G'day folks, consider this. The TSR2 goes into service and later requires a SLEP, what engines are avaulable and could a big wing be fitted/would it be an improvement?
alternate history
cold war
great britain
north atlantic treaty organisation
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raf bomber command
raf strike command
royal air force
strategic bomber
strategic reconnaissance
tactical reconnaissance
united kingdom
Germany was experimenting with various VTOL aircraft during the cold war
in the end they didn't go for any of them.
in this alternate scenario.. what if Germany did order some into production?
1. Which design would be the most likely to lead to operation? they had the VAK 191, DO 31 (this...
alternate history
bundesmarine
cold war
federal republic of germany
jet age
kommando der marineflieger
luftwaffe
marineflieger
north atlantic treaty organisation
nuclearbattlefield
v/stol aircraft
vstol
vtol
west germany
So in the same vein as others....what if Sweden turned more of it's projects into reality and which would they be?
The big one has to be a Swedish Nuclear Weapons program...
Presumably with A36 Strike Aircraft.
Would this have a ballistic missile companion?
Such Nuclear production could make...
Avro Type 732
https://www.key.aero/article/paving-way
"There were many proposed developments of the Victor and Vulcan, including two supersonic derivatives, but neither came close to being built. The Avro 732 of 1956 was to have been powered by eight de Havilland Gyron Juniors, four in pairs...
Before Polaris was put out to sea, submarines weren't their only host platform; the USN had their Long Beach and Albany cruisers "fitted for, but not with" with eight Polaris tubes. Also, the Italian Navy and their Cruisers held provisions for Polaris tubes. Still, these plans were dashed after...
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cold war
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royal air force
royal australian air force
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tactical air command
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united states air force
united states navy
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After the Cuban missile crisis in 1962 the US replaced its land based medium range ballistic missiles in Europe. While the Minuteman ICBM was the main national deterrent system, the role of countering Russian missiles aimed at Western Europe was taken on by Polaris (later Poseidon) submarines...
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Looks like the requirement was for a heavily protected defence orientated tank, employing ambush tactics (similar in a number of respects to the S-Tank), for use by the British Army On the Rhine (BAOR). IIRC, default NATO strategy in the event...
1960s
cold war
general staff operational requirement
gsor 1008
liquid armour
ministry of defence
nuclearbattlefield
swingfire missile
tank design
the armoured archives
united kingdom
cold war
heavy bomber
north american aviation
nuclearbattlefield
strategic air command
strategic bomber
strategic reconnaissance
united states
united states air force
usaf
v/stol
vstol
140mm
1986
1989
2000 ad
alvis
cold war
fighting vehicles establishment
great britain
mbt-95
north atlantic treaty organisation
nuclearbattlefield
project 7308
rarde
royal ordnance
tank
tank design
the armoured archives
vickers plc
As said in the thread title. There were talks about combining the (equally doomed) Skybolt and Valkyrie. Except it ran into a very stupid issue: Skybolt had been build for subsonic release.
Ok then, the B-70 would fly subsonically, launch the Skybolts and get ride of the pylons. And then it...
air defence command (canada)
air defense command
boeing
cold war
michigan aeronautical research center
nuclearbattlefield
royal canadian air force
surface to air missile
surface-to-air missile
united states air force
More or less unnoticed in the mid 60s the Royal Navy was able to replace the wartime very fast Minelayer "Manxman" with a new build ship.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Abdiel_(N21)
Abdiel served nearly to the end of the Cold War in1988. Unlike the famous UK mine countermeasures vessels...
I should know the answer to this. When does Lance first emerge as a likely replacement for Honest John and Sergeant and even Corporal, given its range. I only ask because Lance does seem to make Blue Water pretty pointless as it has better range and more mobile with its M548 based launcher...
Last few days I've been tearing my hair out looking for a collection of images I *know* I saw some time ago: art and diagrams depicting various aircraft including the B-52 carrying the Navaho missile. If this sounds at all familiar to anyone, please let me know. Here's an image from another...
From wiki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Missile
Common Missile was an intercontinental ballistic missile project, developed to satisfy U.S. Navy and U.S. Air Force operational system requirements for both SLBM and silo-launched ICBM, defined in the 1978 commonality study.
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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...
air combat command
alcm
calcm
cold war
cold war ii
cruise missile
early 21st century
late 20th century
nuclearbattlefield
post-cold war
strategic air command
sub-strategic nuke
tactical nuke
united states air force
This one is not really feasible but it does produce some interesting models or artwork.
The USAF had its Hound Dogs in service from the Cuban Missile Crisis well into the 70s.
If politics and other considerations had not got in the way, permutations of NATO Hound might have served on the...
alternate history
armeé de l'air
canadian armed forces
commandement des forces aériennes stratégiques
cruise missile
forces aériennes stratégiques
north american aviation
north atlantic treaty organisation
nuclearbattlefield
raf bomber command
raf strike command
royal air force
royal canadian air force
strategic air command
united states air force
united states air forces in europe
western europe
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