The Royal Navy in the 1960s has been the place for many alternative history threads helped by the excellent books on the subject and the enthusiasm of Brits like me for CVA01 and co. The US Navy offers even more scope for programmes that could have been. Some thoughts to kick things off...
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For these cruisers I got most of my data from Norman Friedman's British Cruisers Two World War and After as well as from the forum member Smurf and parts from his book: A Directory of British Cruiser Designs. In case of Friedman's book it wasn't always clear what data was connected to what...
I have found three readily available sources referencing this reactor, either directly or indirectly:
Rickover and the Nuclear Navy, Francis Duncan, 1990
American destroyers and Frigates, Norman Friedman, 1982
Deciding to Buy: Civil-military Relations and Major Weapons Programs, Quentin E...
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atomic energy commission
bureau of ships
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cruiser
destroyer
energy research and development administration
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naval reactor
naval reactors branch
naval reactors facility
naval sea systems command
nuclear powered vessels
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united states navy
Whenever I look at my little model of the USS Long Beach nuclear missile cruiser I find myself musing what a 21st Century version for Western navies could look like?
Such a ship would replace the Ticonderoga class in the US Navy and perhaps provide Task Force escorts for the RN and MN instead...
Hello all;
I recently got my hands on a Storia Militare 'Dossier', the first part of a series covering the Italian navy from 1945 to 2015 (first part being from 1945 to 1970, issue no.14, Sept-Oct 2014) by Michele Cosentino and Maurizio Brescia.
Within the SM 'Dossier' there is mentioned, in...
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...
battleships
cold war
cruiser
destroyer
interwar period
marina de guerra del perú
pre-world war i
submarine
through-deck cruiser
vstol carriers
world war ii
Amongst my favourite warships were the dramatic US Navy Albany class double ended missile ships.
According to the Friedman US Navy cruisers and battleship books more conversions like this were planned.
My favourite Mack conversion would have been the unfinished battleship Kentucky...
If an Arleigh Burke had the same autonomy, the same firepower, the length of the hull and the same radars, would it itself be a destroyer? I remember reading about former naval officers who had written that the Burke of Ticonderoga was better, and that the former could do the same job as the...
Japanese Wikipedia entry on Akizuki class DD stated that IJN started in 1936 to study dedicated AA vessels following the example of Dido class. They contemplated anything from a 1000 ton torpedo boat armed with a single 10 cm or 12.7 cm AA gun to a quite large cruiser equipped with 12 double...
5th naval armaments supplement programme
6th naval armaments supplement programme
aa gun
anti-aircraft
anti-aircraft cruisercruiser
destroyer
early 1940s
empire of japan
imperial japanese navy
imperial japanese navy technical department
late 1930s
maru 5 keikaku
maru 6 keikaku
ministry of the navy (japan)
pre-world war ii
world war ii
In "Storia Militare" n. 196 (January 2010) Enrico Cernuschi described the unknown project of an early Italian helicopter/VTOL carrier of 60's.
During 1965 the Italian Navy seriously considered the possibility to modify the proposed second "Vittorio Veneto" cruiser into a sort of small carrier...
On quick check it seems we don't have a thread on Sea Slug and it's development.
Often people mention a inline boosted option instead of the wrap around boosters.
Yet I seem to recall that there were worries over rocket gases causing problems with the beam rider guidance.
Would be nice to...
anti-air warfare
area air defence
cold war
cruiser
destroyer
frigate
great britain
missiles
nuclear battlefield
royal navy
surface-to-air missile
united kingdom
Some time ago, we managed (thanks to JFC Fuller) to get some decent info on the proposed 1962 Royal navy Escort Cruiser
https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,1600.msg184219.html#msg184219
Unfortunately as so often the thread go sidelined into discussions on launcher...
anti-submarine warfare
cold war
cruiser
escort cruiser
escort vessel
great britain
helicopter cruiser
royal navy
through-deck cruiser
vstol carriers
vtol
http://nationalinterest.org/feature/can-chinas-dreadnought-tip-the-naval-balance-15539
Just over a decade ago, Western naval analysts (including this one) marveled over the PLAN’s new “Red Aegis” Type 052C destroyer, the first Chinese warship to wield both phased array radars and vertical...
1983, rather than 1982 is a key date for decisions for the RN and UK defence as a whole, in the light of the Falklands and it's effect not just on defence thinking but on the UK populace's attitude to their country. As surely as it was to the political establishment.
But in terms of changes a...
1980s
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anti-air warfare
anti-submarine warfare
anti-surface warfare
area air defence
cold war
cruiser
fleet air arm
great britain
north atlantic treaty organisation
nuclear powered vessels
royal navy
ssk
supersonic
v/stol aircraft
vstol carriers
vtol
I am utterly confused about the original French plans for the deployment of this missile, the wiki page for the Suffren class destroyers states that six ships were originally planned and that this became two batches of three (the second tentative?) then just two ships when the money for the...
anti-air warfare
anti-submarine warfare
area air defence
cold war
cruiser
destroyer
early 1960s
france
french fourth republic
late 1950s
marine nationale
surface to air missile
surface-to-air missile
From the navweaps site:
http://navweaps.com/Weapons/index_weapons.htm
My question is:
Does anybody here ever found drawings or photos of this post war naval mount?
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