Naval Historywith Dr. Alex

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Weapons Testing

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  1. Air Defence At Sea: From Air Ships in 1906, to drones in 2026 and everything in between...
    1:39:41Reading weapon performance claims against test conditionsNotable Point
  2. The Perils of Standardisation: Can Navy's Standardise too much? (Patreon Premier)
    27:59Torpedo failures and the need for an institutional skepticNotable Point
  3. WWI delayed by six years? What would the Navies look like? (Patreon Alternate History)
    3:18:09How Jeune Ecole disputes weakened French shell testingQ&A
  4. Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live)
    1:12:33The late Argentine surrenders and American submarine trialsNotable Point
  5. Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live)
    1:20:05Scuttling records and refloating for damage inspectionNotable Point
  6. Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live)
    1:32:36Could blank disposal records conceal weapons trials?Notable Point
  7. Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live)
    1:39:00U-3514 and Deadlight weapons testsChapter
  8. Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live)
    1:43:17Missing sinking records and the new-weapons hypothesisNotable Point
  9. Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live)
    1:48:12Comparative damage tests and Cold War submarine tacticsNotable Point
  10. Operation Deadlight(not Deadbeat)... scuttling U-Boats(Live)
    1:49:21Polish crews and a proposed Soviet route to trial dataNotable Point
  11. An introduction to Torpedo Boat Destoyers
    32:27Early Whitehead torpedoes delayed the case for full adoptionNotable Point
  12. Bruships 222: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    3:27:55Changing the Bureau of Ordnance's leadership cultureQ&A
  13. Bruships 222: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    4:03:06Why BuOrd denied the Mark 13 and Mark 14 failuresQ&A
  14. Bruships 222: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    4:26:56What an Ajax operating-capability announcement establishesNotable Point
  15. Bruships 222: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    4:34:24Why independent allied torpedo tests were harder to dismissQ&A
  16. Exploring the meme: Top 5 & Bottom 5 inventions/systems of war that started in British Sheds(Live)
    1:25:06Why did inventors need physical demonstrations?Q&A
  17. 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P6 of 9 - The Royal Navy’s Submarine Killers – Black Swans at War
    6:53:07Shaped-charge demonstrations and the incentives behind testsNotable Point
  18. 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P6 of 9 - The Royal Navy’s Submarine Killers – Black Swans at War
    7:19:59The Mark 14 torpedo's testing failureQ&A
  19. Historiophon 2025: part 1 of 9 - National Museum of the Royal Navy II
    2:06:59How misleading trials could weaken Japanese air defenseNotable Point
  20. Bruships 218: New Books! British Telecom is a terrible ISP! Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    9:15Omura Bay's wartime naval roleQ&A
  21. Bruships 215 On the Road Japan 2025: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    37:53Assessing the Russian AK-176 gunQ&A
  22. What if the High Seas Fleet was not Scuttled in Scapa Flow?
    48:12German technology sparks a naval construction boomChapter
  23. What if the High Seas Fleet was not Scuttled in Scapa Flow?
    55:08German armor technique and fire-control choicesNotable Point
  24. What the Royal Navy thought of Coral Sea, Midway and Leyte Gulf?
    12:32Why aerial torpedoes needed a controlled water entryChapter
  25. Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    13:13How postwar gun tests could mislead the Royal NavyQ&A
  26. Bruships 210: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    34:08How HMS Warrior's armor was testedQ&A
  27. Bruships 207: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    5:03:02An Army troubleshooter fixes the Mark 14 torpedoQ&A
  28. Sir Eustace Tennyson d'Eyncourt: WWI Royal Navy's Director of Naval Construction
    59:35Nelson's 16-inch gun and the danger of a false test resultNotable Point
  29. Bruships 204: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    50:23How the Royal Navy might have handled Mark 14 failuresQ&A
  30. Bruships 202: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    4:06:55Why extra aircraft power would not solve heavy-torpedo dropsQ&A
  31. Bruships 202: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    4:08:08Where British aerial-torpedo test records surviveQ&A
  32. Bruships 198: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    5:08:37Insufficient testing caused early-war torpedo failuresQ&A
  33. Bruships 194: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    1:29:16The Mark 14 torpedo and responsibility for inadequate testingQ&A
  34. Bruships 194: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    4:19:44The risk behind Britain's aerial-torpedo tension wireQ&A
  35. Bruships 194: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    4:24:38Torpedo gyroscope icing and the limits of paper designQ&A
  36. Bruships 189: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    23:52Full-scope testing as the decisive Mark 6 exploder reformNotable Point
  37. Bruships 189: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    29:43Why global deployments gave the Royal Navy a torpedo-testing advantageNotable Point
