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- Bruships 264: Naval History Questions Answered Live1:53:40German design committees and the Hipper-Baltimore comparisonQ&A
- Bruships 264: Naval History Questions Answered Live3:05:30Replacing Tirpitz's secondary battery with 5-inch/54 gunsQ&A
- China's Type 54 Frigate: Mass Production and Tactical Balance2:37An iterative frigate family inherits destroyer technologyNotable Point
- China's Type 54 Frigate: Mass Production and Tactical Balance5:02A frigate design that an expanding workforce can buildNotable Point
- China's Type 54 Frigate: Mass Production and Tactical Balance9:48Type 054B range, hull size and the Z-20 helicopterNotable Point
- Royal Navy Destroyers of WWI...23:00How destroyer leaders commanded flotillasChapter
- Royal Navy Destroyers of WWI...28:32Armed command ships and support for uncrewed vesselsNotable Point
- Royal Navy Destroyers of WWI...31:15Anzac's freeboard and anti-aircraft provisionNotable Point
- Royal Navy Destroyers of WWI...47:21The V and W classes and their shared design inheritanceChapter
- Royal Navy Destroyers of WWI...54:47Thornycroft variants and the extra speedNotable Point
- Royal Navy Destroyers of WWI...55:25Which former British shipyard is most missed?Q&A
- Royal Navy Destroyers of WWI...57:53Modified W-class destroyers and Thornycroft's influenceChapter
- Royal Navy Destroyers of WWI...1:05:33Shakespeare-class power and enduranceNotable Point
- Royal Navy Destroyers of WWI...1:10:54Mission creep and wartime destroyer growthNotable Point
- Royal Navy Destroyers of WWI...1:13:40Destroyer range and preparation for future conflictsNotable Point
- Bruships 261: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...16:10Why battleship conning towers have different shapesQ&A
- Bruships 261: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...17:57Arrowhead hull size and the cost of new building jigsNotable Point
- Bruships 261: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...25:44Italian DDX range and Mediterranean operationsQ&A
- Bruships 261: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...31:44Why modern destroyers need room for computers and powerNotable Point
- Bruships 261: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...33:47What larger Type 45 and Type 26 variants would addQ&A
- Bruships 261: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:01:52How many ship-design options did the Royal Navy consider?Q&A
- Bruships 261: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:41:43Fitting Seaslug into a Leander-sized shipQ&A
- Bruships 261: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:42:30The cost of a convincing full-size warship decoyNotable Point
- Bruships 261: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:12:39Extra tanks and the scale of warship fuel needsQ&A
- Momi to Kagero - The Story of the Japanese 1920s & 1930s Destroyer Program1:27:50What Asashio's wartime losses can tell usNotable Point
- Bruships 260: Naval History Questions Answered Live2:59:39Continued Ticonderoga production and hull limitsQ&A
- Bruships 259: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...18:06Solar sails in an age-of-sail space battleQ&A
- Bruships 259: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:09:09Victory and Imperial Star Destroyers after the Clone WarsQ&A
- Bruships 259: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:27:36When a fictional warship has too many gunsQ&A
- Bruships 259: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:02:08A role-play Admiral-class battlecarrier conversionQ&A
- Bruships 258: Naval History Questions Answered Live1:48:12Checking a 3,500-ton claim for Hood's conning towerQ&A
- Bruships 258: Naval History Questions Answered Live2:34:12The opportunity for an earlier vertical-launch Sea WolfQ&A
- Bruships 258: Naval History Questions Answered Live3:18:14Exploring alternative Type 31 weapons and sensorsNotable Point
- Bruships 258: Naval History Questions Answered Live4:14:53Aragon, Madrid and names for a Spanish warship classQ&A
- Bruships 257: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...28:02What would a modern Royal Navy fourth-rate look like?Q&A
- Bruships 257: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...40:31German and British battlecruisers converged from different doctrinesQ&A
- Bruships 257: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:11:27Why the Type 45 is proposed as a British equivalent to the BurkeQ&A
- Bruships 257: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:55:13Continuing Brandenburg's three-turret layout into later battleshipsQ&A
- Bruships 257: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:34:50First World War methods against one-ton naval minesQ&A
- Key Frigates of Today & Tomorrow: Type 26s, FREMMs & Nilgiris vs Mogami, Type 31s & FDIs0:00Judge frigates by the missions they must performChapter
- Key Frigates of Today & Tomorrow: Type 26s, FREMMs & Nilgiris vs Mogami, Type 31s & FDIs5:49What shows that Type 26 is designed around ASW?Q&A
- Key Frigates of Today & Tomorrow: Type 26s, FREMMs & Nilgiris vs Mogami, Type 31s & FDIs15:53Why can same-size equipment force a ship redesign?Q&A
- Key Frigates of Today & Tomorrow: Type 26s, FREMMs & Nilgiris vs Mogami, Type 31s & FDIs22:29FREMM weapon layers, firing arcs, and redundancyNotable Point
- Key Frigates of Today & Tomorrow: Type 26s, FREMMs & Nilgiris vs Mogami, Type 31s & FDIs42:47Mogami's balanced fit and resistance to feature creepChapter
- Bruships 256: Naval History Questions Answered Live1:07:44New Mexico with eight 16-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships 256: Naval History Questions Answered Live1:46:46Converting a Kongo-class hull into an aircraft carrierQ&A
- Bruships 256: Naval History Questions Answered Live1:48:02AUKUS production schedules and Australia's Collins gapNotable Point
- Bruships 256: Naval History Questions Answered Live3:01:49Kawachi versus Nassau as an early dreadnought designQ&A
- Bruships 256: Naval History Questions Answered Live3:26:38Scharnhorst's bow suited a different operating areaQ&A
- Bruships 256: Naval History Questions Answered Live3:44:19The cost of making the tender a submarineQ&A
- Bruships 256: Naval History Questions Answered Live3:56:09Gun limits for a standardised Scharnhorst hullQ&A
- Bruships 256: Naval History Questions Answered Live4:05:43A 24-inch-gun battleship approaches 160,000 tonsQ&A
- Bruships 255: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...19:37What navies lost by outsourcing warship designQ&A
- Bruships 255: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...35:05How a longer Type 45 run might have evolvedQ&A
- Bruships 255: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:49:30Visby, Zumwalt, and the operational limits of stealth shapingNotable Point
- Bruships 255: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:52:55Why displacement alone cannot define a destroyerNotable Point
- Bruships 255: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:54:09Why anti-submarine and air-defence computing need different resourcesNotable Point
- Bruships 255: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:00:11The equipment surrounding a warship's computersNotable Point
- Bruships 255: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:13:14How stealthy Type 83 was likely to beQ&A
- Bruships 255: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:07:49Why Royal Navy theory often appeared in steelQ&A
- Bruships 255: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:10:29How 32 Zumwalts might have changed naval competitionQ&A
- Bruships 255: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:20:45Why integrated composite masts are spreadingQ&A
- Bruships 254: Naval History Questions Answered Live3:19:31An outer armour belt that triggers shells before the main beltQ&A
- Bruships 254: Naval History Questions Answered Live4:10:51Why NATO does not need one standard surface combatantQ&A
- Bruships 254: Naval History Questions Answered Live4:14:17Tracing the chosen Minotaur-class preliminary designQ&A
- What happens if the French navy goes all Free French in 1940?15:35Surcouf and the cost of an intermediate designNotable Point
- What happens if the French navy goes all Free French in 1940?21:16What Béarn shows about French naval innovationNotable Point
- Bruships 253: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:06:26Why larger guns are not a simple battleship refitQ&A
- Bruships 253: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:24:02What related warship designs would shareQ&A
- Bruships 253: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:36:50Medium-speed diesels trade compactness for flexibilityQ&A
- Bruships 253: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:52:22A Canadian destroyer built around Burke systemsQ&A
- Task Force Doctrine; How it evolved from WWI to WWII in the big three navys - IJN, RN & USN(Patreon)1:19:22King George V class design suited mixed task forcesNotable Point
- Bruships 251: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...39:43Choosing exhibits for a museum of bad warship designQ&A
- Bruships 251: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:12:23Scaling Arrowhead for a 96-cell missile destroyerQ&A
- Bruships 251: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:25:33Why the PLAN moved from Type 052C to Type 052DQ&A
- Bruships 251: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:06:53Why contra-rotating propellers rarely reach the fleetQ&A
- Bruships 251: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:07:39Why a surviving ship design may document an objectionNotable Point
- Bruships 250: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:43:38Why Nelson and Rodney are so often misunderstoodQ&A
- Bruships 250: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:44:50The engineering limits of a tethered radar droneNotable Point
- Bruships 250: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:45:55A five-turret B65 large cruiser is possible but hugeQ&A
- Bruships 250: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:56:38A 144-cell extended Type 45 conceptQ&A
- Bruships 250: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:08:01Peripheral VLS does not eliminate ship volumeQ&A
- Bruships 250: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:35:45Why a stretched River-class OPV is not a cheap frigateQ&A
- Yak-38 Forger: The Nasty Surprise of the Kiev Class37:57Why warship missions matter more than Top Trumps rankingsNotable Point
- Flotilla or Squadron? What Naval Unit is this?6:25Shrinking fleets drive a capability-and-cost spiralNotable Point
- Bruships 243: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...29:49Vertical dive attacks and interwar destroyer AA lessonsQ&A
- Bruships 243: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:36:47UNCLOS definitions versus combatant capabilityNotable Point
- Bruships 243: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:27:19Why Batch 2 Rivers cannot become frigates cheaplyQ&A
- What happens if the British & Japanese refuse to break their alliance? (Patreon Live)2:18:20Standard displacement belongs to the treaty systemQ&A
- What happens if the British & Japanese refuse to break their alliance? (Patreon Live)2:25:35Nine- or ten-gun cruisers improve on York and ExeterQ&A
- What happens if the British & Japanese refuse to break their alliance? (Patreon Live)2:48:19Britain was already considering 9.2-inch cruisersQ&A
- What happens if Winston Churchill doesn't pause the Carriers, Fast Battleships & Cruisers in 1939?22:11Stopping construction scatters skills and invites redesignNotable Point
- Why did Hitler & Mussolini Declare War on America in December 1941? & What if they didn't?34:01Plan Z and inward-looking strategyNotable Point
- Why did Hitler & Mussolini Declare War on America in December 1941? & What if they didn't?43:26Gloire, Warrior, and constrained naval counterfactualsNotable Point
- Bruships 236: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:36:12How battle outcomes distort warship reputationsQ&A
- Where has Britain's Royal Navy Gone?58:48Share combat systems without forcing one common warshipNotable Point
- Where has Britain's Royal Navy Gone?1:43:35The Type 45 power margin that could have prevented a later refitNotable Point
- Bruships 234: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:24:41Real precedents for Smolensk's stacked gun mountQ&A
- Bruships 234: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:52:08Why Tagge-class battlecruisers feel like corporate warshipsQ&A
- The Arguments that made American Seapower: Roosevelt, Mahan, Sims & More1:10:29Why Scharnhorst and Gneisenau are fast battleshipsNotable Point
- Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live)55:29Why warships are maintained before their service limitsNotable Point
- Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live)1:56:18Why a stable midships helicopter deck can still be unsafeQ&A
- Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live)2:24:53The Royal Navy's long postwar submarine lineageQ&A
- Bruships 231: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:22:34Earlier armored cruisers lead to dreadnought light cruisersQ&A
- Bruships 231: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:27:38Assembling the worst interwar destroyerQ&A
- Bruships 231: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:31:11Normandy SR1 and SR2: accommodation and internal layoutQ&A
- Bruships 231: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:49:17Why Austro-Hungarian destroyers mixed gun sizes poorlyQ&A
- Bruships 231: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:53:54Arming a penny-pinching interwar battleshipQ&A
- Bruships 231: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:50:28Designing an interwar cruiser around 9.2-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships 231: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:39:55Why treaty battleships adopted quadruple turretsQ&A
- What if Force Z(HMS Prince of Wales & HMS Repulse) doesn't get sunk on the 10th of December 1941?25:08January reinforcements fill the fleet's carrier and AA gapsChapter
- What if Force Z(HMS Prince of Wales & HMS Repulse) doesn't get sunk on the 10th of December 1941?31:03Why British carriers need a separate fleet flagshipNotable Point
- What if Force Z(HMS Prince of Wales & HMS Repulse) doesn't get sunk on the 10th of December 1941?38:15Naval treaties leave the Eastern Fleet old and slowNotable Point
- What if Force Z(HMS Prince of Wales & HMS Repulse) doesn't get sunk on the 10th of December 1941?1:02:31The carrier is coming, but the battleship is at its peakNotable Point
- How many Warships does your Navy need?1:13:22Rolling Burke production can lock the US Navy into one designNotable Point
- How do you Compare & Analyse Warships?0:00Compare warships against their intended missionQ&A
- How do you Compare & Analyse Warships?1:24The 1930s Town class and countering surface raidersNotable Point
- How do you Compare & Analyse Warships?1:45First World War Town cruisers and unexpected merchant raidersNotable Point
- What if Winston Churchill doesn't pause Carriers, Capital Ships & Cruisers in 1939? Patreon Live46:04Modern ships and continuous production strengthen the later fleetQ&A
- What if Winston Churchill doesn't pause Carriers, Capital Ships & Cruisers in 1939? Patreon Live2:12:40A 9.2-inch cruiser is possible, but has no clear missionQ&A
- Bruships 228: Naval History Questions Answered Live...53:28Why a year's repair could still justify saving Prince of WalesNotable Point
- Bruships 228: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:25:03Raising Bismarck for forensic engineeringQ&A
- Bruships 228: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:44:48What happens when face-hardened armor is reversedQ&A
- Bruships 228: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:46:39Internal versus external battleship armor beltsQ&A
- Bruships 228: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:04:45How large a ship needs to be for TalosQ&A
- Bruships 228: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:11:13A battleship armed with eight Schwerer Gustav gunsQ&A
- Bruships 228: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:57:35Ibuki's old guns do not solve a new cruiser's weight problemQ&A
- Bruships 228: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:09:31The Shokaku class torpedo-protection compromiseQ&A
- Bruships 228: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:10:07What a genuine Burke Flight IV would requireQ&A
- Scuttlebutt 18: Guns & Points of Order6:29Zumwalt's revolutionary procurement burdenQ&A
- Scuttlebutt 18: Guns & Points of Order10:53Modern combat systems inside the Burke-class hullNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 18: Guns & Points of Order40:43The cruiser duties imposed on Ticonderoga's hullNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 18: Guns & Points of Order46:00Designing workshop space for uncrewed aircraftNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 18: Guns & Points of Order53:29The proposed Sea Wolf-equipped Batch 4 Type 42Notable Point
- Bruships 226: Naval History Questions Answered Live...10:54Why the fictional Franco-Soviet frigate needs a much larger hullQ&A
- Bruships 226: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:51:24A turbo-electric warship as an engineering reconstructionNotable Point
- Bruships 226: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:21:06How armored-cruiser roles passed to battlecruisers and heavy cruisersQ&A
- Tragedy & Revenge/Wolfpack... Key Books!25:53Destroyer history through national design philosophiesNotable Point
- Why is a Frigate a Frigate and other questions of modern navys?11:44HMS Warrior shows that ship-type growth is not newChapter
- Why is a Frigate a Frigate and other questions of modern navys?45:49Modern frigate and destroyer labels signal system priorityChapter
- Scuttlebutt 17: Missiles, Guns & Other Barrels of Fun20:58Modern warship cost and the danger of cascading failuresNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 17: Missiles, Guns & Other Barrels of Fun37:57Austro-Hungarian naval designs and prudent threat assessmentNotable Point
- Type 26 & Type 31 Frigate Program Updates: City, Hunter, River(Destroyer), Inspiration & the rest!17:27Why Type 83 should not simply enlarge Type 26Chapter
- Type 26 & Type 31 Frigate Program Updates: City, Hunter, River(Destroyer), Inspiration & the rest!19:02How much larger could Type 83 become?Notable Point
- Type 26 & Type 31 Frigate Program Updates: City, Hunter, River(Destroyer), Inspiration & the rest!37:47The Type 31's CODAD propulsion tradeoffNotable Point
- Trumps Battleship; A Naval History view on what we know of the Defiant Class so far30:03Twin 5-inch guns and the missing aviation pictureChapter
- Bruships 224: Alternate Naval History Questions Answered Live...21:41Building the worst destroyer of 1939Q&A
- Bruships 224: Alternate Naval History Questions Answered Live...35:19Spanish super-battleships strain the treaty systemQ&A
- Bruships 224: Alternate Naval History Questions Answered Live...38:20Why the proposed Spanish battleships approach 40,000 tonsNotable Point
- Bruships 224: Alternate Naval History Questions Answered Live...44:44Why retaining more Constellation-class frigates is not enoughQ&A
- Bruships 224: Alternate Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:49:26Why a modified F100 frigate would keep growingQ&A
- Bruships 224: Alternate Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:51:37Why a smaller Burke derivative draws objectionsNotable Point
- Bruships 224: Alternate Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:02:48The ambiguity in Fisher's proposed fast capital shipQ&A
- Bruships 224: Alternate Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:12:03A larger Panama Canal and American battleshipsQ&A
- Bruships 224: Alternate Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:13:21Why destroyer steam pressures laggedQ&A
- What changes if the Royal Navy gets a Proper Staff in 1905, instead relying on NID for everything?1:00:58Two meanings of 'battlecruiser' in this scenarioNotable Point
- Bruships 223: Naval History & Science Fiction Questions Answered Live...4:19:44Choosing a Starfleet ship to commandQ&A
- Piet Pieterszoon Hein: Dutchman who took a Spanish Silver Fleet12:17Why early modern fleets mixed warships and privateersNotable Point
- Bruships 221: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:10:01Why shipboard damage control is difficult to automateQ&A
- Bruships 221: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:26:53Do Sojourn's Leander-class guns fit its stated hull?Q&A
- Bruships 221: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:39:17Matching the Leander's rating, boarding role and point defenceNotable Point
- Bruships 221: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:45:48Hearts of Iron IV hull progression and historical ship designNotable Point
- More Lessons of Never Built Carriers48:13Treaties could not erase knowledge of larger warshipsNotable Point
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle2:53:13Two naval-aviation books for operational and design ideasNotable Point
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle3:42:24When one advanced warship can overmatch an older fleetQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P8 of 9 - UAD chat requested design testing…27:15The North Sea as the Royal Navy's permanent opponentQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P8 of 9 - UAD chat requested design testing…1:03:011960s missiles and radar arrive in 1932Q&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P8 of 9 - UAD chat requested design testing…1:03:21Slowing a battleship does not make it a treaty auxiliaryQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P8 of 9 - UAD chat requested design testing…2:49:31Informal conversations around naval procurementNotable Point
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P8 of 9 - UAD chat requested design testing…3:01:27Why navies rarely admit a warship failedQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon1:18Why the G3 design adopted a transom sternQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon3:59Trincomalee, Unicorn, and differences within a sailing-ship classQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon24:01Why warship designs cluster around recurring displacement bandsQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon36:05American small ships also adopted active stabilizationQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon56:48The space and mission problems in a nuclear missile battleshipQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon1:54:08Tracing Conqueror to Lion preliminary design 16E-38Notable Point
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon1:58:38A difference engine for pre-1914 warship designQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon2:47:18When a large cruiser carries too little gun for its sizeNotable Point
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon2:47:52Naval intelligence was a core institution before 1914Q&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon2:49:32An Olympic-derived warship would be an expensive cruiserQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon2:49:45Destiny's separated gun batteries and blind firing arcsQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon3:11:57What limits a warship's speed in reverseQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon3:35:11German battlecruiser intelligence shaped the Admiral classQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon3:39:49Why theater geography matters when swapping the RN and USNQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon5:51:42A River-class OPV as a practical modern gunboat baseQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon7:19:57Crew standards and command spaces shape Type 83Notable Point
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P6 of 9 - The Royal Navy’s Submarine Killers – Black Swans at War2:29:55A maximal Type 45 arsenal-cruiser thought experimentQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P6 of 9 - The Royal Navy’s Submarine Killers – Black Swans at War4:12:02Why fast torpedo boats used fixed launchersQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P6 of 9 - The Royal Navy’s Submarine Killers – Black Swans at War4:35:11How politics distorted Bismarck, Graf Zeppelin, and HoodQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P6 of 9 - The Royal Navy’s Submarine Killers – Black Swans at War4:40:21A rough quantitative test for warship densityQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P6 of 9 - The Royal Navy’s Submarine Killers – Black Swans at War5:25:16Why longer-ranged secondary shells do not replace Dreadnought's batteryQ&A
- 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P6 of 9 - The Royal Navy’s Submarine Killers – Black Swans at War8:15:59Kingfisher: testing the smallest practical sloopNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust1:40:07A common Baltic patrol ship without surrendering national yardsQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust1:40:07Why shared waters make joint warship design easierNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust2:03:53Why modular weapons suit the proposed Baltic patrol vesselQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust4:11:34Why similar frigate designs can emerge at different timesQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust5:48:39Why a three-tier cruiser treaty would squeeze out the middle classQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust6:35:35Ninety years of French aircraft-carrier developmentChapter
- Historiophon 2025: part 5 of 9 - Royal Navy & Royal Marines Charity, The Royal Navy Benevolent Trust6:40:26Bearn's concentrated machinery and damage-control concernsNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust9:56How Britain might choose naval gun calibers without treatiesQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust1:00:15Why Type 14 frigates had limited shock resistanceQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust4:10:45Why OTO's 127 mm gun leads this modern comparisonQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust4:27:09Designing a 1,200-metre fictional Star Destroyer successorQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust5:05:47The unresolved tradeoffs in putting Chobham armour on warshipsQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust10:05:35Why the interwar US Navy built many destroyer classesQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 4 of 9 - Fly Navy Heritage Trust10:38:23What a modernized Alaska-class large cruiser might retainQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress3:26:34Why early English iron guns would force an Iberian naval responseQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress4:12:34Penelope's armament, protection, and fuel capacityChapter
- Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress5:55:16Could a larger Arethusa replace twins with triple turrets?Q&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress5:57:41Forward gunfire and the Nelson turret arrangementNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress7:01:29What makes a fast battleship rather than a battlecruiserQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress8:06:28Why a visible gun strengthens a warship's presenceQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress8:23:21Why heavy end-on batteries declined in sailing warshipsQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress8:24:51A proposed nuclear strike cruiser as a Ticonderoga replacementQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress8:36:38Why turtleback armour would be difficult on a first rateQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II2:06:16Why a Japanese destroyer gun had to work beyond night battlesQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II6:05:44Testing a heavy-gun Type 83 conceptQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy I25:38Designing a fleet around a known budgetNotable Point
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy I44:47Designing a treaty-free 1928 armored cruiserQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy I1:12:43Brennus as the least-bad Fleet of Experiments battleshipQ&A
- Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy I2:15:11Habakkuk III as a smaller faster berg shipQ&A
- Bruships 220: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:42:37Why HMS Tiger was retained over the Lion-class battlecruisersQ&A
- Bruships 220: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:33:16Battlecruisers made sense within a narrow technological windowQ&A
- Bruships 219: Naval History Questions Answered Live...48:33County-class helicopter facilities added limited flexibilityQ&A
- Bruships 219: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:05:58Modern combatant labels still conceal specialized design choicesQ&A
- Bruships 219: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:46:18An optionally crewed warship still needs about eighteen peopleQ&A
- Bruships 219: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:11:50Taiwan keeps old warships because usable hulls still impose costsQ&A
- Bruships 219: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:24:21Missile battleships are really large cruisersQ&A
- Unryū class: Japan's Light Fleet Carriers!18:05Kure traded speed for a marginal armor increaseNotable Point
- What would the World's Major Navys look like in 1950 if WWII didn't happen? (Live)2:54:12Would flight-deck cruisers or battlecarriers be built?Q&A
- Bruships 218: New Books! British Telecom is a terrible ISP! Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:41:09Admiral or G3 hulls for carrier conversion?Q&A
- Bruships 218: New Books! British Telecom is a terrible ISP! Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:30:43Why the 1860s are a compelling shipbuilding eraQ&A
- Bruships 218: New Books! British Telecom is a terrible ISP! Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:49:54Why VLS counts cannot rank every warshipQ&A
- Procuring for Peace First Draft47:26Warship displacement tiers persist across technological changeNotable Point
- Bruships 217: Back from Japan 2025: Jetlag is a Myth - Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:25:47What a 10-20 g pulse would do to a warshipQ&A
- Bruships 217: Back from Japan 2025: Jetlag is a Myth - Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:42:17Why battle damage changes nuclear-reactor riskNotable Point
- Bruships 217: Back from Japan 2025: Jetlag is a Myth - Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:19:53Why carrier submarines combine conflicting requirementsQ&A
- Bruships 217: Back from Japan 2025: Jetlag is a Myth - Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:57:02The range and payload tradeoff in ramjet shellsQ&A
- Bruships 217: Back from Japan 2025: Jetlag is a Myth - Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:25:34Why Invincible's Sea Dart had no better locationQ&A
- What happens if the X-1 Cruiser Submarine becomes genesis not a dockyard queen?31:42Article 8 leaves room for powerful escort hullsNotable Point
- What happens if the X-1 Cruiser Submarine becomes genesis not a dockyard queen?38:18Fighting cruiser submarines changes sloop protection and gun powerNotable Point
- Bruships 216 On the Road Japan 2025: Last one from Japan! Naval History Questions Answered Live...38:05Why aviation battleships solve the wrong problemQ&A
- Bruships 216 On the Road Japan 2025: Last one from Japan! Naval History Questions Answered Live...42:22Why a seven-gun battleship layout complicates firingQ&A
- Bruships 215 On the Road Japan 2025: Naval History Questions Answered Live...28:38Why one NFR-90 hull could not fit every navyQ&A
- Bruships 215 On the Road Japan 2025: Naval History Questions Answered Live...49:56Mikasa, the Six-Six Fleet, and Japanese SSK designQ&A
- Bruships 215 On the Road Japan 2025: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:38:18Why Type 31 fits Danish naval needsQ&A
- Darings to Countys... and beyond; How Royal Navy Fleet Destroyer design evolved in the Missile Age2:02How documentary sources and design experience shape this historyNotable Point
- Darings to Countys... and beyond; How Royal Navy Fleet Destroyer design evolved in the Missile Age19:25Daring-class pairs tested competing electrical systemsNotable Point
- Darings to Countys... and beyond; How Royal Navy Fleet Destroyer design evolved in the Missile Age36:10Type 82 Bristol paired broad capability with costly omissionsChapter
- Darings to Countys... and beyond; How Royal Navy Fleet Destroyer design evolved in the Missile Age46:46A fuller Type 82 could have added aviation and layered defenceNotable Point
- Bruships 214 On the Road Japan 2025: Naval History Questions Answered Live...16:45Why battlecruiser speed justified the investmentQ&A
- Bruships 214 On the Road Japan 2025: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:37:35Reading Mikasa through the Six-Six Fleet's decisionsQ&A
- Bruships 213 On the Road Japan 2025: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:06:37Turbine Lord Nelsons and a faster DreadnoughtQ&A
- Bruships 213 On the Road Japan 2025: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:17:38Lissa's long shadow over Italian warship designQ&A
- Bruships 213 On the Road Japan 2025: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:38:51Why the OTO Melara 76 mm fits almost any warshipQ&A
- Bruships 213 On the Road Japan 2025: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:40:00Why one European warship cannot fit every navyQ&A
- Bruships 212: Naval History Questions Answered Live...After Power Cut1:00:32Why awkward postwar battleships would become donor shipsQ&A
- Bruships 212: Naval History Questions Answered Live...After Power Cut2:18:45Why impossible requirements rarely produce balanced warshipsQ&A
- Bruships 212: Naval History Questions Answered Live...57:50Why Royal Navy cruiser studies used diamond turretsQ&A
- Bruships 212: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:17:37When a larger DDG(X) becomes a new Burke flightNotable Point
- Cultural Drivers of National Military Organisation/Structure - a quick guide...22:56National identity shapes warship procurementNotable Point
- Battle of Cadiz(1656): Going Godly for Gold27:23Why seventeenth-century ship labels misleadChapter
- Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...19:01Why an air-defense Type 31 would not replace Type 83Q&A
- Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...26:20Why armed naval trimarans remain unusualQ&A
- Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...39:54Why the Kriegsmarine preferred twin turretsQ&A
- Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...41:19British design studies and resistance to triple turretsNotable Point
- Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...59:53The limits of the Mackensen game refitNotable Point
- Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:01:38Drone frigates revive the battlecarrier compromiseQ&A
- Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:41:39Why the GMF-120 looks too Baltic for DenmarkQ&A
- Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:08:09Traveling-wave reactors, combat damage, and port accessQ&A
- Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:37:07Why a nuclear Zumwalt cruiser would be a new designQ&A
- Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:19:17Why even ships without hangars need aviation facilitiesQ&A
- Destroyer Guns of WWII: Why, Why & Why48:22The missed high-angle future of the British 4.7-inchNotable Point
- Destroyer Guns of WWII: Why, Why & Why1:27:22How destroyer hull strength affected gun accuracyNotable Point
- Destroyer Guns of WWII: Why, Why & Why1:33:44Why France's 138.6 mm destroyer gun underdeliveredChapter
- Destroyer Guns of WWII: Why, Why & Why1:40:50What large destroyers were expected to do for different naviesNotable Point
- Destroyer Guns of WWII: Why, Why & Why1:44:21Why wartime shipbuilding made destroyers the mass threatNotable Point
- Battle of Actium(31BC); Last Gasp of the Roman Republic26:13History as input to Type 83 destroyer designNotable Point
- Battle of Actium(31BC); Last Gasp of the Roman Republic32:29Liburnians supply speed and maneuverNotable Point
- Bruships 209: Science Fiction Naval History Questions Answered Live...27:17Equipping coastal boats for wartime supply workQ&A
- Bruships 209: Science Fiction Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:36:48BAE's recurring 14-inch naval-gun conceptQ&A
- Bruships 209: Science Fiction Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:10:48Neo-Constitution nostalgia versus Intrepid and Excelsior IINotable Point
- Bruships 209: Science Fiction Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:57:55Warships for the SCP FoundationQ&A
- Bruships 209: Science Fiction Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:43:39The uneasy case for a nuclear-powered battleshipQ&A
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...25:17Why a newer 14-inch gun could outperform older weaponsQ&A
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:16:41Admiral-class ships with 16.5-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:18:18K2 and K3: the turret designation correctionQ&A
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:56:50Scaling Queen Elizabeth to octuple 20-inch turretsQ&A
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:28:33Three approaches to a 1919 British station cruiserQ&A
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:30:46Could triple 9.2-inch turrets be ready for a 1919 cruiser?Q&A
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:33:17A 1919 cruiser's secondary guns and destroyer developmentNotable Point
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:35:46Should a station cruiser carry depth charges?Notable Point
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:44:40Why fourteen guns make Super Hawkins growQ&A
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:46:30Super Hawkins needs ammunition as well as additional gunsNotable Point
- Bruships 208: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:53:28Agincourt followed by a 28-knot battleshipQ&A
- Bruships 207: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:02:36Why Scharnhorst's 11-inch guns did not define her typeNotable Point
- Bruships 207: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:20:23Warship designs dangerous to their own crewsQ&A
- Bruships 207: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:27:46A World of Warships design replaces Bismarck and TirpitzQ&A
- Bruships 207: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:48:57Panzerschiffe armed with 12-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships 207: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:52:18A 12,000-ton treaty cruiser with 9.2-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships 207: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:28:39Italy builds a sixteen-gun super-battleshipQ&A
- Bruships 207: Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:11:24Why modern warships take longer to buildQ&A
- Sir Eustace Tennyson d'Eyncourt: WWI Royal Navy's Director of Naval Construction27:36Incremental warship design as risk controlChapter
- Sir Eustace Tennyson d'Eyncourt: WWI Royal Navy's Director of Naval Construction59:35Nelson's 16-inch gun and the danger of a false test resultNotable Point
- The Atlantic Charter: Signed 14th of August 1941...84 yrs ago today!51:35A King George V class armament counterfactualNotable Point
- The Atlantic Charter: Signed 14th of August 1941...84 yrs ago today!2:04:18Five smaller German capital ships instead of Bismarck and TirpitzNotable Point
- Bruships 206: Naval History Questions Answered Live...(Continued)5:15Why tumblehome hulls remain uncommonQ&A
- Bruships 206: Naval History Questions Answered Live...(Continued)8:10How heavier guns reshape a 7,000-ton designQ&A
- Bruships 206: Naval History Questions Answered Live...(Continued)11:55Designing VLS for reloading at seaQ&A
- Bruships 206: Naval History Questions Answered Live...(Continued)1:08:05What timberclads could withstandQ&A
- Bruships 206: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:03:44Why Sweden is considering frigatesQ&A
- Bruships 206: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:29:33Gun-barrel length depends on metallurgy and design prioritiesNotable Point
- OTO Melara 76/62: Flexible Capability in ways that matter!4:58Compact mounting and worldwide serviceNotable Point
- OTO Melara 76/62: Flexible Capability in ways that matter!16:05Sovraponte brings heavy firepower to smaller hullsNotable Point
- OTO Melara 76/62: Flexible Capability in ways that matter!37:47Remote operation simplifies crew protection and placementNotable Point
- Procurement for Peace: Second Draft2:15Why warships are conflict-management toolsChapter
- Procurement for Peace: Second Draft17:38Why visible weapons make naval presence legibleNotable Point
- Procurement for Peace: Second Draft43:44A displacement ladder for general-purpose warshipsNotable Point
- Procurement for Peace: Second Draft46:00Type 22 and Type 23 reveal the cost of role mismatchNotable Point
- Procurement for Peace: Second Draft1:39:46Is China's Type 054 a presence frigate?Q&A
- Procurement for Peace: Second Draft1:57:12Where to learn modern warship typesQ&A
- Procurement for Peace: Second Draft2:03:27Why the X1's 5.2-inch gun did not become a destroyer weaponQ&A
- Bruships 205: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:31:48A two-gun-deck HMS Warrior changes the ironclad raceNotable Point
- Bruships 205: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:14:01Italian and Japanese warships in ocean watersQ&A
- Bruships 205: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:20:22Warship designs that defy understandingQ&A
- Bruships 205: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:37:15Historical battleship hulls for a modern capital shipQ&A
- Bruships 205: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:07:45Blueprint cruisers the panel would like to see builtQ&A
- Bruships 205: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:32:09Were Royal Navy warships undergunned?Q&A
- Bruships 205: Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:43:31Twentieth-century warship design misstepsQ&A
- Bruships 204: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:27:59Yamato, Montana, Lion, and the super-battleship labelQ&A
- Bruships 204: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:33:14Capital ships shift from battle lines to wars of maneuverNotable Point
- Bruships 204: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:57:31A naval treaty that limits numbers without stopping constructionQ&A
- Cruiser-borne aviation of the major navies; aspirations, doctrine & realities of this capability1:35:57A less specialized nine-gun alternative to the Tone classNotable Point
- Cruiser-borne aviation of the major navies; aspirations, doctrine & realities of this capability2:12:32How HMS Unicorn became the light fleet carrier modelQ&A
- Cruiser-borne aviation of the major navies; aspirations, doctrine & realities of this capability2:38:36Midships or stern: where should a cruiser catapult go?Q&A
- Bruships 202: Naval History Questions Answered Live...41:40Renown and Repulse as early Admiral-class battlecruisersQ&A
- Bruships 202: Naval History Questions Answered Live...47:47Tiger's claim to be a fast-battleship forerunnerNotable Point
- Attacking Pearl Harbour: The Decisions that led to the Japanese Planning…2:32:22The case for a 10,000-ton threshold for global warfightingNotable Point
- Leadership of the Russo-Swedish Wars of the 18th Century: Bringing your Politics to the Battlefield1:16:17Ship growth leaves sixty-gun vessels marginalNotable Point
- How has Ukraine confirmed, dispelled or updated the lessons of the Falklands War 1982?1:37:46Three ways naval procurement can lose capabilityNotable Point
- How has Ukraine confirmed, dispelled or updated the lessons of the Falklands War 1982?2:26:46Why naval railguns may revive larger calibersQ&A
- Bruships 200: Naval History Questions Answered Live...25:53A 1934 international warship-design exchangeQ&A
- Bruships 200: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:19:04Why prewar US destroyers came in many small classesQ&A
- Bruships 200: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:48:21Why early triple turrets would not overturn the dreadnought raceQ&A
- Bruships 200: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:56:37What the Panama Canal imposed on US warshipsQ&A
- Bruships 200: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:05:05Why similar corvettes and frigates differ in sizeQ&A
- Bruships 200: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:45:26How a 24-knot Dreadnought raises every fleet speedQ&A
- Bruships 200: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:56:16Why Treasure Planet's ships resist engineering redesignQ&A
- Plan Z: What was the Concept of Operations behind it? Tirpitz Mk II or something else?11:31Shipyards and lost expertise constrained Plan ZChapter
- Bruships 199: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:04:04Destroyer layouts in UAD and Rule the Waves 3Q&A
- Bruships 199: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:17:14Invincible-class size constrained new STOVL fightersQ&A
- Bruships 199: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:49:53Mark 41 canisters integrate European naval missilesQ&A
- Bruships 199: What if Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:57:17A mixed gun battery could keep Vasa uprightQ&A
- Pom-Pom or Bofors: Which 40mm do you want?23:37Range, volume of fire, and mount layout create competing choicesChapter
- Pom-Pom or Bofors: Which 40mm do you want?1:14:50A proposed mixed octuple mount would combine both 40 mm strengthsNotable Point
- Bruships 198: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:02:38CVA-01's Sea Cat magazine still had layout choicesQ&A
- Bruships 198: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:34:40A 1,100-1,500-ton propeller-shaft estimate was plausible but unverifiedQ&A
- Bruships 198: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:35:05Why a ship carrying smaller warships rarely pays at seaQ&A
- Bruships 198: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:38:39From the F3 concept to Vanguard's battlecruiser lineageQ&A
- Bruships 198: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:17:12Handling 20-inch shells is a machinery problemQ&A
- Bruships 198: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:37:24Coastal artillery can exceed shipboard gun limitsQ&A
- Bruships 198: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:27:07An Iowa-class hull appearing in 1896Q&A
- Bruships 197: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:43:15Who would build a modern heavy cruiser first?Q&A
- Yi Sun Sins May 1592: When Preperation and Reading History really paid off!5:41Turtle-ship precedents long before 1592Notable Point
- Yi Sun Sins May 1592: When Preperation and Reading History really paid off!31:05Japanese ships optimized for transport and boardingChapter
- Yi Sun Sins May 1592: When Preperation and Reading History really paid off!38:23What the sources can and cannot show about hyeopseonNotable Point
- Yi Sun Sins May 1592: When Preperation and Reading History really paid off!40:30Korean coastal warships turn cannon into a force multiplierChapter
- 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
- 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
- Bruships 196: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:50:22How 1939 navies might exploit one Tier X battleshipQ&A
- Bruships 196: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:58:45Why game statistics cannot be read as warship engineeringNotable Point
- Battle of Jutland: The Strategic Leadership which both defined it and denied it satisfaction14:34Fisher kept choosing speed and guns over protectionNotable Point
- Leadership of the Russo-Swedish Wars of the 18th Century(1700-1790)3:43:38Russian warships can be capable yet unsuited to their missionNotable Point
- Bruships 195: Naval History Questions Answered Live...32:45What North Korea's new combatant may carry, and what remains unknownNotable Point
- Bruships 195: Naval History Questions Answered Live...45:14How a 16.5-inch gun could change the Queen Elizabeth designNotable Point
- Bruships 195: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:29:26A modern gun-only Atlanta-style AA cruiserQ&A
- Jellicoe's Jutland: Analytical leadership at its best and its most problematic44:08Jellicoe's path toward the fast battleshipNotable Point
- Bruships 193: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:10:11Missile-tube rows and the limits of extending VirginiaNotable Point
- Bruships 193: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:20:37Could an Astute-class submarine carry a 16-cell VLS?Q&A
- Bruships 193: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:48:29Russian battleship designs and the limits of their shipyardsNotable Point
- Bruships 193: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:27:21Why secret drawings cannot preserve a battleship industryQ&A
- Bruships 193: Naval History Questions Answered Live...5:03:35How modern a warship could operate in the 1860s?Q&A
- How Pursuing Peace(with bonus cost cutting) can lead to War: 1930s London Naval Treaty Leadership1:08:51Why scrapping HMS Tiger without replacement matteredNotable Point
- Bring in the Heavies... AA Cruisers in WWII, what was their value?19:03Could an early AA cruiser simply be upgunned?Q&A
- Bring in the Heavies... AA Cruisers in WWII, what was their value?20:37A possible 4.7-inch armament for an earlier AA cruiserNotable Point
- Bring in the Heavies... AA Cruisers in WWII, what was their value?1:04:33Why did the 4.5-inch UD mount disappoint?Q&A
- Bring in the Heavies... AA Cruisers in WWII, what was their value?1:05:34Atlanta as a destroyer-built cruiserChapter
- Bring in the Heavies... AA Cruisers in WWII, what was their value?1:22:05Does every new warship class replace an older one?Q&A
- Bring in the Heavies... AA Cruisers in WWII, what was their value?2:37:44Were there two cruisers named USS Juneau?Q&A
- Bruships 192: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:08:11How far can warship subdivision go?Q&A
- Bruships 192: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:31:25Which missing British design files historians most want to findQ&A
- Bruships 192: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:50:46There is no single best modern naval gunQ&A
- Bruships 191: Naval History Questions Answered Live...35:52Why major warship refits are normal lifecycle planningQ&A
- Bruships 191: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:04:38Could the United States Navy build the H-44 battleship?Q&A
- Bruships 191: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:21:02Could the World of Warships USS Maine be built?Q&A
- Simone Antonio Pacoret de Saint Bon: Father of the Regia Marina0:00Saint-Bon and the Italian naval traditionChapter
- Simone Antonio Pacoret de Saint Bon: Father of the Regia Marina4:40Formidabile: a French-built Italian ironcladChapter
- Simone Antonio Pacoret de Saint Bon: Father of the Regia Marina4:40French innovation versus fleet standardizationNotable Point
- Simone Antonio Pacoret de Saint Bon: Father of the Regia Marina29:17Caio Duilio class: 18-inch guns and a carried torpedo boatChapter
- Simone Antonio Pacoret de Saint Bon: Father of the Regia Marina36:47Saint-Bon’s legacy in the modern Italian NavyChapter
- Simone Antonio Pacoret de Saint Bon: Father of the Regia Marina38:44Reading naval priorities through forensic engineeringNotable Point
- Leadership of the 1930 London Naval Treaty1:36:53Why Sweden counted as a potential battleship builderNotable Point
- Leadership of the 1930 London Naval Treaty2:44:27Why twin 4-inch guns suited sloops better than a 6-inch gunQ&A
- Bruships 190: Naval History Questions Answered Live...28:31Why the Littoral Combat Ship still merits harsh criticismQ&A
- Bruships 190: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:16:36Why future warships may carry more medium-calibre gunsQ&A
- Bruships 190: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:36:21Why navies struggled to manufacture very thick armour plateQ&A
- Bruships 190: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:20:20Why four quadruple turrets make a poor battleshipQ&A
- Bruships 190: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:37:21British warship designs created for exportQ&A
- Bruships 190: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:09:52Which historical warship design error should be prevented?Q&A
- Bruships 190: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:20:50Trading Alaska's 12-inch guns for torpedo defenceQ&A
- General George S. Hammond USAF: A Science Fiction Flag/General Officer who lives up to the rank!1:15:00Modern destroyer development and the danger of design by committeeNotable Point
- Bruships 189: Naval History Questions Answered Live...21:03Which naval decision would each speaker change?Q&A
- Bruships 189: Naval History Questions Answered Live...57:38Which wartime ship classes should have been replaced?Q&A
- Bruships 189: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:02:04A Scharnhorst-derived alternative to the Bismarck classNotable Point
- Bruships 189: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:41:48Why KGV guns and Illustrious armour were rational prewar compromisesNotable Point
- Bruships 189: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:56:14Why Royal Navy type numbers skip unbuilt designsQ&A
- Bruships 189: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:59:00Why six 18-inch guns are a poor Iowa-class tradeQ&A
- Scuttlebutt 21st Century Battleship: Chat & Comment Response...5:45Why a hypersonic hit does not guarantee a sinkingQ&A
- Scuttlebutt 21st Century Battleship: Chat & Comment Response...19:44Limiting damage after a missile penetrates the defensesChapter
- Scuttlebutt 21st Century Battleship: Chat & Comment Response...20:39Why armor remains useful against shaped chargesQ&A
- Scuttlebutt 21st Century Battleship: Chat & Comment Response...40:14Extra roles drive destroyer growthNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 21st Century Battleship: Chat & Comment Response...45:29Using water, coal, and machinery as protective depthNotable Point
- Scuttlebutt 21st Century Battleship: Chat & Comment Response...46:43A cautious case for nuclear power in an escape podQ&A
- Scuttlebutt 21st Century Battleship: Chat & Comment Response...47:49A Vittorio Veneto-style aviation layout with heavier main gunsQ&A
- Scuttlebutt 21st Century Battleship: Chat & Comment Response...49:09An embarked force for boarding and landing dutiesQ&A
- Dalrymple Hamilton: The Captain of HMS Rodney who believed she could be a destroyer28:18Why expanding missions made destroyers largerNotable Point
- Dalrymple Hamilton: The Captain of HMS Rodney who believed she could be a destroyer54:15Nelson-class armour came at the price of speedNotable Point
- Sir Walter Raleigh: Some Good Ideas, Some Good Intentions, Sometimes Good Results…5:24Ark Royal, Walsingham, and Raleigh’s Armada absenceNotable Point
- Bruships 188: Naval History Questions Answered Liven & Birthday Party...12:25Why Britain put a 12-inch gun on a submarineQ&A
- Bruships 188: Naval History Questions Answered Liven & Birthday Party...16:33F3 versus G3 for Royal Navy serviceQ&A
- Bruships 188: Naval History Questions Answered Liven & Birthday Party...20:57Why F3's dockyard and ammunition needs matter against G3Q&A
- Bruships 188: Naval History Questions Answered Liven & Birthday Party...34:02The prestige cost of Nelson's 16-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships 188: Naval History Questions Answered Liven & Birthday Party...35:47F3 and the timing of the Washington Naval TreatyNotable Point
- Bruships 188: Naval History Questions Answered Liven & Birthday Party...37:24A 35,000-ton British battlecruiserQ&A
- Bruships 188: Naval History Questions Answered Liven & Birthday Party...41:46Why treaty negotiators favored a 14-inch limitQ&A
- Bruships 188: Naval History Questions Answered Liven & Birthday Party...58:12Sizing a guided-missile battlecruiser's VLS batteryQ&A
- Bruships 188: Naval History Questions Answered Liven & Birthday Party...1:30:46A 35-knot limit for the Littoral Combat Ship requirementQ&A
- Bruships 188: Naval History Questions Answered Liven & Birthday Party...2:01:38If King George V had retained 16-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships 188: Naval History Questions Answered Liven & Birthday Party...2:35:17Choosing gun size and turret layout for the taskQ&A
- Bruships 188: Naval History Questions Answered Liven & Birthday Party...2:38:33Why French and Russian naval designers remain underratedQ&A
- Bruships 188: Naval History Questions Answered Liven & Birthday Party...3:02:31The first forms of anti-torpedo protectionQ&A
- Bruships 188: Naval History Questions Answered Liven & Birthday Party...3:12:51A French battle fleet without Jeune École disruptionQ&A
- Bruships 188: Naval History Questions Answered Liven & Birthday Party...3:18:53A repeatable French path to pre-dreadnoughtsNotable Point
- Bruships 188: Naval History Questions Answered Liven & Birthday Party...3:22:50Changing sensors on Canada's Type 26 frigatesQ&A
- Bruships 188: Naval History Questions Answered Liven & Birthday Party...3:47:06Why new warships still favor shafts over azipodsQ&A
- Bruships 188: Naval History Questions Answered Liven & Birthday Party...3:49:32Crew resilience on a modern battleshipQ&A
- Bruships 188: Naval History Questions Answered Liven & Birthday Party...4:07:33When designs reverse their paper reputationQ&A
- Bruships 188: Naval History Questions Answered Liven & Birthday Party...4:33:56Why the 130,000-ton battleship design was cursedQ&A
- Bruships 188: Naval History Questions Answered Liven & Birthday Party...4:49:27Why Soviet cruisers used 180 mm gunsQ&A
- Leading the Japanese 1890s Six-Six Fleet Plan! Taikan Kyohō Shugi & the Origins of the Yamato Class1:07:06Why twelve 90-percent ships may beat ten perfect onesNotable Point
- Bruships 187: Naval History Questions Answered Live...12:04Warspite, Rurik, Iron Duke, and Independence-class aestheticsQ&A
- Scuttlebutt 9 - A long time coming...5:19Why navies could not replace battleships with cruiser swarmsQ&A
- Scuttlebutt 9 - A long time coming...29:29When sailing-warship ratings stopped matching fighting powerQ&A
- How Admirals Shape Ships? From the Frigate built Galleons to Arleigh Burkes...1:53:22Testing a Space Marine spacecraft against naval designNotable Point
- An Indomitable Force Z15:32Repulse was conceived as a global economic-warfare battlecruiserNotable Point
- An Indomitable Force Z21:09The King George V class and the case for updated 15-inch gunsNotable Point
- Bruships 185: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:09:56Judging an ironclad against peers and older shipsNotable Point
- Bruships 185: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:07:11CODAG's suggested lower limit and carrier counterexamplesQ&A
- Bruships 185: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:27:12Azipods, warship maneuverability, and cruising efficiencyQ&A
- Bruships 185: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:00:14The practical size of a modern multipurpose frigateQ&A
- What if HMS Indomitable replaced Prince of Wales in Force Z?2:25:20Would an earlier victory prevent the Daring-class destroyers?Q&A
- Seaplane Tenders: An Earlier Answer to the Battle of the Atlantic?18:15Naval treaty rules left room for large aviation tendersNotable Point
- Bruships 183: Science Fiction/Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:08:18Why missile-era alternate warships are harder to designQ&A
- Bruships 183: Science Fiction/Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:12:25Could World War II technology build a guided-missile ship?Q&A
- Bruships 182: Naval History Questions Answered Live...44:54Renown's quick-firing advantage over ironcladsQ&A
- Bruships 182: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:17:58Slower Admiral-class ships could carry battleship protectionNotable Point
- Bruships 182: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:19:15Vickers marketed available designs before tailoring new onesQ&A
- Bruships 182: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:22:06A proposed 170-gun three-decker at TrafalgarQ&A
- Bruships 182: Naval History Questions Answered Live...1:28:40Why K3 is suggested for a formidable carrier conversionQ&A
- Bruships 182: Naval History Questions Answered Live...2:43:31The torpedo ram's vanishing design windowQ&A
- Bruships 182: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:34:00Subdivision separates a fast battleship from a battlecruiserQ&A
- Bruships 182: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3:47:41When a 135 mm gun becomes point defenseQ&A
- Could Seaplanes Tenders have been used in the Battle for the Atlantic? Naval History Live!44:57How the London Naval Treaty left room for tendersNotable Point
- Could Seaplanes Tenders have been used in the Battle for the Atlantic? Naval History Live!1:19:41The disputed design connection between Unicorn and light fleet carriersNotable Point
- Could Seaplanes Tenders have been used in the Battle for the Atlantic? Naval History Live!2:16:12Why multi-role aircraft make carriers growNotable Point
- Could Seaplanes Tenders have been used in the Battle for the Atlantic? Naval History Live!2:23:57Avoiding aviation-fuel disasters on tendersQ&A
- Could Seaplanes Tenders have been used in the Battle for the Atlantic? Naval History Live!2:25:01Why Britain did not need a Tone-style hybrid cruiserQ&A
- Bruships 181: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:00:06Can STOBAR provide a route to CATOBAR?Notable Point
- Bruships 181: Naval History Questions Answered Live...4:11:27Comparing aircraft-carrying cruisers with aviation battleshipsQ&A
- Tōgō Heihachirō: Victor of Tsushima & Japan's Nelson...24:29When naval competition still included shared ideasNotable Point
- Bruships 180: Naval History Questions Answered...Part II42:47Why oscillating turrets make little sense at seaQ&A
- Bruships 180: Naval History Questions Answered...Part II45:05A naval-archive oddity: the turtleback battleshipQ&A
- Bruships 180: Naval History Questions Answered...Part II1:02:49British capital ships with two forward turrets and one amidshipsQ&A
- Bruships 180: Naval History Questions Answered...Part II1:24:39How a much larger Panama Canal would change US warshipsQ&A
- Bruships 180: Naval History Questions Answered...Part II1:29:11The cost of a 16-gun Hawkins-class cruiserQ&A
- Bruships 180: Naval History Questions Answered...Part II1:30:15Which ship designers would the panel question?Q&A
- Bruships 180: Naval History Questions Answered...Part II2:10:41Why a quadruple 8-inch turret cannot be judged in isolationQ&A
- Bruships 180: Naval History Questions Answered...Part II2:14:50Would 8-inch guns improve a Panzerschiff?Q&A
- Bruships 180: Naval History Questions Answered...Part II2:23:38Science-fiction warships and the exploration-combat trade-offQ&A
- Bruships 180: Naval History Questions Answered...Part II2:29:23Canada’s River-class destroyers as large Type 26 derivativesQ&A
- Bruships 180: Naval History Questions Answered...Part II2:43:16How quadruple turrets would change a Nelson-type battleshipQ&A
- Bruships 180: Naval History Questions Answered...42:24How quiet a modern warship can soundNotable Point
- Bruships 180: Naval History Questions Answered...1:08:15Anti-aircraft machine-gun farms without autocannonsQ&A
- Bruships 180: Naval History Questions Answered...1:14:34The attraction and limits of automatic 14-inch gunsNotable Point
- Bruships 180: Naval History Questions Answered...1:27:55Why Britain did not simply copy German loading systemsQ&A
- Fifth Rate: A Price Point Which Matters... Key Ship Series 9 - Ship 104:30Why every navy wanted a different frigateNotable Point
- Fifth Rate: A Price Point Which Matters... Key Ship Series 9 - Ship 105:53A frigate hull built to survive the seaNotable Point
- Fifth Rate: A Price Point Which Matters... Key Ship Series 9 - Ship 1022:51Heavy frigates and the razée answerNotable Point
- What if the 1900s Royal Navy went full DARPA?53:42Armour weight, stability and independent shell trialsNotable Point
- What if the 1900s Royal Navy went full DARPA?1:52:43Why a 14-inch 45-calibre gun may beat a longer barrelNotable Point
- What if the 1900s Royal Navy went full DARPA?3:24:47Earlier fire-control superstructuresNotable Point
- Flotillas of the Danube: A River Runs Through It!23:03Reconstructing an unbuilt Queen Elizabeth-class battleshipNotable Point
- Flotillas of the Danube: A River Runs Through It!27:23Austria-Hungary's river-warship problemChapter
- David Farragut: Leadership from Roll Models & Experience4:24:53Were monitors poorly designed for the battle they faced?Q&A
- The Leadership Factor: The Battle of the Barents Sea51:22Germany attempted commerce raiding with ships designed for other warsNotable Point
- The Leadership Factor: The Battle of the Barents Sea59:46Admiral Hipper's complexity exposed a fragmented procurement systemChapter
- Bruships 178: Naval History or Exercise4:47:01How warships endure electromagnetic disruptionQ&A
- Bruships 177: New Year, same Dr Alex... possibly with new gym membership25:09Why Venator dorsal hangar doors fit a carrier-first doctrineQ&A
- Bruships 177: New Year, same Dr Alex... possibly with new gym membership28:08Rule the Waves as a simulation of managing a navyQ&A
- Bruships 177: New Year, same Dr Alex... possibly with new gym membership3:29:05The next layers in warship air defenseQ&A
- Bruships 176: Christyear or Newmas?50:58British World of Warships lines have exhausted the obvious historical categoriesQ&A
- Bruships 176: Christyear or Newmas?1:32:49Warship efficiency depends on what the ship achieved for its costQ&A
- Bruships 176: Christyear or Newmas?2:36:05War timing changes the King George V turret decisionQ&A
- Battle of Elli(1912): When Regional Powers Go to War33:02Cruiser design begins with endurance and habitabilityNotable Point
- Battle of Elli(1912): When Regional Powers Go to War51:27All-forward guns can invert the logic of crossing the TNotable Point
- Bruships 175: Pre- Christmas Party 20242:05:18Steam submarines, topweight, and other candidates for the worst wartime design mistakesQ&A
- Battle of Elli44:37Averof's regional strength and conservative designNotable Point
- Battle of Elli1:32:19Averof's purchase and the limits of comparing armour thicknessNotable Point
- Bruships 174: Ten Days to Christmas... have I got the lights up yet?1:07:03Why a Warrior-sized hybrid ironclad tried too much at onceQ&A
- Bruships 174: Ten Days to Christmas... have I got the lights up yet?1:19:23Why an 80-gun two-decker makes an adaptable battle lineQ&A
- Bruships 174: Ten Days to Christmas... have I got the lights up yet?1:43:43What design organization changed between Scharnhorst and BismarckNotable Point
- Bruships 174: Ten Days to Christmas... have I got the lights up yet?2:02:30Why Hoche looked so visually complicatedQ&A
- Bruships 174: Ten Days to Christmas... have I got the lights up yet?2:56:57How a scaling error compromised the Hunt-class designQ&A
- Bruships 174: Ten Days to Christmas... have I got the lights up yet?4:09:38How the Hunt-class scaling error passed reviewQ&A
- Anti Submarine Warfare, a primer history & overview2:27:34When will navies build less cruise-oriented warships?Q&A
- So, You Want to Build an Aircraft Carrier? Infrastructure & Industry, the Realities of Construction!0:23Specialised steel reveals the industrial depth behind a carrierNotable Point
- So, You Want to Build an Aircraft Carrier? Infrastructure & Industry, the Realities of Construction!6:31A carrier needs power, communications, and a self-contained communityChapter
- 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
- Built in Australia: HMAS Castlemaine & the Bathurst Class Corvettes17:11F3 and Illustrious show why shaft layouts were design compromisesNotable Point
- Bruships 173: Christmas Books for the History Lover in your life...1:32:43Why Renown and Hood do not form one simple lineageQ&A
- Bruships 173: Christmas Books for the History Lover in your life...1:37:12When extra battleship speed stops payingNotable Point
- Bruships 173: Christmas Books for the History Lover in your life...1:40:00Battle cruiser, battlecruiser, and fast battleship as design prioritiesNotable Point
- Bruships 173: Christmas Books for the History Lover in your life...1:47:10The wartime risk behind fitted-for-but-not-withQ&A
- Bruships 173: Christmas Books for the History Lover in your life...1:54:50A Dreadnought with fifteen 14-inch gunsNotable Point
- Bruships 173: Christmas Books for the History Lover in your life...2:16:08Applying fitted-for-but-not-with to British carriersQ&A
- Bruships 173: Christmas Books for the History Lover in your life...2:45:14When capable ships look awkwardQ&A
- Bruships 172: So the Historiophon Happened...12:18Testing the historical plausibility of the German Annar designQ&A
- Bruships 172: So the Historiophon Happened...20:42Why modern sensors loosen the rules of warship camouflageQ&A
- Bruships 172: So the Historiophon Happened...1:58:27A Vickers triple turret could reshape DreadnoughtQ&A
- Bruships 172: So the Historiophon Happened...2:21:12Autoloading 20-inch guns make speed more valuable than armorQ&A
- Bruships 172: So the Historiophon Happened...2:41:20A modern cruiser or battleship would combine railguns and hypersonicsQ&A
- Bruships 172: So the Historiophon Happened...3:04:59Global basing made repairability a Royal Navy priorityQ&A
