According to Cold War submarines: the design and construction of U.S. and Soviet submarines By Norman Polmar, Kenneth J. Moore:
"The Royal Navy also considered - very briefly - the possibility of a small nuclear propelled submarine"
The book mentions these in the context of midget submarines...
Abraham makes a valid point on another thread about what the UK OrBat would look like if things had been different from the end of WWII. SO I think rather than hijacking an existing thread perhaps it would be better to start afresh.
Now Abe makes the case that the UK could have left the nuclear...
The following "article" is adapted from RyanCrierie (on another forum) and Andreas Parsch (on his website).
Known contenders to the U.S. Navy BDM proposal were as follows:
Admiral-Beech PD-111/-1
Avion (ACF)
Bendix
Bell 69
Emerson
Grumman G-143 Bushfire
Motorola
Sperry Gyroscope SMD-109...
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/03/25/russia.uk.intercepts/index.html?hpt=T2
Is this just payback for all the times we did it to them over the years?
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Over the course of the life of the Talos system in the USN, the SPG-56 and SPG-61 Missile Fire Control radars were developed to replace the SPG-49 used to guide the Talos missile. Prototypes of each were built but these radars were never introduced into service. Either one would have, no doubt...
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Mystery UK Missile?
Document referring to 1955 talk/discussions in Australia in which it was suggested that a total of twenty-five rounds be allocated as backup and practice rounds to support seven nuclear tipped hard site (silo based) operational missiles to be deployed by the Australians...
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Before they were canceled Lockheed recieved an order for 93 production F-12B LRIs to serve in the USAF Air Defense Command. I believe this photo from LM illustrates what a production F-12B would have looked like.
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The single known image of the design meant to shuttle crews to and from the Orion "Battleship."
Further discussion and reconstruction: http://up-ship.com/blog/?p=5167
In an article for Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, on UK launchers, Nicholas Hill comments on the slow development of Blue Streak compared to its US and Soviet counterparts.
He says 'A figure of seventeen months is often quoted for the time from inception to first flight for the...
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Hi,
in 1959,the Air Ministry issued a competition for VTOL strike recce aircraft,
the tenders were English Electric P.31 and Gloster P.505,I don't know if
there was anther contenders or not,but I ask for more info about those
two projects.
More Than 23,000 Nukes Found in 14 Nations, Report Says
Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009
There are an estimated 23,360 nuclear weapons stockpiled in 14 nations, with the great majority held by Russia and the United States, two nonproliferation experts said in a report issued this week (see GSN, Oct...
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Russian military to get new ICBMs, nuclear submarines
MOSCOW: Russia's Armed Forces are to receive 30 new ground and sea-launched ballistic missiles, three nuclear submarines, and an assortment of other weapons, the Russian president said on Thursday. Dmitry Medvedev said the list would also...
In the early 1960s, the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations offered the European NATO partners participation in a Multilateral Force (MLF) of Polaris-armed warships that would include surface ships, including disguised merchant vesels, and submarines. The proposal was inspired by the...
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Firstly, this is based upon known discussions with the RN, known systems that were proposed and/or existed at one point or another and known sketch designs performed. However these have been combined together to form a single coherent platform that is representative of what could have been built...
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Until the Type 22 frigate the Royal Navy did not follow the USN
in building ships with surface to air missile systems at both ends
like the Leahy and Belknap classes.
There seem to have been plans to do so, including by converting
the County class destroyers to have Seaslug launchers at both...
Hi Everyone!
I'm looking for information (3-views, artists conceptions, etc.) of a certain aircraft design I recall seeing in Aviation Week in the late 70's to early 80's.
I believe it was a design for an ICBM (MX) airborne launcher.
It was a large, propeller-driven aircraft, with a wingspan...
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mx program
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