From Norman Friedman's US Small Combatants, pages 319-323 (most of those pages are pictures of PBRs, a Coast Guard 82-footer and a 57-ft Minesweeper Boat)
Table 12-5. Schemes for Ocean Reconnaissance Ships, 31 March 1966
A
B
C
D
E
May 1967
LBP (ft)
317.5
311
311
315
—
374
LOA...
1960s
anti-submarinewarfare
cold war
late 1960s
maritime reconnaissance
oceanographic research
research ship
sonar
strategic reconnaissance
tactical reconnaissance
u.s. navy
united states navy
See https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2025/02/uk-sets-out-project-cabot-ambition-to-deploy-autonomous-asw-screen-in-the-north-atlantic/
TLDR: Project Cabot proposes as Phase 1 "Atlantic NET" coverage of GIUK gap using a COCONO (contractor owned, contractor operated, naval oversight)...
A comment in another thread abut how Australia should have transferred RAN A4s to the RAAF instead of selling them to New Zealand reminded me of a bunch of other Australian decisions.
Meteor for Korean War service when we were building Nene-Vampires.
Authorising 30 F104s in early 57, cancelling...
alternate history
anti-submarinewarfare
close air support
cold war
commonwealth of australia
electronic warfare
fighters
royal australian air force
royal australian navy
strategic bomber
strategic reconnaissance
Late 80s (88-90) US Navy Program to replace the E-3C, S-3B and EA-6B carrier-based AEW, ASW and EW aircraft. I believe it evolved into the E-X program to replace the E-2, this is why i’m attaching the image of the Boeing E-X proposal, which is seen here in ASW markings. (VS-24 scouts was an S-3...
aew
airborne early warning
anti-submarinewarfare
asw
carrier based
cold war
early 1990s
electronic warfare
late 1980s
naval aviation
tanker aircraft
u.s. navy
united states navy
usn
Some good news, along with a bit of background:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y36pTr09f3Y
https://www.yahoo.com/news/u-navy-flipping-ship-upcycled-134616867.html
https://gcaptain.com/saving-rv-flip-from-the-wreckers-clawsand-its-story-is-mind-blowing/...
acoustic research
anti-submarinewarfare
cold war
cold war ii
department of the navy
early 21st century
experimental
late 20th century
oceanographic research
office of naval research
post-cold war
research
research ship
research vessel flip
scripps institution of oceanography
sonar
u.s. navy
united states navy
uss flip
war on terror
Since there aren't any large threads for FREMM already, I figured I would create one specifically to discuss the background and development of the FREMM-EVO, a pair of interim frigates ordered for the Marina Militare Italiana.
Background:
Before we talk about the FREMM-EVO, we should talk...
anti-submarinewarfare
bureau of ships
buships
cold war
destroyer escort
early 1960s
experimental
gas turbine
late 1950s
research
test ship
testbed
trials ship
united states
united states navy
The three Tiger class cruisers arouse strong opinions.
As the only major non-carrier RN warships built after WW2 they mark the transition of the RN from a force built round its battleships' big guns to a missile dominated navy.
The 6" and 3" guns fitted to them were supposed to be a new approach...
anti-submarinewarfare
cold war
command cruiser
command ship
cruiser
east of suez
falklands war
fleet air arm
gun cruiser
helicopter and command cruiser
helicopter cruiser
naval fire support
north atlantic treaty organisation
nsfs
post-world war ii
royal navy
vstol carriers
world war ii
Those who tought, like me, that all the German engineering expertise on hardware airships ended with the Hindenburg, are wrong. The BA/MA in Freiburg has a file (included in RM 7/2382), dated 12.2.1938,and stemming from the Kriegsmarine, refering to a proposal, serious enough to the point of...
The saga of the Royal Navy's carriers after 1966 has been the main focus of interest here, but the workhorse of the RN then as now was the frigate.
By the 1970s the RN had plans to replace its Type 12 Leander class frigates with the larger all missile armed Type 22.
Leanders were designed...
1970s
aaw
alternate history
anti-air warfareanti-submarinewarfare
anti-surface warfare
area air defence
asuw
asw
cold war
escort vessel
frigates
great britain
late 1960s
north atlantic treaty organisation
royal navy
The Norwegian Navy seems to be circling in on a few options for their new multirole frigates to replace the Nansen class.
View: https://twitter.com/JUitdeketting/status/1814370088583086517?t=vNTJSQAK8fIzGqBC2yZnkw&s=19
1950
anti-submarinewarfare
asw
cold war
early 1950s
korean war
mcdonnell
mcdonnell aircraft corporation
patrol helicopter
u.s. navy xhp competition
united states
united states navy
In Friedman's British Cruisers book, he mentions that in the postwar fleet modernization plan (around 1947), where upgrades were being considered for existing cruisers, that "cruisers would retain their torpedo tubes wherever possible, so that they could fire the improved anti-ship torpedoes...
anti-submarinewarfare
cold war
early 1960s
elint
great britain
hawker siddeley aviation ltd
maritime surveillance
raf coastal command
royal air force
strategic reconnaissance
supersonic
variable geometry
A few days ago I stumbled across this ASROC training video from Periscope Films and I was surprised when I checked the board that no specific thread for the ASROC has been posted so hear goes:
Now for some stats from the RUR-5 ASROC wikipedia page:
Detonation of W44 warhead launched by an...
anti-submarinewarfareanti-submarine weapon
cold war
mk-44 torpedo
mk-46 torpedo
north atlantic treaty organisation
nuclear battlefield
nuclear depth charge mk-44
united states navy
Perhaps the most ambitious NATO programme of the 1980s was an attempt to design a common escort ship platform for NATO navies: NATO Frigate 90.
https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/nfr-90-and-other-pre-horizon-aaw-projects.923/
The project foundered as it became too expensive and failed to...
1980s
1990s
alternate history
anti-air warfareanti-submarinewarfare
anti-surface warfare
bundesmarine
cold war
frigate
marina militare
marine nationale
maritime command (canadian armed forces)
north atlantic treaty organisation
royal navy
royal netherlands navy
royal spanish navy
united states navy
An article about the Irish having to call the RN to scare a Russian sub away from its territorial waters last summer, and thought a sub chaser would be able to solve that problem…but sensors and weapons for ASW have come a long way, and can a ship be built small and cheap enough to really mimic...
Briefly mentioned here, I remember stumbling across this system on another, now defunct, website covering US sea mines. If I remember, the project dated from the 1970s, and included two variants of rising mine, one based upon a small torpedo, the other rocket-propelled.
I was curious to see if there had been any drawings of this paper ship plan.
Basically a anti sub/ trade lane protector ship for th usn, 20 s-3 in 2 squadrons plus 4-8 small anti snuper aircraft (presumably a-4 but no design specified) and 16 sea kings, to be biult in the 70's to replace the...
1970s
aircraft carrier
anti-submarinewarfare
bureau of ships
buships
carrier
cold war
late 1960s
naval sea systems command
naval ship systems command
navsea
navships
nuclear powered vessels
united states
united states navy
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