RN Nuclear NIGS ship

[zen]

Could Blue Water have been adapted to a tube cannister like Soviet anti ship missiles? A mounting like on the Kynda or Kresta1 cruisers could be added to a NIGS ship.

Martel was developed into an underwater launched anti ship missile. Could it have been made to fit in the LRGW launcher and magazine?

If memory serves, it was vertically launched for the Army. Though in detail at a slight incline.

Arguably if it could fit the NIGS magazine and launcher, there wouldn't be need for tube canister developments.

 

[zen]

Question is, would 1950s radar be able to generate multiple differently modulated rotating (or quasi-rotating) beams with reasonable time difference between them?

Well..... late 50's science developed through then to the early 60's and produced for service by the late 60's.
So yes, electrical scan in vertical and rotation by mechanism.
Far less ambitious than SPG-59 for Typhon.

 

[Dilandu]

Well..... late 50's science developed through then to the early 60's and produced for service by the late 60's.
So yes, electrical scan in vertical and rotation by mechanism.
Far less ambitious than SPG-59 for Typhon.

No-no, I was talking about generating a rotating guidance beam for missiles. Beam-riding guidance required that a beam rotates around the missile intended flight path, modulating itself depending on the beam position:



Could the phased array tech of 1960s imitate the beam rotation (probably by generating separatedly-modulated narrow beams around missile flight path and switching between them)? I just didn't know the answer.

 

[zen]

Ok pondering what could be done.

Essentially I've theorised a linescan type system. So with this one could, if scaning is serpentine vertical Boustrophedon (bottom to top then top to bottom), you could produce four narrow beams around the target.
Assuming a left to right mechanical movement.
This would go bottom left, top left, top right, bottom right. Producing a pseudo rotation clockwise around the target.
As long as separate targets had sufficient separation, whether in vertical altitude or horizontal angle. The system could maintain multiple such pseudo rotational bracketing of those targets.
Only held back by limitations of the memory of the computer controlling this.

 

[Tzoli]

Sadly the few instances Friedman provided as source for the NIGS designs was not found in the archives so I cannot add much to these, on the other hand in W.G. John's (Whatever it is his full name) Workbook 16 there are a few pages mentioning NIGS dated from August 1960:
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