late 20th century

  1. T

    Vangelis died yesterday, May 17th 2022

    Sadly, Vangelis passed away yesterday in France: https://apnews.com/article/vangelis-dead-chariots-of-fire-b7a98666ff96ca049dbe7964da98d44d My guess is that a bit of all of us went with him. View: https://youtu.be/uPe27x0_W2M Rip in the new eden world.
    • TomcatViP
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    • cold war early 21st century late 20th century movie popular culture post-cold war science fiction
    • Replies: 6
    • Forum: The Bar
  2. Mike Pryce

    Roy Braybrook - RIP

    I have just heard, via the latest Hawker Association newsletter, that Roy Braybrook passed away last June. Another of the great authors who got me, and probably many on this forum, interested in aircraft has gone to the great aviation library in the sky. He was also, of course, a designer in...
    • Mike Pryce
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    • british aerospace plc cold war early 21st century great britain hawker siddeley aviation ltd late 20th century post-cold war
    • Replies: 17
    • Forum: Books & Marketplace
  3. Grey Havoc

    EU battlegroups / rapid reaction force

    https://www.reuters.com/world/afghanistan-pullout-spurs-eu-revive-rapid-reaction-force-2021-09-01/ A bit of background: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EU_Battlegroup
    • Grey Havoc
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    • 21st century battlegroup initiative eu bg europe european union late 20th century
    • Replies: 50
    • Forum: Military
  4. Flyaway

    DSCOVR

    https://thespacereview.com/article/4228/1 The little satellite that could How a vice president’s dream led—after a very long delay—to the DSCOVR spacecraft by Dwayne A. Day Monday, August 16, 2021 If satellites had personalities, DSCOVR would be a scrappy little fighter: battered, bloody, but...
    • Flyaway
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    • 21st century late 1990s late 20th century nasa post-cold war united states
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Aviation & Space
  5. overscan (PaulMM)

    R G Smith - one of the greatest aviation artists of all time

    Mike Machat shows some of R G Smith's incredible artwork on his Youtube channel. View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S4R4B3GxD4
    • overscan (PaulMM)
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    • aerospace american society of aviation artists aviation art cold war douglas aircraft company douglas aircraft company missile & space division douglas missile & space division late 20th century mcdonnell douglas northrop post-cold war united states navy
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Found on the Internet
  6. D

    North Korea indigenous aircraft

    I once read that there were rumors that the DPRK would begin domestic production of a MiG-21 type design in the early 1990s, but those projections obviously never came true. They did assemble MiG-29s from parts supplied by the Soviets and other countries throughout the late 1980s and early to...
    • Delta Force
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    • cold war cold war ii early 21st century late 20th century north korea post-cold war
    • Replies: 232
    • Forum: Aviation & Space
  7. Antonio

    David Prowse RIP

    2020:what a nefarious year https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Prowse
    • Antonio
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    • 2020 2020s 501st legion actor british commonwealth british empire and commonwealth games british heavyweight weightlifting championship cold war early 21st century late 20th century member of the order of the british empire movie star popular culture post-cold war sci-fi science fiction star wars
    • Replies: 8
    • Forum: The Bar
  8. Grey Havoc

    Distant Thunder / NetSAT littoral water system (DARPA)

    View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b84Wzh-kH_s https://www.darpa.mil/attachments/TestimonyArchived(April%2020%201999).pdf
    • Grey Havoc
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    • 2000s acoustic modem brown water captor darpa defense advanced research projects agency early 21st century green water late 1990s late 20th century littoral operations sub brief united states navy
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Secret Naval Projects
  9. fightingirish

    Ron Cobb 1937 - 2020

    The artist Ron Cobb, known for his work for many science fiction movies and TV series, has passed away. :( Source : View: https://twitter.com/TheSpaceshipper/status/1308071692296740864?
    • fightingirish
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    • cold war early 21st century late 20th century movie popular culture post-cold war science fiction war on terror
    • Replies: 8
    • Forum: The Bar
  10. Flyaway

