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Type 15 (other)
Type 15 may refer to: *Type 15 frigate, a class of British anti-submarine frigates of the Royal Navy *Bugatti_Type_15#Type_15, Bugatti Typ 15, a Bugatti car *Peugeot Type 15, an early Peugeot model built from 1897 to 1901 *BRM Type 15, a Formula One racing car of the early 1950s *Bristol F.2 Fighter (Bristol Type 15), a British two-seat biplane fighter and reconnaissance aircraft of the First World War *Hiro H1H (Hiro Navy Type 15 Flying boat), a 1920s Japanese bomber or reconnaissance biplane *Type RO 15, a class of German cargo ship built in the 1980s *Type 15 tank, a light tank made by Norinco, in service in the PR China since 2015 See also * Class 15 (other) * Model 15 (other) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Type 15 Frigate
The Type 15 frigate was a class of British anti-submarine frigates of the Royal Navy. They were conversions based on the hulls of World War II-era destroyers built to the standard War Emergency Programme "utility" design. History By 1945 the wartime "utility" vessels were obsolescent as destroyers due to their relatively small size and makeshift armament. Future construction would be based on ever larger vessels, such as the and . Rapid advances in German U-boat technology with the Type XXI and Type XXVI rendered even some of the most modern Royal Navy escorts obsolete. This technology was being put into production by the Soviet Navy in the form of the . The Royal Navy began designing and constructing new fast anti-submarine frigates of the Type 12 and Type 14 design to counter this threat. However, it would be some time before these vessels could be brought into service and budget constraints limited the number of new hulls that could be constructed. The solution to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
