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- Japan's Mogami Class: The Ultimate Light Frigate Design?1:57Light frigates, corvettes, and offshore patrol vesselsQ&A
- Japan's Mogami Class: The Ultimate Light Frigate Design?3:12Conventional machinery and an integrated mastNotable Point
- Japan's Mogami Class: The Ultimate Light Frigate Design?6:19Keeping extra weapons within the light-frigate missionNotable Point
- Japan's Mogami Class: The Ultimate Light Frigate Design?7:03A heavier Mogami with thirty-two launch cellsChapter
- Bruships 266: Naval History Questions Answered Live27:26Why repeated refits complicate a ship's internal arrangementsNotable Point
- Bruships 266: Naval History Questions Answered Live58:09Hull thickness, rough seas, and warship service lifeQ&A
- Bruships 266: Naval History Questions Answered Live1:14:43Why France selected the Dunkerque designQ&A
- Bruships 266: Naval History Questions Answered Live1:36:00Extra guns on ships and unbuilt designsQ&A
- Bruships 266: Naval History Questions Answered Live3:00:08How much of Essex would survive an Ace Combat rebuild?Q&A
- Bruships 266: Naval History Questions Answered Live4:10:11Why put five 6-inch guns in an uneven cruiser layout?Q&A
- Rise of the Frigate Navies: Why so many nations are going Frigate and why others want them as well!5:09Type 26 shows why a primary mission is not an exclusive missionNotable Point
- Rise of the Frigate Navies: Why so many nations are going Frigate and why others want them as well!12:59Frigate-built hulls, sailing rates and overseas cruisingChapter
- Rise of the Frigate Navies: Why so many nations are going Frigate and why others want them as well!47:42NFR-90's cancellation left usable design workChapter
- Rise of the Frigate Navies: Why so many nations are going Frigate and why others want them as well!49:39Why a Pacific-range F100 adaptation can become a new shipNotable Point
- Rise of the Frigate Navies: Why so many nations are going Frigate and why others want them as well!1:01:43Unlimited requirements undermine an affordable frigateNotable Point
- Rise of the Frigate Navies: Why so many nations are going Frigate and why others want them as well!1:27:03Germany's endurance frigates and the limits of patrol armamentChapter
- Rise of the Frigate Navies: Why so many nations are going Frigate and why others want them as well!1:37:34Why later air-defence upgrades can run into design limitsNotable Point
- Rise of the Frigate Navies: Why so many nations are going Frigate and why others want them as well!1:43:48An uncrewed group still needs a substantial support shipNotable Point
- Rise of the Frigate Navies: Why so many nations are going Frigate and why others want them as well!1:44:39Damage control combines people, redundancy and supporting systemsNotable Point
- Rise of the Frigate Navies: Why so many nations are going Frigate and why others want them as well!1:46:25Flexible crewed ships and specialised uncrewed escortsNotable Point
- Rise of the Frigate Navies: Why so many nations are going Frigate and why others want them as well!1:49:29Constellation and the pressure to reproduce a smaller BurkeChapter
- South Korea's Chungnam Class Frigates: Aesthetics vs Missile Depth0:04Why Korean and Indian mast designs can look alikeNotable Point
- South Korea's Chungnam Class Frigates: Aesthetics vs Missile Depth3:38Why the VLS criticism looks back to decisions before 2022Notable Point
- South Korea's Chungnam Class Frigates: Aesthetics vs Missile Depth4:20Functional appearance and a recognisable Korean warship styleChapter
- Products of Their Time: VLS vs Gun sighting in ship design0:00VLS cell counts and assumptions of Western dominanceNotable Point
- Products of Their Time: VLS vs Gun sighting in ship design1:20Fore-and-aft weapon arcs after a system failureNotable Point
- Products of Their Time: VLS vs Gun sighting in ship design2:27VLS missile coverage and the firing arcs of guns and lasersNotable Point
- Products of Their Time: VLS vs Gun sighting in ship design2:55Placing line-of-sight weapons before self-orienting missilesNotable Point
- Bruships 265: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:32:48Fewer hulls can mean more ships availableNotable Point
- Bruships 265: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:45:27Matching Dutch and British amphibious ship requirementsQ&A
- Bruships 265: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:12:12Can a fast battleship keep battleship protection?Q&A
- Bruships 265: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:14:33Testing a 1918 fast-battleship proposal against available machineryNotable Point
- Bruships 265: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:16:51Why stationary boiler performance does not transfer directly to shipsNotable Point
- Bruships 265: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:15:59An enlarged Type 45 as a Type 83 starting pointQ&A
- Bruships 265: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:28:38How earlier VLS adoption could change Type 45Notable Point
- Destroyer Leaders: Where did they come from and why?0:40Why successful destroyers invite larger designsChapter
- Destroyer Leaders: Where did they come from and why?13:34Swift's advertised speed and mechanical limitationsNotable Point
- Destroyer Leaders: Where did they come from and why?39:19Geography sets a warship's range and seakeeping needsNotable Point
- Destroyer Leaders: Where did they come from and why?45:14New duties require more than an extra weapon mountNotable Point
- Destroyer Leaders: Where did they come from and why?49:54Could Dido cruisers have led more Tribal flotillas?Notable Point
- The Gowind Class: Flexible Warships for Changing Threats0:40Gowind configurations from patrol vessels to light frigatesChapter
- The Gowind Class: Flexible Warships for Changing Threats8:44Gowind's recognizable silhouette and naval presenceNotable Point
- Japanese Destroyers of WWII: Quantity is a Quality of it's own, it can also be a Decisive one1:08Quality had to include the ability to build enough shipsChapter
- Japanese Destroyers of WWII: Quantity is a Quality of it's own, it can also be a Decisive one8:40Shimakaze's speed, range and combat fuel reserveNotable Point
- Japanese Destroyers of WWII: Quantity is a Quality of it's own, it can also be a Decisive one25:12Type 98 guns and the cost of an Akizuki redesignChapter
- Japanese Destroyers of WWII: Quantity is a Quality of it's own, it can also be a Decisive one37:50Super-destroyer proposals and the cost of late ambitionChapter
- Why so many changes from FREMM to Constellation Class - Air Condintioning...0:00FREMM modularity and Constellation's system changesChapter
- Why so many changes from FREMM to Constellation Class - Air Condintioning...1:04Why air-conditioning connections can force wider ship changesNotable Point
- Bruships 264: Naval History Questions Answered Live12:55Dauntless's unidentified boxes and spare ship capacityQ&A
- Bruships 264: Naval History Questions Answered Live2:04:06What limits the number of secondary guns on a warship?Q&A
- Soviet Destroyers of the 1930s: Trying to Rebuild/Build a navy in the face of heart led shipyards...9:04Why range can force the redesign of a frigateNotable Point
- Soviet Destroyers of the 1930s: Trying to Rebuild/Build a navy in the face of heart led shipyards...10:49Arctic endurance versus air defence in enclosed seasNotable Point
- Soviet Destroyers of the 1930s: Trying to Rebuild/Build a navy in the face of heart led shipyards...15:07Leningrad's forward weight and a proposed rearrangementNotable Point
- Soviet Destroyers of the 1930s: Trying to Rebuild/Build a navy in the face of heart led shipyards...40:58Deleting fuel tanks changes the strategy a ship can supportNotable Point
- Soviet Destroyers of the 1930s: Trying to Rebuild/Build a navy in the face of heart led shipyards...45:48Assessing the destroyer that the yard actually builtNotable Point
- Soviet Destroyers of the 1930s: Trying to Rebuild/Build a navy in the face of heart led shipyards...47:52Tashkent's enclosed gun mounts and limited protectionChapter
- Soviet Destroyers of the 1930s: Trying to Rebuild/Build a navy in the face of heart led shipyards...52:35Could World of Warships' Soviet designs have been built?Q&A
- Soviet Destroyers of the 1930s: Trying to Rebuild/Build a navy in the face of heart led shipyards...53:48Tashkent's failed domestic adaptation and the limits of design changesNotable Point
- Nilgiri Class... A Great Indian Frigate1:26Quieter frigates and a distinctive Indian designNotable Point
- Nilgiri Class... A Great Indian Frigate7:06Full-circle coverage and target switchingNotable Point
- Bruships 263: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...14:20Twin naval guns, recoil and wartime firepowerQ&A
- Bruships 263: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...17:41Turret maintenance access and survival after a gun failureNotable Point
- Bruships 263: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:16:58A heavily armed Type 45 design exerciseQ&A
- Bruships 263: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:48:01Dutch design studies and foreign capital-ship expertiseQ&A
- Bruships 263: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:33:48When a Bismarck rebuild becomes a new shipQ&A
- Bruships 263: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:39:48Which American ship design would be enlarged next?Q&A
- Bruships 263: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:45:04Where a German diesel-warship programme could go wrongQ&A
- Bruships 263: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:46:00Political influence inside a warship design committeeQ&A
- Bruships 263: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:29:36A German-Dutch air-defence frigate and the uncertainty of its designationQ&A
- Bruships 263: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:34:13A British battleship hull as the template for a nuclear cruiserQ&A
- Bruships 263: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:50:48Small escorts, missile depth and surviving convoy attacksNotable Point
- Bruships 263: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:52:28Type 31 crewing depends on systems and machineryNotable Point
- What does the Kreigsmarine look like if it goes all diesel powered & Scharnhorst framed?49:23Matching warship procurement to national needsNotable Point
- The Big Frigate Discussion: ASWFs, F110s & Pohjanmaas vs Gowind, European Patrol Corvette & FF(X)8:17Engineering improvements and governments' willingness to payNotable Point
- The Big Frigate Discussion: ASWFs, F110s & Pohjanmaas vs Gowind, European Patrol Corvette & FF(X)14:16ASWF export suitability and US modification riskNotable Point
- The Big Frigate Discussion: ASWFs, F110s & Pohjanmaas vs Gowind, European Patrol Corvette & FF(X)18:04Questioning reported speed losses in enlarged F110sNotable Point
- The Big Frigate Discussion: ASWFs, F110s & Pohjanmaas vs Gowind, European Patrol Corvette & FF(X)23:08F110 VLS growth: reported additions and inferred spare spaceChapter
- The Big Frigate Discussion: ASWFs, F110s & Pohjanmaas vs Gowind, European Patrol Corvette & FF(X)33:51Pohjanmaa is designed around Baltic operationsChapter
- The Big Frigate Discussion: ASWFs, F110s & Pohjanmaas vs Gowind, European Patrol Corvette & FF(X)39:51Stealth, firepower, and the size of Baltic combatantsChapter
- The Big Frigate Discussion: ASWFs, F110s & Pohjanmaas vs Gowind, European Patrol Corvette & FF(X)55:08Growth margin across a warship's service lifeNotable Point
- The Big Frigate Discussion: ASWFs, F110s & Pohjanmaas vs Gowind, European Patrol Corvette & FF(X)1:12:35Mediterranean and North Atlantic patrol requirementsNotable Point
- The Big Frigate Discussion: ASWFs, F110s & Pohjanmaas vs Gowind, European Patrol Corvette & FF(X)1:14:04Shared combat systems with hulls tailored to local needsNotable Point
- The Big Frigate Discussion: ASWFs, F110s & Pohjanmaas vs Gowind, European Patrol Corvette & FF(X)1:26:39Why destroyer standards can overwhelm a frigate designNotable Point
- The Big Frigate Discussion: ASWFs, F110s & Pohjanmaas vs Gowind, European Patrol Corvette & FF(X)1:27:36Galaxy and California classes as a redundancy analogyNotable Point
- Bruships 262: Naval History Questions Answered Live31:13Zumwalt and the Christmas-tree procurement problemNotable Point
- Bruships 262: Naval History Questions Answered Live45:50Chinese treasure-ship size and river accessNotable Point
- Bruships 262: Naval History Questions Answered Live53:03Stealth shaping on a large BBGQ&A
- Bruships 262: Naval History Questions Answered Live56:58K2, K3 and the scale of the designs before NelsonQ&A
- Bruships 262: Naval History Questions Answered Live1:01:50Tiger as the template for a counterfactual Queen ElizabethNotable Point
- Bruships 262: Naval History Questions Answered Live1:06:22Tiger and Kongo compared as builtQ&A
- Bruships 262: Naval History Questions Answered Live1:09:37Japanese destroyers beyond their Arleigh Burke ancestryNotable Point
- Bruships 262: Naval History Questions Answered Live1:14:22Five triple turrets and a faster DreadnoughtQ&A
- Bruships 262: Naval History Questions Answered Live3:23:26Type 26 size options and the central moduleQ&A
- Bruships 262: Naval History Questions Answered Live4:13:41World of Warships design preferencesQ&A
- What happends if you Tigered the Queen Elizabeth Class?0:00Tiger and Queen Elizabeth approaching the fast battleshipChapter
- What happends if you Tigered the Queen Elizabeth Class?3:11Heavier battlecruisers and faster battleshipsNotable Point
- What happends if you Tigered the Queen Elizabeth Class?7:53Interpreting the disputed Super Lion connectionNotable Point
- What happends if you Tigered the Queen Elizabeth Class?10:34Why ship-design folders can mix several projectsNotable Point
- What happends if you Tigered the Queen Elizabeth Class?17:32Tiger's belts and the distribution of hull weightNotable Point
- What happends if you Tigered the Queen Elizabeth Class?21:03Hull shape trades speed against gun stability and manoeuvrabilityNotable Point
- What happends if you Tigered the Queen Elizabeth Class?21:53Construction volume allowed separate specialized hullsNotable Point
- What happends if you Tigered the Queen Elizabeth Class?28:38A rough three-month delay for the Tiger-based designChapter
- What happends if you Tigered the Queen Elizabeth Class?43:05Battleship armour constrains boiler-room spaceNotable Point
- What happends if you Tigered the Queen Elizabeth Class?45:43A provisional armour and turret arrangementNotable Point
- What happends if you Tigered the Queen Elizabeth Class?47:50Keeping battleship beam on Tiger's longer hullNotable Point
- What happends if you Tigered the Queen Elizabeth Class?51:10Why the estimate rounds up to 30,000 tonsNotable Point
- What happends if you Tigered the Queen Elizabeth Class?1:03:32The proposed 28-knot speed remains uncertainNotable Point
- What happends if you Tigered the Queen Elizabeth Class?1:26:23Why Tiger and Queen Elizabeth remained separate designsNotable Point
- What happens to the Navys if the Washington Treaty is held off till 1927?4:24Why 35,000 tons excludes the emerging postwar generationChapter
- What happens to the Navys if the Washington Treaty is held off till 1927?1:15:44Existing large ships change a later displacement ceilingNotable Point
- What happens to the Navys if the Washington Treaty is held off till 1927?1:20:30Continuous building leaves more room to experiment with layoutsNotable Point
- William Adams - the English Samurai from the 17th Century... whose memorial I stumbled into!51:58Jan Joosten and the red seal trading shipsChapter
- USN Destroyers Fletcher to Gearings1:43Prewar experiments prepared a destroyer for mass productionChapter
- USN Destroyers Fletcher to Gearings4:05Surviving a hit and retaining a mission are different problemsNotable Point
- USN Destroyers Fletcher to Gearings14:25Patrol and screening duties require room for systems and crewsNotable Point
- USN Destroyers Fletcher to Gearings29:04More Sumner firepower within nearly the same hull dimensionsNotable Point
- USN Destroyers Fletcher to Gearings33:27A fourth twin mount would change the Sumner's compromisesNotable Point
- USN Destroyers Fletcher to Gearings39:15Gearing endurance for operations against JapanChapter
- USN Destroyers Fletcher to Gearings40:30Gearing torpedo tubes gave way to more antiaircraft gunsNotable Point
- Bruships 261: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...54:09When choosing a smaller ship design helpsQ&A
- Bruships 261: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...57:00Why frigate prices rise with their combat systemsNotable Point
- Bruships 261: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:03:52The Type 23 idea with 32 extra Sea Wolf missilesQ&A
- Bruships 261: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:05:10Conflicting aims in US foreign-frigate procurementNotable Point
- Bruships 261: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:10:52A Flight 4 Burke with room for a larger shipQ&A
- Bruships 261: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:20:13Type 23 hull options and cuts to the building programmeQ&A
- Bruships 261: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:42:28Why dispense with an armoured conning tower?Q&A
- Bruships 260: Naval History Questions Answered Live2:13:37Planning a warship's service lifeQ&A
- Bruships 260: Naval History Questions Answered Live3:24:36A later counterpart to Vasa's design failureQ&A
- Bruships 260: Naval History Questions Answered Live4:18:15Why flawed warships can still be interestingQ&A
- What the unbuilt destroyers of the Regia Marina tell us about WWII?0:00Forensic engineering as a way to read warship designChapter
- What the unbuilt destroyers of the Regia Marina tell us about WWII?6:17Why Italy selected 135 mm gunsChapter
- What the unbuilt destroyers of the Regia Marina tell us about WWII?16:08Designing for contested skies and close destroyer combatChapter
- What the unbuilt destroyers of the Regia Marina tell us about WWII?20:16Public pronouncements versus design intentChapter
- What the unbuilt destroyers of the Regia Marina tell us about WWII?27:21Later-series firepower and sensorsChapter
- What the unbuilt destroyers of the Regia Marina tell us about WWII?29:17Convergent Italian destroyer developmentNotable Point
- What the unbuilt destroyers of the Regia Marina tell us about WWII?33:03Gunpower versus anti-submarine capacityChapter
- What the unbuilt destroyers of the Regia Marina tell us about WWII?42:51Distributed shipyards and a design that came too lateChapter
- What the unbuilt destroyers of the Regia Marina tell us about WWII?44:53How to analyse a warship designNotable Point
- Bruships 258: Naval History Questions Answered Live3:38:07Type 91 sensors and radar height above the seaQ&A
- 14 Acts and 7 Classes - the story of the USN Interwar Destroyers0:00How the World War I destroyer surplus hid an aging forceChapter
- 14 Acts and 7 Classes - the story of the USN Interwar Destroyers4:59The Oliver Hazard Perry comparison warns against ending productionNotable Point
- 14 Acts and 7 Classes - the story of the USN Interwar Destroyers14:17Farragut ended a thirteen-year gap in destroyer commissioningChapter
- 14 Acts and 7 Classes - the story of the USN Interwar Destroyers16:45Japanese parity and Allied research shaped the technology raceNotable Point
- 14 Acts and 7 Classes - the story of the USN Interwar Destroyers26:55Porter turned the destroyer leader into a scouting weaponChapter
- 14 Acts and 7 Classes - the story of the USN Interwar Destroyers27:22Porter machinery reduced the risk of an expensive restartNotable Point
- 14 Acts and 7 Classes - the story of the USN Interwar Destroyers37:46The planned Lexington battlecruisers relied on speed for scoutingNotable Point
- 14 Acts and 7 Classes - the story of the USN Interwar Destroyers1:14:37The interwar lesson applied to modern US frigate designNotable Point
- 14 Acts and 7 Classes - the story of the USN Interwar Destroyers1:40:16Benham exposed the tradeoff between torpedoes and screening weaponsChapter
- 14 Acts and 7 Classes - the story of the USN Interwar Destroyers1:49:39Gibbs & Cox from the Sims class to modern frigate workNotable Point
- 14 Acts and 7 Classes - the story of the USN Interwar Destroyers2:03:42Benson made machinery layout a form of protectionChapter
- 14 Acts and 7 Classes - the story of the USN Interwar Destroyers2:21:56Design inertia kept vulnerable machinery layouts in useNotable Point
- Guadalcanal, HMS Africa, Spy Ships, Metacentric Height & Cruiser build Ticonderoga: 5 in 1 Live2:28:28Metacentric height without the equationsChapter
- Guadalcanal, HMS Africa, Spy Ships, Metacentric Height & Cruiser build Ticonderoga: 5 in 1 Live3:21:26How much extra design work does an uncrewed ship need?Q&A
- Bruships 256: Naval History Questions Answered Live4:26:58A starting reading list for marine engineeringQ&A
- HMS Walker: A Reliable Warrior in Two World Wars8:01War emergency procurement for postwar austerityChapter
- HMS Walker: A Reliable Warrior in Two World Wars12:01Denny construction and durable destroyersNotable Point
- HMS Walker: A Reliable Warrior in Two World Wars48:28High-priority convoys and a 1943 conversionChapter
- HMS Walker: A Reliable Warrior in Two World Wars56:20Adaptable hulls and long-term procurementNotable Point
- HMS Walker: A Reliable Warrior in Two World Wars59:49US destroyer funding and changing requirementsNotable Point
- Building for Research & Development: The Royal Navy's Pre-WWI Destroyer Programs...4:12The first six destroyers and the later A-class labelNotable Point
- Building for Research & Development: The Royal Navy's Pre-WWI Destroyer Programs...12:17The A-class as industrial researchChapter
- Building for Research & Development: The Royal Navy's Pre-WWI Destroyer Programs...19:16B-class destroyers: raising the requirement to 30 knotsChapter
- Building for Research & Development: The Royal Navy's Pre-WWI Destroyer Programs...29:36D-class hull shaping and real speedNotable Point
- Building for Research & Development: The Royal Navy's Pre-WWI Destroyer Programs...38:30Tribal-class speed, oil, and turbine trialsChapter
- Building for Research & Development: The Royal Navy's Pre-WWI Destroyer Programs...40:06Amazon's fuel consumption and the Tribals' structural strengthNotable Point
- Building for Research & Development: The Royal Navy's Pre-WWI Destroyer Programs...42:03Why fleet screens needed a speed marginNotable Point
- Building for Research & Development: The Royal Navy's Pre-WWI Destroyer Programs...1:04:03Thornycroft hull shaping saved fuel but cost more to buildNotable Point
- Building for Research & Development: The Royal Navy's Pre-WWI Destroyer Programs...1:06:00Acheron-class competition and Yarrow specialsChapter
- Building for Research & Development: The Royal Navy's Pre-WWI Destroyer Programs...1:09:51Acasta-class turbine and framing experimentsChapter
- Building for Research & Development: The Royal Navy's Pre-WWI Destroyer Programs...1:21:38What if HMS Swift had become the standard flotilla leader?Notable Point
- What happens if instead of Gallipoli, Fisher gets Churchill to go for the Baltic? (Patreon)2:14:41How an early peace could change American fleet constructionNotable Point
- What happens if instead of Gallipoli, Fisher gets Churchill to go for the Baltic? (Patreon)2:40:41Why not build 25-knot fast battleships from the start?Q&A
- What happens if instead of Gallipoli, Fisher gets Churchill to go for the Baltic? (Patreon)2:44:26How triple turrets could lead to a faster Queen ElizabethNotable Point
- 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
- Balancing the Humors: How are modern nations balancing diplomacy and war in the ships they build?1:04:24Thaon di Revel variants span patrol and frigate rolesNotable Point
- Balancing the Humors: How are modern nations balancing diplomacy and war in the ships they build?1:17:19Japanese, Chinese, and US shipbuilding approachesQ&A
- Balancing the Humors: How are modern nations balancing diplomacy and war in the ships they build?1:17:28How political ideology enters warship designNotable Point
- Balancing the Humors: How are modern nations balancing diplomacy and war in the ships they build?1:31:39Warship concepts are not yet procurementNotable Point
- Balancing the Humors: How are modern nations balancing diplomacy and war in the ships they build?2:02:34Shared hulls and national weapon fitsQ&A
- Why Can't Modern Russia Build Destroyers?36:16Old hull architecture limits modernisationNotable Point
- Swedish Destroyers of the Cold War and Beyond: Balancing the Soviet Union & Russia0:00Reading Swedish strategy through warship designChapter
- Swedish Destroyers of the Cold War and Beyond: Balancing the Soviet Union & Russia5:55RBS-08 and Halland's protected Cold War systemsNotable Point
- Swedish Destroyers of the Cold War and Beyond: Balancing the Soviet Union & Russia35:25Why convoy escort changes the value of stealthNotable Point
- Swedish Destroyers of the Cold War and Beyond: Balancing the Soviet Union & Russia43:33A speculative modern Halland as an all-arms flagshipNotable Point
- Nazi Destroyers of WWII: Failing to Learn, Failing to Build, Failing to Deliver...5:03Why bigger guns could handicap a destroyerNotable Point
- Nazi Destroyers of WWII: Failing to Learn, Failing to Build, Failing to Deliver...12:04Type 1936B: a better destroyer that arrived in too few numbersChapter
- Nazi Destroyers of WWII: Failing to Learn, Failing to Build, Failing to Deliver...20:10Forward firepower matters for an aggressive destroyerNotable Point
- Nazi Destroyers of WWII: Failing to Learn, Failing to Build, Failing to Deliver...25:52The Type 1942's diesel layout concentrated machinery riskNotable Point
- Nazi Destroyers of WWII: Failing to Learn, Failing to Build, Failing to Deliver...38:18Project J was fast enough for the capital ships it would escortNotable Point
- Nazi Destroyers of WWII: Failing to Learn, Failing to Build, Failing to Deliver...41:13The 1938 projects pursued refinement instead of availabilityNotable Point
- Nazi Destroyers of WWII: Failing to Learn, Failing to Build, Failing to Deliver...43:35SP1 concentrated its gun armament toward the sternNotable Point
- Nazi Destroyers of WWII: Failing to Learn, Failing to Build, Failing to Deliver...51:22A slightly larger hull could have served the fighting requirementNotable Point
- Bruships 252: Naval History Questions Answered Live...take 212:02Tiger-style subdivision and the stability-speed tradeoffQ&A
- Bruships 252: Naval History Questions Answered Live...take 212:26Should warships carry HIMARS-style launcher canisters?Q&A
- Bruships 252: Naval History Questions Answered Live...take 26:55Arming a hypothetical 1988 Royal Navy cruiserQ&A
- Bruships 252: Naval History Questions Answered Live...take 27:57What a helicopter landing spot meansQ&A
- Bruships 252: Naval History Questions Answered Live...take 214:38Why Hood was not simply a fast battleshipNotable Point
- Bruships 252: Naval History Questions Answered Live...take 231:37Why a 12,000-ton Canadian combatant may be a poor fitNotable Point
- Bruships 252: Naval History Questions Answered Live...take 21:31:31What the Revenge-class preliminary designs traded awayQ&A
- Bruships 252: Naval History Questions Answered Live...take 22:49:12A larger River-class offshore patrol vesselQ&A
- Bruships 252: Naval History Questions Answered Live...take 23:21:37Why Germany's F127 requirements may outrun its budgetQ&A
- Claiming Mare Nostrum; Italian Destroyer Design & Procurment of the 1920s & 30s0:00Italian destroyer design as a changing compromiseNotable Point
- Claiming Mare Nostrum; Italian Destroyer Design & Procurment of the 1920s & 30s32:05Navigatori-class speed claims and seakeepingChapter
- Claiming Mare Nostrum; Italian Destroyer Design & Procurment of the 1920s & 30s36:26Reading naval priorities through ship designNotable Point
- Claiming Mare Nostrum; Italian Destroyer Design & Procurment of the 1920s & 30s40:05Freccia and Folgore: the limits of iterative refinementChapter
- Claiming Mare Nostrum; Italian Destroyer Design & Procurment of the 1920s & 30s44:31Maestrale and Oriani: larger hulls with familiar armamentChapter
- Claiming Mare Nostrum; Italian Destroyer Design & Procurment of the 1920s & 30s50:40Hull form and the missing Italian destroyer firepowerNotable Point
- Bruships 251: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...10:09Canada's submarine choice and confidence in the Type 212Q&A
- Bruships 250: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:13:08Tiger-derived Lexington battlecruisers in 1915Q&A
- Bruships 250: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:43:45A rapid Type 83 from Type 45 or large Type 26 studiesQ&A
- Bruships 250: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:12:22The pre-treaty path to a 9.2-inch cruiserQ&A
- Bruships 250: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:29:53Which preliminary design became the Tribal class?Q&A
- WWI delayed by six years? What would the Navies look like? (Patreon Alternate History)1:07:55Why Britain keeps the six-inch secondary batteryQ&A
- WWI delayed by six years? What would the Navies look like? (Patreon Alternate History)1:17:37Bayern and Queen Elizabeth solved different fleet problemsQ&A
- WWI delayed by six years? What would the Navies look like? (Patreon Alternate History)1:35:19Why the next battleship speed step could be 28 knotsNotable Point
- WWI delayed by six years? What would the Navies look like? (Patreon Alternate History)2:22:14Why later Japanese rebuilds cannot describe the 1910s fleetQ&A
- WWI delayed by six years? What would the Navies look like? (Patreon Alternate History)2:37:47Would dockyard capacity limit the larger battleships?Q&A
- WWI delayed by six years? What would the Navies look like? (Patreon Alternate History)3:23:39How early triple turrets could reshape HMS DreadnoughtQ&A
- WWI delayed by six years? What would the Navies look like? (Patreon Alternate History)3:27:21Why the gun race stops before 30 inchesQ&A
- WWI delayed by six years? What would the Navies look like? (Patreon Alternate History)3:28:47Capital-ship design without wartime shortcutsQ&A
- WWI delayed by six years? What would the Navies look like? (Patreon Alternate History)3:37:34Large battleship guns and the appeal of a 170-gun four-deckerQ&A
- WWI delayed by six years? What would the Navies look like? (Patreon Alternate History)3:45:59Why quintuple main-battery turrets multiply problemsQ&A
- Building upon experience from a position of strength; Imperial Japan's Destroyers in WWI3:40Kaba combines reciprocating machinery with a 30-knot hullNotable Point
- Building upon experience from a position of strength; Imperial Japan's Destroyers in WWI6:36Isokaze-class escorts for the Eight-Eight FleetChapter
- Building upon experience from a position of strength; Imperial Japan's Destroyers in WWI10:07The Momo class works around yard and turbine limitsChapter
- Building upon experience from a position of strength; Imperial Japan's Destroyers in WWI21:01Kawakaze pushes Japanese torpedo firepower upwardChapter
- Building upon experience from a position of strength; Imperial Japan's Destroyers in WWI23:09The Enoki class meets a six-month emergency deadlineChapter
- Building upon experience from a position of strength; Imperial Japan's Destroyers in WWI26:23Daily operation turns foreign design into usable knowledgeNotable Point
- Bruships 249: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...36:19Why Royal Navy constructors bet on G3 speedQ&A
- Bruships 249: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...45:48Modern warships as floating server farmsNotable Point
- Bruships 249: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:28:30Henderson's larger British carrier design alternativesNotable Point
- Bruships 249: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:14:26Zumwalt as the basis for a fast modern shipQ&A
- Bruships 249: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:29:51Why French and Italian cruisers favored twin turretsQ&A
- Bruships 249: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:16:01Why warship labels reveal less than roles and design compromisesNotable Point
- Bruships 249: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:56:16Are India's 45,000-ton carriers too small?Q&A
- Bruships 249: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:31:51Why a Trieste-derived LHD does not need arresting wiresQ&A
- Ideal Destroyers: Screening Fleets & National Interests from 1890 to Today5:25Destroyer evolution offered battlecruiser designers a warningNotable Point
- Ideal Destroyers: Screening Fleets & National Interests from 1890 to Today7:03Why destroyers grew into seagoing generalistsNotable Point
- Ideal Destroyers: Screening Fleets & National Interests from 1890 to Today8:33Why modern destroyers need cruiser-sized hullsNotable Point
- Ideal Destroyers: Screening Fleets & National Interests from 1890 to Today12:36Funnels become shorthand for destroyer powerNotable Point
- Ideal Destroyers: Screening Fleets & National Interests from 1890 to Today13:32National priorities shape early destroyer designNotable Point
- Ideal Destroyers: Screening Fleets & National Interests from 1890 to Today21:42Interwar destroyer mass lets navies experimentChapter
- Ideal Destroyers: Screening Fleets & National Interests from 1890 to Today29:20Exercise bias understates destroyer air defenceNotable 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 Today56:18Why a bulkhead can decide who survives a missile hitNotable Point
- Ideal Destroyers: Screening Fleets & National Interests from 1890 to Today1:10:23Burke-class endurance and VLS depthNotable Point
- Ideal Destroyers: Screening Fleets & National Interests from 1890 to Today1:21:01Maya-class firepower and stealth tradeoffsChapter
- 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
- Durand de la Penne Class: The Destroyer class which showed the Oto Melara 76mm had came of age6:40Task-group escort design prioritizes usable firepowerNotable Point
- Durand de la Penne Class: The Destroyer class which showed the Oto Melara 76mm had came of age9:50A destroyer equipped to take command of the task groupNotable Point
- Durand de la Penne Class: The Destroyer class which showed the Oto Melara 76mm had came of age11:03Impavido brings guided missiles to Italy's destroyersChapter
- Durand de la Penne Class: The Destroyer class which showed the Oto Melara 76mm had came of age11:54Impavido's 76 mm problem lay in the turret installationNotable Point
- Durand de la Penne Class: The Destroyer class which showed the Oto Melara 76mm had came of age16:14A larger hull fixes the 76 mm coverage problemNotable Point
- Durand de la Penne Class: The Destroyer class which showed the Oto Melara 76mm had came of age18:09Visible guns and peacetime deterrenceNotable Point
- Durand de la Penne Class: The Destroyer class which showed the Oto Melara 76mm had came of age22:42A weapons layout designed to work in diplomacyNotable Point
- Durand de la Penne Class: The Destroyer class which showed the Oto Melara 76mm had came of age33:25Why a warship's diplomatic presence is hard to reduce to a formulaNotable Point
- Durand de la Penne Class: The Destroyer class which showed the Oto Melara 76mm had came of age34:52Why a vertical-launch conversion was impracticalNotable Point
- Durand de la Penne Class: The Destroyer class which showed the Oto Melara 76mm had came of age41:56Continuous shipbuilding lets Italy adapt through procurementNotable Point
- Durand de la Penne Class: The Destroyer class which showed the Oto Melara 76mm had came of age43:55Mediterranean geography drives layered drone defenceNotable Point
- Durand de la Penne Class: The Destroyer class which showed the Oto Melara 76mm had came of age46:20The Italian Horizon ships inherit the three-gun layoutChapter
- The Defence Investment Plan is Out... Let's Talk it through, Good, Bad & What the Frigate?52:38CCV, Type 32, and Type 83 are compared as programme signalsQ&A
- The Defence Investment Plan is Out... Let's Talk it through, Good, Bad & What the Frigate?58:36Dreadnought's successor is likely to be evolutionaryQ&A
- The Defence Investment Plan is Out... Let's Talk it through, Good, Bad & What the Frigate?2:59:04Uncrewed warships require costly control and survivability engineeringQ&A
- The Defence Investment Plan is Out... Let's Talk it through, Good, Bad & What the Frigate?2:59:53Larger general-purpose ships can be cheaper to maintain in serviceQ&A
- The Defence Investment Plan is Out... Let's Talk it through, Good, Bad & What the Frigate?3:03:26Type 31 is recalled as lacking a stern rampQ&A
- The Defence Investment Plan is Out... Let's Talk it through, Good, Bad & What the Frigate?3:58:51The uncrewed-vessel allocation may barely cover designQ&A
- The USN Pre-WWI Destroyers; Never Enough Ordered4:04Why Farragut could not replace a destroyerNotable Point
- The USN Pre-WWI Destroyers; Never Enough Ordered6:52Bainbridge-class variations complicate the first mass orderChapter
- The USN Pre-WWI Destroyers; Never Enough Ordered15:30The six-year gap ends with five Smith-class destroyersNotable Point
- The USN Pre-WWI Destroyers; Never Enough Ordered29:58Paulding design strengths cannot overcome escort scarcityChapter
- The USN Pre-WWI Destroyers; Never Enough Ordered34:47Cassin begins the thousand-tonner lineNotable Point
- The USN Pre-WWI Destroyers; Never Enough Ordered40:50Aylwin refinements improve an oil-fired gun platformNotable Point
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:24:48Kongo-class lineage and Japanese design choicesNotable Point
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:13:01Why a warship cannot easily manufacture its own weaponsQ&A
- Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:31:48Why the Type 43 destroyer was studied with HarriersQ&A
- Resurgent Japan, the "Destroyer Navy" of the 21st Century7:00Kongo combines long-range air defence with fleet command facilitiesNotable Point
- Resurgent Japan, the "Destroyer Navy" of the 21st Century9:26Home waters shape Japan's decision to remove VLS reload cranesNotable Point
- Resurgent Japan, the "Destroyer Navy" of the 21st Century10:37Murasame supplies helicopters and general-purpose escort strengthChapter
- Resurgent Japan, the "Destroyer Navy" of the 21st Century14:58Takanami increases missile capacity with a common Mark 41 launcherChapter
- Resurgent Japan, the "Destroyer Navy" of the 21st Century33:52Continuous construction enables iteration but can encourage complacencyNotable Point
- Resurgent Japan, the "Destroyer Navy" of the 21st Century41:35Akizuki's GaN radar reduces top weight but complicates productionNotable Point
- Resurgent Japan, the "Destroyer Navy" of the 21st Century43:04Akizuki combines electronic warfare with a balanced escort fitChapter
- Resurgent Japan, the "Destroyer Navy" of the 21st Century58:57Asahi pairs quiet electric cruising with a balanced ASW fitChapter
- Resurgent Japan, the "Destroyer Navy" of the 21st Century1:01:3413DDX could combine Asahi and Mogami ideas for a wider marketNotable Point
- Bruships 247: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...24:52A time traveller's list of naval decisions and lost evidenceQ&A
- Bruships 247: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...26:34Why favour the F3 battlecruiser design?Q&A
- Bruships 247: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...30:00Four Admiral-class battlecruisers would reshape treaty fleetsNotable Point
- Bruships 247: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...39:42South Dakota's Guadalcanal failure as an engineering chainQ&A
- Bruships 247: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:08:56Wing Commander ships serve a chokepoint warQ&A
- Bruships 247: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:14:18Science-fiction ideas likely to appear in near-future naviesQ&A
- Bruships 247: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:08:22What the County-class destroyers lost during designQ&A
- Bruships 247: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:14:18Armored Colonial escorts built to close with Cylon basestarsNotable Point
- Bruships 247: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:47:40Unryu-class carriers as a bridge to postwar Japanese designsQ&A
- Bruships 247: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:53:41Turning a merchant ship into a peer warship means rebuilding itQ&A
- Bruships 247: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:58:50A trimaran supercarrier gains beam at the cost of internal volumeQ&A
- Bruships 247: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:05:36Why armed cargo ships do not replace dedicated warshipsQ&A
- Bruships 247: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:08:20Fifteen 9.2-inch guns versus six 12-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships 247: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:18:32Preserving the Chilean armored cruiser O'HigginsQ&A
- Bruships 247: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:42:52Warhammer ships as cities with inherited crewsQ&A
- Bruships 247: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:51:18Machinery and unofficial residents fill Warhammer's lower decksNotable Point
- Bruships 247: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:55:09Why smaller torpedoes could cripple BlucherQ&A
- Bruships 247: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:59:53Talos-sized missiles exceed the Mark 41 launcher's limitsQ&A
- Bruships 247: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:02:28A composite battleship built around AndromedaQ&A
- Bruships 247: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:04:10A Gloriana design combines quantum armor and self-repairNotable Point
- Bruships 247: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:06:25Invincible Reason with regenerative armor and automated weaponsNotable Point
- Bruships 247: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:18:31How HMS Hood exceeded her original trial speedQ&A
- What if the RN decided to upgrade HMS Tiger to 15in guns?4:42Tiger approaches the fast battleship from the battlecruiser sideNotable Point
- What if the RN decided to upgrade HMS Tiger to 15in guns?8:08Tiger adds substantial weight to a hull only slightly larger than Queen Mary'sNotable Point
- What if the RN decided to upgrade HMS Tiger to 15in guns?14:59Internal supports determine how much armor a hull can carryNotable Point
- What if the RN decided to upgrade HMS Tiger to 15in guns?57:12Tiger could test a 15-inch/50 before the F2 and F3 shipsNotable Point
- What if the RN decided to upgrade HMS Tiger to 15in guns?1:04:08A tentative King George V alternative uses twelve 15-inch gunsNotable Point
- What if the RN decided to upgrade HMS Tiger to 15in guns?1:05:23A 24-knot fast force raises the carrier speed requirementNotable Point
- Britain's Cold War Destroyers: Logically Building for the War they didn't Fight...0:20Design studies versus ships the Royal Navy actually builtNotable Point
- Britain's Cold War Destroyers: Logically Building for the War they didn't Fight...13:43Daring class destroyers set a high postwar benchmarkChapter
- Britain's Cold War Destroyers: Logically Building for the War they didn't Fight...19:13Sea Slug shows how missile systems changed destroyer designNotable Point
- Britain's Cold War Destroyers: Logically Building for the War they didn't Fight...26:29Radar and the CIC moved command away from the bridgeNotable Point
- Bruships 246: Naval History Questions Answered Live...32:05Navy tugs need damage control more than grey paintQ&A
- 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...44:56A captured Richelieu could physically accept the game's German conversionQ&A
- Bruships 246: Naval History Questions Answered Live...58:36A common battlecruiser hull could also support fast carriersQ&A
- Bruships 246: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:03:58Type 43 would find few export buyersQ&A
- Bruships 246: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:12:44Maintainability should shape a warship before equipment is fittedQ&A
- Bruships 246: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:26:31A 5.25-inch super-Tribal crosses into cruiser territoryQ&A
- Bruships 246: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:27:32The game's Number 13 derivative resembles a plausible late-1940s refitQ&A
- Bruships 246: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:29:57Treaty-free navies would build their own Tiger Cub cruisersQ&A
- Bruships 246: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:45:44Vigilance 105 is an OPV specification edging into frigate territoryQ&A
- Bruships 246: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:51:58Nuclear shipbuilding needs certified yards and specialist labourQ&A
- Bruships 246: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:27:37Coast-guard ship design begins with jurisdiction and threatQ&A
- Bruships 246: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:29:51Warship draft is set by harbours and canals, not a universal maximumQ&A
- Bruships 246: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:34:07Reactor access should sit beneath spaces already due for renewalQ&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...2:43:37A modern conventional gun is viable, but railgun experiments should change scaleQ&A
- Bruships 246: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:56:59A Fletcher derivative gave postwar Japan a familiar destroyer baselineQ&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...3:06:02Sea Shadow's narrow niche limits the case for a returnQ&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...3:49:45A larger surviving cruiser can rewrite the whole treaty systemQ&A
- Bruships 246: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:58:09Six twin 76 mm mounts demand a large hull with clear arcsQ&A
- Bruships 246: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:40:31"Built for but not with" works only if wartime upgrades actually arriveQ&A
- Bruships 246: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:48:06Rhadamanthus was a fast, fragile step toward RenownQ&A
- Bruships 246: Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:02:46Logistics and sea conditions test elegant ideas that work on paperNotable Point
- Could the US Navy have kept the Oliver Hazard Perry's in service for longer?11:12The Perry's basic escort designNotable Point
- Could the US Navy have kept the Oliver Hazard Perry's in service for longer?15:23How the Perry fit supported escort warfareChapter
- Could the US Navy have kept the Oliver Hazard Perry's in service for longer?21:03What changed between the Perry batchesChapter
- Could the US Navy have kept the Oliver Hazard Perry's in service for longer?22:46Perry and Type 22 hull growth comparedNotable Point
- Could the US Navy have kept the Oliver Hazard Perry's in service for longer?46:04Why use short-hull and long-hull Perry labels?Q&A
- Could the US Navy have kept the Oliver Hazard Perry's in service for longer?48:46Why the Perry changed to a longer hullQ&A
- Could the US Navy have kept the Oliver Hazard Perry's in service for longer?56:53How a fleet gets trapped in a high-cost spiralQ&A
- Could the US Navy have kept the Oliver Hazard Perry's in service for longer?1:03:37Why shipbuilding claims need yard evidenceNotable Point
- Could the US Navy have kept the Oliver Hazard Perry's in service for longer?1:18:20A VLS Perry changes US Navy force structureNotable Point
- Could the US Navy have kept the Oliver Hazard Perry's in service for longer?1:27:27Could an evolved Perry carry a 5-inch gun?Q&A
- Could the US Navy have kept the Oliver Hazard Perry's in service for longer?1:40:46What a 5,000-6,200-ton Perry would becomeQ&A
- Could the US Navy have kept the Oliver Hazard Perry's in service for longer?1:47:10How a continuing Perry line changes ConstellationQ&A
- Could the US Navy have kept the Oliver Hazard Perry's in service for longer?1:57:57Why the Perry carried its 76 mm gun amidshipsQ&A
- Bruships 245: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:24:19Designing a more useful 1928 PanzerschiffQ&A
- Bruships 245: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:28:09Coal-fired warships as time-travel choicesQ&A
- Bruships 245: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:20:20Scarce coal and the ironclad ageQ&A
- Bruships 245: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:38:44The surprisingly saleable wheeled patrol vesselQ&A
- Bruships 245: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:41:06Larger Tiger-class helicopter cruisersQ&A
- Bruships 245: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:01:16Nuclear Option's Littoral Flight DeckQ&A
- Modularity Squared... What happens if the Stanflex & Meko combined into a single program?0:00MEKO plus StanFlex raises the problem of too much modularityNotable Point
- Modularity Squared... What happens if the Stanflex & Meko combined into a single program?6:47StanFlex changes roles quickly within fixed container limitsChapter
- Modularity Squared... What happens if the Stanflex & Meko combined into a single program?15:58An early MEKO fit looks unexpectedly useful against dronesChapter
- Modularity Squared... What happens if the Stanflex & Meko combined into a single program?18:58MEKO scales hulls and machinery while its stealth evolvesChapter
- Modularity Squared... What happens if the Stanflex & Meko combined into a single program?30:28Fixed VLS and swappable modules can divide core and optional weaponsChapter
- Modularity Squared... What happens if the Stanflex & Meko combined into a single program?37:45The MEKO A400 could combine Aegis, fixed VLS, and modular payloadsChapter
- Modularity Squared... What happens if the Stanflex & Meko combined into a single program?38:59Swappable modules complicate intelligence and threat assessmentNotable Point
- Modularity Squared... What happens if the Stanflex & Meko combined into a single program?40:28Danish and German MEKO teams could compete inside one standardNotable Point
- The Rise & Fall of the Constellation Class: What happened to the FFG-62 Program?1:27Constellation's off-the-shelf value problemChapter
- The Rise & Fall of the Constellation Class: What happened to the FFG-62 Program?9:27LCS mission overload sets up the next frigate problemChapter
- The Rise & Fall of the Constellation Class: What happened to the FFG-62 Program?20:22FFG(X) reverses the LCS mission graftChapter
- The Rise & Fall of the Constellation Class: What happened to the FFG-62 Program?28:44Why prefer Type 26 for ASW when FREMM is still in production?Q&A
- The Rise & Fall of the Constellation Class: What happened to the FFG-62 Program?31:03Why FREMM offered a plausible parent for a large frigate programChapter
- The Rise & Fall of the Constellation Class: What happened to the FFG-62 Program?1:21:24Commonality collapsed as design changes accumulatedChapter
- The Rise & Fall of the Constellation Class: What happened to the FFG-62 Program?1:26:03How equipment substitutions spread through a parent designNotable Point
- The Rise & Fall of the Constellation Class: What happened to the FFG-62 Program?1:30:03Construction began before the basic design stabilizedChapter
- The Rise & Fall of the Constellation Class: What happened to the FFG-62 Program?1:32:28Why high modelling-completion figures did not establish a stable designNotable Point
- The Rise & Fall of the Constellation Class: What happened to the FFG-62 Program?1:36:30Requirements control depends on someone empowered to say noNotable Point
- The Rise & Fall of the Constellation Class: What happened to the FFG-62 Program?1:38:52An early Burke Flight III proposal and the sequencing of improvementsNotable Point
- The Rise & Fall of the Constellation Class: What happened to the FFG-62 Program?1:40:05Why was the wider Constellation program cancelled?Q&A
- The Rise & Fall of the Constellation Class: What happened to the FFG-62 Program?1:44:03Design rights and the value of what a derivative retainsNotable Point
- The Rise & Fall of the Constellation Class: What happened to the FFG-62 Program?1:47:44Could the US Navy preserve real parent-design commonality?Q&A
- How Ship Design is a reflection of Navy's attempts to balance technology, strategy and memory...0:00Ship design balances memory, strategy, and technologyChapter
- How Ship Design is a reflection of Navy's attempts to balance technology, strategy and memory...2:35National survivability choices complicate an enemy's attackNotable Point
- How Ship Design is a reflection of Navy's attempts to balance technology, strategy and memory...8:40Radars shape modern warship architectureChapter
- How Ship Design is a reflection of Navy's attempts to balance technology, strategy and memory...12:15Radar interference and missile exhaust constrain deck layoutNotable Point
- How Ship Design is a reflection of Navy's attempts to balance technology, strategy and memory...14:20Mission systems define the hull around themNotable Point
- How Ship Design is a reflection of Navy's attempts to balance technology, strategy and memory...21:51Treaty limits make carrier designs divergeNotable Point
- How Ship Design is a reflection of Navy's attempts to balance technology, strategy and memory...23:50Black Sea lessons need geographic translationNotable Point
- How Ship Design is a reflection of Navy's attempts to balance technology, strategy and memory...36:40Stealth shaping changes hulls and topsidesChapter
- How Ship Design is a reflection of Navy's attempts to balance technology, strategy and memory...51:57How the OTO Melara 76 became an Italian design habitNotable Point
- Korean Destroyers: Core of a Statement Surface Fleet1:33Domestic design teams adapt foreign systems to Korean needsNotable Point
- Korean Destroyers: Core of a Statement Surface Fleet11:28Hyundai and Hanwha anchor KDX constructionChapter
- Korean Destroyers: Core of a Statement Surface Fleet15:34Cancelled variants and long gaps interrupt KDX developmentNotable Point
- Korean Destroyers: Core of a Statement Surface Fleet20:37Gwanggaeto the Great starts as a practical ASW destroyerChapter
- Korean Destroyers: Core of a Statement Surface Fleet21:41Multiple suppliers build Korean systems-integration skillNotable Point
- Korean Destroyers: Core of a Statement Surface Fleet32:39French stealth influence and Sejong's Burke-like silhouetteNotable Point
- Korean Destroyers: Core of a Statement Surface Fleet34:19Sejong the Great scales up the Burke-shaped destroyer ideaNotable Point
- Korean Destroyers: Core of a Statement Surface Fleet43:17KVLS-II gives Jeongjo a heavier ballistic-missile roleChapter
- Korean Destroyers: Core of a Statement Surface Fleet45:23Jeongjo's missile-defence role comes with a redesigned batteryNotable Point
- Korean Destroyers: Core of a Statement Surface Fleet48:18Hypersonic weapons and large VLS modules push hull size upwardNotable Point
- Korean Destroyers: Core of a Statement Surface Fleet51:17Jeongjo's strike role raises a close-in defence questionNotable Point
- The Large Torpedoboats & Torpedoboat Destroyers of the Imperial German Navy in WWI2:42V25 as the German wartime baselineChapter
- The Large Torpedoboats & Torpedoboat Destroyers of the Imperial German Navy in WWI4:57V25 production evolves through different hulls and turbinesNotable Point
- The Large Torpedoboats & Torpedoboat Destroyers of the Imperial German Navy in WWI11:57B97 moves closer to a screening destroyerChapter
- The Large Torpedoboats & Torpedoboat Destroyers of the Imperial German Navy in WWI27:52G96 and the late-war peak of the large torpedo boatChapter
- The Large Torpedoboats & Torpedoboat Destroyers of the Imperial German Navy in WWI34:56S113 hull quality meets the 6-inch gun problemChapter
- The Large Torpedoboats & Torpedoboat Destroyers of the Imperial German Navy in WWI42:49V170 returns to 105 mm guns but still lacks weight of fireChapter
- The Large Torpedoboats & Torpedoboat Destroyers of the Imperial German Navy in WWI47:32Redesign the boats under real German constraintsNotable Point
- Trials and Tribulations: Why Testing Warships Matters...1:53Build quality and class variationChapter
- Trials and Tribulations: Why Testing Warships Matters...12:43Command-station chairs affect safety and alertnessNotable Point
- Trials and Tribulations: Why Testing Warships Matters...14:27Crew access checks change Type 45 firefighting arrangementsChapter
- Trials and Tribulations: Why Testing Warships Matters...22:28Hull shape determines cruising efficiencyNotable Point
- Trials and Tribulations: Why Testing Warships Matters...24:01Maneuvering tests and survivabilityNotable Point
- Trials and Tribulations: Why Testing Warships Matters...36:37Stability calibration and weapons fitNotable Point
- Trials and Tribulations: Why Testing Warships Matters...40:41Radar interference and electronic shieldingNotable Point
- Trials and Tribulations: Why Testing Warships Matters...53:53Full-ship shock trials expose structural weak pointsChapter
- Trials and Tribulations: Why Testing Warships Matters...55:36Computer shock models need physical trial dataNotable Point
- What Happens if Australia, Canada & the UK go all in on the Invincibles in the 1970s? (Patreon Live)15:23CVA-01 deck studies and Invincible's single islandNotable Point
- What Happens if Australia, Canada & the UK go all in on the Invincibles in the 1970s? (Patreon Live)20:12Real Invincibles set the technical baselineChapter
- What Happens if Australia, Canada & the UK go all in on the Invincibles in the 1970s? (Patreon Live)42:14Sea Harrier logic makes the hull and mission growNotable Point
- What Happens if Australia, Canada & the UK go all in on the Invincibles in the 1970s? (Patreon Live)58:09Why did Invincible's flight deck stop short at the stern?Q&A
- What Happens if Australia, Canada & the UK go all in on the Invincibles in the 1970s? (Patreon Live)1:00:59Was HMS Ocean built on an Invincible hull?Q&A
- What Happens if Australia, Canada & the UK go all in on the Invincibles in the 1970s? (Patreon Live)1:09:53Was an Invincible-derived strike cruiser likely?Q&A
- What Happens if Australia, Canada & the UK go all in on the Invincibles in the 1970s? (Patreon Live)1:10:09Could a better V/STOL Invincible stay under 25,000 tons?Q&A
- What Happens if Australia, Canada & the UK go all in on the Invincibles in the 1970s? (Patreon Live)1:16:34Did Queen Elizabeth reuse Illustrious's weapons handling?Q&A
- What Happens if Australia, Canada & the UK go all in on the Invincibles in the 1970s? (Patreon Live)1:24:51The 30,000-ton light-load InvincibleChapter
- What Happens if Australia, Canada & the UK go all in on the Invincibles in the 1970s? (Patreon Live)1:31:30Why choose Sea Wolf's six-round launcher?Q&A
- What Happens if Australia, Canada & the UK go all in on the Invincibles in the 1970s? (Patreon Live)1:36:42Deck-edge lifts compete with North Sea experienceNotable Point
- What Happens if Australia, Canada & the UK go all in on the Invincibles in the 1970s? (Patreon Live)2:12:07Does a ski jump prevent conventional aircraft use?Q&A
- What Happens if Australia, Canada & the UK go all in on the Invincibles in the 1970s? (Patreon Live)2:14:40Would a modified Type 42 replace a new carrier-defence destroyer?Q&A
- What Happens if Australia, Canada & the UK go all in on the Invincibles in the 1970s? (Patreon Live)2:26:52Could Australia's Invincibles become Aegis carriers?Q&A
- What Happens if Australia, Canada & the UK go all in on the Invincibles in the 1970s? (Patreon Live)2:30:59Could the Halifax hull become an air-defence escort?Q&A
- Jeune Ecole Batch 2... The French Destroyers up to WWI0:00Aviso torpilleurs and France's destroyer starting pointChapter
- Jeune Ecole Batch 2... The French Destroyers up to WWI0:27Expanding missions make destroyers and frigates growNotable Point
- Jeune Ecole Batch 2... The French Destroyers up to WWI22:03Spahi and Voltigeur show the tradeoffs of larger destroyersChapter
- Jeune Ecole Batch 2... The French Destroyers up to WWI26:42Hull shaping explains range efficiencyNotable Point
- Jeune Ecole Batch 2... The French Destroyers up to WWI33:01Chasseur layout anticipates later destroyersNotable Point
- Jeune Ecole Batch 2... The French Destroyers up to WWI35:12Bouclier-era ships approach contemporary destroyersChapter
- Jeune Ecole Batch 2... The French Destroyers up to WWI46:53Cramped machinery increases maintenance manpowerNotable Point
- Jeune Ecole Batch 2... The French Destroyers up to WWI52:46Turtleback bows give way to an Atlantic-style shapeNotable Point
- Bruships 243: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...34:58Pirate ship choice and crew economyQ&A
- Bruships 243: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...41:16Shipyard automation and order stabilityQ&A
- Bruships 243: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...46:59Naval ship codes and construction standardsQ&A
- Bruships 243: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...59:16Modern warship command preferencesQ&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...1:53:59Lithium-sulfur batteries and naval power systemsQ&A
- Bruships 243: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:07:02Balancing a 320-cell cruiserQ&A
- Bruships 243: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:23:53Maintenance access can enlarge uncrewed vesselsNotable Point
- Bruships 243: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:48:41Specialized hulls with common naval systemsNotable Point
- Bruships 243: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:23:18Choosing a practical modern pirate vesselQ&A
- What do Offshore Patrol Vessels do and are the useful in War as well as Peace?4:22River-class range and economy suit patrol workChapter
- 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?36:47An OPV design can support wartime constructionNotable Point
- What do Offshore Patrol Vessels do and are the useful in War as well as Peace?37:23Deck-mounted weapons still need structural and stability workNotable Point
- What do Offshore Patrol Vessels do and are the useful in War as well as Peace?41:22Legend-class conversion can approach a new buildNotable Point
- What do Offshore Patrol Vessels do and are the useful in War as well as Peace?56:31OPV design needs an affordable margin for dangerNotable 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
- US Navy Ship Building Plan 2026... a Live look at what is being planned...55:37Why Burke-class combat power does not automatically produce diplomatic utilityNotable Point
- US Navy Ship Building Plan 2026... a Live look at what is being planned...1:23:01Skilled labor and the many systems inside a warshipNotable Point
- US Navy Ship Building Plan 2026... a Live look at what is being planned...2:31:29Japanese destroyers illustrate the cost of improving each shipNotable Point
- US Navy Ship Building Plan 2026... a Live look at what is being planned...4:07:34Hood and Bismarck belonged to different shipbuilding generationsNotable Point
- US Navy Ship Building Plan 2026... a Live look at what is being planned...4:21:45How other navies might respond to a larger US surface combatantNotable Point
- US Navy Ship Building Plan 2026... a Live look at what is being planned...4:26:59Is the battleship partly a vehicle for shipyard investment?Q&A
- US Navy Ship Building Plan 2026... a Live look at what is being planned...4:55:46Should smaller navies build specialist VLS-heavy variants?Q&A
- US Navy Ship Building Plan 2026... a Live look at what is being planned...4:56:55The nuclear depth charge proposal that endangered its own shipQ&A
- US Navy Ship Building Plan 2026... a Live look at what is being planned...5:17:15Could Japanese destroyer requirements connect with a future Burke design?Q&A
- US Navy Ship Building Plan 2026... a Live look at what is being planned...5:17:29How many surface-combatant types should the Navy keep?Q&A
- Bruships 242: Naval History Questions Answered Live...20:16Why warships outgrow their electrical generationQ&A
- Bruships 242: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:18:53Battlecruiser speed, guns, and armor coverageQ&A
- Bruships 242: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:02:14A more conventional Zumwalt with mixed VLS batteriesQ&A
- Bruships 242: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:05:06Why a mahogany second-rate would be a poor investmentQ&A
- Bruships 242: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:07:56Buoyancy, topweight, and structural strengthNotable Point
- Bruships 242: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:16:07Hood's armor changes and the risk of cancellationQ&A
- Bruships 242: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:20:49Four J3 battlecruisers and a larger treaty baselineNotable Point
- Bruships 242: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:49:30Danton variants and French dreadnought transitionQ&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...3:24:30A practical timber revision for the mahogany second-rateQ&A
- Bruships 242: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:26:00Choosing among the Alsace preliminary designsQ&A
- Bruships 242: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:33:32Why a three-deck ironclad would remain a rarityQ&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...3:53:21Type XXI submarines and historical reputationQ&A
- Bruships 242: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:27:41Mark 57 versus Mark 41 VLS for Royal Navy retrofitsQ&A
- Total Burke Domination: Why the US Navy could be rebranded the Arleigh Burke Flotilla & Friends?0:00A possible century of Arleigh Burke influenceChapter
- Total Burke Domination: Why the US Navy could be rebranded the Arleigh Burke Flotilla & Friends?5:45A proven Burke hull reaches its design limitsNotable Point
- Total Burke Domination: Why the US Navy could be rebranded the Arleigh Burke Flotilla & Friends?11:51Mark 41 VLS makes the Burke adaptableNotable Point
- Total Burke Domination: Why the US Navy could be rebranded the Arleigh Burke Flotilla & Friends?17:00Magazine depth and targeting systems drive Burke sizeNotable Point
- Total Burke Domination: Why the US Navy could be rebranded the Arleigh Burke Flotilla & Friends?19:04Flight II offers evolution more than transformationNotable Point
- Total Burke Domination: Why the US Navy could be rebranded the Arleigh Burke Flotilla & Friends?23:23SPY-1D and the transition from PESA to AESA radarNotable Point
- Total Burke Domination: Why the US Navy could be rebranded the Arleigh Burke Flotilla & Friends?28:43Why AESA radar needs more than a new antennaNotable Point
- Total Burke Domination: Why the US Navy could be rebranded the Arleigh Burke Flotilla & Friends?33:04Flight IIA brings the practical upgradeChapter
- Total Burke Domination: Why the US Navy could be rebranded the Arleigh Burke Flotilla & Friends?43:43Zumwalt becomes a Christmas-tree programNotable Point
- Total Burke Domination: Why the US Navy could be rebranded the Arleigh Burke Flotilla & Friends?45:11Mark 57 survivability and the 80-versus-96-cell comparisonNotable Point
- Total Burke Domination: Why the US Navy could be rebranded the Arleigh Burke Flotilla & Friends?46:36A shrinking Zumwalt production run magnifies program costNotable Point
- Total Burke Domination: Why the US Navy could be rebranded the Arleigh Burke Flotilla & Friends?49:29Different destroyer roles complicate the Burke comparisonChapter
- Total Burke Domination: Why the US Navy could be rebranded the Arleigh Burke Flotilla & Friends?51:30A proposed Zumwalt alternative with familiar weapons and more aviationNotable Point
- Total Burke Domination: Why the US Navy could be rebranded the Arleigh Burke Flotilla & Friends?54:41Gloire and Warrior as an analogy for accepting a new warshipNotable Point
- Total Burke Domination: Why the US Navy could be rebranded the Arleigh Burke Flotilla & Friends?57:33Flight IIA restart chooses reliabilityNotable Point
- Total Burke Domination: Why the US Navy could be rebranded the Arleigh Burke Flotilla & Friends?1:00:59Harpoon removal and the limits of shipboard torpedoesNotable Point
- Total Burke Domination: Why the US Navy could be rebranded the Arleigh Burke Flotilla & Friends?1:04:45Useful Burke retrofits meet a structural limitNotable Point
- Total Burke Domination: Why the US Navy could be rebranded the Arleigh Burke Flotilla & Friends?1:10:31ODIN and the effect of hull limits on laser selectionNotable Point
- Total Burke Domination: Why the US Navy could be rebranded the Arleigh Burke Flotilla & Friends?1:13:18DDG(X) and the new-hull dilemmaChapter
- Total Burke Domination: Why the US Navy could be rebranded the Arleigh Burke Flotilla & Friends?1:21:25The Flight IIA technology insert bridges toward Flight IIINotable Point
- Total Burke Domination: Why the US Navy could be rebranded the Arleigh Burke Flotilla & Friends?1:23:47Construction dates reveal the long transition between Burke flightsNotable Point
