Successors on UAD1:11:32Long-range fighting changes the protection schemeNotable Point
- Testing out Lion Class & Potential Lion Class Successors on UAD1:24:42Design ships for the fight their weapons permitChapter
- Testing out Lion Class & Potential Lion Class Successors on UAD1:32:49Reconstructing a Narvik-class destroyer in a design gameNotable Point
- Testing out Lion Class & Potential Lion Class Successors on UAD1:49:09Why game destroyer range can misrepresent historyNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy...42:04Designing and distributing destroyer flotillasNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy...1:06:49Building a fast battlecruiser with room to growChapter
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy...1:27:01A second battlecruiser design works around fire-control limitsChapter
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy...1:48:00A dreadnought design for a battlecruiser-heavy fleetChapter
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy...2:05:47Wing turrets as a ten-gun-broadside compromiseNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy...2:33:54A second-generation battlecruiser balances speed and protectionChapter
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy...2:42:24What might a newly built US battleship carry?Q&A
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy...2:51:01Designing destroyers for close defence and mine warfareChapter
- Bruships 118: Unbuilt Battleships, Romans & French Strategic Philosophy11:29Why inward-facing turrets are a bad design bargainNotable Point
- Bruships 118: Unbuilt Battleships, Romans & French Strategic Philosophy12:42The firing-rate cost of giant naval gunsQ&A
- Bruships 118: Unbuilt Battleships, Romans & French Strategic Philosophy20:54Why warship simulations struggle with quality controlNotable Point
- Bruships 118: Unbuilt Battleships, Romans & French Strategic Philosophy26:54Why a post-war Vanguard successor needs a new gun programmeQ&A
- Bruships 118: Unbuilt Battleships, Romans & French Strategic Philosophy31:54An F3 battlecruiser could pull older ships toward a common gunQ&A
- Bruships 118: Unbuilt Battleships, Romans & French Strategic Philosophy36:15A composite Axis battleship still has trade-offsQ&A
- Bruships 118: Unbuilt Battleships, Romans & French Strategic Philosophy40:29Making blast-damaged equipment serviceableQ&A
- Bruships 118: Unbuilt Battleships, Romans & French Strategic Philosophy55:22Autoloaders would distort the next treaty negotiationQ&A
- Bruships 118: Unbuilt Battleships, Romans & French Strategic Philosophy56:54Autoloaders would reshape ships and fire controlQ&A
- Bruships 118: Unbuilt Battleships, Romans & French Strategic Philosophy59:04The evidence behind an 18-inch HMS Agincourt reconstructionNotable Point
- Bruships 118: Unbuilt Battleships, Romans & French Strategic Philosophy1:00:34Why longer naval guns depend on better metallurgyQ&A
- Bruships 118: Unbuilt Battleships, Romans & French Strategic Philosophy1:04:57Why a shared shell is easier than a shared battleship gunQ&A
- Bruships 118: Unbuilt Battleships, Romans & French Strategic Philosophy1:20:53How naval guns are renewed through reliningQ&A
- Bruships 118: Unbuilt Battleships, Romans & French Strategic Philosophy2:39:15An 18-inch treaty baseline would reshape cruiser limitsQ&A
- Bruships 118: Unbuilt Battleships, Romans & French Strategic Philosophy3:58:25Why one design change rewrites later specificationsNotable Point
- Lion Class: Key Ships Series 4, Part 13:07Comparing battleships through a simulation's limitsNotable Point
- Lion Class: Key Ships Series 4, Part 16:39Treaty limits did not end British capital-ship developmentChapter
- Lion Class: Key Ships Series 4, Part 112:39Why weapons research still needs practical spin-outsNotable Point
- Lion Class: Key Ships Series 4, Part 117:09Lion's 16-inch guns, armour, and 30-knot designChapter
- Lion Class: Key Ships Series 4, Part 134:44Lion versus Yamato: armour, range, and tactical distanceChapter
- Lion Class: Key Ships Series 4, Part 146:27A twelve-gun alternative to King George VNotable Point
- Lion Class: Key Ships Series 4, Part 149:47Golden shots do not settle battleship comparisonsNotable Point
- Lion Class: Key Ships Series 4, Part 11:07:10The sixteen-gun Dreadnought thought experimentNotable Point
- Fleets of Lissa(1866): Lessons for Technology30:07Kaiser's ramming success came from a chaotic meleeNotable Point
- Fleets of Lissa(1866): Lessons for Technology34:48Palestro and the limits of ironclad gunfireNotable Point
- Fleets of Lissa(1866): Lessons for Technology41:43Powder without shot exposes unready gun crewsNotable Point
- Fleets of Lissa(1866): Lessons for Technology43:52How Lissa encouraged forward-firing gun layoutsNotable Point
- American vs Japanese Battleships... testing some historical ideas1:06:23Secondary batteries: game effect versus battle realityNotable Point
- American vs Japanese Battleships... testing some historical ideas1:22:34Q&A: Does gunnery accuracy improve as range closes?Q&A
- American vs Japanese Battleships... testing some historical ideas1:38:28Concentrated fire versus target identificationNotable Point
- Testing Out Soviet Battleship Designs...30:07Rebuilding the Soviet battleship around 1930 constraintsChapter
- Testing Out Soviet Battleship Designs...42:00Why Scharnhorst was not a battlecruiserNotable Point
- Testing Out Soviet Battleship Designs...44:21How Soviet 16-inch ships could alter British calibre politicsNotable Point
- Testing Out Soviet Battleship Designs...45:03A common 15-inch development path for the battle fleetNotable Point
- Testing Out Soviet Battleship Designs...47:38Building a 15-inch alternative to King George VChapter
- Bruships 117: Battle Cruisers, Battle-Cruisers or Battlecruisers?54:54Why rapid-fire eight-inch guns do not make a battleshipQ&A
- Bruships 117: Battle Cruisers, Battle-Cruisers or Battlecruisers?1:03:26Could a 15-inch/50 reuse 15-inch/42 ammunition?Q&A
- Bruships 117: Battle Cruisers, Battle-Cruisers or Battlecruisers?1:13:06Britain retained heavy-gun knowledge after 1945Q&A
- Bruships 117: Battle Cruisers, Battle-Cruisers or Battlecruisers?1:24:29Cruiser development without interwar size limitsQ&A
- Bruships 117: Battle Cruisers, Battle-Cruisers or Battlecruisers?1:32:54Separating battlecruiser design from ammunition and gunnery failuresNotable Point
- Bruships 117: Battle Cruisers, Battle-Cruisers or Battlecruisers?1:56:55When 13.5-inch and 14-inch battlecruisers become liabilitiesQ&A
- Bruships 117: Battle Cruisers, Battle-Cruisers or Battlecruisers?2:15:23Why some navies retained mixed secondary batteriesQ&A
- Bruships 117: Battle Cruisers, Battle-Cruisers or Battlecruisers?3:11:57Turning the 4.7-inch mount into a true dual-purpose weaponQ&A
- Bruships 117: Battle Cruisers, Battle-Cruisers or Battlecruisers?3:12:46Using Nelson's treaty margin for speed and better gunsQ&A
- Bruships 117: Battle Cruisers, Battle-Cruisers or Battlecruisers?3:16:29N-class versus Fletcher in a destroyer gunfightQ&A
- Bruships 117: Battle Cruisers, Battle-Cruisers or Battlecruisers?3:45:51Balancing shell mass, velocity, barrel life, and rate of fireQ&A
- Bruships 117: Battle Cruisers, Battle-Cruisers or Battlecruisers?3:57:45Reading the Type 31 as a flak frigateQ&A
- Bruships 117: Battle Cruisers, Battle-Cruisers or Battlecruisers?4:02:14Why common calibre does not require a common 155 mm shellQ&A
- Some Myths of the Royal Navy in WWII & Treaty Years18:35Why gunnery training did not define a battleship admiralNotable Point
- Modern Gun Tech: What would WWII style battleship & cruiser guns look like with modern technology?0:26Guided shells from large-calibre gunsChapter
- Modern Gun Tech: What would WWII style battleship & cruiser guns look like with modern technology?5:23Why extreme battleship-gun elevation offers little valueNotable Point
- Modern Gun Tech: What would WWII style battleship & cruiser guns look like with modern technology?7:25Armour buys time rather than invulnerabilityNotable Point
- Modern Gun Tech: What would WWII style battleship & cruiser guns look like with modern technology?10:47Building Yamato as the armoured test targetChapter
- Modern Gun Tech: What would WWII style battleship & cruiser guns look like with modern technology?20:32Range control is the decisive tactical advantageNotable Point
- Modern Gun Tech: What would WWII style battleship & cruiser guns look like with modern technology?31:01Autoloaders trade manpower for ammunition enduranceNotable Point
- Modern Gun Tech: What would WWII style battleship & cruiser guns look like with modern technology?39:13Tirpitz demonstrates the modernised gun's range mismatchNotable Point
- Modern Gun Tech: What would WWII style battleship & cruiser guns look like with modern technology?41:23Guided fire magnifies the effect of rapid salvosNotable Point
- Modern Gun Tech: What would WWII style battleship & cruiser guns look like with modern technology?49:29Tirpitz returns fire after the range closesNotable Point
- Patreon 80: The most annoying & damaging 'myths' about the Royal Navy in the Treaty Years & WWII?19:29Gunnery qualifications were not battleship partisanshipNotable Point
- Patreon 80: The most annoying & damaging 'myths' about the Royal Navy in the Treaty Years & WWII?1:35:41Could Lion-class battleships have entered service by 1942?Q&A
- Testing Sixteen Autoloaded 14in Gun Battleship (Chatfield's Dream) to Destruction2:17A 16-gun autoloading battleship testChapter
- Testing Sixteen Autoloaded 14in Gun Battleship (Chatfield's Dream) to Destruction8:30What rapid-firing heavy guns would changeNotable Point
- Testing Sixteen Autoloaded 14in Gun Battleship (Chatfield's Dream) to Destruction13:43Why the secondary battery can decide the fightNotable Point
- Testing Sixteen Autoloaded 14in Gun Battleship (Chatfield's Dream) to Destruction39:32Why closing range wastes a technical advantageNotable Point
- Testing Sixteen Autoloaded 14in Gun Battleship (Chatfield's Dream) to Destruction1:07:06Divided fire leaves damaged ships in actionNotable Point
- Testing Sixteen Autoloaded 14in Gun Battleship (Chatfield's Dream) to Destruction1:18:37Shell choice changes the ammunition problemNotable Point
- Testing Sixteen Autoloaded 14in Gun Battleship (Chatfield's Dream) to Destruction1:23:06Magazine depth sets the practical limitChapter
- Testing Sixteen Autoloaded 14in Gun Battleship (Chatfield's Dream) to Destruction1:44:56Why a squadron's volume of fire still mattersNotable Point
- Testing Sixteen Autoloaded 14in Gun Battleship (Chatfield's Dream) to Destruction1:49:01Why better small guns do not end the calibre raceQ&A
- Testing Sixteen Autoloaded 14in Gun Battleship (Chatfield's Dream) to Destruction1:53:39USS Texas and gunnery from a heavily heeled shipNotable Point
- Testing Sixteen Autoloaded 14in Gun Battleship (Chatfield's Dream) to Destruction1:54:02Why the larger autoloading gun still mattersQ&A
- Testing Sixteen Autoloaded 14in Gun Battleship (Chatfield's Dream) to Destruction2:03:25Keeping a naval simulation tied to real designsQ&A
- Testing Sixteen Autoloaded 14in Gun Battleship (Chatfield's Dream) to Destruction2:07:54When heavy cruisers are asked to do capital-ship workNotable Point
- Testing Sixteen Autoloaded 14in Gun Battleship (Chatfield's Dream) to Destruction2:10:41The final charge confirms the squadron limitChapter
- Bruships 116: Australia Trip Books... Continued24:08Speed and firepower in battlecruiser designQ&A
- Bruships 116: Australia Trip Books... Continued27:02Railguns as a possible close-range layerQ&A
- Bruships 116: Australia Trip Books... Continued31:44Drones need not bring back the battlecarrierQ&A
- Bruships 116: Australia Trip Books... Continued35:31Renown's 15-inch guns remained dangerous to BismarckQ&A
- Bruships 116: Australia Trip Books... Continued1:00:08Why numerical superiority compounds in a gunfightQ&A
- Bruships 116: Australia Trip Books... Continued1:22:19The human limit on multi-target fire controlQ&A
- Bruships 116: Australia Trip Books... Continued1:26:27Infrastructure growth points toward 70,000-ton capital shipsQ&A
- Bruships 116: Australia Trip Books... Continued1:45:01Training and discipline at Shannon and ChesapeakeNotable Point
- Bruships 116: Australia Trip Books... Continued2:25:17High-elevation guns and long-range fireQ&A
- Bruships 116: Australia Trip Books... Continued2:50:51Interwar fire control limits time-on-target gunneryQ&A
- Bruships 116: Australia Trip Books... Continued2:57:38Iron hulls preserved buoyancy under heavier fireQ&A
- Bruships 116: Australia Trip Books... Continued3:52:38Clearing an age-of-sail warship for actionQ&A
- Lessons of the Inglorious 6th of July: Battle of Grenada(1779) & First Battle of Algeciras(1801)28:43Gun weight and the battle-line matchupsNotable Point
- Testing out my Spanish Dreadnought Designs1:54Reimagining Dreadnought with triple 14-inch turretsChapter
- Testing out my Spanish Dreadnought Designs18:15Firepower, numbers, and effective rangeChapter
- Testing out my Spanish Dreadnought Designs40:08Why speed cannot offset a heavy-gun range deficitNotable Point
- Testing out my Spanish Dreadnought Designs45:53Why dreadnoughts should not close like pre-dreadnoughtsNotable Point
- Testing out my Spanish Dreadnought Designs54:03The Colossus and the limits of maximum battleship designNotable Point
- Testing out my Spanish Dreadnought Designs1:10:41Building an Italian 1920 battleshipChapter
- Testing out my Spanish Dreadnought Designs1:30:41Torpedo range, fire control, and ammunition enduranceNotable Point
- Inglorious 6th of July: Battle of Grenada(1779) & Battle of Algeciras(1801)2:38:52Heated-shot loading traded accuracy for incendiary effectQ&A
- Inglorious 6th of July: Battle of Grenada(1779) & Battle of Algeciras(1801)2:48:30A naval museum built around the inside of shipsQ&A
- Lexington & Saratoga Carrier Conception: Key Ship Series 3, Ships 10 &1115:03Eight-inch guns versus flight-deck operationsNotable Point
- Lexington & Saratoga Carrier Conception: Key Ship Series 3, Ships 10 &1120:04Bureau politics kept heavy guns on the carriersNotable Point
- Bruships 115: Hopefully Australia Trip in Summary!1:10:45The King George V design was a political compromiseQ&A
- Bruships 115: Hopefully Australia Trip in Summary!1:16:24Britain knew how to build triple turrets but chose restraintQ&A
- Bruships 115: Hopefully Australia Trip in Summary!1:20:02A longer 15-inch gun offered a middle path in battleship designQ&A
- Bruships 115: Hopefully Australia Trip in Summary!1:25:06Renown's triple four-inch mounts survived because replacement was costlyQ&A
- Bruships 115: Hopefully Australia Trip in Summary!1:56:53British 18-inch-gun work gave later designers a head startNotable Point
- Bruships 115: Hopefully Australia Trip in Summary!2:23:20Fire-control spaces housed people as well as machineryQ&A
- Bruships 115: Hopefully Australia Trip in Summary!2:30:35Six Lion-class battleships would revive early dreadnought namesQ&A
- Bruships 115: Hopefully Australia Trip in Summary!2:34:08A larger Iowa turret explosion could endanger nearby shipsQ&A
- HMS Renown, the RN's most Underated Capital Ship of WWII?; Key Ship Series 3, Ship 832:30The chase of Scharnhorst and GneisenauNotable Point
- HMS Renown, the RN's most Underated Capital Ship of WWII?; Key Ship Series 3, Ship 845:47Wartime construction speed and the triple-turret alternativeNotable Point
- HMS Renown, the RN's most Underated Capital Ship of WWII?; Key Ship Series 3, Ship 850:42A triple-turret Renown at Jutland and afterNotable Point
- Austro Hungarian Battleships: Habsburg Class to Ersatz Monarch Class with a little help from Skoda12:29Habsburg class: a pre-dreadnought tailored to the AdriaticNotable Point
- Austro Hungarian Battleships: Habsburg Class to Ersatz Monarch Class with a little help from Skoda20:36Erzherzog Karl class and the value of rapid medium gunsChapter
- Austro Hungarian Battleships: Habsburg Class to Ersatz Monarch Class with a little help from Skoda29:00Radetzky class: powerful guns, limited elevationNotable Point
- Austro Hungarian Battleships: Habsburg Class to Ersatz Monarch Class with a little help from Skoda30:44Gun elevation, plunging fire, and the final action against BismarckNotable Point
- Austro Hungarian Battleships: Habsburg Class to Ersatz Monarch Class with a little help from Skoda44:05Skoda Works as the industrial foundation of the fleetNotable Point
- Austro Hungarian Battleships: Habsburg Class to Ersatz Monarch Class with a little help from Skoda47:43Tegetthoff class: a leap to triple-turret dreadnoughtsChapter
- Austro Hungarian Battleships: Habsburg Class to Ersatz Monarch Class with a little help from Skoda57:14Ersatz Monarch class: the 14-inch battleships that never sailedChapter
- Dreadnoughts (1905-1914)1:13What made a dreadnought differentChapter
- Dreadnoughts (1905-1914)3:46Lissa's legacy in Dreadnought's turret layoutNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts (1905-1914)4:25Cuniberti, Tsushima, and long-range fireNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts (1905-1914)7:21How turbines helped control the rangeNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts (1905-1914)9:22Armour as a clue to battle rangeNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts (1905-1914)23:13Wyoming's aft turrets reveal a broadside designNotable Point
- Belknap Class & Truxton: Comment Response18:12Why guns regain value in a prolonged warNotable Point
- Some Books Aquired So Far during #NavHistAus23! Perth Take 2!32:57Why early missile ships kept their gunsQ&A
- USS Monitor: Key Ships Series 3, Ship 65:11A turret ship built for sheltered waterNotable Point
- USS Monitor: Key Ships Series 3, Ship 611:12Virginia was built to break the Union blockadeChapter
- USS Monitor: Key Ships Series 3, Ship 616:58Why the rotating turret outlived MonitorChapter
- Albany Class: Comment Response21:54SMS Budapest's destabilizing single-gun conversionNotable Point
- Albany Class: Comment Response23:11Where Albany carried her guns and torpedo tubesNotable Point
- Some Books Aquired So Far in #NavHistAus23! Sydney1:20:54What could follow Vanguard in a battleship-building BritainQ&A
- Some Books Aquired So Far in #NavHistAus23! Sydney1:25:59Vanguard's turrets and the capacity to build successorsQ&A
- What would battleship and cruiser guns look like If modern technology were applied to them?0:26Setting limits for a modern big-gun thought experimentChapter
- What would battleship and cruiser guns look like If modern technology were applied to them?1:15Guided shells from heavy naval gunsNotable Point
- What would battleship and cruiser guns look like If modern technology were applied to them?7:59Using barrel length to approximate a modern-gun comparisonChapter
- What would battleship and cruiser guns look like If modern technology were applied to them?12:57Barrel length buys range but consumes gunsNotable Point
- What would battleship and cruiser guns look like If modern technology were applied to them?13:41Large guns as launchers for specialist naval payloadsNotable Point
- What would battleship and cruiser guns look like If modern technology were applied to them?23:13Why an 18-inch gun cannot simply be restartedNotable Point
- What would battleship and cruiser guns look like If modern technology were applied to them?32:02Could sustained big-gun development make railguns practical?Notable Point
- What would battleship and cruiser guns look like If modern technology were applied to them?33:21Heavy-gun ammunition and replenishment at seaNotable Point
- USS Long Beach: Comment Response12:12Why Long Beach retained 5-inch/38 gunsQ&A
- Some Books Aquired So Far in #NavHistAus23! Brisbane17:40Why Tribal destroyers kept torpedoesQ&A
- Some Books Aquired So Far in #NavHistAus23! Brisbane44:43Why U.S. destroyers did not immediately adopt twin five-inch mountsQ&A
- Some Books Aquired So Far in #NavHistAus23! Brisbane1:17:09When destroyer guns begin to create a cruiserQ&A
- HMS Warspite: Key Ships Series 3, Ship 313:39Why battleship armour only works within limitsNotable Point
- HMS Warspite: Key Ships Series 3, Ship 339:13The long-range hit at CalabriaNotable Point
- USS Texas: Key Ship Series 3, Ship 216:17Twin turrets, reliable machinery, and upgrade potentialNotable Point
- USS Texas: Key Ship Series 3, Ship 235:18Texas enforced naval arms limitation against USS WashingtonNotable Point
- USS Texas: Key Ship Series 3, Ship 21:07:13The Cherbourg duel with Battery HamburgNotable Point
- HMS Cossack: Key Ships Series 3, Ship 1...special edition...34:19Cossack at Narvik: forcing the harbour fightChapter
- HMS Cossack: Key Ships Series 3, Ship 1...special edition...45:53HMS Maori at Bismarck's final actionNotable Point
- Stalins Dream Fleets & the Potential Responses33:40Project 69 and the logistics behind a big-gun fleetNotable Point
- Stalins Dream Fleets & the Potential Responses34:39Engineering perfection versus fleet-wide standardisationNotable Point
- The Fleet of the Imperium of Man: A Naval Historian's take on Warhammer 40k Human Fleet11:20Why end-on fire makes bow and stern dangerousNotable Point
- The Fleet of the Imperium of Man: A Naval Historian's take on Warhammer 40k Human Fleet55:30Warrant officers keep enormous starships runningChapter
- The Fleet of the Imperium of Man: A Naval Historian's take on Warhammer 40k Human Fleet1:12:16Mixed calibres and superposed turrets complicate fire controlNotable Point
- The Fleet of the Imperium of Man: A Naval Historian's take on Warhammer 40k Human Fleet1:17:00Retribution class: gun-heavy line battleshipNotable Point
- The Fleet of the Imperium of Man: A Naval Historian's take on Warhammer 40k Human Fleet1:20:28Oberon class: guns and strike craft in one hullNotable Point
- The Fleet of the Imperium of Man: A Naval Historian's take on Warhammer 40k Human Fleet1:23:59Apocalypse class: lance fire and a Nova CannonNotable Point
- The Fleet of the Imperium of Man: A Naval Historian's take on Warhammer 40k Human Fleet1:31:16Vengeance class: devastating breach tactics at a costNotable Point
- The Fleet of the Imperium of Man: A Naval Historian's take on Warhammer 40k Human Fleet1:34:02Avenger class: immense short-range broadsidesNotable Point
- The Fleet of the Imperium of Man: A Naval Historian's take on Warhammer 40k Human Fleet2:14:35Macro weapons can disable ships or bombard planetsChapter
- The Fleet of the Imperium of Man: A Naval Historian's take on Warhammer 40k Human Fleet2:16:40Lance power comes at the cost of flexible mountingNotable Point
- The Fleet of the Imperium of Man: A Naval Historian's take on Warhammer 40k Human Fleet2:21:16Nova Cannon reach and the limits of void shieldsNotable Point
- Glorious First of June; the Jutland of the Age of Sail?4:07A battle diary explains the weather gaugeNotable Point
- Glorious First of June; the Jutland of the Age of Sail?1:04:16Did Révolutionnaire strike her colours?Notable Point
- Glorious First of June; the Jutland of the Age of Sail?1:53:21Brunswick locks with VengeurNotable Point
- Glorious First of June; the Jutland of the Age of Sail?2:02:24Rigging fire meets hull fire at close rangeNotable Point
- Glorious First of June; the Jutland of the Age of Sail?2:07:43Royal Sovereign blocks a French regroupingNotable Point
- Tillman's Maximum Battleships: Key Ships Series 2, Ship 826:12Tillman IV and the limits of multi-gun turretsNotable Point
- Tillman's Maximum Battleships: Key Ships Series 2, Ship 826:49Tillman IV pushes the Bureau of Ordnance toward 18-inch gunsNotable Point
- Tillman's Maximum Battleships: Key Ships Series 2, Ship 829:46Tillman V and the emerging fast-battleship ideaChapter
- Glorious First of June (1794)1:01:07Could a modern 4-inch gun defeat an age-of-sail first rate?Q&A
- Glorious First of June (1794)1:36:04Audacious and Révolutionnaire fight themselves out of the campaignChapter
- Glorious First of June (1794)2:21:46Brunswick's point-blank fight with VengeurNotable Point
- Glorious First of June (1794)2:39:25Smoke turned long-range support into friendly fireNotable Point
- Nothing Wrong With Our Shells; Alternate History, Jutland if Royal Navy Shells Work extended editon0:00The counterfactual is better shell quality controlChapter
- Nothing Wrong With Our Shells; Alternate History, Jutland if Royal Navy Shells Work extended editon18:05What made the later Greenboy shell more effectiveChapter
- Nothing Wrong With Our Shells; Alternate History, Jutland if Royal Navy Shells Work extended editon23:03Shell design lagged behind long-range battle doctrineNotable Point
- Nothing Wrong With Our Shells; Alternate History, Jutland if Royal Navy Shells Work extended editon24:19Dreyer's rapid wartime shell-reform programmeChapter
- Nothing Wrong With Our Shells; Alternate History, Jutland if Royal Navy Shells Work extended editon43:37The Goeben chase combines doctrine, speed, and coal qualityNotable Point
- Nothing Wrong With Our Shells; Alternate History, Jutland if Royal Navy Shells Work extended editon47:49Poor shells create pressure for more accurate fireNotable Point
- Nothing Wrong With Our Shells; Alternate History, Jutland if Royal Navy Shells Work extended editon52:57Why Baden cannot balance Fifth Battle SquadronNotable Point
- Nothing Wrong With Our Shells; Alternate History, Jutland if Royal Navy Shells Work extended editon1:06:46British volume of fire hid poor shell effectNotable Point
- Nothing Wrong With Our Shells; Alternate History, Jutland if Royal Navy Shells Work extended editon1:51:49Seydlitz shows why loss estimates need cautionNotable Point
- Nothing Wrong With Our Shells; Alternate History, Jutland if Royal Navy Shells Work extended editon1:55:06Better shells do not remove British battlecruiser lossesNotable Point
- Nothing Wrong With Our Shells; Alternate History, Jutland if Royal Navy Shells Work extended editon1:57:05Hit counts show why Moltke could be at riskNotable Point
- Nothing Wrong With Our Shells; Alternate History, Jutland if Royal Navy Shells Work extended editon2:01:28Fifth Battle Squadron hit with partial broadsidesNotable Point
- How do Navies Learn from War26:03Tsushima and the case for long-range fireChapter
- Bruships 114: Alternate Histories, What Ifs & Questions from Chat59:28A standardized triple 6-inch gun in the Cold War Royal NavyQ&A
- Bruships 114: Alternate Histories, What Ifs & Questions from Chat1:20:23How a 20-inch-gunned Hood could break treaty negotiationsQ&A
- Bruships 114: Alternate Histories, What Ifs & Questions from Chat1:48:11Canadian harbour guns and battleship deterrenceQ&A
- Bruships 114: Alternate Histories, What Ifs & Questions from Chat2:02:48Starting Dreadnought with 13.5-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships 114: Alternate Histories, What Ifs & Questions from Chat2:29:13Why Nelson should standardize her dual-purpose batteryQ&A
- Bruships 114: Alternate Histories, What Ifs & Questions from Chat2:40:38What a 10,000-ton treaty submarine might becomeQ&A
- Bruships 114: Alternate Histories, What Ifs & Questions from Chat2:41:51Why Graf Zeppelin's guns do not make a carrier duel sensibleQ&A
- Bruships 114: Alternate Histories, What Ifs & Questions from Chat3:05:47Why several modernized old battleships still threaten YamatoQ&A
- Bruships 114: Alternate Histories, What Ifs & Questions from Chat3:14:38Why Strasbourg has the edge over ScharnhorstQ&A
- Stalingrad Class Battlecruiser: Key Ships Series 2, Ship 711:23The speed, armour, and gun problem Stalingrad posedNotable Point
- Stalingrad Class Battlecruiser: Key Ships Series 2, Ship 717:27Stalingrad's layered weapons and electronic suiteNotable Point
- Günther Lütjens, useful idiot or misunderstood leadership?55:42Karlsruhe concentrated six six-inch guns aftNotable Point
- Günther Lütjens, useful idiot or misunderstood leadership?1:46:20Renown tested Lütjens in his first capital-ship actionChapter
- Günther Lütjens, useful idiot or misunderstood leadership?1:52:59Could Scharnhorst and Gneisenau have survived Rodney?Q&A
- Günther Lütjens, useful idiot or misunderstood leadership?1:54:19Was Renown firing full broadsides or alternating half-salvos?Q&A
- Günther Lütjens, useful idiot or misunderstood leadership?4:09:25Bismarck's final battle destroyed its guns and successive command positionsChapter
- Günther Lütjens, useful idiot or misunderstood leadership?4:21:45How close was Rodney when her shells disabled Bismarck's turrets?Q&A
- A 13.5in gun Dreadnought? Would it work?0:49Designing a 13.5-inch-gun dreadnoughtChapter
- A 13.5in gun Dreadnought? Would it work?15:07Calibrating a game dreadnought against South Carolina and DelawareNotable Point
- A 13.5in gun Dreadnought? Would it work?19:05Speed, spotting, and gun rangeNotable Point
- A 13.5in gun Dreadnought? Would it work?27:11Steaming into the fall of shotNotable Point
- A 13.5in gun Dreadnought? Would it work?30:33Escaping wing turrets on an early dreadnought hullNotable Point
- A 13.5in gun Dreadnought? Would it work?32:42An all-centreline 13.5-inch dreadnought experimentChapter
- A 13.5in gun Dreadnought? Would it work?54:12Reworking G3 and F3 capital-ship ideasChapter
- A 13.5in gun Dreadnought? Would it work?1:02:16Building a 15,000-ton large cruiserChapter
- A 13.5in gun Dreadnought? Would it work?1:48:17Night fighting, range, and revealing gun flashesNotable Point
- Sovereign Battleships... & Why Pre-Dreadnoughts really shouldn't be called that Round 28:45The 13.5-inch alternative to Dreadnought's gunsNotable Point
- An Imperial Navy start... this can not end well...30:50Reading firing arcs from a fictional warship designNotable Point
- An Imperial Navy start... this can not end well...2:14:54Movement, engine damage, and survival under fireNotable Point
- An Imperial Navy start... this can not end well...2:27:47Concentrating the fleet and removing escorts firstChapter
- Bruships 113: Jutland34:39How larger British guns could reshape treaty limitsQ&A
- Bruships 113: Jutland45:13Estimating Hood's proposed 4.5-inch ammunition allowanceQ&A
- Bruships 113: Jutland1:25:12Technology without practice in the First World War U.S. NavyQ&A
- Bruships 113: Jutland1:37:51Smoke, mistaken identity, and the destruction of DefenceChapter
- Bruships 113: Jutland2:14:40How a 13.5-inch Dreadnought changes the naval raceQ&A
- Bruships 113: Jutland2:24:38The gun deficit behind German battlecruiser doctrineNotable Point
- Bruships 113: Jutland2:39:49Armour protection only makes sense at a stated rangeQ&A
- Building the Fleets for Jutland41:38Why Germany accepted slow pre-dreadnoughts at JutlandNotable Point
- Building the Fleets for Jutland1:21:31British shell failures reveal dependence in the other directionNotable Point
- Building the Fleets for Jutland1:41:42German torpedoes offset, but could not erase, gun disparityNotable Point
- Francesco Caracciolo Class Battleships: Key Ships Series 2, Ship 614:36Gunnery tailored for close, fast Mediterranean battlesChapter
- Building a NelRod County Class...29:13When the County-Zara trial disables the main batteryNotable Point
- Building a NelRod County Class...44:51A 9.2-inch Hawkins-class alternativeChapter
- Building a NelRod County Class...1:23:13Cutting a cruiser turret to reduce costNotable Point
- Building a NelRod County Class...1:23:49Building a German destroyer around cruiser-calibre gunsQ&A
- Building a NelRod County Class...1:56:00Why a torpedo-heavy destroyer threatens a cruiserNotable Point
- Building a NelRod County Class...2:26:34Testing a rebuilt Bismarck against an 18-inch designNotable Point
- Bruships 112: Julian Corbett1:04Why wartime guns still used pounder namesQ&A
- Bruships 112: Julian Corbett6:30Reliable quadruple turrets and a new arms raceQ&A
- Bruships 112: Julian Corbett55:23Why limited firing arcs matter more at short rangeQ&A
- Bruships 112: Julian Corbett1:12:00Why the Deutschlands retained 11-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships 112: Julian Corbett1:29:01Were Deutschland's guns intended to shock other powers?Q&A
- Bruships 112: Julian Corbett1:35:09A twelve-gun Scharnhorst counterfactualQ&A
- Bruships 112: Julian Corbett1:48:56Graf Zeppelin's guns and the destroyer-attack argumentNotable Point
- What were the 'Bearns' of the other Major Navies? RM, IJN, USN, RN & Kreigsmarine1:22:31York's cut-price battery weakened its firepowerChapter
- What were the 'Bearns' of the other Major Navies? RM, IJN, USN, RN & Kreigsmarine1:22:52Arethusa traded gun count for endurance and spaceNotable Point
- What were the 'Bearns' of the other Major Navies? RM, IJN, USN, RN & Kreigsmarine1:27:43King George V's quadruple turrets complicated its batteryChapter
- What were the 'Bearns' of the other Major Navies? RM, IJN, USN, RN & Kreigsmarine1:30:30Fourteen-inch gun policy met foreign and Admiralty resistanceNotable Point
- What were the 'Bearns' of the other Major Navies? RM, IJN, USN, RN & Kreigsmarine1:42:18Eleven-inch guns offered little for stopping merchant shipsNotable Point
- What were the 'Bearns' of the other Major Navies? RM, IJN, USN, RN & Kreigsmarine1:44:50A Baltic role put Deutschland against heavier Soviet batteriesNotable Point
- Patreon 78: The Bearn of every major treaty navy...43:28Mogador's 138.6 mm gun adds another design complicationNotable Point
- Patreon 78: The Bearn of every major treaty navy...45:47What if Tribal-class destroyers had dual-purpose 5.5-inch guns?Q&A
- Patreon 78: The Bearn of every major treaty navy...46:51Courbet and Normandie compound French battleship compromisesChapter
- Patreon 78: The Bearn of every major treaty navy...1:57:43Pensacola's ten-gun battery imposed top-weight and logistics costsChapter
- Patreon 78: The Bearn of every major treaty navy...2:08:27Why did treaty cruisers default to 8-inch guns?Q&A
- Patreon 78: The Bearn of every major treaty navy...2:46:18Could 4.5-inch guns on King George V have helped the Didos?Q&A
- Patreon 78: The Bearn of every major treaty navy...3:03:56King George V: political calibre choice and complex turretsNotable Point
- Patreon 78: The Bearn of every major treaty navy...3:05:54Would 6-inch Yorks become Crown Colony cruisers?Q&A
- Patreon 78: The Bearn of every major treaty navy...3:11:06When did Britain learn that Japan was building Yamato?Q&A
- Patreon 78: The Bearn of every major treaty navy...3:14:00Did smaller 14-inch shells simplify Royal Navy logistics?Q&A
- Patreon 78: The Bearn of every major treaty navy...3:17:13Could American 14-inch ammunition support the King George V class?Q&A
- Patreon 78: The Bearn of every major treaty navy...3:18:35Why was the 14-inch gun pursued?Q&A
- Starting off Franco-Italian Battleship race... come see what a Francisco Caracciolo might have done23:15Why 18-inch guns need much larger turretsNotable Point
- Starting off Franco-Italian Battleship race... come see what a Francisco Caracciolo might have done28:11Why shell weight does not set a simple powder ruleQ&A
- Starting off Franco-Italian Battleship race... come see what a Francisco Caracciolo might have done34:51Why a capital ship should preserve its range advantageNotable Point
- Starting off Franco-Italian Battleship race... come see what a Francisco Caracciolo might have done1:16:21Treaty tonnage made 14-inch quadruple turrets attractiveNotable Point
- Starting off Franco-Italian Battleship race... come see what a Francisco Caracciolo might have done1:41:54Destroyer screens and stopping torpedo attacksNotable Point
- Starting off Franco-Italian Battleship race... come see what a Francisco Caracciolo might have done1:58:04Atlanta-style cruisers and saturation fireNotable Point
- Starting off Franco-Italian Battleship race... come see what a Francisco Caracciolo might have done2:10:29Can a fast minelayer trap a battleship at close range?Q&A
