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The Drydock - Episode 362
🕑 Added 2025-08-09 08:00:05 +0000 UTC00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:38 - How did Taiho's lift wells contribute to her sinking?
00:05:01 - Did the Germans ever try to get input for proper surface ship designs from the other Axis powers?
00:09:20 - Could the Imperial Japanese Navy have instituted an effective submarine blockade of British India in 1942 and 1943 using captured ports in the Dutch East Indies as supply bases?
00:13:48 - Did the Germans share their homing torpedo tech with the Italians or Japanese?
00:15:54 - Could a viable cargo submarine have been made if it were designed from the start to be a cargo vessel intended to haul materials comparable to a surface ship?
00:22:34 - Could other torpedoes apart from the G7e have been reverse engineered?
00:28:44 - If France kept the Richelieu's, how hard would it have been to install VLS's at the back end?
00:32:57 - Considerations for a triple 15" KGV?
00:36:26 - Were other locations seriously cosidered for the East of Suez dockyard, such as Mombasa, Aden, Persian Gulf or Bombay (Mumbai) and was the final location decided in conjunction with the Simonstown dockyard development?
00:41:12 - There seem to be two main variations of the Baltic Project: Cutting off German trade with Sweden or invading Pomerania. Which plan do you think works best?
00:42:35 - Cargo Submarines in WW1?
00:49:31 - Is there any individual allied merchant ship (or warship on a transport mission) whose loss to the u-boats hit the allies particularly bad because of its irreplaceable cargo?
00:52:30 - How effective could thermobaric weapons be against warships?
00:56:45 - How significant was crew quality vs. ship design in deciding battles in the age of Sail?
01:02:41 - Could you please expand on the efforts to recover downed RAF and FAA aircrew in the channel by the Royal Navy and costal command throughout the second world war?
01:06:47 - If Lexington and Saratoga had been completed as battle cruisers and the naming of historic US battles had stayed with that class, what do you think the naming convention of the fleet carriers would have followed?
Comments
The Rogue Chief
a suggestion is made that the U.S. Navy should adopt a Royal Navy practice… … Adm King’s corpse spontaneously reanimates looking for retribution
The Rogue Chief
“Retrofit a Typhoon class SSBN into a massive bulk cargo sub to take advantage of economies of scale” *excited Putin noises*