- Total Burke Domination: Why the US Navy could be rebranded the Arleigh Burke Flotilla & Friends?1:33:18How a successor's classification affects its comparison with BurkeNotable Point
- Total Burke Domination: Why the US Navy could be rebranded the Arleigh Burke Flotilla & Friends?1:34:23Why fleet air defence places demands on hull sizeNotable Point
- Total Burke Domination: Why the US Navy could be rebranded the Arleigh Burke Flotilla & Friends?1:36:31A Zumwalt Flight II would still need political touchstonesNotable Point
- Total Burke Domination: Why the US Navy could be rebranded the Arleigh Burke Flotilla & Friends?1:38:38A hypothetical Flight IV would require substantial redesignNotable Point
- Total Burke Domination: Why the US Navy could be rebranded the Arleigh Burke Flotilla & Friends?1:41:28The replacement must balance novelty and continuityNotable Point
- 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
- Five Topics which tend to lead to me debating vigorously with other historians... (Patreon Live)1:30:27Capital ships as a moving spectrumNotable Point
- Five Topics which tend to lead to me debating vigorously with other historians... (Patreon Live)1:32:29Tiger, Hood, and the case for comparing subdivisionNotable Point
- Five Topics which tend to lead to me debating vigorously with other historians... (Patreon Live)1:34:35Why naval history needs both clean narratives and labeled hunchesNotable Point
- Five Topics which tend to lead to me debating vigorously with other historians... (Patreon Live)1:36:16Reconstructing the sixth Queen Elizabeth-class battleshipNotable Point
- Five Topics which tend to lead to me debating vigorously with other historians... (Patreon Live)1:49:16Engineering requirements analysis applied to naval historyChapter
- Five Topics which tend to lead to me debating vigorously with other historians... (Patreon Live)2:08:52Capital-ship design knowledge that never reached the paperworkQ&A
- Destroyers: Modern Navy's most powerful surface combatants - 134yrs of development10:28Speed and manoeuvrability let destroyers screen the fleetNotable Point
- Destroyers: Modern Navy's most powerful surface combatants - 134yrs of development13:12Charger and Eden show how quickly destroyers grewNotable Point
- Destroyers: Modern Navy's most powerful surface combatants - 134yrs of development17:52Eden trades torpedo emphasis for stronger gunsNotable Point
- Destroyers: Modern Navy's most powerful surface combatants - 134yrs of development22:09Why build destroyers instead of torpedo-boat leaders?Q&A
- Destroyers: Modern Navy's most powerful surface combatants - 134yrs of development33:41Destroyer silhouettes advertise speed, status, and confidenceNotable Point
- Destroyers: Modern Navy's most powerful surface combatants - 134yrs of development44:44Exercise incentives distort destroyer air-defence lessonsNotable Point
- Destroyers: Modern Navy's most powerful surface combatants - 134yrs of development50:46Tribal-class guns support night torpedo attacksChapter
- Destroyers: Modern Navy's most powerful surface combatants - 134yrs of development52:21Haida and Vampire show destroyers becoming cruisersNotable Point
- Destroyers: Modern Navy's most powerful surface combatants - 134yrs of development55:22Battle-class armament reflects a wartime design pauseNotable Point
- Destroyers: Modern Navy's most powerful surface combatants - 134yrs of development56:52Daring-class destroyers become cruiser substitutesNotable Point
- Destroyers: Modern Navy's most powerful surface combatants - 134yrs of development59:39Guns and VLS should be complementary magazinesNotable Point
- Destroyers: Modern Navy's most powerful surface combatants - 134yrs of development1:01:20Cold War destroyers must fight and look convincingNotable Point
- Destroyers: Modern Navy's most powerful surface combatants - 134yrs of development1:05:00A successful warship must fit and break the moldNotable Point
- Destroyers: Modern Navy's most powerful surface combatants - 134yrs of development1:19:17Burke success raises the replacement thresholdNotable Point
- Destroyers: Modern Navy's most powerful surface combatants - 134yrs of development1:24:31Order size changes average destroyer programme costsNotable Point
- Destroyers: Modern Navy's most powerful surface combatants - 134yrs of development1:32:12Larger destroyer proposals raise questions about magazine depthNotable Point
- Destroyers: Modern Navy's most powerful surface combatants - 134yrs of development1:39:03Cruiser-sized destroyers may become USV mothershipsNotable Point
- Japans Cold War Destroyers: Building up a Navy the Right Way...4:39Destroyer totals conceal differences in capabilityNotable Point
- Japans Cold War Destroyers: Building up a Navy the Right Way...6:21Harukaze and Ayanami make ASW growth acceptableChapter
- Japans Cold War Destroyers: Building up a Navy the Right Way...6:48Harukaze combines ASW weapons with US-standard equipmentNotable Point
- Japans Cold War Destroyers: Building up a Navy the Right Way...10:24Ayanami adds anti-ship torpedoes to a submarine-hunting escortNotable Point
- Japans Cold War Destroyers: Building up a Navy the Right Way...16:01Murasame and Akizuki move toward indigenous command shipsChapter
- Japans Cold War Destroyers: Building up a Navy the Right Way...16:01Murasame restores heavier guns for flotilla escort workNotable Point
- Japans Cold War Destroyers: Building up a Navy the Right Way...18:05Akizuki develops an indigenous flotilla leaderNotable Point
- Japans Cold War Destroyers: Building up a Navy the Right Way...24:23Amatsukaze makes the missile-destroyer leapNotable Point
- Japans Cold War Destroyers: Building up a Navy the Right Way...27:48Tartar's electrical demands enlarge AmatsukazeNotable Point
- Japans Cold War Destroyers: Building up a Navy the Right Way...38:13Type 23 replacement illustrates the costs of interrupted constructionNotable Point
- Japans Cold War Destroyers: Building up a Navy the Right Way...42:09How does Type 26's ASW focus compare with FREMM?Q&A
- Japans Cold War Destroyers: Building up a Navy the Right Way...48:17Carrier politics channel Japan toward the Haruna designNotable Point
- Japans Cold War Destroyers: Building up a Navy the Right Way...49:32Haruna provides space for three helicopters and a long working deckNotable Point
- Japans Cold War Destroyers: Building up a Navy the Right Way...52:37Tachikaze and Hatakaze add air-defence command depthNotable Point
- Japans Cold War Destroyers: Building up a Navy the Right Way...59:35Why did Shirane retain two 5-inch guns?Q&A
- Japans Cold War Destroyers: Building up a Navy the Right Way...1:03:37Hatsuyuki trades machinery redundancy for compact massNotable Point
- Bruships 241: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...40:58Enterprise-E versus an Imperial Star DestroyerQ&A
- Bruships 241: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:04:54Was Voyager uniquely suited to the Delta Quadrant?Q&A
- Bruships 241: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:10:50Voyager's unused aeroshuttle and the Delta FlyerNotable Point
- Bruships 241: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:35:47Why Warhammer 40K ships fight with broadsidesQ&A
- Bruships 241: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:38:52A Gloriana's stealth system at the expense of its shieldsNotable Point
- Bruships 241: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:39:36A Hutt superlaser warship's design tradeoffsQ&A
- Bruships 241: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:46:52The weakness of size-only starship classificationQ&A
- Bruships 241: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:59:57Honorverse broadsides, propulsion, and naval politicsQ&A
- Bruships 241: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:03:12A cheap Stargate corvette for routine missionsQ&A
- Bruships 241: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:37:10Designing an Arleigh Burke for space warfareQ&A
- Bruships 241: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:42:15The Klingon Bird of Prey as a logistics warningQ&A
- Bruships 241: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:52:31The hull volume behind science-fiction energy weaponsQ&A
- Bruships 241: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:01:56Science-fiction equivalents of the Tiger-class cruiserQ&A
- Bruships 241: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:13:36Would Brunel have made HMS Warrior a two-decker?Q&A
- Bruships 241: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:26:05F125, F127, and Type 055 comparisonQ&A
- Bruships 241: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:46:35Reading Type 22 nuclear blast-hardening figuresQ&A
- Bruships 241: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:26:29Babylon 5's Omega and Nova fleet-design tradeoffsNotable Point
- Ironclads go Two Decker....4:52Why La Gloire was eclipsed despite being firstNotable Point
- Ironclads go Two Decker....8:38Large frigates made Warrior a natural British answerChapter
- Ironclads go Two Decker....12:13Warrior made new technology look like familiar powerNotable Point
- Ironclads go Two Decker....13:11Why Warrior carried both 110-pounders and 68-poundersNotable Point
- Ironclads go Two Decker....16:01Ironclad frigates start taking over the battle fleet's jobNotable Point
- Ironclads go Two Decker....23:09A bigger benchmark could accelerate naval architectureNotable Point
- Ironclads go Two Decker....25:17Baldwin Walker narrows the choice to frigate or two-deckerNotable Point
- Ironclads go Two Decker....30:49How a two-decker Warrior might distribute roughly a hundred gunsChapter
- Ironclads go Two Decker....36:12Why Duncan supplies the proposed armored two-decker's starting pointNotable Point
- Ironclads go Two Decker....45:03Two-decker ironclads could change turret layouts before DreadnoughtChapter
- Ironclads go Two Decker....48:05Faster frigates could delay the cruiser labelNotable Point
- Modern Indian Destroyers: Creation of an Indigenous Naval Capability, Dehli to Visakhaptnam Classes3:43Rajput class as India's customized Soviet baselineChapter
- Modern Indian Destroyers: Creation of an Indigenous Naval Capability, Dehli to Visakhaptnam Classes5:16Doctrine, design evidence, and learning from RajputNotable Point
- Modern Indian Destroyers: Creation of an Indigenous Naval Capability, Dehli to Visakhaptnam Classes8:08Delhi class and surface-action commandNotable Point
- Modern Indian Destroyers: Creation of an Indigenous Naval Capability, Dehli to Visakhaptnam Classes10:21Delhi speed, layered air defence, and task-group rangeNotable Point
- Modern Indian Destroyers: Creation of an Indigenous Naval Capability, Dehli to Visakhaptnam Classes13:10Project 18 reaches cruiser scaleNotable Point
- Modern Indian Destroyers: Creation of an Indigenous Naval Capability, Dehli to Visakhaptnam Classes20:34Project 15A modifications amid fleet shortfallsNotable Point
- Modern Indian Destroyers: Creation of an Indigenous Naval Capability, Dehli to Visakhaptnam Classes22:03Kolkata stealth growth and decade-long deliveryNotable Point
- Modern Indian Destroyers: Creation of an Indigenous Naval Capability, Dehli to Visakhaptnam Classes23:38Kolkata gun layers and drone-defence economicsNotable Point
- Modern Indian Destroyers: Creation of an Indigenous Naval Capability, Dehli to Visakhaptnam Classes26:27India's combat management system against the Aegis benchmarkNotable Point
- Modern Indian Destroyers: Creation of an Indigenous Naval Capability, Dehli to Visakhaptnam Classes30:11Kolkata range and the Maareech torpedo decoyNotable Point
- Modern Indian Destroyers: Creation of an Indigenous Naval Capability, Dehli to Visakhaptnam Classes32:02Project 15B automation and 9,000-nautical-mile reachChapter
- Modern Indian Destroyers: Creation of an Indigenous Naval Capability, Dehli to Visakhaptnam Classes33:53CBRN survival and the rising indigenous shareNotable Point
- Modern Indian Destroyers: Creation of an Indigenous Naval Capability, Dehli to Visakhaptnam Classes37:50Peer comparisons and three-batch learningNotable Point
- Modern Indian Destroyers: Creation of an Indigenous Naval Capability, Dehli to Visakhaptnam Classes39:08From Soviet silhouette to Indian design identityNotable Point
- Modern Indian Destroyers: Creation of an Indigenous Naval Capability, Dehli to Visakhaptnam Classes40:10Project 18 and Project 17B continue India's design developmentNotable Point
- Modern Indian Destroyers: Creation of an Indigenous Naval Capability, Dehli to Visakhaptnam Classes41:20Project 18 and Indian destroyer force structureNotable Point
- Modern Indian Destroyers: Creation of an Indigenous Naval Capability, Dehli to Visakhaptnam Classes42:41Indigenization's learning curve in force planningNotable Point
- Live: What the Royal Navy's Type 83 Will Not Be: AKA Reality of Future Air Dominance System(FADS)2:42Type 83 points toward a larger air-defence destroyerChapter
- Live: What the Royal Navy's Type 83 Will Not Be: AKA Reality of Future Air Dominance System(FADS)13:21International destroyer growth provides a size comparisonNotable Point
- Live: What the Royal Navy's Type 83 Will Not Be: AKA Reality of Future Air Dominance System(FADS)15:28York and Exeter show the limits of buying smaller cruisersChapter
- Live: What the Royal Navy's Type 83 Will Not Be: AKA Reality of Future Air Dominance System(FADS)22:27Requirements drive Type 83 toward a large combatantNotable 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)26:21Energy weapons and large aircraft add demands beyond VLS cellsNotable Point
- Live: What the Royal Navy's Type 83 Will Not Be: AKA Reality of Future Air Dominance System(FADS)27:14Air-defence command needs room for staff and supporting missionsNotable Point
- Live: What the Royal Navy's Type 83 Will Not Be: AKA Reality of Future Air Dominance System(FADS)28:20Larger hulls make machinery and computer redundancy easierNotable Point
- Live: What the Royal Navy's Type 83 Will Not Be: AKA Reality of Future Air Dominance System(FADS)31:14Type 45 shows the cost of deleting planned marginsNotable Point
- Live: What the Royal Navy's Type 83 Will Not Be: AKA Reality of Future Air Dominance System(FADS)33:23Type 26's ASW design sets limits on an air-defence conversionChapter
- Live: What the Royal Navy's Type 83 Will Not Be: AKA Reality of Future Air Dominance System(FADS)38:27Heavy radar and the Type 42 stretch show how hull changes spreadNotable Point
- Live: What the Royal Navy's Type 83 Will Not Be: AKA Reality of Future Air Dominance System(FADS)42:33Standard displacement excludes fuel, with the crew point left unclearQ&A
- Live: What the Royal Navy's Type 83 Will Not Be: AKA Reality of Future Air Dominance System(FADS)45:20Type 83 is expected to exceed Type 82's size and capabilityQ&A
- Live: What the Royal Navy's Type 83 Will Not Be: AKA Reality of Future Air Dominance System(FADS)49:21Henderson treated the York class as a design warningQ&A
- Live: What the Royal Navy's Type 83 Will Not Be: AKA Reality of Future Air Dominance System(FADS)50:00Black Swan fell between OPV and frigate requirementsQ&A
- Live: What the Royal Navy's Type 83 Will Not Be: AKA Reality of Future Air Dominance System(FADS)54:28Cooling equipment also shapes a warship's thermal signatureQ&A
- Live: What the Royal Navy's Type 83 Will Not Be: AKA Reality of Future Air Dominance System(FADS)55:18Older battlecarrier proposals are a poor Type 83 modelQ&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)1:28:06A Type 83 mothership would support and rearm uncrewed escortsChapter
- Live: What the Royal Navy's Type 83 Will Not Be: AKA Reality of Future Air Dominance System(FADS)1:31:40How VLS demands can make 192 cells sound modestChapter
- 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)1:52:47Sixteen VLS cells can be a false economyQ&A
- Live: What the Royal Navy's Type 83 Will Not Be: AKA Reality of Future Air Dominance System(FADS)1:58:26Distributed VLS banks preserve capability after damageQ&A
- Live: What the Royal Navy's Type 83 Will Not Be: AKA Reality of Future Air Dominance System(FADS)2:10:17The 192-cell proposal is an aspiration, not a settled limitQ&A
- Live: What the Royal Navy's Type 83 Will Not Be: AKA Reality of Future Air Dominance System(FADS)2:10:39Putting VLS near a hangar does not guarantee loading accessQ&A
- Protecting Ikea in the Cradle; Swedish Destroyers in WWII15:08The Ehrensköld class moves Sweden toward larger destroyersChapter
- Protecting Ikea in the Cradle; Swedish Destroyers in WWII19:30Judge destroyers against national needsNotable Point
- Protecting Ikea in the Cradle; Swedish Destroyers in WWII24:15Klas Horn and Klas Uggla expand mine capacity at modest costChapter
- Protecting Ikea in the Cradle; Swedish Destroyers in WWII40:19The Visby class improves a familiar weapons packageChapter
- Protecting Ikea in the Cradle; Swedish Destroyers in WWII41:55Visby commissioning strengthens Sweden during a volatile Baltic endgameNotable Point
- Protecting Ikea in the Cradle; Swedish Destroyers in WWII44:49Öland trades maximum speed for Baltic enduranceChapter
- Protecting Ikea in the Cradle; Swedish Destroyers in WWII46:17Öland combines dual-purpose guns with a heavy coastal weapons loadChapter
- Imperial Russian Destroyers: The Paper Numbers vs The Reality of what they didn't have at Tsushima3:17Sokol combined destroyer armament with 29-knot speedNotable Point
- 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 Tsushima13:41Ukrainets showed what a capable Russian destroyer could carryNotable Point
- Imperial Russian Destroyers: The Paper Numbers vs The Reality of what they didn't have at Tsushima17:08German-influenced destroyers missed TsushimaNotable Point
- Imperial Russian Destroyers: The Paper Numbers vs The Reality of what they didn't have at Tsushima26:50Four-ship orders exposed Russia's rebuilding limitsNotable Point
- 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
- Imperial Russian Destroyers: The Paper Numbers vs The Reality of what they didn't have at Tsushima31:16Helicopter facilities revealed a ship's anti-submarine priorityNotable Point
- Imperial Russian Destroyers: The Paper Numbers vs The Reality of what they didn't have at Tsushima33:20Larger destroyers still brought limited range and new machineryNotable Point
- Imperial Russian Destroyers: The Paper Numbers vs The Reality of what they didn't have at Tsushima37:48Lieutenant Shestakov combined heavy armament with limited speedNotable Point
- Imperial Russian Destroyers: The Paper Numbers vs The Reality of what they didn't have at Tsushima42:03Novik combined turbine speed with a heavy destroyer armamentChapter
- Imperial Russian Destroyers: The Paper Numbers vs The Reality of what they didn't have at Tsushima48:26The Orfey subclass remained a useful destroyerNotable Point
- Imperial Russian Destroyers: The Paper Numbers vs The Reality of what they didn't have at Tsushima52:35What if Russia had built balanced destroyers earlier?Notable Point
- Bruships 240: Naval History Questions Answered Live...41:44F3 battlecruiser protection tradeoffsQ&A
- Bruships 240: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:10:11Japan with Kii-style battleships in 1918Q&A
- Bruships 240: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:20:05How far ahead was Kii's technology in 1918?Q&A
- Bruships 240: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:32:51When the next Burke needs a larger hullQ&A
- Bruships 240: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:44:03Why post-Hawkins cruisers started at 12,000 tonsQ&A
- Bruships 240: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:26:31A treaty-compliant Bismarck designQ&A
- Bruships 240: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:21:31Using large hulls for a Defiant-class combatantQ&A
- Bruships 240: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:22:22A Defiant-driven battleship arms raceQ&A
- Bruships 240: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:24:19Active defenses on a future battleshipQ&A
- Bruships 240: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:48:24Variable-pitch propellers in warshipsQ&A
- Bruships 240: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:53:42Why a warship might retain fixed-pitch propellersQ&A
- Bruships 240: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:01:20Modern six-inch naval gun compatibilityQ&A
- Bruships 240: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:13:53Missile launchers beside Tiger's gun batteryQ&A
- SH-60 Seahawk/Oceanhawk/Rescuehawk/Romeo/Knighthawk... Key Aircraft Series 4 Aircraft 17:41Turning the Black Hawk into a shipboard SeahawkChapter
- SH-60 Seahawk/Oceanhawk/Rescuehawk/Romeo/Knighthawk... Key Aircraft Series 4 Aircraft 111:27Why shipborne helicopters need broad missionsNotable Point
- SH-60 Seahawk/Oceanhawk/Rescuehawk/Romeo/Knighthawk... Key Aircraft Series 4 Aircraft 135:01Specialist mine-warfare hulls and the cost of a lossNotable Point
- The Dutch Interwar Destroyer Debate3:17Wolf/Fret-class ships as the weak starting pointNotable Point
- The Dutch Interwar Destroyer Debate18:44When legislators debate every gun and mountingNotable Point
- The Dutch Interwar Destroyer Debate19:56Why small-warship requirements keep adding displacementNotable Point
- The Dutch Interwar Destroyer Debate21:43Admiral de Ruyter class: mine warfare, floatplanes, and torpedoesChapter
- The Dutch Interwar Destroyer Debate22:45Admiral de Ruyter-class guns, speed, and enduranceNotable Point
- The Dutch Interwar Destroyer Debate35:14Russian torpedo-boat destroyers before TsushimaNotable Point
- Bruships 239: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...restart2:17Exocet space on a large gun cruiserQ&A
- Bruships 239: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...restart13:19Halo Vondetan battlecruiser tradeoffsQ&A
- 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...restart14:30Missile quality versus magazine depth on the Vondetan classNotable Point
- Bruships 239: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...restart16:52The Vondetan as a self-contained expeditionary warshipNotable Point
- Bruships 239: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...restart18:17Armor thickness versus compartmentation in Halo warshipsNotable Point
- Bruships 239: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...restart23:52Vanguard, treaty limits, and the meaning of fast battleshipNotable 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...restart32:32How much could new boilers improve Incomparable?Q&A
- 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
- Bruships0:00The narrow case for 18-inch naval gunsNotable Point
- Bruships2:34VLS cell counts and destroyer expectationsNotable Point
- Bruships13:44Invincible speed margins and battlecruiser controlQ&A
- Bruships23:18Steam power before gunpowder and ramming tacticsQ&A
- Bruships35:41Deutschland-class carrier conversionsQ&A
- Bruships 239: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...8:17Why the stored-steam submarine boost is rejectedQ&A
- Bruships 239: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...14:22Why launch weight and slipway angle matterNotable Point
- 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...53:41Tiger as a small-tube boiler test bedQ&A
- Special Catch Up Ramblings on Behalf of @TheFleetOfOceans9:36Superfiring Invincible at JutlandQ&A
- Special Catch Up Ramblings on Behalf of @TheFleetOfOceans38:09Why smaller, cheaper warships remain elusiveNotable Point
- Special Catch Up Ramblings on Behalf of @TheFleetOfOceans1:41:13What a larger Tiger-class cruiser hull buysQ&A
- Special Catch Up Ramblings on Behalf of @TheFleetOfOceans1:46:07British carriers in the U.S. Pacific roleQ&A
- Special Catch Up Ramblings on Behalf of @TheFleetOfOceans1:53:14Carrier fuel reserves and protection in the Coral Sea comparisonQ&A
- Special Catch Up Ramblings on Behalf of @TheFleetOfOceans1:57:19Why Hood's armor belt was not F3 protectionNotable Point
- Special Catch Up Ramblings on Behalf of @TheFleetOfOceans2:00:37Izumo and the A-140 J2 design tradeoffsQ&A
- Special Catch Up Ramblings on Behalf of @TheFleetOfOceans2:04:25Reading Vanguard's design lineage forwardNotable Point
- Special Catch Up Ramblings on Behalf of @TheFleetOfOceans2:09:43Why carrier islands stayed on the starboard sideQ&A
- Special Catch Up Ramblings on Behalf of @TheFleetOfOceans2:14:55Big-wing Harrier naval tradeoffsQ&A
- What happens if the entirety of the French Navy decides to carry on fighting in WWII? (Patreon Live)1:03:27Drone operations still require space aboard crewed shipsNotable Point
- Could the Royal Navy have lauched a Carrier Strike in WWI on Wilhelmshaven?24:57Rising battlecruiser costs favor a shared cruiser and carrier hullNotable Point
- Could the Royal Navy have lauched a Carrier Strike in WWI on Wilhelmshaven?45:35Too few heavy guns for effective battlecruiser salvosNotable Point
- Could the Royal Navy have lauched a Carrier Strike in WWI on Wilhelmshaven?48:21Fisher's large light cruisers become carriersChapter
- Could the Royal Navy have lauched a Carrier Strike in WWI on Wilhelmshaven?59:01Carrier hulls could finish before their gunship counterpartsNotable Point
- Could the Royal Navy have lauched a Carrier Strike in WWI on Wilhelmshaven?1:18:31An earlier victory could delay naval treatiesChapter
- Could the Royal Navy have lauched a Carrier Strike in WWI on Wilhelmshaven?1:20:40Britain could build four more carriers alongside four AdmiralsNotable Point
- Building for National Survival: Italian Destroyers prior to WWI6:56Fulmine and the limits of a 300-ton destroyerNotable Point
- Building for National Survival: Italian Destroyers prior to WWI9:21Lampo and the cost of chasing speedNotable Point
- Building for National Survival: Italian Destroyers prior to WWI13:13Nembo and Morin's operational theoryChapter
- Building for National Survival: Italian Destroyers prior to WWI24:58Soldati: heavier armament and the prestige of soldier namesNotable Point
- Building for National Survival: Italian Destroyers prior to WWI27:09Cattolica's Indomito class and the mathematics of combat advantageNotable Point
- Building for National Survival: Italian Destroyers prior to WWI30:26Why more fuel reduced Indomito's enduranceNotable Point
- Building for National Survival: Italian Destroyers prior to WWI35:29Ardente, Ardito, and the Indomito class boundaryNotable Point
- Building for National Survival: Italian Destroyers prior to WWI36:20Rosolino Pilo and continuity in prewar destroyer designChapter
- Bruships 238: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:15:47Radar cannot fully replace Ibuki's seaplanesQ&A
- Bruships 238: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:19:10Deep StanFlex modules for VLSQ&A
- Bruships 238: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:26:04Panama Canal limits and US battleship hullsQ&A
- Bruships 238: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:28:04StanFlex missile loads and box-launcher deck spaceNotable Point
- 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...2:14:28Reworking Ibuki after a carrier conversionQ&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...2:29:10Why German and Italian naval designers did not cooperateQ&A
- Bruships 238: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:32:39A postwar NATO cruiser design to keep developingQ&A
- Bruships 238: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:10:53Best cruisers of the 1890s, 1930s, and 1950sQ&A
- What if the Royal Navy used the Lessons of the 1982 Falklands War to go Stanflex?22:53Why fewer warships become larger and more expensiveNotable Point
- What if the Royal Navy used the Lessons of the 1982 Falklands War to go Stanflex?28:49Why the Royal Navy chose proven fixed fits after 1982Notable Point
- What if the Royal Navy used the Lessons of the 1982 Falklands War to go Stanflex?43:03Designing six to ten module positions into Type 23Notable Point
- What if the Royal Navy used the Lessons of the 1982 Falklands War to go Stanflex?1:01:44Could modular payloads have given Type 45 more electrical reserve?Notable Point
- Why do Modern Warships just keep getting bigger?0:44Warship size bands and presence missionsChapter
- Why do Modern Warships just keep getting bigger?21:32Armed merchant ships trade missile density for valuable hullsNotable Point
- Why do Modern Warships just keep getting bigger?25:02Better sensors create more computing and crew demandsChapter
- Why do Modern Warships just keep getting bigger?27:34Protecting naval electronics from seawater, shock, and radarNotable Point
- Why do Modern Warships just keep getting bigger?32:26Presence missions keep producing cruiser-sized shipsNotable Point
- Why do Modern Warships just keep getting bigger?37:28Cruiser endurance includes food and independent repairNotable Point
- Why do Modern Warships just keep getting bigger?48:51Uncrewed assets are likely to make their motherships largerChapter
- Why do Modern Warships just keep getting bigger?1:11:52Installed systems drive the cost of the fleet-cut cycleNotable Point
- Why the Royal Navy's Type 45s Daring Class Destroyers are what they are & what their future is?16:36Horizon, radar quality, and destroyer expectationsChapter
- Why the Royal Navy's Type 45s Daring Class Destroyers are what they are & what their future is?28:07Leaving Horizon did not deliver an earlier destroyerNotable Point
- Why the Royal Navy's Type 45s Daring Class Destroyers are what they are & what their future is?31:19A hurried destroyer design combined several unproven systemsNotable Point
- Why the Royal Navy's Type 45s Daring Class Destroyers are what they are & what their future is?33:29How should a destroyer programme introduce unproven technology?Q&A
- Why the Royal Navy's Type 45s Daring Class Destroyers are what they are & what their future is?38:10Twenty-year frigates and forty-year refit demandsNotable Point
- Why the Royal Navy's Type 45s Daring Class Destroyers are what they are & what their future is?42:01Mark 41 options and the SAMPSON advantageNotable Point
- Why the Royal Navy's Type 45s Daring Class Destroyers are what they are & what their future is?46:21Propulsion trouble and lost design slackChapter
- Why the Royal Navy's Type 45s Daring Class Destroyers are what they are & what their future is?50:35Electric propulsion promised flexibility but lacked redundancyChapter
- Why the Royal Navy's Type 45s Daring Class Destroyers are what they are & what their future is?1:01:06Construction stretch and the six-ship forceChapter
- Why the Royal Navy's Type 45s Daring Class Destroyers are what they are & what their future is?1:28:42BAE offered land-attack and anti-submarine Type 45 variantsNotable Point
- Why the Royal Navy's Type 45s Daring Class Destroyers are what they are & what their future is?1:30:05Why not restart Type 45 production?Q&A
- Why the Royal Navy's Type 45s Daring Class Destroyers are what they are & what their future is?1:41:36Could another Type 45 upgrade require a longer hull?Q&A
- Lions not Indefatigables; What if Australia & New Zealand go Battlecruiser not Battle Cruiser...0:23Why the Dominion battlecruisers looked second-classChapter
- Lions not Indefatigables; What if Australia & New Zealand go Battlecruiser not Battle Cruiser...6:46What Lion traded in range for speed and gunpowerNotable 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...8:38The armor gap behind the first-class labelNotable Point
- Lions not Indefatigables; What if Australia & New Zealand go Battlecruiser not Battle Cruiser...11:28Two Dominion Lions would make a four-ship squadronNotable Point
- Lions not Indefatigables; What if Australia & New Zealand go Battlecruiser not Battle Cruiser...13:38Armor coverage and the battlecruiser spectrumNotable Point
- Lions not Indefatigables; What if Australia & New Zealand go Battlecruiser not Battle Cruiser...20:27How a commerce-protection label narrowed the ship choiceNotable Point
- Lions not Indefatigables; What if Australia & New Zealand go Battlecruiser not Battle Cruiser...37:30How upgraded Dominion Lions reshape TigerNotable Point
- Lions not Indefatigables; What if Australia & New Zealand go Battlecruiser not Battle Cruiser...45:21German protection came with a pursuit problemNotable 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...1:00:46The foreign impact of introducing 15-inch guns in TigerChapter
- Lions not Indefatigables; What if Australia & New Zealand go Battlecruiser not Battle Cruiser...1:01:37How seven knots changes tactical controlNotable Point
- Would an AUKUS Destroyer make a sensible 3rd pillar for the Australia, UK & US Defence Cooperation?0:14AUKUS destroyer case starts with systemsChapter
- Would an AUKUS Destroyer make a sensible 3rd pillar for the Australia, UK & US Defence Cooperation?5:41A Super Burke name for a redesigned successorNotable Point
- Would an AUKUS Destroyer make a sensible 3rd pillar for the Australia, UK & US Defence Cooperation?14:09VLS depth and design lock-inChapter
- Would an AUKUS Destroyer make a sensible 3rd pillar for the Australia, UK & US Defence Cooperation?20:39Institutional arguments for a shared destroyer projectNotable Point
- Would an AUKUS Destroyer make a sensible 3rd pillar for the Australia, UK & US Defence Cooperation?34:45Destroyer replacement needs across prospective partnersChapter
- Would an AUKUS Destroyer make a sensible 3rd pillar for the Australia, UK & US Defence Cooperation?38:32Mission roles should determine national hullsChapter
- Would an AUKUS Destroyer make a sensible 3rd pillar for the Australia, UK & US Defence Cooperation?43:27Combat information layout shapes the shipChapter
- Would an AUKUS Destroyer make a sensible 3rd pillar for the Australia, UK & US Defence Cooperation?46:16Power margin must cover climate and shortfallsNotable Point
- Would an AUKUS Destroyer make a sensible 3rd pillar for the Australia, UK & US Defence Cooperation?1:00:17Burke architecture is reaching its design ceilingNotable Point
- Would an AUKUS Destroyer make a sensible 3rd pillar for the Australia, UK & US Defence Cooperation?1:02:31Shared systems with nationally tailored shipsChapter
- Dutch Destroyers in WWII: The Free Dutch navy at it's Freeest?0:43Dutch destroyers and the Far East problemChapter
- Dutch Destroyers in WWII: The Free Dutch navy at it's Freeest?2:17Gerard Callenburgh design tradeoffsNotable Point
- Dutch Destroyers in WWII: The Free Dutch navy at it's Freeest?7:55Isaac Sweers completed and rearmed in BritainChapter
- Dutch Destroyers in WWII: The Free Dutch navy at it's Freeest?20:53Wartime orders and simplified emergency destroyersNotable Point
- Dutch Destroyers in WWII: The Free Dutch navy at it's Freeest?29:04The missing Hazemeyer advantageNotable Point
- Dutch Destroyers in WWII: The Free Dutch navy at it's Freeest?33:27Destroyers as the fleet's shield and spearNotable Point
- Dutch Destroyers in WWII: The Free Dutch navy at it's Freeest?37:34Why the S class was not an austerity destroyerNotable Point
- HMS Walker(D27); a destroyer of two World Wars(Live)3:20V and W destroyers as a wartime reserveChapter
- HMS Walker(D27); a destroyer of two World Wars(Live)17:08Why a ship's age usually starts at launchQ&A
- HMS Walker(D27); a destroyer of two World Wars(Live)26:09V and W destroyers were built beyond emergency standardsQ&A
- HMS Walker(D27); a destroyer of two World Wars(Live)28:18Why V and W destroyers could absorb escort conversionsQ&A
- HMS Walker(D27); a destroyer of two World Wars(Live)1:16:16Walker's long-range escort conversionChapter
- HMS Walker(D27); a destroyer of two World Wars(Live)1:42:00A manageable first step for domestic warship buildingQ&A
- HMS Walker(D27); a destroyer of two World Wars(Live)1:46:25The W-class role maps closer to a modern light frigateQ&A
- HMS Walker(D27); a destroyer of two World Wars(Live)1:47:20W-class destroyers and Black Swan sloops had similar displacementQ&A
- HMS Walker(D27); a destroyer of two World Wars(Live)1:52:14Aircraft overwhelmed destroyer-sized marginsQ&A
- How the USN learnt the lessons to conceive the Arleigh Burke class... From the Gearings to the Kidds9:18Norfolk tests a postwar heavy-destroyer ideaNotable Point
- How the USN learnt the lessons to conceive the Arleigh Burke class... From the Gearings to the Kidds10:36Norfolk and Mitscher test status against capabilityChapter
- 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 Kidds31:37Charles F. Adams combines missile armament with a proven designChapter
- How the USN learnt the lessons to conceive the Arleigh Burke class... From the Gearings to the Kidds31:37FRAM modernization reaches its physical ceilingNotable Point
- How the USN learnt the lessons to conceive the Arleigh Burke class... From the Gearings to the Kidds34:52Older destroyers buy time for a clean redesignNotable Point
- How the USN learnt the lessons to conceive the Arleigh Burke class... From the Gearings to the Kidds38:02Spruance turns destroyer size into presenceChapter
- 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 Kidds51:42Kidd shows the route to BurkeChapter
- How the USN learnt the lessons to conceive the Arleigh Burke class... From the Gearings to the Kidds52:59Kidd's Gulf adaptations and remaining land-attack limitNotable Point
- How the USN learnt the lessons to conceive the Arleigh Burke class... From the Gearings to the Kidds54:27Hardened computing drives destroyer growthNotable Point
- Bruships 237: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...16:14Small modular reactors for shipsQ&A
- Bruships 237: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...29:39Why civilian nuclear shipping needs a shore-side industryNotable Point
- Bruships 237: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...32:19Tribal-class bow sheerQ&A
- Bruships 237: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...37:54Why an air-defense Type 26 would require a major redesignQ&A
- Bruships 237: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:02:45Corvettes, light frigates, and OPVsQ&A
- Bruships 237: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:07:06What could still change in the Royal Navy by 1914?Q&A
- Bruships 237: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:08:30Modern fleets if missile technology stopped in 1945Q&A
- Bruships 237: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:46:42How Zumwalt cancellation shaped later Arleigh BurkesQ&A
- Bruships 237: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:49:02How far to up-arm a River-class patrol vesselQ&A
- Bruships 237: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:07:17Why an LPD is already close to a drone mothershipQ&A
- Bruships 237: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:27:06Why the Arleigh Burke replacement keeps recedingQ&A
- Bruships 237: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:35:35Type 83 versus an air-defense Type 26 derivativeQ&A
- Bruships 237: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:05:54USS Norfolk's combat battery and peacetime limitationsQ&A
- Bruships 237: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:13:08Why Canada modified American ship designsQ&A
- Bruships 237: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:17:49Why HMS Tiger became a one-ship classQ&A
- Bruships 237: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:21:16The best merchant ship for a nuclear-power demonstratorQ&A
- Bruships 237: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:41:07Warship types work better as spectra than boxesQ&A
- Bruships 237: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:59:20What a working Babbage engine could change in ship designQ&A
- Bruships 237: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:00:17What belongs on a 40,000-ton surface combatantQ&A
- Bruships 237: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:07:44Why an N3 follow-on would not simply add twelve 16.5-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships 237: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:23:48Why a fusion warship would begin as a very large vesselQ&A
- Bruships 237: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:31:10Catapult reinforcement and vertical-landing limits on F-35BQ&A
- Bruships 237: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:52:08An ice-rated Canadian large surface combatantQ&A
- France Libre's daring contre-torpilleurs & torpilleur d'escadre; The Free French Destroyers of WWII5:01Léopard's training service and changing weaponsChapter
- France Libre's daring contre-torpilleurs & torpilleur d'escadre; The Free French Destroyers of WWII12:24Trading Léopard's speed for fuel, depth charges, and radarChapter
- France Libre's daring contre-torpilleurs & torpilleur d'escadre; The Free French Destroyers of WWII19:31Le Fantasque and the cruiser-destroyer boundaryNotable Point
- France Libre's daring contre-torpilleurs & torpilleur d'escadre; The Free French Destroyers of WWII22:08Le Fantasque's gun elevation and ammunition limitsNotable Point
- France Libre's daring contre-torpilleurs & torpilleur d'escadre; The Free French Destroyers of WWII25:10Why high speed in heavy seas damaged destroyer turbinesNotable Point
- France Libre's daring contre-torpilleurs & torpilleur d'escadre; The Free French Destroyers of WWII33:53How naval treaties pushed destroyers toward cruiser rolesNotable Point
- France Libre's daring contre-torpilleurs & torpilleur d'escadre; The Free French Destroyers of WWII36:48Why the Bourrasque class's ordinary utility matteredNotable Point
- France Libre's daring contre-torpilleurs & torpilleur d'escadre; The Free French Destroyers of WWII49:40L'Adroit as workhorse design and Dunkirk lossChapter
- Hitler's Destroyers: How Type 1934 & Type 1936 Classes, including their variations were developed...3:02Fuel distribution and weather helm in German torpedo boatsNotable Point
- Hitler's Destroyers: How Type 1934 & Type 1936 Classes, including their variations were developed...11:51Type 1934 fuel ballast, bow spray and stabilityChapter
- Hitler's Destroyers: How Type 1934 & Type 1936 Classes, including their variations were developed...20:29Trading a Type 1934 gun for weight savingsNotable Point
- Hitler's Destroyers: How Type 1934 & Type 1936 Classes, including their variations were developed...25:10Mine warfare crowded onto surface shipsNotable Point
- Hitler's Destroyers: How Type 1934 & Type 1936 Classes, including their variations were developed...27:08Hull testing and the limits of scaling designsChapter
- Hitler's Destroyers: How Type 1934 & Type 1936 Classes, including their variations were developed...29:14Type 1934A bow changes and lost design experienceNotable Point
- Hitler's Destroyers: How Type 1934 & Type 1936 Classes, including their variations were developed...35:25Why more T1 machinery bought little speedNotable Point
- Hitler's Destroyers: How Type 1934 & Type 1936 Classes, including their variations were developed...37:54T1 handling and Atlantic-bow improvementsNotable Point
- Hitler's Destroyers: How Type 1934 & Type 1936 Classes, including their variations were developed...40:57Reliable torpedo boats in Germany's small-destroyer roleNotable Point
- Hitler's Destroyers: How Type 1934 & Type 1936 Classes, including their variations were developed...42:23Type 1936 construction lessons before sea trialsChapter
- Hitler's Destroyers: How Type 1934 & Type 1936 Classes, including their variations were developed...44:42Why destroyers need a steady gun platformNotable Point
- Hitler's Destroyers: How Type 1934 & Type 1936 Classes, including their variations were developed...53:46Type 1936A stability and fuel-use improvementsNotable Point
- Hitler's Destroyers: How Type 1934 & Type 1936 Classes, including their variations were developed...56:49Why 5.9-inch guns overburdened the Type 1936ANotable Point
- Hitler's Destroyers: How Type 1934 & Type 1936 Classes, including their variations were developed...1:00:00Narvik and rushed destroyer developmentChapter
- 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...2:09:36Scaling triple secondary-mount problems to five inchesQ&A
- Bruships 236: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:11:05Mark 41 as the benchmark vertical launch systemQ&A
- Bruships 236: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:09:51Was a US five-inch triple turret seriously considered?Q&A
- Bruships 236: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:10:31A Type 83 proposal with weapons on uncrewed companionsNotable Point
- Bruships 236: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:10:11Could Britain sustain a third escort-building factory?Q&A
- Bruships 236: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:11:37Can a Fleet Solid Support design become a tanker or amphibious ship?Q&A
- Bruships 236: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:25:22Why Admiral Hipper wins by defaultQ&A
- Bruships 236: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:30:34What turns a regional patrol ship into a global oneQ&A
- Bruships 236: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:31:46The Type 45 cost of designing without power marginNotable Point
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....8:40The shield-and-spear test for destroyersChapter
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....16:34Speed and firepower before the First World WarChapter
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....23:21Why a 36-knot battle line breaks escort-speed logicQ&A
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....36:44Why the Clemson class set an interwar benchmarkChapter
- 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....59:42Charles F. Adams combines guided missiles with guns and ASWChapter
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....1:09:22The design lineage from Fletcher to Charles F. AdamsNotable Point
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....1:12:46German destroyer hull variation complicates group operationsNotable 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....1:35:43Why the Maya class is a modern destroyer benchmarkChapter
- 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....1:55:33Why specialized destroyers miss the general-purpose testQ&A
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....1:58:24A hypothetical Canadian destroyer developed alongside HalifaxQ&A
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....2:05:36Strategic speed may matter more than sprint speedQ&A
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....2:12:52When to lengthen a Type 26-derived hullNotable Point
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....2:30:51An air-defence Type 31 would be a much more demanding buildNotable Point
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....2:39:11Polish Arrowhead 140 choices reflect a different missionNotable Point
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....2:44:19Lasers should complement proven close-in weapons firstQ&A
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....2:55:35The Littoral Combat Ship concept met hull-life limitsNotable Point
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....2:56:59Type 83 hull choices depend on a still-distant design decisionQ&A
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....3:00:06A Burke successor needs support for a new designQ&A
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....4:21Benchmark ships frame the ideal destroyerNotable Point
- Ideal Destroyers down the generations from 1901 to present day....6:05National roles shape destroyer designNotable Point
- Building for the Adriatic: Austro-Hungarian Destroyers of WWI...3:06The Huszars arrived with a conservative destroyer designNotable Point
- Building for the Adriatic: Austro-Hungarian Destroyers of WWI...7:06Wildfang's extra knot and the Huszars' light gunsNotable Point
- Building for the Adriatic: Austro-Hungarian Destroyers of WWI...9:03Warasdin used speed to raid and escape in the AdriaticNotable Point
- Building for the Adriatic: Austro-Hungarian Destroyers of WWI...18:19Austro-Hungarian engineering drew on foreign machinery designsChapter
- Building for the Adriatic: Austro-Hungarian Destroyers of WWI...19:23Why the small Huszars still count as destroyersNotable Point
- Building for the Adriatic: Austro-Hungarian Destroyers of WWI...20:21The Tatra class balanced guns, speed and enduranceChapter
- Building for the Adriatic: Austro-Hungarian Destroyers of WWI...24:55Mixed-fuel boilers gave the Tatras more flexibilityNotable Point
- Building for the Adriatic: Austro-Hungarian Destroyers of WWI...34:32Full engine power freed a fouled shaft at serious mechanical riskNotable Point
- Building for the Adriatic: Austro-Hungarian Destroyers of WWI...38:43A replacement class learned from wartime lossesNotable Point
- Bruships 235: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...26:54Could a First World War crew operate a modern warship?Q&A
- Bruships 235: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...31:12Why a 3,000-ton six-inch destroyer becomes a fragile cruiserQ&A
- Bruships 235: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...33:23Designing ships around multispecies crewsQ&A
- 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...1:06:07When French hotel-style battleships might have workedQ&A
- Bruships 235: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:42:17The Type 23 fittings that suppress self-generated radar clutterQ&A
- Bruships 235: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:44:10Assessing the plausibility of Soviet Project 24 battleshipsQ&A
- Bruships 235: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:15:18Why StanFlex requires a fleetwide commitmentNotable Point
- 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...3:54:53How superfiring turrets could reshape British dreadnoughtsQ&A
- Bruships 235: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:09:38A Canadian Type 83 for Arctic cruiser dutiesQ&A
- What if the Royal Navy's Aircraft Carrier HMS Hermes had sisters in the 1920s? (Patreon Live)17:20HMS Hermes as a cruiser-carrier presence shipChapter
- What if the Royal Navy's Aircraft Carrier HMS Hermes had sisters in the 1920s? (Patreon Live)27:20Designing a Hermes sister under 10,000 tonsNotable Point
- What if the Royal Navy's Aircraft Carrier HMS Hermes had sisters in the 1920s? (Patreon Live)1:00:35A twelve-ship force approaches Colossus-class capabilityChapter
- What if the Royal Navy's Aircraft Carrier HMS Hermes had sisters in the 1920s? (Patreon Live)1:09:45Separate allowances could support larger fleet carriersNotable Point
- What if the Royal Navy's Aircraft Carrier HMS Hermes had sisters in the 1920s? (Patreon Live)1:12:18The light-carrier hull could lead to an aviation support shipNotable Point
- What if the Royal Navy's Aircraft Carrier HMS Hermes had sisters in the 1920s? (Patreon Live)1:29:29Could a heavy-cruiser hull become a small carrier?Q&A
- What if the Royal Navy's Aircraft Carrier HMS Hermes had sisters in the 1920s? (Patreon Live)1:37:56How Ben-my-Chree shaped British carrier fuel safetyQ&A
- What if the Royal Navy's Aircraft Carrier HMS Hermes had sisters in the 1920s? (Patreon Live)1:45:32What light carrier would Japan standardize?Q&A
- What if the Royal Navy's Aircraft Carrier HMS Hermes had sisters in the 1920s? (Patreon Live)1:53:52How tall must a carrier hangar be for seaplanes?Q&A
- What if the Royal Navy's Aircraft Carrier HMS Hermes had sisters in the 1920s? (Patreon Live)1:55:55What would the Royal Navy do with a Lexington-class carrier?Q&A
- Bruships 234: Naval History Questions Answered Live...30:49When aircraft gas turbines gain naval cousinsQ&A
- Escaping Hitler's Europe; How the warships of Europe escaped capture in WWII...1:13:46Niels Juel's old design limits its escape optionsNotable Point
- Japan's First Destroyers: How they intimidated the Russian Empire on less than 1000tons...18:26Testing Thornycroft and Yarrow destroyer ideasChapter
- Japan's First Destroyers: How they intimidated the Russian Empire on less than 1000tons...27:45Harusame exposes the trade-offs of domestic designNotable Point
- Japan's First Destroyers: How they intimidated the Russian Empire on less than 1000tons...30:28Domestic destroyer production and the option of foreign adviceNotable Point
- Japan's First Destroyers: How they intimidated the Russian Empire on less than 1000tons...37:12Kamikaze-class lessons for night operationsNotable Point
- Japan's First Destroyers: How they intimidated the Russian Empire on less than 1000tons...55:44Umikaze tests the limits of turbine destroyersNotable Point
- Top/Bottom 5 inventions/adaptations of RN ships that came from the ships themselves...(Patreon Live)49:42Could Dreadnought have created a stronger deterrent lead?Notable Point
- Top/Bottom 5 inventions/adaptations of RN ships that came from the ships themselves...(Patreon Live)57:26The feasible Dreadnought Britain did not buildNotable Point
- Top/Bottom 5 inventions/adaptations of RN ships that came from the ships themselves...(Patreon Live)1:03:13A 24-knot battle line would change battlecruiser designNotable Point
- Top/Bottom 5 inventions/adaptations of RN ships that came from the ships themselves...(Patreon Live)1:04:00Selling Dreadnought as a saving constrained its designNotable Point
- Top/Bottom 5 inventions/adaptations of RN ships that came from the ships themselves...(Patreon Live)1:05:43Wing turrets, spotting positions, and Dreadnought's design restrictionsNotable Point
- Top/Bottom 5 inventions/adaptations of RN ships that came from the ships themselves...(Patreon Live)1:25:05Why plumbing failures are credible on a Ford-class carrierQ&A
- Top/Bottom 5 inventions/adaptations of RN ships that came from the ships themselves...(Patreon Live)1:32:35Why clipper speed did not make an ideal warshipNotable Point
- Top/Bottom 5 inventions/adaptations of RN ships that came from the ships themselves...(Patreon Live)1:58:31HMS Captain and the limits of fighting-first designNotable Point
- Top/Bottom 5 inventions/adaptations of RN ships that came from the ships themselves...(Patreon Live)2:04:06Why Black Sea drones do not prove open-ocean enduranceNotable 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
- Top/Bottom 5 inventions/adaptations of RN ships that came from the ships themselves...(Patreon Live)2:16:57Was self-righting available to older warships?Q&A
- Top/Bottom 5 inventions/adaptations of RN ships that came from the ships themselves...(Patreon Live)2:29:10Can a trimaran escape ordinary hull-design tradeoffs?Q&A
- Bruships 233: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...44:36Project 66, Des Moines, and the disputed Moskva nameQ&A
- Bruships 233: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...57:11Reused Soviet project numbers and disputed design datesQ&A
- Bruships 233: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:24:21Historic warships as models for Space Battleship YamatoQ&A
- Bruships 233: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:26:52Star Wars warships under Star Trek physicsQ&A
- Bruships 233: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:57:50Modern warships with the elegance of HoodQ&A
- Bruships 233: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:14:29How old is a modern warship design?Notable Point
- Bruships 233: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:16:19Zumwalt's hull form and the 1980s stealth studiesQ&A
- Bruships 233: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:26:37Upgrading Stargate's BC-304Q&A
- Bruships 233: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:34:10When does a battlecruiser concept make sense?Q&A
- Bruships 233: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:42:09Vickers Design 1242 for AustraliaQ&A
- Bruships 233: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:43:55A 1960s gun cruiser evolved for modern serviceQ&A
- Bruships 233: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:44:27Gun and CIWS weight in proportion to the shipNotable Point
- Bruships 233: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:59:05Designing an ultimate science-fiction battlecruiserQ&A
- Bruships 233: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:07:30Victory and Procurator roles in an Imperial fleetQ&A
- Bruships 233: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:09:13Would a larger hangar undermine the Procurator's role?Q&A
- 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?14:29Fast battleships force Britain to adopt new machineryNotable Point
- If WWII is delayed, what do the Warships of the 1950s look like?29:09Larger carriers balance air groups, protection, and survivabilityNotable Point
- 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?43:13Missile equipment could favour cruisers with smaller main gunsNotable Point
- If WWII is delayed, what do the Warships of the 1950s look like?49:13Destroyers divide into leaders, fleet ships, and escortsChapter
- If WWII is delayed, what do the Warships of the 1950s look like?58:31Småland's torpedo turntable suggests a missile retrofit pathNotable Point
- If WWII is delayed, what do the Warships of the 1950s look like?59:47Institutions decide whether design talent reaches the fleetNotable Point
- If WWII is delayed, what do the Warships of the 1950s look like?1:04:26Submarine range could revive the cruiser-submarine ideaChapter
- Modern Chinese Destroyers: How the Current People's Liberation Army Navy's surface ships came to be8:00Type 052 turns imported ideas into domestic capabilityChapter
- Modern Chinese Destroyers: How the Current People's Liberation Army Navy's surface ships came to be16:40Interpreting foreign designs has a long naval historyNotable Point
- Modern Chinese Destroyers: How the Current People's Liberation Army Navy's surface ships came to be30:17Shenzhen bridges imported machinery and Chinese designChapter
- Modern Chinese Destroyers: How the Current People's Liberation Army Navy's surface ships came to be51:47Shared combat systems for a hypothetical AUKUS destroyerQ&A
- Modern Chinese Destroyers: How the Current People's Liberation Army Navy's surface ships came to be52:57StanFlex and a counterfactual Type 23Q&A
- Modern Chinese Destroyers: How the Current People's Liberation Army Navy's surface ships came to be54:43Type 052B, 052C, and 051C test the route to sea controlChapter
- Modern Chinese Destroyers: How the Current People's Liberation Army Navy's surface ships came to be58:19Radar arrays help explain the Type 052C's Burke resemblanceNotable Point
- Modern Chinese Destroyers: How the Current People's Liberation Army Navy's surface ships came to be59:08Air-defence design must survive maintenance and battle damageNotable Point
- Modern Chinese Destroyers: How the Current People's Liberation Army Navy's surface ships came to be1:12:39Built-in handling could shorten VLS reloading at seaNotable Point
- Modern Chinese Destroyers: How the Current People's Liberation Army Navy's surface ships came to be1:19:47Type 052D layers close-in weapons without duplicating themNotable Point
- Modern Chinese Destroyers: How the Current People's Liberation Army Navy's surface ships came to be1:29:46Type 055 presence and Type 052DL massChapter
- Modern Chinese Destroyers: How the Current People's Liberation Army Navy's surface ships came to be1:42:53Helicopter undercarriage geometry shapes flight decksNotable Point
- Modern Chinese Destroyers: How the Current People's Liberation Army Navy's surface ships came to be1:50:32Industrial learning made large-scale destroyer production possibleNotable Point
- Modern Chinese Destroyers: How the Current People's Liberation Army Navy's surface ships came to be1:56:19Shared systems could support several destroyer sizesNotable Point
- 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...35:18Why Long Beach was the last purpose-built US cruiser hullQ&A
- Bruships 232: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:00:01What an enlarged Type 45 should gain in missile capacityQ&A
- Bruships 232: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:05:38How much cabling does a supercarrier require?Q&A
- Bruships 232: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:07:16Choosing among Italian, French, Dutch, and Polish interwar destroyersQ&A
- Bruships 232: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:30:19How to refine the Yugumo-class destroyerQ&A
- Bruships 232: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:35:08Why a modern Japanese destroyer needs missile capacity in reserveQ&A
- Bruships 232: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:36:11How directed-energy weapons could fit into a destroyer's defencesQ&A
- Bruships 232: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:41:31Why allies should share combat systems instead of one hullNotable Point
- Bruships 232: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:47:28What extra displacement would have changed on Type 45Q&A
- Bruships 232: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:58:34Arrowhead 120 trades a finished fit for adaptable volumeQ&A
- Bruships 232: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:16:27Mission comes before the modern Commonwealth cruiserQ&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...2:26:50Why at-sea VLS reloading needs ship-integrated handling gearQ&A
- Bruships 232: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:58:27Growth margin is the key requirement for a future warshipQ&A
- Bruships 232: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:04:52What could become a modern HMS Warrior moment?Q&A
- Bruships 232: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:06:38Why Zumwalt did not become a new HMS WarriorQ&A
- Bruships 232: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:34:39Future-proofing a warship by leaving room to lengthen the hullQ&A
- Bruships 232: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:45:36Fisher's proposed 1880s refit and the evolution toward RenownQ&A
- Bruships 232: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:56:09What a modern quadruple naval turret might becomeQ&A
- Bruships 232: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:06:32Why a 200,000-ton warship outruns useful scaleQ&A
- Bruships 232: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:14:51The elusive 1952 Vickers-Armstrong missile cruiserQ&A
- Bruships 232: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:23:09How enclosed seas shape fleet designQ&A
- The Reality of Soviet Naval Presence in the Cold War: Destroyers are the Fleet4:09Project 56A brings missiles to a compact destroyerChapter
- The Reality of Soviet Naval Presence in the Cold War: Destroyers are the Fleet6:42Kotlin system layout eases upgrades and influences LudaNotable Point
- The Reality of Soviet Naval Presence in the Cold War: Destroyers are the Fleet15:04Kildin turns Project 56 toward anti-ship missilesChapter
- The Reality of Soviet Naval Presence in the Cold War: Destroyers are the Fleet19:03ASW requirements support larger Soviet destroyersNotable Point
- The Reality of Soviet Naval Presence in the Cold War: Destroyers are the Fleet27:17Kanin conversions follow weapons as they changeChapter
- The Reality of Soviet Naval Presence in the Cold War: Destroyers are the Fleet30:02Why class displacement is not one exact numberNotable Point
- The Reality of Soviet Naval Presence in the Cold War: Destroyers are the Fleet38:27Kashin becomes the multi-role Soviet destroyer templateChapter
- The Reality of Soviet Naval Presence in the Cold War: Destroyers are the Fleet41:43Kashin's ten-day endurance strengthens the case for larger shipsNotable Point
- The Reality of Soviet Naval Presence in the Cold War: Destroyers are the Fleet52:32Sovremenny spends displacement on flexibilityChapter
- The Reality of Soviet Naval Presence in the Cold War: Destroyers are the Fleet57:12Gadfly shows the cost of navalizing a missileNotable Point
- The Reality of Soviet Naval Presence in the Cold War: Destroyers are the Fleet1:03:19Steam reliability protects visible Soviet powerNotable Point
- The Reality of Soviet Naval Presence in the Cold War: Destroyers are the Fleet1:25:12Udaloy II points toward converging destroyer designsNotable Point
- The rise and fall of Constellation class Frigate program? (Patreon Live)33:32How LCS requirements defeated fleet-scale efficiencyChapter
- The rise and fall of Constellation class Frigate program? (Patreon Live)1:25:39A practical speed ceiling for the Littoral Combat ShipQ&A
- The rise and fall of Constellation class Frigate program? (Patreon Live)1:26:07Whether a Legend-derived frigate could keep pace with a carrierQ&A
- The rise and fall of Constellation class Frigate program? (Patreon Live)1:29:44Why joining a later Type 26 or Mogami buy would not solve the requirement problemQ&A
- The rise and fall of Constellation class Frigate program? (Patreon Live)1:31:42US standards turned FREMM adaptation into a redesignChapter
- The rise and fall of Constellation class Frigate program? (Patreon Live)1:32:24Constellation's bow, propeller, and generator changesNotable Point
- The rise and fall of Constellation class Frigate program? (Patreon Live)1:37:39Shipyard oversight and continuing design changesNotable Point
- The rise and fall of Constellation class Frigate program? (Patreon Live)2:09:26Constellation's growth beyond 8,000 tonsNotable Point
- The rise and fall of Constellation class Frigate program? (Patreon Live)2:20:08Low commonality erased the parent-design advantageChapter
- The rise and fall of Constellation class Frigate program? (Patreon Live)2:31:51Proven systems still require integrationNotable Point
- The rise and fall of Constellation class Frigate program? (Patreon Live)2:42:26Construction percentages with an unfinished designNotable Point
- The rise and fall of Constellation class Frigate program? (Patreon Live)2:52:11Would a different FFG(X) bidder have solved the problem?Q&A
- The rise and fall of Constellation class Frigate program? (Patreon Live)2:56:48What the Legend build history says about frigate outputNotable Point
- The rise and fall of Constellation class Frigate program? (Patreon Live)3:08:40Why a 30-knot Atlantic crossing demands so much fuelQ&A
- The rise and fall of Constellation class Frigate program? (Patreon Live)3:15:52Why Britain and Japan need different frigate hullsQ&A
- The rise and fall of Constellation class Frigate program? (Patreon Live)3:18:30Would a revived General Board improve US ship design?Q&A
- The rise and fall of Constellation class Frigate program? (Patreon Live)3:21:12How Ernest King might have imposed discipline on ConstellationQ&A
- The rise and fall of Constellation class Frigate program? (Patreon Live)3:51:15Research possibilities and equipment readinessQ&A
- Bruships 230: Naval History Questions Answered Live...23:38Planning against an adversary's claimed capabilityNotable Point
- Bruships 230: Naval History Questions Answered Live...31:09Swing-arm launchers beside modern VLS batteriesQ&A
- Bruships 230: Naval History Questions Answered Live...32:28A family design for a heavily armed Type 45Notable Point
- Bruships 230: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:11:35What removing Nelson's torpedoes could buyQ&A
- Bruships 230: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:12:47What does a submerged torpedo flat cost a battleship?Q&A
- Bruships 230: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:13:23Rodney's aluminium fittings and repeated wartime repairsNotable Point
- Bruships 230: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:21:21Why 9.2-inch cruisers would rewrite the path to HawkinsQ&A
- Trials and Tribulations- why ships go through the testing they do before they enter service8:00Warship trials keep acceptance risk with the builderChapter
- Trials and Tribulations- why ships go through the testing they do before they enter service15:10The first crew turns design drawings into a usable shipChapter
- Trials and Tribulations- why ships go through the testing they do before they enter service27:38Speed trials depend on load, machinery, wind, and currentNotable Point
- Trials and Tribulations- why ships go through the testing they do before they enter service36:00Crash stops and zigzags test the whole ship at onceChapter
- Trials and Tribulations- why ships go through the testing they do before they enter service45:00Machinery trials establish maintenance baselinesChapter
- Trials and Tribulations- why ships go through the testing they do before they enter service59:24A strong hull still has to be repairable through lifeQ&A
- Trials and Tribulations- why ships go through the testing they do before they enter service1:05:08Shore sites expose sensor-integration faults before sea trialsChapter
- Trials and Tribulations- why ships go through the testing they do before they enter service1:12:10Shakedown cruises tested ships long before computer modelingNotable Point
- Trials and Tribulations- why ships go through the testing they do before they enter service1:16:00Shock trials test survivability just short of destructionNotable Point
- Trials and Tribulations- why ships go through the testing they do before they enter service1:23:25Standardized warships still develop individual personalitiesQ&A
