Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

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Type 22 Frigate

Also searchable as Broadsword Class, Broadsword Class Frigates, Type 22, Type 22 Frigates.

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  1. Bruships 266: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    2:10:53A Type 22-era variant with Sea Wolf and ExocetQ&A
  2. Rise of the Frigate Navies: Why so many nations are going Frigate and why others want them as well!
    40:08Type 23 outlives its Cold War task-group assumptionsChapter
  3. Rise of the Frigate Navies: Why so many nations are going Frigate and why others want them as well!
    1:39:47Why Britain divided the Type 26 and Type 31 requirementsChapter
  4. Bruships 258: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    2:36:10Naming the Type 42 and Type 22 combinationQ&A
  5. Bruships 258: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    3:57:48A Type 22-based light air-warfare destroyerQ&A
  6. Bruships 257: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:24:24Common Type 23s offered more value than a small Type 22 remnantQ&A
  7. Balancing the Humors: How are modern nations balancing diplomacy and war in the ships they build?
    24:05Port visits as smart powerChapter
  8. Bruships 249: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:55:27What eight additional Type 23 frigates would have changedQ&A
  9. Britain's Cold War Destroyers: Logically Building for the War they didn't Fight...
    1:11:54Type 42 picket duty exposed communications and escort problemsNotable Point
  10. Britain's Cold War Destroyers: Logically Building for the War they didn't Fight...
    1:17:58Gloucester's Sea Dart and London's Sea Wolf protected a coalition forceNotable Point
  11. Could the US Navy have kept the Oliver Hazard Perry's in service for longer?
    22:46Perry and Type 22 hull growth comparedNotable Point
  12. Could the US Navy have kept the Oliver Hazard Perry's in service for longer?
    50:03Perry and Type 22 reflected different fleet rolesQ&A
  13. What Happens if Australia, Canada & the UK go all in on the Invincibles in the 1970s? (Patreon Live)
    2:29:13Would Type 42 and Type 22 start with Batch 3 improvements?Q&A
  14. Bruships 242: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:58:06Type 26 exports and a possible larger second batchQ&A
  15. Destroyers: Modern Navy's most powerful surface combatants - 134yrs of development
    1:13:18Post-Cold War destroyers inherit cruiser diplomacyChapter
  16. Bruships 241: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:57:06Royal Marines carried by Type 22 frigatesQ&A
  17. Bruships 241: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:46:35Reading Type 22 nuclear blast-hardening figuresQ&A
  18. 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
  19. Where has Britain's Royal Navy Gone?
    16:49Type 26 and the lost frigate replacement cycleNotable Point
  20. Where has Britain's Royal Navy Gone?
    51:14The 1998 pattern of promises and immediate retirementsChapter
  21. Where has Britain's Royal Navy Gone?
    1:09:262003 cuts to escorts and submarinesChapter
  22. Where has Britain's Royal Navy Gone?
    1:11:21The command roles that Type 45s inherited from Type 22 frigatesNotable Point
  23. Bruships 234: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:46:18Why a British Aegis equivalent belongs on destroyersQ&A
  24. How many Warships does your Navy need?
    54:27Working out a 35-escort Royal NavyChapter
  25. Why are Modern Warships getting bigger? (Live)
    30:22Missile doctrine and the return of naval gunfireChapter
  26. Bruships 224: Alternate Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:41:48A British Aegis system in the 1980sQ&A
  27. 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P6 of 9 - The Royal Navy’s Submarine Killers – Black Swans at War
    3:39:13Why the Type 22 edges the Knox in ASWQ&A
  28. Bruships 219: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:13:09Type 22 and Kidd classes performed modern cruiser workQ&A
  29. Procuring for Peace First Draft
    5:41Sloops, frigates, and dual-purpose presence shipsChapter
  30. Darings to Countys... and beyond; How Royal Navy Fleet Destroyer design evolved in the Missile Age
    26:24Escort cruisers created a need for large destroyer leadersChapter
  31. The Argentine Navy's Plan of Attack in the 1982 Falklands War
    31:42HMS Brilliant brought Sea Wolf and an aggressive captain to the surface groupNotable Point
  32. Cuthbert Collingwood: Nelson's Second at Trafalgar & the man who secured the Mediterranean
    13:12HMS Badger as a proving commandNotable Point
  33. Procurement for Peace: Second Draft
    46:00Type 22 and Type 23 reveal the cost of role mismatchNotable Point
  34. Lessons of Falklands War(1982) and Ukraine War(2022-)
    32:41Falklands escorts could not share a common engagement pictureChapter
  35. How has Ukraine confirmed, dispelled or updated the lessons of the Falklands War 1982?
    50:13Why naval guns complete the defensive layersChapter
  36. Bruships 199: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    5:02:14Close-in weapons reduce Falklands task-force lossesQ&A
  37. 40mm AA in WWII: Pom-Pom or Bofors? how did the two systems compare in theory and practice?
    3:08:17Missiles, not jets, displaced the Royal Navy's BoforsQ&A
