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  1. Lascaris

    Cost of light fleet carriers?

    Trying to figure out which countries could actually handle the cost of light fleet carriers in 1946-60, so do we have any actual data at what prices the Colossus and Majestic class ships were sold by Britain in 1946-60? And for that matter how much their modernization with angled fight decks and...
  2. uk 75

    Could NATO Frigate 90 have been made to work?

    Perhaps the most ambitious NATO programme of the 1980s was an attempt to design a common escort ship platform for NATO navies: NATO Frigate 90. https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/nfr-90-and-other-pre-horizon-aaw-projects.923/ The project foundered as it became too expensive and failed to...
  3. H

    Did the Spanish have any plans on replacing Dedalo I?

    As we know, Dedalo was a German merchant ship confiscated during WW1 and converted by the Spanish into a seaplane tender in 1922. Dedalo well demonstrated the utility of an aircraft capable ship by supporting the Spanish-French landings at Alhucemas during the Rif War in Morrocco in 1925. In...
  4. uk 75

    A NATO frigate

    Wiki has quite a good summary of the abortive attempt in the 1980s to design a common escort ship for NATO navies https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NFR-90 The thread about the Kidds for the RN reminded me of this programme. It ought to have been possible to design a ship flexible enough to...
  5. covert_shores

    Spain launching first S-80 Class submarine

    Article with cutaway (caveat - by me) https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2021/04/the-first-s-80-plus-class-submarine-new-capabilities-for-spain/ Video of Christening ceremony View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlmbbtaOz20
  6. uk 75

    Getting a VSTOL airgroup into service

    A variety of threads cover the attempts by the USN to develop an airgroup suitable for its Sea Control Ships (SCS). The ships themselves have been well covered and individual VSTOL programmes have their own individual threads. What I want to do is compare what actually happened with what might...
  7. Mike Pryce

    50 years of the Harrier

    Today it is 50 years since the first Hawker P.1127 hovered, on 21st of October 1960. Despite the recent news that the UK is retiring its fleet the US Marine Corps, Spanish Navy, Italian Navy and Indian Navy continue to operate it, and it is likely that the Harrier will still be in service for...
  8. M

    Spanish unbuilt naval projects

    I've been doing a report on the pattern of the high seas, the navy and I was thinking about the possible numbers that had no physical vessels (projects not left the drawing tables). I've always missed the lack of paragraph F-90, possibly a replacement for the Discovery and the NFR-90. Also the...
  9. Antonio

    SCS evolution into Príncipe de Asturias

    Found this profiles on Spanish magazine "Flaps" Nº254: "El portaaeronaves español Príncipe de Asturias. Origen y desarrollo. by Albert Campanera i Rovira"
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