- Bruships 172: So the Historiophon Happened...3:15:02Treaty tonnage rewards submarine numbers over maximum sizeQ&A
- Bruships 172: So the Historiophon Happened...3:45:43Why the Royal Navy called Vanguard a fully armored battlecruiserQ&A
- Bruships 172: So the Historiophon Happened...4:09:12Why high-pressure steam suited the US NavyQ&A
- Bruships 172: So the Historiophon Happened...4:16:32Electric-drive ships do not create unwanted low-speed powerQ&A
- WWI in the English Channel... A Primer on Years of Hard Forgotten Fighting20:41Builder experimentation inside the first Tribal classNotable Point
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/428:51Building a coherent dreadnought battle squadronNotable Point
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/445:27Neptune and Colossus as incremental dreadnought designNotable Point
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/448:15Why Jellicoe wanted more protection for battlecruisersNotable Point
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/456:23Orion combines heavier guns with director fire controlNotable Point
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/41:02:12Lion's speed requirement against German battlecruisersNotable Point
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/41:13:40Queen Elizabeth boiler and gun choices under technical uncertaintyNotable Point
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/41:15:38Jellicoe's Queen Elizabeth concept as the fleet's anvilNotable Point
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/42:08:31Why fast battleships replaced battlecruisersQ&A
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/42:14:33Possible reasons for an escort carrier's single 5-inch mountingNotable Point
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/43:53:12Assessing a player-designed super-battlecruiserNotable Point
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/44:35:02Why protected cruisers are difficult starter shipsQ&A
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/44:39:59Why Omaha was a poor carrier-conversion hullQ&A
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/45:22:27Choosing a new hull for a larger US cruiserQ&A
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/45:24:13What the Edinburgh subclass improvedQ&A
- Jellicoe as 3rd Sea Lord, Essay Competion & WoW Collab: Last 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 4/48:07:41Why Tribal-class destroyers carry their aft guns so far backQ&A
- World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/434:32Triple 15-inch or 18-inch guns for an unfinished British design?Notable Point
- World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/438:09Queen Elizabeth as a design benchmark for NagatoNotable Point
- World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/43:52:45Testing Michelangelo's paper design against engineering spaceNotable Point
- World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/44:25:0118-inch gun blast and close-range AA placementQ&A
- World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/44:54:05Could a battleship carry three Gustav-gun turrets?Q&A
- World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/45:05:31Would pykrete make the Gustav-gun battleship useful?Q&A
- World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/45:09:30What recoil does to an eight-gun 15-inch super-monitorQ&A
- World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/45:28:33How large a nine-turret 18-inch battleship becomesQ&A
- World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/46:05:02Why navies delayed forced-circulation boilersQ&A
- World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/46:13:03Would a lower forward turret rescue the nine-turret design?Q&A
- World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/47:10:19Why a German 15-inch turret conversion was a tight fitQ&A
- World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/47:40:26What does longer gun range demand from the rangefinder?Q&A
- World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/48:20:17How requirement growth complicates the Saudi MMSCQ&A
- World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/48:22:39Why caliber alone does not determine turret-ring sizeQ&A
- World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/48:28:01Why fifteen autoloading 9.2-inch guns make an unbalanced cruiserQ&A
- World of Warships Colab 1, Questions & U Class subs: Second 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 2/48:36:52Would downward-opening breeches save space in German turrets?Q&A
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/414:54Reading the design tradeoffs in Hawk and RookNotable Point
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/42:13:43Capitani Romani guns could simplify a Littorio secondary batteryQ&A
- Questions, Flower Class & the Essay Competition: First 9 of the 36hr Historiophon Part 1/46:54:07Why early warships did not begin with torpedo bulgesQ&A
- Ramblings Emergency Broadcast1:45:19Why a naval-treaty roleplay needs historical incentivesQ&A
- Bruships 171: Oh Kallax my Kallax, Where art though my Kallax2:38:05Why the missile-only warship had a very short design windowQ&A
- Bruships 171: Oh Kallax my Kallax, Where art though my Kallax2:43:02A 1980s naval war teaches only through its specific lossesQ&A
- Bruships 171: Oh Kallax my Kallax, Where art though my Kallax4:20:47Why most warships do not embark four mixed helicoptersQ&A
- Bruships 170: Once more unto the Kalax dear listners, once more unto the Kalax!55:02How a costly Belgrano gun action could change later warship armamentQ&A
- Bruships 170: Once more unto the Kalax dear listners, once more unto the Kalax!1:25:11Designing a British Stalingrad counter around guns and helicoptersNotable Point
- Bruships 170: Once more unto the Kalax dear listners, once more unto the Kalax!3:04:32Missile capacity follows a warship's missionQ&A
- Bruships 170: Once more unto the Kalax dear listners, once more unto the Kalax!3:31:01Naval treaty holidays concealed technological progressQ&A
- Bruships 170: Once more unto the Kalax dear listners, once more unto the Kalax!3:54:45Eight fast British capital ships rewrite the treaty systemQ&A
- Bruships 170: Once more unto the Kalax dear listners, once more unto the Kalax!4:22:02Why replacing Ticonderoga's aft gun with VLS is not simpleQ&A
- The Lessons of Never Built Carriers45:35Why Dunkerque's protection matters more than the battlecruiser labelNotable Point
- Battle of Santa Cruz: The Deathsong of Japanese Naval Aviation in WWII51:16Design choices shaped the forces behind the totalsNotable Point
- Battle of Santa Cruz: The Deathsong of Japanese Naval Aviation in WWII52:55Treaty labels and the roles of eight-inch cruisersNotable Point
- Bruships 167: Tell me why, everything turned book – packing up, stacking up is all kalax want to do.27:47What naval games can and cannot showQ&A
- Bruships 167: Tell me why, everything turned book – packing up, stacking up is all kalax want to do.2:09:44Oscar Parkes as naval artist, editor, and authorQ&A
- Bruships 167: Tell me why, everything turned book – packing up, stacking up is all kalax want to do.2:45:43Could twin five-inch naval mounts return?Q&A
- Bruships 167: Tell me why, everything turned book – packing up, stacking up is all kalax want to do.3:29:29How long can a practical naval gun barrel be?Q&A
- Beatty of the Mediterranean: Finding the Right Peg for the Right Hole?1:17:54Different victories change the battlecruiser's reputationNotable Point
- Canals Never Built: What happens if Suez, Kiel or Panama are never built?30:42Longer routes reward larger, faster warshipsNotable Point
- Canals Never Built: What happens if Suez, Kiel or Panama are never built?48:25One US Navy functioning as twoNotable Point
- Bruships 166: As I walk through the library of Naval History, I take a look at my shelf space....4:29:10Why general-purpose cruisers converge near 10,000 tonsNotable Point
- V.Adm Beatty is sent to Command the Mediterranean Battle Cruisers in 1914... Patreon 10527:51Did Beatty shape the ships already under construction?Q&A
- V.Adm Beatty is sent to Command the Mediterranean Battle Cruisers in 1914... Patreon 10530:28Purpose and armour place ships on a battlecruiser spectrumNotable Point
- V.Adm Beatty is sent to Command the Mediterranean Battle Cruisers in 1914... Patreon 1051:28:24A captured Goeben could reveal how British shells performedNotable Point
- V.Adm Beatty is sent to Command the Mediterranean Battle Cruisers in 1914... Patreon 1051:36:03Freed escorts and victories could reshape naval policyNotable Point
- V.Adm Beatty is sent to Command the Mediterranean Battle Cruisers in 1914... Patreon 1052:11:49Would a longer-lived Beatty demand more battlecruisers?Q&A
- V.Adm Beatty is sent to Command the Mediterranean Battle Cruisers in 1914... Patreon 1052:13:07How close were German battlecruisers to fast battleships?Q&A
- V.Adm Beatty is sent to Command the Mediterranean Battle Cruisers in 1914... Patreon 1052:18:23A Tiger-derived Admiral class and the limits of redesignNotable Point
- V.Adm Beatty is sent to Command the Mediterranean Battle Cruisers in 1914... Patreon 1052:22:15What if Britain built two battlecruisers per battleship class?Q&A
- V.Adm Beatty is sent to Command the Mediterranean Battle Cruisers in 1914... Patreon 1052:23:48Could treaty navies build new carriers from the keel up?Q&A
- V.Adm Beatty is sent to Command the Mediterranean Battle Cruisers in 1914... Patreon 1052:27:24Were Austria-Hungary's faster pre-dreadnoughts 'fast Royal Sovereigns'?Q&A
- V.Adm Beatty is sent to Command the Mediterranean Battle Cruisers in 1914... Patreon 1052:28:56Could a larger Royal Sovereign-type battleship have been built?Q&A
- Bruships 165: I saw a Poodle with a Kalax Manual in his hand, walking through the moors of cornwall3:52Is a forward or aft turret safer?Q&A
- Bruships 165: I saw a Poodle with a Kalax Manual in his hand, walking through the moors of cornwall22:33A counterinsurgency fleet for the Galactic EmpireQ&A
- Bruships 165: I saw a Poodle with a Kalax Manual in his hand, walking through the moors of cornwall34:18What would the Royal Navy do with 2,000-ton sloops?Q&A
- Bruships 165: I saw a Poodle with a Kalax Manual in his hand, walking through the moors of cornwall54:14Design limits of a high-angle quad 11-inch turretQ&A
- Bruships 165: I saw a Poodle with a Kalax Manual in his hand, walking through the moors of cornwall1:33:48Why Saipan and British light fleet carriers are difficult to compareQ&A
- Bruships 165: I saw a Poodle with a Kalax Manual in his hand, walking through the moors of cornwall1:39:21A 3,000-ton Royal Navy destroyerQ&A
- Bruships 165: I saw a Poodle with a Kalax Manual in his hand, walking through the moors of cornwall1:50:40Why the Queen Elizabeth class missed its expected speedQ&A
- Bruships 165: I saw a Poodle with a Kalax Manual in his hand, walking through the moors of cornwall1:51:53Were Ranger and Wasp light fleet carriers?Q&A
- Bruships 165: I saw a Poodle with a Kalax Manual in his hand, walking through the moors of cornwall2:02:32Hood-style 9.2-inch heavy cruisersQ&A
- Bruships 165: I saw a Poodle with a Kalax Manual in his hand, walking through the moors of cornwall2:19:35Why the U.S. Navy mounted anti-aircraft guns on cranesQ&A
- Bruships 165: I saw a Poodle with a Kalax Manual in his hand, walking through the moors of cornwall3:02:24Why HMS Belfast was not a helicopter cruiserQ&A
- Bruships 165: I saw a Poodle with a Kalax Manual in his hand, walking through the moors of cornwall3:03:38The purpose-built British helicopter cruiser becomes InvincibleQ&A
- Bruships 165: I saw a Poodle with a Kalax Manual in his hand, walking through the moors of cornwall3:46:23Alaska and the British large-cruiser alternativeQ&A
- Bruships 164: Is this Book life? Is this just a library?Caught in a landslide, no Kallax for safety!21:32Why future warship designs usually evolveQ&A
- Bruships 164: Is this Book life? Is this just a library?Caught in a landslide, no Kallax for safety!1:06:18The sea-control ship's multi-role design trapQ&A
- Bruships 164: Is this Book life? Is this just a library?Caught in a landslide, no Kallax for safety!1:37:17An Indefatigable class with the Lion gun layoutQ&A
- Bruships 164: Is this Book life? Is this just a library?Caught in a landslide, no Kallax for safety!1:56:35Why a six-gun diesel fast battleship is underarmedQ&A
- Bruships 164: Is this Book life? Is this just a library?Caught in a landslide, no Kallax for safety!2:33:08What automated capital-ship loading meant before computersQ&A
- Bruships 164: Is this Book life? Is this just a library?Caught in a landslide, no Kallax for safety!2:34:30What Britain could build after abandoning treaty limitsQ&A
- Bruships 164: Is this Book life? Is this just a library?Caught in a landslide, no Kallax for safety!2:37:59Why future warship guns may return to 6-inch caliberQ&A
- Bruships 164: Is this Book life? Is this just a library?Caught in a landslide, no Kallax for safety!2:48:26Why submarine diesels do not scale directly into a battleshipQ&A
- Bruships 164: Is this Book life? Is this just a library?Caught in a landslide, no Kallax for safety!2:58:21John Henderson as a Warhammer Fabricator-GeneralQ&A
- Bruships 164: Is this Book life? Is this just a library?Caught in a landslide, no Kallax for safety!3:49:32Why an 18-inch battery breaks the G3 designQ&A
- Bruships 164: Is this Book life? Is this just a library?Caught in a landslide, no Kallax for safety!4:00:08Why a modern bomber needs an impractical carrierQ&A
- The Nimitz Class: The Tenacious Ten that underpin America on the Global Stage2:17:56Design exercise: build a 2030s Nimitz carrier groupNotable Point
- Bruships 163: I need a Kalax Kalax, a Kalax is what I need! Naval History Questions & Chat30:07Layered citadel armour for a standard battleshipQ&A
- Bruships 163: I need a Kalax Kalax, a Kalax is what I need! Naval History Questions & Chat1:55:51Six-inch guns on destroyers, then and nowQ&A
- Bruships 163: I need a Kalax Kalax, a Kalax is what I need! Naval History Questions & Chat3:13:35Why sloped armour does not guarantee a ricochetQ&A
- Bruships 163: I need a Kalax Kalax, a Kalax is what I need! Naval History Questions & Chat4:09:52The Flight III Burke and the cost of surface-fleet risk aversionNotable Point
- Super Carriers & Specialists: The Aircraft Carrier Debate from WWII to present...48:30Why carriers are harder to future-proof than missile shipsNotable Point
- Empire Prepares: What if the British Empire invested more in the 1920s & 30s51:15How the Third Sea Lord shaped naval procurementNotable Point
- Empire Prepares: What if the British Empire invested more in the 1920s & 30s1:21:39Treaty-selective designs and conversion reservesChapter
- Empire Prepares: What if the British Empire invested more in the 1920s & 30s1:23:10Sloop speed limits and informal engineering practiceNotable Point
- Empire Prepares: What if the British Empire invested more in the 1920s & 30s1:25:08Designing sloop hulls for rapid destroyer conversionNotable Point
- Empire Prepares: What if the British Empire invested more in the 1920s & 30s1:48:25Using Ark Royal's strength deck for added protectionNotable Point
- Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat31:21An Incomparable carrier would not need a battleship-sized secondary batteryQ&A
- Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat1:35:46Why specialization depends on the mission, not a fixed ship labelQ&A
- Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat1:44:39Why telescoped ammunition has limited appeal for warshipsQ&A
- Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat1:53:05Why a 1,200-ton autoloading destroyer needs a complete mission designQ&A
- Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat2:07:42A transverse triple-expansion paddle warship is technically plausibleQ&A
- Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat2:35:36Why an armored flight deck must also carry structural loadsQ&A
- Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat2:53:07Why 300,000 horsepower needs a purpose-designed battleship hullQ&A
- Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat2:55:20Extra displacement would not make every First World War battleship fasterQ&A
- Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat3:13:42Why the proposed Sea Harrier does not change InvincibleQ&A
- Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat3:15:30A common carrier-battleship hull is only a theoretical possibilityQ&A
- Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat3:44:07Why one larger battleship does not dictate the next generationQ&A
- Japan's I-400 Class: Waste of Resources, Idea to Soon or Idea to late?7:28The I-400 as the ultimate cruiser submarineChapter
- Bruships 160: Money for Kallax, Book Space ain’t Free! Naval History Questions & Chat...58:45How capital ships retained reserve buoyancyQ&A
- Bruships 160: Money for Kallax, Book Space ain’t Free! Naval History Questions & Chat...1:45:51The challenge of reloading VLS at seaQ&A
- Bruships 160: Money for Kallax, Book Space ain’t Free! Naval History Questions & Chat...1:47:36Ticonderoga's CIC layout and Cold War cruiser labelNotable Point
- Bruships 160: Money for Kallax, Book Space ain’t Free! Naval History Questions & Chat...2:37:18Were large German warships strengthened for ice?Q&A
- Twitch Live: USA Goes Battlecruiser for all their Capital Ships Campaign 326:05A torpedo boat is a weight-compromise problemChapter
- Twitch Live: USA Goes Battlecruiser for all their Capital Ships Campaign 31:58:34Gun destroyers versus torpedo destroyersNotable Point
- Twitch Live: USA Goes Battlecruiser for all their Capital Ships Campaign 32:01:48When a heavy cruiser needs replacement, not another refitNotable Point
- Twitch Live: USA Goes Battlecruiser for all their Capital Ships Campaign 32:07:43Refits rebalance speed, armor, and firepowerChapter
- Twitch Live: USA Goes Battlecruiser for all their Capital Ships Campaign 32:17:45Radar growth recreates the topweight problemNotable Point
- Twitch Live: USA Goes Battlecruiser for all their Capital Ships Campaign 32:21:29Can composites reduce topweight in a warship?Q&A
- Twitch Live: USA Goes Battlecruiser for all their Capital Ships Campaign 32:27:22Why cage masts reached so highNotable Point
- Twitch Live: USA Goes Battlecruiser for all their Capital Ships Campaign 32:49:04Designing the first American battlecruiserChapter
- Japan's Naval Aviation Doctrine of the 1930s & WWII: Yûgeki Zengen Sakusen!1:24:34What if Germany joined the qualitative dreadnought race?Notable Point
- Death from Above? Germany develops the Fritz X Early - Patreon Premier58:43Why counterfactual procurement errors cost livesNotable Point
- Check Campaign 22: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign2:17:03Why famous warships become overratedNotable Point
- Bruships Gothenborg style...13:35Why the G3 battlecruiser was tied to a 16.5-inch gunQ&A
- Bruships 155: Last time answering naval history questions from the Brushack?31:17Turbo-electric drives without naval treatiesQ&A
- Bruships 155: Last time answering naval history questions from the Brushack?1:40:20Larger dreadnoughts and British dockyard capacityQ&A
- Bruships 155: Last time answering naval history questions from the Brushack?2:32:16Centerline secondary turrets and forward fireQ&A
- Bruships 155: Last time answering naval history questions from the Brushack?4:09:19Why U.S. warships retained large crewsQ&A
- Bruships 155: Last time answering naval history questions from the Brushack?4:15:16The Royal Navy's long drive toward automationQ&A
- Legacy of Billy Mitchell Hijacking the 1921 tests54:43The cheap-aircraft argument ignored force structure and modern ship designNotable Point
- Patreon 102: Zeroes over the Med! Japan joins the Britain & Free powers on 25th of June 1940...3:18:45Would cruisers grow beyond 12-inch guns?Q&A
- Bruships 146: Naval History Questions, Boxes Getting Packed & Lego Getting Built31:25Why modern warships can still carry figureheadsQ&A
- Bruships 146: Naval History Questions, Boxes Getting Packed & Lego Getting Built52:53Why projected German 42 cm gun figures disagreeQ&A
- Bruships 146: Naval History Questions, Boxes Getting Packed & Lego Getting Built2:07:21Why gun count alone cannot determine warship sizeQ&A
- Bruships 146: Naval History Questions, Boxes Getting Packed & Lego Getting Built2:44:52The weight cost of turbo-electric propulsionQ&A
- Bruships 146: Naval History Questions, Boxes Getting Packed & Lego Getting Built3:08:48How air-independent boilers would reshape early warshipsQ&A
- Bruships 146: Naval History Questions, Boxes Getting Packed & Lego Getting Built4:27:43Why 10-inch County cruisers erase the 12-inch cruiser nicheQ&A
- Check Campaign 10: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign29:05Why submarines and carriers complicate warship design gamesQ&A
- Patreon 100: Stalin's 1930 London Treaty - the USSR joins the Naval Treaties at London18:31Gnevny and Kirov show Soviet design talent under pressureNotable Point
- Patreon 100: Stalin's 1930 London Treaty - the USSR joins the Naval Treaties at London36:02Could Soviet industry make battleship armor?Q&A
- Patreon 100: Stalin's 1930 London Treaty - the USSR joins the Naval Treaties at London39:55Project 21 becomes a slower Soviet NelsonChapter
- Patreon 100: Stalin's 1930 London Treaty - the USSR joins the Naval Treaties at London1:17:22What would a first Soviet carrier copy?Q&A
- Patreon 100: Stalin's 1930 London Treaty - the USSR joins the Naval Treaties at London1:45:05North Carolina comes early while Britain chooses speed or gun sizeChapter
- Patreon 100: Stalin's 1930 London Treaty - the USSR joins the Naval Treaties at London1:57:15Would an early North Carolina keep 14-inch guns?Q&A
- Patreon 100: Stalin's 1930 London Treaty - the USSR joins the Naval Treaties at London2:10:48Smaller battleships increase hull numbers within a fixed tonnage allowanceNotable Point
- Patreon 100: Stalin's 1930 London Treaty - the USSR joins the Naval Treaties at London3:06:50Would Britain's earlier battleships use 14-inch, 15-inch, or 16-inch guns?Q&A
- Patreon 100: Stalin's 1930 London Treaty - the USSR joins the Naval Treaties at London3:19:34Why dimensions alone cannot determine cruiser displacementQ&A
- Giulio Cesare: The Lucky Ceasar of the Regia Marina, Key Ships Series 8 – Ship 510:35Capital-ship appearance as a form of deterrenceChapter
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books15:26Why Yubari's test-bed design stayed conservativeQ&A
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books27:37Why a small Austro-Hungarian navy could be well builtQ&A
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books28:39A German coastal battleship instead of a PanzerschiffQ&A
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books35:28Replacing six 18-inch guns with triple 15-inch turretsQ&A
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books44:26How higher treaty limits reshape the Tribal classQ&A
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books53:45Would a faster Revenge class need a longer bow?Q&A
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books1:02:34A British cruiser at Graf Spee's true displacementQ&A
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books1:12:12Why an earlier triple turret could change the Admiral classNotable Point
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books1:32:43Why cruiser missions matter more than a 10-inch gun ruleQ&A
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books1:43:23Why modern aircraft change escort-carrier scaleNotable Point
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books2:25:34Long Beach and the scale of later destroyer leadersQ&A
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books2:38:10Scaling US missile destroyers below Long BeachQ&A
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books2:47:37Where naval alternate history becomes fictionNotable Point
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books3:19:08Foreign foundations for Type 31 and ConstellationQ&A
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books3:32:12Modern warship shapes and radar returnsNotable Point
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books3:59:02Why cruiser-carriers remain poor compromisesQ&A
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books4:07:01How larger destroyer limits enlarge Hunts and sloopsQ&A
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books4:16:05Why an army 155 mm gun is not a naval gunQ&A
- Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books4:22:38An 8-inch Neptune becomes a different cruiserQ&A
- HMS Revenge(1915): the Reliable Pikeman of the Royal Navys Battle Line!38:57Economy without sacrificing capabilityNotable Point
- Aircraft Carriers in Science Fiction17:57Why a combat starship should not double as a troopshipQ&A
- Aircraft Carriers in Science Fiction1:00:26Warship aesthetics can project political powerNotable Point
- Aircraft Carriers in Science Fiction1:10:54How much larger is the Secutor than a Venator?Q&A
- Aircraft Carriers in Science Fiction3:56:45Prometheus and the flexibility of the Daedalus classNotable Point
- Bruships 141: Some Cool Books & Naval History Questions Answered13:27What a fourth battleship turret really costsQ&A
- Bruships 141: Some Cool Books & Naval History Questions Answered34:00Why an all-aft battleship battery is a poor signalQ&A
- Bruships 141: Some Cool Books & Naval History Questions Answered2:10:05Could a Yamato-class battleship pass through Suez?Q&A
- Bruships 141: Some Cool Books & Naval History Questions Answered2:47:55What a World War II supercarrier would demand ashoreQ&A
- Bruships 141: Some Cool Books & Naval History Questions Answered3:47:35Why a King George V hull is the wrong large-cruiser baseQ&A
- Bruships 140 - Patreon Suggestions, Some Interesting Books (Hopefully) & Lots of Naval History Qs!19:40Why a patrol corvette may not need 40 knotsQ&A
- Bruships 140 - Patreon Suggestions, Some Interesting Books (Hopefully) & Lots of Naval History Qs!1:48:41A non-treaty cruiser fleet would separate into clear size bandsQ&A
- Bruships 140 - Patreon Suggestions, Some Interesting Books (Hopefully) & Lots of Naval History Qs!1:58:40A qualitative arms race would reveal practical capital-ship limitsQ&A
- Bruships 140 - Patreon Suggestions, Some Interesting Books (Hopefully) & Lots of Naval History Qs!2:04:46Why some offshore patrol vessels omit helicopter hangarsQ&A
- Bruships 140 - Patreon Suggestions, Some Interesting Books (Hopefully) & Lots of Naval History Qs!2:40:05A fourth Yamato turret drives the ship toward 80,000 tonsQ&A
- Bruships 140 - Patreon Suggestions, Some Interesting Books (Hopefully) & Lots of Naval History Qs!2:46:56A Ford-sized battleship could carry twelve 18-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships 140 - Patreon Suggestions, Some Interesting Books (Hopefully) & Lots of Naval History Qs!3:35:12Larger fleet destroyers would pull high-end escorts toward 2,000 tonsQ&A
- Bruships 140 - Patreon Suggestions, Some Interesting Books (Hopefully) & Lots of Naval History Qs!3:56:36Similar River-class silhouettes do not imply equal capabilityQ&A
- Bruships 140 - Patreon Suggestions, Some Interesting Books (Hopefully) & Lots of Naval History Qs!4:20:11Deutschland had no easy displacement left for more speedQ&A
- Check Campaign 7: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign51:33How research can make a saved warship design overweightNotable Point
- Check Campaign 7: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign57:50Why a balanced destroyer design anchors the fleetNotable Point
- Check Campaign 7: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:53:23Designing a light cruiser for worldwide presenceChapter
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered1:18How a British Admiral Hipper-sized cruiser might differQ&A
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered13:49Could British G3 and N3 studies have influenced Japanese battleships?Q&A
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered15:27Nelson and Rodney as the wrong ships for a mobile fleetQ&A
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered18:43Why Japanese battleships developed pagoda mastsNotable Point
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered24:40What a Tiger-standard Renown might have gainedQ&A
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered29:22How British destroyers might grow without treaty limitsQ&A
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered30:22How political meddling compounds flawed warship requirementsQ&A
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered32:46A 1970s battleship built around rate of fireQ&A
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered38:24A faster Nelson class with triple 15-inch turretsQ&A
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered41:16The operational cost of Japan's specialized warshipsQ&A
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered53:23Why a treaty-sized Bismarck cannot be judged by gun caliber aloneQ&A
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered1:15:14How early Britain could have fitted small-tube boilersQ&A
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered1:18:28Why modern navies favor single gun mountsQ&A
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered1:29:27Four hypothetical strike cruisers in the Falklands WarQ&A
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered1:32:45French constraints in a smaller-Bismarck scenarioQ&A
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered1:38:43What almost 3,000 tons could buy a Tribal-class destroyerQ&A
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered1:49:39Why modern warships need so much support equipmentNotable Point
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered1:50:09Why a 250,000-ton carrier adds little AEW valueQ&A
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered2:17:35Learning to operate an Incomparable-sized carrierQ&A
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered2:19:24Why a smaller Bismarck needs a complete redesign before comparisonQ&A
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered2:35:07Weight and budget limits on automatic six-inch turretsQ&A
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered2:43:33Designing a County-class cruiser around 9.2-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered2:46:56A Dogger Bank disaster could turn the Admirals into fast battleshipsNotable Point
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered2:53:36Allowing module-handling space in a large shipyardQ&A
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered3:00:59Why 28 knots could be enough for MontanaQ&A
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered3:17:45How a larger Daring class enlarges later destroyersQ&A
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered3:24:22Why larger treaty allowances may preserve the naval balanceQ&A
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered3:30:22Why Type 83 concept art did not settle the designNotable Point
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered3:34:52Choosing single or multiple-barrel AA mountsQ&A
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered3:55:47A proposed dual-purpose gun and pom-pom layoutQ&A
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered4:14:40Comparing County destroyer displacementQ&A
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered4:17:04Why a light cruiser need not approach heavy-cruiser sizeQ&A
- Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered4:26:01Why light cruisers did not need to jump to 15,000 tonsQ&A
- Patreon 97: What if Senator Tillman was at the Washington Naval Treaty...3:02:04A larger Dorsetshire needs more than a gun changeQ&A
- Check Campaign 6: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:37:07Turbo-electric drive for a fast assault battleshipChapter
- Racking up the Fight Back: American Carrier raids of 194257:30Would the US Navy have kept turbo-electric propulsion?Q&A
- Racking up the Fight Back: American Carrier raids of 19421:01:49Why geared turbines displaced turbo-electric driveQ&A
- Racking up the Fight Back: American Carrier raids of 19421:08:44Panama Canal limits favored compact American machineryQ&A
- Bruships 137: Naval Aviation Books Discussed & Naval History Questions Answered1:26:06Why Germany did not adopt its 5-inch dual-purpose gun soonerQ&A
- Bruships 137: Naval Aviation Books Discussed & Naval History Questions Answered1:49:53The speed-governor loophole for aviation support shipsQ&A
- Bruships 137: Naval Aviation Books Discussed & Naval History Questions Answered1:59:31Why Leander lacked triple turrets but Arethusa could use themQ&A
- Bruships 137: Naval Aviation Books Discussed & Naval History Questions Answered2:03:46La Argentina's Arethusa lineage and the improved Leander pathQ&A
- Bruships 137: Naval Aviation Books Discussed & Naval History Questions Answered2:06:13Why heavier Canarias-class guns would not change Spanish employmentQ&A
- Bruships 137: Naval Aviation Books Discussed & Naval History Questions Answered2:15:52Where a five-turret County-class cruiser would matterQ&A
- Bruships 137: Naval Aviation Books Discussed & Naval History Questions Answered2:23:30Britain's answer to 28-knot German battleshipsQ&A
- Bruships 137: Naval Aviation Books Discussed & Naval History Questions Answered2:43:42How Britain might build a Yorktown-sized carrier seriesQ&A
- Bruships 137: Naval Aviation Books Discussed & Naval History Questions Answered3:33:02Modular hangars and catapults for aircraft carriersQ&A
- Check Campaign 4: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign13:40Could viewers compete for warship design contracts?Q&A
- Check Campaign 4: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign37:25Why mixed AI gun batteries weaken fire controlNotable Point
- Check Campaign 4: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign1:01:23Why destroyers and light cruisers converge over timeQ&A
- Bruships 136: Some Books & Some Questions Answered5:02What a 28,000-ton British battlecruiser specification impliedQ&A
- Bruships 136: Some Books & Some Questions Answered23:54A Dutch battlecruiser as a risk-fleet weaponQ&A
- Bruships 136: Some Books & Some Questions Answered48:09Improvised splinter protection on wartime destroyersQ&A
- Bruships 136: Some Books & Some Questions Answered1:00:17Why post-treaty heavy cruisers grow toward 25,000 tonsQ&A
- Bruships 136: Some Books & Some Questions Answered1:21:19The tradeoffs in 12,500- and 15,000-ton treaty cruisersQ&A
- Bruships 136: Some Books & Some Questions Answered1:38:41Balancing shell weight and muzzle velocityQ&A
- Bruships 136: Some Books & Some Questions Answered3:01:30A 9.2-inch County-type cruiser in the PacificQ&A
- Bruships 136: Some Books & Some Questions Answered3:10:33A Tribal class with two heavy quadruple launchersQ&A
