The Soviets had a number of stilborn aircraft carrier projects from the 1930's all the way through to the 1990's.
One of the most studied was Project-72 dating back to WW-II (1943) I think. Other projects include Project-69A, Project-85 and Project 1123 (Moskova concepts) before getting to the...
aircraft carrier
cold war
cold war ii
commonwealth of independent states
nuclearpoweredvessels
post-cold war
red fleet
russian federation
russian navy
soviet navy
soviet union
ussr
although no pictures exist there is supposed to be a model of the proposed RFA replenishment ship with nuclear power in the massive Greenwich collection. I have never been able to get to see this model, but based on some small drawings of mercantile UK reactor designs in an old Airfix magazine...
20th century
21st century
admiralty research department
atomic energy authority industrial group
atomic ships
cold war
great britain
nuclearpoweredvesselsnuclear royal fleet auxiliary
post-cold war
royal navy
swan hunter
united kingdom
united kingdom atomic energy authority
yarrow shipbuilders limited
yarrow-admiralty research department
Any info on this? I'd forgotten all about it then it came up on another board. All I've been able to find is
"A strike cruiser (proposed hull designator: CSGN) was a proposal from DARPA on the next generation of cruisers in the 1980's. It was to be a guided missile attack cruiser with a...
Here is FAS link from 1997:
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ship/docs/cvx-alt/index.html
As you can see, the drawings survive but the NAVSEA reports are long offline.
Were there any public documents that gave specifications for the design studies?
1990s
2000s
aircraft carrier
early 21st century
late 20th century
naval sea systems command
navsea
nuclearpoweredvessels
post-cold war
semi-submersibles
stealth
united states
united states navy
war on terror
Having been home ported at Port Hueneme, California since 30 November 1948, Norton Sound stood out to sea in June of 1962 bound for Norfolk, Virginia and ultimately to Baltimore, Maryland. She arrived at Norfolk, Virginia and was decommissioned on 10 August 1962, and was later towed to Baltimore...
anti-air warfare
area air defence
atomic ships
cold war
cruiser
destroyer
dlgn
missile frigate
naval reactor
nuclear battlefield
nuclearpoweredvessels
sam
surface-to-air missile
tactical nuke
typhon
united states
united states navy
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