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The Supermarine Seafang was a British Rolls-Royce Griffon–engined fighter aircraft designed by Supermarine to Air Ministry specification N.5/45 for naval use. It was based on the Spiteful, which was a development of Supermarine's Griffon-engined Spitfire aircraft. By that time the Spitfire was a 10-year-old design in a period of rapid ...
Mark 41 or Mk 41 may refer to Mark 41 vertical launching system, a ship-based missile launcher; Mk 41 or B41 nuclear bomb, ...
The Mark 41 vertical launching system (Mk 41 VLS) is a shipborne missile canister launching system which provides a rapid-fire launch capability against hostile threats. [1] The vertical launching system (VLS) concept was derived from work on the Aegis Combat System .
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Data from General characteristics Crew: 1 Length: 39 ft 9 in (12.12 m) Wingspan: 43 ft 6 in (13.26 m) Wing area: 335 sq ft (31.1 m 2) Gross weight: 17,250 lb (7,824 kg) Powerplant: 1 × Rolls-Royce Eagle H-24 liquid-cooled piston engine, 3,550 hp (2,650 kW) Propellers: 8-bladed contra-rotating constant-speed propeller See also Related development Supermarine Seafang Supermarine Attacker ...
The Mark 41 vertical launch system fitted to Te Mana As designed, the main armament for the frigate is a 5-inch 54 calibre Mark 45 gun , supplemented by an eight-cell Mark 41 vertical launch system for RIM-7 Sea Sparrow , two 12.7-millimetre (0.50 in) machine guns, and two Mark 32 triple torpedo tube sets firing Mark 46 torpedoes .
The Supermarine Spiteful was a British fighter aircraft designed by Supermarine during the Second World War as a successor to the Spitfire. Powered by a Rolls-Royce Griffon engine, it had a radical new wing design to allow safe operations at higher speeds and incorporating inwards-retracting undercarriage .
Spitfire Mk XIIs of 41 Sqn. The final production Mk XII was MB882, "EB-B" (foreground), flown by Flt. Lt. Donald Smith, RAAF. The fixed tailwheel of "EB-H" (third from front) suggests that the airframe was originally a Mk Vc. The Mk XII was the first Spitfire powered by a Griffon engine to go into service.