Ship WHIF's I've found.

[Sauragnmon]

I remember that, Joe - I've got an order out for some 14/50's, a dozen of them, for a North Carolina sitting on my shelf when I get 'round to it.

[dy031101]

This is the scaled model of the JMSDF destroyer Isokaze from the novel Boukoku no AEGIS.

Rather than the Kongo class DDG in the movie, the ship in the novel is based on the Hatakaze class DDG: the main rifled artilleries are replaced with OTO-Melara 127mm mounts, ASROC launcher with Mk.41 VLS, and (what, I think, is supposed to represent) a SPY-1F set is added to the main mast.

(One would also be tempted to think of that Mk.13 launcher as having been adapted to fire SM-2MR missiles as well.)

[Sauragnmon]

That's quite an interesting design there... though I'm left to question the worth of the relatively Small Mk41 suite, as it includes so few missiles in practice - probably more cells would be of merit.  CIWS is good, not sure about the replacement of the Mk42 with Oto Compact - similar rates of fire if I recall (mk42 could fire faster than Mk45, as it had two munitions hoists - though the Compact was BuShips' thought instead of Mk45, so ostensibly an upgrade in that field.)  The radar suite is not Mini-Aegis per se - I see SPS-48 3d Air Search, and what Might be SPS-49 2d on the aft structure, which would ostensibly indicate the New Threat Update suite, additionally two SPG-51 tracking and engagement radars, sufficient to support the Mk13, though no additional ammount.  It would make an interesting version of the system, though the knowledge I've picked up would suggest that it has a couple of glitches - reload hatches for the ASROC launcher (bulkhead in front of the bridge), and lack of SYS-2 antennas to transmit course-correction updates to the SM-2MR missiles.  That said, I would imagine it might be quite a formidable AAW DDG in truth.

[dy031101]

The radar suite is not Mini-Aegis per se - I see SPS-48 3d Air Search, and what Might be SPS-49 2d on the aft structure, which would ostensibly indicate the New Threat Update suite, additionally two SPG-51 tracking and engagement radars, sufficient to support the Mk13, though no additional ammount.

Yes, the ship does retain the existing radar sets from the Hatakaze design.  The SPY-1F is mounted in the solid lower half of the forward mast.  Since I don't really know why, I'd guess that the NTU suite serves as a backup to the Mini-AEGIS......

[proditor]

Someone to invite?

http://www.modelshipgallery.com/gallery/misc/whatif/rn-700-br/br-index.html

[seadude]

Just saw this over on Modelwarships.com tonight.
http://www.modelshipgallery.com/gallery/misc/whatif/max-350-jk/jk-index.html
The "Maximum Battleship". Sweet! I wish there was a kit of that. I'd buy one immediately. 

[Jschmus]

Just saw this over on Modelwarships.com tonight.
http://www.modelshipgallery.com/gallery/misc/whatif/max-350-jk/jk-index.html
The "Maximum Battleship". Sweet! I wish there was a kit of that. I'd buy one immediately. 

I know it's 1/350, but I wish there was one photo of the whole ship.  Also, most of the Tillman "Maximum Battleship" designs featured 3-, 4- or even 6-gun turrets, though I suppose this could be one of the later proposals utilizing twin 18-inch turrets.

[B777LR]

Oops, wrong thread


Over here:
http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php/topic,27183.new.html#new

[Sauragnmon]

A Gulfstream, trapping on a carrier... wow, that's pretty cool.

Still say a Herk on a Carrier is the awesome though.

[GTX]

What's the story?

Regards,

Greg

[elmayerle]

A Gulfstream, trapping on a carrier... wow, that's pretty cool.

Still say a Herk on a Carrier is the awesome though.

Are you sure that's a Gulfstream?  The engines look wrong for a Gulfstream.  The Gulfstream had RR Darts while this aircraft looks to have TPE331s which would make it either some variant of Merlin or Metro.  Still's quite a trick to do a carrier landing with one.

Another point, it doesn't have the TRAM turret that the USN's TC-4C variant of the Gulfstream had.

[Sauragnmon]

They're also rather two different planes in those pictures - notice the high wing on one, low wing on the other, and the position of the horizontal stabilizers.

Interesting with the trap hook and IFR probe though, pretty cool stuff, must be for a high ranking staff transport or something.

[Scooterman]

Nothing like a bit of Photoshopping.............

[B777LR]

A Gulfstream, trapping on a carrier... wow, that's pretty cool.

Still say a Herk on a Carrier is the awesome though.

Are you sure that's a Gulfstream?  The engines look wrong for a Gulfstream.  The Gulfstream had RR Darts while this aircraft looks to have TPE331s which would make it either some variant of Merlin or Metro.  Still's quite a trick to do a carrier landing with one.

Another point, it doesn't have the TRAM turret that the USN's TC-4C variant of the Gulfstream had.

It's a Jetstream

Perhaps the RN could have used a Jetstream fitted with an Erieye radar, for the supercarriers that never were?

[Jeffry Fontaine]

Arsenal Ship built by Koufopoulos Nektarios using the 1/700 scale Jim Shirley production productions Arsenal Ship kit.

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