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- SMS Seydlitz - The Pivotol 4th German Battlecruiser - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 926:45Parsons turbines and the international naval technology networkNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: There was a game update6:311890 technology constrains the first battleshipsChapter
- Bruships 128: Invasions & Amphibious Warfare49:09The cursed result of radar fire control arriving firstQ&A
- Bruships 128: Invasions & Amphibious Warfare1:06:27Drone lessons and the less visible electronic warQ&A
- Bruships 128: Invasions & Amphibious Warfare1:33:46Why 1920s modernization could not substitute for 1930s refitsQ&A
- Battle of Empress Augusta Bay(1943)1:14:47Radar and stealth both change the time available to decideNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 1136:24Sequencing research before the next ship designNotable 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
- Bruships 127: 2023 Christmas Naval History Releases4:48:14HMS Warrior against the Trafalgar fleetQ&A
- What Battleships and Battlecruisers that were not built can tell us...3:31Why bigger naval guns were not automatically betterNotable Point
- Orion Class - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 77:14Superfiring development in an interconnected naval raceNotable Point
- Bruships 125: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series35:31How local conditions affect radar performanceQ&A
- Bruships 125: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series46:34British oxygen-enriched 21-inch torpedoesQ&A
- Bruships 125: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series1:57:58Why 24-inch torpedoes fell out of favourQ&A
- Bruships 125: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series2:00:44Using torpedo tubes for recoverable underwater vehiclesQ&A
- Bruships 125: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series2:11:30Why a shared 533 mm tube does not guarantee compatibilityQ&A
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 62:06:55Research priorities shape fleet capabilityNotable Point
- USS North Dakota(BB-29): The USN's First True Dreadnought - Key Ships Series 5, Episode 810:50Why turbines matter to the dreadnought benchmarkChapter
- The Landship Story4:37The myth of technologically stagnant naval leadersNotable Point
- Being the Benchmark Navy: It has Costs as well as Benefits17:17Paying to set the technical benchmarkChapter
- Being the Benchmark Navy: It has Costs as well as Benefits20:21Queen Elizabeths and the Argincourt counterfactualNotable Point
- Being the Benchmark Navy: It has Costs as well as Benefits28:40How the U.S. Navy sets modern standardsChapter
- Ersatz Monarch Class: Pebbles casting Ripples can lead to Tsunamis - Key Ship Series 4, Episode 1038:24Why South American dreadnoughts shaped the wider raceNotable Point
- 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!1:09:20When guns larger than 16 inches become practicalQ&A
- Bruships 121: Questions till the Bru Runs Out!1:35:05Why quad machine guns could be worse than the UP launcherQ&A
- Bruships 121: Questions till the Bru Runs Out!2:44:07Why 40 mm Bofors guns could persist without missilesQ&A
- Bruships 121: Questions till the Bru Runs Out!3:26:15How 1938 transistors accelerate radar and computingQ&A
- Dutch Dream of 1913: A Dreadnought Battle Fleet of their very own - Key Ship Series 4, Ship 55:23Why Japan was not yet the central Dutch threatNotable Point
- H Class Battleships: Ignoring Reality for Perfection, Key Ships Series 4, Ship 450:42Why H-44's displacement is not simply fantasyNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 32:08:25When fleet demand outruns shipyard capacityNotable Point
- Governments of the Washington Treaty: What were their priorities?2:00:19Competition need not mean an Anglo-American warNotable Point
- What Cannon is right for this ship?10:07How gun locks changed firing controlNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 237:08Research and shipyard capacity govern fleet renewalNotable Point
- Bruships 119: Cool Books - but they're definitely a Mixture49:51Midway as an anomaly and a product of its technologyQ&A
- Battle Cruisers, Battle-Cruisers & Battlecruisers of pre-WWI design stock46:56Why the fast battleship was still a technological gambleNotable Point
- Battle Cruisers, Battle-Cruisers & Battlecruisers of pre-WWI design stock1:38:27G3 and the road to fast battleshipsChapter
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy...1:43:06Cruiser research creates an early battlecruiser leadNotable Point
- Fleets of Lissa(1866): Lessons for Technology18:07Ironclads demanded skills sail-era fleets lackedNotable Point
- Fleets of Lissa(1866): Lessons for Technology52:04Lissa's central lesson: technology needs trainingChapter
