1950
anti-submarine warfare
asw
coldwar
early 1950s
korean war
mcdonnell
mcdonnell aircraft corporation
patrol helicopter
u.s. navy xhp competition
united states
united states navy
Well, why not start by the beginning with your experience with the Pave Spike pod? I am sure a bit bit of hand-on story would be greatly appreciated by many.
coldwar
early 21st century
electronic warfare
grumman
late 20th century
post-coldwar
u.s. navy
united states
united states marine corps
united states navy
usmc
The fledgling Lufftwaffe and Marineflieger appeared to be interesting in buying British in their earliest days. Of course this was the worst possible time to deal with the British, so every effort fell over.
Wiki referencing Wood.
The German Defence Ministry first expressed interest in the...
alternate history
bundeswehr
coldwar
early 1960s
federal republic of germany
great britain
kommando der marineflieger
late 1950s
luftwaffe
marineflieger
north atlantic treaty organisation
nuclear battlefield
tactical nuke
west germany
There is a wreck of an M3 half-track in the Congo (RDC, former Belgian colony). However, this vehicle was apparently not used by the Congolese Army.
Does anyone know more about it ?
Was it used by mercenaries in the 60s wars ?
I couldn't find any information on the net about this...
coldwar
congo
congo-zaire
democratic republic of the congo
half-tracks
half-tracks m3
mystery
republic of zaire
république du congo
second congolese republic
While looking for a new armor model kit I found a NBC variant of the JGSDF Type 82 command vehicle that had what the box termed as a "anti-neutron shield". Curious, I then found other images from the early 2000s of it on the vehicle. I'm curious if anyone has any further information on the how's...
Stumbled across some early 1950s NATO documents concerning the defensive arming and equipping of Merchant Ships. SGS.1 and the 4" Mk 25 are briefly mentioned, although unsurprisingly the vast majority of equipment intended for DEMS was supposed to come from US stocks.
There are more documents...
armed merchant ships
armed merchantman
coldwar
defensively equipped merchant ships
early 1950s
great britain
north atlantic treaty organisation
royal navy
trade division (royal navy)
united states
united states navy
I read in the book Jane's Fighting Ships 1989-90 that the Kortenaer-class frigates are equipped with STIR-180 radar and WM-25 radar. It seems that both radars can be used for fire control of Sea Sparrow missiles and main guns, so what is the difference in the functions of these two radars on the...
The successor to the X-15 was - a winged satellite? In the mid-1950s, NACA was pushing the boundaries of hypersonic flight. After the X-15, the Air Force's Project HYWARDS aimed to design a Mach 12 successor. Visionary engineer John Becker at NACA Langley proposed an even more ambitious goal: a...
Didn't see anything else here about this already.
View: https://www.reddit.com/r/EngineeringPorn/comments/1dtur18/lockheed_loopwheel_testbed_compared_to_a_vehicle/
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19780016310/downloads/19780016310.pdf
T34 Heavy Tank
Developed in 1945 as a modernization of the T30 heavy tank. The vehicle was equipped with the 120 mm T53 gun and the new Continental AV-1790 engine. Because of the decline in heavy tank development after the end of World War II, the T34 never entered service. The prototypes were...
The US Navy in the 1980s deployed an impressive range of non-AEGIS cruisers.
Long Beach was the largest and oldest of the nuclear ships and the only one to start life as a cruiser.
The remainder started as frigates then became DLGNs. Bainbridge and Truxtun were one-offs followed in the 70s by 2...
alternate history
anti-aircraft cruiser
area air defence
ballistic missile defense
coldwar
cruiser
nuclear battlefield
nuclear powered vessels
united states
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