Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

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Naval Innovation

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  1. Destroyer Leaders: Where did they come from and why?
    51:19Why adopting destroyer leaders required institutional riskNotable Point
  2. Bruships 258: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    4:18:57Securing funding before choosing naval innovationsNotable Point
  3. What happens if the French navy goes all Free French in 1940?
    21:16What Béarn shows about French naval innovationNotable Point
  4. Bruships 250: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    28:39Torpedo nets against explosive surface dronesQ&A
  5. WWI delayed by six years? What would the Navies look like? (Patreon Alternate History)
    3:28:47Capital-ship design without wartime shortcutsQ&A
  6. WWI delayed by six years? What would the Navies look like? (Patreon Alternate History)
    3:31:02Could hydrophones and ASDIC mature without the war?Q&A
  7. What if HMS Hermes was the first of a class of Cruiser Carriers?
    1:16:16Small carriers become practical laboratories for deck-edge liftsChapter
  8. How the USN learnt the lessons to conceive the Arleigh Burke class... From the Gearings to the Kidds
    28:46The lost volume of heavyweight torpedo tubesNotable Point
  9. Top/Bottom 5 inventions/adaptations of RN ships that came from the ships themselves...(Patreon Live)
    2:14:01How navies encourage crew-suggested improvementsNotable Point
  10. Top/Bottom 5 inventions/adaptations of RN ships that came from the ships themselves...(Patreon Live)
    2:14:50Could destroyer crews have used desk-fan motors for radar?Q&A
  11. If WWII is delayed, what do the Warships of the 1950s look like?
    25:12Smaller aircraft batches could bring naval jets earlierChapter
  12. Bruships 227: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    53:16Could Germany have put V-weapons aboard warships?Q&A
  13. An introduction to Torpedo Boat Destoyers
    2:00American Civil War ironclad lessons had to be adapted for ocean warfareNotable Point
  14. An introduction to Torpedo Boat Destoyers
    20:06Jeune Ecole moved from explosive shells to fast torpedo boatsNotable Point
  15. An introduction to Torpedo Boat Destoyers
    22:32Military technologies usually mature by evolution rather than surpriseNotable Point
  16. An introduction to Torpedo Boat Destoyers
    32:27Early Whitehead torpedoes delayed the case for full adoptionNotable Point
  17. What if the Royal Navy carried out a carrier strike against Wilhelmshaven in WWI? Patreon Live
    1:04:17How the Royal Navy rehearsed carrier operations ashoreQ&A
  18. What if the Royal Navy carried out a carrier strike against Wilhelmshaven in WWI? Patreon Live
    2:16:16Would carrier success accelerate uncrewed weapons?Q&A
  19. What if the Royal Navy carried out a carrier strike against Wilhelmshaven in WWI? Patreon Live
    2:31:17How additional Hermes-type carriers improve fleet learningQ&A
  20. What if the Royal Navy carried out a carrier strike against Wilhelmshaven in WWI? Patreon Live
    2:36:51Would Jackie Fisher have accelerated the carrier raid?Q&A
  21. Bruships 223: Naval History & Science Fiction Questions Answered Live...
    4:40:03Radar and fleet carriers as naval discontinuitiesNotable Point
  22. 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P8 of 9 - UAD chat requested design testing…
    55:10Why the Royal Navy kept developing landing craft between the warsQ&A
  23. Bruships 215 On the Road Japan 2025: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:10:09Choosing a ship for an early combat information centerQ&A
  24. Admiral Hornby: Britain's 19th Century Master of Conflict Management & Detterrence
    1:05:30Hornby rejected a single prescribed battle formationNotable Point
  25. Tom's Cat: The Story of the F14 Tomcat
    12:26The Connolly Committee links naval aviation to the space ageNotable Point
  26. Bruships 201: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    59:38Cuniberti's ideal battleship and the all-big-gun ideaQ&A
  27. Bruships 201: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:36:17Why Drebbel's early submarine remained a curiosityQ&A
  28. Bruships 201: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    4:23:43Agincourt as a machinery and weapons testbedQ&A
  29. Bruships 200: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    4:21:19Why the Royal Navy studied an all-big-gun armoured cruiserQ&A
  30. Bruships 199: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    4:27:08Charles Beresford's resistance to naval technological changeQ&A
