anti-submarine warfare

Found a couple of notes on Invincible class from my Aviation & Marine International magazine collection September 1979: April 1976:

Artist's impressions from Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (DERA), now QinetiQ, of a possible Future Surface Combatant (FSC) frigate dating to 1998. EDIT: Cutaway drawing of Future Surface Combatant removed because of larger image later in this topic. Sources...

With the Future Surface Combatant finally progressing into a more formal design project to become the Type 26 firgate, there have been a number of CGI images and articles appearing in the press recently. This is a 4 year study with the first ships due to start building in 2016 and will form the...

In early 1950, the following companies submitted these designs to a Navy specification calling for an HP class (Patrol) helicopter with ASW (anti-submarine warfare) capability, a brand new mission for the helicopter at the time. None was selected in the end (source: Spangenberg Index, April...

During the development of the Invincible a 12 500 t helicopter cruiser was planed as an alternative to the later build ships does somebody has more data or drawings on ship ships ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invincible_class_aircraft_carrier thanks Edit: looks like this topic was already...

Some pictures of the Pentane and Zonal Torpedoes designed by the RN postwar that are described in BSP4. The Zonal winged torpedo definitely looks _interesting_. Pictures from Museum of Naval Firepower in Gosport

Project Habakkuk was a plan by the British in World War II to construct an aircraft carrier out of 280,000 blocks of pykrete (a mixture of wood pulp and ice), for use against German U-boats in the mid-Atlantic, which was out of range of land-based planes. This gigantic aircraft carrier, 2,000...

A thread to discuss Type 23 variants (Originally European / UK AAW projects that arose after the split in the Horizon project (I thought there already was a thread on this, but I couldn't find it), but changed to reflect actual content). Firstly, the "stretched" Type 23 proposed by Yarrow in...

Possible future variants of the Royal Navy Type 45 ("D" or Daring Class) Destroyer include Type 45 Land Attack variant and Type 45 General Purpose variant.

Commander Ghiradella's Air-Capable Spruance was a proposal for a modified flight deck Spruance-class destroyer that appeared in the article "Maintaining a Western Carrier Capability" in the journal US Naval Institute Proceedings, July 1978. Some references incorrectly identify this design as the...

Models of ekranoplan aircraft carrier and T-20A transport ekranoplan designed by Robert Bartini while at Beriev Aircraft Corporation. Source: http://www.beriev.com/eng/Pr_rel_e/pr_110e.html

Back in the '90s, wasn't there supposed to be a Soviet flying wing stealth bomber from Tupolev, the Tu-202 or Tu-404 or something?

In Norman Friedman's invaluable "The Postwar Naval Revolution", which I have so far read many times, now I have found yet another new information. It regards a project of a corvette from 1945. This is what Friedman says on this (in a footnote on one of the book's pages): "The 1200-ton corvette...

US Naval Institute Proceedings "Through Deck Cruiser - The New Capital Ship" by Michael A. Cairl (December 1978): http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b291/barquitos/P-Files/NewCapitalShip1978-1.jpg http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b291/barquitos/P-Files/NewCapitalShip1978-2.jpg...

The following webpage has quite a bit of information about alternate designs for the RN’s Type 19 CVA-01 escort frigate. The designs explore difference ASW configurations with ASROC, Ikara and Malafon. http://middle-watch.com/outtakes.htm

Hi, the lastest configuration for EH-101 as anti-submarine helicopter in 1980. http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1980/1980%20-%202745.html

In Friedman's book on British Destroyers and Frigates there is an interesting account of how the Royal Navy looked at the competing virtues of two ships which are described but never illustrated. The first is a 10,000 ton escort cruiser armed with Seadart launchers front and aft and with a...

back in the early 1980's an alternative frigate hull design was put forwrad by a commercial ship designer, and attracted some support from BAe and other navel ship builders. The MOD ordered trails between the S90 and Type 23 (duke Class) ASW firigate. The Marime Technology Board's findins...

In Rebuilding the RN Brown notes 'In 1967 consideration was given to a stretched Type 82 to replace the Tiger class as helicopter ships' (DEFE 16/617 (PRO)) Were any drawings made?

This design was a double ended design with Sea Dart and Sea Wolf launchers fore and aft and the helicopter deck amidships. Did any other country look at amidships helicopter decks?