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Point Defence

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  1. Bruships 265: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:19:02Layering guns and missiles on a large air-defence shipNotable Point
  2. Air Defence At Sea: From Air Ships in 1906, to drones in 2026 and everything in between...
    18:38Close, point, area and interdiction defenceChapter
  3. Air Defence At Sea: From Air Ships in 1906, to drones in 2026 and everything in between...
    1:27:46The reach and elevation of the 3-inch/70 gunNotable Point
  4. Bruships 233: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:26:37Upgrading Stargate's BC-304Q&A
  5. Bruships 233: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:44:27Gun and CIWS weight in proportion to the shipNotable Point
  6. Bruships 233: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    4:06:57Point-defence lasers within twenty yearsQ&A
  7. Bruships 221: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:39:17Matching the Leander's rating, boarding role and point defenceNotable Point
  8. 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle
    3:50:18Why SeaRAM and Sea Wolf are not direct equivalentsQ&A
  9. 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P6 of 9 - The Royal Navy’s Submarine Killers – Black Swans at War
    4:26:37The one-stop-shop compromise in Kashtan CIWSQ&A
  10. Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust
    4:27:09Designing a 1,200-metre fictional Star Destroyer successorQ&A
  11. Bruships 209: Science Fiction Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:03:07Modernizing the Imperial II Star DestroyerQ&A
  12. Bruships 209: Science Fiction Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:07:07The tradeoffs of nuclear and antimatter armor-piercing shellsQ&A
  13. Bruships 185: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:37:28What the Imperial Star Destroyer loadout says about force designQ&A
  14. Bruships 182: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:47:41When a 135 mm gun becomes point defenseQ&A
  15. Laying Minefields in the Sky... Some WWII Rocketry and Supersized T-Shirt Cannons...
    1:00:47Japan's mortar-fired anti-aircraft mine ambushChapter
  16. Laying Minefields in the Sky... Some WWII Rocketry and Supersized T-Shirt Cannons...
    1:16:51Could old rocket ideas inform counter-UAV defence?Notable Point
  17. The Red Fleet Project Teaser: Discussing Graf Zepplinski with Fleet of Oceans
    1:30:38Does Graf Zepplinski become a helicopter assault carrier?Q&A
  18. Carriers in Science Fiction: Parsite Craft as a primary means of defence & offence...
    3:30Why warship definitions should follow roles, not rangesChapter
  19. Aircraft Carriers in Science Fiction
    19:09Why naval definitions change with the threatChapter
  20. Aircraft Carriers in Science Fiction
    22:48Why defensive interceptions must move farther from the shipNotable Point
  21. Aircraft Carriers in Science Fiction
    26:47What separates Sea Ceptor from Aster 15?Q&A
  22. Aircraft Carriers in Science Fiction
    28:18Can point-defence weapons also protect the fleet?Q&A
  23. Bruships 141: Some Cool Books & Naval History Questions Answered
    3:33:32Martlet missiles as a wartime Type 23 growth pathNotable Point
  24. Bruships 110: Naval Aviation
    3:44:39Container modules could give merchant ships point defenceQ&A
  25. BC-304 Daedalus Class: Stargate's Battle Cruisers
    5:34Why sixteen missiles are not enoughNotable Point
  26. Epic Blunders of Naval History
    1:07:24Layered air defense fails when missile magazines emptyNotable Point
  27. Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 3
    22:45Defending a space carrier in three dimensionsQ&A
  28. Modern Frigates: Cruisers by any other name? (Patreon 57 Long Patrol)
    31:55How air-defence frigates occupy different task-group layersNotable Point
  29. Patreon 57: Modern frigates, cruisers by another name?
    1:25:13Fridtjof Nansen and small-navy cruiser dutiesChapter
  30. Glorious Heritage Class of the Systems Commonwealth & SciFi Bruships
    14:56Does light-speed fire control leave time to evade?Q&A
  31. Glorious Heritage Class of the Systems Commonwealth & SciFi Bruships
    1:42:31Do battle blades provide more than visual intimidation?Q&A
  32. Glorious Heritage Class of the Systems Commonwealth & SciFi Bruships
    3:33:13Are the Glorious Heritage's weapons aimed mainly forward?Q&A
  33. Glourious Heritage Class of the Systems Commonwealth (Long Patrol)
    1:01:40Layered defence and exhaustible interceptorsNotable Point
  34. Siege of Corfu (1798–1799): 223 yrs ago today
    2:46:14Atlantis and the logistics of a city-shipNotable Point
  35. Patreon 33: Amphibious ship development from 1980's to modern day.
    2:27:41Should hospital ships carry CIWS?Q&A
  36. Patreon 33: Amphibious ship development from 1980's to modern day.
    2:41:00A hypersonic weapon may fail after limited damageQ&A
  37. Patreon 24: Everything Wrong With Star Wars Fleets (From a Naval History Perspective)
    33:23Turbolasers, ion cannon, and point defence fill different layersNotable Point
  38. Patreon 24: Everything Wrong With Star Wars Fleets (From a Naval History Perspective)
    1:14:00Did First World War battleships have point defence?Q&A
  39. Bruships 46: Accounts of Naval War
    2:32:56Was Sea Wolf unreliable in the Falklands?Q&A
  40. Bruships 45: Something Medieval
    4:06:35A 76 mm gun and the preference for layered point defenceNotable Point
  41. Bruships 45: Something Medieval
    4:08:48Italian ships combine gun calibres with several missile layersNotable Point
  42. Bruships 42: Some More Scifi
    3:24:27Fleet formation and missile defence during Earth's counterattackNotable Point
  43. Britain of the 1980s: Long Patrol P5 the Royal Navy of the 1980s
    31:55Type 42 economy and the split air-defence fleetChapter
  44. Bruships 27: Science Fiction Books
    1:57:17The Venator's weapon balance against fighters and missilesNotable Point
  45. Bruships 27: Science Fiction Books
    3:05:37War from a Distant Sun's sensor-and-missile fightChapter
  46. Bruships 27: Science Fiction Books
    4:03:21A revised Manticore layout with turrets and point defenceNotable Point
  47. Patreon 11: "The effect of the early jet age on naval warfare strategy/tactics?"
    2:35:41Layered air defence starts with the launch aircraftNotable Point
  48. Bilge Pumps does Battlestar Galactica Deadlock for Navy Con 1/2
    48:09Point-defence weapons that can fight aloneNotable Point
  49. Bilge Pumps does Battlestar Galactica Deadlock for Navy Con 1/2
    50:32Weapon arcs, mutual coverage, and redundancyNotable Point