- Patreon 80: The most annoying & damaging 'myths' about the Royal Navy in the Treaty Years & WWII?35:20Naval technology changes by adaptation, not replacement overnightNotable Point
- Leahy Class(+Bainbridge Class): Comment Response7:27NTU performance and naval technology lifecyclesNotable Point
- Jeune Ecole: A Cheaper Way of War? The Jeune Ecole18:05Torpedoes promise a cheap decisive weaponChapter
- Jeune Ecole: A Cheaper Way of War? The Jeune Ecole43:25Possible successors to the surface torpedo boatNotable Point
- Tillman's Maximum Battleships: Key Ships Series 2, Ship 833:44A qualitative naval race points toward the fast battleshipChapter
- Nothing Wrong With Our Shells; Alternate History, Jutland if Royal Navy Shells Work extended editon18:05What made the later Greenboy shell more effectiveChapter
- Sovereign Battleships... & Why Pre-Dreadnoughts really shouldn't be called that Round 21:05:04Satsuma and the end of the old battleship eraNotable Point
- Building the Fleets for Jutland2:45Jutland’s fleets were decades in the makingChapter
- Mayfly to the Future: A History of Naval Aviation38:28Why Swordfish torpedo attack depended on a long technical pathNotable Point
- Mayfly to the Future: A History of Naval Aviation58:17The constant missions of naval aviationNotable Point
- HMS Repulse(1892): Key Ships Series 1, Ship 915:22Why a shared name does not mean identical technologyNotable Point
- HMS Repulse(1892): Key Ships Series 1, Ship 942:49A useful ship through the 1861-1905 transitionNotable Point
- Can Cathage Take Rome with a Naval Historian in charge? Rome Total War 1, April 20231:27:21Why titanium remained a specialist naval materialQ&A
- USS New Ironsides: Key Ships Series 1, Ship 86:22A ship from the unsettled ironclad transitionNotable Point
- Starting with Building HMS Thunderchild...1:46:02Shipboard radar and long-range gunneryNotable Point
- Bruships 109: Mahan, an inspiration & a Reflection + Bonus22:29A wider race for large oxygen torpedoesQ&A
- Bruships 109: Mahan, an inspiration & a Reflection + Bonus2:06:43What lightning does to a ship's radarQ&A
- Bruships 109: Mahan, an inspiration & a Reflection + Bonus3:23:52Early submarines as submersible torpedo boatsQ&A
- Huáscar: Key Ships Series 1, Ship 70:20Three ways a warship can be historically keyChapter
- Huáscar: Key Ships Series 1, Ship 713:34Pacocha exposed the limits of gunboat diplomacyChapter
- Huáscar: Key Ships Series 1, Ship 728:20Why lost warships led to renewed procurementNotable Point
- Alternate History - Royal Navy retains the Fleet 'units' of Royal Naval Air Service: Patreon 761:04:41Direct expertise changes aircraft and air-defence decisionsQ&A
- Alternate History - Royal Navy retains the Fleet 'units' of Royal Naval Air Service: Patreon 761:49:55Why steam catapults do not arrive immediatelyNotable Point
- Alternate History - Royal Navy retains the Fleet 'units' of Royal Naval Air Service: Patreon 762:03:12Carrier experience drives better destroyer air defenceNotable Point
- Bruships 108: PLanned for Random Books off the Shelf & Chat51:45How ironclads started a long naval technology cycleNotable Point
- Bruships 108: PLanned for Random Books off the Shelf & Chat2:00:05If Britain adopted small-tube boilers earlierQ&A
- Bruships 108: PLanned for Random Books off the Shelf & Chat2:35:47The communication problem for undersea drone swarmsQ&A
- Bruships 108: PLanned for Random Books off the Shelf & Chat2:46:26When ironclad battleships became obsoleteQ&A
- HNLMS Schorpioen(1868): Key Ship Series 1, Ship 67:46Peer conflict as a naval technology testNotable Point
- HNLMS Schorpioen(1868): Key Ship Series 1, Ship 69:53Virginia and Monitor inspire imitatorsNotable Point
- HNLMS Schorpioen(1868): Key Ship Series 1, Ship 620:56From HMS Warrior to the monitor eraNotable Point
- Ironclad Frigates: Tremendous Transition0:53Ironclads as a technological transitionChapter
- Ironclad Frigates: Tremendous Transition4:50Stable warship forms from battleships to missile escortsNotable Point
- Ironclad Frigates: Tremendous Transition24:37When a new technology becomes practicalChapter
- Ironclad Frigates: Tremendous Transition49:02Why naval technology periods have debatable boundariesNotable Point
- Help I Inadvertently Built a Super Bismarck...1:59:56A weapon must be maintainable in warNotable Point
- Help I Inadvertently Built a Super Bismarck...2:04:46What did the Panther's interleaved road wheels achieve?Q&A
- Empire Total War Twitch Stream 6(March 2023)1:27:34Why British warship armour remains hard to studyNotable Point
- Timberborne: A Test for the Year of Technology/My students favourite 'engineering game'2:15:54Reliability over theoretical perfection in wartime technologyNotable Point
