Hello!
The book French Battleships 1922-56 mentions that for the Alsace-class battleship designs, studies for 400, 406, and 420mm guns were ordered. Additionally, a 406mm naval gun was created by the Schneider company for the Soviet Union, and a 431mm naval gun was created: the elusive Canon de...
a.v. roe and company / avro
austin motor company
cold war
france
great britain
lincolnshire aviation heritage centre
marinenationale
raf bomber command
royal air force
world war ii
After reviewing various resources, I found information, about battleship Strasbourg, after the end of the war, was proposed to be rebuilt as a light aircraft carrier. But there is very little information and this is at the level of "mentions". Now I wondered if there was such a project or did it...
What happens if Dassault gets his hands on a jet engine that fits the Etendard and allows it to become a properly supersonic fighter?
Could this tip the balance and see them ordered instead of F8 Crusaders?
As we all may know, the French were developing land-based heavy AA guns in the 1920s and 30s to counter the next-generation bombers of that time. They designed and tinkered a lot with 75 mm guns, then decided to up-gun it to 90 mm caliber. The 90 mm gun, or known as the Canon de 90 mm Modèle...
Prototype is already in the water, it's been worked on since 2018ish. ~10 meters (33 ft), up to 20 meters (66 ft) with additional power options. Displacement: ~10 tons
Service version will have a weapons/equipment bay.
Our own Covert shores did a nice comparison image of different...
I've already asked this on the battlecruisers forum but I ask here as well:
https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/alltheworldsbattlecruisers/the-decisive-battle-at-antivari-t9042.html#p23148
Historically the Battle of Antivari was a minor battle at the start of WW1 and the first one of the...
alternate history
austro-hungarian empire
french third republic
kaiserliche und königliche kriegsmarine
marinenationale
royal navy
triple alliance
triple entente
world war i
https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/uss-bonhomme-richard.30940/post-402978
Some good news:
https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2021/04/naval-group-started-transplanting-a-damaged-ssn-with-a-decomissioned-submarine/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_submarine_Perle_(S606)
The French Navy mirrored the RN Type 22 with its own ASW escort programme
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Leygues-class_frigate
Comparisons are interesting and there were even 2 AD derivatives.
The French built three large ASW destroyers in the 70s...
I've found this article in the Warship International, Vol. 22, No. 2 (1985) about Some French Fast Battleships—That Might Have Been:
These are some interesting proposals from the Naval College graduates.
The two battlecruiser designs mentioned at the end were Georges Edmond Just Durand-Viel...
Hello there!
I've been trying to find data on French aircraft carrier designs between the Joffre and the Clemenceau (PA-54). I've found plenty of data on the PA-28, but I'm very interested in the supposed PA-25 design from Vichy France and the PA-27, PA-29, PA-31 designs from 1945 onwards...
I've read in a few places that there were a couple of proposals (one from the US and another by the French after the war's end) to turn the unfinished French battleship Jean Bart into an aircraft carrier (which were obviously refused). Tzoli seems to have made a mockup of how it might've looked...
http://3dhistory.de/wordpress/warship-drawings-warship-blue-prints-warship-plans/french-submarine-drawingsplan-sets/french-submarine-surcouf-as-build-1929/
It's the sous marin de croisière type Q5 concept for the Surcouf.
http://www.hisutton.com/SNLE-3G.html
https://www.navyrecognition.com/index.php/news/defence-news/2018/october-2018-navy-naval-defense-news/6538-here-is-the-first-image-of-the-french-navy-next-generation-ssbn-snle-3g.html
Expected into service in ~2032. 16 SLBMs, 14,500 tons surfaced.
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