late 20th century

  1. Flyaway

    Mars Sample Return

    https://spacenews.com/mars-sample-return-mission-plans-begin-to-take-shape/
  2. 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
  3. 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"...
  4. Grey Havoc

    Soviet Super Chicken (the Smena) reborn

    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-09/putin-resurrects-soviet-super-chicken
  5. Grey Havoc

    Last Royal Navy Sea Kings retire

    https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/sea-king-helicopters-ends-49-years-of-service/
  6. 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...
  7. Jemiba

    Early French Night Vision Devices ?

    Where can I find information about French night vision devices directly after WW II ? When and where such devices were used in the post WWII French armed forces ? From what I've found, most of the early ones used the activ system, so needing an IR light source. But the German Luftwaffe had used...
  8. yasotay

    The last American helicopter pioneer takes off 270

    From the American Helicopter Website. Glidden (Glid) Sweet Doman, a pioneer in the helicopter industry, died Monday, June 6, 2016. He was an Emeritus Member of AHS International, having joined the then-American Helicopter Society in 1945. Doman was born in Syracuse, NY in 1921. In his teens...
  9. XP67_Moonbat

    R.I.P. Leonard Nimoy

    For any of you fellow Trekkies on here. A great loss indeed. :'( http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/27/arts/television/leonard-nimoy-spock-of-star-trek-dies-at-83.html?ref=arts&_r=2
  10. covert_shores

    Swimmer Delivery Vehicle projects, old and new

    I'm planning to share information on a bunch of unknown SDV/midget submarine/DPV/Canoes etc via my blog (http://www.hisutton.com/) and thought i should also post here for the community. Rather than start fresh threads each time I'll just update this one. And I hope it can also be a general...
  11. eshelon

    Future warship from the past.

  12. F

    B-52 avionics

    Hello, I am air-enthusiast from Russia. Sorry for my bad English! Probably B-52 is the best strategic aircraft of the XX century. I especially interested in B-52 early variants and I have questions about the oldest "Buff"`s avionics. All the books I had read (Boyne, Davis & Tornborough...
  13. N

    Piston Engine to Jet Fighter Conversions

    Hi everyone, Including the well known Russian conversions of piston fighters to jets, I wanted to see if anyone had anything on other similar conversions that could be in a nicely consolidated thread of "piston-to-jet theory." :P Thanks!
  14. Grey Havoc

    AIRLAND BATTLE 2000 (1982)

    http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a127471.pdf
  15. flateric

    Bill Gunston RIP (1927 - 2013) Memorial Topic

    We even have not exact date of birth or pristine photo of him on the web. This happen last weekend. RIP, Sir Thousands, tens thousands became connected with aerospace and got related professions or lifetime obsession with skies because of you. Many aviation journalists and authors started...
  16. hesham

    Embraer Projects

    Hi, I spoke before about some of Embraer projects,and I want a drawings to EMB-301 basic trainer,which was based on Neiva Universal,and EMB-311 COIN and attack aircraft,based on Caraja.
  17. JFC Fuller

    Challenger variants

    A Challenger I hull was trialled with the Marconi Marksman anti-aircraft turret (pictures attached) and according to multiple publications a Challenger I hull was also trialled with the Vickers GBT 155mm turret, does anyone have any pictures of this combination? There seems to be a distinct lack...
  18. Michel Van

    To wish B-52 a happy birthday

    man time goes by On April 15, 1952 the Prototype of B-52 rolled out Hangar at Boeing for 60 year B-52 is backbone of USAF strategic Bombing carry nuke during cold war , bomb vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Serbian back in stone age and NASA NB-52B Launch X-15, D-21, X-38, X-24, M2-F3, HL-10 ...
  19. Grey Havoc

    JMSDF Takao class Destroyer Escort

    This is an unusual project, especially in light of known JMSDF doctrine. It was apparently conceived around the mid-'90s or there abouts by the JMSDF and the old JDA as a lower cost alternative to the procurement of futher units of the Kongō class (what would eventually become the Atago class)...
  20. Pirate Pete

    Royal Navy Plans......

    I have spent a considerable time searching the web for details, but to-date have not found what I am looking for. There have been occaisions in the past when, due to budgetary and/or political changes the British Royal Navy have had to re-appraise plans. What I am looking for in particular...
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