- Timberborne: A Test for the Year of Technology/My students favourite 'engineering game'2:45:18Why technological capability depends on long development chainsNotable 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
- Naval Arms & Armour Research in prior to WWI0:00Reading prewar naval development forwardChapter
- The Submarine Century? How Submarines evolved over the 20th Century1:58:07Cold War submarine losses turn the seabed into an intelligence targetNotable Point
- Empire Total War Twitch Stream 4(February 2023)1:37:55The Royal Navy and the transition to steamChapter
- Bruships 105: Six Age of Sail Useful Books30:16Why an Anglo-American naval race would emphasize technologyQ&A
- Turret Selection: What in What Distribution Makes Sense for you46:57Technology choices behind the Queen Elizabeth layoutNotable Point
- Steam Rates: When the Wooden Wall gained a hiss & a huff!13:26The scale of steam-rate adoption across the major naviesChapter
- Steam Rates: When the Wooden Wall gained a hiss & a huff!39:56A 21-year steam-rate era before the ironclads arrivedChapter
- Steam Rates: When the Wooden Wall gained a hiss & a huff!1:15:51Why the sail-to-steam transition was harder than it looksChapter
- Bruships 103: Belfast Parts yet to arrive... so let's consider the Run up to War...3:17:59CVA-01 straddled two technology generationsQ&A
- Bruships 103: Belfast Parts yet to arrive... so let's consider the Run up to War...3:20:57Warships combine current designs with unfinished systemsQ&A
- Bruships 101: No Dalmations, but a whole HMS Belfast to build3:11:14Railguns, Gauss guns, and imperfect naval innovationQ&A
- Dragonfly Class and other Gunboats Service in WWII25:21Did torpedo boats evolve from gunboats?Q&A
- Bruships 99: Political History, Geostrategic History & Naval History2:11:31Which modern warship would most impress observers in 1914?Q&A
- Bruships 99: Political History, Geostrategic History & Naval History3:32:07Postwar air power and nonlinear technological changeNotable Point
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Comus Class, Kynda Class & Kresta Class50:40Soviet ASW mixed old and new detection methodsNotable Point
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Comus Class, Kynda Class & Kresta Class1:00:40Kynda served as testbed and fleet schoolhouseNotable Point
- What if Germany didn't invade Belgium in 1914?1:22Why wartime pressure changes naval technologyNotable Point
- 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?1:16:08Neutrality postpones the larger warNotable Point
- Patreon 70: Germany does not invade Belgium in 1914 - How does this affect RN?1:59:26The Channel wrecks become a design laboratoryNotable Point
- Patreon 70: Germany does not invade Belgium in 1914 - How does this affect RN?2:03:36Naval aviation without wartime accelerationNotable Point
- 1860-1960 A Hundred Years of Gun Cruisers12:14Sail in the transition to steam cruisersNotable Point
- 1860-1960 A Hundred Years of Gun Cruisers14:01Which ship was the first true steam cruiser?Notable Point
- Albany Class; Conversioning for a Missile(A quick boxing day recording)9:03Arm launchers trade magazine depth for handling riskNotable Point
- Soviet Navy 1918-19911:03:44When did the Soviet Navy reach peak effectiveness?Q&A
- Soviet Navy 1918-19911:07:05Foreign engineers supplied knowledge of Soviet warshipsQ&A
- Bruships 94: Some New Books, Some Others Books and a lot of Naval Chat50:17Hitler's Secret Commandos on German midget submarinesChapter
- Bruships 94: Some New Books, Some Others Books and a lot of Naval Chat3:12:46Launcher weight limits and the thin combat record of VLSQ&A
- Sverdlov Class: Comment Response14:14Why a new weapon rarely makes navies obsolete by itselfNotable Point
- Cressy(1899) Class: Famous for the Wrong Things - 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 127:40Why warships cannot be future-proofed against unknown threatsNotable Point
- Bruships 92: New Books, Naval Chat and Late 19th Century Warships...2:45:36Why railguns could revive larger naval calibresQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 443:17Old torpedo nets offer a simple answer to modern drone boatsQ&A
- BC-304 Daedalus Class: Stargate SG1's Battle Cruisers (Comment Response)45:12Technical services depend on educated military professionalsNotable Point
- Active Class: The Last Scout Cruisers?0:00Why the Active class arrived too late to revolutionize scoutingChapter
- Bruships 89: New Books (Christmas Recomendations) & Personal Accounts of War33:10A modern submarine's crew knowledge outlasts its weaponsQ&A
- Battle of Navarino (1827)2:14:58Did the Royal Navy invent fireships?Q&A
- Epic Blunders of Naval History: Patreon 6456:44Campeche pits sailing warships against steam powerChapter
- Epic Blunders of Naval History: Patreon 642:30:50Could Second World War battleship shells be guided?Q&A
