united states navy

  1. airman

    history of sinking shinano carrier

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

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

    https://www.navair.navy.mil/product/TALDITALD
  3. 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...
  4. 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...
  5. 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...
  6. 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
  7. 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...
  8. hesham

    DARPA Laser Airborne Aircraft for US Navy of 1981

    From Aviation magazine 1981, here is an airborne Laser aircraft.
  9. 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...
  10. 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...
  11. 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...
  12. A

    USN Hybrid Battleship 1924?

    Does anyone know about this? This was in a Japanese magazine as a "US Navy Aviation Battleship". According to the magazine, this was studied by the US Navy in October 1924 and was inspired by a proposal for a British "Hybrid battleship" published in Brassey's Naval Annual in 1923. General...
  13. RavenOne

    EA-37B (ex EC-37B) Compass Call

    A sneak preview of USAF new EC-37B Compass Call visiting David-Monthan today, according to Offutt AFB Public Affairs. Cheers
  14. C

    Lockheed Skunk Works 'Active Sonar Stealth Submarine' ca.1980

    http://www.hisutton.com/Lockheed-Stealth-Submarine-Design.html Neat little article i found, I'm curious how much it would have effected things if it had been built, al lest one as a prototype.
  15. E

    Extreme RARE HUGHES Aircraft Company AIM-54C S/N -000 Missile

    The seller does not state whether this is an original company model. https://www.ebay.com/itm/325276872562?hash=item4bbc032f72:g:tvsAAOSwIsNixd6Q
  16. airman

    A proposed version of Corsair by Brewster

    Profile of the Brewster 639 (1942), an improvement project for the F4U Corsair which, at the start of its career, was a difficult aircraft to land on an aircraft carrier. This project will not be developed and the British will have the idea of an appropriate angle of approach during landings on...
  17. Graham1973

    United States Navy - Aircraft Carrier 'Scheme E' (1941)

    This is the last of the surviving designs in the series that ended with the Midway Class Carriers. Dating from September 1941, it's an enlarged version of the 'Scheme D' design (45,000 tons vs 28,000 tons), like the 'Scheme A' design, and the eventual Midway Class this ship is too wide to fit...
  18. Graham1973

    United States Navy - Aircraft Carrier 'Scheme D' (1941)

    A while back I posted the first two design proposals for what emerged as the Midway Class Aircraft Carriers. Unfortunately the preliminary drawings for the third proposal ('Scheme C') don't appear to have survived, but those for the fourth proposal which dates from July 1941 do. This is a 28,000...
  19. Graham1973

    United States Navy - CVX (1940)

    A year before Pearl Harbour the USN commissioned a study into a 'tweaked' version of USS Wasp (CV-7) under the designation CVX, the principle changes were using only two aircraft elevators and the fitting of more powerful engines to give 32knots planned speed. Given what happened to USS Wasp the...
  20. Graham1973

    United States Navy - 10,000 Ton Aircraft Carrier (1925)

    This is the last of the post-Washington Treaty designed carriers covered in the 1st volume of USN 'Springstyle' design books. It's a small 10,000 ton Aircraft Carrier that looks like a 'regularized' version of the USS Langley (CV-1) conversion. Of note is that the armament is purely anti-surface...
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