I think that in high threat littoral environments – all the proposal does is indicate the short commings of a helicopter to stand on patrol (cost effectively in terms of logictics tail and man hours), putting a slow man air vehcile in harms way….

Helicopters are great searching in the wide ocean for submarines, or being under the fighter/missile umberella to carry stuff from ship to ship or ship to shore.

The operational requirements beg the questions – do we need speed, do we need persistance, do we need to intervine and do we have crew to some of these tasks?? if the asnwer is yes – then that must change things.

RPG type 7v

What jingjang? That is a migs pak-fa fighter proposal [no-cocpit ofcourse]…
the damn chineese are stealing everything!

So how about posting a photo/drawing of the pak-fa concept fighter then?? then we can all see if there is any similarities…

I hope that MiG’s design for a multi-purpose fighter doesn’t look to similar to a UCAV designed for penetrating air-defense systems and ground attack.

Nice little stealth corvette from Royal Schelde the Netheralands

Italian CV Evolution

Attached are some phots and drawings of Italian concepts and G-Garibaldi and cavour. Can any one elaborate on the two Fincantieri designs of the 1970’s – appartently both are about 17,000t.

Surely the criteria for the most pointless airforce is one with the most pointless mission ….or fihghting a most pointless war?

I thought it was April the 1st but thats next week….very disappointed with the army and navy forums going, at least their should be a section on stealth or hitech weapons of any type. A lot of technology has cross over these days and to limit peoples thinking/ideas by focusing on aircraft smacks of silo mentality……never a healthy consequence.

LHP -LPH

Hi Pometablava

LHP – should read LPH, which interestingly enough is the British Classification -Landing Platform Helicopter which is very similar to the US classification LHA LHD.

back to the ‘LHP’ pictures

Top picture is US from Popular Mechanics Oct 1990 ‘Battleforce 2030 one design many missions’ now it discribed a family of such vessels as ‘carrier dock amphibious’, ‘carrier dock logistics’, carrier dock support’….this terminology i was not familiar and classified it as LPH.

Another picture of the proposal can be found in ‘Proceedings’ January 1992 P99.

The following to design concepts should be labeled LPH’s and in that respect are likely to be British concepts. Thats about as much as I can tell you, other than they would have been acquired on a visit to Cranfield University’s library in 1995 or their abouts.