US Navy Small Waterplane Area Twin Hull (SWATH) Concepts

[RyanC]

Again, NHHC was big on these. Apologies for smallish size. I'll upload them to my site eventually.

 

[Abraham Gubler]

Finally a reason why the US Navy never went ahead with SWATH combatant ships:

[ img ]just too ugly[ /img ]

Dey Ugly!

PS Thanks to Ryan for the latest picture dump.

 

[Howedar]

Quite interesting on (uh...) CVV-101 are the apparent wide-aperture sonar arrays, the two-level hangar (reminiscent of Moskva), and the funky dish hatches which I suspect are analogous to the strange ASROC-like thing on the DD below. The radars are also quite strange (almost like baby-SPS-2) and the strange elevated VLS for presumably Sea Sparrow (since there are clearly illuminators above the island).

Altogether bizarre.