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The Drydock - Episode 275
🕑 Added 2023-12-02 11:30:01 +0000 UTC00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:57 - Why did so many battleship armour belts end up below the water?
00:07:13 - How would the process of rearmouring the ship to a new type of plating take place?
00:11:48 - In your opinion Drach, what would need to be changed, either on the Japanese side, or the Russian side, for the Russians to win the Russo-Japanese War?
00:17:36 - German project 50 steam powered submarines?
00:25:30 - How effective and useful were searchlights in WW1, WW2? How often were they used?
00:29:59 - What makes a warship qualify as a dreadnought?
00:36:16 - Should Force Z have gone elsewhere?
00:42:48 - Are you aware of any plans to use the excellent fw190 on the graf zeppelin?
00:46:25 - When did sink exercises first take place, and how scientific were the first exercises?
00:49:04 - How would a 1st rate built with modern day materials fair in the ironclad era ?
00:51:55 - Could Wallises bouncing bombs be theoretically used against the St. Nazaire dock gates?
00:54:54 - We know that had Japan not surrendered after the Atomic bombs hit Hiroshima and Nagasaki that America would of launched an invasion of Japan but what were British naval plans?
00:59:36 - Could you explain the engineering processes used to raise, preserve and display the Mary Rose.
Comments
Allen Parmet
It's called skip bombing. https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/wwii-pioneers-of-skip-bombing/
Grumman Cat
Bombers launching bouncing bombs would probably need a long run time to set up their attacks. You can get that over a lake but I doubt you can get that amount of clear open water in a harbor.
Grumman Cat
It may not be the first SINKEX, but the first proto-battleship USS Texas was pretty much a SINKEX. And it was not very (if at all) scientific IIRC.