  31. What happens to WWI if the Royal Navy got a full Admiralty Staff when the General Staff came to be?
    3:03:44Was Jackie Fisher a conservative revolutionary?Q&A
  32. What happens to WWI if the Royal Navy got a full Admiralty Staff when the General Staff came to be?
    3:07:51How submarines fit Fisher's conservative strategyQ&A
  33. Yi Sun Sins May 1592: When Preperation and Reading History really paid off!
    44:46Why the 1592 turtle ships must predate the invasionNotable Point
  34. Bruships 196: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:49:27Why the Type XXI U-boat was evolutionary rather than revolutionaryQ&A
  35. A Turtle Ship May: Admiral Yi Sun-Sin
    2:06:20Yi revived an old design through advance preparationNotable Point
  36. A Turtle Ship May: Admiral Yi Sun-Sin
    2:10:14Could a panokseon become a turtle ship?Q&A
  37. A Turtle Ship May: Admiral Yi Sun-Sin
    2:13:55Naval innovators often hide change inside familiar labelsNotable Point
  38. The Life of Admiral Sir Frederick Hew George Dalrymple-Hamilton: When Speed is never enough!
    3:11:12Did Turbinia inspire Dalrymple-Hamilton's love of speed?Q&A
  39. Bruships 188: Naval History Questions Answered Liven & Birthday Party...
    2:00:54Who deserves credit for dazzle camouflageQ&A
  40. HMS Queen Mary: An Evolutionary Ship in a Time of Fleet Transition
    22:40Could battlecruisers have served as technology testbeds?Notable Point
  41. HMS Queen Mary: An Evolutionary Ship in a Time of Fleet Transition
    52:44An all-oil Queen Mary and a faster battle lineNotable Point
  42. From Mary Rose to Victory, How & Why Construction of the Wooden Wall changed... Naval History Live
    1:06:03Fireships punished fleets without prepared countermeasuresNotable Point
  43. Tōgō Heihachirō: Victor of Tsushima & Japan's Nelson...
    24:29When naval competition still included shared ideasNotable Point
  44. Prof Capt Armstrong & Dr C Discuss the value of Mahan, Corbett & Sims today? #2Historians Ep 6
    29:48Presentism and new labels can conceal older strategic ideasNotable Point
  45. Prof Capt Armstrong & Dr C Discuss the value of Mahan, Corbett & Sims today? #2Historians Ep 6
    1:32:12Historical research explains how naval adaptation worksNotable Point
  46. Prof Capt Armstrong & Dr C Discuss the value of Mahan, Corbett & Sims today? #2Historians Ep 6
    1:35:02Langley's thousand questions as a model of naval innovationNotable Point
  47. Prof Capt Armstrong & Dr C Discuss the value of Mahan, Corbett & Sims today? #2Historians Ep 6
    1:39:54Shipboard constraints can create informal spaces for adaptationNotable Point
  48. Prof Capt Armstrong & Dr C Discuss the value of Mahan, Corbett & Sims today? #2Historians Ep 6
    1:41:02Naval history beyond battle narrativesChapter
  49. Glynn Stewart & Alex Discuss How Do You Create a Science Fiction Fleet? #2Historians ep 3
    35:49Cheap hull-count politics can lock a fleet into obsolescenceNotable Point
  50. Bruships 173: Christmas Books for the History Lover in your life...
    5:03:03What deck-edge lifts could teach a County-hull carrier fleetQ&A
  51. Bruships 172: So the Historiophon Happened...
    49:32Why the present is a particularly chaotic naval-technology eraQ&A
  52. Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/4
    8:27:38Why the Albany-class missile cruisers retained gunsNotable Point
  53. Bruships 168: And a empty Kalax, sang the aisles a serenade, longing for books with a love song
    2:30:22How 1936 leaders might receive The Hunt for Red OctoberQ&A
  54. Patreon 101: If Lord Fisher died in Jan 1914, how does Prince Louis of Battenberg perform as 1SL?
    2:31:52Battenberg's late-1916 succession and naval research roleNotable Point
  55. Battle of Valparaíso(1814): When Hunting for Glory breaks on the Rocks of Solid Professionalism
    3:24:42A German carrier at Jutland would trigger British adaptationNotable Point
  56. The Soviet Man of Steel wants Bigs Ships: Stalin joins the Naval Treaties!
    59:01Italian naval technology as the Soviet shortcutNotable Point
  57. HMS Furious: Finding Virtue and Utility in Evolution
    24:20Furious becomes the Royal Navy's operational carrierChapter
  58. HMS Furious: Finding Virtue and Utility in Evolution
    44:29Retirement turns Furious into an explosives-effects test shipNotable Point
  59. HMS Furious: Finding Virtue and Utility in Evolution
    46:05Furious provided an overlooked foundation for carrier aviationNotable Point
  60. The HMS Ark Royals Saga: A History of Naval Aviation in a Name...
    31:18Carrier debate inside the interwar Royal NavyNotable Point
  61. Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!
