USAV SSG Elroy F. Wells, the first of the army's new Maneuver Support Vessel (Light) aka their replacement for their old LCMs as delivered to the army in 2022.
https://i.postimg.cc/yYS0S7SQ/Test.png As the cold war intensified and the threat of Soviet Submarines increased, NATO Leadership sought to strengthen the Antisubmarine Warfare capabilities of it's members through the adaption of a common affordable ASW escort. The result of this initiative was the...
Fort Necessity Class, America's Shield https://i.imgur.com/XUsos7r.png Designed in the late 1980s and built in the 1990s, the Fort Necessity Class Cruisers were purpose built BMD ships. Created under the "SHIELD Ship" (Strategic Homeland Emergency Interceptor Launching Defense) Ship Program. The SHI...
After a few weeks or so of procrastination I've finally gone back and put a bit of polish onto some things I started alongside my "One Small Step" challenge Entry. From "Nuclear Pulse Space Vehicle Study Vol II -- Conceptual Vehicle Designs and Operational Systems" The full report discusses a number...
https://i.postimg.cc/gmp7FM8N/Final-Test.png Project Artemis Following the conclusion of the Apollo Project, the US Space Program turned it's efforts towards establishing a more permanent base of operations under Project Artemis using nuclear thermal rockets. In 1975 a corruption scandal tied to co...
https://i.postimg.cc/FR3GrHw1/ems-test-2.png The Shintari National Space Development Center's Crisis Management Division (CMD) is responsible for handling all emergency situations that happen at the center. Shown are a selection of vehicles from the 3 Sub-departments that fall under the CMD. The fi...
https://i.imgur.com/Fbn4tY5.png After the death of the US Navy's Airship programs in the early 1960s, the USN has at various times attempted to bring back this capability. One such attempt was the YEZ-2A Program. Following a series feasibility studies, in 1985 the USN decided to issue a proposal fo...
After years of procrastinating and a multitude of ships of various sizes, shapes and sanity I've decided to finally sit down and hammer out a post detailing the AU I use to (poorl) justify my sanity. An AU with the maps marked "Here Be Dragons" sprinkled with a bit of "Manifest Destiny" which serves...
https://i.imgur.com/QbSHx4r.png The Matador class Light Star Destroyer was a class of warships designed as a replacement for the widely used Gladiator Class. While the Gladiator had enough firepower to suppress most rebel cells during the early stages of the Galactic Civil, as it progressed, the Re...
Gollevainen: Not a big fan of the plating on the top view, especially when compared to the lack of any sort of panel lines on the side view. Other than that it's a pretty solid drawing. Me: I'm surprised I scored as high as I did. rbz88: I quite like this entry. Visually it looks quite good, it feel...