area air defence

IAI's Barak achieved several milestones this week: 1. First operational intercept via the Barak Magen naval air defense system. The Barak Magen is a Barak system integrated into the Magen class Sa'ar 6 ship's systems. Now the IAF released a statement that an IAF-operated Barak system, notice...

I understand that after the Falklands the Batch I Sheffields were re-fit with the 1022? I checked in a couple of references online and while the 1022 is always mentioned in conjunction with the Batch II and III, I cannot find anyone detailing the upgrades of the earlier ships. I'd like to update...

I tried to locate any data or graphical representations of how the Mk2 Sea Dart (the one that was planned for Type 43 destroyer) could look, but apparently without success. Are there any? What where the differences with the original missile and how should it have looked, especially if adopted...

im looking to compile a list and possibly discuss proposed american air defense related solutions, which im going to use for a powerpoint. so far i have made list of both canceled and finished air defense "things"

(this ships is from the same AU as Lepanto-class missile battleships) The full description is on my Live Journal, on Russian. The Suez crisis of 1956 became a moment of truth for the Royal Navy. It was impossible to deny anymore, that Great Britain is lagging dangerously behind both United...

Today, Fincantieri has officially handed over, at Muggiano shipyard, the amphibious vessel LPD “Al Fulk” to the Ministry of Defence of Qatar as the completion of a significant naval program for the Qatari Navy. This unit, equipped with a large flight deck that can host NH90 helicopters, a...

As many may be aware in the mid 60s the British were in a joint project with the Dutch to develop an advanced radar known as the Type 988 Broomstick, which was to be fitted to the Type 82 DLG and CVA01 carrier. When CVA01 was cancelled so too was British participation in the Type 988 project...

https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADP010844.pdf Note that the mention of 'battleships' in the paper is likely a reference to the Arsenal Ship concept which was in vogue at the time. Incidentally, this paper was part of a larger NATO sponsored report called the Concepts de systemes pour la...

The saga of the Royal Navy's carriers after 1966 has been the main focus of interest here, but the workhorse of the RN then as now was the frigate. By the 1970s the RN had plans to replace its Type 12 Leander class frigates with the larger all missile armed Type 22. Leanders were designed...

I noticed that Heemskerck-class frigates have two 2D radars: LW-08 and DA-05/08. So this type of frigates don't need a dedicated height-finding radar or a 3D radar? How do they get the altitude of engaging targets?

The US Navy in the 1980s deployed an impressive range of non-AEGIS cruisers. Long Beach was the largest and oldest of the nuclear ships and the only one to start life as a cruiser. The remainder started as frigates then became DLGNs. Bainbridge and Truxtun were one-offs followed in the 70s by 2...

Yes, yes, I fully understood that it's impractical and unrealistic, but I just like "Albany"-class cruisers, and just before New Year I hit the idea "what if Albany-class cruiser would be refitted in 80s to carry Aegis?" Oh, and a Happy New Year) So yes, it's CG-18 "Fall River" missile...

The GW96A class Missile Cruiser was cancelled by the Royal Navy in 1957, but, I do not seem able to find any ‘definitive’ statement about who/why the decision was made. I appreciate that in reality they were harking back to a previous era as modern Frigates had an adequate cruising range and...

This alt obviously requires a bigger UK Defence budget but 8 County class ships were in service by the early 70s. Replacing the forward 4.5" guns with one or two Mk8 or Exocet (later Harpoon) and one Mk8 should be relatively easy. The Seadart mounting on Bristol T82 could have been adapted to...

A few years ago when researching the photo archive of Kon. Mij. De Schelde succeeded by Damen Schelde Naval Shipbuilding I traced the next dia's, probably part of a lecture although without technical details

Saw this in an article as I was looking for some information on the Reformers of the 1970s-1980s: "Hart and Lind have long made public their dismay with America's supercarriers, which, they argue at length, are vulnerable, too expensive to deploy in the numbers needed, and carry the wrong kind...

Hi, somebody have information about this ship. Project 11990 test ship and Project 13040 Anchor. will be escort of nuclear power carrier.

https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZQOUA265VN0W2A820C2000000/ In the record breaking 5.6 trillion yen 2023FY budget request, the Japanese MoD has put in a request for a class of 2 new ships to utilize the SPY-7 systems originally planned to be used as AEGIS Ashore systems. The current outline...

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?