Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

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Surface-to-Air Missiles

Also searchable as SAM, SAMs, Surface-to-Air Missile.

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  1. Japan's Mogami Class: The Ultimate Light Frigate Design?
    7:49Missile choice can limit a thirty-two-cell magazineNotable Point
  2. Rise of the Frigate Navies: Why so many nations are going Frigate and why others want them as well!
    28:43Why gunfire and missiles need different measures of air defenceNotable Point
  3. South Korea's Chungnam Class Frigates: Aesthetics vs Missile Depth
    2:00Sixteen VLS cells and the choice of missile loadNotable Point
  4. South Korea's Chungnam Class Frigates: Aesthetics vs Missile Depth
    7:44A possible load of 32 air-defence and eight land-attack missilesNotable Point
  5. Bruships 264: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    3:11:02Does VL MICA use Mark 41 or Sylver launchers?Q&A
  6. Nilgiri Class... A Great Indian Frigate
    3:24BrahMos and Barak 8 in a balanced frigateNotable Point
  7. Bruships 261: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:38:26Missile diversity complicates enemy countermeasuresNotable Point
  8. Bruships 261: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:41:43Fitting Seaslug into a Leander-sized shipQ&A
  9. Bruships 261: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:15:40Missile wings and control surfacesNotable Point
  10. Air Defence At Sea: From Air Ships in 1906, to drones in 2026 and everything in between...
    45:48Successful interceptions can require several missilesNotable Point
  11. Air Defence At Sea: From Air Ships in 1906, to drones in 2026 and everything in between...
    1:06:29Why missile-era kill metrics misjudge older heavy gunsNotable Point
  12. Air Defence At Sea: From Air Ships in 1906, to drones in 2026 and everything in between...
    1:26:31Why some early naval missiles struggled with fast targetsNotable Point
  13. Air Defence At Sea: From Air Ships in 1906, to drones in 2026 and everything in between...
    1:28:45How Talos range expands the space a task group can useChapter
  14. Air Defence At Sea: From Air Ships in 1906, to drones in 2026 and everything in between...
    1:34:44Missile speed and the shrinking interception windowNotable Point
  15. Air Defence At Sea: From Air Ships in 1906, to drones in 2026 and everything in between...
    4:02:58Space-race technology and naval missile ruggednessQ&A
  16. Bruships 257: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    4:20:54A faster radar-guided Sea Cat could have helped in the FalklandsQ&A
  17. Swedish Destroyers of the Cold War and Beyond: Balancing the Soviet Union & Russia
    11:07Östergötland class as a compact multi-role destroyerNotable Point
  18. Swedish Destroyers of the Cold War and Beyond: Balancing the Soviet Union & Russia
    42:26Luleå missile load and layered air defenceNotable Point
  19. Bruships 249: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:46:55The practical minimum for an air-defence corvetteQ&A
  20. Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:40:55CAMM and Martlet anti-surface modes versus cruise missilesQ&A
  21. Bruships 248: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    4:18:08Why Bloodhound is obsolete but domestic missile development still mattersQ&A
  22. Bruships 237: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:48:38Why Talos cannot simply return in a Mark 41 cellQ&A
  23. Bruships 234: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    4:30:32Correcting Sea Cat and SeaslugNotable Point
  24. Bruships 228: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:22:03What Sea Cat contributed in the Falklands WarQ&A
  25. Bruships 228: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:24:55A missile-armed KGV hull arrives in 1938Q&A
  26. Bruships 228: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:27:00Could Talos attack surface ships?Q&A
  27. Bruships 228: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    4:16:29Why Talos found no export customersQ&A
  28. Scuttlebutt 18: Guns & Points of Order
    43:39Talos and the shipboard factory problemNotable Point
  29. Bruships 227: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:48:01Unie's gun armament and the wait for dependable missilesQ&A
  30. Bruships 227: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    4:45:19Tartar and Talos represented different missile scalesQ&A
  31. Bruships 227: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    4:53:24Why Talos had a nuclear air-defence optionQ&A
  32. 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle
    5:34:41What early British surface-to-air missiles demonstratedQ&A
  33. 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P6 of 9 - The Royal Navy’s Submarine Killers – Black Swans at War
    4:26:37The one-stop-shop compromise in Kashtan CIWSQ&A
  34. Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust
    9:09:15How Sea Sparrow remained useful through repeated upgradesQ&A
  35. Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust
    2:31:00Infrared guidance as a complement to naval radarQ&A
  36. Grumman A6 Intruder: Utilty Bomb Truck that gave Aircraft Carriers Reach, Punch & Flexibility
    26:54Vietnam's low-level strike mission and its costsChapter
  37. Procurement for Peace: Second Draft
    1:27:20How uncrewed vessels can extend presenceChapter
  38. Bruships 204: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:37:53HMS Vanguard survives into the Falklands eraQ&A