- Bruships 136: Some Books & Some Questions Answered3:28:31Why the Deutschland class could neither fight nor fleeQ&A
- Bruships 136: Some Books & Some Questions Answered3:35:46A diesel-electric German surface raiderQ&A
- What changes if Helicopters are at their third generation in 1939?34:45Treaty-exempt sloops become early helicopter escortsChapter
- Bruships 135: Japan again... Can I get through 12 books this time12:09Why battleship anti-aircraft guns cannot fill every open deckQ&A
- Bruships 135: Japan again... Can I get through 12 books this time14:11Large light cruisers and Incomparable were not Royal Navy endpointsQ&A
- Bruships 135: Japan again... Can I get through 12 books this time1:00:40Internal machinery makes the Dreadnought leap larger than its silhouetteQ&A
- Bruships 135: Japan again... Can I get through 12 books this time2:54:43A 10,000-ton cruiser trades speed directly against armourQ&A
- Conception of Admiral Moffett’s Flight Deck Cruisers & the IJN’s construction of Ryūjō18:30Why cruiser and carrier roles conflictedChapter
- Conception of Admiral Moffett’s Flight Deck Cruisers & the IJN’s construction of Ryūjō49:42Why small carriers were pushed into fleet-carrier workNotable Point
- Bruships 134: Imperial Japanese Navy Books29:19Repairability versus protection in battleship armor beltsQ&A
- Bruships 134: Imperial Japanese Navy Books35:43How a lighter Nelson design could reach 28 knotsQ&A
- Bruships 134: Imperial Japanese Navy Books38:50What a surviving Queen Mary might teach the fleetQ&A
- Bruships 134: Imperial Japanese Navy Books2:08:31Why twin 7.5-inch turrets make Hawkins much heavierQ&A
- Bruships 134: Imperial Japanese Navy Books2:15:32The earliest practical turbine armored cruiserQ&A
- Bruships 134: Imperial Japanese Navy Books3:21:52When an amphibious ship loses the spaces that make it usefulNotable Point
- Bruships 134: Imperial Japanese Navy Books3:46:03How model basins test a warship's turnQ&A
- Bruships 134: Imperial Japanese Navy Books3:49:07Iowa's quadruple turrets collide with canal and dock limitsQ&A
- Bruships 134: Imperial Japanese Navy Books3:50:50Why treaties ended the armored-cruiser successorQ&A
- The Philosophy behind Autoloader Development for Navies6:58What an autoloader changes aboard shipNotable Point
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!12:08The source problem behind incomplete German carriersNotable Point
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!32:04Why the Admiral Hipper class used tonnage inefficientlyQ&A
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!47:57Why Renown did not need ten torpedo tubesQ&A
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!1:18:58What 9.2-inch guns change in a cruiserQ&A
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!1:30:38Why Lion would not simply repeat G3Q&A
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!1:36:28Britain's post-treaty heavy-cruiser studiesQ&A
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!2:06:09What large armoured- and protected-cruiser fleets taught BritainQ&A
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!2:23:22Triple 8-inch turrets on a treaty cruiserQ&A
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!2:28:00Why heavy turrets are difficult to add laterQ&A
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!2:32:15What lighter high-strength steel could do for warshipsQ&A
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!2:32:57A cruiser with fifteen 10-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!2:36:27Why the Halifax class suited CanadaQ&A
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!2:37:01A four-turret Alaska as a cruiser upper limitQ&A
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!2:55:53What might have followed the Lion classQ&A
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!3:23:22An effective self-propelled torpedo before 1857Q&A
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!3:30:53The Royal Navy's least successful wartime ship designsQ&A
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!3:35:30Would protected cruisers follow a dreadnought cruiser trend?Q&A
- Bruships(New Years Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!3:40:55The 8-inch gun as a treaty compromiseQ&A
- The Other 7th of December Harbour Attack: Operation Frankton, aka the Cockleshell Heroes2:35:46Why Britain rejected superimposed secondary batteriesQ&A
- The Other 7th of December Harbour Attack: Operation Frankton, aka the Cockleshell Heroes2:45:42Why U.S. designers accepted superimposed secondary gunsQ&A
- Sloops Adaptability of Presence0:48Sloops as adaptable small warshipsChapter
- Sloops Adaptability of Presence6:36Why five small ships do not equal one large shipChapter
- Sloops Adaptability of Presence12:00When up-arming a patrol ship hides a fleet gapNotable Point
- Sloops Adaptability of Presence16:40Presence ships need lean, supportable equipmentNotable Point
- Sloops Adaptability of Presence32:29Acacia-class dimensions, machinery, and powerNotable Point
- Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!1:14:28Modern warships benefit more from selective armor than an armored beltQ&A
- Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!1:44:21Churchill's large cruiser changes size with the strategic eraQ&A
- Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!1:47:00Postwar large naval guns refined more than they reinventedQ&A
- Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!2:03:23Type 31 turns a Danish basis into a flexible export designNotable Point
- Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!2:04:33A sensible Kiev design must choose carrier or cruiser firstQ&A
- Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!2:24:42A 1950 British fast battleship would align with American 16-inch logisticsQ&A
- Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!2:50:32The N3 might reset the dreadnought label instead of becoming a super-super-dreadnoughtQ&A
- Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!3:03:18How G3 and N3 ideas might merge without WashingtonQ&A
- Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!3:15:13Crew electrical outlets became common in 1970s ship designsQ&A
- Bruships(Christmas Eve): Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!3:43:37Loading machinery creates practical naval-gun calibre breakpointsQ&A
- Patreon 92: Frank Whittle is given consistent funding by Britain to develop jet engines from 192824:45Why eliminating boilers changes treaty warship designNotable Point
- Patreon 92: Frank Whittle is given consistent funding by Britain to develop jet engines from 192827:57Gas turbines change the King George V design without changing the treatyChapter
- Patreon 92: Frank Whittle is given consistent funding by Britain to develop jet engines from 19281:27:17Gas turbines ease the Crown Colony cruisers' topweight problemNotable Point
- Patreon 92: Frank Whittle is given consistent funding by Britain to develop jet engines from 19282:21:17Why treaty rules cannot neatly contain Britain's turbine leadNotable Point
- HMS Diamond(1950) D35: Presence without Conviction is no Detterence - Key Ship Series 7 Ship 822:13Daring-class machinery, range, and radar suiteChapter
- 'S' Class Submarines: The Royal Navy's All Rounders for WWII - Key Ship Series 7 Ship 79:57Reading naval priorities from design and construction decisionsNotable Point
- 'T' Class Submarines: The Royal Navy's Ambush Predators - Key Ship Series 7 Ship 67:02Specialized emphasis without theater lock-inNotable Point
- Bruships 133: Questions till the Bru runs out...33:54VLS, stealth, and combat information centers define postwar warship designQ&A
- Bruships 133: Questions till the Bru runs out...42:10Chatfield's preferences pulled King George V away from a direct G3 updateQ&A
- Bruships 133: Questions till the Bru runs out...51:02A merged German capital-ship line aims for 25 to 26 knotsQ&A
- Bruships 133: Questions till the Bru runs out...52:52The Littoral Combat Ship is the design-by-committee cautionQ&A
- Bruships 133: Questions till the Bru runs out...54:18G3 and N3 promise brilliance or fundamental flaws, not certaintyQ&A
- Bruships 133: Questions till the Bru runs out...1:22:10A 40,000-ton King George V could carry four quadruple 14-inch turretsQ&A
- Bruships 133: Questions till the Bru runs out...1:27:58Henderson's 15-inch preference opens two King George V batteriesQ&A
- Bruships 133: Questions till the Bru runs out...1:35:33A 100,000-ton British battleship shocks 1920 but answers Yamato in wartimeQ&A
- Bruships 133: Questions till the Bru runs out...1:39:00A dreadnought armored cruiser line can split into battlecruisers and cruisersQ&A
- Bruships 133: Questions till the Bru runs out...1:47:19Heavy and light cruisers share light-cruiser and scout ancestryQ&A
- Tillman Class: Dreams of Super Battleships - KSS2 S8 Comment Response16:46Leadership losses fragment German capital-ship designNotable Point
- Tillman Class: Dreams of Super Battleships - KSS2 S8 Comment Response22:09Why the Tillman studies deserve serious attentionNotable Point
- Tillman Class: Dreams of Super Battleships - KSS2 S8 Comment Response34:56What makes a Second World War battleship fastQ&A
- Stalingrad Class: Stalin's Ship Dreams - KSS2 S7 Comment Response8:16Why Soviet project numbers resist a simple chronologyQ&A
- Stalingrad Class: Stalin's Ship Dreams - KSS2 S7 Comment Response14:04A hybrid gun-and-missile Stalingrad counterfactualNotable Point
- Battle of Sinop(1853): Part 1 - Split due to Emergency11:02Why shell guns did not suddenly create ironcladsChapter
- Battle of Sinop(1853): Part 1 - Split due to Emergency15:54Iron splinters and the case for timber backingQ&A
- Bruships 132: Questions till the Milk or Pancreas Runs Out20:30Capital-ship interiors also supported peacetime dutiesQ&A
- Bruships 132: Questions till the Milk or Pancreas Runs Out28:22Shrinking L3 and K3 ideas into a treaty battleshipQ&A
- Bruships 132: Questions till the Milk or Pancreas Runs Out30:51L3 and K3 shared armament but required very different powerNotable Point
- Bruships 132: Questions till the Milk or Pancreas Runs Out39:45A universal 5.5-inch secondary batteryQ&A
- Bruships 132: Questions till the Milk or Pancreas Runs Out43:00The gap between modular-warship proposals and deliveryQ&A
- Bruships 132: Questions till the Milk or Pancreas Runs Out55:59Lion offered better underwater protection than CourageousQ&A
- Bruships 132: Questions till the Milk or Pancreas Runs Out56:13The Tiger class needed more than four 6-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships 132: Questions till the Milk or Pancreas Runs Out58:16Using Graf Zeppelin's deleted 6-inch-gun weightQ&A
- Bruships 132: Questions till the Milk or Pancreas Runs Out1:03:35Royal Navy flagships used architecture to project authorityQ&A
- Bruships 132: Questions till the Milk or Pancreas Runs Out1:05:51How a warship changes from sketch to constructionQ&A
- Bruships 132: Questions till the Milk or Pancreas Runs Out1:08:25H3A speed versus G3 firepowerQ&A
- Bruships 132: Questions till the Milk or Pancreas Runs Out1:11:05A 12-inch Lexington would have a short useful lifeQ&A
- Bruships 132: Questions till the Milk or Pancreas Runs Out1:12:31A practical ceiling for an untreatied large cruiserQ&A
- Bruships 132: Questions till the Milk or Pancreas Runs Out1:12:48Kuznetsov-class sister carriers differed in dimensionsQ&A
- Bruships 132: Questions till the Milk or Pancreas Runs Out1:16:44H3's six-gun battery weakened its treaty-design appealQ&A
- Bruships 132: Questions till the Milk or Pancreas Runs Out1:45:32Eight 16.5-inch guns offer the stronger heavy-battery choiceQ&A
- Bruships 132: Questions till the Milk or Pancreas Runs Out1:56:05Carrier islands remain tall because direct sight still mattersQ&A
- Bruships 132: Questions till the Milk or Pancreas Runs Out2:17:49A modern Royal Navy heavy cruiser would concentrate large guns forwardQ&A
- Bruships 132: Questions till the Milk or Pancreas Runs Out2:40:48Alternative hull lines for British 13.5-inch-gunned shipsQ&A
- Bruships 132: Questions till the Milk or Pancreas Runs Out2:44:26Fourteen 12-inch guns would push a British design to a longer hullQ&A
- Graf Zeppelin: KSS2 S1 Comment Response11:02What impossible game armaments teach about logisticsNotable Point
- Graf Zeppelin: KSS2 S1 Comment Response13:26Why Graf Zeppelin's raw specifications misleadQ&A
- Graf Zeppelin: KSS2 S1 Comment Response20:31How British practice shaped naval treaty rulesQ&A
- HMS Renown 1895: KSS1 S10 Comment Response0:01Renown as Fisher's proto-battlecruiser testbedNotable Point
- HMS Renown 1895: KSS1 S10 Comment Response14:53Why Fisher kept Renown as his flagshipNotable Point
- HMS Repulse (1892): KSS1 S9 Comment Response5:00Using viable alternatives to judge DreadnoughtNotable Point
- HMS Repulse (1892): KSS1 S9 Comment Response18:08A twelve-gun 16.5-inch battleship counterfactualQ&A
- Bruships 131: Battleships...57:38Stalin's Ocean-Going Fleet and unrealized designsChapter
- Bruships 131: Battleships...1:42:20Why Vikramaditya was not the right starting point for KievQ&A
- Bruships 131: Battleships...1:54:17The displacement cost of a seven-turret large cruiserQ&A
- Bruships 131: Battleships...2:54:06A simulated British answer to Dante AlighieriNotable Point
- New Ironsides: KSS1 S8 Comment Response8:47The forgotten variety of American ironcladsQ&A
- Dante Alighieri: Not Dreadnought but still an Inferno - Key Ships Series 7, Ship 17:17Dante Alighieri's construction timeline and Russian parallelsChapter
- Dante Alighieri: Not Dreadnought but still an Inferno - Key Ships Series 7, Ship 129:48How Britain might answer a 1903 Dante AlighieriNotable Point
- Dante Alighieri: Not Dreadnought but still an Inferno - Key Ships Series 7, Ship 134:33A rushed British answer must use what industry can supplyNotable Point
- Huáscar: KSS1 S7 Comment Response6:20What a hurricane deck meansQ&A
- A Naval Historian Reacts to: Battle cruisers in a modern navy… Well a WWII Navy45:21Did King George V and Vanguard begin as battlecruisers?Q&A
- A Naval Historian Reacts to: Battle cruisers in a modern navy… Well a WWII Navy2:17:50Why high speed consumed so much displacementQ&A
- A Naval Historian Reacts to: Battle cruisers in a modern navy… Well a WWII Navy3:08:41The 1929 exercises kept the battlecruiser question openNotable Point
- Building A British Super Battleship!18:58Rodney meets an Italian battleship test opponentChapter
- Bruships 130: Battleships51:05A layered gun layout for a Type 83 destroyerQ&A
- Bruships 130: Battleships1:10:42Cruiser categories without treaty tonnage ceilingsQ&A
- Bruships 130: Battleships1:51:17Cooling a capital-ship autoloader between salvosQ&A
- Bruships 130: Battleships1:56:15A purpose-built American destroyer leader for 1939Q&A
- HMDS Danmark: KSS1 S2 Comment Response3:00How ships are selected for a themed naval-history seriesChapter
- HMS Dreadnought: Key Ship Series 1 Ship 1 Comment Response8:12What makes an amphibious, submarine, or Aegis ship pivotal?Chapter
- HMS Dreadnought: Key Ship Series 1 Ship 1 Comment Response9:43How the idea of Gloire prompted HMS WarriorNotable Point
- HMS Dreadnought: Key Ship Series 1 Ship 1 Comment Response27:43Dreadnought's conservative structure and revolutionary systemQ&A
- HMS Dreadnought: Key Ship Series 1 Ship 1 Comment Response28:35A fifteen-gun Dreadnought changes the global baselineChapter
- HMS Dreadnought: Key Ship Series 1 Ship 1 Comment Response32:30Why one experimental battleship was not enoughNotable Point
- Bruships 129: Travels, Rememberance & Questions from Chat28:45Why G3 and N3 successors remained undefinedQ&A
- Bruships 129: Travels, Rememberance & Questions from Chat53:38Why naval treaty tonnage was hard to enforceQ&A
- Bruships 129: Travels, Rememberance & Questions from Chat59:31HMS Swift as a destroyer precursorNotable Point
- Bruships 129: Travels, Rememberance & Questions from Chat1:09:27Changing definitions of high-pressure steamQ&A
- Town Class(1936): Building for Presence - Key Ships Reserve Series, Ship 256:47What makes a warship project presenceNotable Point
- Asahi(1899): Cornerstone of the Six/Six Pland - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 814:30Asahi's machinery, armament, and armorChapter
- Asahi(1899): Cornerstone of the Six/Six Pland - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 820:08Heavy-sea fire and standardized gunsChapter
- Asahi(1899): Cornerstone of the Six/Six Pland - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 841:05Command targeting from conning towers to radioNotable Point
- Asahi(1899): Cornerstone of the Six/Six Pland - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 850:50The ten-inch-gun compromise after AsahiNotable Point
- Unrotated Projectiles to Hypersonics: Some History & thoughts on Missiles as part of navies1:15:18Metallurgy decides whether railguns and scramjets become fleet weaponsNotable Point
- Bruships 128: Invasions & Amphibious Warfare46:32A separate treaty limit for heavy cruisersQ&A
- Bruships 128: Invasions & Amphibious Warfare1:22:39The King George V class already approached 35,000 tonsQ&A
- Bruships 128: Invasions & Amphibious Warfare1:32:19Invincible-class battlecruisers versus 9.2-inch armored cruisersQ&A
- Bruships 128: Invasions & Amphibious Warfare3:16:59Bringing Lexington under treaty tonnage during constructionQ&A
- Bruships 128: Invasions & Amphibious Warfare3:40:44Colorado's twin turrets in US 16-inch gun developmentNotable Point
- Bruships 127: 2023 Christmas Naval History Releases1:00:12Future design histories in the hands of the Third Sea LordQ&A
- Bruships 127: 2023 Christmas Naval History Releases1:21:44A 9.2-inch Hawkins class raises the treaty cruiser ceilingQ&A
- Bruships 127: 2023 Christmas Naval History Releases1:33:32A 1945 battlecruiser becomes a faster, heavier VanguardQ&A
- Bruships 127: 2023 Christmas Naval History Releases1:36:14The Orlando class steadied a troubled British cruiser programmeNotable Point
- Bruships 127: 2023 Christmas Naval History Releases1:56:30Per-ship limits encourage every navy to build to the ceilingQ&A
- Bruships 127: 2023 Christmas Naval History Releases2:28:20Type 26 and Type 45 grew from families of possible hull sizesNotable Point
- Bruships 127: 2023 Christmas Naval History Releases3:11:51The 18-inch Mark I may have been a shortened longer gunQ&A
- Bruships 127: 2023 Christmas Naval History Releases3:50:59Empty missile cells preserve cheaper future growthQ&A
- Bruships 127: 2023 Christmas Naval History Releases4:10:09An extreme battleship uses salvo rhythm to offset slow gunsQ&A
- Bruships 127: 2023 Christmas Naval History Releases4:44:35The steam ram traded gun power for speed and protectionQ&A
- Bruships 126: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series1:43:13Cut-down anti-aircraft shields improved handling and visibilityQ&A
- Bruships 126: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series2:14:39Why a naval gun should not begin as land artilleryQ&A
- Bruships 126: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series3:02:26Survivability may favour larger warshipsQ&A
- Bruships 126: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series3:05:44Future warships may all become mothershipsQ&A
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 942:34A slow, heavily armoured battleship alternativeNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 952:58Why mixed gun batteries burden naval logisticsNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 91:18:16German First World War wing-turret layoutsNotable Point
- Bruships 125: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series51:29Where British destroyer design might go without wartime economic damageQ&A
- Bruships 125: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series1:10:50The condition for giving Hood twelve 15-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships 125: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series1:41:56Why alternate histories should not preserve familiar frigate typesQ&A
- Neptune Class: The Cruiser Conundrum Crisis - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 610:50Flight-deck strength sets helicopter capabilityNotable Point
- Neptune Class: The Cruiser Conundrum Crisis - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 623:32A cruiser with capital-ship dimensions and crewNotable Point
- Neptune Class: The Cruiser Conundrum Crisis - Key Ships Series 6, Ship 627:15Neptune as a modern large-combatant parallelNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 82:08:09Diagnosing a destroyer design after combat failureChapter
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 82:13:17Balancing a destroyer’s weight, shells, speed, and stabilityChapter
- Bruships 124: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series29:47An 18,000-ton treaty cruiser conceptQ&A
- Bruships 124: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series39:06Could Kaiser-style building methods speed warship construction?Q&A
- Bruships 124: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series1:07:22Could Courageous-class hulls have carried 9.2-inch guns?Q&A
- Bruships 124: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series1:16:03What makes an armoured cruiser the best?Q&A
- Bruships 124: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series1:19:01Why a different empire would need different naval equipmentQ&A
- Bruships 124: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series2:00:59A British counterpart to the Alaska classQ&A
- Bruships 124: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series3:56:51A British response to Tillman-style U.S. battleshipsQ&A
- Bruships 124: Hutchinsons Pictorial History of the War Series4:00:44G3 turret layout and the problem with wing turretsQ&A
- Ranging & Stabilising: How Gunnery Evolved from 1860 to 196011:25HMS Warrior made armour, speed, and firepower inseparableNotable Point
- Ranging & Stabilising: How Gunnery Evolved from 1860 to 19601:12:11Wing turrets magnified motion and confused shell dispersionChapter
- Bruships 123: Naval History Questions and Books on Strategy & Tactics4:43CODOG propulsion and older diesel-steam arrangementsQ&A
- Bruships 123: Naval History Questions and Books on Strategy & Tactics17:31Why battlecruisers would exist without armored cruisersQ&A
- Bruships 123: Naval History Questions and Books on Strategy & Tactics29:30Ice class is also an endurance questionQ&A
- Bruships 123: Naval History Questions and Books on Strategy & Tactics33:20Trading treaty displacement for a third shaftNotable Point
- Bruships 123: Naval History Questions and Books on Strategy & Tactics43:16Shared magazines versus survivable ammunition stowageQ&A
- Bruships 123: Naval History Questions and Books on Strategy & Tactics1:12:12An F3-style Nelson under a 42,000-ton treaty limitQ&A
- Bruships 123: Naval History Questions and Books on Strategy & Tactics1:30:18The size penalty of an all-triple Pensacola batteryQ&A
- Bruships 123: Naval History Questions and Books on Strategy & Tactics2:02:45Building a 1950s fleet for an unknown missile futureQ&A
- Bruships 123: Naval History Questions and Books on Strategy & Tactics3:16:55Britain's likely heavy- and light-cruiser path without treatiesQ&A
- Bruships 123: Naval History Questions and Books on Strategy & Tactics4:12:28Why use six shafts on an immense battleship?Q&A
- Bruships 123: Naval History Questions and Books on Strategy & Tactics4:23:17Why some warship design studies are better documentedQ&A
- Capital Ships of Science Fiction: Battlestars to Star Destroyers with a Naval Historian52:52Battlestar Galactica and the danger of fleet-wide softwareNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 755:26Bulkheads improve survival but cost weightNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 71:14:27A capital ship designed to escort itselfNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 71:26:16Balancing a super-battleship designChapter
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 71:33:28Designing for cruising range and future upgradesNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 71:46:27The Hood class: broadside and fire arcsNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 72:11:37Gun calibre should change turret scaleNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 72:12:37Designing light cruisers for torpedo saturationNotable Point
- Bruships: Naval History Questions answered till the Bru runs out!2:16:19Why German warships inherited the complexity of German tanksQ&A
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 625:28Using battle simulation to test warship ideasNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 62:13:42Why a 20-inch gun is more than a scaling problemChapter
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 62:58:34Designing a fast battlecruiser within a weight limitChapter
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 63:08:16Balancing armour, range, stability, and weightChapter
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 63:27:36Checking main- and secondary-battery fire arcsNotable Point
- Naval History Questions Live... with Irn Bru... which is a scottish soft drink... not fizzy whisky!19:36Why racing sailing boats do not translate directly into warshipsQ&A
- Naval History Questions Live... with Irn Bru... which is a scottish soft drink... not fizzy whisky!27:19The semi-submersible torpedo-cruiser as a warning signQ&A
- Bittern Class: The Foundation Stone of the British WWII ASW efforts - Key Ship Series 5, Episode 1014:54Sloops traded torpedoes and speed for treaty-compliant escort workChapter
- HMS Nelson(1876): bad sound9:25Why peacetime utility and wartime strength belong in one warshipNotable Point
- HMS Nelson(1876): bad sound22:15How should a warship divide space among weapons, command, and people?Notable Point
- British Capture of Trincomalee(1795) & it’s consequences55:20What naval paintings can revealQ&A
- From Beavers to Ersatz Monarchs & Francesco Caracciolos54:01Andrea Doria’s unusual turret arrangement in a virtual reconstructionNotable Point
- From Beavers to Ersatz Monarchs & Francesco Caracciolos1:26:46A fast Royal Navy treaty-capital-ship responseChapter
- From Beavers to Ersatz Monarchs & Francesco Caracciolos1:37:06The weight and damage tradeoff of light structural platingQ&A
- From Beavers to Ersatz Monarchs & Francesco Caracciolos1:37:22The propulsion cost of treaty-battleship speed and enduranceNotable Point
- From Beavers to Ersatz Monarchs & Francesco Caracciolos1:42:35Why arcade balance can misrepresent historical warshipsNotable Point
- From Beavers to Ersatz Monarchs & Francesco Caracciolos1:45:43Turning a game-heavy armour scheme into a plausible treaty designNotable Point
- From Beavers to Ersatz Monarchs & Francesco Caracciolos1:49:00Modelling Francesco Caracciolo within the game's design limitsChapter
- Being the Benchmark Navy: It has Costs as well as Benefits23:26Design clues behind the proposed ArgincourtNotable Point
- Being the Benchmark Navy: It has Costs as well as Benefits33:22Reconstructing Argincourt from archives and simulation limitsNotable Point
- Ersatz Monarch Class: Pebbles casting Ripples can lead to Tsunamis - Key Ship Series 4, Episode 1022:56A gun and armour scheme tailored to close watersChapter
- Ersatz Monarch Class: Pebbles casting Ripples can lead to Tsunamis - Key Ship Series 4, Episode 1031:11Why four Ersatz Monarchs strained the naval budgetNotable Point
- Ersatz Monarch Class: Pebbles casting Ripples can lead to Tsunamis - Key Ship Series 4, Episode 1034:53The Francesco Caracciolo as a first-generation fast battleshipNotable Point
- Patreon 83: What were the most serious mistakes made in WWII based on WWI experience?24:19Why the Deutschland class was not simply a WWI-derived mistakeNotable Point
- Patreon 83: What were the most serious mistakes made in WWII based on WWI experience?32:19Would a bulbous bow have saved HMS Hood?Q&A
- Patreon 83: What were the most serious mistakes made in WWII based on WWI experience?2:53:02What was wrong with the La Galissonnière class?Q&A
- Patreon 83: What were the most serious mistakes made in WWII based on WWI experience?3:09:48Were 16-inch guns the real reason the Lion class stayed unfinished?Notable Point
- Battleships of the Treaty Era0:00Why few ships were truly treaty battleshipsNotable Point
- Battleships of the Treaty Era45:10A faster 15-inch-gun Nelson alternativeNotable Point
- Battleships of the Treaty Era56:08A twelve-gun Littorio counterfactualNotable Point
- Battleships of the Treaty Era1:05:36A twelve-gun North Carolina treaty designNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 41:44:25Why period destroyers do not need 6-inch gunsQ&A
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 42:33:31Were automated small-calibre guns worth adopting?Q&A
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 42:51:10Choosing 16.5-inch guns for fast capital shipsChapter
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 42:59:50A 36-knot battlecruiser refitNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 43:04:46Automation trades crew for machineryNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 43:05:30Balancing a 61,000-ton fast battleshipChapter
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 43:28:05What modern design tools might have meant for FisherQ&A
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy... part 43:33:15Refitting or retiring an ageing battlecruiser fleetChapter
- Bruships 121: Questions till the Bru Runs Out!6:23Why aircraft carriers could not routinely operate backwardsQ&A
- Bruships 121: Questions till the Bru Runs Out!9:16How a twelve-gun Hood would reset treaty limitsQ&A
- Bruships 121: Questions till the Bru Runs Out!16:14Why a fourth rate offered awkward living conditionsQ&A
- Bruships 121: Questions till the Bru Runs Out!16:37Why a heavily altered Lion needs a mission before dimensionsQ&A
- Bruships 121: Questions till the Bru Runs Out!17:18Why more 16-inch guns can beat fewer 18-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships 121: Questions till the Bru Runs Out!19:34The engineering problem behind 20-inch gunsNotable Point
- Bruships 121: Questions till the Bru Runs Out!50:51What limits the size of a supercarrierQ&A
- Bruships 121: Questions till the Bru Runs Out!56:22How diagonal bracing could strengthen sailing warshipsQ&A
- Bruships 121: Questions till the Bru Runs Out!58:50Why Iowa avoided centerline 5-inch mountsQ&A
- Bruships 121: Questions till the Bru Runs Out!1:06:53Starting large marine diesels is a readiness problemQ&A
- Bruships 121: Questions till the Bru Runs Out!1:21:03The scale of a twenty-one-gun battleshipQ&A
- Bruships 121: Questions till the Bru Runs Out!1:30:42What reliable high-pressure steam by 1934 changesQ&A
- Bruships 121: Questions till the Bru Runs Out!2:13:27Why fast battleships displaced specialized battlecruisersQ&A
- Bruships 121: Questions till the Bru Runs Out!2:18:43How stored belt armour might evade treaty limitsQ&A
- Bruships 121: Questions till the Bru Runs Out!2:19:48Armor against 8-inch cruiser fireQ&A
- Bruships 121: Questions till the Bru Runs Out!2:55:45What a longer N3 needs to reach 27 knotsQ&A
- Bruships 121: Questions till the Bru Runs Out!3:34:48Why a practical fleet carrier needed more than 10,000 tonsQ&A
- Bruships 121: Questions till the Bru Runs Out!3:43:18Why armour gave way to compartmentalisationQ&A
- Bruships 121: Questions till the Bru Runs Out!3:45:55Warships whose strategic logic failedQ&A
- Bruships 121: Questions till the Bru Runs Out!3:49:06Distributed armour versus all-or-nothing protectionQ&A
- HMS Incomparable: When Jackie Fisher Dreamed to Big - Key Ships Series 4, Ship 82:22Calibre versus usable firepowerNotable Point
- HMS Incomparable: When Jackie Fisher Dreamed to Big - Key Ships Series 4, Ship 83:34F3 and the 15-inch alternative to all-forward turretsNotable Point
- HMS Incomparable: When Jackie Fisher Dreamed to Big - Key Ships Series 4, Ship 818:40Why six-inch cruisers could overwhelm eight-inch rivalsNotable Point
- HMS Incomparable: When Jackie Fisher Dreamed to Big - Key Ships Series 4, Ship 824:19Why Dreadnought was a practical firepower revolutionNotable Point
- HMS Incomparable: When Jackie Fisher Dreamed to Big - Key Ships Series 4, Ship 826:35Fire-control redundancy and the speed of engagementNotable Point
- HMS Incomparable: When Jackie Fisher Dreamed to Big - Key Ships Series 4, Ship 830:54N3 mobile citadel and G3 task-force shipChapter
- HMS Incomparable: When Jackie Fisher Dreamed to Big - Key Ships Series 4, Ship 836:08Building an Incomparable test with explicit game limitsNotable Point
- Fleets of Mobile Bay(1864)42:09Monitor design: armour and guns versus seakeepingNotable Point
- Fleets of Mobile Bay(1864)49:30Ramming needs speed, and command needs visibilityChapter
- Mistakes & Missed Opportunities of the Washington Naval Treaties57:18US cruisers for presence and institutional growthChapter
- Mistakes & Missed Opportunities of the Washington Naval Treaties1:04:19From battle cruiser to fast battleshipNotable Point
- H Class Battleships: Ignoring Reality for Perfection, Key Ships Series 4, Ship 424:13Scharnhorst and the meaning of a fast battleshipNotable Point
- Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer53:52Replacing teak on a wartime warship deckQ&A
- Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer2:02:46Why a shorter, heavier cruiser is not automatically fasterQ&A
- Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer2:46:34The practical limit on naval shell sizeQ&A
- Bruships 120: One Book & One Book only... Battleships & Battle Cruisers 1905-70 by Seigfried Breyer2:52:19When a warship rebuild becomes a new shipNotable Point
- Governments of the Washington Treaty: What were their priorities?3:29:28What a 7:10 Japanese ratio might have builtNotable Point
- Bruships 119: Cool Books - but they're definitely a Mixture49:51Midway as an anomaly and a product of its technologyQ&A
- Bruships 119: Cool Books - but they're definitely a Mixture53:18How available equipment narrowed the Renown designQ&A
- Bruships 119: Cool Books - but they're definitely a Mixture1:40:31How propulsion technology separated battlecruisers from fast battleshipsNotable Point
- Bruships 119: Cool Books - but they're definitely a Mixture2:01:49Earlier Alaskas versus Lexington battlecruisers alongside carriersQ&A
- Bruships 119: Cool Books - but they're definitely a Mixture2:18:25Which battleships were probably the tallestQ&A
- Bruships 119: Cool Books - but they're definitely a Mixture4:05:13K3 as a suggested successor to N3 and G3Q&A
- Testing out Lion Class & Potential Lion Class Successors on UAD1:00:40An aft director preserves fire control after battle damageNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy...42:04Designing and distributing destroyer flotillasNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy...1:06:49Building a fast battlecruiser with room to growChapter
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy...1:27:01A second battlecruiser design works around fire-control limitsChapter
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy...1:48:00A dreadnought design for a battlecruiser-heavy fleetChapter
