catamaran

In the era of detente and friendship between the USSR and the USA, in 1971, two wonderful projects by Professor George Pokrovsky were published in the Soviet magazine TM. Taking off passenger planes - catamarans. The professor explained this form of the project in terms of aerodynamics: shock...

A design by Vladimir Gartvig, drawing by Vladimir Meshcherin. Images OSGA-25 1-4 from Russisches Design - Tradition und Experiment 1920-1990 by Alexander Lavrentiev and Yuri Nasarow, Ernst & Sohn 1995. Images OSGA-25 5-7 found here: https://gashetka.tumblr.com/ View...

Lockheed Martin has a concept for a waterbourne attack vehicle that it calls CHARC for Covert High-speed Attack and Reconnaissance Craft. http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/10/lockheeds-swath.html http://www.gizmag.com/go/3768/ http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/industry/1287776.html...

A design circa 1984. A 750 ton catamaran patrol ship from BAZAN which never purchased the Armada Española (Spanish Navy). Projected max speed: 50 knots Dimensions: 50m x 20 m x 5 m The armed ultralights are just atrezzo. (The idea of fighting ultra-light was very popular on those days)

The article: http://news.theage.com.au/amd-building-catamarans-for-chinas-navy/20080201-1pgi.html The Product page from AMD: http://www.amd.com.au/designs/amd350pb.php The general arrangement drawing, which differs significantly with photographs of the Type 022...