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Identification of photos from Brown - frigate plan and models
There are two photos in the ship design section of the introduction of Brown's "Rebuilding the Royal Navy": Is it possible to identify which projects they relate to? The plan on the screen is described as a frigate, and it appears as something between a frigate armed Type 42 and Type 22...- Martes
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- cold war destroyer early 1970s frigate frigates great britain late 1960s royal navy
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- Forum: Theoretical, Fake and Generic Projects
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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...- uk 75
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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
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Lists of Unbuilt Royal Navy and British Export Ships
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...- uk 75
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- 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
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- Forum: Secret Naval Projects
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1969 plans to fit Exocet: Details of Ships
In his excellent Royal Navy Destroyers and Frigates, Norman Friedman gives details of original plans for fitting Excocets to the Royal Navy surface fleet. Shipbucket enthusiasts may already have seen this, but if not it may be of interest. In 1969 the RN decided to buy 300 Exocets to fit 37...- uk 75
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- anti-ship missile destroyer frigates great britain helicopter cruiser royal navy through-deck command cruiser united kingdom
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US destroyer/frigate designs of the 60s & 70s
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- fishjay
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- 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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- Forum: Secret Naval Projects
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French frigates from the late 1980s
From Matt at the archived Shipbucket forums: Source: http://z11.invisionfree.com/shipbucket/index.php?showtopic=1420- Triton
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- cold war french fifth republic frigates late 1980s marine nationale north atlantic treaty organisation
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- Forum: Secret Naval Projects
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Royal Navy Type 26 Frigate
With the Future Surface Combatant finally progressing into a more formal design project to become the Type 26 firgate, there have been a number of CGI images and articles appearing in the press recently. This is a 4 year study with the first ships due to start building in 2016 and will form the... -
Type 23 Frigate, Development & Variants
A thread to discuss Type 23 variants (Originally European / UK AAW projects that arose after the split in the Horizon project (I thought there already was a thread on this, but I couldn't find it), but changed to reflect actual content). Firstly, the "stretched" Type 23 proposed by Yarrow in...- RP1
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- 1990s anti-air warfare anti-submarine warfare cold war frigate frigates late 1980s post-cold war royal navy yarrow shipbuilders limited
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- Forum: Secret Naval Projects
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Euro Frigates
Some projects from Le Bourget Naval 1992- Antonio
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- cold war corvette europe frigates great britain post-cold war united kingdom vosper thornycroft western europe
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- Forum: Secret Naval Projects