post-cold war
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Famous British Aircraft (Crecy): James Jackson - Jaguar: A Development and Operational History
https://www.amazon.com/Jaguar-Development-Operational-James-Jackson/dp/1800353294 Publisher Crecy Publishing Ltd (April 30, 2025) Language English ISBN-10 1800353294 ISBN-13 978-1800353299- bercr
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- 1970s 1980s 1990s advanced trainer aéronavale armeé de l'air british aircraft corporation close air support coin cold war france french fifth republic great britain light strike marine nationale post-cold war royal air force sepecat société des ateliers d'aviation louis bréguet tactical reconnaissance
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- Forum: Books & Marketplace
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Advanced Technology Frigate (Great Britain, early 1990s)
https://shipbucket.com/drawings/5965- Grey Havoc
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- anti-submarine warfare asw cold war early 1990s frigate great britain post-cold war royal navy
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- Forum: Secret Naval Projects
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Official UK Eurofighter history
Part 1 of the Air Historical Branch's history of Typhoon https://www.raf.mod.uk/what-we-do/our-history/air-historical-branch/post-coldwar-studies/eurofightertyphoonpart1coldwarorigins1983-1990/- Mike Pryce
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- 1980s cold war early 1990s eurofighter european fighter aircraft (efa) federal republic of germany french fifth republic great britain north atlantic treaty organisation nuclear battlefield post-cold war royal air force west germany western europe
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- Forum: Secret Postwar Aircraft Projects
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Popular singer and respected aviation writer Herbert Leonard passes at age 80
Beloved singer and unparalleled French aerospace historian/writer died yesterday, the 2nd of March 2025, at 80 after a long battle with cancer: For those that are unfamiliar with his top selling history of Soviet and German aircraft, might you find in the below titles a glimpse of what was his... -
Irish Naval Service / Irish Navy
- Grey Havoc
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- an tseirbhís chabhlaigh british commonwealth cold war cold war ii éire interwar period irish free state irish naval service marine and coastwatching service óglaigh na héireann post-cold war republic of ireland ukrainian crisis world war ii
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- Forum: Secret Naval Projects
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Gene Hackman and his wife found dead
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjm9ndw9xeeo https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/02/27/gene-hackman-actor-wife-found-dead-santa-fe-home/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/gene-hackman-tribute-death/ Greats still going, right, and center. Rest In Peace :(- Grey Havoc
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- 2025 british academy of film and television arts cold war detective early 21st century golden age golden globe awards late 20th century movie star movies oscar post-cold war sag-aftra science fiction screen actors guild awards technothriller tv series united states united states marine corps
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- Forum: The Bar
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WI:Albanian armed forces if communist regime survived
I was wondering what would be the status of Albanian armed forces in a world where the communist regime survived into the '90s-2000s-2010s-2020s, practically till now. Would be Albania the "North Korea of Europe"? Who would be her main armament sources??? Let's say PRC, DPRK, Cuba??? Any...- KonTim
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- air force of the albanian people's army albanian people's army albanian people's navy alternate history cold war early 21st century eastern bloc forcat ajrore të ushtrisë popullore të shqipërisë late 20th century post-cold war upsh navy ushtria popullore shqiptare
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- Forum: Alternative History and Future Speculation
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Radar imaging of sea bottom topography and submarine wrecks
Sorry for the somewhat cumbersome title, I've just used the title of the research paper of the "Federal Armed Forces UnderwaterAcoustcs and Marine GeophysicsResearch Institute". I ordered it from the library, triggered by the keywords "radar" and "submarine". Actually, as the title alreay says...- Jemiba
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- 1990s european community european economic community (eec) federal republic of germany marine science and technology (mast) programme post-cold war
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- Forum: Avionics and Military/Naval electronics
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Canada's naval strategy?
