Nazi Germany (1929-43) – 4 Battleships: Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Bismarck, Tirpitz. Projects of Plan Z. If PLAN Z was completed in…

Short Sunderland (1937) RAF Coastal Command & others: 777 built. As far as naval matters goes, the Short Sunderland, was…

Peruvian Unprotected Cruiser (1880) Armada do Peru (1880-1937): Lima (Socrates), Callao (Diogenes)* Lima was the lead ship a planned two-ship…

Guided Missiles Destroyers 74 ships (90 planned) DD 963-DD 997 1988-2030 Flight I, II, IIa, III What else to close…

Project 705 Lira (NATO “ALFA”) nuclear attack submarines 7 submarines: K-64, K-123, K-316, K-432, K-373, K-493, K-463 The world’s fastest…

Royal Navy 3 Light Aircraft Carriers built 1973-85: HMS Invincible, Illustrious, Ark Royal R05-07 (decommissioned 2011-2017). The Invincible class was…

Destroyers built 1926-29. Type I: Fubuki, Shirayuki, Hatsuyuki, Miyuki, Murakumo, Shinonome, Usugumo, Shirakumo, Isonami, Uranami. Type II: Ayanami, Shikinami, Asagiri,…

Project 1143.5 STOBAR Aircraft Carrying Cruiser (Tyazholiy Avianesushchiy Kreyser – TAK): Kreml Class. 1982-90: Admiral Kuznetsov (still active), Riga (Varyag,…

Royal Netherlands Navy 18904-1968: HNLMS Koningin Regentes, De Ruyter, Hertog Hendrik The three Koningin Regentes class Coast Defence Ships (pantserschep)…

Nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines (1976-97), 18 in service, 24 planned (SSBN-726-743). The Ohio-class SSBN (Ship Submersible Ballistic Nuclear) submarines became…