I'm looking for information, particularly technical specifications, of the Viper Mk 633-47 afterburning turbojet.
This was developed for use on the Yugoslav J-22 and Romanian IAR-93 aircraft.
It appears to be a Viper Mk 632, as licence produced in Yugoslavia, but obviously fitted with a newly...
1970s
1980s
cold war
eastern bloc
great britain
orao sarajevo
rolls-royce
socialist federal republic of yugoslavia
socialist republic of romania
turbomecanica bucharest
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
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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
LTV interest in clearing A-7 Corsair II for export to Jordan:
https://archive.org/details/State-Dept-cable-1975-15657/mode/1up
RoK interest in A-7s for a naval air arm (point 3D):
https://archive.org/details/State-Dept-cable-1974-95974/page/n1/mode/1up
....but RoK must first take care of...
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1970s
cold war
hashemite kingdom of jordan
ling-temco-vought
ltv
republic of korea
republic of the philippines
state department (united states)
united states
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...
The story began in 1969 in the Sino-Soviet border conflict,Chinese captured a T-62,At that time, all their anti-tank weapons were unable to effectively destroy the T62.
So Armor troops think they need a new second-generation tank,call “122”(The Type 69 "121 that was being developed at the time...
I came across this project in a 1968 United States Atomic Energy Commission booklet, The ATOM and the OCEAN, by E. W. Seabrook Hull (can be found on Project Gutenberg here).
The National Science Foundation had proposed an Arctic Drift Barge for Arctic research, which would have a nuclear plant...
Although we are well provided for these days with books, magazines and above all the Internet, I still enjoy my collection of Salamander books from the 70s and 80s.
These big glossy full colour books were amazing at a time when most books on modern weapons were mainly illustrated in black and...
Hello guys, i dont mean to bother you, but i found the mentioning of the Short Skyvan being modified for COIN operations and also receiving a modification/variant of the Sea Cat missile called "hellcat" (that i couldn't even find a single picture), do any of you have info of this "Counter...
Does anyone have any information on the French design at least? The program was a precursor to the equally ill-fated (non-nuclear) Polar 8 icebreaker program of the 1980s. The only hard info I have on the French proposal at the moment is that the reactor was a CAS (Advanced Series Boiler)...
1970s
1980s
21st century
canada
cold war
france
search & rescue satellite aided tracking system
soviet union
space system for the search of distressed vessels
united states
Ladies and Gentlemen, HMS Speedy:
View: https://www.reddit.com/r/WarshipPorn/comments/lognu9/951_x_717_jetfoil_patrol_vessel_hms_speedy_p296/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Speedy_(P296)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:HMS_Speedy_(P296)...
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