Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

Topic

Sortie Generation

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  1. Yak-38 Forger: The Nasty Surprise of the Kiev Class
    40:39Six hundred Yak-38 sorties in mission contextNotable Point
  2. More Lessons of Never Built Carriers
    45:13Large carriers concentrate more usable air powerNotable Point
  3. A Chinese Invasion of Taiwan: A Historian’s Eye View & A Patreon’s Request…(Live 2)
    1:19:36Planned sortie rates must survive maintenance realityNotable Point
  4. A Chinese Invasion of Taiwan: A Historian’s Eye View & A Patreon’s Request…(Live 2)
    1:45:18Why the first seventy-two hours matterChapter
  5. A Chinese Invasion of Taiwan: A Historian’s Eye View & A Patreon’s Request…(Live 2)
    1:47:24Sustained sortie rates must account for aircraft attritionNotable Point
  6. If Force Z survived... if HMS Prince of Wales & HMS Repulse what would the RN have done with them?
    10:30Why Japan cannot simply try again the next dayNotable Point
  7. Bruships 184: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:56:29Why a light carrier needs more aircraft than its patrolNotable Point
  8. So, You Want to Build an Aircraft Carrier? Infrastructure & Industry, the Realities of Construction!
    8:00Air-group size determines how much of the carrier's force a strike consumesNotable Point
  9. Bruships 172: So the Historiophon Happened...
    3:14:26Why ninety aircraft marks a practical upper carrier air wingQ&A
  10. Bruships 171: Oh Kallax my Kallax, Where art though my Kallax
    4:52:53Why fitting 130 Hornets would make a Nimitz less effectiveQ&A
  11. Battle of Santa Cruz: The Deathsong of Japanese Naval Aviation in WWII
    1:06:02Carrier strikes are generated in wavesNotable Point
  12. The Nimitz Class: The Tenacious Ten that underpin America on the Global Stage
    3:47Why cheaper sea-control carriers could not replace a supercarrierNotable Point
  13. The Nimitz Class: The Tenacious Ten that underpin America on the Global Stage
    25:50Designing the ship around flexible sortie generationChapter
  14. The Nimitz Class: The Tenacious Ten that underpin America on the Global Stage
    53:24Elevator placement sustains simultaneous flight-deck flowsNotable Point
  15. Finding Forrestal Class... The First Supercarriers...
    15:21Flight-deck parking constrains sortie generationNotable Point
  16. Carriers of the Planned War Fleets: How Shokaku, Implacables & Essexs reflect their Navys Doctrines
    18:00Pacific alpha-strike logicNotable Point
  17. Treaty Era Aircraft Carriers: A Discussion
    1:03:03British carriers sustain combat air patrol near enemy airfieldsNotable Point
  18. Treaty Era Aircraft Carriers: A Discussion
    1:10:25The Second London Treaty frames the Illustrious compromiseChapter
  19. Striking First: The Development of US Carrier Naval Aviation Doctrine by War Gaming & Fleet Problems
    24:49Reeves turns war-game ideas into deck practiceChapter
  20. Striking First: The Development of US Carrier Naval Aviation Doctrine by War Gaming & Fleet Problems
    1:29:41Yorktown turns first-strike doctrine into ship designChapter
  21. German Merchant Seaplane Tenders of the 1930s: Key Ships Series 8 - Ship 8
    30:30Why tender operations do not scale to fleet carriersNotable Point
  22. Check Campaign 5: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign
    2:09:21Zero-length catapults aim at rapid fighter launchesNotable Point
  23. Conception of Admiral Moffett’s Flight Deck Cruisers & the IJN’s construction of Ryūjō
    39:10Ryūjō's practical 1942 air groupChapter
  24. Conception of Admiral Moffett’s Flight Deck Cruisers & the IJN’s construction of Ryūjō
    40:54Japan's choice between stronger strikes and more flight decksNotable Point
  25. Graf Zeppelin: KSS2 S1 Comment Response
    0:28How far could Graf Zeppelin's Bf 109T fighters strike?Q&A
  26. Graf Zeppelin: KSS2 S1 Comment Response
    25:19Why mail-plane catapults were the wrong operational modelQ&A
  27. Graf Zeppelin: KSS2 S1 Comment Response
    43:27Why launching 24 aircraft was not enoughQ&A
  28. Sea Power of the Cold War: When Strategy got overwritten by Technology and Week Planner
    37:55The Falklands War exposes model-driven assumptionsChapter
  29. Bruships 119: Cool Books - but they're definitely a Mixture
    3:51:14Why large carriers generate air power more efficientlyQ&A
  30. Bruships 119: Cool Books - but they're definitely a Mixture
    3:53:45How an 18-aircraft pool sustains four fighters on patrolNotable Point
  31. Ship-Shape Special: Alex & Garius Command a Carrier... How bad can this be? Mission 2
    2:23:02Recovery range and flight-deck throughputChapter
  32. Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times
    2:23:55Why one fleet carrier can outperform two aviation LHDsQ&A
  33. Question Time: Answering Knight6831's Questions (Long Patrol)
    19:26British carrier doctrine valued sorties and combined decksNotable Point
  34. Bruships 46: Accounts of Naval War
    3:03:09Why carrier air groups need more crews than aircraftQ&A
  35. Bruships 43: Aircraft Carriers & Naval Aviation
    38:11Queen Elizabeth class sortie generation without catapultsNotable Point
  36. Bruships 42: Some More Scifi
    30:52Why Avalon's full-deck launch should influence later carriersNotable Point
  37. Bruships 40: Favourite Books to Use When Writing...
    2:14:41Fleet train and maintenance limits constrain British Pacific sortiesNotable Point
  38. The Fairey Story - Part 3 of 4: The Difficult Next Generation
    34:30Small Swordfish maintenance savings compound across a carrier battleNotable Point
  39. The Fairey Story - Part 3 of 4: The Difficult Next Generation
    39:20Royal Navy carrier doctrine favored rolling waves of attackNotable Point
  40. Patreon 11: "The effect of the early jet age on naval warfare strategy/tactics?"
    1:32:23Why piston aircraft remained effective in KoreaQ&A
  41. Bilgepumps Taranto 80 part 2 of 3: Fleet Air Arm's Finest Hour
    1:09:41Repairability keeps an air group flying beyond the first dayNotable Point
  42. HMS Formidable: A Special Chat With Jamie from Armoured Carriers
    46:40Engine failures shrink the Scarpanto strikeChapter