Shipbucket

Your work is a splendid reference.
Wish you could re illustrate the various Friedman and Brown/Moore books

Hood
I really enjoy your Alternate RN work.
Have you posted links on the Secret Projects site as they really help a number of threads there. (I realise you probably have)

The new edition WARSHIP 2019 is said to have article about a proposal to convert Belfast to carry helicopters like Tiger and Blake, but for carrying
Royal Marines rather than ASW. Another Shipbucket drawing

These and the Battleship missile conversions in the Friedman US Navy books are just so 1950s. The Albany conversions were my favourite warships as a kid. A chap at school made a beautiful 1/1200 waterline model of Albany. Years later I bought one made in Germany, but his was better..

Love the 50s and 60s designs in the Friedman US Navy books

The missile and gun systems always looked more futuristic than the ships themselves, although I do like the Mack and Block on a long hull look.

I bought the Friedman books on US warships some years ago now, usually secondhand. I especially loved all the unbuilt 1950s and 1960s missile ships. Talos, Typhon, Sea Mauler etc were much cooler than Seaslug and Seacat. I always wodered what would have happened if the UK could have afforded the US ...

This would have been a US version of the KIEV but much more powerful.

Thank you for fleshing out the tantalizing drawing in the Friedman book.

I would love to add a model of this to my collection of 1/1200 waterline ships.

Your CVA 01s are brilliant and very welcome. I agree that the what-if on CVA01 is Phantoms and Buccaneers like Ark. To try and structure the alternatives we have three time periods where the possible aircraft are clear. In the initial CVA01 design period like your drawing based on the art in Jane's ...

One of the most difficult evolutions in the postwar Royal Navy was the transition from the Type 12 Whitby, Rothesay and Leander frigates to a replacement design. It took nearly a decade for the first Type 22 to enter service after the final Leander's were built. The change in emphasis of the RN's ...

In 1966 before the CVA01 was cancelled, the UK planned to replace its Phantoms and Lightnings with a variant of the Anglo French Variable Geometry AFVG aircraft. The French Navy also planned to receive them. After the French pulled out of AFVG, CVA01 had already been struck. AFVG was replaced by ...