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    Soviet 2S2 Airborne SPH?

    G'day gents I stumbled across this Soviet prototype 2S2 (122mm I assume!) airborne SPH design, which looks like it is based on the BMD-1 chassis Does anyone have any more info (specifications/drawings/pics) on this design? Also does anyone know why it didn't it enter service? Looking...
  2. Triton

    UK MoD Future Protected Vehicle

    From theworacle via YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFbbc00jnbQ
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    • 2010s airmobile bae systems british army cybernetics ministry of defence post-cold war robotics united kingdom war on terror
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    • Forum: Secret Army Projects
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    Rotorcycles for USMC

    Rotorcycles In the early 1950s the US Marine Corps was considering a single seat portable ultra light helicopter which could be airdropped. The programme was conducted by the US Navy’s Office of Naval Research and included the following designs: Hiller 1033 Rotorcycle: Two prototypes...
    • Jos Heyman
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    • 1950s airborne forces airmobile cold war gyrodyne hiller aircraft corporation office of naval research u.s. navy united states marine corps usmc
    • Replies: 17
    • Forum: Aviation & Space
  4. cluttonfred

    M29 Weasel video, variants?

    I came across this neat OSS briefing film referenced in the Wikipedia article on the M29 Weasel. The 10 minute video--worth the wait, I promise--includes some discussion of the various alternative approaches to travel across ice and snow that were evaluated as well as a lot of footage of the...
    • cluttonfred
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    • airborne forces airmobile allies amphibious vehicle armée de terre british army canada canadian army cold war first indochina war french fourth republic french indochina great britain korean war post-world war ii united states united states army united states marine corps vietnam war world war ii
    • Replies: 18
    • Forum: Secret Army Projects
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    Yakovlev VVP-6 flying platform

    has this been discussed before? http://www.aviastar.org/helicopters_eng/yak_vvp-6.php
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    • 1960s air defence airborne aircraft carrier airmobile cold war forward area air defense frontal aviation military transport aviation (vta) soviet air forces soviet union ussr yakovlev yakovlev design bureau
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: Secret Postwar Aircraft Projects
  6. CJGibson

    Test Vehicle TV.1000 - The ultimate off-roader?

    In RE Smith's British Army Vehicles and Equipment (Ian Allan, 1964) There is an entry for the "T.V.1000". Described as a 6x6, differentially steered test vehicle powered by a 535bhp Meteorite petrol engine dating from 1959. It is continues: "one of the most powerful wheel vehicles then in...
    • CJGibson
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    • airborne forces airmobile british army cold war great britain tank design
    • Replies: 59
    • Forum: Secret Army Projects
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