Fighting Beijing: Taiwanese Shipbuilding
Taiwan is determined to defend its independence from the mainland PRC. For this he needs a powerful fleet, and he is actively building it ...
Combat ships. Cruisers. When you were enough for several wars
Light cruisers of the "C" type. Caledon Series ...
World War 2030. Surface Forces of the Far Sea Zone
The results of the domestic shipbuilding policy are clear - possible options for surface forces capable of operating in the far sea zone by the 30s ...
Carrier bestiary
Aircraft-carrying ships in service with the fleets of the leading countries of the world ...
Do we need such ships at sea?
Modular ships of project 22160 should be turned into corvettes ...
Helpless NATO ships
Since 2000, all destroyers built overseas (and this is more than 40 1st rank pennants) entered service without anti-ship weapons. The submarine fleet was disarmed even earlier ...
Pacific Fleet: A Stick That Must Become a Cudgel
Fleet in the Far East as a way to prevent possible Japanese aggression ...
"Find the submarine!"
Search tools for submarines of modern navies of foreign countries and the navy of Russia ....
Combat ships. Cruisers. Red "Svetlana" who were unlucky
Light cruisers of the "Svetlana" class ...
NATO ships were helpless
The absence of anti-ship missiles on modern ships of NATO countries has no worthy explanation ...
Combat ships. Cruisers. Minotaurs are weird but useful
Light cruisers of the type "Swiftshur" / "Minotaur" ...
Three squadrons - three AUG
The near future of the Chinese navy: fantasy or a good plan? ...
BDK project 11711: is the mine layer option needed?
On the possible dual purpose of the new landing ships of the Russian fleet ...
US bombers challenge the Russian Navy. Is our fleet ready to answer it?
USA, Japan are working on "new Tsushima" for our fleet. Our fleet is preparing for parades ...
Who will be the master of the Pacific Ocean?
USA, China, Japan ... where is Russia? ...
Combat ships. Cruisers. Possibly the best, but very expensive
Light cruisers of the "Edinburgh" class ...
Battleship Queen Elizabeth. Noble blood frozen in metal
The Queens are the oldest British battleships that took part in World War II. Designed at the beginning of the century, when boilers were fired with coal and oil was considered exotic. Two decades later, they ...
Versatility advantages: potential of patrol ships of project 23550 "Arktika" / "Ermak"
For the navy and the coast guard of the border service, promising universal patrol ships of the project 23550 are being built. Due to a number of interesting solutions, such ships will be able to solve a wide range of ...
World War 2030s. With what atomic sub-melt we will enter it
Let's see: to what extent did our Ministry of Defense and the command of the Navy end up badly in the pre-war years? Thinking: how to get out of this pit? Are there any chances? There are, albeit small ...
Type 31 frigates. The future of the Royal Navy
In the 2020s, the Royal Navy of Great Britain plans to seriously renew itself. One of the main ships of the fleet, along with Type 26 anti-submarine frigates, will be Type 31 general-purpose frigates ...
Correct move underwater
What can be contrasted with Japanese ambitions in the Far East ...
Revival of the Japanese aircraft carrier fleet
For the first time since 1945, Japan will have aircraft carriers ...
"Suicide bombers" of the "Black holes" project 877 and 636
The Russian Navy accepts submarines incapable of underwater combat, and now also almost unarmed ...
Timid hope. Does the Russian naval aviation have a future?
Naval aviation is incapable of combat, and the scale of its problems is simply monstrous. Isn't it too late to save her? Not yet, if we decisively do this, and do not hide her problems ...
"Seawulf" and the rock: you really have to be able to!
Seawulf, smashed against the rocks: regrets and not so much ...
Combat ships. Cruisers. Wild dingo dogs
Light cruisers of the "Perth" class ...
Should I say thank you to Churchill for the super battleships?
The main caliber of superships: beautiful, but useless ...
"Karakurt" vs "Buyan": pro et contra
Possible modernization of small rocket ships ...
Hungry wolf". Odyssey of the German auxiliary cruiser "Wolf"
At the end of 1916, an armed civilian steamship "Wolf" left Kiel in strict secrecy. Then no one knew that his voyage would last more than a year and that this ...
Clippers of the Russian Imperial Navy
In the Russian Imperial Navy the word "clipper" had a special meaning, in fact it is a whole class of cruisers, born in the Crimean War with the light hand of Shestakov (then still a captain of the 2nd rank) and became ...
Combat ships. Cruisers. Like a dandy London ...
Norfolk-class cruisers ...
LCAC hovercraft landing craft
One of the mainstays of the US Navy's amphibious assault force is the LCAC hovercraft. For several decades of operation, they have shown themselves to be the best, but they are already outdated and need to be replaced ...