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I believe this drawing is from one of HT Lenton's books on US Destroyers published in the early 1970's. I made a 1/1200 model of this but heve never been able to find any corroborating data on the proposed design. Can anyone shed any light on this one? Dave G The PT Dockyard

Something that's always struck me as odd was the lack of longer range RIM-67s on these nuclear powered Frigates/Cruisers, was it simply cost cutting or was there a deeper philosophy behind their design?

Hi everyone, IRL the US and UK jointly embarked on a complete Harrier redesign as the AV-8B as the US had no V/STOL alternative at the moment. But had the US chosen to finish development of the Convair Model 200 instead of the XVF-12A, and had this worked well enough to enter service, there...

Something different for me to post an Air to Air Missile concept. This is the McDonnell Model 66 Air to Air Missile. The specification describes an "air-launched, rocket-propelled, command-controlled guided missile for attack on enemy aircraft in flight. This missile is designated the M.A.C...

The dual mode AGM-65D Maverick anti-radar guided missile Hughes Aircraft Corporation in the United States has built three unites of the Maverick anti-radar guided missile equipped with a dual mode passive radar/television target seeking head. It was designed especially to strike at radar...

Let's assume that USSR started to experiment with carriers in late 1920s, with planned rebuild of the training ship "Okean" into the light/training carrier "Komsomolets". While slow and of limited usefulness (roughly the equivalent of USN's "Langley"), this ship still allowed Soviet Navy to gain...

We discussed at nauseum alternatives to the F-8 Crusader from 1956, 1968, 1975. One we missed was this very one. I had forgotten one of the early N-156 was to be a naval fighter. The USN wanted it for the smallest carriers of WWII vintage that had not been downrated to secondary or tertiary...

Amongst my favourite warships were the dramatic US Navy Albany class double ended missile ships. According to the Friedman US Navy cruisers and battleship books more conversions like this were planned. My favourite Mack conversion would have been the unfinished battleship Kentucky...

The two USN Command ships Blue Ridge and Mount Whitney were mentioned in another thread. https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/17879/take-a-rare-glimpse-inside-the-navys-massive-blue-ridge-class-command-ships They seem to have been very good value. Originally designed to control amphibious...

This is another of the preliminary designs for what emerged as the Midway Class, surface armament is again quite heavy with 8 single purpose 6inch guns arranged around the flight deck in single mounts (at the same locations as the DP 5 inch mounts on the 'Scheme A' design.) and eight DP 6inch...

I cannot find a post about these concepts, so if there is one, admins/moderators please delete this. I originally posted this over on the BC Board, but it might interest the members here as well...

From the third volume of the US Navy's 'Springstyle' plan books is one of the designs the US Navy looked at during the design process that led to the Midway Class Carriers. The design work was actually completed after the 'Scheme B' design which will be the feature of a future post. This one...

This is from Volume 1 of the United Navies 'Springstyles' plan books and is the design that might have been built had the Washington Naval Treaty not led to the conversion of Lexington and Saratoga. As with a lot of early carrier designs there is a heavy surface armament, with a main battery of...

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/33606/northrop-grumman-reveals-new-mini-torpedo-aimed-at-arming-and-defending-navy-submarines

The U.S. Navy's new T-45 replacement program must be putting a premium on costs savings. I say that considering it won't be able to shoot cats and traps. According to the article they'll just be performing touch and goes on the carrier. I would be shocked if it wasn't the T-7 that gets chosen...