- Trials and Tribulations- why ships go through the testing they do before they enter service2:22:01Wartime light carriers were conversions, not modular common hullsQ&A
- Trials and Tribulations- why ships go through the testing they do before they enter service2:22:52Routine aviation capability has to be designed into the shipNotable Point
- Harnessing and Maintaining Thoughtful Aggression! Royal Navy Destroyers of the Interwar Years...11:46R, S, and V/W classes become a design laboratoryChapter
- Harnessing and Maintaining Thoughtful Aggression! Royal Navy Destroyers of the Interwar Years...17:22R and S destroyers share speed but differ in rangeNotable Point
- Harnessing and Maintaining Thoughtful Aggression! Royal Navy Destroyers of the Interwar Years...28:13Why Amazon became the preferred prototypeChapter
- Harnessing and Maintaining Thoughtful Aggression! Royal Navy Destroyers of the Interwar Years...38:19Easier machinery access reduces maintenance workloadNotable Point
- Harnessing and Maintaining Thoughtful Aggression! Royal Navy Destroyers of the Interwar Years...55:00Independent operations push destroyers to growNotable Point
- Harnessing and Maintaining Thoughtful Aggression! Royal Navy Destroyers of the Interwar Years...56:04Alphabet classes grow around the torpedo attackChapter
- Harnessing and Maintaining Thoughtful Aggression! Royal Navy Destroyers of the Interwar Years...1:05:23The E/F and G/H comparison questions a 60-ton savingNotable Point
- Harnessing and Maintaining Thoughtful Aggression! Royal Navy Destroyers of the Interwar Years...1:07:34I-class destroyers add endurance and supporting weaponsNotable Point
- Harnessing and Maintaining Thoughtful Aggression! Royal Navy Destroyers of the Interwar Years...1:10:58Torpedo priority shapes destroyer layout and gun supportNotable Point
- Harnessing and Maintaining Thoughtful Aggression! Royal Navy Destroyers of the Interwar Years...1:24:05What an early twin 4.7-inch mount might changeNotable 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...1:03:09Why an F110 frigate is a poor destroyer baselineQ&A
- Bruships 229: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:20:29Why the North Carolina class workedQ&A
- Bruships 229: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:00:40Designing capital ships around treaty loopholesQ&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...2:13:46Why naval officers were excluded from treaty talksQ&A
- Bruships 229: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:29:25Tiger modernization: machinery, radar and missile spaceQ&A
- Bruships 229: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:47:08The Admiral class, Hood and Tiger's denser designQ&A
- Bruships 229: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:50:49Why Japan struggled to reach the fast-battleship thresholdQ&A
- Bruships 229: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:57:03When nuclear power makes sense for surface combatantsQ&A
- Bruships 229: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:59:32How small could a nuclear-powered surface vessel be?Q&A
- Bruships 229: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:32:29An enlarged Queen Elizabeth carrier and a naval aircraft variantNotable Point
- Bruships 229: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:44:16Reading Queen Elizabeth as a transitional battleshipQ&A
- Bruships 229: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:45:50Choosing a 1935 battleship hull for several theatresQ&A
- Bruships 229: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:47:42A postwar successor to a coastal-defence shipQ&A
- Bruships 229: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:03:45Why a clipper rig requires changes throughout the shipNotable Point
- Bruships 229: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:05:54Why ancient shipbuilding methods varied by locationNotable Point
- Bruships 229: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:11:07A Canadian equivalent to a large destroyer leaderQ&A
- Bruships 229: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:14:23What a 90-foot Invincible extension buysQ&A
- Cheatimus Maximus Washington Naval Treaty: What happens if all the powers do all the cheats?3:46How standard displacement could hide wartime weightChapter
- Cheatimus Maximus Washington Naval Treaty: What happens if all the powers do all the cheats?6:41Light peacetime armour on a hull prepared for warNotable Point
- Cheatimus Maximus Washington Naval Treaty: What happens if all the powers do all the cheats?9:55Carrier definitions leave aviation weight open to argumentChapter
- Cheatimus Maximus Washington Naval Treaty: What happens if all the powers do all the cheats?21:22Cruiser turrets shared with coastal batteriesNotable Point
- Cheatimus Maximus Washington Naval Treaty: What happens if all the powers do all the cheats?27:41Using gun liners to preserve a larger wartime calibreChapter
- Cheatimus Maximus Washington Naval Treaty: What happens if all the powers do all the cheats?31:09Why electric drive helps a ship accept extra machineryNotable Point
- Cheatimus Maximus Washington Naval Treaty: What happens if all the powers do all the cheats?37:32A separate proposal for five declared 27,000-ton carriersNotable Point
- Cheatimus Maximus Washington Naval Treaty: What happens if all the powers do all the cheats?49:47New-ship declarations and protective feed-water tanksChapter
- Cheatimus Maximus Washington Naval Treaty: What happens if all the powers do all the cheats?57:18An F3-style fast capital ship prepared for extra armourChapter
- Cheatimus Maximus Washington Naval Treaty: What happens if all the powers do all the cheats?58:28F3 appearance as a personal argument about naval presenceNotable Point
- Cheatimus Maximus Washington Naval Treaty: What happens if all the powers do all the cheats?1:02:01Why Lexington's 8-inch guns waste carrier capacityChapter
- Cheatimus Maximus Washington Naval Treaty: What happens if all the powers do all the cheats?1:05:00A faster replacement for the lost Amagi conversionNotable Point
- Cheatimus Maximus Washington Naval Treaty: What happens if all the powers do all the cheats?1:13:20Ryujo and the limits of a miniature fleet carrierNotable Point
- Cheatimus Maximus Washington Naval Treaty: What happens if all the powers do all the cheats?1:17:25Three new British fast ships change fleet comparisonsNotable Point
- The USN's WWI Destroyer Designs... Making Four Stackers Global0:00Four funnels advertised speed and a step beyond torpedo boatsNotable Point
- The USN's WWI Destroyer Designs... Making Four Stackers Global2:26Tucker and Sampson classes set an Atlantic destroyer baselineChapter
- The USN's WWI Destroyer Designs... Making Four Stackers Global33:21Caldwell-class experiments produced the flush-deck templateChapter
- The USN's WWI Destroyer Designs... Making Four Stackers Global41:26Warship price ceilings and the argument over design compromisesNotable Point
- The USN's WWI Destroyer Designs... Making Four Stackers Global1:05:32Bayly and Sims fed practical destroyer lessons into Clemson designChapter
- The USN's WWI Destroyer Designs... Making Four Stackers Global1:09:30Clemson design predated meaningful Wickes-class serviceNotable Point
- The USN's WWI Destroyer Designs... Making Four Stackers Global1:14:22Clemson machinery and range supported fleet and overseas serviceChapter
- The USN's WWI Destroyer Designs... Making Four Stackers Global1:17:38Four triple launchers and the case for successive torpedo attacksNotable Point
- The USN's WWI Destroyer Designs... Making Four Stackers Global1:18:54Four funnels gave American destroyers a recognizable silhouetteChapter
- The USN's WWI Destroyer Designs... Making Four Stackers Global1:20:39Can a distinctive warship design justify some engineering compromise?Q&A
- Germany's Torpedo Boats 1890-1913: Torpedo Boats, Destroyers or Something Uniquely German?0:00Why Germany kept building torpedo boatsChapter
- Germany's Torpedo Boats 1890-1913: Torpedo Boats, Destroyers or Something Uniquely German?15:03Fleet service forced torpedo boats to growChapter
- 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?19:10Small carried boats faced seakeeping and maintenance limitsNotable Point
- Germany's Torpedo Boats 1890-1913: Torpedo Boats, Destroyers or Something Uniquely German?21:06Low prestige gave torpedo-boat designers room to divergeNotable 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?35:35The S138 label concealed a design revolutionChapter
- Germany's Torpedo Boats 1890-1913: Torpedo Boats, Destroyers or Something Uniquely German?37:01Why Royal Navy destroyers grew beyond the S138sNotable Point
- Germany's Torpedo Boats 1890-1913: Torpedo Boats, Destroyers or Something Uniquely German?40:54Different S138 machinery complicated flotilla maneuversNotable Point
- Germany's Torpedo Boats 1890-1913: Torpedo Boats, Destroyers or Something Uniquely German?44:34Why were the S138 batches called one class?Q&A
- Germany's Torpedo Boats 1890-1913: Torpedo Boats, Destroyers or Something Uniquely German?44:45Arleigh Burke upgrades within an inherited designNotable Point
- Germany's Torpedo Boats 1890-1913: Torpedo Boats, Destroyers or Something Uniquely German?47:46S138 torpedo growth followed larger targetsNotable Point
- Germany's Torpedo Boats 1890-1913: Torpedo Boats, Destroyers or Something Uniquely German?54:47Construction and survivability separate destroyers from torpedo boatsNotable 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
- The Tribal Class's Sisters... the Royal Navy's J, K & N Class Destroyers of WWII1:45How the J class complemented the Tribal classChapter
- The Tribal Class's Sisters... the Royal Navy's J, K & N Class Destroyers of WWII7:34How the L and M classes kept eight torpedoes while strengthening escortsNotable Point
- The Tribal Class's Sisters... the Royal Navy's J, K & N Class Destroyers of WWII8:55The J class compromise was industrial capacityChapter
- The Tribal Class's Sisters... the Royal Navy's J, K & N Class Destroyers of WWII22:42The N class adapted the design for wartime air attackChapter
- The Tribal Class's Sisters... the Royal Navy's J, K & N Class Destroyers of WWII42:37Why long wars modernize existing warshipsNotable Point
- The Tribal Class's Sisters... the Royal Navy's J, K & N Class Destroyers of WWII47:22Fleet-destroyer generalists and Hunt-class specialistsNotable Point
- The Tribal Class's Sisters... the Royal Navy's J, K & N Class Destroyers of WWII1:14:03Could modern navies use general specialists?Notable Point
- 134yrs of evolution: How a Destroyer's Role has evolved from as envisaged in 1892 to 20267:38Whitehead torpedoes made subdivision a survival requirementChapter
- 134yrs of evolution: How a Destroyer's Role has evolved from as envisaged in 1892 to 202624:29Could unusual French battleships project technological strength?Notable Point
- 134yrs of evolution: How a Destroyer's Role has evolved from as envisaged in 1892 to 202635:20Speed made early destroyers both the fleet's shield and swordNotable Point
- 134yrs of evolution: How a Destroyer's Role has evolved from as envisaged in 1892 to 202637:05Sea conditions and fleet needs shaped early destroyer designsNotable Point
- 134yrs of evolution: How a Destroyer's Role has evolved from as envisaged in 1892 to 202640:58Gun positions help distinguish a destroyer from a torpedo boatNotable Point
- 134yrs of evolution: How a Destroyer's Role has evolved from as envisaged in 1892 to 202650:33Were superfiring guns already appearing on these destroyers?Q&A
- 134yrs of evolution: How a Destroyer's Role has evolved from as envisaged in 1892 to 202655:37Modernizing another navy's ships as a design exerciseNotable Point
- 134yrs of evolution: How a Destroyer's Role has evolved from as envisaged in 1892 to 202658:58Which class bridges the 1944 G class and the Daring class?Q&A
- 134yrs of evolution: How a Destroyer's Role has evolved from as envisaged in 1892 to 20261:11:46Japanese destroyers gained value as individual warshipsChapter
- 134yrs of evolution: How a Destroyer's Role has evolved from as envisaged in 1892 to 20261:50:34Modern systems do not make the Burke a modern hull designNotable Point
- 134yrs of evolution: How a Destroyer's Role has evolved from as envisaged in 1892 to 20262:08:08Zumwalt exposed the cost of tying a new hull to immature systemsNotable Point
- 134yrs of evolution: How a Destroyer's Role has evolved from as envisaged in 1892 to 20262:11:09Stealth and growth shape Type 83-scale future destroyersChapter
- Bruships 227: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:35:15The railgun recoil debateQ&A
- Bruships 227: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:59:27Why early destroyers had limited enduranceQ&A
- Bruships 227: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:28:22Could Canadian Renowns produce a 28-knot Admiral fast battleship?Q&A
- Bruships 227: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:35:04Chaf-class destroyers and mixed technology in Thrawn's RevengeQ&A
- Bruships 227: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:42:36Why the Aggressor is closer to a missile cruiser than a monitorQ&A
- Bruships 227: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:46:44What a crew needs to remain at sea for weeksQ&A
- Bruships 227: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:52:45Thruster pods impose hull and draft costs on carriersQ&A
- Bruships 227: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:02:56A revised Lion design and the problem of stern aviationQ&A
- Naval Architecture from Turret Ironclads to Super Dreadnoughts: HMS Monarch 1868 & 1911...6:33Monarch's hull proportions and the uncertainty in length-to-beam ratiosChapter
- Naval Architecture from Turret Ironclads to Super Dreadnoughts: HMS Monarch 1868 & 1911...21:13Why coastal turret ships could abandon sail soonerNotable Point
- Naval Architecture from Turret Ironclads to Super Dreadnoughts: HMS Monarch 1868 & 1911...28:14Monarch's 242-mile sailing day and the limits of record comparisonsNotable Point
- Naval Architecture from Turret Ironclads to Super Dreadnoughts: HMS Monarch 1868 & 1911...50:50How the Monarch design debate changed between 1868 and 1911Notable Point
- An introduction to Torpedo Boat Destoyers2:44Ironclads and HMS Monarch show evolutionary warship designChapter
- An introduction to Torpedo Boat Destoyers30:16Kotaka, Rattlesnake, and Destructor search for a gun-torpedo balanceChapter
- An introduction to Torpedo Boat Destoyers34:19The torpedo boat destroyer closes the light-force cycleNotable Point
- An introduction to Torpedo Boat Destoyers37:40Low forecastles left early destroyer crews exposedNotable Point
- An introduction to Torpedo Boat Destoyers39:01Speed lets early destroyers control the light-force battleChapter
- What if the Royal Navy carried out a carrier strike against Wilhelmshaven in WWI? Patreon Live13:33How Fisher delayed an early purpose-built carrierNotable Point
- What if the Royal Navy carried out a carrier strike against Wilhelmshaven in WWI? Patreon Live32:17Hermes, Eagle, and the Royal Navy's carrier experimentsChapter
- What if the Royal Navy carried out a carrier strike against Wilhelmshaven in WWI? Patreon Live36:39How hangar height consumed a carrier's weight allowanceNotable Point
- What if the Royal Navy carried out a carrier strike against Wilhelmshaven in WWI? Patreon Live57:36How could a hybrid carrier recover seaplanes?Q&A
- How to go about Designing a Warship... and a Fleet!0:10Define the nation before designing its warshipsChapter
- How to go about Designing a Warship... and a Fleet!18:22Timeline decides whether to design or adaptChapter
- How to go about Designing a Warship... and a Fleet!22:23Choose between a common hull and a specialist icebreakerNotable Point
- How to go about Designing a Warship... and a Fleet!34:23Turn missions into measurable ship requirementsChapter
- How to go about Designing a Warship... and a Fleet!37:08Adaptable designs still require compromisesNotable Point
- How to go about Designing a Warship... and a Fleet!46:09Treat power architecture as a combat requirementChapter
- How to go about Designing a Warship... and a Fleet!52:39Crew accommodation belongs in the power budgetNotable Point
- How to go about Designing a Warship... and a Fleet!1:08:01Flower-class corvettes favored fitness over perfectionNotable Point
- How to go about Designing a Warship... and a Fleet!1:10:43Winning a war does not validate every ship purchaseNotable Point
- Bruships 225: Naval History & Current Affairs Questions Answered Live...43:21Azur Lane's Chinese roster and an unbuilt 200 mm cruiserQ&A
- Bruships 225: Naval History & Current Affairs Questions Answered Live...52:52Uncrewed task-force assets divide into recoverable craft and ocean-going shipsQ&A
- Bruships 225: Naval History & Current Affairs Questions Answered Live...1:14:04The case for a long-range Canadian light frigateQ&A
- Bruships 225: Naval History & Current Affairs Questions Answered Live...1:17:45Weather and geography limit which foreign warship designs fitNotable Point
- Bruships 225: Naval History & Current Affairs Questions Answered Live...1:43:31Trieste's appeal depends on the intended air groupNotable Point
- Bruships 225: Naval History & Current Affairs Questions Answered Live...1:47:36Russia's non-superfiring dreadnought layout simplified the first generationQ&A
- Bruships 225: Naval History & Current Affairs Questions Answered Live...2:00:16Anti-ship missile decoys must bloom faster than a drone can deploy themQ&A
- Bruships 225: Naval History & Current Affairs Questions Answered Live...2:21:02Adapting an amphibious design for Canadian Arctic operationsQ&A
- Bruships 225: Naval History & Current Affairs Questions Answered Live...2:22:41Mistral's speed-range tradeoff in a Canadian amphibious comparisonNotable Point
- Bruships 225: Naval History & Current Affairs Questions Answered Live...2:48:58Why a Fletcher-style hull is a poor basis for an optionally crewed sloopQ&A
- Bruships 225: Naval History & Current Affairs Questions Answered Live...2:59:32Provisional launcher figures in the Defiant concept discussionQ&A
- Bruships 225: Naval History & Current Affairs Questions Answered Live...3:07:42River-class patrol ships are a poor shortcut to Arctic escort capabilityQ&A
- Bruships 225: Naval History & Current Affairs Questions Answered Live...4:14:10Why Arctic escorts need to break ice independentlyQ&A
- Bruships 225: Naval History & Current Affairs Questions Answered Live...4:15:31The uncertain future of large multihull warshipsQ&A
- Bruships 225: Naval History & Current Affairs Questions Answered Live...4:21:05Saudi MMSC: different combining gear and procurement choicesQ&A
- Why are Modern Warships getting bigger? (Live)6:07Why a Flight III Burke dwarfs a FletcherChapter
- Why are Modern Warships getting bigger? (Live)10:49How fewer ships produce larger generalistsNotable Point
- Why are Modern Warships getting bigger? (Live)28:26Container dimensions constrain naval missile launchersNotable Point
- Why are Modern Warships getting bigger? (Live)42:19Radar support and wartime redundancy add hull volumeChapter
- Why are Modern Warships getting bigger? (Live)54:37Why an all-Burke fleet is not a complete answerQ&A
- Why are Modern Warships getting bigger? (Live)1:04:49Diplomacy and disaster relief need designed-in spaceNotable Point
- Why are Modern Warships getting bigger? (Live)1:41:48Burke magazines and time away from stationChapter
- Why are Modern Warships getting bigger? (Live)2:08:39Could medium powers build 20,000-ton cruisers?Q&A
- Why are Modern Warships getting bigger? (Live)2:12:47Long-range control demands a larger sensor systemQ&A
- Why are Modern Warships getting bigger? (Live)2:13:27Automation can shrink crews without shrinking shipsQ&A
- Why are Modern Warships getting bigger? (Live)2:15:22Why smaller navies cannot simply choose bigger shipsQ&A
- Why are Modern Warships getting bigger? (Live)2:16:53The hidden weight behind communications suitesQ&A
- Why are Modern Warships getting bigger? (Live)2:40:12Adaptive deck launchers exchange deck area for hull volumeQ&A
- Why are Modern Warships getting bigger? (Live)2:56:11Post-Cold War ships trade narrow efficiency for breadthQ&A
- Why are Modern Warships getting bigger? (Live)2:58:56A frigate must choose specialization or become a mini-BurkeQ&A
- Navy Food: A Beginning13:25Why warships cycle between generalists and specialistsNotable Point
- Future Fleets: Some Ideas of Naval Warfare15:10Modern warships are power plants and data centres at seaNotable Point
- Future Fleets: Some Ideas of Naval Warfare43:21Future uncrewed sloops may grow to destroyer-escort sizeChapter
- Future Fleets: Some Ideas of Naval Warfare51:53Recoverable boats and independent ships need different repair accessChapter
- Future Fleets: Some Ideas of Naval Warfare1:01:07Ocean seakeeping puts a floor under uncrewed ship sizeChapter
- Trumps Battleship; A Naval History view on what we know of the Defiant Class so far16:21Preliminary Defiant dimensions, speed, and crewChapter
- Lions not Indefatigables - the Dominions chose to build 13.5in Battlecruisers prior to WWI...29:53Why did capital ships adopt small-tube boilers slowly?Q&A
- Lions not Indefatigables - the Dominions chose to build 13.5in Battlecruisers prior to WWI...1:05:57Second-batch Lions accelerate British designChapter
- Lions not Indefatigables - the Dominions chose to build 13.5in Battlecruisers prior to WWI...1:18:21A 15-inch Tiger and fast-battleship convergenceChapter
- Lions not Indefatigables - the Dominions chose to build 13.5in Battlecruisers prior to WWI...1:23:12Would Queen Elizabeth adopt triple turrets or better boilers?Q&A
- 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...2:25:02Why are warships harder to stretch than airliners?Q&A
- What the Frigates up with our Frigates? A Bilgepumps Christmas 2025 @Drachinifel& @wgowshipping4:50How Constellation lost its off-the-shelf advantageQ&A
- What the Frigates up with our Frigates? A Bilgepumps Christmas 2025 @Drachinifel& @wgowshipping22:24A tethered radar must work above a moving warshipNotable Point
- What the Frigates up with our Frigates? A Bilgepumps Christmas 2025 @Drachinifel& @wgowshipping53:07Type 83 shows the price of doing every escort jobNotable Point
- What the Frigates up with our Frigates? A Bilgepumps Christmas 2025 @Drachinifel& @wgowshipping1:21:47Third-rate does not mean badly builtNotable Point
- What the Frigates up with our Frigates? A Bilgepumps Christmas 2025 @Drachinifel& @wgowshipping1:26:44Flower and Fletcher illustrate different escort expectationsNotable Point
- What the Frigates up with our Frigates? A Bilgepumps Christmas 2025 @Drachinifel& @wgowshipping1:40:10Visitor facilities explain apparently excessive ship toiletsNotable Point
- What the Frigates up with our Frigates? A Bilgepumps Christmas 2025 @Drachinifel& @wgowshipping1:50:09Competing Freedom frigate concepts complicate the comparisonNotable Point
- What the Frigates up with our Frigates? A Bilgepumps Christmas 2025 @Drachinifel& @wgowshipping1:53:11A smaller cutter hull limits the replacement frigate's fitChapter
- What the Frigates up with our Frigates? A Bilgepumps Christmas 2025 @Drachinifel& @wgowshipping2:03:59Heavier frigate guns required suitable hullsNotable Point
- What the Frigates up with our Frigates? A Bilgepumps Christmas 2025 @Drachinifel& @wgowshipping2:06:17The Warrior principle for defining a future frigateQ&A
- The World Naval Review 2026: A Great Key Book Series13:54Vikrant exposes the cost of missing project experienceNotable Point
- Bruships 223: Naval History & Science Fiction Questions Answered Live...56:13Fighter hangars for Deep Space NineNotable Point
- Bruships 223: Naval History & Science Fiction Questions Answered Live...2:34:22Why General Products needs a named science-fiction settingQ&A
- Bruships 223: Naval History & Science Fiction Questions Answered Live...2:39:48A twin-arm launcher on the County classQ&A
- Bruships 223: Naval History & Science Fiction Questions Answered Live...4:07:00An 80-foot extension for the Invincible classQ&A
- What the Frigate is wrong with how we buy ships, tanks & aircraft?24:48Type 26 hull volume, maintenance, and growthNotable Point
- What the Frigate is wrong with how we buy ships, tanks & aircraft?29:12More Type 45 space without an automatic crew increaseNotable Point
- What the Frigate is wrong with how we buy ships, tanks & aircraft?37:38Oliver Hazard Perry: the hull around the escort systemsNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 15: Frigates14:45Why Burke production keeps defeating its replacementNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 15: Frigates18:01Iver Huitfeldt: distinguishing maintenance from designNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 15: Frigates25:10Choosing between 76 mm, 5-inch and 6-inch gunsNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 15: Frigates33:56Could a durable arsenal ship become a modern battleship?Q&A
- Scuttlebutt 15: Frigates38:43How two-deck second rates changed the sailing battle lineQ&A
- Bruships 222: Naval History Questions Answered Live...48:49Holding new capital-ship ideas for the next pairNotable Point
- 3 Books to understand the USN, RN & IJN preperations for WWII! Key Books 348:11Reading plans against engineering evidenceNotable Point
- Exploring the meme: Top 5 & Bottom 5 inventions/systems of war that started in British Sheds(Live)2:05:33What is the naval equivalent of the Sten gun?Q&A
- Scuttlebutt 14: Aircraft Carriers2:20Small carriers free Japan's strike-carrier tonnageNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 14: Aircraft Carriers3:26Working small carriers could displace Ranger and WaspQ&A
- Scuttlebutt 14: Aircraft Carriers15:33US and Royal Navy light-carrier build pathsQ&A
- Scuttlebutt 14: Aircraft Carriers32:26Large ships and VLS reload argumentsQ&A
- Scuttlebutt 14: Aircraft Carriers35:18Lexington-class ships split across capital-ship rolesQ&A
- Scuttlebutt 14: Aircraft Carriers37:00Machinery density shifts the battlecruiser spectrumNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 14: Aircraft Carriers40:00W. D. Forbes and British carrier design workQ&A
- Bruships 221: Naval History Questions Answered Live...31:17A mixed-propulsion warship analogy applied to the VenatorQ&A
- Bruships 221: Naval History Questions Answered Live...55:32How early ships backed up electrical powerQ&A
- Bruships 221: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:02:56A continuous US scout-cruiser building program before 1920Q&A
- Bruships 221: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:14:55Which unbuilt carrier concepts were least worthwhileQ&A
- Bruships 221: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:04:00Invincible's hidden carrier flexibility and missing growth marginQ&A
- Bruships 221: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:08:52Why a larger original Invincible made more sense than stretching itQ&A
- Bruships 221: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:46:57When the Forrestal class gained an angled flight deckQ&A
- Bruships 221: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:58:28Why an infantry nano-drone has little naval scouting reachQ&A
- Carriers for Christmas: French Aircraft Carriers 1920-2000 & Japanese Aircraft Carriers 1920-458:30Mission growth reshapes Commandant TesteChapter
- Carriers for Christmas: French Aircraft Carriers 1920-2000 & Japanese Aircraft Carriers 1920-4527:02Joffre compared with Ark Royal and Graf ZeppelinNotable Point
- Carriers for Christmas: French Aircraft Carriers 1920-2000 & Japanese Aircraft Carriers 1920-4528:40Joffre's asymmetric flight deck and island tradeoffsChapter
- Commodore Michael Clapp & the 1982 Falklands War; #2Historians 2025 starts off54:21Running the amphibious command from HMS FearlessNotable Point
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle13:53DragonFire's promise and the limits of an anti-ship laserQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle16:47Designing Queen Elizabeth and Revenge for a treaty-limited futureQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle3:31:20Why the US Navy returned to steel warshipsQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle3:41:27Which warships suit an all-forward main batteryQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle4:17:02How Iowa's inclined belt fits a distributed armour systemQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle4:58:51Why a victorious Germany might reuse British carrier designsQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle5:38:38Why Chinese destroyers resemble Burkes more than Type 45sQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle6:17:21Why protected steering positions had no windowsQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle6:37:49How modern warship bridges protect their crewsQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle7:21:45Tiger versus Hood as the best battlecruiserQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle7:34:16When wood or composite makes sense for a minesweeperQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle7:57:41A cruiser-scale successor to the Sea Slug County classQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle8:15:20Why a Type 82 concept can be a destroyer or cruiserQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle8:18:30What could justify four reactors in a surface warship?Q&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle8:19:15Would ejecting a reactor protect a damaged warship?Q&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle8:23:59Why cruisers were natural platforms for early missilesQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle8:53:27Battlecruiser armour, speed, and strategic tradeoffsNotable Point
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P8 of 9 - UAD chat requested design testing…21:27How wartime typhoons influenced postwar destroyer designQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P8 of 9 - UAD chat requested design testing…57:01Why hovercraft endured while hydrofoils fadedQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P6 of 9 - The Royal Navy’s Submarine Killers – Black Swans at War8:05:17How ASDIC reshaped anti-submarine shipsChapter
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust1:06:06Why the US Navy valued turbo-electric propulsionQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress7:32:25The modernization limits of the Arleigh Burke designQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida7:50Could Japan have built the Number 13 battleship design?Q&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida25:08If a British submarine sank one of Germany's twins early in the warQ&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 Haida40:32Choosing the battery for a 74- or 84-gun ship of the lineQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida44:01Using armor to keep modern warships repairableQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida1:50:56How a 1909 super-steel would change British warship designQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida2:05:58Why reloading vertical-launch cells at sea remains difficultQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida2:22:32A critique of the Dingyuan class's gun layout and seakeepingQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida2:38:30The limits of adding catapults to amphibious assault shipsQ&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 Haida6:02:51A heavier 30-knot King George V proposalQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida7:21:50Comparing King George V, Lion, and Vanguard superstructuresQ&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 Haida8:12:38German 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 Haida9:05:32The trap in a cruiser built only to kill destroyersNotable Point
- 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 Haida9:29:13Did cruisers need a dedicated casemate deck?Q&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 2 of 9 - Friends of HMCS Haida9:37:24Building the Japanese entry in a treaty-cruiser game challengeNotable Point
- 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 Haida10:55:13The British mechanized 9.2-inch cruiser as an Alaska answerNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II54:23How to reconstruct naval history when records are missingQ&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 II4:19:32What the Executor reveals about presence and force distributionQ&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 II7:15:43Why a warship design might use a rotating funnelNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II9:25:21Secondary guns and torpedoes for an American Super TigerQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II9:37:44How the Union could build an ocean-going monitorQ&A
- Bruships 220: Naval History Questions Answered Live...15:41How new treaty cruiser categories might reshape fleetsQ&A
- Bruships 220: Naval History Questions Answered Live...24:48Why an empire might use Singaporean or Qatari warship designsQ&A
- Andrew Cunningham: Master of Deception35:16Cunningham challenges wartime ship designsChapter
- Bruships 219: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:01:51Replacement orders could accelerate British cruiser evolutionQ&A
- What happpens if Admiral "Jackie" Fisher & Admiral R.G.H Henderson Swap Third Sea Lord Tenures?2:37Why the Third Sea Lord could shape the whole fleetChapter
- What happpens if Admiral "Jackie" Fisher & Admiral R.G.H Henderson Swap Third Sea Lord Tenures?6:17Why a larger destroyer could need fewer engineersNotable Point
- What happpens if Admiral "Jackie" Fisher & Admiral R.G.H Henderson Swap Third Sea Lord Tenures?10:56Fisher's speed doctrine and the limits of RenownChapter
- 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?26:53Why Henderson stockpiled designs before warNotable Point
- What happpens if Admiral "Jackie" Fisher & Admiral R.G.H Henderson Swap Third Sea Lord Tenures?29:58How requirements became Royal Navy warshipsNotable Point
- 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?47:17Convertible tanks exploit treaty displacement rulesNotable Point
- What happpens if Admiral "Jackie" Fisher & Admiral R.G.H Henderson Swap Third Sea Lord Tenures?54:25Henderson's credit-free method of naval reformChapter
- What happpens if Admiral "Jackie" Fisher & Admiral R.G.H Henderson Swap Third Sea Lord Tenures?1:07:42Fisher still needs engineers to turn concepts into shipsNotable Point
- What happpens if Admiral "Jackie" Fisher & Admiral R.G.H Henderson Swap Third Sea Lord Tenures?1:17:33A weak escalator clause empties the treaty of restraintNotable Point
- Bruships 218: New Books! British Telecom is a terrible ISP! Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:59:54Why Vanguard and Iowa trade speed advantagesQ&A
- Bruships 218: New Books! British Telecom is a terrible ISP! Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:25:23The hard limits of a 10,000-ton carrierQ&A
- Procuring for Peace First Draft5:41Sloops, frigates, and dual-purpose presence shipsChapter
- Procuring for Peace First Draft26:15River-class patrol ships define a maritime-security boundaryChapter
- Procuring for Peace First Draft47:26Warship displacement tiers persist across technological changeNotable Point
- Procuring for Peace First Draft1:02:01Sloops turned ASW experiments into Flower-class requirementsChapter
- Procuring for Peace First Draft1:03:28Automation reduces crews without recreating mission breadthNotable Point
- Nuclear Powered Warships: are they worth the cost?41:31Electromagnetic guns can deepen magazinesNotable Point
- #Japan2025 #ShipShape naval history trip... update 36 on the 'lastish' night in Japan1:28Japanese naval history beyond World War IINotable Point
- Kaigun-chūjō Gunichi Mikawa: The IJN's Pearl Harbor back up plan24:17Why the modernized Kongos remained risky combatantsNotable Point
- Kaigun-chūjō Gunichi Mikawa: The IJN's Pearl Harbor back up plan25:42Industrial capacity complicates capital-ship labelsNotable Point
- Izumo Class; Building for the future or planned preperation?7:52Izumo's size signalled deliberate future-proofingNotable Point
- Izumo Class; Building for the future or planned preperation?9:15Hyuga may have been the bridge to IzumoNotable Point
- Izumo Class; Building for the future or planned preperation?11:41Why Izumo gave up Hyuga's VLS batteryChapter
- Izumo Class; Building for the future or planned preperation?15:44Carrier potential was preserved, but conversion was not effortlessNotable Point
- Building Ships Out of Time; or Why sometimes nations seem to build last generation ships0:00Why navies build apparently obsolete shipsChapter
- What if the High Seas Fleet was not Scuttled in Scapa Flow?35:42Which German warships were the real prizesChapter
- 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
- What if the High Seas Fleet was not Scuttled in Scapa Flow?1:06:25G3s, N3s, and Lexingtons before a delayed treatyChapter
- What if the High Seas Fleet was not Scuttled in Scapa Flow?1:09:20German humiliation and fears of Japanese design fusionNotable Point
- What if the High Seas Fleet was not Scuttled in Scapa Flow?1:15:20The unknown 1923 capital-ship generationNotable Point
- #Japan2025 #ShipShape naval history trip... update 4 the Soya0:18Soya's icebreaker hull and later modificationsNotable Point
- Battlestar Galactica: Logistics, Leadership & Realism43:32Designing a fleet for planetary evacuationChapter
- Bruships 212: Naval History Questions Answered Live...After Power Cut10:43A 1937 cruiser built around six 15-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships 212: Naval History Questions Answered Live...After Power Cut29:29Why merchant raiding and the battle line pull ships apartQ&A
- Bruships 212: Naval History Questions Answered Live...After Power Cut53:59AI risks for naval forcesQ&A
- Bruships 212: Naval History Questions Answered Live...After Power Cut1:13:54The Daring class as the Royal Navy’s dream destroyerQ&A
- Bruships 212: Naval History Questions Answered Live...After Power Cut1:33:08A 50,000-ton British battleship sketch for 1922Q&A
- Bruships 212: Naval History Questions Answered Live...After Power Cut1:53:42Smaller wartime cargo ships with electric pod drivesQ&A
- Bruships 212: Naval History Questions Answered Live...After Power Cut2:21:50A heavily armed modern destroyer conceptQ&A
- Maya Class: The Ultimate Arleigh Burke Flight IIA or something else?0:00From the Six-Six Fleet Plan to the Maya classChapter
- Maya Class: The Ultimate Arleigh Burke Flight IIA or something else?30:43Propulsion efficiency and a gray-zone gun debateNotable Point
- Maya Class: The Ultimate Arleigh Burke Flight IIA or something else?34:44How radar requirements give Maya a flagship silhouetteNotable Point
- #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 P325:35An antiaircraft secondary battery for the Number 13 responseNotable Point
- #2Historians Live: With @Drachinifel comes to chat & build UAD Dreadnoughts that Almost were P332:08Italy's 1929 answer to the Nelson 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 P353:23Twelve main guns with only one fire-control centerNotable Point
- #2Historians Live: With @Drachinifel comes to chat & build UAD Dreadnoughts that Almost were P31:04:44Could an 80,000-ton battleship exceed Panamax?Q&A
- #2Historians Live: With @Drachinifel comes to chat & build UAD Dreadnoughts that Almost were P31:14:38A British rival for the Kongo contractChapter
- #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 P32:01:20An Austro-Hungarian wing-turret challengeChapter
- #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 P32:37:30Why an archived warship design may never have been intended for constructionNotable Point
- #2Historians Live: With @Drachinifel comes to chat & build UAD Dreadnoughts that Almost were P32:46:09A deliberately weak Manchurian battleshipChapter
- #2Historians Live: With @Drachinifel comes to chat & build UAD Dreadnoughts that Almost were P32:52:51Would coal suit a Manchurian battleship?Q&A
- #2Historians Live: With @Drachinifel comes to chat & build UAD Dreadnoughts that Almost were P32:57:46An impressive battleship designed to be unmanageableNotable Point
- #2Historians Live: With @Drachinifel comes to chat & build UAD Dreadnoughts that Almost were P33:02:26A 35,000-ton ship Japan might underestimateNotable Point
- #2Historians Live: With @Drachinifel comes to chat & build UAD Dreadnoughts that Almost were P33:04:57Designing for Chinese cruisers and local maintenanceNotable Point
- #2Historians Live: With @Drachinifel comes to chat & build UAD Dreadnoughts that Almost were P33:09:12A client battleship still needs somewhere to dockNotable Point
- #2Historians Live: With @Drachinifel comes to chat & build UAD Dreadnoughts that Almost were P33:14:03An early-1930s USS Constitution battlecruiserChapter
- #2Historians Live: With @Drachinifel comes to chat & build UAD Dreadnoughts that Almost were P33:30:20A fast Tennessee with space for a flagship staffNotable Point
- #2Historians Live: With @Drachinifel comes to chat & build UAD Dreadnoughts that Almost were P33:33:01Extra protection and disputed antiaircraft equipmentNotable Point
- #2Historians Live: With @Drachinifel comes to chat & build UAD Dreadnoughts that Almost were P33:35:59A conservative Constitution built from mature weaponsNotable Point
- #2Historians Live: With @Drachinifel comes to chat & build UAD Dreadnoughts that Almost were P33:39:30Choosing between flagship space and extra armorNotable Point
- Liberty Leadership: How the ships that were the blood cells of WWII came to be...15:59Practical Liberty ship design accepts speed and welding tradeoffsChapter
- Liberty Leadership: How the ships that were the blood cells of WWII came to be...34:47Concentrated accommodation protects scarce merchant marinersNotable Point
- Liberty Leadership: How the ships that were the blood cells of WWII came to be...35:46Liberty ships are designed for wartime need, not perfectionChapter
- 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
- Admiral Henderson's Dream? A Four Carrier Battle of Taranto...4:23Fleet carriers, strike carriers, and treaty tonnageChapter
- #2Historians Special: @Drachinifel comes to chat Dreadnoughts that Almost were P2 of ?5:18French dreadnought design met the limits of its shipyardsChapter
- #2Historians Special: @Drachinifel comes to chat Dreadnoughts that Almost were P2 of ?12:08Normandie's mixed engines complicated training and protectionNotable Point
- #2Historians Special: @Drachinifel comes to chat Dreadnoughts that Almost were P2 of ?24:25L20 Alpha belongs beside wartime British design studiesChapter
- #2Historians Special: @Drachinifel comes to chat Dreadnoughts that Almost were P2 of ?27:52Revised Queen Elizabeth designs offered several replies to L20Notable Point
- #2Historians Special: @Drachinifel comes to chat Dreadnoughts that Almost were P2 of ?32:48Hood's wartime design could underpin a heavier British responseNotable Point
- #2Historians Special: @Drachinifel comes to chat Dreadnoughts that Almost were P2 of ?59:25Emergency speed consumes machinery lifeNotable Point
- #2Historians Special: @Drachinifel comes to chat Dreadnoughts that Almost were P2 of ?1:04:38Samuel B. Roberts combined a lighter displacement with a capable hullNotable Point
- #2Historians Special: @Drachinifel comes to chat Dreadnoughts that Almost were P2 of ?1:11:23Froude's hull research helped ships exceed their rated speedNotable Point
- #2Historians Special: @Drachinifel comes to chat Dreadnoughts that Almost were P2 of ?1:12:42Rodney's trials and hull lineage challenge a fixed speed ceilingNotable Point
- #2Historians Special: @Drachinifel comes to chat Dreadnoughts that Almost were P2 of ?1:18:53Treaty compliance could leave room for later armour and emergency powerNotable Point
- #2Historians Special: @Drachinifel comes to chat Dreadnoughts that Almost were P2 of ?1:26:56Intelligence can reveal a successor while its predecessor is being builtNotable Point
- #2Historians Special: @Drachinifel comes to chat Dreadnoughts that Almost were P2 of ?1:58:17South Dakota's compact layout left narrow deck passagesNotable Point
- 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?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?15:15A hybrid mount could make the 4.5-inch gun practicalChapter
- What changes if the Royal Navy Tribal class got built with 4.5in guns?24:26Could 4.5-inch guns replace the 5.25-inch battery?Chapter
- What changes if the Royal Navy Tribal class got built with 4.5in guns?33:10An all-4.5-inch Dido could trade shell weight for gun densityNotable Point
- Sir Eustace Tennyson d'Eyncourt: WWI Royal Navy's Director of Naval Construction17:29Hood's battlecruiser armour and the fast-battleship alternativeNotable Point
- Ships of the 1588 Spanish Armada: the Girona & the Nuestra Señora del Rosario1:35How a galleass combined oars, sails, and a broadsideChapter
- Ships of the 1588 Spanish Armada: the Girona & the Nuestra Señora del Rosario9:55Girona's armament, crew, and Atlantic modificationsChapter
- Bruships 203: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:29:51Japan receives Deutschland-class dieselsQ&A
- HMS Bellerophon: A Dreadnought, but better...4:11HMS Dreadnought was a deliberately conservative leapNotable Point
- HMS Bellerophon: A Dreadnought, but better...6:09Why major warship experiments normally came in pairsNotable Point
- HMS Bellerophon: A Dreadnought, but better...18:27Philip Watts and serving officers refined the Bellerophon designNotable Point
- HMS Bellerophon: A Dreadnought, but better...21:02Bellerophon's machinery corrected Dreadnought-era compromisesChapter
- CSS Arkansas & Isaac N. Brown... A study in tactical excellence & strategic incompetence...10:03The Arkansas-class design and its strategic purposeChapter
- CSS Arkansas & Isaac N. Brown... A study in tactical excellence & strategic incompetence...13:24Railroad iron gives Arkansas improvised protectionNotable Point
- Attacking Pearl Harbour: The Decisions that led to the Japanese Planning…2:20:29Why did large sailing ships usually stop at three masts?Q&A
- Bruships 201: Naval History Questions Answered Live...59:38Cuniberti's ideal battleship and the all-big-gun ideaQ&A
- Bruships 201: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:05:01Could the Type 26 hull be enlarged?Q&A
- Bruships 201: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:46:25Why pre-Fletcher destroyers came in many small classesQ&A
- Bruships 201: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:04:15Why the first ship of a class needs a substantial refitNotable Point
- Bruships 201: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:52:29Fitting guns around dispersed missile batteriesNotable Point
- Bruships 201: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:32:02How many improved Takao Kai cruisers Japan might orderQ&A
- Bruships 201: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:32:20When naval ships need ice strengtheningQ&A
- Bruships 201: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:46:21Why a warship refit cannot ignore the hull structureNotable Point
- Bruships 201: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:19:30Why barbette width does not dictate turret sizeQ&A
- What went wrong with the Queen Elizabeth Class Battleships?0:00Queen Elizabeth historiography and selective evidenceNotable Point
- What went wrong with the Queen Elizabeth Class Battleships?1:09What really went wrong with the Queen Elizabeth class?Q&A
- What went wrong with the Queen Elizabeth Class Battleships?2:08Too many cooks shaped the Queen Elizabeth designChapter
- What went wrong with the Queen Elizabeth Class Battleships?4:10From battlecruiser to fast battleshipNotable Point
- What went wrong with the Queen Elizabeth Class Battleships?18:22Boiler count, power, and the missing hull lengthNotable Point
- What went wrong with the Queen Elizabeth Class Battleships?31:43Surviving design records preserve only part of the debateNotable Point
- What went wrong with the Queen Elizabeth Class Battleships?55:13Ideal sketches were not procurement designsNotable Point
- Plan Z: What was the Concept of Operations behind it? Tirpitz Mk II or something else?30:30Small, varied classes magnified the readiness burdenNotable Point
- The Vlieter incident of 1799: When Leadership meant a battle wasn't needed for the Batavian to lose2:42:30Why were most Dutch ships of the line two-deckers?Notable Point
- The Vlieter incident of 1799: When Leadership meant a battle wasn't needed for the Batavian to lose2:47:42Why did ships carry mixed gun calibers?Q&A
- Bruships 199: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:40:01Why Dora railway guns cannot arm BismarckQ&A
- Bruships 199: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:44:35Captain's loss and control of warship designNotable Point
- Bruships 199: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:45:18Why trial-speed incentives can distort warship comparisonsNotable Point
- Bruships 199: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:47:25County-class armor provisions varied between batches and refitsNotable Point
- 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...2:29:24How wooden warships protected their powder magazinesNotable Point
- Why the Battle of the Nile, 1798, was Nelson's Greatest Feat of Leadership...3:14:18Did L'Orient's loss change French ship design?Q&A
- Bruships 197: Naval History Questions Answered Live...19:55The uncertain arrival of hollow propeller shaftsQ&A
- Bruships 197: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:12:01Choosing a Second World War navy when survival is guaranteedQ&A
- Rostislav: the Russian Victory from 1784?7:32Rostislav compared with HMS VictoryChapter
- Rostislav: the Russian Victory from 1784?50:55An extra gun deck improves firepower and crew protectionNotable Point
- Bruships 196: Naval History Questions Answered Live...23:26How Britain standardized battleships by squadronQ&A
- Bruships 196: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:37:37Disagreement over a limited role for battlecarriersQ&A
- Bruships 196: Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:06:49Arm launchers for strike and reloadable VLS for air defenceNotable Point
- Battle of Jutland: The Strategic Leadership which both defined it and denied it satisfaction20:37Why subdivision matters to battlecruiser survivalNotable Point
- Battle of Tsushima: Leadership, Logisitics and Lessons to be learned20:03Grand Duke Alexei's strategy-free fleet buildingChapter
- Battle of Tsushima: Leadership, Logisitics and Lessons to be learned1:30:29Different battleship designs complicated Russia's fleetNotable Point
- Didos, Atlantas & Conversions: Which were the true Screening, Scouting or AA Cruisers of WWII?23:00Dido force design under treaty limitsChapter
- 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?33:07Dido endurance beyond the official figuresNotable Point
- Didos, Atlantas & Conversions: Which were the true Screening, Scouting or AA Cruisers of WWII?35:18Why the Atlanta duplicated destroyer capabilityChapter
- Didos, Atlantas & Conversions: Which were the true Screening, Scouting or AA Cruisers of WWII?38:44Why the U.S. Navy stopped at eight AtlantasNotable Point
- Didos, Atlantas & Conversions: Which were the true Screening, Scouting or AA Cruisers of WWII?45:19More directors would leave Atlanta with the same main gunNotable Point
- Didos, Atlantas & Conversions: Which were the true Screening, Scouting or AA Cruisers of WWII?46:24CL-154 pushed the screening cruiser much furtherNotable Point
- Didos, Atlantas & Conversions: Which were the true Screening, Scouting or AA Cruisers of WWII?1:22:56Dido traded cruiser diplomacy for fleet specializationNotable Point
- Didos, Atlantas & Conversions: Which were the true Screening, Scouting or AA Cruisers of WWII?1:36:06Worcester combined heavy screening fire with complex mountingsNotable Point
- Bruships 194: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:07:57Why adding ASW weapons can turn an OPV into a frigateQ&A
- Bruships 194: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:13:28Why an OPV's hotel load includes accommodation and medical staffingQ&A
- Bruships 194: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:49:25Designing the Royal Navy and US Navy without naval treatiesQ&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...2:22:46When a warship needs a new hull rather than new enginesQ&A
- Bruships 194: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:49:35What Britain might build in response to the Alaska classQ&A
- Bruships 194: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:54:12How large could battleships grow without naval treaties?Q&A
- A Turtle Ship May: Admiral Yi Sun-Sin1:06:43Panokseon hulls were optimized for Korean coastal combatChapter
- A Turtle Ship May: Admiral Yi Sun-Sin1:51:58Height, boarding, and the turtle ship's roofQ&A
- A Turtle Ship May: Admiral Yi Sun-Sin2:42:57Why Europe did not adopt turtle-ship designsQ&A
- Bruships 191: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:13:59Why the Joffre class was not a design dead endQ&A
- Genesis of the Stomach Churners: Motor Landing Craft & Landing Craft Mechanised...16:14Exercises exposed the limits of paper landing-craft designsNotable Point
- Genesis of the Stomach Churners: Motor Landing Craft & Landing Craft Mechanised...18:21The 1926 Motor Landing Craft tested waterjet propulsionChapter
- Scuttlebutt 21st Century Battleship: Chat & Comment Response...22:33Why the concept favors podded propulsionQ&A
- Why the Admirals and Staff of Star Treks Star Fleet cause me pain...1:03:10Why a flagship needs an admiral's command spaceNotable Point
- Tribal, Battle & Daring Class Destroyers: 5yrs since the first live stream!24:20Why Hoche was called the Grand HotelNotable 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!46:26Daring's ancestry in a larger prewar L-class designNotable Point
- Tribal, Battle & Daring Class Destroyers: 5yrs since the first live stream!1:16:47Choosing warship propulsion without the Washington TreatyQ&A
- Tribal, Battle & Daring Class Destroyers: 5yrs since the first live stream!1:18:52The case for turbo-electric battleshipsQ&A
- Tribal, Battle & Daring Class Destroyers: 5yrs since the first live stream!1:37:14How jumboization enlarged the Cimarron oilersQ&A
- Tribal, Battle & Daring Class Destroyers: 5yrs since the first live stream!1:55:42Could France have avoided the Hoche and Marceau design path?Q&A
- A 1920s Caspian Sea Carrier: What happens if the German/Soviet relationship includes a carrier?50:14A Kirov-derived Soviet light fleet carrierNotable Point
- HMS Queen Mary: An Evolutionary Ship in a Time of Fleet Transition4:15Why Queen Mary was an improved LionChapter
- HMS Queen Mary: An Evolutionary Ship in a Time of Fleet Transition7:52From battlecruisers toward fast battleshipsNotable Point
- HMS Queen Mary: An Evolutionary Ship in a Time of Fleet Transition19:39Power density, armor coverage, and subdivisionChapter
- HMS Queen Mary: An Evolutionary Ship in a Time of Fleet Transition27:03Queen Mary's machinery and Lion-family dimensionsChapter
- HMS Queen Mary: An Evolutionary Ship in a Time of Fleet Transition30:59What Renown's machinery reveals about power densityNotable Point
- So you want to Build a Battleship today? For the 21st Century? Naval History Live10:27Define a modern battleship by mission, not turret countChapter
- So you want to Build a Battleship today? For the 21st Century? Naval History Live1:07:29Should the Iowa class be reactivated as an uncrewed control ship?Q&A
- So you want to Build a Battleship today? For the 21st Century? Naval History Live1:09:19Would a multihull battleship improve the design?Q&A
- So you want to Build a Battleship today? For the 21st Century? Naval History Live1:29:24Fixed-wing aviation would turn the battleship into a carrierNotable Point
- So you want to Build a Battleship today? For the 21st Century? Naval History Live1:48:16An arsenal ship, armored cruiser, and fast battleship convergeNotable Point
- 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
- Leadership Alive: What happens if Adm R. Henderson & Adm W. Fisher Live through WWII?3:23Reginald Henderson built the Royal Navy's wartime fleetChapter
- Leadership Alive: What happens if Adm R. Henderson & Adm W. Fisher Live through WWII?33:53Fisher and Henderson favour the larger L-class destroyerChapter
- Leadership Alive: What happens if Adm R. Henderson & Adm W. Fisher Live through WWII?39:15Hunt-class errors show the cost of a broken apprenticeshipNotable 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...1:55Structural limits on long wooden warshipsQ&A
- Bruships 187: Naval History Questions Answered Live...45:02How stronger rigs let sailing warships carry more canvasQ&A
- Bruships 187: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:31:43Why later Oliver Hazard Perry frigates used the long hullQ&A
- Bruships 187: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:45:59How watertight subdivision developedQ&A
- Bruships 187: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:57:01Why upper hull volume does not scale directly with displacementQ&A
- Mary Rose to Victory: How the Wooden Wall Grew as both forest and trees40:59Why large warships retained an adaptation advantageNotable Point
- Mary Rose to Victory: How the Wooden Wall Grew as both forest and trees59:23Gun decks replaced towering castle structuresNotable Point
- Mary Rose to Victory: How the Wooden Wall Grew as both forest and trees1:18:12Evolutionary design made first rates useful experimentsNotable Point
- How Admirals Shape Ships? From the Frigate built Galleons to Arleigh Burkes...0:00Reading an admiral's priorities in a warshipChapter
- How Admirals Shape Ships? From the Frigate built Galleons to Arleigh Burkes...2:24How naval officers narrow the ship designer's choicesNotable Point
- 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...15:09Why costly warships usually evolve cautiouslyNotable Point
- How Admirals Shape Ships? From the Frigate built Galleons to Arleigh Burkes...1:16:46Why Britain had to make the Dreadnought leap firstNotable Point
- Bruships 186: Naval History Questions Answered Live...Restart 2!5:50Why HMS Tiger and HMS Renown were different battlecruiser designsNotable Point
- Bruships 186: Naval History Questions Answered Live...Restart 2!16:01Pensacola, County, and York cruiser design comparedQ&A
- Bruships 186: Naval History Questions Answered Live...Restart 2!56:29The worst-looking ships the panel encountered in personQ&A
- Bruships 186: Naval History Questions Answered Live...Restart 2!1:06:28Which warship designs aged worse than their contemporaries?Q&A
- From Mary Rose to Victory, How & Why Construction of the Wooden Wall changed... Naval History Live8:07Cannon transform medieval fighting at seaChapter
- From Mary Rose to Victory, How & Why Construction of the Wooden Wall changed... Naval History Live41:41Great rebuilds blur the identity of a wooden shipNotable Point
- From Mary Rose to Victory, How & Why Construction of the Wooden Wall changed... Naval History Live43:09Triumph's rebuild links the galleon to the frigate formNotable Point
- From Mary Rose to Victory, How & Why Construction of the Wooden Wall changed... Naval History Live1:54:18Were Establishments mainly meant to help crews find their way?Q&A
- From Mary Rose to Victory, How & Why Construction of the Wooden Wall changed... Naval History Live2:42:34HMS Victory as the product of an institutional systemChapter
- From Mary Rose to Victory, How & Why Construction of the Wooden Wall changed... Naval History Live2:54:32Could Mary Rose serve in Victory's fleet?Q&A
- Bruships 184: Naval History Questions Answered Live...46:15What a two-deck HMS Warrior would requireQ&A
- Bruships 184: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:26:55What made the French battleship Hoche look capableQ&A
- Bruships 184: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:30:49The Marceau class and France's return to capital-ship constructionNotable Point
- Bruships 184: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:10:38Why navies revisited the armored cruiser in the missile ageQ&A
- Bruships 184: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:28:02Can uncrewed ships preserve surface-combatant production skills?Q&A
- Bruships 184: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:38:58Hoche and the problems of successive redesignsQ&A
- Bruships 184: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:39:38Why 18-inch turrets would cripple a King George V refitQ&A
- Bruships 184: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:45:12Where battleship gun caliber reaches diminishing returnsQ&A
- Bruships 184: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:40:09When heavy guns make sense on a fictional carrierQ&A
- Bruships 184: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:47:56Why Royal Navy gun calibers often rose by 1.5 inchesQ&A
- Bruships 184: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:15:37Octuple 16-inch turrets against massed missile attacksQ&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...1:37:13When Arctic warships need icebreaking hullsQ&A
- Marquis de Santa Cruz: The Man who could have given Spain the World...22:00The Gibraltar clash and lessons from English cannonNotable Point
- Bruships 181: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:00:02Tillman's hypothetical maximum bomber carrierQ&A
- Bruships 181: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:08:58Repairing Germany's World War II destroyer designQ&A
- Royal Navy gets activist for Research & Development from 1900 onwards...20:59Why cruisers and destroyers made safer experimental platformsNotable Point
- Royal Navy gets activist for Research & Development from 1900 onwards...32:12Armor design was a question of weight, area, and metallurgyNotable Point
- The Admiralty: A Contest of Leadership with Management... Naval History Live20:00The Navy Board offices that sustained the fleetChapter
- The Admiralty: A Contest of Leadership with Management... Naval History Live3:27:47Emerald and Enterprise suggest a route toward twin-turret cruisersNotable Point
- The Admiralty: A Contest of Leadership with Management... Naval History Live3:41:54How a new warship class produced operating feedbackQ&A
- So what about the Jeune Ecole made the Hoche and other French BattleHotels inevitable?17:16Design perfection versus operational enduranceNotable Point
- So what about the Jeune Ecole made the Hoche and other French BattleHotels inevitable?28:03The battlehotel silhouette and the transitional firing problemNotable Point
- 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?34:29Armour distribution matters more than one belt-thickness figureNotable Point
- So what about the Jeune Ecole made the Hoche and other French BattleHotels inevitable?38:05Redoutable's changing machinery and armour specificationsNotable 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
- So what about the Jeune Ecole made the Hoche and other French BattleHotels inevitable?50:17Redoutable's final approval came after work had begunNotable Point
- So what about the Jeune Ecole made the Hoche and other French BattleHotels inevitable?1:00:28Brennus was not simply the cancelled Charles Martel rebuiltNotable Point
- So what about the Jeune Ecole made the Hoche and other French BattleHotels inevitable?1:27:55Why the French battlehotels rose skywardChapter
- 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...1:13:30Naming and equipping a British medical-support shipQ&A
- 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...1:32:44Common systems and different hulls for the European Patrol CorvetteQ&A
- Bruships 179: Future Projects & Naval History Questions...1:45:24Hoche's seakeeping and the Marceau-class developmentNotable Point
- Bruships 179: Future Projects & Naval History Questions...2:02:39The price of a fast, heavily armoured 1913 battlecruiserQ&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...3:34:29Eighteenth-century warships: refinement before revolutionQ&A
- Bruships 179: Future Projects & Naval History Questions...3:48:22Why 16.5-inch guns rarely justify replacing 16-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships 178: Naval History or Exercise14:20Why British carriers had prominent flight-deck round-downsQ&A
- Bruships 178: Naval History or Exercise48:42The uncertain prospects of proposed UK naval conceptsQ&A
- Bruships 178: Naval History or Exercise1:04:17Graf Zeppelin and the danger of poor system integrationNotable Point
- Bruships 178: Naval History or Exercise1:16:59Ships used by Angles, Saxons, and Jutes to reach BritainQ&A
- Bruships 178: Naval History or Exercise1:43:23Why Long Beach and Hoche split opinions on warship appearanceQ&A
- Bruships 178: Naval History or Exercise2:34:53Could the Panama Canal be enlarged for Ford-class carriers?Q&A
- Bruships 178: Naval History or Exercise2:43:05Sixteen-inch design studies and the case for eight-inch alternativesNotable Point
- Bruships 178: Naval History or Exercise3:07:31Why the Gangut-style low superstructure disappearedQ&A
- Bruships 178: Naval History or Exercise3:18:36Why British paper warships look more buildableQ&A
- Bruships 178: Naval History or Exercise4:06:35Should a River-class replacement carry a hangar?Q&A
- Bruships 178: Naval History or Exercise4:10:42Why Santísima Trinidad did not become a first-rate modelQ&A
- Flotillas of the Danube (Continued)18:40Insect-class gunboats designed for the DanubeNotable Point
- Flotillas of the Danube (Continued)1:26:26The temptation and limit of an armoured river-gunboat bowNotable Point
- Flotillas of the Danube (Continued)1:36:36Is there an ideal river gunboat?Q&A
- Flotillas of the Danube1:13:29President Masaryk, Czechoslovakia's lone new river monitorNotable Point
- Flotillas of the Danube1:17:35President Masaryk's light armour and mixed ammunition supplyNotable Point
- Flotillas of the Danube1:29:14Why surplus special-operations boats cannot replace Danube minesweepersNotable Point
- Flotillas of the Danube1:35:05Why a crewed river minesweeper may cost less than full autonomyNotable Point
- Flotillas of the Danube1:58:08How to identify the bow of a modern Romanian monitorQ&A
- Flotillas of the Danube1:59:13A lowered forecastle and the limits of firing over the crewNotable Point
- Bruships 177: New Year, same Dr Alex... possibly with new gym membership3:15Why an F3 battlecruiser cannot trade away underwater protectionQ&A
- Bruships 177: New Year, same Dr Alex... possibly with new gym membership59:36What an economical 1930s British battleship might look likeQ&A
- Bruships 177: New Year, same Dr Alex... possibly with new gym membership1:12:20Why French warship design worked best when practitioners controlled theoryQ&A
- Bruships 177: New Year, same Dr Alex... possibly with new gym membership1:17:47The F2 roots and limited value of the paper ship HMS DefianceQ&A
- Bruships 177: New Year, same Dr Alex... possibly with new gym membership1:21:02Why reloading vertical launch systems at sea is so difficultQ&A
- Bruships 177: New Year, same Dr Alex... possibly with new gym membership1:48:34Protection and machinery in the transition to fast battleshipsQ&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 membership3:12:36Why multihull carriers lose too much internal volumeQ&A
- Bruships 177: New Year, same Dr Alex... possibly with new gym membership4:46:37Why displacement alone does not determine ship speedNotable Point
- What if HMS Nelson & HMS Rodney were built for speed?17:27Subdivision and armor coverage separate battlecruisers from battleshipsNotable Point
- What if HMS Nelson & HMS Rodney were built for speed?19:43F2 and F3 show how armament weight bought Nelson's missing speedChapter
- What if HMS Nelson & HMS Rodney were built for speed?25:23John Brown shaft engineering makes F3 power technically plausibleNotable 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?33:38Independent operations strengthen the case for aircraft aboard F3Notable 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?1:19:49Two shafts favored efficiency, while four offered redundancyNotable 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 Live46:32Admiral Hipper's displacement and divided design responsibilityNotable Point
- Battle of the Barents Sea: Naval History Live1:21:53Why Admiral Hipper and Lützow made an awkward teamNotable 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 Live1:48:41Hull strength and machinery reserve set practical cruiser speed limitsNotable Point
- Bruships 176: Christyear or Newmas?37:46Copper sheathing as a costly Royal Navy advantageQ&A
- Bruships 176: Christyear or Newmas?41:51The human scale of pre-CAD warship designQ&A
- Bruships 176: Christyear or Newmas?3:45:30Carrier size follows the air group and its enduranceNotable Point
