early 1990s

  1. I

    Rockwell Multisensor Target Acquisition System (MTAS)

    I was watching a video about the M1 Component Advanced Technology Testbed (CATTB), and found mention of a Multisensor Target Acquisition System (MTAS) using Millimeter Wave Radar, Infrared and other sensors to detect targets in a Battlefield obscured by smoke or other detection inhabiting...
  2. Grey Havoc

    PZ 87-140

    View: https://www.reddit.com/r/TankPorn/comments/185cohm/the_panzer_87100/ https://fighting-vehicles.com/tanks/pz-87-leopard-2/ Note: The KWS (Kampfwertsteigerung) III program, also referred to as KWS Stage III, was formally cancelled in 1995. Somehow I wouldn't be surprised if both the...
    • Grey Havoc
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    • bundeswehr cold war early 1990s eidgenössische konstruktionswerkstätte federal military department (switzerland) federal republic of germany heavy tank late 1980s mbt panzer 87 program post-cold war schweizer armee swiss army swiss army federal construction works swiss confederation switzerland tank design west germany
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Secret Army Projects
  3. D

    McDonnell 1991 Manned Mach 4.6-5 Notional Hypersonic Cruise Aircraft - JP7 fueled

    from: available to read through JSTOR
  4. Stargazer

    Krasnodar SKh-2 "Challenger": a unique agricultural aircraft prototype

    This story fascinates me... It shows what can be done when you have little resource but a lot of creativity... Unfortunately, the page which I took this article from had been saved onto my computer, and doesn't seem to be only any longer. Only one forum topic (in Russian) deals with this...
  5. D

    Visit to Mil and Kamov 1992 - photo of Mil Fenestron

    Mil helicopters - Damaged Fenestron on the scrap heap at Tomolino 1992. I visited Mil & Kamov design bureaux and their test centres in 1992 - and the Mil 26 factory at Rostov-on-Don. Snapshot attached taken from the bus when entering the Mil test site. Article about visit in my memoir Two Up...
  6. B

    MBB Lifting Body Capsule

    Anyone fancy translating.
  7. newsdeskdan

    HOTOL: Britain's Spaceplane by Dan Sharp

    HOTOL: Britain’s Spaceplane by Dan Sharp Now available for pre-order here: HOTOL: Britain's Spaceplane Tempest Books ISBN: 9781911704294 Format: Hardback Pages: 300 The start of Space Shuttle operations in 1981 marked a new era in spaceflight – with the five orbiters launching numerous...
    • newsdeskdan
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    • 1980s british aerospace plc cold war department of trade and industry early 1990s great britain ministry of defence post-cold war rolls-royce royal aircraft establishment single-stage-to-orbit space age space race spaceplane ssto strategic defense initiative
    • Replies: 139
    • Forum: Books & Marketplace
  8. TheKutKu

    Euclid ULLV SSTO

    I stumbled upon this while reading Edward Hujsak's 1994 The Future of U.S. Rocketry. ULLV stands for "Ultra Large Launch Vehicle" This is a concept by the "Perigee West Company of La Jolla, California", which Edward Hujsak happened to be the president of, the company got several hundred...
    • TheKutKu
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    • cold war department of defense early 1990s heavy lift vehicle late 1980s nasa nuclear rockets post-cold war single-stage-to-orbit ssto super-heavy-launch-vehic ullv united states
    • Replies: 10
    • Forum: Secret Space Projects
  9. Voltzz

    Wallop Industries Rampart/Skysnare

    Source Jane's Radar & Electronic Warfare Systems 1993-94
  10. Voltzz

    Thyssen Submarine Family

    NAVAL FORCES 1985 had a special supplement about Thyssen Nordseewerke including this depiction of the 'Thyssen Submarine Family' (image source) Of the submarines shown, only MSV 130 and TR 1000 are unbuilt projects. The supplement has articles on both of these, but i can only find it for sale in...
    • Voltzz
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    • 1980s cold war early 1990s federal republic of germany ssk submarine tnsw west germany
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: Secret Naval Projects
  11. Grey Havoc

    S-4 and S-45 IRBM projects (France, Cold War)

    https://nuke.fas.org/guide/france/theater/s-4.htm https://calhoun.nps.edu/bitstream/handle/10945/26902/britishfrenchstr00bate.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
    • Grey Havoc
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    • 1er groupement de missiles stratégiques armeé de l'air cold war commandement des forces aériennes stratégiques early 1990s force de dissuasion forces aériennes stratégiques france french fifth republic icbm intermediate range ballistic missile late 1980s nuclear battlefield sol-sol balistique stratégique
    • Replies: 6
    • Forum: Secret Missile, Bomb and Gun Projects
  12. Hood

    Chinese Type 343M Corvette

    In 1990 Racal Marine teamed up with the China Shipbuilding Trading Company to offer a modernised Type 037 Hainan-class hull as a corvette with Racal radars (obviously!), European guns and A/S torpedoes and Chinese C-801 SSMs. There were no takers.
    • Hood
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    • china china shipbuilding industry co. ltd cold war corvette early 1990s great britain people's republic of china racal electronics plc
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: Secret Naval Projects
  13. Grey Havoc

    Noisy-Le-Grand metro project (France, late '80s / early '90s)

    View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWxESIzJhCU From the comments thread:
    • Grey Havoc
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    • early 1990s france late 1980s people movers personal rapid transit railways sk4000 soulé-kermadec station k transport hectométrique
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: The Bar
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    Reason for UK dropping out of MIDS program?

    I've been searching for quite a long time a reason(or reasons) for the UK, Canada and Norway to have dropped out of MIDS program in 1991, just before the signing of the MIDS PMOU. They were indeed a MIDS program members since phase one. Particularly interesting is the case of UK, since they were...
  15. flateric

    Lockheed/NASA High-Altitude Atmospheric Research Platform (HAARP)

    From late Curtis Peebles collection at SDASM Flickr collection
  16. athpilot

    Comet Rocket 1992/93 HLLV

    NASA's Lunar Outpost Heavy Lift Vehicle: The Comet Rocket <iframe width="560" height="315" src=" View: https://www.youtube.com/embed/uSZtnRJzSBA " title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture"...
    • athpilot
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    • early 1990s heavy lift vehicle moon nasa nasa first lunar outpost program post-cold war
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Secret Space Projects
  17. that_person

    Battle Force Combatant and other SC-21 COEA Studies

    Hi. I'm looking for information on the SC-21 COEA studies, particularly the Battle Force Combatant (BFC). I did some digging around on the web, and it was supposed to replace all the Knox and Perry-class frigates, and according to an FAS page, this meant an estimated 104 of them would be built...
  18. hesham

    Post-Buran Concepts

    Faster Than Sound The Story of Supersonic Flight, I don't know if it's proper topic to send this here or not ?.
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    Yugoslavia UAV project VBL-2000

    <iframe width="560" height="315" src="" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>
    • majevica
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    • aeronautical technical institute (yugoslavia) cold war drone early 1990s late 1980s socialist federal republic of yugoslavia the air force and air defence unmanned aerial vehicle unmanned air vehicle vazduhoplovnotehnički institut yugoslav air force yugoslav people's army
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: Secret Postwar Aircraft Projects
  20. Graham1973

    Delta Advanced Re-useable Transport (DART) - 1991

    A case of some University of Maryland students re-inventing the Gemini, or pre-inventing the Dragon... The proposed launch vehicle was the Delta II rocket. Delta Advanced Reusable Transport (DART): An alternative manned spacecraft DART: Delta Advanced Reusable Transport. An alternate manned...
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