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...
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.
aircraft carrier
british shipbuilders
cold war
early1980s
great britain
royal navy
united kingdom
v/stol
vickers ltd
vickers plc
vsel
vstol carriers
vtol
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
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...
1980s
cold war
contraves
early1980s
eidgenössische konstruktionswerkstätte
federal military department (switzerland)
late 1970s
mbt
neuer kampfpanzer
schweizer armee
spaag
swiss army
swiss army federal construction works
swiss confederation
tank
tank design
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...
1880s
19th century
aerospace industry
british commonwealth
british empire
commonwealth of australia
early1980s
government aircraft factories
late 20th century
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