A most impressive design, well rendered :) And yes, it would look good developed for military use. It has been developed for military use. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Independence_%28LCS-2%29 "The design for Independence (LCS 2) is based on a high-speed trimaran (Benchijigua Express) hull buil...
Come on guys, it's fairly obvious that this is intended to be a joke. Do you understand the concept of "being trolled"? Everyone in this thread has responded as if this is 100% serious, and while it's been funny to watch, I'm sure it'd easily turn into five pages of debate on weather or not it's pos...
A few pieces of information: A navalised Eurofighter was considered in the United Kingdom but ultimately abandoned due to the expenses it would've entailed to convert the fighter to a navalised profile. A major problem was that in order to approach slowly enough to land on the deck of an aircraft ca...
A pretty high quality drawing of the Hawker Pr.1216 has already been done, check the "What If and Never-Built Planes" chart on the Shipbucket photobucket page.
Canadian ships have not had green-painted helipads for several years. A quick google search of the ship you posted (HMCS Iroquois, if I'm not mistaken) will show you this. They're now painted a dark grey colour similar to that which you would see on US Navy ships.
The first ship is in build. Expected tobe in service with the dutch jss by 2014. And the second one year later. A 3rd in option . They will replace the replenish ships of todays canadian replenish ships. That's incorrect. The first ship is not yet under construction, although the Canadian governmen...