Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

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Weapons Development

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  1. Bruships 263: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:43:25German heavy-gun ideas and development timeQ&A
  2. Bruships 263: Alternate History & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:54:31A prewar British route to wire-guided torpedoesQ&A
  3. Bruships 262: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    1:30:53Railgun promises and the difficulty of scaling upQ&A
  4. What happends if you Tigered the Queen Elizabeth Class?
    46:34Could extra time help the longer 15-inch gun?Notable Point
  5. Bruships 260: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    2:34:24Studying foreign weapons during indigenous developmentQ&A
  6. Bruships 260: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    2:36:45OTO's 76 mm gun and claims of originalityQ&A
  7. Five Doomsday Weapons of the Sci-fi universes, and the theories of Deterrence... why do they fail?
    1:24:19When does directed-energy research become usable?Q&A
  8. Five Doomsday Weapons of the Sci-fi universes, and the theories of Deterrence... why do they fail?
    1:36:07Bomb-pumped lasers and the gap between idea and weaponNotable Point
  9. Five Doomsday Weapons of the Sci-fi universes, and the theories of Deterrence... why do they fail?
    1:38:40Were bomb-pumped lasers part of SDI?Q&A
  10. What happens if WWII took place as scheduled... after 1942? (Patreon)
    4:58:23Would a later war change the move from guns to missiles?Q&A
  11. Bruships 254: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    4:56:21The uncertain progress of cannon-calibre Gauss gunsQ&A
  12. Bruships 250: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:33:40Red Angel or the rocket-propelled torpedoQ&A
  13. Bruships 241: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:43:21Why rocket weapons developed in fits and startsQ&A
  14. Bruships 241: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:45:01Where to place a pre-missile jet-aircraft boundaryQ&A
  15. Bruships 233: Science Fiction & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:31:42Why British and American automatic cruiser guns developed differentlyNotable Point
  16. Planning for Pearl Harbor: Decisions to Strike at the USN's mid-pacific base...
    41:02The shallow-water torpedo planning gapChapter
  17. 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P8 of 9 - UAD chat requested design testing…
    7:02:11Could wartime television guide an assault drone?Q&A
  18. 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P8 of 9 - UAD chat requested design testing…
    7:05:14Why remote weapons still competed for Allied resourcesQ&A
  19. 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon
    8:51:49What China's missile tests revealQ&A
  20. 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P7 of 9 - Supplying Churchill’s Christmas Present: Battle of Cape Bon
    8:54:34Why advanced arms sales to Iran carry technology-transfer risksQ&A
  21. 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P6 of 9 - The Royal Navy’s Submarine Killers – Black Swans at War
    26:54How to judge the Mark 27 homing torpedoQ&A
  22. Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress
    7:05:05The uncertain evidence for a British 20-inch/54 gunNotable Point
  23. Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress
    7:16:01Why a 20-inch/54 naval gun never became practicalQ&A
  24. What would the World's Major Navys look like in 1950 if WWII didn't happen? (Live)
    2:53:08How slowly would weapons develop without wartime urgency?Q&A
  25. What the Royal Navy thought of Coral Sea, Midway and Leyte Gulf?
    21:28Midway lessons for fighters, torpedo bombers, and screensChapter
  26. Torpex: A Short History of it's History...
    23:11Torpex and the Mark IX torpedo develop togetherChapter
  27. Bruships 207: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:04:03Why British destroyers kept the 21-inch torpedoQ&A
  28. Pom-Pom or Bofors: Which 40mm do you want?
    16:37Sweden develops the Bofors for a Baltic defense problemChapter
  29. Pom-Pom or Bofors: Which 40mm do you want?
    32:42The U.S. Navy reaches the Bofors after the 1.1-inch gunNotable Point
  30. Pom-Pom or Bofors: Which 40mm do you want?
    1:14:50A proposed mixed octuple mount would combine both 40 mm strengthsNotable Point
  31. 40mm AA in WWII: Pom-Pom or Bofors? how did the two systems compare in theory and practice?
    8:19How development timing shaped the Bofors advantageNotable Point
  32. 40mm AA in WWII: Pom-Pom or Bofors? how did the two systems compare in theory and practice?
    11:35Availability and fire control shaped 40 mm procurementNotable Point
  33. 40mm AA in WWII: Pom-Pom or Bofors? how did the two systems compare in theory and practice?