    1:34:31A containerized 40 mm gun offers cheaper anti-drone defense than missilesQ&A
  62. Scharnhorst Class(1936): Most Valued Player of the German Capital Ships - Key Ships Series 7 Ship 4
    1:00Graf Zeppelin and the first-of-type trapNotable Point
  63. Graf Zeppelin: KSS2 S1 Comment Response
    4:16Should Germany have built a training carrier first?Q&A
  64. Graf Zeppelin: KSS2 S1 Comment Response
    8:31Operational basics before technical wondersNotable Point
  65. Bruships 129: Travels, Rememberance & Questions from Chat
    50:50Jacky Fisher's ideas across his careerQ&A
  66. Bruships 129: Travels, Rememberance & Questions from Chat
    59:31HMS Swift as a destroyer precursorNotable Point
  67. Bruships 129: Travels, Rememberance & Questions from Chat
    1:10:01Fisher's unfinished cruiser reformsQ&A
  68. Unrotated Projectiles to Hypersonics: Some History & thoughts on Missiles as part of navies
    2:12Congreve rockets put heavy firepower on light shipsChapter
  69. Bruships 127: 2023 Christmas Naval History Releases
    3:52:20A leading navy cannot stop studying the next capital shipQ&A
  70. Bruships 127: 2023 Christmas Naval History Releases
    3:56:19Jacky Fisher expected the carrier age almost immediatelyQ&A
  71. How & Why during WWII Motor Torpedo Boats(MTBs) became Motor Gun Boats(MGBs): Pacific Theatre
    3:04:45Uncrewed boats can revive an old fast-attack roleNotable Point
  72. Ranging & Stabilising: How Gunnery Evolved from 1860 to 1960
    1:17:07Dreadnought showed that guns needed control as well as rangeChapter
  73. Bruships 119: Cool Books - but they're definitely a Mixture
    1:04:45Dreadnought, Satsuma, and South Carolina in chronological contextQ&A
  74. Austro Hungarian Battleships: Habsburg Class to Ersatz Monarch Class with a little help from Skoda
    41:05How direct reporting from Tsushima accelerated British adaptationNotable Point
  75. USS Monitor: Key Ships Series 3, Ship 6
    10:38The ironclad race before MonitorNotable Point
  76. Sovereign Battleships... & Why Pre-Dreadnoughts really shouldn't be called that Round 2
    56:28Lord Nelsons as insurance for DreadnoughtNotable Point
  77. Rome is Won, What Carthage does now the Romans are Really Annoyed! Rome Total War 2, April 2023
    2:35:16Roman adaptation through captured technologyNotable Point
  78. Bruships 108: PLanned for Random Books off the Shelf & Chat
    1:22:22John Fisher's ideal fast battleshipQ&A
  79. HNLMS Schorpioen(1868): Key Ship Series 1, Ship 6
    20:56From HMS Warrior to the monitor eraNotable Point
  80. The Submarine Century? How Submarines evolved over the 20th Century
    31:57The Russo-Japanese War and surface-era anti-submarine warfareNotable Point
  81. The Submarine Century? How Submarines evolved over the 20th Century
    35:46The D class and the transition to recognizable First World War submarinesChapter