  39. Lessons of Falklands War(1982) and Ukraine War(2022-)
    44:51Layered air defense aims for survival, not invulnerabilityChapter
  40. Tom's Cat: The Story of the F14 Tomcat
    36:21Iranian combat success and reconnaissance over the Bekaa ValleyChapter
  41. Scuttlebutt 11: from SDSR to Pearl Harbor, with a stop at CVA-01 along the way...
    50:01Why a warship's weapons need not all be general purposeNotable Point
  42. Bruships 196: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    43:59Comparing Sea Dart with the naval S-300F familyQ&A
  43. Bruships 196: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:28:58Submarine anti-aircraft missiles and disputed Soviet installationsQ&A
  44. Coastal defenses in WWII: Why did they fail to stop so many amphibious operations?
    33:01Britain's land-based area air defence faded after BloodhoundNotable Point
  45. Bruships 186: Naval History Questions Answered Live...Restart 2!
    2:11:36Can naval missiles serve secondary anti-ship roles?Q&A
  46. Bruships 183: Science Fiction/Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:52:09SM-2MR or Sea Dart for a contested deploymentQ&A
  47. Bruships 180: Naval History Questions Answered...
    2:01:28Mark 41 or Sylver vertical-launch systems?Q&A
  48. Flotillas of the Danube
    1:54:12Romania's monitors and patrol ships carry different gun batteriesNotable Point
  49. Hunting Submarines from WWI to Present Day; How Aircraft, Ships & Submarines Work Together?
    47:02Why submarine air defence can reveal the boatNotable Point
  50. Essay Competion, UAD ship design & Questions: Third 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 3/4
    4:43:12Does Aster 30 or SM-6 have the longer range?Q&A
  51. The Battlecruiser/Fast Battleship Differential & Soviet Carriers: Scuttlebutt 7
    1:00:32A carrier is vulnerable, but a fixed air base is easier to findNotable Point
  52. Bruships 170: Once more unto the Kalax dear listners, once more unto the Kalax!
    56:27Why the F6D Missileer arrived too earlyQ&A
  53. Bruships 170: Once more unto the Kalax dear listners, once more unto the Kalax!
    2:41:53When a submarine might fire a surface-to-air missileQ&A
  54. Bruships 170: Once more unto the Kalax dear listners, once more unto the Kalax!
    2:52:13A 1970s Blowpipe missile in 1945Q&A
  55. The Plane as imagined by a 5yr old! The A5 Vigilante - Key Aircraft Series 2, Aircraft 10
    23:19The RA-5C conversion and Vietnam reconnaissance serviceChapter
  56. Bruships 164: Is this Book life? Is this just a library?Caught in a landslide, no Kallax for safety!
    3:05:00Why the Lightweight Sea Wolf range stays broadQ&A
  57. Laying Minefields in the Sky... Some WWII Rocketry and Supersized T-Shirt Cannons...
    25:03Feuerlilie aimed for radio-guided interceptionChapter
  58. Laying Minefields in the Sky... Some WWII Rocketry and Supersized T-Shirt Cannons...
    31:02Wasserfall adapted the V-2 idea for air defenceChapter
  59. Bruships 146: Naval History Questions, Boxes Getting Packed & Lego Getting Built
    3:59:44Why anti-ship capability would not change Type 42 employmentQ&A
  60. Bruships 141: Some Cool Books & Naval History Questions Answered
    56:07How radar-lock warning reached aircraft cockpitsQ&A
  61. Unrotated Projectiles to Hypersonics: Some History & thoughts on Missiles as part of navies
    57:28High-speed interception depends on fuzing and geometryNotable Point
  62. Unrotated Projectiles to Hypersonics: Some History & thoughts on Missiles as part of navies
    1:00:01Naval air defense shifts from breaking formations to killing threatsChapter