- 19th Century Cruisers: Comment Response Video 3 (Sfax - Geffion)5:47Why naval gun inflation is hard to measureQ&A
- Edgar(1890) Class: 19th Century Cruisers Part 100:39The Edgar class within nineteenth-century cruiser developmentChapter
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 224:35Early ironclads versus armored ships of the lineQ&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 21:44:03Giving Yamato's plans to Britain in 1910Q&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 21:52:42Why working railguns are not yet shipboard weaponsQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 22:03:35Early composite armor in battleship designQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 22:32:34Modular reactors and nuclear-powered shipsQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 22:36:50Coilguns versus railguns at seaQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out1:14:08Why Allied navies adapted faster during World War IINotable Point
- Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1939-4059:54Where naval ammunition handling stops being truly manualQ&A
- Bruships 85: Cruiser, New & Random Reading2:34:40Hydraulic aircraft catapults before steamQ&A
- Kirov Class Cruisers; the Alaska Class of the Late Cold War? (Soviet Navy)30:29Why each Kirov became nearly an individual designNotable Point
- The Jeune Ecole in 30mins or Less2:55Explosive shells reset rather than end the naval raceChapter
- Modern Frigates: Cruisers by any other name? (Patreon 57 Long Patrol)13:39Warship categories grow beyond their original scaleNotable Point
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out Take 21:01:21War accelerates implementation more than inventionQ&A
- Technology an Introduction to a History... of Sorts...6:15Why naval technology is contingent, not inevitableChapter
- Technology an Introduction to a History... of Sorts...31:55Naval technology as an ongoing, organic processNotable Point
- Patreon 56: Why Retire Admirals in a World War? (Live)1:59:21Why drone-defence lasers reinforce a high-low fleet mixNotable Point
- Bruships 80: Books From Travels2:21:43When Dreadnought made the pre-dreadnought era visibly obsoleteQ&A
- Equitable London Treaty: Destroyers (Long Patrol)28:40Modern destroyer missions demanded more displacementChapter
- My Royal Navy Washington Treaty Cruiser: with added Qs from "1939 Destroyer Doctrine" (Long Patrol)19:56Dutch gunboats and submarines built for local defenseNotable Point
- Torpedoes and their Ships 1900-39: Patreon 54 (Long Patrol)0:54The torpedo's giant-killer promiseChapter
- Torpedoes and their Ships 1900-39: Patreon 54 (Long Patrol)6:46What made an early torpedo difficult to buildNotable Point
- A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Battleships Lost at Jutland)36:44Admiralty conservatism amid rapid technological changeChapter
- County Cruisers P8: The County Class in War and Retrospect (Long Patrol)40:25Why Dreadnought's revolution stopped shortNotable Point
- Questions of the Equitable Washington Treaty Answered: A UAD Infused Discussion (Long Patrol)1:18:02Why early dreadnoughts retained torpedoesNotable Point
- Battle of Shiloh: a Riverine, if not quite Maritime, confluence of events2:00:35Were Civil War gunboats sidewheelers?Q&A
- Patreon 50: 1939 Destroyer Doctrine of the combatant navies & Where did it come from?3:18:40Japan's Axis ties did not close key technology gapsNotable Point
- British Light Cruisers & Treaties: A UAD Infused discussion37:27Treaty-induced neglect and wartime rearmamentChapter
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (11)33:54Steel degaussing versus wooden minesweeper hullsQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (11)3:30:47Why today's electronic-warfare suite is historically specificQ&A
- If Hood Was the Washington Template not the exception: A UAD infused discussion24:28Why Hood remains a battlecruiserNotable Point
- Operation Tan No.2 (77yrs ago today)35:51Japanese radar equipment delayed the supporting submarinesQ&A
- Fisher's Foil: Lord Charles Beresford (Long Patrol)54:32Two competing visions of Royal Navy reformChapter
- Lord Charles Beresford (on his birthday)1:44:17A limited case for Beresford's reforming roleNotable Point
- Lord Charles Beresford (on his birthday)2:26:57Outbuilding rivals after they paid for innovationQ&A
- Brummer Class (1915): Long Patrol (Year of the Cruiser)7:00Mine capacity, speed, and armamentNotable Point
- Patreon 42: "Recovering from Disaster: The Imperial Russian Navy between Russo-Japanese War & WW1."2:00:27Novik as an international design adapted in RussiaNotable Point
- Patreon 42: "Recovering from Disaster: The Imperial Russian Navy between Russo-Japanese War & WW1."2:07:10Imported submarine designs became a Russian construction portfolioChapter
