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The Drydock - Episode 351 (Part 2)
🕑 Added 2025-05-24 09:30:01 +0000 UTC00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:26 - Could Shinano have been completed as a battleship in time for Leyte Gulf?
00:02:30 - Is the same shell used for all purposes in a DP gun?
00:06:14 - Notable examples where a competent job by somebody much too junior to be doing it was important to a positive outcome?
00:11:44 - How inferior is secondary and tertiary/turret rangefinders to main or radar guided gunnery? Would the shift be noticeable in terms of accurate fire on the enemy?
00:15:50 - Given the Kriegsmarine's significant losses during the Norway campaign at the hands of rather haphazard Royal Navy opposition, could more effective RN intervention completely destroyed the Kriegsmarine's surface fleet?
00:20:33 - Effect of the Anglo-German Naval Agreement on Anglo-French relations?
00:27:07 - If naval projectiles were made with todays standards and measures what ranges are theoretically possible with battleship-sized shells?
00:31:32 - Why did we see the development of gas turbines for aircraft during the interwar period but not the development of naval gas turbines?
00:37:00 - Approximately how much displacement did the aircraft facilities of treaty-era cruisers take up?
00:39:21 - Cactus Air Force vs Japanese troop convoys?
00:40:29 - Did any German u-boats out on patrol towards the end of the war just kind of try to keep a low profile and not die when it was obvious the war was lost but before official surrender orders came down?
00:42:29 - What would have been a reasonable production run for the Fletchers if war doesn't break out?
00:46:46 - How successful were torpedo boats as a whole at their stated mission; attacking large warships with torpedoes?
00:51:15 - Could you give a rough overview of the Focke-achgelis Fa 330?
00:53:43 - What is the smallest or economically least-damaging 'war' in an alternate history WW1 scenario, that gives the lessons of WW1 without the treaties afterwards?
01:02:06 - Logic behind Tryon's orders?
01:08:05 - What distinguishes the endurance against rust of a sea-going mount compared to a land-based one?
01:11:46 - What is the highest altitude from which an aircraft has scored a hit on a ship at sea with unguided bombs?
01:13:57 - Why did the IJN use Roman characters to designate targets/operations?
01:17:31 - When was the last 'cutting out' operation?
01:19:30 - How would the Tone class do in the Atlantic?
01:22:35 - Is MacArthur good at land and bad at sea or something else?
01:29:08 - Upgraded HMS Repulse?
01:34:00 - "Unhappy calibers?"
01:40:40 - Considering the importance of Operation Pedestal, why is Admiral Syfret still relatively obscure in WW2 naval history?
01:46:01 - In your opinion, at the start of each World War, what was the maximum practical displacement that a ship of a given type could have and still be considered a member of that type?
01:54:13 - Was there a particular strategic or manufacturing reason why the European navies stuck with the 15 inch?
01:59:02 - Just how much spare cloth was actually aboard a ship of her size while at sea?
02:02:45 - How did newly assigned captains prepare themselves for their new command?
02:06:31 - Would the RN have accepted either the North Carolina or South Dakota designs?
02:11:14 - Half-measures superior to radical technology?
02:15:22 - Can you briefly describe the tactics in the Age of Sail regarding firing broadside volleys in combat?
Comments
Ted M Jones
Something I only recently realized about MacArthur is that it looks like the US Army really wasn't keen on having him leaving his posting on the far side of the globe. Even at the end of the war they didn't want him home for any reason.
The Rogue Chief
Kissinger in his book Diplomacy did describe the French has having a rather fatalistic attitude going into WWII; but this was ascribed more to its situation after WWI, wherein they were really bad off but recognized that Germany was actually doing far better than them in spite of the war losses, the effects of the civil war/revolution, and the terms of the Versailles Treaty, meaning that should Germany come back for revenge (which Paris thought was a near certainty) the Germans would be far more capable than themselves As for the Locarno Pact, he did have some choice things to say about it— mainly in terms of it not being a real geopolitical alliance but more of a halfway house caught up in the Wilsonian/League culture of the time that sought more to move past war as a form of policy rather than create a mutually supportive armed deterrence (kinda like how in the Kellogg-Briand Pact Paris went to the Americans looking for a military alliance and Washington basically said “Yes! We will outlaw war!” 🤨)
