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Amongst my favourite warships were the dramatic US Navy Albany class double ended missile ships. According to the Friedman US Navy cruisers and battleship books more conversions like this were planned. My favourite Mack conversion would have been the unfinished battleship Kentucky...

The two USN Command ships Blue Ridge and Mount Whitney were mentioned in another thread. https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/17879/take-a-rare-glimpse-inside-the-navys-massive-blue-ridge-class-command-ships They seem to have been very good value. Originally designed to control amphibious...

This is another of the preliminary designs for what emerged as the Midway Class, surface armament is again quite heavy with 8 single purpose 6inch guns arranged around the flight deck in single mounts (at the same locations as the DP 5 inch mounts on the 'Scheme A' design.) and eight DP 6inch...

From the third volume of the US Navy's 'Springstyle' plan books is one of the designs the US Navy looked at during the design process that led to the Midway Class Carriers. The design work was actually completed after the 'Scheme B' design which will be the feature of a future post. This one...

This is from Volume 1 of the United Navies 'Springstyles' plan books and is the design that might have been built had the Washington Naval Treaty not led to the conversion of Lexington and Saratoga. As with a lot of early carrier designs there is a heavy surface armament, with a main battery of...

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/33606/northrop-grumman-reveals-new-mini-torpedo-aimed-at-arming-and-defending-navy-submarines

The U.S. Navy's new T-45 replacement program must be putting a premium on costs savings. I say that considering it won't be able to shoot cats and traps. According to the article they'll just be performing touch and goes on the carrier. I would be shocked if it wasn't the T-7 that gets chosen...

Fincantieri win the USN competition for the new frigate, 7,400t ship, HED propulsion, 16/17 knots cruise, 6,000 nm range ship, the GD/Navantia F100/Hobart variant, the Austal Independence LCS variant and unknown Ingalls design, they never released any info, lost out. USN budgeting $1,281...

Just a random idea in passing... In the 50's some aircraft carriers and heavy cruisers were converted for Regulus 1 launches. Then the much improved Regulus II was cut short by Polaris. Whatif - Regulus I and, most importantly, Regulus II were developped in non-nuclear variants ? and later...

I've read in a few places that there were a couple of proposals (one from the US and another by the French after the war's end) to turn the unfinished French battleship Jean Bart into an aircraft carrier (which were obviously refused). Tzoli seems to have made a mockup of how it might've looked...

Zumwalt forgotten offspring - smaller Sea Control Ship and much larger CVV are far well known. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VSTOL_Support_Ship https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/sea-control-ship-scs-and-vstol-support-ship-vss.7635/ Whatif VSS happened to be the right size and cost -...

https://www.wearethemighty.com/history/ww2-navy-torpedo-problems-mk14?rebelltitem=3#rebelltitem3 https://www.defensemedianetwork.com/stories/torpedo-scandal-rear-adm-charles-lockwood-the-mark-14-and-the-bureau-of-ordnance/...

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/kirk-douglas-dies-spartacus-670526 A life well lived. Rest In Peace. :(

From wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Missile Common Missile was an intercontinental ballistic missile project, developed to satisfy U.S. Navy and U.S. Air Force operational system requirements for both SLBM and silo-launched ICBM, defined in the 1978 commonality study. Description...

If an Arleigh Burke had the same autonomy, the same firepower, the length of the hull and the same radars, would it itself be a destroyer? I remember reading about former naval officers who had written that the Burke of Ticonderoga was better, and that the former could do the same job as the...

From Norman Friedman's US Naval Weapons (1983) p161-162. Hip Pocket I was authorized on the 30th of August, and evaluated from February-June 1972 The DDG-4 Lawrence was modernised with the following: Chapparel Redeye an IR Search and Track system a CW threat warning radar (sharing the SPS-10...

https://news.usni.org/2019/07/03/report-to-congress-on-navy-large-unmanned-surface-and-undersea-vehicles-2