According to the Global Security web site the US Navy studied a destroyer design given the cruiser mission:
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ship/cruiser-cold-war.htm
I have been looking for information on this un-named Iranian Half-Track APC for sometime since reading about it in Jane's Armour & Artillery sometime in the 1990's. If anyone has a picture of it, my appreciation and thanks in advance...
Scanned this in from an old Army Magazine; this has the clearest, most detailed layout of the specs of the Army's AMS program, which included Crusader, Block III Tank, FIFV, etc.
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ARMY May 1991
Armor's Future: From One, Many
By Eric C, Ludvigsen
Associate Editor
Convinced of the...
1980s
1990s
armored systems modernization
armoured family of vehicles
cold war
future infantry fighting vehicle
gas turbine
heavy force modernization program
post-cold war
self-propelled artillery
tacom
tank
tank design
u.s. army
u.s. army tank-automotive and armaments command
united states
united states army
What information is out there concerning the buster - hypervolocity AT missile that was being considered by saab a few years back? Only illustration I have is attached -
First we have General Dynamics Pomona's design, which seems to have gone through two distinct phases. In the first it has what appear to be folding wings, while in the later revision the wings seem to be gone.
Thanks to Alanqua for the pics...
Looking up about BAC's MUSTARD project has reminded me of Project Greenglow (its in the JBIS Space Chronicle edition looking at UK Spaceplanes).
What are people's views on Greenglow?
In earl-mid 1990's both Newport News and Ingalls designed export designs for Frigates. Orginally competing to meet a requirement by UAE.
There is an artists impression in Janes defence weekly 15 January 1994 P24, that showed the Ingalls design...I have a veryu poor photo copy, does anyone have...
My first post, I think. Bear with me...
I've tried several times now to find more info on this Abrams CATTB (Component Advanced Technology TestBed), but Google and co lead me to VERY limited information. Text in the pic tell you all I know. Does Anyone know if Jane's International Defence...
1980s
1990s
2020s
armored systems modernization
cold war
cold war ii
early 21st century
late 20th century
mbt
post-cold war
tacom
tank
tank design
united states army
united states marine corps
Hello!
Well I've discovered that I knew rather bad the loser of the JSF contest, the Boeing X-32. This is one is well documented on the web, but drawings of the
- aborted- operational variant are less known... Seems a mockup was build by Boeing and showed at Farnborough in july 2000...
Reported in JDW March 1994 was a concept model of the Gorilla, a prototype which was to be completed by 1998. PZl developed a 1000kW engine and it was armed with a 125mm gun with hull; based on T-72. See attached
Later in 2002 Poland also developed a concept MBT Obrum PT-2001, which sought to...
This seems to be the patent for the Ishida TW-68, includes nice drawings.
http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPATD332079&id=NeQpAAAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract&zoom=4#PPP1,M1
Hi interested in any pictures or models of larger versions of kokums Visby class corvette.
Orginaly it was developed as the YS-2000 and then enlarged into the current Visby design. A follow on design was considered with Northrop Grumman as a contender to tyhe FCS, but was not selected to be...
1990s
anti-air warfare
area air defence
common new generation frigate
dcn international
destroyer
fincantieri
french fifth republic
frigate
gec-marconi
gec-marconi naval systems
great britain
international joint venture company
italian republic
marina militare
marine nationale
north atlantic treaty organisation
post-cold war
royal navy
vsel
A number of SES concpts were proposed in the 1990's - France built a demonstrator, so did Germany, and of course Norway put a minecounter measures boat and FAC into production and sweden developed an experimental stealth SES.
Here is FAS link from 1997:
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ship/docs/cvx-alt/index.html
As you can see, the drawings survive but the NAVSEA reports are long offline.
Were there any public documents that gave specifications for the design studies?
1990s
2000s
aircraft carrier
early 21st century
late 20th century
naval sea systems command
navsea
nuclear powered vessels
post-cold war
semi-submersibles
stealth
united states
united states navy
war on terror
DARPA Opts To End Boeing-Led X-50A Dragonfly UAV Effort
By Jefferson Morris/Aerospace Daily & Defense Report
09/11/2006 09:35:13 AM
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has opted to end the X-50A Dragonfly unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) program, which was attempting to pioneer a...
1990s
2000s
boeing
defense advanced research projects agency
mcdonnell douglas
nasa
phantom works
post-cold war
united states
united states army
united states navy
unmanned aerial vehicle
war on terror
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