Bruships 194: Naval History Questions Answered Live...

About three: the torpedo was roughly 5.5 metres or 18 feet long, with its exact length depending slightly on the nose fuze.

The Blackburn Blackburn adapted the Dart torpedo bomber by replacing its torpedo-carrying arrangement with a large cabin while retaining major airframe components.

Probably a Japanese or Korean vessel built with hardwood pegs, although no definitive last ship is identified.

Possibly, but their remaining condition will reflect how heavily six hulls have been used; a larger class with a rotating reserve would have preserved availability and hull life much better.

No. Reservists normally hold civilian jobs and receive military pay when they train or are mobilized.

Penny Mordaunt's reserve service raised the question of how a prime minister's political authority would fit with an existing naval commission.

ASROC could supplement helicopter searches with additional weapons, but no adoption timetable is given. Its use would have to be weighed against other demands on vertical-launch cells.

A shared payload limit links drone design to the complete torpedo package, while water entry creates a separate engineering problem.

The idea merits watching, but communications requirements and repeated design changes make firm conclusions premature.

The individual flags are standard; the important material is the code-book combination and the command context, especially Beatty's failure to explain his intended actions beforehand.

No; related strategic purposes do not erase the institutions' distinct cultures, technical professions, and leadership requirements.

They needed bases, but not usually comparable pens; local methods such as submerging boats and using existing fortifications could reduce vulnerability.

No; responsibility varied, and in Britain and the United States much ground-based air defence belonged to Army organizations.

The launcher may be manageable, but a credible ASW system requires sensors, power, people, and support that can rapidly transform the OPV into a frigate.

Electrical demand captures only part of it: accommodation takes hull space, and larger complements can require a doctor and other support.

Obstetric training, reflecting the presence of women and families among camp followers as well as soldiers' medical needs.

Small crews and covert operations kept doctors on larger ships or submarine tenders, while surface-ship medical officers also handled emergency response and preventive health.

Yes; it is worth reading as a historically situated discussion starter, not as a definitive solution to nuclear strategy.

They were divided among Allied navies, tested, scrapped, or buried, and difficult German machinery reduced the value of several otherwise capable hulls.

Views differ: one response condemns the early torpedo, while another reserves the criticism for inadequate testing and the refusal to accept reports of failure.

It would alter Pacific logistics and remove one dispute while creating another, with the United States more dependent on and more suspicious of British positions.

Malta passed from Hospitaller to French and British control, while the displaced order continued diplomatic and hospital work.

Probably not, but she is the clearest and most famous case of a moving warship deliberately presented as an island.

Different succession rules separated the British crown from Hanover under Queen Victoria, freeing Britain from a German territorial connection as unification conflicts approached.

Territory was valuable when it protected commerce, extracted resources, or broke a rival trade monopoly; permanent direct rule was not always the most profitable choice.

Their First World War contact mines were broadly similar, but Second World War mine warfare expanded into magnetic, acoustic, and influence weapons.

Carriers compete with land-based range arguments and reveal that naval aviation requires a distinct service culture and set of capabilities.

Rarely; disguising a ship as another vessel or nationality and breaking up its outline were much more common methods.

The proposals favor different combinations of capital ships, carriers, cruisers, and destroyers, backed by dockyard investment and continuing political support.

An American construction proposal combines extra Lexington hulls with carrier conversions and shipyards large enough to support the resulting fleet.

A British alternative develops the Hawkins cruiser, converts unfinished capital ships into carriers, and keeps separate battleship and battlecruiser construction running.

Keep the Nagato and Amagi groups, build balanced cruiser families and modest carriers, and avoid a construction surge large enough to wreck the Japanese economy.

Worldwide trials would test the Mark 14 torpedo and Mark 6 exploder across different environments.

Improved destroyers, protected cruisers and faster American battleships accompany British G3 and K3 proposals.

A trade-protection fleet pairs better-armoured County-class cruisers with small scouting carriers while weighing gun range against fire-control limits.

Canadian officers continued surveying possible invasion routes in the United States during the relatively friendly interwar period.

Overseas yards and naval maintenance networks would support merchant-fleet modernization as well as warship operations.

Accelerate Bofors weapons and naval aviation, then reinvest export income in aircraft cruisers, shipyards, and Baltic reconnaissance.

It can be if the conflict remains geographically distant and limited or proxy-based; direct threats to homeland territory make prolonged restraint far less likely.

None as independent fleets; a global maritime empire would centralize naval and air power, control key ports and trade routes, and leave most local administration in place.

When hull wear limits performance or leaves too little life to repay the machinery investment, although political and fleet-gap pressures can alter the decision.

Expensive specialist tools and domestic defence production involve technical tolerances and skilled labour that ordinary retail comparisons can miss.

Infantry veterans can bring leadership and practical judgment to nursing and university study even when they lack a directly transferable civilian trade.

Nuclear use disrupts conventional war models. Whether a Russia-NATO or US-China conflict could remain conventional is disputed: limited aims may encourage restraint, while defeat and mistrust may drive escalation.

A dispute over NATO nuclear release separates battlefield use from political authorization and the risk of strategic escalation.

A disputed escalation scenario examines how casualties, exhaustion and broken communications could defeat safeguards around nuclear decisions.

Britain would gain a major advantage in the Atlantic, while Japan would lose much of its effective torpedo armament. The scenario includes faults in both the Mark 6 exploder and the early Mark 14 itself.

CAPTOR-like torpedo mines exist, but no torpedo releasing smaller torpedoes is identified. The proposed system offers little interception advantage and reduces the force available against a pressure hull.

