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...
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...
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
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
1990s
aew
alternate history
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?
I've recently found this pretty interesting Japanese Project at the Hiraga Archive.
It looks like a hybrid cruiser-carrier warship from 1920's era. There seems to be a few variants mostly by how large the hanger should be and where to locate the conning tower and AA guns.
Apart from the unique...
1920s
aircraft carrier
cruiser
empire of japan
imperial japanese navy
imperial japanese navy air service
imperial japanese navy technical department
interwar period
Reading the excellent Friedman books on US Destroyers and US Cruisers as well as the History of the Spruance class-Electronic Greyhounds-forgot the author I am always fascinated by the range of options which the US Navy might have had in the 60s and 70s if there had been no Vietnam War to force...
1960s
1970s
alternate history
anti-air warfare
anti-submarine warfare
area air defence
cold war
cruiser
destroyer
escort vessel
frigates
helicopter carrier
nuclear powered vessels
u.s. navy
vstol carriers
Found some weeks ago at the same testsite at Wuhan, where also the Liaoning and other ships EW's systems were tested ...
Now a few more interesting high-resolution photos from that new Chinese DDG ... said to be a test-stand for the Type 055 DDG:
Since ships are really...
Original Lineart from the Russian Naval Site:
http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/9510/5684310.1/0_dacf5_3fde0669_orig
http://otvaga2004.ru/atrina/atrina-sovr/proekt-1125/
This is a generic info on the shp someone with better Russian language skills could make a better translation!
After the design...
armed merchant raider
axis powers
battleship
befehlshaber der aufklärungsstreitkräfte
befehlshaber der panzerschiffe
commerce raider
cruiser
drachinifel
ettapendienst
hilfskreuzer
kriegsmarine
merchant raider
nazi germany
seekriegsleitung
world war ii
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