Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

Topic

War Production

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  1. What if HMS Hermes was the first of a class of Cruiser Carriers?
    1:25:39Extra carriers do not erase the Allies' industrial advantageNotable Point
  2. Bruships 224: Alternate Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:42:34Why bombing a production bottleneck may not collapse industryNotable Point
  3. 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P8 of 9 - UAD chat requested design testing…
    6:43:30How geography shaped Commonwealth wartime industryChapter
  4. What changes if the Royal Navy Tribal class got built with 4.5in guns?
    28:38A ubiquitous British dual-purpose gunNotable Point
  5. What changes if the Royal Navy Tribal class got built with 4.5in guns?
    30:32Fleet standardization changes weapons available to escortsNotable Point
  6. What changes if the Royal Navy Tribal class got built with 4.5in guns?
    49:39Modified Tribals become a wartime fleet backboneChapter
  7. What changes if the Royal Navy Tribal class got built with 4.5in guns?
    54:10Small air-defense gains compound across a long warNotable Point
  8. 40mm AA in WWII: Pom-Pom or Bofors? how did the two systems compare in theory and practice?
    11:35Availability and fire control shaped 40 mm procurementNotable Point
  9. 40mm AA in WWII: Pom-Pom or Bofors? how did the two systems compare in theory and practice?
    1:00:33Why wartime fleets kept using obsolescent gunsNotable Point
  10. 40mm AA in WWII: Pom-Pom or Bofors? how did the two systems compare in theory and practice?
    1:35:00Mediterranean fighting turns barrel wear into a supply chainChapter
  11. 40mm AA in WWII: Pom-Pom or Bofors? how did the two systems compare in theory and practice?
    1:38:55Rearmament depended on the factories that made the machine toolsNotable Point
  12. 40mm AA in WWII: Pom-Pom or Bofors? how did the two systems compare in theory and practice?
    3:12:43Were there serious alternatives to Pom-Pom and Bofors?Q&A
  13. Seaplane Tenders: An Earlier Answer to the Battle of the Atlantic?
    57:38Early merchant losses had cumulative strategic costsNotable Point
  14. Convoys: When, Why & What, the Benefits & the Negatives…
    6:49Why wartime trade cannot simply stopChapter
  15. Convoys: When, Why & What, the Benefits & the Negatives…
    22:59Convoys as an instrument of wartime economic controlNotable Point
  16. Bruships 175: Pre- Christmas Party 2024
    1:59:23How British and American infrastructure made victory possibleQ&A
  17. Battle of Santa Cruz: The Deathsong of Japanese Naval Aviation in WWII
    0:33Essex construction changed the cost of carrier lossesNotable Point
  18. Battle of Santa Cruz: The Deathsong of Japanese Naval Aviation in WWII
    45:23Industrial world war stretched command across the globeNotable Point
  19. Battle of Blackett Strait
    34:13Working aerial torpedoes exposed a German production bottleneckNotable Point
  20. Battle of Blackett Strait
    48:52Japanese withdrawal exposes pilot, industrial, and convoy-defense shortagesChapter
  21. Battle of Blackett Strait
    57:19Did Japan's army and navy deliberately use incompatible parts?Q&A
  22. Battle of Blackett Strait
    1:49:03Clevelands and Fletchers form a fast raiding packageChapter
  23. Bruships 134: Imperial Japanese Navy Books
    2:31:19What an early St. Lawrence Seaway changes in World War IIQ&A
  24. Patreon 92: Frank Whittle is given consistent funding by Britain to develop jet engines from 1928
    2:56:28Gas turbines redirect wartime factories and skilled laborChapter
  25. Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century?
    1:44:24Escort mass production demonstrated industrial intentChapter
  26. Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century?
    2:12:08Eight sloops a year could reshape the early U-boat warChapter
  27. Patreon 91: Flower class sloops: The most key ship of the 20th century?
    2:17:40How sustained sloop building could aid destroyersQ&A
  28. How & Why during WWII Motor Torpedo Boats(MTBs) became Motor Gun Boats(MGBs): Pacific Theatre
    53:02Why the Elco PT boat dominated productionNotable Point
  29. How & Why during WWII Motor Torpedo Boats(MTBs) became Motor Gun Boats(MGBs): Pacific Theatre
    1:26:52Good-enough boats versus borrowed perfectionNotable Point
  30. Red Storm Rising: The GIUK Gap in a 1980 conventional war between the Warsaw Pact & NATO(Patreon 77)
    2:41:07Britain still had a large mobilisation base in 1980Notable Point
  31. Red Storm Rising: The GIUK Gap in a 1980 conventional war between the Warsaw Pact & NATO(Patreon 77)
    3:36:26Advanced wartime munitions are never stocked deeply enoughNotable Point
  32. Major Allied Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 1942
    11:02The US Navy had to buy time for promised productionChapter
  33. Patreon 50: 1939 Destroyer Doctrine of the combatant navies & Where did it come from?
    1:57:49Naval supremacy can survive serious ship lossesNotable Point
  34. Patreon 50: 1939 Destroyer Doctrine of the combatant navies & Where did it come from?
    2:10:25Did U.S. loss planning include fleet oilers?Q&A
  35. Bruships 61 - Ship Design; Sci-fi, Wooden & Steel, and some Naval History Questions
    27:21Self-sealing tanks would save pilots but require industryQ&A
  36. Bruships 55: New Books
    3:22:09Britain's equipment position after the evacuation from FranceQ&A
  37. Bruships 43: Aircraft Carriers & Naval Aviation
    2:07:34Comparing national performance across two world warsQ&A
  38. Bruships 42: Some More Scifi
    3:44:23Conflict Unending treats fleet war as an industrial contestChapter
  39. Lend Lease Long Patrol: P3/5 Lend Lease from the British Perspective
    21:05Why wartime exports gave way to reciprocal aidChapter
  40. Lend Lease Long Patrol: P3/5 Lend Lease from the British Perspective
    23:44Why British aid was not one-sidedChapter
  41. Lend Lease Long Patrol: P2/5 What was Lend Lease according to the USA
    37:34Allied orders accelerate American industrial mobilizationChapter
  42. Bruships 31: Some more Science Fiction from a Naval Historians Perspective...
    3:40:45L9 destroyers and earlier adoption of the 4.5-inch gunQ&A
  43. Bruships 31: Some more Science Fiction from a Naval Historians Perspective...
    4:04:39Axis naval flak and Japan's missing mid-range weaponQ&A
  44. Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P6c Introduction to Patreon Video 4
    3:20A Pacific war as an early rearmament triggerNotable Point
  45. Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P6c Introduction to Patreon Video 4
    10:40Aircraft production without an immediate bombing threatNotable Point
  46. Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P5b Introduction to Patreon Video 4
    34:50Roosevelt's political room for material aidNotable Point