- Starting off Franco-Italian Battleship race... come see what a Francisco Caracciolo might have done2:14:00The appeal and limits of 14-inch volume of fireNotable Point
- Starting off Franco-Italian Battleship race... come see what a Francisco Caracciolo might have done2:24:51Building the Alaska class around speed and twelve-inch gunsChapter
- Starting off Franco-Italian Battleship race... come see what a Francisco Caracciolo might have done2:34:24Alaska-class firepower against an outnumbered raiderNotable Point
- Starting off Franco-Italian Battleship race... come see what a Francisco Caracciolo might have done2:44:27Italian ammunition quality and corrupt contractingNotable Point
- Rome is Won, What Carthage does now the Romans are Really Annoyed! Rome Total War 2, April 20233:06:43Why light cruisers need a credible attack methodQ&A
- Bruships 111: Random Books of History46:24Why Italian cruiser guns sat so close togetherQ&A
- Battle of Hakodate(1869)1:34:22Why Kotetsu overmatched Japan's wooden fleetsNotable Point
- Battle of Hakodate(1869)3:15:09Why the 9.2-inch Mark XI lacked a shipboard turretQ&A
- Battle of Hakodate(1869)3:17:59Could a 400-calibre-length gun work?Q&A
- Battle of Hakodate(1869)3:19:18Were the All-National 9.2-inch guns effective?Q&A
- Battle of Hakodate(1869)3:19:44Who built the Radetzky class's 9.4-inch guns?Q&A
- Mayfly to the Future: A History of Naval Aviation12:44Spotting and shadowing make aircraft combat multipliersNotable Point
- Mayfly to the Future: A History of Naval Aviation25:15Taranto, damage, and the alternative use of aircraftNotable Point
- Mayfly to the Future: A History of Naval Aviation45:29Sea Fury and Spitfire as fleet information assetsNotable Point
- G3 & N3 Classes: The Lost Dreadnought Generation, Key Ship Series 2, Ships 2 & 38:59What the unusual turret position gained and lostNotable Point
- G3 & N3 Classes: The Lost Dreadnought Generation, Key Ship Series 2, Ships 2 & 317:43All-forward guns for manoeuvring ship actionsNotable Point
- G3 & N3 Classes: The Lost Dreadnought Generation, Key Ship Series 2, Ships 2 & 321:25K3 as the fast nine-gun eighteen-inch extremeChapter
- G3 & N3 Classes: The Lost Dreadnought Generation, Key Ship Series 2, Ships 2 & 322:21The armour problem created by eighteen-inch gunsNotable Point
- G3 & N3 Classes: The Lost Dreadnought Generation, Key Ship Series 2, Ships 2 & 323:09A secondary battery powerful enough for cruisers and commerceNotable Point
- G3 & N3 Classes: The Lost Dreadnought Generation, Key Ship Series 2, Ships 2 & 328:50Yamato-level firepower, not Yamato-level protectionNotable Point
- The full quick gun calibre guide (10-18in) to Dreadnought style ships0:00HMS Dreadnought's 12-inch starting pointNotable Point
- The full quick gun calibre guide (10-18in) to Dreadnought style ships0:33Orion's 13.5-inch guns and the half-inch step to 14 inchesNotable Point
- The full quick gun calibre guide (10-18in) to Dreadnought style ships0:45The Queen Elizabeth class's 15-inch shell widthNotable Point
- The full quick gun calibre guide (10-18in) to Dreadnought style ships1:00Colorado's 16-inch gun in human scaleNotable Point
- The full quick gun calibre guide (10-18in) to Dreadnought style ships1:10HMS Furious and Yamato in the 18-inch comparisonChapter
- HMS Renown(1895); Key Ship Series 1, Ship 1015:43Why the 10-inch gun lost its place between cruisers and battleshipsNotable Point
- HMS Renown(1895); Key Ship Series 1, Ship 1017:21Renown's mixed battery and torpedo-boat defenceChapter
- HMS Renown(1895); Key Ship Series 1, Ship 1018:46Why the 76 mm gun endured against small, fast threatsNotable Point
- Iron Clad Battles of the War of the Pacific & Chilean Civil War55:34Angamos: armour-piercing fire and Huáscar’s captureChapter
- HMS Repulse(1892): Key Ships Series 1, Ship 99:50Extreme gun calibres demanded stronger hullsNotable Point
- HMS Repulse(1892): Key Ships Series 1, Ship 920:55The Royal Navy’s recurring 13.5-inch preferenceNotable Point
- HMS Repulse(1892): Key Ships Series 1, Ship 924:21Secondary guns and torpedoes for close actionNotable Point
- HMS Repulse(1892): Key Ships Series 1, Ship 928:34Inside Repulse’s aft 13.5-inch barbetteNotable Point
- HMS Repulse(1892): Key Ships Series 1, Ship 946:22The wider naval race behind bigger gunsNotable Point
- Chilean Civil War & the sinking of the Blanco Encalada56:45Blanco Encalada's broadside ironclad designChapter
- Chilean Civil War & the sinking of the Blanco Encalada1:02:00Were Blanco Encalada's nine-inch guns muzzle-loaders?Q&A
- Chilean Civil War & the sinking of the Blanco Encalada1:18:35Inside Blanco Encalada's muzzle-loading batteryNotable Point
- Chilean Civil War & the sinking of the Blanco Encalada1:55:43Palliser shells dismantle Huáscar at AngamosNotable Point
- Chilean Civil War & the sinking of the Blanco Encalada2:04:21Was 200 metres still gun range at Angamos?Q&A
- Chilean Civil War & the sinking of the Blanco Encalada2:46:32Deployable ironclads beat privateers and coastal monitorsNotable Point
- Chilean Civil War & the sinking of the Blanco Encalada2:57:09Why protected cruisers did not make torpedoes their main weaponQ&A
- HMS Dreadnought, but built around the RN's favourite battleship guns...7:37Designing a 13.5-inch-gun HMS DreadnoughtNotable Point
- HMS Dreadnought, but built around the RN's favourite battleship guns...1:11:31Volume of fire versus protection in a cruiser duelNotable Point
- HMS Dreadnought, but built around the RN's favourite battleship guns...1:17:37Can a destroyer carry a ship-of-the-line broadside?Q&A
- HMS Dreadnought, but built around the RN's favourite battleship guns...2:28:58The super-battleship's layers of gun rangeNotable Point
- HMS Dreadnought, but built around the RN's favourite battleship guns...2:33:56Triple-turret development and the set-back centre gunNotable Point
- HMS Dreadnought, but built around the RN's favourite battleship guns...2:36:11Firing delays, turret access and maintenanceQ&A
- HMS Dreadnought, but built around the RN's favourite battleship guns...3:39:49Why overpenetration does not make an 18-inch hit harmlessNotable Point
- Steam Battleships (1876-1891)27:09Why secondary guns could be the decisive weaponsNotable Point
- Steam Battleships (1876-1891)28:59Amiral Baudin: old status guns and newer fighting batteriesNotable Point
- Can Cathage Take Rome with a Naval Historian in charge? Rome Total War 1, April 20237:46Why gun calibre alone does not determine rangeNotable Point
- Can Cathage Take Rome with a Naval Historian in charge? Rome Total War 1, April 20231:42:02Why Dreadnought's 12-inch battery is surprisingNotable Point
- Can Cathage Take Rome with a Naval Historian in charge? Rome Total War 1, April 20232:00:24Why ten-inch cruisers are not a close match for a 12-inch broadsideNotable Point
- USS New Ironsides: Key Ships Series 1, Ship 88:12Armament and armour for a coastal ironcladChapter
- Red Storm Rising: The GIUK Gap in a 1980 conventional war between the Warsaw Pact & NATO(Patreon 77)3:32:18Why not refit cruisers with the Mark 71 eight-inch gun during the war?Q&A
- Starting with Building HMS Thunderchild...11:53Using HMS Renown as a Thunder Child referenceNotable Point
- Starting with Building HMS Thunderchild...28:02Torpedo rams and the engagement-range problemNotable Point
- Starting with Building HMS Thunderchild...37:13A light cruiser built around massed 5.5-inch fireChapter
- Starting with Building HMS Thunderchild...57:48Testing the machine-gun cruiserNotable Point
- Starting with Building HMS Thunderchild...1:10:41Designing a cruiser for an HMS Agincourt worldChapter
- Starting with Building HMS Thunderchild...1:31:39The cost of a 21-inch-gun battleshipChapter
- Starting with Building HMS Thunderchild...2:16:36Mixed-calibre armament creates a logistics burdenNotable Point
- Starting with Building HMS Thunderchild...2:19:18Quadruple turrets and distorted Japanese accuracyNotable Point
- Starting with Building HMS Thunderchild...2:21:38What a 21-inch shell would do on impactNotable Point
- Starting with Building HMS Thunderchild...2:51:19Recognising national destroyer design in a simulationNotable Point
- Starting with Building HMS Thunderchild...3:07:44The Italian super-destroyer as a small cruiserNotable Point
- Royal Navy retains the 'Fleet Units' of Royal Naval Air Service in 1918 - an Alternate History1:08:07Carrier experience reshapes fleet air defenceChapter
- Huáscar: Key Ships Series 1, Ship 75:36A monitor built around a powerful turretChapter
- Huáscar: Key Ships Series 1, Ship 711:13Firepower and machinery made Huáscar a deterrentNotable Point
- Huáscar: Key Ships Series 1, Ship 726:01Range control and armour-piercing fire decided AngamosNotable Point
- Bruships 108: PLanned for Random Books off the Shelf & Chat7:02Hood's unlikely fatal hit and the glass-jaw mythNotable Point
- Bruships 108: PLanned for Random Books off the Shelf & Chat46:27How an 8-inch turret grew heavierQ&A
- Bruships 108: PLanned for Random Books off the Shelf & Chat54:09Why Lexington-class carriers carried 8-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships 108: PLanned for Random Books off the Shelf & Chat1:01:15Why HMS Formidable was ordered away from gunfireNotable Point
- Bruships 108: PLanned for Random Books off the Shelf & Chat1:08:13When carrier 8-inch guns might have matteredQ&A
- Osmaniye: Key Ship Series 1, Ship 56:36Original machinery, armour, and movable chase gunChapter
- Osmaniye: Key Ship Series 1, Ship 513:03Barbettes, new engines, and sustained steamingChapter
- HMVS Cerberus: Key Ships Series 1, Ship 46:49Four ten-inch guns and a changing secondary batteryNotable Point
- Timberborne: A Test for Year of Technology/My students favourite 'engineering game' (2nd Edition)1:10:31Earlier Greenboy shells and naval counterfactualsNotable Point
- Empire Total War: Naval Battle Training...14:54When a smaller rate attacks a heavier shipNotable Point
- Empire Total War: Naval Battle Training...31:22Disabling masts to isolate enemy shipsNotable Point
- Empire Total War: Naval Battle Training...40:30Pre-Trafalgar ship construction under fireNotable Point
- Empire Total War: Naval Battle Training...43:08Total gun count versus the actual broadsideNotable Point
- HMS Benbow 1885: Key Ships Series 1, Ship 311:46Why Benbow’s conning tower still had a clear purposeNotable Point
- HDMS Danmark: Key Ships Series 1, Ship 217:01Why new armament could not fix DanmarkChapter
- HMS Dreadnought: Key Ships Series 1, Ship 13:00An all-big-gun ship built for salvo fireChapter
- HMS Dreadnought: Key Ships Series 1, Ship 14:22How superfiring and triple turrets might have changed DreadnoughtNotable Point
- HMS Dreadnought: Key Ships Series 1, Ship 16:38Wing turrets and Fisher's forward-fire priorityNotable Point
- HMS Dreadnought: Key Ships Series 1, Ship 19:13The ideas and people behind DreadnoughtNotable Point
- HMS Dreadnought: Key Ships Series 1, Ship 114:10Main guns, anti-destroyer weapons, and torpedo tubesChapter
- HMS Dreadnought: Key Ships Series 1, Ship 120:50Weight of fire forces every navy to catch upNotable Point
- Patreon Bonus: Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine eschews steam and goes all Diesel(-electric) propulsion8:34Could a warship engage several targets at once?Q&A
- Patreon Bonus: Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine eschews steam and goes all Diesel(-electric) propulsion1:48:38Could a 10-inch diesel cruiser work?Q&A
- Still Trying to deal with the Inadvertently Created Super Bismarck23:35How one main-tower hit erases a fifteen-gun advantageNotable Point
- Still Trying to deal with the Inadvertently Created Super Bismarck33:00Giving the Bismarck model a fair historical allowanceNotable Point
- Still Trying to deal with the Inadvertently Created Super Bismarck48:55When fewer guns make a stronger battleship designNotable Point
- Still Trying to deal with the Inadvertently Created Super Bismarck1:02:29Winning because the enemy exhausts its main-battery ammunitionNotable Point
- Still Trying to deal with the Inadvertently Created Super Bismarck1:14:19The 14-inch gun Dreadnought that might have changed the arms raceQ&A
- Still Trying to deal with the Inadvertently Created Super Bismarck1:19:49What the twelve-gun reconstruction gains from better fire controlNotable Point
- Still Trying to deal with the Inadvertently Created Super Bismarck1:27:19How an 18-inch Argincourt could reshape naval treatiesNotable Point
- Still Trying to deal with the Inadvertently Created Super Bismarck1:36:59How larger capital ships could raise the cruiser calibre ceilingQ&A
- Still Trying to deal with the Inadvertently Created Super Bismarck2:14:53What an 18-inch hit means for a battleshipNotable Point
- Ironclad Frigates: Tremendous Transition2:22Why the ironclad frigate broke the sailing-ship modelNotable Point
- Ironclad Frigates: Tremendous Transition36:19Heavy guns for armoured warshipsNotable Point
- Ironclad Frigates: Tremendous Transition38:34Range, armour, and firepower trade-offsNotable Point
- Bruships 107: Some New to Me Books & Some New from Pen & Sword16:24How British triple turrets could reshape the arms raceNotable Point
- Bruships 107: Some New to Me Books & Some New from Pen & Sword24:30Designing barbettes for future turretsQ&A
- Bruships 107: Some New to Me Books & Some New from Pen & Sword42:45Interwar research into autoloading capital-ship gunsQ&A
- Bruships 107: Some New to Me Books & Some New from Pen & Sword45:03Why battleships normally fired broadsidesQ&A
- Bruships 107: Some New to Me Books & Some New from Pen & Sword56:46What an autoloading battleship changesQ&A
- Bruships 107: Some New to Me Books & Some New from Pen & Sword1:01:36Salvo density versus magazine enduranceNotable Point
- Bruships 107: Some New to Me Books & Some New from Pen & Sword1:12:27Autoloaders and a long-range first strikeNotable Point
- Bruships 107: Some New to Me Books & Some New from Pen & Sword1:18:10Time-on-target fire from capital shipsQ&A
- Bruships 107: Some New to Me Books & Some New from Pen & Sword1:53:33Why Zara's guns dispersed lessNotable Point
- Blockading Brest: A Royal Navy Tradition2:23:29Soleil Royal as Tourville’s exceptional flagshipNotable Point
- Blockading Brest: A Royal Navy Tradition2:35:32Fourteen British ships against eight powerful French escortsNotable Point
- Blockading Brest: A Royal Navy Tradition2:46:59Training turns the chase into a victoryNotable Point
- Blockading Brest: A Royal Navy Tradition2:50:28Q&A: Targeting topmen and gunnery controlQ&A
- Blockading Brest: A Royal Navy Tradition2:50:55Battle damage delays the pursuit after Cape FinisterreNotable Point
- Blockading Brest: A Royal Navy Tradition3:10:55How months of blockade improved health and fighting practiceNotable Point
- Blockading Brest: The Creation & Some Battles of the Western Squadron1:10:31Hawke rolled up the French rear with local superiorityChapter
- Blockading Brest: The Creation & Some Battles of the Western Squadron1:43:15Ushant 1778: formation problems and a missed decisionChapter
- Blockading Brest: The Creation & Some Battles of the Western Squadron1:47:36Damaged rigging constrained Palliser's response to Keppel's ordersNotable Point
- Help I Inadvertently Built a Super Bismarck...32:48Why secondary guns mattered in pre-dreadnought battlesNotable Point
- Help I Inadvertently Built a Super Bismarck...1:05:22Close range erases a battlecruiser's choicesNotable Point
- Help I Inadvertently Built a Super Bismarck...1:23:40Do not throw away the advantage of rangeNotable Point
- Help I Inadvertently Built a Super Bismarck...1:36:37Why navies invested in long-range fire controlNotable Point
- Help I Inadvertently Built a Super Bismarck...1:41:34Long-range fire turns deck armour into the problemNotable Point
- Help I Inadvertently Built a Super Bismarck...2:30:57Night action: finding targets by fireNotable Point
- Help I Inadvertently Built a Super Bismarck...2:45:34Do not turn a game penalty into a verdict on quadruple turretsNotable Point
- Empire Total War Twitch Stream 6(March 2023)1:15:53Greenboy shells and a different JutlandNotable Point
- Battle of Copenhagen(1801): A Game of Dominoes in Naval Diplomacy55:25A failing shore-to-ship reinforcement systemNotable Point
- Patreon 75: The Attack on Copenhagen in 1801 and following operations in the Danish waters1:55:41Danish reserves and gunnery under pressureChapter
- Timberborne: A Test for the Year of Technology/My students favourite 'engineering game'31:17Why a French high-velocity 13-inch gun is not a simple upgradeQ&A
- Timberborne: A Test for the Year of Technology/My students favourite 'engineering game'1:42:25The industrial challenge behind a German destroyer-cruiser programmeQ&A
- Bruships 106: Song Dynasty & Three New Books from Pen & Sword9:12Working 15-inch shells turn battlecruiser damage into probable lossQ&A
- Bruships 106: Song Dynasty & Three New Books from Pen & Sword27:12Why 15-inch Scharnhorsts would trade commonality for delayQ&A
- Bruships 106: Song Dynasty & Three New Books from Pen & Sword37:43Gun stocks did not solve the 15-inch turret bottleneckQ&A
- Bruships 106: Song Dynasty & Three New Books from Pen & Sword52:41Longer naval guns demand more than stretching the barrelQ&A
- Bruships 106: Song Dynasty & Three New Books from Pen & Sword1:00:41Gun decks became living space until the ship cleared for actionQ&A
- Bruships 106: Song Dynasty & Three New Books from Pen & Sword1:10:23Age of Sail gunners chose hull or rigging by tactical needQ&A
- Bruships 106: Song Dynasty & Three New Books from Pen & Sword1:27:29Liquid-propellant guns remained hazardous experimentsQ&A
- Bruships 106: Song Dynasty & Three New Books from Pen & Sword2:37:48Ripple fire depends on timing and fire control, not barrel count aloneQ&A
- Nothing Wrong With Our Shells Today; Alternate History, What if British Shells at Jutland Work?1:11The counterfactual is shell quality control, not a paint colourChapter
- Nothing Wrong With Our Shells Today; Alternate History, What if British Shells at Jutland Work?4:32Technical literacy shaped the politics of shell reformNotable Point
- Nothing Wrong With Our Shells Today; Alternate History, What if British Shells at Jutland Work?8:28Why a bursting shell needs containmentNotable Point
- Nothing Wrong With Our Shells Today; Alternate History, What if British Shells at Jutland Work?18:05Shellite trades some explosive power for stabilityNotable Point
- Nothing Wrong With Our Shells Today; Alternate History, What if British Shells at Jutland Work?23:48Long-range gunnery outgrew Tsushima-era ammunition doctrineNotable Point
- Nothing Wrong With Our Shells Today; Alternate History, What if British Shells at Jutland Work?24:19Dreyer turns post-Jutland criticism into new shell standardsChapter
- Nothing Wrong With Our Shells Today; Alternate History, What if British Shells at Jutland Work?27:37Dreyer and Pollen took different routes into fire controlNotable Point
- Nothing Wrong With Our Shells Today; Alternate History, What if British Shells at Jutland Work?47:52Better shells also reward gunnery and rate of fireNotable Point
- Nothing Wrong With Our Shells Today; Alternate History, What if British Shells at Jutland Work?58:02British hit volume mattered despite poor shell performanceNotable Point
- Naval Arms & Armour Research in prior to WWI3:27A seemingly stable arms race with disruptive technologies beneath itChapter
- Naval Arms & Armour Research in prior to WWI7:51Why research did not necessarily produce reliable weaponsNotable Point
- Naval Arms & Armour Research in prior to WWI13:34Shell quality mattered more than promises of a new designNotable Point
- Patreon 74: What if History - Greenboy shells had been developed and deployed in time for Jutland.23:41Why Greenboy shells were differentChapter
- Patreon 74: What if History - Greenboy shells had been developed and deployed in time for Jutland.29:34Why earlier shell reform required tighter quality controlChapter
- Patreon 74: What if History - Greenboy shells had been developed and deployed in time for Jutland.33:28Which book covers British battleship fire-control systems?Q&A
- Patreon 74: What if History - Greenboy shells had been developed and deployed in time for Jutland.38:00A damaged Goeben could reveal the shell problemChapter
- Patreon 74: What if History - Greenboy shells had been developed and deployed in time for Jutland.55:30The Royal Navy planned different shells for different rangesNotable Point
- Patreon 74: What if History - Greenboy shells had been developed and deployed in time for Jutland.1:03:43What does CPC mean in British shell terminology?Q&A
- Patreon 74: What if History - Greenboy shells had been developed and deployed in time for Jutland.1:08:32Earlier shell reform could reshape training before Dogger BankNotable Point
- Patreon 74: What if History - Greenboy shells had been developed and deployed in time for Jutland.1:16:15The shell crisis extended below the capital-ship gunsNotable Point
- Patreon 74: What if History - Greenboy shells had been developed and deployed in time for Jutland.1:44:01Could Britain equip the Grand Fleet with improved shells in time?Q&A
- Patreon 74: What if History - Greenboy shells had been developed and deployed in time for Jutland.2:51:01Were faulty fuzes the only British shell problem?Q&A
- A potential American Response to the 18in HMS Agincourt?10:41Balancing armor, secondary guns, and displacementChapter
- A potential American Response to the 18in HMS Agincourt?34:12Broadside weight versus the danger of an 18-inch hitChapter
- A potential American Response to the 18in HMS Agincourt?35:33Furious and the British 18-inch gun assumptionNotable Point
- A potential American Response to the 18in HMS Agincourt?48:40Yamato comparison depends on modeled gun rangesNotable Point
- A potential American Response to the 18in HMS Agincourt?2:00:58Why the game's knife-fight ranges misleadNotable Point
- Bruships 105: Six Age of Sail Useful Books54:40How a gun deck shifted between combat and daily lifeNotable Point
- Bruships 105: Six Age of Sail Useful Books1:11:26How a Type 22 without anti-ship missiles would be armedQ&A
- Bruships 105: Six Age of Sail Useful Books3:59:41Why a cork-filled battleship target did not need to sinkQ&A
- UAD: 18in gun Agincourt & Other Ideas5:01Building Germany's maximum 1912 counterpartChapter
- UAD: 18in gun Agincourt & Other Ideas58:43The trade-off between 16.5-inch and 18-inch gunsNotable Point
- UAD: 18in gun Agincourt & Other Ideas1:49:43The narrow range window favoring the Bismarck-like shipNotable Point
- UAD: 18in gun Agincourt & Other Ideas2:01:48Trading shell weight for interwar gun rangeNotable Point
- UAD: 18in gun Agincourt & Other Ideas2:08:39An 18-inch Agincourt against a Bismarck-like opponentNotable Point
- UAD: 18in gun Agincourt & Other Ideas2:36:47Range advantage cannot remove magazine riskNotable Point
- When 18in guns ships engage... things change quickly0:22Magazine hit during an 18-inch-gun engagementTranscript Excerpt
- Queen Elizabeth Class: Brave 1st step/faltering leap/something else? & Patreon 73 Comment Response2:22Why navies rarely fitted the largest possible gunQ&A
- Queen Elizabeth Class: Brave 1st step/faltering leap/something else? & Patreon 73 Comment Response9:28Six 18-inch guns, twelve 15-inch guns, and the spare-turret evidenceQ&A
- Queen Elizabeth Class: Brave 1st step/faltering leap/something else? & Patreon 73 Comment Response24:23Why the Royal Navy tested the six-gun arrangementQ&A
- Queen Elizabeth Class: Brave 1st step/faltering leap/something else? & Patreon 73 Comment Response26:00When simulation technology distorts a historical comparisonNotable Point
- Queen Elizabeth Class: Brave 1st step/faltering leap/something else? & Patreon 73 Comment Response41:27Why Britain considered 16.5-inch rather than 16-inch gunsQ&A
- Queen Elizabeth Class: Brave 1st step/faltering leap/something else? & Patreon 73 Comment Response42:56Small-tube Queen Elizabeth and the fast battleship pathQ&A
- Queen Elizabeth Class: Brave 1st step/faltering leap/something else? & Patreon 73 Comment Response56:30What the third turret gave Renown's gunnersQ&A
- Queen Elizabeth Class: Brave 1st step/faltering leap/something else? & Patreon 73 Comment Response1:01:17Why the 18-inch gun points to a shipboard requirementQ&A
- Queen Elizabeth Class: Brave 1st step/faltering leap/something else? & Patreon 73 Comment Response1:29:07Would eight American 18-inch guns outweigh Agincourt's speed?Q&A
- Queen Elizabeth Class: Brave 1st step/faltering leap/something else? & Patreon 73 Comment Response1:34:46Why gun counts could distort perceptions of naval superiorityNotable Point
- Queen Elizabeth Class: Brave 1st step/faltering leap/something else? & Patreon 73 Comment Response1:36:26Could the big cats have introduced British triple turrets earlier?Q&A
- Queen Elizabeth Class: Brave 1st step/faltering leap/something else? & Patreon 73 Comment Response1:38:29What Furious reveals about the origin of the 18-inch gunQ&A
- Queen Elizabeth Class: Brave 1st step/faltering leap/something else? & Patreon 73 Comment Response1:42:47Why three turrets remained unattractive to British battleship designersQ&A
- When a Q Turret goes up...0:00Q turret damage and the call for more armourTranscript Excerpt
- Bombardment of Ellwood5:42I-17 and the Ellwood shellingNotable Point
- Bombardment of Ellwood27:47Orleans and the U-156 shellingNotable Point
- Bombardment of Ellwood36:07Fort Stevens and range disciplineNotable Point
- Bombardment of Ellwood35:48What the Ellwood bombardment actually hitChapter
- Bombardment of Ellwood44:30What I-17's 5.5-inch deck gun could doNotable Point
- Bombardment of Ellwood1:28:29Why U-156 would conserve its torpedoesNotable Point
- Bombardment of Ellwood2:46:00Radar uncertainty in the Battle of the PipsNotable Point
- UAD: Queen Elizabeth Maximus & Other Ideas12:03Austro-Hungarian response to a heavier Queen ElizabethNotable Point
- UAD: Queen Elizabeth Maximus & Other Ideas20:11Elswick gun orders and hidden calibersNotable Point
- UAD: Queen Elizabeth Maximus & Other Ideas23:21Long-range ranging, gun caliber, and engagement controlNotable Point
- UAD: Queen Elizabeth Maximus & Other Ideas40:18Circling a disabled battleship and keeping guns trainedNotable Point
- UAD: Queen Elizabeth Maximus & Other Ideas1:00:35King George V alternative without Chatfield's choiceChapter
- UAD: Queen Elizabeth Maximus & Other Ideas1:25:12Quadruple 18-inch Armageddon designNotable Point
- UAD: Queen Elizabeth Maximus & Other Ideas1:38:05Goliath heavy-gun layout tradeoffsNotable Point
- UAD: Queen Elizabeth Maximus & Other Ideas1:58:07Broadside volume and the case for more 14-inch gunsNotable Point
- UAD: Queen Elizabeth Maximus & Other Ideas2:03:55Speed, armor, and staying outside secondary rangeNotable Point
- UAD: Queen Elizabeth Maximus & Other Ideas2:10:47How might the United States answer Queen Elizabeth Maximus?Notable Point
- UAD: Queen Elizabeth Maximus & Other Ideas2:11:42Giving the German opponent fifteen main gunsNotable Point
- UAD: Queen Elizabeth Maximus & Other Ideas2:22:57Engine damage brings Ajax within seven-inch gun rangeNotable Point
- Empire Total War Twitch Stream 2(February 2023)24:23Queen Elizabeth-class design alternativesNotable Point
- Empire Total War Twitch Stream 2(February 2023)1:36:27Line tactics and game fire controlNotable Point
- Empire Total War Twitch Stream 2(February 2023)2:31:13Single-frigate escape and capture tacticsNotable Point
- Bruships 103: Belfast Parts yet to arrive... so let's consider the Run up to War...29:16Estimating an 18-inch gun's rate of fireQ&A
- Bruships 103: Belfast Parts yet to arrive... so let's consider the Run up to War...1:47:24Turret orientation keeps weight amidshipsQ&A
- Bruships 103: Belfast Parts yet to arrive... so let's consider the Run up to War...3:33:15John Lambert drawings document naval gun dimensionsQ&A
- If the January 1939 Tsingtao incident leads to war... Comment Response7:06Why a 6-inch heavy-AA battery was unlikelyQ&A
- If the January 1939 Tsingtao incident leads to war... Comment Response29:13What 6-inch shells do at extreme close rangeQ&A
- If the January 1939 Tsingtao incident leads to war... Comment Response57:54Why warships used unequal turret layoutsQ&A
- Patreon 73: Queen Elizabeth class battleships - Brave first step, faltering leap or something else?1:52:24Why not answer 16.5-inch guns with a longer 16-inch weapon?Q&A
- Blockade!!43:46Rigging fire and the escape under Toulon's batteriesNotable Point
- Bruships 102: New Books, Sea Wolves & Skagerrak19:16Why battleship guns larger than 18 inches lose valueQ&A
- Bruships 102: New Books, Sea Wolves & Skagerrak1:11:31Making the least-bad battleship from wing turretsQ&A
- Gunboats of the 1920s, 1930s & WWII including Dragonfly Class1:08:09HNLMS Soemba's guns for Operation OverlordNotable Point
- Dragonfly Class and other Gunboats Service in WWII2:09:58Fairmile D armament upgrades and the Mollins autoloaderNotable Point
- Dragonfly Class and other Gunboats Service in WWII3:15:22Can stern box launchers coexist with a forward six-inch gun?Q&A
- Admirals, Lexingtons & Tosa; What if the Washington Naval Treaty built them?44:19An F3 turret layout trims weight and opens the sternNotable Point
- Admirals, Lexingtons & Tosa; What if the Washington Naval Treaty built them?49:10Tosa becomes Japan's ten-gun prestige battleshipNotable Point
- First Fleet: Founding of Australia12:19HMS Sirius, colony artillery, and defensive planningChapter
- First Fleet: Founding of Australia20:46HMS Sirius from Baltic merchantman to colonial warshipNotable Point
- First Fleet: Founding of Australia32:35HMS Hyena and the First Fleet's ocean escortNotable Point
- Bruships 100: Science Fiction & Some Fvourites42:02Fisher, Dreadnought, and a more alarming prototypeQ&A
- Bruships 100: Science Fiction & Some Fvourites1:51:51German gunnery documents and the work of intelligence interpretationChapter
- Bruships 100: Science Fiction & Some Fvourites3:04:13Why HMS Belfast's turrets stay clampedQ&A
- Bruships 100: Science Fiction & Some Fvourites3:06:34HMS Victory and the hazards of a museum broadsideQ&A
- Bruships 100: Science Fiction & Some Fvourites3:11:43Are Victory's displayed guns capable of firing?Q&A
- Bruships 100: Science Fiction & Some Fvourites3:25:33Why scuttling does not simply mean blowing the magazinesQ&A
- Bruships 100: Science Fiction & Some Fvourites3:27:02Missing fire-control equipment after Soviet serviceQ&A
- Bruships 100: Science Fiction & Some Fvourites3:43:54Why naval guns are long-lead shipbuilding itemsQ&A
- Christmas Comment Response: HMCS Sackville, Descartes & some 60s shorts1:394.7-inch dual-purpose mount tradeoffsQ&A
- Christmas Comment Response: HMCS Sackville, Descartes & some 60s shorts11:15A naval 4-inch gun in a British cruiser tankNotable Point
- Christmas Comment Response: HMCS Sackville, Descartes & some 60s shorts21:55Tribals, Crown Colonies, and 4.7-inch commonalityQ&A
- Christmas Comment Response: HMCS Sackville, Descartes & some 60s shorts26:35Twin 4.7-inch mounts on War Emergency destroyersQ&A
- Christmas Comment Response: HMCS Sackville, Descartes & some 60s shorts27:23Practical 4.7-inch versus 4.5-inch rates of fireQ&A
- Christmas Comment Response: HMCS Sackville, Descartes & some 60s shorts56:33Exeter's crew workup and changing gunnery performanceQ&A
- Christmas Comment Response: HMCS Sackville, Descartes & some 60s shorts57:15Why the Flower's 4-inch gun was not dual-purposeQ&A
- Christmas Comment Response: HMCS Sackville, Descartes & some 60s shorts1:01:07Crown Colony 4.7-inch weight tradeoffNotable Point
- Christmas Comment Response: HMCS Sackville, Descartes & some 60s shorts1:10:20How rapid 6-inch fire could blind a heavier cruiserNotable Point
- What if Germany didn't invade Belgium in 1914? Comment Response10:27HMS New Zealand survives by keeping her fire-control advantageNotable Point
- What if Germany didn't invade Belgium in 1914? Comment Response49:23A Channel victory points toward fast battleshipsQ&A
- What if Germany didn't invade Belgium in 1914? Comment Response54:00Royal Navy rebuilding would begin with familiar ships, then escalateQ&A
- What if Germany didn't invade Belgium in 1914? Comment Response1:19:54Capital ships might revive carried torpedo boats after the Channel battleNotable Point
- Bruships 99: Political History, Geostrategic History & Naval History1:37:09How larger guns changed the form of warshipsNotable Point
- Bruships 99: Political History, Geostrategic History & Naval History2:09:55British shell fuses and the cost of foreign dependenceNotable Point
- Bruships 99: Political History, Geostrategic History & Naval History2:10:22Why gun broadside mattered more than torpedo broadsideQ&A
- Bruships 99: Political History, Geostrategic History & Naval History2:41:07Fairmile D 'Dog Boat' firepower in a small hullNotable Point
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: 4.7in Dual Purpose what if & Soviet Navy 1939-651:21Mark 37 comparisons need the gun-system contextQ&A
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: 4.7in Dual Purpose what if & Soviet Navy 1939-653:24A standard AA gun still faced fire-control production limitsQ&A
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: 4.7in Dual Purpose what if & Soviet Navy 1939-6532:33A Soviet missile battleship could prompt a joint NATO designQ&A
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: 4.7in Dual Purpose what if & Soviet Navy 1939-6548:50Existing 4.7-inch weapons exposed a missed opportunityNotable Point
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: 4.7in Dual Purpose what if & Soviet Navy 1939-6549:19Gun standardization still has legacy limitsQ&A
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: 4.7in Dual Purpose what if & Soviet Navy 1939-6551:22Universal dual-purpose guns needed usable mountsNotable Point
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: 4.7in Dual Purpose what if & Soviet Navy 1939-6555:59Dual-purpose 4.7-inch guns and escort survivalQ&A
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: 4.7in Dual Purpose what if & Soviet Navy 1939-6557:41Ten-inch guns fall between cruiser and battleship rolesNotable Point
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: 4.7in Dual Purpose what if & Soviet Navy 1939-651:13:10Japanese gun standardization could only narrow the gapQ&A
- Patreon 71: Why did the French Navy not more fully embrace carrier aviation after WWI?2:30:25Normandie's design and the break to DunkerqueNotable Point
- Patreon 71: Why did the French Navy not more fully embrace carrier aviation after WWI?2:35:36Should Lyon and Normandie be judged against HMS Hood?Q&A
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Comus Class, Kynda Class & Kresta Class15:53Escort carriers could hunt missile-armed raidersNotable Point
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Comus Class, Kynda Class & Kresta Class24:24Jervis Bay shows gun fit against merchant targetsQ&A
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Comus Class, Kynda Class & Kresta Class38:53Comus gun ranges shrink from theory to combatQ&A
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Comus Class, Kynda Class & Kresta Class45:00Dogger Bank and Jutland tested battlecruiser rolesNotable Point
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Comus Class, Kynda Class & Kresta Class1:03:22Dual-purpose guns compound destroyer survivalQ&A
- What if Germany didn't invade Belgium in 1914?1:22Why wartime pressure changes naval technologyNotable Point
- What if Germany didn't invade Belgium in 1914?54:10A Channel battle of annihilationNotable Point
