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NEW FOR 2021!

Ported to OBJ from the model created by Psullykeys for Microsoft's Combat Flight Simulator 2 (CFS2). Preview picture posed in XNALara XPS. NO MODEL DOWNLOAD.

AFD stands for auxiliary floating drydock in the jargon of the United States Navy (USN). These were developed during the early part of World War II to be able to provide dry dock locations for servicing and repairing ships in locations where they were not normally found. They came in all sizes, with the largest able to accommodate anything up to and including the IJN's Yamato class battleships and the USN's Midway class fleet aircraft carriers. These were very handy and most of the major naval powers Allied or Axis had their equivalents (the German Bloss und Vohm floating drydocks, for example) -- but it was the American floating drydocks that tended to have the greatest vesatility. Six all-new types of AFD were developed and deployed by the USN during World War II in a variety of sizes to supplement their older and less versatile yard floating docks (YFD). This model and the image above depicts the AFDB, which was the largest. It came in 9 or 10 main sections (depending on when it was made), along with its floating supports, handling cranes, and other stuff, and these were shipped by convoy to their destination and then reassembled on the spot. Large barges moored alongside, as you can see above, held everything else needed for the floating drydock to function (spare parts, equipment and tool stores, power and fuel sources, shops and sheds, barracks for the drydock crews, etc.). Nine AFDBs were built during the war and would continue to see service through the Cold War before being replaced by newer and more modern types. AFDB-6 was disposed of in 1976 and AFDB-4 in 1989, but the rest would continue in service until after the end of the Cold War. The last World War II era AFDB in USN service, AFDB-3, was sold to Croatia in 2000. To find out more about the USN's auxiliary floating drydocks of World War II, follow the link below:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auxiliar…

This is a straight port with no changes by me. Be advised that you might need to scale it up or down just a tad depending on your project needs. You also might want to pull it into a 3D model editor and scale it down more anyway, so you can use as a stand-in for smaller floating drydock types. Be sure not to affect the size of the attached barges if you do this, otherwise they will be out of proportion. Alternatively you can simply remove drydock sections to shorten it and thus make it smaller longways, which was done during the war on selected occasions. Your call.

This is being provided for those of you who need a floating drydock for repairing your warships outside of normal port facilities in your World War II and Cold War era historical recreations and fantasy fleet exercises. You can have it stand in for those of other nations simply by changing the appropriate textures. This also has its analog in contemporary times, so you can still use it to cover for newer types until proper models become available.

This is not my model. All I did was port it to OBJ for you. Please credit Psullykeys as the original creator if you use this in any of your own 3D projects. You do not have to credit me for my part.

For non-profit, non-commercial use only.

ASIDE - A VERY important naval auxiliary for obvious reasons, although you'll never see one in a combat situation unless it's being attacked. Think of them as the starbase in the old Super Star Trek computer game, and you'll soon start figuring out ways to use them in your own stuff.

Description

NEW FOR 2021!

Ported to OBJ from the model created by Psullykeys for Microsoft's Combat Flight Simulator 2 (CFS2). Preview picture posed in XNALara XPS. NO MODEL DOWNLOAD.

AFD stands for auxiliary floating drydock in the jargon of the United States Navy (USN). These were developed during the early part of World War II to be able to provide dry dock locations for servicing and repairing ships in locations where they were not normally found. They came in all sizes, with the largest able to accommodate anything up to and including the IJN's Yamato class battleships and the USN's Midway class fleet aircraft carriers. These were very handy and most of the major naval powers Allied or Axis had their equivalents (the German Bloss und Vohm floating drydocks, for example) -- but it was the American floating drydocks that tended to have the greatest vesatility. Six all-new types of AFD were developed and deployed by the USN during World War II in a variety of sizes to supplement their older and less versatile yard floating docks (YFD). This model and the image above depicts the AFDB, which was the largest. It came in 9 or 10 main sections (depending on when it was made), along with its floating supports, handling cranes, and other stuff, and these were shipped by convoy to their destination and then reassembled on the spot. Large barges moored alongside, as you can see above, held everything else needed for the floating drydock to function (spare parts, equipment and tool stores, power and fuel sources, shops and sheds, barracks for the drydock crews, etc.). Nine AFDBs were built during the war and would continue to see service through the Cold War before being replaced by newer and more modern types. AFDB-6 was disposed of in 1976 and AFDB-4 in 1989, but the rest would continue in service until after the end of the Cold War. The last World War II era AFDB in USN service, AFDB-3, was sold to Croatia in 2000. To find out more about the USN's auxiliary floating drydocks of World War II, follow the link below:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auxiliar…

This is a straight port with no changes by me. Be advised that you might need to scale it up or down just a tad depending on your project needs. You also might want to pull it into a 3D model editor and scale it down more anyway, so you can use as a stand-in for smaller floating drydock types. Be sure not to affect the size of the attached barges if you do this, otherwise they will be out of proportion. Alternatively you can simply remove drydock sections to shorten it and thus make it smaller longways, which was done during the war on selected occasions. Your call.

This is being provided for those of you who need a floating drydock for repairing your warships outside of normal port facilities in your World War II and Cold War era historical recreations and fantasy fleet exercises. You can have it stand in for those of other nations simply by changing the appropriate textures. This also has its analog in contemporary times, so you can still use it to cover for newer types until proper models become available.

This is not my model. All I did was port it to OBJ for you. Please credit Psullykeys as the original creator if you use this in any of your own 3D projects. You do not have to credit me for my part.

For non-profit, non-commercial use only.

ASIDE - A VERY important naval auxiliary for obvious reasons, although you'll never see one in a combat situation unless it's being attacked. Think of them as the starbase in the old Super Star Trek computer game, and you'll soon start figuring out ways to use them in your own stuff.