Navistory Soviet Fleet Destroyer, Project 7: The Gnevny class, after the lead ship (“angry”) was a group of 29 fleet destroyers built for the Soviet Navy in the late 1930s, some authors also calling them the Gremyashchiy class. Official designation was Project 7. Arguably the most important, main class of destroyers numerically of USSR in World … Read more
Royal Navy Destroyers: 62 completed, 8 lost. The R class is certainly one of the most important destroyer class in WWI Britain. The first R class represented a total of no less 62 destroyers built between 1916 and 1917 as an improvement of the Admiralty M-class in several areas but most specifically fuel economy, having … Read more
Japanese Self Defence Naval Force General Purpose Guided Missile Destroyers built 1979-86, active until 2021 (DD-123-133). Hatsuyuki, Shirayuki, Mineyuki, Sawayuki, Hamayuki, Isoyuki, Haruyuki, Yamayuki, Matsuyuki, Setoyuki, Asayuki, Shimayuki The Hatsuyuki-class destroyer (はつゆき型護衛艦, Hatsuyuki-gata-goei-kan) were a new class initiated for the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) as its first class of first generation of general-purpose vessels. … Read more
Tinaztepe, Zafer 1931-1954 The Tinaztepe class destroyers were built for the Turkish Navy by C.T. Riva Trigoso in 1930-32. They were the secind pair of four destroyers ordered on the same design, part of a massive re-armament program. Tinaztepe and Zafer were smaller than their half-sisters the Kocatepe class, while still based on the same … Read more
ASW Escorts (1955-56 to 1975-77): F761 Le Corse, F762 Le Brestois, F763 Le Boulonnais, F764 Le Bordelais. New Cycle ! French Cold War Frigates: First entry, the “Le Corse” class or E50 escort were among the few brand new warships built in France in 1950, financed under MDAP as battle group ASW fast escorts. These … Read more
Regia Marina: 48 Planned 1942, built 1942-43Tipo I, II, III: 8 completed. The Flutto-class submarines were the last in the 600 Series, and Regia Marina’s most important numerically. They were built with modifications brought by wartime experience and simplified. Seaworthiness was good, with improved internal arrangements, greater hull strength, better AA and the fastest diving … Read more
The Dewoitine HD.730 was French shipborne reconnaissance and observation floatplane designed in 1938, engineered to be catapulted from French cruisers and battleships, in order to modernize the Aéronavale’s scouting capabilities. It had a peculiar inverted gull wing Configuration and they were designed to be folded each on two hinges in order to optimize the limited … Read more
K.u.K. Kriegsmarine Submarine: SMS U1, U2 (1909) New Cycle ! SMS U1 was the first in a short line of Austro-Hungarian submersibles (27 in all) prior and during WWI. Austria-Hungary started to enquire about these in 1904, but it’s really by 1906 that was started the first class, built at home, but from plans licenced … Read more
Garcia, Bradley, Ed. Mc Donnell, Brumby, Davidson, Voge, Sample, Koelsch, Albert David, O’Callahan, and Glover (AGDE-1). With the new generation of Soviet submarines, started with the November class SSN, there was an urge to design faster escorts. The idea of the admiralty was therefore to keep the fundamentals of the previous semi-experimental Bronsteins in terms … Read more
Japan, 32 Improved Type B Escort (kaibōkan), built 1944-45 (some incomplete). The Ukuru or “improved type B” were an attempt to simplify the design of the Mikura class escorts, developed after the start of the Pacific War and far better for anti-submarine warfare than the Shimushu and Etorofu class kaibōkan. They took still too long … Read more
