The Drydock - Episode 344
Added 2025-04-05 08:00:06 +0000 UTC00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:42 - What's your personal favorite naming scheme for each major navy in the period the channel covers?
00:06:01 - Penetration capabilities of WW2 capital ships?
00:14:51 - Has every single major navy at some point had a destroyer named thunder or lightning?
00:15:53 - How exaggerated was A. Iachino's statement regarding the Littorio Class' dispersion?
00:19:13 - What were some absolutely crazy ideas for destroyers?
00:22:01 - Redesigning AP shells to deal with de-capping plates?
00:25:30 - Revised Littorio armour scheme?
00:29:09 - Could the Italians have adopted a dual-use secondary armament for the Littorios, like the American 5"/38?
00:34:16 - What are the top 5 USNI books or articles would you recommend to anyone?
00:36:04 - What if Bismarck broke out into the Atlantic after the Battle of the Denmark Strait?
00:41:35 - What if the Grand Fleet deployed to starboard instead of to port?
00:47:17 - How badly shot up were the vanguards of the British squadrons in general at Trafalgar, and Victory and Royal Sovereign in particular?
00:50:42 - How did the Chinese navy of the 19th Century reflect on its various defeats by the British, French, and Japanese?
00:54:45 - Could you tell us about the ASM-N-2 Glide bomb that saw limited use near the end of the war? How did it compare it's more famous German contemporaries?
00:57:58 - Could you please tell us about the X4 fast battleship design?
01:00:54 - Was plunging fire actually effective enough to warrant how much work some navies put into it as an offensive strategy?
01:03:09 - WW2 cruisers: 8" long range or 6" rate of fire?
Comments
HMS Exeter in the Java Sea was another case where plunging fire was effective.
Ted M Jones
2025-04-06 05:59:13 +0000 UTCThe Warship International article that Drach references in the segment about armor penetration (00:06:01) is in the September 2024 issue (Volume 61, Issue 3). The title is: Predicting the Past: Probability and Penetration, An Enhanced Analysis of Armor Penetration written by José Medina and Bill Jurens.
Tim Jacobs
2025-04-05 19:30:42 +0000 UTC
