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The Drydock - Episode 242
🕑 Added 2023-04-08 09:00:02 +0000 UTC00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:42 - Standard-types vs Iterative designs for battleships?
00:06:04 - Is it common for a country to keep ships in active continuous service for as much as 50 years?
00:09:06 - What did they use the space of the plated over hull casement guns for?
00:11:01 - If the Germans had managed to navalize the 150mm flak 50 would it have made an effective secondary/heavy AA weapon?
00:13:42 - In WW2 the electricians branch of the the Royal Navy was part of the torpedo branch, why was this?
00:17:58 - If Urban combat is the nightmare for Generals, what's an Admirals nightmare?
00:23:54 - How did pre-1800s shipbuilders know about things like the rake increasing speed?
00:28:03 - You mentioned that falsely striking your colours is extremely dishonourable, but what if the enemy shoots your colours down (by for example knocking over the mast that carries them) and you want to continue fighting anyway?
00:32:10 - Were night air attacks on shipping common in World War 1 and 2?
00:36:06 - How is crush depth for submarines determined? Also, what is the thermal layer?
00:44:16 - KGV Armament options in the post-Treaty era?
00:49:55 - In your opinion, roughly how many ships should a class have to be considered a swarm?
00:53:29 - What caused the transition to fully enclosed turrets on smaller ships like destroyers?
00:57:10 - Modernising USS Saratoga?
01:00:44 - Had the 1933 Operations IV Wargame ended differently, and the US had not revised War Plan Orange, is it conceivable to think the United States would not win the war in the Pacific or that combat would be elongated by several more violent years?
Comments
Capitano Lorenzo
Q&A : How about discussing flogging in the RN?
Ted Jones
Nightmare for Admirals: First Guadalcanal. Alternate post 1941: The USN wouldn't have had the oilers for the attack they wanted.
Bismarck Battle of Biscane Bay
