early 21st century

  1. RavenOne

    AW139 two decades

    Today is 20 years since the AW139 took Flight https://www.leonardocompany.com/en/press-release-detail/-/detail/03-02-2021-2-leonardo-celebrates-the-aw139-helicopter-s-20th-anniversary-of-its-1st-flight?f=%2Fhome First time I came across AW139 or then BellAgusta AB139 was these Mock ups at...
    • RavenOne
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    • 2000s 2010s agustawestland bell agusta aerospace company bell helicopter company bellagusta cold war ii early 2020s early 21st century leonardo leonardo s.p.a. post-cold war war on terror
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Aviation & Space
  2. Grey Havoc

    2022 GMC Hummer EV

    Placed here rather than the bar, since it seems that the US Military will be now buying a fair few examples (hopefully at least some bit properly militarised) as part of the Biden administration's government vehicle fleet EV initiative (though I'm a fair bit sceptical myself on how well it will...
    • Grey Havoc
    • Thread
    • 2021 2022 early 21st century electric propulsion general motors company u.s. army united states army
    • Replies: 16
    • Forum: Military
  3. shin_getter

    MRLS firetruck

    View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2ee1tHwVGY View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUrVbdZIoQ4 Seems neat. I wonder if standoff firefighting is valuable in itself in hazardous environments. The Tianjin and Beirut port explosions killed a lot of fire fighters and a long range system...
  4. Antonio

    David Prowse RIP

    2020:what a nefarious year https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Prowse
    • Antonio
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    • 2020 2020s 501st legion actor british commonwealth british empire and commonwealth games british heavyweight weightlifting championship cold war early 21st century late 20th century member of the order of the british empire movie star popular culture post-cold war sci-fi science fiction star wars
    • Replies: 8
    • Forum: The Bar
  5. Grey Havoc

    Distant Thunder / NetSAT littoral water system (DARPA)

    View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b84Wzh-kH_s https://www.darpa.mil/attachments/TestimonyArchived(April%2020%201999).pdf
    • Grey Havoc
    • Thread
    • 2000s acoustic modem brown water captor darpa defense advanced research projects agency early 21st century green water late 1990s late 20th century littoral operations sub brief united states navy
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Secret Naval Projects
  6. fightingirish

    Ron Cobb 1937 - 2020

    The artist Ron Cobb, known for his work for many science fiction movies and TV series, has passed away. :( Source : View: https://twitter.com/TheSpaceshipper/status/1308071692296740864?
    • fightingirish
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    • cold war early 21st century late 20th century movie popular culture post-cold war science fiction war on terror
    • Replies: 8
    • Forum: The Bar
  7. Flyaway

    Nuclear Fusion

    AI will help solve problems with nuclear fusion or so at least the US Federal government seems to believe. https://www.energy.gov/articles/department-energy-provide-21-million-artificial-intelligence-and-machine-learning-research...
    • Flyaway
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    • cold war cold war ii early 21st century fusion fusion reactor late 20th century nuclear power post-cold war
    • Replies: 271
    • Forum: The Bar
  8. uk 75

    FV432 vs M113

    The venerable FV432 and M113 troop carriers have been around for more than half a century. I have never seen a realistic comparison of the types from the soldiers' point of view. Anyone know more?
    • uk 75
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    • cold war early 21st century late 20th century post-cold war
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: The Bar
  9. Flyaway

    ESA Gaia Spacecraft

    https://phys.org/news/2020-01-milky-reveals-giant-stellar-nurseries.amp Here’s the related paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1874-z
    • Flyaway
    • Thread
    • astronomy early 21st century european space agency
    • Replies: 36
    • Forum: Aviation & Space
  10. fightingirish

    AGM-109 / BGM-109 Tomahawk / Gryphon Concepts, Projects and Prototypes

    • fightingirish
    • Thread
    • air combat command air launched cruise missile alcm anti-submarine warfare calcm cold war cold war ii cruise missile early 21st century glcm ground launched cruise missile late 20th century nuclear battlefield post-cold war strategic air command sub-strategic nuke submarine-launched cruise missile tactical nuke tactical reconnaissance united states air force united states army united states navy
    • Replies: 248
    • Forum: Secret Missile, Bomb and Gun Projects
  11. Flyaway

