Dr. Rachel Pawling 🌈

Star Trek VI is clearly the most philosophical of the Trek films, simply becuase it contains the line "I cannot confirm the existence of Praxis".

And so it begins.

I had a shell suit. It was black. And neon cyan.

Thank you for this reminder that shell suits were a thing.

Various armament appears in different descriptions, but generally; 114mm Mk8, 4 SSM, 4 boxed Stingray on the transom with a hull mounted sonar, a Lynx helicopter and some form of CIWS or ILMS. In this case, I chose SeaStreak.

And finished. Derived from their proposal for the RN OPV3 requirement, the Ocean Patrol Ship or OPS was a light frigate proposed by Yarrow in 1985. With much inspiration from the in-progress Type 23 design this was a 95m 1800 tonne ship 1/

I am very old and most importantly, a soft-skinned artiste who hails from the land of icons so still use Truespace. I’ve tried to use Blender so many times, but its UI concept is by coders for coders. My last attempt literally destroyed my interest in CG for a few months. Le sigh.

Back to the Yarrow OPV1 design again... mostly just railings, netting and bulwarks to do now.

Stealthy ship hull cuts through waves like butter Borrowing from drug-smuggling subs, Michigan engineers are helping the Navy design autonomous ships that blend in with the ocean surface.

Hey, I recognise that guy! @a2navarc.bsky.social news.engin.umich.edu/2025/06/stea...

So Operator. Many tactical. #Arma3

I have the textbook by that French chap somewhere :D

I’m planning to use this one for teaching - it’s a metric version of a propeller selection diagram from an old Admiralty memo. I like it because it shows the relationships in a visual way, which the automated selectors don’t.

NOMOGRAMS.

OMG I just remembered this skater skirt has pockets BEST DAY EVER.

It's #subsunday and we are starting to think about the requirements for this year's Submarine Design Course. Let's see those crazy ideas!

THV Patricia alongside her home pier in Harwich.

Someone said Ship Sunday, so here's the best ship in the world.

Two identical anomalocaris, a type of extinct aquatic arthropod-like organism vaguely resembling a shrimp. The one on the top is wearing two mittens on the appendages on its face, the one on the bottom is wearing mittens on each of its multiple lobes/fins along its sides. Caption reads, "If Anomalocaris wore gloves, would it wear them like this... or this?"

Not seasonally appropriate (unless you're from the southern hemisphere ig)

While people try to divide us, I appreciate the common human visual processing quirk of having a general idea of what Tony Hawk looks like but never being convinced it's him because the final latch doesn't close in your head for some reason.

A fine display of tactical pointing in a fantastic TTWG based on our Arma 3 campaign :D

Someone needs to invent an anti-energy drink. Something that I can drink at 11pm to counteract the coffee I’m going to need at 8:45pm so that I can get shit done and then be able to sleep by midnight.

And what would a Ship Design VIP day be without some 3D prints?

Indeed - the basic armament consists of some guns, with modular point defence SAM for use in wartime.

@nyrath.bsky.social this beast has a 65 tonne tank of chilled water to cool the monster laser during the long lasing time needed to ensure destruction of high altitude satelites.

And finally the ULADS - Upper Layer Air Defence Ship. Designed to surveil, disrupt and destroy high altitude threats and satelites up to 1000km altitude. Pew pew pew!

Contiuing a running theme over the last few years of "FSS but using..." the FSS-H, where all replenishment is done via a range of UAV. It also has windows ;-)

And now the Dutiful-class salvage tug / patrol vessel. Serves as an ETV and host for offboard systems in peacetime.

Secondly we have the only pure commercial ship this year - the sail-assisted cruise liner Attis, a brutalist exploration cruise experience for 112 pax in the younger demographic and capable of hosting scientific research.

Yes, and anything else that fits in a 12m ISO container footprint.

First up The Aegir class ASW UXV tender. A 4000 tonne ship carrying 12 and 24m XLUUVs, supporting them with ship launched ASW missiles.