- Bruships 67: Cruising on through with Questions & Bru27:24Early Royal Navy radar installationsQ&A
- Bruships 67: Cruising on through with Questions & Bru1:52:12Could railguns create another Dreadnought moment?Q&A
- Bruships 67: Cruising on through with Questions & Bru3:16:39The armor limit behind the battleship's declineQ&A
- The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Live)1:42:16A naval technology race need not lead to warNotable Point
- Quirky Classes and What they tell us about their navies… (Live)2:57:51Why Japanese railgun defence could disrupt missile salvosNotable Point
- Bruships 65: Naval History Books & Questions Answered33:41How shipboard systems influence technology ashoreQ&A
- Bruships 65: Naval History Books & Questions Answered3:37:11From minesweeping to distributed mine countermeasuresQ&A
- ASW and Submarine Warfare in the Inter-War Royal Navy: 1920s & 1930s (Long Patrol)7:23Submarine design balanced range, speed, and internal spaceChapter
- ASW and Submarine Warfare in the Inter-War Royal Navy: 1920s & 1930s (Long Patrol)20:12How ASDIC found a submerged submarineChapter
- ASW and Submarine Warfare in the Inter-War Royal Navy: 1920s & 1930s (Long Patrol)21:47Why ASDIC struggled at high speed and in heavy weatherNotable Point
- ASW and Submarine Warfare in the Inter-War Royal Navy: 1920s & 1930s (Long Patrol)22:19ASDIC was an evolving family of interwar systemsNotable Point
- ASW and Submarine Warfare in the Inter-War Royal Navy: 1920s & 1930s (Long Patrol)41:48Every ASDIC improvement invited a submarine countermeasureNotable Point
- Beacons; Finding Home When Alone Over The Ocean (Long Patrol)11:22From lighthouse-like 72X to Type 72DMChapter
- Beacons; Finding Home When Alone Over The Ocean (Long Patrol)17:01Ark Royal and Illustrious show the beacon's moveNotable Point
- Beacons; Finding Home When Alone Over The Ocean (Long Patrol)17:55Reading the 1947 beacon paper as historical evidenceNotable Point
- Beacons; Finding Home When Alone Over The Ocean (Long Patrol)20:16Inside the Type 72X masthead installationNotable Point
- Beacons; Finding Home When Alone Over The Ocean (Long Patrol)30:40How the Type 72DP encoded a usable bearingChapter
- Inspiration of Theorists: The Maritime & Strategic Lessons of the Seven Years War (1756-63)2:48:12Q&A: what a half-galley wasQ&A
- Bruships 62: Naval History Book Review & Chat2:49:26The harsh environment for uncrewed surface vesselsQ&A
- Bruships 62: Naval History Book Review & Chat3:20:49Lasers, railguns, and the shipboard energy problemQ&A
- Patreon 36: Repair Ships, Depot Ships, Tenders and Stores Ships...47:11Do new technologies make warships obsolete?Q&A
- My G3/N3 Dreadnought Battleship + Battle Cruiser = Fast Battleship Design12:41Separating game fittings from a plausible 1920s shipChapter
- My G3/N3 Dreadnought Battleship + Battle Cruiser = Fast Battleship Design18:24Why a 1920s hull grows heavier by the Second World WarNotable Point
- Bruships 60: Covid Jab, Bad Back & New Books12:35AI ethics and naval advantageQ&A
- Bruships 60: Covid Jab, Bad Back & New Books2:04:52Hydrogen before all-electric warshipsQ&A
- Trafalgar to Dreadnought: 1805-1905 Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc - Long Patrol0:18Why battles rarely create ship-design ideasChapter
- Trafalgar to Dreadnought: 1805-1905 Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc - Long Patrol29:45Parsons and Turbinia seize the Spithead stageNotable Point
- 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
- 21 Christmas Books for 2021 - Bruships 59: Books & Naval History Chat2:34:25Why Trafalgar to Dreadnought forms a useful centuryQ&A
- Trafalgar to Dreadnought: A Century in Fifteen Ships and Battles5:17From Trafalgar's sail fleets to DreadnoughtChapter
- Trafalgar to Dreadnought: A Century in Fifteen Ships and Battles1:25:49Was HMS Devastation halfway to Dreadnought?Q&A
- 'The Imperial High Seas Fleet: Tarkin replaces Tirpitz...': Patreon 36 Introductory Long Patrol2:02Time-appropriate technology and a British responseChapter
- 'The Imperial High Seas Fleet: Tarkin replaces Tirpitz...': Patreon 36 Introductory Long Patrol19:49Fisher and Tarkin drive a technology-first arms raceChapter
- Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs Ago to the Day)1:58:39Did Trafalgar change warship design?Q&A
- Admiral John Arbuthnot 'Jackie' Fisher: Long Patrol30:44Testing new warships and practical equipmentNotable Point
- Admiral John Arbuthnot 'Jackie' Fisher: Long Patrol43:06Destroyers, boilers, and the limits of industrial adoptionChapter
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (8)20:15Searchlights: illumination, dazzling, and exposureChapter
- 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)5:21:45Electric drive's operational value for mine warfareQ&A
