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| Author: | Hood [ November 19th, 2011, 4:23 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Vosper Thornycroft FPH Mk 3 Hoverfrigate |
![[ img ]](http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c275/hangar/Shipbucket%20profiles/FPHMk3.png) Marketed in 1972 as a 60-knot ASW hovership frigate. It achieved no sales success. Armament was to be one 3in DP gun (type unspecified and the turret is vaguely Swedish looking), two twin 20mm, one Bofors A/S mortar and one Lynx (though it seems a tad small for a Lynx). I've made an RN version with the only changes being the 30mm singles and Wasp. |
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| Author: | ALVAMA [ November 19th, 2011, 4:25 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Vosper Thornycroft FPH Mk 3 Hoverfrigate |
Very cool!!! |
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| Author: | Clonecommander6454 [ November 19th, 2011, 4:31 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Vosper Thornycroft FPH Mk 3 Hoverfrigate |
Impressive, but this stuff should cost quite some cash. |
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| Author: | bezobrazov [ November 19th, 2011, 5:23 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Vosper Thornycroft FPH Mk 3 Hoverfrigate |
Hood, maybe change the pennant number? Right now you've got HMS Active's number... Otherwise an interesting and really awesome drawing! |
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| Author: | Portsmouth Bill [ November 19th, 2011, 5:41 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Vosper Thornycroft FPH Mk 3 Hoverfrigate |
Impressive  I love to see a version with All-Bofors: 57mm, 40mm Trinity on the beam plus ssm.
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| Author: | Radome [ November 19th, 2011, 6:24 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Vosper Thornycroft FPH Mk 3 Hoverfrigate |
I don't see any way it could hover it's way over land with this giant sonar underneath. |
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| Author: | Thiel [ November 19th, 2011, 6:42 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Vosper Thornycroft FPH Mk 3 Hoverfrigate |
Well, submarines are awfully scarce on land, so there's little need for it to in there. 
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| Author: | Bombhead [ November 19th, 2011, 9:14 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Vosper Thornycroft FPH Mk 3 Hoverfrigate |
 And who said sarcasm was the lowest form of wit.A very interesting design and a shame it never sold.
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| Author: | Hood [ November 20th, 2011, 10:48 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Vosper Thornycroft FPH Mk 3 Hoverfrigate |
Bezo, Vosper Thornycroft thought they had a replacement for current Frigates so in this this guise I thought what-if the RN had brought a class of these instead of the Type 21, logically if such a class had been procured they would have supplanted the Amazons. Methinks the Grey Line Faction between us could come up with some AU versions! |
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| Author: | odysseus1980 [ November 20th, 2011, 2:27 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Vosper Thornycroft FPH Mk 3 Hoverfrigate |
Look foward to see more never built UK designs,English always had cool ideas but throwed them away... |
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