- What if Germany didn't invade Belgium in 1914?1:12:04The post-battle choice between heavier guns and fighting rangeNotable Point
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Soviet Navy 1918-39 & Cruisers of the Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine32:56Armour without firepower only delays defeatQ&A
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Soviet Navy 1918-39 & Cruisers of the Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine34:30Soviet 180 mm cruiser guns offered a useful middle courseQ&A
- Patreon 70: Germany does not invade Belgium in 1914 - How does this affect RN?10:34How a short 1914 war changes naval technologyNotable Point
- Patreon 70: Germany does not invade Belgium in 1914 - How does this affect RN?27:53When could the British 15-inch/50 gun be ready?Q&A
- Patreon 70: Germany does not invade Belgium in 1914 - How does this affect RN?1:18:04Does the Channel negate a dreadnought's advantage?Q&A
- Patreon 70: Germany does not invade Belgium in 1914 - How does this affect RN?1:28:01Could coastal batteries join the Channel battle?Q&A
- Bruships 97: Random Books, Naval Chat & Possibly the Sound of Rain30:18An 18-inch Vanguard needs a different hullQ&A
- Bruships 97: Random Books, Naval Chat & Possibly the Sound of Rain1:03:58Saxon-Norman fleet battle becomes boarding combatQ&A
- Bruships 97: Random Books, Naval Chat & Possibly the Sound of Rain1:05:10A 5.5-inch dual-purpose gun could arm cruisers and large destroyersQ&A
- Bruships 97: Random Books, Naval Chat & Possibly the Sound of Rain1:06:08An F3-layout Dreadnought would reset the battleship patternQ&A
- Bruships 97: Random Books, Naval Chat & Possibly the Sound of Rain1:10:05Rodney versus Missouri turns on speed, profile, and a lucky hitQ&A
- Bruships 97: Random Books, Naval Chat & Possibly the Sound of Rain1:27:21Metric navies still clustered around established gun calibersQ&A
- Bruships 97: Random Books, Naval Chat & Possibly the Sound of Rain3:13:57Heavy naval guns regain value when missile magazines emptyQ&A
- Bruships 97: Random Books, Naval Chat & Possibly the Sound of Rain3:46:39King George V would turn naval diplomacy into technological theaterQ&A
- Bruships 97: Random Books, Naval Chat & Possibly the Sound of Rain3:52:51Wing turrets promised firepower they could not safely deliverQ&A
- Bruships 97: Random Books, Naval Chat & Possibly the Sound of Rain3:58:15Superposed mixed-caliber turrets narrowly beat wing turretsQ&A
- Battle of Coronel in Retrospect57:54Scharnhorst and Gneisenau's mixed gun batteriesNotable Point
- Battle of Coronel in Retrospect2:06:55Good Hope and Monmouth fought a 1914 battle with 1901 layoutsChapter
- Battle of Coronel in Retrospect2:16:32Would Brooklyn's turrets have been better suited to Coronel?Q&A
- Battle of Coronel in Retrospect2:24:45HMS Defence would have changed the gun balanceChapter
- Battle of Coronel in Retrospect2:49:49The tactical trap at CoronelChapter
- Battle of Coronel in Retrospect3:02:01Good Hope explodes and Monmouth is finishedChapter
- Battle of Coronel in Retrospect3:15:52Modern naval firepower compressed the chance to surrenderQ&A
- Top 5 Inventions that came too Late14:25Dual-purpose guns before Norway and the MediterraneanChapter
- US Treaty Cruiser in War & Retrospect22:55Brooklyn and six-inch volume of fireNotable Point
- New Years 2023 Naval History Questions till the Bru runs out...58:53Sverdlov-class cruisers demanded a heavier counterQ&A
- 1860-1960 A Hundred Years of Gun Cruisers19:14Could missile shortages bring naval guns back?Q&A
- 1860-1960 A Hundred Years of Gun Cruisers51:42Precision strikes do not remove the ammunition problemNotable Point
- 1860-1960 A Hundred Years of Gun Cruisers52:43Too many gun calibers for a global warNotable Point
- 1860-1960 A Hundred Years of Gun Cruisers1:02:16Gun stockpiles and precision-weapons limitsQ&A
- 1860-1960 A Hundred Years of Gun Cruisers1:09:25Why too little armor was still better than noneQ&A
- 1860-1960 A Hundred Years of Gun Cruisers1:18:34How cutting the Zumwalt class drove ammunition cost upwardNotable Point
- 1860-1960 A Hundred Years of Gun Cruisers1:19:19What the Tiger rapid-fire six-inch gun still neededQ&A
- 1860-1960 A Hundred Years of Gun Cruisers1:20:51How a British 9.2-inch design could change treaty cruisersQ&A
- 1860-1960 A Hundred Years of Gun Cruisers1:26:28Zumwalt ammunition lock-in and the cancellation logicChapter
- 1860-1960 A Hundred Years of Gun Cruisers1:35:54USS Atlanta and the US Navy's steel-cruiser beginningChapter
- 1860-1960 A Hundred Years of Gun Cruisers2:02:17If Blücher had defined the treaty heavy cruiserQ&A
- 1860-1960 A Hundred Years of Gun Cruisers2:12:38A 9.2-inch British cruiser changes CoronelNotable Point
- 1860-1960 A Hundred Years of Gun Cruisers2:15:47Town-class gun balance at close visual rangeQ&A
- 1860-1960 A Hundred Years of Gun Cruisers2:43:55Why Italian cruiser guns sat close togetherQ&A
- 1860-1960 A Hundred Years of Gun Cruisers2:44:51Why twelve six-inch guns could beat eight eight-inch gunsQ&A
- 1860-1960 A Hundred Years of Gun Cruisers3:00:04Newport News and the peak gun cruiserChapter
- HMCS Haida & The Tribal Class: Always Service1:24:38Haida's conversion into a stronger air-defence shipNotable Point
- HMCS Haida & The Tribal Class: Always Service1:39:56Korean War refits, carriers, and ASW gearNotable Point
- The Second Ottoman Venetian War: An Introduction11:02Zonchio and the first cannon exchange at seaChapter
- The Second Ottoman Venetian War: An Introduction27:10Captured ships reward Kemal Reis and bind his followingNotable Point
- HMS Warrior(1860): The Benefits of Royal Protection?25:44Narrower gun ports behind Warrior's delayNotable Point
- HMS Warrior(1860): The Benefits of Royal Protection?38:21Aft pivot gun and command communicationsNotable Point
- HMS Warrior(1860): The Benefits of Royal Protection?52:05The 68-pounder and Warrior's varied ammunitionNotable Point
- HMS Warrior(1860): The Benefits of Royal Protection?54:30Armstrong guns and breech-loading riskChapter
- HMS Warrior(1860): The Benefits of Royal Protection?57:09Rushed procurement and the Armstrong breech sealNotable Point
- HMS Warrior(1860): The Benefits of Royal Protection?1:01:02Ammunition identification and gun handlingNotable Point
- HMS Warrior(1860): The Benefits of Royal Protection?1:10:00Fighting core and crew enduranceNotable Point
- HMS Warrior(1860): The Benefits of Royal Protection?1:23:33Royal endorsement and Warrior's public toursNotable Point
- USS Wichita(CA-45); The Greatest Treaty 8in Cruiser9:04Why Wichita mixed open and enclosed five-inch mountsNotable Point
- USS Wichita(CA-45); The Greatest Treaty 8in Cruiser11:08How Wichita's armor changed an eight-inch fightNotable Point
- USS Wichita(CA-45); The Greatest Treaty 8in Cruiser22:58The star secondary layout used by wartime US cruisersNotable Point
- USS Wichita(CA-45); The Greatest Treaty 8in Cruiser38:22Wichita at Casablanca in Operation TorchNotable Point
- USS Wichita(CA-45); The Greatest Treaty 8in Cruiser46:26Why Wichita wins the treaty heavy-cruiser comparisonChapter
- Calypso (1883) Class19:50Machinery, guns, and protected-corvette fighting valueNotable Point
- Calypso (1883) Class24:52The de Bange breech and safe naval breech loadingNotable Point
- Bruships 95: Science Fiction, Including Paddle 'Corn Oil' (Aka BioDiesel) Battleship Twist...17:14Gunnery range, withheld intelligence, and the first shotChapter
- Bruships 95: Science Fiction, Including Paddle 'Corn Oil' (Aka BioDiesel) Battleship Twist...22:40Why mechanical fire-control computers enduredQ&A
- Bruships 95: Science Fiction, Including Paddle 'Corn Oil' (Aka BioDiesel) Battleship Twist...32:48Advanced fire control could bring the dreadnought idea forwardQ&A
- Bruships 95: Science Fiction, Including Paddle 'Corn Oil' (Aka BioDiesel) Battleship Twist...36:45Port Stanley if von Spee arrived before SturdeeQ&A
- Bruships 95: Science Fiction, Including Paddle 'Corn Oil' (Aka BioDiesel) Battleship Twist...52:20Admiralty and Dreyer fire-control tablesQ&A
- Bruships 95: Science Fiction, Including Paddle 'Corn Oil' (Aka BioDiesel) Battleship Twist...53:48The arithmetic behind King George V's 14-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships 95: Science Fiction, Including Paddle 'Corn Oil' (Aka BioDiesel) Battleship Twist...1:18:35Fire-control backups from duplicate tables to local controlQ&A
- Bruships 95: Science Fiction, Including Paddle 'Corn Oil' (Aka BioDiesel) Battleship Twist...1:24:16Why gunnery officers needed to check the tablesNotable Point
- Bruships 95: Science Fiction, Including Paddle 'Corn Oil' (Aka BioDiesel) Battleship Twist...2:06:36Treaty loopholes and a giant pre-dreadnoughtQ&A
- Bruships 95: Science Fiction, Including Paddle 'Corn Oil' (Aka BioDiesel) Battleship Twist...2:18:50Fisher's Dreadnought and the value of gun volumeQ&A
- Bruships 95: Science Fiction, Including Paddle 'Corn Oil' (Aka BioDiesel) Battleship Twist...2:23:55How a 14-inch Dreadnought could accelerate gun escalationQ&A
- What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?0:00Choosing the 4.7-inch 45-calibre starting pointChapter
- What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?5:39How the failed five-inch project split British gun developmentNotable Point
- What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?9:06Mount geometry, stability, and an experienced gun workforceNotable Point
- What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?12:26The performance case for a high-angle 4.7-inch gunChapter
- What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?19:07Capital ships and carriers join the common-gun fleetChapter
- What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?21:41C-class anti-aircraft cruisers keep a surface punchChapter
- What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?27:06An Abdiel-class minelayer with six 4.7-inch gunsNotable Point
- What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?41:45An existing 4.5-inch plan makes mass conversion credibleNotable Point
- What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?46:06A common calibre makes wartime supply more resilientChapter
- What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?52:18Escort conversions and Operation ClaymoreChapter
- What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?57:52Repulse trades two specialist batteries for one common fitNotable Point
- What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?1:03:12Redirecting 4.5-inch investment into the common gunNotable Point
- What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?1:05:26Why the Royal Navy kept specialist gun solutionsNotable Point
- What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?1:10:41A feasible mount opens a 50-calibre follow-onNotable Point
- Soviet Navy Part 2/3: 1939-654:47The Baltic Fleet's repetitive Winter War fire-support missionNotable Point
- Patreon 68: What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?8:45Choosing a 4.7-inch dual-purpose gunChapter
- Patreon 68: What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?14:23Why the 4.7-inch variants did not share ammunition freelyQ&A
- Patreon 68: What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?17:47How interwar doctrine left 4.7 inch low-angleChapter
- Patreon 68: What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?23:59Why naval and land AA guns were not interchangeableQ&A
- Patreon 68: What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?25:49A single calibre reshapes much more than destroyersChapter
- Patreon 68: What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?29:02Why capital ships received 5.25-inch gunsQ&A
- Patreon 68: What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?33:45Why French 130 mm ammunition would not fitQ&A
- Patreon 68: What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?34:29Why destroyers used open mounts instead of turretsQ&A
- Patreon 68: What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?36:46Projectile weight, range, and the price of developmentQ&A
- Patreon 68: What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?43:06Why some Tribal-class gun fits differedQ&A
- Patreon 68: What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?44:51Why 80 degrees matters against dive-bombersNotable Point
- Patreon 68: What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?48:03Fixed ammunition was not the only 4.7-inch obstacleQ&A
- Patreon 68: What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?50:22Why the 4.5-inch upper-deck mount arrived too lateNotable Point
- Patreon 68: What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?51:35The four-inch, 4.5-inch, and 4.7-inch roles were not inevitableQ&A
- Patreon 68: What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?58:21The relevant 4.7-inch lineage began before the 1930sQ&A
- Patreon 68: What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?59:39An Abdiel-class minelayer with 4.7-inch gunsNotable Point
- Patreon 68: What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?1:02:25Common ammunition still needs mount engineeringNotable Point
- Patreon 68: What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?1:06:37Layered air defence needs continuous coverageChapter
- Patreon 68: What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?1:18:52Why Nelson kept her 4.7-inch batteryQ&A
- Patreon 68: What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?1:20:09Why the 4.5-inch upper-deck mount kept slippingQ&A
- Patreon 68: What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?1:23:06Could the 4.7-inch approach the US 5-inch/38?Q&A
- Patreon 68: What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?1:24:55How 4.7-inch secondaries could spread to new cruisersQ&A
- Patreon 68: What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?1:36:09Why the Hawkins class was not a natural rearmament candidateQ&A
- Patreon 68: What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?1:41:32How destroyers could treble a task group's high-angle fireNotable Point
- Patreon 68: What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?1:50:23Magazine space limits calibre substitutionQ&A
- Patreon 68: What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?1:52:53Operation Claymore: 14 high-angle guns or 32Notable Point
- Patreon 68: What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?1:58:36Repulse trades 15 specialized guns for 12 dual-purpose gunsNotable Point
- Patreon 68: What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?2:11:12A common calibre speeds proximity-fuze distributionQ&A
- 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
- Groznyy/Kynda (1961) Class: Gorshkov's Template for a Blue Water Navy41:25Radical missiles paired with conservative safeguardsNotable Point
- Comus(1878) Class: Protected Corvettes/Third Class Cruisers20:20A compact sail-and-steam cruiser with varied gunsNotable Point
- Comus(1878) Class: Protected Corvettes/Third Class Cruisers28:54Breech-loaders, muzzle-loaders, and the search for a reliable gunNotable Point
- Comus(1878) Class: Protected Corvettes/Third Class Cruisers36:05Gun handling turned personnel into part of deterrenceNotable Point
- Comus(1878) Class: Protected Corvettes/Third Class Cruisers38:29HMS Inflexible as a benchmark for changing weaponsNotable Point
- Bruships 94: Some New Books, Some Others Books and a lot of Naval Chat25:34Why the Nelson-class triple turrets needed refinementQ&A
- Bruships 94: Some New Books, Some Others Books and a lot of Naval Chat42:45Rearming HMS Tiger runs into turret and treaty limitsQ&A
- Bruships 94: Some New Books, Some Others Books and a lot of Naval Chat58:06When own-gun armor becomes too expensiveQ&A
- Bruships 94: Some New Books, Some Others Books and a lot of Naval Chat1:02:24The practical limits of a 12-inch 70-caliber gunQ&A
- Bruships 94: Some New Books, Some Others Books and a lot of Naval Chat1:48:12A Gustav gun needs a fixed or limited naval mountQ&A
- Bruships 94: Some New Books, Some Others Books and a lot of Naval Chat2:15:03Three pieces of battleship advice for the Admiralty in 1912Q&A
- Bruships 94: Some New Books, Some Others Books and a lot of Naval Chat2:42:27A modern third rate as a 16,000-ton Type 83Q&A
- Bruships 94: Some New Books, Some Others Books and a lot of Naval Chat3:31:16Postwar naval guns worth retainingQ&A
- Bruships 94: Some New Books, Some Others Books and a lot of Naval Chat3:49:12Why the six-inch cruiser gun survives without treaty limitsQ&A
- Bruships 94: Some New Books, Some Others Books and a lot of Naval Chat4:06:11The smallest modern gun for defeating an Age of Sail fleetQ&A
- Cruiser Policy of the Reichsmarine & Kriegsmarine11:38Plan Z's force mix and caliber burdenNotable Point
- Cruiser Policy of the Reichsmarine & Kriegsmarine49:31Scharnhorst's battleship role and cruiser-caliber gunsNotable Point
- Cruiser Policy of the Reichsmarine & Kriegsmarine1:18:45Hipper maintenance demands and the Atlantic bow refitNotable Point
- Cruiser Policy of the Reichsmarine & Kriegsmarine1:26:04Triple turrets, aft firepower, and mine-handling riskNotable Point
- German Heavy Cruisers & Cruiser Policy/Procurement of WWII6:39Why Prinz Eugen found Hood's range so quicklyQ&A
- German Heavy Cruisers & Cruiser Policy/Procurement of WWII36:07Why Dunkerque could not simply receive 15-inch gunsQ&A
- German Heavy Cruisers & Cruiser Policy/Procurement of WWII46:51Late-war success distorts the history of US fire controlQ&A
- German Heavy Cruisers & Cruiser Policy/Procurement of WWII53:46Unified secondary guns save more than mount weightQ&A
- German Heavy Cruisers & Cruiser Policy/Procurement of WWII1:01:17Germany's 11-inch gun was a cruiser weapon, not a battleship equalQ&A
- German Heavy Cruisers & Cruiser Policy/Procurement of WWII1:50:24German fuze exports exposed a British supply riskNotable Point
- German Heavy Cruisers & Cruiser Policy/Procurement of WWII2:12:23A six-gun Deutschland needed a stronger cruiser batteryNotable Point
- German Heavy Cruisers & Cruiser Policy/Procurement of WWII2:28:03Scharnhorst used a battleship hull for cruiser-scale gunsChapter
- German Heavy Cruisers & Cruiser Policy/Procurement of WWII2:43:28Versailles erased the tooling behind Germany's old heavy gunsQ&A
- German Heavy Cruisers & Cruiser Policy/Procurement of WWII2:50:35Naval turrets offered little direct template for tank designQ&A
- Nelson Class & Patreon 67 Comment Response0:46The 15-inch/50 alternative to Britain's 16-inch turnNotable Point
- Nelson Class & Patreon 67 Comment Response17:38A 5.5-inch dual-purpose battery for the Nelson eraNotable Point
- Nelson Class & Patreon 67 Comment Response24:01Fleet standardization versus the prestige of 16-inch gunsNotable Point
- Nelson Class & Patreon 67 Comment Response36:25Where an oversized barbette's treaty savings disappearQ&A
- Nelson Class & Patreon 67 Comment Response38:40Could older British battleships accept the 15-inch/50?Q&A
- Nelson Class & Patreon 67 Comment Response42:02Rodney's 16-inch guns in the last battle of BismarckNotable Point
- Nelson Class & Patreon 67 Comment Response43:36How difficult would a 16-inch F3 conversion be?Q&A
- Nelson Class & Patreon 67 Comment Response50:39The twin 4.7-inch dual-purpose alternativeQ&A
- Nelson Class & Patreon 67 Comment Response51:35Would the treaties permit 15-inch/50 refits?Q&A
- Admiral Hipper Class11:02German cruiser policy kept changing its answerChapter
- Admiral Hipper Class1:06:10The incomplete Lützow fought at LeningradChapter
- Washington Cheaties: Comment Response22:07German H-class guns found a role without their battleshipsNotable Point
- Washington Cheaties: Comment Response22:52Why counting gun barrels would create another treaty loopholeQ&A
- Washington Cheaties: Comment Response24:34Why Washington treaty rules weaken the case for Lexington's eight-inch gunsNotable Point
- Washington Cheaties: Comment Response47:17Would a 15-inch/50 F3 derivative have been a super-Hood?Q&A
- Washington Cheaties: Comment Response55:43What a 38,000-ton Nelson built around the F3 layout might offerQ&A
- Nelson (1925)Class: The Story of Britain's Washington Treaty Battleships24:59The fast F3 and its 15-inch/50 alternativeNotable Point
- Nelson (1925)Class: The Story of Britain's Washington Treaty Battleships28:53Why 16-inch prestige defeated the faster F3Chapter
- Nelson (1925)Class: The Story of Britain's Washington Treaty Battleships34:56How Nelson's all-forward layout saved weightNotable Point
- Nelson (1925)Class: The Story of Britain's Washington Treaty Battleships39:39Nelson's compact machinery and disputed top speedNotable Point
- Nelson (1925)Class: The Story of Britain's Washington Treaty Battleships45:15Nelson and Rodney as wartime heavy hittersNotable Point
- Sverdlov Class: Comment Response56:19How more Sverdlovs could have reshaped British gun cruisersNotable Point
- Sverdlov Class: Comment Response58:58Why calibre alone cannot explain modern naval-gun performanceNotable Point
- Patreon 67: RN use of water Based Armour, and why it annoyed Admiral King so much?1:27:51Would a 15-inch/50 weapon have spread across the Royal Navy?Q&A
- Patreon 67: RN use of water Based Armour, and why it annoyed Admiral King so much?1:30:44Why Britain chose 16-inch guns over the logical 15-inch/50Notable Point
- Patreon 67: RN use of water Based Armour, and why it annoyed Admiral King so much?1:43:42The firing-arc penalty of Nelson's compressed turret arrangementNotable Point
- Patreon 67: RN use of water Based Armour, and why it annoyed Admiral King so much?1:47:04Could Britain trade gun calibre for a third treaty battleship?Q&A
- Patreon 67: RN use of water Based Armour, and why it annoyed Admiral King so much?1:48:21What Nelson carried at 33,800 tonsChapter
- Patreon 67: RN use of water Based Armour, and why it annoyed Admiral King so much?2:01:43Why is deck armour usually thinner than belt armour?Q&A
- Patreon 67: RN use of water Based Armour, and why it annoyed Admiral King so much?2:20:15Why was battleship fire control so difficult to armour?Q&A
- Patreon 67: RN use of water Based Armour, and why it annoyed Admiral King so much?2:37:25Can a battleship dodge incoming shells?Q&A
- Patreon 67: RN use of water Based Armour, and why it annoyed Admiral King so much?2:45:17Why did the Royal Navy return to smaller battleship guns?Q&A
- Arethusa(1913) Class: Light Cruisers or....10:37Machinery, guns, torpedoes, and light protectionNotable Point
- Arethusa(1913) Class: Light Cruisers or....44:12Destroyer coordination decides the Battle of TexelChapter
- Cressy(1899) Class: Famous for the Wrong Things - 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 1225:57How armoured cruisers could reinforce a battle lineNotable Point
- Cressy(1899) Class: Famous for the Wrong Things - 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 1232:09Cressy armament and the cost of low casematesNotable Point
- Cressy(1899) Class: Famous for the Wrong Things - 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 1257:32The torpedo threat the Cressys were built to defeatNotable Point
- Bruships 92: New Books, Naval Chat and Late 19th Century Warships...57:44What the Trafalgar Chronicle offers beyond battle narrativeNotable Point
- Bruships 92: New Books, Naval Chat and Late 19th Century Warships...1:56:24How the Deutschland design changes with its intended purposeQ&A
- Bruships 92: New Books, Naval Chat and Late 19th Century Warships...2:00:36Why 20-inch guns would belong to exceptional flagshipsNotable Point
- Bruships 92: New Books, Naval Chat and Late 19th Century Warships...2:08:22Why British big-gun studies gravitated toward 16.5 inchesQ&A
- Bruships 92: New Books, Naval Chat and Late 19th Century Warships...2:23:27How an earlier King George V design would change the main batteryQ&A
- Bruships 92: New Books, Naval Chat and Late 19th Century Warships...2:41:10Why a British super-cruiser would likely use 14-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships 92: New Books, Naval Chat and Late 19th Century Warships...2:45:36Why railguns could revive larger naval calibresQ&A
- Asama Class: Armoured Cruiser or Battleship? (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 11)17:19Asama's armament reframes an American victoryNotable Point
- Asama Class: Armoured Cruiser or Battleship? (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 11)18:35Armor and gun layout make Asama costly to fightNotable Point
- Asama Class: Armoured Cruiser or Battleship? (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 11)22:25Standardized turrets turn ships into a fleetNotable Point
- Asama Class: Armoured Cruiser or Battleship? (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 11)30:20How Tokiwa exploited range and speed at TsushimaNotable Point
- Asama Class: Armoured Cruiser or Battleship? (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 11)38:07Long-range salvo doctrine before DreadnoughtNotable Point
- Diadem Class: First Class Protected Cruisers (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 10)12:28Why sixteen six-inch guns suited the Diadem roleChapter
- Diadem Class: First Class Protected Cruisers (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 10)1:08:19Why the Royal Navy abandoned the middle cruiser tierChapter
- Châteaurenault (1898): The French Columbia Class... (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 9)20:18Gun arcs, Harvey steel, and three-shaft redundancyChapter
- Châteaurenault (1898): The French Columbia Class... (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 9)39:31Torpedoes and a uniform battery for quick killsNotable Point
- Descartes(1894) Class: I Cruiser Therefore I Am? (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 8)18:32Descartes-class armament, machinery, and protectionChapter
- Descartes(1894) Class: I Cruiser Therefore I Am? (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 8)33:19Poudre B performance and propellant-fire riskNotable Point
- Sverdlov Class: The Last of Stalin's Soviet Gun Cruisers29:31Sverdlov's speed, gun battery, and armour schemeChapter
- Sverdlov Class: The Last of Stalin's Soviet Gun Cruisers32:51Sverdlov's guns as visible instruments of Soviet diplomacyChapter
- Sverdlov Class: The Last of Stalin's Soviet Gun Cruisers37:27Soviet retention kept the gun-cruiser option alive into the Falklands eraNotable Point
- Sverdlov Class: The Last of Stalin's Soviet Gun Cruisers41:47Helicopter trials widened the class's training and experimental valueNotable Point
- Sverdlov Class: The Last of Stalin's Soviet Gun Cruisers44:03Alexander Suvorov's Aden broadside made gunboat diplomacy literalNotable Point
- Sverdlov Class: The Last of Stalin's Soviet Gun Cruisers1:19:24October Revolution paired Project 68A modernization with repeated presence missionsNotable Point
- Sverdlov Class: The Last of Stalin's Soviet Gun Cruisers1:22:49Murmansk embodied the final refinement of the Sverdlov hullChapter
- Apollo(1890?) Class: Quantity = Quality (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 7)16:13Apollo armament and protection support group tacticsNotable Point
- Apollo(1890?) Class: Quantity = Quality (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 7)48:48Brilliant fights ashore and adapts to the airship threatNotable Point
- Bruships 91: New Books & Cruiser Books27:39Modern three-inch and five-inch guns compared with wartime weaponsQ&A
- Bruships 91: New Books & Cruiser Books27:50Modern fire control versus World War II destroyersQ&A
- Bruships 91: New Books & Cruiser Books1:22:23How dock limits shaped Bretagne's ten-gun broadsideChapter
- Bruships 91: New Books & Cruiser Books2:09:00Why large naval guns rarely use muzzle brakesQ&A
- Bruships 91: New Books & Cruiser Books3:57:22Furious's 18-inch guns and competing Agincourt hypothesesNotable Point
- Bruships 91: New Books & Cruiser Books4:03:02Hood's armor depended on range and hit locationQ&A
- Bruships 91: New Books & Cruiser Books4:18:07A paper quadruple turret does not establish a working heavy mountQ&A
- Bruships 91: New Books & Cruiser Books4:26:58German heavy-gun plans and the space taken by sliding breechesQ&A
- Bruships 91: New Books & Cruiser Books4:41:25Bismarck's theoretical and battle rate of fireNotable Point
- Washington "Cheaties'': an Inevitability of Winning a Treaty41:20A 40,000-ton ceiling could reduce incentives to cheatChapter
- Battle of Coronel: Comment Response44:50Did Cradock close the range too quickly at Coronel?Q&A
- Battle of Coronel: Comment Response59:27Effective gun range in Coronel's sea stateQ&A
- Patreon 66: "Washington Cheaties"31:42Why 35,000 tons forced capital-ship compromisesChapter
- Patreon 66: "Washington Cheaties"41:38Italy's slow 15-inch-gun monitors in the AdriaticQ&A
- Patreon 66: "Washington Cheaties"42:05Was the naval gun race truly global?Q&A
- Patreon 66: "Washington Cheaties"44:33España's scale made a new dreadnought look obsoleteNotable Point
- Patreon 66: "Washington Cheaties"53:27Carrier gun rules favored Britain's six-inch preferenceNotable Point
- Patreon 66: "Washington Cheaties"1:48:21The machine-gun battleship trades caliber for salvo volumeQ&A
- Patreon 66: "Washington Cheaties"1:54:07Could a smaller-gun ship strip defenses with high explosive first?Q&A
- Patreon 66: "Washington Cheaties"2:35:57Cruiser submarines exploited an unlimited treaty categoryChapter
- Patreon 66: "Washington Cheaties"2:41:50American plans for an eight-inch-gun cruiser submarineQ&A
- Patreon 66: "Washington Cheaties"2:47:10Why a modern submarine deck gun adds little valueQ&A
- Patreon 66: "Washington Cheaties"2:59:27A 28-knot Rodney could reshape German battleship developmentQ&A
- Patreon 66: "Washington Cheaties"3:19:04Why the Royal Navy did not adopt a 50-caliber 15-inch gunQ&A
- Patreon 66: "Washington Cheaties"3:22:33Could a 15-inch/50 fit a Nelson-class barbette?Q&A
- Patreon 66: "Washington Cheaties"3:23:16Could King George V carry more quadruple turrets?Q&A
- Patreon 66: "Washington Cheaties"3:30:51Which battleships should receive new 15-inch guns first?Q&A
- Patreon 66: "Washington Cheaties"3:31:34Why Germany minimized six-inch damage to Graf SpeeQ&A
- Patreon 66: "Washington Cheaties"3:32:04Why six-gun turrets compound maintenance and operational riskQ&A
- Capitani Romani Class Cruisers: Supersized Destroyers or Shrunk Cruisers?14:14A 41-knot hull built around guns, torpedoes, mines, and machineryChapter
- Capitani Romani Class Cruisers: Supersized Destroyers or Shrunk Cruisers?21:19The Dido comparison exposes a cruiser-on-cruiser mismatchNotable Point
- Capitani Romani Class Cruisers: Supersized Destroyers or Shrunk Cruisers?37:42French rebuilding confirmed the destroyer-leader interpretationNotable Point
- Capitani Romani Class Cruisers: Supersized Destroyers or Shrunk Cruisers?38:52Speed and survival were not enough to win a cruiser fightNotable Point
- Bruships 90: Books From the Road10:14How missiles displaced guns as the main surface-warship weaponQ&A
- Bruships 90: Books From the Road15:22A modernized HMS Tiger as a fast 14-inch-gun reinforcementNotable Point
- Bruships 90: Books From the Road24:20What 42,000 tons could add to the Nelson designQ&A
- Bruships 90: Books From the Road30:20Furious did not define the full potential of Britain's 18-inch gunQ&A
- Bruships 90: Books From the Road32:08Graf Spee's paper range would not guarantee effective fire against TigerQ&A
- Bruships 90: Books From the Road47:24A sixteen-gun battleship needs roughly four thousand main-battery shellsQ&A
- Bruships 90: Books From the Road50:07Modern 16-inch guns would not fit Victoria's short 16.25-inch mountingsQ&A
- Bruships 90: Books From the Road53:33A modern 76 mm automatic gun would transform wartime air defenceQ&A
- Bruships 90: Books From the Road59:00A 1930 Royal Navy reform program starts with carriers, guns, and machineryQ&A
- Bruships 90: Books From the Road1:06:54Evidence for a Japanese 20-inch gun test remains contradictoryQ&A
- Bruships 90: Books From the Road2:15:00An all-in Dreadnought would begin the naval race at a much higher levelQ&A
- Bruships 90: Books From the Road2:24:22Triple turrets would reshape Fisher's battlecruisers and the yards behind themQ&A
- Bruships 90: Books From the Road2:32:30A twin 76 mm battery would give Type 31 stronger all-round gun coverageQ&A
- Bruships 90: Books From the Road4:12:23A 2022 Hood refit pairs guided 15-inch shells with close-in defenceQ&A
- Victoria Louise(1897) Class: Time to Make An Impression (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 6)4:09Heavy armament, high gun positions, and protected decksNotable Point
- Victoria Louise(1897) Class: Time to Make An Impression (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 6)8:45Hull dimensions, machinery, and the transition to salvo fireChapter
- Victoria Louise(1897) Class: Time to Make An Impression (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 6)10:48How the 15-centimetre guns were arrangedNotable Point
- Blake(1889) Class: 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 53:16Rapid technology change reshaped cruiser designChapter
- Blake(1889) Class: 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 516:15Blake-class guns, torpedoes, and protected deckChapter
- Blake(1889) Class: 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 529:48Why the Blake hull looked decades aheadNotable Point
- Marathon(1888) Class: 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 48:44A lighter Mersey-derived cruiser for foreign stationsChapter
- Marathon(1888) Class: 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 423:09Six-inch guns for commerce protection and interdictionNotable Point
- Marathon(1888) Class: 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 426:48Supporting cruisers complicate attacks on a task group's main assetNotable Point
- Forbin(1888) Class: 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 33:53Charmes built commerce-raider survival around guns and speedNotable Point
- Forbin(1888) Class: 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 311:56Forbin armament balanced well, but speed and sail did notChapter
- Forbin(1888) Class: 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 318:44Forbin's refit removed torpedoes and introduced mixed-fuel boilersNotable Point
- Battle of Coronel: A Collapse of Command & Control23:43The German cruiser force at CoronelChapter
- Battle of Coronel: A Collapse of Command & Control1:00:32How speed and the setting sun controlled the battleChapter
- Battle of Coronel: A Collapse of Command & Control1:09:41Good Hope and Monmouth are overwhelmedChapter
- Giovanni Bausan(1883): 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 22:21An Elswick cruiser derived from EsmeraldaChapter
- Giovanni Bausan(1883): 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 210:45Torpedoes turn a protected cruiser into a costly riskNotable Point
- Giovanni Bausan(1883): 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 241:33Capability tiers for modern frigates and destroyersNotable Point
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 428:02How an interwar G3 refit might trade guns for speedQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 451:22Why 10-inch guns sit awkwardly between cruiser and battleship weaponsQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 42:19:44The Dido class shows ships designed around a weaponQ&A
- BC-304 Daedalus Class: Stargate SG1's Battle Cruisers (Comment Response)1:05:02Visible railguns leave a gap in the BC-304 weapon mixQ&A
- Shortcomings with the designs of 'Early' Aircraft Carriers: Patreon 6526:49Why Tiger could replace Iron Duke as a gunnery training shipQ&A
- Shortcomings with the designs of 'Early' Aircraft Carriers: Patreon 653:08:34Brassey's 1900 Naval Annual as a design sourceNotable Point
