td_07 wrote: * | April 7th, 2022, 11:10 pm |
I was always intrigued by what could have happened if HMS Speedy's trials were successful...
A corvette with the Jetfoil hull...
You think a hydrofoil corvette would have been wild?
For a while the USN entertained the notion of a
seventy knot fleet.
Things got WILD.
The only thing that get close to that today, is the Norwegian "Coastal Corvettes" of the Skjold class, with it's official top speed of 60 knots, I have heard rumors and talks about them being even faster, everything from 2 knots to 8+ knots faster then the official speed. But in the end, whatever the tru top speed is, it is as I know, then only class of ships that do over 60 knots and is armed with cannons, missiles and a self-defence systems against aerial threat. There is naval boats that are faster, but they are more or less small boats, with or without a single machine gun. So I will still say that Skjold class is the fastest warship in the world, at the moment, until new information comes to my attention.
No objections to surface-effect warships either (if that is more practical), honestly