- Battle of Elli(1912): When Regional Powers Go to War11:08The Salamis design combines German, American, and British strengthsChapter
- Tribal Class of 1907: The WWI Channel Response Force6:28Fisher's 33-knot requirement and a builder competitionChapter
- Tribal Class of 1907: The WWI Channel Response Force26:31HMS Gurkha is struck twice during construction on the TyneNotable Point
- Tribal Class of 1907: The WWI Channel Response Force41:40Thornycroft turns engine power into Tribal speedChapter
- Tribal Class of 1907: The WWI Channel Response Force54:17Denny's model testing and the balanced hull of HMS MaoriNotable Point
- Royal Navy go for speed not bulwark in the Nelson Class design...13:03Nelson as the ultimate dreadnought battleshipChapter
- Royal Navy go for speed not bulwark in the Nelson Class design...32:36How could F2 and F3 make 30 knots on two shafts?Q&A
- Royal Navy go for speed not bulwark in the Nelson Class design...38:00Where would extra F3 displacement go?Q&A
- Royal Navy go for speed not bulwark in the Nelson Class design...46:22A thousand tons could buy Nelson more speedNotable Point
- Royal Navy go for speed not bulwark in the Nelson Class design...58:45Which books explain Royal Navy capital ships?Q&A
- Royal Navy go for speed not bulwark in the Nelson Class design...1:16:32Why is King George V's belt quoted as both 14.7 and 15 inches?Q&A
- Royal Navy go for speed not bulwark in the Nelson Class design...1:33:05Fast capital ships could reshape British cruisersNotable 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...2:52:54How tall was Nelson's armor belt?Q&A
- Royal Navy go for speed not bulwark in the Nelson Class design...2:56:29Could the Deutschland class be made faster?Q&A
- Royal Navy go for speed not bulwark in the Nelson Class design...3:01:03Does the Royal Navy need an ultra-long-range cruiser?Q&A
- Royal Navy go for speed not bulwark in the Nelson Class design...3:19:07What makes an ideal warship design?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
- Prof Mercogliano & Dr C Discuss What is going on with Logistics(Shipping)? #2Historians Ep 55:41Russian river tankers face sea conditions beyond their designChapter
- Prof Mercogliano & Dr C Discuss What is going on with Logistics(Shipping)? #2Historians Ep 516:06Why logistics ships can remain useful for decadesNotable Point
- So You Want to Build an Aircraft Carrier: Operation & Learning From Experience! Part 3 or 1 of 30:01Why carrier design begins with experienceChapter
- 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 Frigates13:17Naval performance hidden beneath a merchant-style hullNotable Point
- Frigating in WWII for the Allies: HMAS Diamantina & the River Class Frigates16:32River-class design oversight after the Hunt-class scaling errorNotable Point
- Frigating in WWII for the Allies: HMAS Diamantina & the River Class Frigates41:21Command, sensors, and the open bridgeChapter
- Bruships 175: Pre- Christmas Party 202415:17Why Scharnhorst's label mattered less than her operational fitNotable Point
- Bruships 175: Pre- Christmas Party 20242:35:21Why a carrier ski-jump should not foldQ&A
- Bruships 175: Pre- Christmas Party 20243:29:27Why USS Long Beach stands out among nuclear cruisersQ&A
- Bruships 175: Pre- Christmas Party 20244:46:42What Japan gains by designing treaty ships around stabilityQ&A
- Bruships 175: Pre- Christmas Party 20244:57:17The damage-control limit on reducing warship crews through automationQ&A
- A Hearts of Iron Christmas 2... For Shipshape & Christmas, it's HOI4 with @GariusTheBrit13:05Armor choices, destroyer designs, and an abstract naval modelQ&A
- A Hearts of Iron Christmas 2... For Shipshape & Christmas, it's HOI4 with @GariusTheBrit42:59Matching anechoic-tile research to the fleet already under constructionNotable Point
- A Hearts of Iron Christmas 2... For Shipshape & Christmas, it's HOI4 with @GariusTheBrit2:23:22A naval overhaul adds armor-thickness decisionsNotable Point
- Prof Bennet & Dr C Discuss Naval Culture: does it exist & whether it matters? #2Historians ep 49:15When unwritten naval knowledge disappearsNotable Point
- Bruships 174: Ten Days to Christmas... have I got the lights up yet?4:34:03Could Ryujo work below 10,000 tons?Q&A
- The Royal Navy's Spirit Ship: HMS Tiger(1913) - Key Ships Series 9, Ship 920:18Design studies for a global cruiser that could fight German battlecruisersChapter
- Glynn Stewart & Alex Discuss How Do You Create a Science Fiction Fleet? #2Historians ep 316:47Practical fictional ships need limitations, defenses, and coherent physicsChapter
- Built in Australia: HMAS Castlemaine & the Bathurst Class Corvettes6:32The Commonwealth Naval Board designed for Australian capacityChapter
- Built in Australia: HMAS Castlemaine & the Bathurst Class Corvettes9:29ASDIC and production capacity set the corvette's size limitsNotable Point
- Built in Australia: HMAS Castlemaine & the Bathurst Class Corvettes30:02A robust design kept widely built ships operationally consistentNotable Point
- Just 10 Days of Submarine Sinkings29:11Where Kongō sits between battlecruiser and fast battleshipNotable Point
- Just 10 Days of Submarine Sinkings32:07Machinery power density turns speed into a protection choiceNotable Point
- The Seafire Doctrine Saga: How the RN's fighter control system came to be...17:30Warships designed for future radarNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 8: Beatty, Sopwith Cuckoos, Carriers & the Defence Debate...1:00:13Tiger Cub cost and machinery power densityQ&A
- Scuttlebutt 8: Beatty, Sopwith Cuckoos, Carriers & the Defence Debate...1:01:39Why battlecruiser speed produces diminishing returnsNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 8: Beatty, Sopwith Cuckoos, Carriers & the Defence Debate...1:07:28Using Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts for historical ship designQ&A
- The Roman Navy with Simon Elliot... #2Historians1:00:52Why polyremes probably used only two or three oar banksNotable Point
- 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 Rates25:19Benchmark navies could shape rivals through selective performance figuresNotable Point
- Of Two Submarines, in two wars... The sinkings of HMHS Britannic & IJS Kongo1:15:19How reconstruction moved Kongō toward a fast battleshipChapter
- WWI in the English Channel... A Primer on Years of Hard Forgotten Fighting17:09The 1905 Tribal-class destroyers become the reaction forceChapter
- 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
- 85% is still a First! The Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers...7:32Why carrier tonnage alone cannot compare fleet optionsNotable Point
- 85% is still a First! The Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers...27:06How dry docks constrained carrier sizeChapter
- 85% is still a First! The Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers...31:44Larger dry docks and a longer carrierNotable Point
- 85% is still a First! The Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers...38:23Carrier dimensions and dry-dock fitChapter
- 85% is still a First! The Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers...39:39Propulsion redundancy and shaft riskNotable Point
- 85% is still a First! The Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers...48:47How extra length changes hangar capacityNotable Point
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/41:47:29Nine 9.2-inch guns on a small Second World War warshipQ&A
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/42:32:32A Japanese light-cruiser successor would resemble ŌyodoQ&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 3/43:39:46Building a British F3-style battlecruiserChapter
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/44:00:51Could Japan fit ten 14-inch guns on a 25,000-ton battleship?Q&A
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/44:39:49How many main-battery turrets could a ship carry?Q&A
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/45:10:56How closely can UAD reproduce a Tillman battleship?Q&A
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/45:16:51An 18-inch-gun super-battleship and the armor penaltyChapter
- 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 3/46:36:51The practical limit on battleship main-battery turretsQ&A
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/46:44:38How shell weight limits rotary magazinesQ&A
- Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/47:17:38Italian destroyer speed and the demands of the operating areaNotable 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
- World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/44:18:23How quickly might the Royal Navy reach 18-inch battleships?Q&A
- World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/45:31:21A simpler design path for Graf ZeppelinQ&A
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/426:37Redesigning the Dido class and its link to the Tribal destroyersQ&A
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/41:11:20What armour is needed against 8-inch gunfire?Q&A
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/41:34:57Why Admiral Hipper-class cruisers needed such large crewsQ&A
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/43:43:53Reginald Henderson translated escort experience into the Flower designChapter
- 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 1/47:47:46Modified Flowers, Castles, and Rivers formed an escort-design progressionQ&A
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/47:54:54When a large floatplane cruiser could make senseQ&A
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/48:19:10How the naval-history essay competition was assessedChapter
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/48:54:19A 20-knot battleship was possible but demanding in 1882Q&A
- Kido Butai spotted on december 4th 1941... 3 days before Pearl Harbour, what changes? Patreon 1082:37:24Why a larger cruiser limit may not yield ships soonerQ&A
- Kido Butai spotted on december 4th 1941... 3 days before Pearl Harbour, what changes? Patreon 1082:42:52An all-forward King George V would favor more guns over more speedQ&A
- Kido Butai spotted on december 4th 1941... 3 days before Pearl Harbour, what changes? Patreon 1083:01:57A 16,000-ton British cruiser points toward the Tiger cubsQ&A
- The Battlecruiser/Fast Battleship Differential & Soviet Carriers: Scuttlebutt 714:43What separates a battlecruiser from a fast battleshipQ&A
- The Battlecruiser/Fast Battleship Differential & Soviet Carriers: Scuttlebutt 723:45Lexington, Iowa, and the capital-ship spectrumQ&A
- Ramblings Emergency Broadcast10:05Did naval treaties delay warship technology?Q&A
- Ramblings Emergency Broadcast21:43Freya's three-calibre main batteryNotable Point
- Bruships 171: Oh Kallax my Kallax, Where art though my Kallax2:01:28A Colossus-sized angled-deck carrier would buy time, not longevityQ&A
- Bruships 171: Oh Kallax my Kallax, Where art though my Kallax3:18:40More Jutland losses could produce true fast battleshipsQ&A
- Bruships 171: Oh Kallax my Kallax, Where art though my Kallax3:46:06Why length and beam cannot determine a 40-knot power requirementQ&A
- Bruships 171: Oh Kallax my Kallax, Where art though my Kallax4:03:49How wooden warships overcame limits on hull lengthQ&A
- Bruships 171: Oh Kallax my Kallax, Where art though my Kallax4:10:33Why an updated Constitution hull would become an inefficient escortQ&A
- Bruships 171: Oh Kallax my Kallax, Where art though my Kallax4:33:50Why scaling a Nimitz into a space carrier breaks its crew assumptionsQ&A
- @Drachinifel & Dr Clarke Discuss Royal Navy Aircraft Carriers that almost were! #2Historians ep 12:05:03How dockyards and bases shape carrier designChapter
- @Drachinifel & Dr Clarke Discuss Royal Navy Aircraft Carriers that almost were! #2Historians ep 12:27:01When refits move a battlecruiser toward a fast battleshipNotable Point
- Frigating Tiger Cubs: WWI if the Royal Navy builds some 9.2in armed 'Dreadnought Cruisers'5:03Battlecruiser evolution made numbers unaffordableChapter
- 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'2:09:31A higher treaty ceiling permits faster British battleshipsNotable Point
- Frigating Tiger Cubs: WWI if the Royal Navy builds some 9.2in armed 'Dreadnought Cruisers'2:16:03The Cressy losses still drive submarine cautionNotable Point
- The Lessons of Never Built Carriers34:45The carrier as an adaptable aircraft systemNotable Point
- Bruships 169: Kalax o Kalax, my kingdom for a Kalax...45:05What would a modern European light fleet carrier look like?Q&A
- Bruships 169: Kalax o Kalax, my kingdom for a Kalax...48:08Brunel would need to balance durability with fleet numbersQ&A
- Bruships 169: Kalax o Kalax, my kingdom for a Kalax...54:09Adding aircraft changes a missile cruiser's design demandsNotable Point
- Bruships 169: Kalax o Kalax, my kingdom for a Kalax...2:15:56Attractive hull lines do not settle the LCS design debateQ&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...3:25:20Three shafts fit PA-NG's place below a US supercarrierQ&A
- Bruships 169: Kalax o Kalax, my kingdom for a Kalax...3:27:12Extra missile launchers depend on the ship's missionQ&A
- Bruships 169: Kalax o Kalax, my kingdom for a Kalax...3:42:34Public engineering constraints can reveal hidden ship detailsNotable Point
- Bruships 169: Kalax o Kalax, my kingdom for a Kalax...3:50:28Preliminary objections to a tungsten warship hullQ&A
- Tiger Cubs - RN actually builds dreadnought armoured cruisers with 9.2in guns alongside HMS Tiger...8:23The spectrum from battlecruiser to battleshipNotable 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...15:30Small-tube boilers as a practical trialNotable 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...2:21:31How large would light cruisers become?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...2:38:11Why 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...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 song4:04:03Composite timber joints freed sailing ships from tree sizeQ&A
- Traditional French Bonhomie to spare via the only non USN Nuclear Carrier! The Charles de Gaulle!15:47How shipyard politics constrained the carrier's designChapter
- Traditional French Bonhomie to spare via the only non USN Nuclear Carrier! The Charles de Gaulle!1:02:26PA2 and the cost of converting a carrier to CATOBARChapter
- Traditional French Bonhomie to spare via the only non USN Nuclear Carrier! The Charles de Gaulle!1:04:01PA-NG's larger flight deck and disputed speed claimNotable Point
- Beatty of the Mediterranean: Finding the Right Peg for the Right Hole?10:06Battlecruiser labels conceal different combat rolesNotable Point
- Bruships 166: As I walk through the library of Naval History, I take a look at my shelf space....7:32How a 1930s warship keel was builtQ&A
- For History: Which Three ships should never have been scrapped?15:34Zheng He's treasure ships and the problem of scaleNotable Point
- The Current Carrier Generation: War is over/War has yet to begin30:30Carrier size, hangar volume, and future growthChapter
- The Nimitz Class: The Tenacious Ten that underpin America on the Global Stage0:00A World War II generation designs a Cold War carrierChapter
- The Nimitz Class: The Tenacious Ten that underpin America on the Global Stage53:24Elevator placement sustains simultaneous flight-deck flowsNotable Point
- Through Deck Cruisers: The Kiev & Invincible Classes of Aircraft Carrier0:00Why Kiev and Invincible both fit the through-deck cruiser ideaChapter
- Through Deck Cruisers: The Kiev & Invincible Classes of Aircraft Carrier56:51Carrier hangars provide adaptable volumeNotable Point
- Through Deck Cruisers: The Kiev & Invincible Classes of Aircraft Carrier1:38:21HMS Ocean was economized around a severe wartime life expectancyNotable Point
- 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 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat1:27:17More diesel power would not make Graf Spee a high-speed raiderQ&A
- Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat1:33:43How length-to-beam ratio shapes speed and handlingNotable Point
- Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat3:29:40How turbines and diesels displaced expansion enginesQ&A
- Bruships 161: All you need are Kallax, Shelves are all Books need... Naval History Questions & Chat!22:53Shipyards and carriers must be designed for future loadsNotable Point
- Bruships 161: All you need are Kallax, Shelves are all Books need... Naval History Questions & Chat!30:38Star Trek firing arcs illustrate standoff and brawling designsNotable Point
- Bruships 161: All you need are Kallax, Shelves are all Books need... Naval History Questions & Chat!2:11:12Why broad French specifications produced the Charles Martel problemQ&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!26:23Interwar roots of landing-ship dock designQ&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!37:36Machinery and weight distribution shaped Lion's turret layoutQ&A
- Bruships 159: New Office - This may be quick, discord may work & I may not have a Pneumonia attack!38:32A compact battleship citadel needs reserve buoyancy and design marginQ&A
- Bruships 159: New Office - This may be quick, discord may work & I may not have a Pneumonia attack!48:32A heavily armored four-turret Renown would approach Hood's sizeQ&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!1:15:57Why a light cruiser with only six 5-inch guns is a poor capital-ship escortQ&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!1:27:02Hovercraft minelaying remains attractive but difficultQ&A
- Bruships 159: New Office - This may be quick, discord may work & I may not have a Pneumonia attack!1:49:10A 9.2-inch limit could turn Courageous-size hulls into armored cruisersQ&A
- Bruships 159: New Office - This may be quick, discord may work & I may not have a Pneumonia attack!1:56:46Hydrofoils trade exceptional speed against practical survivabilityQ&A
- Twitch Live: USA Goes Battlecruiser for all their Capital Ships Campaign 210:17Pursuing battlecruisers through machinery researchNotable Point
- Twitch Live: USA Goes Battlecruiser for all their Capital Ships Campaign 252:08Designing light cruisers for mine warfareChapter
- 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 13:58Building a usable coastal battleship from limited technologyNotable Point
- Twitch Live: USA Goes Battlecruiser for all their Capital Ships Campaign 135:40Machinery and merchant shipping before bigger gunsNotable Point
- Twitch Live: USA Goes Battlecruiser for all their Capital Ships Campaign 11:02:55Designing secondary armament against torpedo boatsNotable Point
- Twitch Live: USA Goes Battlecruiser for all their Capital Ships Campaign 11:12:48A gun-heavy torpedo boat limited to defensive workNotable Point
- 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 12:10:20Using force mass while technology lagsNotable 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 Campaign18:42Why the 6,000-ton escort-cruiser brief breaks downChapter
- Check Campaign 26: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign42:49What the 12,000-ton escort cruiser buysNotable Point
- 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 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!17:37Post-Washington capital ship design pathsQ&A
- Bruships 158: Home for Naval History Questions & Trialing the new Question Bot... so cross fingers!22:02Japan's Kaga-derived post-Washington battleshipNotable Point
- Bruships 158: Home for Naval History Questions & Trialing the new Question Bot... so cross fingers!31:54How small could an aircraft-carrying cruiser be?Q&A
- Bruships 158: Home for Naval History Questions & Trialing the new Question Bot... so cross fingers!1:05:52A 22,000-ton treaty super-cruiser categoryQ&A
- Bruships 158: Home for Naval History Questions & Trialing the new Question Bot... so cross fingers!1:10:30Courageous as a 9.2-inch super-cruiserQ&A
- Bruships 158: Home for Naval History Questions & Trialing the new Question Bot... so cross fingers!1:34:42Bremse was already destroyer-sizedQ&A
- Bruships 158: Home for Naval History Questions & Trialing the new Question Bot... so cross fingers!3:05:38A French sixteen-gun 13-inch battleshipQ&A
- Bruships 158: Home for Naval History Questions & Trialing the new Question Bot... so cross fingers!3:33:20Large overseas cruisers in a fast-battleship raceQ&A
- What is an Escort Carrier to be for? Bogue & Ruler Classes - Why building Woolworths made sense!8:01Bogue and Ruler from C3 hullsNotable Point
- What is an Escort Carrier to be for? Bogue & Ruler Classes - Why building Woolworths made sense!9:27Woolworths carriers and why Britain modified themChapter
- What is an Escort Carrier to be for? Bogue & Ruler Classes - Why building Woolworths made sense!12:15Steam turbines and carrier handlingNotable Point
- What is an Escort Carrier to be for? Bogue & Ruler Classes - Why building Woolworths made sense!27:40How the ferry mission shaped escort-carrier designChapter
- What is an Escort Carrier to be for? Bogue & Ruler Classes - Why building Woolworths made sense!1:06:35How British and American fuel-safety practice convergedNotable Point
- Sōryū/Hiryū Class… Breaking into the future? Key Ships Series 9, Ships 526:35Treaty weight and Fourth Fleet lessonsChapter
- Sōryū/Hiryū Class… Breaking into the future? Key Ships Series 9, Ships 527:23Why a mirrored island required a different shipNotable Point
- Sōryū/Hiryū Class… Breaking into the future? Key Ships Series 9, Ships 530:08Tomozuru exposes the cost of excessive topweightChapter
- Sōryū/Hiryū Class… Breaking into the future? Key Ships Series 9, Ships 537:32Treaty limits, paper ships, and design workaroundsNotable Point
- How the Frigate did this happen? World War over Venezuela Crisis of 1903 - Patreon Premier1:13:23Peace settlement and dreadnought consequencesChapter
- 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 Campaign2:53:49The gas-turbine Librarian-class battlecruiserChapter
- The Worth of the 74s: Why Navys found them so useful, Patreon Premier 50:05Firepower, speed, and survivability as a design frameworkChapter
- The Worth of the 74s: Why Navys found them so useful, Patreon Premier 516:59The 74 as the battle line's working massChapter
- The Worth of the 74s: Why Navys found them so useful, Patreon Premier 527:19Gun power, hull rigidity, and ocean enduranceNotable Point
- The Worth of the 74s: Why Navys found them so useful, Patreon Premier 531:26Survivability, rigging, and usable manpowerNotable Point
- The Worth of the 74s: Why Navys found them so useful, Patreon Premier 544:05What later warship filled the 74's all-rounder role?Notable Point
- Scuttlebutt Three: Chatting with Drach, British War Plans and Lots of Carrier Stuff1:31Warfighting power, presence, and historical judgmentNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt Three: Chatting with Drach, British War Plans and Lots of Carrier Stuff4:27Implacable carrier tonnage source problemQ&A
- Scuttlebutt Three: Chatting with Drach, British War Plans and Lots of Carrier Stuff28:52Henderson, Goodall, and a fleet sustainable far from BritainNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt Three: Chatting with Drach, British War Plans and Lots of Carrier Stuff38:24Renown preference versus Hood's fighting powerQ&A
- War Emergency Carriers of WWII... Lessons for future procurement?22:08Independence class as a flight-deck gap fillerChapter
- War Emergency Carriers of WWII... Lessons for future procurement?44:50Three-year ships built on a strong design lineageNotable Point
- War Emergency Carriers of WWII... Lessons for future procurement?47:57Saipan class replaced the emergency conversionsNotable 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 Campaign40:09Cruiser building and turret-weight cautionNotable Point
- 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 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 Campaign3:08:25Refitting an obsolete battleship under weight constraintsChapter
- Bruships 157: Books so good they've blown the budget on the #ScandiShip24 tour already!10:57Interwar destroyer tonnage and stabilityQ&A
- Bruships 157: Books so good they've blown the budget on the #ScandiShip24 tour already!19:03Why carrier crew savings must be designed inQ&A
- Bruships 157: Books so good they've blown the budget on the #ScandiShip24 tour already!28:31River and Vigilant patrol ships suit different threat levelsQ&A
- Bruships 157: Books so good they've blown the budget on the #ScandiShip24 tour already!32:31A Canadian hospital ship could start from an Arctic designQ&A
- Bruships 157: Books so good they've blown the budget on the #ScandiShip24 tour already!54:58A survivorless Titanic disaster changes evidence and regulationQ&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!1:13:46Why smaller fast battleships do not solve Japan's problemQ&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!2:06:34Why a larger carrier cannot use unlimited aircraftQ&A
- Second Rate Ships of the Line: A Conundrum of Service, Key Ship Series 9 - Ship 414:13Why the Royal Navy kept building second ratesChapter
- Second Rate Ships of the Line: A Conundrum of Service, Key Ship Series 9 - Ship 426:30The sledgehammer value and handling costChapter
- Second Rate Ships of the Line: A Conundrum of Service, Key Ship Series 9 - Ship 429:21Second rates for the early US NavyNotable Point
- Second Rate Ships of the Line: A Conundrum of Service, Key Ship Series 9 - Ship 433:53What two-decked second rates might changeNotable Point
- Fisher's Furious Flying off Ships: Courageous Class built as Aircraft Carriers12:24A fast carrier with a large strike air groupChapter
- Fisher's Furious Flying off Ships: Courageous Class built as Aircraft Carriers20:22A Renown-sized carrier designed for a dash attackNotable Point
- Fisher's Furious Flying off Ships: Courageous Class built as Aircraft Carriers24:24How quickly could Fisher build the carriers?Notable Point
- Fisher's Furious Flying off Ships: Courageous Class built as Aircraft Carriers30:59What an early purpose-built flight deck could get wrongNotable Point
- Fisher's Furious Flying off Ships: Courageous Class built as Aircraft Carriers1:21:05Admiral-class hulls favor hangars, islands, and perhaps deck-edge liftsNotable Point
- Why did the Royal Navy need a Forward Aviation Support Ship: Unicorn, the why, the how & the value!11:31Unicorn carries deep aviation maintenance forwardNotable Point
- Why did the Royal Navy need a Forward Aviation Support Ship: Unicorn, the why, the how & the value!18:05Why Unicorn was not a remedy for small armored-carrier air groupsNotable Point
- Why did the Royal Navy need a Forward Aviation Support Ship: Unicorn, the why, the how & the value!30:48A flex deck and workshops built around damaged aircraftNotable Point
- Why did the Royal Navy need a Forward Aviation Support Ship: Unicorn, the why, the how & the value!33:51Range and repair capacity took priority over fleet-carrier speedNotable Point
- 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 Campaign1:06:47Why hybrid battleship-carriers lose too muchQ&A
- Check Campaign 22: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:19:22Building a fast light cruiser inside a weight budgetChapter
- Check Campaign 22: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:46:30Speed, range, and battlecruiser designNotable Point
- Bruships Gothenborg style...1:30:36Why the SBD Dauntless lacked folding wingsQ&A
- Check Campaign 21: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign25:09Speed, range, and balanced capabilityNotable 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 Campaign1:59:09Modern armor, heavy cruisers, and submarine researchNotable 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
- The Royal Navy's Interwar Dream... The Implacable Class: Key Ships Series 9, Ship 31:00Implacable's uncertain design recordChapter
- The Royal Navy's Interwar Dream... The Implacable Class: Key Ships Series 9, Ship 35:52The Royal Navy's dream carrier balanceNotable Point
- The Royal Navy's Interwar Dream... The Implacable Class: Key Ships Series 9, Ship 326:28Implacable versus Illustrious capacityNotable Point
- The Royal Navy's Interwar Dream... The Implacable Class: Key Ships Series 9, Ship 329:43The 23,450-ton displacement paradoxChapter
- The Royal Navy's Interwar Dream... The Implacable Class: Key Ships Series 9, Ship 335:30Reconstructing a 27,000-ton carrier from a broken treaty recordNotable Point
- The Royal Navy's Interwar Dream... The Implacable Class: Key Ships Series 9, Ship 347:37Armament, endurance, and wartime growth marginsChapter
- The Royal Navy's Interwar Dream... The Implacable Class: Key Ships Series 9, Ship 31:03:39Large air groups inside low armored hangarsChapter
- The Royal Navy's Interwar Dream... The Implacable Class: Key Ships Series 9, Ship 31:28:03The missed modernization choiceNotable Point
- The Royal Navy's Interwar Dream... The Implacable Class: Key Ships Series 9, Ship 31:36:37Speed-build choices and the final 27,000-ton reconstructionChapter
- 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
- Damage Control - The WWII Aircraft Carriers Edition; when it went wrong & when it went right3:22Why carrier damage control is differentChapter
- Damage Control - The WWII Aircraft Carriers Edition; when it went wrong & when it went right9:30Japanese design ambition and the limits of stabilityNotable Point
- Damage Control - The WWII Aircraft Carriers Edition; when it went wrong & when it went right2:10:27Treaty displacement limits and the known torpedo threatNotable Point
- Damage Control - The WWII Aircraft Carriers Edition; when it went wrong & when it went right3:14:30Electric drive gives designers more freedom to protect machineryNotable Point
- Damage Control - The WWII Aircraft Carriers Edition; when it went wrong & when it went right3:36:54Distributed diesel generators keep damage-control pumps availableNotable Point
- Damage Control - The WWII Aircraft Carriers Edition; when it went wrong & when it went right3:39:15Could an interwar commitment to electric drive improve survivability?Notable Point
- 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 Campaign42:56Hood and battlecruiser classificationNotable 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 Campaign1:39:59Shell 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 Campaign2:53:45Single-ship battles as controlled design experimentsNotable 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 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 142:20Carriers, cruisers, and postwar employmentNotable Point
- What would the economic impact have been if the Naval Treaties hadn't happened? Patreon Premier 151:48A purpose-built carrier race without treaty conversionsChapter
- What would the economic impact have been if the Naval Treaties hadn't happened? Patreon Premier 11:13:29Japanese 18-inch ships as the triggerNotable Point
- What would the economic impact have been if the Naval Treaties hadn't happened? Patreon Premier 11:24:25Strike carriers, armored fleet carriers, and air-group sizeChapter
- What would the economic impact have been if the Naval Treaties hadn't happened? Patreon Premier 11:48:28Why the counterfactual cannot yield precise job totalsNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 2: H Class Battleships, Japanese Carrier Aircraft Design and lots more1:01:49German engine production and material limitsNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 2: H Class Battleships, Japanese Carrier Aircraft Design and lots more1:02:20Larger gun bores and thinner linersQ&A
- Scuttlebutt 2: H Class Battleships, Japanese Carrier Aircraft Design and lots more1:03:28Alternative diesel machinery and historical ship plansQ&A
- Scuttlebutt 2: H Class Battleships, Japanese Carrier Aircraft Design and lots more1:04:29Proposed automatic loading and actual gun developmentQ&A
- Scuttlebutt 2: H Class Battleships, Japanese Carrier Aircraft Design and lots more1:15:20Electric-drive development and the H-class timetableNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 2: H Class Battleships, Japanese Carrier Aircraft Design and lots more1:19:25Electric-drive speed versus time to produce itQ&A
- Scuttlebutt 2: H Class Battleships, Japanese Carrier Aircraft Design and lots more1:22:35Untested diesels and the cost of redesignQ&A
- Scuttlebutt 2: H Class Battleships, Japanese Carrier Aircraft Design and lots more1:25:31Five fast Nelson-style ships in the Tillman treaty scenarioQ&A
- Scuttlebutt 2: H Class Battleships, Japanese Carrier Aircraft Design and lots more1:32:54Why some Japanese carrier aircraft had folding wingsQ&A
- Scuttlebutt 2: H Class Battleships, Japanese Carrier Aircraft Design and lots more1:35:11Armoured carriers against land-based air powerNotable Point
- Carriers of the Planned War Fleets: How Shokaku, Implacables & Essexs reflect their Navys Doctrines6:40Shokaku's speed, flight deck, and air groupChapter
- Carriers of the Planned War Fleets: How Shokaku, Implacables & Essexs reflect their Navys Doctrines20:57Implacable class and the Royal Navy compromiseChapter
- Carriers of the Planned War Fleets: How Shokaku, Implacables & Essexs reflect their Navys Doctrines23:23Implacable's armor, speed, and 81-aircraft capacityNotable Point
- Carriers of the Planned War Fleets: How Shokaku, Implacables & Essexs reflect their Navys Doctrines25:31Treaty-free carrier size and growing aircraftNotable Point
- Carriers of the Planned War Fleets: How Shokaku, Implacables & Essexs reflect their Navys Doctrines38:14Political limits behind carrier design choicesNotable Point
- Carriers of the Planned War Fleets: How Shokaku, Implacables & Essexs reflect their Navys Doctrines41:06Implacable's beacons and floats for night recoveryNotable Point
- Carriers of the Planned War Fleets: How Shokaku, Implacables & Essexs reflect their Navys Doctrines44:39Essex's belt armor, protected decks, and machineryNotable Point
- Carriers of the Planned War Fleets: How Shokaku, Implacables & Essexs reflect their Navys Doctrines48:46Which carrier is better depends on doctrineNotable Point
- Carriers of the Planned War Fleets: How Shokaku, Implacables & Essexs reflect their Navys Doctrines50:27Essex class mass production and deck-load strikeChapter
- Check Campaign 19: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign24:41What would Warspite want in a modern warship body?Q&A
- Check Campaign 19: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign34:12Small destroyer design under tonnage pressureNotable 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 Campaign2:08:23Research gates the next Rodney designNotable 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
- Hearts of Oak: First Rate Ships of the Line - Key Ships Series 9, Ships 20:25How larger ships made the rating system grow upwardChapter
- 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 25:22Early first rates needed supply support and careful stabilityNotable Point
- Hearts of Oak: First Rate Ships of the Line - Key Ships Series 9, Ships 27:07How earlier first-rate performance moved down the ratingsNotable Point
- Hearts of Oak: First Rate Ships of the Line - Key Ships Series 9, Ships 212:26The Surveyor of the Navy and Royal George's changing designersChapter
- Hearts of Oak: First Rate Ships of the Line - Key Ships Series 9, Ships 224:19What defined a first-rate ship of the lineNotable Point
- Hearts of Oak: First Rate Ships of the Line - Key Ships Series 9, Ships 225:03Nelson, Rodney, and the battle-line bulwark analogyNotable Point
- Hearts of Oak: First Rate Ships of the Line - Key Ships Series 9, Ships 234:54Prince Royal and the rebuild path to first-rate statusChapter
- Hearts of Oak: First Rate Ships of the Line - Key Ships Series 9, Ships 238:23Heavy handling and surprising first-rate speedNotable Point
- Naval History Live... The Ships of the Wooden Wall(1781)15:14HMS Richmond's armament and class commonalityChapter
- Naval History Live... The Ships of the Wooden Wall(1781)19:27Why a captured French ship did not become a British copyQ&A
- Naval History Live... The Ships of the Wooden Wall(1781)29:34French captures adapted for British serviceNotable Point
- Naval History Live... The Ships of the Wooden Wall(1781)34:06Long voyages and long periods on blockadeQ&A
- Naval History Live... The Ships of the Wooden Wall(1781)47:56HMS Terrible and the 74-gun production systemChapter
- Naval History Live... The Ships of the Wooden Wall(1781)1:46:06Howe's first-rate flagship at the Glorious First of JuneQ&A
- Naval History Live... The Ships of the Wooden Wall(1781)1:54:12Royal Oak and the continuing evolution of the 74Chapter
- Naval History Live... The Ships of the Wooden Wall(1781)2:21:16Paper warships and the commitment to order themQ&A
- Naval History Live... The Ships of the Wooden Wall(1781)2:22:40Beatty's limited involvement in warship designQ&A
- Naval History Live... The Ships of the Wooden Wall(1781)2:40:51Age-of-sail classes as evolving production batchesQ&A
- Naval History Live... The Ships of the Wooden Wall(1781)2:42:56Greek ship eyes and British figureheadsQ&A
- IJN Doctrine in Carrier form... The Shōkaku class3:19A context-first method for judging naval doctrineNotable Point
- IJN Doctrine in Carrier form... The Shōkaku class17:45Air group, speed, and tempo requirementsChapter
- IJN Doctrine in Carrier form... The Shōkaku class27:25Machinery and range for Pacific operationsNotable Point
- IJN Doctrine in Carrier form... The Shōkaku class35:46Design compromise under the 1941 deadlineChapter
- IJN Doctrine in Carrier form... The Shōkaku class41:10Hiyo conversions and Taiho's different compromisesNotable Point
- IJN Doctrine in Carrier form... The Shōkaku class58:28Shipyard capacity limits carrier ambitionNotable Point
- IJN Doctrine in Carrier form... The Shōkaku class1:05:12Not big enough for the doctrineNotable Point
- IJN Doctrine in Carrier form... The Shōkaku class1:08:26Yamato and the 28-knot fast-battleship thresholdNotable Point
- IJN Doctrine in Carrier form... The Shōkaku class1:11:57Yamato's 18-inch guns as a deterrent design analogyNotable Point
- IJN Doctrine in Carrier form... The Shōkaku class1:13:44Design compromises reveal what a navy valuesChapter
- Günther Lütjens: The Bismarck's Admiral for its Final Mission49:22Karlsruhe's design weaknesses on a world cruiseNotable Point
- Bruships 153: Naval History Questions Answered & Boxes being Packed... still, there are more books!34:01Admiral and Hawkins treaty counterfactualQ&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!1:02:21An Italian Dido-style anti-aircraft cruiserQ&A
- Bruships 153: Naval History Questions Answered & Boxes being Packed... still, there are more books!1:04:22A 40,000-ton British battleship with spare 14-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships 153: Naval History Questions Answered & Boxes being Packed... still, there are more books!1:24:45Furious and the STOBAR carrier labelQ&A
- Bruships 153: Naval History Questions Answered & Boxes being Packed... still, there are more books!1:33:35Why the US Navy replaced lattice mastsQ&A
- Bruships 153: Naval History Questions Answered & Boxes being Packed... still, there are more books!1:35:51An Incomparable-sized carrier in treaty negotiationsQ&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!1:59:25Why an armor belt buys time rather than invulnerabilityQ&A
- Bruships 153: Naval History Questions Answered & Boxes being Packed... still, there are more books!2:29:40Electric propulsion power for flood controlQ&A
- Bruships 153: Naval History Questions Answered & Boxes being Packed... still, there are more books!2:31:14Which Saint-Louis cruiser design was most likelyQ&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!2:43:11Why Royal Navy ships are compared with later rivalsQ&A
- Bruships 152: Patreon July Premiers Announcement, Special Guests & Naval History Questions Answered27:17Why a 5.25-inch cruiser mount was not a quick substitutionQ&A
- Bruships 152: Patreon July Premiers Announcement, Special Guests & Naval History Questions Answered27:51Why the Fletcher and Gearing classes needed no obvious redesignQ&A
- Bruships 152: Patreon July Premiers Announcement, Special Guests & Naval History Questions Answered36:34How a British-built Forrestal-class carrier would differQ&A
- Bruships 152: Patreon July Premiers Announcement, Special Guests & Naval History Questions Answered1:26:56Lion-class battleships in Cold War serviceQ&A
- Bruships 152: Patreon July Premiers Announcement, Special Guests & Naval History Questions Answered1:45:19Would the US Navy keep turbo-electric drive without treaties?Q&A
- Bruships 152: Patreon July Premiers Announcement, Special Guests & Naval History Questions Answered2:21:39Concealing torpedo mounts on a fast 2,000-ton sloopQ&A
- Bruships 152: Patreon July Premiers Announcement, Special Guests & Naval History Questions Answered2:22:20French large-destroyer design after MogadorQ&A
- Bruships 152: Patreon July Premiers Announcement, Special Guests & Naval History Questions Answered2:26:13An 8.3-inch Deutschland as a conventional raiding cruiserQ&A
- Bruships 152: Patreon July Premiers Announcement, Special Guests & Naval History Questions Answered2:37:43Why twin gun mounts spread slowly to smaller warshipsQ&A
- 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
- Bruships 152: Patreon July Premiers Announcement, Special Guests & Naval History Questions Answered3:18:43Integrated electric propulsion and redundant ship powerQ&A
- Bruships 152: Patreon July Premiers Announcement, Special Guests & Naval History Questions Answered3:31:51What would follow the G3 and N3 capital ships?Q&A
- Bruships 152: Patreon July Premiers Announcement, Special Guests & Naval History Questions Answered4:03:57A 24.5-inch Royal Navy torpedo would reshape the fleetQ&A
- Check Campaign 18: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign35:24Designing ships for battles or warsNotable 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 Campaign1:02:31Engineering perfection as a procurement trapNotable 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 18: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign3:10:00Capital-ship weight, armor, and ballast tradeoffsNotable Point
- Check Campaign 18: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign3:21:28A mixed heavy squadron for war with AmericaNotable Point
- Kriegsmarine(Kaiserliche Marine)'s Nightmare Returns: The RN finds some 1910 Town Class in a couch!0:26Henderson's four hidden Town-class hullsChapter
- Kriegsmarine(Kaiserliche Marine)'s Nightmare Returns: The RN finds some 1910 Town Class in a couch!16:15From the Town class to the Hawkins and County classesNotable Point
- Kriegsmarine(Kaiserliche Marine)'s Nightmare Returns: The RN finds some 1910 Town Class in a couch!18:01Machinery commonality and the Adelaide caveatNotable Point
- Kriegsmarine(Kaiserliche Marine)'s Nightmare Returns: The RN finds some 1910 Town Class in a couch!24:58Oil firing, an Atlantic bow, and 30-knot machineryChapter
- Kriegsmarine(Kaiserliche Marine)'s Nightmare Returns: The RN finds some 1910 Town Class in a couch!29:00Destroyer guns on a cruiser hullChapter
- Kriegsmarine(Kaiserliche Marine)'s Nightmare Returns: The RN finds some 1910 Town Class in a couch!1:02:01Why the rebuild favors a 4.7-inch upper-deck mountingNotable Point
- Kriegsmarine(Kaiserliche Marine)'s Nightmare Returns: The RN finds some 1910 Town Class in a couch!1:06:21A high-angle 4.7-inch conversion for NorwayNotable Point
- USS Midway is it magic or surviable? Key Ships Series 9: Ship 10:58Midway followed an American carrier philosophyChapter
- USS Midway is it magic or surviable? Key Ships Series 9: Ship 111:10Survivability meant keeping flight decks availableChapter
- USS Midway is it magic or surviable? Key Ships Series 9: Ship 116:48Machinery, weapons, and strength-deck designNotable Point
- USS Midway is it magic or surviable? Key Ships Series 9: Ship 140:30Radar and layered defense completed the designChapter
- Patreon 104: What could have been learned if Billy Mitchell had followed the rules in 1921?2:03:07Near misses and progressive flooding sink OstfrieslandNotable Point
- Patreon 104: What could have been learned if Billy Mitchell had followed the rules in 1921?2:06:01Did the tests still provide useful damage-control data?Q&A
- Patreon 104: What could have been learned if Billy Mitchell had followed the rules in 1921?2:21:56The lost sequence of subdivision and ship-design evidenceNotable Point
- Musings on Procurement4:49Industrial politics shaping defence choicesNotable Point
- Musings on Procurement1:04:33Why failures found in testing are good newsNotable Point
- Lexington Class: The First Modern Carriers?2:22Treaty conversion preserves the Lexingtons' Pacific missionChapter
- Lexington Class: The First Modern Carriers?21:43The eight-inch guns show an awkward carrier compromiseNotable Point
- Lexington Class: The First Modern Carriers?22:50Trunked exhaust tests the limits of carrier layoutNotable Point
- Lexington Class: The First Modern Carriers?27:24The Panama Canal sets the Lexingtons' design boundariesNotable Point
- Lexington Class: The First Modern Carriers?58:03Aviation fuel exposes a carrier survivability problemNotable Point
- Lexington Class: The First Modern Carriers?1:03:17The Lexington model points toward the modern carrierChapter
- Lexington Class: The First Modern Carriers?1:08:29A third Lexington conversion becomes a naval-architecture exerciseNotable Point
- Check Campaign 17: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:13Propulsion research over submarine upgradesNotable Point
- Check Campaign 17: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign8:02Battlecruisers used as heavy cruisersNotable Point
- Check Campaign 17: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:37:18Survivable heavy cruiser refitNotable Point
- Check Campaign 17: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:47:17A 3,000-ton ASW destroyer runs out of weightNotable 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 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 Vote59:51Japanese Aegis cruisers and a new size competitionQ&A
- Bruships 151: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Vote1:00:53Sizing an amphibious ship from its missionQ&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 Vote1:18:08Rate of fire versus an 18-inch shellQ&A
- Bruships 151: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Vote2:14:49Why N3 and G3 would change later superstructuresQ&A
- Bruships 151: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Vote2:25:31Reworking K3 into an all-forward F3 layoutQ&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 Vote2:48:58The carrier toilets that stayed classifiedQ&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 Vote3:45:56Exploiting a treaty that excludes combat loadQ&A
- Bruships 151: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Vote4:05:05Why a mature heavy cruiser still needs successorsQ&A
- Evolution of Carrier Air Groups 1918-2024: A Discussion28:13Aircraft growth drives carrier and air group tradeoffsChapter
- Evolution of Carrier Air Groups 1918-2024: A Discussion35:47Sea Harrier and F-35 comparisons need historical contextNotable Point
- Evolution of Carrier Air Groups 1918-2024: A Discussion39:34Carrier size categories depend on the era and the shipyardNotable Point
- Patreon 103: The Nightmare returns - 4 WWI Town class are discovered by the Royal Navy in 193829:22Two Town classes with different design ancestryNotable Point
- Patreon 103: The Nightmare returns - 4 WWI Town class are discovered by the Royal Navy in 193841:30Hull proportions and four shaftsNotable Point
- Patreon 103: The Nightmare returns - 4 WWI Town class are discovered by the Royal Navy in 193843:53Destroyer-armed Atlantic cruiser refitChapter
- Patreon 103: The Nightmare returns - 4 WWI Town class are discovered by the Royal Navy in 193853:04Would 5.25-inch guns fit the old hulls?Q&A
- Patreon 103: The Nightmare returns - 4 WWI Town class are discovered by the Royal Navy in 193854:03Making the 4.7-inch gun more dual-purposeNotable Point
- Patreon 103: The Nightmare returns - 4 WWI Town class are discovered by the Royal Navy in 193855:27Arranging the rebuilt Town's guns and funnelsNotable Point
- Patreon 103: The Nightmare returns - 4 WWI Town class are discovered by the Royal Navy in 193859:35Would the replacement guns create a topweight problem?Q&A
- Patreon 103: The Nightmare returns - 4 WWI Town class are discovered by the Royal Navy in 19381:01:01Why reject a twin eight-inch turret?Q&A
- Patreon 103: The Nightmare returns - 4 WWI Town class are discovered by the Royal Navy in 19381:08:38Why retain a mixed gun battery?Q&A
- Patreon 103: The Nightmare returns - 4 WWI Town class are discovered by the Royal Navy in 19381:44:46Could the old hull tolerate the increased power?Q&A
- Patreon 103: The Nightmare returns - 4 WWI Town class are discovered by the Royal Navy in 19381:46:10Replacing the shafts for the higher-powered plantQ&A
- Patreon 103: The Nightmare returns - 4 WWI Town class are discovered by the Royal Navy in 19381:54:26Floatplanes and space for radar on the rebuilt TownsQ&A
- Patreon 103: The Nightmare returns - 4 WWI Town class are discovered by the Royal Navy in 19382:11:00Triple mounts and inconsistent turret terminologyNotable Point
- Patreon 103: The Nightmare returns - 4 WWI Town class are discovered by the Royal Navy in 19382:22:18Would foreign navies copy the rebuilt Towns?Q&A
- Patreon 103: The Nightmare returns - 4 WWI Town class are discovered by the Royal Navy in 19382:37:43Revising the cruiser around six twin 4.7-inch mountsNotable Point
- Patreon 103: The Nightmare returns - 4 WWI Town class are discovered by the Royal Navy in 19382:53:06How to war-game ships that do not yet existQ&A
- Patreon 103: The Nightmare returns - 4 WWI Town class are discovered by the Royal Navy in 19383:30:25Is a six-gun 18-inch broadside too small?Q&A
- Patreon 103: The Nightmare returns - 4 WWI Town class are discovered by the Royal Navy in 19383:46:16Resolving Town-class shaft-count discrepanciesQ&A
- Patreon 103: The Nightmare returns - 4 WWI Town class are discovered by the Royal Navy in 19383:51:49Could a compact six-inch cruiser suit Spain?Q&A
- Patreon 103: The Nightmare returns - 4 WWI Town class are discovered by the Royal Navy in 19383:52:53G3 turret rings and competing gun interpretationsNotable Point
- Treaty Era Aircraft Carriers: A Discussion0:49Carrier design could lag behind carrier doctrineChapter
- Treaty Era Aircraft Carriers: A Discussion7:31Washington Treaty definitions and national carrier allowancesChapter
- Treaty Era Aircraft Carriers: A Discussion11:52Battlecarriers had to justify combining two fleet rolesNotable Point
- Treaty Era Aircraft Carriers: A Discussion14:39Lower flying-off decks and the cost of rebuilding British conversionsNotable Point
- Treaty Era Aircraft Carriers: A Discussion19:12Japanese carrier experiments expose aircraft-growth riskNotable Point
- Treaty Era Aircraft Carriers: A Discussion23:53Lexington and Ranger reverse early expectationsChapter
- Treaty Era Aircraft Carriers: A Discussion24:24Lexington's eight-inch guns and the case for escortsNotable Point
- Treaty Era Aircraft Carriers: A Discussion28:38British operating evidence challenges the flush-deck carrierNotable Point
- Treaty Era Aircraft Carriers: A Discussion32:30London Treaty rules squeeze useful small carriersNotable Point
- Treaty Era Aircraft Carriers: A Discussion45:12Ranger exposes infrastructure and innovation limitsNotable Point
- Treaty Era Aircraft Carriers: A Discussion47:37Queen Elizabeth class tests the limits of design conservatismNotable Point
- Treaty Era Aircraft Carriers: A Discussion52:20Yorktown and Midway express doctrine, Essex emphasizes rapid constructionNotable Point
- Treaty Era Aircraft Carriers: A Discussion1:00:04Ark Royal and Illustrious split British carrier prioritiesChapter
- Treaty Era Aircraft Carriers: A Discussion1:06:20Wasp's deck-edge lift creates aviation spaceNotable Point
- Treaty Era Aircraft Carriers: A Discussion1:10:25The Second London Treaty frames the Illustrious compromiseChapter
- Treaty Era Aircraft Carriers: A Discussion1:19:51Unicorn's maintenance role and the treaty's auxiliary categoryNotable Point
- Treaty Era Aircraft Carriers: A Discussion1:25:50A light-carrier category invites wider changes to treaty limitsNotable Point
- Treaty Era Aircraft Carriers: A Discussion1:28:09An early treaty collapse could permit a larger British carrierNotable 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 Campaign25:31When larger ship types take over smaller ships' jobsNotable Point
- Check Campaign 16: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign53:59Why repeated shipbuilding improves naval designNotable 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 Campaign1:21:54Why 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 Campaign1:28:48Large Soviet destroyers and naval-treaty boundariesNotable Point
- 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 Off12:36No-treaty Royal Navy carrier developmentQ&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 Off26:46Corvettes, sloops, and build standardsQ&A
- Bruships 150: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Suggestions Kicks Off30:11Twin-engine carrier aircraft timingQ&A
- Bruships 150: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Suggestions Kicks Off1:05:29Why Atlantic-built sloops served worldwideQ&A
- Bruships 150: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Suggestions Kicks Off1:12:12Light-cruiser limits beside a 15,000-ton HawkinsQ&A
- Bruships 150: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Suggestions Kicks Off1:13:55Capital-ship generations without treatiesQ&A
- Bruships 150: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Suggestions Kicks Off1:26:35Colorado triples and the 40,000-ton thresholdQ&A
- Bruships 150: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Suggestions Kicks Off1:32:25Automating British carriers without treaty limitsQ&A
- Bruships 150: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Suggestions Kicks Off2:26:45An eight-gun C-class and larger cruiser developmentQ&A
- Bruships 150: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Suggestions Kicks Off2:27:37Why triple turrets would not greatly shorten the AdmiralsQ&A
- Bruships 150: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & July Patreon Suggestions Kicks Off2:52:17M-class destroyers as a point of design maturityQ&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 Off3:02:27Why torpedo-room weight is more than its machineryQ&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
- Around the world without Fresh Air: USS Triton and Operation Sandblast2:08Triton and the radar-picket submarine problemChapter
- Around the world without Fresh Air: USS Triton and Operation Sandblast14:31SCB 132 and a submarine built to work on the surfaceNotable Point
- Around the world without Fresh Air: USS Triton and Operation Sandblast22:49Triton's twin-reactor power and speed ambiguityChapter
- Around the world without Fresh Air: USS Triton and Operation Sandblast38:52Crew numbers become a submarine logistics problemNotable Point
- Agamemnon was not alone: The Ardent Class Third Rate 64s - Key Ships Series 8, Ship 100:42Ardent-class 64s beside AgamemnonChapter
- Agamemnon was not alone: The Ardent Class Third Rate 64s - Key Ships Series 8, Ship 1013:02Thomas Slade and the design systemChapter
- Agamemnon was not alone: The Ardent Class Third Rate 64s - Key Ships Series 8, Ship 1023:02From French Lis to Ardent firepowerNotable Point
- Agamemnon was not alone: The Ardent Class Third Rate 64s - Key Ships Series 8, Ship 1026:35French hull lines with a British sailing systemNotable Point
- Agamemnon was not alone: The Ardent Class Third Rate 64s - Key Ships Series 8, Ship 101:08:53Indefatigable's razee conversion and armamentChapter
- The Drivers of the Evolution of Carrier Air Groups...1:27:37Carrier conversion planning was already technically matureNotable Point
- Check Campaign 15: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign25:41Torpedo-heavy designs need speedNotable Point
- Check Campaign 15: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign42:09Dock size limits G3 and N3 designsQ&A
- 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 Campaign1:21:17French global commitments versus Italian concentrationQ&A
- Check Campaign 15: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:45:53A fifteen-torpedo broadside explains repeated hitsNotable 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
- Check Campaign 15: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:46:53Reducing gun calibre to balance a cruiserNotable Point
- Check Campaign 15: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:52:56A stable cruiser can still exceed its displacement limitNotable Point
- Bruships 149: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Ends1:52Anti-aircraft limits on a 70,000-ton battleshipQ&A
- 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 Ends42:03Furious as the most capable experimental carrierQ&A
- Bruships 149: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Ends49:29Nelson and Rodney engine-refit limitsQ&A
- Bruships 149: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Ends1:06:10Speed limits of a stretched Scharnhorst designQ&A
- Bruships 149: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Ends1:13:53Why tank armour logic does not scale cleanly to shipsQ&A
- Bruships 149: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Ends1:20:31Turning World of Warships' Cerberus into a real cruiserQ&A
- Bruships 149: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Ends1:32:08How an Australian Encounter would set cruiser limitsQ&A
- Bruships 149: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Ends1:33:39How turtleback armour adds to belt protectionQ&A
- Bruships 149: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Ends1:51:23The likely British battleship after LionQ&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 Ends2:04:54Scaling battleship guns to an Imperial Star DestroyerQ&A
- Bruships 149: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Ends3:02:08A four-shaft Nelson-class design at 28 knotsQ&A
- Bruships 149: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Ends3:15:32How larger light carriers reshape later carrier designQ&A
- Bruships 149: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Ends3:28:51A super-battleship Prince of Wales under air attackQ&A
- Bruships 149: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Ends3:29:45Panama Canal width was not an anti-European plotQ&A
- Bruships 149: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Ends3:57:47Why Arore would be a fast battleship, not a battlecruiserQ&A
- "Willy Fudd" The Grumman E-1 Tracer: The Prevolution Hawkeye! Key Aircraft Series 2, Aircraft 217:47Grumman folding wings made big carrier aircraft practicalNotable Point
- "Willy Fudd" The Grumman E-1 Tracer: The Prevolution Hawkeye! Key Aircraft Series 2, Aircraft 236:31Franklin D. Roosevelt shows how carriers absorbed new air powerNotable Point
- USS Triton (SSRN-586): First Submerged Cirumnavigation of the World45:17The Ship Characteristics Board gains authority but loses planning scopeChapter
- USS Triton (SSRN-586): First Submerged Cirumnavigation of the World52:53Rising costs reshape the radar-picket submarine forceNotable Point
- USS Triton (SSRN-586): First Submerged Cirumnavigation of the World1:07:14A giant SSRN becomes a short-lived attack submarineNotable Point
- USS Triton (SSRN-586): First Submerged Cirumnavigation of the World1:15:53Triton's speed, endurance, and uncertain depth limitsChapter
- USS Triton (SSRN-586): First Submerged Cirumnavigation of the World1:20:46Q&A: Why Triton's propulsion suited surface radar-picket workQ&A
- USS Triton (SSRN-586): First Submerged Cirumnavigation of the World1:23:32Triton's sensors, torpedo stowage, and manual handlingNotable Point
- USS Triton (SSRN-586): First Submerged Cirumnavigation of the World1:30:35Q&A: The joke about Soviet icebreaker submarinesQ&A
- USS Triton (SSRN-586): First Submerged Cirumnavigation of the World1:32:10Triton's large crew and the limits of spacious accommodationNotable Point
- USS Triton (SSRN-586): First Submerged Cirumnavigation of the World1:35:32Testing two reactors for high-speed submarine operationsNotable Point
- USS Triton (SSRN-586): First Submerged Cirumnavigation of the World3:26:27Q&A: Proven technology for a long ship service lifeQ&A
- The Red Fleet Project Teaser: Discussing Graf Zepplinski with Fleet of Oceans7:47An earlier battleship design offers a different Soviet divergenceNotable Point
- The Red Fleet Project Teaser: Discussing Graf Zepplinski with Fleet of Oceans10:00Two divergences make the Soviet carrier plausibleNotable Point
- The Red Fleet Project Teaser: Discussing Graf Zepplinski with Fleet of Oceans18:17Graf Zeppelin combines too many unproven carrier ideasNotable Point
- The Red Fleet Project Teaser: Discussing Graf Zepplinski with Fleet of Oceans20:54Mixed construction makes the angled-deck rebuild difficultNotable Point
- The Red Fleet Project Teaser: Discussing Graf Zepplinski with Fleet of Oceans23:26Graf Zepplinski becomes the Red Fleet's carrier schoolhouseChapter
- The Red Fleet Project Teaser: Discussing Graf Zepplinski with Fleet of Oceans29:00The first air group favors rugged, easy-to-fly aircraftNotable Point
- The Red Fleet Project Teaser: Discussing Graf Zepplinski with Fleet of Oceans36:31The rebuild turns Graf Zepplinski into an experimental jet-age carrierChapter
- The Red Fleet Project Teaser: Discussing Graf Zepplinski with Fleet of Oceans45:25Delivery aircraft and elevators expose the carrier's internal limitsNotable Point
- The Red Fleet Project Teaser: Discussing Graf Zepplinski with Fleet of Oceans57:16AEW aircraft make hangar dimensions a fleet constraintNotable Point
- The Red Fleet Project Teaser: Discussing Graf Zepplinski with Fleet of Oceans1:12:27Why does a radically rebuilt carrier keep a recognizable island?Q&A
- The Red Fleet Project Teaser: Discussing Graf Zepplinski with Fleet of Oceans1:25:53Soviet cruisers fuse Italian lines with northern requirementsNotable Point
- What the post WWI Navys really wanted from Aircraft Carriers: Hermes, Hōshō & Langley!0:54Postwar navies diverge from a shared carrier starting pointChapter
- What the post WWI Navys really wanted from Aircraft Carriers: Hermes, Hōshō & Langley!31:29Hosho starts Japan's carrier and aircraft learning curveChapter
- What the post WWI Navys really wanted from Aircraft Carriers: Hermes, Hōshō & Langley!32:40Hosho reveals carrier scaling and early flight-deck hazardsNotable Point
- What the post WWI Navys really wanted from Aircraft Carriers: Hermes, Hōshō & Langley!46:13Japan sees carriers as an industrial offsetNotable Point
- What the post WWI Navys really wanted from Aircraft Carriers: Hermes, Hōshō & Langley!1:14:27Treaty tonnage limits close off a Hermes-style fleetChapter
- Check Campaign 14: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:13:43Tillman designs and a qualitative arms raceQ&A
- Check Campaign 14: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:27:33Industrial logistics for shipbuildingNotable Point
- Check Campaign 14: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:03:17Hawkins and cruiser treaty categoriesQ&A
- Check Campaign 14: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:07:20Treaty limits and self-escorting capital shipsNotable Point
- Bruships 148: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Begins11:24Using Eagle to size a Francesco Caracciolo carrier conversionQ&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 Begins47:33If Mogador set the London destroyer-leader limitQ&A
- Bruships 148: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Begins55:24Queen Elizabeth hull stretch and battlecruiser speedQ&A
- Bruships 148: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Begins1:01:45Small-tube oil boilers before World War IQ&A
- Bruships 148: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Begins1:28:51Why fast battleships did not require all-forward gunsQ&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 Begins2:16:36The cramped maintenance spaces behind marine boilersQ&A
- Bruships 148: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Begins2:45:53A delayed Pacific war and British super-cruisersQ&A
- Bruships 148: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Begins2:58:42A faster, heavier-gunned HMS DreadnoughtQ&A
- Bruships 148: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Begins3:03:20How deck-edge lifts recover carrier hangar spaceNotable Point
- 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...1:37:35Fast battleships instead of battlecruisersChapter
- Admiral Fisher no longer replaces Admiral Battenberg as First Sea Lord in November 1914...1:41:24Battle cruisers, fast battleships, and survivabilityNotable 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
- Exploring the Sisters of Africa: Royal Navy's Inflexible Class 64s, Cuddalore to Trafalgar & Beyond!11:10Scaling a 90-gun design down to a 64Notable Point
- Exploring the Sisters of Africa: Royal Navy's Inflexible Class 64s, Cuddalore to Trafalgar & Beyond!14:19Why Inflexible-class ships differed between yardsNotable Point
- Exploring the Sisters of Africa: Royal Navy's Inflexible Class 64s, Cuddalore to Trafalgar & Beyond!1:27:56Standard class designs and individual shipyard finishingNotable Point
- Patreon 102: Zeroes over the Med! Japan joins the Britain & Free powers on 25th of June 1940...3:04:10How would Mediterranean combat shape later carriers?Q&A
- So You Want to Build an Aircraft Carrier: Design! Part 1 or 30:58Separate carrier requirements from construction realitiesChapter
- So You Want to Build an Aircraft Carrier: Design! Part 1 or 339:00Reserve hangar space for future aircraft generationsNotable Point
- So You Want to Build an Aircraft Carrier: Design! Part 1 or 340:53Match the flight deck to aircraft and operational aimsChapter
- So You Want to Build an Aircraft Carrier: Design! Part 1 or 354:27Adapt the deck across aircraft generationsNotable Point
- So You Want to Build an Aircraft Carrier: Design! Part 1 or 359:56Freeze core design choices before constructionNotable Point
- So You Want to Build an Aircraft Carrier: Design! Part 1 or 31:01:42Build command space into the carrier's missionChapter
- So You Want to Build an Aircraft Carrier: Design! Part 1 or 31:04:34Design the carrier for deterrence and peacetime presenceNotable Point
- Check Campaign 13: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign53:58Why torpedo tubes complicate a hullQ&A
- Check Campaign 13: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:24:35Why extended belt armor can be thinnerNotable Point
- 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 Campaign2:13:54Torpedo speed can cost the range a cruiser needsNotable Point
- Check Campaign 13: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:43:02A twelve-gun fast battleship needs a larger hullNotable Point
- Check Campaign 13: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign3:22:17A radar refit forces weight and stability compromisesNotable Point
- Bruships 147: Naval History Questions & Book Boxes Getting Packed3:54Why G3 and N3 break later battleship predictionsQ&A
- Bruships 147: Naval History Questions & Book Boxes Getting Packed12:45A modern 16-inch battleship designQ&A
- Bruships 147: Naval History Questions & Book Boxes Getting Packed35:57Great Eastern as a Royal Navy ironcladQ&A
- Bruships 147: Naval History Questions & Book Boxes Getting Packed55:15Carrier limits and the Implacable alternativeQ&A
- Bruships 147: Naval History Questions & Book Boxes Getting Packed59:17Why four giant guns are not enoughQ&A
- Bruships 147: Naval History Questions & Book Boxes Getting Packed1:00:27A Great Eastern-sized Devastation classQ&A
- Bruships 147: Naval History Questions & Book Boxes Getting Packed1:03:08A seagoing casemate-and-turret ironcladQ&A
- Bruships 147: Naval History Questions & Book Boxes Getting Packed1:05:37The minimum practical interwar fleet carrierQ&A
- Bruships 147: Naval History Questions & Book Boxes Getting Packed2:04:10A four-quadruple-turret King George VQ&A
- Bruships 147: Naval History Questions & Book Boxes Getting Packed2:21:30Yamato built to British prioritiesQ&A
- Bruships 147: Naval History Questions & Book Boxes Getting Packed2:41:15Why carriers adapt more easily when treaties collapseQ&A
- Bruships 147: Naval History Questions & Book Boxes Getting Packed2:44:35The limits of 8-inch secondary batteriesQ&A
- Bruships 147: Naval History Questions & Book Boxes Getting Packed3:12:18Battlecruiser, fast battleship, or battleship?Q&A
- Bruships 147: Naval History Questions & Book Boxes Getting Packed3:34:38Ark Royal's treaty compromises and an Implacable alternativeQ&A
- Bruships 147: Naval History Questions & Book Boxes Getting Packed3:43:54How pre-G3 studies could shape later capital shipsQ&A