- Active Class: The Last Scout Cruisers?4:14Plough bows, mixed-fuel boilers, and incremental efficiencyNotable Point
- Active Class: The Last Scout Cruisers?30:39Fearless at the Battle of Heligoland BightChapter
- Bruships 89: New Books (Christmas Recomendations) & Personal Accounts of War3:40:05The 15-inch Mark I succeeded by evolving proven workQ&A
- Battle of Navarino(1827): A Failure of Deterrence or Expecting too Much?58:18Why gun counts overstated Ottoman combat powerNotable Point
- Battle of Navarino(1827): A Failure of Deterrence or Expecting too Much?1:04:07The weaknesses of the Ottoman horseshoe formationNotable Point
- Battle of Navarino(1827): A Failure of Deterrence or Expecting too Much?1:12:09Scipion's crew fights fire under attackNotable Point
- Battle of Navarino(1827): A Failure of Deterrence or Expecting too Much?1:17:56Asia's close-range flagship duelChapter
- Battle of Navarino (1827)9:48Does Navarino resemble the Battle of the Nile?Q&A
- Battle of Navarino (1827)2:09:28What determined an Age of Sail ship's rate?Q&A
- Battle of Navarino (1827)2:20:51Post-Napoleonic warships packed heavier batteriesNotable Point
- Battle of Navarino (1827)2:25:15Allied crew quality outweighed Ottoman-Egyptian numbersChapter
- Battle of Navarino (1827)2:33:31A three-line horseshoe invited the Allies into point-blank rangeChapter
- Battle of Navarino (1827)2:48:06Could smaller ships fire on ships of the line?Q&A
- Battle of Navarino (1827)2:48:45A fireship confrontation triggered general actionChapter
- Bruships 88: Way of War10:25Could the Queen Elizabeths defeat Yamato together?Q&A
- Bruships 88: Way of War33:42What higher battleship-gun elevation would costQ&A
- Bruships 88: Way of War36:55The limited anti-aircraft role of Des Moines gunsQ&A
- Bruships 88: Way of War48:32A modern five-inch system transported to 1925Q&A
- Bruships 88: Way of War57:49What Hood's secondary guns could do to BismarckQ&A
- Bruships 88: Way of War1:00:01Why heavy anti-aircraft shells used fragmentationQ&A
- Bruships 88: Way of War1:55:15Why two or three knots matter in a gun battleQ&A
- Bruships 88: Way of War4:02:22Could the Nelson class standardize on 15-inch guns?Q&A
- Bruships 88: Way of War4:03:01If USS Texas caught BismarckQ&A
- Brooklyn Class(US Treaty Cruisers): Comment Response1:15What continuous rapid fire does to a cruiserNotable Point
- Brooklyn Class(US Treaty Cruisers): Comment Response15:16Did cruiser gunfire force scout planes overboard?Q&A
- Brooklyn Class(US Treaty Cruisers): Comment Response37:14Using radar-controlled rapid fire to break torpedo attacksNotable Point
- Abruzzi Class: Condottieri of the Regia Marina16:54Layered armor and practical air defenseNotable Point
- Abruzzi Class: Condottieri of the Regia Marina34:47Why guns and cruisers kept doing the routine workNotable Point
- Bruships 87: Books Found on My Travels, New Books & Christmas Recomendations40:11The British choice between fifteen- and sixteen-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships 87: Books Found on My Travels, New Books & Christmas Recomendations1:59:55Why old sixteen-inch shells still require replacementQ&A
- French Navy Fights on in 1940: Comment Response Video6:10Keeping French guns supplied in Allied serviceQ&A
- French Navy Fights on in 1940: Comment Response Video58:42Rearming French capital ships and delaying JapanQ&A
- Brooklyn Class: The Not Quite Last US Treaty Era Cruisers0:00Why the Brooklyn class paired firepower with reconnaissanceChapter
- Brooklyn Class: The Not Quite Last US Treaty Era Cruisers6:58Turret arcs and secondary guns shape the cruiserNotable Point
- Brooklyn Class: The Not Quite Last US Treaty Era Cruisers53:20Boise's dramatic gunnery order hides a targeting problemNotable Point
- Bruships 86: Science Fiction Strikes Some More1:31:21Projectile speed drives the initial weapon choiceQ&A
- Bruships 86: Science Fiction Strikes Some More1:55:53Balance faster weapons against ship numbers and available crewsQ&A
- Bruships 86: Science Fiction Strikes Some More2:30:32A Littorio magazine explosion would destroy the shipQ&A
- Bruships 86: Science Fiction Strikes Some More2:55:03Missile depletion could return fleets to gun warfareQ&A
- Bruships 86: Science Fiction Strikes Some More3:01:10Pounder names do not convert neatly to caliberQ&A
- Escort Carriers, the idea, designs, development and some notable operations1:15:47Taffy 3 fights surface ships off SamarChapter
- 19th Century Cruisers: Comment Response Video 3 (Sfax - Geffion)2:15Classifying a Dutch coastal-defense battleshipQ&A
- 19th Century Cruisers: Comment Response Video 3 (Sfax - Geffion)3:54Why Atjeh defies normal cruiser logicQ&A
- 19th Century Cruisers: Comment Response Video 3 (Sfax - Geffion)5:47Why naval gun inflation is hard to measureQ&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)31:44Dual-purpose guns designed for the wrong attack geometryQ&A
- Town Class 1913 +: Birmingham & Birkenhead Classes + HMAS Adelaide9:52Why Birmingham changed the forward gun layoutNotable Point
- Town Class 1913 +: Birmingham & Birkenhead Classes + HMAS Adelaide25:27Nottingham's close-range fighting at JutlandNotable Point
- Town Class 1913 +: Birmingham & Birkenhead Classes + HMAS Adelaide28:36Birkenhead's lighter guns and wartime rescue workChapter
- Town Class 1913 +: Birmingham & Birkenhead Classes + HMAS Adelaide34:52What Chester revealed about open-backed gun shieldsNotable Point
- Town Class 1913 +: Birmingham & Birkenhead Classes + HMAS Adelaide49:05The 5.5-inch versus six-inch cruiser-gun tradeoffChapter
- 19th Century Cruisers: Comment Response Video 2 (Velasco - Imperieuse)21:15Why paired guns repay their added complexityQ&A
- 19th Century Cruisers: Comment Response Video 2 (Velasco - Imperieuse)47:33The mixed-calibre puzzle of early cruiser armamentNotable Point
- 19th Century Cruisers: Comment Response Video 2 (Velasco - Imperieuse)49:21A protected-deck alternative for ImperieuseNotable Point
- If the French Navy Fought on in 1940: Vive La France10:29French fleet quality and the fast-battleship distinctionChapter
- Chapyev Class (Projekt 68 of the Soviet Navy): Fighting the Peace20:52Project 68 trades Kirov's 180 mm guns for twelve six-inch weaponsChapter
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 36:09Why HMS Penelope could not have downed the Aer Lingus ViscountQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 37:57Testing Izumo's all-forward battleship layoutQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 321:28Why US battleship guns advanced in whole-inch stepsQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 355:15Vanguard as the Royal Navy's most dangerous gunshipQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 31:24:28Why Italian warships carried so many gunsQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 31:28:50Why one shell can disable a ship but many are needed to sink itQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 31:29:39Designing an age-of-sail ship to repel boardersQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 31:50:52A 9.2-inch-gun successor to the Hawkins classQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 33:03:17Could Warrior's 68-pounders penetrate her armor?Q&A
- SMS Gefion(1894): 19th Century Cruisers part 1216:31Gefion's reduced battery and Schichau constructionChapter
- Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1941-4234:14Why a 14-inch autoloader was a practical upper edgeQ&A
- Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1941-421:19:40A 120,000-ton British battleship under expanded treaty limitsQ&A
- Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1941-421:26:19A British Alaska with six 14-inch gunsQ&A
- Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1941-421:33:38Italian and German answers to the Alaska classQ&A
- Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1941-421:56:19A Lion-class battleship at Denmark StraitQ&A
- Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1941-422:06:08A Super Lion response to YamatoQ&A
- Edgar(1890) Class: 19th Century Cruisers Part 1043:38St George and the changing gun threshold for naval ratingsNotable Point
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 23:28Realistic gun ranges for late nineteenth-century warshipsQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 29:26When naval guns outrange their sensorsQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 215:44Lion-class battleship guns and turret designQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 216:26Why the Brandenburg class mixed 11-inch gun lengthsQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 21:07:02How Age of Sail capital ships were ratedQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 21:33:46Navies sharing major-caliber guns and ammunitionQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 21:41:37How a modern railgun battleship might evolveQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 21:54:11Railgun caliber, power, and capacitor limitsQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 22:07:18Why a huge battleship might still carry nine gunsQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 22:33:36Why the Royal Navy adopted a 120 mm gunQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 22:36:50Coilguns versus railguns at seaQ&A
- Imperieuse Class(1883): 19th Century Cruisers p814:22Diamond layout and the value of broad firing arcsChapter
- Esmeralda(1883): 19th Century Cruisers p76:50Why Esmeralda counted as the first protected cruiserChapter
- Esmeralda(1883): 19th Century Cruisers p712:50Ten-inch deterrence and the practical six-inch batteryNotable Point
- New Orleans Class: US Treaty Era Cruisers3:49Gun layout and magazine protection tradeoffsNotable Point
- New Orleans Class: US Treaty Era Cruisers44:22Minneapolis backs the destroyers at Surigao StraitNotable Point
- HMS Shannon(1875): 19th Century Cruisers p43:23An armoured citadel that left the guns exposedNotable Point
- HMS Shannon(1875): 19th Century Cruisers p44:42The ramming charge and electric broadside conceptChapter
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out24:21What centralized fire control meant aboard SydneyQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out26:03Could destroyer guns penetrate a pre-dreadnought?Q&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out1:32:47Destroyer gunfire against a capital shipQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out1:47:19Why dazzle camouflage depended on range and opticsQ&A
- General-Admiral(1873): 19th Century Cruisers p34:50General-Admiral's specifications and batteryChapter
- Introduction to Unprotected, Protected & Armoured Cruisers: 19th Century Cruisers p10:17Industrial change reshapes the cruiserChapter
- Introduction to Unprotected, Protected & Armoured Cruisers: 19th Century Cruisers p113:02Pacocha exposes the limits of unarmoured cruisersChapter
- Introduction to Unprotected, Protected & Armoured Cruisers: 19th Century Cruisers p120:41Angamos shows armour and firepower working togetherChapter
- Introduction to Unprotected, Protected & Armoured Cruisers: 19th Century Cruisers p131:50Shell choice complicates cruiser matchupsNotable Point
- Bruships 85: Cruiser, New & Random Reading2:30:40Airburst shells against infantry and exposed ship crewsNotable Point
- Bruships 85: Cruiser, New & Random Reading2:38:31Why some anti-aircraft positions stayed empty in surface combatQ&A
- Bruships 85: Cruiser, New & Random Reading2:47:25Exeter's improvised gun control at the River PlateQ&A
- Bruships 85: Cruiser, New & Random Reading2:51:01Tiger's powerful but troublesome 6-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships 85: Cruiser, New & Random Reading2:58:26Where to read about local naval gun controlQ&A
- Patreon 61: Selborne-Fisher Scheme: Integration & De-Integration of Executive & Engineering Branches45:02Was Master Gunner an actual naval title?Q&A
- Town Class (1911): Chathams5:12Chatham-class design combines presence, speed, and firepowerChapter
- Town Class (1911): Chathams34:50Emden's opening salvos test Sydney at long rangeChapter
- Town Class (1911): Chathams38:22Sydney's six-inch guns decide the Battle of CocosChapter
- Algerie (1932): Marine National3:33Main guns, dual-purpose battery, and seaplanesChapter
- Algerie (1932): Marine National9:15Could Algérie have carried nine main guns?Notable Point
- Cruiser Actions of the 1898 Spanish American War27:10A renewed Philippine rebellion meets Dewey's hard-trained squadronChapter
- Cruiser Actions of the 1898 Spanish American War31:36USS Olympia and a cruiser-centered American forceChapter
- Cruiser Actions of the 1898 Spanish American War34:59The Battle of Manila Bay and the garbled ammunition reportChapter
- Cruiser Actions of the 1898 Spanish American War38:14Why Spain's Manila cruisers could not fight as a fleetChapter
- Cruiser Actions of the 1898 Spanish American War44:01Manila Bay's shore batteries fail to close the entranceNotable Point
- Cruiser Actions of the 1898 Spanish American War46:02Protected cruisers overwhelm unprotected cruisers at ManilaNotable Point
- Cruiser Actions of the 1898 Spanish American War55:53Guam mistakes an attack for a salute and surrendersChapter
- Cruiser Actions of the 1898 Spanish American War1:02:26Cervera commands Spain's hollow Caribbean SquadronChapter
- Patreon 60: Cruiser Actions of the Spanish-American War16:56Why an 1890s cruiser could carry battleship-sized gunsNotable Point
- Patreon 60: Cruiser Actions of the Spanish-American War50:01The unequal speeds and batteries in Dewey's squadronChapter
- Patreon 60: Cruiser Actions of the Spanish-American War55:58Olympia's ocean-cruiser design and heavy batteryChapter
- Patreon 60: Cruiser Actions of the Spanish-American War1:02:17Dewey gives Gridley discretion over the opening shotNotable Point
- Patreon 60: Cruiser Actions of the Spanish-American War1:06:24Training and firepower decide Manila BayChapter
- Patreon 60: Cruiser Actions of the Spanish-American War1:50:32Why Cristóbal Colón sailed with wooden gun replicasQ&A
- Patreon 60: Cruiser Actions of the Spanish-American War2:18:24Auxiliary cruisers and shore batteries around Puerto RicoChapter
- Raimondo Montecuccoli Class: Condottieri of the Regia Marina6:59Montecuccoli machinery, armament, aircraft, and sensorsChapter
- Raimondo Montecuccoli Class: Condottieri of the Regia Marina23:54Calabria shows Italy's one-ship, one-target gunnery ruleNotable Point
- Raimondo Montecuccoli Class: Condottieri of the Regia Marina25:01Italian light cruisers shape the Battle of CalabriaChapter
- Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times5:41Why an all-Q-turret warship is a dead endQ&A
- Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times38:44Why early cruisers mixed four- and six-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times1:18:34Comparing British and American 14-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times1:24:04What a Belfast-standard Town class would changeQ&A
- Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times1:46:29What 15-inch guns could buy G3 and Nelson designersQ&A
- Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times3:26:56The cost case for regunning VanguardQ&A
- Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 193923:42Repairing Italian ammunition quality controlNotable Point
- Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 193935:17Why bigger guns weakened German destroyersNotable Point
- Town Class (1910): Bristols & Weymouths6:21Why the Weymouths adopted an all-6-inch batteryNotable Point
- Town Class (1910): Bristols & Weymouths28:50Weymouth's eight-gun layout and firing arcsChapter
- Town Class (1910): Bristols & Weymouths42:41The Town class as a successful transitional cruiserChapter
- Bruships 82: New Books, Fun Books & Random Books2:43:45Effective gun ranges for cruisers and destroyersQ&A
- Ruse de guerre19:04An en flûte transport can display one full broadsideNotable Point
- Ruse de guerre26:57Could a 4.5-inch mount have improved Abdiel?Notable Point
- Patreon 58: Ruse de Guerre or Deception, disguises and decoys in naval warfare1:33:35Why ten extra guns can compound an advantageQ&A
- Patreon 58: Ruse de Guerre or Deception, disguises and decoys in naval warfare1:34:22How Amazon disabled Belle Poule with few casualtiesQ&A
- Patreon 58: Ruse de Guerre or Deception, disguises and decoys in naval warfare1:35:14Broadside superiority grows as guns and crews are lostNotable Point
- Patreon 58: Ruse de Guerre or Deception, disguises and decoys in naval warfare2:19:57Why rate of fire can outweigh shell sizeQ&A
- Kirov Class Cruisers (Soviet Navy)9:16Project 26 machinery, armament, and thin protectionChapter
- Kirov Class Cruisers (Soviet Navy)34:07Project 26-bis2 adapts for the Soviet Far EastChapter
- Doug Clarke Bruships; As today would have been my Dad's Birthday, it's his books today9:29How earlier torpedoes would reshape warshipsQ&A
- Doug Clarke Bruships; As today would have been my Dad's Birthday, it's his books today22:50Why broadside weight did not determine a ship's rateQ&A
- Doug Clarke Bruships; As today would have been my Dad's Birthday, it's his books today1:35:57Modern destroyer guns trade volume for accuracyQ&A
- Doug Clarke Bruships; As today would have been my Dad's Birthday, it's his books today1:45:13Why the 10-inch gun is an awkward naval compromiseQ&A
- Doug Clarke Bruships; As today would have been my Dad's Birthday, it's his books today2:02:00A lower-risk gun path for ZumwaltQ&A
- Doug Clarke Bruships; As today would have been my Dad's Birthday, it's his books today2:34:42Italian ammunition quality as a preventable fleet weaknessQ&A
- Doug Clarke Bruships; As today would have been my Dad's Birthday, it's his books today3:14:58How Daring-class destroyers might fare in a Guadalcanal night fightQ&A
- Reginae Maris Nostri: The Cruisers of Mussolini's Regia Marina26:38Trento class: heavy guns, high speed, thin armorChapter
- Reginae Maris Nostri: The Cruisers of Mussolini's Regia Marina26:49Ammunition quality and the limits of Fascist modernizationNotable Point
- Reginae Maris Nostri: The Cruisers of Mussolini's Regia Marina50:06Abruzzi class: a balanced Mediterranean light cruiserChapter
- The Jeune Ecole in 30mins or Less18:33HMS Dreadnought carries the counter in her 12-pounder batteryNotable Point
- Projecting Mussonlini's Mare Nostrum: Italian 1920s & 1930s cruiser design/doctrine2:48Were G3 battlecruisers intended for 16-inch or 16.5-inch guns?Q&A
- Projecting Mussonlini's Mare Nostrum: Italian 1920s & 1930s cruiser design/doctrine13:28Would triple turrets improve the Trento class?Q&A
- Projecting Mussonlini's Mare Nostrum: Italian 1920s & 1930s cruiser design/doctrine1:15:08Trento trades protection for speed and displayChapter
- Projecting Mussonlini's Mare Nostrum: Italian 1920s & 1930s cruiser design/doctrine1:48:19Did radar invalidate Italian attack doctrine?Q&A
- Projecting Mussonlini's Mare Nostrum: Italian 1920s & 1930s cruiser design/doctrine2:14:56Fast-firing guns meet ammunition and maintenance limitsChapter
- Projecting Mussonlini's Mare Nostrum: Italian 1920s & 1930s cruiser design/doctrine2:16:44How did the Model 1929 six-inch gun fire so quickly?Q&A
- Projecting Mussonlini's Mare Nostrum: Italian 1920s & 1930s cruiser design/doctrine2:22:11Duca d'Aosta adds protection without resolving the conceptChapter
- Projecting Mussonlini's Mare Nostrum: Italian 1920s & 1930s cruiser design/doctrine2:30:49Why did Italian automatic gun mounts need special grease?Q&A
- Projecting Mussonlini's Mare Nostrum: Italian 1920s & 1930s cruiser design/doctrine2:33:31Abruzzi finally delivers a balanced light cruiserChapter
- Luigi Cadorna Class: The Regia Marina's Condottieri Part 213:42Why combat accuracy is a two-sided problemNotable Point
- Naval History Questions: Live From The Brushack2:29:26The risks of quadruple six-inch turretsQ&A
- French Cruiser Policy & Doctrine of the 1920s & 30s (Long Patrol)1:08:21The Model 1924 gun was designed around industrial realityNotable Point
- French 1920s & 1930s cruiser design/doctrine (Live)37:12Why the Lion-class gun problem began with the King George V classQ&A
- French 1920s & 1930s cruiser design/doctrine (Live)2:27:51Simple guns and balanced ships matched French industryNotable Point
- French 1920s & 1930s cruiser design/doctrine (Live)2:44:48Were Tribal-class destroyers structurally overbuilt?Q&A
- Northampton Class: US Treaty Cruisers (Long Patrol)5:27Triple turrets made the Northampton a cleaner scouting designNotable Point
- Northampton Class: US Treaty Cruisers (Long Patrol)12:38Power, guns, and seaplanes for a long-range scoutChapter
- Northampton Class: US Treaty Cruisers (Long Patrol)15:49Thin protection kept the Northamptons at long rangeNotable Point
- Bruships 81: Some Books from Chalk Valley & Tank Fest and Naval History Questions39:54Why the US Navy stayed with the five-inch gunQ&A
- Bruships 81: Some Books from Chalk Valley & Tank Fest and Naval History Questions40:57Dido-class cruisers against Admiral Graf SpeeQ&A
- Bruships 81: Some Books from Chalk Valley & Tank Fest and Naval History Questions1:10:55The unbuilt Lexingtons' 16-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships 81: Some Books from Chalk Valley & Tank Fest and Naval History Questions1:29:37Why modern naval guns usually use single mountsQ&A
- Bruships 81: Some Books from Chalk Valley & Tank Fest and Naval History Questions3:01:45Turning the R class into Renowns and reusing their turretsQ&A
- Bruships 81: Some Books from Chalk Valley & Tank Fest and Naval History Questions3:08:57How command culture sharpened Iron Duke's gunneryNotable Point
- Bruships 81: Some Books from Chalk Valley & Tank Fest and Naval History Questions3:42:07Where modern missiles would disable battleship turretsQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out Take 225:36How to identify a shipboard rangefinder lensQ&A
- Technology an Introduction to a History... of Sorts...16:39How longer gunnery ranges changed Invincible's protection logicChapter
- Patreon 56: Why Retire Admirals in a World War? (Live)2:27:31Could Vickers 14-inch guns fit USS Arizona's turrets?Q&A
- Suffren Class: Mon croiseur de 1ère classe de la Marine Nationale préféré (Long Patrol)5:20Protection for cruiser work, undermined by narrow gun arcsChapter
- Suffren Class: Mon croiseur de 1ère classe de la Marine Nationale préféré (Long Patrol)10:59The 203 mm Model 1924 gun and its real performanceChapter
- Suffren Class: Mon croiseur de 1ère classe de la Marine Nationale préféré (Long Patrol)48:01How quadruple turrets could have reshaped British cruisersNotable Point
- Suffren Class: Mon croiseur de 1ère classe de la Marine Nationale préféré (Long Patrol)1:07:47A sound cruiser design with one avoidable flawChapter
- Suffren Class: Mon croiseur de 1ère classe de la Marine Nationale préféré (Long Patrol)1:11:29Surcouf versus cruiser main-gun readinessNotable Point
- Bruships 80: Books From Travels2:41:34Hood versus Bayern depends on range and reinforcementQ&A
- Bruships 80: Books From Travels3:30:01Iowa versus Yamato and the importance of the first hitQ&A
- Action of the 18th June 1799: How to Lose Frigates and Influence (Live)1:08:40HMS Captain's guns and uncertain commander in 1799Notable Point
- Action of the 18th June 1799: How to Lose Frigates and Influence (Live)1:35:33Bellona's broadside ends the first resistanceNotable Point
- Action of the 18th of June 1799: How to Lose Frigates & Influence (Long Patrol)29:34Centaur and Courageuse reveal the firepower mismatchNotable Point
- Equitable London Treaty: Summary (Long Patrol)18:16King George V and the 14-inch gun gambleChapter
- Equitable London Treaty: Summary (Long Patrol)21:28When treaty definitions turn monitors into capital shipsNotable Point
- Equitable London Treaty: Summary (Long Patrol)28:41Why battleship gun caliber carried national prestigeNotable Point
- Giussano Class: Regia Marina's First Condottieri (Long Patrol)50:39Cape Spada tests the destroyer-hunter claimChapter
- Introduction to US Cruiser Strategy in the 1920s & 1930s (Long Patrol)11:49The Florida class illustrates the scouting-force paradoxNotable Point
- Introduction to US Cruiser Strategy in the 1920s & 1930s (Long Patrol)13:52The Omaha class as a transitional cruiser designChapter
- Introduction to US Cruiser Strategy in the 1920s & 1930s (Long Patrol)16:51A more coherent turret layout for the Omaha hullNotable Point
- Introduction to US Cruiser Strategy in the 1920s & 1930s (Long Patrol)32:20How mission uncertainty shaped cruiser gun layoutsChapter
- Introduction to US Cruiser Strategy in the 1920s & 1930s (Long Patrol)38:42Omaha as an institutional design warningNotable Point
- A Treaty Inspired Destroyer Design Discussion: UAD & Patreon Infused video6:01The 1,500-ton design cannot carry its intended armamentChapter
- A Treaty Inspired Destroyer Design Discussion: UAD & Patreon Infused video14:14A gun destroyer still needs a torpedo threatChapter
- A Treaty Inspired Destroyer Design Discussion: UAD & Patreon Infused video18:17Gun layout creates forward-weight and stability penaltiesNotable Point
- A Treaty Inspired Destroyer Design Discussion: UAD & Patreon Infused video21:49The 2,000-ton design finds a workable weapon balanceChapter
- A Treaty Inspired Destroyer Design Discussion: UAD & Patreon Infused video30:46The Fuze Keeping Clock gives a small destroyer accurate fireNotable Point
- A Treaty Inspired Destroyer Design Discussion: UAD & Patreon Infused video39:17Gun mounts impose hidden structural costsNotable Point
- Equitable London Treaties: Cruisers (Long Patrol)56:01Why the alternate treaty keeps the eight-inch cruiser limitNotable Point
- Equitable London Naval Treaty: Capital Ships with UAD infusion (Long Patrol)1:08:02Gun range, first hit, and the golden BBNotable Point
- Equitable London Naval Treaty: Capital Ships with UAD infusion (Long Patrol)1:09:28All-forward armament concentrates damage riskNotable Point
- Equitable London Naval Treaty: Capital Ships with UAD infusion (Long Patrol)1:12:23Maneuvering toward the previous fall of shotNotable Point
- My Royal Navy Washington Treaty Cruiser: with added Qs from "1939 Destroyer Doctrine" (Long Patrol)1:08:45Why high explosive can outperform armour-piercing shellsNotable Point
- Meeting a Tribal at last: HMCS Haida (live)5:23Tribal-class forward firepower in destroyer combatChapter
- An Equitable Washington Treaty: Other Ships & Fortifications (Long Patrol)31:50How Hawkins shaped two decades of cruiser designNotable Point
- An Equitable Washington Treaty: Other Ships & Fortifications (Long Patrol)42:06Natori's dispersed seven-gun layoutNotable Point
- Torpedoes and their Ships 1900-39: Patreon 54 (Long Patrol)24:39Why a Dreadnought was a difficult torpedo targetNotable Point
- Torpedoes and their Ships 1900-39: Patreon 54 (Long Patrol)31:03Mass, firepower, and the origin of destroyersChapter
- Torpedoes and their Ships 1900-39: Patreon 54 (Long Patrol)36:32Night attacks, Long Lance, and the supply problemChapter
- Boadicea Class (1907): Scout Cruiser (Long Patrol)26:32Six 4-inch guns traded broadside weight for exposed mountsNotable Point
- Galaxy Class: A Naval Historian's view of Federation Cruisers & Ships of the 24th Century (Live)19:39Could the King George V class have used a different turret layout?Q&A
- Galaxy Class: A Naval Historian's view of Federation Cruisers & Ships of the 24th Century (Live)3:22:13Are five triple 15-inch turrets too much for a G3 hull?Q&A
- Galaxy Class: A Naval Historian's view of Federation Cruisers & Ships of the 24th Century (Live)3:55:33What would the 40 mm Toadstool system have changed?Q&A
- Galaxy Class: A Naval Historian's view of Federation Cruisers & Ships of the 24th Century (Live)4:03:34What would a 15-inch/50-caliber gun have changed?Q&A
- A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Battleships Lost at Jutland)22:32Why the first British super-dreadnoughts used 13.5-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships 79: Eight New Books, plus Discussions of a Naval Nature6:41An experimental battlecruiser overwhelms three Deutschlands in simulationNotable Point
- Bruships 79: Eight New Books, plus Discussions of a Naval Nature13:45Fire control and the first hit in a naval simulationNotable Point
- Bruships 79: Eight New Books, plus Discussions of a Naval Nature30:28A 24-inch naval gun could overwhelm its own shipQ&A
- Bruships 79: Eight New Books, plus Discussions of a Naval Nature42:33Furious may have inherited rather than originated the 18-inch gunQ&A
- Bruships 79: Eight New Books, plus Discussions of a Naval Nature47:23Armor must survive the first hit, not every hitQ&A
- Bruships 79: Eight New Books, plus Discussions of a Naval Nature51:45A giant naval gun trades turret flexibility for a smaller hullQ&A
- Finnish War 1808-9 (Sweden vs Russia): A War of Autocracies (Long Patrol)45:04A high-ground analogy frames the avoidable naval fight at PiteåNotable Point
- Cut Price County Questions and a Modern Battle Cruiser: A UAD Infused Discussion (Long Patrol)0:30Building a 40,000-ton battlecruiser in Ultimate Admiral: DreadnoughtsChapter
- Cut Price County Questions and a Modern Battle Cruiser: A UAD Infused Discussion (Long Patrol)8:00Would nine 6-inch guns make a heavy cruiser?Q&A
- Cut Price County Questions and a Modern Battle Cruiser: A UAD Infused Discussion (Long Patrol)12:45Why did the Mark II turret become heavier?Q&A
- Cut Price County Questions and a Modern Battle Cruiser: A UAD Infused Discussion (Long Patrol)14:08Would the other Admiral-class ships have matched Hood's armament?Q&A
- Cut Price County Questions and a Modern Battle Cruiser: A UAD Infused Discussion (Long Patrol)15:35Hood's 5.5-inch guns and alternative cruiser weaponsQ&A
- Cut Price County Questions and a Modern Battle Cruiser: A UAD Infused Discussion (Long Patrol)29:02Zigzagging and emergency speed under fireNotable Point
- Cut Price County Questions and a Modern Battle Cruiser: A UAD Infused Discussion (Long Patrol)35:44Armour buys survival time, not invulnerabilityNotable Point
- Bruships 78: Favourite Cruisers A Discussion...9:55Which navies explored automatic cruiser guns after 1945Q&A
- Bruships 78: Favourite Cruisers A Discussion...45:19Why 9.2-inch guns could beat 10-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships 78: Favourite Cruisers A Discussion...50:06Why the 4.5-inch gun won the postwar lineageQ&A
- Bruships 78: Favourite Cruisers A Discussion...54:14Which naval games can also work as simulationsQ&A
- Bruships 78: Favourite Cruisers A Discussion...55:13The limits of the 6-inch Mark XXIII as an anti-aircraft gunQ&A
- Bruships 78: Favourite Cruisers A Discussion...1:56:53Why a favourite ship need not be the best typeQ&A
- Bruships 78: Favourite Cruisers A Discussion...2:08:46Why naval gunfire support favours a larger calibreQ&A
- Bruships 78: Favourite Cruisers A Discussion...2:40:49Why centreline guns displaced cross-deck firing layoutsQ&A
- Bruships 78: Favourite Cruisers A Discussion...3:02:32How a larger County-class missile cruiser might lookQ&A
- Bruships 78: Favourite Cruisers A Discussion...4:33:15Refitting the First World War fleet with improved 15-inch gunsQ&A
- County Class Cruiser Comment Response: A UAD Infused Discussion of the Part 8 Response (Long Patrol)18:29Twelve-gun British battleships overwhelm the German pairNotable Point
- County Class Cruiser Comment Response: A UAD Infused Discussion of the Part 8 Response (Long Patrol)37:01Main-battery fire on destroyers creates an ammunition trade-offNotable Point
- County Cruisers P8: The County Class in War and Retrospect (Long Patrol)23:18Graf Spee and the calibre ceilingNotable Point
- County Cruisers P8: The County Class in War and Retrospect (Long Patrol)26:16River Plate and the value of six-inch fireChapter
- County Cruisers P8: The County Class in War and Retrospect (Long Patrol)40:25Why Dreadnought's revolution stopped shortNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (8)31:52Shellfire, torpedoes, and battleship sinkingsQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (8)34:51Why capital ships still need guns before torpedoesQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (8)45:50Renown and Repulse against Hood in a chaseQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (8)55:28Modernizing the unbuilt 1920 South Dakota classQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (8)1:23:45Why crane capacity did not set the maximum turret sizeQ&A
- Scapa Flow: A History & A Future? (Long Patrol for Patreon 52)20:45Gunnery space bought readiness at a morale costNotable Point
- More Questions of the Equitable Washington Treaty Answered: A UAD Infused Discussion (Long Patrol)44:59Why automatic escalation has a practical ceilingQ&A
- More Questions of the Equitable Washington Treaty Answered: A UAD Infused Discussion (Long Patrol)48:51Trading speed and protection for a 16-inch batteryQ&A
- Patreon 52: Scapa Flow - A History & A Future1:29:07What did American battleships learn from Grand Fleet gunnery?Q&A
- Bruships 77: Leadership, books & questions...54:04Why 4.5-inch destroyer mounts took timeQ&A
- Bruships 77: Leadership, books & questions...1:19:11When baked-bean cans became naval projectilesQ&A
- Bruships 77: Leadership, books & questions...1:51:35The Blackburn's value as a fleet spotting aircraftQ&A
- Questions of the Equitable Washington Treaty Answered: A UAD Infused Discussion (Long Patrol)45:21Torpedoes overturn the gun-count advantageNotable Point
- Duquesne class, Marine National (Long Patrol)19:46Three gun levels and the sighting referenceNotable Point
- All Forward vs Aft Balance Main Armament: A UAD infused Discussion (Long Patrol)15:10Firepower, survivability, and the commerce-raider roleNotable Point
- All Forward vs Aft Balance Main Armament: A UAD infused Discussion (Long Patrol)27:41Why the simulated duel is not a historical verdictNotable Point
- Leipzig Class (Reichsmarine)29:55Similar silhouettes concealed different protection schemesNotable Point
- Battle of Shiloh: a Riverine, if not quite Maritime, confluence of events2:51:44What role was the 5.5-inch gun meant to fill?Q&A
- Battle of Shiloh: a Riverine, if not quite Maritime, confluence of events2:54:31Why an E-class 6-inch twin suited a rebuilt HoodQ&A
- County Cruisers P7: The Canaris Class (Long Patrol)26:11What a six-inch cruiser revealed about BalearesNotable Point
- County Cruisers P7: The Canaris Class (Long Patrol)41:22A heavier County derivative that was less survivableNotable Point
- County Cruisers P7: The Canaris Class (Long Patrol)47:46Armour narrows the ranges at which shells can penetrateNotable Point
- County Cruisers P6: York, Exeter & The Cut Price County Concept (Long Patrol)11:17What the smaller cruisers actually carriedNotable Point
- Bruships 75: Following the 614th Running the Gauntlet10:00Why naval guns need specialised steelQ&A
- Bruships 75: Following the 614th Running the Gauntlet54:58Why auxiliary-cruiser guns did not equal cruiser gunneryQ&A
- Bruships 75: Following the 614th Running the Gauntlet57:00Why naval-gun rifling changed with metallurgyQ&A
- Bruships 75: Following the 614th Running the Gauntlet1:00:32Why big-gun ships carried torpedoesQ&A
- Bruships 75: Following the 614th Running the Gauntlet1:41:36How Admiralty offices divided responsibility for naval gunsQ&A
- Bruships 75: Following the 614th Running the Gauntlet1:49:36What navies did with guns from scrapped capital shipsQ&A
- Bruships 75: Following the 614th Running the Gauntlet1:59:29Why a ship's guns could outperform the same weapons ashoreQ&A