  38. 40mm AA in WWII: Pom-Pom or Bofors? how did the two systems compare in theory and practice?
    3:10:49The first Type 22 frigates retained Bofors after allNotable Point
  39. Bruships 178: Naval History or Exercise
    3:48:19Why naval and aircraft guns returnedQ&A
  40. Middle of the Road doesn't always provide Best Bang for your Buck... Fourth Rates
    1:05:05HMS Isis marked the fourth rate's transition into large frigatesChapter
  41. Bruships 171: Oh Kallax my Kallax, Where art though my Kallax
    2:19:16How the Falklands corrected the all-missile warship ideaQ&A
  42. Soviet Naval Aviation Doctrine: Always Wrestling the Same Demons
    6:52Type 22 frigates and the value of a general-purpose gunNotable Point
  43. Bruships 138: Random Naval History Books from Me, Random Naval History Questions from You!
    2:41:48Why the Falklands 'Type 64' was not a Royal Navy classQ&A
  44. Town Class(1936): Building for Presence - Key Ships Reserve Series, Ship 2
    40:34Space made the Towns adaptable presence shipsChapter
  45. Town Class(1936): Building for Presence - Key Ships Reserve Series, Ship 2
    42:35Cold War bipolarity masked the need for presence shipsNotable Point
  46. Bruships 126: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series
    1:24:15Type 21 was not a tidy replacement programmeQ&A
  47. Bruships 126: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series
    1:53:12Replacing Type 22 required more Type 45 capabilityQ&A
  48. Bruships 126: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series
    2:41:32The Falklands exposed the limits of missile-only shipsQ&A
  49. Bruships 125: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series
    1:41:56Why alternate histories should not preserve familiar frigate typesQ&A
  50. Neptune Class: The Cruiser Conundrum Crisis - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 6
    6:23Mountbatten's specialist-escort alternativeNotable Point
  51. Fourth Rates: When the Fourth is Just Not Enough
    7:58Peacetime layout and the two-tier cruiser caseNotable Point
  52. Bruships 105: Six Age of Sail Useful Books
    48:29Why a Type 22 needed either missiles or a gunQ&A
  53. Bruships 105: Six Age of Sail Useful Books
    1:11:26How a Type 22 without anti-ship missiles would be armedQ&A
  54. Epic Blunders of Naval History: Patreon 64
    2:37:31Postwar fleets designed around missing capabilityChapter
  55. Edgar(1890) Class: 19th Century Cruisers Part 10
    51:28A national flagship creates modern escort demandNotable Point
  56. Bruships 79: Eight New Books, plus Discussions of a Naval Nature
    48:22Secondhand warships transfer wear as well as capabilityQ&A
  57. Bruships 79: Eight New Books, plus Discussions of a Naval Nature
    3:18:40The Type 21 made sense as a short-term numbers solutionQ&A
  58. Bruships 75: Following the 614th Running the Gauntlet
    2:16:22How Falklands damage reshaped British warship survivabilityQ&A
  59. Patreon 48: Anglo-Japanese War in Feb 39 - if Tsingtao Incident goes "hot", what's IJN doctrine?
    18:16Would a reactivated Tiger class shape postwar designs?Q&A
  60. Bruships 65: Naval History Books & Questions Answered
    30:10Choosing a British escort for mass productionQ&A
  61. Bruships 65: Naval History Books & Questions Answered
    38:42The later Type 22 as a modern Tribal equivalentQ&A
  62. Battle of Kentish Knock (8th of October 1652)
    3:38:12Which ships could have launched the Sea Gull missile?Q&A
  63. Bruships 44: Strategy
    3:47:25The Falklands reinforced the need for a ship's gunQ&A
  64. Britain of the 1980s: Long Patrol P5 the Royal Navy of the 1980s
    8:03Destroyer and frigate readiness behind the fleet listChapter
  65. Britain of the 1980s: Long Patrol P5 the Royal Navy of the 1980s
    31:55Type 42 economy and the split air-defence fleetChapter
  66. Britain of the 1980s: Long Patrol P2/7 Keith Speed
    37:23Trafalgar, Invincible, Type 22, and Sting Ray as one ASW systemChapter
  67. Patreon 17 "The Royal Navy’s Strategic Role in 1980s NATO" as suggested by Joseph Sullivan
    2:00:57The Royal Navy's 1980 anti-submarine modernization planChapter
  68. Bruships 34: Random History
    1:55:30What should the Royal Navy have changed after the Falklands War?Q&A
  69. Bruships 34: Random History
    1:58:27Broad-beamed Type 22s, larger Invincibles, and a Type 82 fleet escortQ&A
  70. Bruships 27: Science Fiction Books
    1:04:25Reported hull-thickness changes in Royal Navy designsNotable Point
  71. Patreon 11: "The effect of the early jet age on naval warfare strategy/tactics?"
    2:54:34The Type 42 and Type 22 worked as a complementary pairQ&A
  72. Bru Ships Episode 12: New to Me Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    1:08:42How the Falklands task force tried to create fighter ambushesNotable Point
  73. An Introduction to Not the Big Ships: NGFS As Provided by Destroyers & Below Part 2 of 2
    18:28The Type 22's post-Falklands gun lessonChapter
  74. An Introduction to Not the Big Ships: NGFS As Provided by Destroyers & Below Part 2 of 2
    20:47The case for keeping all 16 Type 23 frigatesNotable Point
  75. An Introduction to What was paid for in Blood, in Sweat, in Tears & so much Money... Part 2 of 3
    7:21Type 22 frigates outgrow a single Cold War scenarioChapter
  76. Top 10 Ships – not Tribal, Battle, Daring or Town classes…
    13:40Why modern escorts resemble cruisersNotable Point