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
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...
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...
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
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...
1980s
alternate history
argentina
argentine republic
cold war
falklands conflict
falklands war
great britain
guarnición militar malvinas
operation rosario
what if
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...
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...
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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?
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)
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...
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])
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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"...
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...
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
http://thespacereview.com/article/3390/1
Black ops and the shuttle (part 3-1): Recovering spent HEXAGON reconnaissance satellites with the space shuttle
by Dwayne A. Day
Monday, December 11, 2017
1980s
cold war
national reconnaissance office
space age
space race
space shuttle
space transportation system
space weapons
spy sat
strategic defense initiative
strategic reconnaissance
united states air force
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
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