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The Drydock - Episode 303
🕑 Added 2024-06-22 07:00:02 +0000 UTC00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:47 - If the funds & technology wereavailable, would the Italian Navy actually convert Francesco Caracciolo into an aircraft carrier?
00:04:20 - Would the Japanese have had use for a 'pocket battleship'?
00:10:19 - Why Regia Marina didn't just trade two Francesco Carraciolo class for two Andrea Doria class?
00:13:49 - If she had been completed would the Francesco Caracciolo have made much of an impact on the Second world war as ether a battleship or as its carrier conversion?
00:20:14 - How good were U-Boat AA defences in 1942?
00:23:12 - Upgrading the Type VII's and Type IX's instead of building the Type XXI's?
00:29:38 - Britain seems to have had excellent Admirals in WW2, how did they achieve this after the somewhat mediocre crop in WW1?
00:34:33 - If Takao had managed to repair her fire directors before engaging Godzilla, would the standoff distance make a significant difference to the outcome?
00:36:53 - If Yukikaze had been disarmed, how was she refitted for her Chinese/Taiwanese military service later on?
00:38:42 - In the Age of Sail the Royal Navy seems to have been especially wedded to seniority above all else for advancing captains, commodores, and admirals. Is this correct?
00:44:54 - Warships hitting bridges?
00:49:49 - During the age of sail did navies ever experiment with armor, harder wood or other innovations to counter raking fire and if not why not?
00:54:51 - Early in the channel’s history, you qualified Rodney’s torpedo hit on Bismarck as “probable.” However, more recently, it seems to me that you’ve been more definitive that it actually happened. Is the hit confirmed in your mind? What’s the evidence for and against its veracity?
01:01:23 - Has there ever been a case where a person was launched out of a torpedo tube, either intentionally or accidentally?
01:04:44 - 20th century Japanese battleship design seems to have taken their strongest influences from the Royal Navy. However, were there any other notable influences to Japanese capital ship design in this timeframe that they incorporated from observing other major navies such as the USA, Germany, Italians, etc?
