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The Drydock - Episode 371

Added 2025-10-11 08:00:04 +0000 UTC

00:00:00 - Intro

00:01:04 - Were there any ships armed or planned to be armed with homing torpedos during WW2, if there weren't any/or a lot then why?

00:05:00 - Better escort designs for the IJN?

00:10:52 - S-Boat that could partially submerge?

00:12:36 - Which individual class of warship do you think is the most overblown in terms of strategic value or general utility?

00:19:14 - How do German armoured cruisers from the WW1 period compare with their contemporaries?

00:25:04 - Mini-S-Boats for Hilfskreuzer?

00:27:53 - How far was USS Enterprise CV-6 from being preserved?

00:31:21 - Did any submarines use more than two shafts? Or where they limited strictly by their small size?

00:32:51 - Did the Soviets know about the Helmover?

00:35:13 - Presumably, Rodney and Nelson were fervently asking to be refitted to carry Helmovers, just in case Tirpitz and Scharnhorst came out to play?

00:40:54 - What are you thoughts on Cochrane on film?

00:46:23 - If someone in the right position had thought of the Angled Flight Deck in the interwar period, would it have been valuable for WW2 era carriers/aircraft?

00:52:16 - Would having the KGVs do shore bombardment with their larger bursting charges have been beneficial against the caves and fortified positions in some of the bloodiest Japanese island battles?

00:54:36 - AEGIS Iowa, why not?

00:58:58 - Do the papers of “Jackie” Fisher discuss his view of the justification and expected employment of his battlecruisers (or “Dreadnought armored cruisers”)?

01:06:54 - Why did it take so long to get rid of Miles Browning?