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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.

SSomewhere online I've seen a document from he early-mid 1980s with Royal Navy planned surface ship construction through to the mid-1990s. It had projected order dates for 24 Type 23 frigates, eight AORs, and two more CASTLE class OPVs. I seem to recall that it was an omnibus document from the...

In this video at 7:20, it is stated that the HMS Prince Eugene was to receive an 18 inch gun from the Furious, and it would have been mounted differently in an improved manner compared to the previously modified Lord Clive class monitors. Any illustrations of this, technical or otherwise, would...

What is the respective costs of the Type 26 and Type 31. What would be the economy of scale if only Type 26 built for the entire 13 ship requirement.

Hi, I searched the entire forum, but I did not find a thread about the Cultivator Number 6, a projected trenching machine; maybe it is well known to some of the readers, but I think it need a thread due to its particularity. Here the Cultivator as described by Winston Churchill in his book...

I have always been struck by the fact that France made much better use of the Surcouf class, their equivalents of the RN Daring class http://www.seaforces.org/marint/French-Navy/Destroyer-Frigate/Surcouf-class.htm https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daring-class_destroyer_(1949) 4 Tartar or Ikara...

the heart of the Centaur class carriers is the use of two capital ship plants, producing 76,000shpin total. Hermes got improved plants for 80,000shp. If the RN had driven more powerful plant machinery prior to WWII, then arguably the Centaurs would be larger carriers. Ideally to something...

RN opts for Scheme C (as opposed to real life they adopted Scheme B) of 25,000tons 1923. Ordered 1926....? LBP 780ft, LOA 820ft Beam 92ft Draught fed 23.5ft, aft 25.5ft Displacement 25,000tons Deep 29,500tons SHP 180,000shp Speed 34.5kts Deep 33kts Fuel 4,000tons Endurance 6,000nm Complement...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/06/02/captain-sir-robin-knox-johnston-royal-naval-association-have/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunkirk_evacuation

Reading through threads on the All the Worlds' Battlecruisers forum I was struck by two covering Fisher/Vickers proposals for diesel powered capital ships, they ignited a memory I had of reading about a single cylinder diesel test unit Vickers had produced prior to the War that seemed relevant...

Meant to add 'Operation Wilfred' as a tag as well but ran into the limit.

I have a soft spot for this concept and design. Under different circumstances it might have been built. Thoughts?

One of the hallmarks of the postwar RN was its continuing love affair with the gun cruiser. This leads to three gun equipped Tigers and HMS Belfast still being in service in the early 60s. Had the conversions worked, Swiftsure and Superb would have joined them (Triang Minic ships in 1/1200 scale...

More or less unnoticed in the mid 60s the Royal Navy was able to replace the wartime very fast Minelayer "Manxman" with a new build ship. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Abdiel_(N21) Abdiel served nearly to the end of the Cold War in1988. Unlike the famous UK mine countermeasures vessels...

https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/the-type-4x-destroyer-an-early-look-at-an-early-concept/