nuclear battlefield

  1. JFC Fuller

    Royal Navy Small Nuclear Submarine

    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...
  2. Z

    The other UK

    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...
  3. Stargazer

    Bomber Defense Missiles (BDM)

    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...
  4. S

    Russian blackjack fun....

    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?
  5. M

    Talos, the SPG-56 and the SPG-61

    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...
  6. S

    Blue Streak (OR.1139) development

    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...
  7. Bill S

    LTV YBGM-110 Cruise Missile Contender

    Artist concepts of BGM-110 Vought Archives
  8. Steve Pace

    Boeing B-47 Stratojet

    The only picture I've ever seen of XB-47 number two (46-066) - Life magazine.
  9. Steve Pace

    Lockheed F-12B Model

    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.
  10. Orionblamblam

    Project Orion's "Landing Boat"

    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
  11. P

    Blue Streak ballistic missile

    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...
  12. Triton

    Lockheed/Smith Miller Hybrid Missile Launch Truck

    Vintage Lockheed/Smith Miller Hybrid Missile Launch Truck URL:http://cgi.ebay.com/VINT-LOCKHEED-SMITH-MILLER-HYBRID-MISSLIE-LAUNCH-TRUCK_W0QQitemZ300386611364QQcmdZViewItemQQptZDiecast_Vehicles?hash=item45f06ff0a4 Description:
  13. hesham

    UK VTOL Strike Recce Aircraft of 1959

    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.
  14. bobbymike

    Current Nuclear Weapons Development

    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...
  15. bobbymike

    Russian Strategic Weapon Modernization Plans

    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...
  16. Triton

    NATO Multilateral Force (MLF) Polaris ships and submarines

    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...
  17. JFC Fuller

    RN Nuclear NIGS ship

    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...
  18. Michel Van

    Polaris SSBM as land based SRBM

    i remember vague a Proposal transform the Polaris in a landbased SRBM and install over 4000 missile in Europe so in end of 1950's beginn 1960's
  19. uk 75

    GW series of British Missile Cruisers

    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...
  20. C

    Boeing "Big Bird" ICBM Launcher Aircraft (MX Airborne Carrier)

    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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