anti-submarine warfare

Does anyone have any information on the design for the enlarged S-3 Viking offered as a carrier onboard delivery (COD) aircraft in competition with the second batch of Grumman Greyhounds? And I don’t mean the US-3 which was just a stripped ASW Viking for high speed COD duties. Apparently this...

In Friedman's book on British Destroyers and Frigates there is an interesting account of how the Royal Navy looked at the competing virtues of two ships which are described but never illustrated. The first is a 10,000 ton escort cruiser armed with Seadart launchers front and aft and with a...

back in the early 1980's an alternative frigate hull design was put forwrad by a commercial ship designer, and attracted some support from BAe and other navel ship builders. The MOD ordered trails between the S90 and Type 23 (duke Class) ASW firigate. The Marime Technology Board's findins...

In Rebuilding the RN Brown notes 'In 1967 consideration was given to a stretched Type 82 to replace the Tiger class as helicopter ships' (DEFE 16/617 (PRO)) Were any drawings made?

This design was a double ended design with Sea Dart and Sea Wolf launchers fore and aft and the helicopter deck amidships. Did any other country look at amidships helicopter decks?

A few years ago I recall seeing a picture of a Sea Harrier with a WE.177 nuclear weapon in a book. I think it was: Keeping the Peace - The Aldermaston Story by David J Hawkings Can anyone confirm this? I'd like to trace the pic. As I understand it they would have used the WE.177 both for...

Aviation Week & Space Technology , November 20, 1992, Pages 62 & 63 Boeing Pursues Innovatitive Concept for Future Navy EX By Breck W. Henderson/seattle WHAT IS BELOW IS MY SUMMARY OF ABOVE ARTICLE - Any mistakes are my own and not the original author. Boeing Military Airplanes early concept...

Hi, The Eurpean Defence Agency official have revealed plans for the development of a new long endurance UAV to meet both civil and military requirements.

Hi, A new program for US Navy the MMA (Multi-mission Maritime Aircraft) is now fullfied by Boeing 737-800ERX.

Not a new idea by Sikorsky : This ABC UTTAS proposal was shown in Air & Cosmos 12.1968 (No design/type numbers given) :

Hallo! Bell HSL-1 Competitors: know, that in competition participated 10 firms: 1) Bell Model B-61 2) Curtiss-Wright Model ? 3) Gyrodyne Model ? 4) Hiller Model H-? 5) Hughes Model ? 6) Kaman Model K-? 7) Kellett Model KH-? 8) McDonnell Model M-? 9) Piasecki Model...

I've asked the helpful folks over at Warship Disscussion 3.0 about this and despite much searching no-one could find any references, not even from Friedman's US books. Reading Norman Friedman's 'British Carrier Aviation' he mentions the American Patrol Escort (PE) idea of the 1950s. Basically...

This idea was proved pre WW2 but for some reason doesn't seem to have been considered for use in extending the range of LRMP aircraft. What method was used, my reading of it is that the tanker trailed a hose (with a drogue to prevent wild movements) and the receiving aircraft caught this with a...

While searching thru my bookshelf I re-found a book about projects from Beriev ... and also this - at least for me - unknown ASW-project ! ??? Was it an alternative one to the Tu-142 ASW-version or an independent proposal ? Source: see last pic ! Cheers, Deino

Given that the B737 has been successfully developed into the P-8 Poseidon for the USN, have there been any studies at looking into the possibility of a MR version of the A320 family?

Dear boxkite, after we speak about Kamov,Mil and Boeing-Vertol, can we speak about Gyrodyne; we know QH-50,DSN-1,DSN-2,DSN-3, HOG,GCA-2,GCA-5,GCA-7,GCA-41 (XRON-1) and GCA-59 (YRON-1). but there are anther nine projects to this company; GCA-3,GCA-8, GCA-9,GCA-21,GCA-24,GCA-32,GCA-33,GCA-35 and...

Hi Folks, I am interested in information on the cancelled British CVA-01 carrier design. Any assistance would be appreciated. Thankyou in advance. Regards, Greg

Hi interested in any pictures or models of larger versions of kokums Visby class corvette. Orginaly it was developed as the YS-2000 and then enlarged into the current Visby design. A follow on design was considered with Northrop Grumman as a contender to tyhe FCS, but was not selected to be...

(I wasn't sure if this should be included under the Horizon thread, as there were at least 8 projects between Type 42 and Type 45 in the UK alone, let alone any other nations, and Horizon was just one of those) (Note that the image is resized by the forum code and is actually 994 * 582...