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...
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
One of my continuing interests and a strength of this site is information about Royal Navy ships that never left the drawing board.
Recently.not so much has been published about these designs so I thought I would start this thread.
Many projects have there own threads and are well known to...
aircraft carrier
battleships
british commonwealth
british empire
british shipbuilders
cammell laird
cold war
cruiser
destroyer
frigates
great britain
interwar period
pre-world war i
swan hunter
vickers-armstrongs
vsel
world war i
world war ii
yarrow shipbuilders limited
I have finished some simple drawings of US destroyer designs from the 1960s and 1970s. The drawings are based on sketches and artist renderings found in Norman Friedman's book "US Destroyers An Illustrated Design History". I find the nuclear frigate design (Typhoon) very interesting.
Fishjay
1960s
1970s
anti-air warfare
anti-submarine warfare
anti-surface warfare
area air defence
buships
cold war
destroyer
dlgn
frigate
frigates
navsea
navships
nuclear battlefield
nuclear powered vessels
united states navy
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