Ships that never were
 

I figured i would try something different for a change, as you guys are well aware i have a fond love of anything naval, that includes ships and submarines that haven't been built as well.

I saw a program a while back on abandoned engineering and oddly they mentioned a ship that was never fully realized.

So here is my top 5 ships that didn't make it, you could say they are the what could have been.

https://www.immortalwordsmith.co.uk/...at-never-were/

The aircraft carrier made of ice

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/pr...ier/index.html

My personal favourite but I would also have liked to see the CVA-O1 come to fruition.

Indeed jim the CVA01 in the falklands well wouldn’t that have been something

Aye, having the F4 phantom as well as the Buccaneer would have beefed up our air strike capability more than ten fold.

Just imagine it now F4 chasing down daggers etendard and sky hawks while buccaneers bomb land targets

What a mix

I vote for old time sake they build the KM FÜHRER. :up:

https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca88...qg6xvcSoYJN5Rc

Mind you, I'm not taking anything away from the Harriers, their kill rate ratio was most impressive.

Starting with just 20 Sea Harriers, a further eight joined the Task Force by mid-May. A total of six were lost by accident or ground fire, and not one in air-to-air combat.

On the other hand the Argentine losses were 44 aircraft of all types shot down by enemy fire, 31 of those being fighters and 18 of which were as a result of Sea Harrier CAP.

A better breakdown of the figures below.
https://www.quora.com/How-many-Argen...lands-conflict

The harriers were impressive I can always remember the broadcast it appears on all documentaries I can’t say how many took part in the raid against Stanley but I counted them all out and I counted them all back

Guess that’s why the Argentines called the meurta negra

I do think that splendid should have sunk the carrier too maybe then they would have just surrendered

My sources at the time (both political and participants) informed me the US were happy to help in any way but short of physical involvement provided only enough effort was used to retake the islands and not as a result of total annihilation.

I guess a carrier was a price too high.

Perhaps but it certainly would have been a huge moral dampener to the argies for sure

I did hear from a few people that the USA would lend us a LPA if anything was to happen to one of our carriers now fill that with harriers and you have one mean machine considering they were twice the size of invincible

Never heard that one but wouldn't that invole US personnel participating in the conflict?

Sure I read it somewhere or heard it up have to dig it out

I just can't imagine the US risking their personnel in another countries war zone (did I just post that?)

My understanding was that should either of the carriers be lost there was a strong argument for withdrawal.

I think they meant hand one over and have it manned by RN and RNR personnel

When I finish I’m going to hunt down where I heard this