    Nuclear Fusion

    AI will help solve problems with nuclear fusion or so at least the US Federal government seems to believe. https://www.energy.gov/articles/department-energy-provide-21-million-artificial-intelligence-and-machine-learning-research...
    • Flyaway
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    • cold war cold war ii early 21st century late 20th century nuclear power post-cold war
    • Replies: 253
    • Forum: The Bar
  11. uk 75

    Replacing the M113 and FV432

    At the end of the Cold War it looked as if the M113 and FV432 would leave service either not to be replaced or to be replaced by more suitable vehicles. Thirty years later, they still serve in many forms and much refurbished. A bit like a London Taxi the simple box on tracks is right for the...
    • uk 75
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    • 1990s 2020s 21st century late 20th century post-cold war
    • Replies: 26
    • Forum: Military
  12. uk 75

    FV432 vs M113

    The venerable FV432 and M113 troop carriers have been around for more than half a century. I have never seen a realistic comparison of the types from the soldiers' point of view. Anyone know more?
    • uk 75
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    • cold war early 21st century late 20th century post-cold war
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: The Bar
  13. AN/AWW-14(V)

    AGM-86

    A staple of the Air Force's long-range strike portfolio has come to the end of the road. The AGM-86C/D Conventional Air-Launched Cruise Missile (CALCM), the non-nuclear sibling of the AGB-86B that remains in service as the backbone of the B-52's nuclear strike mission, is being put rest after...
    • AN/AWW-14(V)
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    • air combat command alcm calcm cold war cold war ii cruise missile early 21st century late 20th century nuclear battlefield post-cold war strategic air command sub-strategic nuke tactical nuke united states air force
    • Replies: 36
    • Forum: Secret Missile, Bomb and Gun Projects
  14. Ravinoff

    Musings on the "F-117 Companion"

    Okay, noticed the TR-3 thread was bumped again, and I was gonna make this a post there, but as it concerns a bit of a broader spectrum than just the (probably fictional) TR-3, I may as well make a thread out of it. I've been doing some thinking on the whole concept of the F-117 Companion and its...
  15. Grey Havoc

    Floating cities

    This is an idea that seems to be coming back into fashion. I have a bit of a suspicion that with the concept below, someone may have looked up the old hard engineering data from the production of Waterworld as part of their background research...
  16. hesham

    ONERA Aircraft & Projects

    From Icare 1969, here is ONERA VTOL Transport Aircraft Project of 1969
    • hesham
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    • cold war cold war ii direction générale de l’armement early 21st century france french fifth republic french fourth republic late 20th century le laboratoire aéronautique français onera post-cold war vtol
    • Replies: 11
    • Forum: Secret Postwar Aircraft Projects
  17. Flyaway

    Mars Sample Return

    https://spacenews.com/mars-sample-return-mission-plans-begin-to-take-shape/
    • Flyaway
    • Thread
    • cccp cold war cybernetics early 21st century european space agency late 20th century nasa post-cold war robotics space race
    • Replies: 119
    • Forum: Aviation & Space
  18. Flyaway

    Snoopy lunar module from 1969 Apollo 10 mission may have been found

    https://news.sky.com/story/snoopy-lunar-module-from-1969-apollo-10-mission-may-have-been-found-11738299
    • Flyaway
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    • apollo lunar module apollo program cislunar navigation cold war early 2020s early 21st century late 1960s late 20th century lunar excursion module lunar module (apollo) moon nasa space age space race united states
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Aviation & Space
  19. 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
    • Grey Havoc
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    • early 21st century history of the internet information superhighway late 20th century
    • Replies: 12
    • Forum: The Bar
  20. 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"...
    • antigravite
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    • 1950s 1980s cold war early 21st century late 20th century post-cold war space race strategic defense initiative united states united states air force
    • Replies: 274
    • Forum: Secret Space Projects
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