    30:05The Swedish requirement that produced the Bofors L60Chapter
  34. 40mm AA in WWII: Pom-Pom or Bofors? how did the two systems compare in theory and practice?
    44:17A like-for-like Mark 8 Pom-Pom and L60 comparisonChapter
  35. 40mm AA in WWII: Pom-Pom or Bofors? how did the two systems compare in theory and practice?
    2:32:19Why were earlier rotary anti-aircraft cannon not implemented?Q&A
  36. 40mm AA in WWII: Pom-Pom or Bofors? how did the two systems compare in theory and practice?
    2:48:36What if Britain had jointly modernized the Pom-Pom?Q&A
  37. 40mm AA in WWII: Pom-Pom or Bofors? how did the two systems compare in theory and practice?
    2:55:29Why wartime fleets kept mixed fire-control systemsNotable Point
  38. 40mm AA in WWII: Pom-Pom or Bofors? how did the two systems compare in theory and practice?
    2:58:03Why World War II fire-control comparisons are difficultQ&A
  39. A Turtle Ship May: Admiral Yi Sun-Sin
    2:49:05Korean cannon-fired finned dartsQ&A
  40. A Turtle Ship May: Admiral Yi Sun-Sin
    2:49:39Why hwacha were risky aboard shipsQ&A
  41. Bruships 190: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:30:52Why a corrected T7 .60-calibre gun would still yield to 20 mm cannonQ&A
