1970s

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    UK 1975 Hydrographic Study Group

    Over the last couple of weekends, I've come into ownership of a couple of volumes of Janes Fighting Ships. Some people might call this a problem, but not me. In several of these, the earliest one in my possession being the 1982-1983 edition, the following statement (or one very much like it in...
    • Yellow Palace
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    • 1970s cold war great britain ministry of defence oceanographic research royal navy survey vessel united kingdom
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: Secret Naval Projects
  2. Hood

    Arctic Drift Barge

    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...
    • Hood
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    • 1970s arctic arctic drift barge cold war late 1960s nuclear powered vessels research ship united states
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Secret Naval Projects
  3. Grey Havoc

    Soviet Space Elevator (1970)

    View: https://www.reddit.com/r/RetroFuturism/comments/p2mhzo/a_soviet_space_elevator_tekhnika_molodezhi_1970/
  4. uk 75

    Salamander Books nostalgia

    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...
    • uk 75
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    • 1970s 1980s cold war
    • Replies: 14
    • Forum: The Bar
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    Short Skyvan for COIN Operations.

    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...
  6. Grey Havoc

    French and other proposals for Canadian nuclear icebreaker (Polar 10) project, late 1970s / early 1980s

    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)...
    • Grey Havoc
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    • 1970s arctic canada canadian coast guard cold war early 1980s france french fifth republic icebreaker nuclear powered vessels
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: Secret Naval Projects
  7. Grey Havoc

    The Aurora, Revell, Monogram Models Story

    View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBgCRQ2wIvw
    • Grey Havoc
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    • 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s late 1940s model making models toymaker toys united states
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: Found on the Internet
  8. Grey Havoc

    COSPAS-S&RSAT

    https://earth.esa.int/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/c-missions/cospas https://cospas-sarsat.int/en/ https://ec.europa.eu/growth/sectors/space/galileo/sar_en
    • Grey Havoc
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    • 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
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: Aviation & Space
  9. Grey Havoc

    H.M.S. Speedy (P296, Speedy-class Hydrofoil)

    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)...
  10. Grey Havoc

    Waffenträger Wiesel 1 development

    One of Porsche KG's (from 1972 onwards Porsche AG) interesting Cold War military projects. View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRb3o5OJsHo
    • Grey Havoc
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    • 1969 1970s 1980s airborne forces airmobile bundeswehr cold war deutsches heer fallschirmjäger federal republic of germany military history visualized north atlantic treaty organisation west germany
    • Replies: 11
    • Forum: Secret Army Projects
  11. uk 75

    Apollo Lunar Programme continued

    In an alternate world where the USA avoided the trauma of Vietnam and LBJ won a second term the Apollo moon and earth orbit programmes continued into the 70s as originally planned. Assuming that a similarly pro Apollo President had succeeded Johnson in 1973 and the US economy continued to...
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    Zumwalt "borrows" (and adapts) European carrier designs...

    ... instead of re-inventing the wheel in the 70's. The idea is to blend together, Zumwalt "cheaper decks" (SCS / VSS / CVV) and the too few carrier designs from Europe. To bolster NATO fleets on one side, and the USN on the other - more flattops on both sides of the Atlantic. That is...
    • Archibald
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    • 1970s aircraft carrier alternate history cold war naval sea systems command naval ship systems command navsea navships north atlantic treaty organisation royal navy united states navy vstol carriers western europe
    • Replies: 162
    • Forum: Alternative History and Future Speculation
  13. A

    JPL "spare" planetary program, in the 70's.

    As said in the title... all the robotic planetary missions launched in the 70's left a spare spacecraft on the ground (and later, at the NASM aerospace museum). There were good reasons for that - providing spares - ground testing - backup in case of failures (Mariner 8...) Soooo ...by 1978...
  14. Grey Havoc

    Austrian Wine Poisoning Scandal (Fredrik Knudsen)

    View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhN-o2ame-4
    • Grey Havoc
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    • 1970s 1976 1980s 1984 1985 20th century adulteration anti-freeze wine germany republic of austria west germany
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    • Forum: The Bar
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    Boeing Tactical Fighter Study 1972

    Four Boeing tactical fighter designs. Hard to figure them as tactical....
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    Boeing / North American Rockwell Windjammer SSTO

    The other day I was looking at some space proposals from the past and I stumbled upon this beautiful SSTO. I have only been able to find one source that gave some details about it and I'm very much hoping that you guys can help get more details/drawings on this proposal. "The ”Windjammer”...
    • 7Daniel13
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    • 1970s boeing hthl nasa north american rockwell proposal space plane space race ssto united states united states air force windjammer
    • Replies: 6
    • Forum: Secret Space Projects
  17. Grey Havoc

    Lincoln Experimental Satellite series

    https://tech.slashdot.org/story/20/04/24/2248252/long-lost-us-military-satellite-found-by-amateur-radio-operator https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/les-5.htm
    • Grey Havoc
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    • 1960s 1970s 2020 cold war experimental military uhf communications satellite lincoln laboratory massachusetts institute of technology tactical satellite communications tri-service program 591 united states
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Secret Space Projects
  18. Grey Havoc

    Hybla Fair (1974)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Bedrock https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainier_Mesa EDIT: Forgot to mention that the above video comes from the Nuclear Vault channel over on YouTube.
    • Grey Havoc
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    • 1970s effects test emi / emp testing low yield nuclear device mx program nevada test site operation bedrock rainier mesa underground nuclear testing underground nuclear weapons effects test
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: Secret Missile, Bomb and Gun Projects
  19. Grey Havoc

    Ferranti F100-L Microprocessor family

    https://revaldinho.github.io/f100l/doc/F100CPU.html
  20. uk 75

    Ireland's SST that never was

    Back in the 1960s Boeing was telling everyone that its Supersonic 2707 transport would be the must-have airliner for the 1970s. Some 26 airlines took out options on the plane. There is a comprehensive thread about the US designs on this site, but no illustrations of the artwork Boeing must have...
    • uk 75
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    • 1960s 1970s aer lingus airliner boeing civil aviation cold war éire jet age republic of ireland space age sst supersonic supersonic transport western europe
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: User Artwork and Models
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