The Drydock - Episode 392

00:00:00 - Intro 00:00:40 - Where does the USS Defiant from DS9 fit in ship classifications? 00:06:04 - What if Russia was actually able to commission the Project 24 ships? 00:08:01 - Would you consider making an episode on Royal Navy's blunders and incompetence? 00:10:18 - Which of Warspite's battles, Matapan or Narvik, was more devastating for the Axis, given the ships they lost and the effect they had on those nations fleets? 00:14:01 - Why were only destroyer-grade guns installed on US dreadnought secondary mounts and nothing larger? 00:20:14 - Why were E-boats so horribly ineffective in the Baie de Seine between the nights of June 5-June 7, 1944? The only defence I constantly see is “Allied smoke screens”? 00:24:01 - Steam motors on ships instead of turbines or VTE's? 00:28:19 - If the Derfflinger class battlecruisers had the armor and firepower, at least in gun caliber, of early British battleships, then why aren't they classified as fast battleships by modern naval historians? 00:33:18 - Ship armour questions? 00:43:43 - How would RMS Olympic perform as a carrier conversation? 00:48:13 - What was the most successful pirate nation in the age of sail? 00:50:55 - Tirpitz vs Yamato AA Suites? 00:58:09 - Fresh water supplies on a ship? 01:04:20 - I've heard and seen it written that a Battle Cruiser is a Battle ship with some of its armor traded out for more speed. Is this accurate? 01:10:12 - The US army had a 37mm auto cannons in service in both ground and air flavors, the M1 and M4 respectively. Did the navy ever consider adopting either for medium AA defense in a fit of interservice coordination?