The Drydock - Episode 316

00:00:00 - Intro

00:00:45 - Do you expect anything earth-shattering from WW2 declassification?

00:05:43 - Alternatives to the IJN 25mm?

00:09:49 - If your desired armor thickness is a bit more more that your steel industry can make and you are forced to use inefficient multiple layers, is it better to have each layer be half the desired thickness, or for one layer to be the maximum thickness you CAN make and the second to be thinner, just making up the remainder?

00:15:06 - It seems that the larger the gun system, the more complicated and demanding it becomes to construct and operate. What was the “sweet spot” in large naval guns, the best balance of hitting power and simplicity? Would larger numbers of smaller ships armed with more guns of a smaller caliber have been the better route than the drive towards ever larger and ever more complex guns?

00:22:20 - Difference between US and Japanese armour performance?

00:27:29 - Had British battlecruiser design sacrificed some speed for armour, roughly how much extra tonnage in protection could they have had while still being effective in the battlecruiser role, and was this feasible for RN ship builders at the time?

00:33:54 - Citadels, Buoyancy and Sinking

00:39:14 - How good was Vasco de Gama's refit?

00:43:17 - Ships badly damaged or sunk on trials?

00:45:38 - What did the Japanese think had happened to allow the Americans to successfully engage them at Midway, before the truth of CPT Rochefort's team came out?

00:52:17 - How much longer would the Swordfish have been in service, if the war against Germany had not been won in the actual timescale, ignoring nuclear events?

00:55:07 - What proportion of the Japanese fleet was the Combined Fleet at Tsushima?

00:57:35 - Deck-launched Ohka's?