  38. Bruships 180: Naval History Questions Answered...
    2:09:37How navies tested guns, shells, and armourQ&A
  39. What if the 1900s Royal Navy went full DARPA?
    53:04Do gun trials come before turret trials?Q&A
  40. Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat
    1:34:32Why tropical peacetime trials could miss pom-pom ammunition faultsQ&A
  41. Bruships 162: I can feel the Kalax in the Air Tonight... Oh Books! Naval History Questions & Chat
    1:47:49Using chronology to test claims about naval-gun developmentNotable Point
  42. Check Campaign 11: UAD has updated & to Learn it's new ways I started another British Campaign
    31:17How later fixes reshape the Mark 13 torpedo's reputationQ&A
  43. Bruships 144: Some Books(Can't Find Lego Cam Sorry) & Naval History Questions
    2:53:31What happened to the Royal Navy's 18-inch guns after FuriousQ&A
  44. Trident Fails to Fly
    8:05Test failures and promises of constant carrier availabilityChapter
  45. Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered
    7:50Gauss guns, railguns, and test publicityNotable Point
  46. Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered
    9:42Why advertised weapons performance needs a combat testNotable Point
  47. Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered
    2:09:50Why N3 gun performance cannot be predicted preciselyQ&A
  48. British Naval Aviation Doctrine during the 1920s & 30s: it's Context & Development
    1:35:31The Swordfish belongs to a new mid-1930s generationNotable Point
  49. British Naval Aviation Doctrine during the 1920s & 30s: it's Context & Development
    1:35:31Swordfish and torpedo evolve as one weapon systemChapter
  50. British Naval Aviation Doctrine during the 1920s & 30s: it's Context & Development
    2:20:49Henderson warns that peacetime tests can misleadChapter
  51. British Naval Aviation Doctrine during the 1920s & 30s: it's Context & Development
    2:28:42Simulations inherit assumptions that combat can overturnNotable Point
  52. Blackburn Blackburn: The Ugliest Eyes of the Fleet Ever Seen - Key Aircraft Series 1 Aircraft 1
    9:19Why interwar battleship-bombing tests could misleadNotable Point
  53. Unrotated Projectiles to Hypersonics: Some History & thoughts on Missiles as part of navies
    38:02Treat missile performance claims as sales claimsNotable Point
  54. HMS Formidable(1898): Lessons of a Highly Conventional Carreer - Key Ship Series 6, Ship 4
    8:21Formidable’s twelve-round gunnery trialNotable Point
  55. HMS Formidable(1898): Lessons of a Highly Conventional Carreer - Key Ship Series 6, Ship 4
    12:05Why rigorous gun and shell testing was discouragedNotable Point
  56. Albany Class: Comment Response
    6:22Shoot-X and early missile reliabilityNotable Point
  57. Alternate History - Royal Navy retains the Fleet 'units' of Royal Naval Air Service: Patreon 76
    3:14:13Dönitz and reports of defective torpedoesQ&A
  58. Alternate History - Royal Navy retains the Fleet 'units' of Royal Naval Air Service: Patreon 76
    3:22:03Why test environments mattered to torpedo reliabilityNotable Point
  59. Bruships 106: Song Dynasty & Three New Books from Pen & Sword
    1:30:56Worldwide testing helped British magnetic torpedoes workQ&A
  60. Bruships 106: Song Dynasty & Three New Books from Pen & Sword
    1:35:50Testing and institutional honesty separated torpedo programmesQ&A
  61. Naval Arms & Armour Research in prior to WWI
