Why because they felt no need for it.Something like that. No camouflage patterns ever used on KuK warships. And this makes it somewhat ugly in my eyes.
Why because they felt no need for it.Something like that. No camouflage patterns ever used on KuK warships. And this makes it somewhat ugly in my eyes.
Did you 3D print those models? I'm not sure there are many model companies like Fujimi, Tamiya or Revel etc out there who even made KuK models!
Did you 3D print those models? I'm not sure there are many model companies like Fujimi, Tamiya or Revel etc out there who even made KuK models!
They are not 3D print. The real build Radetzky is Resin kit (WSW),Turret can be resin turnover. The hull is built with slab
There is a freedom call Freedom of subject matter
You know if you ask I could had provided a deck to deck set of images for you for easier work.
That is if I'm not mistaken the Austro-Hungarian idea for a torpedo warship
That makes more sense, I imagine it would be useful in the adriatic
Yes, Austro-Hungarian, I've first seen it here:
Weird combination of numerous torpedo tubes, light cruiser/Destroyer weaponry with battleship armour and speed.
The Russian idea too sacrificed gun calibre for torpedo tubes:
That is the 1B variant by Johann Fiala if I correct
Nope. I've was interested too in that ship type for our Empire but everybody I've asked both specialist in A-H Navy said there was no such projects. Likely by the time they would had been required the war situation was bad that no resources was allocated for these kind of developments.
Likely by the time they would had been required the war situation was bad that no resources was allocated for these kind of developments.
Kanone meaning they are more into the Zeppelin field on the other hand when WW1 started most if not all A-H Zeppelins were decommissioned due to the many accident and machinery errors (Till then every military game featured them)
If design studies or even detailed designs for seaplane tenders were carried out and still exist, they probably would be listed under the same Flugzeugmutterschiff (Aircraft mothership) or Seeflugzeugträger (Seaplane Carrier) designations that the Imperial German Navy used for their own such vessels.
The seaplane carriers, seaplane tenders, helicopter cruisers and aircraft carrying submarines of the world. Vol.1 Australia, Austria-Hungary, China, Germany, France and Great Britain
22 July – The Austro-Hungarian Navy battleships Erzherzog Franz Ferdinand, Radetzky, and SMS Zrínyi each transport one flying boat from Pola to the Gulf of Cattaro. The following day they carry out a reconnaissance of the border with Montenegro. These are the first operational flights in Europe by naval aircraft.[1]
The same chapter in the mentioned book gives an explanation for the lack of interest in aviation ships during WWI:
Short range of air operations in the Adriatic, availability of many harbours, and sheltered waters along
the Austrian coastline. Transport of seaplanes to such operating sites was done with regular, though sometimes
second line warships.
In 1917 the Austro-Hungarian navy ordered a new type of monitor design for the use on the coastline of the Adriatic in an effort to support the army troops in their fight against the Italians. The information about these monitors is less then scarce, having 2 ships to be built (by AH practice they should be named provisionally as No.XIII and XIV) with a main armament of 2x 24cm cannons in 2 single turrets and a displacement of 1.500tons and nothing more.
Based on these info and researching material of similar armed ships and similar sized vessels of other nations (Hull shape is based on the British Humber class monitors and the single turret from the Hapsburg class battleships) I was able to create this drawing, using some elements of the No.XI (Duna class) riverine monitor design.
Which submarine?Russians even building a
specialised submarine for use on the Danube during WWI !
This is a small Holland 27B type submarine - one of a series of three units built for the defense of sea fortresses on the Baltic Sea. Two submarines of this type were sent to the White Sea to defend the harbor of Arkhangelsk, but were lost during transportation.Had another look, and I may have to correct myself, as my main source (Georg Pawlik, Heinz Christ, Herbert Winkler „Die K.u.K. Donauflotille 1870 – 1918“) somehow seems to give contradicting statements:
"So wurden drei für die Flußverhältnisse speziell konstruierte Unterseeboote gebaut, lediglich ein Boot kam zum Einsatz. Dieses U-Boot konnte, auch bei Niedrigwasser, auf der Donau etwa bis Braila vordringen. " ( 3 submarines, specially constructed for the conditions on the river were built, only one of them was actually used in active service. Those boats could advance as far as Braila, even during low water.)
But :
"Die zaristische Marine hatte 1913 drei Klein-U-Boote des Holland-Typs gekauft, die als No. 1-3 in Dienst gestellt wurden. No. 3 hätte nach 1918 Rumänien zufallen sollen, über den tatsächlichen Verbleib ist aber nichts feststellbar."
(In 1913 the czarist navy bought three midget subs of the Holland type, put into service as No 1 to 3. No 3 should have been given to Romania after 1918, but there are no information about its fate"
That sub is mentioned in Norman Polmar, Jurrien Noot „Submarines oft he Russian and Soviet Navies, 1718 – 1990“, too, as Holland Design Army NO. 1-3, with a displacement of 33.1 tons surfaced/43.6 tons submerged, with this small drawing:
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The attached photos are from the befoe mentioned book by Pawlik, Christ and Winkler