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy...2:05:47Wing turrets as a ten-gun-broadside compromiseNotable Point
- A Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts Campaign: Building a Battle Cruiser Navy...2:33:54A second-generation battlecruiser balances speed and protectionChapter
- Bruships 118: Unbuilt Battleships, Romans & French Strategic Philosophy3:58:25Why one design change rewrites later specificationsNotable Point
- Patreon 81: When the Royal Navy Lost Sea Control in the Age of Sail2:22:05Shipboard baking and the later shift to modern messingNotable Point
- Patreon 81: When the Royal Navy Lost Sea Control in the Age of Sail2:24:42Why postwar warships centralized their messingQ&A
- Fleets of Lissa(1866): Lessons for Technology0:00Why a small battle shaped later warship designChapter
- Fleets of Lissa(1866): Lessons for Technology26:18Kaiser's survival obscures wooden warships' obsolescenceNotable Point
- Fleets of Lissa(1866): Lessons for Technology43:52How Lissa encouraged forward-firing gun layoutsNotable Point
- Fleets of Lissa(1866): Lessons for Technology49:17Warrior-like ironclads and Lissa's later design legacyNotable Point
- Bruships 117: Battle Cruisers, Battle-Cruisers or Battlecruisers?7:18A Second World War 'super Renown'Q&A
- Bruships 117: Battle Cruisers, Battle-Cruisers or Battlecruisers?54:54Why rapid-fire eight-inch guns do not make a battleshipQ&A
- Bruships 117: Battle Cruisers, Battle-Cruisers or Battlecruisers?1:01:53Reading O-class speed and displacement claims scepticallyQ&A
- Bruships 117: Battle Cruisers, Battle-Cruisers or Battlecruisers?1:08:52Why major machinery refits require opening the hullQ&A
- Bruships 117: Battle Cruisers, Battle-Cruisers or Battlecruisers?1:24:29Cruiser development without interwar size limitsQ&A
- Bruships 117: Battle Cruisers, Battle-Cruisers or Battlecruisers?1:31:46How late-war magazine lessons changed the Admiral classNotable Point
- Bruships 117: Battle Cruisers, Battle-Cruisers or Battlecruisers?2:14:04Designing treaty ships for rapid wartime completionQ&A
- Bruships 117: Battle Cruisers, Battle-Cruisers or Battlecruisers?2:15:23Why some navies retained mixed secondary batteriesQ&A
- Bruships 117: Battle Cruisers, Battle-Cruisers or Battlecruisers?2:37:20Choosing between narrative and technical battlecruiser historiesNotable Point
- Bruships 117: Battle Cruisers, Battle-Cruisers or Battlecruisers?2:54:02When 'better not built' still requires a replacementQ&A
- Bruships 117: Battle Cruisers, Battle-Cruisers or Battlecruisers?3:12:46Using Nelson's treaty margin for speed and better gunsQ&A
- Bruships 117: Battle Cruisers, Battle-Cruisers or Battlecruisers?3:31:34Why trimaran warships failed Britain's cost-benefit testQ&A
- Bruships 117: Battle Cruisers, Battle-Cruisers or Battlecruisers?3:45:51Balancing shell mass, velocity, barrel life, and rate of fireQ&A
- Bruships 117: Battle Cruisers, Battle-Cruisers or Battlecruisers?4:31:16A nominally treaty-compliant Japanese successor to YamatoQ&A
- HMS Ark Royal(1937): Key Ships Series 3, Ship 921:02Why a structural flight deck matteredNotable Point
- HMS Ark Royal(1937): Key Ships Series 3, Ship 958:34The inquiry's lessons for carrier survivabilityNotable Point
- Albany Class: Comment Response5:45Tall superstructures, wind, and stabilityQ&A
- Albany Class: Comment Response7:36Why aluminium lost favour in warship structuresNotable Point
- Some Books Aquired So Far in #NavHistAus23! Sydney5:53Why G3 experience would not reshape the first N3sQ&A
- USS Long Beach: Comment Response10:12What a modern cruiser must do independentlyQ&A
- USS Long Beach: Comment Response12:12Why Long Beach retained 5-inch/38 gunsQ&A
- USS Long Beach: Comment Response31:35How Long Beach carried a tall superstructureQ&A
- USS Long Beach: Comment Response35:11Nuclear power and future naval weaponsQ&A
- USS Long Beach: Comment Response37:05Des Moines as a starting point for a future cruiserQ&A
- USS Long Beach: Comment Response43:14Long Beach's cross-deck missile flexibilityNotable Point
- Some Books Aquired So Far in #NavHistAus23! Brisbane41:38Why treaty-era sloops stayed below 2,000 tonsQ&A
- Some Books Aquired So Far in #NavHistAus23! Brisbane44:43Why U.S. destroyers did not immediately adopt twin five-inch mountsQ&A
- Some Books Aquired So Far in #NavHistAus23! Brisbane46:37Designing diesel-electric power for later speed growthQ&A
- Some Books Aquired So Far in #NavHistAus23! Brisbane49:02Why an indirectly bound navy might observe treaty limitsQ&A
- Some Books Aquired So Far in #NavHistAus23! Brisbane53:51How a speed governor could conceal reserve propulsion powerQ&A
- Kara Class: Comment Response3:41Why a warship needs strategic contextNotable Point
- Kara Class: Comment Response8:42The Kara class as a balanced-warship precedentQ&A
- What books did I bring for #NavHistAus23?8:55Warship plans and HMAS DiamantinaChapter
- What books did I bring for #NavHistAus23?40:17Why German warships grew overweightQ&A
- What books did I bring for #NavHistAus23?43:40Fire-control capability and warship opportunity costQ&A
- How do Navies Learn from War28:36Kongō claims and the hazards of contemporary naval commentaryNotable Point
- An Imperial Navy start... This really did not end well...23:35A limited fleet budget turns cruiser procurement into a capability tradeoffNotable Point
- An Imperial Navy start... This really did not end well...1:53:28All-around weapon coverage helps a spacecraft meet close fighter attacksQ&A
- An Imperial Navy start... This really did not end well...2:42:45A gun mount can rise to fire and lower behind armour to reloadQ&A
- Bruships 114: Alternate Histories, What Ifs & Questions from Chat6:42An eight-ship fast-battleship alternativeQ&A
- Bruships 114: Alternate Histories, What Ifs & Questions from Chat24:53Why Hermes still matters beside carrier conversionsQ&A
- Bruships 114: Alternate Histories, What Ifs & Questions from Chat33:00How a treaty might distinguish battlecruisersQ&A
- Bruships 114: Alternate Histories, What Ifs & Questions from Chat52:43Canadian oil could accelerate Royal Navy oil firingQ&A
- Bruships 114: Alternate Histories, What Ifs & Questions from Chat1:20:23How a 20-inch-gunned Hood could break treaty negotiationsQ&A
- Bruships 114: Alternate Histories, What Ifs & Questions from Chat1:37:30Small warships as command and presence assetsQ&A
- Bruships 114: Alternate Histories, What Ifs & Questions from Chat2:02:48Starting Dreadnought with 13.5-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships 114: Alternate Histories, What Ifs & Questions from Chat2:08:04What a standardized 1950s NATO fleet might borrowQ&A
- Bruships 114: Alternate Histories, What Ifs & Questions from Chat2:23:40Why hindsight would help the Royal Navy mostQ&A
- Bruships 114: Alternate Histories, What Ifs & Questions from Chat2:38:49British control of the Panama Canal would reshape naval designQ&A
- Bruships 114: Alternate Histories, What Ifs & Questions from Chat2:40:38What a 10,000-ton treaty submarine might becomeQ&A
- Bruships 114: Alternate Histories, What Ifs & Questions from Chat2:56:34What replaces the submarine as a torpedo threatQ&A
- Bruships 114: Alternate Histories, What Ifs & Questions from Chat2:59:29Carrier armour versus air-group sizeQ&A
- Bruships 114: Alternate Histories, What Ifs & Questions from Chat3:14:38Why Strasbourg has the edge over ScharnhorstQ&A
- An Imperial Navy start... this can not end well...30:50Reading firing arcs from a fictional warship designNotable Point
- Bruships 113: Jutland1:14:17Mixed gun batteries and a modern destroyer's radar returnQ&A
- Bruships 113: Jutland1:37:07Why the Lion class was not a British MontanaQ&A
- Bruships 113: Jutland1:45:00When a paper design is not a cancelled warshipQ&A
- Bruships 113: Jutland2:03:44Orders to a shipyard distinguish cancellation from an unselected designQ&A
- Bruships 113: Jutland2:33:14Why the Royal Navy did not copy the Arleigh Burke classQ&A
- Bruships 113: Jutland2:39:28Six-inch guns would not automatically make Bristol a cruiserQ&A
- Bruships 113: Jutland3:00:00Why cheaper N3s misunderstand battleship costQ&A
- Building the Fleets for Jutland39:42Nassau established a persistent German design languageNotable Point
- Patreon 79: AH - WW1 incidents happen that bring the US enters war on the side of Germany...3:14:42Hood may survive the scenario in a different formQ&A
- Building a NelRod County Class...2:01Designing a Nelrod-style County cruiserChapter
- Building a NelRod County Class...10:31Protection choices on a fast heavy cruiserNotable Point
- Building a NelRod County Class...44:51A 9.2-inch Hawkins-class alternativeChapter
- Building a NelRod County Class...1:17:07A scaled-down York with 9.2-inch gunsNotable Point
- Building a NelRod County Class...1:23:13Cutting a cruiser turret to reduce costNotable Point
- Building a NelRod County Class...1:59:39Scaling the forward-gun idea into an 18-inch battleshipChapter
- Bruships 112: Julian Corbett6:30Reliable quadruple turrets and a new arms raceQ&A
- Bruships 112: Julian Corbett10:16What a 10,000-ton British heavy cruiser could carryQ&A
- Bruships 112: Julian Corbett27:24Revenge-class savings across a building programmeQ&A
- Bruships 112: Julian Corbett29:14Why larger naval guns came with higher shipbuilding costsQ&A
- Bruships 112: Julian Corbett30:51Oil-fuelled hull efficiency and space for later upgradesQ&A
- Bruships 112: Julian Corbett32:48An oil-first Queen Elizabeth could reach 26 knotsQ&A
- Bruships 112: Julian Corbett55:23Why limited firing arcs matter more at short rangeQ&A
- Bruships 112: Julian Corbett57:43Renown's influence on later British capital shipsQ&A
- Bruships 112: Julian Corbett1:35:09A twelve-gun Scharnhorst counterfactualQ&A
- Bruships 112: Julian Corbett1:46:46Cruiser performance and design efficiencyNotable Point
- Bruships 112: Julian Corbett1:49:57A third shaft could turn Deutschland into a stronger raiderNotable Point
- Bruships 112: Julian Corbett2:47:41Archive access limits Russian warship historyQ&A
- Amagi Class Battlecruiser: Key Ship Series 2, Ship 519:37Number 13's 30-knot, 18-inch-gun designNotable Point
- Amagi Class Battlecruiser: Key Ship Series 2, Ship 526:28Number 13 as a bridge toward YamatoNotable Point
- Julian Corbett: Speaking Truth to Power1:00:16Availability favors adaptable warshipsNotable Point
- Starting off Franco-Italian Battleship race... come see what a Francisco Caracciolo might have done1:16:21Treaty tonnage made 14-inch quadruple turrets attractiveNotable Point
- Bruships 111: Random Books of History42:08Italian heavy cruisers and treaty compromiseQ&A
- Bruships 111: Random Books of History46:24Why Italian cruiser guns sat so close togetherQ&A
- Bruships 111: Random Books of History1:19:28Did Hawkins influence the Pensacola design?Q&A
- Bruships 111: Random Books of History1:59:30Émile Bertin and possible British design influenceQ&A
- Bruships 111: Random Books of History2:45:38Lexington and G3 were built around different missionsNotable Point
- Bruships 111: Random Books of History2:48:24Why a twelve-gun armored treaty cruiser does not fitQ&A
- Bruships 111: Random Books of History3:12:20Where to find the most interesting unbuilt cruisersQ&A
- Bruships 111: Random Books of History3:14:18Replacing torpedo mounts with more destroyer gunsQ&A
- Bruships 111: Random Books of History3:24:50Raised forecastles reveal the sea a ship expectsQ&A
- Battle of Hakodate(1869)1:34:22Why Kotetsu overmatched Japan's wooden fleetsNotable Point
- Mayfly to the Future: A History of Naval Aviation15:01Aircraft generations raced past treaty-limited warshipsNotable Point
- G3 & N3 Classes: The Lost Dreadnought Generation, Key Ship Series 2, Ships 2 & 38:59What the unusual turret position gained and lostNotable Point
- HMS Renown(1895); Key Ship Series 1, Ship 101:00How delayed 12-inch guns reshaped RenownNotable Point
- Ship-Shape Special: Alex & Garius Command a Carrier... How bad can this be?1:10:57The sick bay beneath the carrier hangarNotable Point
- Chilean Civil War & the sinking of the Blanco Encalada1:10:29Why Blanco Encalada used twin-shaft steam powerQ&A
- Chilean Civil War & the sinking of the Blanco Encalada1:13:25Why early steam warships often had two shaftsQ&A
- Chilean Civil War & the sinking of the Blanco Encalada1:16:35Would five shafts make Nelson or Rodney faster?Q&A
- Chilean Civil War & the sinking of the Blanco Encalada2:57:09Why protected cruisers did not make torpedoes their main weaponQ&A
- HMS Dreadnought, but built around the RN's favourite battleship guns...46:07Designing an American 10-inch treaty cruiserNotable Point
- HMS Dreadnought, but built around the RN's favourite battleship guns...1:11:38A high-speed cruiser shaped by the Panama CanalNotable Point
- HMS Dreadnought, but built around the RN's favourite battleship guns...1:17:37Can a destroyer carry a ship-of-the-line broadside?Q&A
- HMS Dreadnought, but built around the RN's favourite battleship guns...2:51:35Destroyer armament and the reach of heavy secondary gunsNotable Point
- Steam Battleships (1876-1891)47:53Steam battleships as iterative naval designNotable Point
- Can Cathage Take Rome with a Naval Historian in charge? Rome Total War 1, April 20237:46Why gun calibre alone does not determine rangeNotable Point
- Bruships 110: Naval Aviation3:08:28Spähkreuzer make more sense as long-range destroyersQ&A
- Red Storm Rising: The GIUK Gap in a 1980 conventional war between the Warsaw Pact & NATO(Patreon 77)15:24How early gas turbines could reshape an interwar fleetNotable Point
- Starting with Building HMS Thunderchild...1:58HMS Thunder Child's fictional last standChapter
- Starting with Building HMS Thunderchild...3:34Turning Thunder Child into an 1890s warship designChapter
- Starting with Building HMS Thunderchild...11:53Using HMS Renown as a Thunder Child referenceNotable Point
- Starting with Building HMS Thunderchild...37:13A light cruiser built around massed 5.5-inch fireChapter
- Starting with Building HMS Thunderchild...1:10:41Designing a cruiser for an HMS Agincourt worldChapter
- Starting with Building HMS Thunderchild...1:12:24Heavy-cruiser superstructures and the HMS London comparisonNotable Point
- Starting with Building HMS Thunderchild...1:28:38Computer tools still need naval design judgementQ&A
- Starting with Building HMS Thunderchild...1:31:39The cost of a 21-inch-gun battleshipChapter
- Starting with Building HMS Thunderchild...1:57:21A super-battleship cannot ignore pitch and draftChapter
- Starting with Building HMS Thunderchild...2:16:36Mixed-calibre armament creates a logistics burdenNotable Point
- Starting with Building HMS Thunderchild...2:26:41Building a French answer to the Tribal classChapter
- Starting with Building HMS Thunderchild...2:32:38Destroyer air defence is limited by space and arcsNotable Point
- Starting with Building HMS Thunderchild...2:34:26Building a German counterpart to the Tribal classChapter
- Starting with Building HMS Thunderchild...2:42:32Italian destroyers in Mediterranean and Atlantic seasNotable Point
- Starting with Building HMS Thunderchild...2:51:19Recognising national destroyer design in a simulationNotable Point
- Starting with Building HMS Thunderchild...3:07:44The Italian super-destroyer as a small cruiserNotable Point
- Empire Total War Twitch Stream 9(April 2023)18:21Balancing battleship armour, guns, and speedQ&A
- Empire Total War Twitch Stream 9(April 2023)24:12Choosing naval gun size without sacrificing rate of fireNotable Point
- Empire Total War Twitch Stream 9(April 2023)1:21:17Why nuclear power is awkward in a battleshipQ&A
- Empire Total War Twitch Stream 9(April 2023)1:30:18A submarine escape module for a nuclear battleship?Q&A
- Bruships 109: Mahan, an inspiration & a Reflection + Bonus39:43Courtesy visits as naval intelligence opportunitiesNotable Point
- Bruships 109: Mahan, an inspiration & a Reflection + Bonus40:26If the Jutland battlecruisers had survivedQ&A
- Bruships 109: Mahan, an inspiration & a Reflection + Bonus2:24:25The Armada's limited influence on naval warfareQ&A
- Bruships 109: Mahan, an inspiration & a Reflection + Bonus2:25:42Why naval and land guns used different carriagesQ&A
- Bruships 109: Mahan, an inspiration & a Reflection + Bonus3:20:46USS Iowa's protection and mixed battery in 1897Notable Point
- Bruships 109: Mahan, an inspiration & a Reflection + Bonus3:37:32Why a globally deployed Type 83 grows toward cruiser sizeQ&A
- Bruships 109: Mahan, an inspiration & a Reflection + Bonus3:40:31Carrier catapult space, lifts, and aircraft flowQ&A
- Bruships 109: Mahan, an inspiration & a Reflection + Bonus3:59:00Mahan's influence on capital-ship treaty categoriesQ&A
- Bruships 109: Mahan, an inspiration & a Reflection + Bonus4:02:24Treaty speed limits for different capital shipsQ&A
- Huáscar: Key Ships Series 1, Ship 70:20Three ways a warship can be historically keyChapter
- Bruships 108: PLanned for Random Books off the Shelf & Chat12:43Why armour labels can conceal real changesQ&A
- Bruships 108: PLanned for Random Books off the Shelf & Chat46:27How an 8-inch turret grew heavierQ&A
- Bruships 108: PLanned for Random Books off the Shelf & Chat1:22:22John Fisher's ideal fast battleshipQ&A
- Bruships 108: PLanned for Random Books off the Shelf & Chat3:03:35Why HMS Warrior remained viable so longQ&A
- HNLMS Schorpioen(1868): Key Ship Series 1, Ship 610:19Why turrets encouraged breechloadingNotable Point
- A Totally Diesel Kreigsmarine: What Could it Do?37:51Choosing an early diesel-development pathNotable Point
- A Totally Diesel Kreigsmarine: What Could it Do?45:25A diesel fleet would alter German naval design cultureChapter
- Patreon Bonus: Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine eschews steam and goes all Diesel(-electric) propulsion12:55Germany already had useful diesel-warship experienceNotable Point
- Patreon Bonus: Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine eschews steam and goes all Diesel(-electric) propulsion17:13A diesel Königsberg could free space for a better cruiser layoutNotable Point
- Patreon Bonus: Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine eschews steam and goes all Diesel(-electric) propulsion38:52Scaling 1932 diesels into an earlier three-shaft destroyerNotable Point
- Patreon Bonus: Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine eschews steam and goes all Diesel(-electric) propulsion42:31Maturity and gearing matter more than first inventionNotable Point
- Patreon Bonus: Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine eschews steam and goes all Diesel(-electric) propulsion46:57Deutschland provides an intermediate diesel benchmarkNotable Point
- Patreon Bonus: Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine eschews steam and goes all Diesel(-electric) propulsion52:45Could distributed diesels improve battle-damage resilience?Q&A
- Patreon Bonus: Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine eschews steam and goes all Diesel(-electric) propulsion53:19Would diesels require a new hull form?Q&A
- Patreon Bonus: Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine eschews steam and goes all Diesel(-electric) propulsion56:57Scaling a diesel plant to BismarckNotable Point
- Patreon Bonus: Reichsmarine & Kreigsmarine eschews steam and goes all Diesel(-electric) propulsion1:20:23Faster diesel cruisers challenge the Deutschland designNotable Point
- Still Trying to deal with the Inadvertently Created Super Bismarck3:26Building a super Queen Elizabeth to face an improved BismarckChapter
- Still Trying to deal with the Inadvertently Created Super Bismarck9:31What the weight budget does to a fifteen-gun battleshipNotable Point
- Still Trying to deal with the Inadvertently Created Super Bismarck19:03Fitting 4.5-inch, Bofors, and Oerlikon batteries around the main gunsNotable Point
- Still Trying to deal with the Inadvertently Created Super Bismarck29:52Rebuilding beam, topweight, and fire control after the first duelNotable Point
- Still Trying to deal with the Inadvertently Created Super Bismarck33:00Giving the Bismarck model a fair historical allowanceNotable Point
- Still Trying to deal with the Inadvertently Created Super Bismarck48:55When fewer guns make a stronger battleship designNotable Point
- Still Trying to deal with the Inadvertently Created Super Bismarck1:16:00A five-triple-turret Dreadnought before the dreadnought raceNotable Point
- Still Trying to deal with the Inadvertently Created Super Bismarck1:19:49What the twelve-gun reconstruction gains from better fire controlNotable Point
- Still Trying to deal with the Inadvertently Created Super Bismarck1:45:37Designing Conqueror as a twelve-gun 18-inch fast battleshipChapter
- Still Trying to deal with the Inadvertently Created Super Bismarck1:58:33Why the stream treats UAD as exploration rather than a precision testQ&A
- Still Trying to deal with the Inadvertently Created Super Bismarck2:10:21The procurement weakness behind German naval radarNotable Point
- Nuclear Power: Not All About Rickover8:56Why a navy would choose nuclear propulsionChapter
- Nuclear Power: Not All About Rickover13:10People, logistics, and protection costsNotable Point
- Empire Total War Twitch Stream 6(March 2023)7:41How American battlecruisers might exploit two oceansNotable Point
- Patreon 75: The Attack on Copenhagen in 1801 and following operations in the Danish waters2:31:32Why first-rate ships resisted mass productionNotable Point
- Bruships 106: Song Dynasty & Three New Books from Pen & Sword15:40Wind and ship movement made gas warfare unreliable at seaQ&A
- Bruships 106: Song Dynasty & Three New Books from Pen & Sword21:16Citadel overpressure matured with nuclear and chemical defenceQ&A
- Bruships 106: Song Dynasty & Three New Books from Pen & Sword26:21A large cruiser is more plausible than an immediate battleship revivalQ&A
- Bruships 106: Song Dynasty & Three New Books from Pen & Sword45:09A treaty sloop could combine light guns with floatplane reconnaissanceQ&A
- Bruships 106: Song Dynasty & Three New Books from Pen & Sword1:00:41Gun decks became living space until the ship cleared for actionQ&A
- Bruships 106: Song Dynasty & Three New Books from Pen & Sword1:18:16Triple-turret guns were staggered to control muzzle-blast interferenceQ&A
- Bruships 106: Song Dynasty & Three New Books from Pen & Sword2:37:48Ripple fire depends on timing and fire control, not barrel count aloneQ&A
- Bruships 106: Song Dynasty & Three New Books from Pen & Sword3:54:25The postwar Seagull could fit battleship-scale aviation spacesQ&A
- Bruships 105: Six Age of Sail Useful Books1:23Why North Carolina's vibration did not persist into later classesQ&A
- Bruships 105: Six Age of Sail Useful Books1:42Would Resistance have formed a separate Revenge subclass?Q&A
- Bruships 105: Six Age of Sail Useful Books5:33When construction changes justify a subclassNotable Point
- Bruships 105: Six Age of Sail Useful Books11:25Why ships from one class could differ between yardsNotable Point
- Bruships 105: Six Age of Sail Useful Books16:28Why historians must keep each navy's class distinctionsNotable Point
- Bruships 105: Six Age of Sail Useful Books26:17How the Formidables combined earlier battleship designsNotable Point
- Bruships 105: Six Age of Sail Useful Books39:19The component evidence behind an 18-inch Agincourt hypothesisNotable Point
- Bruships 105: Six Age of Sail Useful Books46:23When 28 knots counted as fast for a battleshipQ&A
- Bruships 105: Six Age of Sail Useful Books49:27Why moving a capital-ship turret changes the whole designQ&A
- UAD: 18in gun Agincourt & Other Ideas1:17:42Why not use mods for the design tests?Q&A
- Bruships 102: New Books, Sea Wolves & Skagerrak4:22Four quadruple turrets and the battleship around themQ&A
- Bruships 102: New Books, Sea Wolves & Skagerrak19:16Why battleship guns larger than 18 inches lose valueQ&A
- Bruships 102: New Books, Sea Wolves & Skagerrak32:05Why Bismarck could not simply take 18-inch gunsQ&A
- Bruships 102: New Books, Sea Wolves & Skagerrak35:08How 10-inch guns would reshape treaty cruisersQ&A
- Bruships 102: New Books, Sea Wolves & Skagerrak43:59Warships proposed as airship tendersQ&A
- Bruships 102: New Books, Sea Wolves & Skagerrak56:48Why 9.4-inch naval guns rarely displaced 9.2-inch weaponsQ&A
- Bruships 102: New Books, Sea Wolves & Skagerrak1:05:13Designing treaty ships for concealed wartime growthQ&A
- Bruships 102: New Books, Sea Wolves & Skagerrak1:11:31Making the least-bad battleship from wing turretsQ&A
- Bruships 102: New Books, Sea Wolves & Skagerrak1:40:12Quintuple-expansion steam engines and complexity limitsQ&A
- Bruships 102: New Books, Sea Wolves & Skagerrak1:40:35Why replacing a warship's machinery becomes structural surgeryQ&A
- Bruships 102: New Books, Sea Wolves & Skagerrak1:56:25What should have followed the Upholder-class submarinesQ&A
- Bruships 102: New Books, Sea Wolves & Skagerrak2:43:31A lower-risk path for the Zumwalt-class destroyersQ&A
- Bruships 102: New Books, Sea Wolves & Skagerrak3:45:23Queen Elizabeth alternatives: 28 knots and heavier gunsQ&A
- Bruships 101: No Dalmations, but a whole HMS Belfast to build13:14A personal design preference for a future HMS BelfastNotable Point
- Bruships 101: No Dalmations, but a whole HMS Belfast to build17:20A Type 42 built to Batch 3 dimensions from the startQ&A
- Bruships 101: No Dalmations, but a whole HMS Belfast to build36:33An oversized British candidate for Australia's light destroyerQ&A
- Bruships 101: No Dalmations, but a whole HMS Belfast to build2:41:28How 'moderately armed and armored' changes with timeQ&A
- Admirals, Lexingtons & Tosa; What if the Washington Naval Treaty built them?44:19An F3 turret layout trims weight and opens the sternNotable Point
- Admirals, Lexingtons & Tosa; What if the Washington Naval Treaty built them?46:45Five new capital ships produce a three-tier battle fleetChapter
- Bruships 99: Political History, Geostrategic History & Naval History45:29British super cruisers and a heavier King George V responseNotable Point
- Bruships 99: Political History, Geostrategic History & Naval History1:35:36Why Australia shifted from British to American warship designsQ&A
- Bruships 99: Political History, Geostrategic History & Naval History1:37:09How larger guns changed the form of warshipsNotable Point
- Bruships 99: Political History, Geostrategic History & Naval History1:57:23Jellicoe and Churchill debate British and German warship designChapter
- Bruships 99: Political History, Geostrategic History & Naval History2:10:22Why gun broadside mattered more than torpedo broadsideQ&A
- Bruships 99: Political History, Geostrategic History & Naval History2:37:18How the Washington and London treaties constrained cruisers differentlyQ&A
- Bruships 99: Political History, Geostrategic History & Naval History3:17:05The F3 design and an all-15-inch Royal Navy battlefleetQ&A
- Bruships 99: Political History, Geostrategic History & Naval History3:22:48Why a twelve-gun 15-inch Nelson was not the likely alternativeQ&A
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: 4.7in Dual Purpose what if & Soviet Navy 1939-6532:33A Soviet missile battleship could prompt a joint NATO designQ&A
- Christmas Videos Comment Response: 4.7in Dual Purpose what if & Soviet Navy 1939-6548:50Existing 4.7-inch weapons exposed a missed opportunityNotable Point
- Bruships 98: Steam Engines (both maritime and rail), random & naval questions2:15:57A quarter-inch caliber increase magnified mount demandsQ&A
- Soviet Navy Part 3/3: 1965-1991 - Trying to Win Cold War before it turned Hot?21:12Why the Moskva class carried so many helicoptersNotable Point
- Soviet Navy Part 3/3: 1965-1991 - Trying to Win Cold War before it turned Hot?26:11Kara-class firepower and the medium-tier mismatchNotable Point
- Soviet Navy Part 3/3: 1965-1991 - Trying to Win Cold War before it turned Hot?51:31How conscript personnel shaped Soviet naval equipmentNotable Point
- Soviet Navy Part 3/3: 1965-1991 - Trying to Win Cold War before it turned Hot?1:03:11Why Liaoning and Shandong differ from KuznetsovNotable Point
- Soviet Navy Part 3/3: 1965-1991 - Trying to Win Cold War before it turned Hot?1:13:29Neustrashimyy class and the missing medium tierChapter
- Soviet Navy Part 3/3: 1965-1991 - Trying to Win Cold War before it turned Hot?1:17:26Judge warships by their geostrategic compromisesNotable Point
- Patreon 69: The logistics of Colonisation, both historically and interplanetary/interstellar.2:08:17Positive pressure and Martian dust controlNotable Point
- Diadem Class: First Class Protected Cruisers (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 10)33:39Why large hulls are easier to modernizeNotable Point
- Diadem Class: First Class Protected Cruisers (19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 10)1:06:32The recurring 11,000-ton problem of a middle-tier cruiserNotable Point
- Marathon(1888) Class: 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 43:14A British super-cruiser thought experiment with 14-inch gunsNotable Point
- Marathon(1888) Class: 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 419:19The safety-car analogy for judging supporting warshipsNotable Point
- Giovanni Bausan(1883): 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 22:21An Elswick cruiser derived from EsmeraldaChapter
- Giovanni Bausan(1883): 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 28:01Design evolution for an Italian presence cruiserNotable Point
- Giovanni Bausan(1883): 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 215:10Aetna-class successors carry the design into Italian yardsChapter
- Active Class: The Last Scout Cruisers?44:17A 28-knot, torpedo-heavy alternative to the Active classNotable Point
- Bruships 89: New Books (Christmas Recomendations) & Personal Accounts of War49:54Farragut approached the general-purpose destroyer by accidentQ&A
- Bruships 89: New Books (Christmas Recomendations) & Personal Accounts of War1:13:34Six Lexington conversions would not be identicalNotable Point
- Bruships 89: New Books (Christmas Recomendations) & Personal Accounts of War1:53:12A cheap ship is different from a ship cheapened in designNotable Point
- Bruships 89: New Books (Christmas Recomendations) & Personal Accounts of War2:20:20G3 carriers cost more and complicate funnel trunkingQ&A
- Bruships 89: New Books (Christmas Recomendations) & Personal Accounts of War2:44:07The best wartime ship depends on its missionQ&A
- Epic Blunders of Naval History: Comment Response Video1:11:09Why NATO assumptions did not rescue Cold War warship designQ&A
- Battle of Navarino (1827)2:20:51Post-Napoleonic warships packed heavier batteriesNotable Point
- Bruships 88: Way of War3:53:43How war consumes a ship's fatigue lifeQ&A
- Epic Blunders of Naval History39:06Treaty persistence and Germany's missing fleet infrastructureChapter
- Epic Blunders of Naval History1:00:47The short nuclear war assumption reshapes Cold War shipsChapter
- Epic Blunders of Naval History: Patreon 645:19Could Hood have carried 18-inch guns?Q&A
- Epic Blunders of Naval History: Patreon 641:29:35A twelve-gun Hood would restart the caliber raceQ&A
- Epic Blunders of Naval History: Patreon 641:34:38Forty thousand tons could rescue the KGV quadruple turretQ&A
- Epic Blunders of Naval History: Patreon 641:38:38A 40,000-ton Nelson becomes an early fast battleshipQ&A
- Epic Blunders of Naval History: Patreon 641:52:03Armament alone does not define a battlecruiserNotable Point
- Epic Blunders of Naval History: Patreon 641:59:06Could Renown take triple 15-inch turrets?Q&A
- Epic Blunders of Naval History: Patreon 642:05:41Why turret complexity rises faster than gun countQ&A
- Epic Blunders of Naval History: Patreon 642:10:31How large would a mini-Scharnhorst Deutschland be?Q&A
- Epic Blunders of Naval History: Patreon 642:35:45Yamato trades fleet numbers for extreme scaleNotable Point
- Epic Blunders of Naval History: Patreon 643:13:13Would the three-minute class work better as frigates?Q&A
- Epic Blunders of Naval History: Patreon 643:16:15Why the Royal Navy was unlikely to follow the LCS routeQ&A
- Bruships 87: Books Found on My Travels, New Books & Christmas Recomendations2:22:02Can a bad warship still teach useful lessons?Q&A
- French Navy Fights on in 1940: Comment Response Video36:16Calibrating criticism of warship designsNotable Point
- Battle of Arausio (105BC), lessons of an Ancient Land Battle…2:29:24What made Hood's silhouette so elegant?Q&A
- Bruships 86: Science Fiction Strikes Some More2:46:44A speculative space-warship concept favors missiles and railgunsQ&A
- Bruships 86: Science Fiction Strikes Some More2:59:55The proposed space-warship missile uses a nuclear penetratorNotable Point
- 19th Century Cruisers: Comment Response Video 3 (Sfax - Geffion)31:44Dual-purpose guns designed for the wrong attack geometryQ&A
- 19th Century Cruisers: Comment Response Video 3 (Sfax - Geffion)33:52Clear roles make warship compromises manageableNotable Point
- 19th Century Cruisers: Comment Response Video 2 (Velasco - Imperieuse)21:15Why paired guns repay their added complexityQ&A
- 19th Century Cruisers: Comment Response Video 2 (Velasco - Imperieuse)24:28Warships make sense only in their wider historical settingNotable Point
- Chapyev Class (Projekt 68 of the Soviet Navy): Fighting the Peace17:07Hull efficiency limits the appeal of distributed flotillasNotable Point
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 37:57Testing Izumo's all-forward battleship layoutQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 320:29The infrastructure behind 100,000-ton capital shipsQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 322:45Defending a space carrier in three dimensionsQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 328:35How contemporary battle reports shaped warship designQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 332:43How a nineteenth-century cruiser fares against WWII escortsQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 334:07Arming and sustaining Atlantis as a capital shipQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 337:12Why HMS Achilles does not match every Leander drawingQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 352:16Why Vanguard's proposed refit could not shed much weightQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 31:12:38The unavoidable compromises in modernizing HMS HoodQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 31:24:28Why Italian warships carried so many gunsQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 31:50:52A 9.2-inch-gun successor to the Hawkins classQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 31:54:41Batch versus flight in warship productionQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 31:57:15How a new government changes a follow-on warship batchQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 31:58:39The paradox of smaller warships with more missionsQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 32:24:04Alaska as the heavy cruiser taken to its wartime limitQ&A
- SMS Gefion(1894): 19th Century Cruisers part 1246:26Gefion's lesson for long-term warship designNotable Point
- Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1941-4234:14Why a 14-inch autoloader was a practical upper edgeQ&A
- Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1941-4255:23Turning a huge treaty allowance into a balanced fleetQ&A
- Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1941-421:18:17What the Alaska class could have done in 1941Q&A
- Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1941-421:19:40A 120,000-ton British battleship under expanded treaty limitsQ&A
- Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1941-421:26:19A British Alaska with six 14-inch gunsQ&A
- Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1941-421:29:32Choosing one British carrier for the 1920sQ&A
- Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1941-421:33:38Italian and German answers to the Alaska classQ&A
- Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1941-421:36:33Why Alaska was a large cruiser, not a battlecruiserQ&A
- Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1941-421:39:38Using genuine Admiralty design work for deceptionNotable Point
- Sfax(1884) of Marine Nationale: 19th Century Cruisers p91:28Sfax and the origins of a French cruiser lineageChapter
- Sfax(1884) of Marine Nationale: 19th Century Cruisers p96:48How the Conseil des travaux shaped French warshipsChapter
- Sfax(1884) of Marine Nationale: 19th Century Cruisers p911:05Sfax's hull, machinery, armament, and protectionChapter
- Sfax(1884) of Marine Nationale: 19th Century Cruisers p915:29Sfax between commerce raider and general-purpose cruiserChapter
- Sfax(1884) of Marine Nationale: 19th Century Cruisers p931:34Sfax's refits and the speed of naval obsolescenceNotable Point
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 21:31:10What Fletcher and Tribal reveal in personQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 21:34:57Why Panama shaped US warship dimensionsQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 21:52:42Why working railguns are not yet shipboard weaponsQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 22:20:20How different are Queen Elizabeth and Prince of Wales?Q&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 22:24:18Trading VLS cells for trainable missile launchersQ&A
- New Orleans Class: US Treaty Era Cruisers3:49Gun layout and magazine protection tradeoffsNotable Point
- HMS Shannon(1875): 19th Century Cruisers p40:45Why HMS Shannon failed as an armoured cruiserChapter
- HMS Shannon(1875): 19th Century Cruisers p43:23An armoured citadel that left the guns exposedNotable Point
- HMS Shannon(1875): 19th Century Cruisers p44:42The ramming charge and electric broadside conceptChapter
- HMS Shannon(1875): 19th Century Cruisers p49:21Sail area that threatened stabilityChapter
- HMS Shannon(1875): 19th Century Cruisers p417:52Too slow for the overseas cruiser roleNotable Point
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out53:05Why larger warships absorb upgrades more easilyQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out2:18:02Why a treaty-era battlecarrier wastes tonnageQ&A
- General-Admiral(1873): 19th Century Cruisers p30:14An armoured cruiser discovered by accidentChapter
- General-Admiral(1873): 19th Century Cruisers p332:10Designing a response to General-AdmiralNotable Point
- Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1939-4039:44Why modern warships often stop near 30 knotsQ&A
- Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1939-4057:13How larger battleship guns reduce the practical batteryQ&A
- Five Ways to Fix the Fleets of WWII 1939-401:09:54Why quadruple turrets approach the practical barrel limitQ&A
- Introduction to Unprotected, Protected & Armoured Cruisers: 19th Century Cruisers p119:07How protected and armoured cruiser layouts differChapter
- Introduction to Unprotected, Protected & Armoured Cruisers: 19th Century Cruisers p125:04Steam power frees designers from sailing constraintsChapter
- Introduction to Unprotected, Protected & Armoured Cruisers: 19th Century Cruisers p128:34Turreted cruisers require metallurgy and horsepowerNotable Point
- Tre Kronor Class: Because the Swedish had a lot of Bofors guns to use..0:34Why the Tre Kronor class was distinctively SwedishChapter
- Tre Kronor Class: Because the Swedish had a lot of Bofors guns to use..29:56The odd gun layout suited destroyer attack tacticsNotable Point
- Tre Kronor Class: Because the Swedish had a lot of Bofors guns to use..31:48Wartime lessons improved the cruisers but delayed completionNotable Point
- Bruships 85: Cruiser, New & Random Reading43:47Why bad Soviet paper warships could still matterNotable Point
- Bruships 85: Cruiser, New & Random Reading1:16:54Using Cruiser Birmingham to understand ship layoutChapter
- Bruships 85: Cruiser, New & Random Reading1:23:56Could Des Moines defeat Soviet paper cruisers?Q&A
- Bruships 85: Cruiser, New & Random Reading1:28:16Warships must be fit for their operating contextNotable Point
- Bruships 85: Cruiser, New & Random Reading1:46:28Fiji-class cruisers under treaty limitsChapter
- Bruships 85: Cruiser, New & Random Reading2:10:44Capital ships as peacetime status signalsNotable Point
- Bruships 85: Cruiser, New & Random Reading3:00:30Endurance as a treaty-cruiser design tradeoffQ&A
- Five Weaknesses of Allied/Axis/Minor Navies in 1941 & 1942; Response to some Comments15:07Why Alaska paid so much displacement for speedQ&A
- Algerie (1932): Marine National0:44Algérie as a treaty-cruiser breakthroughChapter
- Algerie (1932): Marine National2:06Algérie's unusually strong armour schemeChapter
- Algerie (1932): Marine National6:25Welding as weight saving and industrial learningNotable Point
- Algerie (1932): Marine National9:15Could Algérie have carried nine main guns?Notable Point
- Algerie (1932): Marine National13:35Standard displacement versus a fully loaded AlgérieNotable Point
- Algerie (1932): Marine National27:30Could an unbuilt treaty cruiser have surpassed Algérie?Notable Point
- Five Weaknesses of Allied/Axis/Minor Navies in 1939 & 1940; Response to some Comments59:35Viewer exercise: design an ideal 1939 carrierNotable Point
- Patreon 60: Cruiser Actions of the Spanish-American War19:58USS Maine as an obsolete transitional cruiserChapter
- Patreon 60: Cruiser Actions of the Spanish-American War24:15Would Civil War-style monitors have helped Spain in 1898?Q&A
- Patreon 60: Cruiser Actions of the Spanish-American War55:58Olympia's ocean-cruiser design and heavy batteryChapter
- Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times5:41Why an all-Q-turret warship is a dead endQ&A
- Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times11:45Why the American Civil War produced the strangest ironcladsQ&A
- Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times12:24When a 16-inch King George V becomes a LionQ&A
- Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times26:02A British answer to the Tillman battleshipsQ&A
- Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times34:14Reading strategy through forensic engineeringChapter
- Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times39:44How Lexington battlecruisers could favour the Montana classQ&A
- Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times1:30:23A slow Japanese Nelson becomes a home-islands battleshipQ&A
- Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times1:41:42Energy management in British armoured carriersQ&A
- Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times1:46:29What 15-inch guns could buy G3 and Nelson designersQ&A
- Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times1:52:06Faster Standard Type battleships raise the fleet-speed benchmarkQ&A
- Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times3:05:03Replacing a wrecked Revenge under treaty rulesQ&A
- Bruships 83: New Books & Random Books for Random Times3:13:53Three shafts unlock a genuinely fast Nelson derivativeQ&A
- Some Minor Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 193920:40When a Dutch flotilla leader looks like a light cruiserNotable Point
- Some Minor Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 193924:17Eleven-inch or fourteen-inch guns for the Dutch designNotable Point
- Some Minor Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 193929:21The Dutch battlecruiser design exerciseNotable Point
- Portland Class: Heavy Cruisers by the Stroke of a Pen?1:00:21The lost value of preserving USS PortlandNotable Point
- Major Axis Navies: Five Problems & How to Fix them in January 193935:17Why bigger guns weakened German destroyersNotable Point
- Offset Strategies One to Four34:06Weapon layout turns redundancy into resilienceChapter
- Patreon 59: Infrastructure in the Colonies: shipyards of the Commonwealth and Empire.1:43:38How treaty-era sloops stayed under the 20-knot lineQ&A
- Patreon 59: Infrastructure in the Colonies: shipyards of the Commonwealth and Empire.2:31:12Why magnetic torpedoes aimed beneath the hullNotable Point
- Town Class (1910): Bristols & Weymouths42:41The Town class as a successful transitional cruiserChapter
- Bruships 82: New Books, Fun Books & Random Books10:50Why UP.41's aft turret complicated the designNotable Point
- Bruships 82: New Books, Fun Books & Random Books17:08Sizing an Italian 18-inch-gun battleshipQ&A
- Bruships 82: New Books, Fun Books & Random Books26:02Why modern warships cluster near 30 knotsQ&A
- Bruships 82: New Books, Fun Books & Random Books31:04Why Type 12 frigates endured abroadQ&A
- Bruships 82: New Books, Fun Books & Random Books36:16Why a battleship hull is denser than a battlecruiserNotable Point
- Bruships 82: New Books, Fun Books & Random Books55:30How ocean conditions drive warship sizeQ&A
- Bruships 82: New Books, Fun Books & Random Books1:01:39Bow strength depends on both speed and sea conditionsQ&A
- Ruse de guerre22:41German raiders face unequal disguise problemsChapter
- Ruse de guerre26:57Could a 4.5-inch mount have improved Abdiel?Notable Point
- Kirov Class Cruisers; the Alaska Class of the Late Cold War? (Soviet Navy)47:01Designing a Western counterpart to KirovNotable Point
- Doug Clarke Bruships; As today would have been my Dad's Birthday, it's his books today9:29How earlier torpedoes would reshape warshipsQ&A
- Doug Clarke Bruships; As today would have been my Dad's Birthday, it's his books today39:06Doug Clarke's theoretical battlecruiser drawingsQ&A
- Doug Clarke Bruships; As today would have been my Dad's Birthday, it's his books today1:42:21Choosing guns for a British Alaska equivalentQ&A
- Doug Clarke Bruships; As today would have been my Dad's Birthday, it's his books today2:26:48Why top-trumps naval debates misleadQ&A
- Doug Clarke Bruships; As today would have been my Dad's Birthday, it's his books today3:08:52Why destroyers cannot win every rankingQ&A
- The Jeune Ecole in 30mins or Less24:10Jeune Ecole ideas influence the wider design debateNotable Point
- Luigi Cadorna Class: The Regia Marina's Condottieri Part 28:53The Cadorna class range and displacement puzzleChapter
- Naval History Questions: Live From The Brushack19:04Why sunken battleships can turn turtleQ&A
- Naval History Questions: Live From The Brushack59:17Sketching a guided-missile battleshipQ&A
- Naval History Questions: Live From The Brushack1:03:49How France might answer the Tribal-class destroyersQ&A
- Naval History Questions: Live From The Brushack1:31:41Why an eight-inch gun does not define a useful heavy cruiserNotable Point
- Naval History Questions: Live From The Brushack1:44:08A faster Deutschland-class surface raiderQ&A
- Naval History Questions: Live From The Brushack1:58:10Why a supercruiser must fit dockyard infrastructureQ&A
- Naval History Questions: Live From The Brushack2:08:57Why the Lexington battlecruisers had a glass jawQ&A
- Naval History Questions: Live From The Brushack2:16:47The Alaska class as a true heavy cruiserQ&A
- Naval History Questions: Live From The Brushack2:19:16What supercruisers could add to the Royal NavyQ&A
- Naval History Questions: Live From The Brushack2:29:26The risks of quadruple six-inch turretsQ&A
- Naval History Questions: Live From The Brushack2:30:03The Royal Navy's planned 9.2-inch cruisersQ&A
- Bruships 81: Some Books from Chalk Valley & Tank Fest and Naval History Questions13:42What 13,500-ton treaty cruisers might have changedQ&A
- Bruships 81: Some Books from Chalk Valley & Tank Fest and Naval History Questions17:24Why common systems beat a single European frigate hullQ&A
- Bruships 81: Some Books from Chalk Valley & Tank Fest and Naval History Questions27:33How modern propulsion would transform HMS DreadnoughtQ&A
- Bruships 81: Some Books from Chalk Valley & Tank Fest and Naval History Questions1:12:01How far a ship class can change between hullsQ&A
- Bruships 81: Some Books from Chalk Valley & Tank Fest and Naval History Questions1:15:32Why a more powerful Hood needs hull workQ&A
- Bruships 81: Some Books from Chalk Valley & Tank Fest and Naval History Questions1:29:37Why modern naval guns usually use single mountsQ&A
- Bruships 81: Some Books from Chalk Valley & Tank Fest and Naval History Questions1:33:01Stealth warships beyond the Zumwalt classQ&A
- Bruships 81: Some Books from Chalk Valley & Tank Fest and Naval History Questions2:26:25What makes a warship handy and nimbleQ&A
- Bruships 81: Some Books from Chalk Valley & Tank Fest and Naval History Questions3:08:24Why semi-dreadnoughts existedQ&A
- Bruships 81: Some Books from Chalk Valley & Tank Fest and Naval History Questions3:35:14The potential of France's large destroyersQ&A
- Patreon 57: Modern frigates, cruisers by another name?29:07A mission-based modern cruiser definitionChapter
- Blonde Class(Take 2): Scout Cruisers of the WWI Royal Navy (Long Patrol)6:37Pembroke Dockyard synthesizes the scout-cruiser experimentsNotable Point
- Blonde Class(Take 2): Scout Cruisers of the WWI Royal Navy (Long Patrol)8:57Machinery, speed, and the scout-cruiser labelChapter
- Blonde Class(Take 2): Scout Cruisers of the WWI Royal Navy (Long Patrol)48:59How should the Blonde class be reclassified?Notable Point
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out Take 226:02What a modern 16-inch naval gun might becomeQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out Take 237:24Why liquid propellant is dangerous aboard warshipsQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out Take 246:50When rebuilding Hood becomes building a new shipQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out Take 21:10:31A hybrid Second World War battleshipQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out Take 22:36:22When a warship's turning radius matters mostQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out Take 22:44:07Why a large cruiser favors 12-inch gunsQ&A
- Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out Take 22:52:58Could modern yards build for battleship-gun recoil?Q&A
- Suffren Class: Mon croiseur de 1ère classe de la Marine Nationale préféré (Long Patrol)47:25One class, four incrementally different cruisersChapter
- Suffren Class: Mon croiseur de 1ère classe de la Marine Nationale préféré (Long Patrol)1:07:47A sound cruiser design with one avoidable flawChapter
- Action of the 18th June 1799: How to Lose Frigates and Influence (Live)4:04Why armor-plate joints complicate deck protectionQ&A
- Equitable Naval Treaties Discussion (Live)14:39A fixed technology margin instead of an automatic escalatorQ&A
- Equitable Naval Treaties Discussion (Live)27:30What the 'super Leander' cruiser proposal combinesNotable Point
- Equitable Naval Treaties Discussion (Live)34:16Evolving the N3 into an 18-inch fast battleshipQ&A
- Equitable Naval Treaties Discussion (Live)47:31Layered armor and whole-hull survivabilityQ&A
- Equitable Naval Treaties Discussion (Live)54:14County-class reserve for post-treaty growthQ&A
- Equitable Naval Treaties Discussion (Live)1:24:21How larger treaty carriers could lead toward the Malta classQ&A
- Equitable Naval Treaties Discussion (Live)1:40:41A disciplined counterfactual method for treaties and shipsChapter
- Equitable Naval Treaties Discussion (Live)1:57:26Why the French split-quad turret did not isolate damage wellQ&A
- Equitable Naval Treaties Discussion (Live)2:05:49Why sextuple gun turrets multiply design problemsQ&A
- Equitable Naval Treaties Discussion (Live)2:09:10Three capital-ship generations without the building holidayChapter
- Equitable Naval Treaties Discussion (Live)2:14:16What the Admiral-class companion battleship might carryQ&A
- Giussano Class: Regia Marina's First Condottieri (Long Patrol)29:40Barbiano exposes the risk of designing for one opponentChapter
- Giussano Class: Regia Marina's First Condottieri (Long Patrol)1:09:44The missing advantage was cruiser survivabilityChapter
- Giussano Class: Regia Marina's First Condottieri (Long Patrol)1:14:18Why the super-destroyer alternative still failedChapter
- Equitable London Treaty: Destroyers (Long Patrol)2:19HMS Kempenfelt sets the destroyer scaleNotable Point
- Equitable London Treaty: Destroyers (Long Patrol)25:22USS The Sullivans shows the post-treaty scaleNotable Point
- Alex & Drach @ Haida (live)10:18How the Tribal class acquired a cruiser-like silhouetteNotable Point
- Alex & Drach @ Haida (live)11:10Extra torpedoes and Haida's deck arrangementNotable Point
- My Royal Navy Washington Treaty Cruiser: with added Qs from "1939 Destroyer Doctrine" (Long Patrol)22:17Why the Fletcher class suited the US NavyQ&A
- Royal Navy Survey Ships: A History - Patreon 55 (Long Patrol)0:22Specialist survey ships versus ships assigned to survey dutyChapter
- Patreon 55: History of Survey Ships in the Royal Navy59:43The missing history of Britain's paper warshipsQ&A
- 2022 Canada Naval History Trip Reading List (Long Patrol Book Review)4:50From Tribal, Battle, and Daring classes to the modern destroyerNotable Point
- 2022 Canada Naval History Trip Reading List (Long Patrol Book Review)9:36Treaty-era designs after WashingtonChapter
- 2022 Canada Naval History Trip Reading List (Long Patrol Book Review)11:49King George V armament and battleship perceptionChapter
- 2022 Canada Naval History Trip Reading List (Long Patrol Book Review)32:11HMS Savage as a Battle-class gun test bedNotable Point
- 2022 Canada Naval History Trip Reading List (Long Patrol Book Review)43:56Albacore, Barbel, and Britain's limited design capacityNotable Point
- Boadicea Class (1907): Scout Cruiser (Long Patrol)18:49A 1907 cruiser weighed little more than modern patrol shipsNotable Point
- Galaxy Class: A Naval Historian's view of Federation Cruisers & Ships of the 24th Century (Live)21:57Could a Galaxy-class ship defeat an Imperial Star Destroyer?Q&A
- Galaxy Class: A Naval Historian's view of Federation Cruisers & Ships of the 24th Century (Live)29:48A peaceful federation with warship problemsChapter
- Galaxy Class: A Naval Historian's view of Federation Cruisers & Ships of the 24th Century (Live)37:09Could swapping saucer sections change a Galaxy ship's role?Q&A
- Galaxy Class: A Naval Historian's view of Federation Cruisers & Ships of the 24th Century (Live)58:26Is the Sovereign class Starfleet's battleship?Q&A
- Galaxy Class: A Naval Historian's view of Federation Cruisers & Ships of the 24th Century (Live)1:34:57Why size alone does not make a battleshipNotable Point
- Galaxy Class: A Naval Historian's view of Federation Cruisers & Ships of the 24th Century (Live)2:39:35Why are Romulan warbirds so large?Q&A
- Galaxy Class: A Naval Historian's view of Federation Cruisers & Ships of the 24th Century (Live)2:45:23Why advanced starship crews still need pressure suitsQ&A
- Galaxy Class: A Naval Historian's view of Federation Cruisers & Ships of the 24th Century (Live)3:22:13Are five triple 15-inch turrets too much for a G3 hull?Q&A
- Galaxy Class: A Naval Historian's view of Federation Cruisers & Ships of the 24th Century (Live)3:59:04Defiant as Starfleet's purpose-built destroyerNotable Point
- Galaxy Class: A Naval Historian's view of Federation Cruisers & Ships of the 24th Century (Live)4:05:06Why was the Defiant class difficult to operate?Q&A
- Bruships 79: Eight New Books, plus Discussions of a Naval Nature17:05The expensive part of a modern warship is increasingly its systemsQ&A
- Bruships 79: Eight New Books, plus Discussions of a Naval Nature22:15Galaxy-class space changes from exploration to warNotable Point
- Bruships 79: Eight New Books, plus Discussions of a Naval Nature41:02Science-fiction ships can clarify real naval conceptsQ&A
- Bruships 79: Eight New Books, plus Discussions of a Naval Nature42:33Furious may have inherited rather than originated the 18-inch gunQ&A
- Bruships 79: Eight New Books, plus Discussions of a Naval Nature51:45A giant naval gun trades turret flexibility for a smaller hullQ&A
- NMS Elisabeta (Romanian Navy): A Cruiser's Purpose (Long Patrol)30:54Why an armed cruiser works as a national symbolNotable Point
- Bruships 78: Favourite Cruisers A Discussion...22:54How Germany might have answered plunging fire after the FalklandsQ&A
- Bruships 78: Favourite Cruisers A Discussion...51:20Why stopping a boarding party matters before it reaches the deckQ&A
- Bruships 78: Favourite Cruisers A Discussion...1:10:06The displacement cost of a fully armed, better-armoured AdmiralQ&A
- Bruships 78: Favourite Cruisers A Discussion...1:36:04Which Royal Navy ironclad frigates stand out before steel cruisersQ&A
- Bruships 78: Favourite Cruisers A Discussion...1:37:19Why better accommodation does not make sailors softQ&A
- Bruships 78: Favourite Cruisers A Discussion...2:04:25Why modern warships prioritise sustained speed over maximum speedQ&A
- Bruships 78: Favourite Cruisers A Discussion...2:40:49Why centreline guns displaced cross-deck firing layoutsQ&A
- Bruships 78: Favourite Cruisers A Discussion...3:05:16What earlier controllable-pitch propellers could changeQ&A
- Bruships 78: Favourite Cruisers A Discussion...3:48:30A 9.2-inch cruiser on the Furious hullQ&A
- Bruships 78: Favourite Cruisers A Discussion...3:58:41Why British cruiser endurance can look weak in one-on-one comparisonsQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (8)33:38The F3 as a fast Nelson-style favouriteQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (8)37:44Why the Admiral-class hull did not suit all-or-nothing armourQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (8)38:00Different Soviet fleet theatres needed different ship designsQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (8)51:44A G3-based successor after converting the Admiral classQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (8)59:52Why converting a Lion-class battleship into a carrier makes little senseQ&A
- Patreon 52: Scapa Flow - A History & A Future1:51:12How might the High Seas Fleet have been divided?Q&A
- Patreon 52: Scapa Flow - A History & A Future2:44:53Why Britain was slower to adopt all-or-nothing armorQ&A
- Bruships 77: Leadership, books & questions...54:04Why 4.5-inch destroyer mounts took timeQ&A
- Bruships 77: Leadership, books & questions...2:39:04Why Hood's submerged launchers became an integration problemQ&A
- Bruships 77: Leadership, books & questions...3:01:42Centreline stability versus deck-edge capacityQ&A
- Bruships 77: Leadership, books & questions...3:29:54Why Britain delayed deck-edge liftsQ&A
- Bruships 77: Leadership, books & questions...3:31:21Why warship interiors matter to diplomacyQ&A
- Titanic Lessons Learned 110yrs On (Long Patrol)7:09Civilian standards still face the sea's full forceNotable Point
- Titanic Lessons Learned 110yrs On (Long Patrol)24:24Compartmentation had to buy evacuation timeChapter
- Titanic Lessons Learned 110yrs On (Long Patrol)42:29Information flow is part of ship survivabilityChapter
- Bruships 76: Five New Books & a Lot of New Questions2:40Hood's torpedo battery and hull safetyQ&A
- Bruships 76: Five New Books & a Lot of New Questions6:02Could Hood have become a fast battleship?Q&A
- Bruships 76: Five New Books & a Lot of New Questions26:05A mixed-calibre Deutschland-class proposalQ&A
- Bruships 76: Five New Books & a Lot of New Questions38:34Why the Royal Navy kept battleship torpedo tubesQ&A
- Bruships 76: Five New Books & a Lot of New Questions1:04:02How far Britain took 20-inch gun ideasQ&A
- Bruships 76: Five New Books & a Lot of New Questions1:34:21Why military ships cost more than civilian equipmentNotable Point
- Bruships 76: Five New Books & a Lot of New Questions2:39:13German warship design without the Versailles gapQ&A
- Bruships 76: Five New Books & a Lot of New Questions3:07:34How 'equipped for but not with' worksQ&A
- Bruships 76: Five New Books & a Lot of New Questions3:26:36Hood, her sisters, and the path to fast battleshipsQ&A
- RMS Titanic, 110yrs on what lessons were learned?2:19:12What allowed warships to grow longer?Q&A
- County Cruisers P7: The Canaris Class (Long Patrol)5:03Philip Watts as both warship constructor and artillerymanNotable Point
- County Cruisers P7: The Canaris Class (Long Patrol)6:41Speed, armament, and thin armour in Spain's County derivativeChapter
- County Cruisers P7: The Canaris Class (Long Patrol)10:37What the enormous original funnel cost the designNotable Point
- County Cruisers P7: The Canaris Class (Long Patrol)45:30Why paper speed disappears in real sea conditionsNotable Point
- County Cruisers P6: York, Exeter & The Cut Price County Concept (Long Patrol)0:13Why York and Exeter were cut-price CountiesQ&A
- County Cruisers P6: York, Exeter & The Cut Price County Concept (Long Patrol)20:30County cruisers balanced many roles at onceNotable Point
- County Cruisers P6: York, Exeter & The Cut Price County Concept (Long Patrol)22:53Exeter improved York without rethinking the conceptNotable Point
- The 614th Running the Gauntlet: Six Books Reviewed (Long Patrol)32:52Bathurst corvette bridge design and the radar transitionNotable Point
- Patreon 50: 1939 Destroyer Doctrine of the combatant navies & Where did it come from?2:30:40Where a destroyer becomes a scout cruiserQ&A
- Patreon 50: 1939 Destroyer Doctrine of the combatant navies & Where did it come from?3:26:44Why games and Top Trumps distort warship comparisonsNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (11)52:37Why Scharnhorst plans would not transform Japanese designQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (11)3:30:47Why today's electronic-warfare suite is historically specificQ&A
- A Rumble in the Tumble: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol)8:42Shell weight versus volume of fireNotable Point
- Pathfinder Class(1904): Scout Cruiser (Long Patrol)8:12Heavy machinery squeezed Pathfinder's torpedo armamentNotable Point
- The 18in Gun HMS Agincourt and UAD video comment response (Long Patrol)20:49Why French battlecruiser designs deserve attentionQ&A
- The 18in Gun HMS Agincourt and UAD video comment response (Long Patrol)22:06E3 as a purpose-built cruiser killerQ&A
- Glourious Heritage Class of the Systems Commonwealth (Long Patrol)15:56Slow adaptation after the Magog WarNotable Point
- Glourious Heritage Class of the Systems Commonwealth (Long Patrol)40:33Personalized hulls versus production standardizationNotable Point
- Glourious Heritage Class of the Systems Commonwealth (Long Patrol)57:38Ammunition mass and displacement plausibilityNotable Point
- Battle of the Aegates, 241BC: Deciding the First Punic War (Long Patrol)9:00Why the quinquereme was the capital ship of its ageNotable Point
- Battle of the Aegates, 241BC: Deciding the First Punic War (Long Patrol)20:27Heavier Roman hulls trade speed for impactNotable Point
- Battle of the Aegates, 241BC: Deciding the First Punic War (Long Patrol)22:22What Carthage's Admiralty Harbour can revealNotable Point
- Operation Tan No.2 (77yrs ago today)33:18Carrier survivability reflects production scaleQ&A
- Battle of the Aegates (241BC)2:49:33Why names mislead when comparing fleet sizeNotable Point
- Battle of the Aegates (241BC)2:51:51Designing a warship for an ancient deploymentQ&A
- Battle of the Aegates (241BC)2:56:37Why choose coal over nuclear power for an ancient mission?Q&A
- Battle of the Aegates (241BC)2:59:41Making ammunition in the ancient worldQ&A
- Bruships 72: A Litte Bit of Everything Makes the World6:33Why warship hulls lost scuttlesQ&A
- Bruships 72: A Litte Bit of Everything Makes the World7:15When nuclear-powered warships first entered discussionQ&A
- Bruships 72: A Litte Bit of Everything Makes the World11:17Trieste as a model for a British amphibious shipQ&A
- Bruships 72: A Litte Bit of Everything Makes the World20:08When a rebuild effectively creates a new shipQ&A
- Bruships 72: A Litte Bit of Everything Makes the World39:33Was Bismarck overhyped?Q&A
- Bruships 72: A Litte Bit of Everything Makes the World1:13:32Why a larger Nelson class could trade armour for speedQ&A
- Bruships 72: A Litte Bit of Everything Makes the World1:17:24Why the Iowa class sits near the battlecruiser boundaryQ&A
- Bruships 72: A Litte Bit of Everything Makes the World1:41:07Why Hood received a roomier turret designQ&A
- Bruships 72: A Litte Bit of Everything Makes the World1:47:04Hood's expensive rebuild and a shorter wartime alternativeQ&A
- Bruships 72: A Litte Bit of Everything Makes the World2:00:28How triple-turret Renowns could reshape King George VQ&A
- Bruships 72: A Litte Bit of Everything Makes the World2:35:15Layered defenses against drone swarmsQ&A
- Bruships 72: A Litte Bit of Everything Makes the World3:02:36A 1930s nuclear capital-ship counterfactualQ&A
- Bruships 72: A Litte Bit of Everything Makes the World3:17:24Icing as a polar-warship hazardQ&A
- What if Washington allowed more than Nelson & Rodney: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol)5:22A 28-knot alternative to Nelson and RodneyChapter
- What if Washington allowed more than Nelson & Rodney: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol)17:33Weight savings in the secondary battery and conning towerNotable Point
- What if Washington allowed more than Nelson & Rodney: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol)32:57How turret layout changes the forward firing arcNotable Point
- What if Washington allowed more than Nelson & Rodney: A UAD infused discussion (Long Patrol)40:16Why a two-ship pair produces a different designChapter
- Patreon 47: Putting the USA's 2nd fleet to work - US Coast Guard's presence missions & deployment1:44:12Does warship paint still matter?Q&A
- Patreon 47: Putting the USA's 2nd fleet to work - US Coast Guard's presence missions & deployment3:11:33Why warships carried layered anti-aircraft batteriesQ&A
- Patreon 47: Putting the USA's 2nd fleet to work - US Coast Guard's presence missions & deployment3:17:14Why Prinz Eugen's refit added only 42 tons netQ&A
- HMS Tiger - The Battle Cruiser Hunter: A UAD infused discussion36:03The 13.5-inch gun as a logistical choiceNotable Point
- HMS Tiger - The Battle Cruiser Hunter: A UAD infused discussion39:46Ask why a navy built that shipNotable Point
- Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books10:49Why Tiger and Kongo look related without being copiesQ&A
- Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books12:35When a destroyer needs more than a five-inch gunQ&A
- Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books21:47Why six capital ships invite different compromises than twoNotable Point
- Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books29:32Why British and American warships solve different problemsNotable Point
- Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books31:02A proposed Leopard as a 15-inch TigerQ&A
- Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books32:26How paired high- and low-pressure turbines save fuelQ&A
- Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books40:27Why a single 16-inch gun is poor turret economyQ&A
- Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books42:38How machinery dictated Tiger's separated after turretsQ&A
- Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books1:03:55What turtleback armour is trying to saveQ&A
- Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books1:09:16Why Project 72's carrier concept is so constrainedQ&A
- Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books1:18:34The Admiral class lacked a convincing opponentQ&A
- Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books2:14:34The procurement case for evolving a proven hullQ&A
- Bruships 71: Hobbs on the Fleet Air Arm in Europe & Other cool books3:13:06A fair method for comparing British and American shipsNotable Point
- Bruships 70: Travelling along...7:59Alaska's hull form and high-speed trade-offQ&A
- Bruships 70: Travelling along...13:44Alaska and Iowa under different design constraintsQ&A
- Bruships 70: Travelling along...24:15Why Hood remains a battlecruiserQ&A
- Bruships 70: Travelling along...30:23Why more design time would not simply turn Iowa into AlaskaQ&A
- Bruships 70: Travelling along...47:33Why tonnage alone does not define a cruiser or battlecruiserNotable Point
- Bruships 70: Travelling along...1:08:43How British control of Panama could reshape Royal Navy designQ&A
- Lord Charles Beresford (on his birthday)1:04:14HMS Undaunted's guns, speed, and enduranceNotable Point
- Lord Charles Beresford (on his birthday)2:03:04Why Beresford opposed Fisher's capital shipsQ&A
- Lord Charles Beresford (on his birthday)2:26:57Outbuilding rivals after they paid for innovationQ&A
- Lord Charles Beresford (on his birthday)2:27:40Why did Beresford resist recognizing obsolete ships?Q&A
- Lord Charles Beresford (on his birthday)2:47:31The foreign fleet Beresford admiredQ&A
- Lord Charles Beresford (on his birthday)2:50:30Why HMS Hood remained a battlecruiserNotable Point
- Brummer Class (1915): Long Patrol (Year of the Cruiser)20:22From seized turbines to a wartime designChapter
- Brummer Class (1915): Long Patrol (Year of the Cruiser)23:17Gun layout and mine-warfare dutiesNotable Point
- Bruships 69: The Decider23:59A common 4.5-inch battery across the fleetQ&A
- Bruships 69: The Decider27:20Designing Vanguard around spare triple 16-inch turretsQ&A
- Bruships 69: The Decider1:51:31Why 1930s battlecruisers stop near 36 knotsQ&A
- Bruships 69: The Decider3:05:20Why all-forward guns suit a battlecruiser better than a battleshipQ&A
- County Cruisers P3: The London Class (Long Patrol)45:41A near miss shows why machinery is raftedNotable Point
- British Industry: The More than Just Ships P1/4 - Building (Long Patrol)46:20Queen Elizabeth machinery and design-risk managementNotable Point
- Bruships 68: Random Naval History Books & Questions29:24Why New Zealand repeated an older turret layoutQ&A
- Bruships 68: Random Naval History Books & Questions1:17:09If the first battlecruisers had failedQ&A
- Bruships 68: Random Naval History Books & Questions1:36:26Why naval laser defence is more than a power-supply problemQ&A
- Bruships 68: Random Naval History Books & Questions1:59:58Why a larger hull does not make a modern warship simpleNotable Point
- Bruships 68: Random Naval History Books & Questions2:14:05Why one frigate hull produced several classesQ&A
- Bruships 68: Random Naval History Books & Questions2:25:15Treaty-exempt battlecruisers as rolling design experimentsQ&A
- Bruships 68: Random Naval History Books & Questions2:55:52Designing a 6,500-ton Chinese heavy cruiserQ&A
