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ALL HANDS MAGAZINE
SEPTEMBER 1961
PAGE: 39
"OPERATION CRYSTAL BALL"
In 1961 RADM Roy S. Benson asked everyone in the sub force to submit ideas for "future" submarine weapons etc.
Some ideas
- "depth charging" surface craft
- underwater submarine tender
- sailless submarines
- addition of antennas for detection
- shallow submarines
- meso-submarines
- bathy-submarines
Artist's concept
"MOBY DICK" meso-submarine
- hunter - killer
- gammascope
- super-cavitating screw
- 300000 hp fusion reactor
ALL HANDS MAGAZINE
JULY 1961
PAGE: 2 - 7
"PLANNING A NEW TYPE OF SHIP"
- ASW robot copters and hydrofoil leaving mother ship drawing
- nuclear submarine artist's concept
- Forrestal Class aircraft carrier model
ALL HANDS MAGAZINE
DECEMBER 1960
"SAILLING ON A BUBBLE OF AIR"
PAGE: 8 - 11
- Hydroskimmer aircraft carrier and missile launcher drawing
https://allhands.navy.mil/Media/Archives/1960s/#/Default.aspx?id=18812
SEA POWER 1964
View: https://youtu.be/DRKm0V3J1FY?feature=shared
Minute: 00:06:00 - 00:08:00
Future Navy Artist's concepts
-catamaran aircraft carrier
-ASW
-undersea rocket pads
-Douglas ICARUS/ITHACUS
FUTURE VTOL CARRIER FIGHTER
ART: ROY GRINNEL
ID THIS WARSHIP
MYSTERY SUBMARINE
TWIN HULL SUBMARINE
https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/wilford-twin-hull-submarine.25720/
ALL HANDS MAGAZINE
SEPTEMBER 1961
PAGE: 39
"OPERATION CRYSTAL BALL"
In 1961 RADM Roy S. Benson asked everyone in the sub force to submit ideas for "future" submarine weapons etc.
Some ideas
- "depth charging" surface craft
- underwater submarine tender
- sailless submarines
- addition of antennas for detection
- shallow submarines
- meso-submarines
- bathy-submarines
Artist's concept
"MOBY DICK" meso-submarine
- hunter - killer
- gammascope
- super-cavitating screw
- 300000 hp fusion reactor
ALL HANDS MAGAZINE
JULY 1961
PAGE: 2 - 7
"PLANNING A NEW TYPE OF SHIP"
- ASW robot copters and hydrofoil leaving mother ship drawing
- nuclear submarine artist's concept
- Forrestal Class aircraft carrier model
ALL HANDS MAGAZINE
DECEMBER 1960
"SAILLING ON A BUBBLE OF AIR"
PAGE: 8 - 11
- Hydroskimmer aircraft carrier and missile launcher drawing
https://allhands.navy.mil/Media/Archives/1960s/#/Default.aspx?id=18812
SEA POWER 1964
Minute: 00:06:00 - 00:08:00
Future Navy Artist's concepts
-catamaran aircraft carrier
-ASW
-undersea rocket pads
-Douglas ICARUS/ITHACUS
FUTURE VTOL CARRIER FIGHTER
ART: ROY GRINNEL
ID THIS WARSHIP
MYSTERY SUBMARINE
TWIN HULL SUBMARINE
https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/wilford-twin-hull-submarine.25720/
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