battleships

Hi, I'm hoping some of you guys help me find more information on the interwar British 16A design, thanks

So say that in 1942 Auphan is a bit more pro-active/decisive and the Marine Nationale or a sizable part of it anyway sails away to join the Allies. Fast forward to 1945 and France ends up the war in possession of several more cruisers, destroyers and submarines. To put it in more concrete terms...

Battleships/battlecruisers with secondary guns 7" or larger https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/soviet-naval-gun-projects.38420/page-2 on this page is shown soviet postwar projects for pocket battleships with 180mm and 220 mm secondary guns I recall a proposal for a Brazilian battleship...

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...

Stefano Sappino's blog has information on these battleship studies: https://stefsap.wordpress.com/2015/10/13/regia-marinas-bb-design-p1-by-general-barberis-navy-corps-of-engineers/ In the post, he says: In his posts, he only provides information about 4 of the Group 3 designs. Does anyone...

I’m interested if anyone has ever taken a crack at depicting the proposed Tennessee & Pennsylvania class modernizations of the 1920s, or other attempts to bring relevance to pre and semi dreadnought warships in the age of super dreadnoughts, specifically attempts to achieve relevance as an ocean...

In a perfect world for the British armed forces how would you modernise HMS Vanguard and the King George V class to serve in the 1980s? (Before anyone asks Yes CVA-01 through 04 are built in this timeline, so no yapping about building carriers instead, this is a perfect world for the RN, so the...

This thread was long overdue, actually way long overdue. I don't know why didn't I posted these until now. So here it is, the capital ship projects of the Kaiserliche und Königliche Kriegsmarine aka the KuK Kriegsmarine or the Austro-Hungarian Navy Some designs were already posted here...

Hello all, While browsing some old WoWS Reddit threads I found mention of a CRDA (assumedly Cantieri Riuniti dell'Adriatico, active 1930 to 1984) battleship design that was posted on the (now-defunct) WoWS forums. Apparently the known specifics are "61200 tons standard, 29 knots, 406mm belt...

I was wondering if anyone has any information regarding the modernisation plans discussed for HMS Nelson that would have kept her in the fleet Post war. Plans to keep her were I believe mentioned in Drachinifels video about the Nelson class and there is also this on the wiki page: According to...

Perhaps some of you still remember the article in stefsep's blog, where he mentioned a weird Italian battleship design: https://stefsap.wordpress.com/2017/09/27/ferrettis-10381-in-quintuples-battleship-design/ I just found out the original paper, published in 1916, and maybe written in 1915...

https://naval-encyclopedia.com/ww2/uk/king-george-v-class-battleships.php?amp=1 According to the site, I'm looking for three KGV-class designs designed in 1935 with nine 15-inch guns, but I couldn't find them no matter how much I looked. Is there anyone who knows more details about the design?

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...

During the War of the Triple Alliance (1865-1870) the Argentine navy consisted of a few packet steamers armed with a couple of small-bore muzzle-loaders. The leading naval and military power in the region was Brazil. After the war, Argentina and Brazil sought to establish hegemony over defeated...

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...

Anyone know anything about this forthcoming title? Secret Projects of the Kriegsmarine Unseen Designs of Nazi Germany's Navy By Nico Sgarlato and Allessio Sgarlato Andrew

I wish to collect, gather and discuss (But more importantly collect) the various naval gun projects the Soviet Union created, abandoned or wished to create. Here I list them what I've gathered so far according to type, feel free to comment, provide info and I will edit them in. Capital ship...

Question - Had the USN known the true characteristics of the IJN Yamato Class at the onset of war, what, if anything, would have changed with regards to USN battleship design and production? Would have carrier production suffered and the remaining Iowa Class been completed? Would have the...

During WWII the US Navy received 22 of 32 Essex Class Carriers; 4 of 6 Iowa Class Battleships and two of six Alaska Class Large Cruisers plus dozens of other cruisers, hundreds of destroyers and submarines, and thousands of smaller and auxiliary ships. Nearing completion were the three Midway...

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