  82. Revolutionary Battles - Battle of the Rice Boats(1776) & Battle of San Nicolás (1811)
    6:38INS Eilat accelerated missile-defence workQ&A
  83. Steam Rates: When the Wooden Wall gained a hiss & a huff!
    51:29Steam changed more than propulsionNotable Point
  84. Gunboats of the 1920s, 1930s & WWII including Dragonfly Class
    1:05:15From interwar destroyer doctrine to Cape BonNotable Point
  85. Comus(1878) Class: Protected Corvettes/Third Class Cruisers
    38:29HMS Inflexible as a benchmark for changing weaponsNotable Point
  86. Comus(1878) Class: Protected Corvettes/Third Class Cruisers
    41:26Torpedo carriages before fixed launchers became standardNotable Point
  87. Soviet Navy Part 1/3: 1918-1939
    24:17Slow construction squandered Russian destroyer ideasNotable Point
  88. Cressy(1899) Class: Famous for the Wrong Things - 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 12
    14:14Cressy at the turn from Victorian to modern cruisersChapter
  89. Bruships 92: New Books, Naval Chat and Late 19th Century Warships...
    2:38:19Early submarine experiments were an international phenomenonQ&A
  90. Shortcomings of Early Aircraft Carriers: What Lessons can we Learn from Innovation?
    2:05How to judge the first aircraft carriersChapter
  91. Shortcomings of Early Aircraft Carriers: What Lessons can we Learn from Innovation?
    1:23:12Carrier designers keep relearning the cost of false economyChapter
  92. Mersey(1885) Class: 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 1
    18:11HMS Severn tests a submerged torpedo tubeNotable Point
  93. Bruships 88: Way of War
    3:07:13Naval intelligence as knowledge, organization, and powerChapter
  94. Abruzzi Class: Condottieri of the Regia Marina
    9:22Quiet design revolutions become visible in warNotable Point
  95. Bruships 87: Books Found on My Travels, New Books & Christmas Recomendations
    2:22:02Can a bad warship still teach useful lessons?Q&A
  96. 19th Century Cruisers: Comment Response Video 2 (Velasco - Imperieuse)
    5:37Could an unprotected cruiser still count as a warship?Q&A
  97. 19th Century Cruisers: Comment Response Video 2 (Velasco - Imperieuse)
    37:27Esmeralda showed what a modern cruiser could becomeNotable Point
  98. Edgar(1890) Class: 19th Century Cruisers Part 10
    41:18What Grafton's survival suggests about GallipoliNotable Point
  99. Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1939-40
    1:10:24Why navies pursue old and new technologies togetherQ&A
  100. Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times
    11:45Why the American Civil War produced the strangest ironcladsQ&A
  101. Boadicea Class (1907): Scout Cruiser (Long Patrol)
    12:21HMS Dreadnought's fall from dominance by 1914Notable Point
  102. The Battle of Cape Ecnomus (256BC): Long Patrol
    29:18The corvus and Rome's boarding solutionNotable Point
  103. The Battle of Cape Ecnomus (256BC): Long Patrol
    1:09:29Ecnomus opened the route to Africa while the war continuedNotable Point
  104. Sentinel Class (1904): Scout Cruisers (Long Patrol)
    45:44Scout cruisers as a missed turbine testbedChapter
  105. Questions of the Equitable Washington Treaty Answered: A UAD Infused Discussion (Long Patrol)
    1:15:38Drone carriers as a future naval developmentQ&A
  106. Leipzig Class (Reichsmarine)
    43:29Experimentation did not require preserving a poor arrangementNotable Point
  107. An Equitable Washington Treaty: Aircraft Carriers (Long Patrol)
    43:02Why HMS Eagle might have remained HMS CochraneNotable Point
  108. An Equitable Washington Treaty: Aircraft Carriers (Long Patrol)
    54:53Hōshō and Japan's early carrier advantageNotable Point
  109. Bruships 73: Some Old, Some New, None Borrowed, but Some Blue
    2:42:41Submersible experiments around the age of TurtleQ&A
  110. Patreon 45: Comparing Sisters(Not Kardashians) - HMS Renown & Repulse / HMS Nelson & Rodney
    31:56Why Dreadnought was built as a single shipNotable Point
  111. Bruships 70: Travelling along...
    1:29:47Why Dreadnought remained revolutionary even when designs were already convergingQ&A
