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From 'Review of United Kingdom Radar' by J. Clarke (Royal Signals and Radar Establishment), D.E.N. Davies (University College, London), M.F. Radford (Marconi Research Centre) published in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 'Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems...

In the thread "Could the UK have done a better job of maintaining carrier based air power?" I've suggested that doing a better job of managing the British aerospace industry is closely related to the UK doing a better job of maintaining carrier based air power. The first step to that is...

Does anyone have more information on the Matra BAe Dynamics ARAMIS powered (?) glide bomb? Afaik it was offered for the french AASM program and was fire-and-forget using an imaging-ir seeker and INS/GPS.

From Air Pictorial 1949, here is a profile drawing to this project.

Briefly mentioned here, I remember stumbling across this system on another, now defunct, website covering US sea mines. If I remember, the project dated from the 1970s, and included two variants of rising mine, one based upon a small torpedo, the other rocket-propelled.

Hey fellas, I'm (planning) on making a video game, set in the late 1950s, where Britain, the USSR and the USA each have their own space programmes, the US having Von Brauns ferry rocket and space lift ops, and the Brits having the BIS', now formed as the British Interplanetary Commission...

The Royal Navy started receiving Phalanx CIWS too late for the 1982 Falklands War. It would be interesting to know what the impact of the following would have been: Phalanx fitted on T42 and Fearless/Intrepid as it was later in the 80s. Replacement of Seacat by Phalanx on a one for one basis...

Hi, I've been looking into the Royal Ordnance 'RO2004' light tank design that was built in the late 80s/early 90s; and am now looking for more information regarding its armament. The tank was armed with a 105mm L7 derivative, called the Improved Weapon System (IWS). Supposedly it had: - A...

SPF contributor Motocar posted to his website this cutaway of the CLW Curlew. The post referenced his source, an archival version of the German magazine Flugsport for 1937. I couldn't find a thread for CLW here at SPF, so I started this one as this airplane contains some structural details...

There is information that in the 80s the Garrett GT601 gas turbine was tested on the AMX 30 tank. Does anyone have any more information about this vehicle or any pictures?

The A-12 and the later SR-71 used the NAS-14v2 astro-inertial navigation system (ANS) from the 1960s, which was particularly interesting in the pre-GPS times. The set apparently looked like this...

I can't find any thread on here regarding the Nemesis MBT, a British project with some US/Commonwealth contributions. https://tankhistoria.com/experimental/nemesis-mbt/?utm_content=cmp-true This article makes mention of a variety of considered versions in both the mounting of the gun...

Oh dear. I'm glad that shop owner took it off my hands. :) https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-humber-66405711

The GW96A class Missile Cruiser was cancelled by the Royal Navy in 1957, but, I do not seem able to find any ‘definitive’ statement about who/why the decision was made. I appreciate that in reality they were harking back to a previous era as modern Frigates had an adequate cruising range and...

Hi everybody, I was looking around on the forums and found that there wasn't a thread about the CVR(T) family, so I thought I would start one. If there is a thread which would be applicable, I kindly ask the moderators to merge this with it. I am currently researching CVR(T) variants and have...

Introduction: John Arbuthnot Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher, Commander, Captain, Admiral, Second then First Sea Lord, one if not the most influential and prominent naval commander of the Royal Navy. His ideas, views and dedicated work allowed the modernization of the Royal Navy to remain in first...

What happens if the Bristol T.188 research aircraft doesn't underperform? What happens if it flies upto Mach 2.8 and reaches the thermal limit of the windscreen? We now know that it's underperformance is related to lack of interest and investment in the Gyron Junior engines after the...

When I was surfing the Internet, I saw a post on the World of Warship Forum(https://forum.worldofwarships.eu/topic/3095-what-if-the-war-began-in-1944-royal-navy-battleships/) that an article assuming World War II would have broken out in 1944. And after reading that, I wondered what would...

It is well known that apart from HMS Bristol no RN ships equipped with Ikara deployed to the Falklands in 1982. I have two questions arising from this. Did the RN consider and reject sending Ikara Leanders south? Did Bristol use its Ikara against Argentine subs?

I think it is fair to say that most of those participating in this forum are aware of "Operation PLUTO" ("Pipeline Under the Ocean" or "Pipeline Underwater Transportation of Oil"), the creation and laying down of pipelines under the English Channel to transport fuel to the Allies on the...