Ancient history

• Schnellboot (S-Boot-E-boat)

  The German Schnellboot (S-Boot) differed greatly from its Royal Navy counterparts. It had its origin in a civilian model developed by Lürssen in the early thirties; built of wood on a steel frame, it had a round-chine hull which gave it a lower maximum speed than that of the British hard-chine boats

• Hipper, Blucher and Prinz Eugen

  Unless considering pocket battleships as heavy cruisers, Germany did not begin to build ships of this type until the mid-1930s, when the Royal Navy gave up this design. The German Navy had three built and completed, the Hipper, Blücher and Prinz Eugen, a fourth was sold to the Russians, and a fifth

• Graf Spee

  Sister ships of a three-ship class:Deutschland (plus later, Lutzow), the Graf Spee and the Scheer, After the First World War, Germany no longer possessed any of the excellent dreadnoughts of the High Seas Fleet, but only a few old pre-dreadnoughts that could practically only be used for training. I

• Ballistic missile nuclear submarine (SNLE)

  A nuclear ballistic missile submarine (SNLE), also known as SSBN (Sub-Surface Ballistic Nuclear) according to the NATO code, is a very large naval nuclear-powered submarine, equipped with nuclear-charged strategic ballistic missiles in vertical silos and launched from a dive. It is also equipped wit

• Nuclear attack submarine

  Nuclear attack submarines (abbreviated as SNA in French and SSN for Ship Submersible Nuclear according to the NATO code) are nuclear-powered submarines. Unlike SSBNs, whose sole mission is nuclear deterrence, SNAs are intended for protection and power projection missions. The first of this class of

• River marine

  A river navy or river fleet (in English:Brown-water navy) is a maritime terminology designating a navy assigned to the defense of rivers. An American concept, it is to be differentiated from the littoral navy and the high seas navy (capable of operating more than 200 nautical miles/370 kilometers f

• Escort

  The term escort appeared during the Second World War to designate a warship, of medium or light displacement, whose mission was to protect ocean convoys and squadrons from attacks by submarines. This role was generally performed by escort destroyers such as the Buckley class and the Cannon class bui

• Destroyer

  In modern military terminology, a destroyer (in France a counter- torpedo boat, until the end of World War II) is a warship capable of defending a group of buildings (military or civilian) against any threat, such as attacking a group of moderately defended ships. It has anti-aircraft, anti-submarin

• Cruiser

  A cruiser is a warship. Since the beginning of the 1990s and the decommissioning of all battleships, it has been the most powerful and largest combat vessel, except for aircraft carriers and aircraft carriers. Historically, it was considered a ship capable of operating individually, cruising, like

• modern corvette

  In modern military terminology, a corvette is a mid-size warship (80-130m and up to 2,000t nowadays), designed more for the protection of a naval force or a convoy of merchant ships or surveillance of an area (military or economic), than for the assault. It generally receives coastal maritime safegu

• Gunboat

  The gunboat is a light warship, armed with one or more pieces of artillery. With a shallow draft, the gunboat can operate in shallow waters (rivers, lakes, canals, etc.). It was widely used during colonization operations (Africa, Asia). Evolution At the end of the 17th century, the first gunboats

• Frigate

  In the modern navy, a frigate protects a precious building (aircraft carrier, projection and command building, nuclear submarine), anti-ship warfare, anti-submarine or anti-aircraft warfare, surveillance of a maritime zone... The word frigate refers to very different types of ships, it originated i

• Vought XF8U-3 Crusader III

  The Vought XF8U-3 Crusader III was an aircraft developed by Chance Vought , in response to the competition launched in December 1955 by the US Navy to produce a naval interceptor of the Mach 2+ class. This aircraft was a competitor to the McDonnell F4H Phantom II to succeed the (future) famous Chanc

• North American YF-107 Ultra Saber

  The North American YF-107 Ultra Saber is a 1950s American prototype fighter aircraft developed from the F-100 Super Sabre2. Built in only three copies, it served in particular within the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. Development Developed on its own funds2 by North American from 1953

• North American XF-108 Rapier

  The North American XF-108 Rapier is a high-speed, long-range interceptor aircraft project developed by North American Aviation to protect the United States from Soviet supersonic bombers. To limit development costs, the program shares engine development with the XB-70 Valkyrie strategic bomber progr

• North American XB-70 Valkyrie

  The North American XB-70 Valkyrie is the prototype of the B-70 strategic nuclear penetrating bomber for the United States Air Forces Strategic Air Command. North American Aviation designs the Valkyrie as a large, six-engine aircraft capable of reaching speeds in excess of Mach 3 when flying at 21,00

• North American X-15

  The North American X-15 is an American experimental rocket plane, built as part of a research program on very high speed and very high altitude flight. From 1960 to 1968, the 3 examples built performed approximately 200 test flights on behalf of NASA, smashing all speed and altitude records held by

• Convair XF2Y-1 Sea Dart

  The project in itself was not original:several nations had already thought, with success, of making seaplane fighters.However, it became original when the Americans imagined employing a jet fighter aircraft. endowed with supersonic characteristics. Although it never made it past the prototype stage,

• Republic XF-103

  The Republic XF-103 originated in an early 1949 request for the USAF for an advanced interceptor capable of surpassing in speed and altitude the new Soviet intercontinental bombers soon to be available in quantity according to American CIA officials. The North American F-86D Saber, the Northrop F-89

• Republic F-84 Thunderjet.

  Designed as a successor to the P-47 Thunderbolt, it was in every way worthy of its illustrious ancestors. Also designed by Alexander Kartveli, the Republic F-84 Thunderjet had a long and intense operational career which continued until the early 1960s when it entered — along with the North American