royal navy

Leaks reported on SDSR were accurate. Harrier and current carriers to be retired, in 2011 for Harrier. 1 CVF to get cats and traps and F-35C from 2020. Other CVF to be mothballed. Nimrod MRA.4 cancelled, new 'low cost frigates' to join escort force numbering 19. Reduced Tornado fleet retained...

SRN4 Hovercraft concepts Source: http://www.tboverse.us/HPCAFORUM/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=959&st=0&sk=t&sd=a

Artist's impression of Royal Australian Navy (RAN) light destroyer (DDL) project from 1966 to 1972. Source: http://www.shipmodels.info/mws_forum/viewtopic.php?f=67&t=54420 For more information. URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_light_destroyer_project

Two artist's impressions of the Royal Navy's proposed future aircraft carrier (CVF) from 1999. These both show examples designed to operate STOVL aircraft. Source: http://navy-matters.beedall.com/cvf2.htm

According to Cold War submarines: the design and construction of U.S. and Soviet submarines By Norman Polmar, Kenneth J. Moore: "The Royal Navy also considered - very briefly - the possibility of a small nuclear propelled submarine" The book mentions these in the context of midget submarines...

Latest stories are that the entire RAF Tornado fleet may be retired. The £7.5bn 'saved' may help pay for a Trident replacement. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1298871/RAF-Tornado-fleet-faces-axe-bid-save-7bn.html This is still speculative (the 'leak' was hardly an agreed policy...

From The Ship Model Forum, a 1:96 scale model of Royal Navy G3 battlecruiser by Alex McFadian. The name HMS Anson is conjecture. Source: http://www.shipmodels.info/mws_forum/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=35041

November 1945 Deputy Controller indicates that nine CVs would be needed for 1950. This being at that time the three Ark Royal Class and the other six being Illustriouses. At wars end HMS Eagle is 23% completed. Fifth Sea Lord considered the Illustriouses not worth modernising, the money better...

(Surprisingly there are no dedicated topics to this project within the Naval Projects, which was a surprise to me, plenty of references across the forum and movie posted in The Bar, but no specific project thread. :-\) The prime source for the CVF program was Richard Breedals Navymatters.com...

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...

Looking for information on the twin 6 pdr coastal defence (also a warship's weapon) gun (http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WNBR_6pounder_10cwt_m1.htm) I found elsewhere on the Internet a cut-out from Ian V. Hogg's books "Anti-Aircraft Artillery" (attached below). The author mentions there that the...

I thought it was about time for a bit of bar thumping. Now that we have a new Government the MOD will be doing a Strategic Review. It seems to me that the Royal Navy will have an opportunity to shape its escort fleet for the next 20 to 30 years. Some things seem to be given already...

Apparently no-one has yet tackled the subject on this forum, so here is my contribution. After days of research, it seems that there is no chance of ever filling the gaps in this list as even the sources of the time and the resources available do not give the type numbers for many A.W.A...

I will try this thread and hope I do not unleash any speculative arguments about whether these designs should have been built or not. My sole interest is in finding out what they would have looked like based either on anyone's experience, sources or shipbucket. Escort Cruiser In July 1962 the...

As is well known the Royal Navy built up a decent force of new and converted amphibious ships in the 1960s based on the converted carriers Bulwark and Albion, the two Fearless class LPDs and the Sir Lancelot class LSTs. Mention, however, is made in some sources of proposals to build additional...

Rather than overload the already incredibly fascinating NIGS ship thread, I thought it might also be useful to look at the question of whether the UK could, or should, have built a SAM carrying frigate similar in size and exportablility to the Type 12 Leander. As a total layman the idea of a...

About 1980, there was a considerable number of design studies into ships that combined the role of replenishment and helicopter carrier in different proportions to create a "cheap" carrier. The simplest variants had a box hanger forward and a big deck with three landing spots aft. This...

In the mid-1950s it was decided to increase the Royal Navy presence in the Falkland Islands dependencies. It was hoped to build a new icebreaker and the United States Navy made the plans of the Wind-class icebreaker available. British engines were selected that made the ship much longer. The...

I have been looking at the RN T class submarines and their post war service, in particular there reconstructions. A large number of the boats seem to have survived into the 60s but I have only been able to identify 8 welded boats and 5 riveted as having undergone reconstructions. My question is...

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y168/rgc/ASSRNEE-87.jpg http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y168/rgc/ASSRNEE-87.jpg To translate a comment from the original poster, ENRR, these drawings were "from the UK alternative to Argus." Indeed, they do seem to depict a ship based on a commercial Ro-Ro...