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  1. uk 75

    Royal Navy frigates in the 70s

    The saga of the Royal Navy's carriers after 1966 has been the main focus of interest here, but the workhorse of the RN then as now was the frigate. By the 1970s the RN had plans to replace its Type 12 Leander class frigates with the larger all missile armed Type 22. Leanders were designed...
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    • 1970s aaw alternate history anti-air warfare anti-submarine warfare anti-surface warfare area air defence asuw asw cold war escort vessel frigates great britain late 1960s north atlantic treaty organisation royal navy
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    • Forum: Alternative History and Future Speculation
  2. TomS

    PXM -- A modern subchaser for the USN

    A few months ago, I posted a thread on a briefing with several more or less obscure frigate concepts for the USN. One of the designs included in that brief is the PXM, which I described at the time as a rabbit hole. This thread is my attempt to chase that rabbit as far as I can go, starting from...
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    • 1980s advanced marine vehicle anti-submarine warfare anti-surface warfare boeing continuing concept formulation (conform) escort vessel frigate hydrofoil naval sea systems command navsea navsea surface ship continuing concept formulation north atlantic treaty organisation patrol combatant multi-mission patrol vessel subchaser surface effect ship united states united states navy
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    • Forum: Secret Naval Projects
  3. Grey Havoc

    Navantia SMART 4000 concept ship

    View: https://www.reddit.com/r/WarshipPorn/comments/rw3m1m/navantia_smart_4000_concept_800x534/ https://www.edrmagazine.eu/smart-4000-navantia-looks-at-the-future
  4. RP1

    USN Escort Designs - Cold War

    There have been various preliminary designs published for vessels from the 60s, 70s and 80s. I'm starting a new topic because it doesn't fit under the strike cruiser or NFR-90 ones. First up, an early DDG-51: Fig. 7 The most recent naval destroyer design, Arleigh Burke (DDG 51 Class). the...
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    • 1960s 1970s 1980s cold war escort vessel frigate ocean escort united states navy
    • Replies: 14
    • Forum: Secret Naval Projects
  5. RP1

    NFR-90 and other Pre-Horizon AAW Projects

    (I wasn't sure if this should be included under the Horizon thread, as there were at least 8 projects between Type 42 and Type 45 in the UK alone, let alone any other nations, and Horizon was just one of those) (Note that the image is resized by the forum code and is actually 994 * 582...
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    • anti-air warfare anti-submarine warfare anti-surface warfare area air defence canada cold war destroyer escort vessel french fifth republic frigate great britain italian republic kingdom of spain kingdom of the netherlands nato naval radar north atlantic treaty organisation united states west germany western europe
    • Replies: 34
    • Forum: Secret Naval Projects
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