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The Iwo Jima (CV-46) of the Essex class was cancelled incomplete after the war. But according to Friedman, there were plans to redesign the ship to alleviate the deficiencies of the Essex class (the plans died with the cancellation of the carrier): Does anyone have information on this redesign?

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...

A thread or discuss about Iranian forward base/helicopter carrier IRINS Makran. Projects, armament and other.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Lgc_NtwApQ Great small documentary of Historigraph with English subtitles

A knotty design conundrum! Using some 'imagineering', what if the Curtis XP55 'Ascender' and the Kyushu J7W 'Shinden' went into production and both spawned navalised variants for carrier deployment. The thorny issue of deck landing arises; 3-point tricycle landing gear means the awkward...

Speculation is growing in Chinese forums over the possibility that Shenyang are designing a new J-13 naval fighter, possibly using technologies from their next generation fighter bid for J-14 which appears to have been rejected in favour of Chengdu's design. Whether this is simply a Chinese...

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...