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Project Habakkuk was a plan by the British in World War II to construct an aircraft carrier out of 280,000 blocks of pykrete (a mixture of wood pulp and ice), for use against German U-boats in the mid-Atlantic, which was out of range of land-based planes. This gigantic aircraft carrier, 2,000...

The Lion class were a class of four battleships for the British Royal Navy of which two were laid down and never completed. They were an elaboration of the King George V class and were intended to replace the First World War-era Revenge class. The Lion-class constituted the following ships...

In "Rebuilding the Royal Navy" by D K Brown and "British Destroyers & Frigates" by N Friedman there are drawings of the study 381 ASW type 17 frigate and its half sister the study 382 the Type 42 AAW destroyer. Bother share a common hull form are bare a striking resemblance to the larger Type...

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...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fleet-Air-Arm-Carrier-War/dp/1844159035/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1252920230&sr=8-1 http://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/?product_id=2050 I have no specific info on this book but Kev Darling has written some good books before.

Sources regarding esp. the M.148T requirement for carrier-based strike aircraft, which then resulted in the Blackburn Buccaneer, mention as one of the aircraft's weapons unguided rockets referred to as the OR.1099, where the "OR" abbreviation stands, as I understand, for 'operational...

Message from Chris:

With the recent Supermarine list I tried to get a Vickers list from the inromaftion in limited my library. The list is far from complete and is offered here as a start. I will load it up in groups. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Refer EFB-1 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27...

New book coming soon. See attached flyer and cover image. It's in the final stages of production, and rests on a decade of research in archives, interviews with the engineers and experience of working on related projects. Comments/questions welcome.

In Norman Friedman's invaluable "The Postwar Naval Revolution", which I have so far read many times, now I have found yet another new information. It regards a project of a corvette from 1945. This is what Friedman says on this (in a footnote on one of the book's pages): "The 1200-ton corvette...

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/europe/fsc.htm http://navy-matters.beedall.com/fsc-pre2005.htm http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/military_law/1281186.html?page=2

http://navy-matters.beedall.com/fsc-pre2005.htm

Following a link posted from Jemiba (thanks a lot for it) I found a what looks like a super british battleship but I can't identify it. Any idea? Thanks in advance

Hi everybody Chevaline MRV and Polaris http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevaline http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/polaris.htm Poseidon and Trident with 14 MIRVs http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/usa/slbm/c-3.htm http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/trident.htm ICBM-X with 20 MIRVs or more ...

Hi, from the site which my dear Lark discovered it; http://www.vickerssupermarine.org.uk/582.html

In 1944 the Royal Navy attempted to built a new class of destroyers, better and larger than the then new Weapon class but still smaller then the Battle as well the Daring classes. It would be the Gael class destroyers. There were to be eight units (names: Gael, Gallant, Gauntlet, Guernsey...

In his book on British Frigates and Destroyers Norman Friedman lists in great detail alternatives for the County class destroyer which were never built. These include: a version with Type 984 (the huge radar carried on Eagle, Hermes and Victorious) instead of the guns. numerous double ended...

A recent book releasing British nuclear discussions by Peter Hennessy throws some clear answers to often asked questions: Why did the RN not get the fifth Polaris boat? After much discussion the new Labour Government in 1964 decided that the Polaris fleet was too worthwhile to cancel. Two...

I am currently seeking any information on Type 42 coastal frigate (not to be confused with the later Type 42 i.e. the "Sheffield" class destroyer), which was designed in the early 1950s and was known as the "East Coast Gunboat". Reportedly its drawing was published in "Warship" 1995 (page 156)...

The following webpage has quite a bit of information about alternate designs for the RN’s Type 19 CVA-01 escort frigate. The designs explore difference ASW configurations with ASROC, Ikara and Malafon. http://middle-watch.com/outtakes.htm