admin7126 Project 705 Lira (NATO “ALFA”) nuclear attack submarines 7 submarines: K-64, K-123, K-316, K-432, K-373, K-493, K-463 The world’s fastest SSN was already in 1960 a Soviet submarine, the first with two nuclear reactors, with a tested underwater speed of 31 knots: Project 627 “Kit” (NATO “November”). In the mid-1960s it was clear that the … Read more
Royal Navy 3 Light Aircraft Carriers built 1973-85: HMS Invincible, Illustrious, Ark Royal R05-07 (decommissioned 2011-2017). The Invincible class was a class of light aircraft carrier operated by the Royal Navy, with three ordered and built, HMS Invincible, HMS Illustrious and HMS Ark Royal. They were defined as aviation-capable ASW platforms to counter Soviet submarines … Read more
Destroyers built 1926-29. Type I: Fubuki, Shirayuki, Hatsuyuki, Miyuki, Murakumo, Shinonome, Usugumo, Shirakumo, Isonami, Uranami. Type II: Ayanami, Shikinami, Asagiri, Yūgiri, Amagiri, Sagiri, Oboro, Akebono, Sazanami, Ushio. Type III: Akatsuki, Hibiki, Ikazuchi, Inazuma (not seen here) The Fubuki-class destroyers (Fubukigata kuchikukan) were twenty-four destroyers of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) built between 1926 and 1933. … Read more
Project 1143.5 STOBAR Aircraft Carrying Cruiser (Tyazholiy Avianesushchiy Kreyser – TAK): Kreml Class. 1982-90: Admiral Kuznetsov (still active), Riga (Varyag, later PLAN Type 001 Liaoning) After the Kievs and Kirovs, the USSR had the technical means to build large units, using nuclear propulsion combined with conventional propulsion. Soviet doctrine had led the Admiralty to define … Read more
Royal Netherlands Navy 18904-1968: HNLMS Koningin Regentes, De Ruyter, Hertog Hendrik The three Koningin Regentes class Coast Defence Ships (pantserschep) were a net improvement over the earlier Eversten class, themselves the fruit of an important modernization effort of the Royal Dutch Netherlands Navy (Koninklijke Marine). They were larger, faster, much better armed than the Eversten, … Read more
Nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines (1976-97), 18 in service, 24 planned (SSBN-726-743). The Ohio-class SSBN (Ship Submersible Ballistic Nuclear) submarines became the largest US submarines ever built. They were and are still the backbone of the United States’ strategic nuclear deterrent force, carrying a substantial portion of the country’s nuclear deterrent capability under sea. The primary … Read more
France. Armored Cruiser built 1904-1908, service until 1937. Ernest Renan was the penultimate French armored cruiser, launched the same year as HMS Dreanought and base for the last Edgar Quinet class. In August 1914, she took part in the hunt for the battlecruiser SMS Goeben, joined the Adriatic blockade of the Austro-Hungarian Navy and the … Read more
US Navy Fighter (1928-34), 187 built (and 366 P-12) Development For the Navy, the Boeing Type 99 The based model for the Navy aicraft was the Boeing P-12, a U.S. military pursuit aircraft used primarily by the USAAC (United States Army Air Corps). It first Flew on 25 June 1928 and was only introducted on … Read more
Regia Marina -4 destroyers: Curtatone, Castelfidardo, Catalafimi, Monzanbano. Built 1920-1924, interwar, ww2, cold war (1924-51) The Curtatone-class were four destroyers of the Italian Regia Marina, laid down in 1920 and completed in 1923-24. They were a follow up of the Curtatone, which design went back to 1915, based on the Audace-class. If initially eight were … Read more
Nuclear Ballistic Submarines Built 1986-1999 S28 Vanguard, S29 Victorious, S30 Vigilant, S31 Vengeance The Vanguard class were four 2nd generation nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines (SSBN) of the Royal Navy, conceived in the early 1980s with the first keel laid up in 1986 and lead both HMS Vanguard (S28) completed in 1993 at Barrow-in-Furness by Vickers … Read more
