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  1. S

    Old Ark Royal action

    Courtesy of the Warships One Forums. One of the nicer Ark videos I've seen http://www.avweb.com/eletter/archives/avflash/1271-full.html#199354
    • starviking
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    • aircraft carrier cold war fleet air arm great britain naval aviation royal navy
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  2. JAZZ

    New Vikrant Class carrier

    No doubt running late...but an interesting design with help of Fincantari. Expected to weigh in at 38,000t full load, 250m in length and about 24-32 aircraft.
  3. JAZZ

    Ader Clement CV

    French concept for an aircraft carrier put forward in 1985 - 24,000 tonnes overall length 220m and beam of 60m. Have this interesting drawing, I am looking for an artists impression of this concept. Two centre catapults are 75m long and can launch 22t aircraft, less powerful ones either side can...
    • JAZZ
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    • aircraft carrier cold war france french fifth republic late 1980s marine nationale nuclear powered vessels
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    • Forum: Secret Naval Projects
  4. overscan (PaulMM)

    Vickers Versatile Aircraft Carrier and 1983 Light Fleet Carrier

    Displacing 13,200 tons, space for 16 aircraft. 15deg ski jump. For peacetime operations a helicopter operates from the rear deck, in wartime the rear deck would be built up with containers to lengthen the flight deck. Length 604 ft. Source: Flight International, 12 Jan 1980.
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    • aircraft carrier british shipbuilders cold war early 1980s great britain royal navy united kingdom v/stol vickers ltd vickers plc vsel vstol carriers vtol
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    • Forum: Secret Naval Projects
  5. JAZZ

    Russian and Soviet Aircraft Carriers

    The Soviets had a number of stilborn aircraft carrier projects from the 1930's all the way through to the 1990's. One of the most studied was Project-72 dating back to WW-II (1943) I think. Other projects include Project-69A, Project-85 and Project 1123 (Moskova concepts) before getting to the...
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    • aircraft carrier cold war cold war ii commonwealth of independent states early 20th century imperial russian navy naval aviation nuclear powered vessels post-cold war red fleet russian empire russian federation russian navy soviet navy soviet union ussr v/stol vstol carriers
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    • Forum: Secret Naval Projects
  6. Antonio

    III Reich Aircraft Carrier Projects

    A very nice article on Graf Zeppelin from Roy C. Nesbit can be found at Aeroplane's March 2007 issue. a) In 1936, the keels of two carriers were laid down: Flugzeugtrager A (later Graf Zeppelin) and Flugzeugtrager B (latter Peter Strasser). b) In addition, Grossadmiral Erich Raeder, put...
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    • 1930s 1940s aircraft carrier axis powers carrier kriegsmarine nazi germany pre-world war ii world war ii
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    • Forum: Secret Naval Projects
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    PA.28, first Clemenceau carrier.

    You all know that the name "clemenceau" apply to an old french carrier, now dismantled in France (after some, eeerhm, humiliating atempts to scrap it overseas). building of this ship started in 1954, the hull was laid down in 1957, and the ship entered service in 1961. It was withdrawn in...
  8. GTX

    British Carriers Commando Ships and Escort Cruisers 1963 to 1968

    Hi Folks, I am interested in information on the cancelled British CVA-01 carrier design. Any assistance would be appreciated. Thankyou in advance. Regards, Greg
    • GTX
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    • aircraft carrier amphibious warfare vessel anti-air warfare anti-submarine warfare area air defence cold war commando carrier cruiser fleet air arm great britain guided missile aviation cruiser helicopter carrier late 1960s north atlantic treaty organisation royal marines royal marines commandos royal navy v/stol aircraft vstol carriers vtol
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    • Forum: Secret Naval Projects
  9. TinWing

    Malta Class: The UK's Cancelled Equivilent to the American Midways

    Here is a link to the Never Were Warships thread where Autocad drawings of the Malta class are available. http://www.phpbbplanet.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=750&mforum=warshipprojects
    • TinWing
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    • aircraft carrier great britain malta-class post-world war ii royal navy world war ii
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    • Forum: Secret Naval Projects
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    Grover Loening's Flying aircraft carrier (1954)

    In the mid fifties Loening produced a concept for a flying aircraft carrier of flying boat type.Information of this design should have appeared in "The Aeroplane" of that time.Issue unknown to me. (small article with illustration) Is there someone who ever have seen this article or who haves...
  11. TinWing

    CVN-77, CVX, and CVN-21 Design Studies

    Here is FAS link from 1997: http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ship/docs/cvx-alt/index.html As you can see, the drawings survive but the NAVSEA reports are long offline. Were there any public documents that gave specifications for the design studies?
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    • 1990s 2000s aircraft carrier early 21st century late 20th century naval sea systems command navsea nuclear powered vessels post-cold war semi-submersibles stealth united states united states navy war on terror
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