  63. Bruships 128: Invasions & Amphibious Warfare
    41:36A post-Cold War role for Violet Friend missile defenceQ&A
  64. Bruships 128: Invasions & Amphibious Warfare
    52:47A missile-heavy air-defence network for BritainQ&A
  65. Bruships 128: Invasions & Amphibious Warfare
    55:05A different naval answer for Canada's Arctic coastNotable Point
  66. Bruships 125: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series
    1:55:17Why Sea Cat frightened more than it hitQ&A
  67. Bruships: Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!
    1:15:27The grim logic of a nuclear anti-aircraft missileQ&A
  68. Ticonderoga Class: Comment Response
    35:52Why early surface-to-air missiles struggled against shipsQ&A
  69. Leahy Class(+Bainbridge Class): Comment Response
    12:37Tartar, Terrier, Talos, and the Standard lineageChapter
  70. Leahy Class(+Bainbridge Class): Comment Response
    13:21VLS cell length as a fleet-design constraintNotable Point
  71. Leahy Class(+Bainbridge Class): Comment Response
    15:14Standard Missile chronology and shared guidanceNotable Point
  72. Kara Class: Comment Response
    0:50Sea Sparrow and Sea Wolf as reference pointsQ&A
  73. Kara Class: Comment Response
    1:40Osa, Wasp, and the layers of Soviet missile namingQ&A
  74. Kara Class: Comment Response
    2:54When an air-defence missile becomes an anti-ship weaponNotable Point
  75. Blockading Brest: A Royal Navy Tradition
    1:11:41Q&A: Do modern cities still have fortifications?Q&A
  76. Soviet Navy 1918-1991
    4:47:22Would Ulyanovsk have retained heavy missiles?Q&A
  77. Sverdlov Class: The Last of Stalin's Soviet Gun Cruisers
    1:13:55Project 70E turned a Sverdlov into a missile test shipNotable Point
  78. Epic Blunders of Naval History
    1:07:24Layered air defense fails when missile magazines emptyNotable Point
  79. Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times
    1:50:14Why the RAF resisted naval area-air-defense missilesQ&A
  80. Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times
    2:47:07Falklands experience reshaped Rapier and close air defenseNotable Point
  81. Kirov Class Cruisers; the Alaska Class of the Late Cold War? (Soviet Navy)
    16:11Project 1144 sensors, layered defenses, and aviationChapter
  82. Modern Frigates: Cruisers by another name? (Patreon 57 Videos Comment Response)
    43:36Why a large ASW frigate still needs general-purpose defensesQ&A
  83. Patreon 57: Modern frigates, cruisers by another name?
    1:15:28Type 054A as a true frigate baselineChapter
  84. Equitable London Treaty: Summary (Long Patrol)
    8:44Why offset strategies rarely erase industrial advantageNotable Point
  85. Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books
    2:19:25A 1970s Renown as a carrier-group command shipQ&A
  86. Quirky Classes and What they tell us about their navies… (Live)
    2:42:48Is the Pohjanmaa class underarmed?Q&A
  87. The 3 Type 26s - City, Hunter & CSC, where do they fit in the WWII navies that they will serve?
    8:44Missile magazines do not replace every close-range gunNotable Point
  88. The 3 Type 26s - City, Hunter & CSC, where do they fit in the WWII navies that they will serve?
    40:14Why reloading vertical launch cells at sea is so difficultChapter
  89. British Geostrategic Situation in the 1960s: The 1966 White Paper
    12:17Air reinforcement in the surface-to-air missile ageNotable Point
  90. Bruships 45: Something Medieval
    4:06:35A 76 mm gun and the preference for layered point defenceNotable Point
  91. Bruships 45: Something Medieval
    4:08:48Italian ships combine gun calibres with several missile layersNotable Point
  92. Four Random Books 31: The Conduct of War
    17:12How CVA-01 requirements drove size and cost upwardNotable Point
  93. Bruships 43: Aircraft Carriers & Naval Aviation
    34:41How a carrier group counters a saturation strikeQ&A
  94. Britain of the 1980s: Long Patrol P4 Britain in the World
    37:50Early Soviet missile development and naval adaptationChapter
  95. Patreon 11: "The effect of the early jet age on naval warfare strategy/tactics?"
    27:34Why anti-aircraft submarines sacrifice their best defenceNotable Point
  96. Bruships 25 - Some More Naval Aviation
    3:56:39A submarine's last-ditch missile against helicoptersQ&A
  97. Bru Ships Episode 2a: Book Reviews/Q&A
    1:33:53Why a carrier group has no fixed defensive radiusQ&A