INTERESTING SHIPS

Vajt: well done mate, well done

The Tri/SWATH vessel

and more at http://www.bshl.de/lotsenaltag.htm, which reminded me about HSV

😮 Cool site vajt! I love this helicopter carrier concept 🙂

Here’s another company with some radical designs…more to come soon 🙂

http://www.bgv-international.com/military-range.html

—–JT—–

That bow is supposed to pierce the waves instead of the traditional bow that would heave and then slam down. Thus reducing stress on the structure and making the platform more (?) stable.

/Dan

What was the thinking behind that bow?

I always thought that Dreadnaught looking proposal for the new British Destroyer program looked cool, though with a bow that sloped down it would have been better as a sub design.

And on the water

Unicorn

That’s odd… they’ve drawn the Littoral Combat Ship with a conventional prop layout. There should be two diesels driving two steerable water-jets and two MT-30 marine gas turbines driving water-jet boosters.

Briefly shown here: http://www.lmlcsteam.com/video/day-in-life.html

Interested to see this during trials next year.

Edit: Not sure where LM is planning to fit a Mk 41 VLS for Israeli version (LCS-I)?

The Austal Multi-Role Corvette http://www.austal.com/go/product-information/defence-products/multi-role-corvette

Littoral Combat Ships http://www.gdlcs.com/ and http://www.lmlcsteam.com/

The Tri/SWATH vessel http://www.qinetiq.com/home/newsroom/news_releases_homepage/2005/1st_quarter/QinetiQ_signs_agreement_with_Norway_s_Oilfield_Technology_Group__OTG__.html

The M80 Stiletto, developed for high speed, shallow water operations deemed critical to 21st Century Navy http://www.mshipco.com/

Does anyone have pics or info about a Norwegian research ship that has a length to beam ratio of 2:1.

I’m not sure if it is a navy ship but it looks very unusual.

How comparable is India’s Jaquars IM to the Jaqs M?

The IM is nothing like the M model, the M model was for use on the Carriers of both France and UK, but it failed because of many reasons mainly in engine performance. Eventually the death of CVA-01 sounded the death of the M.

How comparable is India’s Jaquars IM to the Jaqs M?

What is the current status of Sea Shadow? How come the USN have not pursued this kind of steath platform further?

Steve the Jag M was a great plane but it went like the F-111B and started getting too heavy and too expencive, thus it was canned, we talked about it for a while on the Modern Military Aviation section some time ago

Ja Worsley,

I haven’t read much about the Jaguar M, I thought it was superior to the Etendard?
I would have loved to see the Buccaneer further developed, fantastic plane 🙂

over G,

I had forgotten about magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) propulsion until you mentioned it, then I remembered this strange looking Japanese MHD test ship the Yamato-1.
http://www.geocities.com/skews_me_too/mhd.html

Its interesting to speculate what would be different if the CVA-01 had been built, what aircraft would be operational today? navalized Jaguars and Tornados?, no Harriers?, would Eurofighter Typhoon look more like the Rafale? and would the Indian Navy be operating it about now?

Steve, you of all people should know about the Jag M. As for the Tornado, I don’t think they’d have done that but they might have kept the Bucc going longer. Bae’s option on the JSF may have been a good solution for an new FOCS a/c.

Harriers would still have been an option but not on the same scale as today. India and a few other countries might not have them in service, countries like Italy, Spain and Thailand.

If it comes down to it, then I think that France might not have pulled out of the Typhoon project and the Raf might never have been thought of. As for looks, maybe it may have ended up like it.

well, now that we are in the interesting ship thread, why not to discuss about interesting propulsion ???, so..

-what happened with some navy experiments on helium thermo-ionic generator in th 70s???

-what happened with some russian-japaneses MHD propulsion experiments in the 80-90s??

-what about thermo-jet propulsion (that is used by some petro-tankers)?

The Sea Shadow test ship http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ship/sea_shadow.htm and a electric ship demonstrator spin off.