- Bruships 147: Naval History Questions & Book Boxes Getting Packed3:49:04The American response to a twelve-gun Queen ElizabethQ&A
- Bruships 147: Naval History Questions & Book Boxes Getting Packed4:19:48A practical Royal Navy version of IncomparableQ&A
- Bruships 147: Naval History Questions & Book Boxes Getting Packed4:21:51Practical upper limits for carriers and battleshipsQ&A
- Bruships 147: Naval History Questions & Book Boxes Getting Packed4:24:17Royal Navy classes best left unbuiltQ&A
- Bruships 147: Naval History Questions & Book Boxes Getting Packed4:53:44Why naval manpower is a design and budget choiceQ&A
- The reality that the Marvel Shield Helicarriers Drew From: The USS Akron an Airship Aircraft Carrier40:29How Akron's structure balanced strength and weightChapter
- The reality that the Marvel Shield Helicarriers Drew From: The USS Akron an Airship Aircraft Carrier53:08Launching and recovering parasite fightersNotable Point
- Patreon 101: If Lord Fisher died in Jan 1914, how does Prince Louis of Battenberg perform as 1SL?9:55Why Furious worked better as a carrier conversionNotable Point
- Patreon 101: If Lord Fisher died in Jan 1914, how does Prince Louis of Battenberg perform as 1SL?1:05:04Completing Renown and Repulse as Revenge-class battleshipsChapter
- Patreon 101: If Lord Fisher died in Jan 1914, how does Prince Louis of Battenberg perform as 1SL?1:10:03Why a fast battleship was feasible in 1914Q&A
- Patreon 101: If Lord Fisher died in Jan 1914, how does Prince Louis of Battenberg perform as 1SL?1:13:30Reconstructing Agincourt's design and possible completionNotable Point
- Patreon 101: If Lord Fisher died in Jan 1914, how does Prince Louis of Battenberg perform as 1SL?1:18:49Agincourt's armour judged by 1914 standardsNotable Point
- Patreon 101: If Lord Fisher died in Jan 1914, how does Prince Louis of Battenberg perform as 1SL?1:23:40The circumstantial case for a different AgincourtNotable Point
- Patreon 101: If Lord Fisher died in Jan 1914, how does Prince Louis of Battenberg perform as 1SL?1:29:43Jutland reinforces an 18-inch fast-battleship Admiral classNotable Point
- Patreon 101: If Lord Fisher died in Jan 1914, how does Prince Louis of Battenberg perform as 1SL?2:50:01A Warspite-style refit for AgincourtNotable Point
- Patreon 101: If Lord Fisher died in Jan 1914, how does Prince Louis of Battenberg perform as 1SL?2:50:25How 18-inch fast battleships would reshape naval treatiesNotable Point
- Patreon 101: If Lord Fisher died in Jan 1914, how does Prince Louis of Battenberg perform as 1SL?2:55:20Why a fifth turret complicates a fast battleshipNotable Point
- 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
- Patreon 101: If Lord Fisher died in Jan 1914, how does Prince Louis of Battenberg perform as 1SL?3:12:09What follows if the N3 and G3 designs are built?Q&A
- Patreon 101: If Lord Fisher died in Jan 1914, how does Prince Louis of Battenberg perform as 1SL?3:22:34Would 16.5-inch battleships still appear after an 18-inch Agincourt?Q&A
- 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 Campaign28:19When anti-mine cruisers replace unworkable destroyersNotable Point
- Check Campaign 12: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign30:45How fighting style shapes an entire fleetNotable Point
- Check Campaign 12: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:26:15Could Fisher have disguised repeat Renowns as large cruisers?Q&A
- Bruships 146: Naval History Questions, Boxes Getting Packed & Lego Getting Built43:24Why the Royal Navy's change from hammocks was not a clean breakQ&A
- Bruships 146: Naval History Questions, Boxes Getting Packed & Lego Getting Built54:06Why canals and dockyards limited battleship draftQ&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 Built1:56:46The Kiel Canal as a warship draft constraintQ&A
- Bruships 146: Naval History Questions, Boxes Getting Packed & Lego Getting Built2:15:24Carrier armor layouts are calculated risksQ&A
- Battle of Valparaíso(1814): Where Glory dies at the feet of Professionalism & Gossip!58:28Essex's carronades made range the decisive tactical choiceChapter
- Battle of Valparaíso(1814): Where Glory dies at the feet of Professionalism & Gossip!2:19:42A specialized warship fails when the enemy refuses its preferred fightNotable Point
- German Merchant Seaplane Tenders of the 1930s: Key Ships Series 8 - Ship 830:30Why tender operations do not scale to fleet carriersNotable Point
- German Merchant Seaplane Tenders of the 1930s: Key Ships Series 8 - Ship 835:30Graf Zeppelin's systems risked technological inertiaNotable Point
- USS Akron; The World's First Purpose Built Flying Aircraft Carrier1:19:37Akron's structure, lift, and endurance tradeoffsChapter
- USS Akron; The World's First Purpose Built Flying Aircraft Carrier1:39:56How Sparrowhawks launched and returned in flightChapter
- The Furious Age: The First Aircraft Carriers8:04The first carrier generation was experimental, not treaty-builtChapter
- The Furious Age: The First Aircraft Carriers16:59Furious is redesigned for aviation before JutlandChapter
- The Furious Age: The First Aircraft Carriers28:19Argus tests the full-length flight deckChapter
- The Furious Age: The First Aircraft Carriers37:42Hermes establishes the purpose-built carrier layoutChapter
- The Furious Age: The First Aircraft Carriers43:29Useful volume and simpler armament define design efficiencyNotable Point
- The Furious Age: The First Aircraft Carriers48:57Eagle shows how war and peace change carrier procurementChapter
- The Furious Age: The First Aircraft Carriers1:08:00Langley tests aircraft types and exposes the cost of low speedChapter
- The Furious Age: The First Aircraft Carriers1:12:15Furious reveals the maneuvering demands of flight operationsChapter
- The Furious Age: The First Aircraft Carriers1:16:46Carrier doctrine had to be learned at seaNotable Point
- The Furious Age: The First Aircraft Carriers1:25:12Treaties keep experimental carriers in serviceNotable Point
- Check Campaign 11: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign4:44Why cruiser submarines remained a poor bargainNotable Point
- Check Campaign 11: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign15:15How treaty escalation clauses opened the way to larger cruisersNotable Point
- Check Campaign 11: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign45:08Setting the requirements for an 80,000-ton counterfactual battleshipChapter
- Check Campaign 11: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign55:40Trading range and speed for battleship stability and protectionNotable Point
- Check Campaign 11: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:03:48How battleship layout links firing arcs to hull balanceNotable Point
- Check Campaign 11: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:11:36Treaty compliance and naval creative accountingNotable Point
- Check Campaign 11: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:54:13Matching a fast anti-submarine cruiser to its battle fleetChapter
- Check Campaign 11: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:58:59Balancing machinery, survivability, and torpedoes in an ASW cruiserNotable Point
- Bruships 145: Naval History Questions Answered & Will it be lego building or book boxing?21:18Why rudders are optimized for working speedQ&A
- Bruships 145: Naval History Questions Answered & Will it be lego building or book boxing?31:16Why torpedo bulges usually cost speedQ&A
- 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?35:32Why two more torpedoes per broadside may not be worth the weightQ&A
- Bruships 145: Naval History Questions Answered & Will it be lego building or book boxing?48:36What continuous cruiser construction failed to carry forwardQ&A
- Bruships 145: Naval History Questions Answered & Will it be lego building or book boxing?52:22How to recognize a glass-hammer warshipQ&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?1:57:31How large might capital ships have grown without treaties?Q&A
- Bruships 145: Naval History Questions Answered & Will it be lego building or book boxing?2:02:53The diminishing returns of a 100,000-ton battleshipQ&A
- Bruships 145: Naval History Questions Answered & Will it be lego building or book boxing?3:50:14Why a submarine cannot simply power an aircraft carrierQ&A
- Bruships 145: Naval History Questions Answered & Will it be lego building or book boxing?4:32:14Why Brooklyn carried more six-inch guns than the Town classQ&A
- Imperial Star Destroyers if designed by the World's Major Navys in 19381:27What each navy wanted in 1938Chapter
- Imperial Star Destroyers if designed by the World's Major Navys in 19385:45How AI repeats national naval stereotypesNotable Point
- Imperial Star Destroyers if designed by the World's Major Navys in 193810:46Reading warship design as evidence of naval prioritiesChapter
- Imperial Star Destroyers if designed by the World's Major Navys in 193823:41US Navy balance, range, and speed for the PacificNotable Point
- Imperial Star Destroyers if designed by the World's Major Navys in 193840:27Italian warship design as visible power projectionNotable Point
- Imperial Star Destroyers if designed by the World's Major Navys in 193844:40Dunkerque under treaty and infrastructure constraintsChapter
- Imperial Star Destroyers if designed by the World's Major Navys in 193859:48Applying the method to Star Trek ship designNotable 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 Professionalism1:28:57Why frigates could not simply mount long 32-pounders everywhereQ&A
- Carriers of the Kaiserlichemarine: the WWI potential of German Naval Aviation0:00What Britain learned from German aviation ships after World War INotable Point
- Carriers of the Kaiserlichemarine: the WWI potential of German Naval Aviation20:49Glyndwr and Answald reveal the limits of improvised carriersChapter
- Carriers of the Kaiserlichemarine: the WWI potential of German Naval Aviation30:51The Ausonia flight-deck carrier proposalChapter
- Bruships 144: Some Books(Can't Find Lego Cam Sorry) & Naval History Questions9:00Why turning Wasp into another Yorktown was not simpleQ&A
- Bruships 144: Some Books(Can't Find Lego Cam Sorry) & Naval History Questions23:43What Nelson and Rodney taught the Royal Navy about all-forward gunsQ&A
- Bruships 144: Some Books(Can't Find Lego Cam Sorry) & Naval History Questions27:05What 27,000 tons could give a treaty carrierQ&A
- Bruships 144: Some Books(Can't Find Lego Cam Sorry) & Naval History Questions53:03When bigger warships stop being betterQ&A
- Bruships 144: Some Books(Can't Find Lego Cam Sorry) & Naval History Questions55:30Stanley Goodall and the hardest pace of naval design changeQ&A
- Bruships 144: Some Books(Can't Find Lego Cam Sorry) & Naval History Questions1:02:36How a 14,000-ton cruiser limit changes interwar fleetsQ&A
- Bruships 144: Some Books(Can't Find Lego Cam Sorry) & Naval History Questions1:06:24What remains of in-house naval ship designQ&A
- Bruships 144: Some Books(Can't Find Lego Cam Sorry) & Naval History Questions1:07:59The hidden thousand-ton cost of Nelson's torpedoesQ&A
- Bruships 144: Some Books(Can't Find Lego Cam Sorry) & Naval History Questions1:09:50A cruiser-hulled alternative to the Ticonderoga classQ&A
- Bruships 144: Some Books(Can't Find Lego Cam Sorry) & Naval History Questions1:10:43What a British Ticonderoga counterpart might have looked likeQ&A
- Bruships 144: Some Books(Can't Find Lego Cam Sorry) & Naval History Questions1:12:52What it takes to give a Tribal class heavier torpedoesQ&A
- Bruships 144: Some Books(Can't Find Lego Cam Sorry) & Naval History Questions1:17:39Why wartime fleets stop chasing maximum ship sizeQ&A
- Bruships 144: Some Books(Can't Find Lego Cam Sorry) & Naval History Questions2:47:07Why Hawkins was not the successor to the armored cruiserNotable Point
- Bruships 144: Some Books(Can't Find Lego Cam Sorry) & Naval History Questions3:27:12Why a 2,000-pound bomb defeats practical carrier armorQ&A
- Bruships 144: Some Books(Can't Find Lego Cam Sorry) & Naval History Questions3:55:33What continuous cruiser building preserves and constrainsQ&A
- Bruships 144: Some Books(Can't Find Lego Cam Sorry) & Naval History Questions4:02:46Why 21 inches became the effective torpedo limitQ&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 Soviet Man of Steel wants Bigs Ships: Stalin joins the Naval Treaties!19:05A common Soviet hull for four different seasNotable Point
- The Soviet Man of Steel wants Bigs Ships: Stalin joins the Naval Treaties!26:52Project 21 and Stalin's minimum battleship demandNotable Point
- The Soviet Man of Steel wants Bigs Ships: Stalin joins the Naval Treaties!55:42What could the Soviet Union build by 1939?Q&A
- The Soviet Man of Steel wants Bigs Ships: Stalin joins the Naval Treaties!1:00:35An earlier North Carolina pattern for the U.S. NavyChapter
- The Soviet Man of Steel wants Bigs Ships: Stalin joins the Naval Treaties!1:05:43British cruisers and capital-ship politicsNotable Point
- The Royal Navy's Forgotten Lost Battleship Generation: Key Ship Series 8 - Ships 60:00The treaty uncertainty behind a forgotten battleship generationChapter
- The Royal Navy's Forgotten Lost Battleship Generation: Key Ship Series 8 - Ships 63:26Political economy collides with credible capital-ship designNotable Point
- The Royal Navy's Forgotten Lost Battleship Generation: Key Ship Series 8 - Ships 612:00Continuous design work preserves a navy's ability to respondChapter
- 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 644:49Small battleship studies as a political exerciseNotable Point
- 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 647:28Renewed escalation dooms the small treaty battleshipsNotable Point
- The Royal Navy's Forgotten Lost Battleship Generation: Key Ship Series 8 - Ships 650:31Design studies build institutional memory before the King George V classChapter
- The Royal Navy's Forgotten Lost Battleship Generation: Key Ship Series 8 - Ships 655:08Infrastructure limits the Royal Navy's unconstrained battleshipNotable Point
- The Royal Navy's Forgotten Lost Battleship Generation: Key Ship Series 8 - Ships 61:00:14Treaty collapse may still produce one restrained generationNotable Point
- Patreon 99: What would Imperial Star Destroyers look if designed by 1938 USN, RN, KM, IJN, RM & SN?27:28Turning 1938 naval design cultures into Star DestroyersChapter
- Patreon 99: What would Imperial Star Destroyers look if designed by 1938 USN, RN, KM, IJN, RM & SN?28:24Why reference images did not preserve Star Destroyer class differencesNotable Point
- Patreon 99: What would Imperial Star Destroyers look if designed by 1938 USN, RN, KM, IJN, RM & SN?33:51Why Warspite replaced Nelson in the British Star Destroyer conceptNotable Point
- Patreon 99: What would Imperial Star Destroyers look if designed by 1938 USN, RN, KM, IJN, RM & SN?44:18Royal Navy logic: modernize a proven carrier-battleshipChapter
- Patreon 99: What would Imperial Star Destroyers look if designed by 1938 USN, RN, KM, IJN, RM & SN?48:21Fighters and heavier broadsides on the Warspite-inspired VenatorQ&A
- Patreon 99: What would Imperial Star Destroyers look if designed by 1938 USN, RN, KM, IJN, RM & SN?52:02A North Carolina-inspired Star Destroyer with a lower bridgeChapter
- Patreon 99: What would Imperial Star Destroyers look if designed by 1938 USN, RN, KM, IJN, RM & SN?1:01:26North Carolina alternatives: Design A and three quadruple turretsNotable Point
- Patreon 99: What would Imperial Star Destroyers look if designed by 1938 USN, RN, KM, IJN, RM & SN?1:03:52Scharnhorst and an unwanted claim of German design efficiencyChapter
- Patreon 99: What would Imperial Star Destroyers look if designed by 1938 USN, RN, KM, IJN, RM & SN?1:15:01A Yamato-inspired Xyston with a pagoda bridgeChapter
- Patreon 99: What would Imperial Star Destroyers look if designed by 1938 USN, RN, KM, IJN, RM & SN?1:23:35Littorio lines and recessed guns in an Italian Star DestroyerChapter
- Patreon 99: What would Imperial Star Destroyers look if designed by 1938 USN, RN, KM, IJN, RM & SN?1:32:06Dunkerque's forward main battery on a French Star DestroyerChapter
- Patreon 99: What would Imperial Star Destroyers look if designed by 1938 USN, RN, KM, IJN, RM & SN?1:39:24A Soviet Star Destroyer with red paint and leaking smokeChapter
- Patreon 99: What would Imperial Star Destroyers look if designed by 1938 USN, RN, KM, IJN, RM & SN?1:45:14Gangut's venting problems as a Soviet Star Destroyer motifNotable Point
- Patreon 99: What would Imperial Star Destroyers look if designed by 1938 USN, RN, KM, IJN, RM & SN?1:51:21Which naval habits would survive in a Star Destroyer?Notable Point
- Patreon 99: What would Imperial Star Destroyers look if designed by 1938 USN, RN, KM, IJN, RM & SN?1:55:34Italian ship individuality and missed production efficienciesNotable Point
- Patreon 99: What would Imperial Star Destroyers look if designed by 1938 USN, RN, KM, IJN, RM & SN?1:59:52German procurement and the absence of final design authorityNotable Point
- Patreon 99: What would Imperial Star Destroyers look if designed by 1938 USN, RN, KM, IJN, RM & SN?2:13:56Wartime point defense changes the American Star DestroyerNotable Point
- Patreon 99: What would Imperial Star Destroyers look if designed by 1938 USN, RN, KM, IJN, RM & SN?2:26:35Why the preferred image generator changed between ships and fightersNotable Point
- 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?2:51:32A displacement estimate for sixteen 6-inch gunsQ&A
- Patreon 99: What would Imperial Star Destroyers look if designed by 1938 USN, RN, KM, IJN, RM & SN?2:53:10Why displacement alone does not determine a ship's draftQ&A
- Patreon 99: What would Imperial Star Destroyers look if designed by 1938 USN, RN, KM, IJN, RM & SN?3:01:15K25 as an evolved Dido designNotable Point
- 824 Sqn Royal Naval Air Service: Spectat Ubique Spiritus (The Wind Everywhere Looks On)5:13Tribal, Battle, and Daring classes foreshadowed the general-purpose destroyerNotable Point
- 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 Campaign1:12:37Quality control protects designed ship performanceNotable 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 Campaign2:12:06Russia's early fast-battleship compromiseNotable Point
- Bruships 143: Some Book Tales and Naval History Questions Answered14:21Scaling Scharnhorst for triple 15-inch turretsQ&A
- 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 Answered29:33County-class cruiser design depends on treaty limitsQ&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 Answered40:00Le Fantasque reached 45 knots through hull designQ&A
- Bruships 143: Some Book Tales and Naval History Questions Answered40:24Removing Hipper's rear turrets does not yield free speedQ&A
- Bruships 143: Some Book Tales and Naval History Questions Answered1:09:19A larger County trades deeper draft and turning circle for protectionQ&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 Answered1:20:13A fast-battleship alternative to the Admiral classQ&A
- Bruships 143: Some Book Tales and Naval History Questions Answered1:26:58Centerline triple turrets improve the Moltke layoutQ&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 Answered1:52:35British capital-ship growth pressured US Panama Canal limitsQ&A
- Bruships 143: Some Book Tales and Naval History Questions Answered2:06:40Enlarging Deutschland leads toward ScharnhorstQ&A
- Bruships 143: Some Book Tales and Naval History Questions Answered2:13:28Visby could inform LCS but not meet the requirement unchangedQ&A
- Bruships 143: Some Book Tales and Naval History Questions Answered2:39:15Fujian reflects rapid Chinese carrier development, not an Enterprise copyQ&A
- Bruships 143: Some Book Tales and Naval History Questions Answered2:55:23Balancing armor on a 9.2-inch treaty cruiserQ&A
- 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 Answered3:18:10Lion and Vanguard follow different capital-ship lineagesQ&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 Answered3:42:38Courageous was a Baltic large light cruiser, not a normal battlecruiserQ&A
- Bruships 143: Some Book Tales and Naval History Questions Answered3:48:35A conventional 1915 battlecruiser develops Tiger and RenownQ&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 Answered3:54:03Modern warships need active defenses and physical protectionQ&A
- Bruships 143: Some Book Tales and Naval History Questions Answered4:07:35A higher cruiser limit produces a 22,000-25,000-ton Des MoinesQ&A
- Bruships 143: Some Book Tales and Naval History Questions Answered4:13:37A slower Deutschland gains only modest armorQ&A
- Bruships 143: Some Book Tales and Naval History Questions Answered4:21:50A British supercarrier would evolve Malta-era island designQ&A
- 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 Campaign34:07A specialist cruiser substitutes for an inadequate ASW destroyerChapter
- Check Campaign 9: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:02:42Ballast is the missing control in the game's stability modelNotable Point
- Check Campaign 9: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:30:39The Washington class becomes a cruiser-sized super destroyerChapter
- Carriers in Science Fiction: Parsite Craft as a primary means of defence & offence...11:55A role-based definition of a space carrierChapter
- Carriers in Science Fiction: Parsite Craft as a primary means of defence & offence...24:19The Venator as a carrier built on delegated trustChapter
- Carriers in Science Fiction: Parsite Craft as a primary means of defence & offence...48:46Farscape's command carrier fights its own missionChapter
- Carriers in Science Fiction: Parsite Craft as a primary means of defence & offence...1:01:38The Helicarrier's flight deck creates avoidable hazardsNotable Point
- The Graf Zepplin's Proposed Teeth: The Fi 167 & JU-87C, Key Aircaft Series 1 - Aircraft 81:39Graf Zeppelin's engineering complexity and battle damageChapter
- The Last Invasion of Britain: Battle of Fishguard(1797)2:51:36How to build a naval alternate-history questionQ&A
- The Last Invasion of Britain: Battle of Fishguard(1797)2:59:49Could a K-design battlecruiser become a fast battleship?Q&A
- The Last Invasion of Britain: Battle of Fishguard(1797)3:00:32Panama limits make Tillman III plausible enough to change later fleetsNotable Point
- The Last Invasion of Britain: Battle of Fishguard(1797)3:04:26Tillman III and Iowa trade speed against guns and armourNotable Point
- Check Campaign 8: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign58:44Why a warship-design game needs ballastNotable Point
- Check Campaign 8: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:30:07Designing a fast torpedo destroyer within 1,700 tonsChapter
- Patreon 98: The World Spins on a Coin: The February Revolution Fails & Imperial Russia survives WWI2:16:48Would a modern carrier hull make a good battleship?Q&A
- Bruships 138: Random Naval History Books from Me, Random Naval History Questions from You!28:29An eight-inch American carrier-escort cruiserQ&A
- Bruships 138: Random Naval History Books from Me, Random Naval History Questions from You!55:49Why few navies copied the pocket battleshipQ&A
- Bruships 138: Random Naval History Books from Me, Random Naval History Questions from You!1:35:35Why multinational workshare can dilute Italian warship designNotable Point
- Bruships 138: Random Naval History Books from Me, Random Naval History Questions from You!1:38:52How to read a warship's mission from its hull formQ&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!4:05:24The Admiral class changed because the war changedQ&A
- Bruships 138: Random Naval History Books from Me, Random Naval History Questions from You!4:06:16The American cruisers that shared the Hipper problemQ&A
- Bruships 138: Random Naval History Books from Me, Random Naval History Questions from You!4:06:38British cruiser design began with the role, then defined the targetQ&A
- The HMS Ark Royals Saga: A History of Naval Aviation in a Name...18:19A slow seaplane carrier meets wartime riskChapter
- Check Campaign 4: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:03Relearning UAD after a major systems updateChapter
- Check Campaign 4: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign9:12Research priorities for a battleship-led campaignChapter
- Check Campaign 4: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:34:31A twelve-gun Queen Elizabeth-class counterfactualNotable Point
- Check Campaign 4: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign3:24:06Designing the Bristol light cruiser to fill a fleet gapChapter
- Bruships 136: Some Books & Some Questions Answered3:32:54Mission and treaty constraints on a British large cruiserQ&A
- Patreon 95: Helios on Route- A lucky development of helicopters & appropriate tech in 1930s39:51Would Britain choose helicopter cruisers or sloops?Q&A
- Patreon 95: Helios on Route- A lucky development of helicopters & appropriate tech in 1930s1:25:29Helicopters make a clear stern more valuableNotable Point
- Patreon 95: Helios on Route- A lucky development of helicopters & appropriate tech in 1930s2:44:03Treaty limits make destroyer helicopters unlikelyQ&A
- Check Campaign 2: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:08Using British designs to test the updated campaignChapter
- Check Campaign 2: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:10:35Light-cruiser stability after the updateChapter
- Check Campaign 2: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:31:14Building a technology bridge to the first dreadnought generationChapter
- Check Campaign 2: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:39:15Standardizing the first dreadnought battle lineChapter
- Check Campaign 2: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:49:18Arming a cruiser to support the battle lineChapter
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!1:20:54The most plausible later Lion-class battleshipQ&A
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!2:15:35The practical upper limit for Hood's gunsQ&A
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!2:19:54Why a twelve-gun treaty cruiser breaks the design boxQ&A
- HMS Princess Beatrix & HMS Queen Emma Landing Ship Infantry(Medium) - When Dutch Ferries go to War9:46Troop accommodation as amphibious combat capabilityNotable Point
- What Happens If Whittle is supported & Britain develops Jet Engines + Gas Turbines in 1930s23:22Gas turbines turn machinery weight into treaty tonnageNotable Point
- What Happens If Whittle is supported & Britain develops Jet Engines + Gas Turbines in 1930s36:23What turbine weight savings could do for IllustriousNotable Point
- What Happens If Whittle is supported & Britain develops Jet Engines + Gas Turbines in 1930s1:08:29Electric drive still requires a weight and current-system choiceNotable Point
- USS Independence(1814)- First USN Ship of the Line & only USN Razee: Key Ship Series 7 Ship 1051:19Independence adapts the transatlantic 74-gun design traditionChapter
- Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century?40:33Presence ships need diplomatic facilities alongside weaponsNotable Point
- Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century?1:32:34The World War I Flower pattern shaped later escortsChapter
- Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century?3:14:08Public access favours simple, securable ship systemsNotable Point
- Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century?3:35:37Why the River-derived Avenger lost to Type 31Q&A
- USS Enterprise: A Star is Born - KSS3 S4 Comment Response0:51Why Ranger and Wasp remained experimental carriersQ&A
- USS Enterprise: A Star is Born - KSS3 S4 Comment Response12:27Why carrier bridges stayed in the islandQ&A
- USS Enterprise: A Star is Born - KSS3 S4 Comment Response14:19Yorktown-class growth margins and treaty tonnageQ&A
- Bruships 133: Questions till the Bru runs out...29:02A modernized cog runs out of space before it runs out of weapon ideasQ&A
- Bruships 133: Questions till the Bru runs out...1:13:11Design global warships for the South Atlantic firstQ&A
- USS Texas: Always Bigger in Spirit - KSS3 S2 Comment Response5:36Would a modern nuclear-powered battleship be practical?Q&A
- Naval Historian Reacts to Aircraft Carriers the Debate Part 2 of 21:20:20Audacious as the unrestricted carrier idealChapter
- Naval Historian Reacts to Aircraft Carriers the Debate: Part 1 of 21:44How treaty limits divided British carrier rolesChapter
- Naval Historian Reacts to Aircraft Carriers the Debate: Part 1 of 212:32Armoured flight decks strengthened the whole carrierNotable Point
- Naval Historian Reacts to Aircraft Carriers the Debate: Part 1 of 221:16A war arriving early reordered British shipbuildingQ&A
- Scharnhorst Class(1936): Most Valued Player of the German Capital Ships - Key Ships Series 7 Ship 419:20The Royal Navy's capital-ship spectrumNotable Point
- Scharnhorst Class(1936): Most Valued Player of the German Capital Ships - Key Ships Series 7 Ship 422:43A repeatable German capital-ship designNotable Point
- Scharnhorst Class(1936): Most Valued Player of the German Capital Ships - Key Ships Series 7 Ship 428:59What Tirpitz gained for 10,000 extra tonsChapter
- Scharnhorst Class(1936): Most Valued Player of the German Capital Ships - Key Ships Series 7 Ship 439:30From battlecruiser sketch to improved DeutschlandChapter
- Scharnhorst Class(1936): Most Valued Player of the German Capital Ships - Key Ships Series 7 Ship 444:46Dunkerque pushed Scharnhorst toward a third turretNotable Point
- Scharnhorst Class(1936): Most Valued Player of the German Capital Ships - Key Ships Series 7 Ship 448:17Reading warship type from internal subdivisionNotable Point
- Scharnhorst Class(1936): Most Valued Player of the German Capital Ships - Key Ships Series 7 Ship 454:42Bismarck's fame obscures the German design sequenceNotable Point
- Scharnhorst Class(1936): Most Valued Player of the German Capital Ships - Key Ships Series 7 Ship 41:02:45Why cramming in every new technology failsNotable Point
- Scharnhorst Class(1936): Most Valued Player of the German Capital Ships - Key Ships Series 7 Ship 41:03:58Scharnhorst changed one major system at a timeChapter
- Scharnhorst Class(1936): Most Valued Player of the German Capital Ships - Key Ships Series 7 Ship 41:07:07What should have followed Scharnhorst?Notable Point
- Landing Ship Tanks Mk1s: The First Attempts to Get Troops Ashore - Key Ships Series 7 Ship 321:14The fast, elaborate Boxer-class Mark I designChapter
- Landing Ship Tanks Mk1s: The First Attempts to Get Troops Ashore - Key Ships Series 7 Ship 329:33Why the conversions outshone the purpose-built shipsChapter
- Acacia Class: Batch 1 of World War I's Flower Class - Key Ships Series 7, Ship 27:01A larger kind of emergency-built escortChapter
- British Response to Graf Zeppelin: KSS2 S1 Comment Response8:25Carrier design begins by asking whether the problem is rightNotable Point
- Bruships 131: Battleships...2:13:08Protecting a ship from an under-keel torpedoQ&A
- HNLMS Schorpioen: KSS1 S6 Comment Response2:46When French shipyards reshape naval requirementsQ&A
- 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!24:53Secondary batteries can shape engagement rangeNotable Point
- Building A British Super Battleship!27:07How seriously should the game's naval physics be taken?Q&A
- Building A British Super Battleship!28:29A six-inch secondary battery reshapes the shipChapter
- Building A British Super Battleship!37:12Extreme armor exposes the limits of balance-by-weightNotable Point
- Building A British Super Battleship!38:33Armageddon: rebuilding from the heaviest requirementsChapter
- Building A British Super Battleship!50:57How closely does the game model historical warship cost?Q&A
- HMVS Cerberus: KSS1 S4 Comment Response2:14Why semi-submersible battleships found no roleQ&A
- SMS Seydlitz - The Pivotol 4th German Battlecruiser - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 90:00Germany's one-two-one-three battlecruiser sequenceNotable Point
- SMS Seydlitz - The Pivotol 4th German Battlecruiser - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 92:54Why Seydlitz was a transitional German battlecruiserChapter
- SMS Seydlitz - The Pivotol 4th German Battlecruiser - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 910:44How endurance and armor shaped the fast-battleship transitionChapter
- SMS Seydlitz - The Pivotol 4th German Battlecruiser - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 919:24Seydlitz and the value of a coherent design teamNotable Point
- HMS Benbow: KSS1 S3 Comment Response4:34Armor thickness means little without belt depth and displacementQ&A
- HMS Benbow: KSS1 S3 Comment Response7:34Why Benbow's low freeboard invites a submarine comparisonNotable Point
- HMS Benbow: KSS1 S3 Comment Response10:39Admiral and Victoria classes as steps toward Royal SovereignChapter
- Bruships 130: Battleships49:08Minimum practical size for a 1937 escort carrierQ&A
- Bruships 130: Battleships1:02:28Why a fourth Scharnhorst turret changes the whole programQ&A
- Bruships 130: Battleships1:50:19Benefits and compromises of standardized warship hullsQ&A
- What Happens if 1930s Germany Standardises on the Scharnhorst hull for Capital Ships & Carriers?16:27The Scharnhorst hull as a design baselineChapter
- Patreon 89: Everything a Scharnhorst - Germany standardises on one hull for Capital ships & Carriers6:54Why F3 is a better carrier basis than NelsonQ&A
- Patreon 89: Everything a Scharnhorst - Germany standardises on one hull for Capital ships & Carriers19:41Why the common hull stops at capital shipsNotable Point
- 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 & Carriers2:48:31Would every common-hull ship keep the same armor?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
- Check Campaign: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign0:49Using a British campaign to test the revised ship designerChapter
- Check Campaign: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign5:16An early battleship exposes stability and armament tradeoffsChapter
- Check Campaign: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign32:31Why aircraft carriers would greatly complicate the gameNotable Point
- Check Campaign: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign36:53Why build the opening fleet from scratch?Q&A
- Check Campaign: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:04:36Cruiser trials expose a research-gated stability problemChapter
- Check Campaign: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:14:30The automatic torpedo-boat design confirms the stability problemNotable Point
- Check Campaign: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:32:23Triple-expansion engines narrow, but do not solve, the stability problemNotable Point
- The Sydney Strategy: What if the British Empire Far East Base was Sydney not Singapore49:01A Sydney strategy redesigns the Royal Navy around rangeChapter
- The Sydney Strategy: What if the British Empire Far East Base was Sydney not Singapore52:28Strategic distance becomes a fleet-wide design requirementNotable Point
- The Sydney Strategy: What if the British Empire Far East Base was Sydney not Singapore1:10:21Sydney endurance requirements could change the King George V classChapter
- The Sydney Strategy: What if the British Empire Far East Base was Sydney not Singapore1:13:21Tribal-class range falls short of the Sydney requirementNotable Point
- Patreon 88: Sydney Strategy: When looking for a Far East Naval Base - what if Sydney not Singapore?1:11:05Why Nelson and Rodney remain unchangedNotable Point
- Patreon 88: Sydney Strategy: When looking for a Far East Naval Base - what if Sydney not Singapore?1:11:05How Sydney would double the fleet's design rangeChapter
- Patreon 88: Sydney Strategy: When looking for a Far East Naval Base - what if Sydney not Singapore?2:02:07A long-range King George V and carrier fleetChapter
- Patreon 88: Sydney Strategy: When looking for a Far East Naval Base - what if Sydney not Singapore?2:06:08A slimmer King George V favors 4.5-inch gunsNotable Point
- Patreon 88: Sydney Strategy: When looking for a Far East Naval Base - what if Sydney not Singapore?2:42:40Could a better-armored Renown keep its speed?Q&A
- Patreon 88: Sydney Strategy: When looking for a Far East Naval Base - what if Sydney not Singapore?2:45:43Would 9.2-inch guns turn the Courageous class into useful cruisers?Q&A
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: There was a game update6:311890 technology constrains the first battleshipsChapter
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: There was a game update53:19Forty-eight torpedo boats become the interim denial forceChapter
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: There was a game update2:09:27A light battleship replaces an impractical armored cruiserChapter
- Bruships 128: Invasions & Amphibious Warfare23:24A four-twin-turret rule reshapes the Royal NavyQ&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 Warfare3:34:29Why a late battlecruiser needs speed and battleship gunsNotable Point
- Battle of Empress Augusta Bay(1943): The First Radar Battle?14:24Retrofitted radar versus radar-designed warshipsQ&A
- Battle of Empress Augusta Bay(1943): The First Radar Battle?16:14Vanguard's design around radar fire controlQ&A
- When does a navy know it is time to replace a type or class of ships? P2/2 Lego enhanced discussion1:45Replacement, renewal, or continued productionChapter
- When does a navy know it is time to replace a type or class of ships? P2/2 Lego enhanced discussion22:22Refitability has physical limitsNotable Point
- When does a navy know it is time to replace a type or class of ships? P2/2 Lego enhanced discussion39:23Modularity must match a navy's expected roleNotable Point
- When does a navy know it is time to replace a type or class of ships? Part 1 of 2 - Slides3:31Replacement begins with more than a ship's ageChapter
- When does a navy know it is time to replace a type or class of ships? Part 1 of 2 - Slides7:56A thinning engineering workforce encourages familiar designsNotable Point
- When does a navy know it is time to replace a type or class of ships? Part 1 of 2 - Slides13:35Hull life depends on use as well as ageNotable Point
- When does a navy know it is time to replace a type or class of ships? Part 1 of 2 - Slides27:37Power, fuel, and range can block a simple upgradeNotable Point
- When does a navy know it is time to replace a type or class of ships? Part 1 of 2 - Slides31:11Growth margin must be reserved before it is neededNotable Point
- When does a navy know it is time to replace a type or class of ships? Part 1 of 2 - Slides32:13Fitness space is part of operational capacityNotable Point
- When does a navy know it is time to replace a type or class of ships? Part 1 of 2 - Slides34:21Accommodation standards affect specialist retentionChapter
- 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
- Battle Cruisers and Battleships are Separate Categories in the 1922 Washington Naval Treaty22:06A 42,000-ton battlecruiser and 37,000-ton battleship limitChapter
- Battle Cruisers and Battleships are Separate Categories in the 1922 Washington Naval Treaty41:02A Royal Navy programme that sustains shipbuildingChapter
- Battle Cruisers and Battleships are Separate Categories in the 1922 Washington Naval Treaty52:27Japan's Kongo force and new battleship choicesChapter
- Battle Cruisers and Battleships are Separate Categories in the 1922 Washington Naval Treaty1:04:33Battlecruisers as a spectrum of fleet rolesNotable Point
- 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...32:15Francesco Caracciolo and the cost of 28 knotsChapter
- What Battleships and Battlecruisers that were not built can tell us...1:11:37How institutions shaped British, American, and Japanese ship plansNotable Point
- What Battleships and Battlecruisers that were not built can tell us...1:16:57Normandie, Lyon, and French design momentumChapter
- Scylla & Charybdis: 4.5in gun Didos - Key Ships Reserve Series, Ship 16:01A Dido hull reshaped around 4.5-inch mountsNotable Point
- Scylla & Charybdis: 4.5in gun Didos - Key Ships Reserve Series, Ship 118:10The Dido's contested place between cruiser and destroyerChapter
- Scylla & Charybdis: 4.5in gun Didos - Key Ships Reserve Series, Ship 138:49Wartime adaptation can produce a useful shipChapter
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 1036:56The York class as a warning about false economyNotable Point
- Bruships 126: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series23:36Why titanium hulls can become an obsessionQ&A
- Bruships 126: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series3:04:47Cargo ships will split between practical smaller hulls and larger giantsQ&A
- Orion Class - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 70:02The Orion class and a standard British dreadnought patternChapter
- Orion Class - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 71:04Dreadnought as a conservative leap forwardNotable Point
- Orion Class - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 72:22A more radical Dreadnought and the limits of superfiringChapter
- 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 725:12Design judgment and the limits of hindsightNotable Point
- Orion Class - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 727:35Propulsion figures and controlled innovationChapter
- Orion Class - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 729:22Orion as the British dreadnought patternChapter
- Orion Class - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 744:36What the Orion class reveals about design choicesChapter
- Orion Class - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 746:39Counterfactual: a faster, 14-inch Orion classNotable Point
- Building the Fleets of Trafalgar(1805)38:26Age of Sail ships still came in classesNotable Point
- Building the Fleets of Trafalgar(1805)40:52British second rates answered the threat of Spanish three-deckersChapter
- 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
- A Naval Historian Reacts to... a Decade of Brasseys (4RB 19)11:02Why decade-scale comparisons reveal ship design changeNotable 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 856:56Why missiles on a carrier create flight-deck tradeoffsQ&A
- Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: Pacific, Black Sea & Baltic Designs3:11Why Japanese boats were not simple German copiesNotable Point
- Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: Pacific, Black Sea & Baltic Designs7:37Why institutions shape the technology a navy can useNotable 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 Designs1:33:52Political clout could determine Soviet design creditNotable 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
- Why WWII evolved Motor Torpedo Boats in Motor Gun Boats: Pacific, Black Sea & Baltic Designs2:00:56Shared missions produced similar small-boat designsNotable Point
- HMS Lord Nelson(1906): Britain's Last Soverign Style Battleship - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 543:24Technology transition and fleet resilienceChapter
- HMS Lord Nelson(1906): Britain's Last Soverign Style Battleship - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 548:30What Lord Nelson suggests for modern ship designNotable Point
- How & Why during WWII Motor Torpedo Boats(MTBs) became Motor Gun Boats(MGBs): Pacific Theatre6:05Why Pacific torpedo boats have transatlantic design rootsChapter
- How & Why during WWII Motor Torpedo Boats(MTBs) became Motor Gun Boats(MGBs): Pacific Theatre20:42The 1938 US Navy PT-boat competitionChapter
- How & Why during WWII Motor Torpedo Boats(MTBs) became Motor Gun Boats(MGBs): Pacific Theatre31:38Why a PT-boat competition winner preferred the excluded sea sledNotable Point
- How & Why during WWII Motor Torpedo Boats(MTBs) became Motor Gun Boats(MGBs): Pacific Theatre1:11:17Japan's pursuit of destroyer-killing torpedo boatsChapter
- How & Why during WWII Motor Torpedo Boats(MTBs) became Motor Gun Boats(MGBs): Pacific Theatre1:16:46Japan's Type 14 and Type 38 motor torpedo boatsNotable Point
- How & Why during WWII Motor Torpedo Boats(MTBs) became Motor Gun Boats(MGBs): Pacific Theatre1:20:57Why Japan's Type 51 was not a German SchnellbootNotable Point
- How & Why during WWII Motor Torpedo Boats(MTBs) became Motor Gun Boats(MGBs): Pacific Theatre3:01:50Why a steel gun mount could worsen alloy-hull corrosionQ&A
- 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 theatres1:09:57Why gunboats regained the MTB labelNotable Point
- 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
- Capital Ships of Science Fiction: Battlestars to Star Destroyers with a Naval Historian4:13A five-part test for fictional capital shipsChapter
- Capital Ships of Science Fiction: Battlestars to Star Destroyers with a Naval Historian35:59Cheops class: a monument first and a warship secondNotable Point
- Capital Ships of Science Fiction: Battlestars to Star Destroyers with a Naval Historian39:56Imperial Star Destroyers and wasted firing arcsNotable Point
- Capital Ships of Science Fiction: Battlestars to Star Destroyers with a Naval Historian47:55Ha'tak ships as instruments of Goa'uld coercionNotable Point
- Capital Ships of Science Fiction: Battlestars to Star Destroyers with a Naval Historian51:15Galactica survives through hull and crew togetherNotable Point
- Capital Ships of Science Fiction: Battlestars to Star Destroyers with a Naval Historian1:10:11Galaxy class: adaptable capital ships with a complexity costNotable Point
- Capital Ships of Science Fiction: Battlestars to Star Destroyers with a Naval Historian1:17:14Rama's Ascendant and surviving enormous missilesNotable Point
- Capital Ships of Science Fiction: Battlestars to Star Destroyers with a Naval Historian1:24:30The Venator's exposed bridge trades protection for imageNotable Point
- Capital Ships of Science Fiction: Battlestars to Star Destroyers with a Naval Historian1:27:15What thoughtful fictional warships revealNotable Point
- How & Why during WWII MTBs became MGBs: European & Mediterranean Theatre28:45Schnellboot armour versus speedQ&A
- How & Why during WWII MTBs became MGBs: European & Mediterranean Theatre45:43Schnellboot design: fast, fine, and torpedo-centredChapter
- How & Why during WWII MTBs became MGBs: European & Mediterranean Theatre1:20:24Why horsepower figures need their test contextQ&A
- How & Why during WWII MTBs became MGBs: European & Mediterranean Theatre1:39:12Italian MS boats: trading some speed for seaworthinessChapter
- How & Why during WWII MTBs became MGBs: European & Mediterranean Theatre1:43:29How Italian MS boats inherited Schnellboot ideasQ&A
- How & Why during WWII MTBs became MGBs: European & Mediterranean Theatre2:04:52Why the heavily armed Dog Boat stayed stableQ&A
- Bruships: Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!54:26What Britain might build after the County classQ&A
- Bruships: Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!1:29:45Why a larger Clemenceau would not automatically be betterQ&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!2:24:18Why copied HMS Kelly plans would not produce a German KellyQ&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!3:21:00A faster Nelson under a 40,000-ton treatyQ&A
- The Hunt Class: The WWII Royal Navy's Escort Destroyers - Key Ship Series 6, Ship 310:10HMS Berkeley and the Type I fitChapter
- The Hunt Class: The WWII Royal Navy's Escort Destroyers - Key Ship Series 6, Ship 321:38Type II Hunts: more guns and depth chargesNotable Point
- The Hunt Class: The WWII Royal Navy's Escort Destroyers - Key Ship Series 6, Ship 325:10Hunt and Egret machinery raise a treaty-speed questionNotable Point
- The Hunt Class: The WWII Royal Navy's Escort Destroyers - Key Ship Series 6, Ship 342:17Why two torpedoes were a weak destroyer weaponNotable Point
- The Hunt Class: The WWII Royal Navy's Escort Destroyers - Key Ship Series 6, Ship 349:02Type IV: Thornycroft's heavier HuntChapter
- The Hunt Class: The WWII Royal Navy's Escort Destroyers - Key Ship Series 6, Ship 31:00:03The unexplained range gap between Brecon and BrissendenNotable Point
- The Hunt Class: The WWII Royal Navy's Escort Destroyers - Key Ship Series 6, Ship 31:07:03How crews adapted the rugged Hunt designChapter
- Black Swan Class: The F-22 of WWII ASW? - Key Ships Series 6, Episode 22:01Why sloops could expand shipyard capacityNotable Point
- Black Swan Class: The F-22 of WWII ASW? - Key Ships Series 6, Episode 28:16From Bittern and Egret to the Black SwanNotable Point
- Black Swan Class: The F-22 of WWII ASW? - Key Ships Series 6, Episode 212:25Gun mounts and the real depth-charge loadNotable Point
- Egret Class: The First Class to lose as ship to a guided missile - Key Ships Series 6, Episode 16:49A small escort built around eight 4-inch gunsChapter
- Egret Class: The First Class to lose as ship to a guided missile - Key Ships Series 6, Episode 129:33The Egret-class design question: adaptable sloop or tougher specialist?Notable Point
- Bittern Class: The Foundation Stone of the British WWII ASW efforts - Key Ship Series 5, Episode 108:03Treaty speed limits shaped the Bitterns' machineryChapter
- HMS Nelson(1876): bad sound3:12Northampton's ambitious machinery and Nelson's better speedNotable Point
- CVA-01: Getting the Ship right and the Politics wrong - Key Ships Series 5, Episode 40:22Why a benchmark navy is not a universal blueprintChapter
- CVA-01: Getting the Ship right and the Politics wrong - Key Ships Series 5, Episode 47:42A 64,000-ton carrier below American supercarrier scaleNotable Point
- CVA-01: Getting the Ship right and the Politics wrong - Key Ships Series 5, Episode 417:48Dimensions, machinery, range, and manningChapter
- CVA-01: Getting the Ship right and the Politics wrong - Key Ships Series 5, Episode 427:03Experimenting with an island-side aircraft routeNotable Point
- CVA-01: Getting the Ship right and the Politics wrong - Key Ships Series 5, Episode 429:11Leaving room for larger successor aircraftChapter
- CVA-01: Getting the Ship right and the Politics wrong - Key Ships Series 5, Episode 439:15Designing a carrier system for a medium powerChapter
- CVA-01: Getting the Ship right and the Politics wrong - Key Ships Series 5, Episode 443:39Judge warship design by national needsNotable Point
- The Landship Story19:49Naval construction expertise enters a land-vehicle projectChapter
- 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 51:02:10Designing the Chester-class torpedo cruiserChapter
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 52:06:20A self-escorting battleship needs layered firepowerNotable 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 53:26:35Vertical launch systems can complicate stabilityQ&A
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 53:27:30Weight and trim defeat the second Queen Elizabeth designChapter
- Bruships 122: Patreon Special - how wooden ships between 1700 to 1860 are built17:07Warship design, stability, and state directionChapter
- Ersatz Monarch Class: Pebbles casting Ripples can lead to Tsunamis - Key Ship Series 4, Episode 1020:21British engineering in the dreadnought raceNotable 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 Discussion31:49The UAD design illustrates armament, armour, and stability trade-offsNotable 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 Enough5:11Recurring ship roles reward institutional memoryNotable Point
- Fourth Rates: When the Fourth is Just Not Enough7:58Peacetime layout and the two-tier cruiser caseNotable Point
- Number 13 Class: Dreams of Yamatos - Key Ship Series 4, Ship 60:02Number 13 in Japan's Eight-Eight FleetChapter
- Number 13 Class: Dreams of Yamatos - Key Ship Series 4, Ship 63:01Why Number 13 cannot be called the world's strongestNotable Point
- Number 13 Class: Dreams of Yamatos - Key Ship Series 4, Ship 65:22Industrial preparation made the design plausibleNotable Point
- 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 622:39Hiraga's design lineage from Nagato to Number 13Notable Point
- Number 13 Class: Dreams of Yamatos - Key Ship Series 4, Ship 631:20Using a simulation to test a hypothetical designNotable 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 510:40The competing Dutch dreadnought designsChapter
- Dutch Dream of 1913: A Dreadnought Battle Fleet of their very own - Key Ship Series 4, Ship 510:49Why the winning design remains uncertainNotable Point
- Dutch Dream of 1913: A Dreadnought Battle Fleet of their very own - Key Ship Series 4, Ship 517:02What the Germaniawerft proposal offeredNotable Point
- Dutch Dream of 1913: A Dreadnought Battle Fleet of their very own - Key Ship Series 4, Ship 521:58The single-funnel Blohm & Voss proposalNotable 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
- 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?38:38Conning-tower armour only helps if commanders use itNotable Point
- How Many Guns Does that USN Battleship have?41:37Why these Yamato defeats need a counterfactual caveatNotable Point
- 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
- How Many Guns Does that USN Battleship have?1:10:17Designing American and Japanese heavy cruisersChapter
- How Many Guns Does that USN Battleship have?1:38:33Trading torpedoes for cruiser survivabilityNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 31:10:49Combining armour, speed, and heavy gunsChapter
- 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 35:11Why the simulated battleship's defeats are evidence with limitsNotable Point
- Sovetsky Soyuz (Советский Союз) Class: Stalin's Battleship Dreams - Key Ships Series 4, Ship 344:51The formidable paper specification behind Project 23Notable Point
- Sovetsky Soyuz (Советский Союз) Class: Stalin's Battleship Dreams - Key Ships Series 4, Ship 346:31Why sophisticated foreign design ideas could hinder Soviet constructionNotable Point
- Sovetsky Soyuz (Советский Союз) Class: Stalin's Battleship Dreams - Key Ships Series 4, Ship 350:40Why Project 23's two funnels raise a propulsion questionNotable Point
- Sovetsky Soyuz (Советский Союз) Class: Stalin's Battleship Dreams - Key Ships Series 4, Ship 31:03:20Could Project 21 have been a more realistic Soviet start?Notable 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?22:15Choosing guns from a ship's role and hullChapter
- 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?40:42Firepower is a whole-ship trade-offChapter
- What Cannon is right for this ship?42:32Why ancient galleys faced a different endurance problemNotable Point
- What Cannon is right for this ship?44:39Reading a ship's hidden mission from its designNotable 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 21:07:55Variation within the Bisson-class destroyersNotable 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
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 22:18:17Survivability equipment in a 30-knot capital shipNotable Point
- Bruships 119: Cool Books - but they're definitely a Mixture4:13:48Type 26 and Constellation approach versatility differentlyNotable Point
- Battle Cruisers, Battle-Cruisers & Battlecruisers of pre-WWI design stock2:43Why battlecruisers were a compromiseChapter
- Battle Cruisers, Battle-Cruisers & Battlecruisers of pre-WWI design stock5:31From ironclad frigates to separate battleships and cruisersNotable Point
- Battle Cruisers, Battle-Cruisers & Battlecruisers of pre-WWI design stock9:14Invincible's turret layout and manoeuvrabilityNotable Point
- Battle Cruisers, Battle-Cruisers & Battlecruisers of pre-WWI design stock23:46Von der Tann's speed, armour, and machineryNotable Point
- Battle Cruisers, Battle-Cruisers & Battlecruisers of pre-WWI design stock57:26Battlecruiser labels and the capital-ship spectrumNotable 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 stock1:09:21Tiger and Derfflinger in a simulated duelNotable 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 stock1:29:55Concentration and soft factors in battlecruiser combatNotable Point
- Montana Class, The Bulwarks for the New Battle Line: Key Ship Series 4, Part 20:00Why Montana was a 28-knot battleshipChapter
- Montana Class, The Bulwarks for the New Battle Line: Key Ship Series 4, Part 24:05Cancellation as a wartime timing decisionNotable Point
- Montana Class, The Bulwarks for the New Battle Line: Key Ship Series 4, Part 25:36Why a Lion hybrid signaled desperationNotable Point
- Montana Class, The Bulwarks for the New Battle Line: Key Ship Series 4, Part 229:57Armour shaped by approach and enduranceChapter
- Montana Class, The Bulwarks for the New Battle Line: Key Ship Series 4, Part 243:54Drawings preserve competing secondary layoutsNotable 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
- Montana Class, The Bulwarks for the New Battle Line: Key Ship Series 4, Part 21:26:54A faster successor for carrier cooperationChapter
- Bruships 118: Unbuilt Battleships, Romans & French Strategic Philosophy4:53Why the H class remains a paper battleshipQ&A
- 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 Philosophy20:54A hypothetical Roman battleship still needs industrial disciplineQ&A
- Bruships 118: Unbuilt Battleships, Romans & French Strategic Philosophy28:58Why circular battleships rank among the worst designsQ&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 Philosophy56:54Autoloaders would reshape ships and fire controlQ&A
- Bruships 118: Unbuilt Battleships, Romans & French Strategic Philosophy2:07:55Dockyard size would shape the successor to the G3Q&A
- Bruships 118: Unbuilt Battleships, Romans & French Strategic Philosophy3:43:03What the extra displacement bought in Lion and VanguardQ&A
- Lion Class: Key Ships Series 4, Part 11:40Why the Lion class was not an exotic new battleshipChapter
- Lion Class: Key Ships Series 4, Part 13:07Comparing battleships through a simulation's limitsNotable Point
- Lion Class: Key Ships Series 4, Part 120:34Where the first Lion model departs from the designNotable Point
- Lion Class: Key Ships Series 4, Part 124:28Hull proportions and armour across King George V, Lion, and VanguardNotable Point
- Lion Class: Key Ships Series 4, Part 146:27A twelve-gun alternative to King George VNotable Point
- Lion Class: Key Ships Series 4, Part 154:43A larger Lion as Britain's possible Yamato responseChapter
- Lion Class: Key Ships Series 4, Part 158:38How uncertainty about Yamato drives worst-case protectionNotable Point
- Lion Class: Key Ships Series 4, Part 11:07:10The sixteen-gun Dreadnought thought experimentNotable Point
- American vs Japanese Battleships... testing some historical ideas4:55What makes a best-in-class 1910 battleship?Chapter
- American vs Japanese Battleships... testing some historical ideas43:20Designing a 33-knot Japanese battlecruiserChapter
- American vs Japanese Battleships... testing some historical ideas52:19Battlecruisers need speed and distanceNotable Point
- Bruships 116: Australia Trip Books... Continued24:08Speed and firepower in battlecruiser designQ&A
- Bruships 116: Australia Trip Books... Continued31:44Drones need not bring back the battlecarrierQ&A
- Bruships 116: Australia Trip Books... Continued36:35Carrier size follows the air groupQ&A
- Bruships 116: Australia Trip Books... Continued1:10:16French frigate innovation and the British responseNotable Point
- Bruships 116: Australia Trip Books... Continued1:54:28What a two-shaft Flower-class corvette would costQ&A
- Bruships 116: Australia Trip Books... Continued2:51:49Light fleet carriers were not merchant conversionsQ&A
- Lexington & Saratoga Carrier Conception: Key Ship Series 3, Ships 10 &117:07Why a battlecruiser hull suited conversionNotable Point
- 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 &1117:33Speed and turboelectric propulsionNotable 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!45:20Deep-diving submersibles demand proven materials and backupsNotable Point
- Bruships 115: Hopefully Australia Trip in Summary!55:30Bathurst-class corvettes followed a different design lineageNotable 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!2:23:20Fire-control spaces housed people as well as machineryQ&A
- Bruships 115: Hopefully Australia Trip in Summary!3:09:09Why many carrier hulls resemble battlecruisersQ&A
- HMS Renown, the RN's most Underated Capital Ship of WWII?; Key Ship Series 3, Ship 80:30Fisher's battlecruiser vision in RenownChapter
- Ticonderoga Class: Comment Response6:43Bridge windows trade visibility against protectionQ&A
- Ticonderoga Class: Comment Response12:29Kevlar gives the Ticonderogas splinter protectionNotable Point
- Ticonderoga Class: Comment Response13:01Stealthy hull forms and the Zumwalt lessonQ&A
- Ticonderoga Class: Comment Response13:39Ticonderoga was designed around Aegis phased arraysNotable Point
- Ticonderoga Class: Comment Response19:01Why Ticonderoga plans moved away from aluminumQ&A
- 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 Skoda44:05Skoda Works as the industrial foundation of the fleetNotable Point
- US Nuclear Powered Cruisers: Comment Response10:15Why USS Enterprise still had a speed limitNotable Point
- Belknap Class & Truxton: Comment Response13:27Why railgun power storage matters more than barrel wearQ&A
- Belknap Class & Truxton: Comment Response27:11Conventional machinery limited nuclear warship powerNotable Point
- HMS Illustrious: Key Ships Series 3, Ship 716:47The treaty compromise in Illustrious's designChapter
- HMS Illustrious: Key Ships Series 3, Ship 729:00How inter-service separation consumed carrier spaceNotable Point
- Some Books Aquired So Far during #NavHistAus23! Perth Take 2!40:47A nine-gun American 18-inch battleshipQ&A
- Some Books Aquired So Far during #NavHistAus23! Perth Take 2!1:01:03A British sea-control ship conceptNotable Point
- USS Monitor: Key Ships Series 3, Ship 65:11A turret ship built for sheltered waterNotable Point
- USS Monitor: Key Ships Series 3, Ship 68:28Urgency made Monitor an experimental warshipNotable Point
- Leahy Class(+Bainbridge Class): Comment Response11:16Designing a realistic nuclear destroyer leaderQ&A
- Leahy Class(+Bainbridge Class): Comment Response17:59Nuclear escort trade-offs in a carrier groupQ&A
- Leahy Class(+Bainbridge Class): Comment Response20:48A nuclear escort as command and sensor shipNotable Point
- Building the Fleets for the Battle of Midway19:18Carrier commonality and Japan's constrained alternativesChapter
- Building the Fleets for the Battle of Midway28:51Why the rebuilt Kongos edged toward fast battleshipsNotable Point
- Building the Fleets for the Battle of Midway53:07Japan needed cheaper escorts alongside elite destroyersNotable Point
- Building the Fleets for the Battle of Midway1:01:24Class labels can conceal standardised destroyer familiesNotable Point
- HMS Nubian: Key Ship Series 3, Ship 55:35Pennant changes, hull figures, and radar readinessNotable Point
- Some Books Aquired So Far in #NavHistAus23! Sydney1:16:35Why as-fitted drawings preserve a ship's real designChapter
- USS Enterprise (CV6): Key Ship Series 3, Ship 44:47Displacement growth and treaty figuresNotable Point
- USS Enterprise (CV6): Key Ship Series 3, Ship 410:56Armor placement and the Pacific strike roleChapter
- Ottoman Venetian War: Comment Response14:41Atlantic ships and direct long-distance tradeNotable 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?27:20Keeping big guns alive requires more than engineeringChapter
- 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
- Meeting HMAS Vampire!4:33Why the Daring silhouette reads as a warshipNotable Point
- Some Books Aquired So Far in #NavHistAus23! Brisbane1:17:09When destroyer guns begin to create a cruiserQ&A
- HMS Cossack: Key Ships Series 3, Ship 1...special edition...7:24Destroyer evolution from Tribals to DaringNotable Point
- Stalins Dream Fleets & the Potential Responses8:01Project 21 as a more attainable Soviet battlefleetChapter
- Stalins Dream Fleets & the Potential Responses34:39Engineering perfection versus fleet-wide standardisationNotable Point
- HMS Warrior(1860): Comment Response27:01Why Warrior lifted her propeller instead of folding itQ&A
- The Fleet of the Imperium of Man: A Naval Historian's take on Warhammer 40k Human Fleet1:13A naval historian's objection to the Imperial fleetChapter
- The Fleet of the Imperium of Man: A Naval Historian's take on Warhammer 40k Human Fleet8:00Forge worlds make fleet standardization impracticalNotable Point
- The Fleet of the Imperium of Man: A Naval Historian's take on Warhammer 40k Human Fleet9:16Why might Imperial sterns stay unarmed?Notable 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 Fleet1:04:15A common design language projects Imperial unityNotable Point
- The Fleet of the Imperium of Man: A Naval Historian's take on Warhammer 40k Human Fleet1:07:20Battlecruisers lose their speed advantage in the lineNotable Point
- The Fleet of the Imperium of Man: A Naval Historian's take on Warhammer 40k Human Fleet1:11:00Gloriana ships: legion prestige without stern defenceNotable 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 Fleet1:23:59Apocalypse class: lance fire and a Nova CannonNotable Point
- The Fleet of the Imperium of Man: A Naval Historian's take on Warhammer 40k Human Fleet1:28:30Firestorm frigate scale and ramming limitsNotable 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 Fleet1:37:58Battlecruisers trade layered range against balanced armamentNotable Point
- The Fleet of the Imperium of Man: A Naval Historian's take on Warhammer 40k Human Fleet1:54:44Multi-axis space combat requires wider firing arcsNotable Point
- The Fleet of the Imperium of Man: A Naval Historian's take on Warhammer 40k Human Fleet2:04:57Why historical battlecruisers could exceed battleships in sizeNotable Point
- The Fleet of the Imperium of Man: A Naval Historian's take on Warhammer 40k Human Fleet2:09:07Widowmaker: torpedo specialisation without self-defenceNotable Point
- 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
- US Treaty Cruisers in War & Retrospect: Comment Response5:22Aircraft changed the value of high-speed scouting cruisersNotable Point
- US Treaty Cruisers in War & Retrospect: Comment Response13:51Why Lexington's 8-inch guns were a poor carrier compromiseQ&A
- Tillman's Maximum Battleships: Key Ships Series 2, Ship 87:06Dry docks as a battleship-design constraintNotable Point
- Tillman's Maximum Battleships: Key Ships Series 2, Ship 813:41Tillman I’s 70,000-ton design benchmarkNotable Point
- Tillman's Maximum Battleships: Key Ships Series 2, Ship 814:27The 1912 preliminary study and the 25-knot demandChapter
- Tillman's Maximum Battleships: Key Ships Series 2, Ship 819:08Panama Canal limits and a 30-knot capital shipNotable Point
- Tillman's Maximum Battleships: Key Ships Series 2, Ship 823:25Tillman’s death and the slower 1920 South Dakota designNotable 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 833:44A qualitative naval race points toward the fast battleshipChapter
- Günther Lütjens, useful idiot or misunderstood leadership?55:42Karlsruhe concentrated six six-inch guns aftNotable Point
- Francesco Caracciolo Class Battleships: Key Ships Series 2, Ship 65:14Designing for the Mediterranean and Suez accessChapter
- Francesco Caracciolo Class Battleships: Key Ships Series 2, Ship 66:13The industrial network behind an Italian fast battleshipNotable Point
- Francesco Caracciolo Class Battleships: Key Ships Series 2, Ship 69:30Protection traded against 28-knot speedNotable Point
- Francesco Caracciolo Class Battleships: Key Ships Series 2, Ship 614:36Gunnery tailored for close, fast Mediterranean battlesChapter
- What were the 'Bearns' of the other Major Navies? RM, IJN, USN, RN & Kreigsmarine11:44What makes a warship a Bearn?Chapter
- What were the 'Bearns' of the other Major Navies? RM, IJN, USN, RN & Kreigsmarine15:54Dupuy de Lome's technology obstructed its cruiser roleChapter
- What were the 'Bearns' of the other Major Navies? RM, IJN, USN, RN & Kreigsmarine17:23Mogador's speed outran its torpedoesNotable Point
- What were the 'Bearns' of the other Major Navies? RM, IJN, USN, RN & Kreigsmarine50:12A larger Fubuki could have changed destroyer-leader limitsNotable Point
- What were the 'Bearns' of the other Major Navies? RM, IJN, USN, RN & Kreigsmarine51:51Mogami's gun upgrade did not rebalance the cruiserChapter
- What were the 'Bearns' of the other Major Navies? RM, IJN, USN, RN & Kreigsmarine1:15:47Texas and Maine were flawed but formativeNotable Point
- 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 & Kreigsmarine1:34:52Bismarck was potent but inefficientChapter
- What were the 'Bearns' of the other Major Navies? RM, IJN, USN, RN & Kreigsmarine1:39:06Type 1934 and Graf Zeppelin expose design-system problemsNotable Point
- Amagi Class Battlecruiser: Key Ship Series 2, Ship 55:19Classifying battlecruisers by role and protectionNotable Point
- Amagi Class Battlecruiser: Key Ship Series 2, Ship 515:59Tosa versus Amagi: protection traded for speedNotable Point
- Graf Zeppelin: Likely British Response (Key Ships Series 2, Ship 1 Bonus)13:06Why armour made sense on Graf ZeppelinNotable Point
- Graf Zeppelin: Likely British Response (Key Ships Series 2, Ship 1 Bonus)18:24Why British carriers moved guns higherNotable Point