- Favourite Dreadnoughts – Battleships & Battle Cruisers…41:48Could railguns bring back armoured gunships?Q&A
- Dreadnoughts that Almost Were of the WWI Era...2:10:58Would fewer treaties delay carrier development?Q&A
- Patreon 33: Amphibious ship development from 1980's to modern day.2:41:00A hypersonic weapon may fail after limited damageQ&A
- Patreon 33: Amphibious ship development from 1980's to modern day.3:58:22Railguns wait on shipboard pulsed powerQ&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
- Patreon 32: Japanese heavy cruisers of the 1920s & 1930s, were they worth it?3:24:45The towers on Mogami supported wire radio aerialsQ&A
- Bruships 56: "Walking Softly & Carrying a Big Stick" - Admirals, Diplomacy & Detterence31:35Victorian ironclads produced many celebrated false startsQ&A
- Bruships 56: "Walking Softly & Carrying a Big Stick" - Admirals, Diplomacy & Detterence1:44:03War accelerates adoption more reliably than inventionQ&A
- Bruships 56: "Walking Softly & Carrying a Big Stick" - Admirals, Diplomacy & Detterence2:06:46Why a Gatling layout could help a heavy automatic gunQ&A
- Bruships 56: "Walking Softly & Carrying a Big Stick" - Admirals, Diplomacy & Detterence3:06:15Submarine hangars for uncrewed vehicles and suppliesQ&A
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P7/12: Karl Dönitz40:29Torpedo-fuze repair versus strategic commandNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (6)13:41If Turtle had succeededQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (6)1:20:35What naval shock trials are meant to revealQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (6)1:52:49How 24-inch torpedoes would reshape submarinesQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (6)1:53:47A shock trial is measured by what breaksNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (6)2:03:48A modern warship line without the steam-and-shell revolutionQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (6)2:22:12Why 24-inch torpedoes were a different weaponQ&A
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) P1/14: Erich Raeder14:46Fleet tankers amid Raeder's technological conservatismNotable Point
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 4/11 What Dreadnought Obscures10:55The dreadnought race beyond GermanyNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (5)25:09Steam-and-steel naval warfare without gunpowderQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (5)40:08Independent carrier catapults and single-point failuresQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (5)49:39When Britain began watching US naval power closelyQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (5)1:11:12A Second World War tank boat for island campaignsQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (5)2:28:08Accelerating naval technology from ironclads to dreadnoughtsQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (5)2:43:33Reading Chinese naval technology claims cautiouslyNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (25): Churchill's Admiral10:36The closed officer class of a changing navyChapter
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (4)1:50:15Who drove numbers and technology in the dreadnought raceQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (4)4:45:01When programmable torpedo guidance becomes practicalNotable Point
- An Introduction to Armoured Cruisers & the Mediteranean6:34Why technology is not a strategyNotable Point
- Battle of the Atlantic: Escort Procurement - Comment Response6:39A modern convoy escort cannot be a cheap small shipQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (3)33:22Hovercraft as a specialist World War II landing toolQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (3)2:01:00The modern US Navy arrives in 1912Q&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (3)2:57:16A King George V-class battleship in 1904Q&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (3)4:32:18What a vertical launch cell actually containsQ&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
- Patreon 27: Some Actions of the French Navy in WWI3:03:39Why were sailors often more literate than soldiers?Q&A
- Bruships 50: A D-Day special with Questions & some New Books from Pen & Sword48:38Why HMS Warrior could dominate the fleets of TrafalgarQ&A
- Bruships 50: A D-Day special with Questions & some New Books from Pen & Sword1:46:31Why a history of technological warfare needs naviesNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 19135:14Pennsylvania's twelve-gun answerChapter
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 191312:29Why the 1913 naval race was globalChapter
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 191314:17A technology race beyond hull countsNotable Point
- 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 190721:45Peer navies advance unevenly by subsystemNotable Point