- Bruships 68: Random Naval History Books & Questions3:22:50Why larger carriers and LHDs face different length limitsQ&A
- Patreon 43: "Unverified stories of Norwegian Campaign: Tall Tales of Tribals"3:12:58Why Tribal destroyers had unequal funnelsQ&A
- Bruships 67: Cruising on through with Questions & Bru9:18Why the 2022 DDG(X) concept remained provisionalQ&A
- Bruships 67: Cruising on through with Questions & Bru19:29Royal Navy cruiser designs worth reconsideringQ&A
- Bruships 67: Cruising on through with Questions & Bru21:00If Deutschland-class ships replaced German pre-dreadnoughtsQ&A
- Bruships 67: Cruising on through with Questions & Bru35:27Why County-class turret armor was hard to increaseQ&A
- Bruships 67: Cruising on through with Questions & Bru36:13What central-battery ironclads gained from concentrated armorQ&A
- Bruships 67: Cruising on through with Questions & Bru38:21How the Nelson class handled rough seasQ&A
- Bruships 67: Cruising on through with Questions & Bru1:22:10A plausible bridge for an angled-deck Malta-class carrierQ&A
- Bruships 67: Cruising on through with Questions & Bru2:16:00Turning Incomparable into a workable fast battleshipQ&A
- Bruships 67: Cruising on through with Questions & Bru2:19:13What could propel a 500,000-ton battleship to 42 knotsQ&A
- Bruships 67: Cruising on through with Questions & Bru2:20:04What a 14-inch gun limit without a tonnage limit encouragesQ&A
- Bruships 67: Cruising on through with Questions & Bru2:26:07Why a warship cannot accelerate like a dragsterQ&A
- Bruships 67: Cruising on through with Questions & Bru2:48:15Could early fire control use 20-inch guns?Q&A
- Bruships 67: Cruising on through with Questions & Bru2:49:37Warship design lessons from the Falklands WarQ&A
- Bruships 67: Cruising on through with Questions & Bru3:16:39The armor limit behind the battleship's declineQ&A
- Question Time: Answering Knight6831's Questions (Long Patrol)5:17Could Britain actually build the N3 and G3 designs?Notable Point
- Question Time: Answering Knight6831's Questions (Long Patrol)30:15Atlantic experience drove heavier British hullsNotable Point
- Question Time: Answering Knight6831's Questions (Long Patrol)31:12A lost flight helped shape British carrier layoutNotable Point
- Quirky Classes and What they tell us about their navies… (Long Patrol)0:51Quirky warships as clues to naval requirementsChapter
- Quirky Classes and What they tell us about their navies… (Long Patrol)24:08Deutschland class: image versus commerce-raider requirementsChapter
- Quirky Classes and What they tell us about their navies… (Live)46:14Where to look for Australia's quirky warshipsQ&A
- Quirky Classes and What they tell us about their navies… (Live)1:22:22Were the Deutschlands convincing flagships?Q&A
- Quirky Classes and What they tell us about their navies… (Live)1:25:14The D-class attempt to improve the Deutschland formulaQ&A
- Quirky Classes and What they tell us about their navies… (Live)1:28:07Would all-forward turrets leave Deutschland helpless in retreat?Q&A
- Quirky Classes and What they tell us about their navies… (Live)1:51:55Did Tone's pyramid turret layout save armour?Q&A
- County Cruisers P2: The Kent Class Continued28:46Brassey’s and the large-light-cruiser lensNotable Point
- Bruships 65: Naval History Books & Questions Answered3:34Designing a Great Lakes naval forceQ&A
- Bruships 65: Naval History Books & Questions Answered27:19A 9.2-inch cruiser for the Great LakesQ&A
- Bruships 65: Naval History Books & Questions Answered35:08Why warships moved from DC toward AC powerQ&A
- Bruships 65: Naval History Books & Questions Answered1:16:24Why warships cannot simply add more propeller shaftsQ&A
- Bruships 65: Naval History Books & Questions Answered1:25:17Where the Admiral Hipper class spent its displacementQ&A
- Bruships 65: Naval History Books & Questions Answered1:36:15Vickers' imagined twelve-gun fast battleshipQ&A
- Bruships 65: Naval History Books & Questions Answered1:55:11The case for modern twin naval gun mountsQ&A
- Bruships 65: Naval History Books & Questions Answered2:08:10The unbuilt Gallant class and the limits of the intermediate destroyerNotable Point
- Bruships 65: Naval History Books & Questions Answered2:31:48Why the torpedo-gunboat concept needed time to matureQ&A
- Bruships 65: Naval History Books & Questions Answered4:13:18The Royal Navy's unbuilt 1916 armored-cruiser studiesQ&A
- Youtube Vote 1: The 1905-1906 and the 1911 Morocco Crises7:01An 18-inch-gun Hood as a strategic spectacleNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (9)25:43Modern fleets have outgrown interwar treaty categoriesQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (9)39:29Why naval gun barrels are harder than giant riflesQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (9)1:05:57Armoured carriers and persistent air powerQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (9)1:15:41Designing a 22,000-ton treaty armoured cruiserQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (9)2:13:38Triple turrets could become standard after DreadnoughtQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (9)2:33:56Without treaties, infrastructure sets the battleship ceilingQ&A
- M29 Class (M33 special, Ep2/2) - Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol Part 91:01:50From monitor layout to the Nelson classNotable Point
- Bruships 64: Naval History & Sci-fi Books reviewed and Questions answered...28:49Roberts-class torpedo bulges and gun-platform stabilityQ&A
- Bruships 64: Naval History & Sci-fi Books reviewed and Questions answered...1:11:34A modern battleship built around power generation and missilesQ&A
- Bruships 64: Naval History & Sci-fi Books reviewed and Questions answered...2:18:43French Warships in the Age of Steam and uneven executionChapter
- Bruships 64: Naval History & Sci-fi Books reviewed and Questions answered...2:36:10Tribal-class silhouettes as instruments of naval diplomacyNotable Point
- Bruships 64: Naval History & Sci-fi Books reviewed and Questions answered...2:42:05Tribals, Battles and Darings on destroyer design and diplomacyChapter
- Bruships 64: Naval History & Sci-fi Books reviewed and Questions answered...3:37:00Why interwar British battleships did not simply copy RenownQ&A
- Roberts Class - Naval Fire Support of the WWI (WWII) Western Front: Long Patrol Part 813:36A broad hull built to absorb damageChapter
- Roberts Class - Naval Fire Support of the WWI (WWII) Western Front: Long Patrol Part 820:06How older turrets and barrels reached the Roberts classChapter
- Roberts Class - Naval Fire Support of the WWI (WWII) Western Front: Long Patrol Part 823:52Shallow draught brought 15-inch guns close ashoreNotable Point
- Patreon 40: How was British Night Fighting Doctrine developed for and then practiced during WWII1:04:47Why the best component was not always the best Royal Navy systemQ&A
- Patreon 40: How was British Night Fighting Doctrine developed for and then practiced during WWII2:47:02Hood's planned radar refit depended on available setsQ&A
- Tribals, Battles & Darings has just arrived5:04Photographs, design tables, and the HMS Lagos builder's guideNotable Point
- Tribals, Battles & Darings has just arrived10:03HMS Incomparable remained a conceptQ&A
- Pearl Harbor: A product of the Kantai Kessen Doctrine or something to do?44:22Doctrine and unbalanced Japanese cruisersNotable Point
- Bruships 63: The Writing Theorists - Corbett & Mahan, Richmond & Simms, Cable & Gorshkhov35:26Would drone torpedoes bring back torpedo bulges?Q&A
- Bruships 63: The Writing Theorists - Corbett & Mahan, Richmond & Simms, Cable & Gorshkhov45:29Aircraft torpedoes for an armed merchant cruiserNotable Point
- Bruships 63: The Writing Theorists - Corbett & Mahan, Richmond & Simms, Cable & Gorshkhov2:22:58How to arrange five battlecruiser turretsQ&A
- Bruships 63: The Writing Theorists - Corbett & Mahan, Richmond & Simms, Cable & Gorshkhov2:24:33Why HMS Hood remains a battlecruiserQ&A
- Bruships 63: The Writing Theorists - Corbett & Mahan, Richmond & Simms, Cable & Gorshkhov2:28:14A starting point for Hood and British capital-ship designQ&A
- Bruships 63: The Writing Theorists - Corbett & Mahan, Richmond & Simms, Cable & Gorshkhov2:37:48Who were Scharnhorst and Gneisenau designed to fight?Q&A
- Bruships 63: The Writing Theorists - Corbett & Mahan, Richmond & Simms, Cable & Gorshkhov3:55:56Why warships have windowsQ&A
- Bruships 63: The Writing Theorists - Corbett & Mahan, Richmond & Simms, Cable & Gorshkhov4:22:50Why VLS reloading and missile stockpiles pose different problemsQ&A
- Bruships 63: The Writing Theorists - Corbett & Mahan, Richmond & Simms, Cable & Gorshkhov4:38:51Why containerized missile launchers still need difficult handlingQ&A
- Bruships 63: The Writing Theorists - Corbett & Mahan, Richmond & Simms, Cable & Gorshkhov4:49:56Zumwalt's automation ambitions and the tumblehome correctionNotable Point
- Bruships 63: The Writing Theorists - Corbett & Mahan, Richmond & Simms, Cable & Gorshkhov4:57:38The problem with a 'fishing-boat' radar signatureQ&A
- Patreon 36: Repair Ships, Depot Ships, Tenders and Stores Ships...47:11Do new technologies make warships obsolete?Q&A
- Patreon 36: Repair Ships, Depot Ships, Tenders and Stores Ships...1:08:24Were early Type 83 images official designs?Q&A
- Patreon 36: Repair Ships, Depot Ships, Tenders and Stores Ships...1:15:22What might a modern battleship resemble?Q&A
- Bruships 61 - Ship Design; Sci-fi, Wooden & Steel, and some Naval History Questions51:36Reading warship plans beyond the headline classChapter
- Bruships 61 - Ship Design; Sci-fi, Wooden & Steel, and some Naval History Questions2:01:15Warship cutaways can turn curiosity into naval-history studyChapter
- Bruships 61 - Ship Design; Sci-fi, Wooden & Steel, and some Naval History Questions3:37:31Comparing World War II destroyers across naviesChapter
- Bruships 60: Covid Jab, Bad Back & New Books1:41:56Small reactors and future warshipsQ&A
- Bruships 60: Covid Jab, Bad Back & New Books1:52:55Why detachable warship hulls struggle in salt waterQ&A
- Bruships 60: Covid Jab, Bad Back & New Books2:04:52Hydrogen before all-electric warshipsQ&A
- Bruships 60: Covid Jab, Bad Back & New Books3:20:26Why modern warships make poor prison shipsQ&A
- Bruships 60: Covid Jab, Bad Back & New Books3:38:47A Zumwalt hull as a shortcut to a new US destroyerQ&A
- Trafalgar to Dreadnought: 1805-1905 Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc - Long Patrol6:08Demologos and the first steam-warship experimentNotable Point
- Interwar RN logistics - The Good, The Bad, and The Singapore: Long Patrol40:55Japanese ship design shaped British contingenciesNotable Point
- Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs Ago to the Day)1:39:52Why Spanish ships were built more heavilyQ&A
- Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs Ago to the Day)1:58:39Did Trafalgar change warship design?Q&A
- Battle of Trafalgar (216yrs Ago to the Day)3:39:52French speed and British sea-control durabilityNotable Point
- Trafalgar Campaign (Long Patrol) p3: Royal Navy Fleet Commanders23:31HMS Caesar and the Royal Navy's 80-gun experimentsNotable Point
- Admiral John Arbuthnot 'Jackie' Fisher: Long Patrol1:22:55Dreadnought's gun and turret tradeoffsNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (8)18:42Why moving the G3's third turret was not a simple fixQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (8)26:32Why warships carried more lights than the main searchlights suggestQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (8)2:02:32Why older warships accepted cross-firing turretsQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (8)5:06:33Why Alaska is best understood as a very large heavy cruiserChapter
- Battle of Kentish Knock (8th of October 1652)1:55:17Were warships already divided into formal rates?Q&A
- Battle of Kentish Knock (8th of October 1652)3:23:23Which unbuilt age-of-sail ships are most intriguing?Q&A
- Favourite Dreadnoughts – Battleships & Battle Cruisers…2:38:26How HMS Tiger inspired the Kongo classQ&A
- Dreadnoughts that Almost Were of the WWI Era...12:55Borodino's hull form reveals its speed requirementNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts that Almost Were of the WWI Era...17:26Strategic versus tactical battleship designQ&A
- Dreadnoughts that Almost Were of the WWI Era...26:08What the angled forefoot was meant to achieveQ&A
- Dreadnoughts that Almost Were of the WWI Era...45:18Riachuelo carried British design ideas to BrazilNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts that Almost Were of the WWI Era...46:11Specializing battleships for a fleet's likely warQ&A
- Dreadnoughts that Almost Were of the WWI Era...57:07An 18-inch Argencourt built from Queen Elizabeth logicChapter
- Dreadnoughts that Almost Were of the WWI Era...1:24:13Why 20-inch naval guns run into hard limitsNotable Point
- Dreadnoughts that Almost Were of the WWI Era...1:28:05Later Agincourt designs might adopt triple turretsQ&A
- Dreadnoughts that Almost Were of the WWI Era...1:37:13A period-appropriate torpedo-defense system for ArgencourtQ&A
- Dreadnoughts that Almost Were of the WWI Era...1:51:46Admiral class did not descend from IncomparableQ&A
- Dreadnoughts that Almost Were of the WWI Era...1:54:08Why four G3s beat four Admirals on design meritQ&A
- Dreadnoughts that Almost Were of the WWI Era...1:57:01G3: engineering elegance versus fighting arcsQ&A
- Dreadnoughts that Almost Were of the WWI Era...2:01:18Why fixing the G3 turret layout is difficultQ&A
- Dreadnoughts that Almost Were of the WWI Era...2:05:29Lexington traded armour for exceptional speedQ&A
- Dreadnoughts that Almost Were of the WWI Era...2:06:17Larger guns demand heavier mount machineryQ&A
- Dreadnoughts that Almost Were of the WWI Era...2:08:04Hood-sized limits in British yards and docksQ&A
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies – Comment Response 1/416:14Why a commerce-raiding force needs depthQ&A
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies – Comment Response 1/418:43What a first Panzerschiff could teach designersQ&A
- Patreon 32: Japanese heavy cruisers of the 1920s & 1930s, were they worth it?36:26Ibuki crossed the transition to steam turbinesNotable Point
- Patreon 32: Japanese heavy cruisers of the 1920s & 1930s, were they worth it?53:46Why treaty cruisers grew toward 10,000 tonsQ&A
- Patreon 32: Japanese heavy cruisers of the 1920s & 1930s, were they worth it?1:20:16Myoko's gun layout and the problem of firing arcsNotable Point
- Patreon 32: Japanese heavy cruisers of the 1920s & 1930s, were they worth it?1:43:06Would triple 8-inch turrets require a wider hull?Q&A
- Patreon 32: Japanese heavy cruisers of the 1920s & 1930s, were they worth it?2:03:08Tone's all-guns-forward and all-aircraft-aft compromiseChapter
- Patreon 32: Japanese heavy cruisers of the 1920s & 1930s, were they worth it?2:32:31Agano and the late-war scouting problemNotable Point
- Patreon 32: Japanese heavy cruisers of the 1920s & 1930s, were they worth it?2:46:12Ōyodo's reconnaissance layout concentrated risk aftChapter
- Patreon 32: Japanese heavy cruisers of the 1920s & 1930s, were they worth it?3:09:07A three-triple-turret alternative to five twinsQ&A
- Patreon 32: Japanese heavy cruisers of the 1920s & 1930s, were they worth it?3:19:29Where to start on paper Japanese light-cruiser designsQ&A
- Karl Dönitz (on his Birthday) - how capable an Admiral was he?3:21:45Why the Third Sea Lord shaped Royal Navy warshipsQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (6)17:01The armoured-cruiser line Britain nearly continuedNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (6)42:04A faster, more numerous PanzerschiffQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (6)56:56What the short 18-inch gun on Furious may implyNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (6)1:09:24A modern Tillman would be an arsenal shipQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (6)1:26:13Why an inserted hull section will not solve Burke growthQ&A
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 10/11 Why the Battleship Fizzled Out12:38Inherited cruisers and Tiger-class test bedsNotable Point
- Shipbuilding through the 1880s-1950s4:21Why the Archer class was a torpedo cruiserChapter
- Shipbuilding through the 1880s-1950s15:01Why Archer carried sponson-mounted gunsQ&A
- Shipbuilding through the 1880s-1950s16:47Choosing guns against torpedo boatsQ&A
- Shipbuilding through the 1880s-1950s28:12Sweden's Odin class as a proto-dreadnoughtNotable Point
- Shipbuilding through the 1880s-1950s52:34Why cruisers favoured 9.2-inch gunsQ&A
- Shipbuilding through the 1880s-1950s1:01:22Why wartime cruiser plans returned to 9.2-inch gunsQ&A
- Shipbuilding through the 1880s-1950s2:56:24The recurring case for naval gunsChapter
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 8/11 Both Queens but Different4:21Ark Royal's protection without an armoured flight deckChapter
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 8/11 Both Queens but Different6:48Displacement and power reveal Ark Royal's structural weightNotable Point
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 8/11 Both Queens but Different9:52Ark Royal and Yorktown as stepping stones to later carriersNotable Point
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 8/11 Both Queens but Different13:53Ark Royal exceeded her design speed on trialsNotable Point
- Chiefs of Staff of the Axis Navies: (Long Patrol) P1/14: Erich Raeder18:24Why the Panzerschiffe needed battlecruiser qualitiesNotable Point
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 7/11 The Roaring Twenties11:33Nelson's all-forward turret layoutNotable Point
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 7/11 The Roaring Twenties19:10Why destroyers needed room to growNotable Point
- A Book or Two to Review (28): Jutland - double book time3:52Why battlecruisers were vulnerable in a stand-up fightNotable Point
- Shipbuilding trends of the 1880s-1950s: Long Patrol Part 5/11 Building a Navy6:23Fleet design must look decades aheadNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (5)53:42Rigging an Age of Sail aircraft carrierQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (5)57:02Engine density as a naval technology turning pointQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (5)1:08:06Agincourt and the case for a distinctive armamentQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (5)1:32:30The Francesco Caracciolo class's turret-spacing trade-offNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (5)1:54:20Why warships retain main guns aftQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (5)2:01:19World of Warships mechanics versus real fleet doctrineNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (5)2:03:35A next-generation US destroyer built around the Zumwalt hullQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (5)2:28:08Accelerating naval technology from ironclads to dreadnoughtsQ&A
- Age of Sail Ship of the Line/Frigate Primer – what Rate am I looking at?35:30Warship design was not a French scientific monopolyNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (4)32:54Choosing belt and deck armorQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (4)42:27A larger treaty light cruiserQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (4)46:39The case for a concrete convoy sloopQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (4)57:36The F3 design against BismarckQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (4)1:08:21A British 14-inch step before the warQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (4)1:53:50Why the King George V class kept its bowQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (4)2:06:00The Nelson class's three forward turretsQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (4)3:41:41Hood on the fast-battleship spectrumQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (4)4:56:16The L73 'super Tribal' and the postwar Daring classQ&A
- An Introduction to Armoured Cruisers & the Mediteranean21:13Dupuy de Lôme and the logistics problemChapter
- An Introduction to Armoured Cruisers & the Mediteranean29:56Amiral Charner class: cheapening an already cheap strategyChapter
- An Introduction to Armoured Cruisers & the Mediteranean33:56A more pragmatic ocean-going cruiserNotable Point
- An Introduction to Armoured Cruisers & the Mediteranean37:44Later French armoured cruisers grow largerNotable Point
- An Introduction to Armoured Cruisers & the Mediteranean40:48Edgar Quinet finally standardises the batteryChapter
- An Introduction to Armoured Cruisers & the Mediteranean42:56SMS Sankt Georg's mixed-battery burdenChapter
- Patreon 31: Armoured Cruisers in the Mediterranean in WWI43:54Would a battlecruiser work better?Q&A
- Patreon 31: Armoured Cruisers in the Mediterranean in WWI56:04Why the Royal Navy preferred an 18-inch leapQ&A
- Patreon 31: Armoured Cruisers in the Mediterranean in WWI1:21:28French standardisation improved only near the type's endChapter
- Patreon 31: Armoured Cruisers in the Mediterranean in WWI1:33:06The Warrior class approached a more coherent cruiserNotable Point
- Patreon 31: Armoured Cruisers in the Mediterranean in WWI1:57:13Why Pisa's wing turrets were comparatively practicalQ&A
- Patreon 31: Armoured Cruisers in the Mediterranean in WWI2:00:11Why the armoured cruiser did not become the heavy cruiserChapter
- Patreon 31: Armoured Cruisers in the Mediterranean in WWI2:09:56Could Germany have foreseen Blücher's obsolescence?Q&A
- Patreon 31: Armoured Cruisers in the Mediterranean in WWI2:20:56How long were mixed cruiser batteries defensible?Q&A
- Patreon 31: Armoured Cruisers in the Mediterranean in WWI2:47:44A larger cruiser with 9.2-inch gunsQ&A
- Patreon 31: Armoured Cruisers in the Mediterranean in WWI2:55:50Early turbine commonality had limitsQ&A
- Battle of the Atlantic: Escort Procurement - Comment Response47:49The Flower-class mast was changed for naval serviceQ&A
- Battle of the Atlantic (Redo): Comment Response5:51Graf Spee and the speed requirement for surface raidersQ&A
- Battle of the Atlantic (Redo): Comment Response46:24Battlecruiser numbers and force availabilityNotable Point
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (3)2:13:31Super-battleships that their navies could not buildQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (3)4:38:59How many missiles before a warship becomes an arsenal shipQ&A
- Bruships: A Special - Questions/What If's till the Bru runs out? (2)1:25:34De-risking warship development with proven systemsNotable Point
- Kantai Kessen: The Battle of the Philippine Sea 1944 (Long Patrol)59:58Taiho was Japan's armored carrier answerNotable Point
- Bruships 50: A D-Day special with Questions & some New Books from Pen & Sword2:21:05Books for tracing how warship classes evolvedQ&A
- Bruships 50: A D-Day special with Questions & some New Books from Pen & Sword4:04:56How Type 26, Type 31, and Type 83 divide Royal Navy rolesNotable Point
- “Coastal Command in the 1920s & 1930s”1:59:34Why the Royal Navy preferred more light cruisersQ&A
- “Coastal Command in the 1920s & 1930s”2:19:08Battlecruisers depended on keeping the range openQ&A
- Bruships 48: Reading History32:27Why boiler design changed warship funnel countsQ&A
- Patreon 23: Coal, Canals, Convoys & Coastal Carrying: traffic around the British isles from 1939-451:41:36When Royal Navy ships gained air conditioningQ&A
- Four Random Books 33: Liberty Ships & Depth in History22:47The nuclear strike cruiser becomes an unaffordable small carrierNotable Point
- Patreon 21: Notable WW2 commanders of smaller naval forces2:02:32Did heavy weather give Glowworm an advantage?Q&A
- Bruships 44: Strategy1:39:48Treaty limits created design problems and encouraged workaroundsNotable Point
- Bruships 44: Strategy3:47:25The Falklands reinforced the need for a ship's gunQ&A
- Bruships 44: Strategy3:57:54Could warships return to two main guns?Q&A
- Minotaur & Tiger Class Cruisers1:10:00Postwar cruisers tested the next fleetQ&A
- Minotaur & Tiger Class Cruisers2:14:54Unfinished Tigers were offered across the CommonwealthNotable Point
- Minotaur & Tiger Class Cruisers2:43:30The unbuilt British missile-gun cruiserQ&A
- Minotaur & Tiger Class Cruisers2:47:54British influence on Sverdlov was limitedQ&A
- Bruships 43: Aircraft Carriers & Naval Aviation4:21:34A larger Type 83 need not require a larger crewQ&A
- Patreon 20: Sino Japanese War of 1894: Fighting a modern war with feudal societies49:49Warship maintenance as procurement strategyChapter
- Patreon 20: Sino Japanese War of 1894: Fighting a modern war with feudal societies1:35:29The Beiyang Fleet's paper strengthChapter
- Patreon 20: Sino Japanese War of 1894: Fighting a modern war with feudal societies1:41:18Did the ironclad's guns damage its bridge?Q&A
- Patreon 19: 2nd Tier powers Dreadnoughts: Spain, Austria-Hungary, S.America, Greece & Ottomans56:32How Andrea Doria differed from Conte di CavourQ&A
- Patreon 19: 2nd Tier powers Dreadnoughts: Spain, Austria-Hungary, S.America, Greece & Ottomans1:11:27Could España have used superfiring turrets?Q&A
- Patreon 19: 2nd Tier powers Dreadnoughts: Spain, Austria-Hungary, S.America, Greece & Ottomans2:50:46Second-tier powers did not build second-rate shipsNotable Point
- Patreon 19: 2nd Tier powers Dreadnoughts: Spain, Austria-Hungary, S.America, Greece & Ottomans3:16:23Choosing the best design for each navy's needsQ&A
- Four Random Books 29: Weapons of War7:53British intelligence overestimates König-class gun upgradesNotable Point
- Lend Lease Long Patrol: P4/5 Summary... was Lend Lease worth it?21:45Landing craft as Lend-Lease's valuable warshipsNotable Point
- Bruships 41: A History of Armour & Amphibious Warfare (Kyle Hardman)2:42:19Missile capacity for a proposed large warshipQ&A
- Bruships 41: A History of Armour & Amphibious Warfare (Kyle Hardman)4:04:17How capability demands and smaller fleets drive up warship costsNotable Point
- Bruships 41: A History of Armour & Amphibious Warfare (Kyle Hardman)4:09:20Why modern escorts combine primary and secondary rolesQ&A
- Bruships 41: A History of Armour & Amphibious Warfare (Kyle Hardman)4:09:48Why a Type 45 successor might need a different hullNotable Point
- Bruships 41: A History of Armour & Amphibious Warfare (Kyle Hardman)4:13:58Can a modern tumblehome hull handle demanding seas?Q&A
- Bruships 41: A History of Armour & Amphibious Warfare (Kyle Hardman)4:17:28Could Type 32 use a tumblehome hull?Q&A
- Bruships 41: A History of Armour & Amphibious Warfare (Kyle Hardman)4:18:56Hull fatigue sets the ceiling on warship upgradesQ&A
- Bruships 41: A History of Armour & Amphibious Warfare (Kyle Hardman)4:22:41How long should a warship hull last?Q&A
- Bruships 41: A History of Armour & Amphibious Warfare (Kyle Hardman)4:23:58Would a 25,000-ton, 12-inch limit produce cruiser killers?Q&A
- Lend Lease Act 80yrs on...3:15:24German destroyer refinement versus Tribal-class combat performanceNotable Point
- Crown Colony Class Long Patrol: Part 3 Trinidad to Bermuda0:55Trinidad's loss is not a simple verdict on her designNotable Point
- Crown Colony Class Cruisers35:43Did fifteen-gun cruisers make the Town class feel underarmed?Q&A
- Crown Colony Class Cruisers41:36Crown Colony specifications and doubts about displacementChapter
- Crown Colony Class Cruisers47:56Why the Crown Colonies' displacement figures invite scrutinyNotable Point
- Crown Colony Class Cruisers55:12Crown Colony speed figures and the effect of a transom sternNotable Point
- Crown Colony Class Cruisers57:21How cramped was the Crown Colony X-turret arrangement?Q&A
- Crown Colony Class Cruisers1:55:57Larger German destroyers and the cost of slower gunfireNotable Point
- Crown Colony Class Cruisers2:01:12Why the Narvik destroyer label causes disagreementNotable Point
- Crown Colony Class Cruisers2:22:21How did the Royal Navy calculate a cruiser's official displacement?Q&A
- Crown Colony Class Cruisers3:26:35Why Royal Navy designers left room for wartime growthNotable Point
- Crown Colony Class Cruisers3:28:58Why favor the larger Town class over the Crown Colonies?Q&A
- Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol Part 3, Lord Clive Class M6-91:32Lord Clive-class design and armamentChapter
- Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol Part 3, Lord Clive Class M6-97:30The Majestic-class battleship baselineChapter
- Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol Part 3, Lord Clive Class M6-933:33Why monitors did not replace battleshipsNotable Point
- Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol, Part 2, Abercrombie Class1:36Abercrombie-class monitors built around 14-inch gunsChapter
- Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol, Part 2, Abercrombie Class6:56Army artillery needs shaped the shallow-draft monitorNotable Point
- Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol, Part 2, Abercrombie Class8:58Monitor weight distribution traded speed for gun stabilityNotable Point
- Battles of Dogger Bank: Response to Comments12:27Why constructor-admiral partnerships matter in warship designNotable Point
- Britain of the 1980s: Long Patrol P3a/7 Keith Speed (Continued)7:24Where could Sea Wolf fit on an Invincible-class carrier?Notable Point
- Patreon 17 "The Royal Navy’s Strategic Role in 1980s NATO" as suggested by Joseph Sullivan1:58:51Why vertical-launch missiles are hard to reload at seaQ&A
- Patreon 17 "The Royal Navy’s Strategic Role in 1980s NATO" as suggested by Joseph Sullivan2:13:48Why 40 mm can suit close defence better than 57 mmQ&A
- Patreon 17 "The Royal Navy’s Strategic Role in 1980s NATO" as suggested by Joseph Sullivan2:17:10Balancing high-end warships with simpler ASW hullsChapter
- Patreon 17 "The Royal Navy’s Strategic Role in 1980s NATO" as suggested by Joseph Sullivan2:21:33Why ammunition capacity does not simply mean bigger shipsQ&A
- Patreon 17 "The Royal Navy’s Strategic Role in 1980s NATO" as suggested by Joseph Sullivan2:22:07How could 40 mm guns counter a drone-bomblet swarm?Q&A
- Bruships 37: New Books & Some More Transactions of the Institute of Naval Architects52:56Exeter's name history includes a cancelled frigateNotable Point
- Bruships 37: New Books & Some More Transactions of the Institute of Naval Architects1:52:26The 1919 naval architects' record of the wartime fleetsChapter
- Bruships 37: New Books & Some More Transactions of the Institute of Naval Architects1:57:56Could Nelson have become a fast six-gun battlecruiser?Q&A
- Bruships 37: New Books & Some More Transactions of the Institute of Naval Architects2:21:07Courageous and Glorious against lighter ships in narrow watersNotable Point
- Bruships 37: New Books & Some More Transactions of the Institute of Naval Architects2:30:14Hood's original armament, protection, and machineryChapter
- Bruships 37: New Books & Some More Transactions of the Institute of Naval Architects2:34:02How Jutland changed Hood's protection and gunsNotable Point
- Bruships 37: New Books & Some More Transactions of the Institute of Naval Architects3:11:59Why warship design moved from naval departments to contractorsQ&A
- The Battles of Dogger Bank 1696-191618:31How guns replaced crew size in the ship rating systemChapter
- The Battles of Dogger Bank 1696-191623:51Charles Galley as a specialist Mediterranean warshipNotable Point
- The Battles of Dogger Bank 1696-191628:00How a fourth rate differed from a fifth rateQ&A
- The Battles of Dogger Bank 1696-19161:47:57Would Dreadnought have appeared without Tsushima?Q&A
- The Battles of Dogger Bank 1696-19162:11:26HMS Lion's scale and mixed armamentNotable Point
- The Battles of Dogger Bank 1696-19162:13:36Why World War II rewarded battlecruiser qualitiesNotable Point
- The Battles of Dogger Bank 1696-19162:15:37Why Lion carried a turret amidshipsQ&A
- Naval Fire Support of the WWI Western Front: Long Patrol, Part 1, Humber Class7:43A Brazilian river gunboat becomes a coastal monitorChapter
- Patreon 16: Royal Navy anti-piracy operations of the 1920s & 1930s in the Far East1:55:46Why did County-class refits cut down the quarterdeck?Q&A
- Patreon 16: Royal Navy anti-piracy operations of the 1920s & 1930s in the Far East1:59:48Why did the K3 design mix quadruple and twin turrets?Q&A
- Thomas Whitcombe: Naval Paintings Long Patrol Episode 11:28Reading marine paintings as technical naval evidenceNotable Point
- The Great White Fleet34:02Were cage masts an established design or a new idea?Q&A
- The Great White Fleet36:44Why older battleships could benefit from operating experienceNotable Point
- The Great White Fleet1:32:40British and French influence on American warship designNotable Point
- The Great White Fleet2:45:05Choosing secondary guns for aircraft or surface threatsQ&A
- The Great White Fleet2:46:52Why large quadruple turrets multiply design riskNotable Point
- The Great White Fleet2:53:10Why a heavily armed game cruiser makes an implausible real shipNotable Point
- The Great White Fleet2:56:02What could go wrong with a six-gun turret?Q&A
- Washington’s cherry trees: the G3 and N3 class - Patreon 15 Comments Response12:22Nelson displacement and the N3 speed estimateQ&A
- Washington’s cherry trees: the G3 and N3 class - Patreon 15 Comments Response22:38G3 blind arcs and concentrated turret firepowerQ&A
- Washington’s cherry trees: the G3 and N3 class - Patreon 15 Comments Response25:46Why an unrestricted gun race might revive mixed batteriesQ&A
- Washington’s cherry trees: the G3 and N3 class - Patreon 15 Comments Response32:15All-forward main guns versus the G3 and N3 Q turretQ&A
- Washington’s cherry trees: the G3 and N3 class - Patreon 15 Comments Response33:51Could the X Kiwi design fit a 35,000-ton limit?Q&A
- Washington’s cherry trees: the G3 and N3 class - Patreon 15 Comments Response39:50Dunkerque's aft aviation space and secondary-battery tradeoffsNotable Point
- Washington’s cherry trees: the G3 and N3 class - Patreon 15 Comments Response41:15G3 design lessons and carrier-conversion potentialNotable Point
- Bruships 33: History, Speeches & Quotations3:42:32How the G3 torpedo defence might have workedQ&A
- Patreon 15 - Washington’s cherry trees: the G3 and N3 classes1:27:33Why navies retained wooden weather decksQ&A
- Patreon 15 - Washington’s cherry trees: the G3 and N3 classes2:07:47Technology exchange did not create common British-American ship designsQ&A
- Great White Fleet: Long Patrol Part 1 of 3 Theodore Roosevelt's Dream3:03Warship color before the age of uniform greyNotable Point
- Bruships 32: Ships & Space Ships (Reality & Scifi)7:36Reading science-fiction fleets through naval rolesChapter
- Bruships 32: Ships & Space Ships (Reality & Scifi)24:00Abruzzi-class cruisers and Mediterranean enduranceChapter
- Bruships 32: Ships & Space Ships (Reality & Scifi)35:38The Worcester class as a postwar cruiser benchmarkNotable Point
- Bruships 32: Ships & Space Ships (Reality & Scifi)1:54:08Dreadnought design evidence in the 1922 naval architects' transactionsChapter
- Bruships 32: Ships & Space Ships (Reality & Scifi)2:04:00Design debate and displacement margins behind battleshipsNotable Point
- Bruships 32: Ships & Space Ships (Reality & Scifi)2:10:32How the Falklands War reshaped warship survivabilityChapter