- Graf Zeppelin: Likely British Response (Key Ships Series 2, Ship 1 Bonus)37:39Ingenious design versus operational effectChapter
- Imperial Fleet Review: An Introduction (Warhammer40k)1:52Why a fleet cannot ignore its rear arcNotable Point
- Imperial Fleet Review: An Introduction (Warhammer40k)3:07Testing engine and warp-drive constraintsNotable Point
- Imperial Fleet Review: An Introduction (Warhammer40k)3:40The maintenance problem inside a mixed-calibre turretNotable Point
- Imperial Fleet Review: An Introduction (Warhammer40k)4:20Where stern weapons could fit and why the threat mattersNotable Point
- Lexington Class Battle Cruisers: Key Ship Series 2, Ship 414:07From presence ship to fast battleshipChapter
- Lexington Class Battle Cruisers: Key Ship Series 2, Ship 416:00The speed and protection trade-offNotable Point
- Lexington Class Battle Cruisers: Key Ship Series 2, Ship 422:31Why the portholes in a later rendering may misleadNotable Point
- Lexington Class Battle Cruisers: Key Ship Series 2, Ship 425:34The capital ships that might have followed LexingtonChapter
- Iron Clad Battles of the War of the Pacific & Chilean Civil War34:54Blanco Encalada’s central-battery ironclad designChapter
- Iron Clad Battles of the War of the Pacific & Chilean Civil War37:01Hull proportions for coastal manoeuvreNotable Point
- Iron Clad Battles of the War of the Pacific & Chilean Civil War1:22:49Armour and survivability lessons from the warNotable Point
- HMS Repulse(1892): Key Ships Series 1, Ship 92:34Repulse and the Royal Sovereign transitionChapter
- HMS Repulse(1892): Key Ships Series 1, Ship 98:44Harvey armour and a battleship built to fightNotable Point
- HMS Repulse(1892): Key Ships Series 1, Ship 99:50Extreme gun calibres demanded stronger hullsNotable Point
- HMS Repulse(1892): Key Ships Series 1, Ship 912:10A new pattern for British battleshipsChapter
- HMS Repulse(1892): Key Ships Series 1, Ship 926:42What HMS Hood’s turrets cost in displacementNotable Point
- HMS Repulse(1892): Key Ships Series 1, Ship 945:28Which class marks the new battleship type?Notable Point
- Steam Battleships (1876-1891)6:38The boundary between ironclads and later battleshipsChapter
- Steam Battleships (1876-1891)8:46Why small classes made readiness difficultNotable Point
- Ship Shape & Running on Gas11:03The trade-offs behind marine gas turbinesNotable Point
- Ship Shape & Running on Gas38:33Why integrated electric propulsion supports future weaponsNotable Point
- Huáscar: Key Ships Series 1, Ship 75:36A monitor built around a powerful turretChapter
- HMVS Cerberus: Key Ships Series 1, Ship 42:15A Monitor-influenced design for coastal defenceNotable Point
- HMVS Cerberus: Key Ships Series 1, Ship 45:00Why a harbour defender did not need ocean speedNotable Point
- HMVS Cerberus: Key Ships Series 1, Ship 48:22Armour, teak backing, and a low fighting profileChapter
- HDMS Danmark: Key Ships Series 1, Ship 20:53Danmark's Confederate origins and ironclad designChapter
- Ironclad Frigates: Tremendous Transition0:53Ironclads as a technological transitionChapter
- Ironclad Frigates: Tremendous Transition2:22Why the ironclad frigate broke the sailing-ship modelNotable Point
- Ironclad Frigates: Tremendous Transition12:30Ironclads as status capital assetsNotable Point
- Ironclad Frigates: Tremendous Transition24:37When a new technology becomes practicalChapter
- Ironclad Frigates: Tremendous Transition27:21Reliable steam created a new capital shipNotable Point
- Ironclad Frigates: Tremendous Transition30:21Boiler layout made steam a shipwide systemNotable Point
- Ironclad Frigates: Tremendous Transition31:40Warrior’s composite armoured boxChapter
- Ironclad Frigates: Tremendous Transition36:19Heavy guns for armoured warshipsNotable Point
- Ironclad Frigates: Tremendous Transition38:34Range, armour, and firepower trade-offsNotable Point
- Ironclad Frigates: Tremendous Transition49:02Why naval technology periods have debatable boundariesNotable Point
- Bruships 107: Some New to Me Books & Some New from Pen & Sword2:33What a historian would study with a TARDISQ&A
- Bruships 107: Some New to Me Books & Some New from Pen & Sword4:25A larger air group for IllustriousNotable 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 & Sword56:46What an autoloading battleship changesQ&A
- Bruships 107: Some New to Me Books & Some New from Pen & Sword1:04:46Why navies build very large warshipsQ&A
- Bruships 107: Some New to Me Books & Some New from Pen & Sword1:13:36Localized protection on modern warshipsQ&A
- Blockading Brest: The Creation & Some Battles of the Western Squadron1:05:20A captured French 74 influenced British ship designNotable Point
- Help I Inadvertently Built a Super Bismarck...2:45How large could a pre-dreadnought become?Chapter
- Help I Inadvertently Built a Super Bismarck...27:01Balancing a pre-dreadnought's weaponsNotable Point
- Help I Inadvertently Built a Super Bismarck...30:53Why a future railgun ship might resemble a pre-dreadnoughtNotable Point
- Help I Inadvertently Built a Super Bismarck...40:53Building a battlecruiser before the dreadnought eraChapter
- Help I Inadvertently Built a Super Bismarck...58:06Setting up an alternate Denmark Strait battleChapter
- Help I Inadvertently Built a Super Bismarck...2:05:43What would a 45,000-ton treaty battleship demand?Notable Point
- Help I Inadvertently Built a Super Bismarck...2:38:02Two simulation tools answer different questionsNotable Point
- Timberborne: A Test for the Year of Technology/My students favourite 'engineering game'1:01:30An icebreaker, not a ram, for an Arctic conflictQ&A
- Timberborne: A Test for the Year of Technology/My students favourite 'engineering game'1:12:32Why understrength fleets create oversized shipsNotable Point
- Timberborne: A Test for the Year of Technology/My students favourite 'engineering game'1:14:50Reloads and survivability in the small-ship debateQ&A
- Timberborne: A Test for the Year of Technology/My students favourite 'engineering game'1:29:34Armour and subdivision as modern warship resilienceNotable Point
- 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
- Timberborne: A Test for the Year of Technology/My students favourite 'engineering game'2:13:32The industrial prerequisites for a German minelaying cruiserQ&A
- Bruships 106: Song Dynasty & Three New Books from Pen & Sword1:53:02Dry-dock inspection could expose treaty-breaking cruisersQ&A
- Nothing Wrong With Our Shells Today; Alternate History, What if British Shells at Jutland Work?1:11:09Postwar design ripples from a different JutlandChapter
- Nothing Wrong With Our Shells Today; Alternate History, What if British Shells at Jutland Work?1:12:46Shell testing also raises the standard for armourNotable Point
- Nothing Wrong With Our Shells Today; Alternate History, What if British Shells at Jutland Work?1:16:48Completed fast battleships could force higher treaty limitsChapter
- Naval Arms & Armour Research in prior to WWI22:52Realistic shell trials reshaped post-Jutland capital shipsChapter
- Naval Arms & Armour Research in prior to WWI24:47Battleships and battlecruisers were built for different risksChapter
- A potential American Response to the 18in HMS Agincourt?5:04Panama Canal limits shape the American conceptNotable Point
- 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?26:20A range figure only makes sense at a stated speedNotable Point
- A potential American Response to the 18in HMS Agincourt?1:02:26One or two knots can buy armor and survivabilityNotable Point
- A potential American Response to the 18in HMS Agincourt?1:25:07Scaling Hood around 18-inch gunsChapter
- A potential American Response to the 18in HMS Agincourt?1:56:36Why a larger German gun needed more than a barrelNotable Point
- Steam Rates: When the Wooden Wall gained a hiss & a huff!1:05:22Bretagne: revised hull design and alarming Cherbourg diplomacyChapter
- Bruships 104: Primary or Secondary Sources8:29Type 21 Amazon class service legacyQ&A
- Bruships 104: Primary or Secondary Sources29:26Power needed for a 35-knot Renown designQ&A
- Bruships 104: Primary or Secondary Sources36:52Why higher ship speeds require sharply more powerNotable Point
- Bruships 104: Primary or Secondary Sources42:25An F3 layout for a longer 40,000-ton warshipQ&A
- Bruships 104: Primary or Secondary Sources57:57Why combine steam and gas propulsionQ&A
- Bruships 104: Primary or Secondary Sources59:29How the 1897 Naval Annual organizes a fleet referenceChapter
- Bruships 104: Primary or Secondary Sources1:06:05The 1897 Naval Annual's criticism of the Arrogant cruisersNotable Point
- Bruships 104: Primary or Secondary Sources1:31:06Multiple propeller shafts as a survivability choiceQ&A
- Bruships 104: Primary or Secondary Sources3:56:32Why navies often prefer even propeller countsQ&A
- 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 Response8:21Why small-tube boilers and geared turbines belong togetherQ&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 Response15:23Oil firing, Welsh coal, and fleet infrastructureQ&A
- 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 Response49:25Why use 28 knots as the fast-battleship threshold?Q&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 Response1:10:42Coal-conversion weight, conservative machinery, and the 25-knot resultQ&A
- Queen Elizabeth Class: Brave 1st step/faltering leap/something else? & Patreon 73 Comment Response1:18:33Caracciolo paper superiority and the missing British successorQ&A
- Queen Elizabeth Class: Brave 1st step/faltering leap/something else? & Patreon 73 Comment Response1:22:41How to read battleship belt-armor figuresQ&A
- Queen Elizabeth Class: Brave 1st step/faltering leap/something else? & Patreon 73 Comment Response1:25:04Could the design office develop two capital ships at once?Q&A
- 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 Response1:40:12Why a stronger Queen Elizabeth also changes her rivalsNotable Point
- 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
- Queen Elizabeth Class: Brave 1st step/faltering leap/something else? & Patreon 73 Comment Response1:53:21Which hull length is used in the Agincourt reconstruction?Q&A
- When a Q Turret goes up...0:00Q turret damage and the call for more armourTranscript Excerpt
- Marine Diesels: A Short Introduction to their History0:09Marine diesels through a 1938 engineering sourceChapter
- Marine Diesels: A Short Introduction to their History18:45Diesel's prestige problem against steamNotable Point
- Marine Diesels: A Short Introduction to their History32:53Two-stroke diesels and scavengingNotable Point
- Marine Diesels: A Short Introduction to their History44:14Why diesel lagged in high-speed warshipsNotable Point
- UAD: Queen Elizabeth Maximus & Other Ideas2:00Queen Elizabeth Maximus design setupChapter
- UAD: Queen Elizabeth Maximus & Other Ideas12:03Austro-Hungarian response to a heavier Queen ElizabethNotable Point
- UAD: Queen Elizabeth Maximus & Other Ideas41:55UAD as a historian's quick design testNotable Point
- UAD: Queen Elizabeth Maximus & Other Ideas49:48A plausible Queen Elizabeth Maximus layout and UAD's date limitsNotable Point
- UAD: Queen Elizabeth Maximus & Other Ideas1:00:35King George V alternative without Chatfield's choiceChapter
- UAD: Queen Elizabeth Maximus & Other Ideas1:07:31Armor weight and compact turret placementNotable Point
- UAD: Queen Elizabeth Maximus & Other Ideas1:13:51Choosing secondaries for the King George V alternativeNotable Point
- UAD: Queen Elizabeth Maximus & Other Ideas1:15:24German battleship design and Kiel Canal constraintsNotable Point
- 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 Ideas1:56:45Funnel smoke deflectors and visibilityNotable Point
- UAD: Queen Elizabeth Maximus & Other Ideas2:03:55Speed, armor, and staying outside secondary rangeNotable Point
- UAD: Queen Elizabeth Maximus & Other Ideas2:11:42Giving the German opponent fifteen main gunsNotable Point
- Bruships 103: Belfast Parts yet to arrive... so let's consider the Run up to War...8:48What a larger light carrier gainsQ&A
- Bruships 103: Belfast Parts yet to arrive... so let's consider the Run up to War...20:55An 18-inch Agincourt reshapes capital shipsQ&A
- Bruships 103: Belfast Parts yet to arrive... so let's consider the Run up to War...37:34A flagship must accommodate the staffQ&A
- Bruships 103: Belfast Parts yet to arrive... so let's consider the Run up to War...39:31Eighteen-inch protection means a much heavier beltQ&A
- Bruships 103: Belfast Parts yet to arrive... so let's consider the Run up to War...44:39Aircraft potential versus engine reliabilityQ&A
- Bruships 103: Belfast Parts yet to arrive... so let's consider the Run up to War...46:29Eighteen-inch battleships and twelve-inch cruisersQ&A
- Bruships 103: Belfast Parts yet to arrive... so let's consider the Run up to War...55:11Shipboard space caps a command staffNotable Point
- Bruships 103: Belfast Parts yet to arrive... so let's consider the Run up to War...1:04:20Why the Royal Navy preferred external armor beltsQ&A
- Bruships 103: Belfast Parts yet to arrive... so let's consider the Run up to War...1:17:53Destroyers used local protection instead of armor beltsQ&A
- Bruships 103: Belfast Parts yet to arrive... so let's consider the Run up to War...1:18:48Extending Malta-class carrier rangeQ&A
- Bruships 103: Belfast Parts yet to arrive... so let's consider the Run up to War...1:21:36Building a ten-gun Queen Elizabeth conceptChapter
- Bruships 103: Belfast Parts yet to arrive... so let's consider the Run up to War...1:42:32New boilers could preserve a rebuilt Queen Elizabeth's speedQ&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...3:17:59CVA-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 103: Belfast Parts yet to arrive... so let's consider the Run up to War...3:25:15A space navy must carry its support systemQ&A
- Queen Elizabeth class battleships - Brave first step, faltering leap or something else?4:03Queen Elizabeth design questionChapter
- Queen Elizabeth class battleships - Brave first step, faltering leap or something else?9:27Speed bought through machinery weightNotable Point
- Queen Elizabeth class battleships - Brave first step, faltering leap or something else?31:24Who actually shaped a battleship designChapter
- Queen Elizabeth class battleships - Brave first step, faltering leap or something else?34:53Admiralty arguments behind the designNotable Point
- Queen Elizabeth class battleships - Brave first step, faltering leap or something else?48:55Twin versus triple turret choicesNotable Point
- Queen Elizabeth class battleships - Brave first step, faltering leap or something else?52:58Small-tube boilers and conservative revolutionNotable Point
- If the January 1939 Tsingtao incident leads to war... Comment Response5:16Ark Royal was unarmoured, not wooden-deckedNotable Point
- 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 Response7:51Why mixed main batteries fail at rangeQ&A
- If the January 1939 Tsingtao incident leads to war... Comment Response20:35Why British armored carriers kept centerline liftsNotable Point
- 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 Response48:56When the Vanguard idea becomes a designQ&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?16:30Queen Elizabeths as a constrained leapChapter
- Patreon 73: Queen Elizabeth class battleships - Brave first step, faltering leap or something else?32:51Baseline armor, machinery, and 15-inch broadsideNotable Point
- Patreon 73: Queen Elizabeth class battleships - Brave first step, faltering leap or something else?39:56Was Tiger based on the Queen Elizabeth class?Q&A
- Patreon 73: Queen Elizabeth class battleships - Brave first step, faltering leap or something else?55:03Why fast battleships fit roles battlecruisers could notNotable Point
- Patreon 73: Queen Elizabeth class battleships - Brave first step, faltering leap or something else?56:54What would a Queen Elizabeth-derived battlecruiser look like?Q&A
- Patreon 73: Queen Elizabeth class battleships - Brave first step, faltering leap or something else?59:29Were the Revenge-class ships planned with five turrets?Q&A
- Patreon 73: Queen Elizabeth class battleships - Brave first step, faltering leap or something else?1:19:07Why 15-inch twins were the restrained choiceNotable Point
- Patreon 73: Queen Elizabeth class battleships - Brave first step, faltering leap or something else?1:32:26Small-tube boilers and the faster ship not takenNotable Point
- Patreon 73: Queen Elizabeth class battleships - Brave first step, faltering leap or something else?1:42:52How would 28-knot Queen Elizabeths change later battleships?Q&A
- Patreon 73: Queen Elizabeth class battleships - Brave first step, faltering leap or something else?1:47:15Why build Revenges instead of more Queen Elizabeths?Q&A
- Patreon 73: Queen Elizabeth class battleships - Brave first step, faltering leap or something else?2:06:26Why was the Maximus Q turret not superfiring?Q&A
- Patreon 73: Queen Elizabeth class battleships - Brave first step, faltering leap or something else?2:11:27Could three after turrets form a superfiring stack?Q&A
- Patreon 73: Queen Elizabeth class battleships - Brave first step, faltering leap or something else?2:25:56How much hull change would six 18-inch guns require?Q&A
- Patreon 73: Queen Elizabeth class battleships - Brave first step, faltering leap or something else?2:27:02Could the oil conversion alone make 26-knot Queen Elizabeths?Q&A
- Empire Total War Twitch Stream 1(February 2023)2:28:11Capturing a race-built galleonChapter
- Empire Total War Twitch Stream 1(February 2023)2:36:53Dutch merchant-warship design tradeoffsQ&A
- Bruships 102: New Books, Sea Wolves & Skagerrak2:27:49Royal Escape and the origins of English royal yachtsChapter
- Ship Design0:00Institutional memory behind ship shapeChapter
- Ship Design3:05Rope accounts and missing practical knowledgeNotable Point
- Ship Design6:46Buoyancy, density, and stability basicsChapter
- Ship Design14:32Requirements-first design versus fixed constraintsNotable Point
- Ship Design20:13King George V and Queen Elizabeth design prioritiesNotable Point
- Ship Design21:25Uluburun wreck and outrigger buoyancyChapter
- Ship Design26:03Early shipbuilding methods and hull formChapter
- Ship Design30:52Shipwrights, drafting, and full-scale loftingNotable Point
- Ship Design32:35Timber supply and the wooden-ship industrial baseNotable Point
- Ship Design44:08Queen Elizabeth carriers and looking rightNotable Point
- Ship Design46:33What judging a ship by eye can revealNotable Point
- Bruships 101: No Dalmations, but a whole HMS Belfast to build13:14A personal design preference for a future HMS BelfastNotable Point
- Bruships 101: No Dalmations, but a whole HMS Belfast to build2:45:10Battlecruisers inside the cruiser spectrumQ&A
- Gunboats of the 1920s, 1930s & WWII including Dragonfly Class34:34Dragonfly class design and Far East roleChapter
- Gunboats of the 1920s, 1930s & WWII including Dragonfly Class1:47:04American PGM gunboats and the PT-boat speed mismatchNotable Point
- The Great Ships: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Rates in 18th Century (Comment Response)13:29California redwoods and warship material selectionQ&A
- The Great Ships: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Rates in 18th Century (Comment Response)57:26Two-decker second rates and sea-keepingQ&A
- Dragonfly Class and other Gunboats Service in WWII40:47Yangtze Patrol size and seasonal reachNotable Point
- Dragonfly Class and other Gunboats Service in WWII42:04Dragonfly class design profileChapter
- Dragonfly Class and other Gunboats Service in WWII52:47Mosquito at Dunkirk and coastal supportNotable Point
- Dragonfly Class and other Gunboats Service in WWII1:28:44Steam Gun Boats built to hunt E-boatsChapter
- Dragonfly Class and other Gunboats Service in WWII1:38:08Fairmile C interim motor gunboatsChapter
- Dragonfly Class and other Gunboats Service in WWII1:51:42Fairmile D dog boat design and productionChapter
- Dragonfly Class and other Gunboats Service in WWII2:21:45How usable were Soviet tank turrets on gunboats?Q&A
- Dragonfly Class and other Gunboats Service in WWII2:26:09PGM-1 subchaser conversion mismatchChapter
- Dragonfly Class and other Gunboats Service in WWII2:34:21U.S. PGM speed problem and PT boat supportNotable Point
- Dragonfly Class and other Gunboats Service in WWII2:53:49How much power would fix the PGM-9?Q&A
- Dragonfly Class and other Gunboats Service in WWII3:15:22Can stern box launchers coexist with a forward six-inch gun?Q&A
- USS Wichita: Comment Response24:59Wichita as a heavy-cruiser transitionQ&A
- USS Wichita: Comment Response25:27Wichita hull anti-air and missile ideasNotable Point
- USS Wichita: Comment Response34:21A Dutch armored-cruiser design with 9.4-inch gunsNotable Point
- USS Wichita: Comment Response35:06Wichita's 5-inch battery and a 15,000-ton counterfactualNotable Point
- USS Wichita: Comment Response41:28Treaty heavy-cruiser size gapQ&A
- USS Wichita: Comment Response52:04Technology gaps and cost-driven follow-on warshipsNotable Point
- USS Wichita: Comment Response53:16Wichita service record and Baltimore successorNotable Point
- Bruships 100: Science Fiction & Some Fvourites42:02Fisher, Dreadnought, and a more alarming prototypeQ&A
- Bruships 100: Science Fiction & Some Fvourites45:26A British nuclear cruiser built around Type 82Q&A
- Bruships 100: Science Fiction & Some Fvourites1:14:42Star Trek, Star Wars, and fleet-design continuityQ&A
- Bruships 100: Science Fiction & Some Fvourites2:43:31Instant ship production and continued design developmentQ&A
- Bruships 100: Science Fiction & Some Fvourites2:48:35Early screw propulsion and its technical limitationsChapter
- Bruships 100: Science Fiction & Some Fvourites2:50:50Penelope's paddle conversion and the proposal for ConstitutionNotable Point
- Bruships 100: Science Fiction & Some Fvourites2:53:33When reconstruction becomes a new shipQ&A
- Bruships 100: Science Fiction & Some Fvourites2:54:42Joinville's steam battle fleet and the cost of HMS TerribleChapter
- Bruships 100: Science Fiction & Some Fvourites2:57:25Rattler, Renard and Princeton establish screw propulsionChapter
- Bruships 100: Science Fiction & Some Fvourites3:27:02Missing fire-control equipment after Soviet serviceQ&A
- Bruships 100: Science Fiction & Some Fvourites3:34:35Limiting simultaneous technology changes in capital shipsNotable Point
- 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 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 shorts1:01:07Crown Colony 4.7-inch weight tradeoffNotable Point
- Christmas Comment Response: HMCS Sackville, Descartes & some 60s shorts1:08:43Wichita's hybrid lineage and a 5-inch anti-aircraft cruiserNotable 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
- The Great Ships: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Rates in 18th Century26:06Princesa and Britain's first design responseChapter
- The Great Ships: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Rates in 18th Century29:39Anson's threshold and the 74-gun balanceNotable Point
- The Great Ships: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Rates in 18th Century31:33Captured French 74s and Slade's ordering programChapter
- The Great Ships: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Rates in 18th Century1:05:46Sovereign of the Seas and the meaning of a rebuildChapter
- The Great Ships: 1st, 2nd & 3rd Rates in 18th Century1:17:31The three-decker tradeoffs of a second rateNotable Point
- 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 1939-6557:41Ten-inch guns fall between cruiser and battleship rolesNotable Point
- Steam Engines: Part 2 Steeple to Turbines1:12Steeple engines and warship fitChapter
- Steam Engines: Part 2 Steeple to Turbines4:21HMS Rattler and the screw-propeller turnNotable Point
- Steam Engines: Part 2 Steeple to Turbines7:18How propulsion adoption reshapes naval designNotable Point
- Steam Engines: Part 2 Steeple to Turbines13:01HMS Rattler as an experimental screw sloopChapter
- Steam Engines: Part 2 Steeple to Turbines16:19Direct-acting and oscillating engine tradeoffsChapter
- Steam Engines: Part 2 Steeple to Turbines21:09Trunk engines and monitor compromisesNotable Point
- Steam Engines: Part 2 Steeple to Turbines25:57Back-acting engines and steam varietyChapter
- Steam Engines: Part 2 Steeple to Turbines28:47Vertical expansion engines and efficiencyChapter
- Steam Engines: Part 2 Steeple to Turbines39:19Parsons turbines and compact powerNotable Point
- Steam Engines: Part 1 Aeolipile to Cross Beam33:23Side-lever and beam engines in early warshipsChapter
- Steam Engines: Part 1 Aeolipile to Cross Beam36:29Compact grasshopper engines versus exposed crossheadsNotable Point
- Steam Engines: Part 1 Aeolipile to Cross Beam38:00Walking-beam engines and American path dependenceChapter
- Patreon 71: Why did the French Navy not more fully embrace carrier aviation after WWI?10:00Bearn as the carrier problemChapter
- Patreon 71: Why did the French Navy not more fully embrace carrier aviation after WWI?16:58Would Bearn have been better as a battleship?Q&A
- Patreon 71: Why did the French Navy not more fully embrace carrier aviation after WWI?52:21Bearn's mixed propulsion compromiseChapter
- Patreon 71: Why did the French Navy not more fully embrace carrier aviation after WWI?1:39:57Could France pair Dunkerques and carriers?Q&A
- Patreon 71: Why did the French Navy not more fully embrace carrier aviation after WWI?1:55:27Could a skilled crew overcome Bearn's slow lifts?Q&A
- Patreon 71: Why did the French Navy not more fully embrace carrier aviation after WWI?1:56:13Bearn's 875-person complementQ&A
- Patreon 71: Why did the French Navy not more fully embrace carrier aviation after WWI?1:56:45Joffre's attempt to replace Bearn's operating systemChapter
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Comus Class, Kynda Class & Kresta Class1:37Invincible name shaped battlecruiser expectationsQ&A
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Comus Class, Kynda Class & Kresta Class5:03Comus sailing speed depended on hull and screw dragNotable Point
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Comus Class, Kynda Class & Kresta Class10:08Invincible's lead yard could launch lastQ&A
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Comus Class, Kynda Class & Kresta Class11:07Naval missiles need shipboard design workQ&A
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Comus Class, Kynda Class & Kresta Class12:51Invincible changed commerce-raider calculationsQ&A
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Comus Class, Kynda Class & Kresta Class21:41Kynda's smaller hull did not guarantee lower costQ&A
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Comus Class, Kynda Class & Kresta Class42:18Kynda and Kresta reloads sat inside the superstructureQ&A
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Comus Class, Kynda Class & Kresta Class42:38Soviet incentives encouraged conservative redesignNotable Point
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Comus Class, Kynda Class & Kresta Class57:18Kresta's hangar balanced stability against shipyard limitsQ&A
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Comus Class, Kynda Class & Kresta Class59:49Kresta helicopter handling used a moving hangar floorQ&A
- Bruships 98: Steam Engines (both maritime and rail), random & naval questions1:42:35Warship stanchions carried uncertain dynamic loadsChapter
- Bruships 98: Steam Engines (both maritime and rail), random & naval questions1:51:39A stern Icarus installation was possible but costlyQ&A
- Bruships 98: Steam Engines (both maritime and rail), random & naval questions2:31:42Scharnhorst's construction supported a battleship classificationNotable Point
- Bruships 98: Steam Engines (both maritime and rail), random & naval questions2:37:47Interwar Germany lost naval design memoryNotable Point
- Bruships 98: Steam Engines (both maritime and rail), random & naval questions3:33:45Cruiser evolution shaped interwar policy claimsChapter
- Bruships 98: Steam Engines (both maritime and rail), random & naval questions3:43:40DDG(X) requirements were already driving displacement upwardQ&A
- Bruships 98: Steam Engines (both maritime and rail), random & naval questions3:45:00Dido-class firepower left little modernization marginQ&A
- Bruships 98: Steam Engines (both maritime and rail), random & naval questions3:51:59Small ships exhaust upgrade margins soonerQ&A
- Bruships 98: Steam Engines (both maritime and rail), random & naval questions3:53:39Warship overengineering buys survival and growth marginNotable Point
- What if Germany didn't invade Belgium in 1914?59:52How the Channel battle reshapes later naviesChapter
- 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 & Kreigsmarine3:46Konigsberg and Leipzig expose design governanceQ&A
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Soviet Navy 1918-39 & Cruisers of the Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine7:38Battlecruiser labels describe a design spectrumNotable Point
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Soviet Navy 1918-39 & Cruisers of the Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine23:49German redundancy inflated ships without equal combat valueQ&A
- 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 & Kreigsmarine33:35Nine-gun Panzerschiffe echoed the O-class conceptNotable Point
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Soviet Navy 1918-39 & Cruisers of the Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine34:30Soviet 180 mm cruiser guns offered a useful middle courseQ&A
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Soviet Navy 1918-39 & Cruisers of the Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine35:07Scharnhorst offered a better model than prestige copyingQ&A
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Soviet Navy 1918-39 & Cruisers of the Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine37:42German capital ships confused raiding and battle-fleet rolesQ&A
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Soviet Navy 1918-39 & Cruisers of the Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine52:46Prestige pushed cruisers toward capital-ship appearanceNotable Point
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Soviet Navy 1918-39 & Cruisers of the Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine54:43German 11-inch cruisers could push a two-tier Royal NavyQ&A
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: Soviet Navy 1918-39 & Cruisers of the Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine1:04:37Naval engineering aims for good enough, not perfectNotable 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?1:28:33Rebuilding the Royal Navy after the Channel disasterChapter
- Patreon 70: Germany does not invade Belgium in 1914 - How does this affect RN?1:55:35What replaces the lost battlecruisers?Q&A
- Patreon 70: Germany does not invade Belgium in 1914 - How does this affect RN?1:58:23Why not rebuild with heavily armed monitors?Q&A
- 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?2:53:25Would Courageous and Glorious still be built?Q&A
- Privatising War: Guerre de Course42:51Commerce warfare shapes warships and merchant shipsNotable Point
- Bruships 97: Random Books, Naval Chat & Possibly the Sound of Rain11:05Iron Duke as a hospital shipQ&A
- Bruships 97: Random Books, Naval Chat & Possibly the Sound of Rain25:26A larger Type 82 could combine Sea Dart, a hangar, and IkaraQ&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 Rain1:06:08An F3-layout Dreadnought would reset the battleship patternQ&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
- Top 5 Inventions that came too Early...25:35Zumwalt and railguns show the power-supply problemNotable Point
- Top 5 Inventions that came too Early...27:44Zumwalt design overreach reaches the peripheral VLS arrangementNotable Point
- Top 5 Inventions that came too Early...36:30LCS failure does not prove modular warships cannot workChapter
- Top 5 Inventions that came too Late27:12Hovercraft just miss the amphibious warChapter
- Insect Class: Force Multiplication of the Inshore Kind11:08Why treaties barely constrained Insect-class gunboatsNotable Point
- 1860-1960 A Hundred Years of Gun Cruisers9:35Armoured corvettes and Russia's cruiser problemChapter
- 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
- 1860-1960 A Hundred Years of Gun Cruisers15:24Testing a cruiser definition against real shipsNotable Point
- 1860-1960 A Hundred Years of Gun Cruisers17:32HMS Warrior and the cruiser-capital-ship boundaryChapter
- 1860-1960 A Hundred Years of Gun Cruisers19:27Battlecruiser labels and the SMS Blücher intelligence failureNotable Point
- 1860-1960 A Hundred Years of Gun Cruisers25:15Condottieri cruisers and the cost of light protectionNotable Point
- 1860-1960 A Hundred Years of Gun Cruisers25:41The Royal Navy's treaty cruiser calibre choiceChapter
- 1860-1960 A Hundred Years of Gun Cruisers27:17Algérie as a treaty heavy-cruiser benchmarkNotable Point
- 1860-1960 A Hundred Years of Gun Cruisers32:31A 15,500-ton heavy cruiser against German raidersNotable Point
- 1860-1960 A Hundred Years of Gun Cruisers33:56U.S. cruiser production through iterative refinementNotable Point
- US Treaty Cruiser in War & Retrospect8:38Pensacola as a purpose-built scout cruiserNotable Point
- US Treaty Cruiser in War & Retrospect14:04London Treaty pressure and the Portland shiftChapter
- US Treaty Cruiser in War & Retrospect20:22Heavy-cruiser labels versus design purposeNotable Point
- US Treaty Cruiser in War & Retrospect28:08Wichita as the fighting-cruiser templateChapter
- US Treaty Cruiser in War & Retrospect34:25Cleveland as a general-purpose wartime cruiserNotable Point
- US Treaty Cruiser in War & Retrospect37:03Baltimore and the fighting-cruiser culminationChapter
- US Treaty Cruiser in War & Retrospect41:27Specialized American and general-purpose British cruisersChapter
- New Years 2023 Naval History Questions till the Bru runs out...2:09:50Personnel shortages will push the US Navy toward automationQ&A
- Ticonderoga(1981) Class: Aegis Covers it All5:04Spruance roots and crowded air-warfare requirementsNotable Point
- Ticonderoga(1981) Class: Aegis Covers it All23:17How the Spruance hull lost its growth marginNotable Point
- Ticonderoga(1981) Class: Aegis Covers it All28:18A cruiser-role package in the minimum hullNotable Point
- Ticonderoga(1981) Class: Aegis Covers it All31:35When an efficient control-room layout meets a rolling shipNotable Point
- Ticonderoga(1981) Class: Aegis Covers it All33:25DDG(X) and the variable meaning of high-low mixNotable Point
- Ticonderoga(1981) Class: Aegis Covers it All35:25A high bridge trades more motion for longer sightlinesNotable Point
- Ticonderoga(1981) Class: Aegis Covers it All37:49Crew affection and austere habitabilityNotable Point
- US Nuclear Powered Cruisers: Long Beach to Arkansas - The Atom Unleashed1:53Aegis promised exceptional radar power on a nuclear hullNotable Point
- US Nuclear Powered Cruisers: Long Beach to Arkansas - The Atom Unleashed33:23Double-ended missile layouts squeezed out helicopter facilitiesNotable Point
- US Nuclear Powered Cruisers: Long Beach to Arkansas - The Atom Unleashed40:58Truxton traded an aft launcher for helicopter facilitiesNotable Point
- US Nuclear Powered Cruisers: Long Beach to Arkansas - The Atom Unleashed1:03:06The strike cruiser offered space for Aegis, helicopters, and VLSNotable Point
- 1860-1960 A Hundred Years of Gun Cruisers23:27Warrior, armored corvettes, and presence cruisersChapter
- 1860-1960 A Hundred Years of Gun Cruisers37:38Alma-class funnels and a War of the Worlds warshipNotable Point
- 1860-1960 A Hundred Years of Gun Cruisers55:40Unprotected cruisers and the survivability problemQ&A
- 1860-1960 A Hundred Years of Gun Cruisers1:04:59Why German cruiser designers overengineeredQ&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 Cruisers1:22:16Esmeralda sets the protected-cruiser standardChapter
- 1860-1960 A Hundred Years of Gun Cruisers1:45:06Why early steam cruisers still carried sailsQ&A
- 1860-1960 A Hundred Years of Gun Cruisers2:00:05Blücher was a good cruiser in the wrong fightChapter
- 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 Cruisers2:07:01Super-cruisers and fast capital-fleet tradeoffsQ&A
- 1860-1960 A Hundred Years of Gun Cruisers2:09:48Gun cruiser cost-effectiveness depends on missionQ&A
- 1860-1960 A Hundred Years of Gun Cruisers2:16:50Designing super-cruisers to resemble capital shipsQ&A
- 1860-1960 A Hundred Years of Gun Cruisers2:19:19Longer Pennsylvanias or wider TennesseesQ&A
- 1860-1960 A Hundred Years of Gun Cruisers2:25:38Deutschland and Condottieri design compromisesQ&A
- 1860-1960 A Hundred Years of Gun Cruisers2:30:22Wichita puts heavy-cruiser guns on a light-cruiser hullQ&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 Cruisers2:58:11Recognizing British and American cruiser layoutsNotable Point
- Belknap Class(Truxton Class): Good Ships, not sure about the naming...12:46Belknap shipyards show procurement concentrationNotable Point
- Belknap Class(Truxton Class): Good Ships, not sure about the naming...15:08Single-ended missiles made room for helicoptersChapter
- Belknap Class(Truxton Class): Good Ships, not sure about the naming...18:53The Mark 42 made the five-inch gun a practical backupChapter
- Belknap Class(Truxton Class): Good Ships, not sure about the naming...22:42Standard missile modernized older launcher architectureChapter
- Belknap Class(Truxton Class): Good Ships, not sure about the naming...59:51Truxtun tests nuclear power in anti-submarine warfareNotable Point
- Leahy Class(+Bainbridge Class): Destroyer Leaders to Cruisers by the Stroke of a Pen9:02Leahy and Bainbridge design fitChapter
- Leahy Class(+Bainbridge Class): Destroyer Leaders to Cruisers by the Stroke of a Pen16:24Power density imposed its own design costsNotable Point
- Albany Class; Conversioning for a Missile(A quick boxing day recording)0:51Oregon City hulls made the conversion possibleChapter
- Albany Class; Conversioning for a Missile(A quick boxing day recording)3:13Chicago shows how radical the rebuild wasChapter
- Albany Class; Conversioning for a Missile(A quick boxing day recording)4:45A battleship conversion could retain guns forwardNotable Point
- Albany Class; Conversioning for a Missile(A quick boxing day recording)5:42The conversion economics look doubtfulNotable Point
- Albany Class; Conversioning for a Missile(A quick boxing day recording)7:11Chicago's weapons fit defines the new missionChapter
- Albany Class; Conversioning for a Missile(A quick boxing day recording)9:03Arm launchers trade magazine depth for handling riskNotable Point
- HMCS Haida & The Tribal Class: Always Service11:24Why the Tribals sat between destroyers and cruisersChapter
- HMCS Haida & The Tribal Class: Always Service17:22Open bridges and destroyer commandNotable Point
- HMCS Haida & The Tribal Class: Always Service2:52:19Why general-purpose capability consumed the TribalsChapter
- Soviet Navy 1918-199156:30Big-ship support depended on Baltic and Black Sea yardsQ&A
- Soviet Navy 1918-19911:23:29Must an arsenal ship rely on another ship's sensors?Q&A
- Soviet Navy 1918-19911:32:01An alternative proposal for fitting Zumwalt's new technologyNotable Point
- Soviet Navy 1918-19911:39:09Stalingrad battlecruisers and the argument for postwar naval presenceChapter
- Soviet Navy 1918-19915:00:49Larger missiles could help justify larger Soviet shipsNotable Point
- HMS Warrior(1860): The Benefits of Royal Protection?7:58Investment and training in a long peaceNotable Point
- HMS Warrior(1860): The Benefits of Royal Protection?14:02La Gloire and the cost of first-rank sea powerChapter
- HMS Warrior(1860): The Benefits of Royal Protection?20:46Scaling HMS Mersey into WarriorNotable 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?41:22John Penn and the rise of screw propulsionChapter
- HMS Warrior(1860): The Benefits of Royal Protection?1:02:57Composite armor and citadel designChapter
- HMS Warrior(1860): The Benefits of Royal Protection?1:23:58Cost, trials, and early correctionsNotable Point
- HMS Warrior(1860): The Benefits of Royal Protection?1:42:29Warrior between sail and steamNotable Point
- Slava Class: The Spare that became the Heir?6:16Kara lineage reveals a design built around available systemsNotable Point
- Slava Class: The Spare that became the Heir?7:24Slow construction exposes the backup roleNotable Point
- Slava Class: The Spare that became the Heir?15:11P-500 Bazalt shows the off-the-shelf tradeoffNotable Point
- Slava Class: The Spare that became the Heir?44:25Ukraina shows the class's Cold War afterlifeNotable Point
- Slava Class: The Spare that became the Heir?50:35Off-the-shelf equipment shortened the modernization marginNotable Point
- Slava Class: The Spare that became the Heir?1:05:10Staggered construction made the class internally unevenNotable Point
- Kara Class: Cruisers of Deterrence?0:00Kara as the last full Soviet cruiser classChapter
- Kara Class: Cruisers of Deterrence?11:34Gas turbines and the balanced missile-cruiser fitNotable Point
- Kara Class: Cruisers of Deterrence?18:53Osa/Gecko point defense for surviving a counterstrikeNotable Point
- Kara Class: Cruisers of Deterrence?26:58Tracing Kara through the Soviet cruiser design lineageNotable Point
- Kara Class: Cruisers of Deterrence?34:45Why the cruiser label still matteredNotable Point
- Bruships 96: Vikings, Okinawa & 2nd to Last Pre-Christmas 2022 Naval Chat16:46Anti-aircraft battleship firepower logicQ&A
- Bruships 96: Vikings, Okinawa & 2nd to Last Pre-Christmas 2022 Naval Chat22:47Armor priorities for an anti-aircraft battleshipQ&A
- Bruships 96: Vikings, Okinawa & 2nd to Last Pre-Christmas 2022 Naval Chat29:15Why a fifteen-gun Town-class cruiser became self-defeatingQ&A
- Bruships 96: Vikings, Okinawa & 2nd to Last Pre-Christmas 2022 Naval Chat1:00:10Why a nuclear-proof battleship is not practicalQ&A
- Bruships 96: Vikings, Okinawa & 2nd to Last Pre-Christmas 2022 Naval Chat1:01:14A modern Black Swan as a 3,000-ton Singapore-style sloopQ&A
- Bruships 96: Vikings, Okinawa & 2nd to Last Pre-Christmas 2022 Naval Chat1:32:31Why the Dido class resisted postwar modernizationQ&A
- Bruships 96: Vikings, Okinawa & 2nd to Last Pre-Christmas 2022 Naval Chat1:55:15Long Beach needed a heavier cruiser design lineageQ&A
- Bruships 96: Vikings, Okinawa & 2nd to Last Pre-Christmas 2022 Naval Chat2:37:17Every extra anti-aircraft gun needs people, space, and ammunitionQ&A
- Bruships 96: Vikings, Okinawa & 2nd to Last Pre-Christmas 2022 Naval Chat4:04:03Armored cruisers were useful despite later obsolescenceQ&A
- USS Wichita(CA-45); The Greatest Treaty 8in Cruiser0:00Why Pacific distances shaped WichitaChapter
- USS Wichita(CA-45); The Greatest Treaty 8in Cruiser4:37How treaty rules reshaped the heavy cruiserNotable 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 Cruiser46:26Why Wichita wins the treaty heavy-cruiser comparisonChapter
- Calypso (1883) Class0:10From Daring-class experiments to Calypso's finalized pairNotable Point
- Calypso (1883) Class13:17Calypso as a larger Comus final formNotable Point
- Calypso (1883) Class17:12Length between perpendiculars and safe load linesNotable Point
- Calypso (1883) Class19:50Machinery, guns, and protected-corvette fighting valueNotable Point
- HMCS Sackville & The Flower Class7:03From First World War sloops to the 1939 Flower classChapter
- HMCS Sackville & The Flower Class8:47Why a coastal escort still needed ocean-going seakeepingNotable Point
- HMCS Sackville & The Flower Class12:17How interwar policy reduced Britain's escort-building capacityNotable Point
- HMCS Sackville & The Flower Class20:12Henderson and Goodall turn escort demands into a shipNotable Point
- HMCS Sackville & The Flower Class20:18Why a sloop's peacetime outfit could conceal its wartime roleNotable Point
- HMCS Sackville & The Flower Class36:18Mine warfare and the Bittern escort templateNotable Point
- HMCS Sackville & The Flower Class39:58How Southern Pride became the Flower-class hullChapter
- HMCS Sackville & The Flower Class44:11Southern Pride proves the whaler hull in convoy serviceNotable Point
- HMCS Sackville & The Flower Class45:49Scotch boilers and triple-expansion enduranceChapter
- HMCS Sackville & The Flower Class53:05How Sackville's triple-expansion engine reused steamNotable Point
- HMCS Sackville & The Flower Class58:49Why the Royal Navy revived the name corvetteNotable Point
- HMCS Sackville & The Flower Class1:11:11Four-inch gun, Hedgehog, and depth-charge patternsChapter
- HMCS Sackville & The Flower Class1:43:00Steering, blackout, and quiet ASDIC work in the wheelhouseNotable Point
- HMCS Sackville & The Flower Class1:56:14Protecting and maintaining Sackville's radarNotable Point
- Bruships 95: Science Fiction, Including Paddle 'Corn Oil' (Aka BioDiesel) Battleship Twist...6:38Paddle battleship: icebreaking, manoeuvre, and repairNotable Point
- 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...1:11:04Hood's four-inch battery and weight limitsQ&A
- Bruships 95: Science Fiction, Including Paddle 'Corn Oil' (Aka BioDiesel) Battleship Twist...1:27:44North Carolina Scheme XVI or King George V?Q&A
- Bruships 95: Science Fiction, Including Paddle 'Corn Oil' (Aka BioDiesel) Battleship Twist...1:28:26Shared design faults and sister-ship modificationsQ&A
- Bruships 95: Science Fiction, Including Paddle 'Corn Oil' (Aka BioDiesel) Battleship Twist...1:44:37Launcher endurance and safe interception coursesNotable 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...2:48:19Why large space warships may combine several rolesQ&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?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?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: 1939-6552:36Political risk encouraged iterative ship and weapons developmentChapter
- Soviet Navy Part 2/3: 1939-651:23:24Postwar destroyers traded refinement for reproducible quantityNotable Point
- Soviet Navy Part 2/3: 1939-651:33:01Kresta II grew within the politics of de-StalinizationChapter
- Soviet Navy Part 2/3: 1939-651:34:19Soviet radars evolved by adapting proven technology for salt waterNotable Point
- Soviet Navy Part 2/3: 1939-651:37:20Visible armament helped Soviet ships fight the peaceNotable 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?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?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?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?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?1:24:55How 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?1:50:23Magazine space limits calibre substitutionQ&A
- Patreon 68: What if the Royal Navy went 4.7in rather than 4.5in for dual purpose?1:56:48Why Didos struggled with topweight more than TribalsNotable Point
- Kresta Class Cruisers Iterative Development of the Soviet Style10:01Missile-control limits drive the next design stepNotable Point
- Kresta Class Cruisers Iterative Development of the Soviet Style13:35Conservative procurement changes one risk at a timeNotable Point
- Kresta Class Cruisers Iterative Development of the Soviet Style17:04How Kresta I became Kresta IIChapter
- Kresta Class Cruisers Iterative Development of the Soviet Style23:54Stern volume arrives before a towed arrayNotable Point
- Kresta Class Cruisers Iterative Development of the Soviet Style31:25Weapon placement reveals the Kresta's prioritiesNotable Point
- Kresta Class Cruisers Iterative Development of the Soviet Style50:09The retractable Kresta II helicopter hangarNotable Point
- Groznyy/Kynda (1961) Class: Gorshkov's Template for a Blue Water Navy16:44A cruiser hull built around missilesChapter
- Groznyy/Kynda (1961) Class: Gorshkov's Template for a Blue Water Navy20:01Classification, electronics, and slow reloadsNotable Point
- Groznyy/Kynda (1961) Class: Gorshkov's Template for a Blue Water Navy24:25Gorshkov's design laboratory at LeningradChapter
- Groznyy/Kynda (1961) Class: Gorshkov's Template for a Blue Water Navy35:02Iterating air defence and machineryNotable Point
- Groznyy/Kynda (1961) Class: Gorshkov's Template for a Blue Water Navy41:25Radical missiles paired with conservative safeguardsNotable Point
- Groznyy/Kynda (1961) Class: Gorshkov's Template for a Blue Water Navy49:05Was Kynda a naval genesis design?Notable Point
- Comus(1878) Class: Protected Corvettes/Third Class Cruisers17:01A straight bow on a recurring patrol-ship scaleNotable Point
- Comus(1878) Class: Protected Corvettes/Third Class Cruisers24:41Making an iron hull last on distant stationsNotable Point
- Comus(1878) Class: Protected Corvettes/Third Class Cruisers28:54Breech-loaders, muzzle-loaders, and the search for a reliable gunNotable Point
- Bruships 94: Some New Books, Some Others Books and a lot of Naval Chat23:59B-65 large cruisers and the Allied responseQ&A
- 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 Chat35:52Treaty limits shape a response to larger German cruisersQ&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 Chat46:58Nelson and Rodney as torpedo-defense benchmarksQ&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 Chat1:05:04Why torpedo nets lost their appealQ&A
- Bruships 94: Some New Books, Some Others Books and a lot of Naval Chat1:28:15Transom sterns and Jutland timingQ&A
- Bruships 94: Some New Books, Some Others Books and a lot of Naval Chat1:35:35Before the Battlecruiser connects design and later serviceChapter
- 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 Chat2:05:03Different requirements favor Nelson, Queen Elizabeth, or IowaQ&A
- Bruships 94: Some New Books, Some Others Books and a lot of Naval Chat2:07:13A cruiser-leader category invites rapid counterbuildingQ&A
- Bruships 94: Some New Books, Some Others Books and a lot of Naval Chat2:36:42A 28-knot Colorado would be a different battleshipQ&A
- Bruships 94: Some New Books, Some Others Books and a lot of Naval Chat3:25:17Turbine blades as a warship-building bottleneckQ&A
- Bruships 94: Some New Books, Some Others Books and a lot of Naval Chat3:35:18A modern wooden sailing warship becomes a larger WarriorQ&A
- Cruiser Policy of the Reichsmarine & Kriegsmarine33:08Reichsmarine light cruisers designed around offensive miningNotable Point
- Cruiser Policy of the Reichsmarine & Kriegsmarine49:31Scharnhorst's battleship role and cruiser-caliber gunsNotable Point
- Cruiser Policy of the Reichsmarine & Kriegsmarine1:09:20H-class scale, range, and the raiding contradictionNotable Point
- Cruiser Policy of the Reichsmarine & Kriegsmarine1:17:03Why a cruiser needs a chosen missionChapter
- Cruiser Policy of the Reichsmarine & Kriegsmarine1:18:45Hipper maintenance demands and the Atlantic bow refitNotable Point
- Cruiser Policy of the Reichsmarine & Kriegsmarine1:21:03Competing bureaus and oversized cruiser designsNotable Point
- Cruiser Policy of the Reichsmarine & Kriegsmarine1:26:04Triple turrets, aft firepower, and mine-handling riskNotable Point
- Soviet Navy Part 1/3: 1918-193945:02Gnevny destroyers and a fleet that could be builtNotable Point
- Soviet Navy Part 1/3: 1918-193949:23Kirov cruisers and the demand for an instant navyChapter
- German Heavy Cruisers & Cruiser Policy/Procurement of WWII7:36A twelve-gun Hipper would expose the treaty-enforcement problemQ&A
- German Heavy Cruisers & Cruiser Policy/Procurement of WWII8:12The strategic choice behind Germany's 11-inch cruisersChapter
- German Heavy Cruisers & Cruiser Policy/Procurement of WWII23:38Why the Scharnhorsts escaped some design interferenceQ&A
- German Heavy Cruisers & Cruiser Policy/Procurement of WWII35:08Why six 11-inch guns limited a Deutschland raiderChapter
- German Heavy Cruisers & Cruiser Policy/Procurement of WWII45:01A 15,000-ton Panzer ship could carry nine 11-inch gunsQ&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 WWII1:09:55Why boarding a modern warship is room-to-room combatQ&A
- German Heavy Cruisers & Cruiser Policy/Procurement of WWII1:28:04German Z destroyers tried to become small cruisersQ&A
- German Heavy Cruisers & Cruiser Policy/Procurement of WWII1:33:24How the Hipper class became an expensive eight-inch cruiserChapter
- German Heavy Cruisers & Cruiser Policy/Procurement of WWII1:38:58Shared German silhouettes offered only limited deceptionQ&A
- German Heavy Cruisers & Cruiser Policy/Procurement of WWII1:48:17A hybrid cruiser was worse than a dedicated fast minelayerNotable Point
- German Heavy Cruisers & Cruiser Policy/Procurement of WWII1:53:44Baltic light cruisers were structurally mismatched to NorwayQ&A
- German Heavy Cruisers & Cruiser Policy/Procurement of WWII2:07:14Why German light cruisers carried more guns aftQ&A
- 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 WWII2:16:30A sensible six-inch raider needed speed and range firstQ&A
- German Heavy Cruisers & Cruiser Policy/Procurement of WWII2:19:20Fast scout cruisers and the counterforce they would provokeChapter
- German Heavy Cruisers & Cruiser Policy/Procurement of WWII2:23:11A shipboard MXY7 would turn short range into a fuel hazardQ&A
- German Heavy Cruisers & Cruiser Policy/Procurement of WWII2:37:31A standardized cruiser family would outperform prestige projectsQ&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 Response5:43Why liquid layers matter in underwater protectionNotable Point
- Nelson Class & Patreon 67 Comment Response8:11Could a treaty battleship reserve space for larger turrets?Q&A
- Nelson Class & Patreon 67 Comment Response14:23A 38,000-ton fast Nelson built from F3 ideasNotable Point
- Nelson Class & Patreon 67 Comment Response17:38A 5.5-inch dual-purpose battery for the Nelson eraNotable Point
- Nelson Class & Patreon 67 Comment Response20:28G3's battlecruiser label and disputed block coefficientQ&A
- Nelson Class & Patreon 67 Comment Response36:25Where an oversized barbette's treaty savings disappearQ&A
- Nelson Class & Patreon 67 Comment Response42:39Would removing Nelson's torpedo-defense spaces save weight?Q&A
- Nelson Class & Patreon 67 Comment Response43:36How difficult would a 16-inch F3 conversion be?Q&A
- Nelson Class & Patreon 67 Comment Response45:47Why machinery order changes capital-ship survivabilityQ&A
- Nelson Class & Patreon 67 Comment Response47:55Beatty's support for the F2 and F3 alternativesNotable Point
- Nelson Class & Patreon 67 Comment Response57:05Why an unrestricted navy would not build the F3Q&A
- Nelson Class & Patreon 67 Comment Response1:02:42The German design problem posed by a 29-knot F3Notable Point
- Nelson Class & Patreon 67 Comment Response1:08:34How faster 15-inch/50 Nelsons might alter the naval arms raceNotable Point
- Admiral Hipper Class0:01Why the Admiral Hipper design disappointedChapter
- Admiral Hipper Class0:09Reading German warship reputations criticallyNotable Point
- Admiral Hipper Class6:22The cost of reinventing each German warship designNotable Point
- Admiral Hipper Class16:45Machinery complexity and unchecked design growthChapter
- Admiral Hipper Class20:36Crew pride can outlive a ship's design faultsNotable Point
- Admiral Hipper Class24:24Admiral Hipper was still being altered as war beganChapter
- Admiral Hipper Class1:00:56Seydlitz, Lützow, and the class's unfinished alternativesChapter
- Admiral Hipper Class1:07:59The Admiral Hipper class as a policy failureNotable Point
- Washington Cheaties: Comment Response3:09Why treaty disclosure mattered more than small tonnage overrunsNotable Point
- Washington Cheaties: Comment Response12:41Transatlantic engineering networks behind British warship designChapter
- 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
- Bruships 93: Soviet Navy Books & Random Books14:19Battlecruisers, fast battleships, and the rebuilt KongosChapter
- Bruships 93: Soviet Navy Books & Random Books1:15:36Why Russo-Japanese War battleships carried torpedoesChapter
- Bruships 93: Soviet Navy Books & Random Books1:23:20Why torpedo-battleship ideas survived TsushimaQ&A
- Bruships 93: Soviet Navy Books & Random Books1:34:49Project 23 battleships versus Soviet yard capacityNotable Point
- Bruships 93: Soviet Navy Books & Random Books2:04:56Italian influence on Soviet underwater protectionQ&A
- Bruships 93: Soviet Navy Books & Random Books3:09:21Why heavily armed Soviet ships were not simply unstableQ&A
- Bruships 93: Soviet Navy Books & Random Books3:34:17What an old warship needs before receiving missilesQ&A
- Bruships 93: Soviet Navy Books & Random Books4:24:48Why 2030s surface combatants keep growingQ&A
- Nelson (1925)Class: The Story of Britain's Washington Treaty Battleships0:18Nelson as the product of Britain's capital-ship research programChapter
- Nelson (1925)Class: The Story of Britain's Washington Treaty Battleships8:20Hood, G3, and N3 as a global deterrent systemNotable Point
- Nelson (1925)Class: The Story of Britain's Washington Treaty Battleships22:11Britain's constructor bench tackles the treaty tradeoffsNotable Point
- 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 Battleships41:57Nelson's water-filled underwater protectionNotable Point
- Nelson (1925)Class: The Story of Britain's Washington Treaty Battleships43:15Chatham trials put Nelson's torpedo defense under full-scale blastNotable Point
- Nelson (1925)Class: The Story of Britain's Washington Treaty Battleships44:18Why water counted as cheap treaty protectionNotable Point
- Nelson (1925)Class: The Story of Britain's Washington Treaty Battleships48:26Why Nelson's treaty engineering irritated Admiral KingNotable Point
- Nelson (1925)Class: The Story of Britain's Washington Treaty Battleships52:12Nelson's treaty margin and the Lexington comparisonNotable Point
- Nelson (1925)Class: The Story of Britain's Washington Treaty Battleships58:42The closing F3 counterfactualNotable Point
- Sverdlov Class: Comment Response31:50Why Sverdlov carried twelve six-inch gunsQ&A
- Sverdlov Class: Comment Response56:19How more Sverdlovs could have reshaped British gun cruisersNotable Point
- Patreon 67: RN use of water Based Armour, and why it annoyed Admiral King so much?11:54Could HMS Hood have pioneered water armour?Q&A
- Patreon 67: RN use of water Based Armour, and why it annoyed Admiral King so much?17:54How did Hood's steel crushing tubes absorb blast energy?Q&A
- Patreon 67: RN use of water Based Armour, and why it annoyed Admiral King so much?1:00:09How G3 and N3 divided their machinery spacesNotable Point
- Patreon 67: RN use of water Based Armour, and why it annoyed Admiral King so much?1:13:34F2 and F3: the fast designs behind Nelson's all-forward layoutChapter
- Patreon 67: RN use of water Based Armour, and why it annoyed Admiral King so much?1:27:27Was Nelson's Queen Anne's Mansion designed against gas?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?1:37:24Why Nelson concentrated its main guns forwardChapter
- Patreon 67: RN use of water Based Armour, and why it annoyed Admiral King so much?1:41:37Can one capital ship combine battleship protection with cruiser speed?Q&A
- Patreon 67: RN use of water Based Armour, and why it annoyed Admiral King so much?1:42:26How can machinery spaces survive underwater damage?Q&A
- 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?1:48:21What Nelson carried at 33,800 tonsChapter
- Patreon 67: RN use of water Based Armour, and why it annoyed Admiral King so much?1:54:50Nelson's water-filled protection and full-scale torpedo testChapter
- Patreon 67: RN use of water Based Armour, and why it annoyed Admiral King so much?1:57:20How Nelson's machinery was squeezed under the treaty limitChapter
- 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?2:07:58Why were Nelson and Rodney unusually hard to disable?Q&A
- Patreon 67: RN use of water Based Armour, and why it annoyed Admiral King so much?2:15:23The design experience behind Britain's treaty battleshipsNotable Point
- 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?2:24:46How did Nelson's armour compare with the other Big Seven?Q&A
- Patreon 67: RN use of water Based Armour, and why it annoyed Admiral King so much?2:30:22What does a few knots of battleship speed change strategically?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....0:48The information-war origin of Britain's later light cruisersNotable Point
- Arethusa(1913) Class: Light Cruisers or....2:13From scout cruiser to modern light cruiserChapter
- Arethusa(1913) Class: Light Cruisers or....7:16A compact hull built around Yarrow-type boilersNotable Point
- Arethusa(1913) Class: Light Cruisers or....10:37Machinery, guns, torpedoes, and light protectionNotable Point
- Arethusa(1913) Class: Light Cruisers or....12:22Four yards build the eight-ship classNotable Point
- Arethusa(1913) Class: Light Cruisers or....49:41The Arethusas' legacy in later British cruisersNotable 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
- Cressy(1899) Class: Famous for the Wrong Things - 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 1224:56Cressy machinery, protection, and costNotable 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
- Cressy(1899) Class: Famous for the Wrong Things - 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 121:11:19Fire and dockyard accidents delayed EuryalusNotable Point
- Cressy(1899) Class: Famous for the Wrong Things - 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 121:34:35The unbuilt post-Minotaur medium-cruiser questionNotable Point
- Bruships 92: New Books, Naval Chat and Late 19th Century Warships...23:51Which navy prioritized crew accommodation before 1940Q&A
- Bruships 92: New Books, Naval Chat and Late 19th Century Warships...24:07What trimaran warships gain and give upQ&A
- Bruships 92: New Books, Naval Chat and Late 19th Century Warships...1:34:39Four warship classes as national design stereotypesQ&A
- 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...2:23:27How an earlier King George V design would change the main batteryQ&A
- Bruships 92: New Books, Naval Chat and Late 19th Century Warships...2:35:09Why the Type VII must be judged by variantQ&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
- Bruships 92: New Books, Naval Chat and Late 19th Century Warships...2:50:24How corvettes, sloops, and destroyer escorts differedQ&A
- Bruships 92: New Books, Naval Chat and Late 19th Century Warships...3:01:53Where to begin reading about steam machinery in warshipsQ&A
- Bruships 92: New Books, Naval Chat and Late 19th Century Warships...3:10:14How treaty limits contributed to destroyer turbine wearQ&A
- Asama Class: Armoured Cruiser or Battleship? (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 11)0:03Why Elswick cruisers suited Japan's Six-Six FleetChapter
- Asama Class: Armoured Cruiser or Battleship? (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 11)7:53Russian expansion and new armor enlarge the battle lineChapter
- Asama Class: Armoured Cruiser or Battleship? (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 11)16:03Machinery gives Asama speed and oceanic rangeChapter
- 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)20:41Layered armor and subdivision make Asama hard to disableNotable Point
- Diadem Class: First Class Protected Cruisers (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 10)5:58Balancing Diadem's cost, range, and rough-sea speedChapter
- 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)19:41Trials, vibration, and the value of an adaptable hullNotable Point
- Diadem Class: First Class Protected Cruisers (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 10)30:47Diadem's global service in an era of rapid changeChapter
- Châteaurenault (1898): The French Columbia Class... (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 9)2:06Châteaurenault and France's protected-cruiser experimentChapter
- Châteaurenault (1898): The French Columbia Class... (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 9)12:15Jeune École strategy and the armored-cruiser shiftNotable Point
- 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)22:16One-off design culture and the missing torpedo escape weaponNotable Point
- Châteaurenault (1898): The French Columbia Class... (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 9)39:31Torpedoes and a uniform battery for quick killsNotable Point
- Châteaurenault (1898): The French Columbia Class... (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 9)42:08Designing a disguised surface raider in the 1890sNotable Point
- Descartes(1894) Class: I Cruiser Therefore I Am? (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 8)9:14Bespoke French cruisers versus British series productionNotable Point
- Descartes(1894) Class: I Cruiser Therefore I Am? (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 8)15:09One cruiser requirement spans rival fleets and colonial stationsNotable 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)23:39Descartes takes years to turn a novel design into a usable shipNotable 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 Cruisers41:47Helicopter trials widened the class's training and experimental valueNotable Point
- Sverdlov Class: The Last of Stalin's Soviet Gun Cruisers48:10Protected piping and steering gear reveal attention to battle damageNotable Point
- Sverdlov Class: The Last of Stalin's Soviet Gun Cruisers1:13:55Project 70E turned a Sverdlov into a missile test shipNotable Point
- Sverdlov Class: The Last of Stalin's Soviet Gun Cruisers1:17:22Mikhail Kutuzov preserves Sverdlov's mixed design lineageNotable 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)58:05Obsolete cruisers become minelayers and blockshipsNotable Point
- Apollo(1890?) Class: Quantity = Quality (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 7)1:25:39The Astraea class develops Apollo's distributed risk-fleet logicNotable Point
- Bruships 91: New Books & Cruiser Books10:42How installed machinery loads a ship's hullQ&A
- Bruships 91: New Books & Cruiser Books15:52Why Mackensen is the better German fast-battleship starting pointQ&A
- Bruships 91: New Books & Cruiser Books24:23Why Hood was not simply the first fast battleshipQ&A
- Bruships 91: New Books & Cruiser Books26:22A 40,000-ton treaty successor to G3 and N3Q&A
- Bruships 91: New Books & Cruiser Books28:35How a 1930 dockyard expansion could enlarge British warshipsQ&A
- Bruships 91: New Books & Cruiser Books34:23A Nelson successor without the treaty building holidayQ&A
- Bruships 91: New Books & Cruiser Books37:19Sketching a Royal Navy Type 90Q&A
- Bruships 91: New Books & Cruiser Books43:14Why arsenal ships run into a missile inventory problemQ&A
- Bruships 91: New Books & Cruiser Books43:51What the Kii class would have added to Japan's battle fleetQ&A
- Bruships 91: New Books & Cruiser Books50:06How larger dry docks reshape fleet optionsQ&A
- Bruships 91: New Books & Cruiser Books1:03:06Why converting a carrier into a battleship means rebuilding the shipQ&A
- Bruships 91: New Books & Cruiser Books1:11:55A guide to the French fleet from 1870 to 1918Chapter
- Bruships 91: New Books & Cruiser Books1:16:09Why side flight decks complicate a tumblehome carrierQ&A
- Bruships 91: New Books & Cruiser Books1:22:23How dock limits shaped Bretagne's ten-gun broadsideChapter
- Bruships 91: New Books & Cruiser Books1:26:43Bretagne's armor varied with position and structural loadNotable Point
- Bruships 91: New Books & Cruiser Books1:49:40Balancing present capability with future growth marginQ&A
- Bruships 91: New Books & Cruiser Books1:50:46What 3,000 extra tons could do for NelsonQ&A
- Bruships 91: New Books & Cruiser Books1:56:44Examples of warships with room for later changesQ&A
- Bruships 91: New Books & Cruiser Books2:05:05A more capable Fearless and IntrepidQ&A
- Bruships 91: New Books & Cruiser Books2:48:30A post-Falklands British 70,000-ton carrier air wingQ&A
- Bruships 91: New Books & Cruiser Books2:51:06Why the salvage ship Kommuna remained usefulQ&A
- Bruships 91: New Books & Cruiser Books3:30:37Why destroyer development advances in wavesQ&A
- Bruships 91: New Books & Cruiser Books3:37:43How a 28-knot battle line enlarges its battlecruisersNotable Point
- Bruships 91: New Books & Cruiser Books3:39:41Triple-turret Renowns need more machinery spaceQ&A
- Bruships 91: New Books & Cruiser Books3:40:13Fast Queen Elizabeths set the speed of later battleshipsQ&A
- Bruships 91: New Books & Cruiser Books3:43:42Why speeding up the Revenge class was expensiveQ&A
- Bruships 91: New Books & Cruiser Books3:44:48Why Alaska fits the cruiser lineageNotable Point
- Bruships 91: New Books & Cruiser Books3:48:02Would faster Renowns replace the Admiral class?Q&A
- Bruships 91: New Books & Cruiser Books3:48:20An American response to Britain's faster capital shipsQ&A
- Bruships 91: New Books & Cruiser Books3:51:03Why battlecruiser classification depends on its contemporariesNotable Point
- Bruships 91: New Books & Cruiser Books3:52:35Why the Admiral class earned its reputationQ&A
- Bruships 91: New Books & Cruiser Books3:55:12Why more small ships are not automatically cheaperNotable Point
- Bruships 91: New Books & Cruiser Books3:57:22Furious's 18-inch guns and competing Agincourt hypothesesNotable Point
- Bruships 91: New Books & Cruiser Books4:10:51A faster Royal Navy battle line forces foreign redesignsQ&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