- The 614th Running the Gauntlet: Six Books Reviewed (Long Patrol)5:15Bismarck's reputation and force concentration at Denmark StraitNotable Point
- The 614th Running the Gauntlet: Six Books Reviewed (Long Patrol)7:10H-class battleships and the risks of paper designNotable Point
- The 614th Running the Gauntlet: Six Books Reviewed (Long Patrol)29:28Merchant-shipping loss and the limits of family memoryNotable Point
- 1939 Destroyer Doctrine: Patreon 50 (Long Patrol)7:08Technology and exercises can mislead doctrineNotable Point
- 1939 Destroyer Doctrine: Patreon 50 (Long Patrol)12:26German destroyers and the Narvik lossesChapter
- 1939 Destroyer Doctrine: Patreon 50 (Long Patrol)13:22German destroyer guns and the cost of slower fireNotable Point
- 1939 Destroyer Doctrine: Patreon 50 (Long Patrol)33:17Match destroyer weapons to the threatNotable Point
- 1939 Destroyer Doctrine: Patreon 50 (Long Patrol)56:33Royal Navy destroyers for global commitmentsChapter
- 1939 Destroyer Doctrine: Patreon 50 (Long Patrol)59:50Fleet Air Arm bureaucracy and the missing 4.5-inch gunQ&A
- 1939 Destroyer Doctrine: Patreon 50 (Long Patrol)1:12:58Fletcher-class numbers turn doctrine into capabilityChapter
- 1939 Destroyer Doctrine: Patreon 50 (Long Patrol)1:18:19The Fletcher package for Italy's escort gapNotable Point
- Battle of Singapore Straits (Equitable Washington Treaty Scenario): A UAD Infused(Long Patrol)14:53All-forward British guns versus faster Japanese shipsChapter
- Battle of Singapore Straits (Equitable Washington Treaty Scenario): A UAD Infused(Long Patrol)19:08Why two knots are not enough to escapeNotable Point
- Battle of Singapore Straits (Equitable Washington Treaty Scenario): A UAD Infused(Long Patrol)21:17Continuous construction as a spur to radarNotable Point
- Battle of Singapore Straits (Equitable Washington Treaty Scenario): A UAD Infused(Long Patrol)24:54How a severe list compounds battle damageNotable Point
- Battle of Singapore Straits (Equitable Washington Treaty Scenario): A UAD Infused(Long Patrol)29:10The speed margin needed to control a battleNotable Point
- Battle of Singapore Straits (Equitable Washington Treaty Scenario): A UAD Infused(Long Patrol)33:50Balancing firepower, armour and speedNotable Point
- Battle of Singapore Straits (Equitable Washington Treaty Scenario): A UAD Infused(Long Patrol)44:00Ammunition limits end the simulated actionNotable Point
- Battle of Singapore Straits (Equitable Washington Treaty Scenario): A UAD Infused(Long Patrol)1:08:37Radar narrows the simulated fleet balanceNotable Point
- Patreon 50: 1939 Destroyer Doctrine of the combatant navies & Where did it come from?47:21Why German destroyer guns were weak dual-purpose weaponsQ&A
- Patreon 50: 1939 Destroyer Doctrine of the combatant navies & Where did it come from?1:24:07Why French naval gun calibres look unusualQ&A
- Patreon 50: 1939 Destroyer Doctrine of the combatant navies & Where did it come from?2:32:57Air attack forced British destroyer armament to changeNotable Point
- Patreon 50: 1939 Destroyer Doctrine of the combatant navies & Where did it come from?2:43:45How British destroyers illuminated a night targetQ&A
- British Light Cruisers & Treaties: A UAD Infused discussion5:00Why the Royal Navy retained six-inch cruisersNotable Point
- British Light Cruisers & Treaties: A UAD Infused discussion16:26Volume of fire versus the perfect cruiserNotable Point
- British Light Cruisers & Treaties: A UAD Infused discussion44:43Ammunition exhaustion and the torpedo finishNotable Point
- ARA La Argentina(1937): Year of the Cruisers (Long Patrol)13:49Nine 6-inch guns, practical protection, and a shipborne floatplaneNotable Point
- An Equitable Washington Treaty: Capital Ships with UAD (Long Patrol)56:33Eighty-four guns against fifty in a 1926 scenarioNotable Point
- An Equitable Washington Treaty: Capital Ships with UAD (Long Patrol)1:01:13When gun counts become comparableNotable Point
- An Equitable Washington Treaty: Capital Ships with UAD (Long Patrol)1:30:14What 252 guns against 140 means per salvoNotable Point
- An Equitable Washington Treaty: Capital Ships with UAD (Long Patrol)1:33:08How radar changes high-speed approachesNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (11)1:08:53Why Elswick would develop a British 15-inch/45 gunQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (11)2:22:07How sinking violence separates turrets from a wreckQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (11)3:14:36Why Italian battleship gunnery was inconsistentQ&A
- Patreon 49 - Admiral Kimmel: Not His Failure of Leadership (Long Patrol) #SARCASM ALERT#13:42Kimmel's reputation as a gunnery officerNotable Point
- Patreon 49 - Admiral Kimmel: Not His Failure of Leadership (Long Patrol) #SARCASM ALERT#14:25Training detail as a command strength and riskNotable Point
- A Rumble in the Tumble: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol)4:06Reconstructing late pre-dreadnought gun batteriesNotable Point
- A Rumble in the Tumble: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol)8:42Shell weight versus volume of fireNotable Point
- A Rumble in the Tumble: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol)13:21Lord Nelson and the road to DreadnoughtChapter
- A Rumble in the Tumble: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol)20:38Close-range versus long-range pre-dreadnought tacticsNotable Point
- A Rumble in the Tumble: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol)23:07When secondary batteries do the killingChapter
- A Rumble in the Tumble: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol)32:16Night fighting and the value of volumeNotable Point
- A Rumble in the Tumble: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol)37:29Casemates, turrets, and usable firing arcsChapter
- A Rumble in the Tumble: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol)46:54Cuniberti, Percy Scott, and William Sims on battery standardizationNotable Point
- A Rumble in the Tumble: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol)48:05Heavier firepower and fleet contributionsNotable Point
- A Rumble in the Tumble: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol)53:35Dreadnought moves killing power to the main batteryNotable Point
- Patron 49: Admiral Kimmel: A Failure of Leadership? (Live)33:39Kimmel's early sea service and gunnery reputationChapter
- Patron 49: Admiral Kimmel: A Failure of Leadership? (Live)1:00:22Improving US battleship gunnery with the Grand FleetNotable Point
- Patron 49: Admiral Kimmel: A Failure of Leadership? (Live)1:06:46How the Royal Navy regarded KimmelQ&A
- Pathfinder Class(1904): Scout Cruiser (Long Patrol)15:44A compact cruiser with surprising protectionChapter
- Pathfinder Class(1904): Scout Cruiser (Long Patrol)17:30Reading gun weights in hundredweightNotable Point
- Adriatic if WWI hadn't started till 1918: A UAD infused Discussion (Long Patrol)12:09Ersatz Monarch design trade-offsChapter
- Adriatic if WWI hadn't started till 1918: A UAD infused Discussion (Long Patrol)17:01Francesco Caracciolo as a fast battleshipChapter
- Adriatic if WWI hadn't started till 1918: A UAD infused Discussion (Long Patrol)20:28Why a four-versus-four action changes the calculusNotable Point
- Adriatic if WWI hadn't started till 1918: A UAD infused Discussion (Long Patrol)32:23How the simulation approximates a 13.5-inch gunQ&A
- Adriatic if WWI hadn't started till 1918: A UAD infused Discussion (Long Patrol)46:07What the simulation suggests about 14-inch and 15-inch gunsNotable Point
- Adriatic if WWI hadn't started till 1918: A UAD infused Discussion (Long Patrol)51:36Why counterfactual history clarifies real decisionsNotable Point
- Adriatic if WWI hadn't started till 1918: A UAD infused Discussion (Long Patrol)1:02:05Using simulation to test fleet-design argumentsChapter
- The 18in Gun HMS Agincourt and UAD video comment response (Long Patrol)1:40An 18-inch Queen Elizabeth alternativeNotable Point
- The 18in Gun HMS Agincourt and UAD video comment response (Long Patrol)4:48Reading secondary-gun results in a simulationQ&A
- The 18in Gun HMS Agincourt and UAD video comment response (Long Patrol)5:45A delayed war and British capital-ship replacementQ&A
- The 18in Gun HMS Agincourt and UAD video comment response (Long Patrol)6:47Why simulated hit rates are not historical averagesQ&A
- The 18in Gun HMS Agincourt and UAD video comment response (Long Patrol)8:21How 18-inch British ships could reshape naval treatiesNotable Point
- The 18in Gun HMS Agincourt and UAD video comment response (Long Patrol)14:17The size and accuracy of the 18-inch experimentNotable Point
- The 18in Gun HMS Agincourt and UAD video comment response (Long Patrol)15:37A Baden-Bayern approximation with 14-inch gunsNotable Point
- The 18in Gun HMS Agincourt and UAD video comment response (Long Patrol)16:44Choosing between four-, five-, and six-inch secondariesQ&A
- The 18in Gun HMS Agincourt and UAD video comment response (Long Patrol)20:08The mounting, not the 4.5-inch gun, sets the limitQ&A
- The 18in Gun HMS Agincourt and UAD video comment response (Long Patrol)22:06E3 as a purpose-built cruiser killerQ&A
- The 18in Gun HMS Agincourt and UAD video comment response (Long Patrol)24:37British wire-wound guns traded weight for strengthQ&A
- The 18in Gun HMS Agincourt and UAD video comment response (Long Patrol)31:14Shell weight and accuracy in the UAD modelQ&A
- Patreon 48: Anglo-Japanese War in Feb 39 - if Tsingtao Incident goes "hot", what's IJN doctrine?2:04:49What the first salvos at Tsingtao might have doneNotable Point
- Patreon 48: Anglo-Japanese War in Feb 39 - if Tsingtao Incident goes "hot", what's IJN doctrine?2:49:04Could Britain field 18-inch guns by 1942?Q&A
- If Hood Was the Washington Template not the exception: A UAD infused discussion21:02All-forward guns and practical firing arcsNotable Point
- If Hood Was the Washington Template not the exception: A UAD infused discussion33:05Gun numbers matter when logistics support themNotable Point
- If Hood Was the Washington Template not the exception: A UAD infused discussion38:23Why quadruple turrets impose a hull penaltyNotable Point
- Bruships 73: Some Old, Some New, None Borrowed, but Some Blue8:56Why Hood was not designed around quadruple turretsQ&A
- Bruships 73: Some Old, Some New, None Borrowed, but Some Blue18:39Why an extreme Tillman turret still needs a much wider hullQ&A
- Bruships 73: Some Old, Some New, None Borrowed, but Some Blue19:39A better 15-inch gun as a fleet-wide modernization pathNotable Point
- Bruships 73: Some Old, Some New, None Borrowed, but Some Blue33:04Why Admiral Lee's gunnery would decide a duel with BeattyQ&A
- Bruships 73: Some Old, Some New, None Borrowed, but Some Blue33:58What an early Battle-class destroyer programme could have deliveredQ&A
- Bruships 73: Some Old, Some New, None Borrowed, but Some Blue43:00Why a short 16.25-inch gun wasted its apparent sizeQ&A
- Bruships 73: Some Old, Some New, None Borrowed, but Some Blue55:20Why the King George V design accepted quadruple turretsQ&A
- Bruships 73: Some Old, Some New, None Borrowed, but Some Blue58:51Barrel length, elevation, and turret balance pull in different directionsQ&A
- Bruships 73: Some Old, Some New, None Borrowed, but Some Blue1:01:05Why a battleship refit would skip a small calibre increaseQ&A
- Bruships 73: Some Old, Some New, None Borrowed, but Some Blue1:52:02Convoy merchant ships were protected targets, not baitQ&A
- Bruships 73: Some Old, Some New, None Borrowed, but Some Blue1:57:58How a modern warship would attack an Age of Sail fleetQ&A
- Bruships 73: Some Old, Some New, None Borrowed, but Some Blue2:19:23Radar fire control gives three Des Moines cruisers the edgeQ&A
- Bruships 73: Some Old, Some New, None Borrowed, but Some Blue2:22:01All-forward guns can make an aggressive cruiser compactNotable Point
- Bruships 73: Some Old, Some New, None Borrowed, but Some Blue2:26:24A stationary Averof could prolong Byzantine ConstantinopleQ&A
- Bruships 73: Some Old, Some New, None Borrowed, but Some Blue2:41:23Breech-loaders in 1812 trade rate of fire for reliabilityQ&A
- Bruships 73: Some Old, Some New, None Borrowed, but Some Blue2:53:42The N3 sacrificed machinery space to its 18-inch batteryQ&A
- Bruships 73: Some Old, Some New, None Borrowed, but Some Blue3:43:00Classifying destroyers by fleet, tactical, and escort rolesQ&A
- Operation Tan No.2 (77yrs ago today)2:34:06Royal Navy propellant remained improved corditeQ&A
- Operation Tan No.2 (77yrs ago today)2:35:50A heavily armed convoy escort depends on the warQ&A
- Operation Tan No.2 (77yrs ago today)2:42:43Flashless cordite and the size of the chargeQ&A
- All Forward 8in Cruiser & a Battle of the River Plate (RN Dream Team): A UAD Infused Discussion5:08Why the simulated Deutschland battery is approximateNotable Point
- All Forward 8in Cruiser & a Battle of the River Plate (RN Dream Team): A UAD Infused Discussion16:14When tonnage limits favour all-forward gunsNotable Point
- All Forward 8in Cruiser & a Battle of the River Plate (RN Dream Team): A UAD Infused Discussion20:20Keeping all-forward guns on target while manoeuvringNotable Point
- All Forward 8in Cruiser & a Battle of the River Plate (RN Dream Team): A UAD Infused Discussion26:44Concentrated salvos make fall of shot easier to readNotable Point
- All Forward 8in Cruiser & a Battle of the River Plate (RN Dream Team): A UAD Infused Discussion42:59Separating simulation rules from historical conclusionsNotable Point
- Konigsberg Class (Reichsmarine): Long Patrol9:19Paper firepower versus practical vulnerabilityNotable Point
- Konigsberg Class (Reichsmarine): Long Patrol37:32Karlsruhe against the coastal guns at KristiansandChapter
- Konigsberg Class (Reichsmarine): Long Patrol1:00:21A Baltic cruiser asked to solve Atlantic problemsNotable Point
- Battle Cruiser Squadron Action: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol)1:20Tiger as a battlecruiser hunterNotable Point
- Battle Cruiser Squadron Action: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol)7:14Gun arcs make formation the opening tactical problemNotable Point
- Battle Cruiser Squadron Action: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol)8:13Modelling 13.5-inch guns in a 14-inch game systemNotable Point
- Battle Cruiser Squadron Action: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol)17:15How secondary guns changed after DreadnoughtChapter
- Battle Cruiser Squadron Action: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol)20:41The five-inch compromise and the six-inch roleNotable Point
- Battle Cruiser Squadron Action: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol)40:47Torpedo characteristics reveal platform missionsChapter
- Bruships 72: A Litte Bit of Everything Makes the World48:50A twelve-gun answer to the Admiral-class tradeoffQ&A
- Bruships 72: A Litte Bit of Everything Makes the World1:41:07Why Hood received a roomier turret designQ&A
- Bruships 72: A Litte Bit of Everything Makes the World2:00:28How triple-turret Renowns could reshape King George VQ&A
- Bruships 72: A Litte Bit of Everything Makes the World2:14:41French battleship calibres and ammunition commonalityQ&A
- Bruships 72: A Litte Bit of Everything Makes the World2:38:29Rearming transferred Dunkerque-class ships for British supplyQ&A
- Bruships 72: A Litte Bit of Everything Makes the World2:54:41Why heavy shells can fail during frantic loadingQ&A
- Bruships 72: A Litte Bit of Everything Makes the World3:28:34What reliable breech-loaders would change at seaQ&A
- Bruships 72: A Litte Bit of Everything Makes the World3:51:26Why Hood loses a one-on-one fight with YamatoQ&A
- What if Washington allowed more than Nelson & Rodney: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol)16:41Testing the design against BismarckNotable Point
- What if Washington allowed more than Nelson & Rodney: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol)30:39Why a stopped target becomes easier to hitNotable Point
- Siege of Corfu (1798–1799): 223 yrs ago today1:32:20Leander's 50 guns did not guarantee a heavier broadsideNotable Point
- County Class P4: The Norfolk class… and why they stopped - extended (Long Patrol)3:58Norfolk-class design within the County familyNotable Point
- Patreon 47: Putting the USA's 2nd fleet to work - US Coast Guard's presence missions & deployment2:31:35New Jersey versus Yamato in a one-on-one fightQ&A
- Patreon 47: Putting the USA's 2nd fleet to work - US Coast Guard's presence missions & deployment3:06:26Why battleship designers adopted triple turretsQ&A
- Patreon 47: Putting the USA's 2nd fleet to work - US Coast Guard's presence missions & deployment3:07:19Why the Admiral Hipper class kept specialized secondary gunsQ&A
- Patreon 47: Putting the USA's 2nd fleet to work - US Coast Guard's presence missions & deployment3:11:33Why warships carried layered anti-aircraft batteriesQ&A
- Patreon 47: Putting the USA's 2nd fleet to work - US Coast Guard's presence missions & deployment3:19:25Why Hood closed rapidly on BismarckQ&A
- HMS Tiger - The Battle Cruiser Hunter 2, The UAD Version: A UAD infused Discussion (Long Patrol)35:27Battlecruiser armour cannot answer every heavier gunNotable Point
- Patreon 46: Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles - Good or Bad to Concentrate Main Armament1:01:37The scale of Britain's 18-inch gun programmeNotable Point
- Patreon 46: Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles - Good or Bad to Concentrate Main Armament1:33:22Were Dunkerque's 13-inch guns enough for modern war?Q&A
- Patreon 46: Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles - Good or Bad to Concentrate Main Armament1:38:30Did Dunkerque and Alaska have very different reload rates?Q&A
- Patreon 46: Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles - Good or Bad to Concentrate Main Armament2:46:53Were most 16- and 18-inch shells duds?Q&A
- Patreon 46: Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles - Good or Bad to Concentrate Main Armament2:47:16How mobility damage exposed Bismarck's stern in a simulationNotable Point
- Patreon 46: Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles - Good or Bad to Concentrate Main Armament3:01:24Larger guns, larger docks, and the cost of slow fireNotable Point
- HMS Tiger - The Battle Cruiser Hunter: A UAD infused discussion5:52Main-battery layout and three funnelsNotable Point
- HMS Tiger - The Battle Cruiser Hunter: A UAD infused discussion15:05Speed, endurance, armour, and the six-inch batteryChapter
- HMS Tiger - The Battle Cruiser Hunter: A UAD infused discussion20:16Von der Tann, Moltke, and Tiger's intended preyChapter
- HMS Tiger - The Battle Cruiser Hunter: A UAD infused discussion36:03The 13.5-inch gun as a logistical choiceNotable Point
- HMS Tiger - The Battle Cruiser Hunter: A UAD infused discussion37:17Why cross-deck firing was costlyNotable Point
- HMS Tiger - The Battle Cruiser Hunter: A UAD infused discussion38:25Speed lets a battlecruiser choose the rangeNotable Point
- HMS Tiger - The Battle Cruiser Hunter: A UAD infused discussion43:02Long-range gunnery aimed through smokeNotable Point
- HMS Tiger - The Battle Cruiser Hunter: A UAD infused discussion46:50Fire control and the 13.5-inch gunsChapter
- HMS Tiger - The Battle Cruiser Hunter: A UAD infused discussion50:54Closing to six-inch range means accepting torpedo riskNotable Point
- HMS Tiger - The Battle Cruiser Hunter: A UAD infused discussion53:23From anti-torpedo defence to closing weaponsNotable Point
- Forward (1904) Class: Scout Cruisers (Long Patrol)8:23Forward class machinery, armament, and enduranceChapter
- Forward (1904) Class: Scout Cruisers (Long Patrol)24:40Foresight's refit before wartime service at the YserChapter
- Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books12:35When a destroyer needs more than a five-inch gunQ&A
- Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books34:29Why a shell down Hood's funnel is an implausible explanationQ&A
- Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books40:27Why a single 16-inch gun is poor turret economyQ&A
- Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books44:25When more 14-inch guns still lose to twelve 16-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books54:30Comparing gunnery through energy, range, and hit rateNotable Point
- Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books58:58Why an opening salvo rate does not lastQ&A
- Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books1:26:04A Renown-derived alternative to Courageous, Glorious, and FuriousQ&A
- Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books2:41:31How gun crews coped with heat until action stationsQ&A
- Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books2:57:34Why a modernised Hood should still avoid YamatoQ&A
- Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books3:29:26Why Scharnhorst should run from RodneyQ&A
- Comparing Sisters(Not Kardashians) - HMS Renown & Repulse / HMS Nelson & Rodney (Long Patrol)10:35Turret mechanisms and conservative designNotable Point
- Comparing Sisters(Not Kardashians) - HMS Renown & Repulse / HMS Nelson & Rodney (Long Patrol)49:40Rodney's operational luck and the Bismarck battleChapter
- Patreon 45: Comparing Sisters(Not Kardashians) - HMS Renown & Repulse / HMS Nelson & Rodney2:52:34Q&A: could Nelson fire all nine guns ahead?Q&A
- Patreon 45: Comparing Sisters(Not Kardashians) - HMS Renown & Repulse / HMS Nelson & Rodney3:28:38Rodney's decisive fire against BismarckChapter
- Patreon 45: Comparing Sisters(Not Kardashians) - HMS Renown & Repulse / HMS Nelson & Rodney3:49:19The heavier 16-inch shell option and flawed trialsNotable Point
- Duke of Edinburgh Class: Year of Crusier (Long Patrol)6:10A cruiser armed to disrupt the screenNotable Point
- Duke of Edinburgh Class: Year of Crusier (Long Patrol)15:11The long service life of the 9.2-inch gunNotable Point
- Duke of Edinburgh Class: Year of Crusier (Long Patrol)31:42The low casemate-gun weaknessNotable Point
- Duke of Edinburgh Class: Year of Crusier (Long Patrol)42:44Mixed calibres in the director-fire eraNotable Point
- Bruships 70: Travelling along...14:54Why some cruisers carried four-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships 70: Travelling along...29:43Why Alaska badly overmatches a Deutschland-class cruiserQ&A
- Bruships 70: Travelling along...29:52How a Royal Navy battlecruiser compares with AlaskaQ&A
- Bruships 70: Travelling along...48:58Tiger with fourteen-inch guns against the Kongo classQ&A
- Bruships 70: Travelling along...1:16:57Chasing the fall of shot in Royal Navy manoeuvre doctrineNotable Point
- Bruships 70: Travelling along...1:32:55Armoured cruisers on the path to all-big-gun armamentQ&A
- Some Sunday Naval Books29:54The dreadnought race was wider than Britain and GermanyNotable Point
- What a the choice of Secondary gun calibre tells us: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol)8:48Rate of fire against destroyers and torpedo boatsNotable Point
- Lord Charles Beresford (on his birthday)1:04:14HMS Undaunted's guns, speed, and enduranceNotable Point
- Lord Charles Beresford (on his birthday)1:54:40How well did Beresford handle HMS Condor?Q&A
- Brummer Class (1915): Long Patrol (Year of the Cruiser)23:17Gun layout and mine-warfare dutiesNotable Point
- Bruships 69: The Decider13:24Triple 4.5-inch turrets on Tribal destroyersQ&A
- Bruships 69: The Decider21:57Why the 1944 Lion design changed its secondary batteryQ&A
- Bruships 69: The Decider23:59A common 4.5-inch battery across the fleetQ&A
- Bruships 69: The Decider27:20Designing Vanguard around spare triple 16-inch turretsQ&A
- Bruships 69: The Decider35:36Why Lion would not simply reuse Nelson’s turretsQ&A
- Bruships 69: The Decider38:43Why a triple 6-inch turret was not ready for 5.25-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships 69: The Decider59:51Trading Taffy 3’s torpedoes for Tribal gunfireQ&A
- Bruships 69: The Decider1:10:14The central battery logic of pre-dreadnoughtsQ&A
- Bruships 69: The Decider1:39:10Iron Duke’s limited value as a restored battleshipQ&A
- Bruships 69: The Decider1:54:44Casemate guns were backups whose usefulness depended on the seaQ&A
- Bruships 69: The Decider2:02:02A 14-inch Dreadnought accelerates the gun-calibre ladderQ&A
- Bruships 69: The Decider2:15:58The wider cost of King George V’s 14-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships 69: The Decider3:02:30Fire-control computing matters at the system levelQ&A
- The Forgotten Trafalgar: The 1509 Battle of Diu (Long Patrol)1:13:01Skipping-shot gunnery opens the battleChapter
- A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality UAD - HMS Queen Mary 3 (Long Patrol)7:33Why triple turrets change the main-battery equationChapter
- A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality UAD - HMS Queen Mary 3 (Long Patrol)10:34Triple four-inch mounts for torpedo-boat defenceNotable Point
- A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality UAD - HMS Queen Mary 3 (Long Patrol)14:16Nine-inch guns let the heavy cruisers inflict real damageNotable Point
- A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality UAD - HMS Queen Mary 3 (Long Patrol)21:17A successful anti-ship mounting may resist dual-purpose conversionNotable Point
- The Forgotten Trafalgar: the 1509 Battle of Diu2:05:28Gunnery and boarding broke the coalition centerChapter
- The Forgotten Trafalgar: the 1509 Battle of Diu2:12:06Grenades and channel control defeated the reserveNotable Point
- The Forgotten Trafalgar: the 1509 Battle of Diu2:51:43How heavy were the galleys' bow guns?Q&A
- County Cruisers P3: The London Class (Long Patrol)21:40Devonshire's accident became an opportunity to moderniseNotable Point
- Bruships 68: Random Naval History Books & Questions8:14Why CIWS would struggle with battleship salvosQ&A
- Bruships 68: Random Naval History Books & Questions9:15Why bronze cannon carried personal inscriptionsQ&A
- Bruships 68: Random Naval History Books & Questions10:36A disciplined way to use alternate historyQ&A
- Bruships 68: Random Naval History Books & Questions15:40Lord Nelson and the transition from casemates to turretsQ&A
- Bruships 68: Random Naval History Books & Questions22:23Why the 4.5-inch mount arrived lateQ&A
- Bruships 68: Random Naval History Books & Questions23:20When warships stopped landing major gunsQ&A
- Bruships 68: Random Naval History Books & Questions24:09Why the Royal Navy favoured 4.7- and 4.5-inch gunsNotable Point
- Bruships 68: Random Naval History Books & Questions27:44US 5-inch/38 and British 4.5-inch design prioritiesQ&A
- Bruships 68: Random Naval History Books & Questions37:21The Royal Navy's attempt to standardize secondary gunsNotable Point
- Bruships 68: Random Naval History Books & Questions38:36Why Japan lacked an ideal destroyer gunQ&A
- Bruships 68: Random Naval History Books & Questions43:05Why heavy-gunned German destroyers struggledQ&A
- Bruships 68: Random Naval History Books & Questions57:11Why Britain settled on the 9.2-inch gunQ&A
- Bruships 68: Random Naval History Books & Questions2:44:08Why modern naval main guns feel stagnantQ&A
- Bruships 68: Random Naval History Books & Questions2:55:52Designing a 6,500-ton Chinese heavy cruiserQ&A
- Scout Cruisers & Conning Towers: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol)0:23Designing a scout cruiser to fight destroyersChapter
- Scout Cruisers & Conning Towers: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol)13:18A gun's position trades firing arc against motionNotable Point
- Scout Cruisers & Conning Towers: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol)15:16Closing with destroyers after their torpedo attackChapter
- Scout Cruisers & Conning Towers: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol)30:45A firing solution depends on position as well as rangeNotable Point
- Scout Cruisers & Conning Towers: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol)33:21Where the simulation overstates destroyer durability and long-range fireNotable Point
- Adventure (1904) Class: Scout Cruisers (Long Patrol)12:31Adventure's design: speed, range and gunsNotable Point
- Adventure (1904) Class: Scout Cruisers (Long Patrol)38:14Attentive returns to flotilla leadership after repairChapter
- Patreon 43: "Unverified stories of Norwegian Campaign: Tall Tales of Tribals"1:48:04How fixed underwater torpedo tubes were aimedQ&A
- Patreon 43: "Unverified stories of Norwegian Campaign: Tall Tales of Tribals"2:04:07Why a battlecruiser might keep smaller guns to preserve speedQ&A
- Patreon 43: "Unverified stories of Norwegian Campaign: Tall Tales of Tribals"2:16:47Why cruiser-calibre guns did not make a better destroyerNotable Point
- Patreon 43: "Unverified stories of Norwegian Campaign: Tall Tales of Tribals"2:26:11Cossack's local-control gunnery at NarvikNotable Point
- Patreon 43: "Unverified stories of Norwegian Campaign: Tall Tales of Tribals"2:28:32What the Tribal destroyers were built to doNotable Point
- Patreon 43: "Unverified stories of Norwegian Campaign: Tall Tales of Tribals"2:46:24The 4.5-inch upper-deck mount the Tribals arrived too early to receiveQ&A
- The Imperial Russian Navy between the Russo-Japanese War & WWI: Long Patrol57:42The Russian triple-turret dreadnought layoutNotable Point
- Patreon 42: "Recovering from Disaster: The Imperial Russian Navy between Russo-Japanese War & WW1."28:47Why gun totals misread the coming battle at TsushimaNotable Point
- Bruships 67: Cruising on through with Questions & Bru7:30An updated HMS Tiger as a cruiser hunterQ&A
- Bruships 67: Cruising on through with Questions & Bru19:29Royal Navy cruiser designs worth reconsideringQ&A
- Bruships 67: Cruising on through with Questions & Bru25:46What makes a four-quadruple-turret battleship superQ&A
- Bruships 67: Cruising on through with Questions & Bru40:04A Second World War King George V at JutlandQ&A
- Bruships 67: Cruising on through with Questions & Bru1:49:25What HMS Vanguard changes in a fight with BismarckQ&A
- Bruships 67: Cruising on through with Questions & Bru2:21:00How Britain might use a rediscovered set of 18-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships 67: Cruising on through with Questions & Bru2:30:35Could a 20-inch-gun ship exhaust its main battery?Q&A
- Bruships 67: Cruising on through with Questions & Bru2:35:24Why armies did not simply adopt naval gun calibresQ&A
- Bruships 67: Cruising on through with Questions & Bru2:47:10Why warships rarely fire merely to announce their presenceQ&A
- Bruships 67: Cruising on through with Questions & Bru2:48:15Could early fire control use 20-inch guns?Q&A
- Bruships 67: Cruising on through with Questions & Bru3:23:33How 16,000-ton 9-inch cruisers could change DunkerqueQ&A
- Bruships 67: Cruising on through with Questions & Bru3:38:22What a completed Hood refit might improveQ&A
- The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Long Patrol)39:01How expected opponents determine cruiser armamentNotable Point
- The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Live)1:12:19What calibre could penetrate Deutschland?Q&A
- The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Live)2:07:13Were Arethusa and Dido designed for the same role?Q&A
- The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Live)2:12:24Deleting a turret also deletes a large crew burdenNotable Point
- The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Live)2:15:44Did six-inch gun performance vary by navy?Q&A
- The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Live)2:25:04What would a British counterpart to Alaska look like?Q&A
- Nautilus class (Kaiserliche Marine): Long Patrol8:31Machinery, armament, and the 186-mine loadChapter
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (10)40:59The limited protection available to exposed gun crewsQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (10)1:55:27A Jutland counterfactual built around command skillsQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (10)2:22:25Gun calibre does not define a battlecruiserNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (10)2:52:05How Britain and America might answer early Yamato plansQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (10)3:49:35Why battleship guns encounter a practical ceilingQ&A
- Quirky Classes and What they tell us about their navies… (Long Patrol)1:28Faà di Bruno and the value of an ugly monitorNotable Point
- Quirky Classes and What they tell us about their navies… (Long Patrol)4:15Operation Grog and shallow-water survival at GenoaNotable Point
- Quirky Classes and What they tell us about their navies… (Long Patrol)14:47Lexington's eight-inch guns and the changing carrier roleChapter
- Quirky Classes and What they tell us about their navies… (Long Patrol)20:30Surcouf and the cost of a submarine gunNotable Point
- Quirky Classes and What they tell us about their navies… (Live)13:53Faà di Bruno: a floating 15-inch batteryChapter
- Quirky Classes and What they tell us about their navies… (Live)42:31Why did navies experiment with cruiser submarines?Q&A
- Quirky Classes and What they tell us about their navies… (Live)43:20Could Lexington's 8-inch guns serve as anti-aircraft weapons?Q&A
- Quirky Classes and What they tell us about their navies… (Live)45:51Why smaller dual-purpose guns suited carriers betterQ&A
- Quirky Classes and What they tell us about their navies… (Live)55:09Surcouf's gun submarine compromisesChapter
- Quirky Classes and What they tell us about their navies… (Live)1:05:31Could Surcouf rotate and use her heavy-gun turret?Q&A
- Quirky Classes and What they tell us about their navies… (Live)1:12:26How quickly could an ordinary submarine deck gun open fire?Q&A
- Quirky Classes and What they tell us about their navies… (Live)1:13:10Four-inch versus six-inch submarine deck gunsQ&A
- Quirky Classes and What they tell us about their navies… (Live)1:22:13Would 8-inch guns have made Deutschland a better cruiser?Q&A
- County Cruisers P2: The Kent Class Continued38:07Cumberland’s second life as a trials shipNotable Point
- County Cruisers P2: The Kent Class Continued43:18Berwick under Italian fire in Operation CollarNotable Point
- Bruships 65: Naval History Books & Questions Answered27:19A 9.2-inch cruiser for the Great LakesQ&A
- Bruships 65: Naval History Books & Questions Answered56:44How the Daring gun would have appeared on the Malta classQ&A
- Bruships 65: Naval History Books & Questions Answered1:36:15Vickers' imagined twelve-gun fast battleshipQ&A
- Bruships 65: Naval History Books & Questions Answered1:44:36The Royal Navy's early triple-turret programmeQ&A
- Bruships 65: Naval History Books & Questions Answered1:55:11The case for modern twin naval gun mountsQ&A
- Bruships 65: Naval History Books & Questions Answered2:05:59Why more guns per turret can reduce practical fighting valueQ&A
- Bruships 65: Naval History Books & Questions Answered2:36:23The unrealized potential of the Mark 71 eight-inch gunQ&A
- Bruships 65: Naval History Books & Questions Answered2:54:36A nine-gun modernization for Renown and RepulseQ&A
- A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (The Battle Cruiser Permutation)12:50Six guns versus the historical nineNotable Point
- A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (The Battle Cruiser Permutation)17:36Speed and firepower against heavy cruisersNotable Point
- A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (The Battle Cruiser Permutation)36:43Presence, capability, and broadside superiorityNotable Point
- A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Comment Response)1:26Testing a triple-turret Orion conceptChapter
- A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Comment Response)8:06Why all-forward gun arrangements appealedQ&A