[I have taken the liberty of moving this discussion to its own new thread, to avoid stepping on the toes of Oberon_706's Australia-oriented thread.] Dilandu points out that Canada had 2 coasts to defend in the first half of the 20th century, although I believe that was considered in Ottawa to... -
Superstar engineer John Hart-Smith skewered Boeing’s strategy | Obituary
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Parallels between the decline of the USN and the RN
Watching the decline in size and construction problems encountered by the USN since 1991 I am reminded of the fate of the Royal Navy after WW2. At first sight the US has done rather better. It still has the world's largest force of nuclear strike carriers and its nuclear submarines remain the... -
Otto Funk, Peter Funk, & Bücker und Funk Designations
In the late 1950s, Otto Funk was the director of apprentice-training at the Heinkel plant in Speyer. As an exercise for apprentices, airframes were designed for assembly using a variety of construction techniques. In 1990, Otto's son Peter Funk (along with Dirk Breitkreuz) founded B&F Technik to...- Apophenia
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- 1990s cold war federal republic of germany late 20th century people's republic of china post-cold war west germany
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- Forum: Designation Systems
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R/P FLIP (FLoating Instrument Platform)
Some good news, along with a bit of background: View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y36pTr09f3Y https://www.yahoo.com/news/u-navy-flipping-ship-upcycled-134616867.html https://gcaptain.com/saving-rv-flip-from-the-wreckers-clawsand-its-story-is-mind-blowing/...- Grey Havoc
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- acoustic research anti-submarine warfare cold war cold war ii department of the navy early 21st century experimental late 20th century oceanographic research office of naval research post-cold war research research ship research vessel flip scripps institution of oceanography sonar u.s. navy united states navy uss flip war on terror
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- Forum: Military
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Event Horizon (1997)
An appropriate subject for the night that is in it, methinks. View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVlnER8SxfQ View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRjmQXDhyps- Grey Havoc
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- 1997 2047 alternate history cosmic horror deep space probes halloween horror late 1990s late 20th century libera te tutemet ex inferis movie national security agency neptune popular culture post-cold war science fiction u.s.a.c. event horizon u.s.a.c. lewis & clark united states us aerospace command
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70th Anniversary of Gojira or Godzilla (October 27, 2024)
Sunday, October 27, 2024 marked the 70th Anniversary of the theatrical premiere of Gojira or Godzilla in Nagoya, Japan on October 27, 1954.- Christopher Wang
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- 1954 2024 anniversary cold war cold war ii godzilla gojira japan jsdf movie movie star popular culture post-cold war sci-fi science fiction toho
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- Forum: The Bar
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Ansett Australia
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sqcc2ActCCU- Grey Havoc
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- 20th century air new zealand ansett airlines of australia ansett airways ansett transport industries ansett-ana british commonwealth british empire civil aviation cold war commonwealth of australia early 21st century interwar period late 1930s new zealand pacific ocean theater post-cold war sir reginald myles ansett kbe united states army air forces world war ii
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- Forum: Aviation & Space
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Michael Bowyer
The British aviation historian Michael J F Bowyer died recently, aged 95. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/sep/30/michael-bowyer-obituary -
Chinese orbital launcher projects
I noticed there wasn't a general thread for this, so I created this since there are a lot of unrealised chinese launcher projects. Starting with one that's already described on astronautix, but I'm posting a source, taken from Xiandong Bao "A Modular Space Transportation System" (IAF-92-0857)...- TheKutKu
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- 1990s 2000s aerospace industry china aerospace science and technology corporation china national space administration early 21st century heavy lift vehicle late 20th century ministry of aerospace industry (prc) people's liberation army people's republic of china post-cold war satellite communications satellite phones
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- Forum: Secret Space Projects
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Iraqi arms acquisition plans before 1990 and 2003
What if Saddam never invaded Kuwait and never being throw up??? What would be the state of Ba'ath Iraqi armed forces?- KonTim
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- ba'athist iraq chemical / biological weapons cold war early 21st century eastern bloc iraq republic iraqi air force iraqi army iraqi navy iraqi republic late 20th century nuclear battlefield people's republic of china post-cold war republic of iraqi soviet union tactical nuke warsaw pact western europe
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- Forum: Alternative History and Future Speculation
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RIP John Amos
Somehow missed yet another great departing us last week: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/01/arts/john-amos-dead.html https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/01/entertainment/john-amos-dead/index.html https://edition.cnn.com/2024/10/02/entertainment/john-amos-death-daughter/index.html...- Grey Havoc
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- 20th century actor cold war coming to america early 21st century golden globe awards good times movie star post-cold war primetime emmy awards roots (1977) split second (1984) the mary tyler moore show the west wing tv series united states vanishing point
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- Forum: The Bar