  112. Bruships 68: Random Naval History Books & Questions
    2:54:35Middle-power navies worth watching in 2022Q&A
  113. Bruships 67: Cruising on through with Questions & Bru
    25:09Why institutional dislike did not stop shells, torpedoes or submarinesQ&A
  114. Bruships 67: Cruising on through with Questions & Bru
    2:47:59Why a battleship might carry a launchable carQ&A
  115. How was British Night Fighting Doctrine developed for and then practiced during WWII? (Long Patrol)
    45:35The rapid development of the Type 72 beaconNotable Point
  116. How was British Night Fighting Doctrine developed for and then practiced during WWII? (Long Patrol)
    1:02:47Type 281, PPI, and wartime radar maturityNotable Point
  117. Patreon 38: Evaluating Type 26 Frigates against WW2 ship classes...
    1:16:36Why uncrewed towed sonar is being introduced cautiouslyQ&A
  118. 'The Imperial High Seas Fleet: Tarkin replaces Tirpitz...': Patreon 36 Introductory Long Patrol
    17:31Translating Tarkin's priorities into German ship designNotable Point
  119. Admiral John Arbuthnot 'Jackie' Fisher: Long Patrol
    1:22:04Dreadnought as a first-mover deterrent signalChapter
  120. Favourite Dreadnoughts – Battleships & Battle Cruisers…
    2:21:43Why Dreadnought became the generic nameNotable Point
  121. Patreon 34: Inter-war Naval Aircraft Development - what could have been?
    1:37:53Swordfish torpedo gear and shallow-water attackChapter
  122. Bruships 51: The Age of Iron
    0:53Early U.S. ironclads as learning designsQ&A
  123. Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 1909 January-June
    14:24Britain and America drive the dreadnought design raceNotable Point
  124. Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 1909 January-June
    16:41Triple turrets concentrate firepower on fewer hullsNotable Point
  125. Some More Battle Cruisers
    45:24Lexington's turbo-electric drive pushes capital-ship technologyChapter
  126. Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): Part 3 1907
    19:12North Dakota brings turbine power to the American battle lineChapter
  127. Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): Part 3 1907
    21:45Peer navies advance unevenly by subsystemNotable Point
  128. Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): Part 3 1907
    23:43Brazilian orders give British yards a technology testbedNotable Point
  129. Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): Part 1, 1905
    16:34Britain had the margin to risk the Dreadnought experimentChapter
  130. Four Random Books 34: A Special Place
    12:51Why new navies inherit old institutional habitsChapter
  131. 'K' Class Submarines; not such a Kalamity
    9:55How hindsight distorts early submarine technologyNotable Point
  132. 'K' Class Submarines; not such a Kalamity
    17:35Fleet submarines were an international naval ambitionNotable Point
  133. 'K' Class Submarines; not such a Kalamity
    1:02:32The K class was an idea ahead of its machineryNotable Point
  134. Four Random Books 31: The Conduct of War
    14:19A multi-author study of Royal Navy innovationChapter
  135. The Battles of Dogger Bank 1696-1916
    7:51The archival question behind Britain's interwar black budgetNotable Point
  136. Was Pearl Harbour a missed opportunity for the US?
    1:10:27Commanders who would have used the radarNotable Point
  137. Bilgepumps Taranto 80 part 1 of 3: Origins of the Flash in the Dark
    41:20The torpedo solutions that made Taranto possibleChapter
  138. Bru Ships Episode 12: New to Me Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    2:06:08Why land wars can hide naval requirementsQ&A
  139. An Introduction "Flying Boats & Seaplanes; Mothered by Capability or Necessity?" P1/4 WWI
    24:54Many small production runs accelerated maritime-aircraft experimentsNotable Point
  140. Bru Ships Episode 9: Super Power Contest (as in the nations) Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    3:22:57A rotary UAV is more plausible than a helicopter-carrier submarineQ&A
  141. An Introduction to Ships of the Convoy War; the Battle of Atlantic in Steel Part 4 Escort Destroyers
    30:02Small escorts as adaptable wartime platformsNotable Point
  142. Bru Ships Episode 7: Warship Design Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    1:50:49Escort carriers were useful because they were plentifulQ&A
  143. Bru Ships Episode 7: Warship Design Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    2:38:19Fast attack craft roles may return through uncrewed vesselsQ&A
  144. An Introduction to What was paid for in Blood, in Sweat, in Tears & so much Money... Part 2 of 3
    18:43Dreadnought and Zumwalt as innovation signalsNotable Point
  145. Top 10 Ships – not Tribal, Battle, Daring or Town classes…
    2:08:34Could the teardrop-hull Albacore have changed World War II?Q&A
  146. The RN in 1939, more than just a Question of Geography - A Quarterdeck Talk (26/11/2019)
    11:17Henderson's convoy theory and the creation of carrier commandNotable Point