  42. Bruships 189: Naval History Questions Answered Live...continued
    15:34Technology perfected too late in the gunship eraQ&A
  43. Bruships 189: Naval History Questions Answered Live...continued
    18:57Why two British 5-inch gun projects were not direct successorsQ&A
  44. Battle of Zonchio 1499: Limitations of Command... Venetian Style
    54:14How early cannon could disrupt a fleet formationNotable Point
  45. Battle of Zonchio 1499: Limitations of Command... Venetian Style
    56:28The 72 years between Zonchio and LepantoNotable Point
  46. Battle of Zonchio 1499: Limitations of Command... Venetian Style
    57:38How lorries took over cavalry's rapid deployment roleNotable Point
  47. Battle of Zonchio 1499: Limitations of Command... Venetian Style
    59:26How cannon inherited the ram's ship-killing missionNotable Point
  48. Bruships 181: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:51:50Armstrong's claim to build a 21-inch gunQ&A
  49. The Battlecruiser/Fast Battleship Differential & Soviet Carriers: Scuttlebutt 7
    1:20:45Lion gun development could improve Nelson and RodneyNotable Point
  50. Bruships 169: Kalax o Kalax, my kingdom for a Kalax...
    58:11The early US 6-inch dual-purpose gun was ahead of its timeQ&A
  51. Bruships 163: I need a Kalax Kalax, a Kalax is what I need! Naval History Questions & Chat
    3:53:52Soviet aircraft claims and American design targetsNotable Point
  52. Bruships 163: I need a Kalax Kalax, a Kalax is what I need! Naval History Questions & Chat
    3:55:44Turbine metallurgy and repeatable aircraft performanceNotable Point
  53. Bruships 160: Money for Kallax, Book Space ain’t Free! Naval History Questions & Chat...
    2:31:08Why the German twin heavy-Flak idea needs a variantQ&A
  54. How would a Naval Historian Change the Goa'uld Fleet to be supreme? Patreon Premier 7
    18:27Put weapons research before fleet expansionChapter
  55. How would a Naval Historian Change the Goa'uld Fleet to be supreme? Patreon Premier 7
    20:41Create a protected class of researchers and merchantsNotable Point
  56. Bruships 148: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Begins
    1:10:09Why an eighteen-inch gun has no clean development priceQ&A
  57. Bruships 148: Naval History Questions Answered, Boxes Packed & June Patreon Vote Begins
    2:55:24Why wonder weapons disappoint in peer warfareNotable Point
  58. Bruships 146: Naval History Questions, Boxes Getting Packed & Lego Getting Built
    2:37:24Why a Japanese 40 mm gun has no fixed development timelineQ&A
  59. Patreon 100: Stalin's 1930 London Treaty - the USSR joins the Naval Treaties at London
    1:50:50A new 15-inch gun offers an alternative to Nelson's armamentNotable Point
  60. Patreon 100: Stalin's 1930 London Treaty - the USSR joins the Naval Treaties at London
    2:39:58One duplex mechanism behaves differently across launch platformsNotable Point
  61. Bruships 141: Some Cool Books & Naval History Questions Answered
    2:02:31What makes a twin 5-inch mount time-consumingQ&A
  62. Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered
    3:31:50Why the ten-gun pom-pom was a poor bluffQ&A
  63. Sopwith Cuckoo: The Exodus Chapter for Naval Aviation - Key Aircraft Series 1 Aircraft 2
    46:15Why early aerial torpedoes skipped, dived, or broke apartChapter
  64. Unrotated Projectiles to Hypersonics: Some History & thoughts on Missiles as part of navies
    35:05Scramjets and railguns face a production-scale materials testNotable Point
  65. Unrotated Projectiles to Hypersonics: Some History & thoughts on Missiles as part of navies
    38:02Treat missile performance claims as sales claimsNotable Point
  66. Patreon Bonus: Battle Cruisers & Battleships are separate Categories in the Washington Naval Treaty
    3:42:27Would larger cruisers change the fast-firing 6-inch gun's timing?Q&A
  67. H Class Battleships: Ignoring Reality for Perfection, Key Ships Series 4, Ship 4
    40:36H-42's gun existed ahead of its factoryNotable Point
  68. H Class Battleships: Ignoring Reality for Perfection, Key Ships Series 4, Ship 4
    58:40Commissioning was not operational readinessNotable Point
  69. Lion Class: Key Ships Series 4, Part 1
    12:39Why weapons research still needs practical spin-outsNotable Point
  70. Testing Sixteen Autoloaded 14in Gun Battleship (Chatfield's Dream) to Destruction
    1:49:01Why better small guns do not end the calibre raceQ&A
  71. Bruships 115: Hopefully Australia Trip in Summary!
    1:56:53British 18-inch-gun work gave later designers a head startNotable Point
  72. Bruships 106: Song Dynasty & Three New Books from Pen & Sword
    1:27:29Liquid-propellant guns remained hazardous experimentsQ&A
  73. Nothing Wrong With Our Shells Today; Alternate History, What if British Shells at Jutland Work?
    18:05Shellite trades some explosive power for stabilityNotable Point
  74. The Submarine Century? How Submarines evolved over the 20th Century
    1:45:11Postwar designs and the foundations of nuclear submarinesChapter
  75. Bruships 89: New Books (Christmas Recomendations) & Personal Accounts of War
    33:57An early 17-pounder still needs a tank able to carry itQ&A
  76. Bruships 89: New Books (Christmas Recomendations) & Personal Accounts of War
    3:40:05The 15-inch Mark I succeeded by evolving proven workQ&A
  77. Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out 3
    16:42A low-tech solution for stable aerial torpedo entryQ&A
  78. Tre Kronor Class: Because the Swedish had a lot of Bofors guns to use..
    10:50How the Bofors 40 mm grew from the Vickers pom-pomNotable Point
  79. Patreon 54: Torpedo development 1900-1939 and it's impact on destroyer design an doctrine
    29:18Shaped charges and torpedo warheads developed in parallelQ&A
  80. Patreon 54: Torpedo development 1900-1939 and it's impact on destroyer design an doctrine
    1:21:04Why a wonder weapon remains a theoryNotable Point
  81. Battle of the Atlantic (Original): Comment Response
    11:06Project Habakkuk tests the 'crackpot' labelNotable Point
  82. Battle of the Atlantic (Original): Comment Response
    17:03A Habakkuk demonstration nearly wounds Admiral KingNotable Point
  83. Bruships 46: Accounts of Naval War
    2:32:56Was Sea Wolf unreliable in the Falklands?Q&A
  84. Bruships 40: Favourite Books to Use When Writing...
    35:56Why Tempest was still too early for a firm verdictQ&A
  85. Bruships 40: Favourite Books to Use When Writing...
    4:13:14Allied experimental weapons extended beyond familiar projectsQ&A
  86. Bruships 27: Science Fiction Books
    3:24:25Why Starfleet needs fighters and uncrewed systemsNotable Point
  87. Bru Ships Episode 14: Special & Covert Operations Themed Books to Review & a general Q/A
    1:45:42Why a twin 5-inch mount would be expensive for BritainQ&A