The Drydock - Episode 394

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00:00:00 - Intro 00:00:35 - Were there any instances in WW2 where warships without air cover successfully saw off an air attack without unacceptable losses? 00:04:00 - Upgradable hulls? 00:12:13 - In his early years, Admiral Roszestvensky served as head of the small Bulgarian navy with the rank of lieutenant commander. What are other examples of a relatively low ranking officer commanding a nations naval forces? 00:16:52 - S-class and ASDIC? 00:19:53 - Pre-WW1 AIP submarine? 00:28:12 - With and without the benefit of hindsight, how should the British have built their post war carrier fleet, scrap everything and build the Malta class, update the Implacable class? 00:38:52 - Theoretically, despite being warn out after D-Day. Could the old BBs of the Queen Elizabeth, Revenge and Nelson-Class be refitted and gradually join the British Pacific Fleet as a bombardment force in time for the Battle of Okinawa. Both so that the KGVs don’t have to detach from the carrier screen and to provide back up for the USN’s standard/ old battleships whenever one got damaged or needed to be rotated out? 00:42:26 - If a ship was damaged to the point where it needs to be scuttled. Does that mean the ship that inflicted said damage gets the kill credit? 00:46:32 - Given that the Finnish coastal defense ships Väinämöinen and Ilmarinen were not really meant to be fighting on the high seas to begin with, and given the meager Finnish defense budgets in the inter-war years, would it have been b

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