anti-air warfare

Hi. I'm looking for information on the SC-21 COEA studies, particularly the Battle Force Combatant (BFC). I did some digging around on the web, and it was supposed to replace all the Knox and Perry-class frigates, and according to an FAS page, this meant an estimated 104 of them would be built...

Whenever I look at my little model of the USS Long Beach nuclear missile cruiser I find myself musing what a 21st Century version for Western navies could look like? Such a ship would replace the Ticonderoga class in the US Navy and perhaps provide Task Force escorts for the RN and MN instead...

Something that's always struck me as odd was the lack of longer range RIM-67s on these nuclear powered Frigates/Cruisers, was it simply cost cutting or was there a deeper philosophy behind their design?

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...

https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/the-type-4x-destroyer-an-early-look-at-an-early-concept/

This is a post I've been planning to make for some time. I am posting it here as I think it's the most appropriate place. (If anyone thinks otherwise, please move it to the appropriate area.) In the 1988 technothriller 'Ambush at Osiriak' by Herbert Crowder (Author of two other novels in the...

On quick check it seems we don't have a thread on Sea Slug and it's development. Often people mention a inline boosted option instead of the wrap around boosters. Yet I seem to recall that there were worries over rocket gases causing problems with the beam rider guidance. Would be nice to...

Amongst my collection of technothrillers is the 1988 novel 'Ambush at Osirak (1988) by Herbert Crowder, this novel was published the year before the Soviet Union came to an end and was republished in 1990 into a changed world. One of the things that changed was that it ended the need to...

1983, rather than 1982 is a key date for decisions for the RN and UK defence as a whole, in the light of the Falklands and it's effect not just on defence thinking but on the UK populace's attitude to their country. As surely as it was to the political establishment. But in terms of changes a...

I am utterly confused about the original French plans for the deployment of this missile, the wiki page for the Suffren class destroyers states that six ships were originally planned and that this became two batches of three (the second tentative?) then just two ships when the money for the...

I know this subject has been done to death but can indulgent readers please remind me of the answers: Why was the Royal Navy so keen on a Hermes sized carrier when the size of NA37 Buccaneer should have made it clear that only Ark Royal, Eagle and Victorious were big enough to ship 60s...

Reading the excellent Friedman books on US Destroyers and US Cruisers as well as the History of the Spruance class-Electronic Greyhounds-forgot the author I am always fascinated by the range of options which the US Navy might have had in the 60s and 70s if there had been no Vietnam War to force...

http://blogs.ottawacitizen.com/2014/01/02/royal-navys-last-type-45-destroyer-enters-service/ http://www.defensenews.com/article/20131230/DEFREG01/312300007/Final-Type-45-Destroyer-Enters-UK-Royal-Navy-Service

http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?232114-Dutch-Navy-unveils-M-frigate-replacement Photos added from the link above

Published on Jun 14, 2013 A computer-generated animation has been released today which highlights the multi-mission capability of the three naval destroyers being built as part of the Air Warfare Destroyer Project. AWD Alliance CEO Rod Equid said the animation will increase understanding of the...

Artist's impression of FREMM Extended Range (ER) dedicated to air defense missions to be unveiled at Euronaval 2012. Source: http://www.navyrecognition.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=644

I am trying to get to the truth behind the story about the Type 42 ending up with a hull shorter than the designers wanted. The sources that I have available are contradictory. Norman Friedman states that there is no indication that the Type 42 was shortened from the a preferred 434ft (the...

I have finished some simple drawings of US destroyer designs from the 1960s and 1970s. The drawings are based on sketches and artist renderings found in Norman Friedman's book "US Destroyers An Illustrated Design History". I find the nuclear frigate design (Typhoon) very interesting. Fishjay

Firstly, this is based upon known discussions with the RN, known systems that were proposed and/or existed at one point or another and known sketch designs performed. However these have been combined together to form a single coherent platform that is representative of what could have been built...

Until the Type 22 frigate the Royal Navy did not follow the USN in building ships with surface to air missile systems at both ends like the Leahy and Belknap classes. There seem to have been plans to do so, including by converting the County class destroyers to have Seaslug launchers at both...