Warsaw Pact Britain - naval strategy and other considerations

[Martes]

And installed even more authentic (if a bit too modern) anchors:

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It may look like an obsession (which it is, in a sense), but I find again and again that the shape and placement of the anchors have unproportional impact on the overall perception of a ship for such minor detail.

 

[Scott Kenny]

A very preliminary attempt into coaxial Lynx:

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This is straightforwardly a fuselage of Lynx I found in the mod database for the game with with Ka-27 tail attached, and I can configure it to use the same double rotor setup. Since it's not that supersonic-rotor crazy-sleek Wessex design that was mentioned a couple of pages back (which would require making a totally new model) it shouldn't be too complex.

Does kinda make me wonder how fast a coaxial Lynx would be, once fitted with BERP tips... tail rotor is what, 10% of installed power?

It may look like an obsession (which it is, in a sense), but I find again and again that the shape and placement of the anchors have unproportional impact on the overall perception of a ship for such minor detail.

Sometimes it's the small details that tells you which nation owns the item. For submarines, it's sails.

 

[Martes]

Does kinda make me wonder how fast a coaxial Lynx would be, once fitted with BERP tips... tail rotor is what, 10% of installed power?

Hm. Wiki - and I am in no way expert on helicopters, so all I can do is a quick search around - says:

In 1986, a Lynx specially modified registered G-LYNX set an absolute speed record for helicopters over a 15 and 25 km course by reaching 400.87 km/h (249.09 mph).

= 216 knots

Regular performance of the Lynx (at 4.5-5t and 2x1300 shp engines) is roughly identical to Ka-50 (at 9.8-10.8t and 2x2400 shp engines) - circa 170 kt.

I doubt the relationship between power, speed and weight here is linear, but in case it is - Lynx has a excess of ~10-15% power going somewhere. I think it would be reasonable to expect 230kt with BERP. Which means I should probably think about altering the tail stabilizers to something more angular.

Supersonic rotors were said to give 400, but we aren't going there for the moment.

Sometimes it's the small details that tells you which nation owns the item. For submarines, it's sails.

Or the position of the forward planes. And all this decides the overall form of the ship that you ultimately see.
I mean I know the anchors I used are from the River-class OPVs (of which I found a model), and were designed in the 90's. But they are still much better in conveying this bit of visual information than the very generic ones I used before, and have the same M-shaped silhouette as the older model.