- A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Comment Response)40:17The muzzle-blast problem in triple turretsQ&A
- A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Comment Response)45:12Following the Vickers trail to Barrow-in-FurnessQ&A
- A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Comment Response)46:00Could a Vickers 14-inch turret take Royal Navy 13.5-inch guns?Q&A
- A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Comment Response)47:24Could early triple-turret ships be re-gunned later?Q&A
- A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Comment Response)48:47Redundancy versus compact triple mountsQ&A
- A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Long Patrol)0:27A possible 1909 triple-gun turretChapter
- A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Long Patrol)1:58Where a triple turret might fit in super-dreadnought designNotable Point
- A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Long Patrol)6:26Three triple turrets and the speed trade-offChapter
- A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Long Patrol)10:37Turret production as fleet-level firepowerNotable Point
- A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Long Patrol)16:00Armament and fire-control choices behind the conceptNotable Point
- A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Long Patrol)17:29The vulnerability cost of fewer, larger turretsChapter
- A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Long Patrol)19:29All-forward guns and the Jutland torpedo problemNotable Point
- A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Long Patrol)24:13Alternative triple- and twin-turret batteriesNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (9)24:08Which aircraft carriers were equipped for a surface gunfight?Q&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (9)39:29Why naval gun barrels are harder than giant riflesQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (9)54:43Nuclear shells for the Des Moines classQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (9)1:14:18An immunity zone is not invulnerabilityQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (9)1:15:41Designing a 22,000-ton treaty armoured cruiserQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (9)1:18:54Why a replacement carrier can be built faster than a battleshipQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (9)1:21:06Completing Hood's turn changes probability, not certaintyQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (9)1:41:16Why the E-class did not receive a new main batteryQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (9)1:51:46Why the 4.5-inch gun made a better dual-purpose weaponQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (9)2:13:38Triple turrets could become standard after DreadnoughtQ&A
- M29 Class (M33 special, Ep2/2) - Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol Part 929:46Shell hoists and cordite completed the ammunition chainNotable Point
- M29 Class (M33 special, Ep2/2) - Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol Part 934:16Six-inch firepower at close rangeNotable Point
- M29 Class (M33 special, Ep1/2) - Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol Part 912:47Abercrombie-class monitors: 14-inch guns close inshoreNotable Point
- M29 Class (M33 special, Ep1/2) - Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol Part 915:45Lord Clive class and the logic of monitor accuracyNotable Point
- Bruships 64: Naval History & Sci-fi Books reviewed and Questions answered...28:49Roberts-class torpedo bulges and gun-platform stabilityQ&A
- Bruships 64: Naval History & Sci-fi Books reviewed and Questions answered...1:29:43The King George V class problem was the quadruple mountQ&A
- Bruships 64: Naval History & Sci-fi Books reviewed and Questions answered...1:53:32Estimating casualties from Hood's first hitQ&A
- Bruships 64: Naval History & Sci-fi Books reviewed and Questions answered...2:33:06The theoretical immunity zone between Hood and BismarckQ&A
- Bruships 64: Naval History & Sci-fi Books reviewed and Questions answered...2:56:16How ship identification distorted range at the River PlateQ&A
- How was British Night Fighting Doctrine developed for and then practiced during WWII? (Long Patrol)53:31Illumination without becoming the targetNotable Point
- How was British Night Fighting Doctrine developed for and then practiced during WWII? (Long Patrol)1:17:25Closing on Scharnhorst at North CapeNotable Point
- Roberts Class - Naval Fire Support of the WWI (WWII) Western Front: Long Patrol Part 83:02A purpose-built platform for two 15-inch gunsChapter
- Roberts Class - Naval Fire Support of the WWI (WWII) Western Front: Long Patrol Part 86:57Precision fire from a single familiar turretNotable Point
- Roberts Class - Naval Fire Support of the WWI (WWII) Western Front: Long Patrol Part 820:06How older turrets and barrels reached the Roberts classChapter
- Roberts Class - Naval Fire Support of the WWI (WWII) Western Front: Long Patrol Part 825:34Concentrating battleship-scale support on two gunsChapter
- 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
- Patreon 40: How was British Night Fighting Doctrine developed for and then practiced during WWII6:05Why early night actions closed to spar rangeNotable Point
- Patreon 40: How was British Night Fighting Doctrine developed for and then practiced during WWII16:59Why early heat detection offered limited warning at seaQ&A
- Patreon 40: How was British Night Fighting Doctrine developed for and then practiced during WWII1:02:12Jellicoe wanted illumination without advertising the firing shipChapter
- Patreon 40: How was British Night Fighting Doctrine developed for and then practiced during WWII1:54:26Nelson and Rodney as close-range night-fighting shipsChapter
- Patreon 40: How was British Night Fighting Doctrine developed for and then practiced during WWII2:15:12Type 281 made radar a more usable fleet toolNotable Point
- Patreon 40: How was British Night Fighting Doctrine developed for and then practiced during WWII2:32:05Early radar did not make a night duel with Bismarck the safer choiceQ&A
- Take 2: Pearl Harbour – A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do? (Live)2:16:56Warspite and Tribals would need a night ambushQ&A
- Tribals, Battles & Darings/British Trawlers & Drifters in 2 World Wars: A Book or Two To Review (36)12:05Radar, close-range gunnery, and the destruction of ScharnhorstNotable Point
- Tribals, Battles & Darings/British Trawlers & Drifters in 2 World Wars: A Book or Two To Review (36)16:23Why Fraser and Willis Lee closed before firing at nightNotable Point
- Tribals, Battles & Darings/British Trawlers & Drifters in 2 World Wars: A Book or Two To Review (36)37:30The gun-to-missile transition was not a simple replacementNotable Point
- Patreon 39:What if Courageous and Glorious had survived?14:42Fifteen-inch guns as a fleet-battle triggerNotable Point
- Patreon 39:What if Courageous and Glorious had survived?26:56The original gunship against a Deutschland-class raiderQ&A
- Patreon 39:What if Courageous and Glorious had survived?2:25:00Rodney versus YamatoQ&A
- Battle of Tassafaronga: 30th of November 1942 - Long Patrol34:18Japanese destroyers built for torpedo attackChapter
- My G3/N3 Dreadnought Battleship + Battle Cruiser = Fast Battleship Design0:57Why the G3's third turret troubles this designNotable Point
- My G3/N3 Dreadnought Battleship + Battle Cruiser = Fast Battleship Design8:39Turret arcs, armour layout, and damage resilienceNotable Point
- My G3/N3 Dreadnought Battleship + Battle Cruiser = Fast Battleship Design15:23Moving the secondary battery to test its firing arcsNotable Point
- The Sinking of HMS Rawalpindi, 23rd of November 1939; Long patrol6:11A patrol letter joins gunnery practice and family dutyNotable Point
- The Sinking of HMS Rawalpindi, 23rd of November 1939; Long patrol22:35Rawalpindi's rapid conversion and limited armamentNotable Point
- The Sinking of HMS Rawalpindi, 23rd of November 1939; Long patrol49:18Why Rawalpindi may have opened fire firstNotable Point
- The Sinking of HMS Rawalpindi, 23rd of November 1939; Long patrol52:34How battle damage stopped Rawalpindi's resistanceChapter
- Sherman's March to the Sea32:18What would Dahlgren have thought of the Iowa class?Q&A
- Trafalgar to Dreadnought: 1805-1905 Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc - Long Patrol20:40Hampton Roads and the case for turretsChapter
- Trafalgar to Dreadnought: 1805-1905 Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc - Long Patrol38:11HMS Barfleur and the limits of pre-dreadnought gunneryChapter
- Trafalgar to Dreadnought: 1805-1905 Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc - Long Patrol51:59All-big-gun marketing and practical technologyChapter
- Trafalgar to Dreadnought: 1805-1905 Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc - Long Patrol54:15Dreadnought's cumulative revolutionChapter
- Trafalgar to Dreadnought: A Century in Fifteen Ships and Battles1:41:02German battleships replace France as the planning problemChapter
- Trafalgar to Dreadnought: A Century in Fifteen Ships and Battles1:46:06Armoured cruisers point the way to DreadnoughtChapter
- Trafalgar to Dreadnought: A Century in Fifteen Ships and Battles1:56:16Dreadnought as a synthesis, not a bolt from nowhereQ&A
- Trafalgar to Dreadnought: A Century in Fifteen Ships and Battles1:58:24Which earlier ships fed Dreadnought's design?Q&A
- Trafalgar to Dreadnought: A Century in Fifteen Ships and Battles2:05:40Tsushima, long-range fire, and Dreadnought's arcsChapter
- Trafalgar to Dreadnought: A Century in Fifteen Ships and Battles2:06:54Why did Dreadnought retain wing turrets?Q&A
- Bruships 58: Some Cool Books & Naval History Chat41:01Willis Lee and a better-trained battlecruiser force at JutlandQ&A
- Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs ago After the Storm): Long Patrol1:22:36Gunnery doctrine and Trafalgar's casualtiesChapter
- 'The Imperial High Seas Fleet: Tarkin replaces Tirpitz...': Patreon 36 Introductory Long Patrol17:31Translating Tarkin's priorities into German ship designNotable Point
- 'The Imperial High Seas Fleet: Tarkin replaces Tirpitz...': Patreon 36 Introductory Long Patrol18:42Fisher's doctrine prizes fighting efficiencyChapter
- 'The Imperial High Seas Fleet: Tarkin replaces Tirpitz...': Patreon 36 Introductory Long Patrol22:56German 12-inch guns provoke a British 14-inch answerChapter
- 'The Imperial High Seas Fleet: Tarkin replaces Tirpitz...': Patreon 36 Introductory Long Patrol27:00Counterfactual history as a way to test decisionsNotable Point
- 'The Imperial High Seas Fleet: Tarkin replaces Tirpitz...': Patreon 36 Introductory Long Patrol31:42Bendemann's heavier guns reveal real fiscal optionsNotable Point
- Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs Ago to the Day)1:06:31How Santisima Trinidad's 140 guns compared with a 74Q&A
- Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs Ago to the Day)1:19:21Why twenty-eight-gun sixth rates disappeared from the totalsQ&A
- Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs Ago to the Day)2:13:20What steel warships would change at TrafalgarQ&A
- Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs Ago to the Day)3:07:16Could Nelson's fleet fight at Lissa?Q&A
- Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs Ago to the Day)3:07:38Why explosive shells took time to reach warshipsQ&A
- Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs Ago to the Day)3:11:19Choosing one modern ship to fight TrafalgarQ&A
- Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs Ago to the Day)3:13:37Why hull fire caused heavy crew lossesQ&A
- Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs Ago to the Day)3:16:17Collingwood breaks the line at Santa AnaChapter
- Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs Ago to the Day)3:23:24How the British concentrated force in the centreNotable Point
- Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs Ago to the Day)3:28:19Why Collingwood opened with solid double shotNotable Point
- Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs Ago to the Day)3:34:51The casualty gap behind the victoryNotable Point
- Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs Ago to the Day)3:47:34Modern firepower against the Trafalgar fleetQ&A
- Trafalgar Campaign (Long Patrol) p5: The Battle of Trafalgar and Campaign’s Conclusion10:51Phoenix's disguise masks an unequal frigate fightNotable Point
- Trafalgar Campaign (Long Patrol) p5: The Battle of Trafalgar and Campaign’s Conclusion12:46HMS Phoenix captures Didon and her dispatchesChapter
- Trafalgar Campaign (Long Patrol) p5: The Battle of Trafalgar and Campaign’s Conclusion33:38HMS Africa's battle damage, guns, and enduranceNotable Point
- Trafalgar Campaign (Long Patrol) p5: The Battle of Trafalgar and Campaign’s Conclusion41:09French design and British fighting enduranceNotable Point
- Admiral John Arbuthnot 'Jackie' Fisher: Long Patrol18:28Gunnery, torpedoes, and the creation of HMS VernonChapter
- Admiral John Arbuthnot 'Jackie' Fisher: Long Patrol1:22:55Dreadnought's gun and turret tradeoffsNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (8)29:15The G3's efficient but restricted after turretChapter
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (8)1:14:37Electrical power as a hidden naval advantage before World War IIQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (8)2:02:32Why older warships accepted cross-firing turretsQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (8)2:41:30How an earlier British 14-inch gun could have reshaped the dreadnought raceQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (8)3:01:38Why equal-calibre army and naval guns may not share ammunitionNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (8)3:14:06Could twin naval gun mounts help against hypersonic threats?Q&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (8)4:38:14The unbuilt dreadnought armoured cruiser alternativeQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (8)4:46:00Why British planners considered 14-inch battleship gunsQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (8)4:49:44Why Germany preferred 8.3-inch guns to a 9.4-inch armoured-cruiser weaponQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (8)4:52:54Why the British calibre became 9.2 inches rather than 9 inchesQ&A
- Battle of Kentish Knock (8th of October 1652)1:15:18When did boarding become impractical?Q&A
- Battle of Kentish Knock (8th of October 1652)1:49:49VOC ships filled a dangerous Dutch gapNotable Point
- Battle of Kentish Knock (8th of October 1652)1:56:21Great ships, merchant auxiliaries, and captured hullsChapter
- Battle of Kentish Knock (8th of October 1652)2:22:21Numbers, trained crews, and the weather gaugeChapter
- Battle of Kentish Knock (8th of October 1652)2:28:36What cannon were the fleets using?Q&A
- Battle of Kentish Knock (8th of October 1652)2:38:27Kentish Knock: damage, grounding, and a collapsing Dutch forceChapter
- Battle of Kentish Knock (8th of October 1652)3:12:24The Gabbard turns disciplined gunnery into blockadeChapter
- Battle of Kentish Knock (8th of October 1652)3:31:32Would a modern warship need its main battery against wooden ships?Q&A
- Battle of Kentish Knock: Long Patrol37:18Kentish Knock: grounding, gunnery, and rescueChapter
- Erebus Class: Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front Long Patrol Part 83:10A monitor designed around two 15-inch gunsNotable Point
- Erebus Class: Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front Long Patrol Part 86:44Erebus: protection and interwar gunnery workChapter
- Erebus Class: Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front Long Patrol Part 819:29Terror's changing secondary armamentNotable Point
- Erebus Class: Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front Long Patrol Part 825:39From gunnery trials to a floating Singapore batteryChapter
- Erebus Class: Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front Long Patrol Part 829:38Terror trains Singapore's shore batteriesNotable Point
- Erebus Class: Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front Long Patrol Part 830:49Worn 15-inch guns and the danger of reduced chargesNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7)29:30The Vickers 14-inch gun and treaty politicsQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7)55:44The logistical case for a common British 15-inch/45 gunNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7)56:52Could Kongo use British 14-inch ammunition?Q&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7)1:27:50South Dakota versus Richelieu as treaty battleshipsQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7)3:04:50How an 18-inch Agincourt could reshape treaty limitsQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7)3:10:10Why a 20-inch naval gun reaches the practical limitQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7)3:37:22Gun-launched missiles and a modern battleship-like hullNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7)5:00:09Why 9.2-inch guns had a useful rate-of-fire nicheQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7)5:05:58The Cleveland class's 6-inch and 5-inch battery mixQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7)5:20:42How autoloading transformed the US 8-inch gunNotable Point
- Favourite Dreadnoughts – Battleships & Battle Cruisers…2:11HMS Dreadnought versus USS AlaskaQ&A
- Favourite Dreadnoughts – Battleships & Battle Cruisers…26:43Rebuilding dormant battleship-scale industryQ&A
- Favourite Dreadnoughts – Battleships & Battle Cruisers…34:25Why early dreadnoughts often preferred twin turretsQ&A
- Favourite Dreadnoughts – Battleships & Battle Cruisers…41:48Could railguns bring back armoured gunships?Q&A
- Favourite Dreadnoughts – Battleships & Battle Cruisers…1:18:35Why 18 inches approaches the practical limit for battleship gunsQ&A
- Favourite Dreadnoughts – Battleships & Battle Cruisers…1:20:53Why Yamato was not designed to fight two IowasQ&A
- Favourite Dreadnoughts – Battleships & Battle Cruisers…1:31:42North Carolina class as all-round World War II warshipsNotable Point
- Favourite Dreadnoughts – Battleships & Battle Cruisers…1:42:20Renown's encounter with Scharnhorst and GneisenauQ&A
- Favourite Dreadnoughts – Battleships & Battle Cruisers…1:55:00Iowa class at the end of the fast-battleship lineChapter
- Favourite Dreadnoughts – Battleships & Battle Cruisers…2:28:35Tillman IV versus YamatoQ&A
- Favourite Dreadnoughts – Battleships & Battle Cruisers…3:08:04How Prince of Wales's readiness might have affected Hood's last battleQ&A
- Dreadnoughts that Almost Were of the WWI Era...38:21Why capital-ship magazines are separated from machineryQ&A
- Dreadnoughts that Almost Were of the WWI Era...1:13:53Why the Argencourt concept uses 18-inch/45 gunsQ&A
- Dreadnoughts that Almost Were of the WWI Era...1:21:02Why Britain might accept a lighter 18-inch shellQ&A
- Dreadnoughts that Almost Were of the WWI Era...1:24:13Why 20-inch naval guns run into hard limitsNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts that Almost Were of the WWI Era...1:29:08Why six main guns can still support accurate gunneryQ&A
- Dreadnoughts that Almost Were of the WWI Era...1:49:34Earlier 16-inch guns could redefine DreadnoughtQ&A
- Dreadnoughts that Almost Were of the WWI Era...1:57:01G3: engineering elegance versus fighting arcsQ&A
- Dreadnoughts that Almost Were of the WWI Era...2:06:17Larger guns demand heavier mount machineryQ&A
- Dreadnoughts that Almost Were of the WWI Era...2:09:53Argencourt's proposed secondary battery and refitQ&A
- Dreadnoughts (Commissioned Ships 1905-55)12:54Why centreline and superfiring turrets matteredNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts (Commissioned Ships 1905-55)19:41Why wing turrets became a difficult compromiseQ&A
- Dreadnoughts (Commissioned Ships 1905-55)24:10How long-range salvo fire changed battleship designNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts (Commissioned Ships 1905-55)31:34Why Kawachi's twelve 12-inch guns were not uniformNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts (Commissioned Ships 1905-55)48:57How a 14-inch choice might have changed British gun developmentNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts (Commissioned Ships 1905-55)1:17:16Queen Elizabeth speed, firepower, and production limitsNotable Point
- Patreon 34: Inter-war Naval Aircraft Development - what could have been?4:06:15How a nine-gun battleship could fire alternating half-salvosQ&A
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies – Comment Response 1/418:43What a first Panzerschiff could teach designersQ&A
- Patreon 33: Amphibious ship development from 1980's to modern day.3:28:05A deck gun compromises a modern submarine's main defenceQ&A
- Patreon 33: Amphibious ship development from 1980's to modern day.3:50:41Rate of fire matters in a Tribal-Fletcher gun comparisonQ&A
- Victims of the Kantai Kessen: Japanese Cruisers of the 1920s & 1930s (Long Patrol / Patreon 32)41:10Takao class firepower and forward-arc trade-offsNotable Point
- Victims of the Kantai Kessen: Japanese Cruisers of the 1920s & 1930s (Long Patrol / Patreon 32)1:04:00A quadruple-turret cruiser counterfactualNotable Point
- Patreon 32: Japanese heavy cruisers of the 1920s & 1930s, were they worth it?19:09Armoured cruisers and the logic of long-range fireQ&A
- Patreon 32: Japanese heavy cruisers of the 1920s & 1930s, were they worth it?25:16Why Kawachi and Settsu mixed 12-inch gun lengthsQ&A
- Patreon 32: Japanese heavy cruisers of the 1920s & 1930s, were they worth it?1:00:01Why Furutaka began with six single gunhousesQ&A
- Patreon 32: Japanese heavy cruisers of the 1920s & 1930s, were they worth it?1:20:16Myoko's gun layout and the problem of firing arcsNotable Point
- Patreon 32: Japanese heavy cruisers of the 1920s & 1930s, were they worth it?1:42:42Five turrets did not mean five effective target channelsQ&A
- Patreon 32: Japanese heavy cruisers of the 1920s & 1930s, were they worth it?1:43:06Would triple 8-inch turrets require a wider hull?Q&A
- Patreon 32: Japanese heavy cruisers of the 1920s & 1930s, were they worth it?1:43:49Why Japan replaced 7.9-inch guns with 8-inch gunsQ&A
- Patreon 32: Japanese heavy cruisers of the 1920s & 1930s, were they worth it?2:41:27Why 3-inch guns offered a useful anti-aircraft compromiseQ&A
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P13/14: Mitsumasa Yonai3:50Technical judgement across a naval careerNotable Point
- Bruships 56: "Walking Softly & Carrying a Big Stick" - Admirals, Diplomacy & Detterence2:31:36Crossing the T trades target geometry for broadside weightQ&A
- Bruships 56: "Walking Softly & Carrying a Big Stick" - Admirals, Diplomacy & Detterence3:32:24Two-inch gun-calibre steps could produce a 16-inch Queen Elizabeth classQ&A
- Bruships 56: "Walking Softly & Carrying a Big Stick" - Admirals, Diplomacy & Detterence4:06:20How naval guns handle fore-and-aft firingQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (6)39:40Hood and the possibility of 18-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (6)56:56What the short 18-inch gun on Furious may implyNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (6)1:01:50A British answer to Tillman battleshipsQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (6)1:37:23What a modern twin 8-inch turret could deliverQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (6)1:59:53Why Ticonderoga did not receive the 8-inch Mark 71Q&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (6)2:10:19Hood versus Lexington in a battlecruiser duelQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (6)2:16:42Can large-calibre gunfire saturate modern defences?Q&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (6)3:21:03Could Hood have fired a torpedo at Denmark Strait?Q&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (6)3:42:45A Second World War Tribal against SMS EmdenQ&A
- Shipbuilding through the 1880s-1950s15:01Why Archer carried sponson-mounted gunsQ&A
- Shipbuilding through the 1880s-1950s16:47Choosing guns against torpedo boatsQ&A
- Shipbuilding through the 1880s-1950s52:34Why cruisers favoured 9.2-inch gunsQ&A
- Shipbuilding through the 1880s-1950s1:01:22Why wartime cruiser plans returned to 9.2-inch gunsQ&A
- Shipbuilding through the 1880s-1950s2:15:21What earlier 4.5-inch guns could have changedNotable Point
- Shipbuilding through the 1880s-1950s2:35:36Preparing gun upgrades under treaty limitsQ&A
- Shipbuilding through the 1880s-1950s2:56:24The recurring case for naval gunsChapter
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 7/11 The Roaring Twenties11:33Nelson's all-forward turret layoutNotable Point
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 4/11 What Dreadnought Obscures2:31Minas Geraes: armour and turret layoutNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (5)50:56Tribal-class destroyers and illumination by fireNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (5)1:08:06Agincourt and the case for a distinctive armamentQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (5)1:54:20Why warships retain main guns aftQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (5)2:33:28Why wartime anti-aircraft fits varied ship by shipQ&A
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 3/11 Pre-Dreadnought Cruisers3:32A more coherent 9.2-inch cruiserNotable Point
- Age of Sail Ship of the Line/Frigate Primer – what Rate am I looking at?6:47Chain, round, and grape shot as a tactical sequenceNotable Point
- Age of Sail Ship of the Line/Frigate Primer – what Rate am I looking at?32:02Pounder guns and muzzle-loading practiceChapter
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (4)1:07:13The theoretical velocity of a railgun-launched heavy shellQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (4)1:08:21A British 14-inch step before the warQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (4)1:53:12Why a 14-inch Scharnhorst is not a simple optionQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (4)1:55:38The case for the King George V class's 14-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (4)2:03:29Reliable British shells at JutlandQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (4)2:14:25How quickly a 16-inch naval gun can fireQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (4)2:46:18Revolver mechanisms for rapid-fire naval gunsQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (4)3:10:18Preserving German naval-gun expertise after VersaillesQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (4)3:20:33King George V inside Washington's immunity zoneQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (4)3:24:41F3 battleships and a standardized 15-inch fleetQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (4)3:45:02What spotting aircraft could sense from heavy shellsQ&A
- Battle of the Atlantic: Escort Procurement - Comment Response47:49The Flower-class mast was changed for naval serviceQ&A
- Bruships 55: New Books11:45Why different shipboard jobs expose crews to different stressesNotable Point
- Bruships 55: New Books24:28Gun crews, control, and the trauma of losing comradesQ&A
- Bruships 55: New Books32:08Moving casualties through a warshipQ&A
- Bruships 55: New Books2:13:35Comparing the King George V class's 14-inch gunsQ&A
- Japanese Hybrids: Teaser for Today's Patreon Live1:54Ise and Hyuga before the carrier conversionNotable Point
- Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas (Non-Churchill) – The Comment Questions...1:39:09Surcouf's guns against a Tribal-class destroyerQ&A
- Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas (Non-Churchill) – The Comment Questions...1:43:27A convoy screen offered the wrong targets for big-gun submarinesNotable Point
- Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas (Non-Churchill) – The Comment Questions...1:54:43Why artillery submarines were poor shore-bombardment shipsQ&A
- Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas (Non-Churchill) – The Comment Questions...1:56:53Civil War ramming worked only in restricted circumstancesNotable Point
- Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas (Churchill WWI) – The Comment Questions23:19Shell quality, acceptance, and live firingQ&A
- Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas (Churchill WWI) – The Comment Questions24:25The R class in the battle line and the global fleetQ&A
- Steam Rams: Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p6/71:53Why ancient ramming does not translateNotable Point
- Steam Rams: Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p6/77:42Ramming invites the enemy to cross the TChapter
- Cruiser Submarine: Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p5/73:21Convoys undercut gun-armed raidersNotable Point
- Cruiser Submarine: Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p5/74:20A cruiser submarine's odds against escort gunsChapter
- Cruiser Submarine: Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p5/75:49Why a larger gun did not guarantee a longer engagement rangeNotable Point
- Patreon 29: Coastal Defence Ships6:11Coastal defence ships as armor-firepower deterrentsChapter
- Patreon 29: Coastal Defence Ships9:12Does Scharnhorst belong on the armor-and-speed side of warship design?Q&A
- Patreon 29: Coastal Defence Ships16:46USS Monitor as an early coastal-defence exampleNotable Point
- Patreon 29: Coastal Defence Ships22:19How small could a ship carrying the Schwerer Gustav gun be?Q&A
- Patreon 29: Coastal Defence Ships31:44Argentina's Libertad class and cruiser deterrenceNotable Point
- Patreon 29: Coastal Defence Ships36:48How did shallow draft limit a coastal ship's guns?Q&A
- Patreon 29: Coastal Defence Ships39:33Monarch-class ships and concentrated local punchNotable Point
- Patreon 29: Coastal Defence Ships46:31Brazil's Deodoro class and the road to dreadnoughtsNotable Point
- Patreon 29: Coastal Defence Ships1:01:34The Herluf Trolle class and Danish armed neutralityNotable Point
- Patreon 29: Coastal Defence Ships1:11:48Finland's Vainamoinen class and archipelago firepowerNotable Point
- Patreon 29: Coastal Defence Ships1:18:45Where is the line between a monitor and a coastal-defence ship?Q&A
- Patreon 29: Coastal Defence Ships1:23:00Bouvines and the French coastal-battleship ideaNotable Point
- Patreon 29: Coastal Defence Ships1:31:51Germany's Odin class and the persistence of ramming doctrineNotable Point
- Patreon 29: Coastal Defence Ships2:01:46Why missiles complicate the modern coastal-defence shipChapter
- Patreon 29: Coastal Defence Ships2:38:58Swedish Sverige-class ships and Baltic defenceNotable Point
- Patreon 29: Coastal Defence Ships3:22:26What was the smallest gun that could threaten Scharnhorst?Q&A
- Battle of Lissa 1866: Long Patrol34:39Italy's paper gunnery advantage never deploysNotable Point
- Battle of Lissa 1866: Long Patrol35:20Tegetthoff breaks the Italian lineChapter
- Battle of Lissa 1866: Long Patrol41:34The ramming melee sinks Re d'ItaliaChapter
- Battle of Lissa 1866: Long Patrol52:04Lissa's ramming and forward-fire legacyNotable Point
- Bruships 53: The Big Gun Era... Questions8:04The big-gun era as a study frameChapter
- Bruships 53: The Big Gun Era... Questions8:55Agincourt as a fast 18-inch-gun possibilityQ&A
- Bruships 53: The Big Gun Era... Questions15:02Favorite big-gun counterfactualQ&A
- Bruships 53: The Big Gun Era... Questions28:00Modern battleship shells would be guided weaponsQ&A
- Bruships 53: The Big Gun Era... Questions29:05How naval gun caliber describes diameter and barrel lengthQ&A
- Bruships 53: The Big Gun Era... Questions32:56Enemy ships set the harder requirement for naval gunsQ&A
- Bruships 53: The Big Gun Era... Questions33:23A fast Agincourt would likely carry twin six-inch secondariesQ&A
- Bruships 53: The Big Gun Era... Questions34:17Could an autoloader explain Agincourt's design mystery?Q&A
- Bruships 53: The Big Gun Era... Questions36:59Estimating naval shell weightQ&A
- Bruships 53: The Big Gun Era... Questions42:07Eighteen-inch guns push capital ships toward battlecruiser logicQ&A
- Bruships 53: The Big Gun Era... Questions44:19A 31-inch gun becomes an ammunition-handling problemQ&A
- Bruships 53: The Big Gun Era... Questions47:36World War I accelerated fire-control experienceQ&A
- Bruships 53: The Big Gun Era... Questions47:59Why the US Navy chose super-heavy 16-inch shellsQ&A
- Bruships 53: The Big Gun Era... Questions50:53Thirteen battleship salvos could equal a destroyer's massNotable Point
- Bruships 53: The Big Gun Era... Questions52:35Why battleship rate of fire is a machinery problemNotable Point
- Bruships 53: The Big Gun Era... Questions59:54How a battleship's main battery was fired electricallyQ&A
- Bruships 53: The Big Gun Era... Questions1:03:49French quadruple turret tradeoffsQ&A
- Bruships 53: The Big Gun Era... Questions1:05:50Tillman battleships versus fleet productionQ&A
- Bruships 53: The Big Gun Era... Questions1:09:44Sketching a missile-age battleship layoutQ&A
- Bruships 53: The Big Gun Era... Questions1:12:18A turret fire makes loaded ammunition the immediate hazardQ&A
- Bruships 53: The Big Gun Era... Questions1:14:10Quick-firing guns disable ships; battleship guns can destroy themQ&A
- Bruships 53: The Big Gun Era... Questions1:23:24Why main and secondary batteries corrected fire differentlyQ&A
- Bruships 53: The Big Gun Era... Questions1:26:04From the Dumaresq to reliable fire-control tablesQ&A
- Bruships 53: The Big Gun Era... Questions1:30:17Autoloaders were studied for later Lion designsQ&A
- Bruships 53: The Big Gun Era... Questions1:32:46The G3's third turret privileged broadside fireQ&A
- Bruships 53: The Big Gun Era... Questions1:40:57A small ranging gun cannot reproduce a main battery's flightQ&A
- Bruships 53: The Big Gun Era... Questions1:43:11The logistical case for a British 15-inch/45 gunQ&A
- Bruships 53: The Big Gun Era... Questions1:43:57The US eight-inch autoloader accepted a narrower motion envelopeQ&A
- Bruships 53: The Big Gun Era... Questions1:44:46A battleship-caliber Gatling gun multiplies the wrong machineryQ&A
- Bruships 53: The Big Gun Era... Questions1:49:07A trapped warship can be hurt by tanks but still hits harderQ&A
- Bruships 53: The Big Gun Era... Questions2:02:15The 15-inch/45 could have renewed the Queen ElizabethsQ&A
- Bruships 53: The Big Gun Era... Questions2:16:59Big-gun fighting knowledge faded over decadesQ&A
- Bruships 53: The Big Gun Era... Questions2:46:29Why heavy naval guns moved into turretsQ&A
- Bruships 53: The Big Gun Era... Questions3:18:01An armored British carrier could defeat a Japanese carrier with gunsQ&A
- Bruships 53: The Big Gun Era... Questions3:58:29Why the German 1934 type was a poor destroyerQ&A
- Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail1:19:58Why carronades were omitted from nominal gun ratingsQ&A
- Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail1:33:15When long guns or carronades decided a frigate fightQ&A
- Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail1:40:54How Royal Navy frigates compared with American super-heaviesQ&A
- Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail1:49:56How gun size affected age-of-sail rate of fireQ&A
- Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail1:57:47How sailing warships kept sparks out of powder magazinesQ&A
- Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail2:06:49How Sovereign of the Seas changed gun ratingsQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (2)3:34:40How large can an automatic naval gun become?Q&A
- The Battle of the Philippine Sea: Live1:10:43Would smart guns bring armour back to warships?Q&A