- Washington "Cheaties'': an Inevitability of Winning a Treaty0:59Why the pre-dreadnought label remains usefulChapter
- Washington "Cheaties'': an Inevitability of Winning a Treaty21:58Treaty design must accommodate practical naval requirementsNotable Point
- Washington "Cheaties'': an Inevitability of Winning a Treaty30:33Mutual evasion made unrealistic treaty limits survivableChapter
- Washington "Cheaties'': an Inevitability of Winning a Treaty41:20A 40,000-ton ceiling could reduce incentives to cheatChapter
- Washington "Cheaties'': an Inevitability of Winning a Treaty58:43Successful arms control must reward complianceChapter
- Patreon 66: "Washington Cheaties"31:42Why 35,000 tons forced capital-ship compromisesChapter
- Patreon 66: "Washington Cheaties"44:33España's scale made a new dreadnought look obsoleteNotable Point
- Patreon 66: "Washington Cheaties"51:17Were the España-class ships really coastal-defense dreadnoughts?Q&A
- Patreon 66: "Washington Cheaties"1:10:06A more workable set of Washington Treaty limitsQ&A
- Patreon 66: "Washington Cheaties"1:17:28Lexington's precise tonnage claim damaged American credibilityChapter
- Patreon 66: "Washington Cheaties"1:20:31A larger allowance could have paired Lexington battlecruisers with carriersNotable Point
- Patreon 66: "Washington Cheaties"1:38:56Could Ryūjō have avoided its stability problems?Q&A
- Patreon 66: "Washington Cheaties"1:43:38What standard displacement counted aboard a carrierQ&A
- Patreon 66: "Washington Cheaties"1:48:21The machine-gun battleship trades caliber for salvo volumeQ&A
- Patreon 66: "Washington Cheaties"2:35:57Cruiser submarines exploited an unlimited treaty categoryChapter
- Patreon 66: "Washington Cheaties"3:04:49Why the escalator clause rose to 45,000 tonsQ&A
- Patreon 66: "Washington Cheaties"3:22:54Anti-aircraft armament for a 28,000-ton fast battlecruiserQ&A
- Patreon 66: "Washington Cheaties"3:23:16Could King George V carry more quadruple turrets?Q&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?1:25Why the Capitani Romani were supersized destroyersChapter
- 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?19:22Minimal armour left speed as the class's main protectionNotable Point
- Capitani Romani Class Cruisers: Supersized Destroyers or Shrunk Cruisers?20:20Machinery, mine rails, and broadside torpedoes shaped the deck planChapter
- 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 Road4:17Firepower, speed, and armour define the warship design bargainQ&A
- Bruships 90: Books From the Road12:51Upgrade margin determines how long a steel warship remains usefulQ&A
- Bruships 90: Books From the Road47:24A sixteen-gun battleship needs roughly four thousand main-battery shellsQ&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 Road3:37:43G3 and N3 layouts complicated anti-aircraft fire but did not prevent adaptationQ&A
- Bruships 90: Books From the Road4:20:40Hood's as-built displacement is not the same as the Admiral-class design figureQ&A
- Victoria Louise(1897) Class: Time to Make An Impression (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 6)2:57Why intermediate cruisers became a German fleet foundationChapter
- 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
- Victoria Louise(1897) Class: Time to Make An Impression (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 6)36:29Why a sound cruiser design became obsolete so quicklyNotable Point
- Blake(1889) Class: 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 50:02Why the Blake class blurred cruiser categoriesChapter
- 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 56:10William White and professional naval constructionChapter
- Blake(1889) Class: 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 511:56Why delegation was a naval-construction problemNotable Point
- 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
- Blake(1889) Class: 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 533:05Why the Blake design worked as a first-class cruiserNotable Point
- Forbin(1888) Class: 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 32:30Obsolete avisos led France from Milan to the Forbin classNotable 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 36:32Aube's ministry produced specifications in less than a dayNotable Point
- Forbin(1888) Class: 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 311:56Forbin armament balanced well, but speed and sail did notChapter
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 44:37Why the Courageous class did not improve on RenownQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 416:07A heavier Admiral class could have surpassed HoodQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 434:32The later Admiral-class deck layout remains uncertainQ&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)19:08Mission design separates battlecruisers from battleshipsQ&A
- BC-304 Daedalus Class: Stargate SG1's Battle Cruisers (Comment Response)24:14A warship still needs shuttles when transporters failQ&A
- BC-304 Daedalus Class: Stargate SG1's Battle Cruisers (Comment Response)38:19Analyze fictional systems by accepting their stated rulesQ&A
- BC-304 Daedalus Class: Stargate SG1's Battle Cruisers (Comment Response)50:55Surge capacity gives the BC-304 an evacuation roleNotable Point
- BC-304 Daedalus Class: Stargate SG1's Battle Cruisers (Comment Response)51:23One self-sufficient ship versus a specialized flotillaQ&A
- BC-304 Daedalus Class: Stargate SG1's Battle Cruisers (Comment Response)1:02:47Treat the ring room as a guarded boarding pointQ&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
- BC-304 Daedalus Class: Stargate SG1's Battle Cruisers (Comment Response)1:07:04A heavy-bomber origin explains the BC-304's contradictionsQ&A
- BC-304 Daedalus Class: Stargate's Battle Cruisers0:01The BC-304 as a procurement compromiseChapter
- BC-304 Daedalus Class: Stargate's Battle Cruisers1:34:31Evolutionary integration makes the BC-304 convincingChapter
- BC-304 Daedalus Class: Stargate's Battle Cruisers1:40:13Rework the BC-304 as a cruiserNotable Point
- Bruships 88: Way of War33:42What higher battleship-gun elevation would costQ&A
- Bruships 88: Way of War1:34:53Designing an Admiral-class aircraft carrierQ&A
- Bruships 88: Way of War1:42:30How a 28-knot Nelson class changes fleet operationsQ&A
- Bruships 88: Way of War1:53:00Would G3 carriers produce larger destroyers sooner?Q&A
- Bruships 88: Way of War1:55:15Why two or three knots matter in a gun battleQ&A
- Bruships 88: Way of War1:56:16Why the Royal Navy retained proven boilersQ&A
- Bruships 88: Way of War2:03:58How faster Nelsons constrain Scharnhorst and GneisenauQ&A
- Brooklyn Class(US Treaty Cruisers): Comment Response10:32Why large warships become general-purpose assetsNotable Point
- Brooklyn Class(US Treaty Cruisers): Comment Response20:02Why mixed crews change ship design and recruitingChapter
- Bruships 87: Books Found on My Travels, New Books & Christmas Recomendations2:02:26What earlier triangular sails would change in northern EuropeQ&A
- Battle of Arausio (105BC), lessons of an Ancient Land Battle…2:26:50Why was the Canopus class shorter-ranged?Q&A
- 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 Cruisers27:25The Philadelphia protest exposes naval segregationNotable Point
- Brooklyn Class: The Not Quite Last US Treaty Era Cruisers35:00Savannah's changing fittings demand date-aware identificationNotable Point
- 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)36:19Why Gefion was not a productive learning shipQ&A
- Town Class 1913 +: Birmingham & Birkenhead Classes + HMAS Adelaide4:00How the Town class bridged cruiser erasChapter
- Town Class 1913 +: Birmingham & Birkenhead Classes + HMAS Adelaide9:52Why Birmingham changed the forward gun layoutNotable Point
- Town Class 1913 +: Birmingham & Birkenhead Classes + HMAS Adelaide24:10Why the torpedo threat changed cruiser protectionNotable Point
- Town Class 1913 +: Birmingham & Birkenhead Classes + HMAS Adelaide49:05The 5.5-inch versus six-inch cruiser-gun tradeoffChapter
- Town Class 1913 +: Birmingham & Birkenhead Classes + HMAS Adelaide53:34The Town class as a cruiser capability programChapter
- 19th Century Cruisers: Comment Response Video 1 (Introduction - Shannon)16:09How battleship and cruiser design roles divergedQ&A
- 19th Century Cruisers: Comment Response Video 1 (Introduction - Shannon)25:09Why sailing rigs lost value on steam cruisersQ&A
- 19th Century Cruisers: Comment Response Video 1 (Introduction - Shannon)50:01A balanced hypothetical redesign of General-AdmiralNotable Point
- 19th Century Cruisers: Comment Response Video 1 (Introduction - Shannon)57:33HMS Shannon and the return of the ram conceptQ&A
- 19th Century Cruisers: Comment Response Video 1 (Introduction - Shannon)59:53Trafalgar versus Lissa in Shannon's forward-fire layoutQ&A
- 19th Century Cruisers: Comment Response Video 1 (Introduction - Shannon)1:05:39Learning from a failed warship before combat exposes itNotable Point
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 31:29:39Designing an age-of-sail ship to repel boardersQ&A
- Columbia (1892) Class: 19th Century Cruisers (+ Star Trek & SSBNX) part 113:53Speed compromises meet American sea-power politicsNotable Point
- Columbia (1892) Class: 19th Century Cruisers (+ Star Trek & SSBNX) part 1132:50Why Columbia's funnels probably were not a liner disguiseNotable Point
- Imperieuse Class(1883): 19th Century Cruisers p819:20A transitional design on the road to the Orlando classChapter
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out26:26Dutch or English shipbuilding for a global sailing navyQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out38:30The extra displacement Invincible-class carriers neededQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out52:50Why underwater hull paint is redQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out1:03:14Why a 1950s light carrier could reuse Colossus dimensionsQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out1:04:34Invincible and Pensacola as politically relabeled shipsQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out1:07:12Why modern warship bridges can remain exposedQ&A
- Bruships 84: Science Fiction Strikes Again10:58Why the Admiral-class torpedo loader traded volume for aimQ&A
- Bruships 84: Science Fiction Strikes Again17:22Why battleships carried underwater torpedo tubesQ&A
- Bruships 84: Science Fiction Strikes Again21:34How expensive faster-than-light drives reshape fleet compositionNotable Point
- Bruships 84: Science Fiction Strikes Again25:38Cruisers are defined by their weapons and fighter capacityNotable Point
- Bruships 84: Science Fiction Strikes Again1:09:01Acceleration tanks turn high-gravity combat into a networked command problemNotable Point
- Bruships 84: Science Fiction Strikes Again1:58:21Why mixed technology drives larger warshipsQ&A
- Raimondo Montecuccoli Class: Condottieri of the Regia Marina2:07Montecuccoli class corrects the early Condottieri bargainChapter
- Raimondo Montecuccoli Class: Condottieri of the Regia Marina3:27ONI estimates reveal the class and its machinery lineageNotable Point
- Raimondo Montecuccoli Class: Condottieri of the Regia Marina5:31Anti-aircraft layout and topweight tradeoffsNotable Point
- Raimondo Montecuccoli Class: Condottieri of the Regia Marina42:55A transitional Condottieri design balances speed and survivalNotable Point
- Infrastructure in the Colonies: shipyards of the Commonwealth and Empire.1:18:23Growth margin future-proofs long-lived warshipsChapter
- Patreon 59: Infrastructure in the Colonies: shipyards of the Commonwealth and Empire.2:29:43Why a new destroyer hull adds avoidable programme riskNotable Point
- Kirov Class Cruisers; the Alaska Class of the Late Cold War? (Soviet Navy)14:42Project 1144 size and combined propulsionChapter
- Kirov Class Cruisers; the Alaska Class of the Late Cold War? (Soviet Navy)30:29Why each Kirov became nearly an individual designNotable Point
- Patreon 58: Ruse de Guerre or Deception, disguises and decoys in naval warfare1:20:06Were East Indiamen faster than warships?Q&A
- Reginae Maris Nostri: The Cruisers of Mussolini's Regia Marina1:47Mussolini, naval factions, and divided controlNotable Point
- Reginae Maris Nostri: The Cruisers of Mussolini's Regia Marina23:28Mussolini's opportunism destabilized naval requirementsChapter
- Reginae Maris Nostri: The Cruisers of Mussolini's Regia Marina25:51Speed as both doctrine and prestigeNotable Point
- Reginae Maris Nostri: The Cruisers of Mussolini's Regia Marina40:17Bolzano's return to the fast Trento formulaNotable Point
- Reginae Maris Nostri: The Cruisers of Mussolini's Regia Marina1:00:13Italian cruiser design: perception over purposeChapter
- Modern Frigates: Cruisers by another name? (Patreon 57 Videos Comment Response)12:04An internal citadel for future automated warshipsQ&A
- Modern Frigates: Cruisers by another name? (Patreon 57 Videos Comment Response)15:23Why swapping Constellation's main gun is not simpleQ&A
- Modern Frigates: Cruisers by another name? (Patreon 57 Videos Comment Response)23:59Standard frigate hulls across allied fleetsQ&A
- Modern Frigates: Cruisers by another name? (Patreon 57 Videos Comment Response)33:23Designing warships for diplomacy and controlled accessNotable Point
- Modern Frigates: Cruisers by another name? (Patreon 57 Videos Comment Response)45:06The F125 as drone mothership or underarmed warshipQ&A
- Modern Frigates: Cruisers by another name? (Patreon 57 Videos Comment Response)48:52What other navies can learn from Iver HuitfeldtNotable Point
- French 1920s & 1930s cruiser design/doctrine (Live)2:21:05Were French interwar warships merely reactions to foreign designs?Q&A
- Modern Frigates: Cruisers by any other name? (Patreon 57 Long Patrol)35:10How Constellation reshapes the FREMM baselineChapter
- Modern Frigates: Cruisers by any other name? (Patreon 57 Long Patrol)1:11:54The F125 mismatch between size and air defenseNotable Point
- Modern Frigates: Cruisers by any other name? (Patreon 57 Long Patrol)1:37:02A mission-based definition of the modern cruiserChapter
- Modern Frigates: Cruisers by any other name? (Patreon 57 Long Patrol)1:40:19Apply the cruiser test to a modern warshipNotable Point
- UAD Homage and Questions of US Cruiser Introduction Answered (Long Patrol)0:00Belfast and Giussano ideas tested in UADChapter
- UAD Homage and Questions of US Cruiser Introduction Answered (Long Patrol)7:09Did the Omaha class actually work?Q&A
- UAD Homage and Questions of US Cruiser Introduction Answered (Long Patrol)31:44A little armour overturns the cruiser simulationNotable Point
- Patreon 57: Modern frigates, cruisers by another name?18:26How the ironclad frigate created the cruiserChapter
- Patreon 57: Modern frigates, cruisers by another name?43:42Why a cruiser needs a helicopterQ&A
- Patreon 57: Modern frigates, cruisers by another name?2:34:00Why modern warships do not regain heavy armourQ&A
- Patreon 57: Modern frigates, cruisers by another name?2:54:29Why a warship is not a naval main battle tankQ&A
- Patreon 57: Modern frigates, cruisers by another name?2:56:48Why replacement warships keep growingQ&A
- Technology an Introduction to a History... of Sorts...14:23How HMS Warrior combined existing technologiesNotable Point
- Action of the 18th June 1799: How to Lose Frigates and Influence (Live)59:01Different approaches to warship standardizationNotable 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)33:38From sound hulls to coherent American cruisersChapter
- Introduction to US Cruiser Strategy in the 1920s & 1930s (Long Patrol)38:42Omaha as an institutional design warningNotable Point
- Equitable London Treaties: Submarines & Fortifications (Long Patrol)17:24T-class and Gato submarines fit different missionsChapter
- A Treaty Inspired Destroyer Design Discussion: UAD & Patreon Infused video1:50What do five destroyer tonnage briefs reveal?Q&A
- A Treaty Inspired Destroyer Design Discussion: UAD & Patreon Infused video3:03Machinery consumes the small destroyer's weight marginNotable Point
- 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 video37:25Subdivision blurs the destroyer-cruiser boundaryNotable Point
- Pensacola Class: US Interwar Cruisers (Long Patrol)1:44The many design paths behind the Pensacola classChapter
- Pensacola Class: US Interwar Cruisers (Long Patrol)5:30Judge a cruiser by the role it was built to performNotable Point
- Pensacola Class: US Interwar Cruisers (Long Patrol)7:37Ten guns, a fine hull, and the price in stabilityChapter
- Pensacola Class: US Interwar Cruisers (Long Patrol)41:16Too many sound ideas in one cruiserChapter
- Pensacola Class: US Interwar Cruisers (Long Patrol)46:58A flawed design that still delivered capable serviceNotable Point
- Pensacola Class: US Interwar Cruisers (Long Patrol)50:42Holding navies accountable for role-driven designNotable Point
- Equitable London Treaty: Aircraft Carriers (Long Patrol)1:16:59Treaty tonnage, not indifference, constrained British carriersNotable Point
- An Equitable Washington Treaty: Overall Equitable Treaty & Summary (Long Patrol)9:22Why the 35,000-ton battleship limit looked unrealisticChapter
- An Equitable Washington Treaty: Overall Equitable Treaty & Summary (Long Patrol)14:48Why the counterfactual keeps a 16-inch gun ceilingNotable Point
- An Equitable Washington Treaty: Overall Equitable Treaty & Summary (Long Patrol)24:29Why undersized capital ships would become death trapsNotable Point
- Meeting a Tribal at last: HMCS Haida (live)3:38Why ocean-going destroyers had to be largeNotable Point
- An Equitable Washington Treaty: Other Ships & Fortifications (Long Patrol)21:14Hawkins, Omaha, and Nagara as cruiser benchmarksChapter
- 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)36:55Omaha joined old and new cruiser design ideasNotable Point
- An Equitable Washington Treaty: Other Ships & Fortifications (Long Patrol)42:06Natori's dispersed seven-gun layoutNotable Point
- SMS Admiral Spaun & the Novara class: Scout Cruisers of the Austro-Hungarian Navy (Long Patrol)7:43Scout cruisers for confined Adriatic watersChapter
- SMS Admiral Spaun & the Novara class: Scout Cruisers of the Austro-Hungarian Navy (Long Patrol)18:36Fast cruisers and the problem of punching upNotable Point
- SMS Admiral Spaun & the Novara class: Scout Cruisers of the Austro-Hungarian Navy (Long Patrol)20:24Alternative heavy Austrian cruiser conceptsNotable Point
- SMS Admiral Spaun & the Novara class: Scout Cruisers of the Austro-Hungarian Navy (Long Patrol)39:34Sankt Georg shows the missing capabilityNotable Point
- SMS Admiral Spaun & the Novara class: Scout Cruisers of the Austro-Hungarian Navy (Long Patrol)41:21Geography as a warship design requirementNotable Point
- Patreon 55: History of Survey Ships in the Royal Navy12:31William White's most important class and favorite shipQ&A
- Patreon 55: History of Survey Ships in the Royal Navy1:16:23Why ice-class ratings may leave a safety marginQ&A
- Patreon 55: History of Survey Ships in the Royal Navy1:18:44HMS Challenger as survey ship, escort, and test bedChapter
- Patreon 55: History of Survey Ships in the Royal Navy2:08:03Why the Alfonso-class cruisers used gun shieldsQ&A
- Patreon 54: Torpedo development 1900-1939 and it's impact on destroyer design an doctrine1:07:38Dreadnought was designed with torpedo defence in mindNotable Point
- Patreon 54: Torpedo development 1900-1939 and it's impact on destroyer design an doctrine1:49:44Torpedoes changed the ships that carried themNotable Point
- Patreon 54: Torpedo development 1900-1939 and it's impact on destroyer design an doctrine2:17:00Treaty displacement rules invited creative accountingQ&A
- Boadicea Class (1907): Scout Cruiser (Long Patrol)0:05The Admiralty turned a scout-cruiser competition into its own designChapter
- 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)12:10Why can a radical starship rebuild still be called a refit?Q&A
- Galaxy Class: A Naval Historian's view of Federation Cruisers & Ships of the 24th Century (Live)1:04:22Why an exploration cruiser needs so much spaceNotable Point
- Galaxy Class: A Naval Historian's view of Federation Cruisers & Ships of the 24th Century (Live)1:25:26Long development as the price of adaptabilityNotable Point
- Galaxy Class: A Naval Historian's view of Federation Cruisers & Ships of the 24th Century (Live)1:31:02The Galaxy class as an expeditionary institutionNotable Point
- Galaxy Class: A Naval Historian's view of Federation Cruisers & Ships of the 24th Century (Live)1:40:30Designed around the worst caseChapter
- Galaxy Class: A Naval Historian's view of Federation Cruisers & Ships of the 24th Century (Live)4:05:06Why was the Defiant class difficult to operate?Q&A
- Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN1:00Shared strategic needs do not require identical shipsChapter
- Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN38:08Operating in rough seas and hot climates shapes hull and power choicesNotable Point
- Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN40:59Canterbury, Absalon, and a three-ship New Zealand combat forceNotable Point
- Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN1:09:49Presence and common architecture without identical fleetsChapter
- A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Battleships Lost at Jutland)2:32An emergency British twelve-gun battleshipNotable Point
- A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Battleships Lost at Jutland)5:40Emergency construction versus industrial limitsNotable Point
- A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Battleships Lost at Jutland)13:29What triple turrets change in capital-ship layoutsQ&A
- A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Battleships Lost at Jutland)25:26Why three triple turrets beat a two-turret layoutQ&A
- A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Battleships Lost at Jutland)32:50Triple turrets for a Queen Mary-type battlecruiserNotable Point
- A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Battleships Lost at Jutland)46:52Orion's beam, stability, and torpedo protection disputeNotable Point
- A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Battleships Lost at Jutland)48:54Trading two knots for much heavier armourNotable Point
- Patreon 53: Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN36:47Why Type 26 variants can differ greatly in displacementQ&A
- Patreon 53: Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN1:52:24Why the Hunter design is being pulled toward air defenceNotable Point
- Patreon 53: Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN1:55:32Why a Canberra-class F-35 conversion is not simpleNotable Point
- Patreon 53: Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN2:01:54Canada's heavily armed surface-combatant traditionNotable Point
- Patreon 53: Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN2:06:08Type 26 as a shared architecture with national variantsNotable Point
- Patreon 53: Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN2:34:30Adapting a Trieste-derived LHD for Royal Navy operationsQ&A
- Patreon 53: Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN2:39:03Why common programmes need strategic compatibilityNotable Point
- Patreon 53: Comparison of Future Warships for the RN/RAN/RCN/RNZN2:49:07Common designs, national fleet mixesChapter
- Galaxy Class: Federation 24th Century1:46Why an exploration cruiser needs exceptional volumeChapter
- Galaxy Class: Federation 24th Century12:54The peaceful exploration label and wartime conversionChapter
- Galaxy Class: Federation 24th Century21:05Modularity explains the long development cycleNotable Point
- Galaxy Class: Federation 24th Century34:24Design margins for refits, speed, and heavier weaponsNotable Point
- Why the Galaxy Class are Cruisers in 12 minutes...1:27An exploration cruiser needs more than weapons spaceNotable Point
- Why the Galaxy Class are Cruisers in 12 minutes...3:11Cruiser flexibility versus a combat-specialist shipChapter
- 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)4:51Speed and tonnage in the Enterprise-Bismarck duelNotable Point
- 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)20:08Why two Type B cruisers could not justify a new designNotable Point
- Cut Price County Questions and a Modern Battle Cruiser: A UAD Infused Discussion (Long Patrol)29:42Enterprise's deck torpedoes, 4-inch battery, and quad turretsChapter
- Cut Price County Questions and a Modern Battle Cruiser: A UAD Infused Discussion (Long Patrol)37:02A long-range torpedo stops Bismarck's machineryNotable Point
- NMS Elisabeta (Romanian Navy): A Cruiser's Purpose (Long Patrol)11:03Design, speed, and ammunition commonalityChapter
- The Battle of Cape Ecnomus (256BC): Long Patrol20:08From triremes to the quinqueremeChapter
- The Battle of Cape Ecnomus (256BC): Long Patrol23:43Why copied warships still differed from their modelsNotable Point
- The Battle of Cape Ecnomus (256BC): Long Patrol36:23The quinquereme as the third-rate of its eraNotable Point
- County Class Cruiser Comment Response: A UAD Infused Discussion of the Part 8 Response (Long Patrol)7:56A twelve-gun British battleship tests the treaty counterfactualNotable Point
- County Class Cruiser Comment Response: A UAD Infused Discussion of the Part 8 Response (Long Patrol)14:02An all-forward battery changes the tactical geometryNotable Point
- County Class Cruiser Comment Response: A UAD Infused Discussion of the Part 8 Response (Long Patrol)14:51Why 11-inch guns did not solve the Deutschland class problemQ&A
- County Class Cruiser Comment Response: A UAD Infused Discussion of the Part 8 Response (Long Patrol)17:52Heavy-cruiser calibre must preserve rate of fireQ&A
- County Class Cruiser Comment Response: A UAD Infused Discussion of the Part 8 Response (Long Patrol)37:58The Cockatoo cruiser as an alternative eight-inch layoutQ&A
- County Class Cruiser Comment Response: A UAD Infused Discussion of the Part 8 Response (Long Patrol)46:30Alternative cruiser schemes make the County choice historicalNotable Point
- County Class Cruiser Comment Response: A UAD Infused Discussion of the Part 8 Response (Long Patrol)48:47Why design institutions make the County choice more revealingNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (8)20:34How flight-group limits would reshape carriersQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (8)36:59Why component-only treaty limits are hard to enforceQ&A
- More Questions of the Equitable Washington Treaty Answered: A UAD Infused Discussion (Long Patrol)33:18The limits of rebuilding old capital shipsQ&A
- More Questions of the Equitable Washington Treaty Answered: A UAD Infused Discussion (Long Patrol)37:40How national priorities shape treaty battleshipsQ&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
- Sentinel Class (1904): Scout Cruisers (Long Patrol)4:52A scout cruiser built around its machineryChapter
- Sentinel Class (1904): Scout Cruisers (Long Patrol)12:44A destroyer-fighting battery with little protectionChapter
- Sentinel Class (1904): Scout Cruisers (Long Patrol)14:07Why a new scout role kept old enginesChapter
- Sentinel Class (1904): Scout Cruisers (Long Patrol)45:44Scout cruisers as a missed turbine testbedChapter
- Titanic Lessons Learned 110yrs On (Long Patrol)0:55Safety design meets commercial pressureChapter
- Titanic Lessons Learned 110yrs On (Long Patrol)7:09Civilian standards still face the sea's full forceNotable Point
- Titanic Lessons Learned 110yrs On (Long Patrol)24:24Compartmentation had to buy evacuation timeChapter
- Titanic Lessons Learned 110yrs On (Long Patrol)45:49Design beyond the minimumChapter
- Titanic Lessons Learned 110yrs On (Long Patrol)51:17Albion and Bulwark show the cost of deleting useful marginNotable Point
- Duquesne class, Marine National (Long Patrol)38:18Ship efficiency rests on industrial foundationsChapter
- Duquesne class, Marine National (Long Patrol)41:11Why all-forward armament saves treaty displacementNotable Point
- All Forward vs Aft Balance Main Armament: A UAD infused Discussion (Long Patrol)0:46When all-forward armament makes senseChapter
- All Forward vs Aft Balance Main Armament: A UAD infused Discussion (Long Patrol)2:43Why an aft-heavy battery can create a vulnerabilityNotable Point
- All Forward vs Aft Balance Main Armament: A UAD infused Discussion (Long Patrol)9:20A heavy-cruiser comparison in Ultimate Admiral: DreadnoughtsChapter
- All Forward vs Aft Balance Main Armament: A UAD infused Discussion (Long Patrol)10:11Ocean range and canal limits in a cruiser designNotable Point
- All Forward vs Aft Balance Main Armament: A UAD infused Discussion (Long Patrol)19:17Battle-class destroyers and sectional armamentNotable Point
- All Forward vs Aft Balance Main Armament: A UAD infused Discussion (Long Patrol)20:28Close action changes the value of firing arcsChapter
- All Forward vs Aft Balance Main Armament: A UAD infused Discussion (Long Patrol)22:10German shipbuilding constraints and combat effectivenessNotable Point
- RMS Titanic, 110yrs on what lessons were learned?17:15When a launch schedule outruns new technologyNotable Point
- RMS Titanic, 110yrs on what lessons were learned?1:05:49Compartmentalization buys timeChapter
- RMS Titanic, 110yrs on what lessons were learned?1:10:54Eighteen years of innovation under old rulesNotable Point
- RMS Titanic, 110yrs on what lessons were learned?1:26:06Would extra bulkheads have made Titanic too heavy?Q&A
- RMS Titanic, 110yrs on what lessons were learned?1:26:58The most important design legacyQ&A
- RMS Titanic, 110yrs on what lessons were learned?1:50:25Titanic's warning for modern mega-shipsNotable Point
- RMS Titanic, 110yrs on what lessons were learned?2:08:41Why build a ship for limited sea conditions?Q&A
- Leipzig Class (Reichsmarine)0:59A light cruiser designed to fight while withdrawingChapter
- Leipzig Class (Reichsmarine)7:44Why Leipzig and Nürnberg are not straightforward sistersNotable Point
- Leipzig Class (Reichsmarine)12:08Hybrid machinery without a convincing range advantageNotable Point
- Leipzig Class (Reichsmarine)29:55Similar silhouettes concealed different protection schemesNotable Point
- Leipzig Class (Reichsmarine)43:29Experimentation did not require preserving a poor arrangementNotable Point
- Bruships 75: Following the 614th Running the Gauntlet10:00Why naval guns need specialised steelQ&A
- Bruships 75: Following the 614th Running the Gauntlet11:46Faster Nelson successors against Axis battleshipsNotable Point
- Bruships 75: Following the 614th Running the Gauntlet29:04The fleet-design trade-off between quality and numbersQ&A
- Bruships 75: Following the 614th Running the Gauntlet32:23How a larger Ticonderoga lineage could enlarge Type 81Q&A
- Bruships 75: Following the 614th Running the Gauntlet1:00:32Why big-gun ships carried torpedoesQ&A
- Bruships 75: Following the 614th Running the Gauntlet2:40:16Why Hood could not simply receive more aft armourQ&A
- Bruships 75: Following the 614th Running the Gauntlet2:50:34Why a G3 made more sense as a carrier conversion than HoodQ&A
- 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)29:42French destroyers in a Mediterranean speed competitionNotable Point
- 1939 Destroyer Doctrine: Patreon 50 (Long Patrol)1:19:05Why there is no universal destroyerNotable Point
- 1939 Destroyer Doctrine: Patreon 50 (Long Patrol)1:23:07Repair and replacement capacity shape destroyer doctrineNotable Point
- Battle of Singapore Straits (Equitable Washington Treaty Scenario): A UAD Infused(Long Patrol)11:38Why the British design reaches 50,000 tons loadedNotable 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)50:04All-forward designs meet canal and turret limitsChapter
- Patreon 50: 1939 Destroyer Doctrine of the combatant navies & Where did it come from?1:09:41Treaty figures still left real design marginsNotable Point
- ARA La Argentina(1937): Year of the Cruisers (Long Patrol)2:38A cadet-training cruiser built to make a statementChapter
- ARA La Argentina(1937): Year of the Cruisers (Long Patrol)10:26A speculative bridge from Arethusa to Town-class cruisersNotable Point
- ARA La Argentina(1937): Year of the Cruisers (Long Patrol)11:24Why range mattered more than a small speed advantageChapter
- ARA La Argentina(1937): Year of the Cruisers (Long Patrol)13:49Nine 6-inch guns, practical protection, and a shipborne floatplaneNotable Point
- ARA La Argentina(1937): Year of the Cruisers (Long Patrol)29:20A role-focused design and a possible Crown Colony precursorNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (11)7:57A larger British heavy cruiser after 1945Q&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (11)20:33Why Lion-class battleships would probably change by batchQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (11)23:30A twelve-gun King George V after treaty limits lapseQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (11)25:54Why a larger Bismarck invites design troubleQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (11)31:09Why Hood's redesign brought persistent excess weightQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (11)3:06:35Why the County-class destroyers left service earlyQ&A
- 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)15:00How pre-dreadnought habits outlasted the typeNotable Point
- A Rumble in the Tumble: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol)37:29Casemates, turrets, and usable firing arcsChapter
- 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)1:02:05Using simulation to test fleet-design argumentsChapter
- Adriatic if WWI hadn't started till 1918: A UAD infused Discussion (Long Patrol)1:08:42Why identical ship plans do not produce identical shipsNotable Point
- Adriatic if WWI hadn't started till 1918: A UAD infused Discussion (Long Patrol)1:15:38Software as a tool for naval-history analysisNotable Point
- Glorious Heritage Class of the Systems Commonwealth & SciFi Bruships6:00Using science fiction to test naval ideasNotable Point
- Glorious Heritage Class of the Systems Commonwealth & SciFi Bruships1:25:48Why not rebuild a self-repairing cruiser into a battleship?Q&A
- Glorious Heritage Class of the Systems Commonwealth & SciFi Bruships1:26:55What the Glorious Heritage carriesChapter
- Glorious Heritage Class of the Systems Commonwealth & SciFi Bruships1:35:37What would a battlecruiser version look like?Q&A
- Glorious Heritage Class of the Systems Commonwealth & SciFi Bruships1:38:36Battle blades and defensive trade-offsNotable Point
- Glorious Heritage Class of the Systems Commonwealth & SciFi Bruships1:42:31Do battle blades provide more than visual intimidation?Q&A
- Glorious Heritage Class of the Systems Commonwealth & SciFi Bruships2:20:50When every cruiser becomes an individual work of artNotable Point
- Glorious Heritage Class of the Systems Commonwealth & SciFi Bruships3:33:13Are the Glorious Heritage's weapons aimed mainly forward?Q&A
- 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)4:09Why all-forward batteries complicate machinery layoutQ&A
- 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)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)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)31:14Shell weight and accuracy in the UAD modelQ&A
- The 18in Gun HMS Agincourt and UAD video comment response (Long Patrol)32:28Recreating historical ships without exact templatesQ&A
- The 18in Gun HMS Agincourt and UAD video comment response (Long Patrol)47:17Internal and deck-mounted capital-ship torpedoesNotable Point
- If Hood Was the Washington Template not the exception: A UAD infused discussion9:10Designing a faster, larger NelsonChapter
- If Hood Was the Washington Template not the exception: A UAD infused discussion15:14Testing the design's weight trade-offsNotable Point
- 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 discussion38:23Why quadruple turrets impose a hull penaltyNotable Point
- If Hood Was the Washington Template not the exception: A UAD infused discussion42:19What 41,000 tons buys a capital shipChapter
- If Hood Was the Washington Template not the exception: A UAD infused discussion1:02:08Did negotiators know 35,000 tons meant compromise?Q&A
- If Hood Was the Washington Template not the exception: A UAD infused discussion1:06:02Gun calibre sets a floor beneath treaty tonnageNotable Point
- Glourious Heritage Class of the Systems Commonwealth (Long Patrol)27:10A huge cruiser made practical by automationNotable 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 Blue10:48Armour changes collide with a ship already under constructionNotable Point
- 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 Blue50:22Strengthened decks were not the same as armoured carrier decksQ&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 Blue1:01:05Why a battleship refit would skip a small calibre increaseQ&A
- Bruships 73: Some Old, Some New, None Borrowed, but Some Blue1:03:24Why a true Hood reconstruction required rebuilding her interiorQ&A
- Bruships 73: Some Old, Some New, None Borrowed, but Some Blue1:05:40How a two-ship class distorted the Nelson design compromiseNotable Point
- Bruships 73: Some Old, Some New, None Borrowed, but Some Blue1:26:08How the Tribal hull shaped later British destroyersQ&A
- Bruships 73: Some Old, Some New, None Borrowed, but Some Blue2:04:19Watertight spaces predated whole-ship compartmentationQ&A
- Bruships 73: Some Old, Some New, None Borrowed, but Some Blue2:10:24Upgrades cannot erase the age of the Arleigh Burke architectureNotable Point
- Bruships 73: Some Old, Some New, None Borrowed, but Some Blue2:17:38Why land rockets do not automatically belong on ordinary warshipsQ&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 Blue2:53:42The N3 sacrificed machinery space to its 18-inch batteryQ&A
- Bruships 73: Some Old, Some New, None Borrowed, but Some Blue2:59:03Reading ship design as forensic reconstructionNotable Point
- Konigsberg Class (Reichsmarine): Long Patrol0:59Why the Königsberg class defies a simple cruiser labelChapter
- Konigsberg Class (Reichsmarine): Long Patrol4:22A First World War minelayer instinct carried into a new eraNotable Point
- Konigsberg Class (Reichsmarine): Long Patrol10:51Modern hybrid machinery inside a dated cruiser hullNotable Point
- Konigsberg Class (Reichsmarine): Long Patrol13:02Treaty limits, industrial continuity, and a dated designChapter
- Konigsberg Class (Reichsmarine): Long Patrol45:16Ordering cruisers before settling what they were forNotable Point
- Konigsberg Class (Reichsmarine): Long Patrol1:00:21A Baltic cruiser asked to solve Atlantic problemsNotable Point
- Konigsberg Class (Reichsmarine): Long Patrol1:02:02Requirements drift and the reality behind a tidy planChapter
- 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)4:13Armour, weight, and speed pull against one anotherNotable Point
- 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)23:47Speed, armour, and turret layout in an alternate designNotable Point
- What if Washington allowed more than Nelson & Rodney: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol)5:22A 28-knot alternative to Nelson and RodneyChapter
- What if Washington allowed more than Nelson & Rodney: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol)25:54The machinery route to 28 knotsNotable Point
- County Class P4: The Norfolk class… and why they stopped - extended (Long Patrol)3:58Norfolk-class design within the County familyNotable Point
- County Class P4: The Norfolk class… and why they stopped - extended (Long Patrol)34:52County-class armour and the danger of stopping too muchNotable Point
- Cutting through some Cutters of the US Coast Guard (Long Patrol)24:16Treasury-class cutters and peacetime-first designNotable Point
- Cutting through some Cutters of the US Coast Guard (Long Patrol)32:02Healy and the challenge of arming icebreakersNotable Point
- An Introduction to US Coast Guard's presence missions & deployment (Long Patrol)8:47Harriet Lane shows the cutter design idealNotable Point
- All Forward Main Guns: Patreon 46 Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles (Long Patrol)0:20Why an all-forward battery is more than a treaty expedientChapter
- All Forward Main Guns: Patreon 46 Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles (Long Patrol)4:44G3: magazines, machinery, and existing dockyardsChapter
- All Forward Main Guns: Patreon 46 Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles (Long Patrol)9:01Why the G3's middle turret and funnel trunking draw criticismNotable Point
- All Forward Main Guns: Patreon 46 Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles (Long Patrol)22:48Why the first simulation cannot isolate gun layoutNotable Point
- All Forward Main Guns: Patreon 46 Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles (Long Patrol)24:32Three efficiencies behind an all-forward batteryNotable Point
- All Forward Main Guns: Patreon 46 Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles (Long Patrol)39:05Why two Nelsons demanded an unusually protected designChapter
- All Forward Main Guns: Patreon 46 Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles (Long Patrol)39:33How treaty limits encouraged the fast-battleship compromiseNotable Point
- All Forward Main Guns: Patreon 46 Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles (Long Patrol)41:11Nelson's bow-on geometry and three kinds of efficiencyNotable Point
- All Forward Main Guns: Patreon 46 Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles (Long Patrol)44:25Nelson's magazine, machinery, and two-shaft sequenceNotable Point
- All Forward Main Guns: Patreon 46 Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles (Long Patrol)45:03A faster three-shaft Nelson alternativeNotable Point
- All Forward Main Guns: Patreon 46 Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles (Long Patrol)52:03Nelson's compartmentalization made alternative tradeoffs visibleNotable Point
- All Forward Main Guns: Patreon 46 Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles (Long Patrol)1:15:12Offensive weapons forward, defensive weapons distributedNotable Point
- All Forward Main Guns: Patreon 46 Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles (Long Patrol)1:18:34Missile support, seawater protection, and ship zoningNotable Point
- All Forward Main Guns: Patreon 46 Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles (Long Patrol)1:21:03Weapons placement is a whole-ship problemChapter
- All Forward Main Guns: Patreon 46 Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles (Long Patrol)1:35:55Why class size changes acceptable design riskNotable Point
- HMS Tiger - The Battle Cruiser Hunter 2, The UAD Version: A UAD infused Discussion (Long Patrol)0:43Rebalancing Tiger's speed, protection, and weightChapter
- HMS Tiger - The Battle Cruiser Hunter 2, The UAD Version: A UAD infused Discussion (Long Patrol)16:45Torpedoes as an offset weaponNotable Point
- 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
- HMS Tiger - The Battle Cruiser Hunter 2, The UAD Version: A UAD infused Discussion (Long Patrol)37:19Secondary batteries should follow the threatNotable Point
- HMS Tiger - The Battle Cruiser Hunter 2, The UAD Version: A UAD infused Discussion (Long Patrol)38:12Avoid overlapping missile systemsNotable Point
- HMS Tiger - The Battle Cruiser Hunter 2, The UAD Version: A UAD infused Discussion (Long Patrol)41:42When changing Type 26 means designing a new shipChapter
- Patreon 46: Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles - Good or Bad to Concentrate Main Armament5:40Were G3 and N3 the parents of Nelson and Rodney?Q&A
- Patreon 46: Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles - Good or Bad to Concentrate Main Armament6:22Why put every heavy gun forward?Chapter
- Patreon 46: Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles - Good or Bad to Concentrate Main Armament12:02G3: concentrating armour, machinery, and dockyard needsNotable Point
- Patreon 46: Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles - Good or Bad to Concentrate Main Armament20:05Would a transom stern have made Nelson faster?Q&A
- Patreon 46: Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles - Good or Bad to Concentrate Main Armament26:07Would a transom stern save much weight on Nelson?Q&A
- Patreon 46: Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles - Good or Bad to Concentrate Main Armament26:24Why not move the third turret aft?Q&A
- Patreon 46: Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles - Good or Bad to Concentrate Main Armament28:00Earlier precedents for separating guns and machineryNotable Point
- Patreon 46: Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles - Good or Bad to Concentrate Main Armament35:02Why wing turrets would not cure G3's aft blind arcQ&A
- Patreon 46: Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles - Good or Bad to Concentrate Main Armament35:32Why the Royal Navy preferred three triple turretsQ&A
- Patreon 46: Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles - Good or Bad to Concentrate Main Armament36:00Was G3 a battlecruiser or a fast battleship?Q&A
- Patreon 46: Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles - Good or Bad to Concentrate Main Armament52:40How the G3 and N3 design letters workedNotable 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 Armament1:12:04Could superstructure sit over a main-battery turret?Q&A
- Patreon 46: Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles - Good or Bad to Concentrate Main Armament1:12:54Could a rebuilt G3 move its middle turret?Q&A
- Patreon 46: Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles - Good or Bad to Concentrate Main Armament1:17:03Chatfield, gun policy, and the turn away from NelsonQ&A
- Patreon 46: Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles - Good or Bad to Concentrate Main Armament1:19:57France's twelve-gun alternative and its fleet costNotable Point
- Patreon 46: Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles - Good or Bad to Concentrate Main Armament1:24:15Why was Dunkerque not protected against Hood's guns?Q&A
- Patreon 46: Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles - Good or Bad to Concentrate Main Armament1:26:07Dunkerque as a compact answer to treaty threatsChapter
- Patreon 46: Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles - Good or Bad to Concentrate Main Armament1:34:00Could deleting Nelson's torpedoes fund more speed?Q&A
- Patreon 46: Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles - Good or Bad to Concentrate Main Armament1:37:11Why place fuel between Dunkerque's boilers and magazines?Q&A
- Patreon 46: Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles - Good or Bad to Concentrate Main Armament1:38:49Dunkerque's speed and machinery compromiseQ&A
- Patreon 46: Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles - Good or Bad to Concentrate Main Armament1:51:28Could Tone raise both B and D turrets?Q&A
- Patreon 46: Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles - Good or Bad to Concentrate Main Armament1:52:55Could the Royal Navy have built an all-forward heavy cruiser?Notable Point
- Patreon 46: Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles - Good or Bad to Concentrate Main Armament2:06:04Lighter mounts make an aft destroyer gun practical againNotable Point
- Patreon 46: Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles - Good or Bad to Concentrate Main Armament2:27:05A proposal for more Sea Wolf and Harpoon missiles on Type 23Notable Point
- Patreon 46: Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles - Good or Bad to Concentrate Main Armament2:33:00Type 45 and Kirov make forward concentration a missile-age normNotable Point
- Patreon 46: Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles - Good or Bad to Concentrate Main Armament2:35:54Can heavy seas disable an all-forward battery?Q&A
- Patreon 46: Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles - Good or Bad to Concentrate Main Armament2:36:40Richelieu: fast and powerful, but constrained by quadruple turretsChapter
- Patreon 46: Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles - Good or Bad to Concentrate Main Armament2:42:11Why distribute a third French battleship turret?Q&A
- Patreon 46: Nelsons, Dunkerques, Tones and Battles - Good or Bad to Concentrate Main Armament2:45:29What occupied Richelieu's aft secondary-turret block?Q&A
- HMS Tiger - The Battle Cruiser Hunter: A UAD infused discussion2:23Tiger's mixed-fuel machinery and protectionNotable 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 discussion24:27Building a Seydlitz-like German opponentChapter
- Forward (1904) Class: Scout Cruisers (Long Patrol)8:23Forward class machinery, armament, and enduranceChapter
- Forward (1904) Class: Scout Cruisers (Long Patrol)12:45When 25 knots stopped being enoughNotable Point
- British Industry P4/4: Mobile Infrastructure (Bermuda Floating Docks to Illustrate)2:40Dock capacity shapes practical ship sizeNotable Point
- British Industry P4/4: Mobile Infrastructure (Bermuda Floating Docks to Illustrate)50:08Infrastructure constrains capital-ship designNotable Point
- Comparing Sisters(Not Kardashians) - HMS Renown & Repulse / HMS Nelson & Rodney (Long Patrol)1:49Why sister ships acquire different reputationsChapter
- Comparing Sisters(Not Kardashians) - HMS Renown & Repulse / HMS Nelson & Rodney (Long Patrol)8:14Why navies build ships in pairsChapter
- Comparing Sisters(Not Kardashians) - HMS Renown & Repulse / HMS Nelson & Rodney (Long Patrol)29:18Air power was anticipated, but its timetable was uncertainNotable Point
- Patreon 45: Comparing Sisters(Not Kardashians) - HMS Renown & Repulse / HMS Nelson & Rodney9:40Why compare sister ships?Chapter
- Patreon 45: Comparing Sisters(Not Kardashians) - HMS Renown & Repulse / HMS Nelson & Rodney31:56Why Dreadnought was built as a single shipNotable Point
- Patreon 45: Comparing Sisters(Not Kardashians) - HMS Renown & Repulse / HMS Nelson & Rodney36:53From R-class battleship to battlecruiserChapter
- Patreon 45: Comparing Sisters(Not Kardashians) - HMS Renown & Repulse / HMS Nelson & Rodney1:09:58Framing distinguishes battleships from battlecruisersNotable Point
- Patreon 45: Comparing Sisters(Not Kardashians) - HMS Renown & Repulse / HMS Nelson & Rodney1:39:50Q&A: why Renown did not carry a fourth turretQ&A
- Patreon 45: Comparing Sisters(Not Kardashians) - HMS Renown & Repulse / HMS Nelson & Rodney2:22:33Q&A: why Renown and Repulse began from the Revenge designQ&A
- Patreon 45: Comparing Sisters(Not Kardashians) - HMS Renown & Repulse / HMS Nelson & Rodney2:34:44How the battlecruiser became the fast battleshipQ&A
- Patreon 45: Comparing Sisters(Not Kardashians) - HMS Renown & Repulse / HMS Nelson & Rodney2:46:17Why Nelson and Rodney carried all main guns forwardChapter
- Patreon 45: Comparing Sisters(Not Kardashians) - HMS Renown & Repulse / HMS Nelson & Rodney2:52:34Q&A: could Nelson fire all nine guns ahead?Q&A
- British Industry: The More than Just Ships P3/4: Maintaining (Royal Navy Dockyards II)3:12When ships outgrow their dockyardsNotable Point
- Some Sunday Naval Books20:41Town-class cruisers and the design spiralChapter
- Some Sunday Naval Books24:50Armament choices drove the Town-class design spiralNotable Point
- What a the choice of Secondary gun calibre tells us: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol)0:24A Baltic battlecruiser as a gun-calibre testbedChapter
- What a the choice of Secondary gun calibre tells us: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol)16:49Reading a navy's expected battle from its secondary batteryChapter
- What a the choice of Secondary gun calibre tells us: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol)22:00How fleet support shapes secondary armamentNotable Point
- What a the choice of Secondary gun calibre tells us: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol)23:17Why independent surface raiders accumulate gunsNotable Point
- What a the choice of Secondary gun calibre tells us: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol)30:55Reading design evidence against surviving paperworkNotable Point
- British Industry: The More than Just Ships P2/4: Maintaining (Royal Navy Dockyards I)6:35A global dockyard network can still constrain ship sizeNotable Point
- British Industry: The More than Just Ships P2/4: Maintaining (Royal Navy Dockyards I)7:32Existing docks favored a 20,000-ton cruiser forceNotable Point
- British Industry: The More than Just Ships P2/4: Maintaining (Royal Navy Dockyards I)8:36The 1909 dock table reveals class-by-class limitsNotable Point
- British Industry: The More than Just Ships P2/4: Maintaining (Royal Navy Dockyards I)55:45Global basing can support reach while capping ship sizeNotable Point
- Bruships 69: The Decider1:57:42Armouring a carrier for its likely threatQ&A
- Bruships 69: The Decider2:10:15Changing carrier limits mattered more than closing loopholesQ&A
- The Forgotten Trafalgar: The 1509 Battle of Diu (Long Patrol)10:28Ocean-going ships and the route to IndiaNotable Point
- A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality UAD - HMS Queen Mary 3 (Long Patrol)0:22Setting a Queen Mary alternative against RenownChapter
- A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality UAD - HMS Queen Mary 3 (Long Patrol)1:46Armour protection has a direct displacement priceNotable Point
- 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)17:20Speed gives cruisers room to use forward firepowerNotable Point
- British Industry: The More than Just Ships P1/4 - Building (Long Patrol)3:48Dockyards as a limit on capital-ship designChapter
- 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)6:16Weight, funnels, and the price of speedNotable Point
- 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)26:12Why armoured conning towers lost their appealChapter
- Scout Cruisers & Conning Towers: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol)37:57The conning tower as an expensive compromiseNotable Point
- Patreon 44 "More than just ships: Infrastructure - the yards that ruled the world"1:05:40Dock size as a constraint on ship designNotable Point
- Patreon 44 "More than just ships: Infrastructure - the yards that ruled the world"2:14:35HMS Gorgon became too wide for Norway's docksNotable Point
- Patreon 44 "More than just ships: Infrastructure - the yards that ruled the world"2:23:10The global dock network favoured a 20,000-ton heavy cruiserNotable Point
- Adventure (1904) Class: Scout Cruisers (Long Patrol)12:31Adventure's design: speed, range and gunsNotable Point
- Adventure (1904) Class: Scout Cruisers (Long Patrol)14:28Protection that made little sense in a close meleeNotable Point
- Adventure (1904) Class: Scout Cruisers (Long Patrol)36:08Why the Town class displaced the scout-cruiser compromiseNotable Point
- The Imperial Russian Navy between the Russo-Japanese War & WWI: Long Patrol57:42The Russian triple-turret dreadnought layoutNotable Point
- The Imperial Russian Navy between the Russo-Japanese War & WWI: Long Patrol1:07:17Imperatritsa Mariya: quality within Russian meansChapter
- Pluton 1928 (Long Patrol)20:38A large fast minelayer with several possible rolesChapter
- Pluton 1928 (Long Patrol)22:39A minelayer arranged like a shipboard railwayNotable Point
- Pluton 1928 (Long Patrol)40:56How auxiliary loads cut Pluton's practical rangeNotable Point
- Bruships 67: Cruising on through with Questions & Bru25:46What makes a four-quadruple-turret battleship superQ&A
- Bruships 67: Cruising on through with Questions & Bru2:35:44Why warships moved away from tripod mastsQ&A
- The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Long Patrol)3:57Who really controls cruiser design?Notable Point
- The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Long Patrol)10:20Four questions that shape a warshipChapter
- The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Long Patrol)18:45Mission fit drives the cruiser layoutNotable Point
- The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Long Patrol)22:37Sea conditions and threats set hard constraintsChapter
- The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Long Patrol)31:41Presence needs space as well as armamentNotable Point
- The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Long Patrol)39:01How expected opponents determine cruiser armamentNotable Point
- The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Long Patrol)57:00Constellation must be adapted, not merely copiedNotable Point
- The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Long Patrol)1:02:56War-built ships can struggle when peace returnsNotable Point
- The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Long Patrol)1:06:21Ticonderoga carries cruiser status on a destroyer hullNotable Point
- The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Long Patrol)1:07:29Cruiser design makes national strategy visibleChapter
- The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Long Patrol)1:09:53A follow-on battlecruiser restores peacetime utilityNotable Point
- The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Live)9:54Which ship was the last purpose-built US cruiser hull?Q&A
- The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Live)10:10What made a good 1930s cruiser?Q&A
- The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Live)12:20Which cruisers broke the fundamental design rules?Q&A
- The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Live)19:09Cruiser work does not begin when war startsNotable Point
- The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Live)23:07Four questions before designing a cruiserChapter
- The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Live)31:41Operating waters shape the hullChapter
- The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Live)35:41Why a Mediterranean OPV may fail around the FalklandsQ&A
- The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Live)37:17Was Zumwalt itself a waste of money?Q&A
- The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Live)39:32Could one cruiser suit all four Russian fleets?Q&A
- The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Live)56:25Was Alaska an unnatural cruiser design?Q&A
- The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Live)57:16Air defence is shaped by the theatreNotable Point
- The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Live)58:09Can cruiser combat capability be compared fairly?Q&A
- The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Live)1:15:05A cruiser can project confidence as well as firepowerNotable Point
- The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Live)1:33:45What were the Admiral Hipper cruisers meant to do?Q&A
- The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Live)1:39:58How German heavy ships spent displacement inefficientlyNotable Point
- The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Live)1:53:49Town and Chester: fighting power versus presenceNotable Point
- The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Live)1:54:45Town and Brooklyn: two valid cruiser answersChapter
- The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Live)2:25:04What would a British counterpart to Alaska look like?Q&A
- The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Live)2:33:27Would licensed Mogami or Zara cruisers have helped Germany?Q&A
- The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Live)2:39:05Would retired Aegis ships suit Taiwan?Q&A
- The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Live)3:09:39Design peacetime access around combat requirementsChapter
- The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Live)3:12:27How old is the Arleigh Burke design?Q&A
- The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Live)3:16:23Should diplomatic space be a removable module?Q&A
- The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Live)3:20:28Which cruiser concept was wrong for its role?Q&A
- The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Live)3:21:12Has naval development slowed because hulls last longer?Q&A
- Nautilus class (Kaiserliche Marine): Long Patrol2:58Nautilus and Albatross: similar ships, different hull formsNotable Point
- Nautilus class (Kaiserliche Marine): Long Patrol7:05When identical reference figures hide real ship differencesNotable Point
- Nautilus class (Kaiserliche Marine): Long Patrol31:25Reading a purpose-built minelayer from stern to draftNotable Point
- Nautilus class (Kaiserliche Marine): Long Patrol34:11Defensive capability constrained by politicsNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (10)41:52Designing a more coherent pocket battleshipQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (10)1:30:24A heavier Hawkins-class cruiser with 9.2-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (10)1:33:29Saving money on a County cruiser without sacrificing speedQ&A
- Question Time: Answering Knight6831's Questions (Long Patrol)28:56A distant base is not an ocean-going task forceQ&A
- County Cruisers P1: The Kent Class (Long Patrol)17:43The Royal Navy’s unbuilt heavy-cruiser conceptNotable Point
- County Cruisers P1: The Kent Class (Long Patrol)25:20Why Britain deferred a larger heavy cruiserNotable Point
- County Cruisers P1: The Kent Class (Long Patrol)35:59Kent-class machinery, speed, and rangeChapter
- Bruships 65: Naval History Books & Questions Answered1:17:04What the poop deck did aboard sailing shipsQ&A
- Bruships 65: Naval History Books & Questions Answered2:19:35When forecastles and sterncastles ceased to be fighting positionsQ&A
- A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (The Battle Cruiser Permutation)0:41Queen Mary as a triple-turret testbedQ&A
- A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (The Battle Cruiser Permutation)2:49Royal Navy test ships and the missing experimentNotable Point
- A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (The Battle Cruiser Permutation)3:50Designing a fast oil-fired battlecruiserNotable Point
- A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (The Battle Cruiser Permutation)5:56Protection and displacement pressureNotable Point
- 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)22:17Deck space and the value of triple turretsChapter
- A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (The Battle Cruiser Permutation)27:26One-off battlecruisers and design experimentationNotable Point
- A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Comment Response)1:26Testing a triple-turret Orion conceptChapter
- A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Comment Response)3:56A conservative triple-turret battleship layoutChapter
- A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Comment Response)13:02Separating machinery from magazinesQ&A
- A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Comment Response)17:42Speed and oil firing in a radical designQ&A
- A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Comment Response)22:07A possible 1907 constructors-course triple-turret leadNotable Point
- A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Comment Response)44:42Why the alternative design has a lightly armoured conning towerQ&A
- A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Comment Response)48:08Turtleback armour before all-or-nothing protectionNotable 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)13:32Range, machinery, and the cost of 24 knotsNotable 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)24:13Alternative triple- and twin-turret batteriesNotable Point
- A Historical Possibility: Triple Turret Potentiality (Long Patrol)26:01Why the Royal Navy may have kept twin turretsChapter
- Abdiel Class: When You Want To Really Go Fast (Long Patrol)0:36Why the Abdiels were built for speedChapter
- Abdiel Class: When You Want To Really Go Fast (Long Patrol)8:55Cruiser machinery in a much lighter hullNotable Point
- Abdiel Class: When You Want To Really Go Fast (Long Patrol)13:50A 156-mine payload rather than a gunfighter's armamentNotable Point
- Abdiel Class: When You Want To Really Go Fast (Long Patrol)17:19The fuel cost of nearly 40 knotsNotable Point
- Abdiel Class: When You Want To Really Go Fast (Long Patrol)42:14Speed as the Abdiel class's protectionChapter
- M29 Class (M33 special, Ep2/2) - Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol Part 90:29The M29 class as purpose-built fire supportChapter
- M29 Class (M33 special, Ep2/2) - Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol Part 95:00A monitor built around guns, machinery, and storesNotable Point
- M29 Class (M33 special, Ep2/2) - Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol Part 937:07The wheelhouse combined visibility, command, and flagsNotable Point
- M29 Class (M33 special, Ep2/2) - Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol Part 944:59A raised bow balanced sea-keeping against weightNotable Point
- M29 Class (M33 special, Ep2/2) - Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol Part 946:46Command spaces packed into M33's compact hullNotable Point
- M29 Class (M33 special, Ep1/2) - Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol Part 94:54Why monitors sacrifice speed for gunsChapter
- M29 Class (M33 special, Ep1/2) - Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol Part 918:31Marshal Ney class: diesel machinery's early trade-offNotable Point
- M29 Class (M33 special, Ep1/2) - Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol Part 936:48Reading M33's hull in Portsmouth dockyardNotable Point
- ASW and Submarine Warfare in the Inter-War Royal Navy: 1920s & 1930s (Long Patrol)4:58Why one escort design could not suit every stationNotable Point
- 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)11:08How the Odin, Parthian, and Rainbow classes evolvedNotable Point
- ASW and Submarine Warfare in the Inter-War Royal Navy: 1920s & 1930s (Long Patrol)12:11Why the S class became Britain's medium submarineNotable Point
- ASW and Submarine Warfare in the Inter-War Royal Navy: 1920s & 1930s (Long Patrol)18:40How escort roles shaped speed, weapons, and enduranceChapter
- The Challenger Expedition (Long Patrol)20:00How Challenger made room for science at seaNotable Point
- Patreon 39:What if Courageous and Glorious had survived?19:20Light protection and remarkably rapid constructionNotable Point
- Patreon 39:What if Courageous and Glorious had survived?30:26Heavier aircraft require new accelerators and arrestor gearQ&A
- Patreon 39:What if Courageous and Glorious had survived?1:01:29Why carrier islands preserve hangar spaceNotable Point
- Inspiration of Theorists: The Maritime & Strategic Lessons of the Seven Years War (1756-63)3:23:37Q&A: dedicated shipping is a recurring requirementQ&A
- Bruships 62: Naval History Book Review & Chat1:47:29Starting a modern large cruiser from the Zumwalt hullQ&A
- Bruships 62: Naval History Book Review & Chat3:23:45Triple 15-inch guns as a King George V alternativeQ&A
- 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 Design2:53N3's 18-inch gun and the Agincourt design hypothesisNotable Point
- My G3/N3 Dreadnought Battleship + Battle Cruiser = Fast Battleship Design6:00What a naval game can test that a drawing cannotNotable Point
- My G3/N3 Dreadnought Battleship + Battle Cruiser = Fast Battleship Design7:22The cost of a quadruple-turret G3 hullChapter
- 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 Design10:53A 1920s six-inch dual-purpose secondary batteryNotable Point
- 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 Design15:23Moving the secondary battery to test its firing arcsNotable Point
- My G3/N3 Dreadnought Battleship + Battle Cruiser = Fast Battleship Design19:33The British preference for a minimal conning towerNotable Point
- My G3/N3 Dreadnought Battleship + Battle Cruiser = Fast Battleship Design21:30Designing a general-purpose battleship for fleet actionChapter
- My G3/N3 Dreadnought Battleship + Battle Cruiser = Fast Battleship Design31:24A shorter armour belt as the final compromiseNotable Point
- The Sinking of HMS Rawalpindi, 23rd of November 1939; Long patrol10:46Rawalpindi before conversion: a P&O mixed linerChapter
- Bruships 61 - Ship Design; Sci-fi, Wooden & Steel, and some Naval History Questions7:02Using fictional ships to test design trade-offsChapter
- Bruships 61 - Ship Design; Sci-fi, Wooden & Steel, and some Naval History Questions23:37An improved 15-inch gun can beat an awkward 16-inch conversionQ&A
- Bruships 61 - Ship Design; Sci-fi, Wooden & Steel, and some Naval History Questions42:18Designing a self-sustaining deep-space shipChapter
- Bruships 61 - Ship Design; Sci-fi, Wooden & Steel, and some Naval History Questions1:34:37Tracing Battlestar Galactica ships from concept to screenChapter
- Bruships 61 - Ship Design; Sci-fi, Wooden & Steel, and some Naval History Questions1:38:34Why a sixth turret would not improve Moltke cheaplyQ&A
- Bruships 61 - Ship Design; Sci-fi, Wooden & Steel, and some Naval History Questions1:46:10Moltke's low stern creates a superfiring appearanceQ&A
- Bruships 61 - Ship Design; Sci-fi, Wooden & Steel, and some Naval History Questions2:43:35Why carrier-battleship hybrids make more sense in spaceQ&A
- The 3 Type 26s - City, Hunter & CSC, where do they fit in the WWII navies that they will serve?0:46Why Type 26 is an anti-submarine specialistChapter
