royal navy

the Falklands war occurred in 82 Ark Royal (or another ship of the same class?) was decommissioned in 79 What if they had opted to delay the decommissioning by a few years but then the Falkland war occurred anyways Would the Ark Royal have been sent? would it have contributed differently than...

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/apr/09/prince-philip-duke-of-edinburgh-dies

Original Source: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/975455/20210303-MAvn-MEPG_Slides-FINAL-O.pdf PWAS = presistent warning and control system (?)...

For these cruisers I got most of my data from Norman Friedman's British Cruisers Two World War and After as well as from the forum member Smurf and parts from his book: A Directory of British Cruiser Designs. In case of Friedman's book it wasn't always clear what data was connected to what...

View: https://twitter.com/naval_service/status/1376069579957530624?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/a-baptism-of-fire-for-father-of-irish-navy-40246919.html

Re: Australia and the WNT - please see link below; https://www.navy.gov.au/history/feature-histories/loss-more-symbolic-material According to the Author, the government of Australia (if it chose) could likely have won excemption and retained HMAS Australia as an “Armoured Cruiser”. As others...

How useful would it have been if the Royal Navy had grasped the nettle in 1947 and decided to scrap its battleships? Admittedly this is much easier with the benefit of hindsight. But the lessons of the war and the success of air and submarine attacks on battleships were already well known. The...

Ladies and Gentlemen, HMS Speedy: View: https://www.reddit.com/r/WarshipPorn/comments/lognu9/951_x_717_jetfoil_patrol_vessel_hms_speedy_p296/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Speedy_(P296) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:HMS_Speedy_(P296)...

View: https://youtu.be/tkkFm4b3yOI https://tanks-encyclopedia.com/tog-amphibian/ (Note: the D.N.L.E. should not be confused with the Admiralty's Department of the Director of Naval Equipment, also known as the Directorate of Naval Equipment.)...

In the very first years of aircraft carriers development both English and Japanese envisioned launch of their aircrafts directly from the hangar. This result was usually achieved through an opening in the bow, at the hangar level, and a catapult that launched aircraft in the ship's direction...

I had a quick search after the mention in my artwork thread and it seems we don't have a specific thread on them, so this is for Westland drone (RPV) projects. Most interesting is possibly WG.25, which seems to have come tantilisingly close to deployment. The demonstrator "Mote": Aviastar...

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_F_ZjytDqqE

... instead of re-inventing the wheel in the 70's. The idea is to blend together, Zumwalt "cheaper decks" (SCS / VSS / CVV) and the too few carrier designs from Europe. To bolster NATO fleets on one side, and the USN on the other - more flattops on both sides of the Atlantic. That is...

Saunders Roe Jet Propelled Flying Boat, Project 16.7.43

Fighter project, 1943 The Airspeed firm suggested to the Admiralty the transformation of the radio-controlled flying-boat target aircraft AS-37 into a scaled-up jet fighter, powered by one de Havilland Halford H.1 centrifugal-flow turbojet with 1,225 kgf static thrust in the forward area of the...

Blackburn B-37 Firebrand

As a result of a December 1964 request from the Indian Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shustri in London for a joint US-Soviet nuclear guarantee, the UK Foreign Office drew up a discussion paper with the Ministry of Defence on British nuclear forces outside of the NATO area. A follow-up Foreign...

These projects date back to the beginning of the 20th century when many warship experiences and design concepts were developed. Neither proved to be viable. There is little information about these projects and in one case it is only possible to speculate on certain specifications. The first...

Saro F.177 Option to NA.47 Scenario(s) examining AH were Saro's F.177 aircraft is built and enters service. Ok so it will be an absolute certainty that the negatives will pile on this one. But in turn, if one is looking for a domestic UK fighter and light attack type then this is it. Actually...

I am still looking for a painting /model I saw in a 1970s Vosper Thorneycroft brochure of a Mk10 frigate with a single arm Seadart launcher forward in place of the 4.5 gun. I assume that this was proposed to Brazil in answer to the two T42s sold to Argentina.