    NASA Curiosity (Mars Rover)

    With Mars Methane Mystery Unsolved, Curiosity Serves Scientists a New One: Oxygen For the first time in the history of space exploration, scientists have measured the seasonal changes in the gases that fill the air directly above the surface of Gale Crater on Mars. As a result, they noticed...
    • Flyaway
    • Thread
    • 2014 2024 cold war ii early 2010s early 2020s early 21st century jet propulsion laboratory mars nasa post-cold war robotics
    • Replies: 46
    • Forum: Aviation & Space
  12. uk 75

    Fictional Warships in Movies & TV

    I am too lazy to start a new thread but here are some phonecaptures from youtub of the Royal Navy in the 1997 Bond Film "Tomorrow Never Dies". First up is HMS Chester. Using her Harpoon launcher to fire a Cruise Missile at some bad guys Next we have HMS Devonshire, which gets sunk by the bad...
  13. hesham

    ONERA Aircraft & Projects

    From Icare 1969, here is ONERA VTOL Transport Aircraft Project of 1969
    • hesham
    • Thread
    • cold war cold war ii direction générale de l’armement early 21st century france french fifth republic french fourth republic late 20th century le laboratoire aéronautique français onera post-cold war vtol
    • Replies: 11
    • Forum: Secret Postwar Aircraft Projects
  14. Flyaway

    Mars Sample Return

    https://spacenews.com/mars-sample-return-mission-plans-begin-to-take-shape/
    • Flyaway
    • Thread
    • cccp cold war cybernetics early 21st century european space agency late 20th century nasa post-cold war robotics space race
    • Replies: 174
    • Forum: Aviation & Space
  15. Flyaway

    Snoopy lunar module from 1969 Apollo 10 mission may have been found

    https://news.sky.com/story/snoopy-lunar-module-from-1969-apollo-10-mission-may-have-been-found-11738299
    • Flyaway
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    • apollo lunar module apollo program cislunar navigation cold war early 2020s early 21st century late 1960s late 20th century lunar excursion module lunar module (apollo) moon nasa space age space race united states
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Aviation & Space
  16. Grey Havoc

    Why there is so little left of the early internet (BBC)

    http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190401-why-theres-so-little-left-of-the-early-internet
    • Grey Havoc
    • Thread
    • early 21st century history of the internet information superhighway late 20th century
    • Replies: 12
    • Forum: The Bar
  17. Grey Havoc

    CASE - Cognitive Architecture for Space Agents

    https://www.space.com/42511-hal-9000-inspired-ai-test-simulation.html Famous last words?
    • Grey Havoc
    • Thread
    • artificial intelligence cybernetics early 21st century late 2010s robotics software agents software based a.i.
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: Secret Space Projects
  18. A

    Rods from God / "Project Thor"

    Hi. For some whatever reason, a timely article was pu(bli)shed by Sputnik, a Russian media, dealing with an "old" concept of non-nuclear space-based, orbiting kinetic space-to-ground weapon, sometimes described as "Rods from God"...
    • antigravite
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    • 1950s 1980s cold war early 21st century late 20th century post-cold war space race strategic defense initiative united states united states air force
    • Replies: 274
    • Forum: Secret Space Projects
  19. Grey Havoc

    Last Royal Navy Sea Kings retire

    https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/sea-king-helicopters-ends-49-years-of-service/
    • Grey Havoc
    • Thread
    • cold war cold war ii early 21st century great britain late 20th century post-cold war royal navy united kingdom
    • Replies: 10
    • Forum: Military
  20. R

    140mm smoothbore gun

    In the late 1980s, research started on the new next-generation tank gun. It was quickly determined that it needed to be 140mm calibre. Initially it was to fire the same projectiles as the 120mm gun but at a higher velocity from a similar smoothbore barrel. My question - what was the British...
    • Rickshaw
    • Thread
    • cold war early 21st century france great britain late 1980s late 20th century post-cold war united states west germany
    • Replies: 69
    • Forum: Secret Army Projects
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