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erik_t wrote:Cute little frigate, although I question the wisdom of bow thrusters on a semi-planing hull (and really, on any ship of such diminutive size). Certainly you do not need them when you also have a retractable azimuth thruster! The sonar (?), too, seems a little bit dubious.

Are active stabilizers ever used on ships of this sort? They seem out of place (and very large, in any case).

Well the ship is suposed to be very fast and agile thats why i thought of adding the thrusters and the fins and it has a sonar because one of its tasks is to look for submarines so it can serve as a smaller and more cost efficient escort for a small task force were using much larger ships would cause problems.

Bow thrusters does nothing for manoeuvrability above ~4kts

Thiel wrote:Bow thrusters does nothing for manoeuvrability above ~4kts

Sorry, i meant manoeuvrability in ports and small places

VAI AT-1E: The AT-1E is light attack aircraft with limited air defence & antiship capabilitys developed by VAI from there AT-1B to fill the requirement from the Panamanian national air service for a small and cheap aircraft that could perform air defence missions and also be capable of intercepting small ship usually used for smuggling, and the aircraft also had to be easy to maintain and be capable of operating from unprepared airstrips with little logistical support. VAI answered the request with a modified version of the AT-1B ground attack aircraft called AT-1E. The new variant has a series of unique features such as the strenghened landing gear from the carrier variant a more powerful engine, extended wing roots, encreased fuel capacity and a radar that allows it to carry the MICA air to air missile and the Exocet. The AT-1E won the contract in competition with aircraft such as the HAWK, M346, YAK-130, L-15 & second hand AMX.

Hello everyone i havent been able to post anything because my hard drive was damaged and i lost all the information. So while rebuild everything here is a little preview.

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That AT-1E is certainly interesting, is it entirely yours or did you use a "base" like the AMX?

Also, on your battleship - it just occurred to me that you have a perfect place for boat stowage on the deck - and yet your boat cranes are impossibly far away from it!

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klagldsf wrote:That AT-1E is certainly interesting, is it entirely yours or did you use a "base" like the AMX?

The AT-1E is a variant of my AT-1B attack aircraft which i based on the SAAB B3LA

klagldsf wrote:Also, on your battleship - it just occurred to me that you have a perfect place for boat stowage on the deck - and yet your boat cranes are impossibly far away from it!

Thats is because it is an unfinished design, the problem is i lost all the drawings i had on the computer along with the finished ship