interwar period

In UK we know Lion after KGV In USA we know Montana after Iowa In French and German we know Alsace and H class In Japan we know super Yamato and a150 series And how about Italian battleship after Littorio class?

Hi, does anyone know these two aircraft ( Avis 4 Cagno & Avis 5 Serra Zanetti0,and what was Avis company ?

This book is written by the german Winkler-Researcher Reinhard Sagner. He focuses on the technical asprects of Winkler´s work in and for the Junkers Company in Dessau in the time between 1929 and 1939, when Winkler left Junkers for the Luftfahrtforschungsanstalt Braunschweig. The author has used...

To start this thread off, a 2020 Top Gear story on the development of the Royal Enfield Model RE airborne forces motorcycle, better known as the Flying Flea: https://www.topgear.com/car-news/british/small-motorbike-helped-win-ww2 (You will notice a few, mostly minor errors in the article.)

A day late, but better late than never. Via Slashdot: https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-63583081

I've seen a few references to a Supermarine early World War II project called the Type 312. From what I've read, it was a derivative of the Spitfire but with standard cannon armament and a ventral radiator instead of the Spitfire's underwing radiators. Does any photos or plans or other details...

STEALTH WARPLANES OF THE LUFTWAFFE Prototypes and projects 1936-1946 War Secrets-Volume Four Contents The race for invisibility Transparent wings Zebra effect Vorticist School Lozenge-Tarnung Akinetopsia Yehudi Infra-red Turbinlite Spanner Anlage I Spanner Anlage II Spanner...

http://www3.plala.or.jp/takihome/14-27.html I can't find other sources referencing this, if it's not real what's the picture of? https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B9%9D%E5%85%AD%E5%BC%8F%E9%87%8D%E8%BF%AB%E6%92%83%E7%A0%B2

https://www.nevingtonwarmuseum.com/united-kingdom---morris-commercial-roadless-half-track-experimental-tractor.html View: https://www.reddit.com/r/TankPorn/comments/yafh9h/early_mechanisation_of_the_royal_artillery_an/ According to the Imperial War Museum, via Wikimedia Commons, the image...

French Night Fighters Between February 1918 and July 1922 the French Aéronautique Militaire used the Caudron R.XI heavy escort fighters from the Escadrille C 46, in joint operations with the Breguet XIV night bombers of the 3ême regiment de bombardement. In 1924 a night fighter unit was...

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Website is here https://www.passionair1940.fr

This thread was created to discuss the projects, plans, facilities, operations, and historical implications of the German interwar flight test center and military pilot training school that was developed in secrecy between the Germans and the Russians. This airfield played an important role in...

Germany: - 3,7cm TAK gun: https://tanks-encyclopedia.com/ww1/germany/3-7cm-tankabwehrkanone-rheinmetall?amp - 28cm Krupp haubitze L/14 i.R., 1912-1913 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/28_cm_Haubitze_L/14_i.R. - 28cm Erhardt haubitze L/12, 1912-1913 - 9cm Rheinmetall kanonenhaubitze L/31, 1917-1918...

Hi, I'm looking for any volume of the "Der Flug" magazine published in Vienna in 1920 by Österreichische Flugtechnische Verein (Austrian Aeronautical Association) - per WorldCat this magazine doesn't exist, but I have found an article from it (Das Problem der Weltraumfahrt from Dezember 1920...

This is the last of the post-Washington Treaty designed carriers covered in the 1st volume of USN 'Springstyle' design books. It's a small 10,000 ton Aircraft Carrier that looks like a 'regularized' version of the USS Langley (CV-1) conversion. Of note is that the armament is purely anti-surface...

As we all may know, the French were developing land-based heavy AA guns in the 1920s and 30s to counter the next-generation bombers of that time. They designed and tinkered a lot with 75 mm guns, then decided to up-gun it to 90 mm caliber. The 90 mm gun, or known as the Canon de 90 mm Modèle...

The history of the bullpup in France began long before the famous FAMAS which certainly marked its time but it was born under the constraint of the international conflicts. as assault rifle France had its misadventure during years from 1945 to 1970 with various programs and much expenditure...

Here I gathered all the various cruiser designs and projects proposed for the Imperial Japanese Navy Protected Cruisers: Not found any so far except the cancelled sister ships of the Unebi and Tone classes Light Cruisers: Design C-19 (1912) - A primary mine-layer cruiser design offered before...

Howdy folks! I recently came across these two designs/blueprints of the D-class panzerschiffe (more like battlecruisers at this point), which were originally named Ersatz Elsass and Ersatz Hessen that eventually became battlecruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau from my understanding of their...