The Drydock - Episode 244

Описание: 00:00:00 - Intro

00:00:53 - In your opinion as an engineer just how effective and worthwhile were both the Neptune and Minotaur class designs?

00:07:47 - Was there a reason for the RN's preference for the six secondary turrets to continue to be arranged 3 to a side, instead of the USN's hexagonal mounting arrangement on the Baltimores?

00:13:00 - How many capital ships were actually torpedoed during engagements between surface ships?

00:16:27 - Were the WWI era vessels still in service during WW2 generally still in fighting trim or outclassed by technological advances and decrepitude?

00:21:28 - Were there special versions of those guns for lefty-handed people?

00:23:03 - During the period the channel covers was the British population isolated enough to experience Insular dwarfism?

00:27:42 - How did ships in the Fleet Problems simulate it and misses without lasers and radar?

00:35:00 - Did the Royal Navy or Japanese Navy ever hold their own equivalent exercises similar to the US Fleet Problems?

00:38:56 - Uniform cut for ballast stones?

00:43:32 - In their original configuration how would the Lexington class carriers fair against treaty cruisers?

00:47:48 - In Post WWII interviews with Japanese naval commanders, who were the most forthcoming with information, and what were their honest thoughts of the performance of the respective navies involved?

00:52:35 - When did iron really started to replace bronze as primary gun-making material?

00:56:23 - How efficient was naval gunfire?

01:01:07 - What would be the top 3 of most regretable naval defeats in your mind?