this challenge remind me an AU made a lot of years ago... I searched for the folder in the old archive and I posted again the drawings here http://www.shipbucket.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=8214 https://lazerone.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/iceberg4.jpg https://lazerone.files.wordpress.com/2018/0...
... the IBs challenge remind me that I started an AU a lot of years ago. I guess that it was in the first forum and and therefore I not able to get the original discussion. BTW here below the old folder http://www.old.shipbucket.com/images.php?dir=Alternate%20Universe/LAZER%20Domains%20by%20Lazer_on...
Here is my ship named as the ship used for the polar expedition of Amedeo di Savoia (1899-1900) Clearly this OPV is bsed, with few modifications, on the Russian Project 23550. https://lazerone.files.wordpress.com/2017/12/opv-stella-polare-c.png https://lazerone.files.wordpress.com/2017/12/opv-stella...
... Uhmm ... I don't know if I will work on this topic... The lowest Polar Classes (PC 6 and PC 7) are roughly equivalent to the two highest Finnish-Swedish ice classes (ICE 1A Super and ICE 1A, respectively). However, unlike the Baltic ice classes intended for operation only in first-year sea ice,...
Nowaday it is quite difficult to think something better and more effective than the russian Project 23550. Maybe it could be taken into account a couple of hovercrafts instead of the two patrol boats (but I would not do it) PS: the containers should be seen as "armed" ones https://lazerone.files.wor...
... Uhmm ... I don't know if I will work on this topic... BTW here below some hints about hull classifications for ice-strenghten ships Meaning of ice class Not all ships are built to an ice class. Building a ship to an ice class means that the hull must be thicker, and more scantlings (aggregate of...