Rover developed gas turbines for automotive applications, development continued after the marque's absorption by Leyland in 1967. In addition to automotive applications Rover also produced gas turbines for APU applications, as described here. They also went as far as testing them in aircraft...
During the development of Leopard 2, about seventeen different hulls (PT series) and turrets (T series) were built. At least two of the hulls (numbered PT11 and PT17) were fitted with hydropneumatic suspension and only six roadwheels. I managed to find only one small picture of such hull...
If Iran had bought the A-10 in sufficient numbers, they had been delivered and entered service, what, if any, impact would they have had on the course of the Iran-Iraq war?
Chris
1970s
1980s
anti-tank
close air support
cold war
imperial iranian air force
imperial state of iran
islamic republic of iran
islamic republic of iran air force
ministry of war (imperial state of iran)
Good Day All -
On EPay - artwork for the proposed KC-747:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-USAF-Boeing-Military-KC-747-Advanced-Tanker-Aircraft-8X10-Concept-Art/283427464849?hash=item41fd97e691:g:BGoAAOSw35pclbdS
There is also a brochure on the proposal...
1970s
advanced cargo transport aircraft
cold war
imperial iranian air force
in-flight refueling tanker
kc-25/33
strategic air command
tanker aircraft
united states air force
Some time ago, it must have been in 2013-2014, I was able to see in a movie (maybe on YouTube) a guerrilla with the typical Chitral cap used by ethnic Afghans Pashtun, equipped with a weapon system that looked like a German Fliegerfaust / Luftfaust and the militian who used it pointed it...
Something different for today ... a collaborative project between Grumman and Shin Meiwa in Japan.
Note wing engines can tilt up a few degrees (it's described on another page). Also, there is heavy reliance on active boundary layer control via twin turbines behind the rear pressure bulkhead...
Thanks to Air21 over at What If Modelers:
Thought this design was already mentioned in an existing SPF thread, but I couldn't locate it. I'm wondering if this design originally grew out of one of the 'Model 402' studies. Also, I wonder if there was a late 1970s semi-official USAF requirement...
An excerpt:
Note: Given the date and lack of dismounts among other things, I suspect that this was the early incarnation of the MIAG proposal.
EDIT: Ack, blundered on the title! I put down MIVC-70 instead of MICV-70 and only noticed it now!
I recently happened on a photo of a U.S. Navy tow target which I hadn't previously seen.
Linked from the VC-2 squadron page of the A-4 Skyhawk Association website, it was accompanied by no explanatory text, only a short caption saying "1974: Ed Jennings tells us about the "FIGAT". As I was...
Good Day All -
Some non aircraft/missile drawings from the Vought Archives of a proposed TACV - Track Air Cushion Vehicle. Apparently there as a model similar to this design shown at Transpo '72.
An article on the similar (but built) Rohr TACV is at...
Is there anywhere in this fine forum which gives more indepth information into the proposed Saab 37E and Saab 37X variants of the Viggen?
The Saab 37E was proposed as a Lockheed F-104 replacement for European NATO airforces in 1975;
While the Saab 37X was proposed to Norway in 1967–68.
Ive...
The first of the "Thousand Astronomical Unit" space probes designed from the late 70's into the 80's. Nuclear electric propulsion would send the craft on a fifty-year mission into interplanetary space to test technologies for a future true interstellar mission, for deep-space science and to map...
1970s
1980s
deep space probes
interstellar space
jet propulsion laboratory
nasa
nuclear power
nuclear rockets
nuclear-electric propulsion
solar system
stellar cartography
thousand astronomical unit
At ordata.info you may find information on three types of Egyptian unguided rockets:
110 mm HE rocket: https://ordata.info/ordnance?id=1325
80 mm HE rocket: https://ordata.info/ordnance?id=1312
84 mm HEAT rocket: https://ordata.info/ordnance?id=1320
They bear a resemblance to the Swiss...
1970s
1980s
anti-radar
boeing
bundeswehr
cold war
dornier
drone
e-syatems
germany
mbb
north atlantic treaty organisation
northrop
rpv
teledyne brown engineering
teledyne ryan
united states
united states air force
vfw-fokker
west germany
This is a spin-off of my Fictional Warships thread. The most recent novel I have added is "Poseidon's Shadow" by A . P. Kobryn, a 1979 technothriller which has a brief appearance by a stealthy successor to the SR-71 'Blackbird' which the novel describes as a "...distant predecessor..."
It's...
This is just a little thought exercise in a 'what-if' scenario for a hypersonic flight research program.
The US efforts to develop a hypersonic aircraft design in the 1950's (Aerospaceplace, X-15), 1960's (X-20, Lifting Bodies), and 1970's (X-24C, HYFAC) culminated, for a time, in the USAF and...
Artist's impression of Boeing Arctic Surface Effects Vehicle concept circa 1974.
Source:
http://www.boeingimages.com/C.aspx?VP3=SearchResult&VBID=2JRSN2PXTVFZGH&SMLS=1&RW=1850&RH=906#/SearchResult&VBID=2JRSN2PXTVFZGH&SMLS=1&RW=1850&RH=906&PN=3
As we know the Russians managed to standardise their tanks forces in the 60s and 70s on two designs: The T55 and later the T72.
What tank should NATO have chosen if politics had been no object?
G’day gents
I’ve stumbled across this web site
http://doktorkurgan.livejournal.com/36798.html?thread=61630
which depicts a prototype (in 1977) SPAAG, which from what I can make out (via translation), combines a 25mm cannon, with the chassis of the XM-701 MICV!
It appears it’s a response to the...
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