Moderator: Community Manager
[Post Reply] [*]  Page 1 of 2  [ 15 posts ]  Go to page 1 2 »
Author Message
Hood
Post subject: Vosper Thornycroft FPH Mk 3 HoverfrigatePosted: November 19th, 2011, 4:23 pm
Offline
Posts: 7166
Joined: July 31st, 2010, 10:07 am
[ img ]
Marketed in 1972 as a 60-knot ASW hovership frigate. It achieved no sales success.
Armament was to be one 3in DP gun (type unspecified and the turret is vaguely Swedish looking), two twin 20mm, one Bofors A/S mortar and one Lynx (though it seems a tad small for a Lynx).
I've made an RN version with the only changes being the 30mm singles and Wasp.

_________________
Hood's Worklist
English Electric Canberra FD
Interwar RN Capital Ships
Super-Darings
Never-Were British Aircraft


Top
[Profile] [Quote]
ALVAMA
Post subject: Re: Vosper Thornycroft FPH Mk 3 HoverfrigatePosted: November 19th, 2011, 4:25 pm
Very cool!!!


Top
[Quote]
Clonecommander6454
Post subject: Re: Vosper Thornycroft FPH Mk 3 HoverfrigatePosted: November 19th, 2011, 4:31 pm
Offline
User avatar
Posts: 760
Joined: August 8th, 2011, 2:35 pm
Impressive, but this stuff should cost quite some cash.


Top
[Profile] [Quote]
bezobrazov
Post subject: Re: Vosper Thornycroft FPH Mk 3 HoverfrigatePosted: November 19th, 2011, 5:23 pm
Offline
User avatar
Posts: 3406
Joined: July 29th, 2010, 2:20 pm
Hood, maybe change the pennant number? Right now you've got HMS Active's number... Otherwise an interesting and really awesome drawing!

_________________
My Avatar:Петр Алексеевич Безобразов (Petr Alekseevich Bezobrazov), Вице-адмирал , царская ВМФ России(1845-1906) - I sign my drawings as Ari Saarinen


Top
[Profile] [Quote]
Portsmouth Bill
Post subject: Re: Vosper Thornycroft FPH Mk 3 HoverfrigatePosted: November 19th, 2011, 5:41 pm
Offline
User avatar
Posts: 3220
Joined: August 16th, 2010, 7:45 am
Location: Cambridge United Kingdom
Impressive :) I love to see a version with All-Bofors: 57mm, 40mm Trinity on the beam plus ssm.


Top
[Profile] [Quote]
Radome
Post subject: Re: Vosper Thornycroft FPH Mk 3 HoverfrigatePosted: November 19th, 2011, 6:24 pm
Offline
User avatar
Posts: 1145
Joined: April 15th, 2011, 10:57 pm
Location: Jerusalem, Israel
I don't see any way it could hover it's way over land with this giant sonar underneath.

_________________
- - -> My Worklist! <- - -


Top
[Profile] [Quote]
Thiel
Post subject: Re: Vosper Thornycroft FPH Mk 3 HoverfrigatePosted: November 19th, 2011, 6:42 pm
Offline
User avatar
Posts: 5376
Joined: July 27th, 2010, 3:02 am
Location: Aalborg, Denmark
Well, submarines are awfully scarce on land, so there's little need for it to in there. :D

_________________
“Close” only counts with horseshoes, hand grenades, and tactical nuclear weapons.
That which does not kill me has made a grave tactical error

Worklist

Source Materiel is always welcome.


Top
[Profile] [Quote]
Bombhead
Post subject: Re: Vosper Thornycroft FPH Mk 3 HoverfrigatePosted: November 19th, 2011, 9:14 pm
Offline
User avatar
Posts: 2299
Joined: July 27th, 2010, 7:41 pm
:lol: :lol: And who said sarcasm was the lowest form of wit.A very interesting design and a shame it never sold.


Top
[Profile] [Quote]
Hood
Post subject: Re: Vosper Thornycroft FPH Mk 3 HoverfrigatePosted: November 20th, 2011, 10:48 am
Offline
Posts: 7166
Joined: July 31st, 2010, 10:07 am
Bezo,
Vosper Thornycroft thought they had a replacement for current Frigates so in this this guise I thought what-if the RN had brought a class of these instead of the Type 21, logically if such a class had been procured they would have supplanted the Amazons.
Methinks the Grey Line Faction between us could come up with some AU versions!

_________________
Hood's Worklist
English Electric Canberra FD
Interwar RN Capital Ships
Super-Darings
Never-Were British Aircraft


Top
[Profile] [Quote]
odysseus1980
Post subject: Re: Vosper Thornycroft FPH Mk 3 HoverfrigatePosted: November 20th, 2011, 2:27 pm
Offline
User avatar
Posts: 3585
Joined: November 8th, 2010, 8:53 am
Location: Athens,Hellenic Kingdom
Contact: Website
Look foward to see more never built UK designs,English always had cool ideas but throwed them away...


Top
[Profile] [Quote]
Display: Sort by: Direction:
[Post Reply]  Page 1 of 2  [ 15 posts ]  Return to “Never-Built Designs” | Go to page 1 2 »

Jump to: 

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 14 guests


The team | Delete all board cookies | All times are UTC


cron
Powered by phpBB® Forum Software © phpBB Limited
[ GZIP: Off ]