interceptors

June 26 1972 issue of Aviation Week & Space Technology is dedicated to ASD and its work.

I will try to be brief. Over on the Sino Defense Forum in the Air Force thread, someone made the statement that China now operates the world's largest force of heavy fighters. The PLAAF and PLANAF combined apparently operate a fleet of about 1,263 J-11/15/16/20 and SU-27/30 and 33. The...

I have been reconsidering about the potential of Avro Arrow and its related Canadian made weapon systems After looking at its early cold war era background history for multiple times, I have come to this conclusion below: To be honest, it was really difficult to find an effective combat role...

Hi everybody, I often read that Curtiss-Wright Aviation did not do enough research work during the Second World War to be able to survive its aeronautical branch and face the new markets after the Second World War. It is considered that its production and improvement work on the P-40 (we can...

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I know we already discussed that in this topic, https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/mirages-i-iii-5-prototypes-projects.36283/ But I want to split this subject in another thread,the tenders of that contest are, - Nord N-1540,N.1541,N.2540,N.3540,N.3541 & N.5010 Harpon - SNCASE SE.5020 &...

Hello everyone this is my first post on here :) I was recommended this video by the "glorious" YouTube algorithm while watching some of Ward Carroll's videos. The person who did said video mentioned some things about the F-111B...how much better would it have been than the F-14 as an...

Thanks to the ever-vigilant Mark Nankivil, we have a number of McDonnell-Douglas Advanced Design sketches to identify. I think I can figure out a few, but I thought it might be fun to let everyone have a go at this game. I'll post one design per post, so we can move them to the correct topics...

I heard rumors about and little bits of info on successors to the LRI-X interceptors that were hypersonic and had missiles with a range of 500 miles is there any info on them like blueprints and performance information?

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/government-considering-purchase-of-military-jet-aircraft-1.4289801 Interesting. This Bear is small because it's 1/144. Those Bears are very high up.

Apart from trainers, Ireland did not operate any fighters to defend its neutral airspace during the Cold War and still does not. New Zealand has also given up its old A4 Skyhawks and had no air defence patrol aircraft. Within NATO, Luxembourg and the Baltic States rely on other members to defend...

Request for a pure research machine April '49. May '50 ordered prototypes. ER.100 Contract placed October ER.103 Gannet Superpriority delayed work. construction summer 1952. First flight 28 Oct 1955. Assuming a supersonic fighter is produced based on this research.

This document has already been referenced in this forum, but I will include the link anyway because it is a very concise summary of the Air Force's search for a truly new advanced fighter: Lyons, Major Robert P. Jr. (3 April 1986) "The Search for an Advanced Fighter: A History from the XF-108...

I split those two unknown designs, posted by blackkite and found by him here http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/ak277301/28343919.html, from the "Fugaku : Z-plane, G10 or G12" thread and took the liberty to start this new one . The title will be changed, when we know more about their origins, but I...

Hi, I found this strange drawing to F 102,may be,they meant Convair F-102, but please look to its air intakes !,I think this a French imagine to F-102 before it appeared...

This was a program, possibly inspired by the B-1C and related proposals, to procure a number of P-3C based variants equipped with the AWG-9 Radar and the Phoenix missile (likely the AIM-54C ECCM/Sealed version), for the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force. The program began as a TRDI program in...

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During last year of war with Usa, Japan had projected also an airplane named kawanishi a8k , for this plane exist technical data : engine : Nakajima Homare 21 with 1990 hp speed : 688 km/h max quote of altitude : 13000 m armament : 4 gun with 30 mm The projected production was stopped by end of...

Found this on the buran.ru website: http://www.buran.ru/htm/bors.htm#bor-7 Please note that it explicitly says the image with the Su-27 on a rocket has no relation to the real appearance of the proposed interceptor. I would guess the actual design might resemble a Spiral / Bor-4 - or then not...

Does anyone have a drawing(s) of the F-12B interceptor as it would have appeared in its final form? KJ_Lesnick