post-world war ii

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...

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...

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/...

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

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The United States Strategic Bombing Survey was a written report created by a board of experts assembled to produce an impartial assessment of the effects of Anglo-American strategic bombing of Nazi Germany during the European theatre of World War II. After publishing its report, the Survey...

Hi, the Brabazon Type-3 or Specification 6/45,the known tenders were; Airspeed,Armstrong-Whitworth and Avro-692 & Avro-693,but can I ask if those companies involved or not; Blackburn,Bristol ,De Havilland,Fairey,Folland,Handley Page,Miles,Percival,Scottish Aviation, Shorts,Vickers and Westland ?.

A website devoted to tracking as many of the various iterations of the M4 Sherman as can be determined from surviving documentation. http://the.shadock.free.fr/sherman_minutia/index.html

Here are some interesting projects I wanted to post. Some are actually light mortars. I don't care. From Britain: A late WW1 prototype, a humble beginning https://collections.royalarmouries.org/first-world-war/type/rac-narrative-125.html From the USSR: The spade mortar, a jack of 2 trades...

What if the northern, industrialized part of Italy remained under communist control after World War 2? What if Italian trade unionists developed a unique, ITALIAN form of communism? ... more like Yugoslavia? ... with few Moscow trained communists?

The Triang company produced a range of waterline model ships in 1/200 scale in the early 1960s and briefly again in the 1970s. Star of the Royal Navy models in the range was HMS Vanguard. Rather like Vanguard there were also models of the other recently scrapped big ships, the cruisers HMS...

Not sure where to ask but here it is: Is there a comprehensive list of French Radars (Both land and naval based) which was developed? Did France able to start developing radar technology before the capitulation or it was kick-started by British and American equipment after the war? To my...

From VTB magazine,free download, the Gyrocopter of Watteyne and Glymes. Les Vieilles Tiges - Magazines VTB