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Invincible Class Strike Cruiser

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Volkodav:
I am starting to reconsider my original plan.  Looking at those images and the beams of the Invincibles, vs the Wasps and the Essex classes (yes I have an Essex too) I am wondering if I could do something even more ambitious such as grafting bows and sterns, new flight decks of different plans.  Wondering what I could come up with and am open to suggestions.

Maybe using the Essex hull and the Invincible bow and stern and island superstructure new build 1970 or 80s Essex sized RN carrier could be created.  Possible use the left over centre hull with the bow and stern dock from the Wasp to create a RN type LHA/LHD and modified Essex bow and stern with the Wasp centre section to do something else, a LPH or CVE?  Was looking at minimum change for the hulls but now looking at those images I am wondering what I could mix and match to create.

Maybe minimum change Wasp, just add the ski-jump and wok on the Invincible / Essex hull mash up for a bigger better Invincible, maybe even a CTOL CVS version instead of my planned Tarawa CVS.

Cliffy B:
Check your PMs  ;)

Volkodav:

--- Quote from: Cliffy B on April 09, 2014, 10:44:27 PM ---Check your PMs  ;)

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Done, reply sent. :)

Volkodav:
Thanks Cliffy, excellent read, boy was that guy wrong but I loved the concepts.  He was looking at it as a carrier replacement in greater numbers I was looking at it as an escort leader able to beef up surface action groups, carrier battle groups and amphibious ready groups with extra land attack, air defence, ASW, anti surface firepower, helos and possibly Harriers.  State of the art sensors, command and control / flag facilities. 

A replacement for upgraded battle ships before the advent of VLS.

Volkodav:
Been doing some reading, Freidman's British Cruiser and Brown and Moore's Rebuilding the Royal Navy and am particularly interested in the Escort Cruiser from the early 60s.  Iterations of this concept ranged from a Vittorio Veneto configuration to designs more akin to the later Invincibles.  It is interesting that the RN planned four of these ships to replace two Tiger class cruisers and instead of the final pair of County class DLGs.

I am now thinking in terms of remodelling my Invincible as one of these escort cruisers with Tartar and guns, possibly 4.5" for a 60s ship or maybe 3" for a 70s build.  The back story would be Australia ordered (and built) three Tartar armed escort cruisers instead of the Charles F Adams class DDGs in the 1960s Permitting HMAS Melbourne to disembark her helicopters and operate an additional squadron of fixed wing aircraft, either fighter / strike or ASW and swing from CVS to CVA as required.  As time went by the escort cruisers proved their worth and with the advent of the Harrier jump jet the decision was made to build additional escort cruisers to replace Melbourne and Sydney to fill the CVS and LPH roles with a common multi role platform able to act as a self escorting missile ship, an ASW helicopter carrier, a LPH and a Harrier carrier.  Later ships were based on the hull and propulsion plant of the new RN through deck cruiser HMS Invincible but were still more cruiser like and used US weapons and radars.  Thus by the 1990s the RAN surface combatant fleet consisted of 5 Escort Cruisers, 10 FFGs and 10 patrol frigates, each CGH operating 9 Sea king and 6 Harriers, and each frigate one Sea king or Lynx.

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