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The Drydock - Episode 261 (Part 2)
🕑 Added 2023-08-26 09:00:02 +0000 UTC00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:30 - Development of the Breechblock
00:05:34 - What factors drove the trend toward emphasizing "pivot" guns on wooden warships in the 1850s?
00:08:43 - Is a technological or operational limitation on how big a ship can get?
00:14:00 - Big structures atop US standard battleships?
00:18:30 - Unconstrained Iowa dimensions?
00:22:17 - Was oil spraying on coal a 'boost mode' or normal?
00:24:45 - Could gun sizes have increased earlier if the Dreadnought type was not yet invented?
00:24:47 - Was the 18"/40 discounted for HMS Hood because of its low MV?
00:30:00 - What were the Baden's going to do when they wore out their guns?
00:31:53 - What was the bigger threat in the Med, subs or aircraft?
00:38:13 - Was the failure of Jeune École due to navies unable to get the critical mass of ships needed to make it a viable doctrine?
00:43:36 - The evolution of anti-surface gun armament from the first carriers to the end of the era the channel covers?
00:50:32 - Who saw who first at Kula Gulf?
00:52:47 - Accuracy of some Armada-era ship models?
00:57:22 - If the Fashoda incident had 'gone hot' in the late 1890s what would the balance of power have been between the Royal Navy and their likely French and Russian opponents?
01:01:11 - A brief rundown of what the New Zealand navy got up to in WWII?
01:05:16 - Was or is there an international society for marine engineers, be they military or civilian?
01:06:15 - Different naval round types in space?
01:10:11 - Why was the British Pacific Fleet so behind the curve in UNREP late in WW2?
01:15:54 - Was there a correlation between shell diameter and armour thickness?
01:20:09 - What is a "first class pass" for a lieutenant's exam in the Victorian RN? How does one acquire five of them like Adm Dudley de Chair?
01:21:57 - What aspects would you change to make the H clas designs viable battleships for the middle to late 1940s?
01:26:27 - The contrast in the susceptibility of the Yorktown and Lexington class carriers to having their powerplants knocked offline by torpedo hits?
01:30:54 - What are some of the longest naval battles and why did they last so long?
01:33:38 - If HMS Caroline still had her weapons intact and in working order, where would her main battery land if fired?
01:35:35 - Rotary wing aviation in the Pacific?
01:37:07 - Related to a Battleship New Jersey video, what are your thoughts on the USS Idaho full magazine dump? Did the Royal Navy or other navies conduct similar tests?
01:39:08 - Are their any naval or other historical queries or mysteries us the audience can assist you with?
01:49:46 - What was the opinion of the Royal Navy brass on the USN in the interwar period, during WW2, and afterwards?
01:53:48 - Considering the RN was mostly gearing up its preWW2 fleet for War in the East, not taking the Kriegsmarine to serious, the German invasion of Norway was a particular tough pill to swallow. What effect did it have on the RN afterwards and what was learned?
Comments
Jellicoe Cats
So it looks like the projectile would would melt and then probably explosively boil. I’m making the assumption that these relativistic projectiles are only traveling at around 1/2 C so the Lorentz force is something sane like 1.5 so they aren’t going to go poof in a burst of X-Rays on contact.
Jellicoe Cats
This is kind of cool. I was wrong about the projectile shattering. Apparently this kind of hyper velocity projectile in a vacuum melts. https://engineering.stackexchange.com/questions/29325/what-happened-to-the-projectile-in-hypervelocity-impact-tests
Jellicoe Cats
I hate to disagree with you but I think solid shot from a rail gun could be very effective. I have not watched The Expanse but if a projectile is colliding with a solid object at relativistic velocities you would be converting literally tons of mass energy into heat in a very short period of time. The projectile and anything it hits is going to vaporize very violently and/or shatter on impact. I don’t think it’s going in one side and out the other. Honestly an iron cannonball would work pretty good for this kind of thing. You could top up your ammo at the nearest asteroid and molten iron would naturally form a sphere in zero gravity.
Ted Jones
I know this is something you've already covered, but I think you would really like reading a little book called "The Men of the Gambier Bay" by Edwin P. Hoyt. It covers both the sailors on the ship and the aviators in the air group. It's full of great stories. The question I would have for Royal Navy officers pre-war would have been what they thought of the Two Ocean Navy bill. That must have been a shock.
