Although the excellent AH1 Cobra was deployed to Europe in the 1970s and received TOW missiles to help it kill Soviet armour, noone else in NATO could afford it.
That left W Germany sticking six HOT missile launchers on its Bo 105 light observation helicopter and the British Army SS11 missiles...
1970s
alternate history
anti-tank
anti-tank missile
close air support
cold war
great britain
gunship
helicopter
helicopter gunship
helicopters
north atlantic treaty organisation
west germany
western europe
Didn't see anything else here about this already.
View: https://www.reddit.com/r/EngineeringPorn/comments/1dtur18/lockheed_loopwheel_testbed_compared_to_a_vehicle/
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19780016310/downloads/19780016310.pdf
Can the Soviets in the 1970s convert a version of An-24 as a night bomber to be used by third world countries. Whose opponents had little or no night fighting capabilities back then
I was curious to see if there had been any drawings of this paper ship plan.
Basically a anti sub/ trade lane protector ship for th usn, 20 s-3 in 2 squadrons plus 4-8 small anti snuper aircraft (presumably a-4 but no design specified) and 16 sea kings, to be biult in the 70's to replace the...
1970s
aircraft carrier
anti-submarine warfare
bureau of ships
buships
carrier
cold war
late 1960s
naval sea systems command
naval ship systems command
navsea
navships
nuclear powered vessels
united states
united states navy
I've founds this interesting design on the Shipbucket forums and I've thought I share it here as well.
http://www.shipbucket.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=10014
During the Fourth Defense Force Development Plan (years 1972 – 1976), the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) planned to introduce...
Found another interesting document in my files this past weekend – a fairly early (March/April 1975) presentation on the Litton feasibility study for a Spruance-derived AEGIS destroyer that eventually became the DDG 47, then CG 47 Ticonderoga class. At this point, this design was being referred...
Hello all. I have been reading up on Swiss MBT programs and concepts in the last few days and I noticed that Secret Projects does not yet have a thread dedicated to the Panzer 74 proposal. I am aware of the Tank Encyclopedia article on this matter but I thought I'd ask this forum.
In the 70s, Brazil was slowly trying to develop its space technologies, which resulted to the Brazilian Complete Space Mission (MECB) program and the ill-fated VLS-1, but while digging a bit around it, I found that before deciding on the VLS design circa 1980, there was a period of time of a few...
Althought intrestingly unique vessels and pride of our naval building capacities, the Turunmaa class Gunboat (or corvette in more international sense) never attracted any foreing sales,
as didn't anything else we tried to market. Some proposals do have appeared, mostly just with different...
How about a thread on the J-12 ? I noticed that there was none !
It is a jet that I like and I will try to collect in this thread some interesting things about it.
Discussion about German corvettes seems to have been popular lately so I'm sharing this Swedish project which I found in Jane's 1972-73.
The design was to be a flotilla leader for MTBs or FACs as well as escorts for the remaining destroyer fleet that was then still active. Two were to be built...
Quoted by Gary Paul Johnston and Thomas B. Nelson in "The World's Assault Rifles" - This rather curious and unusual weapon was part of a program during the 1970s to develop a very high rate of fire assault rifle (RFCT: Rifle à Forte Cadence de Tir ). Firing rate experiments were carried out by...
This is a rough TL sketch.
POD is October 20, 1971. http://www.ffaa.net/projects/jaguar/jaguar_fr.htm
That day, off Marseille, the Foch is flight testing Jaguar M05, that is: the navalized fifth prototype. As the aircraft is returned to the hangar for maintenance, one mechanic raise alarm...
1970s
aéronavale
alternate history
cold war
dassault-breguet
fleet air arm
france
french fifth republic
great britain
harrier carrier
hawker siddeley aviation ltd
marine nationale
royal navy
sea harrier
v/stol
vstol carriers
vtol
The Royal Navy began the 1960s with two excellent classes of destroyer (County DLG).and frigate (Type 12 Leander) on order.
In 1966 the replacement of these ships with the T42 and T22 was set in hand.. In addition the T21 gp frigate was ordered to replace other frigate classes.
So not a lot of...
This about British German join Venture in 1972 on Future Main Battle Tank for 1980s
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYMPjN3ubzc
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJi3b2ojwHg
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z53bG3ANCHw
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwHrocEOCiI
We have a whole bunch of threads, alt-history or not. But no full blown TL so far.
The POD: May 1972, common sense prevails: Convair Model 200 carries the day over Rockwell NAR-356. It becomes the XFV-12 interceptor for Zumwalt Sea Control Ship.
Even after that one is canned, two prototypes are...
1970s
1980s
adcom
aerospace defense command
alternate history
cold war
improved manned interceptor program
united states air force
united states navy
vfx
The 1970s were a turbulent decade in Europe.
Without going into too much political detail events could have seen Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain with left wing governments opposed to NATO and the US. Even in France and Germany disillusionment with the Vietnam war and a widespread fear of...
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