Drachinifel
patreon
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
Ted M Jones
HMS Exeter in the Java Sea was another case where plunging fire was effective.
Tim Jacobs
The 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.
