Today is the 50th anniverary of the cancellation of the P1154 and HS681, and of the go-ahead for what became the Harrier and the Nimrod:
http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1965/feb/02/actions-of-her-majestys-government
Happily, my P1154 history article has been restored after the ISP...
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
air cavalry
airborne forces
airmobile
anti-submarine warfare
anti-surface warfare
cold war
cold war ii
early 21st century
helicopter
late 20th century
northatlantictreatyorganisation
post-cold war
sikorsky
united states
united states air force
united states army
united states navy
Chaparral 2000/Roadrunner/Advanced Chaparral/Chaparral Chassis Service Life Extension Program (CCSLEP)/LAV MPLS (MultiPurpose Launcher System)/Chapfire
/1/ 1999 report by "Forecast International"
Chaparral III?.
Loral, along with other companies, was trying to interest the US Army and other...
1990s
air defense artillery branch
arab republic of egypt
army national guard
battlefield air defence
cold war
ford aerospace
forward area air defense
loral corporation
northatlantictreatyorganisation
post-cold war
royal norwegian army
spad
texas instruments
u.s. army
united states
united states army
united states marine corps
united states navy
This is posted in the alternative history and future speculation section. So it is not history, but it is close to history.
What if.....what if the P1154 is proceeded with?
How does that happen? And what are its effects?
.............
It could happen partly by not merging RN and RAF...
alternate history
cold war
fleet air arm
fleet air defense fighter
great britain
northatlantictreatyorganisation
nuclear battlefield
raf fighter command
royal air force
royal navy
v/stol aircraft
vtol
what-if
I know that this is a well trodden subject but I thought that it would be interesting to compare the plans with what happened in reality.
Ground Attack/Recce Squadrons
It was planned to replace the Hunter with the 1154 Harrier in 8 squadrons: 2 in the UK, 2 in Germany, 2 in the Gulf and 2 in...
air defence
cold war
great britain
late 1960s
northatlantictreatyorganisation
nuclear battlefield
raf bomber command
raf fighter command
raf germany
raf strike command
royal air force
strategic bomber
v/stol aircraft
vtol
west germany
Hello there, long time lurker, first time poster as they say, so my first post is a spot of a challenge.
The Cold War instead of ending when it did thanks to Mr Gorbachev being a realist, has continued through to 18th October 2012, NATO forces are now in the process of being reduced, so think...
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2000s
alternate history
cold war
early 2010s
great britain
northatlantictreatyorganisation
soviet union
united states
warsaw pact
western europe
what-if
Does this mean that the A-10 Thunderbolt II has been saved from the budget cutting block?
"Northrop Grumman Awarded U.S. Air Force A-10 TLPS Task Orders"
Published November 19, 2013 | By Marcel van Leeuwen
Source...
a-10
a-x cas
anti-tank
attack experimental (a-x) program
close air support
coin
cold war
cold war ii
fairchild republic
joint attack weapons system
northatlantictreatyorganisation
post-cold war
tactical air command
united states air force
usa
2010s
2020s
anti-air warfare
anti-submarine warfare
anti-surface warfare
area air defence
cold war ii
frigate
kingdom of the netherlands
northatlantictreatyorganisation
post-cold war
royal netherlands navy
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000 ad
armoured family of vehicles
close air support
cold war
late 20th century
northatlantictreatyorganisation
nuclear battlefield
tactical air command
tank
tradoc
u.s. army
u.s. army training and doctrine command
united states
united states air force
united states army
west germany
1980s
air command (canadian armed forces)
anti-tank
canadian armed forces
close air support
cold war
force mobile command (canadian armed forces)
ground attack
northatlantictreatyorganisation
'Advanced Control Systems for Aircraft Powerplants'
I wasn't sure whether to put this here or over in Propulsion, but here goes: http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a084845.pdf
bundeswehr
coin
coin aircraft
cold war
grumman
nasa
northatlantictreatyorganisation
united states
united states army
united states marine corps
united states navy
1960s
cold war
grønlands landsråd
icbm
intermediate range ballistic missile
irbm
kingdom of denmark
northatlantictreatyorganisation
nuclear battlefield
nuclear power
nuclear powered vehicles
u.s. army
u.s. army engineer studies center
u.s. army materiel command
united states
united states army
united states army corps of engineers
world war iii
1960s
cold war
direction générale de l’armement
france
french fifth republic
icbm
le laboratoire aéronautique français
northatlantictreatyorganisation
nuclear battlefield
onera
post-cold war
air-to-ground
anti-ship missile
anti-submarine warfare
anti-surface warfare
asuw
boeing
cold war
cold war ii
early 21st century
late 20th century
mcdonnell douglas
northatlantictreatyorganisation
post-cold war
royal navy
united states navy
war on terror
NH90 has been sized and conceived to be able to operate from any type of prepared or unprepared surfaces and to satisfy already in its basic design the entire specific feature requested by tactical transport requirements. Sharing common basis, only the on-board mission system differentiates the...
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s
airbus helicopters
anti-submarine warfare
cold war
cold war ii
late 1980s
nato helicopter management agency
nh industires
nhindustries
northatlantictreatyorganisation
post-cold war
war on terror
One of the joys of this site is the quantity of info available on unbuilt aircraft projects. Particularly tantalising are the various projects in the 70s and 80s for a supersonic VSTOL to replace the Harrier.
The Bae 1216 has been the best covered thanks to Michael Pryce. Various US designs...
cold war
fleet air arm
france
great britain
northatlantictreatyorganisation
nuclear battlefield
royal navy
united states
united states marine corps
united states navy
v/stol aircraft
vstol
vtol
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