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  1. that_person

    Rumsfeld's Alternative Fleet Architecture Design and the Weapon Ship/Combat Systems Ship (X-WPS)

    Hello all. Today I was doing some research into the AGS's LRLAP shells, trying to confirm a hunch I have that the original unit price was drastically lower than the stated $800,000-$1,000,000. I sort of confirmed that, as well as finding information saying the AGS was supposed to fire other...
  2. Voltzz

    Low Cost Anti-submarine Weapon (LCAW)

    LCAW was a NATO program for an small torpedo, cheap/expendable enough to be use against unidentified/unverified sonar contacts. It was supposed to have both rocket-launched and helicopter-dropped version. At first it was a trilateral US, German Norwegian project, but some point ~1990 The US...
  3. Tzoli

    CVAN-67 the Nuclear Kennedy

    It is known that originally the 4th member of the Kitty Hawk class carriers the USS John F. Kennedy were to be nuclear powered variant of that class and would had been the 2nd nuclear carrier in the USN and in the world using a new Westinghouse A3W reactor design though there were plans to build...
  4. isayyo2

    Colt-Fairbanks Morse 38A20

    Creating this thread to hopefully uncover more information about the 38A20 family of opposed-piston diesels developed in the late 1960s. What I know so far: Maritime Reporter February 15, 1969 Courtesy of Lufkin Foundry and Machine Company's magazine Lufkin Line, we discover 38A20 started...
  5. TomS

    Spruance-Based AEGIS Destroyer (DD 999)

    Found another interesting document in my files this past weekend – a fairly early (March/April 1975) presentation on the Litton feasibility study for a Spruance-derived AEGIS destroyer that eventually became the DDG 47, then CG 47 Ticonderoga class. At this point, this design was being referred...
  6. sferrin

    PteroDynamics X-P4

  7. TomS

    PXM -- A modern subchaser for the USN

    A few months ago, I posted a thread on a briefing with several more or less obscure frigate concepts for the USN. One of the designs included in that brief is the PXM, which I described at the time as a rabbit hole. This thread is my attempt to chase that rabbit as far as I can go, starting from...
  8. ptdockyard

    US Navy “Fast Armored Cruiser”?

    Trying to research a design listed in Avalanche Press’ Great War at Sea: Plan Red game module for a US fast armored cruiser with 8-10” guns. I looked through Norman Friedman’s book on US Cruiser Design History and see some collateral mention of design studies in 1906 with no real specifics. I...
  9. L

    F6F Hellcat initial projects?

    Just realized that i have never seen any drawings of interim projects that eventually led to the G-50/F6F. There was an G-33 based on the XF4F-2 but with R-2600 engine, and as i understand initial G-50 projects had still much in common with the F4F (mid-wing, fuselage landing gear etc.). Are...
  10. airman

    history of sinking shinano carrier

    View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Lgc_NtwApQ Great small documentary of Historigraph with English subtitles
  11. Grey Havoc

    ADM-141C Improved Tactical Air Launched Decoy (ITALD)

    https://www.navair.navy.mil/product/TALDITALD
  12. RyanC

    US Navy Preliminary Airplane Design Branch (BuAer) Designs

    This list was found in SUPPLEMENTAL HISTORY OF THE PRELIMINARY AIRPLANE DESIGN BRANCH ENGINEERING DIVISION BUREAU OF AERONAUTICS, NAVY DEPARTMENT 3 FEBRUARY 1945 Design Request D-1. An investigation of changes necessary to convert to a convoy airplane the B-24D, B-25C, B-26-B or A-26-A to...
  13. TomS

    Rolling Airframe Missile launcher concepts

    Thread for unbuilt RAM launcher concepts (aside from the standard Mk 49 and SeaRAM launchers) This morning, I reminded myself of an unusual concept to mount Rolling Airframe Missile launchers on the sides of a Mark 45 gun turret. The idea was to use the gun drives and gun fire control to point...
  14. A

    Seaplane Striking Force versus Ekranoplans

    https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=%22seaplane+striking+force%22 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rostislav_Alexeyev https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-90_Orlyonok Seriously... Orlyonok versus Seamaster. That would be fully and entirely awesome to watch. Shame Alexeyev and his...
  15. Grey Havoc

    Alliant Techsystems RQ-6 Outrider

    ORIGINAL CAPTION: An Alliant RQ-6A Outrider at the United States Army Aviation Museum. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliant_RQ-6_Outrider
  16. B

    High Adaptability Surface Combatants

    Saw this in an article as I was looking for some information on the Reformers of the 1970s-1980s: "Hart and Lind have long made public their dismay with America's supercarriers, which, they argue at length, are vulnerable, too expensive to deploy in the numbers needed, and carry the wrong kind...
  17. hesham

    DARPA Laser Airborne Aircraft for US Navy of 1981

    From Aviation magazine 1981, here is an airborne Laser aircraft.
  18. uk 75

    US Naval Gunnery in Jane's Fighting Ships 1969/70

    I have been looking for the attached picture for years and found it in the US Navy section of Jane's Fighting Ships 1969/70 . It shows the range of guns planned for US service in the 1970s. From left to right we have: 8 inch Major Calibre Lightweight Gun (MCLWG). 5 inch 54cal Mk 42 gun for DD931...
  19. Dynoman

    Operation Sandy and Pushover

    Operation Sandy was the codename for the post-World War II launch of a captured V-2 rocket from the deck of the United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Midway on September 6, 1947. It marked the first launch of a large rocket, and the only time for a V-2, from a ship at sea. Operation Pushover...
  20. Grey Havoc

    USN CL-154 anti-aircraft light cruiser

    View: https://www.reddit.com/r/WarshipPorn/comments/x80zhw/3500_x_2100the_proposed_but_never_built_cl154/ Incidentally the basis of the computer game World of Warships' Austin-class cruiser. If they had been built, they would have likely received the CLAA hull Hull classification symbol from...
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