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    Were the Dutch De Zeven Provincien frigates built in the Netherlands or Romania?

    The reason why I'm posting this is because there doesn't seem to be information regarding where the hulls were built. I'm not sure if the hulls were built in Romania then shipped to the Netherlands for assembly.
  2. Grey Havoc

    E=MCM (European Extended Mine Counter Measures) program

    https://asiapacificdefencereporter.com/exail-tapped-for-emcm-project/
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    Dutch Expeditionary Submarine Programme

    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-05/france-s-naval-group-set-to-win-2-5-billion-submarine-deal Color me surprised, I thought that the Saab-Damen consortium had it in the bag. Who would've thought that KM will be the first operator of Shortfin Barracuda? That of couse is if this...
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    Dutch 20th Century designs

    A few years ago when researching the photo archive of Kon. Mij. De Schelde succeeded by Damen Schelde Naval Shipbuilding I traced the next dia's, probably part of a lecture although without technical details
  5. World B4

    Regulus class minehunter

    Regulus and Ram were a 2 ship class of minelayers under construction in the Dutch east indies when the Japanese took over the colony. They were renamed Nankai and Nanshin, Nankai was completed as a powerful gunboat, but Nanshin was less heavily armed and not completed. Small note about the link...
  6. Sanglune

    Nevesbu's projects

    Hello, I'm looking for warships designed by Nevesbu (B.V. Nederlandse Verenigde Scheepsbouw Bureaus). Specifically for surface vessels, though I don't want to discourage discussion around their submersibles. So far I'm aware of a couple of designs: Project 1047 (files attached, source: Klaas...
  7. SSgtC

    Cold Warriors: The Essex Class in the Cold War

    Author's Note: This is a timeline that I've been working on that explores a different Cold War where the United States Navy is forced to maintain a larger carrier fleet, one that the Essex class continues to play a large role in. The first few posts won't focus on the class themselves, but are...
  8. Grey Havoc

    Project 1047 Battlecruiser (Royal Netherlands Navy)

    https://www.netherlandsnavy.nl/Special_battlecruiser.htm
  9. Grey Havoc

    Royal Netherlands Navy fleet tanker program [1939-40]

    At the same time as the Design 1047 battlecruiser project was being worked on, the Dutch need for dedicated naval tankers, especially to support operations around the Netherlands East Indies could no longer be ignored, so what was intended to be a eventual two-ship class was (belatedly)...
  10. Grey Havoc

    Dutch 2023 Frigate project

    http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?232114-Dutch-Navy-unveils-M-frigate-replacement Photos added from the link above
  11. TinWing

    Early Post-WWII Dutch Submarines: Unbuilt 3 and 4 pressure hull designs

    These drawings can be found on the site Dutchsubmarines.com, albeit in multiple segments. The cargo submarine concept is a throw back to the WWI German concept - perhaps even the later the later "milch cow" u-boats? I do have to wonder if this design was prompted by the Dutch experience in the...
  12. TinWing

    Schelde Combatant 12717: Stealthy Dutch Frigate?

    This image was was posted by Neptune in the Merchant Shipping thread: This proposal was also depicted in the Thales brocure for an integrated mast, which houses a Smart S Mk2 radar in a "stealthy" enclosure. Here is the link...
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