- Pseudo Patreon British Aircraft Carrier development Since 1945 (as suggested by Kyle Hardman)13:20How the Royal Navy viewed itself in 1945Chapter
- Pseudo Patreon British Aircraft Carrier development Since 1945 (as suggested by Kyle Hardman)48:21Britain trades carrier quantity for a technology edgeNotable Point
- Bruships 46: Accounts of Naval War1:25:30Why modern naval guns rarely grow beyond eight inchesQ&A
- Bruships 46: Accounts of Naval War2:32:56Was Sea Wolf unreliable in the Falklands?Q&A
- Four Random Books 33: Liberty Ships & Depth in History0:04Four books uncover the machinery behind naval historyChapter
- Minotaur & Tiger Class Cruisers3:09:21Railguns impose power and cooling penaltiesNotable Point
- Four Random Books 31: The Conduct of War14:19A multi-author study of Royal Navy innovationChapter
- Bruships 42: Some More Scifi4:22:00Were there other early submarines besides Turtle?Q&A
- Bruships 42: Some More Scifi4:26:38Would Fulton's proposed vessel surprise the Royal Navy?Q&A
- Four Random Books 29: Weapons of War6:39Fighting the Great War at Sea links strategy and technologyChapter
- Four Random Books 29: Weapons of War10:52Broad fleet history gives readers a starting frameworkNotable Point
- Crown Colony Class Long Patrol: Part 4 Ceylon to Newfoundland2:17How technology forecasts shaped Crown Colony cruiser designChapter
- Britain of the 1980s: Long Patrol P4 Britain in the World9:20The recurring cycle between naval offence and defenceNotable Point
- Britain of the 1980s: Long Patrol P4 Britain in the World37:50Early Soviet missile development and naval adaptationChapter
- Britain of the 1980s: Long Patrol P4 Britain in the World41:55Why Cold War anti-ship missiles still matterNotable Point
- Britain of the 1980s: Long Patrol P3a/7 Keith Speed (Continued)12:09HMS Challenger and deep-seabed operationsNotable Point
- Bruships 34: Random History2:42:45When did electric searchlights appear on warships?Q&A
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s Long Patrol Part 4: 1920s Aircaft Carriers of the Big 326:03A decade turns experiments into capable carriersNotable Point
- Steel of a Hundred Years Ago: Ships of 19201:43:24Dutch expertise and German submarine developmentNotable Point
- Patreon 14: The Naval Defence Act of 1889 as proposed by Baile Inneraora12:53Why Victorian sea power demanded continual rebuildingChapter
- Patreon 14: The Naval Defence Act of 1889 as proposed by Baile Inneraora1:25:24Opponents warned about cost, obsolescence, and parliamentary controlChapter
- Patreon 14: The Naval Defence Act of 1889 as proposed by Baile Inneraora1:42:54Torpedo boats were short-life experiments, not durable fleet assetsNotable Point
- Patreon 14: The Naval Defence Act of 1889 as proposed by Baile Inneraora1:45:40Cruiser roles limited the program's obsolescence riskNotable Point
- Patreon 14: The Naval Defence Act of 1889 as proposed by Baile Inneraora2:13:50Astraea and Eclipse classes carried cruiser development forwardChapter
- Paddle Ships at War2:55:57Why paddle warships did not return after 1945Q&A
- Paddle Ships at War2:59:13Modern alternatives for shallow-draft combatQ&A
- Patreon 13: Martin Doherty: What if Gallipoli had succeeded?3:24:24Why a museum ship should represent a specific dateNotable Point
- Town Class Part 7 of 7: Edinburghs & Legacy28:16Why size still matters in cyber, space, and missile warfareNotable Point
- Was Pearl Harbour a missed opportunity for the US?42:51How air-dropped torpedoes could work in shallow waterQ&A
- Patreon 12: “The Battle of Sluys: ...one of the Western World decisive battles"2:09:40How would naval technology develop without the First World War?Q&A
- Patreon 11: "The effect of the early jet age on naval warfare strategy/tactics?"18:08Radar development as a wartime feedback cycleNotable Point
- Patreon 11: "The effect of the early jet age on naval warfare strategy/tactics?"44:15Why carrier jets arrived graduallyChapter
- Patreon 11: "The effect of the early jet age on naval warfare strategy/tactics?"2:15:14Automation cuts crews by finding faults fasterQ&A
- Battle of Quiberon Bay2:01:18A theory for Hunley's lossQ&A
- Battle of Quiberon Bay2:08:56Did the Whitehead torpedo make spar submarines obsolete?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?"37:55HMS Warrior and Britain's early ironclad advantageNotable Point
- Bilge Pumps does Battlestar Galactica Deadlock for Navy Con 1/20:14Using science fiction to test naval ideasChapter
- Bilgepumps does Battlestar Galatica Deadlock for Navy Con 2/250:44EMP defence can endanger the defenderNotable Point
- Bilgepumps does Battlestar Galatica Deadlock for Navy Con 2/21:04:43Science fiction as a prompt, not a blueprintChapter
- The Ships that Fisher scrapped… suggested by Geoff Grognard19:57Fisher's experience before the reform programmeChapter
