Versatile RN Type 12 Improved Batch 3 Frigates (1967)Class: HMS Hermione, Andromeda, jupiter, Bacchante, Charybdis, Diomede, Achilles, Apollo, Ariadne. The “Broad Beam” Leander are the last evolution (and 3rd batch) of the Leander class Frigates, tha really defined a standard and met export success. They went to be the most successful (arguably) British frigate design … Read more
Seawolf class submarine (1995) Nuclear-powered attack submarines (1995), in service: USS Seawolf, Connecticut, Jimmy Carter (SSN-21 to 23). The Seawolf class was the last cold war fast attack submarines (SSN) design for the United States Navy, intended successor to the Los Angeles class. Design work began indeed began in 1983 and initially 29 were planned … Read more
Soviet SSGN: K-222 1970-1988 K-222 was the unique Project 661 “Anchar” (NATO “Papa class”), a nuclear-powered cruise-missile submarine developed and bult by the Soviet Navy during the Cold War. She was developed before the Alfa class SSNs as a new generation titanium-built record speed submarine. Development and construction took a decade, but she was successful … Read more
Project 1241.2 Molniya-2: 42 ASW corvette planned (3 cancelled) 1976-1991 The Pauk class (NATO reporting name) were small patrol corvettes of for the Soviet Navy, exported also between 1977 and 1989, official designation Project 1241.2 Molniya-2. Partly inspired by the Tarantul class, they were designed for coastal patrol and inshore ASW warfare. They differed from … Read more
Marina Militare, Built 2001-2008. Active. Conte di Cavour is the current STOVL carrier of the Italian Navy and flagship, replacing in that role Garibaldi. CVH 55 was built at Fincantieri at La Spezia, and commissioned in March 2008, based since at Taranto. Its 232 meters flight decks ends with a ski-jump ramp for STOVL aircraft … Read more
Germany: SM U63 to U-65 (1916-17) The U63 class U-Boats were basically a repeat of the U51 mobilization boats by Germaniawerft in, Kiel. These were only three submersibles launched in February-March 1916 with a rounded prow, rewroked tail, separated deck and double hull, Germanierft diesels and two 8.8 cm guns, although this was changed later … Read more
Royal Navy – 16 ships, service 1963-1990Leander, Ajax, Dido, Penelope, Aurora, Euryalus, Galatea, Arethusa, Naiad, Phoebe, Cleopatra, Minerva, Sirius, Juno, Argonaut, Danae. The Leander-class, or Type 12I (Improved) frigates comprised twenty-six ships, the most numerous and long-lived Frigate class of the Royal Navy in its modern history. It was built in three batches between 1959 … Read more
US Navy Escort Destroyers (1942-45): 116 planned, 72 completed, 44 cancelled The DET (better known as the Cannon class from its lead vessel DE99) were considered a repeat of the previous “Long Hull” TE/TEV or Buckley design, the third escort destroyers types of the US Navy in world war two. Initially coming from the 1940 … Read more
Peruvian Navy Monitor 1870-1881 BAP Atahualpa was a peruvian monitor, ex-USS Catawba acquired in 1868, taking part in the Peruvian Civil War and Pacific War, scuttled in 1881. Development Armada Peruviana 1865 Back in 1865, the Peruvian Navy was a hotchpodge of wooden bricks and schooners, with its three main combat vessels being the 1850 … Read more
Regia Marina: 24 planned 1942. None completed. The Comandanti Medaglie d’Oro class, also known as the “Comandanti class” or “Medaglie d’Oro class” in naval litterature, were the last destroyer class planned for the Regia Marina (Italian Royal Navy) with 24 vessels ordered, later reduced to 20, the first laid down by September 1942, a year … Read more
