battleships

Battleships/battlecruisers with secondary guns 7" or larger https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/soviet-naval-gun-projects.38420/page-2 on this page is shown soviet postwar projects for pocket battleships with 180mm and 220 mm secondary guns I recall a proposal for a Brazilian battleship...

https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADP010844.pdf Note that the mention of 'battleships' in the paper is likely a reference to the Arsenal Ship concept which was in vogue at the time. Incidentally, this paper was part of a larger NATO sponsored report called the Concepts de systemes pour la...

Stefano Sappino's blog has information on these battleship studies: https://stefsap.wordpress.com/2015/10/13/regia-marinas-bb-design-p1-by-general-barberis-navy-corps-of-engineers/ In the post, he says: In his posts, he only provides information about 4 of the Group 3 designs. Does anyone...

In a perfect world for the British armed forces how would you modernise HMS Vanguard and the King George V class to serve in the 1980s? (Before anyone asks Yes CVA-01 through 04 are built in this timeline, so no yapping about building carriers instead, this is a perfect world for the RN, so the...

This thread was long overdue, actually way long overdue. I don't know why didn't I posted these until now. So here it is, the capital ship projects of the Kaiserliche und Königliche Kriegsmarine aka the KuK Kriegsmarine or the Austro-Hungarian Navy Some designs were already posted here...

Hello all, While browsing some old WoWS Reddit threads I found mention of a CRDA (assumedly Cantieri Riuniti dell'Adriatico, active 1930 to 1984) battleship design that was posted on the (now-defunct) WoWS forums. Apparently the known specifics are "61200 tons standard, 29 knots, 406mm belt...

I was wondering if anyone has any information regarding the modernisation plans discussed for HMS Nelson that would have kept her in the fleet Post war. Plans to keep her were I believe mentioned in Drachinifels video about the Nelson class and there is also this on the wiki page: According to...

Introduction: John Arbuthnot Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher, Commander, Captain, Admiral, Second then First Sea Lord, one if not the most influential and prominent naval commander of the Royal Navy. His ideas, views and dedicated work allowed the modernization of the Royal Navy to remain in first...

One of my continuing interests and a strength of this site is information about Royal Navy ships that never left the drawing board. Recently.not so much has been published about these designs so I thought I would start this thread. Many projects have there own threads and are well known to...

For request here are my knowledge on the Peruvian Navy Never-Were warship designs or export designs offered for them. Coastal Battleship: Armstrong Design 783P of 1914: 7.350tons, 2x2 203mm, 6x1 152mm, 2x1 457mm Torpedoes, 178mm Belt Battleships: Vickers Design 512 of 1911: 11.500tons, 2x2...

The Royal Navy's second 16" armed battleships history was a long and bumpy road of large number of designs and the inability on the Admiralty's side to actually start and continue it's work on them or choose a design to produce. First I present the 1938 designs: Design 14A-38 This is the first...

Hello all, I'm searching infos regarding real (albeit conceptual only) battleship projects distinguishing themselves for extraordinary caliber of main guns and/or number of main guns and displacement. I'm aware of the following, some yet briefly discussed in other topics: -Tillman maximum...

It's come to my attention recently that the main guns on some warships are given names, much like fighter pilots often name their aircraft. I've only seen this on a few Battleships, but I'm willing to bet that it's a pretty common practice (or was at one time). For example, on the HMS Nelson...

First post of a long topic about Italian battleship Francesco Caracciolo and the many designs for her in 1914-1919. A quick summary; A-series with 12x381mm guns B-series unknown? C-series definitive Caracciolo with 8x381mm guns in duples. What was actually built (but not finished) D-series with...