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The Macchi M.7 was an Italian single-seat fighter flying boat, designed by Alessandro Tonini, built by Macchi as a direct improvement of the already very successful M5, derived from the 1915 M.3 general purpose, high performances flying boat. A modified version of the M.7, the M.7bis also won the Schneider Trophy in 1921. Great plans were made for its adoption in the naval ai...

Although an initial order for twelve Broadswords was talked of, after four units had been ordered the decision was made to lengthen the subsequent ships in order to accommodate the Type 2031Z towed array sonar. Orders for the first two of these improved Broadswords were placed in April 1979, these were sophisticated and specialised versions of the Type 22 specifically approve...

Artemiz was for almost a decade, the Iranian’s Imperial flagship. This Battle class destroyer, built at Cammell Laird, originally named HMS Sluys (D60), was taken in hands in 1967 a...

Until the “French Jackie Fisher”, Admiral De Lapeyrière, became naval minister in 1909-1911, France was l...

The Profintern class is a creation from authors to try to make sense of the mix of two classes of cruisers started in prewar Tsarist Russian yet never completed in wartime, essentially ships of two very similar classes: The Admiral Nakhimov and Svetlana classes. Launched in 1916, they never completed due to the onset of the civil war. One launched later became the Krasny Kav...