post-world war ii

  1. Grey Havoc

    Tyneham

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/728823/The-village-that-died.html https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/united-kingdom/england/dorset/idyllic-village-stolen-government/
  2. J

    Northrop´s Stealth Aircraft-Prototypes and Projects 1940-1950-War Secrets-Volume Five

    Northrop’s Stealth Aircraft Prototypes and Projects 1940-1950 War Secrets-Volume Five CONTENTS Northrop N-1 Northrop N-1M Northrop proposal MX-140 N-9M trainers Northrop XB-35 Air Corps Specification XC-622 Northrop XP-56 (41-786) Northrop XP-56 (42-38353) Aero boost ducts...
  3. hesham

    Canadian Navigation Trainer Competition for RCAF

    From Canadian Aircraft Since 1909, RCAF announced for a Navigation Trainer contest in 1944/45,and the tenders were; 1- Fairchild Canada F-8 2- Noorduyn design 3- Victory,may be Model-10 ? 4- Fleet Aircraft,may be Model-70 ? 5- Canadian Car & Foundry design
  4. Lascaris

    Fate of Aquila had she survived intact WW2?

    So what the title says. Say that cme the armistice in 1943 the Italians are able to tow away the ship to some secure port. Or alternatively if you want things simpler Italian commandos do not scuttle the ship in April 1945 and the Germans fail to sink her on their retreat. Either way you have...
  5. Dynoman

    Operation Sandy and Pushover

    Operation Sandy was the codename for the post-World War II launch of a captured V-2 rocket from the deck of the United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Midway on September 6, 1947. It marked the first launch of a large rocket, and the only time for a V-2, from a ship at sea. Operation Pushover...
  6. hesham

    USA Rescue & Utility Helicopter Competition of 1945

    From The Spangenberg Index, could be the US Navy was responsible about that contest,it was about Rescue and Utility Helicopter,and the tenders were; - United Helicopters (Hiller) L-3 - Kellett - Higgins H-3 - McDonnell H-3 - Fleetwing Model-52 - Sikorsky For McDonnell,it was Model-42,about...
  7. Grey Havoc

    USN CL-154 anti-aircraft light cruiser

    View: https://www.reddit.com/r/WarshipPorn/comments/x80zhw/3500_x_2100the_proposed_but_never_built_cl154/ Incidentally the basis of the computer game World of Warships' Austin-class cruiser. If they had been built, they would have likely received the CLAA hull Hull classification symbol from...
  8. LoveFromRussia

    BIS H. E. Ross and R. A. Smith Space Station

    Hello from Russia. A rare diagram of the space station of the British Interplanetary Society from the book 1959 Project Satellite. Kenneth W. Gatland This is the first futuristic scheme in Dr. Gatland's books. All information about this umbrella https://www.bis-space.com/technical-projects/...
  9. P

    Kysor Frustrated Widow (aka Torpedo Plane)

    Registered as N22C in 1949 and cancelled in 1955. has anybody got any info?
  10. T

    Strasbourg - light aircraft carrier project?

    After reviewing various resources, I found information, about battleship Strasbourg, after the end of the war, was proposed to be rebuilt as a light aircraft carrier. But there is very little information and this is at the level of "mentions". Now I wondered if there was such a project or did it...
  11. klem

    The Menneking Prototype: A Forgotten Spanish Assault Rifle.1950

    Like the other nations of Europe, Spain also wanted to acquire a high-performance assault rifle by recruiting former German engineers. For this purpose, the CETME center was created, which brought together former members of Rheinmetall and Mauser. Hartmut Menneking's group had already been...
  12. T

    Roter Rhein , Krasnyy Reyn - What If The Axis Members Called It Quits In Early 1943?

    So, after my mom's fifth session of chemotherapy, things are...slightly but decisevly better, not only I got back to study for my last three exams but time to read what I like about : horror podcasts, alternate history and more. So, I browsed the net and I got inspiration from this article ...
  13. Dynoman

    Victory over the Trigonist Aggressor

    After WWII the US military developed a large scale exercise using a fake country called Aggressor. They were known as the Trigonist (see Circle Trigonist link, their flag, manuals, etc.) and the military developed a plethora of information and documentation to support these operations. I thought...
  14. uk 75

    The Minotaur and Tiger classes

    At the end of World War Two the RN had the elegant Town and Colony Class cruisers in service and was to add the Minotaur and Tiger classes to them. The cruisers were useful ships but could not be converted easily to missile ships like their US counterparts. They lingered longer than was probably...
  15. klem

    French Bullpup Rifles before FAMAS .

    The history of the bullpup in France began long before the famous FAMAS which certainly marked its time but it was born under the constraint of the international conflicts. as assault rifle France had its misadventure during years from 1945 to 1970 with various programs and much expenditure...
  16. V

    Willys-Overland P/A-I shipborne anti-ship missile project

    The Retromechanix website contains PDFs of Willys-Overland company documents regarding the P/A-1 ship-launched anti-ship missile at these links: https://www.patreon.com/posts/republic-xf-12-1-49557594 https://www.patreon.com/posts/vought-f8u-3-up-48466867...
  17. T

    Make Supermarine great again

    ... that is after the Spitfire is established both in production and service. If it becomes the 'British Dassault', commercial-vise, I'm more than okay with that.
  18. Sanglune

    Dutch Post-WW2 Battleship

    A period ago I found in J. Anten's 'Navalisme Nekt Onderzeeboot' mention of a postwar Dutch Battlecruiser; armed with 38 cms cannons. Now that I look at it again it also mentions guided weapons which I seem to have forgotten because it didn't seem tangible. But as of yesterday evening, I came...
  19. monochromelody

    Defector's Battle: Cromwell tanks in IDF

    After the end of the Second World War, the surviving Jews in the Nazi concentration camps set off a new wave of return to their hometowns and settle down in Palestine. Seeing that the time was right, Zionism began to raise up, calling on Jews living in different parts of the world to return to...
  20. F

    Post-WWII French Ejection Seat research?

    I wondered if anyone could point me in the direction of original reports, papers and recollections about the testing by the french (and possibly British / Americans) or captured German ejector seat technology at the end of WWII. Any assistance you could give me in this matter would be...
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