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Hello all, I was doing some reach on the Russian cruiser Novik laid down in 1900 and I found some interesting information regarding some alternate proposals. Apparently the German shipbuilder Howaldtswerke AG proposed a 30 knot capable cruiser design in 1898! As far as I am aware, Novik was a...

Introduction: John Arbuthnot Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher, Commander, Captain, Admiral, Second then First Sea Lord, one if not the most influential and prominent naval commander of the Royal Navy. His ideas, views and dedicated work allowed the modernization of the Royal Navy to remain in first...

One of my continuing interests and a strength of this site is information about Royal Navy ships that never left the drawing board. Recently.not so much has been published about these designs so I thought I would start this thread. Many projects have there own threads and are well known to...

Hi, does anyone know these two aircraft ( Avis 4 Cagno & Avis 5 Serra Zanetti0,and what was Avis company ?

At the beginning of aviation at a time when the propeller was evolving slowly, some visionaries submitted Precaucous ideas to existing technology, such as Henri Coanda or the Italian Cosimo Canovetti, trained as a civil urban planning engineer, he collaborated with Baron Haussmann , developer...

KONSTANTIN UDALOV: "IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF V. B. SHAVROV". Vol. 1 Moscow 2022, 228 pages, ISBN: 978-5-4465-3169-1 Hi everyone! This is Konstantin Udalovs latest publication. The book "In the Footsteps of V.B. Shavrov" is an attempt to provide extended information on aeronautics and aviation in...

Kinda lost for the appropriate placement of this rigid airship which has not been introduced to the forum (as far as I can see): The SPIESS was the first and only French rigid airship, built in 1913, named after its designer, Joseph Spiess. The patent for a rigid airship was registered first in...

The Satsuma class as laid down was intended to mount 12 12 inch guns, with 4 on the centerline and 5 on either side, in a total of 4 twin and 4 single gun turrets. Due to budget issues that the link goes into, the ships got redesigned as semi-dreadnoughts. I can't find any illustrations of the...

Germany: - 3,7cm TAK gun: https://tanks-encyclopedia.com/ww1/germany/3-7cm-tankabwehrkanone-rheinmetall?amp - 28cm Krupp haubitze L/14 i.R., 1912-1913 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/28_cm_Haubitze_L/14_i.R. - 28cm Erhardt haubitze L/12, 1912-1913 - 9cm Rheinmetall kanonenhaubitze L/31, 1917-1918...

This is not an unbuilt project, but it is an enigmatic mystery that perhaps members here might be able to add more to. The Volta was a 19-ton electric-powered submarine armed with two 12in torpedo tubes, built by Rennie Forrestt Shipbuilding, Engineering & Drydock Co. Ltd at Wivenhoe, Essex...

While Japan constantly grew in power since the Meiji restoration and being an island nation it's navy too had to have a prominent role in it's military forces The first warships of Japan were built in ofreign Yards mostly in British but there were quite a few French and a some from US yards as...

Going slightly off-topic for a moment: View: https://www.reddit.com/r/WarshipPorn/comments/oes27h/900x509_transfer_of_the_body_of_king_george_i/

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Here are some uncompleted Imperial Russian warship projects I found on navypedia, any technical drawings, evidence of not being real, further info, or art of these would be greatly appreciated Gogland destroyers https://www.navypedia.org/ships/russia/ru_dd_gogland.htm Tenedos destroyers...

Basically what is says on the title. Apparently both Germany and USA offered designs for what became Almirante Lattore. So do we have any details on them?

These projects date back to the beginning of the 20th century when many warship experiences and design concepts were developed. Neither proved to be viable. There is little information about these projects and in one case it is only possible to speculate on certain specifications. The first...

I've found this article in the Warship International, Vol. 22, No. 2 (1985) about Some French Fast Battleships—That Might Have Been: These are some interesting proposals from the Naval College graduates. The two battlecruiser designs mentioned at the end were Georges Edmond Just Durand-Viel...

Hi! I will post these aircraft.

Hi! The Morita Aeroplane. Source : ENCYCLOPEDIA OF JAPANESE AIRCRAFT VOL.8 KYUSHU CONTENTS Blog of Shinzo Morita's son about his father.(Four pages) Some strange duplication include in English explanation. http://morita.shinzo.kei1.org/page4.html Brief biography of Shinzo Morita by his son...

Reading through threads on the All the Worlds' Battlecruisers forum I was struck by two covering Fisher/Vickers proposals for diesel powered capital ships, they ignited a memory I had of reading about a single cylinder diesel test unit Vickers had produced prior to the War that seemed relevant...