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...
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...
asw
bundesmarine
cold war
federal republic of germany
kingdom of norway
north atlantic treaty organisation
post-cold war
royal norwegian navy
torpedo
unitedstatesunitedstatesnavy
west germany
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
late 1990s
post-cold war
tactical uas
tuav
unitedstatesunitedstates army
unitedstates marine corps
unitedstatesnavy
unmanned air system
unmanned air vehicle
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...
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...
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...
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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