frigates
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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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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