- The 3 Type 26s - City, Hunter & CSC, where do they fit in the WWII navies that they will serve?4:32A frigate with cruiser-like scale and a flexible weapon fitChapter
- The 3 Type 26s - City, Hunter & CSC, where do they fit in the WWII navies that they will serve?14:01What the three variants share in hull and enduranceNotable Point
- Patreon 38: Evaluating Type 26 Frigates against WW2 ship classes...4:48A frigate shaped by a quarter-century of changeChapter
- Patreon 38: Evaluating Type 26 Frigates against WW2 ship classes...12:36Why Type 26 should improve on Type 23 in anti-submarine warfareQ&A
- Patreon 38: Evaluating Type 26 Frigates against WW2 ship classes...23:17Why warships still favour shaft-and-screw propulsionQ&A
- Patreon 38: Evaluating Type 26 Frigates against WW2 ship classes...1:12:36A design built around anti-submarine warfareNotable Point
- Patreon 38: Evaluating Type 26 Frigates against WW2 ship classes...1:57:31Railguns trade desired firepower against power and ammunition supplyQ&A
- Patreon 38: Evaluating Type 26 Frigates against WW2 ship classes...2:10:43Twin medium guns trade maintenance savings for combat resilienceQ&A
- Bruships 60: Covid Jab, Bad Back & New Books18:22Modular ships need room to growQ&A
- Bruships 60: Covid Jab, Bad Back & New Books2:41:11Bora-class speed versus usable combat powerChapter
- 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 Patrol16:34HMS Warrior's selective armour schemeNotable Point
- Trafalgar to Dreadnought: 1805-1905 Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc - Long Patrol43:56Armoured cruisers as Dreadnought's design ancestorsNotable Point
- 21 Christmas Books for 2021 - Bruships 59: Books & Naval History Chat24:19Why ship design is his favourite naval subjectQ&A
- 21 Christmas Books for 2021 - Bruships 59: Books & Naval History Chat25:26Why the Tone-class hybrid is a compromiseQ&A
- 21 Christmas Books for 2021 - Bruships 59: Books & Naval History Chat28:54Carrier guns should support the carrier roleQ&A
- 21 Christmas Books for 2021 - Bruships 59: Books & Naval History Chat37:22Destroyers lower deck rails before torpedo actionQ&A
- 21 Christmas Books for 2021 - Bruships 59: Books & Naval History Chat1:13:49What a viable Béarn carrier rebuild needsQ&A
- 21 Christmas Books for 2021 - Bruships 59: Books & Naval History Chat1:19:36An 18-inch Revenge class would favour six guns and speedQ&A
- 21 Christmas Books for 2021 - Bruships 59: Books & Naval History Chat2:30:48Armoured cruisers on the road to DreadnoughtQ&A
- 21 Christmas Books for 2021 - Bruships 59: Books & Naval History Chat2:57:51What purpose-built carrier design makes possibleQ&A
- 21 Christmas Books for 2021 - Bruships 59: Books & Naval History Chat3:08:23Where Japan's B-65 super cruisers might fitQ&A
- 21 Christmas Books for 2021 - Bruships 59: Books & Naval History Chat3:21:33A Bay-class successor with broader utilityQ&A
- Interwar RN logistics - The Good, The Bad, and The Singapore: Long Patrol43:02Dale, Wave, and Fast Leaf tanker capabilitiesNotable Point
- 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
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (8)4:48Why capital ships separated guns and machineryQ&A
- 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)2:56:19Why the U.S. Navy cannot shrink an escort much below a frigateQ&A
- Battle of Kentish Knock (8th of October 1652)16:07Why English ports produced heavier fighting shipsNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7)1:10:05Treaty warships take shape before ratificationNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7)1:46:10Why navies build before the ideal design is readyNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7)1:56:59Why British warships needed better habitability than German shipsQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (7)2:51:48Clues behind the hypothetical 18-inch AgincourtNotable Point
- 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)3:36:13Designing for requirement growth in naval procurementNotable Point
- 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
- Favourite Dreadnoughts – Battleships & Battle Cruisers…34:25Why early dreadnoughts often preferred twin turretsQ&A
- Patreon 33: Amphibious ship development from 1980's to modern day.29:59Heavy guns fit an LHD more easily than fixed-wing aviationQ&A
- Patreon 33: Amphibious ship development from 1980's to modern day.1:20:49Commercial standards do not erase military requirementsQ&A
- Patreon 33: Amphibious ship development from 1980's to modern day.1:27:52Karel Doorman's dock works, but manoeuvring is tightQ&A
- Patreon 33: Amphibious ship development from 1980's to modern day.1:36:13Why a serious amphibious ship grows so largeQ&A
- Patreon 33: Amphibious ship development from 1980's to modern day.1:57:22A submerged amphibious ship becomes a very large submarineQ&A
- Victims of the Kantai Kessen: Japanese Cruisers of the 1920s & 1930s (Long Patrol / Patreon 32)0:55Japanese heavy cruisers as reconnaissance by forceChapter
- 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
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) - P14/14: Ernesto Burzagli16:00Speed, cruisers, and the Mediterranean air threatChapter
- 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 & Detterence4:06:20How naval guns handle fore-and-aft firingQ&A
- A Book or Two to Review (32): Total Germany9:37How MAC-ship conversion moved from idea to serviceChapter
- A Book or Two to Review (32): Total Germany13:03The Admiralty work behind the MAC-ship shortcutNotable Point
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 1/11 Archer Class4:19Torpedo cruisers before the destroyer nameNotable Point
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 1/11 Archer Class5:37Archer and Arethusa classes beside scout cruisersNotable Point
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 1/11 Archer Class11:34A precursor to the general-purpose destroyerChapter
- Battle of the Atlantic (Redo): Comment Response15:40Escort building and ASW readinessQ&A
- Battle of the Atlantic (Redo): Comment Response18:00Black Swan sloops and the escort-carrier answerQ&A
- Patreon 30: Japanese hybrid warships of WW23:05Why science-fiction warships often become hybridsQ&A
- Patreon 30: Japanese hybrid warships of WW22:52:27What a modern missile battlecarrier might requireQ&A
- Patreon 30: Japanese hybrid warships of WW23:02:51A warship must arrive, fight, and return homeNotable Point
- Japanese Hybrids: Teaser for Today's Patreon Live1:54Ise and Hyuga before the carrier conversionNotable Point
- Japanese Hybrids: Teaser for Today's Patreon Live8:31Why the Ise and Hyuga hybrid conversion fell shortChapter
- Japanese Hybrids: Teaser for Today's Patreon Live10:55The reconnaissance-carrier concept and a more complete conversionNotable Point
- Japanese Hybrids: Teaser for Today's Patreon Live14:21Chitose-class seaplane tenders as the better conversion pathNotable Point
- Battle of the Atlantic: Escort Procurement Long Patrol0:22Ordering, design, and escort readinessChapter
- Battle of the Atlantic: Escort Procurement Long Patrol6:06Kingfishers, trawlers, and prototype escortsChapter
- Battle of the Atlantic: Escort Procurement Long Patrol8:51From DNC requirements to a shipyard-ready designNotable Point
- Battle of the Atlantic: Escort Procurement Long Patrol10:50From Bridgewater sloops to Flower corvettesNotable Point
- Battle of the Atlantic: Escort Procurement Long Patrol13:08Flower-class design for commercial-yard capacityChapter
- Battle of the Atlantic: Escort Procurement Long Patrol21:20Bittern hull lineage and iterative escort designChapter
- Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas (Non-Churchill) – The Comment Questions...1:14:04The Defiant P.94 as a missed naval aviation optionQ&A
- Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas (Non-Churchill) – The Comment Questions...1:27:10Battlecruisers as a logical continuation, not a crackpot schemeQ&A
- Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas (Non-Churchill) – The Comment Questions...1:29:21Cruiser submarines traded agility for range and payloadQ&A
- Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas (Non-Churchill) – The Comment Questions...1:51:20Guided-missile submarines are the closest modern cruiser-submarine analogueNotable Point
- Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas (Non-Churchill) – The Comment Questions...1:52:08An armored turret could not protect the whole submarineQ&A
- 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 (Non-Churchill) – The Comment Questions...1:59:53Steam rams failed when collision became the main weaponQ&A
- Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas (Churchill WWI) – The Comment Questions16:05Did Revenge end Britain's battleship-design lead?Q&A
- Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas (Churchill WWI) – The Comment Questions19:59Agincourt and the super-dreadnought pathNotable Point
- Steam Rams: Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p6/70:29Confederate steam rams and Royal Navy purchaseChapter
- Steam Rams: Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p6/74:55Ramming as secondary bow strengthNotable 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 p5/70:19Why gun-armed cruiser submarines appealed in the 1920sChapter
- Cruiser Submarine: Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p5/76:28Gun-mount weight and waterproofingNotable Point
- Cruiser Submarine: Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p5/710:10The case for ending cruiser-submarine gun experiments soonerNotable Point
- Cruiser Submarine: Crackpot Schemes or Good Ideas Badly Done p5/711:04A larger T-class submarine as the alternativeChapter
- A Book or Two to Review (17): Naval Aviation in the First World War1:54Flight-deck carrier design problems before 1914Chapter
- A Book or Two to Review (17): Naval Aviation in the First World War4:26Distributed aircraft, carriers, and hybrid warshipsNotable Point
- Churchill's Iniatives (WWII); Long patrol p2/3 - Force Z2:21Admiral-class carriers and survivabilityNotable Point
- Churchill's Iniatives (WWII); Long patrol p2/3 - Force Z8:19Illustrious-class build delaysNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (16): Carrier, A Century of First-Hand Accounts of Naval Operations...14:18Treaty tonnage and armoured carrier air groupsNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (16): Carrier, A Century of First-Hand Accounts of Naval Operations...18:15British and American carrier doctrine by geographyNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (16): Carrier, A Century of First-Hand Accounts of Naval Operations...19:43Mediterranean choke points and the case for protectionNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (16): Carrier, A Century of First-Hand Accounts of Naval Operations...20:43How extra treaty tonnage points toward ImplacableNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (16): Carrier, A Century of First-Hand Accounts of Naval Operations...25:24Modern carrier size, aircraft size, and survivabilityNotable Point
- Churchill's Iniatives (WWI); Long patrol p2/4 - RNAS5:06Carrier design needs naval and aviation translatorsNotable Point
- Churchill's Iniatives (WWI); Long patrol p1/4 - Navalism5:51From Queen Elizabeth ambition to R-class compromiseChapter
- Churchill's Iniatives (WWI); Long patrol p1/4 - Navalism8:22Renown and Repulse show another design pathNotable Point
- Churchill's Iniatives (WWI); Long patrol p1/4 - Navalism9:31From the best ship to a bare-minimum follow-onNotable Point
- Churchill's Iniatives (WWI); Long patrol p1/4 - Navalism10:37R-class speed and machinery tradeoffsNotable 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 Ships10:49Why frigates strain the armor-speed-firepower diagramNotable Point
- Patreon 29: Coastal Defence Ships13:49Where does the Littoral Combat Ship fit in the design triangle?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 Ships29:30How would USS Monitor fare against HMS Warrior?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 Ships1:23:00Bouvines 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 Ships1:55:51Dutch coastal ships as visibly defensive deterrentsNotable Point
- Patreon 29: Coastal Defence Ships2:01:46Why missiles complicate the modern coastal-defence shipChapter
- Patreon 29: Coastal Defence Ships2:14:16The Admiral Ushakov class far from its Baltic coastNotable Point
- Patreon 29: Coastal Defence Ships2:26:16Sweden's Oden class and a recurring coastal-warship formNotable Point
- Patreon 29: Coastal Defence Ships2:38:58Swedish Sverige-class ships and Baltic defenceNotable Point
- Bruships 53: The Big Gun Era... Questions8:55Agincourt as a fast 18-inch-gun possibilityQ&A
- Bruships 53: The Big Gun Era... Questions14:30Renown shows how an R-class basis could become a fast capital shipQ&A
- Bruships 53: The Big Gun Era... Questions15:02Favorite big-gun counterfactualQ&A
- Bruships 53: The Big Gun Era... Questions22:44Modernizing the Nelson class meant choosing prioritiesQ&A
- Bruships 53: The Big Gun Era... Questions28:00Modern battleship shells would be guided weaponsQ&A
- Bruships 53: The Big Gun Era... Questions31:58Speed as battle-line controlQ&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... Questions39:52Ship speed still aids deployment more than missile evasionQ&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... Questions52:35Why battleship rate of fire is a machinery problemNotable Point
- 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... Questions1:17:23Twenty dual-purpose six-inch guns demand beam and deck spaceQ&A
- Bruships 53: The Big Gun Era... Questions1:32:46The G3's third turret privileged broadside fireQ&A
- Bruships 53: The Big Gun Era... Questions1:37:57Railgun batteries push warships toward nuclear powerQ&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... Questions2:46:29Why heavy naval guns moved into turretsQ&A
- Bruships 53: The Big Gun Era... Questions3:19:46D. K. Brown's Grand Fleet is the ship-design starting pointQ&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 sail15:27Why fleets needed smaller frigate-like shipsQ&A
- Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail20:52Battle of the Downs and the frigate-hull advantageNotable Point
- Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail31:12Gun-deck height, stability, and seakeepingQ&A
- Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail40:31Why frigates were not simply enlarged pinnacesQ&A
- Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail46:18How long a sailing frigate could remain at seaQ&A
- Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail59:30Medee and the classic sailing frigateNotable Point
- Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail1:03:35How captured French frigates changed British designsNotable Point
- Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail1:06:16How captured French designs led toward HMS SurpriseQ&A
- Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail1:08:1618-pounder frigates and carronade tradeoffsNotable Point
- Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail1:14:22From captured Hebe to the Leda and Seringapatam classesNotable Point
- Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail1:18:15Pallas-class captures as design intelligenceNotable Point
- Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail1:36:35Super-heavy frigates before the War of 1812Notable Point
- Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail1:46:09Royal Navy razees predated the War of 1812Notable Point
- Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail1:53:47How razees expressed the battlecruiser philosophyQ&A
- Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail2:10:59How a powder magazine was lit without an open flameQ&A
- Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail2:16:42Spardeck frigates built to hunt American heavy frigatesNotable Point
- Patreon 28: The original cruisers: Royal Navy frigates in the age of sail2:23:58Why the upper level was called a spardeckQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (2)11:16Fisher's replacement logic for capital shipsQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (2)16:12A treaty loophole for torpedo-heavy capital shipsQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (2)1:49:56Early helicopters and naval air rolesQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (2)3:23:10Why the Type 83 must exceed the Type 45Q&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (2)4:11:12British 4.7-inch gun anti-aircraft limitsQ&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
- Bruships 52: A Year of Bruships - Questions & Books2:11:35Infrastructure sets the upper limit on warship sizeQ&A
- Bruships 52: A Year of Bruships - Questions & Books2:34:54Why future warships may use podded propulsionNotable Point
- Bruships 52: A Year of Bruships - Questions & Books3:29:54Why a flat deck does not make an aircraft carrierNotable Point
- Bruships 52: A Year of Bruships - Questions & Books3:43:20A flex deck beneath the LHD hangarQ&A
- Bruships 52: A Year of Bruships - Questions & Books4:00:25A British LHD based on Italy's TriesteNotable Point
- Bruships 52: A Year of Bruships - Questions & Books4:07:18Why a retractable ski jump defeats its purposeQ&A
- A Book or Two to Review (5): Italian Battleships - Conte di Cavour & Duilio Classes 1911-19563:29Italy studies answers to DunkerqueNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (5): Italian Battleships - Conte di Cavour & Duilio Classes 1911-19564:44Underwater protection unlocks Cavour reconstructionNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (5): Italian Battleships - Conte di Cavour & Duilio Classes 1911-19565:32Rotundi redesigns the Cavour hull and armamentNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (5): Italian Battleships - Conte di Cavour & Duilio Classes 1911-19567:27Free-tonnage battlecruiser alternativeNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (5): Italian Battleships - Conte di Cavour & Duilio Classes 1911-19569:07Italian design quality and selective copyingNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (5): Italian Battleships - Conte di Cavour & Duilio Classes 1911-195613:44Cavour rebuild costs and hidden-hull riskChapter
- Patreon 27: Some Actions of the French Navy in WWI1:25:57The 1914 French fleet balance sheetNotable Point
- Patreon 27: Some Actions of the French Navy in WWI1:36:13Courbet and Bretagne layout problemsNotable Point
- Patreon 27: Some Actions of the French Navy in WWI2:40:17Why place a turret amidships?Q&A
- Patreon 27: Some Actions of the French Navy in WWI2:40:34What does Queen Elizabeth reveal about Bretagne's turret layout?Q&A
- Patreon 27: Some Actions of the French Navy in WWI2:45:13Procurement inertia outlasted the dreadnought revolutionNotable Point
- 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
- Patreon 27: Some Actions of the French Navy in WWI2:56:32Were flawed French ships used effectively?Q&A
- Camperdown Rams Victoria: TA Communication & Command (Long Patrol)10:29Victoria's loss and Camperdown's specificationsNotable Point
- Camperdown Rams Victoria: TA Communication & Command (Long Patrol)15:38Camperdown's transitional hull formNotable Point
- 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)20:18Hull form, speed, and turning circlesNotable Point
- Camperdown Rams Victoria: TA Communication & Command (Long Patrol)1:30:41Majestic-class survivability and career consequencesNotable Point
- Bruships 51: The Age of Iron0:53Early U.S. ironclads as learning designsQ&A
- Bruships 51: The Age of Iron13:23Why copper sheathing was not armorQ&A
- Bruships 51: The Age of Iron18:52Steam frigates bridge wooden walls and HMS WarriorQ&A
- Bruships 51: The Age of Iron22:09A converted steam triple-decker before WarriorNotable Point
- Bruships 51: The Age of Iron28:46Warrior versus a ship of the lineQ&A
- Bruships 51: The Age of Iron43:00Naval-constructor training as procurement protectionNotable Point
- Bruships 51: The Age of Iron59:16Engineer officers and command in the ironclad eraQ&A
- Bruships 51: The Age of Iron1:23:02Medieval cogs and raised fighting platformsQ&A
- Bruships 51: The Age of Iron1:31:57How alloy design changes warship armorQ&A
- Bruships 51: The Age of Iron1:44:38Eighteen-inch guns, Furious, and hypothetical modern armorQ&A
- Bruships 51: The Age of Iron2:09:32Central batteries and en echelon gun layoutsNotable Point
- Bruships 51: The Age of Iron2:40:43Torpedo boats and destroyer originsChapter
- Bruships 51: The Age of Iron2:47:04Havoc, Hornet, and the first torpedo-boat destroyersNotable Point
- Bruships 51: The Age of Iron3:07:19Why crews and officers belong in warship design historyNotable Point
- Bruships 51: The Age of Iron4:00:11Commercial versus military warship standardsQ&A
- Bruships 51: The Age of Iron4:02:40Why an LPD hull is difficult to turn into an escortQ&A
- A Book or Two to Review (1): Favourite of Fortune7:27HMS Amazon as a prime frigate appointmentChapter
- Bruships 50: A D-Day special with Questions & some New Books from Pen & Sword39:52Why a sailing ship could not use a dreadnought gun layoutQ&A
- Bruships 50: A D-Day special with Questions & some New Books from Pen & Sword2:37:31Separating German naval design from Nazi ideologyQ&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 Class9:25Coastal-defence ships reverse the battlecruiser tradeoffNotable Point
- Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol, Part 6, Gorgon Class11:25Compact dimensions hid enormous torpedo bulgesNotable Point
- Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol, Part 6, Gorgon Class29:01How Glatton’s magazine fire exposed construction failuresChapter
- 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)27:07The Admiral class as enhanced HoodsQ&A
- Bruships 49 Special: 'Questions on ‘Battle Cruisers’ & ‘Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14)29:40Treaty rule-bending and water-based armourQ&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)46:48Germany's larger design gap without naval treatiesQ&A
- Bruships 49 Special: 'Questions on ‘Battle Cruisers’ & ‘Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14)54:05Aircraft carriers without treaty-conversion hullsQ&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)1:09:37The case for a short-range German battle fleetNotable Point
- Bruships 49 Special: 'Questions on ‘Battle Cruisers’ & ‘Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14)1:13:27Why Germany moved from three shafts to fourQ&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)1:41:34When 18-inch guns make speed more valuableNotable Point
- Bruships 49 Special: 'Questions on ‘Battle Cruisers’ & ‘Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14)1:58:33Why the R class could not be rebuilt like RenownQ&A
- Bruships 49 Special: 'Questions on ‘Battle Cruisers’ & ‘Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14)2:03:39The speculative 18-inch HMS AgincourtNotable Point
- Bruships 49 Special: 'Questions on ‘Battle Cruisers’ & ‘Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14)2:11:27Capital ships as flagship platformsQ&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)2:46:01Battleship growth without Washington and LondonQ&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): 19151:34Triple mounts and the 18-inch-gun questionNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 19155:29Renown and Courageous as competing wartime choicesNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 19156:42The unbuilt Lyon class as a French design choiceChapter
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 191511:37Agincourt’s programme logic and technical complexityNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 191517:54Why Britain built Dreadnought despite its old-fleet leadChapter
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 191524:53Nelson, Rodney, and the value of all-round fireNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 19140:25Mackensen's specifications versus a paper fleetChapter
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 19145:54Francesco Caracciolo and the fast battleship ideaNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 19147:26An unbuilt Brazilian capital-ship designNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 191412:01Gun and turret advances came from beyond GermanyNotable 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): 191314:17A technology race beyond hull countsNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 191315:44American deterrence without escalationNotable 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): 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): 19110:24King George V class: armour for rangeChapter
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 19112:58Queen Mary and the price of speedNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 191114:24New York class: superheaters and triple-expansion enginesNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 191115:33New York class: propulsion redundancy as survivabilityNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 191121:25Seydlitz: armour without tactical dominanceChapter
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 191125:41German turret choices and industrial capacityNotable Point
- 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): 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): 191016:23All-forward batteries can optimize the wrong problemNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 191018:22Distributed armament preserves options in a running fightNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 191020:43Tegetthoff's light guns match Adriatic threatsNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 191021:03Rivadavia pairs long range with a compromised gun layoutChapter
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 1909 July-December0:17How the Colossus class refined HMS NeptuneChapter
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 1909 July-December2:54Kaiser-class armor, range, and Germany's responseChapter
- 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-December12:02Why the compact España class made wing turrets workChapter
- 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 January-June0:39HMS Neptune combines superfiring and wing turretsChapter
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 1909 January-June3:41Neptune trades maximum armor for broader protectionNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 1909 January-June7:41Indefatigable follows a year of battlecruiser experienceChapter
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 1909 January-June12:10Florida-class centerline turrets challenge British designChapter
- 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): 1909 January-June16:41Triple turrets concentrate firepower on fewer hullsNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 1909 January-June18:53Dante Alighieri turns Cuniberti's ideas into a fast battleshipChapter
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 1909 January-June21:26Dante Alighieri delivers a clean twelve-gun broadsideNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 1909 January-June22:19Gangut combines Russian speed with a twelve-gun broadsideChapter
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 19086:09Helgoland repeats Nassau's costly turret geometryChapter
- 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): 190816:09Moltke and Goeben repeat the offset-turret compromiseChapter
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): 190826:18British trials and German tempo create different design cyclesNotable Point
- 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 1904-76:33Why Admiral-class hulls might have made better interwar carriersNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): Part 4, Questions 1904-77:20Why a third Renown-class battlecruiser might modernize wellNotable Point
- Patreon 24: Everything Wrong With Star Wars Fleets (From a Naval History Perspective)21:19Acclamator and Venator show balanced force projectionChapter
- Patreon 24: Everything Wrong With Star Wars Fleets (From a Naval History Perspective)46:14Victory-class firepower cannot replace a defensive screenChapter
- Patreon 24: Everything Wrong With Star Wars Fleets (From a Naval History Perspective)1:08:04Xyston-class superweapon repeats the same defensive defectsNotable Point
- Patreon 24: Everything Wrong With Star Wars Fleets (From a Naval History Perspective)1:35:35Secutor class reveals an overlooked Imperial carrier optionChapter
- Patreon 24: Everything Wrong With Star Wars Fleets (From a Naval History Perspective)1:52:16Executor's exposed bridge ignores the value of a CICNotable Point
- Patreon 24: Everything Wrong With Star Wars Fleets (From a Naval History Perspective)1:56:02Resurgent class begins to restore an escort relationshipNotable Point
- Patreon 24: Everything Wrong With Star Wars Fleets (From a Naval History Perspective)2:01:37Supremacy concentrates risk that Nebula distributesChapter
- Patreon 24: Everything Wrong With Star Wars Fleets (From a Naval History Perspective)2:20:42Nebula and Endurance distribute combat power across a hull familyChapter
- Patreon 24: Everything Wrong With Star Wars Fleets (From a Naval History Perspective)2:34:42Providence class combines aviation, missiles, and long enduranceChapter
- Some More Battle Cruisers4:02Battlecruiser design begins with strategic purposeChapter
- Some More Battle Cruisers9:23HMS Hood provides the built battlecruiser baselineChapter
- Some More Battle Cruisers21:14The Borodino class edges toward fast battleshipsChapter
- Some More Battle Cruisers27:12Mackensen exposes Germany's battlecruiser middle groundChapter
- Some More Battle Cruisers33:13Ersatz Yorck points to Germany's fast-battleship answerChapter
- Some More Battle Cruisers36:15Scharnhorst and Gneisenau suggest a German fast-battleship alternativeNotable Point
- Some More Battle Cruisers42:05Amagi pairs immense firepower with a torpedo liabilityChapter
- Some More Battle Cruisers56:30G3's forward battery limits its tactical freedomChapter
- Bruships 48: Reading History10:18A 1960s battleship built around missiles and helicoptersQ&A
- Bruships 48: Reading History12:44Ford-class speed and the shipwide power budgetQ&A
- Bruships 48: Reading History14:57Why USS Enterprise is a candidate for fastest surface warshipQ&A
- Bruships 48: Reading History16:40Warship plans and drawings for modelersQ&A
- Bruships 48: Reading History30:56Why Invincible worked as a cruiser but not a line battleshipQ&A
- Bruships 48: Reading History32:27Why boiler design changed warship funnel countsQ&A
- Bruships 48: Reading History34:03Why 18 to 20 inches is a practical ceiling for naval gunsQ&A
- Bruships 48: Reading History38:27Why firing a torpedo from a naval gun becomes hazardousQ&A
- Bruships 48: Reading History58:59Why railgun caliber depends on energy and missionQ&A
- Bruships 48: Reading History1:19:24Arctic patrol ships and the case for a heavier gunQ&A
- Bruships 48: Reading History3:57:50Vanguard as a cruise-oriented successor to HoodQ&A
- Bruships 48: Reading History3:59:52Mission fit matters more than a universal best warshipQ&A
- Bruships 48: Reading History4:06:07Why Victory at Trafalgar was not Warrior at JutlandQ&A
- Bruships 48: Reading History4:07:01Why a razee could beat a new frigate as an 1815 commandQ&A
- 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 321:43Why Vanguard was a fast battleship, not a battlecruiserChapter
- Robert Sherbrooke: Patreon 21, Notable Commanders, Long Patrol Part 25:22HMS Cossack as a balanced fighting destroyerChapter
- Basil Jones: Patreon 21, Notable Commanders, Long Patrol Part 126:40Tribal torpedoes against a shallow-draft transportNotable Point
- Pepsiships 47: Age of Sail12:37Defining the start of the age of sailNotable Point
- Pepsiships 47: Age of Sail34:11From king's ships to permanent purpose-built warshipsQ&A
- Pepsiships 47: Age of Sail41:20The best sailing warship depended on its missionQ&A
- Pepsiships 47: Age of Sail43:03Why the 74-gun USS America was underwhelmingQ&A
- Pepsiships 47: Age of Sail47:09Why an age-of-sail frigate was not a destroyerQ&A
- Pepsiships 47: Age of Sail47:57Why a 74 could outperform a larger ship of the lineQ&A
- Pepsiships 47: Age of Sail3:00:08Comparing Iowa, Bismarck, Littorio, and KGV carrier conversionsQ&A
- Pepsiships 47: Age of Sail3:05:13Admiral-class carrier conversions would inherit battlecruiser armorQ&A
- Pepsiships 47: Age of Sail3:12:21Larger lifts could have changed carrier aircraft designQ&A
- Pepsiships 47: Age of Sail3:20:30Why early dreadnoughts carried awkward turret layoutsQ&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
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out?30:25From Kongo experience to the Japanese-designed Fuso classNotable 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?1:17:28Faster US battleships built around 14-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out?1:46:36Why a fleet needs battleships more than battlecruisersQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out?1:48:14The size and gun limits of an 18-inch battleshipQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out?2:27:52Why the Alaska class fits armored-cruiser lineageQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out?3:18:49A nuclear-powered modern armored cruiserQ&A
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): Part 3 19074:16St Vincent-class batch production builds a battle squadronChapter
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): Part 3 190710:23The Nassau class blurs the dreadnought divideChapter
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): Part 3 190723:43Brazilian orders give British yards a technology testbedNotable Point
- 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 2, 190616:35The South Carolina class as a conservative American dreadnoughtChapter
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): Part 2, 190618:46Bellerophon as an incremental second-generation dreadnoughtChapter
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): Part 1, 19055:38The battleships later called pre-dreadnoughtsChapter
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): Part 1, 19059:49Mission and geography shaped dreadnought designChapter
- Dreadnoughts from Around the World (1905-14): Part 1, 190515:07Dreadnought was more than an all-big-gun shipNotable Point
- Pseudo Patreon British Aircraft Carrier development Since 1945 (as suggested by Kyle Hardman)24:56Why Malta and Midway converged on the large fleet carrierQ&A
- Pseudo Patreon British Aircraft Carrier development Since 1945 (as suggested by Kyle Hardman)1:23:54How much larger Malta was than AudaciousQ&A
- Pseudo Patreon British Aircraft Carrier development Since 1945 (as suggested by Kyle Hardman)1:56:33How deck-edge lifts accommodate growing carrier aircraftQ&A
- Pseudo Patreon British Aircraft Carrier development Since 1945 (as suggested by Kyle Hardman)1:59:36Why deck-edge lifts were not adopted immediatelyQ&A
- Pseudo Patreon British Aircraft Carrier development Since 1945 (as suggested by Kyle Hardman)2:00:39Did Malta have enough margin for 1980s aircraft?Q&A
- Pseudo Patreon British Aircraft Carrier development Since 1945 (as suggested by Kyle Hardman)2:02:44Why Britain and America did not merge Malta and MidwayQ&A
- Pseudo Patreon British Aircraft Carrier development Since 1945 (as suggested by Kyle Hardman)2:03:38The limits of judging the unbuilt Malta classNotable Point
- Pseudo Patreon British Aircraft Carrier development Since 1945 (as suggested by Kyle Hardman)2:18:24How many CVA-01 designs were considered?Q&A
- Pseudo Patreon British Aircraft Carrier development Since 1945 (as suggested by Kyle Hardman)2:37:13Why useful carrier size grows across the jet ageQ&A
- Bruships 46: Accounts of Naval War37:10When mixed secondary batteries made senseQ&A
- Bruships 46: Accounts of Naval War1:21:23How the Worcester class arranged its anti-aircraft firepowerNotable Point
- Bruships 46: Accounts of Naval War1:29:40A first look at Finland's Pohjanmaa-class corvettesQ&A
- The Battle of the Saintes (1782): 239yrs ago... Today!56:50Why 74-gun third rates carried the fleetNotable Point
- The Battle of the Saintes (1782): 239yrs ago... Today!2:07:52HMS Victoria joined new machinery to enormous gunsNotable Point
- Four Random Books 31: The Conduct of War15:49Dockyards, displacement, and CVA-01's size ceilingNotable Point
- Bruships 43: Aircraft Carriers & Naval Aviation4:08:00The Daring class as an electrical and machinery experimentNotable Point
- Bruships 42: Some More Scifi55:28A longer Queen Elizabeth hull and the cost of more hangar spaceNotable Point
- Bruships 42: Some More Scifi3:54:35War for the Empire shows a defeated fleet adaptingTranscript Excerpt
- Bruships 41: A History of Armour & Amphibious Warfare (Kyle Hardman)2:35:01An inflatable outer patch proposed for a damaged hullNotable Point
- Crown Colony Class Long Patrol: Part 4 Ceylon to Newfoundland2:17How technology forecasts shaped Crown Colony cruiser designChapter
- Bruships 38: Amphibious Operations & Equipment27:09Why sailing warships could not rely on fixed trajectory tablesQ&A
- Bruships 38: Amphibious Operations & Equipment1:10:04Why there was no standard Elizabethan warshipQ&A
- Bruships 38: Amphibious Operations & Equipment2:53:15Why U.S. warships carry comparatively large crewsQ&A
- Bruships 38: Amphibious Operations & Equipment2:56:19Why Italian warships stand out for habitabilityQ&A
- Bruships 38: Amphibious Operations & Equipment3:14:14Warship design is a best-fit problemNotable Point
- Bruships 38: Amphibious Operations & Equipment3:20:04The destroyer design iron triangleNotable Point
- Battles of Dogger Bank: Long Patrol P5/6 19163:48Why the Arabis-class sloops were vulnerableChapter
- Battles of Dogger Bank: Long Patrol P4/6 19154:59HMS Lion and the battlecruiser's cruiser roleChapter
- Guadeloupe 1810 (Part 2 of Live)11:05Temeraire-class numbers versus operational resultsChapter
- Invasion of Guadeloupe (1810) - The First Eagle Captured/211 yrs ago today13:25Builder's Old Measurement and sailing-ship tonnageNotable Point
- Bruships 35: Personal Wars + a New Book from Pen & Sword13:05Ice strengthening gives the Harry DeWolf class unusual collision resilienceNotable Point
- Bruships 34: Random History38:59Barham and Admiral Scheer test the case for smaller battleshipsNotable Point
- Bruships 34: Random History3:21:03Black Swan-class sloops through builders' plansChapter
- Great White Fleet: Long Patrol Part 2 of 3 - A New Reality...25:08Florida and Wyoming show how voyage lessons changed hull designNotable Point
- Great White Fleet: Long Patrol Part 1 of 3 Theodore Roosevelt's Dream34:15A world voyage as a fleet-wide engineering trialNotable Point
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s Long Patrol Part 7: Conclusion3:25Twin-engine aircraft could have reshaped carrier designNotable Point
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s Long Patrol Part 2: Papers & Treaties7:34Carrier design thinking moves beyond gun caliberNotable Point
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s Long Patrol Part 2: Papers & Treaties14:45Island and flush-deck carrier design tradeoffsChapter
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s Long Patrol Part 2: Papers & Treaties34:39Ryūjō exploits the small-carrier treaty loopholeNotable Point
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s Long Patrol Part 1: Introduction0:44Béarn's lift traded rapid launches for space savingsNotable Point
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s Long Patrol Part 1: Introduction25:40Furious's cruiser machinery constrains her hangarNotable Point
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s Long Patrol Part 1: Introduction33:09Speed, range, and lifts set a carrier's useful lifeNotable Point
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s Long Patrol Part 1: Introduction34:43The carrier as a mobile aerodrome and support systemNotable Point
- Bruships 31: Some more Science Fiction from a Naval Historians Perspective...3:55Comparing real and science-fiction ship designChapter
- Bruships 31: Some more Science Fiction from a Naval Historians Perspective...26:23Dauntless and the pre-dreadnought model in spaceChapter
- Bruships 31: Some more Science Fiction from a Naval Historians Perspective...1:59:37Science-fiction series with appealing ship designsQ&A
- Bruships 31: Some more Science Fiction from a Naval Historians Perspective...2:48:22Kingship: combat experience changes an exploration cruiser's armamentNotable Point
- Bruships 31: Some more Science Fiction from a Naval Historians Perspective...3:20:40Weapons, fighters and the role of a space capital shipNotable Point
- Bruships 31: Some more Science Fiction from a Naval Historians Perspective...3:24:51The Venator could carry more firepowerNotable Point
- Bruships 31: Some more Science Fiction from a Naval Historians Perspective...3:40:45L9 destroyers and earlier adoption of the 4.5-inch gunQ&A
- Bruships 31: Some more Science Fiction from a Naval Historians Perspective...3:54:30Imperial Star Destroyer fighter defence and exposed command towersNotable Point
- Bruships 31: Some more Science Fiction from a Naval Historians Perspective...3:59:32How large could a one-person space fighter be?Q&A
- For Random Books 18: Freidman's Royal Navy0:47Norman Friedman's books as Royal Navy design referencesChapter
- For Random Books 18: Freidman's Royal Navy2:17Why a postwar multi-role destroyer became too largeNotable Point
- For Random Books 18: Freidman's Royal Navy8:26Why triple turrets strained British treaty-cruiser designsNotable Point
- For Random Books 18: Freidman's Royal Navy10:09A 34-knot four-triple cruiser could not protect its magazinesNotable Point
- For Random Books 18: Freidman's Royal Navy15:37How treaty limits freeze today's design assumptionsNotable 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: Ships22:56Edgar-class cruisers approach battleship dimensionsChapter
- 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 3: Ships25:47The Edgar-Centurion hybrid as a bounded design counterfactualNotable Point
- Naval Defence Act of 1889 Long Patrol Part 3: Ships27:39Apollo and Astraea develop the second-class cruiserChapter
- Naval Defence Act of 1889 Long Patrol Part 3: Ships29:58Astraea's range supports worldwide cruiser serviceNotable Point
- Naval Defence Act of 1889 Long Patrol Part 3: Ships31:37How protected cruisers shield machinery without a battleship beltNotable Point
- Naval Defence Act of 1889 Long Patrol Part 2: Debate18:24Finish ships quickly instead of stretching programsChapter
- Naval Defence Act of 1889 Long Patrol Part 1: Context13:21French battleship variety weakened squadron coherenceChapter
- Naval Defence Act of 1889 Long Patrol Part 1: Context14:54Ironclad and pre-dreadnought labels mark a transitionNotable Point
- Bruships30: Nine Transactions of the Institute of Naval Architects(Including 1939) & Three New Books5:26A 2009 concept for a large amphibious support shipChapter
- Bruships30: Nine Transactions of the Institute of Naval Architects(Including 1939) & Three New Books2:27:13Would autogyros make aircraft carriers smaller?Q&A
- Bruships30: Nine Transactions of the Institute of Naval Architects(Including 1939) & Three New Books2:38:40When battleship growth undermined harbour accessChapter
- Bruships30: Nine Transactions of the Institute of Naval Architects(Including 1939) & Three New Books3:05:36How Royal Navy design conflicts were resolvedQ&A
- Paddle Steamers of War Long Patrol7:30Paddle wheels reshaped hull layoutChapter
- Paddle Steamers of War Long Patrol13:21Paddle depth could help or harm shallow-water workNotable Point
- Steel of a Hundred Years Ago: Ships of 19201:15:12Where Hood sits on the battlecruiser spectrumQ&A
- Steel of a Hundred Years Ago: Ships of 19201:17:17Hood's influence on HMS VanguardQ&A
- Steel of a Hundred Years Ago: Ships of 19201:21:41How sister ships could have accelerated Hood's modernizationQ&A
- Bruships 29: Best Seller History2:46:07A 40 mm Gatling concept for close-in defenceQ&A
- Bruships 29: Best Seller History2:53:29Overlapping fields of fire for a proposed 40 mm barrage defenceNotable Point
- Bruships 29: Best Seller History2:54:31Weight and coverage in a 40 mm close-in systemQ&A
- Bruships 29: Best Seller History3:35:47Ammunition flow limits practical warship armamentQ&A
- Town Class Part 4 of 7: Overview of War11:01Town-class seakeeping in Atlantic operationsNotable Point
- Town Class Part 2 of 7: Contruction10:11How the Southampton, Gloucester, and Edinburgh batches grewChapter
- Town Class Part 2 of 7: Contruction30:46What a Super Town would demand from its hull and magazinesChapter
- Bruships 28: New Books & Christmas Buys1:17:23Was there an American equivalent to Admiral Henderson?Q&A
- Bruships 28: New Books & Christmas Buys1:55:04Books on gaming the interwar naval treatiesQ&A
- Bruships 28: New Books & Christmas Buys2:33:21Junks and Sampans of the YangtzeChapter
- Bruships 27: Science Fiction Books20:36Venator versus Imperial Star DestroyerNotable Point
- Bruships 27: Science Fiction Books1:48:45Using a Venator's spare hangar space for a refitNotable Point
- Bruships 27: Science Fiction Books1:55:45Why the Daedalus class lacks visual intimidationNotable Point
- Bruships 27: Science Fiction Books1:57:17The Venator's weapon balance against fighters and missilesNotable Point
- Bruships 27: Science Fiction Books2:03:05Biodomes and oxygen generation aboard spacecraftNotable Point
- Bruships 27: Science Fiction Books2:09:52Chemical oxygen recycling and the preference for plantsNotable Point
- Bruships 27: Science Fiction Books2:25:13Were torpedo tubes useful on battleships?Q&A
- Bruships 27: Science Fiction Books2:53:18Compact armored warship or large space cruiser?Q&A
- 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
- Part 2 of 4 "The effect of the early jet age on naval warfare strategy/tactics?"5:53Colossus-class dimensions expose the cost of aircraft growthNotable Point
- HMS Penelope (1935) an introduction to the Arethusa Class part 3/47:08Small-cruiser dimensions and underwater vulnerabilityNotable Point
- Bilgepumps does Battlestar Galatica Deadlock for Navy Con 2/28:24Building a flak field takes gun volumeNotable Point
- Bilgepumps does Battlestar Galatica Deadlock for Navy Con 2/225:18A missile that delivers a torpedoChapter
- Bilgepumps does Battlestar Galatica Deadlock for Navy Con 2/228:25A new torpedo threat can impose fleetwide refitsNotable Point
- Bilgepumps does Battlestar Galatica Deadlock for Navy Con 2/230:26Balanced task groups and changing naval paradigmsChapter
- Bilgepumps does Battlestar Galatica Deadlock for Navy Con 2/253:39EMP hardening as a strategic burdenChapter
- The Ships that Fisher scrapped… suggested by Geoff Grognard1:17:23The Orlando class in its intended watersChapter
- The Ships that Fisher scrapped… suggested by Geoff Grognard2:00:20Were the Apollo-class cruisers Elswick designs?Q&A
- The Ships that Fisher scrapped… suggested by Geoff Grognard2:19:34What armour protected the Pearl class?Q&A
- The Ships that Fisher Scrapped: Orlando Class (The Forgotten Coast Guard)1:05The Orlando class as foreign-station cruisersChapter
- 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)25:07Why the Orlandos carried pronounced ramsQ&A
- The Ships that Fisher Scrapped: Orlando Class (The Forgotten Coast Guard)27:50Fisher's inconsistent treatment of armored conning towersQ&A
- 1930 London Naval Treaty: An Introduction Part 4 of 5/Articles 14-165:58The force margin hidden behind peacetime numbersNotable Point
- 1930 London Naval Treaty: An Introduction Part 2 of 5/Articles 8-100:40Article 8's exempt-vessel rulesChapter
- 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 8-1012:40Eight-inch turrets and firing while withdrawingNotable Point
- 1930 London Naval Treaty: An Introduction Part 2 of 5/Articles 8-1017:58Article 10's notification and verification systemChapter
- 1930 London Naval Treaty: An Introduction Part 2 of 5/Articles 8-1020:34Why treaty-era choices lasted into World War IINotable Point
- 1930 London Naval Treaty: An Introduction Part 1 of 5/Articles 1-715:26Aircraft growth undermines small carriersNotable Point
- Bruships 23 - New Book Review1:25:31American designers and the Soviet Project 1058 hybridNotable 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 Review2:00:23Warships after London and the logic behind designsChapter
- Bruships 23 - New Book Review2:02:30Abruzzi traded speed for a shorter protected citadelNotable Point
- Bruships 23 - New Book Review2:06:28Comparing navies reveals the assumptions behind their shipsQ&A
- Bruships 23 - New Book Review2:21:55Arethusa and Leander trade-offs reached the Australian NavyChapter
- Bru Ships Episode 18: Really Big Books, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:04:14John Roberts's Destroyer Cossack in close detailChapter
- Bru Ships Episode 18: Really Big Books, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:52:06U.S. aircraft carriers through plans and profilesChapter
- Bru Ships Episode 18: Really Big Books, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:16:11Battle-class destroyers as a crowded general-purpose designChapter
- Bru Ships Episode 18: Really Big Books, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:21:08Camouflage can support a warship's presence missionNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 18: Really Big Books, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:41:02Design references for Allied coastal forcesChapter
- Bru Ships Episode 18: Really Big Books, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:53:41Starting points for a modern sloopQ&A
- The Ships: An Introduction to the Convoy war & the Perfect Storm of PQ17… P2/37:09Flower corvettes: slow but handy convoy escortsNotable Point
- Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...3:00:09Small-navy designs reflect national requirementsQ&A
- Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...3:06:02How a Pacific war could reshape Royal Navy ship designNotable Point
- Patreon Video 4: Tsingtao 1939 Goes Hot...3:16:09Why 30 knots could matter for future battleshipsQ&A
- Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P4 Introduction to Patreon Video 4...27:41Blockade, invasion, and Pacific fleet prioritiesChapter
- 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 213:49Race-built galleons and avoiding boardingChapter
- 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 234:01An early stage in the age of sailNotable Point
- P1 Introduction to Pre-Tribal Class Destroyers of the RN (special guest; Fluffy Research Assistant)6:10HMS Ambuscade as a 1924 destroyer testbedNotable Point
- P1 Introduction to Pre-Tribal Class Destroyers of the RN (special guest; Fluffy Research Assistant)9:05HMS Amazon and the prototype leader ideaChapter
- P1 Introduction to Pre-Tribal Class Destroyers of the RN (special guest; Fluffy Research Assistant)10:34Stanley Goodall and destroyer design continuityNotable Point
- P1 Introduction to Pre-Tribal Class Destroyers of the RN (special guest; Fluffy Research Assistant)22:36HMS Duncan's command spaces and flotilla roleChapter
- BAD SOUND - An Introduction to Making Mare Nostrum a Hollow Jest part 1 of 215:39Treaties and budgets shaped submarine sizeNotable Point
- BAD SOUND - An Introduction to Making Mare Nostrum a Hollow Jest part 1 of 216:43How to handle conflicting submarine statisticsNotable Point
- BAD SOUND - An Introduction to Making Mare Nostrum a Hollow Jest part 1 of 224:24Range comes with a shallow-water tradeoffNotable Point
- BAD SOUND - An Introduction to Making Mare Nostrum a Hollow Jest part 1 of 235:44T-class tubes: forward concentration and escape fireChapter
- Patreon Video 2: Royal Navy Operations in the Indian Ocean 1941-431:38:55Modern British warship survivability relies on subdivision and damage controlQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 11: Top Trumps/Ship Comparison Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A49:54Doug Clarke's work across naval architectureQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 11: Top Trumps/Ship Comparison Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:41:44Why well-maintained Mersey ferries still needed replacementQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 11: Top Trumps/Ship Comparison Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:45:09Doug Clarke's work on automated ships and future designNotable Point
- An Introduction to Naval Diplomacy40:51Hospitality spaces as diplomatic accessNotable Point
- An Introduction to Naval Diplomacy47:37Naval image, maintenance, and ship numbersNotable Point
- An Introduction to Some More Admirals, Engineers & Historians9:04The risk of pursuing the perfect warshipNotable Point
- An Introduction to Some More Admirals, Engineers & Historians33:36Rickover and Zumwalt in the future U.S. fleetNotable 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 Live Special: Thank You4:13Why warships need growth marginNotable Point
- Patreon Video 1: What would you put in warehouses at the end of WWI for WWII if you could?49:30A longer-ranged Queen Elizabeth alternativeQ&A
- Patreon Video 1: What would you put in warehouses at the end of WWI for WWII if you could?1:10:10Why older destroyer hulls still matter in early ASW warQ&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?1:47:43Imported warship designs must fit national strategyQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 8: Amphibious Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:19:53A starting book on Royal Navy cruiser designQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 8: Amphibious Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:44:31Stealth as one contributor to naval surpriseQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 8: Amphibious Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:40:44Why modern warships keep getting biggerQ&A
- An Introduction to Ships of the Convoy War; the Battle of Atlantic in Steel Part 4 Escort Destroyers8:35Hunt-class destroyers as dedicated escortsChapter
- An Introduction to Ships of the Convoy War; the Battle of Atlantic in Steel Part 4 Escort Destroyers24:22Why wartime escort production needed a prewar foundationNotable Point
- An Introduction to Ships of the Convoy War; the Battle of Atlantic in Steel Part 4 Escort Destroyers28:07A familiar hull made the Hunt design easier to trustNotable Point
- An Introduction to Ships of the Convoy War - the Battle of Atlantic in Steel Part 3 Frigates7:32River frigates as an evolution of the wartime sloopNotable Point
- An Introduction to Ships of the Convoy War - the Battle of Atlantic in Steel Part 3 Frigates21:56The Tribal class marks a transition in destroyer thinkingNotable Point
- An Introduction to Ships of the Convoy War - the Battle of Atlantic in Steel Part 1 Corvettes...17:13Castle corvettes and the speed problemNotable Point
- An Introduction to Not the Big Ships: NGFS As Provided by Destroyers & Below Part 2 of 216:11Single versus twin naval gun mountsNotable Point
- An Introduction to Not the Big Ships: NGFS As Provided by Destroyers & Below Part 1 of 212:32Monitor design and a possible railgun revivalNotable Point
- An Introduction to What was paid for in Blood, in Sweat, in Tears & so much Money... Part 2 of 37:21Type 22 frigates outgrow a single Cold War scenarioChapter
- An introduction to the ‘Littleships’ of the Big War Part 4 of 44:39Why Wakatake-class destroyers fit the little-ship storyNotable Point
- Minesweepers, Torpedo Boats & Gunboats – the ‘Littleships’ of the big war4:11How the London Naval Treaty defined little shipsChapter
- Minesweepers, Torpedo Boats & Gunboats – the ‘Littleships’ of the big war20:20The Admirable class and the overloaded minesweeper problemChapter
- Minesweepers, Torpedo Boats & Gunboats – the ‘Littleships’ of the big war54:35Why a Vosper could handle rough Channel seasQ&A
- Minesweepers, Torpedo Boats & Gunboats – the ‘Littleships’ of the big war1:13:12Why small craft become locally specializedNotable Point
- Minesweepers, Torpedo Boats & Gunboats – the ‘Littleships’ of the big war2:03:44Higgins PT boats traded numbers for toughnessQ&A
- Minesweepers, Torpedo Boats & Gunboats – the ‘Littleships’ of the big war2:10:08The largest practical gun for a wartime destroyerQ&A
- Minesweepers, Torpedo Boats & Gunboats – the ‘Littleships’ of the big war2:27:38How treaty limits stimulated ship designQ&A
- An introduction to the ‘Littleships’ of the big war Part 1 of 212:15Admirable-class minesweepers packed escort weapons into a small hullNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 4: Naval Aviation Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:15:48Vanguard's bridge reflected battleships becoming command assetsQ&A
- Top 10 Ships – not Tribal, Battle, Daring or Town classes…1:41How to judge a great warshipChapter
- Top 10 Ships – not Tribal, Battle, Daring or Town classes…10:29Type 21 aluminium and fire riskNotable Point
- Top 10 Ships – not Tribal, Battle, Daring or Town classes…1:01:13Compartmentation separates battleships from battlecruisersQ&A
- Top 10 Ships – not Tribal, Battle, Daring or Town classes…1:34:36Why submarine reactors complicate surface shipsQ&A
- An Introduction to My Top 10 Warships (No Tribal, Battle, Daring or Town Classes allowed)15:55HMS Warrior and the mature ironcladNotable Point
- Introduction to Admirals, Engineers & Historians Part 322:39Nathaniel Barnaby builds a naval-construction institutionChapter
- Introduction to Admirals, Engineers & Historians Part 327:35Designing warships with space to growNotable Point
- Introduction to Admirals, Engineers & Historians Part 229:34Stanley Goodall turned naval policy into ship designsChapter
- Introduction to Admirals, Engineers & Historians Part 232:27Goodall on aircraft, protection and capital-ship displacementNotable Point
- Introduction to Admirals, Engineers & Historians Part 133:02Philip Watts and the design of Dreadnought-era warshipsChapter
- Introduction to Admirals, Engineers & Historians Part 137:09Remembering naval architects behind modern ship designNotable Point
- Battle cruisers in a ‘modern navy’…. Well a WWII Navy21:46Why the 1929 battlecruiser designs convinced neither wayQ&A
- Battle cruisers in a ‘modern navy’…. Well a WWII Navy27:11Why Renown could absorb major reconstructionNotable Point
- Battle cruisers in a ‘modern navy’…. Well a WWII Navy51:31The machinery cost of a true fast battleshipNotable Point
- Battle cruisers in a ‘modern navy’…. Well a WWII Navy53:17The G3 design's structural compromiseNotable Point
- Battle cruisers in a ‘modern navy’…. Well a WWII Navy1:02:32Why fuel security shaped the Revenge classQ&A
- Battle cruisers in a ‘modern navy’…. Well a WWII Navy1:14:30Internal structure separates battle and cruiser designsNotable Point
- Battle cruisers in a ‘modern navy’…. Well a WWII Navy1:34:57Using fuel as armor under treaty rulesNotable Point
- Battle cruisers in a ‘modern navy’…. Well a WWII Navy1:40:09Hood's difficult experiments with shipboard aircraftQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 2b: Book Reviews/Q&A8:47All-or-nothing armor in US battleshipsQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 2b: Book Reviews/Q&A21:33Reconstructing naval decisions beyond the paper trailNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 2a: Book Reviews/Q&A23:32Why warship costs rise when fleets shrinkQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 2a: Book Reviews/Q&A31:07Why French pre-dreadnoughts pursued unusual solutionsQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 2a: Book Reviews/Q&A38:46Warship classes with punishing seakeepingQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 2a: Book Reviews/Q&A46:46Where a steam ram such as CSS Stonewall made senseNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 2a: Book Reviews/Q&A47:47HMS Warrior as culmination rather than sudden revolutionQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 2a: Book Reviews/Q&A48:41Why British shells could carry larger bursting chargesQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 2a: Book Reviews/Q&A50:07Why apparently simple warship upgrades can failQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 2a: Book Reviews/Q&A56:17Why the G3 design lacked useful growth marginQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 2a: Book Reviews/Q&A58:43How torpedo-bulge compartments changed in serviceQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 2a: Book Reviews/Q&A1:04:44Japanese warships must be judged against Japanese doctrineQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 2a: Book Reviews/Q&A1:06:12The Slava class as a missile-packed design compromiseQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 2a: Book Reviews/Q&A1:07:52Why HMS Warrior overmatched CSS VirginiaQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 2a: Book Reviews/Q&A1:24:40Why modern warships still need strong decksQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 2a: Book Reviews/Q&A1:34:21Why Fletcher is the favorite US Navy destroyerQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 2a: Book Reviews/Q&A1:37:22Why Fletcher suited the US Navy but not the Royal NavyQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 2a: Book Reviews/Q&A1:43:21The hidden displacement cost of 1950s radarQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 2a: Book Reviews/Q&A1:50:57Why the Viribus Unitis class did not fulfill its promiseQ&A
- A Name to illustrate a navy - HMS Leander through history21:25The uncertain Victorian steam LeanderNotable Point
- A Name to illustrate a navy - HMS Leander through history44:41How Leander displacement changed over timeQ&A
- A Name to illustrate a navy - HMS Leander through history52:58Leander frigates as adaptable compromisesQ&A
- A Name to illustrate a navy - HMS Leander through history1:18:49Why Queen Elizabeth carriers use twin islandsNotable Point
- A Question of Getting Them There - Landing Ships & Amphibious Warfare Part 2(iv)22:25Landing-ship designs adapted for the PacificNotable Point
- Anglo-Japanese Relations Part 1: 1902-19216:30How Tsushima accelerated HMS DreadnoughtNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 0: Update & Some Amphibious Questions Answered18:42A tentative Volga-Thames barge connectionNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 0: Update & Some Amphibious Questions Answered25:02The central flaws of wartime landing craftQ&A
- A Question of Getting Them There - Landing Ships & Amphibious Warfare Part 2(iii)12:03Boxer-class speed came with a landing penaltyChapter
- A Question of Getting Them There - Landing Ships & Amphibious Warfare Part 2(iii)17:00The LST Mark II made ocean-going tank lift practicalChapter
- A Question of Getting Them There - Landing Ships & Amphibious Warfare Part 2(iii)29:18LST decks became launch platforms for smaller landing craftNotable Point
- A Question of Getting Them There - Landing Ships & Amphibious Warfare Part 2(iii)30:18Even an expert designer could misidentify a landing shipNotable Point
- A Question of Getting Them There - Landing Ships & Amphibious Warfare Part 2(iii)33:26Mass production versus incremental refinementNotable Point
- A Question of Getting Them There - Landing Ships & Amphibious Warfare Part 2(ii)20:50The wartime landing ship dock requirementChapter
- A Question of Getting Them There - Landing Ships & Amphibious Warfare Part 2(i)11:31Glen-class armament, personnel load, and enduranceNotable Point
- A Question of Getting Them There - Landing Ships & Amphibious Warfare Part 2(i)20:48Small LSIs and the tradeoffs of converted ferriesNotable Point
- Sloops during the Inter-War – what were they for?22:26Shoreham-class draft suited Chinese waterwaysNotable Point
- Sloops during the Inter-War – what were they for?25:53Halcyon minesweepers grew from sloop designNotable Point
- Sloops during the Inter-War – what were they for?1:04:42A Danish patrol-ship lesson for the Littoral Combat ShipNotable Point
- Sloops during the Inter-War – what were they for?1:07:08Why torpedoes defined interwar destroyersNotable Point
- Sloops during the Inter-War – what were they for?1:17:04Imperial range shaped British sloop designQ&A
- Sloops during the Inter-War – what were they for?1:17:42Why quadruple gun turrets proved troublesomeQ&A
- Sloops during the Inter-War – what were they for?1:34:15Sloops could be fitted rapidly for depth chargesQ&A
- Special Episode: Design, Design, Design!4:42An aircraft carrier as a mobile airbaseChapter
- Special Episode: Design, Design, Design!20:21Design X points beyond treaty-limited carriersChapter
- Special Episode: Design, Design, Design!32:37What the armored carrier actually protectedChapter
- Special Episode: Design, Design, Design!35:21Ark Royal's subdivision and counter-flooding problemQ&A
- Special Episode: Design, Design, Design!42:57Prewar studies become wartime carrier designsChapter
- Special Episode: Design, Design, Design!46:26Jutland's institutional lessons shape interwar designNotable Point
- Special Episode: Design, Design, Design!47:06Why losing Courageous and Glorious did not erase the carrier planQ&A
- Special Episode: Design, Design, Design!55:53Why Unicorn resembled a Tribal-class design solutionQ&A
- Special Episode: Design, Design, Design!57:21A common British carrier design familyChapter
- Special Episode: Design, Design, Design!1:06:07Why aircraft and carrier design must matchQ&A
- Special Episode: Design, Design, Design!1:12:52Why larger aircraft required more than a new carrier liftQ&A
- Special Episode: Design, Design, Design!1:23:00Why the Deutschland design made limited strategic senseQ&A
- Special Episode: Design, Design, Design!1:28:03Design continuity from Unicorn to Queen ElizabethQ&A
- Special Episode: Design, Design, Design!1:30:51Why hybrid battle-carriers failedQ&A
- Special Episode: Design, Design, Design!1:36:57Reginald Henderson's practical influenceQ&A
- A bit more on RN Destroyers - The Hunt for the Bismarck7:25Why Tribal destroyers could keep pace in rough weatherQ&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 Bismarck49:47How wartime-built Tribals differed from prewar shipsQ&A
- T he Altmark 80 Videos in Full20:16Why Tribal-class destroyers were built to fightChapter
- T he Altmark 80 Videos in Full21:42Why the Tribal class needed stronger anti-aircraft armamentNotable Point
- Tribal, Battle & Daring Class Destroyers - A live stream1:27Tribal, Battle, and Daring destroyers as back-pocket cruisersChapter
- Tribal, Battle & Daring Class Destroyers - A live stream4:47Henderson and the Royal Navy case for the Tribal classNotable Point
- Tribal, Battle & Daring Class Destroyers - A live stream11:23What galleys reveal about destroyer missionsNotable Point
- Tribal, Battle & Daring Class Destroyers - A live stream15:30The machinery cost of sustained Tribal-class speedChapter
- Tribal, Battle & Daring Class Destroyers - A live stream17:25Heavy Tribal losses and the search for a successorChapter
- Tribal, Battle & Daring Class Destroyers - A live stream19:26Deck-penetrating turrets shaped the Battle-class layoutChapter
- Tribal, Battle & Daring Class Destroyers - A live stream21:09Why the Battle class lacked a stern main turretNotable Point
- Tribal, Battle & Daring Class Destroyers - A live stream23:41Weapons, radar, and the growth of British destroyersChapter
- Tribal, Battle & Daring Class Destroyers - A live stream29:00The Daring class as a new postwar command designChapter
- Battle of The River Plate - A River Plate 80 Video24:14Graf Spee's design meets a three-cruiser meleeNotable Point
- Arado AR 196 - 12th of December - A River Plate 80 Video4:38Shipboard aviation facilities and independent scoutingChapter
- The RN in 1939, more than just a Question of Geography - A Quarterdeck Talk (26/11/2019)15:13Henderson's shipyard knowledge and maintainable warship designNotable Point
- Disguises of a Surface Raider - A River Plate 80 Video0:56Why the pocket-battleship label obscures Graf Spee's designNotable Point
- Disguises of a Surface Raider - A River Plate 80 Video1:26Why Graf Spee's mast resembles those of modern warshipsNotable Point
- Disguises of a Surface Raider - A River Plate 80 Video1:52Graf Spee imitates an American heavy cruiserNotable Point
- Tribal Class in 60s (Combined)1:04Why the Tribal class became back-pocket cruisersChapter
- Tribal Class in 60s (Combined)19:36Destroyer ethos behind cruiser capabilityChapter
- Back Pocket Cruisers Presentation (Practice 2)6:02Reginald Henderson's practical case for larger destroyersNotable Point
- Back Pocket Cruisers Presentation (Practice 2)30:10Cape Bon tested destroyers against the light-cruiser alternativeChapter
- Back Pocket Cruisers Presentation (Practice 2)30:47Battle and Weapon classes carried the large-destroyer idea forwardChapter
- Back Pocket Cruisers Presentation (Practice 2)34:35The Daring class completed the move to general-purpose destroyersChapter