The Drydock - Episode 229

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00:00:00 - Intro 00:00:46 - As the Saipans were originally made as escort carriers, would they have worked well as a pure fighter carrier, and would they have survived kamikazes if hit with their armor? 00:05:06 - "Military Communications" ships? 00:10:25 - Do you think that the Romans or Greeks or Carthaginians had the technological capabilities or could have developed the technology within a few hundred years to build a ship with the size and sea going capability of late 18th century ships of the line ala HMS Victory (obviously minus cannons) before the beginning of the first millennium AD? 00:13:34 - Do you think the biggest ships in Zheng He's treasure fleet ever really existed the way their size is described, given not even in the 1800s wooden, metal-reinforced ships of smaller size had trouble not breaking on the open ocean? 00:18:01 - Are shells interchangeable for example cold Rodney and Iowa fire each other’s main battery shells? 00:22:50 - HMS Tiger at Chatham? 00:23:47 - Lexington and Hood differences? 00:28:23 - With the K-class, did no one, at any point, stop to question whether designing a sub whose crush depth was less than the length of the sub itself might have been a poor design choice? 00:33:50 - Would wood from the West Australian Jarrah tree have made good timbers for wooden warships? 00:37:06 - Tabletop games, how do you personally rate different games and systems? 00:41:13 - Which Dystopian Wars model is HMS Warspite? 00:41:58 - Do yo

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