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During the Crimean War<\/a>, the French used a number of Floating Batteries<\/a> – ironclad hulls with a complement of heavy guns, but no means of propulsion. They were towed into position by smaller vessels – mostly paddle-steamer frigates – and used to bombard Russian coastal forts with some success. They were also deployed to the Adriatic during the 1859 Franco-Austrian War.<\/p>\n

They struck me as a great idea for some new Aeronef vessels. Using the same idea of battleship-sized but unpowered vessels with lots of guns, this time flying rather than floating, I’ve come up with two different variants.<\/p>\n

The first model is the Redoutable<\/em>, the early version of the flying battery idea. This has 18 heavy guns in open mounts on the deck and a small deckhouse for the gun crews to shelter in.<\/p>\n

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The second model is what I imagine to be an updated version of the design – maybe a few years later, the original vessels were upgraded. These vessels, known as the Solf\u00e9rino<\/em> class, retain ten of their original gun mounts but with the end ones replaced by two heavy battleship turrets and, in recognition of the increasing threat posed by fixed-wing aircraft, two turrets each mounting three rapid-firing small calibre AA guns. The vessels also have a small steam-powered engine to provide power to operate the heavy gun turrets, and a mast with spotters to provide centralised fire control.<\/p>\n

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VAN-420<\/a> – Redoubtable Flying Battery – \u00a37.50
\nVAN-420a<\/a> – Solf\u00e9rino Flying Battery – \u00a37.50<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

During the Crimean War, the French used a number of Floating Batteries – ironclad hulls with a complement of heavy guns, but no means of propulsion. They were towed into position by smaller vessels – mostly paddle-steamer frigates – and … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,46,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aeronef","category-imperial-skies","category-new-releases"],"views":3939,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/VAN-420a.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p26BWy-2DA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17237,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2026\/01\/alpine-airforce\/","url_meta":{"origin":10142,"position":0},"title":"Alpine Airforce","author":"Tony","date":"January 23, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"We had a couple of Swiss vessels in our Imperial Skies range for many years - so many that we don't know how old they are ! 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