early 1980s

Could the IA-58 Pucará be classified as the last Torpedo Bomber, at least developmental wise, of the 20th Century? For those of you who are not familiar with it, AX-04 was a prototype of the IA 58 Pucará, modified during the Falklands War as part of a joint Air Force/Navy project hoping to...

I seem to recall before they bought more Leanders the RNZN considered a serious conversion of their Type 12 Otago. I am sure I have seen a drawing but cannot remember where? It would make an interesting add on to my UK frigates stuff.

In a e-book 'TUO MAO: THE OPERATIONAL HISTORY OF THE PEOPLE’S LIBERATION ARMY' I have information on a very interesting Chinese AFV: And below you'll find two photos of both the versions of the WZ141, which I've just googled. Perhaps somebody knows more on the subject. Any further info would...

USAF's Flight Dynamics Laboratory FDL-33 electric RPV an experimental aircraft developed to study flight control concept The XBQM-106 (or XBQM-26) mini-RPV was a tail-stabilized, pusher-propellor aircraft that was designed and developed within the Flight Dynamics Laboratory (FDL) at Wright...

Hi, hear is the Lear design,Fan 2100,in early model,it had many differents. http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1977/1977%20-%203794.html

if anyone can help, would be very obliged Klass, Philip J., "Anti-Satellite Laser Use Suspected," Aviation Week & Space Technology, December 8, 1975, pp. 12-13. “DOD Continues Satellite Blinding Investigation,” Aviation Week & Space Technology (January 5, 1976) p. 18. "Soviets Push for Beam...

Litton Industries (Ingalls Shipbuilding) produced a privately-funded design alternative for the DDX that it called DDM (Destroyer, Missiles) in 1980. Link to US Destroyers: An Illustrated Design History by Norman Friedman...

Displacing 13,200 tons, space for 16 aircraft. 15deg ski jump. For peacetime operations a helicopter operates from the rear deck, in wartime the rear deck would be built up with containers to lengthen the flight deck. Length 604 ft. Source: Flight International, 12 Jan 1980.

I read long time ago in Armies & Weapons the prototype of the SP-70, a cancelled self propelled howitzer but nothing on the web. Do you have something about it ? ;D

<...A study was conducted to determinehhe impact of integrated flight, inlet, and engine control system architectures on system effectiveness (safety, mission reliability, maintainability, dispatchability, and availability) and life cycle cost (LCC). The aircraft is a modified Lockheed YF-12...

The Rockwell XFV-12 was a prototype supersonic United States Navy fighter which combined the Mach 2 speed and AIM-7 Sparrow armament of the F-4 Phantom II in a VTOL fighter for the small Sea Control Ship which was under study at the time. On paper, it looked superior to the subsonic Hawker...

Reported in Ground Defense International Dec-1980. Article showed drawings of two new projwcts that oro melara was working on. One was a new battle tank equiped with a 'vickers 105mm gun' and the engine positioned at the front, the second an ICV armoured with a 90mm gun, said to be a cpncept...

Interesting front engined MBT proposal for the Swiss Army, the NKPz ended up to expensive and the auto loader was apparently problematic.

Hi folks, A little while back I mentioned this set of books - well I have been in contact with the author, Keith Meggs and can now inform you that the first volume of this set should be available in the very near future. Moreover, Keith is recording the details of those who are interested in...

www.thunder-and-lightnings.co.uk/tsr2/history.html Does anyone have a source for this information? Have any drawings been made public?

Patent drawings of the Boeing CX