late 20th century

  1. fightingirish

    AGM-109 / BGM-109 Tomahawk / Gryphon Concepts, Projects and Prototypes

    • fightingirish
    • Thread
    • air combat command air launched cruise missile alcm anti-submarine warfare calcm cold war cold war ii cruise missile early 21st century glcm ground launched cruise missile late 20th century nuclear battlefield post-cold war strategic air command sub-strategic nuke submarine-launched cruise missile tactical nuke tactical reconnaissance united states air force united states army united states navy
    • Replies: 248
    • Forum: Secret Missile, Bomb and Gun Projects
  2. 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...
  3. 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...
  4. hesham

    ONERA Aircraft & Projects

    From Icare 1969, here is ONERA VTOL Transport Aircraft Project of 1969
    • hesham
    • Thread
    • 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
  5. 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: 174
    • Forum: Aviation & Space
  6. 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
    • Thread
    • 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
  7. 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
    • Thread
    • early 21st century history of the internet information superhighway late 20th century
    • Replies: 12
    • Forum: The Bar
  8. 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
    • Thread
    • 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
  9. Grey Havoc

    Soviet Super Chicken (the Smena) reborn

    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-09/putin-resurrects-soviet-super-chicken
    • Grey Havoc
    • Thread
    • 21st century late 20th century russian federation soviet union
    • Replies: 10
    • Forum: The Bar
  10. Grey Havoc

    Last Royal Navy Sea Kings retire

    https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/sea-king-helicopters-ends-49-years-of-service/
    • Grey Havoc
    • Thread
    • cold war cold war ii early 21st century great britain late 20th century post-cold war royal navy united kingdom
    • Replies: 10
    • Forum: Military
  11. 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...
    • Rickshaw
    • Thread
    • cold war early 21st century france great britain late 1980s late 20th century post-cold war united states west germany
    • Replies: 69
    • Forum: Secret Army Projects
  12. 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...
    • Jemiba
    • Thread
    • cold war france late 20th century post-world war ii
    • Replies: 8
    • Forum: Military
  13. 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...
    • yasotay
    • Thread
    • aerospace ahs / vfs american helicopter society (ahs) international cold war early 21st century late 20th century post-cold war united states world war ii
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Aviation & Space
  14. G

    The Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker: More Than a Tanker

    An enlarged update of Robert Hopkins' 1998 Aerofax book, already a pretty good tome: http://www.amazon.com/Boeing-KC-135-Stratotanker-Robert-Hopkins/dp/1910809012/
    • gatoraptor
    • Thread
    • 2016 air mobility command boeing cold war early 21st century in-flight refueling tanker late 20th century north atlantic treaty organisation post-cold war strategic air command strategic reconnaissance tanker aircraft united states united states air force vietnam war war on terror
    • Replies: 6
    • Forum: Books & Marketplace
  15. 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
    • XP67_Moonbat
    • Thread
    • 2015 early 21st century late 20th century popular culture science fiction star trek
    • Replies: 20
    • Forum: The Bar
  16. 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...
  17. Triton

    A Look Back at the Black Hawk

    Published on Oct 30, 2014 BLACK HAWK helicopters continue to be the work horse for the U.S. Army. Forty military and civil organizations around the world use this helicopter or one of its derivative models. View: http://youtu.be/BBk1sTWPKI8
    • Triton
    • Thread
    • air cavalry airborne forces airmobile anti-submarine warfare anti-surface warfare cold war cold war ii early 21st century helicopter late 20th century north atlantic treaty organisation post-cold war sikorsky united states united states air force united states army united states navy
    • Replies: 7
    • Forum: Aviation & Space
  18. eshelon

    Future warship from the past.

  19. 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...
    • Flashback
    • Thread
    • air force global strike command avionics cold war cold war ii early 21st century heavy bomber late 20th century post-cold war radar strategic air command strategic bomber united states air force usaf
    • Replies: 9
    • Forum: Avionics and Military/Naval electronics
  20. 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!
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