- The Battle of the Philippine Sea: Live1:12:58Railguns and the return of selective warship armorQ&A
- The Battle of the Philippine Sea: Live2:30:39Why Willis Lee declined a night battleship actionChapter
- Bruships 52: A Year of Bruships - Questions & Books2:46:01Why nuclear artillery would be excessive for an IowaQ&A
- Patreon 27: Some Actions of the French Navy in WWI1:28:43Why did U.S. battleships need gunnery work with the Grand Fleet?Q&A
- Patreon 27: Some Actions of the French Navy in WWI2:46:47What is a semi-dreadnought?Q&A
- Patreon 27: Some Actions of the French Navy in WWI2:51:12Why did different turret heights matter?Q&A
- Patreon 27: Some Actions of the French Navy in WWI2:54:00Would single 12-inch wing guns have fixed the Dantons?Q&A
- Camperdown Rams Victoria: TA Communication & Command (Long Patrol)17:12Victoria's forward armament and power demandsNotable Point
- Camperdown Rams Victoria: TA Communication & Command (Long Patrol)1:38:21Tryon as a possible First Sea Lord before FisherNotable Point
- Operation Aerial: France after Dunkirk (Long Patrol)29:04Why Milbourne James prepared Portsmouth earlyNotable Point
- Bruships 51: The Age of Iron35:12Armstrong and Dahlgren gun reputationsQ&A
- Bruships 51: The Age of Iron1:44:38Eighteen-inch guns, Furious, and hypothetical modern armorQ&A
- Bruships 51: The Age of Iron1:47:14Modern armor against First World War gunsQ&A
- Bruships 51: The Age of Iron2:08:34French barbettes and tumblehome widened firing arcsNotable Point
- Bruships 51: The Age of Iron2:09:32Central batteries and en echelon gun layoutsNotable Point
- Bruships 51: The Age of Iron3:53:43Why Warrior's Armstrong breech-loaders struggledQ&A
- Patreon 25: History of East India Company Merchantmen and differences to Ship of the line.28:16Škoda supplied the Tegetthoff class's guns and turretsNotable Point
- Patreon 25: History of East India Company Merchantmen and differences to Ship of the line.1:03:05Why buy good guns for merchant ships?Q&A
- Patreon 25: History of East India Company Merchantmen and differences to Ship of the line.1:18:19What guns belonged on an equal-sized warship's lower deck?Q&A
- Patreon 25: History of East India Company Merchantmen and differences to Ship of the line.1:25:55Warley's letters of marque and convoy firepowerNotable Point
- Patreon 25: History of East India Company Merchantmen and differences to Ship of the line.2:41:29When could a merchantman defeat a warship?Q&A
- A Book or Two to Review (1): Favourite of Fortune12:05Amazon trains sails and guns before convoy dutyNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (1): Favourite of Fortune19:22Parker, Nelson, and Amazon prepare for CopenhagenChapter
- Bruships 50: A D-Day special with Questions & some New Books from Pen & Sword11:20Why six-inch cruisers suited D-Day fire supportQ&A
- Bruships 50: A D-Day special with Questions & some New Books from Pen & Sword25:05Where naval shore bombardment had its greatest effectQ&A
- Bruships 50: A D-Day special with Questions & some New Books from Pen & Sword1:22:02What battleship guns could do that destroyer guns could notQ&A
- Bruships 50: A D-Day special with Questions & some New Books from Pen & Sword1:22:59When the Normandy armies stopped relying on naval gunsQ&A
- Bruships 50: A D-Day special with Questions & some New Books from Pen & Sword2:52:21How well landing-craft rockets worked on D-DayQ&A
- Bruships 50: A D-Day special with Questions & some New Books from Pen & Sword3:00:53Why Normandy could not use a Pacific-style bombardmentNotable Point
- Bruships 50: A D-Day special with Questions & some New Books from Pen & Sword3:26:37Which ships supported Juno Beach - and why the list needs a caveatQ&A
- Bruships 50: A D-Day special with Questions & some New Books from Pen & Sword4:07:03Why D-Day did not need another fast battleshipQ&A
- Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol, Part 6, Gorgon Class6:00Why the Gorgon class suited coastal defenceChapter
- Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol, Part 6, Gorgon Class13:01Armament arranged for a fjord fightNotable Point
- Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol, Part 6, Gorgon Class21:00Calibrating Gorgon’s guns on German batteriesChapter
- Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol, Part 6, Gorgon Class23:00Naval fire support on the Belgian coastChapter
- Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol, Part 6, Gorgon Class26:00Reconnaissance under German coastal-battery fireNotable Point
- “Coastal Command in the 1920s & 1930s”2:19:08Battlecruisers depended on keeping the range openQ&A
- Bruships 49 Special: 'Questions on ‘Battle Cruisers’ & ‘Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14)15:03Gun-calibre increments and shell-handling constraintsQ&A
- Bruships 49 Special: 'Questions on ‘Battle Cruisers’ & ‘Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14)26:09Compatibility among 13.5-inch ammunition typesQ&A
- Bruships 49 Special: 'Questions on ‘Battle Cruisers’ & ‘Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14)32:46Turret size, working room, and stabilityQ&A
- Bruships 49 Special: 'Questions on ‘Battle Cruisers’ & ‘Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14)1:01:25Why triple 4-inch turrets did not spreadQ&A
- Bruships 49 Special: 'Questions on ‘Battle Cruisers’ & ‘Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14)1:05:08Why early dreadnoughts retained wing turretsQ&A
- Bruships 49 Special: 'Questions on ‘Battle Cruisers’ & ‘Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14)1:15:25A German jump to 14-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships 49 Special: 'Questions on ‘Battle Cruisers’ & ‘Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14)1:18:49German gun quality versus British shell weightQ&A
- Bruships 49 Special: 'Questions on ‘Battle Cruisers’ & ‘Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14)1:21:39Austro-Hungarian triple turrets as a force-design answerQ&A
- Bruships 49 Special: 'Questions on ‘Battle Cruisers’ & ‘Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14)1:25:01Armour, firepower, and Germany's outnumbered fleet problemQ&A
- Bruships 49 Special: 'Questions on ‘Battle Cruisers’ & ‘Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14)1:29:43British shell fuzes and Greenboy quality controlNotable Point
- Bruships 49 Special: 'Questions on ‘Battle Cruisers’ & ‘Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14)1:41:34When 18-inch guns make speed more valuableNotable Point
- Bruships 49 Special: 'Questions on ‘Battle Cruisers’ & ‘Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14)1:58:56Could HMS Tiger take 14-inch guns?Q&A
- Bruships 49 Special: 'Questions on ‘Battle Cruisers’ & ‘Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14)2:33:26Why Jellicoe chose Iron DukeQ&A
- Bruships 49 Special: 'Questions on ‘Battle Cruisers’ & ‘Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14)2:39:16Rearming Iron Duke with larger gunsQ&A
- Bruships 49 Special: 'Questions on ‘Battle Cruisers’ & ‘Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14)2:41:44Cradock in place of BeattyQ&A
- Bruships 49 Special: 'Questions on ‘Battle Cruisers’ & ‘Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14)2:43:21Why larger guns reduced barrel countQ&A
- Bruships 49 Special: 'Questions on ‘Battle Cruisers’ & ‘Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14)2:49:31The Francesco Caracciolo class in Atlantic serviceQ&A
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 191514:00New Mexico answers calibre with salvo weightNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 191514:35Ise and the problem of multiple targetsNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 191410:03Why 1914 was a global naval raceChapter
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 191412:01Gun and turret advances came from beyond GermanyNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 191413:46The fiscal case for larger British gunsNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 191418:20Why an 18-inch British capital ship was plausibleNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 191421:43A six-gun 18-inch capital-ship alternativeNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 19130:40HMS Tiger and the battlecruiser trade-offChapter
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 19133:02Normandie's quadruple-turret compromiseNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 19135:14Pennsylvania's twelve-gun answerChapter
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 191311:46Salamis and the limits of international supplyNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 19121:14Iron Duke as Jellicoe's flagshipChapter
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 19123:02Nevada and the American standard battleshipChapter
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 19126:09Derfflinger's uncertain return on investmentNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 19129:47Borodino's fast battleship roleChapter
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 191213:23Queen Elizabeth raises the calibre stakesChapter
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 191214:51Queen Elizabeth trades a fifth turret for speedNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 191217:20Andrea Doria and a navy built for its watersNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 191221:12A two-level global naval raceChapter
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 191222:23German gun calibre follows rather than drivesNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 191224:10Reading past the two-sided naval-race storyNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 19110:24King George V class: armour for rangeChapter
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 19114:57Agincourt's Brazilian big-gun ambitionChapter
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 19117:39Kongo's 14-inch battlecruiser logicNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 191111:54Almirante Latorre: big guns and oil-sprayed coalChapter
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 191111:54The 14-inch gun race reaches Chile and the United StatesChapter
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 191121:25Seydlitz: armour without tactical dominanceChapter
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 19100:24Why the Courbet class already looked behind the raceChapter
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 19104:51Wyoming combines a twelve-gun broadside with conservative designChapter
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 19108:39Conte di Cavour stakes an Italian claim in the MediterraneanChapter
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 191011:22Why dreadnought designers kept seeking heavier firepowerNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 191013:26Tegetthoff tailors triple turrets to the AdriaticChapter
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 191014:40Italy, Britain, and America pursue different innovation pathsNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 191020:43Tegetthoff's light guns match Adriatic threatsNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 1909 July-December4:45Orion makes the super-dreadnought leapChapter
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 1909 July-December7:50Why Britain chose 13.5-inch guns for OrionNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 1909 July-December9:20Lion turns Orion firepower into battlecruiser speedChapter
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 1909 July-December13:22German armor strength meets British caliber escalationNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 1909 July-December19:00The logistics of leaving the 12-inch gun standardNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 1909 January-June15:05Kawachi's mixed 12-inch battery complicates the dreadnought labelNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 19081:29The Danton class reveals France's dreadnought delayChapter
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 190810:25Blucher's guns keep her outside the battlecruiser categoryNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 190813:08Von der Tann trades usable gun arcs for offset turretsChapter
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 190817:38British and German battlecruisers were designed for different warsChapter
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): Part 4, Questions 1904-71:01Could the dreadnought revolution have waited until after 1945?Q&A
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): Part 4, Questions 1904-79:58Dreadnought reset the type while Britain kept its industrial leadNotable Point
- Some More Battle Cruisers7:09Battleship-calibre guns define the battlecruiser boundaryNotable Point
- Some More Battle Cruisers21:14The Borodino class edges toward fast battleshipsChapter
- Some More Battle Cruisers42:05Amagi pairs immense firepower with a torpedo liabilityChapter
- Some More Battle Cruisers45:24Lexington's turbo-electric drive pushes capital-ship technologyChapter
- Some More Battle Cruisers53:44G3 trades Lexington's speed for a ninth 16-inch gunChapter
- Some More Battle Cruisers56:30G3's forward battery limits its tactical freedomChapter
- Patreon 23: Coal, Canals, Convoys & Coastal Carrying: traffic around the British isles from 1939-451:35:33Why merchant ships carried guns aftQ&A
- William Agnew: Patreon 21, Notable Commanders, Long Patrol Part 37:45From HMS Dido to Excellent and VanguardChapter
- William Agnew: Patreon 21, Notable Commanders, Long Patrol Part 312:56Aurora and the Arethusa-class cruiser balanceNotable Point
- William Agnew: Patreon 21, Notable Commanders, Long Patrol Part 315:03Force K's night attack on the Duisburg convoyChapter
- William Agnew: Patreon 21, Notable Commanders, Long Patrol Part 324:23Vanguard's cruiser-style organization and gunneryNotable Point
- Pepsiships 47: Age of Sail39:59Why wooden splinters were lethal in battleQ&A
- Pepsiships 47: Age of Sail46:08How explosive cannonballs were fusedQ&A
- Pepsiships 47: Age of Sail2:39:43Why cruiser caliber and range decide a battlecruiser's oddsQ&A
- Pepsiships 47: Age of Sail3:20:30Why early dreadnoughts carried awkward turret layoutsQ&A
- Pepsiships 47: Age of Sail3:21:49Carrier air defense worked by breaking attacks apart in layersQ&A
- Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol, Part 5, Marshal Ney Class3:30Marshal Ney-class diesel engines undermine a powerful monitor designChapter
- Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol, Part 5, Marshal Ney Class8:18Ramillies gives up her turrets for the Marshal Ney monitorsNotable Point
- Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol, Part 5, Marshal Ney Class19:48Redoubtable proves useful in trials but awkward off the Belgian coastNotable Point
- Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol, Part 5, Marshal Ney Class23:08Dover Patrol monitors gain range but lose control in tidal watersChapter
- Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol, Part 5, Marshal Ney Class24:07Marshal Ney circles under fire from the Tirpitz batteryNotable Point
- Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol, Part 5, Marshal Ney Class27:47Marshal Soult and Marshal Ney find long second livesNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out?40:02How an earlier 14-inch gun might reshape British dreadnoughtsQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out?59:25How early US 16-inch guns accelerate the dreadnought raceQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out?1:50:07The case for a Royal Navy 9.2-inch cruiserQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out?2:07:29How battleships aimed at a moving future positionQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out?2:46:56What a 15-inch near miss does to different warshipsQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out?4:00:39How repeated high-explosive hits defeat armored shipsNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out?4:04:28Why a longer gun barrel can increase muzzle velocityQ&A
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): Part 3 190719:12North Dakota brings turbine power to the American battle lineChapter
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): Part 3 190722:51Minas Geraes brings British shipbuilding into Brazil's naval expansionChapter
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): Part 3 190724:45Turret count does not determine broadside powerNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): Part 2, 19060:49Why early dreadnought turret layouts risked their own shipsChapter
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): Part 2, 19063:10HMS Agincourt's seven centerline turretsNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): Part 2, 19068:56The Invincible class's practical six-gun broadsideChapter
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): Part 1, 19051:24Tsushima and the technology window for dreadnoughtsChapter
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): Part 1, 19053:24Rate of fire could outweigh shell weightNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): Part 1, 19054:59Why Dreadnought balanced on twelve-inch gunsNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): Part 1, 190513:48Speed and broadside fire supported crossing the TChapter
- Bruships 46: Accounts of Naval War28:20Why battleships carried six-inch secondary gunsQ&A
- Bruships 46: Accounts of Naval War1:01:26Why Jutland hit-rate totals need battle-phase contextNotable Point
- Bruships 46: Accounts of Naval War1:02:50Why six inches approached the manual-handling limitNotable Point
- Bruships 46: Accounts of Naval War1:07:54Do six-inch guns still have a place at sea?Q&A
- Bruships 46: Accounts of Naval War1:21:23How the Worcester class arranged its anti-aircraft firepowerNotable Point
- Bruships 46: Accounts of Naval War1:25:30Why modern naval guns rarely grow beyond eight inchesQ&A
- Bruships 46: Accounts of Naval War1:31:59Why Dunkirk needed both little ships and destroyersQ&A
- Bruships 46: Accounts of Naval War1:50:12Could an amphibious tank ambush a warship?Q&A
- Four Random Books 33: Liberty Ships & Depth in History21:12US surface ships move beyond the carrier-escort roleChapter
- Bruships 45: Something Medieval33:28Why was iron a plausible material for early naval shot?Q&A
- Bruships 45: Something Medieval42:17How certain is the distinction between stone shot ashore and iron at sea?Q&A
- Bruships 45: Something Medieval2:54:51Bombards, casting limits, and separate powder chambersChapter
- Bruships 45: Something Medieval2:57:35A tentative date for iron shot in early shipboard cannonQ&A
- Bruships 45: Something Medieval3:06:06Which close-in weapon combines a gun and missiles?Q&A
- Bruships 45: Something Medieval4:04:45Which close-in weapon system is best?Q&A
- Bruships 45: Something Medieval4:06:35A 76 mm gun and the preference for layered point defenceNotable Point
- Bruships 45: Something Medieval4:08:48Italian ships combine gun calibres with several missile layersNotable Point
- The Battle of the Saintes (1782): 239yrs ago... Today!1:18:27The battle lines engage on 12 AprilChapter
- The Battle of the Saintes (1782): 239yrs ago... Today!1:22:46Wind, carronades, and the chance to break throughNotable Point
- The Battle of the Saintes (1782): 239yrs ago... Today!1:47:52The deeper tactical legacy was local superiorityChapter
- The Battle of the Saintes (1782): 239yrs ago... Today!2:25:54Force H opened fire as Holland cleared the harbourChapter
- Prince Philips Navy38:16How HMS Valiant became a modernized Queen Elizabeth-class battleshipChapter
- Prince Philips Navy43:13Could 40 mm pom-poms and Bofors guns share ammunition?Q&A
- Prince Philips Navy52:30What did a battleship gain from a spotter aircraft?Q&A
- Bruships 44: Strategy2:26:23Could 1805 Britain reproduce HMS Nelson's ammunition?Q&A
- Bruships 44: Strategy3:40:17Tiger or Blake would be badly matched against General BelgranoQ&A
- Bruships 44: Strategy3:47:25The Falklands reinforced the need for a ship's gunQ&A
- Bruships 44: Strategy3:53:49Why torpedoes threaten ships differently from shellsQ&A
- Bruships 44: Strategy3:57:54Could warships return to two main guns?Q&A
- Minotaur & Tiger Class Cruisers24:12Where 7.5-inch cruisers fitQ&A
- Minotaur & Tiger Class Cruisers32:25Fitting triple turrets into existing shipsQ&A
- Minotaur & Tiger Class Cruisers1:58:16Why the Royal Navy stayed with 4.5-inch gunsQ&A
- Minotaur & Tiger Class Cruisers2:06:36Tiger traded gun numbers for automationChapter
- Minotaur & Tiger Class Cruisers2:19:25Tiger's guns destroyed an expensive target aircraftNotable Point
- Minotaur & Tiger Class Cruisers2:22:43Why Tiger kept a rapid-fire six-inch gunQ&A
- Minotaur & Tiger Class Cruisers2:31:50Tiger's automatic guns suffered stoppagesQ&A
- Minotaur & Tiger Class Cruisers2:43:30The unbuilt British missile-gun cruiserQ&A
- Patreon 20: Sino Japanese War of 1894: Fighting a modern war with feudal societies1:41:18Did the ironclad's guns damage its bridge?Q&A
- Patreon 20: Sino Japanese War of 1894: Fighting a modern war with feudal societies2:32:39The naval firepower triangleNotable Point
- Patreon 19: 2nd Tier powers Dreadnoughts: Spain, Austria-Hungary, S.America, Greece & Ottomans1:28:01Why Royal Navy calibers used decimalsQ&A
- Patreon 19: 2nd Tier powers Dreadnoughts: Spain, Austria-Hungary, S.America, Greece & Ottomans2:33:11Could Latorre use British 14-inch ammunition?Q&A
- Patreon 19: 2nd Tier powers Dreadnoughts: Spain, Austria-Hungary, S.America, Greece & Ottomans3:12:45Danton versus RadetzkyQ&A
- Four Random Books 29: Weapons of War7:53British intelligence overestimates König-class gun upgradesNotable Point
- Lend Lease Long Patrol: P4/5 Summary... was Lend Lease worth it?14:42Why specifications alone misjudge wartime equipmentNotable Point
- Bruships 41: A History of Armour & Amphibious Warfare (Kyle Hardman)3:59:08Why naval, tank, and artillery barrels are not interchangeableQ&A
- Bruships 41: A History of Armour & Amphibious Warfare (Kyle Hardman)4:19:52The case for twin 40 mm mounts on Type 31Q&A
- Lend Lease Act 80yrs on...1:19:41USS Constitution versus HMS Shannon would turn on the opening fireQ&A
- Lend Lease Act 80yrs on...3:23:56Why gun trials do not settle destroyer performanceQ&A
- Crown Colony Class Long Patrol: Part 4 Ceylon to Newfoundland2:17How technology forecasts shaped Crown Colony cruiser designChapter
- Crown Colony Class Long Patrol: Part 4 Ceylon to Newfoundland44:13Newfoundland's battle with the Egyptian frigate DomiatChapter
- Crown Colony Class Long Patrol: Part 3 Trinidad to Bermuda15:35A staged Jamaica turret photograph hides the full gun crewNotable Point
- Crown Colony Class Long Patrol: Part 1 - where did they come from19:14The Town class set the Royal Navy's cruiser benchmarkChapter
- Crown Colony Class Long Patrol: Part 1 - where did they come from24:19The 8,000-ton ceiling reshaped light cruiser designChapter
- Crown Colony Class Long Patrol: Part 1 - where did they come from48:28Crown Colony guns, torpedoes, aircraft, and wartime crewChapter
- Crown Colony Class Cruisers25:40How long had the Crown Colony six-inch battery been in development?Q&A
- Crown Colony Class Cruisers45:19Fiji and Ceylon armament comparedNotable Point
- Crown Colony Class Cruisers1:09:01How much damage could Boise's fifteen six-inch guns do?Q&A
- Crown Colony Class Cruisers1:21:04Why cruisers still needed six-inch guns as air defense grewNotable Point
- Crown Colony Class Cruisers1:55:57Larger German destroyers and the cost of slower gunfireNotable Point
- Crown Colony Class Cruisers2:08:30Why Jamaica's triple six-inch turrets were crowdedNotable Point
- Crown Colony Class Cruisers2:30:07What six-inch shells did Crown Colony cruisers carry?Q&A
- Crown Colony Class Cruisers2:49:26How tachymetric anti-aircraft fire control predicted a targetQ&A
- Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol Part 4, Lord Clive Class M10-1330:07How the Dover Patrol repaired aircraft spottingNotable Point
- Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol Part 3, Lord Clive Class M6-913:34HMS Lord Clive trains for coastal bombardmentChapter
- Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol Part 3, Lord Clive Class M6-916:19The 1915 Zeebrugge canal bombardmentNotable Point
- Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol Part 3, Lord Clive Class M6-921:00Lord Clive attempts a night engagement off DunkirkNotable Point
- Battles of Dogger Bank: Response to Comments2:55What 300 rounds from a Russian 47 mm gun could achieveQ&A
- Battles of Dogger Bank: Response to Comments20:03What casualty reports miss about HMS Arabis's gunneryNotable Point
- Bruships 38: Amphibious Operations & Equipment16:19Pepys's Navy as a guide to Restoration warshipsChapter
- Bruships 38: Amphibious Operations & Equipment20:39How Restoration gun crews prepared and aimed at seaNotable Point
- Bruships 38: Amphibious Operations & Equipment27:09Why sailing warships could not rely on fixed trajectory tablesQ&A
- Bruships 38: Amphibious Operations & Equipment2:35:55Why the Hawkins-class 7.5-inch gun disappointedQ&A
- Patreon 17 "The Royal Navy’s Strategic Role in 1980s NATO" as suggested by Joseph Sullivan2:13:48Why 40 mm can suit close defence better than 57 mmQ&A
- Patreon 17 "The Royal Navy’s Strategic Role in 1980s NATO" as suggested by Joseph Sullivan2:22:07How could 40 mm guns counter a drone-bomblet swarm?Q&A
- Patreon 17 "The Royal Navy’s Strategic Role in 1980s NATO" as suggested by Joseph Sullivan2:33:54Gun and missile tradeoffs in modern frigate fleetsQ&A
- Battles of Dogger Bank: Long Patrol P5/6 191617:16Torpedo emphasis and the missed pursuitNotable Point
- Battles of Dogger Bank: Long Patrol P4/6 191543:17A target-allocation error leaves Moltke unengagedNotable Point
- Battles of Dogger Bank: Long Patrol P4/6 191550:44German and British reviews draw opposing gunnery lessonsNotable Point
- Battles of Dogger Bank: Long Patrol P3/6 190410:53Kamchatka's wild gunfire and the Tangier cableNotable Point
- Battles of Dogger Bank: Long Patrol P2/6 178120:51Why Zoutman may have waited to open fireNotable Point
- Bruships 37: New Books & Some More Transactions of the Institute of Naval Architects1:54:38Do battleship fleet actions come down to a lucky hit?Q&A
- The Battles of Dogger Bank 1696-19161:59:10Why gun count did not guarantee Russian combat powerNotable Point
- The Battles of Dogger Bank 1696-19162:01:42What quick-firing meant before automatic loadingNotable Point
- The Battles of Dogger Bank 1696-19162:05:25Battlecruiser survivability through speed and rangeChapter
- The Battles of Dogger Bank 1696-19162:11:26HMS Lion's scale and mixed armamentNotable Point
- The Battles of Dogger Bank 1696-19162:58:06The 1915 chase begins at extreme rangeChapter
- The Battles of Dogger Bank 1696-19163:05:04Why concentrated naval fire requires practiceQ&A
- Bruships 36: International Relations58:42Graf Spee's repair needs and Uruguay's inspectionChapter
- Bruships 36: International Relations1:12:21How HMS Cumberland changed Graf Spee's breakout oddsNotable Point
- Bruships 36: International Relations3:38:15Does a lack of recent combat make a weapon obsolete?Q&A
- Bruships 36: International Relations3:38:27Why naval guns retain riflingQ&A
- Guadeloupe 1810 (Part 2 of Live)50:30How close did naval guns need to be for shore support?Q&A
- Guadeloupe 1810 (Part 2 of Live)52:06Why a fleet could bring exceptional artillery ashoreQ&A
- Invasion of Guadeloupe (1810) - The First Eagle Captured/211 yrs ago today30:05HMS Diamond Rock, the Royal Navy's stone sloopChapter
- Thomas Whitcombe: Naval Paintings Long Patrol Episode 129:28Rockets, mortars, bombs, and cannon against AlgiersNotable Point
- Bruships 34: Random History11:33British global commitments and the naval reversal in 1813Chapter
- Bruships 34: Random History25:45Bad powder and a broken gun carriage doom Gunboat No. 121Notable Point
- Bruships 34: Random History30:07Could a Clemson-class destroyer sink a wooden first rate?Q&A
- Bruships 34: Random History32:10Could USS Gearing defeat HMS Victory without torpedoes?Q&A
- Bruships 34: Random History1:19:10Would an Arethusa-class cruiser be a better choice at Narvik?Q&A
- The Great White Fleet12:48How training changed the balance between three naviesNotable Point
- The Great White Fleet1:51:30Choosing high-explosive or armour-piercing shells against raidersQ&A
- The Great White Fleet2:03:15A viewer's objection to HESH against lightly protected raidersNotable Point
- The Great White Fleet2:45:05Choosing secondary guns for aircraft or surface threatsQ&A
- The Great White Fleet2:46:52Why large quadruple turrets multiply design riskNotable Point
- The Great White Fleet2:53:10Why a heavily armed game cruiser makes an implausible real shipNotable Point
- The Great White Fleet2:56:02What could go wrong with a six-gun turret?Q&A
- The Great White Fleet2:57:30Why did the Kearsarge and Virginia classes retain double-decker turrets?Q&A
- Washington’s cherry trees: the G3 and N3 class - Patreon 15 Comments Response22:38G3 blind arcs and concentrated turret firepowerQ&A
- Washington’s cherry trees: the G3 and N3 class - Patreon 15 Comments Response25:46Why an unrestricted gun race might revive mixed batteriesQ&A
- Washington’s cherry trees: the G3 and N3 class - Patreon 15 Comments Response33:51Could the X Kiwi design fit a 35,000-ton limit?Q&A
- Washington’s cherry trees: the G3 and N3 class - Patreon 15 Comments Response39:50Dunkerque's aft aviation space and secondary-battery tradeoffsNotable Point
- Patreon 15 - Washington’s cherry trees: the G3 and N3 classes19:29Why triple turrets were the practical sweet spotQ&A
- Patreon 15 - Washington’s cherry trees: the G3 and N3 classes20:55The gun work behind the N3 and Nelson designsQ&A
- Patreon 15 - Washington’s cherry trees: the G3 and N3 classes29:02Could the Queen Elizabeth class carry triple 15-inch turrets?Q&A
- Patreon 15 - Washington’s cherry trees: the G3 and N3 classes1:00:52Why a one-inch increase mattered for battleship gunsQ&A
- Patreon 15 - Washington’s cherry trees: the G3 and N3 classes1:06:00Nelson-class machinery, weapons, and armorChapter
- Patreon 15 - Washington’s cherry trees: the G3 and N3 classes1:23:24Main-battery blast disrupted Nelson's flag facilitiesNotable Point
- Patreon 15 - Washington’s cherry trees: the G3 and N3 classes2:02:24The N3's 18-inch guns and the escalation trapChapter
- Patreon 15 - Washington’s cherry trees: the G3 and N3 classes2:12:53Gun caliber eventually loses to rate of fireQ&A
- Patreon 15 - Washington’s cherry trees: the G3 and N3 classes2:14:44Visibility limited the practical value of 8-inch cruiser rangeQ&A
- Patreon 15 - Washington’s cherry trees: the G3 and N3 classes2:17:17Why quadruple 6-inch turrets were more workable than heavy quadsQ&A
- Patreon 15 - Washington’s cherry trees: the G3 and N3 classes2:20:41Why British 16-inch gun development slowed after NelsonQ&A
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s Long Patrol Part 3: What Aircraft Carriers were for...2:52Mechanical computation for long-range naval gunneryNotable Point
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s Long Patrol Part 3: What Aircraft Carriers were for...7:07Air spotting extends battleship gunneryChapter
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s Long Patrol Part 3: What Aircraft Carriers were for...9:19Why spotting mattered before carrier strike maturedNotable Point
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s Long Patrol Part 3: What Aircraft Carriers were for...10:55The Blackburn Blackburn as a dedicated fleet spotterNotable Point
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s Long Patrol Part 1: Introduction3:08Why naval aviation began with reconnaissanceChapter
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s Long Patrol Part 1: Introduction23:34HMS Furious turns a large light cruiser into an early carrierChapter
- Bruships 31: Some more Science Fiction from a Naval Historians Perspective...18:14Dauntless's captain takes the guns after fire-control casualtiesNotable Point
- Bruships 31: Some more Science Fiction from a Naval Historians Perspective...22:08Fire on Dauntless's empty fighter quarters buys another shotNotable Point
- Bruships 31: Some more Science Fiction from a Naval Historians Perspective...3:24:51The Venator could carry more firepowerNotable Point
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s42:11Long-range railguns would not automatically revive battleshipsQ&A
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s42:45Why naval guns and missiles are likely to coexistQ&A
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s50:01How a fleet might disrupt a hypersonic missile attackQ&A
- Naval Defence Act of 1889 Long Patrol Part 4: Result13:47Protected cruisers answer the commerce-raider problemChapter
- Naval Defence Act of 1889 Long Patrol Part 3: Ships8:52Royal Sovereign-class firepower and protectionChapter
- Naval Defence Act of 1889 Long Patrol Part 3: Ships11:25Why British battleships carried such heavy armourNotable Point
- Naval Defence Act of 1889 Long Patrol Part 3: Ships18:43Why Centurion's 10-inch guns drew criticismNotable Point
- Naval Defence Act of 1889 Long Patrol Part 3: Ships21:27Centurion combines cruising endurance with a dense secondary batteryNotable Point
- Naval Defence Act of 1889 Long Patrol Part 3: Ships24:57Edgar's single heavy guns cannot make a reliable salvoNotable Point
- 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 Books3:02:55A 15-inch stopgap for King George V and LionQ&A
- Paddle Steamers of War Long Patrol22:30USS Cairo protected its paddle wheel and adapted its batteryChapter
- Steel of a Hundred Years Ago: Ships of 19201:17:28Why an octuple pom-pom concentrated eight barrelsQ&A
- Steel of a Hundred Years Ago: Ships of 19202:39:34Royal Navy turret naming conventionsQ&A
- Patreon 14: The Naval Defence Act of 1889 as proposed by Baile Inneraora48:02Mixed ammunition burdens encouraged gun standardizationQ&A
- Patreon 14: The Naval Defence Act of 1889 as proposed by Baile Inneraora2:07:32Why a large cruiser benefited from 9.2-inch gunsQ&A
- Patreon 14: The Naval Defence Act of 1889 as proposed by Baile Inneraora2:32:23How protected cruisers supplied their gunsQ&A
- Patreon 14: The Naval Defence Act of 1889 as proposed by Baile Inneraora2:34:44Why carrying big guns inside ocean liners was impracticalNotable Point
- Bruships 29: Best Seller History3:39:30Gerald Bull and naval-gun researchQ&A
- Bruships 29: Best Seller History3:54:24Why the Royal Navy favored six-inch cruisersQ&A
- Paddle Ships at War2:29:41Why warships rarely carried two paddle wheels per sideQ&A
- Town Class Part 7 of 7: Edinburghs & Legacy0:59Edinburgh and Belfast's quadruple-turret design pathChapter
- Town Class Part 6 of 7: Gloucesters0:49Why twelve six-inch guns could offset eight-inch rangeChapter
- Town Class Part 3 of 7: Pre-War6:50City names strengthen the case for large light cruisersNotable Point
- Town Class Part 3 of 7: Pre-War24:21Birmingham answers eight-inch guns at point-blank rangeNotable Point
- Town Class Part 2 of 7: Contruction18:05Why twelve 6-inch guns beat fewer 8-inch guns in the studyChapter
- Town Class Part 2 of 7: Contruction24:22The unbuilt quadruple-gun Super TownChapter
- Town Class Part 2 of 7: Contruction30:46What a Super Town would demand from its hull and magazinesChapter
- Town Class Part 2 of 7: Contruction35:36Gun-cycle averages behind cruiser procurementChapter
