I spotted the photographs below in the 'Seaplane Jetfighters' thread and was wondering if anyone has any more information on the submarine design shown below. The pictures depict a 10th scale model of a 'Fleet Submarine' which was to be used to suport seaplane combat aircraft. The testing took...
I'm just wondering, have any drawings or artist impressions of the original Project 705 design, before they changed over to the design that would lead to the Alfa class, surfaced (no pun intended!) in recent times?
Stickleback Class
Midge XPW
Minnow (X54)
Stickleback (X51)
Shrimp (X52)
Sprat (X53)
Stickleback Class
1954 - 1958
The Stickleback class submarines were midget submarines of the Royal Navy initially ordered as improved versions of the older XE class submarines.
The Royal Navy may have...
1950s
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cold war
great britain
nuclear battlefield
red fleet
royal navy
soviet union
submarine
united kingdom
world war iii
The planned second craft of the Deep Submergence Systems Project, after the Deep Submergence Research Vehicle, the DSSV didn't (officially) result in a vehicle entering service. According to John P. Craven in The Silent War, six DSRVs and four DSSVs were originally planned, but he gives no...
I thought it might be time for a dedicated thread on the Upholder class subs in Canadian service. I'll start it off with this; Via HP&CA: Victoria submarine torpedo test fire marks milestone (The Vancouver Sun)
The fire damaged HMCS Chicoutimi, one of the Canadian military's four submarines...
According to Cold War submarines: the design and construction of U.S. and Soviet submarines By Norman Polmar, Kenneth J. Moore:
"The Royal Navy also considered - very briefly - the possibility of a small nuclear propelled submarine"
The book mentions these in the context of midget submarines...
Northrop Grumman NNEMO1 (Newport News Experimental Model 1) press release:
Source: http://www.nn.northropgrumman.com/news/2003/031202_nnemo.html
The shape of things to come for a US Navy littoral submarine combatant?
I have been looking at the RN T class submarines and their post war service, in particular there reconstructions. A large number of the boats seem to have survived into the 60s but I have only been able to identify 8 welded boats and 5 riveted as having undergone reconstructions. My question is...
In 1949 a preliminary draft for a missile submarine designated Project P-2--to strike enemy land targets--was drawn up at TsKB-18 (later Rubin) under chief designer FA Kaverin. The submarine was to have a surface displacement of almost 5,400 tons and carry 12 R-1 ballastic missiles, a Soviet...
In the mid 1980s, the Soviet Navy determined that a new weapon system was needed to deal with the ever-increasing power of US Navy carrier battle groups. At the time, the Project 949 (Granit) and Project 949A (Antey), NATO reporting names Oscar I and Oscar II, nuclear-powered guided missile...
cold war
late 1980s
nuclear powered vessels
project 881 merkuriy
red fleet
rubin central design bureau for marine engineering
soviet navy
ssgn
submarine
Images of a model from the US Navy concept formulation (CONFORM) submarine project from the late 1960s. CONFORM was a possible follow-on to the Permit (SSN 594) and Sturgeon (SSN 637) classes devised by Naval Sea Systems Command (NavSea) circa 1967-68. By November 1968, the initial CONFORM...
aec
atomic energy commission
attack submarine
buships
cold war
continuing concept formulation (conform)
navsea
navships
nuclear powered vessels
ssn
submarine
united states
united states navy
I posted this over in Army Projects yesterday but got no response, and it may belong more properly over here.
I was wondering if anybody has ever seen any pictures of drawings of the Japanese "Submersible Guns" developed by the 10th Military Experimental Station in Murotsu in 1945 for coastal...
http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1395/MR1395.appb.pdf
I just came across this study on what appears to be a handful of concepts that were looked at to replace the NR1. To my knowledge, none of these have been pursued.
Adam
From February 2004, BMT Defence Systems unveiled the concept of the SSGT (Ship Submersible Gas Turbine):
http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/archive/index.php?t-28700.html
BMT white paper on the SSGT:
http://www.bmtdsl.co.uk/BMT/bmt_media/bmt_media/33/2007-09-26Concept-SSGTDataSheet.pdf
Nice collection of model photos from a visit to the Malakhit design bureau here:
http://pilot.strizhi.info/2008/12/08/5941
Love the unbuilt Pr.958 SSN - thanks to a spherical bow sonar and a *massive* flank array immediately aft of the bow the torpedo tubes were not only angled in the manner...
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