1980s

  1. Y

    Royal Navy mid-1980s planning

    SSomewhere online I've seen a document from he early-mid 1980s with Royal Navy planned surface ship construction through to the mid-1990s. It had projected order dates for 24 Type 23 frigates, eight AORs, and two more CASTLE class OPVs. I seem to recall that it was an omnibus document from the...
    • Yellow Palace
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    • 1980s 1990s cammell laird cold war great britain royal navy swan hunter vosper thornycroft vsel yarrow shipbuilders limited
    • Replies: 20
    • Forum: Secret Naval Projects
  2. 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
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: The Bar
  3. covert_shores

    Canada's Theseus AUV - cold war mega-UUV project

    More info: Article https://www.forbes.com/sites/hisutton/2020/07/12/canada-secret-cold-war-drone-submarine-is-still-relevant-today/ Bruce Butler's site: http://brucebutler.ca/into-the-labyrinth.html Podcast Bruce Butler did with SUT...
    • covert_shores
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    • 1980s 1990s arctic cold war lduuv spinnaker sonar array
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Military
  4. D

    Abrams based IFV

    So I've heard that during the mid 80s there were attempts to create a 60-ton class IFV based on the M1 Abrams some designs even mounting the 75mm Areas cannon is this true any drawings
  5. hesham

    Australian Light Aircraft Prototypes & Projects

    From JAWA 1984/85, here is a Free Flight Hornet S10 tailless aircraft.
  6. Hood

    RTM.322 Turbofan Variant

    I have come across a turbofan variant of the RTM.322, the RTM.322-20 rated at 2,338lbf. The project was circa 1984. The only aircraft I know of proposed for the engine was the BAe P.164-108A trainer. I found a diagram of the RTM.322-20 which is attached. Does anyone have any further details...
    • Hood
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    • 1980s cold war france rolls-royce rolls-royce turbomeca turbomeca united kingdom
    • Replies: 7
    • Forum: Propulsion
  7. Flyaway

    Hubble Space Telescope

    • Flyaway
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    • 1980s 20th century 21st century cold war nasa post-cold war space race united states
    • Replies: 153
    • Forum: Aviation & Space
  8. Grey Havoc

    Ferranti F100-L Microprocessor family

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

    Trigat missile family

    Back in the Cold War the France, Germsny and the UK embarked on an ambitious programne to produce a family of third generation anti tank missiles. The only survivor is the long range helicopter launched version https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PARS_3_LR. Like the SP70 gun and RS80 (described in...
    • uk 75
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    • 1980s 1990s anti-tank missile armée de terre british army bundeswehr cold war federal republic of germany france french fifth republic great britain north atlantic treaty organisation post-cold war united kingdom west germany
    • Replies: 10
    • Forum: Secret Missile, Bomb and Gun Projects
  10. Grey Havoc

    Tales from the Loop

    https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/04/tech-takes-a-back-seat-to-interconnected-human-stories-in-tales-from-the-loop/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_from_the_Loop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_from_the_Loop_(role-playing_game)
  11. uk 75

    Falklands 1983

    It is one of the great what-ifs of recent history, what would have happened if Argentina had waited until John Nott's defence cuts had been implemented and invaded the Falklands in March 1983? With only Illustrious working up and Ark Royal still under construction, the Royal Navy had sold...
    • uk 75
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    • 1980s alternate history argentina argentine republic cold war falklands conflict falklands war great britain guarnición militar malvinas operation rosario what if
    • Replies: 41
    • Forum: Alternative History and Future Speculation
  12. L

    Leopard 2 prototypes

    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...
    • LVisingr
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    • 1970s 1980s bundeswehr cold war deutsches heer federal republic of germany west germany
    • Replies: 24
    • Forum: Secret Army Projects
  13. T

    M551 Sheridan-derived IFVS?

    I read in Osprey's excellent New Vanguard 153 - M551 Sheridan that, at Fort Bragg, they had a short-lived program to develop a "paratroop fighting vehicle" in the 80s - similar to the Russian/Soviet BMD series- based on a turretless Sheridan. Several prototypes were allegedly constructed, making...
    • Trav
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    • 1980s airborne forces cold war united states united states army
    • Replies: 7
    • Forum: Secret Army Projects
  14. AN/AWW-14(V)

    FOG-M, EFOGM and LongFOG

    FOG-M vs QUH-1 :cool: lucky shooter Jane's Land-Based Air Defence 1992-93
    • AN/AWW-14(V)
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    • 1980s 1990s anti-helicopter anti-tank missile boeing cold war hughes aircraft company surface-to-air missile surface-to-surface missile u.s. army united states united states army
    • Replies: 23
    • Forum: Secret Missile, Bomb and Gun Projects
  15. G

    Unknown Giant Soviet Transport Aircraft

    Hi! Just found this soviet beast. It was meant to have both wheeled and air cushion landing gear. The weight was around 700 tons. Does anybody know more about this giant?
  16. CJGibson

    Impact on the Iran-Iraq War if Iran had bought A-10s

    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
    • CJGibson
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    • 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)
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: Alternative History and Future Speculation
  17. AeroFranz

    Bell UH-1 with retractable skids, large belly radar antenna

    I was looking at the SDASM flickr pictures dump and found a Huey modified with retractable skids, ostensibly to afford a 360 degrees field of view to the large rectangular antenna mounted on the bottom of the cabin. I was not aware of such installation. It reminds me of the FOPEN radar...
    • AeroFranz
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    • 1980s air cavalry battle surveillance radar battlefield surveillance cold war late 1970s radar u.s. army united states united states army
    • Replies: 10
    • Forum: Secret Postwar Aircraft Projects
  18. Grey Havoc

    Chieftain Sabre SPAAG

    https://www.facebook.com/TheFriendsofTheTankMuseum/posts/chieftain-sabre-the-sabre-spaag-system-was-a-project-between-ro-and-thompson-csf/1859698144250194/ (Image below is from tanks-encyclopedia.com, original credit jedsite [now JED])
    • Grey Havoc
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    • 1980s air defence battlefield air defence cold war forward area air defense great britain royal ordnance spaag spad thomson-csf united kingdom
    • Replies: 7
    • Forum: Secret Army Projects
  19. A

    Rods from God / "Project Thor"

    Hi. For some whatever reason, a timely article was pu(bli)shed by Sputnik, a Russian media, dealing with an "old" concept of non-nuclear space-based, orbiting kinetic space-to-ground weapon, sometimes described as "Rods from God"...
    • antigravite
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    • 1950s 1980s cold war early 21st century late 20th century post-cold war space race strategic defense initiative united states united states air force
    • Replies: 274
    • Forum: Secret Space Projects
  20. Andrei_bt

    Object 490 "Poplar" FMBT

    Future Soviet tank project “Object 490 Poplar” was under development by Eugenie Morozov's team from the end of 70-th up to the end of 80-s. The main features of the “Object 490” were: - crew consisting of two people - commander-gunner and driver. Reduce the crew to two people and place them in...
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