The Drydock - Episode 062
00:00:18 - Channel Admin
00:02:40 - Recoil on old-school cannon
00:06:06 - Ship prefix's/hull numbers
00:12:36 - How do the ironclads of the minor nations of Europe stack up to the ones of countries like France and Britain?
00:18:41 - What's your thoughts on the movies Master and Commander: Far side of the World, Das Boot, and Tora! Tora! Tora!
00:21:24 - HESH for battleships and alternate gun layouts
00:27:42 - Constructiong Age of Sail warships, odd weapons, fire support and Yamato's lightbulbs (???)
00:35:47 - What was the benefits of center battery iron clads over broadside ones?
00:39:10 - USS Arizona survives?
00:42:42 - Were fleet-carrier aircraft ever (even as an expedient) rearmed/refueled on the flight-deck? Or was it always done below, on the hanger-deck? Same question with escort-carriers
00:46:04 - Battle of Kinburn?
00:47:37 - Franco German War 1905 or 1911?
00:55:38 - Which of the commanders at Pearl Harbor was in a better position to minimize the damage done by the Japanese attack, Admiral Kimmel or General Short?
01:01:21 - Ship naming
01:06:15 - At the beginning of the US Civil War the US Army lost tons of very capable officers to the CSA. How about the US Navy? Was the situation similar, or was the antebellum US Navy officer corps more dominated by Northeners?
01:08:47 - Armour and Structural Steel
01:16:42 - Beatty and Nelson switch places
01:24:30 - Who would win between Fletcher-class vs. Littoral (Independence variant), guns only?
01:29:50 - Can the IJN win Leyte Gulf?
01:35:47 - Early 20th century damage control
01:41:52 - Would you consider the armor and torpedo protection on the South Dakota class to be a downgrade from the North Carolina class?
01:48:20 - When were steam catapults developed?
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