- The Ships that Fisher scrapped… suggested by Geoff Grognard35:45Why Fisher needed to cut shipsChapter
- The Ships that Fisher scrapped… suggested by Geoff Grognard42:35Did Fisher understand the technology he promoted?Q&A
- The Ships that Fisher scrapped… suggested by Geoff Grognard43:39Did age alone condemn the Orlando class?Q&A
- The Ships that Fisher scrapped… suggested by Geoff Grognard52:37What mattered in battlecruiser-versus-battlecruiser design?Q&A
- The Ships that Fisher scrapped… suggested by Geoff Grognard2:24:22Why navies should distrust single-weapon predictionsQ&A
- The Ships that Fisher Scrapped: Orlando Class (The Forgotten Coast Guard)21:14The Steam, Steel and Shellfire reading suggestionQ&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)25:54Slow firing and black powder in the Monitor comparisonQ&A
- Battle of Trafalgar & it's Legacy13:14Why HMS Warrior reveals a navy in transitionNotable Point
- How the RN countered E-Boats in the English Channel - Patreon 7 Introduction Part 1 of 36:09What made the Schnellboot a difficult targetNotable Point
- How the RN countered E-Boats in the English Channel - Patreon 7 Introduction Part 1 of 316:00Planing hulls and light machinery unlock high speedNotable Point
- Patreon 6 - Force K… Malta’s mailed fist, as proposed by Ian Car45:28Why did German naval radar have so many problems?Q&A
- Patreon Video 5: Mediterranean gunboat diplomacy in the Victorian era2:02:43The Royal Navy's difficulty in a technological transitionQ&A
- An Introduction to the Battle of Texel (1673)42:36Texel and the changing Age of SailChapter
- Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...2:08:17How a 1939 Pacific war could accelerate naval radarNotable Point
- Long Patrol: Making Mare Nostrum a Hollow Jest - RN Submarines in the Meditteranean20:53Why interwar submarines were designed to live on the surfaceNotable Point
- Long Patrol: Making Mare Nostrum a Hollow Jest - RN Submarines in the Meditteranean25:22Underwater speed rapidly consumed submarine enduranceNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 13: Weapons, Both Personal & Ship, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:27:08The recurring five-year promise for drone energy beamingQ&A
- P2 Introduction to Pre-Tribal Class Destroyers of the RN11:12ASDIC changes hidden by a stable type labelNotable Point
- An Introduction to the Royal Navy in the Indian Ocean 1941-3 (Patreon Video 2)53:55I-30 and complementary Axis technology betsNotable Point
- An Introduction to the Royal Navy in the Indian Ocean 1941-3 (Patreon Video 2)1:05:51How a coalition war could change fleets and technologyNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 11: Top Trumps/Ship Comparison Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A50:16What Second World War technology might still be usefulQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 11: Top Trumps/Ship Comparison Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:03:43Why a naval drone becomes more than a cheap civilian droneQ&A
- An Introduction to "Flying Boats & Seaplanes; Mothered by Capability or Necessity?" P3/4 WWII (L)40:04A wartime radio-controlled craft for clearing beach obstaclesNotable Point
- Patreon Video 1: What would you put in warehouses at the end of WWI for WWII if you could?1:03:05The danger of buying naval technology at the wrong momentNotable Point
- Patreon Video 1: What would you put in warehouses at the end of WWI for WWII if you could?1:43:17A 1920s fleet still needs a 1940s modernisationQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 9: Super Power Contest (as in the nations) Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:35:19When a propulsion technology matures too lateQ&A
- An Introduction to Ships of the Convoy War - the Battle of Atlantic in Steel Part 3 Frigates2:36The anti-submarine technology race before 1943Chapter
- Minesweepers, Torpedo Boats & Gunboats – the ‘Littleships’ of the big war1:25:32Turning a CB90 into an uncrewed surface vesselQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:33:21Why Japan kept its inadequate 25 mm antiaircraft gunQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 2a: Book Reviews/Q&A43:03Starting points for interwar torpedo researchQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 2a: Book Reviews/Q&A47:47HMS Warrior as culmination rather than sudden revolutionQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 2a: Book Reviews/Q&A1:25:14How ASDIC spread across interwar naviesQ&A
- A Name to illustrate a navy - HMS Leander through history1:05:11The uncertain Falklands laser dazzlerQ&A
- A Question of Getting Them There - Landing Ships & Amphibious Warfare Part 2(ii)27:23Stern-ramp boat launching has a long historyNotable Point