A useful torpedo is already so heavy that the carrier missile becomes enormous, and the underwater phase adds far more drag than an airborne terminal attack.

A hostile assessment of Lee's battlefield leadership leads to a distinction between the prewar Army's ideal officer and the commanders who proved effective in war.

No precise timetable is given. The counterfactual could destroy German and Italian surface forces much earlier, reshape North Africa and Crete, and change the conditions facing Japanese planners.

Possibly: she would have better protection and might remain afloat long enough for recovery. She might also be deployed elsewhere, so the historical attack need not recur.

Missile ships are excellent for opening strikes, but carriers remain valuable for sustained operations because their aviation magazines can be replenished at sea.

They could push the treaty ceiling to 16.5 or 17 inches and complicate American procurement, while making Hood's battlecruiser characteristics more apparent.

Possible demands include a higher tonnage limit, Hood's scrapping or an end to the building holiday, with controlled construction and age-based replacement as an alternative.

Choices include Småland, Renown, Warspite, Enterprise CV-6 and CV-65, Ark Royal, the Courageous-class carriers, Tiger, Repulse, the second Rurik and a medieval carrack associated with Lübeck.

No. Calling land-based bombers to deliver parachute bombs far out at sea is rejected as historically implausible.

Competing explanations for Dutch courage lead into stories about insulting gestures, with unresolved etymologies and hand positions that depend on the video's visuals.

Bofors guns and Browning small arms remain plausible, while an M5 Stuart would require extensive modernization rather than continued service in its wartime form.

There is no single established explanation here. The proposed reasons concern commodore's use as an appointment, attitudes to flag titles and the later development of a clearer admiral hierarchy.

Turner sank after an internal explosion on 3 January 1944. A contemporary investigation into the sinking is identified for further research.

Not in the way it performs in game; it is essentially a light cruiser protected by destroyer rules that would not exist in real combat.

A large cruiser such as Alaska or Baltimore, or a spacious late destroyer such as the Battle class, offers far better modernization margins than a small escort.

The preferred use is to remove the heavy guns and exploit the large hulls for long-range patrols or torpedo batteries. Japanese responses could instead favour guns or aircraft.

The big Mediterranean fleet exercises were most valuable, but exercise incentives distorted air targeting and understated how submarines could relocate after contact was lost.

Years upon years if they worked alone, with no precise estimate given; recruiting more workers would change the timescale.

Elizabeth's military driver training supported practical vehicle maintenance and later stories about driving visiting rulers.

The demanding Knowledge examination explains black-cab drivers' distinctive expertise and their traditional right to accept street hails.

Probably a fast, better-armored small capital ship with 12-inch guns, shaped by British battlecruiser experience rather than a direct Alaska copy.

London's ancient grid survives only in a small core; later growth absorbed neighboring settlements and county land through piecemeal development rather than one metropolitan plan.

A contemporary Admiral-class ship is considered sufficient; Vanguard or a modern anti-ship missile supplies the deliberately excessive alternatives.

Perhaps around 100,000 tons, with the real constraint coming from affordable fleet numbers and infrastructure rather than a single technical barrier.

As heroic sacrifice if Britain ultimately secured the theatre, but as abandonment if the small squadron was all Britain sent and the campaign failed.

Yes, when the repair required it, especially for pressure-hull work. Their small size allowed them to use modest dry docks, sometimes alongside other vessels.

A senior British command is doubtful. Possible alternatives include the Indian Army, Home Guard, French Foreign Legion, or German advisory work in China, where his infantry experience would be useful.

Conventional propulsion has met surface-fleet needs without the port-access and diplomatic complications of nuclear ships, though future power requirements could alter that balance.

Type 83's propulsion choice meets competing demands for new escorts, missile capacity, and enough sustained work to support another shipyard.

The claim is rejected because Britain and the United States cooperate closely on reactor development, with Rolls-Royce participating in that shared work.

Suggestions include Littorio to test the Pugliese protection system and Tirpitz because of the effort historically spent sinking her. The initial preference is to sacrifice no additional ship.

Europe would probably already know they were there, so England would choose among trade, conquest, or alliance - possibly using them against Spain - rather than experience a sudden surprise.

Eskimo, Nubian, Tartar, Ashanti, and Haida, largely because all survived long enough for preservation to have been possible.

Not inherently. It names historical communities and military traditions, but policing and Soviet memory give it context-dependent meanings.

They could make the war even more destructive, but rivalry over Poland-Lithuania would probably break the alliance and drive another realignment.

Swedish trophy displays and a remembered Confederate-flag dispute expose the tension between condemning wartime plunder and retaining captured symbols.

It was risky and unusual but technically purposeful; careful testing was essential because a wire that failed to part could pull the aircraft into the sea.

The precise cause is not explained. The reply treats it as a design that looked satisfactory on paper but failed in practice and needed correction.

Cornish mining migration connects regional speech with technical knowledge, followed by a tentative explanation for the aerial-torpedo tension wire's inspiration.

Less than in the 1770s, because the 1870s navy already had good supplies of quinine. The reply does not establish the particular benefits of either proposed drug.

The Italian and Austrian fleets at Lissa are the suggested starting point. Later wooden small craft qualify only under a broader definition of frontline service.

Choices include Implacable, Unicorn, Des Moines, Alaska, a Town-class cruiser, and Shimakaze, with disputed eligibility. Under Vian, the proposed squadron is expected to overwhelm the German fleet.