Artist's impressions from Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (DERA), now QinetiQ, of a possible Future Surface Combatant (FSC) frigate dating to 1998.
EDIT: Cutaway drawing of Future Surface Combatant removed because of larger image later in this topic.
Sources...
anti-submarine warfare
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defence evaluation and research agency
early 2000s
early 21st century
frigate
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late 1990s
late 20th century
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royal navy
united kingdom
war on terror
With the Future Surface Combatant finally progressing into a more formal design project to become the Type 26 firgate, there have been a number of CGI images and articles appearing in the press recently. This is a 4 year study with the first ships due to start building in 2016 and will form the...
Another 60s RN mystery ship is the Type 19 frigate.
Although the published sources go into great detail about the
development of the ship and even give an indication of the
numbers to be built, the only drawings in Brown/Moore are
of ships derived from the Type 19 design in the 1966 Working...
A thread to discuss Type 23 variants (Originally European / UK AAW projects that arose after the split in the Horizon project (I thought there already was a thread on this, but I couldn't find it), but changed to reflect actual content).
Firstly, the "stretched" Type 23 proposed by Yarrow in...
Okay, after about 1946/1947; the USN began to assign SCB numbers sequentially, starting with USS Norfolk (CLK/DL) as SCB-1; the USS Tang (SS) as SCB-2, etc.
By 1964, they switched to SCB numbering in blocks; e.g.
001-009 SCB-Cruisers
100 SCB-Carriers
200...
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destroyer
destroyer escort
frigates
mine warfare vessel
nuclear powered vessels
replenishment oiler
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In earl-mid 1990's both Newport News and Ingalls designed export designs for Frigates. Orginally competing to meet a requirement by UAE.
There is an artists impression in Janes defence weekly 15 January 1994 P24, that showed the Ingalls design...I have a veryu poor photo copy, does anyone have...
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...
1990s
2000s
anti-air warfare
anti-submarine warfare
anti-surface warfare
babcock international
corvette
frigates
kingdom of sweden
kockums
littoral operations
northrop grumman
post-cold war
royal swedish navy
saab kockums ab
surface combatant 2000
war on terror
ys-2000
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