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
ministry of the navy (japan)
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...
I produced this scenario a while back, and am posting a link to it here for the ideas to be kicked around: http://www.quarry.nildram.co.uk/Alternative%20RN.htm
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
aircraft carrier
amphibious warfare vessel
anti-submarine cruiser
anti-submarine warfare
area air defence
asw
cold war
cruiser
fleet air arm
great britain
helicopter carrier
imperial iranian navy
post-cold war
royal navy
sea harrier
through-deck command cruiser
through-deck cruiser
vstol carriers
The Worcester class were laid down for the USN at the very end of WW2 and ultimately only two entered service. Conceptually they were very similar the 6 inch cruisers being considered for the RN at the time in that they carried rapid firing DP guns. The ships had a rather awkward layout of 6...
In 1970, the Soviet Navy started Project 1165 Fugas to create a nuclear-powered guided missile cruiser. Also at this time, the Soviet Navy intended Project 1144 Orlan to be a nuclear-powered surface ship of some 9,000 tons displacement.
Information on Project 1165 is very scarce and there is...
In the early 1960s, the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations offered the European NATO partners participation in a Multilateral Force (MLF) of Polaris-armed warships that would include surface ships, including disguised merchant vesels, and submarines. The proposal was inspired by the...
Firstly, this is based upon known discussions with the RN, known systems that were proposed and/or existed at one point or another and known sketch designs performed. However these have been combined together to form a single coherent platform that is representative of what could have been built...
air ministry
anti-air warfare
area air defence
atomic ships
cold war
cruiser
destroyer
great britain
ministry of aviation
nuclear battlefield
nuclear powered vessels
royal navy
surface-to-air missile
Until the Type 22 frigate the Royal Navy did not follow the USN
in building ships with surface to air missile systems at both ends
like the Leahy and Belknap classes.
There seem to have been plans to do so, including by converting
the County class destroyers to have Seaslug launchers at both...
"Through-deck cruiser: the new capital ship", Michael A Cairl, US Naval Institute Proceedings, December 1978
Yet another late 1970's proposal to replace expensive US Navy supercarriers and their escorts with presumably cheaper ship types. This time it's a hybrid warship called a "through-deck...
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.
2000s
2010s
anti-air warfare
anti-submarine warfare
area air defence
ballistic missile defense
cruiser
daring-class destroyer (21st century)
destroyer
early 21st century
late 1990s
late 20th century
post-cold war
royal navy
united kingdom
war on terror
Soviet Navy Project 1080 ballistic missile cruiser. The intention was to create a land-attack capability similar to that offered by a US Navy aircraft carrier. Design work was begun in 1970 by Neva PKB.
General Characteristics
Displacement: 15,000 to 16,000 tons
Length: 215 meters (705 feet)...
According to the Global Security web site the US Navy studied a destroyer design given the cruiser mission:
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ship/cruiser-cold-war.htm
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...
anti-air warfare
anti-submarine warfare
anti-surface warfare
area air defence
asuw
asw
cold war
cruiser
late 1970s
naval aviation
through-deck cruiser
united states
united states navy
vstol carriers
vtol
Does anyone have additional information or concept art for the Air-Dominance Cruiser, CG(X)? It sounds like it will be a replacement of the Ticonderoga-class (CG-47) and use technology developed from the Zumwalt-class project.
http://peoships.crane.navy.mil/CGX/default.htm
air defence
area air defence
ballistic missile defense
cruiser
early 2010s
late 2000s
nuclear powered vessels
united states
united states navy
war on terror
I cross-posted this at the Warships Projects Board....
The 16th edition Norman Polmars' Ships and Aircraft of the US Fleet (pp89-90) mentions a number of unusual carrier proposals being looked at at by the bottom up review at the time of publishing (1997).
They range from an "ultra large...
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