    7:51Why research did not necessarily produce reliable weaponsNotable Point
  62. Naval Arms & Armour Research in prior to WWI
    10:05German claims forced realistic Orion-class armour trialsChapter
  63. Naval Arms & Armour Research in prior to WWI
    12:22Armour trials exposed shell failures nobody wanted to examineNotable Point
  64. Naval Arms & Armour Research in prior to WWI
    13:34Shell quality mattered more than promises of a new designNotable Point
  65. Naval Arms & Armour Research in prior to WWI
    17:23Funding novelty could leave service shells unreliableNotable Point
  66. Naval Arms & Armour Research in prior to WWI
    20:08Jutland exposed failures Britain could have corrected earlierChapter
  67. Naval Arms & Armour Research in prior to WWI
    26:55Torpedo failures reveal testing inertia across naviesNotable Point
  68. Naval Arms & Armour Research in prior to WWI
    30:08The historical lesson: retest the assumptions behind the dataNotable Point
  69. Bruships 103: Belfast Parts yet to arrive... so let's consider the Run up to War...
    18:09Circular-running torpedoes and failed marksQ&A
  70. BC-304 Daedalus Class: Stargate SG1's Battle Cruisers (Comment Response)
    48:36Sustained fire needs people and ammunition handlingNotable Point
  71. Mersey(1885) Class: 19th Century Cruisers Series 2 Part 1
    18:11HMS Severn tests a submerged torpedo tubeNotable Point
  72. Bruships 89: New Books (Christmas Recomendations) & Personal Accounts of War
    3:33:27Mature weapons often work first when war beginsQ&A
  73. 19th Century Cruisers: Comment Response Video 1 (Introduction - Shannon)
    55:42Unproven weapons depend on the enemy behaving as expectedNotable Point
  74. 19th Century Cruisers: Comment Response Video 1 (Introduction - Shannon)
    1:08:38Secondary roles for an obsolete or unsuccessful warshipNotable Point
  75. Major Allied Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 1942
    14:38US torpedo failure reports needed urgent testingNotable Point
  76. Major Allied Navies of WWII: Five Problems and How to Fix them January 1940
    33:25Test the Mark 14 torpedo before America enters the warNotable Point
  77. Bruships 68: Random Naval History Books & Questions
    22:23Why the 4.5-inch mount arrived lateQ&A
  78. Bruships 58: Some Cool Books & Naval History Chat
    50:48Why magnetic torpedo fuzes needed worldwide testingNotable Point
  79. Bruships 46: Accounts of Naval War
    2:32:56Was Sea Wolf unreliable in the Falklands?Q&A
  80. Bruships 46: Accounts of Naval War
    3:13:49Torpedo failures at the First Battle of NarvikChapter
  81. Lend Lease Act 80yrs on...
    3:23:56Why gun trials do not settle destroyer performanceQ&A
  82. Four Random Books 28: Mavericks
    0:51Sea Harrier rocket trials turn misses into evidenceNotable Point
  83. Bilgepumps does Battlestar Galatica Deadlock for Navy Con 2/2
    1:07:18M247 Sergeant York and sensor-integration failureNotable Point
  84. Bilgepumps does Battlestar Galatica Deadlock for Navy Con 2/2
    1:08:00Sea Slug, Type 3 shells, and unrotated projectilesNotable Point
  85. Patreon 7 – How the RN countered E-Boats in the English Channel as proposed by Paul
    1:20:48Dog Boats participated in wartime weapons experimentsQ&A
  86. Tsingtao 1939: WWII but in January & against Japan - P5b Introduction to Patreon Video 4
    2:20Real war consumption exceeds exercise assumptionsChapter