Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

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Turbo-Electric Drive

Also searchable as Turbine Electric Propulsion, Turbo Electric Propulsion, Turboelectric Drive.

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  1. Bruships 260: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    1:30:15What delayed integrated electric propulsion?Q&A
  2. Bruships 256: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    3:40:18Rebuilding a young battlecruiser as a carrier costs too muchQ&A
  3. Bruships 256: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    4:09:00A conventional carrier could expand US yard capacityQ&A
  4. What happens if WWII took place as scheduled... after 1942? (Patreon)
    3:58:42Would an armoured US carrier improve the whole fleet's survivability?Q&A
  5. Bruships 250: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:31:19Turbo-electric capital ships into the 1940sQ&A
  6. 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
  7. Bruships 226: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:43:22Which historic ship should be reconstructed accurately?Q&A
  8. Bruships 226: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:51:24A turbo-electric warship as an engineering reconstructionNotable Point
  9. Bruships 222: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:27:04Treaty limits and turbo-electric warship propulsionQ&A
  10. Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust
    1:06:06Why the US Navy valued turbo-electric propulsionQ&A
  11. Bruships 217: Back from Japan 2025: Jetlag is a Myth - Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:27:10Why a warship cannot simply power a damaged cityQ&A
  12. Scuttlebutt 11: from SDSR to Pearl Harbor, with a stop at CVA-01 along the way...
    0:53Integrated power systems versus early turbo-electric driveQ&A
  13. Bruships 194: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:50:25More Lexington hulls and larger American shipyardsNotable Point
  14. Bruships 189: Naval History Questions Answered Live...continued
    58:52Turbo-electric drive in US ships and locomotivesQ&A
  15. Tribal, Battle & Daring Class Destroyers: 5yrs since the first live stream!
    1:16:47Choosing warship propulsion without the Washington TreatyQ&A
  16. Tribal, Battle & Daring Class Destroyers: 5yrs since the first live stream!
    1:18:18Turbo-electric control for submarine hunting and carrier flight operationsNotable Point
  17. Tribal, Battle & Daring Class Destroyers: 5yrs since the first live stream!
    1:18:52The case for turbo-electric battleshipsQ&A
  18. 21st Century Battleship: What would a battleship built today need to be a battleship?
    44:36The Lexington class supplies an electric-propulsion precedentNotable Point
  19. Bruships 187: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:28:11Integrated electric propulsion in plain languageQ&A
  20. Bruships 185: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:45:29Direct steam, turbo-electric, and diesel-electric drivesQ&A
  21. Bruships 185: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:34:44Why the Royal Navy chose geared turbinesQ&A
  22. Bruships 181: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:08:09Why develop turbo-electric warship propulsion?Q&A
  23. World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/4
    8:08:54Turbo-electric drive versus geared steam turbinesQ&A
  24. Damage Control - The WWII Aircraft Carriers Edition; when it went wrong & when it went right
    3:39:15Could an interwar commitment to electric drive improve survivability?Notable Point
  25. Bruships 155: Last time answering naval history questions from the Brushack?
    31:17Turbo-electric drives without naval treatiesQ&A
  26. Scuttlebutt 2: H Class Battleships, Japanese Carrier Aircraft Design and lots more
    1:15:20Electric-drive development and the H-class timetableNotable Point
  27. Scuttlebutt 2: H Class Battleships, Japanese Carrier Aircraft Design and lots more
    1:19:25Electric-drive speed versus time to produce itQ&A
  28. Bruships 146: Naval History Questions, Boxes Getting Packed & Lego Getting Built
    2:44:52The weight cost of turbo-electric propulsionQ&A
  29. Bruships 141: Some Cool Books & Naval History Questions Answered
    41:29A better propulsion scheme for the Normandie classQ&A
  30. Check Campaign 7: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign
    1:08:21Balancing speed, range, and protection in a battleship refitChapter
  31. The American Carrier Raids of 1942: Wresting Control of the Pace of War from the Japanese
    39:56Yorktown and Lexington traded speed against enduranceNotable Point
  32. Check Campaign 6: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign
    1:37:07Turbo-electric drive for a fast assault battleshipChapter
  33. Racking up the Fight Back: American Carrier raids of 1942
    48:40The carriers, air groups, and machinery behind the raidsChapter
  34. Racking up the Fight Back: American Carrier raids of 1942
    57:30Would the US Navy have kept turbo-electric propulsion?Q&A
  35. Racking up the Fight Back: American Carrier raids of 1942
    1:01:49Why geared turbines displaced turbo-electric driveQ&A
  36. Racking up the Fight Back: American Carrier raids of 1942
    1:05:25Turbo-electric drive and whole-ship layout efficiencyQ&A
  37. Racking up the Fight Back: American Carrier raids of 1942
    1:08:44Panama Canal limits favored compact American machineryQ&A
  38. Racking up the Fight Back: American Carrier raids of 1942
    1:10:40Could turbo-electric drive have helped Nelson and Rodney?Q&A
  39. Lexington Class: America's Battle Cruiser Dreams - KSS2 S4 Comment Response
    19:44Turbo-electric drive traded weight for flexibility and rangeQ&A
  40. Lexington & Saratoga Carrier Conception: Key Ship Series 3, Ships 10 &11
    17:33Speed and turboelectric propulsionNotable Point
  41. Lexington Class Battle Cruisers: Key Ship Series 2, Ship 4
    17:49Comparing Lexington with HMS HoodNotable Point
  42. A potential American Response to the 18in HMS Agincourt?
    5:04Panama Canal limits shape the American conceptNotable Point
  43. Nelson Class & Patreon 67 Comment Response
    49:45Why Britain could not simply copy U.S. turboelectric driveQ&A
  44. 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
  45. Bruships 77: Leadership, books & questions...
    2:13:45Why faster Standards favour geared turbinesQ&A
  46. Cutting through some Cutters of the US Coast Guard (Long Patrol)
    19:19Lake-class cutters as wartime escortsChapter
  47. Dreadnoughts (Commissioned Ships 1905-55)
    1:49:00Why Colorado's turbo-electric drive disappointedQ&A
  48. Some More Battle Cruisers
    45:24Lexington's turbo-electric drive pushes capital-ship technologyChapter