- Town Class Part 2 of 7: Contruction39:25Why shell volume mattered with long flight timesNotable Point
- RN Paper Cruisers; the what might have beens…19:34Six-inch volume of fire versus eight-inch weightNotable Point
- RN Paper Cruisers; the what might have beens…26:35Why the 5.25-inch gun was a temporary compromiseQ&A
- RN Paper Cruisers; the what might have beens…29:45Battle Cruiser Fleet experience shaped later gunnery thinkingQ&A
- RN Paper Cruisers; the what might have beens…33:37How a Town-class cruiser might have changed the River Plate fightQ&A
- RN Paper Cruisers; the what might have beens…37:25Could a six-inch gun serve in anti-aircraft fire?Q&A
- RN Paper Cruisers; the what might have beens…39:29Why American cruisers would not transform the firepower chartQ&A
- RN Paper Cruisers; the what might have beens…40:37Night fighting reinforced the six-inch choiceQ&A
- RN Paper Cruisers; the what might have beens…46:28The York's lighter eight-inch turret became the heavier oneQ&A
- RN Paper Cruisers; the what might have beens…47:21Six inches sat near the loading-technology sweet spotQ&A
- RN Paper Cruisers; the what might have beens…1:15:59Why the Super Town's quadruple turrets were dividedQ&A
- RN Paper Cruisers; the what might have beens…1:21:20The changing comparison between British 5.25-inch and American 5-inch gunsQ&A
- RN Paper Cruisers; the what might have beens…1:35:04Pom-Pom rate of fire versus Bofors reachQ&A
- RN Paper Cruisers; the what might have beens…1:49:31Minotaur layouts had to fit British firing prioritiesChapter
- RN Paper Cruisers; the what might have beens…1:55:09Why the Royal Navy retained its 4.5-inch gunQ&A
- Was Pearl Harbour a missed opportunity for the US?1:59:42Would surviving battleships delay the carrier war?Q&A
- Bruships 28: New Books & Christmas Buys2:17:25United States Navy Destroyers in photographs and systems detailChapter
- Bruships 28: New Books & Christmas Buys2:18:24Why lightweight destroyer turrets could become lethal trapsNotable Point
- Town Class; big impact with a light footprint22:29Where a battlecruiser departs from a cruiserQ&A
- Town Class; big impact with a light footprint33:58From Arethusa hulls to twelve six-inch gunsChapter
- Town Class; big impact with a light footprint38:33How the Royal Navy reached the six-inch triple turretQ&A
- Town Class; big impact with a light footprint1:30:02Why Birmingham's bow was not repeatedQ&A
- Town Class; big impact with a light footprint1:49:53Why the middle gun sat farther backQ&A
- Town Class; big impact with a light footprint1:57:30Six-inch volume versus eight-inch reachQ&A
- Town Class; big impact with a light footprint2:02:43Why an open gun mount could be safer than a weak turretNotable Point
- Bruships 27: Science Fiction Books2:34:11Why a battleship wants a steady firing courseNotable Point
- Bruships 27: Science Fiction Books3:42:34Why Star Wars fleets underuse smart weapons and turretsNotable Point
- Bruships 27: Science Fiction Books3:53:13Designing turret arcs for three-dimensional combatNotable Point
- Bruships 27: Science Fiction Books4:03:21A revised Manticore layout with turrets and point defenceNotable Point
- Amphion Class Cruisers: Long Patrol24:03HMAS Perth as bait at Cape MatapanChapter
- Amphion Class Cruisers: Long Patrol30:34Air power and radar at Cape MatapanNotable Point
- Amphion Class Cruisers: Long Patrol44:08Why ABDA could not become a fleet in timeNotable Point
- Amphion Class Cruisers: Long Patrol1:13:02Sydney's victory consumed nearly a thousand shellsNotable Point
- Bruships 26 - The Random Collection2:05:29Close-in defence does not settle the big-gun questionQ&A
- Bruships 26 - The Random Collection2:14:55Why twin naval gun mounts matterQ&A
- Bruships 26 - The Random Collection2:17:51The appeal of a quadruple 40 mm Bofors mountQ&A
- Bruships 26 - The Random Collection2:27:29Applying the twin-mount argument to Type 31Notable Point
- Bruships 26 - The Random Collection2:39:15Why smaller early warships could standardize guns firstNotable Point
- Bruships 26 - The Random Collection2:41:09The Cromwellian navy and more standardized armamentQ&A
- Battle of Quiberon Bay1:26:46Had British and French gunnery already diverged?Q&A
- Patreon 10: “If the Trent affair had gone hot, how badly would it have gone for the US navy?"(Intro)17:53Warrior is ready while Monitor is still buildingChapter
- Patreon 10: “If the Trent affair had gone hot, how badly would it have gone for the US navy?"(Intro)23:00Monitor’s coastal strengths and tactical limitsChapter
- Patreon 10: “If the Trent affair had gone hot, how badly would it have gone for the US navy?"58:08Could Warrior and Monitor penetrate each other's armour?Q&A
- Four Random Books 12: Destroyers II15:59The Tribal class and interwar air-defence thinkingNotable Point
- What if the 1956 Suez Crisis had gotten even hotter? (Long Patrol)46:29Destroyers, cruisers, and controlled naval firepowerNotable Point
- Battle of Taranto - a Stringbag Strike from the Dark1:56:14Why battleships did not follow the air strike ashoreQ&A
- Bilge Pumps does Battlestar Galactica Deadlock for Navy Con 1/250:32Weapon arcs, mutual coverage, and redundancyNotable Point
- The Ships that Fisher Scrapped: Orlando Class (The Forgotten Coast Guard)3:05The Orlando class's guns, torpedo tubes, and armourNotable Point
- The Ships that Fisher Scrapped: Orlando Class (The Forgotten Coast Guard)7:07The 9.2-inch gun as a natural cruiser calibreQ&A
- The Ships that Fisher Scrapped: Orlando Class (The Forgotten Coast Guard)7:47Why the Royal Navy chose 9.2-inch gunsQ&A
- The Ships that Fisher Scrapped: Orlando Class (The Forgotten Coast Guard)9:38A balanced hull and all-round fire layoutNotable Point
- The Ships that Fisher Scrapped: Orlando Class (The Forgotten Coast Guard)12:55The Orlando guns' shore-support roleQ&A
- The Ships that Fisher Scrapped: Orlando Class (The Forgotten Coast Guard)17:00Shared suppliers of army and naval artilleryQ&A
- The Ships that Fisher Scrapped: Orlando Class (The Forgotten Coast Guard)21:57Technology change and the USS Monitor comparisonQ&A
- The Ships that Fisher Scrapped: Orlando Class (The Forgotten Coast Guard)24:55Could flooding help an Orlando aim at USS Monitor?Q&A
- The Ships that Fisher Scrapped: Orlando Class (The Forgotten Coast Guard)25:54Slow firing and black powder in the Monitor comparisonQ&A
- The Ships that Fisher Scrapped: Orlando Class (The Forgotten Coast Guard)28:17Could the Orlandos have served in the Adriatic?Q&A
- HMS Galatea (1935) an introduction to the Arethusa Class part 2/44:23The First World War Arethusa class in figuresNotable Point
- HMS Galatea (1935) an introduction to the Arethusa Class part 2/414:16Reading an Arethusa's wartime armament from an ONI guideNotable Point
- Bruships 24 - An Autobiography from War2:39:24Wartime RNVR officer training at HMS King AlfredNotable Point
- Bruships 24 - An Autobiography from War3:50:39Is a 20-inch naval gun feasible?Q&A
- Amphion Class Cruisers9:24The proposed ten-gun AmphionNotable Point
- Amphion Class Cruisers21:15When triple turrets reached Royal Navy cruisersQ&A
- Amphion Class Cruisers1:33:59The concealed weapons of KormoranQ&A
- Amphion Class Cruisers1:53:19Could one salvo silence Sydney's fire control?Q&A
- Amphion Class Cruisers2:48:49Are there upright battleship wrecks that retain their turrets?Q&A
- 1930 London Naval Treaty: An Introduction Part 5 of 5/Articles 17-224:00What cruiser tonnage could buy in a LeanderNotable Point
- 1930 London Naval Treaty: An Introduction Part 5 of 5/Articles 17-2237:20King George V gun and turret compromisesNotable Point
- 1930 London Naval Treaty: An Introduction Part 2 of 5/Articles 8-102:43Why carriers were limited to six-inch gunsNotable Point
- 1930 London Naval Treaty: An Introduction Part 2 of 5/Articles 8-104:53The six-inch threshold and small-cruiser pressureNotable Point
- 1930 London Naval Treaty: An Introduction Part 2 of 5/Articles 8-106:03Treaty pressure and the super-destroyer raceChapter
- 1930 London Naval Treaty: An Introduction Part 2 of 5/Articles 8-108:33Destroyers: rapid fire, screening, and torpedoesNotable Point
- 1930 London Naval Treaty: An Introduction Part 2 of 5/Articles 8-1010:38National destroyer solutions and the six-inch cruiserChapter
- 1930 London Naval Treaty: An Introduction Part 2 of 5/Articles 8-1012:40Eight-inch turrets and firing while withdrawingNotable Point
- 1930 London Naval Treaty: An Introduction Part 1 of 5/Articles 1-716:54Article 5 standardises carrier gun limitsChapter
- 1930 London Naval Treaty: An Introduction Part 1 of 5/Articles 1-717:30Why 155-millimetre guns keep returningNotable Point
- Bruships 23 - New Book Review1:28:14A technical guide to Second World War U-boatsChapter
- Bruships 23 - New Book Review1:31:10A U-boat gun's range exceeded practical aiming conditionsNotable Point
- Bruships 23 - New Book Review1:32:23Heavier anti-aircraft guns did not solve U-boat vulnerabilityNotable Point
- Bruships 23 - New Book Review1:45:01Condottieri cruisers depended on keeping their distanceNotable Point
- Bruships 23 - New Book Review1:53:15Armour thickness is only a rough guide to shell resistanceQ&A
- Bruships 23 - New Book Review1:55:53Le Fantasque combined gun range with exceptional trial speedNotable Point
- Bruships 23 - New Book Review1:58:44Nelson's guns in Warships after WashingtonQ&A
- Bruships 23 - New Book Review2:28:55A Type 31 response to small-boat swarmsQ&A
- Bruships 23 - New Book Review2:34:49Why one main gun can still feel too littleQ&A
- Bruships 23 - New Book Review2:46:53Using 30 mm diving shells against torpedoesQ&A
- Bruships 23 - New Book Review2:50:17The uncertain depth of 30 mm anti-torpedo fireQ&A
- Bruships 23 - New Book Review2:59:02Earlier attempts to shoot incoming torpedoesNotable Point
- Battle of Trafalgar & it's Legacy1:13:19Carronades rewarded close-range fightingQ&A
- Battle of Trafalgar & it's Legacy1:42:41Choose rigging or hull fire by the tactical objectiveQ&A
- Battle of Trafalgar & it's Legacy2:38:20Could anyone confirm Tribal torpedo hits on Bismarck?Q&A
- Four Random Books 8: Churchill9:50Spee aborts the Port Stanley attackNotable Point
- Patreon 9 – “Suez goes hot in 1956” by Martin Doherty1:24:33Destroyers and Restrained Naval GunfireQ&A
- Flower Class Shorts no 4: HMS Polyanthus2:07Guns and depth charges behind the disguiseNotable Point
- Flower Class Shorts no 3: HMAS Geranium1:47Geranium's larger Australian crew and gun fitNotable Point
- Flower Class Shorts no 1: HMS Foxglove1:02Foxglove's armament changed during serviceNotable Point
- Four Random Books 6: War At Sea11:06German navy laws and the cost of capital shipsNotable Point
- Four Random Books 6: War At Sea11:44Growing battle ranges favour big-gun armamentNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 20: Brasseys & Janes, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:15:53Type 31 gun choices and the presence missionQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 20: Brasseys & Janes, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:20:01The close-in defence case for a 40 mm wall of fireQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 20: Brasseys & Janes, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:46:37Why a modern naval gunfight may still end quicklyQ&A
- WWI in the Far East; Penang, Tsingtao, Emden & Cormoran the Long Patrol41:57Emden's strengths and limits as a raiderNotable Point
- An Introduction to Operation Menace part 2 of 226:17Coastal batteries bring the fleet under fireNotable Point
- An Introduction to Operation Menace part 2 of 231:10Why the first bombardment could not settle DakarNotable Point
- An Introduction to Operation Menace part 2 of 237:21Churchill orders the attack to continueNotable Point
- Patreon 7 – How the RN countered E-Boats in the English Channel as proposed by Paul26:50Why E-boats avoided Tribal-class destroyersQ&A
- Patreon 7 – How the RN countered E-Boats in the English Channel as proposed by Paul1:11:07Dog Boats combine firepower with adaptationChapter
- Patreon 7 – How the RN countered E-Boats in the English Channel as proposed by Paul2:29:23How much protection could a small craft carry?Q&A
- Patreon 7 – How the RN countered E-Boats in the English Channel as proposed by Paul2:29:53Rapid fire, radar, and enough escorts counter E-boatsChapter
- Patreon 7 – How the RN countered E-Boats in the English Channel as proposed by Paul2:34:47Small-boat combat resembled an aircraft dogfightNotable Point
- The Leander Class Long Patrol - The Interwar 2nd Class Protected Cruiser?12:03Speed, range, armour, and guns in the Leander designNotable Point
- The Leander Class Long Patrol - The Interwar 2nd Class Protected Cruiser?26:23Six-inch guns as an anti-aircraft barrage weaponNotable Point
- Battlestar Galactica Deadlock - Some Naval History Fun...3:10Real warship gunnery aims for all-round coverageNotable Point
- Patreon 6 - Force K… Malta’s mailed fist, as proposed by Ian Car17:18Could Tribal-class destroyers receive better dual-purpose guns?Q&A
- Patreon 6 - Force K… Malta’s mailed fist, as proposed by Ian Car21:33What made a naval gun quick-firing?Q&A
- Patreon 6 - Force K… Malta’s mailed fist, as proposed by Ian Car35:34Training and ammunition for battleship shore bombardmentQ&A
- Patreon 6 - Force K… Malta’s mailed fist, as proposed by Ian Car1:15:12The compromise behind the 5.25-inch dual-purpose gunQ&A
- Patreon 6 - Force K… Malta’s mailed fist, as proposed by Ian Car1:50:39Italian gunnery and ammunition qualityQ&A
- Patreon 6 - Force K… Malta’s mailed fist, as proposed by Ian Car1:58:24Why the Deutschlands were heavy cruisers, not pocket battleshipsQ&A
- Patreon 6 - Force K… Malta’s mailed fist, as proposed by Ian Car2:04:40A reference for British destroyer ammunition dataQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 18: Really Big Books, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A20:46Gerald R. Ford class: one island, better close-in gunsQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 18: Really Big Books, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:54:46From depth-charge concussion to ASW mortarsQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 18: Really Big Books, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:01:31Why anti-submarine throwers were not Carl GustavsQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 18: Really Big Books, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:27:48Reading the design tradeoffs behind British cruisersChapter
- Bru Ships Episode 18: Really Big Books, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:32:18Why spare battleship guns do not create a free shipQ&A
- Introduction: Making Copenhagening a Verb - 2nd Battle of Copenhagen (1807) p1 of 28:11Narrow waters, shore guns, and mortar shipsNotable Point
- Patreon Video 5: Mediterranean gunboat diplomacy in the Victorian era59:07What Alexandria revealed about ironclad gunneryQ&A
- Patreon Video 5: Mediterranean gunboat diplomacy in the Victorian era1:04:47Accuracy versus rate of fire at AlexandriaNotable Point
- Patreon Video 5: Mediterranean gunboat diplomacy in the Victorian era2:26:32Did HMS Tartar carry 24-pounder guns at Christiansand?Q&A
- The Ships: An Introduction to the Convoy war & the Perfect Storm of PQ17… P2/311:51How small escorts accumulated firepowerNotable Point
- Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...39:20Why Birmingham's guns would target cruiser bridgesNotable Point
- Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...41:34Could HMS Folkestone escape a close-range battle?Q&A
- Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...47:19What bridge damage could do to a Japanese cruiserQ&A
- Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...3:15:25Britain still had a 15-inch gun pipeline in 1939Q&A
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P5b Introduction to Patreon Video 416:33Could E-class cruisers carry a mixed battery?Notable Point
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P5b Introduction to Patreon Video 423:00Why heavier turrets strain a Leander conversionNotable Point
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P5a Introduction to Patreon Video 455:42Ammunition consumption and the friction of warNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 15: Diplomacy & When it Fails, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A47:36Vanguard's design compromises and a 16-inch alternativeQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 15: Diplomacy & When it Fails, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A53:13Why Rodney's guns were poor candidates for VanguardQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 15: Diplomacy & When it Fails, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:02:03How accurate was World War II naval gunfire support?Q&A
- Bru Ships Episode 15: Diplomacy & When it Fails, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:02:49Would a General Belgrano gun action revive gun cruisers?Q&A
- Bru Ships Episode 15: Diplomacy & When it Fails, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:05:00What point-blank range does to battleship protectionQ&A
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P1 Introduction to Patreon Video 428:12Cruisers, a light cruiser, and a sloopNotable Point
- An Introduction to the "E" Class; part 2 - HMS Enterprise2:02Clarifying HMS Emerald's six-inch armamentQ&A
- An Introduction to the "E" Class; part 2 - HMS Enterprise8:35Enterprise as a double-turret test bedNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 14: Special & Covert Operations Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A13:29Designing a hypothetical modern privateerQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 14: Special & Covert Operations Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A20:10Matching 57 mm and 76 mm guns to fleet needsQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 14: Special & Covert Operations Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:28:14From 4.5-inch to 5-inch naval gunsQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 14: Special & Covert Operations Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:36:12A heavier gun fit for a Type 31 frigateQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 14: Special & Covert Operations Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:45:42Why a twin 5-inch mount would be expensive for BritainQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 14: Special & Covert Operations Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:49:43Could railguns bring back stern-mounted main guns?Q&A
- Bru Ships Episode 14: Special & Covert Operations Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:38:54Why new naval weapons and uncrewed ships mature slowlyQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 14: Special & Covert Operations Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:40:17County-class versus Hipper-class in a duelQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 14: Special & Covert Operations Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:41:28How a railgun projectile would damage ships and land targetsQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 14: Special & Covert Operations Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:44:15Railguns and coilguns remain developmentalQ&A
- Long Patrol: Making Mare Nostrum a Hollow Jest - RN Submarines in the Meditteranean22:25Deck-gun calibre as a fleet logistics problemNotable Point
- An Introduction to the Spanish Armada Part 2 of 25:43Ark Royal's mixed battery and difficult handlingNotable Point
- An Introduction to the Spanish Armada Part 2 of 29:59San Martín and the oceanic galleonNotable Point
- An Introduction to the Spanish Armada Part 2 of 218:00Count warships, not total hullsNotable Point
- An Introduction to the Spanish Armada Part 2 of 220:14Gun carriages, space, and rate of fireChapter
- An Introduction to the Spanish Armada Part 2 of 223:32Rate of fire could outweigh a heavier shotNotable Point
- An Introduction to the Spanish Armada Part 2 of 234:01An early stage in the age of sailNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 13: Weapons, Both Personal & Ship, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:02:43Why multiple gun barrels may regain valueNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 13: Weapons, Both Personal & Ship, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:15:15Directed energy belongs in a layered defenceQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 13: Weapons, Both Personal & Ship, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:49:18Why 75 mm is small for a warship's main gunNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 13: Weapons, Both Personal & Ship, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:55:19A heavy cruiser versus a modern warship at gun rangeQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 13: Weapons, Both Personal & Ship, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:56:25Why the 10-inch naval gun fell between useful calibresQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 13: Weapons, Both Personal & Ship, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:57:08Why the Royal Navy finally adopted the five-inch gunNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 13: Weapons, Both Personal & Ship, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:07:07The return of larger naval anti-aircraft gunsQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 13: Weapons, Both Personal & Ship, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:15:14The return of 40 mm guns for close defenceQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 13: Weapons, Both Personal & Ship, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:20:54Can 40 mm accuracy offset a 20 mm rate of fire?Q&A
- Bru Ships Episode 13: Weapons, Both Personal & Ship, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:23:44The Soviet quad 57 mm gun and its electronics limitQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 13: Weapons, Both Personal & Ship, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:25:43Why a 300-round-per-minute six-inch gun is impracticalQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 13: Weapons, Both Personal & Ship, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:28:16Telescoped ammunition and the salt-water problemQ&A
- P2 Introduction to Pre-Tribal Class Destroyers of the RN5:58E and F classes: a standard destroyer fitNotable Point
- P2 Introduction to Pre-Tribal Class Destroyers of the RN7:50Gun elevation and the limits of peacetime exercisesNotable Point
- P2 Introduction to Pre-Tribal Class Destroyers of the RN16:19I-class torpedoes and the path to the TribalsChapter
- P1 Introduction to Pre-Tribal Class Destroyers of the RN (special guest; Fluffy Research Assistant)6:10HMS Ambuscade as a 1924 destroyer testbedNotable Point
- BAD SOUND - An Introduction to Making Mare Nostrum a Hollow Jest Part 2 of 27:20The Regia Marina and a missed Malta assaultNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 12: New to Me Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:47:31Where to study the Pollen-Dreyer fire-control debateQ&A
- An Introduction to From the Sea... How Navies Influence Land Campaigns.18:45Maritime mobility made Wellington’s campaign viableNotable Point
- Patreon Video 2: Royal Navy Operations in the Indian Ocean 1941-431:16:43Why Britain kept the 3.7-inch gun out of naval and anti-tank rolesQ&A
- Patreon Video 2: Royal Navy Operations in the Indian Ocean 1941-431:32:15Why the Deutschland class was an awkward commerce raiderQ&A
- Patreon Video 2: Royal Navy Operations in the Indian Ocean 1941-432:06:55Why three triple turrets suited the Crown Colony designQ&A
- An Introduction to the Royal Navy in the Indian Ocean 1941-3 (Patreon Video 2)32:15The Deutschland class paid heavily for 11-inch gunsNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 11: Top Trumps/Ship Comparison Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A31:41Trading Deutschland-class gun weight for speedNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 11: Top Trumps/Ship Comparison Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:51:36Why interim large-calibre naval guns are a poor investmentQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 11: Top Trumps/Ship Comparison Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:32:55A disputed explanation for German cruisers' 4.1-inch gunsQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 11: Top Trumps/Ship Comparison Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:39:58Why some navies standardized on the five-inch gunQ&A
- An Extended Introduction to "Naval Diplomacy"16:37Presence frigates as reserve combat capabilityNotable Point
- 50th Proper Live Stream - Bru Ships Episode 10: Naval Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:12:11How small can a ship be with triple six-inch turrets?Q&A
- 50th Proper Live Stream - Bru Ships Episode 10: Naval Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:30:59Why early carriers carried heavy gunsQ&A
- 50th Proper Live Stream - Bru Ships Episode 10: Naval Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:39:35HMS Unicorn firing beyond her support-ship roleNotable Point
- 50th Proper Live Stream - Bru Ships Episode 10: Naval Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:37:17Why the Dunkerque class remains a battleship designQ&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/A3:15:41Why battleship guns demanded industrial depthQ&A
- An Introduction to "Flying Boats & Seaplanes; Mothered by Capability or Necessity?" P3/4 WWII (L)17:55Curtiss SOC Seagull: an American spotting floatplaneNotable Point
- Patreon Video 1: What would you put in warehouses at the end of WWI for WWII if you could?18:15Store the calibres a future force can actually useQ&A
- Patreon Video 1: What would you put in warehouses at the end of WWI for WWII if you could?1:11:40A modern patrol craft based on an RNLI hullQ&A
- Patreon Video 1: What would you put in warehouses at the end of WWI for WWII if you could?1:18:45Keep the six-inch guns, not every old cruiser hullQ&A
- Patreon Video 1: What would you put in warehouses at the end of WWI for WWII if you could?1:22:00The second life of old naval gunsQ&A
- Patreon Video 1: What would you put in warehouses at the end of WWI for WWII if you could?1:38:42Modern guns can demand more hull than an old destroyer hasQ&A
- Patreon Video 1: What would you put in warehouses at the end of WWI for WWII if you could?1:53:33Why Belgrano was unlikely to win a gun actionQ&A
- Patreon Video 1: What would you put in warehouses at the end of WWI for WWII if you could?1:58:13Why Alaska is outmatched by YamatoQ&A
- Patreon Video 1: What would you put in warehouses at the end of WWI for WWII if you could?2:32:01Choosing heavy coastal guns for SingaporeQ&A
- Patreon Video 1: Intro - What would you put in warehouses at the end of WWI for WWII if you could?4:49Stockpiling complete light-gun systemsNotable Point
- Patreon Video 1: Intro - What would you put in warehouses at the end of WWI for WWII if you could?6:35Naval guns as long-lead mobilization itemsNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 9: Super Power Contest (as in the nations) Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:05:17What heavy battleship guns could do to a modern shipQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 9: Super Power Contest (as in the nations) Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:09:42Why 15-inch guns might have simplified King George VQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 9: Super Power Contest (as in the nations) Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:22:03The treaty logic behind a 14-inch battleship gunQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 9: Super Power Contest (as in the nations) Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:24:43Alaska versus Scharnhorst: radar and first salvoQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 9: Super Power Contest (as in the nations) Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:38:58Why the first heavy-gun hit can decide a duelQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 9: Super Power Contest (as in the nations) Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:51:04The six-inch versus eight-inch cruiser questionQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 9: Super Power Contest (as in the nations) Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:50:52When a middle naval gun calibre adds only complexityQ&A
- An Introduction to “Back Pocket Cruisers” Part 3: Daring Class4:56What a Daring could do in a Jutland-era fleetNotable Point
- An Introduction to “Back Pocket Cruisers” Part 3: Daring Class11:49Mk VI guns, anti-aircraft weapons, and SquidNotable Point
- An Introduction to “Back Pocket Cruisers” Part 3: Daring Class13:27Rejected changes to gun arcs and deck heightNotable Point
- An Introduction to “Back Pocket Cruisers” Part 3: Daring Class15:54Bridge geometry and the Mk VI gun mountNotable Point
- An Introduction to “Back Pocket Cruisers” Part 2: Battle Class (+Stanley Goodall)12:19Capital-ship 4.5-inch mounts in a destroyerNotable Point
- An Introduction to “Back Pocket Cruisers” Part 2: Battle Class (+Stanley Goodall)16:17Why the main armament faced forwardNotable Point
- An Introduction to “Back Pocket Cruisers” Part 2: Battle Class (+Stanley Goodall)17:59A cautious theory about the heavy mountsNotable Point
- An Introduction to “Back Pocket Cruisers” Part 1: Tribal Class (+Admiral Henderson)18:39The gun-mount compromise behind the Tribal classNotable Point
- An Introduction to “Back Pocket Cruisers” Part 1: Tribal Class (+Admiral Henderson)25:43Why the Tribals used gun shields rather than turretsNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 7: Warship Design Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A31:28Why the single 4.7-inch anti-aircraft mount fadedQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 7: Warship Design Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A41:00Reliability decided early 4.5-inch mount choicesQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 7: Warship Design Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:30:10Guns are often the better answer to small attack craftQ&A
- An Introduction to the "D" Class Cruisers Part 2 of 24:47The firepower behind the Service Squadron displayNotable Point
- An Introduction to the "D" Class Cruisers Part 2 of 212:03The unrealised anti-aircraft cruiser refitChapter
- An Introduction to the "D" Class Cruisers Part 1 of 22:14The D class after JutlandChapter
- Bru Ships Episode 4: Naval Aviation Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A3:37:39Best naval gun depends on the metricQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 4: Naval Aviation Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A3:43:26Fifteen-inch guns offer a strong battleship balanceQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A51:37The ship-design cost of a Japanese 20-inch gunQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:05:13Why rearming the Mogami class with 8-inch guns was a mistakeQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:24:43Long-range Japanese battleships without long-range sensingQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A3:23:35Why Tribal-class firepower worked better than oversized Axis destroyersQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 2a: Book Reviews/Q&A48:41Why British shells could carry larger bursting chargesQ&A
- Exercises & War Gaming Rules in 192913:38Gunnery tables turned peacetime results into battle estimatesChapter
- Exercises & War Gaming Rules in 192917:11Cumulative damage and speed loss changed how a fleet could fightNotable Point
- Exercises & War Gaming Rules in 192955:09OA's battle result made victory a costly operational stateNotable Point
- A Name to illustrate a navy - HMS Leander through history41:42The danger of identifying armed merchant raidersQ&A
- A Name to illustrate a navy - HMS Leander through history57:41Leander-class frigates in the Falklands WarQ&A
- A Name to illustrate a navy - HMS Leander through history58:22Why Britain did not reserve 9.2-inch cruiser turretsQ&A
- A Name to illustrate a navy - HMS Leander through history1:22:15Why Type 26 moves to a five-inch gunQ&A
- Anglo-Japanese Relations Part 1: 1902-19216:30How Tsushima accelerated HMS DreadnoughtNotable Point
- Sloops during the Inter-War – what were they for?59:18Were Bitterns really flak sloops?Q&A
- Sloops during the Inter-War – what were they for?1:09:49Henderson, Chatfield, and the King George V compromiseQ&A
- Sloops during the Inter-War – what were they for?1:17:42Why quadruple gun turrets proved troublesomeQ&A
- A bit more on RN Destroyers - The Hunt for the Bismarck18:55Why the Tribal design suited Vian's box formationNotable Point
- A bit more on RN Destroyers - The Hunt for the Bismarck40:54Bismarck's heavy-gun response to Piorun and CossackQ&A
- A bit more on RN Destroyers - The Hunt for the Bismarck49:47How wartime-built Tribals differed from prewar shipsQ&A
- The Battles of Narvik (Norway 80)2:51Four Tribal-class destroyers change the oddsNotable Point
- The Battles of Narvik (Norway 80)7:23HMS Eskimo keeps fighting after losing her bowNotable Point
- T he Altmark 80 Videos in Full20:16Why Tribal-class destroyers were built to fightChapter
- Battle of The River Plate - A River Plate 80 Video5:48Harwood divides Graf Spee's fireNotable Point
- Battle of The River Plate - A River Plate 80 Video11:05Long-range fire control exposes technical and ammunition limitsNotable Point
- Battle of The River Plate - A River Plate 80 Video15:14Exeter absorbs Graf Spee's opening attackChapter
- Battle of The River Plate - A River Plate 80 Video24:14Graf Spee's design meets a three-cruiser meleeNotable Point
- Battle of The River Plate - A River Plate 80 Video29:20Graf Spee takes disabling damage from the cruiser forceNotable Point
- Battle of The River Plate - A River Plate 80 Video38:12Ajax commands by eye and loses half her main batteryChapter
- Battle of The River Plate - A River Plate 80 Video41:46Achilles fights under the New Zealand ensignNotable Point
- Battle of The River Plate - A River Plate 80 Video44:03Ajax launches her reconnaissance aircraft for gunfire spottingChapter
- Battle of The River Plate - A River Plate 80 Video53:49The threat of night action drives Graf Spee toward portNotable Point
- Battle of the River Plate a Quick Overview - A River Plate 80 Video1:28Graf Spee opens fire near maximum rangeNotable Point
- Battle of the River Plate a Quick Overview - A River Plate 80 Video2:02Exeter and Ajax reach the killing swingChapter
- The RN in 1939, more than just a Question of Geography - A Quarterdeck Talk (26/11/2019)30:32The battlecarrier's gun-and-flight-deck employment trapNotable Point
- Harwood & Captains - a River Plate 80 video16:31Captain Woodhouse as a gunnery specialistChapter
- Harwood & Captains - a River Plate 80 video18:31Woodhouse links ammunition economy to carrier aviationNotable Point
- Harwood & Captains - a River Plate 80 video22:41Parry turns enemy corrections into an evasive advantageNotable Point
- Tribal Class in 60s (Combined)3:05Gun-heavy layout and advanced fire controlNotable Point
- Tribal Class in 60s (Combined)13:22Cape Bon puts the cruiser-killer concept into practiceChapter
- Back Pocket Cruisers Presentation (Practice 2)10:52Why the Tribal class looked like back-pocket cruisersChapter