- Bruships 32: Ships & Space Ships (Reality & Scifi)2:20:20Battleship survivability beyond armor thicknessNotable Point
- Bruships 32: Ships & Space Ships (Reality & Scifi)2:22:38Imperial Star Destroyers and doctrine-driven designChapter
- Bruships 32: Ships & Space Ships (Reality & Scifi)2:40:25Venator and the armored-carrier analogyNotable Point
- Bruships 32: Ships & Space Ships (Reality & Scifi)2:41:19Defining an aircraft carrier by its primary weaponChapter
- Bruships 32: Ships & Space Ships (Reality & Scifi)2:45:45Carrier speed can cost aircraft capacityNotable Point
- Bruships 32: Ships & Space Ships (Reality & Scifi)2:53:51Ark Royal and the move to a mature purpose-built carrierChapter
- Bruships 32: Ships & Space Ships (Reality & Scifi)3:03:44The Venator as a fighter-first carrier-battleship hybridChapter
- Bruships 32: Ships & Space Ships (Reality & Scifi)3:08:23Galactica as a carrier built around its air groupChapter
- Bruships 32: Ships & Space Ships (Reality & Scifi)3:28:41Why carrier-battleship hybrids work better in spaceQ&A
- Bruships 32: Ships & Space Ships (Reality & Scifi)3:31:34How scientifically plausible are force shields?Q&A
- Bruships 32: Ships & Space Ships (Reality & Scifi)3:32:20Why do fictional space battles look two-dimensional?Q&A
- Bruships 32: Ships & Space Ships (Reality & Scifi)3:38:03Should a space carrier avoid close combat?Q&A
- Bruships 32: Ships & Space Ships (Reality & Scifi)3:43:11Would Andromeda or a Venator be easier to command?Q&A
- Bruships 32: Ships & Space Ships (Reality & Scifi)3:56:43How convincing are the ships in Space: Above and Beyond?Q&A
- Four Random Books 19: A Decade of Brasseys4:05The 1939 annual as a prewar fleet referenceChapter
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s Long Patrol Part 5: French & German Carriers15:54Joffre's twin-engine air group and Atlantic roleChapter
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s Long Patrol Part 5: French & German Carriers26:54Joffre and the PA-16 design lineageNotable Point
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s Long Patrol Part 5: French & German Carriers36:23Graf Zeppelin's scale and changing air groupNotable Point
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s Long Patrol Part 4: 1920s Aircaft Carriers of the Big 30:37Contemporary data needs a warship-modification caveatNotable Point
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s42:11Long-range railguns would not automatically revive battleshipsQ&A
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s42:45Why naval guns and missiles are likely to coexistQ&A
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s2:09:41Aircraft development quickly outpaced carrier weaponsQ&A
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s2:39:57Why battlecruiser conversions remained fast carriersQ&A
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s3:01:50Hull framing reveals battleship and battlecruiser prioritiesQ&A
- Aircraft Carriers of the 1920s & 1930s3:10:45How World War II hull framing compares with modern warshipsQ&A
- Bruships30: Nine Transactions of the Institute of Naval Architects(Including 1939) & Three New Books2:38:40When battleship growth undermined harbour accessChapter
- Bruships30: Nine Transactions of the Institute of Naval Architects(Including 1939) & Three New Books2:43:17How cruiser growth reduced reconnaissance valueChapter
- Bruships30: Nine Transactions of the Institute of Naval Architects(Including 1939) & Three New Books2:48:29Foreign contracts as experiments in British warship designNotable Point
- Bruships30: Nine Transactions of the Institute of Naval Architects(Including 1939) & Three New Books2:51:22Why carrier capability evolves through the air groupQ&A
- Patreon 14: The Naval Defence Act of 1889 as proposed by Baile Inneraora44:20HMS Hood was a controlled turret experimentQ&A
- Patreon 14: The Naval Defence Act of 1889 as proposed by Baile Inneraora1:45:25Torpedo gunboats still posed a serious 1890s threatNotable Point
- Patreon 14: The Naval Defence Act of 1889 as proposed by Baile Inneraora1:56:53Hood's turret experiment sacrificed freeboardQ&A
- Patreon 14: The Naval Defence Act of 1889 as proposed by Baile Inneraora2:28:00Could Pearl-class cruisers fight German light cruisers?Q&A
- Paddle Ships at War33:39The combat tradeoffs between paddles and screwsChapter
- Paddle Ships at War56:01Retrofitting paddles and repairing propulsion at seaQ&A
- Paddle Ships at War2:29:41Why warships rarely carried two paddle wheels per sideQ&A
- Paddle Ships at War2:50:49Demologos shields its paddle between twin hullsNotable Point
- Four Random Books 16: It's A Question of Dates12:57British turret ships from Prince Albert to CaptainChapter
- Town Class Part 7 of 7: Edinburghs & Legacy18:15What a presence warship needs beyond weaponsChapter
- Town Class Part 3 of 7: Pre-War21:40Recognizing Birmingham by her knuckle bowNotable Point
- Town Class Part 2 of 7: Contruction24:22The unbuilt quadruple-gun Super TownChapter
- Town Class Part 2 of 7: Contruction41:51Why a hypothetical Super Town might have been the Bristol classNotable Point
- RN Paper Cruisers; the what might have beens…44:04Dockyard limits constrained five-turret cruiser layoutsNotable Point
- RN Paper Cruisers; the what might have beens…50:22Surrey as a balanced County-class successorChapter
- RN Paper Cruisers; the what might have beens…1:10:44The sixteen-gun Super Town cruiserChapter
- RN Paper Cruisers; the what might have beens…1:15:59Why the Super Town's quadruple turrets were dividedQ&A
- RN Paper Cruisers; the what might have beens…1:39:09Neptune stretched the meaning of light cruiserChapter
- RN Paper Cruisers; the what might have beens…1:49:31Minotaur layouts had to fit British firing prioritiesChapter
- RN Paper Cruisers; the what might have beens…1:54:43Minotaur's three-inch battery sought range and rapid fireQ&A
- RN Paper Cruisers; the what might have beens…2:04:05Why early missiles revived the large-cruiser caseQ&A
- Bruships 28: New Books & Christmas Buys2:18:24Why lightweight destroyer turrets could become lethal trapsNotable Point
- Bruships 28: New Books & Christmas Buys3:11:58Russian Project 22220 icebreakers and the boundary of a warshipNotable Point
- Town Class; big impact with a light footprint2:32:46The Type 42's air-defense role on too small a hullQ&A
- Bruships 26 - The Random Collection1:37:18From torpedo-boat destroyers to modern escortsQ&A
- Bruships 26 - The Random Collection2:05:29Close-in defence does not settle the big-gun questionQ&A
- Bruships 26 - The Random Collection2:14:55Why twin naval gun mounts matterQ&A
- Bruships 26 - The Random Collection2:27:29Applying the twin-mount argument to Type 31Notable Point
- Bruships 26 - The Random Collection2:39:15Why smaller early warships could standardize guns firstNotable Point
- Bruships 26 - The Random Collection2:41:09The Cromwellian navy and more standardized armamentQ&A
- Bruships 26 - The Random Collection3:36:04Computer-aided ship design across naval and merchant fleetsNotable Point
- Bilgepumps Taranto 80 part 3 of 3: Ripples in Musso's Pond27:00An aerial torpedo tests the Pugliese defence systemNotable Point
- Battle of Quiberon Bay58:01Why did 60- and 70-gun ships remain?Q&A
- Battle of Quiberon Bay59:12French ships and the rise of the 64 and 74Notable Point
- Battle of Quiberon Bay1:32:19Why ships of the line were rebuiltQ&A
- Battle of Quiberon Bay1:56:52Why the 74-gun ship became attractiveQ&A
- Patreon 10: “If the Trent affair had gone hot, how badly would it have gone for the US navy?"2:33:21Why Type 32 should build on Type 31Q&A
- Patreon 10: “If the Trent affair had gone hot, how badly would it have gone for the US navy?"2:46:36Possible Type 32 gun and radar changesQ&A
- 1940 Norway Campaign Part 2 of 5: Planning, Invasion & Narvik,30:03Norway's coastal-defence ships at NarvikNotable Point
- Bruships 25 - Some More Naval Aviation1:32:33Why an escort carrier is not a small fleet carrierNotable Point
- Bruships 25 - Some More Naval Aviation1:42:42Escort-carrier radar needed weight and control-room capacityNotable Point
- Bruships 25 - Some More Naval Aviation3:57:58When a missile ship becomes an arsenal shipQ&A
- Bruships 25 - Some More Naval Aviation4:07:30Why the Royal Navy chose a Danish-derived Type 31 designQ&A
- Bruships 25 - Some More Naval Aviation4:14:36Why a destroyer label could be easier to fund than a battlecruiserQ&A
- Bilge Pumps does Battlestar Galactica Deadlock for Navy Con 1/218:14Can camouflage deceive machine perception?Q&A
- Bilge Pumps does Battlestar Galactica Deadlock for Navy Con 1/250:32Weapon arcs, mutual coverage, and redundancyNotable Point
- Bilge Pumps does Battlestar Galactica Deadlock for Navy Con 1/255:41Choosing which backups a warship needsNotable Point
- The Ships that Fisher scrapped… suggested by Geoff Grognard52:37What mattered in battlecruiser-versus-battlecruiser design?Q&A
- Four Random Books 10: Overview Books3:23How the Zara class saved weight for a battle-line roleNotable Point
- Amphion Class Cruisers9:24The proposed ten-gun AmphionNotable Point
- Amphion Class Cruisers21:15When triple turrets reached Royal Navy cruisersQ&A
- Amphion Class Cruisers1:27:54What separated Amphions from Leanders?Q&A
- 1930 London Naval Treaty: An Introduction Part 5 of 5/Articles 17-224:00What cruiser tonnage could buy in a LeanderNotable Point
- 1930 London Naval Treaty: An Introduction Part 5 of 5/Articles 17-2237:20King George V gun and turret compromisesNotable Point
- 1930 London Naval Treaty: An Introduction Part 1 of 5/Articles 1-719:52Article 6: measuring a warship without fuelChapter
- Bruships 23 - New Book Review2:34:49Why one main gun can still feel too littleQ&A
- Sloops of the Interwar a Long Patrol1:11:52A modern modular analogy for the sloopNotable Point
- The World According to the Royal Navy of the 1930s - 4 minutes2:55How trade geography shapes fleet constructionNotable Point
- Four Random Books 6: War At Sea5:47Treaty limits turn design into a chain of compromisesNotable Point
- Four Random Books 6: War At Sea11:44Growing battle ranges favour big-gun armamentNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 20: Brasseys & Janes, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:20:01The close-in defence case for a 40 mm wall of fireQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 20: Brasseys & Janes, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:41:31Brassey's 1939 debate over the right cruiser sizeNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 20: Brasseys & Janes, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:43:59A modern Belfast and the appeal of pod propulsionQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 20: Brasseys & Janes, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A3:00:07Pod propulsion after torpedo damageQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 20: Brasseys & Janes, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A3:09:02Bismarck's efficiency problem as a design-experience problemQ&A
- Four Random Books 4: Warship Design0:40A Grand Fleet design reference worth browsingChapter
- Four Random Books 4: Warship Design2:27Why underwater-protection trials can misleadNotable Point
- Four Random Books 4: Warship Design5:21Specialist design histories and the archival recordNotable Point
- Four Random Books 4: Warship Design6:57HMS Fearless and the price of beaching capabilityChapter
- Four Random Books 4: Warship Design9:55Rivets, fracture modes, and structural balanceNotable Point
- Patreon 7 – How the RN countered E-Boats in the English Channel as proposed by Paul39:32A raised Vosper bow improved seakeepingNotable Point
- Patreon 7 – How the RN countered E-Boats in the English Channel as proposed by Paul48:52Why British MTBs and American PT boats differedQ&A
- Patreon 7 – How the RN countered E-Boats in the English Channel as proposed by Paul57:57Shipyard consolidation narrows design optionsQ&A
- 2 Minutes: Dog Boats - The Fairmile D's2:06A modern Fairmile D or Flower-class corvette?Notable Point
- How the RN countered E-Boats in the English Channel - Patreon 7 Introduction Part 3 of 324:31Steam gun boats as a heavily armed answerNotable Point
- How the RN countered E-Boats in the English Channel - Patreon 7 Introduction Part 3 of 327:02Fairmile flexibility and the torpedo-boat counterNotable Point
- How the RN countered E-Boats in the English Channel - Patreon 7 Introduction Part 3 of 336:28Development timing and wartime adaptationNotable Point
- How the RN countered E-Boats in the English Channel - Patreon 7 Introduction Part 1 of 314:16Early Vosper and Fairmile hulls establish wartime design familiesChapter
- How the RN countered E-Boats in the English Channel - Patreon 7 Introduction Part 1 of 327:36Torpedoes impose a trade-off on E-boatsNotable Point
- The Force K Long Patrol; Economic Warfare Royal Navy Style28:08Why Arethusa cruisers suited exposed Malta operationsNotable Point
- The Force K Long Patrol; Economic Warfare Royal Navy Style42:49Dido cruisers supporting a destroyer strike forceNotable Point
- Battlestar Galactica Deadlock - Some Naval History Fun...0:29Testing Battlestar Deadlock with naval design lessonsChapter
- Battlestar Galactica Deadlock - Some Naval History Fun...1:19Manticore corvettes: useful mass, weak firing arcsNotable Point
- Battlestar Galactica Deadlock - Some Naval History Fun...9:00Standoff missiles meet a fighter-heavy battlespaceChapter
- Battlestar Galactica Deadlock - Some Naval History Fun...18:47Carrier choices and the Adamant frigate's limitationsNotable Point
- Battlestar Galactica Deadlock - Some Naval History Fun...20:28A small gun-placement change could transform the ManticoreNotable Point
- Battlestar Galactica Deadlock - Some Naval History Fun...21:35Battlestars should not be the only all-round combatantsChapter
- Patreon 6 - Force K… Malta’s mailed fist, as proposed by Ian Car21:33What made a naval gun quick-firing?Q&A
- Patreon 6 - Force K… Malta’s mailed fist, as proposed by Ian Car33:01Were any battleships comparatively quiet?Q&A
- Patreon 6 - Force K… Malta’s mailed fist, as proposed by Ian Car1:13:23Why the Leanders felt like stepping-stone cruisersQ&A
- Patreon 6 - Force K… Malta’s mailed fist, as proposed by Ian Car1:33:58Why Hood did not receive all-or-nothing armourQ&A
- Patreon 6 - Force K… Malta’s mailed fist, as proposed by Ian Car1:41:57How one cruiser class could contain distinct subclassesQ&A
- Patreon 6 - Force K… Malta’s mailed fist, as proposed by Ian Car1:54:54Sumner versus Fletcher as a destroyer designQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 15: Diplomacy & When it Fails, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A59:19What practically limits the size of a warshipQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 15: Diplomacy & When it Fails, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:02:49Would a General Belgrano gun action revive gun cruisers?Q&A
- An Introduction to the "E" Class; part 2 - HMS Enterprise5:02Why the E class were large light cruisersChapter
- An Introduction to the "E" Class; part 2 - HMS Enterprise8:35Enterprise as a double-turret test bedNotable Point
- An Introduction to the "E" Class; part 2 - HMS Enterprise9:56East Indies service and the experimental turretChapter
- An Introduction to the "E" Class; part 2 - HMS Enterprise23:18Building and balancing Enterprise's experimental turretNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 14: Special & Covert Operations Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A13:29Designing a hypothetical modern privateerQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 14: Special & Covert Operations Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A19:24Why Type 31 should retain growth marginQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 14: Special & Covert Operations Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:36:12A heavier gun fit for a Type 31 frigateQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 14: Special & Covert Operations Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:49:43Could railguns bring back stern-mounted main guns?Q&A
- Bru Ships Episode 14: Special & Covert Operations Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:03:20Armour for a future multi-railgun warshipQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 14: Special & Covert Operations Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:27:21Can a modern tumblehome hull remain stable?Q&A
- Bru Ships Episode 14: Special & Covert Operations Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:36:32Railguns, electromagnetic effects, and ship hardeningQ&A
- Long Patrol: Making Mare Nostrum a Hollow Jest - RN Submarines in the Meditteranean2:38Reading official submarine figures criticallyNotable Point
- An Introduction to the Spanish Armada Part 1 of 225:30Cecil, Walsingham, Howard, Drake, and Hawkins form a connected teamChapter
- Bru Ships Episode 13: Weapons, Both Personal & Ship, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A47:27Why later British cruisers moved away from an older lookQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 13: Weapons, Both Personal & Ship, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A59:44Why the Dutch adopted Bofors effectivelyQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 13: Weapons, Both Personal & Ship, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:02:43Why multiple gun barrels may regain valueNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 13: Weapons, Both Personal & Ship, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:15:15Directed energy belongs in a layered defenceQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 13: Weapons, Both Personal & Ship, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:42:05Harry DeWolf class: a capable hull that could be tougherQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 13: Weapons, Both Personal & Ship, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:43:45HMS Birmingham’s experimental cruiser bowQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 13: Weapons, Both Personal & Ship, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:54:03What the Daring-class AC and DC trials achievedQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 13: Weapons, Both Personal & Ship, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:56:25Why the 10-inch naval gun fell between useful calibresQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 13: Weapons, Both Personal & Ship, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:10:42A Belfast-Dragon hybrid warship thought experimentNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 13: Weapons, Both Personal & Ship, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:12:47A landing-platform dock as a drone-ship mothershipNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 13: Weapons, Both Personal & Ship, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:16:04Why Britain favoured more six-inch cruisersNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 13: Weapons, Both Personal & Ship, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:25:43Why a 300-round-per-minute six-inch gun is impracticalQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 13: Weapons, Both Personal & Ship, Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:28:16Telescoped ammunition and the salt-water problemQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 12: New to Me Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:18:09Turning an Arleigh Burke derivative into a command cruiserQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 12: New to Me Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:43:10Brassey's annuals as design and fleet snapshotsChapter
- Bru Ships Episode 12: New to Me Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A3:21:51A time traveller's Royal Navy rearmament prioritiesNotable Point
- Patreon Video 2: Royal Navy Operations in the Indian Ocean 1941-431:39:28Later treaties mattered to Deutschland-class classificationQ&A
- Patreon Video 2: Royal Navy Operations in the Indian Ocean 1941-432:02:46Why the Crown Colony class became a wartime Town-class derivativeQ&A
- Patreon Video 2: Royal Navy Operations in the Indian Ocean 1941-432:06:55Why three triple turrets suited the Crown Colony designQ&A
- Patreon Video 2: Royal Navy Operations in the Indian Ocean 1941-432:07:56Why many battleships converged near 27 knotsQ&A
- An Introduction to the Royal Navy in the Indian Ocean 1941-3 (Patreon Video 2)32:15The Deutschland class paid heavily for 11-inch gunsNotable Point
- An Introduction to the Royal Navy in the Indian Ocean 1941-3 (Patreon Video 2)1:05:51How a coalition war could change fleets and technologyNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 11: Top Trumps/Ship Comparison Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A31:41Trading Deutschland-class gun weight for speedNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 11: Top Trumps/Ship Comparison Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A34:13How Jackie Fisher might have reworked the Nelson classQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 11: Top Trumps/Ship Comparison Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:32:58Why an all-forward main battery can limit a battleshipQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 11: Top Trumps/Ship Comparison Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:46:54South Dakota's guns and the cost of naval tradeoffsQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 11: Top Trumps/Ship Comparison Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:51:36Why interim large-calibre naval guns are a poor investmentQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 11: Top Trumps/Ship Comparison Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:15:01How apparently attractive design choices can cripple a navyQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 11: Top Trumps/Ship Comparison Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:25:19The cost of inheriting German warships after the First World WarQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 11: Top Trumps/Ship Comparison Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:38:18Why ocean-going combatants grow toward 10,000 tonsNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 11: Top Trumps/Ship Comparison Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:45:02Why a 25,000-ton do-everything warship is riskyQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 11: Top Trumps/Ship Comparison Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:50:44How fast battleships made battlecruisers less persuasiveQ&A
- 50th Proper Live Stream - Bru Ships Episode 10: Naval Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A49:29Why warships are not built from stainless steelQ&A
- 50th Proper Live Stream - Bru Ships Episode 10: Naval Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A51:56How nuclear power could reshape a Queen Elizabeth-derived carrierQ&A
- 50th Proper Live Stream - Bru Ships Episode 10: Naval Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:05:08Adapting the Queen Elizabeth design for FranceQ&A
- 50th Proper Live Stream - Bru Ships Episode 10: Naval Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:18:18The US Navy's earlier ski-jump studiesQ&A
- 50th Proper Live Stream - Bru Ships Episode 10: Naval Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:27:24Why a ski-jump LHD does not need an angled deckQ&A
- 50th Proper Live Stream - Bru Ships Episode 10: Naval Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A3:20:58Why a Canadian LHD would need Arctic strengthQ&A
- 50th Live Special: Thank You57:35D-class variation multiplied the support burdenNotable Point
- 50th Live Special: Thank You1:07:54A built-up bow made the D class global cruisersNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 9: Super Power Contest (as in the nations) Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:22:03The treaty logic behind a 14-inch battleship gunQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 9: Super Power Contest (as in the nations) Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:35:19When a propulsion technology matures too lateQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 9: Super Power Contest (as in the nations) Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:37:47The promise and complexity of spaced sloped armourQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 9: Super Power Contest (as in the nations) Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A3:22:06How warships protect against chemical and biological contaminationQ&A
- An Introduction to “Back Pocket Cruisers” Part 3: Daring Class2:00Destroyer growth from First World War scale to DaringNotable Point
- An Introduction to “Back Pocket Cruisers” Part 3: Daring Class6:20Why eight Darings contained four machinery combinationsNotable Point
- An Introduction to “Back Pocket Cruisers” Part 3: Daring Class13:27Rejected changes to gun arcs and deck heightNotable Point
- An Introduction to “Back Pocket Cruisers” Part 3: Daring Class15:54Bridge geometry and the Mk VI gun mountNotable Point
- An Introduction to “Back Pocket Cruisers” Part 3: Daring Class24:24Why a presence ship needs room to host peopleNotable Point
- An Introduction to “Back Pocket Cruisers” Part 2: Battle Class (+Stanley Goodall)3:40Stanley Goodall carries forward the large-destroyer ideaChapter
- An Introduction to “Back Pocket Cruisers” Part 2: Battle Class (+Stanley Goodall)8:06A wider hull to carry stronger air defenceNotable Point
- An Introduction to “Back Pocket Cruisers” Part 2: Battle Class (+Stanley Goodall)12:19Capital-ship 4.5-inch mounts in a destroyerNotable Point
- An Introduction to “Back Pocket Cruisers” Part 2: Battle Class (+Stanley Goodall)16:17Why the main armament faced forwardNotable Point
- An Introduction to “Back Pocket Cruisers” Part 2: Battle Class (+Stanley Goodall)17:59A cautious theory about the heavy mountsNotable Point
- An Introduction to “Back Pocket Cruisers” Part 2: Battle Class (+Stanley Goodall)29:03A war-built destroyer, not a treaty compromiseNotable Point
- An Introduction to “Back Pocket Cruisers” Part 1: Tribal Class (+Admiral Henderson)22:51How the Tribals adapted their air defence in warNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 8: Amphibious Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:06:17European corvettes and the return of tumblehome hullsQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 8: Amphibious Warfare Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:33:58Promising warship designs under development in 2020Q&A
- An Introduction to Ships of the Convoy War - the Battle of Atlantic in Steel Part 2 Sloops14:07The Black Swan lineage begins with BitternNotable Point
- An Introduction to Ships of the Convoy War - the Battle of Atlantic in Steel Part 2 Sloops17:42Black Swan speed and built-in modification marginChapter
- Bru Ships Episode 7: Warship Design Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A4:09Reading warship histories through national perspectivesChapter
- Bru Ships Episode 7: Warship Design Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A9:33Why some aircraft carriers use two islandsQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 7: Warship Design Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A10:33John Lambert drawings as warship research toolsNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 7: Warship Design Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A16:00Using naval architects' transactions for design historyNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 7: Warship Design Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A19:00Why ship and class monographs can outperform broad surveysNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 7: Warship Design Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A24:08Wartime design papers reveal the work behind a warshipChapter
- Bru Ships Episode 7: Warship Design Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A34:13Official warship loads may differ from combat loadsNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 7: Warship Design Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A41:00Reliability decided early 4.5-inch mount choicesQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 7: Warship Design Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A54:19A trimaran escort could create space for unmanned systemsQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 7: Warship Design Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:02:10Damage control lessons from the FalklandsQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 7: Warship Design Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:10:36Why successor warship programs begin decades earlyQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 7: Warship Design Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:30:27Imagining a modern Town-class-style cruiserQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 7: Warship Design Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:34:34Why export-warship problems did not settle the Chinese design questionQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 7: Warship Design Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:35:05Container ships can hide weapons but not replace warshipsQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 7: Warship Design Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:44:10Kaga and Ark Royal answered different naval plansQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 7: Warship Design Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:47:26A modern battlecruiser would exceed an enlarged destroyerQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 7: Warship Design Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:15:24An alternative cruiser-destroyer for the late 1930sQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 7: Warship Design Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:38:19Fast attack craft roles may return through uncrewed vesselsQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 7: Warship Design Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:42:48The smallest viable ocean escort may be River-derivedQ&A
- An Introduction to Not the Big Ships: NGFS As Provided by Destroyers & Below Part 2 of 28:47Why a smaller warship can have greater presenceNotable Point
- An introduction to the ‘Littleships’ of the Big War Part 4 of 416:54London Naval Treaty exemptions shaped small-warship choicesChapter
- An introduction to the ‘Littleships’ of the big war Part 3 of 47:09Civilian trawler lines made wartime construction practicalNotable Point
- An introduction to the ‘Littleships’ of the big war Part 3 of 416:48Gabbiano corvettes show what naval standards addedChapter
- An introduction to the ‘Littleships’ of the big war Part 3 of 422:38Dispersed Flower production created a propulsion smorgasbordNotable Point
- An introduction to the ‘Littleships’ of the big war Part 3 of 434:28Black Swan sloops brought destroyer-like combat powerChapter
- Top 10 Ships – not Tribal, Battle, Daring or Town classes…1:41How to judge a great warshipChapter
- Top 10 Ships – not Tribal, Battle, Daring or Town classes…14:50Why Nelson and Rodney fall short of the top tenQ&A
- Top 10 Ships – not Tribal, Battle, Daring or Town classes…45:13Type 45 capability and engine compromiseNotable Point
- Top 10 Ships – not Tribal, Battle, Daring or Town classes…1:05:36Why a warship's appearance mattersQ&A
- Top 10 Ships – not Tribal, Battle, Daring or Town classes…1:18:19The Admiralty's continuous warship design laboratoryNotable Point
- Top 10 Ships – not Tribal, Battle, Daring or Town classes…1:25:46Why warship categories keep growing and resettingNotable Point
- Top 10 Ships – not Tribal, Battle, Daring or Town classes…1:38:18Zumwalt's tumblehome hull in heavy seasQ&A
- Top 10 Ships – not Tribal, Battle, Daring or Town classes…1:47:03Radar shaping and modern Japanese destroyer aestheticsQ&A
- An Introduction to My Top 10 Warships (No Tribal, Battle, Daring or Town Classes allowed)0:01How the top-ten warships are judgedChapter
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A46:53Why Japanese damage control produced uneven resultsQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A51:37The ship-design cost of a Japanese 20-inch gunQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A56:39Why an age of sail ship could lose its bow and keep fightingNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:15:25Why the Tone class put every main gun forwardQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A1:31:21The stability cost of Japanese pagoda mastsQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:00:06Improving the Tribal, Battle, Town, and Daring classesQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:16:07Why Cleveland-class cruisers carried larger crews than TownsQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A2:23:48Renown, Hood, and two different forms of protectionQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 3: Imperial Japanese Navy Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A3:11:27Why the Royal Navy modified American escort carriersQ&A
- Battle cruisers in a ‘modern navy’…. Well a WWII Navy2:07:59Why the 15-inch gun was more practical than the 18-inchQ&A
- An Introduction To Battle Cruisers40:59Dunkerque as a small fast battleshipChapter
- Exercises & War Gaming Rules in 192915:09The tables preserved speculative designs and an evolving destroyer roleNotable Point
- Bru Ships Episode 1: Book Reviews/Q&A2:22Warship 2020 contents and valueChapter
- Bru Ships Episode 1: Book Reviews/Q&A13:44Town-class superstructures balanced space and streamliningQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 1: Book Reviews/Q&A28:42Modern frigates and destroyers divide their sensor prioritiesQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 1: Book Reviews/Q&A45:51Crown Colony cruisers were stripped-down Town derivativesQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 1: Book Reviews/Q&A1:21:41Warship stern forms follow speed, stability, and load requirementsQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 1: Book Reviews/Q&A1:25:54Lasers need guns in a weather-resistant defensive layerQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 1: Book Reviews/Q&A1:31:28Royal Navy model tanks built decades of hull-form evidenceQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 1: Book Reviews/Q&A1:33:52Modern ships may be underarmed for close defenceQ&A
- Bru Ships Episode 1: Book Reviews/Q&A1:34:46Railgun magazines might store energy in distributed batteriesQ&A
- The RN in 1939, more than just a Question of Geography - A Quarterdeck Talk (26/11/2019)25:13Dido, Town, and Type 31: designing space for naval presenceNotable Point
- The RN in 1939, more than just a Question of Geography - A Quarterdeck Talk (26/11/2019)30:32The battlecarrier's gun-and-flight-deck employment trapNotable Point