Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

Topic

Smoke Screens

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  1. Churchill's Good ideas: the actually good, the bad, and the ridiculous
    2:08:15Home Guard smoke screens and improvised pillboxesNotable Point
  2. Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress
    10:37:08Concealment, smoke, and short naval engagementsNotable Point
  3. Dalrymple Hamilton: The Captain of HMS Rodney who believed she could be a destroyer
    2:01:26Belfast's Normandy bombardment and rapid returnChapter
  4. The Battle Line Sallied Forth: the USN Pacific Fleet goes to sea on the 6th of December 1941
    1:45:00Would the fleet use smoke-screen aircraft?Q&A
  5. Flotillas of the Danube (Continued)
    1:06:27Speed, smoke, and disputed surprise at Vienna's bridgeNotable Point
  6. Bruships 176: Christyear or Newmas?
    1:50:32Smoke screens could save convoys and isolate a destroyerQ&A
  7. Bruships 176: Christyear or Newmas?
    1:56:58World War I navies used broadly similar smoke-generation methodsQ&A
  8. Bruships 176: Christyear or Newmas?
    3:12:18Testing claims about the first naval smoke screenQ&A
  9. World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/4
    2:57:27Why an escort needs ships that can lay smokeNotable Point
  10. World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/4
    4:50:30How steam warships made smoke screensQ&A
  11. World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/4
    4:51:24Can modern smoke and decoys defeat missile sensors?Q&A
  12. Check Campaign 21: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign
    33:17Light-cruiser smoke as a gunfire distractionQ&A
  13. Check Campaign 17: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign
    1:44:25Pursuit geometry over broadside firepowerNotable Point
  14. Check Campaign 15: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign
    1:33:11Smoke, weaving, and torpedoes in cruiser tacticsChapter
  15. Check Campaign 15: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign
    2:28:45Gunfire can give away a ship hidden by smokeNotable Point
  16. Sloops Adaptability of Presence
    49:24Folkestone's smoke-and-signalling contingencyNotable Point
  17. Battle of Empress Augusta Bay(1943): The First Radar Battle?
    2:06:02Flares, smoke, and the advantage of radar fire controlNotable Point
  18. Battle of Empress Augusta Bay(1943)
    1:02:11Illumination and smoke shaped Japanese visual gunneryNotable Point
  19. A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 2
    1:31:40A turret explosion forces an improvised withdrawalNotable Point
  20. HMCS Haida Comment Response
    16:54How smoke helped destroyers face an Italian battleshipNotable Point
  21. HMCS Haida Comment Response
    28:24What if Tribal destroyers had met Graf Spee?Notable Point
  22. A 13.5in gun Dreadnought? Would it work?
    1:31:36Cruiser speed as a survival toolNotable Point
  23. A 13.5in gun Dreadnought? Would it work?
    2:07:00Destroyer convoy defence and access to torpedo rangeNotable Point
  24. Starting with Building HMS Thunderchild...
    57:48Testing the machine-gun cruiserNotable Point
  25. UAD: Queen Elizabeth Maximus & Other Ideas
    2:30:16Destroyer smoke and the unresolved cause of Ajax's close engagementNotable Point
  26. Brooklyn Class: The Not Quite Last US Treaty Era Cruisers
    3:30Brooklyn design studies reveal two fixed prioritiesChapter
  27. Patreon 59: Infrastructure in the Colonies: shipyards of the Commonwealth and Empire.
    2:00:14South African shipbuilding could guard the Cape routesChapter
  28. Equitable London Treaty: Summary (Long Patrol)
    1:02:52Sloops and destroyers against a converted merchant raiderNotable Point
  29. Alex & Drach @ Haida (live)
    13:01What a Tribal crew saw when attacking Littorio at Second SirteQ&A
  30. Torpedoes and their Ships 1900-39: Patreon 54 (Long Patrol)
    42:20Mass and manoeuvre in Second World War torpedo attacksNotable Point
  31. Patreon 54: Torpedo development 1900-1939 and it's impact on destroyer design an doctrine
    1:45:22Smoke let destroyers attack from several directionsChapter
  32. County Class Cruiser Comment Response: A UAD Infused Discussion of the Part 8 Response (Long Patrol)
    54:00Using destroyers to create a torpedo threatNotable Point
  33. Patreon 43: "Unverified stories of Norwegian Campaign: Tall Tales of Tribals"
    1:07:55How destroyers laid smoke screensQ&A
  34. Battle of Tassafaronga: 30th of November 1942 - Long Patrol
    34:18Japanese destroyers built for torpedo attackChapter
  35. Battle of Tassafaronga: 30th of November 1942 - Long Patrol
    1:07:48Japanese destroyers fire by the cruisers' gun flashesChapter
  36. Robert Sherbrooke: Patreon 21, Notable Commanders, Long Patrol Part 2
    24:05Sherbrooke's torpedo feints exploited German cautionChapter
  37. Robert Sherbrooke: Patreon 21, Notable Commanders, Long Patrol Part 2
    26:12Achates held the smoke screen until Burnett arrivedChapter
  38. Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol, Part 5, Marshal Ney Class
    24:07Marshal Ney circles under fire from the Tirpitz batteryNotable Point
  39. Battles of Dogger Bank: Response to Comments
    15:46Could destroyers have been held in reserve at Dogger Bank?Q&A
  40. Amphion Class Cruisers: Long Patrol
    24:03HMAS Perth as bait at Cape MatapanChapter
  41. Amphion Class Cruisers
    31:26Making smoke while escaping at speedNotable Point
  42. Back Pocket Cruisers Presentation (Practice 2)
    29:32HMS Somali charged an Italian battleship while destroyers screened the convoyChapter