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What if Saddam never invaded Kuwait and never being throw up??? What would be the state of Ba'ath Iraqi armed forces?

Hi, project of the Praga cargo aircraft from 1947. This type has no numerical designation on the original drawing. Engine: 2* Walter M-446 600 hp, wingspan: 25 m, length: 14,3 m, height: 4,9 m. Other technical data were not preserved... Source: Aviation archive NTM Prague

The possibility of the UK avoiding the 1965 aircraft cancellations has been discussed ad nauseam. I don't propose to get into it here - assume a collective delusion of the UK government, the discovery of a massive gold deposit, or intervention from extra-terrestrial intelligences, as you see...

I have a question although not dealing with warships. End 1950s-1960s the Warnow Werft, Rostock, East Germany intended to built a nucelar-propelled cargoship/freighter to be completed by 1965; the decision for the project dat from 19 November 1957. In 2023 professor-ing. Franz Spychala held in...

A YouTube series covering 'Numbers Stations' quasi-mysterious shortwave stations, which are widely suspected to be used by various intelligence agencies to contact agents in the field. This series is covering the stations one at a time. When they were more common (In the 1970 - 2000s) time...

I'm looking for information, particularly technical specifications, of the Viper Mk 633-47 afterburning turbojet. This was developed for use on the Yugoslav J-22 and Romanian IAR-93 aircraft. It appears to be a Viper Mk 632, as licence produced in Yugoslavia, but obviously fitted with a newly...

In a Washington Special Actions Group Meeting on 15 May 1972, five days after the start of the Linebacker I, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) Admiral Thomas Moorer said North Vietnam introduced a new mobile SAM, the SA-4 Ganef...

i found cute looking aircrafts that were small military planes that some were built some were projects only and here they are: the first one is the fouga cm195: was a 1950s franco-spanish light bomber/attack (based off the fouga cm170 trainer) made in france designed by spanish...

One of Harold Wilson's achievements as Prime Minister was to resist President Johnson's pressure for Britain to make some visible military contribution to the Vietnam War. Wilson had only narrowly beaten a Conservative Government in 1964. The Conservatives may well have resisted Johnson too on...

In this scenario the Vietnam War follows the same path as the Korean war, and after years of intense fighting the two sides agree to a long term cease fire (but no peace deal, like the Koreas). splitting the two countries along the 17th parallel How would this change - the aircraft composition...

From L+K 1/1969, here is a single seat low-wing light aircraft Project,designed by Mr. Vlada Verner from Czech (as I think) and it was called W-1,it was mentioned in JAWA 1972/1973,but I am not sure if it was a Project or not.

Hi everybody I am searching for pictures or drawings of the Krauss-Maffei "Atomlok" . It is a german postwar project for a nuclear powered locomotive ! Data: Lenght 35m, wide 3m, weight 185 t, Power 5916 hp Here I have found some websites with pictures of nuclear powered locomotives ...

We know that the US has been flying covertly obtained Russian (and possibly Chinese) military aircraft at locations like Groom Lake since the 1950s, but does anyone have any information about US aircraft recovered by the Russians? I know the Russians obtained several intact examples of the F-86...